Sand billowed around the young man as he walked away from the hospital in search of one hyperactive dobe.
'What's gotten into him? What the hell was he thinking?' Gaara's mind was in a raging tailspin, his body walking calmly beside Naruto's, not allowing anyone to know he was anything but collected. While he seethed inside his thoughts, Naruto was animatedly unfurling a story of his first encounter with ramen, making it unnecessarily fantastical.
"Anyway, after the old broad finished assaulting him with her invincible purse of stones, Iruka-sensei looked up to me softly, slowly losing consciousness, 'eat the ramen and remember me always.' And with that he died." Naruto feigned sadness, hoping his dramatic and unbelievable story had hit Gaara's heart- of course, it didn't.
"I saw your Iruka-sensei during the chuunin exams, and you've been surviving off of ramen your entire existence- don't give me that cock-and-bull story." Gaara smirked as Naruto appeared to be shocked that the redheaded –kage would use such vulgar, informal language at the end of his criticism.
However, the blond only laughed at the redhead's words. "Okay, okay, you don't need to jump down my throat about it, Gaara. Maybe it was a little outrageous." A quick glance to the side and the blonde rolled his eyes. "Okay, a lot outrageous. Are you happy now?"
"Yes," the kazekage smirked again, showing Naruto the most emotion in ten minutes, than the redhead had probably shown since the incident with his uncle Yashamaru when he was six years of age.
They reached their desired location, which was inside the kazeage's tower. The young men walked up many flights of stairs and down a long hallway before the leader of the duo turned left and continued down another hall that drifted downward, and halted at the last door on the right.
"You'll be sleeping across from my room and remember: because of Shugaku, I don't sleep," the icy green-eyed kazekage warned.
Naruto once again uncharacteristically rolled eyes. "Okay, okay, I get it, Mommy," the icy green eyes burned with rage, "I'll be fine," he laughed good-naturedly. "Now, how about we go get some ramen!" He grinned, pushing his headband up in his "happy habit."
Gaara grimaced. 'It will indeed be a long day.'