What the hell is wrong with him?! Why is he being such a kid?! Gaara can't understand the way Naruto is acting, nor why. Naruto is walking, around 100 meters apart from his redhead friend and hears him shout "Naruto, stop!", there's a bit of hesitation in him but in the end he does stop, when he feels that Gaara is reaching him he clenches his fists and as soon as he feels the pale boy's hand on his shoulder he turns around and punches him in the jaw. Looking at his friend who fell onto the ground, now with a bleeding lip and eyes full of anger,
"You deserve much more than just one punch." The redhead looked furious as he got up and wiped the sand away, looked at the blonde and punched him in the stomach and as Naruto looked back at him he kneed him in the face as well.
"Gaara what the fuck is your problem?! Can you at least pretend to care about me?!"
"I don't even understand why you're pissed of you idiot. You just stormed out from my room and came here. Now that I came to be with you, you run off on me! I don't know what you want!"
"I did that because I stayed with you all night! I didn't sleep because I was worried about you and wanted to make sure you were okay and didn't accidentally hurt yourself or Temari. I'm angry because you turned down the role of Kazekage while you're the most capable person of doing it! I'm angry because when I wanted to do something with you, you told me to do it on my own! You never think about anyone but yourself!" As he slaps Gaara across the face tears start streaming down his face, he's irritated and can't stop crying. The redhead gets even more infuriated and pushes Naruto to the grown, grabs a kunai and throws it, missing Naruto by an inch. The blonde grabs the same kunai, runs towards Gaara and thrusts the Kunai into his leg, causing blood to gush out and get on his arm and trousers. The redhead reaches for the blonde's throat and pushes him into the ground and starts punching him repeatedly; his hands now covered in blood "Fuck I can't stop! I can't stop hitting him!" making the tall boy begin to lose consciousness. "Naruto punch me back! I can't stop!" With one swift blow to the jaw, Gaara falls on his back, blood gushing from his lip and leg, blood flowing from his knuckles and... Tears flowing from his eyes he's trying to say something that Naruto can't quite hear, so he gets closer until he understand what the pale boy is trying to say
"I'm sorry.. I-I'm so sorry Naruto, I-"
"Shut up. Just, do not talk or I will hit you again. I'll talk and you'll listen." Gaara nods, "I'm mad, and angry, and frustrated because of what I said; I didn't sleep because I was looking over you and I care about you, that's why I did it. You started to shiver at some point and you were mumbling, I knew you were starting to have a nightmare so I Stayed next to you and I held you. I held you in my arms as you shook and swore at me. I heard you say something like you were going to kill me. But I knew it wasn't you, it was that side of you that you need to forget; that's not who you are anymore so forget it, let it go please. And even though I heard you say that you were going to kill me, I still stayed, I wasn't scared. And today when I asked you to come, thinking that you'd be grateful and come with me. It's annoying that I'm always there for everyone, and you, the person who I care about the most at the moment, didn't even think twice about coming with me now. It's like you don't care." Tears start to form in the corner of Naruto's eyes, "Please, act like you care, even if you don't, pretend." He finished talking with tears streaming down his face. After a moment of semi-awkward semi-comfortable silence the blonde gets up ready to take his leave, wiping the tears off his face and breathing heavily the blonde looks back at the shorter boy and sighs. Leaving him alone, bleeding.
Naruto never thought that it would hurt so much to know the reason one of his best friends was bleeding. He didn't mean to hurt Gaara that bad, he was just so furious with him for not understanding his feeling. It isn't fair that Naruto can understand, help and care for him but he can't give back to him in this way. What he needs to do now is rest, he makes his way back to Gaara's house.
When he arrives he hears something break in the direction of Temari's room, running towards her room he notices that Shikamaru is standing just outside her door;
"What's going on?"
"She got mad… so she started throwing things and I walked out."
"Why is she mad?"
"I told her that I couldn't stay the night again, I have to get back to my students and she flipped out. Women are troublesome."
"Are you going to talk to her?"
"Yeah, when she stops throwing shit…"
Naruto nods and turns on his heels, he heads to Gaara's room, into the balcony and sits down wrapping himself in the furs Temari got for him thinking about his disastrous training session this morning. Laying his head against the wall and watching the birds flirt and flutter together, in such beautiful symphony that he wishes he has with at least this one friend of his. Hearing a sound the blonde turns his head, looking up he notices that it's none other than the redhead, still bleediging from his injuries. Without saying a word he sits right next to Naruto and covers himself with the same blanket as Naruto; no one says a word, Naruto won't look at the redhead and keeps mumbling something under his breath while as Gaara keeps looking at the blonde trying to figure what to say. Coming to no good sentence to say he wraps his arms around Naruto, bringing him to a close embrace and says "I'm so sorry…" in a very hoarse voice, almost as if he can't breathe. "You can't be mad at me… please don't be mad"