Foxed Love

Chapter Four

By KellyQ

The three sat in silence until Naruto's stomach growled. "The food's ready," Sakura called out. Naruto sniffed the air, and licked his lips. He was hungry.

He got up and pushed passed Sasuke and Kakashi to eat. The two followed the fox demon outside.

Once outside, they were greeted by a site of cut up fruit, like carrots, apples, and something in small bowls. Naruto walked up and sniffed it. It had a unique smell.

It looked edible.

Sasuke however sighed. They must've went through his bag of goods, and somehow managed to make Ramen without reading the directions. The dark haired boy snapped out of this thought one moment later, when Naruto let out a sound to get anyone's attention.

Kakashi looked back at the blonde demon, as Naruto asked what was in the bowl. Sasuke sighed, knowing that it was to late to even accuse them for going through his bag of food.

"It's Ramen ... a type of soup." Sasuke explained.

Sakura was about to add her opinion when a slurping sound came from their right. They turned their heads to see Naruto slurping at the juice from his bowl. A slight moan came from the back of the demons throat, like he was really enjoying the soup.

"Well," Kakashi mused. "It looks like the soup is safe to eat."

Naruto looked up a moment later to see that everyone was having there own helping of the soup. The fox demon looked at his own empty bowl; he really wanted more of whatever it was. The blonde demon watched, and waited to see if anyone wasn't going to finish their soup.

Kakashi sighed, telling Naruto eat something else and if their is any soup left, he can finish it off. Naruto sighed and pouted. He hoped that if he starred at everyone long enough, someone could give in and share some of the stuff.

Gaara was the first to leave, not having much of an appetite. The smell of human flesh was really starting to get to him ...

He stood in a middle of what looked like sand. Gaara closed his eyes, and put his hands together and in the shape of a triangle. Specks of sand started to rise around, as he moved his hands again - chanting foreign words.

Gaara rose his hand and all the sand stopped, hovering in mid air. There was slight pause before the sand started to come together. There stood what looked like a big chunk of sand. Gaara closed his hand into a fist, and the sand exploded. The red haired demon ran forward, punching and kicking, as the dirt came toward him.

He tried to shield himself with his other arm, that was still didn't move right after he tried to save his brother and sister from the humans when he was really young.

The result turned out really ugly. He lost both of them, and he only came out barely alive with a dislocated arm, that was broken in a few places. The worst part was that his parents didn't do anything about.

Gaara winced at both the pain in his arm, and the pain of loss. He was so deep in thought he failed to realize that he wasn't using his Chakra.

The first drop of the rock snapped Gaara out of his painful memories. He looked up to see all the rocks were going to come down if he didn't think of something fast. Gaara smirked. This should be fun.

Bug like eyes looked around the thick forest. I can't believe I'm lost, the figure thought. He had really thick eye-brows, and short black hair. The boy wasn't well built – but he was strong for his age.

He went by the name of Rock Lee. He wore all green, but he also wore orange leg warmers. With a sigh, Lee continued walking until he came to a clearing. He scanned the area, and his eyes fell upon something on the ground. Lee gasped. Is that a dead body? He ran up, and stopped them took in more of what he saw. There, laying on the ground was a lifeless demon - a coyote demon.

Lee backed away. Alright, get a hold of yourself, the dark haired boy thought. He looked the demon over and noticed that the creature had a big gash on his head. The coyote did look wounded, and his arm looked a little out of place. What would Gai-sensei do ...

"Now remember Lee," Gai started. "If you ever get lost or encounter any creatures - be on your guard. Some of them are not really friendly ..."

Lee nodded his head. "But what if I encounter one that is wounded or dead - what should I do then, Gai-sensei?"

The man smiled down at his student. "Just be careful and as for a dead one - give it a proper burial."

Lee nodded his head ...

The dark haired boy slowly walked up to Gaara's unconscious body. Lee looked at the wound on the demon's forehead. Blood was running down Gaara's face and into his parted lips. After further examination, Lee noted that the demon was alive.

After Gaara had left, Naruto got to eat his helping of Ramen. It didn't take long before the fox demon consumed it. He looked over at Sasuke's bowl, and noticed that he still had some.

He was going to have to come up with some way to get some more of the soup. A fox like grin made itself known on Naruto's face; he looked around to see if anyone was paying any attention. Good. No one is. Naruto got up and crept to Sasuke. He waited for a moment, not even realizing that the dark haired boy acknowledge that he was sitting next to him. It was really starting to annoy him how Naruto was looking at him with a pleading look.

After a moment, Sasuke sighed. He closed his eyes and handed the bowl over to Naruto. The fox demon's face lit up, and he let out a gasp. He took the bowl and kissed Sasuke on the cheek. The dark haired boy's eyes snapped open in shock. Did Naruto just kiss him?

A light moan came from Gaara's parted lips. He could taste blood in the roof of his mouth, and his head hurt. I must've over done it a bit, Gaara thought. He laid there for a moment, allowing his mind to come back to reality.

Lee watched the demon slowly regain consciousness. He hadn't opened his eyes yet, but he was awake. Lee bit the bottom of his lip as Gaara opened his eyes.

Green eyes locked with black. The coyote demon tried to move but his body was numb.

"You shouldn't move," Lee said. "I found you bleeding and your right arm looked out of place so I popped it into place ..."

Gaara growled. He tried to move but he couldn't. How could he have let this happen? Gaara smirked. He didn't mind if he had to die this way. "What are you waiting for? Kill me ..."

Lee backed away a few feet, with great shock in his eyes. Kill him? Now what brought that on? He must've hit his head really hard ... that's it. "I'm not going to hurt you ... and even if I were those type of people, wich I'm not ..."

The dark haired paused when he noticed that Gaara had closed his eyes and tuned Lee out. "You talk to much ... human ..." the coyote informed him.

Lee couldn't help but smile and moved a little closer to Gaara. "It's Rock Lee ... but you can call me Lee."

The coyote demon hesitated, but he told Lee who he was.

To Be Continued ...