Author: I'm sorry everyone for that last chapter...I know I did a bad job but I just had to update. I decided to update again soon so I can be done with this story and the people that are wasting their time reading this fic can move on and read something better . Anyways I felt like writing properly this time to apologize for the horrible grammar mistakes in the last chap. It's a relief for me and you that this fic is almost at an end. I'll tell you one thing, it has a happy ending. Thank you to all the people that are nice and give reviews you helped me a bunch and blush I love you guys! (even though I no my story is kind of ...... bleh). On a lighter note (or darker) school starts on the September 8th so I'm not sure if I'm going to able to torture you readers with another story '. Well here is chapter 18 I hope you like it...hehe. (oh, the times are kind of messed up if u didn't notice sorry!)

Everyone who read chap 228 I feel your pain...it was to damn short...Sasuke and Naruto should kiss and make up yesh?

Disclaimer: Naruto is owned by someone other then myself coughSasukecough

Chapter 18

Gaara sat by the fire and even though it was hot he shivered. The sleeping form of Naruto was huddled on the ground on the other side of the fire. Gaara was deep in thought thinking about what Naruto had said earlier.

Flash Back

Gaara was holding Naruto again rocking him back and forth as he held a damp cloth to Naruto's forehead. Gaara was holding Naruto's stiff hand in his other and he was staring down into Naruto's face with sad eyes.

He had noticed that while Naruto slept he looked so innocent, but he also looked haunted and there was a deep understanding of pain. Gaara couldn't say how he knew this but he knew that something had happened to Naruto that had scarred him for life.

This made Naruto even more attractive to Gaara who had been hated, feared, and used all his life. The demon inside him and his mothers protecting spirit made it so he couldn't be killed but he was never loved.

Gaara was so deep in remembering his hurtful past that he didn't know that Naruto had woken again until he spoke.

"What makes you so sad?" Naruto asked softly so he wouldn't startle his captor. Naruto didn't know why he was feeling sorry for the person that had taken him prisoner but Gaara looked so sad and lonely. Naruto for one knew what it was to feel sad, and lonely.

Gaara snapped out of his ravine at the sound of Naruto's voice. "There is nothing wrong I am not sad...I was just thinking...remembering..."

"Remembering something sad?" Naruto asked. Gaara frowned at him and then looked away.

"You don't know how I suffer!" Gaara whispered angrily. "You don't know how it is to be hated, feared, to be alone!" Gaara turned back to Naruto his expression a little wild.

Naruto felt a strange compassion for his capture but he was also angry. "But I do know what it feels like...don't think I don't, I know it to well...then there was...." Naruto gave a sad smile.

Gaara smile a sarcastic smile. "When you say that I want to believe you, but how could you know....know what its like to be a demon?! Gaara's smile was slightly maniacal.

Naruto could help but laugh at how ironic this all was. "Then believe...bastard I have a demon of my own...." Naruto's eyes closed out of exhaustion he was so tired again and his head hurt.

Naruto couldn't hold on to reality much longer but before he passed out he whispered "The demon is sealed in me...I have been hated all my life...and then there was....sasu...ke."

End of Flash Back

Gaara had just stared at Naruto for a long time after that, thinking about what he had said. Finally he moved lifting Naruto's unconscious body and laying him gently on the ground.

Gaara cocked his head to one side and the reached out a shaking hand. 'Sealed in me' Gaara wondered if this outrageous story could be true. Gaara tentatively tugged at the zipper of Naruto's orange vest, pulling it all the way open.

Gaara paused his face getting hot, what the hell was he doing? Gaara finally convinced himself to precede, Gaara tugged on the bottom of Naruto's shirt to reveal his nicely toned stomach. Around his navel was a strange swirl.

Gaara gasped and sat back on his heels, so Naruto was telling the truth... Gaara found himself respecting Naruto.

Gaara then took a second look at Naruto's stomach, he had nicely toned muscles but his tan skin was deadly pale. It was the same with his face. Naruto didn't look well in fact he looked sick, he looked dead.

Gaara looked at the sky through the trees, it was cloudy and it looked a lot like rain. Great, he thought just perfect. The hidden sand village wasn't to far away but Gaara wasn't sure he could beat the rain.

Unwilling to let his treasure die Gaara picked up the small camp and then he bent and picked up Naruto, gently of course.

Gaara then set off at his fastest pace for the sand village. Home.

Sasuke also saw the rain clouds hanging ominously over the forest and he cursed them. The bastard that had taken his beloved away was ahead of him by at least half a day and it was dark now.

Sasuke could still feel Naruto, it must have had something to do with the link they shared because he knew he was heading in the right direction. He had lost Kakashi and Iruka a while back but he knew it was because they were scouting and not because he had out run them.

Sasuke was so tired but he wouldn't stop looking for Naruto until he collapsed and couldn't crawl any farther. He would find Naruto and kill the bastard that took him. Just then his legs gave out from under him. Sasuke fell hard on his knees but he kept shuffling forward moving only inches before he fell forward on his face. Sasuke managed to drag himself forward an inch before he completely passed out.

And that was how they found him a half an hour later. Iruka can to the place where Sasuke had fallen, face buried in the grass and one hand out stretched. Iruka kindly turned the boy over and brushed the lose grass and leaves from his face.

Kakashi came through the trees a few moments later, he was silent and Iruka didn't realize he was there until Kakashi cleared his throat.

Iruka looked up "Should we stop him, he's going to kill himself and Naruto along with him..." Iruka frowned not voicing the possibility that Naruto might be already dieing.

"Sasuke is the only one who can track Naruto, we need him to point us in the right direction." Kakashi explained for what seemed like the thousandth time, Iruka's constant worry over Naruto was getting rather annoying but Kakashi was trying to be understanding and patient.

"Well isn't he pointing us in the right direction?" Iruka gestured down at Sasuke who had been crawling towards the boarder of the leaf territory.

Kakashi heaved a sigh, why did these people make him feel so old and responsible? He then bent down and gently picked up Sasuke, who he then swung over his shoulder. Iruka gave him a confused look and opened his mouth, Kakashi however turned his back and started walking quickly in the direction Sasuke had been going.

Gaara arrived at the outskirts of the hidden sand village just as it began to rain. The guards didn't question him, they knew better then that. Gaara skirted around the center of the village traveling on the edges until he reached the house he had shared with his aunt.

Gaara tried not to think about the past but memories swamped him as he turned the door knob. How many times had he tried to commit suicide? How many times had even that been denied to him?

And how many times had his aunt told him he was special...that he was special to her...before she tried to kill him. Her confession of hate for him hurt even more then the knowledge that his father had ignored his existent.

Gaara walked across the empty floor disturbing the layer of dust that has fallen in the long period of abandonment. He took Naruto to the master bedroom and quickly removed the dust cover from the mattress before he laid Naruto on it.

Gaara then left the room to rummage around for bedding. Walking down a small hallway he remembered all the times he had run from his room to his aunts when he had nightmares. He had had nightmares almost every night and now he didn't sleep at all, ever.

Gaara chuckled he was a fucking insomniac, and it was that damn demons fault. At the end of the hall way were three doors, one to the bathroom, one to back yard, and the last to his old room.

Gaara hesitated with his hand on the door knob. He knew there were blankets in the closet but those memories, the nightmares they were so painful. Gaara was going to pull his hand away when he remembered that he wasn't alone anymore, there was someone who understood his pain...Naruto...Gaara opened the door.

Sasuke hair swung back and forth into his eyes, it was getting most annoying so he decided to brush it back. When Sasuke tried to lift his arm however it wouldn't obey.

Sasuke felt so weak and the hair in his eye was annoying him more then ever.

That's when it all came to him..."Naruto! Where's Naruto?" Sasuke tried to squirm but he realized that he was being carried and the person that was carrying him was much stronger then him.

"erm...Sasuke so your awake...." A face appeared in Sasuke's path of sight. "Don't try and move, we are follow Naruto don't worry." Sasuke opened his mouth to cuss out that person that was carrying him but he realized that he was extremely tired...and weak.

Sasuke pounded his fist weakly against the back of the person that was carrying him, who he guessed was Kakashi. Iruka frowned at him but he didn't care, he could tell Iruka was surprised at his 'unsavory' state.

The great Sasuke-kun weak, slung over another's shoulder, weeping his eyes out for his lover, the demon boy no less.

And then he felt a tug...a little tug at his heart, the link that connected him and...Naruto! "Naruto!! I can feel him near, hurry up he's close I can sense him!"

Kakashi glanced at Iruka and he nodded, they were entering foreign territory. The rain still falling like soft tears.

Gaara stood in the doorframe for a moment that seemed like hours, he had to get those blankets. Half way to the closed closet door Gaara stopped again he though someone was walking to him...there it was again...Gaara's mouth went dry...

"Gaara my dear, why do you cry?" the voice that was the source of many tormented thoughts!

"You are making people suffer aren't you Gaara? Now do they realize what a curse you are? I am the cursed one...cursed for being your mother! These people will know how I suffered!"