Authors' Note: Yay! I have updated! And gomen for being so late, I blame school and holidays... This chapter's very short and pretty strange, but you might like it:)

Thanks to all my reviewers, your reviews light up my day! 'happy happy'

Warnings: Bad language, violence and shounen ai (boy x boy)

Disclaimer I don't think I have to tell you this anymore, but I DON'T OWN NARUTO!

On with the fic!

The enormous fox demon looked at its vessel with a hint of sorrow in its eyes. Naruto was currently sitting on the floor, rocking back and forth, with eyes as dead as stone, filled with so much pain.
'You have to follow him kit.' He said quietly.
Naruto only shook his head, teas streaming down his cheeks.
"He hates me, he hates me…" He whispered.

"No he doesn't. He's just…confused right now. Follow him."

"No, I can't."

"You have to, kit! He doesn't hate you know, but he might do it if you don't come after him!" The demons' voice began to sound a little desperate.

'If he leaves you, then it'll all be for nothing.' Kyuubi thought.

"Even if I go after him, I won't be able to find him. He could have gone anywhere." The blonde said slowly.

"I'll help you kit, now go quickly, before he gets too far!"

Naruto got up on feet and wiped his eyes. They were still so empty, void of all emotions except sorrow, but a gleam of determination had begun to be seen in their blue depths.

"Go now!" And with these words the demon sent a massive amount of chakra to the boy, who stumbled under the sheer power that suddenly flooded within him. He tore open the door and ran outside in a flash. He was running so fast, that he didn't even notice the second and third tail waving next to the first.

A raven haired boy crouched on the ground, his back leaning towards the wall of a house. His eye stared without seeing into nothing, while emotions ravaged through his mind.

"I don't understand." He muttered to himself.

He raised his head and closed his eyes, taking deep breaths and relaxing. But as his thoughts returned, panic soon followed, and he hid his face in his hands as he tried not to cry. 'I don't know what to do!' He thought desperately.

Shikamaru sighed deeply. This was all too troublesome. He thought longingly about the hills behind the forest were one could get a clear view of the clouds. All he wanted to do right now was to walk there and lay down on the grass, and maybe meet… He immediately blushed a deep crimson colour at the thought. He closed his eyes and relived their last encounter.

:Flashback:

"Hey Shika-kun. What's that strange tattoo on your shoulder?"

The boy blushed a little, but smiled at his lover. "I don't really know, but my mom said it's a birth mark." The other boy bent down his head and bit down hard, drawing forth a tiny stream of blood. Shikamaru flinched at the sudden pain, but began to moan as his lover licked away the blood. "H-hey! What'd you do that for?" His voice wavered slightly when the other boy began to plant small kisses around the new wound. "I wanted to place my mark on you, to make sure everyone sees that you're mine, and no one else's." His lover said with a smirk and moved his lips from Shikas' shoulder to his mouth. The boys fell to the ground, their mouths pressed deep against each other in a breathtaking kiss. After a while Shikamaru pulled away, breathing deeply as he glanced lovingly at the other boy. "I love you." He whispered. The other boy smiled a bright smile. "I love you too." Their hands intertwined as they sat together, staring at the cloudy sky.

:End Flashback:

Shikamaru sighed again. He didn't even know why he was standing there. After all, his lover was here now, so why was he standing here?

The sounds of agitated voices returned him to reality. Oh right. There was some kind of meeting here. He didn't know exactly what it was about, only that it was that Haruno girl who'd summoned for it. He looked around. Almost half of the village was here, at least all of the younger ones.

"Please shut up people! I have something important to tell you." Sakuras' shrill voice silenced the muttering crowd. She was standing, rather awkwardly, on a small wooden box, gazing nervously at the people. "Yo girl, speak now! We don't wanna stand here all day." A sloppy looking guy said with a yawn. Sakura swallowed and breathed deeply.

"W-well, as you know, yesterday my beloved Lee was killed. No, he was brutally murdered by that savage beast we all know as Uzumaki Naruto!" Her voice gained more confidence and volume for each word, until she was almost screaming. Utter silence followed her words, but after a while people began to mutter.

"Hey girl! Not that I like that beast or anything, but do you have any proof for it?" The words, coming from a young silver haired man, silenced the crowd once again. Sakura nodded, and motioned with her hand to someone standing behind her. Shino stepped up next to her and gazed unemotionally at the crowd.

"It's true, I saw it all." He said in a cold, monotone voice. The crowd broke out in angry shouts. Sakura, now void of all nervousness, raised a hand to silence the shouting. "Now what do you think we should do about it, now that we all know the truth?"

"He needs to be punished! Demons shouldn't even be allowed to walk freely, and certainly not get away with something like this! We have to kill every demon, and every thing associated with them!" One of the older women screamed, her fist raised high over her head and her face contorted with anger.

Shikamaru stiffened. This wasn't good, no not good at all! He didn't want to be part of this, no not when they wanted to kill demons! He had to find him, before this insane crowd understood what he was.

He began to inch away from the crowd, listening intently at every word escaping the people around him.

"Yes, we have to punish him! Everyone, let's find him and give him the punishment he should have received a long time ago! And then we'll find every other demon, and kill them too!" Sakura yelled with a twisted smile.

The crowd erupted in cheers and shouts. The pink haired girl jumped down from the box and began to walk towards Narutos' home. She was soon followed by the rest of the crowd, except for a certain brown haired boy. (A/N: Yes I know, stupid cliché angry mob, only missing the pitchforks and the torches now huh? Well, it's my story, so shuddup!> ) end A/N)

'I have to find him!' Shikamaru took off towards the hotel he knew his lover stayed at, silently praying that he'd be there.

Sabaku no Gaara stared emotionless out the window.

He was bored.

His siblings were out somewhere, leaving him behind as usual, and he was busy with something. He sighed. This town was fucking boring. "Fucking. Boring." He said slowly, turning the curse around in his mouth. His siblings didn't allow him to swear, so he did it all the time they left him alone.

"Fucking." He whispered. Outside, clouds gathered and turned the sky a sickening grey colour. Soon, rain would pour down. He loved rain, almost as much as he loved the clouds. Gaara smiled a deep pure smile. For him, he'd do anything.

Shikamaru ran. It was very unusual for him to do something as intense as running, but now he had a good reason for doing it. 'I have to run faster' he thought angrily, trying his best to push his legs to their limit. Suddenly a cracking sound was heard, and he could only stare in confusion as bright green flames erupted around his legs. Moments before he fell into unconsciousness, he felt powers he never had felt before.

Gaara scratched his cheek. This was really boring. 'Why don't you go outside? Maybe you'll find him?' He sneered at the voice, but nodded a little.

"Yes, you're probably right, dammit." He said coldly. 'Why do you keep swearing? Little boys shouldn't swear.' The voice said tauntingly. Gaara clenched his fists, anger evident in his eyes. "I'm not little; I'm fucking fifteen years old! Now shut the fuck up and leave me alone!"

'Make me…'

"Yeah, I'm getting fucking tired of your fucking presence in my head!" Gaara screamed, more emotional than he'd been in a long time.

'Try it then, baby-boy.'

Gaara closed his eyes and focused. Soon red flames erupted around his head, and he let out an insane laughter. "What did you say? HUH!"

The presence inside of him smirked and waved its tale back and forth. 'Silly ningen boy. This time I'll leave a mark. Can't let my successor run around looking as ugly as you, right?' And without him noticing, grey fire flooded from Gaaras' ears and down his back.

The crowd gathered silently outside of the house. Sakura cautiously stepped up, a knife present in her right hand. She raised her other hand above her head and clenched it into a fist. "Let's punish the Demon!" She yelled. The crowd cheered and followed her as she broke up the locked door and stormed in. A few minutes later angry shouts and sounds of porcelain getting crushed were heard. "He isn't here!" "Where is he then?" "Hey, isn't he friends with that Uchiha kid? Maybe he's there?" "How could anyone be friends with a demon?" "Maybe he's also a demon?" "Yeah!" "We punish them both!"

Shikamaru got up on feet, rubbing his sore eyes. Something was not quite right here, but he wasn't too sure about what it was. "Hey wait a sec, where am I?" He was standing in a dark room, just barely lit with green lights coming from one corner.

"Hello there little one." A booming voice greeted him. Shikamaru flinched, but turned to look at something looking like a huge cage. Inside of it, two big brown eyes stared at him curiously. Shikamaru froze. He opened his mouth, but no sounds escaped him as he eyed the enormous beast in the cage.

The animal smiled. (A/N: Well at least tried to, since it's really hard for that type of animal to smile… Say it smiled with its eyes then! End A/N)

"Don't worry little one, I won't hurt you." The animal said reassuringly, looking down happily at the stunned boy.

"Who-who, wh-what?" Shikamaru stuttered, unable to get out a full sentence.

"Oh, don't you know who I am? My name is Shika no Youkai, and I am, as my name says, the Deer Demon."

"D-d-d-d-deer?"

"Yup."

"W-wh-where?"

"In your mind, or my prison, whichever you wish."

"My-my-my mind?" And with these words, he promptly fainted.

The deer sighed. Well, at least he wasn't screaming, that's a good thing.

It sent some of its green chakra towards the boy on the ground, who soon vanished from sight.

"I hope you like the gift, little one." The deer said with a gentle smile.

Gaara opened his eyes. He was laying on the floor in a fetal position, his knees press up against his belly. He got up on feet, rubbing his eyes and resuming his position at the window. Something was different, but he wasn't sure about what it was. He thought about it for a while, his tail swishing back an forth behind him.

Wait.

Tail?

Horrified Gaara looked behind his back and saw a long slender light brown tail wagging back and forth.

"Shukaku, what the fuck have you done this time?" He yelled.

'Just giving you a little…present. Whaat, not happy?'

"Fuck you." Gaara said between clenched teeth.

'Yeah yeah, swear all you want to, but you should probably look outside the window.'

Cautiously Gaara obeyed. His eyes fell upon the fallen form of one he knew all too well.

"Fuck." He swore as he leapt out of the room and down to the rain soaked road.

Shikamaru awoke to the sound of running. He opened his eyes slowly and was greeted by a most welcome sight. "Hey there koibito, why are you running? And why are you staring at my forehead?"

Sasuke got up on feet, all the time taking deep breaths to steady himself. 'I have to go home and tell him I know it's not his fault.' He thought, finally calming down. He began to walk in a slow pace towards his house.

Gaara stared, surprised beyond words, at the top of his lovers' forehead where two magnificent deer horns now protruded. He pointed and opened his mouth, but no words came out.

'Well little boy, it seems like your lover harbours the Shika Youkai. Isn't that interesting?' The voice sounded almost giddy.

'Fuck off.' The boy answered.

"Gaara, is that a tail?"

'Kit, go back home!'

'What? Why?' Naruto asked, still running.

'He has returned, and something is following him. Something evil.'

The blonde swallowed, quickly turning around and running in the other direction. Silently he prayed for the boy to be ok, although he wasn't sure why he shouldn't be.

Shikamaru only stared at the brown appendix now placed just on the backside off his lover. He scratched his forehead, but then noticed that there was something in the way. He grabbed it, and tried to pull it off, but only managed to pull himself down into the mud.

"Gaara! What's that on my forehead! I can't get it off!"

His lover looked at him and pulled away his hands.

"Well koishii, it seems like you've gotten yourself a pair of horns. How come I didn't know you had the Deer Demon inside of you?" He smirked.

"W-w-what! I have HORNS!"

"You know, I kinda like them, they look good on you." Gaara said comfortingly. "Now let's get inside, it's raining pretty heavily. Why are you here anyway?"

Shikamaru jumped up on feet. "We have to get out of this insane village! The people have decided to kill the Demon, and then they said they'd come after everyone associated with him!" He grabbed his lovers' hands and stared pleadingly into his calm eyes. "Please." He whispered. "I don't want to lose you."

Sasuke leaned against the door, his arms crossed. Fortunately, he was protected from the rain by the roof hanging over the entrance.

Apparently, Naruto wasn't there anymore, and he intended to wait here until he came back, no matter how long it'd take. He nodded to himself. Yup, that was exactly what he'd do.

Raised voices and the sound of many people running woke him up from his thoughts. He gazed quietly at the road, where now a massive crowd of people had gathered.

One of them stepped forward, eyeing him carefully.

"Where is he?" She said.

'Kit, you must hurry!' The demons' voice sounded panicked now, and Naruto increased his speed. He could now see Sasukes' house, and the crowd standing outside. He could also see one person leaning towards the house, seeming nonchalant to the angry mass. And he could see one person hold up their hand and throw something silvery towards the boy. He could hear their angry shouts and the thud when the silvery thing hit the boy. He could hear the boys' gasp, but after that all went red.

Sasuke could only stare as one person threw what he understood to be a knife towards him. He felt strangely numb, so numb that he almost didn't feel it hit his body. But still, a gasp escaped him as blood poured out of him and down onto the ground. And all he'd done was telling them that he'd never betray Naruto. And talking of him, behind the crowd Sasuke saw a familiar sight. He smiled as red enveloped the crowd and had them running away in fear.

He also noticed that even though most of them escaped, Naruto managed to kill a few of them. He slumped to the ground as suddenly his legs felt weak. "Naruto…" He whispered, before closing his eyes.

The red power flashed before his eyes, more than ever before and yet he could feel that this was merely a fragment of the power he held inside. When he regained his senses, he saw that there was none left. They had all run away, except for the ones that had died. He smiled at the thought of it; strangely enough he wasn't troubled by the fact that he'd killed once again. A small sound woke him from his thoughts, and he noticed that someone was alive.

"Sasuke!" He screamed, fear coursing through him. The raven haired boy smiled, as the blonde clumsily feel down beside him. "Hey there…dobe."

The blonde grabbed his friends' arm and pulled him into a fierce embrace. Tears gathered in his eyes. Sasuke reached out a hand and wiped away the tears. "Don't cry, it's ok now."

His body went limp. Naruto pulled the boys' body closer to himself and cried, ignoring the voice in his head who screamed at him to listen before it was too late.

Bwahahahaha! Cliffy warning! And before you kill me for leaving you there, remember that I'm the author here, if you kill me there won't be any more chapters, right?

'hides behind Gaara' Shoo! Go and review:) And don't you think the scene with Gaara and Shika-kun was kawaii?

Koishii: beloved

Koibito: lover

youkai: demon

shika: deer

ningen: människa