HAHAHA! I'm evil because I am putting Masashi Kishimoto's characters in strange situations. THIS MEANS I DON'T OWN THEM!

"If you speak a word about this to ANYBODY, you are dead," whispered the person below him.

"Agreed," Naruto whispered back.

Naruto didn't see this particular person when he got in. He apologized to a squished Neji, who was surprisingly very cool with it. They stayed silent, and didn't whisper any more. They awaited Hinata's arrival, which didn't come. When Hanabi opened the box, she put her finger to her lips, and showed Naruto a better spot. He thanked her, got off of Neji, and went in a small cupboard in Hanabi's closet. It was small, but Naruto somehow fit in it. He closed the door, sighed, and said nothing. Hanabi had hidden under her bed, and the three of them waited. The blonde chose to think about the crazy two weeks that just occurred. Sasuke had changed when they had first become friends, but when he saw Naruto and Gaara kiss, he looked like the same Sasuke two years ago. The abusive Sasuke that would hurt anybody in his way, but this time he had disappointment in his eyes. Naruto didn't want to see that Sasuke again, because it made him feel bad. It made him feel like the worst person alive. He was glad Sasuke didn't leave him, and was also glad Gaara fixed his problem.

"Where's Naruto?" Hinata's muffled voice said.

"I don't know," Hanabi said, "I think he went in the bathroom closet."

"How about Neji?"

"I don't know about him."

Naruto heard the toy box open, and Neji said, "Good job at finding me. I'm glad you didn't find me earlier."

Me too, Naruto thought.

Hinata had opened the closet doors, but not the cupboard. "I started dinner," she told Hanabi, "It'll be ready soon."

"You're not monitoring it?"

"It'll be fine. Don't worry sis."

The doors closed, and Naruto smiled. He silently thanked Hanabi for giving him such a great hiding place. Her room was empty, and Naruto continued thinking. Gaara hadn't liked him like Sasuke mentioned, right? Naruto thought back at the laser tag place, and Gaara mentioned going to the beach alone. Maybe he had? The blonde shook his head. That was just before Neji showed up. Maybe Gaara would have some lingering feelings, but he still loves Neji more, and wouldn't replace him with Naruto. The red head isn't that type of person. In Naruto's eyes, Gaara was the guy who would cherish all of his friends and wouldn't leave anybody out, and would especially love those who love him back. That's how Naruto is as well. Maybe Naruto taught Gaara a few things.

Naruto got worried when he smelled smoke, but he thought Hinata could take care of it and it was just burnt food. When he heard screams and yells, he peeked out of his hiding place. Hanabi's room wasn't engulfed in flames like he imagined, but he knew something wasn't right. He felt her door with the back of his hand, and it was warm. The house was caught on fire!

Aw shit, this sucks, Naruto thought where's Sasuke?

He was stuck there, and couldn't look for him. The door knob had been melted so it couldn't move. Naruto tried opening the windows, but couldn't do anything! He stopped trying to open them when he heard Sasuke's voice calling out to him.

"Naruto! Are you in here!?" he yelled.

Naruto ran up to the door, "Yeah Sasuke! You have to get out of there! I'll meet you outside! I think I can smash the window open!"

"Be careful, and you better keep your promise."

"I always do! Now go!"

He heard footsteps running down the hall, and Naruto found a heavy metal box. He threw it at the window, and it broke into millions of pieces. The burglar alarm went off along with the fire alarm, and he jumped out the window. He landed in a tree, and climbed his way down, falling when he reached the last branch.

Naruto met everybody in the front lawn. He ran into Sasuke's open arms, saying, "I told you I would keep my promise."

"Where were you man?" Kiba asked.

"In Hanabi's closet. There was a little cupboard I was hiding in."

Hinata heard this, and looked skeptically at Hanabi, "I told you to get rid of that years ago. There's no use to it!"

"I found use to it!" Hanabi snapped, "It's good for hide and seek and a great secret compartment."

Hinata sighed, and did a head count. Neji and Gaara were missing.

"We need to get them!" Naruto cried, trying to run away from Sasuke's tight grip.

"We were worried sick about you Naruto," Sasuke said, "We are not going to lose you now!"

Naruto stopped struggling, and instead hugged Sasuke closer, "You're right. I shouldn't be so selfish."

The roof caved in, and they heard another window shatter behind the house. Tree branches snapped, and a thump was heard. This time, Sasuke let Naruto go, and he ran towards the couple dirtied with ash. Neji was carrying a weak Gaara in his arms. His hair had singed a little at the bottom, and his pants had holes. His shirt was gone all together. Gaara didn't look any better. His eyebrows were gone, and he had third degree burns all on his arms. Neji frowned, saying, "I found him in the bathroom when the fire started. He had done this."

Neji gingerly moved Gaara's bangs away from his forehead, and a kanji symbol was carved with blood streaming out of it.

"Love," Naruto said, "That's what it means. The feeling he finally got to experience."

Neji smiled sadly. He ripped one of his pant legs, and carefully patted the blood away from it. It's going to leave a nasty scar in the future. The ambulance and firefighter came, saving the remaining floor on the house. They tended to Gaara, and checked over everybody else. They all had very few cuts and bruises, but none of them were as badly injured as Gaara. Neji, Naruto, and Sasuke ventured in the ambulance and rode to the hospital. They were all hoping the red head would be okay.

They were still in the ambulance when Hinata called. She said the house would need repairs, but it was fine. She asked how Gaara was, but she didn't like the answer. Naruto hung up with a small good bye, and laid his head on Sasuke's shoulder.

"He's going to be okay," Sasuke whispered.

"How do you know?" Naruto asked.

"If he's learned how to be strong like you; he won't give up on his life."

"The key word there is if, which means you aren't entirely sure."

Sasuke didn't like how negative Naruto was being. It was depressing and upsetting. Neji need the assurance that his boyfriend would be okay, and Naruto wasn't helping with that. Even though Naruto is being logical for once, it isn't helping the emotional situation.

"Just because I am not entirely sure doesn't mean I'm about to give up on him," Sasuke said.

"Who said I was giving up on him?" Naruto asked.

"Nobody did! You're just being so negative right now! It's not like you!"

"And it's not like you to be questioning something! You're usually always sure of something!"

"Will you two just stop fighting?" Neji yelled, "It isn't helping anything at the moment!"

Naruto and Sasuke were silent now. They stared at their knees, now hating the tension in the air that they made. Sasuke was also hating there little fights. First the one in the blizzard, and now the one in the ambulance. Maybe they weren't meant to be together. Maybe Naruto should find somebody he could cope better with.

"Did you ever think of being with somebody else?" Sasuke asked.

"No, why would I?" Naruto said, staring at him with confusion.

"I feel like I've been a jerk."

The blonde shrugged, "Everybody has their little arguments here and there. It doesn't mean we can't be together."

Sasuke sighed, "That's good. I'm so glad I have a forgiving boyfriend," Sasuke said.

"And I'm glad I have a worrywart," Naruto chuckled.

One minute their fighting, the next their joking around, Neji thought, these two are so weird.

They made it to the hospital in good time. Gaara was taken to the ER, and the other three had to wait. Naruto yawned, and he was suddenly squeezed by a pink haired girl. "I saw Hinata's house was caught on fire, and they said Gaara was the only one severely hurt, and I was so worried! Lee and I left right away! Are you hurt? What happened?"

Naruto laughed, "We're fine Sakura-chan! Really! They just took Gaara in, but I'm sure he's okay."

He smiled at Sasuke, who smiled back at him. There's the Naruto I know, he thought.

"You guys are so strong!" Lee said, "You escaped the house valiantly!"

"The only thing valiant I did was jump out a window and climb down a tree," Naruto said, shrugging.

"I didn't really do much," Sasuke sighed.

"You yelled for me to get out and held me back from going back inside."

Neji decided now would be a good idea to speak, "You were going to go back in?"

Naruto crossed his arms, saying, "You're not the only one who cares about Gaara, and he's not the only one who cares for you."

Neji chuckled, "I know that. I just thought you would be idiotic to do such a thing."

Naruto laughed, "Well, people have told me I was an idiot sometimes!"

The brunette sighed, "Well I'm glad you didn't run in there and that Sasuke held you back."

"I am too."

Sasuke hugged Naruto gently, and the blond did the same. "In the ambulance," Naruto started, "I wished I got hurt instead of Gaara, but then I thought how the situation would be. I thought of how upset Sasuke would be, and how everybody would be just as worried. Not only that, but Sasuke would get hurt too, because he would probably be looking for me. I'd be telling him to leave me, and he would be stubborn and save me anyway."

Naruto frowned, "There is one thing I don't want to do in life that I've already done. I don't want to do it again. I don't want to make Sasuke disappointed at me. It hurt him, and it hurt me too. I don't want to hurt anybody, especially Sasuke."

"I don't want to hurt you either," Sasuke said, "and I don't want you disappointed either. We can put that incident behind us now."

Lee and Sakura didn't have any idea what he was talking about, but Naruto and Neji smiled at Sasuke's remark. Neji was glad they finished fighting. He knew it would probably be rare in the future, but he still didn't like hearing them fight. Besides, he liked seeing Sasuke happy. He had talked to him a few times in the past, and he seemed like a lonely child. He didn't talk to Naruto, but he seemed like that too, just not as abusive.

"Gaara is now in stable condition," the nurse said, "He will be able to leave the hospital tomorrow."

The group followed the nurse to Gaara's room. Neji looked really worried, so Sasuke gave him some reassuring words and a few pats on the back. The brunette smiled at his friend and thanked him. They reached Gaara's hospital room, and saw the red head lying on the bed. Neji sighed in relief at seeing Gaara with a now much more peaceful expression.

"You can stay until visiting hours end," the nurse said, "Hit the red button on the wall if you need anything."

She left, and Neji held onto Gaara's hand. Hm… this looks familiar, Naruto thought. He remembered when he was with Sasuke in the nurse's room because he was poisoned. Now that Naruto thought about it, he didn't think that much about who poisoned Sasuke. He mainly thought if Sasuke was going to be okay or not. He couldn't think of anybody now, but he surely will think about it.

It couldn't be his brother since he was in jail at the time, or Sakura since Naruto knew she wouldn't go as far as to physically harm Sasuke. Ino wouldn't do it either, because she was just too delicate with everything. Kiba and Hinata would NEVER do such a thing, and Sasuke was a teacher's pet. Maybe it was the doctor. Naruto remembered he had grey hair pulled back in a ponytail, circle glasses like Harry Potter, and had dark eyes. He had bangs, and his last name started with a Y. That's all Naruto could remember. He will look up the doctor later. Now, he had to be at his friends' sides.

Gaara saw himself in a mirror. The tattoo was on his forehead, and there were scars on his chest. His image looked horrible, but Gaara wasn't too worried about it. What he really was worried about was the scene that appeared in the mirror next. Neji was walking back from Hinata's burning house with him in his arms. Gaara felt Neji's arms holding him, but he was still just standing there, watching the other Gaara being carried. Naruto now appeared, looking as worried as ever. He was trying to comfort Neji, but Gaara didn't know why. He wasn't dead, was he?

"Love," Naruto said, "That's what it means. The feeling he finally got to experience."

What did he mean by that? Neji didn't really love him back, they're just dating. Gaara loves him, but he never thought Neji would too. How could anybody love Gaara? The feeling of loving another was so foreign to Gaara, he had been afraid of it. Now, knowing somebody else loves him too is just as foreign as that first time. Knowing he was loved by another made him see the feeling in a different way, and he smiled.

Neji's sad smiles' made Gaara feel upset. He wanted to be there with him, and he wanted Neji to stop looking so upset. Gaara wasn't that important… was he?

When Naruto and Sasuke fought, the red head felt uncomfortable. He didn't want them to fight, and he hated it even more when they fought about him. Neji looked even more upset, and Gaara wanted to hug him, to make him feel better, and would do anything to show him he was there, caring for him. That's all Gaara wanted. Is that too much to ask?

Now, he saw Neji holding his hand in the hospital. He stayed there all day, waiting for Gaara to wake up. He wanted to hug him, to make him feel better, and would do anything to show him he was there, caring for him. That's all Gaara wanted. Is that too much to ask?

"I need you Neji," Gaara whispered to the mirror, "Why can't I be with you when I need you most?"

A/N THANK YOU FOR REVIEWING! I especially like this chapter because of the end with Gaara and the mirror. I think this whole chapter shows a lot of emotion and a lot of feelings between Gaara and Neji. I'm not a big Neji/Gaara fangirl, but I have a whole new perspective on the pairing now. I thought it didn't make sense, but then I thought, "its Fanfiction. DEAL WITH IT BRAIN!" Besides, I find it cute now!