Clueless

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto; it all belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.

Warnings: As much as I would love to give you guys warnings on what will be happening, I just don't know myself yet, so I can't really warn you the only thing I know for sure there will be is Yaoi, because it is awesome and if you don't like Yaoi click the little back button and go away.

'Thoughts'
"Demons Talking"
'Flashbacks'
'Dreams'
"Talking"
POV
A/N: Author's Note

Chapter 7


Naruto's POV

I sent Sai yet another dirty look, as we followed Yamato.

"You've been sending me dirty looks for quite a while now, are you going to tell me your problem or are you going to just keep sending my dirty looks?" Sai asked turning his head slightly to look at me.

'I guess they are alike… the voice too…' I frowned. 'No Sasuke's better… this is just a cheap replacement… no one can replace Sasuke… Sasuke is the only person who can fill the empty spot.'

"It is not polite to stare… if you keep it up I will have to hit you." Sai said.

I glared at him, "Every damn thing you say just pisses me off even more!" 'He is nothing like Sasuke, Sasuke is so much better than this jerk.'

"I don't have any malice towards you." Sai said.

"That is a lie." I snapped.

"No… I am just trying to put on that kind of attitude." Sai shrugged.

"Why the fuck are you even here?! All you do is piss people off!!" I yelled.

"Hey, don't say something like that in front of your captain Naruto. Teamwork and cooperation are the most important things in a team. I thought Kakashi-san already taught you that. Someone like you in a team with the great Kakashi-san… what is wrong with you?" Yamato spoke; he was still calm.

I felt tears building up in my eyes, "It's because he isn't part of Team Kakashi!!! The other member of Team Kakashi is Sasuke!!! Not Sai… not Shikamaru… Sasuke! No one else!!! Sasuke is the only person who can fill the third spot!!! I don't want anyone else in Team Kakashi!!! It should be Sakura, Sasuke, Kakashi, and I!!! No one else belongs in Team Kakashi!!! This guy is just taking Sasuke's place… you put him in here to fill the gap, but no one can fill the gap… the only person who can fill the gap is Sasuke!!!! I'll never consider someone like him as a team member!!!"

Sai smiled, "Well I am glad you think of me that way. I wouldn't want to be likened with the weak Shit-For-Brains… Orochimaru's clone who only cared about power and ran off to Orochiamru betraying Konoha in the process."

"You bastard." I growled. 'How dare he say that about Sasuke? '…He has no right saying that… he doesn't understand anything… Sasuke… did what he thought was the right thing… he just needs to be convinced it wasn't and that he belongs here… where people think about him… the place where people think about you is home… this is Sasuke's home… he just needs to come back home.'

I took a step forward, but Sakura stopped me, "Teamwork truly is the most important thing. Sai… Naruto… since he doesn't know you that well… he just said too much. I'm sorry… please forgive Naruto."

"Sa…Sakura…" I was shocked, how could she say that.

"I'm glad at least one of you is reasonable." Yamato muttered.

"Think nothing of it," Sai said with a smile.

"Well… that's good." Sakura smiled as well with a little laugh at the end.

I blinked this wasn't making sense… that wasn't like Sakura… she should be as mad as I was… if not more… he insulted Sasuke.

A punch was quickly delivered to Sai's face and I smiled, now that was like Sakura.

"On the other hand you don't have to forgive me." Sakura said.

"You completely fooled me… adding that fake laugh…" Sai said.

"Since you don't seem to know anything about Sasuke-kun… don't talk about things you don't understand! If you bad-mouth Sasuke one more time…I won't hold back." Sakura said.

"I got you… I won't say anything bad ...in front of you… you can use a fake smile really well… I will remember that." Sai said still smiling.

I hated that stupid fake smile, "You just got hit… why are you acting so cheerful?!"

"A smile is the best way to get out of trouble… even if it is a fake one. Amazingly it fools everyone… I read that in a book before… It doesn't look like it works though at least... it doesn't for me..." Sai said.

Sakura and I both glared at him, I was about to yell at him, but I shut my mouth when I heard a loud cracking sound. We all turned and looked at Yamato; he was standing in front of a giant wooden cage.

"If you guys won't stop arguing I will have to throw you in a cage… I said we didn't have time before we go to the Tenchi bridge… but there's five days. As the mediator, here's my proposition. You can spend a day or so in the cage to work out your differences… or we can go to a hotel that has hot springs. What will it be? You guys don't really know me well either… I like being a nice and friendly, but I have no problems with ruling by fear… there is also another option… we decide that we need another team to go on this mission because you guys can't get along, we head back to the village and you don't get to go on this mission and you get to sit and wait and see if the other team succeeds." Yamato said.

Kankuro's POV

I sighed, as I signed yet another paper. Despite how much paperwork the job involved it was still a great job, after all you were making decisions for your village. 'I wonder if Gaara liked having this job…' I shook my head. 'Stupid… of course Gaara liked being Kazekage…who wouldn't?'

I sighed once again as I looked at the door, I will admit it, I was getting a little irritated, the council said they wanted to talk to me, but they still had not arrived.

A couple of short knocks broke the silence of my office.

"Come in." I called, not a second after I told them to come in, some of the council members stepped in.

I raised an eyebrow, they had never knocked before entering when Gaara was Kazekage… then again they never treated Gaara like he was a human being… they always treated him like a tool.

"There was something you wanted to talk about?" I stared at them.

They nodded, "Yes, you see Matsuri went missing yesterday."

I frowned slightly, "I will admit that isn't good...but there has to be a reason you decided to tell me this. After all you could have just sent out a search team… you have the right to do that."

They shook their heads, "We didn't have to."

"Then I don't see the problem…" They weren't making sense… if they had already found her then why were they bringing this to me.

"In the alley… there was blood everywhere… Matsuri and been torn to shreds." They stated.

I shifted in my seat, I didn't like where this was going, "So… I still don't see where you are going with this…"

They frowned, "There is only one person in our village that could have been sick enough to do that."

I narrowed my eyes, so that is what they had been getting at, "I am sure Gaara did not kill her."

"And we think he did and if he did that would mean that he is a threat to Suna which means we would have to throw him out of Suna or sentence him to death, but since you care about that demon for whatever reason we think that you will just go with the plan of throwing him out of Suna… I don't think you'd want him dead. And since you have insisted on keeping him in the Kazekage mansion we want you to check and see if there is anything that could point to him being the murderer of Matsuri." The one in front of the others stated simply.

I wanted to yell at them and stand up for my brother, but I knew it was best not to do that… Temari and I had both learned that at a young age, you didn't stand up for someone the village council was out to ruin, you just stare them in the eyes and say, "Yes, I will make sure to do that."

They smiled, "You are already a better Kazekage."

'Because Gaara refused to tell you the he was the one responible for every murder that happened, even when he was not?!' That was what I wanted to say, but instead I said, "Thank you, I will get the information to you as soon as I can."

"Very good." They left, I sighed I better do this right now or else they will think I did not do it.

I stood up getting ready to leave my office. 'Gaara… please don't be the one that killed her… and if you were… I hope you didn't leave any evidence that could point you to being her killer out in the open… or somewhere where it would be easy to find.'

Naruto's POV

I sighed, we didn't want to be stuck in a cage so now here we were in the hot springs… well I knew Sakura and I didn't want to get stuck in a cage, but I really didn't know what Sai wanted… and honestly I didn't really care… I thought Sai was a jerk and I didn't think he deserved to have a say in what we wanted… people I don't like don't deserve to have a say in what is going on.

"For guys being together naked really makes us feel like companions." Yamato said. I stared at him I had no idea what kind of men he was talking about, but I sure didn't feel like we were more of companions now… it just felt …awkward.

He turned to me, "Don't you agree?"

I opened my mouth getting ready to speak, but Sai beat me to saying something, "Yamato, you know you look really stupid when you try to freak dickless out... I don't know about dickless here but I know you aren't freaking me out… you are just making me pity you… I mean I would hate it if when I was trying to scare people it just made them pity me or laugh at me."

I stared at Sai shocked that he would say something like that… well I wasn't shocked that he would say something like that, but I didn't expect him to insult our captain.

I looked back at Yamato, and cringed, he looked pissed, really pissed.

"I am going to go in the room." Yamato spoke his voice was shaking and I could tell he was trying to remain calm.

I nodded and as soon as he went into the room I got up wanting to move as far away form Sai as possible, after all Yamato might get mad if I left right after him and then we might have to go back to Konoha and I wouldn't be able to try and get Sasuke back.

I began moving, but Sai's voice stopped me, "Well, well… look here you really do have one."

I blinked trying to figure out what he was talking about, but I quickly figured it out.

"You aren't allowed to look!!! What the fuck is wrong with you anyway!?! You are always talking about penises! You need to find something else to talk about, because I will tell you this right here and right now! Not many people want to talk about penises!!! I can't even think of one person who would!!! It is wrong and that is not something you should be talking about!!!!" I glared at him.

I heard giggling coming from the girl's bathing area and I immediately regretted yelling so loud. Now everyone was going to think I was a freak, when I was not!

I sighed and sat down where I was, sinking down as low into the water as I could without drowning myself.

Kankuro's POV

I sighed from where I sat in the office, I had found the evidence that would point to Gaara being Matsuri's murderer, but I had disposed of it really quickly, I didn't want Gaara to be considered more of a threat to the village, they already thought he was a threat I didn't want them to get any evidence proving that he was, but if he tried to hurt another villager or if he did hurt another villager I would have no choice I would have to point him out as a possible threat to the village.

I sighed again burying my face in my hands, I was going to have to talk to Gaara about why he killed Matsuri… or ask him if something was bothering him and if something was what was it... but the problem was I didn't know how well that would go… perhaps I would just observe his behavior at first and if it looked like he was really bad I would talk to him, but I really didn't want to have to talk to him… but if I had to I would, talking to him would be better than telling the council I thought he was a threat to the village…the worst thing though was that if he was a threat to the village he was probably a threat to himself… he might harm himself… I wouldn't really put it past him.

Again I sighed ...this ...was going to be a pain in the ass.

Naruto's POV

'I didn't know where I was, but wherever I was… it was so dark… and so cold. A drop of water landed on my face followed by many others. I blinked and looked up at the sky, it was full of clouds.

"Naruto…?" It sounded more like a statement than a question, but I was able to pick out the tiny bit of questioning tone in the voice.

I turned around and stared, it was Sasuke… 'What is he doing here?'

"Sa…Sasuke?" I was shocked the person I had been chasing for so long and had been training to try and get back was standing right in front of me.

"Naruto." Sasuke said he took a step towards me, I didn't move, I couldn't believe this… Sasuke was standing right in front of me.

"…Sasuke… I…" I didn't know what I wanted to say… I just felt like I needed to say something.

"Naruto… I missed you so much." Sasuke whispered and the next thing I knew I was in his arms.

I blinked that was really not like Sasuke... he would rather punch me than hug me.

"Sasuke… are you… o…k?" I had to ask that question... Sasuke just wasn't the hugging type.

"I am now that I found you." Sasuke whispered.

I stared at him something was definitely wrong with him he would never say that. 'What the fuck did he mean now that he found me?! I was the one looking for him! It was not the other way around!'

"I love you Naruto." Sasuke said.

My mouth dropped open. 'What the fuck?! What the hell is going on? Sasuke does not love me!'

"Wha…what?" I asked.

"I said I love you. I know it doesn't sound like something I'd say, but it is the truth, I love you." Sasuke said.

I stared at him, "Sasuke…?"

"And I am sorry… but I have to kill you, I need to be able to beat Itachi, so I have to kill you."

I started to panic, I tried pushing him away from me, but he wouldn't budge, "Sasuke! This isn't funny let me go!"

Sasuke pulled out his blade shoving it towards me. I gasped, but just as it was about to hit me everything faded to black.'

I gasped as I shot up, that dream had seemed so real… I shook my head, there was no way any of that was real... Sasuke did not love me.

I sighed and stood up quickly throwing on my clothes before walking out the door, perhaps a walk would calm my mind.

I walked out a little bit, but stopped, Sai was sitting on the bridge drawing… suddenly a walk didn't sound all that appealing… especially since Sai might notice me…

Sakura walked up, standing behind Sai.

She opened her mouth and I moved closer so I could hear what they were saying.

"You're drawing a picture?" Sakura asked.

Sai turned and faced her, his eyes narrowed slightly, "I think that is obvious… your class must've been really dumb if you were one of the smartest in them… but then again I can't say I didn't expect that… dickless was in your class after all..."

Sakura clenched her hands into fists, but remained calm.

"You're really vulgar, but you have a nice side too, right? ...That is… unexpected." She smiled at him.

Sai smiled back and before Sakura could do anything to prevent it she was sent into the near by water due to Sai punching her.

"You really didn't expect me to let you hit me again did you? Using that fake smile again so soon… you should've known better… I won't fall for the same trick twice… especially since you only just did that yesterday." Sai said his eyes narrowing a little more.

Sakura stood up I could tell she was trying to refrain from punching him since she was trying to become his friend for some reason.

"Not really." She said sending him a glare.

"I actually only came out here to see what you were drawing… I thought it would be a landscape since you were drawing it out here. So… what is it called?" She stared at him.

He raised an eyebrow, a slight frown making its way onto his face, "Called?"

It was Sakura's turn to raise an eyebrow, "You haven't thought of a name?"

Sai shook his head, "That's not it… I have drawn hundreds maybe even thousands of pictures so far… none of them have titles."

Sakura frowned, "But don't pictures usually have titles? Like portraits have the person's name… other pictures have the situation at the time, and the artist's feelings…"

Again Sai shook his head, "To be more precise even if I want to give them titles I wouldn't be able to. They don't make me think of anything… feel anything."

"Naruto go get them for me and meet me at where you check out." Yamato's voice said from behind me. I blinked turning around to face him, how had he got there…and how had I not noticed… if I hadn't noticed him then if it was the Akatsuki… it would have been too late… I shuddered at the thought… I did not have any wishes to die in the near future.

I nodded slightly and sighed deciding to step in now I walked closer so they'd be able to hear me, "I guess that is why you are always talking so insensitively. We're about to go… Yamato told me to come get you."

"Ok…" I heard Sakura say, but I wasn't really paying attention to her, I was staring at Sai's picture. It was really well drawn… it was beautiful… he was obviously really good at drawing.

I could barely move my eyes away from it so I could look at Sai.

I glared at him, but I actually didn't feel like glaring at him… I kind of wanted to compliment his picture… but there was not way I would do that…

I glared at the picture, "That picture is nothing special."

"You're right…" Sia said.

I blinked not knowing what to say until Sai continued, "It is just like you penis… but there is one very big difference… if people saw this they would say it was beautiful… no one would say that about your penis… You could show it to everyone and no one would say it was beautiful."

I glared at him, trying to control my shaking, I really wanted to pound his face in right now, "I am not kidding when I say this… I really can't stand you! If you have something you want to say to me, stop using that stupid fake smile and say it to my face! If you want a fight then I will fight you!"

Sai smiled, "That's not it at all… I really don't think anything of you."

I was speechless… I really didn't know what to say.

"You can go on ahead… I will catch up after I am done cleaning up." Sai said already turning to start picking up his supplies.

Sakura stared at him for a moment before she bent down, "I'll give you a hand…"

I really couldn't believe it Sakura was still brushing off everything Sai did or said. Sai punched her and she just brushed it off… Sai insulted her intelligence and he just brushed it off… what the fuck?! If I did any of that I would be kissing the ground so fast that I wouldn't have even understood what was happening.

I glared at Sakura, I was pissed at her, I had been her teammate for years and the new guy got away with more than I ever had.

Sakura didn't notice my glare though she was staring at a book, "This isn't printed… did you draw this too?"

"Yeah…" Sai said taking it from her.

"It's a picture book." Sakura said still staring at it.

Again I just wanted to yell what the fuck, but I kept my mouth glued shut, so all that came out was something that sounded like an irritated growl.

"Hey can you… show it to me while we are on our way there?" Sakura looked really excited.

"I can't do that… it's incomplete… And I don't give it to other people… because it's my brother's." Sai said also staring at the book.

Kankuro's POV

I sighed as I waited for the water to boil. I had finally gotten Gaara to come out of his room and have tea with me, he had been giving me weird look for quite a while now and I knew that he knew that I wanted to talk to him about something… and he knew that this something probably wasn't a good something.

I turned to look at him, he was sitting on the coach and from the look of it he hadn't stopped watching me. His eyes were narrowed and I knew he was trying to see if he needed to just leave now.

"So… you know that I want to talk to you... right?" I continued looking at him. He gave me a small nod still not taking his eyes off of me. 'Does he think I am going to try and attack him?'

"Ok… well I suppose I should start with the first question…" I said more to myself than it was to him.

I turned around quickly making the tea and sighing I slowly made my way towards the couch I had been dreading this conversation, but I needed to talk to him before things got worse… because if things did get worse… if he did kill another person he was going to be viewed as a threat to the village and he would be banned form the village or killed…

I handed him his tea and sat down beside him. I took a sip from my tea and turned to face him, I was really hoping he would ask what I wanted to talk to him about, but of course he didn't.

I sighed again, "So… why don't you tell me what happened to your head first…"

Gaara stared at me and set his tea on the table, I growled slightly having half the mind to smack him upside the head… I made that tea, because he had said he wanted it… and then he didn't even drink it.

"Well?" I growled growing impatient, usually I would have a lot more patience with him, but today I just wasn't in the mood to deal with him not telling me his problems… because if he didn't tell me soon I was just going to talk to the council about kicking Gaara out of the village and I am sure they would be more than happy to do that.

"I slammed my head into the mirror." He said.

I growled again and punched Gaara in the face, "Be fucking serious! I am not in the mood to deal with your bullshit! If you keep this up I will just tell the council I don't want you in the village anymore and I am sure they will be more than happy to kick you out! So keep it up Gaara! Keep killing villagers for no reason! And I will just throw you out I will feel no regret I will actually be happy to kick you out! Because I am sick of dealing with your whole 'I have so many problems, my life will never be good enough I always have to have something to complain about even if it's complaining about having nothing to complain about, I don't care as long as I have something to complain about!' I am so sick of that… you are so annoying you useless monster! What kind of fucking ninja are you!? You are such a crybaby! You are such a useless tool! You are just a waste of space!!!"

Gaara's POV

I shook slightly from where I sat in front of my brother... I didn't want to look into his eyes... I didn't want to see the hatred burning in them. I couldn't stop myself from shaking no matter how much I wanted to… it just wouldn't stop...

I gave up on trying to stop myself from shaking and focused on trying not to cry... I didn't want to cry in front of him... he would just call me weak... laugh at me... I would only be proving to him that I was a useless ninja...

'I told him the truth… why can't he believe that? …Why does no one ever believe me?! Is it the way I say it?! It must be the way I say it! …I always sound so uncaring! I hate myself… Why do I have to be such a freak! I can't even make people believe me when I was trying to tell them the truth! I can only make them believe me when I am telling them lies and I can't even do that anymore… I lost my grip on lying and that was the only thing I was ever good at! I was a horrible Kazekage… everyone hated me while I was Kazekage... I was never able to suceed in making them not hate me… I am just one giant failure… Kankuro was right… I am useless… just a waste of space… there is no point in me living… everyone would be happy if I died… Naruto said he wouldn't be but that was probably just a lie… that is what people do to me, they lie to me so they can get my heart in the palm of their hand only so they can destroy it…'

I stood up it felt like my legs were going to give out at any moment, but I didn't care, I just needed to get away form this place… form the pain that always came when I was in this place… I needed to just get away from it all.

I left the Kazekage mansion and walked quickly away from it... I didn't really know where I was going… actually I had no idea where I was going and I didn't even try to figure it out… I just needed to get away from this… any where was better than this.

A/N: I know you all love pointless pretty much filler chapters… I honestly think the only POVs that mattered were Kankuro and Gaara's ending ones… and yes I know what you are all going to say it will be something like this, "It took you this long to update only to give us this stupid pointless filler?!" And sadly the answer to that is yes it took me this long to update only to give you this waste of time… but unfortunately I need fillers right now…but soon it should get back on track… hopefully… and hopefully the updates will be… no… we can't hope for that unless my school gets burned down or a new law comes up that bans giving homework out… but hopefully I will be able to get updates out a little bit faster than it took me to get this one out… anyway… uhm I hope you liked this stupid excuse for a chapter and again I am sorry for it being pretty much a filler… but I hope you all… somewhat liked it or at least I hope you didn't absolutely hate it… don't forget to leave reviews and I really don't want any people flaming about this being a waste of time because I do believe I already pointed that out… anyway don't forget ot review and if you are just planning on leaving a pointless flame complaining about this being a waste of time you will be wasting both my time and yours. I really don't care about your time if you decide to do that… but I do care about mine so don't do that. Well that is all so again I hope you somewhat enjoyed this chapter.