Chapter twenty-one: Sleep-Attacker.

Fuu:

We all sat in the front room, five of us squished onto the sofa, Kankuro, Matsuri, Temari, Daisuki and myself, with Gaara in the chair opposite. We were patiently waiting the arrival of the orange whiskered ninja. We had decided Dai should stay up to meet him. a loud tuneful knock rang through the house as a fist was brought against the big wooden door,

"GAARA! OPEN UP! THE GREAT UZUMACHI NARUTO HAS ARRIVED! GAARA!" Narutos voice soon followed,

Gaara merely grunted and stood up to open the door, then lead the ninja to the living room in silence, before once again sitting on the chair opposite us. Naruto perched himself on the arm above me and dai, who was on my lap,

"Aw whos the kid?" Naruto said with his usual goofy grin,

"Naruto this is mine and Gaaras baby Dai, we, well i rescued him from the village hidden in the rain and brought him here to be a part of our family. And daisuki, this is naruto uzumaki, Ninja trained in the art of being a sage, student of one of the legendary sannin, and killer of the man who caused you years of suffering, pein." i say smiling as i introduce the two,

"Aw Gaara your a father! Why didn't you tell me? I am the godfather right? I better be! Oi, dai is he a good father? Don't worry he's a little cold and scary but he really does care."

"You can be the godfather, he already has a godmother though. What brings you all the way out here?" Gaara asked.

"Oh its a long story it can wait until later, lets celebrate first!" The fox-boy cheered,

"I'll get the alcohol!" Kankuro said jumping up.

"NO!" Bellowed gaara. "Talk first then celebrate. Otherwise you'll all be to drunk." he returned to his usual emotionless voice,

"Alright alright, don't get your knickers in a twist, I'll explain why I'm here." This caused Dai to start shaking with laughter in my arms, "Well long story cut short, Granny doesn't think it will be fair to put me in a chunnin exam, given the fact i have surpassed one of the legendary sannin, and am stronger than properly all the jounin in our village, so it wouldn't be fair to put people who properly aren't even stronger than any chunnin against me. Right? So she wants to me to skip all that crap and be promoted to a jounin, 'course that needs your consent. Please! I'm tired of being the only Gennin left!" Narutobegged, grinning.

Gaara thought for a while, i tapped into his brain to find out he was perfectly happy with Naruto becoming a jounin, in fact he was happy about it, but he wanted to use this power to his advantage, i stifled a small laugh, making him realise i properly knew what he was thinking. "Firstly, Fuu stop listening to my thoughts. Secondly, I'm perfectly happy with you being a jounin. Thirdly, I will only give my consent if Tsuande will agree to let Fuu go into the chunnin exams and treat her as she would any othercandidate, also as we have a representative in Konoha i guess you would like one here, i would like them to be shikamaru nara. Then i will agree to you being promoted." Gaara gave a sly look in Temaris direction making her start to fume, Kankuro had to get a tight grip on her arm so she didn't rip the house apart.

"I can do that! Granny owes me she can't say no, i saved her village for goodness sake. And oh my goodness Fuu your going to be a chunninalready!" He suddenly grabbed my hands spinning me round, making Dai drop to the floor, just to be caught my Gaaras sand.

"Speaking of which, Naruto, I want to teach Fuu rasengan. I'm not sure how else to teach her shape manipulation. She won't, however be mixing it with her nature type, because that is wind like yours, and since she doesn't possess Sage-Jutsu it could cause her major damage. She also doesn't have a Tailed beast to heal her. I just thought I'd ask your approval." Temari more demanded than asked, but hey, she's not exactly the politest of people is she?

"Sure anything to help." He grinned, "Now wheres the alcohol, we need to celebrate my being here, The fact that Fuu will be becoming a chunnin, The new member to the family, And my promotion. Bring on the drinks!" before you could even blink kankuro came in with arms full of alcohol.

i make my way over to Gaara, a drink in either hand. "Tonight, wheather you like it or not, you are having something to drink. Even if i have to force it down your throat." I say, passing him the fullest glass. "Cheers." I smile innocently, as we both start to drink.

Dai didn't stay awake long, must have been pretty boring for him. I now have the little boy in my arms and am carrying him up to his room, i lye him on his bed before kissing his forhead and whispering "We'll try be quiet sweet-heart." I turn to see orange in my face, "Whiskers what are you doing up here?" I'm still whispering as i walk up to the door he's leaning against, taking his hand and dragging him out to the hall.

"How'd you do it?"

"do what?" I question, confused, "I picked him up and walked up the stairs... Do i really look like I'm to weak to do that?"

"No not that. I mean how did you get Gaara to be a father? Get him to agree? I mean is it just me or his he kind of, distant and cold usually. But now he seems warmer and he has a fricking son." We're standing facing each other in the small hall way, I'm leaning against the wall while he leans against the banister looking down at me, he's a good head taller than i am.

"I dont know..." I start but naturo is now directly above me his mouth by my ear,

"Hurt Gaara, and i will make you wish those spirit things never breathed life into you." He leans away, smiling as thought nothing happened, turning to see... A slightly angry looking Gaara turn away to the roof.

"Well done whiskers, looks like you needed to give your self that advice first doesn't it?" i turn to follow Gaara up, great now i have to sort out the idiots mess. "Gaara." I call as i walk over the roof, i see a glow of red but before i know it sand is rushing towards me. aw crap.i think to my self. i jump into the air, walking over to him from above. "Gaara calm down. Whats wrong?" His face is slightly red, seems like three glasses of wine is all it takes to get the boy drunk, great.

"What are you doing here?" He growls in a low pitch, "Why not go back to having fun with naruto, or what was your cute little nickname? Oh yeah whiskers." He's still growling, but his speech is slightly stirred, he turned the word whiskers over his tongue elongating it.

"Why would i spend time with someone who just threatened me when i could be here with you?" I ask reaching a hand down to his shoulder as i lower myself, however his sand throws my hand away,

"Don't touch me. And don't lie to me, I know he wasn't threatening you I'm not as stupid as you may think. I'm kazekage for a reason you know."

"Tut, Difficult man." I roll my eyes as i lie back on the roof, "Don't believe me then. Pretty night isn't it?" I move my eyes over to his towering figure,

"I'm the difficult one am I? And don't change the subject!" I could tell he was getting irritated.

"Hey, your the one who doesn't want to listen to anything i say about the subject we are on, i just thought it'd be more of a conversation if i were aloud to talk."

"Shut up! Go back to flirting with Uzumaki, i want to be alone."

"And i want pigs to fly, but that aint going to happen anytime soon so until it does i am not leaving you, well until i decide to. And why would i want to flirt with an orange wearing, loud-mouthed, big-headed, fox, frog-sage ninja?"

"Then I'll just have to make pigs fly so you piss off and leave me alone." He growled once again,

"Aw, you'd do that for me? That's the most romantic thing anyone has ever said to me!" I hear a slight cough escape his chest, proof he's hiding a laugh, i look up to his face and sure enough his mouth is twitching, "Gaara lie down with me." I pull on his wrist until he's sitting next to me, close enough to lying i guess, "Nothing, and i mean nothing was happening, he merely warned me that if i hurt you in anyway he'd torture me." We sit in silence after that, at least he's stop throwing sand at me, such a child. "Gaara. Lets go back down to the party, this whole situation has made me need another drink." i sight pulling myself up, he stays down looking up at me for a moment, a slight hint of anger still in his eyes but almost completely gone. I grab his wrist and pull him back downstairs. It only takes me a minute to find which room kankuros in, guessing the strongest alcohol will be with him, I'm right. He has a bottle of vodka in his left hand, i grab the bottle taking a swig, "Thank goodness, now i can forget all that trouble." I sigh falling back next to Kankuro,

"What happened?" He tries to sound serious buy fails by slurring all his words together so it sounds more like 'wthenped'

"Naruto made Gaara angry at me. I had to sort out. Almost got hit by sand numerous times. You know, the usual."

"Aw it's all right Fuu." He attempts to put a supportivearm around my shoulder but ends up collapsing on me and starts snoring.

"Oi someone get this make-up wearing barbie-doll lover off me!" I shout, Temari hears my cry for help and throws him across the room with a gust of wind, he doesn't even stir in his sleep, "Thanks." I mutter.

Once again i slowly watch everyone pass out and/or fall into a deep sleep. It ends up just me and Gaara awake, "You know, i don't know why i never drink it's really quite fun. I need to do this more often." Gaara says, almost clearly, the crease in his forehead deepening. suddenly naruto starts tossing about the place, he's lying on the floor beneath our feet.

He carries on for a while until i sense a raise in his chakra level, "Gaara... MOVE NOW!" I scream as we jump out the way just as he releases a Rasengan.

"That was close. Bad naruto." Gaara laughs. I have now learnt i don't like it when gaara laughs, like actually laughs properly, he sounds like a mad man, no, an evil genius, maybe minus the genius bit, he's smart but not that smart, an evil mad-man, there we go. I make a mental note to never push Gaara to drink again.

"Gaara. Your drunk. You should get some rest." I say as i turn to the door,

"No, I'm training you to stay awake so i must not sleep." He gives a small nod, "Where are you going?"

"Target practice, I'm guessing I'm going to have to learn how to use weapons some time." I walk out the room, a stumbling Gaara behind me. "Gaara go rest. Now."

"No, no, no. I am your night time Sensei i must teach you and not slack off and sleep."

He only lasts about an hour before he falls asleep in the training area. I must say i was better than i had thought I'd be, i could at least hit the target board, not the bulls-eye but at least it wasn't like ten meters off.

I trained until sunrise, when i picked up Gaara and headed back to the house, people would properly start waking up soon.

As i approached the house, Gaara still asleep over my shoulder, i could make out a figure standing on the roof. Properly looking for us, "Oi!" I called over, they turned around, they where small and seemed to have long hair so I'm guessing it was Matsuri,

"Where have you been? And why are you carrying Gaara... You didn't knock him out again did you?" Must be matsuri she's the only one who was sober enough to be able to remember that.

"Nah, i just got him drunk, he really can't take his alcohol." I laugh as i jump up onto the roof, dropping Gaara in the process, "What are you doing up? Its pretty early."

"Naruto started throwing Shurikan around, one scraped my arm waking me up." She seems to see the worried look on my face, "Don't worry i'm the only one who got hit and I've taken all his weapons away and dragged him into a room on his own."

"I was going to say is he still there, he threw a rasengan at us." I grin. stupid, dangerous boy.