FASH: Hello people, have I mentioned I love summer vacation, no school, just me and the computer, and my annoying little sister who has it the other half of the twelve hours I'm up.

Disclaimer: The villagers would have died inexplicably in the first episode if I did.

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Iruka was fretfully searching the streets for the chibi Naruto, one minute they had been eating ramen, the next Naruto had vanished and he had absolutely no clue where the little blonde had gone! He saw Kakashi and quickly ran up to the older ninja, calling his name in worry.

Kakashi looked up from his book, and it had started to get really interesting, but he supposed he could spare Iruka some time, he vaguely noticed that the teacher looked very cute when he was all flushed.

"Kakashi-san, Naruto's run off somewhere, can you help me find him?" Kakashi was about to say no, but then Iruka turned on the puppy dog eyes full force and he caved instantly and nodded.

What they didn't know was Naruto was perfectly safe, with a certain sand-nin watching over him.

Naruto had left the ramen stand; he forgot how to pronounce the name and happily ran down the streets, ramming into someone on the way, he fell back and slowly opened his dazed, bleary eyes to see a guy who and a very blank and lazy expression on is face. (Guess who that is.) The boy stooped down and helped the boy up, walking away with a "How troublesome." Naruto scratched his head. 'That guy was weird.' And after thinking that particular thought he ran off again, and once again, bumped into someone, but unlike before, a hand grabbed his shoulder and steadied him before he could fall back, he looked up into emotionless light green eyes. "You should watch where you're going." The boy said in an equally emotionless voice, but Naruto just smiled, this guy wasn't like the villagers, sure he wasn't all that nice, but the villagers were worse, always glaring hatefully at him, he had no clue what he had done wrong, maybe it was because he was born. Naruto's smile dropped for a moment, before coming back even brighter than before, the guy seemed a little confused on the smile, but didn't really show it.

"I'm Naruto, what's your name?" Naruto asked happily.

The red head looked at him oddly for a moment before answering sullenly. "Gaara."

"I like that name." Naruto grabbed hold of Gaara's hand. "I haven't seen you around before, are you new to town?" He asked, tilting his head in a cute way that Gaara couldn't help but inwardly melt at, he nodded his head. Naruto's smile became brighter, if possible. "I'll show you around then." And he began totting Gaara around the town, pointing out the various sights. "and that the ramen stand, and that's the Hokage monument, and that's the house of the lady who yells and chases me when ever I pass in front of it." Naruto clutched onto Gaara's hand and hid behind him as they walked past the house, and Gaara suddenly felt like killing the woman, yes, that would be very interesting......

"NARUTO! NARUTO!" The shouts of a hyperventilating Iruka echoed through the streets and Naruto smiled again. "I have to go back to Iruka, bye bye Panda Man." He waved happily before skipping off, leaving behind a rather shocked Gaara, no one had called him that before, come to think of it, no one ever gave him a pet name. "So long Fox Kit." He muttered before walking away, his stay in this town would be interesting for sure.

Naruto skipped happily up to Iruka and tugged on the hem of his shirt, Iruka looked down and quickly scooped Naruto up and held him to his chest, Kakashi just raised is eyebrows at the sheer overprotective elder brother aurora that Iruka seemed to give off.

"Don't wonder off like that again Naru-chan!" Iruka said as he kissed the top of Naruto's head and set the boy down on the ground, Kakashi smiled, Iruka was the cutest guy he knew, not that he was going to let anyone else find that out very soon, but Iruka would know, Kakashi was going to make sure of it.

"Okay, I promise Iruka." Naruto hugged Iruka on his leg, making the man metaphorically turn into a puddle of goop, he couldn't help it! The boy was the cutest thing to walk the earth!

"Thank for your help Kakashi, you can go off and read your book now." Iruka said, getting a little flustered when he mentioned said book, Kakashi's one uncovered eye turning into a happy crescent as he walked away.

Naruto looked at the man walking away, back to Iruka, and back to the man again. "Iruka onni-chan." Iruka looked down and smile at the blonde. "Yes?" "Do you like that man?" Naruto pointed to Kakashi's retreating form and Iruka face vaulted. "What makes you say that?" He asked, a brighter blush staining his cheeks. "Because once you told me people do that." Naruto pointed to Iruka's red face. "When they're around someone they like." Iruka was now doing a wonderful impression of Hinata, blushing, stuttering, and putting his two index fingers together nervously, yes, it was a good time for an interruption.

"Hey Iruka-sensei, who's the kid?" Kiba asked as he and Akamaru, walked towards his old school teacher, well, Akamaru was riding on Kiba's head but, whatever.

"Well, you may not believe me, but this, is Naruto." Kiba's eyes bulged out and he stooped down to check the kid out. (Not that way!) The bright blue eyes, the golden hair, and most importantly, the three whisker scars on each check, this kid was Naruto! "How the hell did that happen?!" He asked in surprise, then Iruke began dragging him away by his ear. "Ow! Ow! OW!" "You should learn to watch your language around children." Once Kiba was a good distance away from Naruto, Iruka turned and walked back to the confused teen.

"Iruka, who was that? And what's hell?" Naruto asked in interest. "That was Kiba and Akamaru." Iruka answered while ignoring the other question, four year olds weren't supposed to know what hell was. "What about hell?" "Why do you want to know anyways?" Iruka asked, he knew children were curious, but really, he didn't want to explain to Naruto what hell was, what if it corrupted him or something? "Because some villagers said I was born there." Iruka suddenly felt an extreme urge to go tech a few people a lesson, but he held himself back, that wouldn't help with teaching Naruto moral values now would it. As Iruka was thinking over a few things, more an likely which villagers to threaten, Naruto saw his 'Panda Man.' 'Hm. To stay here with Iruka, or to go with Panda Man. I promised Iruka not to wonder off, but, I'm sure Gaara will take care of me.' So he scampered off in the direction of Gaara, and the other two people surrounding him.

"Panda Man!" Temari, Kankuro and Gaara turned to the little blond who flung himself onto Gaara's leg. "Hi!" Little Naru-chan said perkily a he hugged Gaara's leg. Temari, being that she was a slightly normal girl, thought that it was extremely adorable, and Kankuro, who, as we all know, hated his brother with a passion, wondered why the hell Gaara wasn't killing the kid for touching him. "Hello, Fox Kit." Gaara patted Naruto head, causing his siblings to nearly faint from shock, was their brother, the homicidal maniac who loved to make it rain blood, showing compassion. It was too much for Kankuro and he feel to the ground, eyes rolled up in the back of his head.

'What a drama queen.' Temari thought a Naruto detached himself from Gaara's leg and began poking said drama queen. "Why is the freaky face paint man asleep?" Temari stifled her laughter behind her fan, so that no one could see the huge smile adorning her face.

Naruto was getting a little to giddy from poking Kankuro, every few seconds he'd let out a feminine giggle and then start poking him again with renewed vigor.

"Well, I'll just drag Kankuro back to the house, later Gaara!" Temari took one of Kankuro's hand and began dragging Kankuro down the street and out of sight.

"Panda Man, who were that people?" Naruto asked, tilting his head to the side in confusion. "My siblings." Gaara answered back, his eyes straying to look at the cute blonde.

"Okay." Naruto nodded to himself. "What are siblings?" Gaara sighed to himself, but he secretly smiled, Naruto accepted him, even if he forgot him when he turned chibi, but he till accepted him now, unlike everyone else in Gaara's life. 'We are alike, Naruto and I, scorned, hated, hurt, carriers of something no one can comprehend, and soon we'll bear our burdens together.'

FASH: I like Gaara's last thought there, and yes, he does know about the fox demon, it's more of a reason to call Naru-chan Fox Kit!