Okay, like I said earlier, if a different version of a character had the exact same name I will put an dash before their name since the site is evil and banned astericks. For example, Older Sakura would be -Sakura, as opposed to regular Sakura. Hope I didn't confuse you more, thanks to all of the wonderful people who reviewed! And for those who read but didn't review… its okay, I love you anyway! On with the fic!

Disclaimer: Don't own any of the Naruto characters

Most of the boys dropped on their futons exhausted. Haku had shown them around the entire Yadoya, and it was humongous, almost as big as Konoha! They had also seen various other things lurking around which Haku said were either workers or other guests. Some of them reminded people of summons, some looked human, and some were half animal or something. They had kept themselves out of sight and the boys didn't dare probe any further. The Temari had joined them and now they were all tired. Most of them went to sleep at once, not bothering to say good night. When he was sure everyone was asleep Gaara went up on the roof to stargaze. He was rather surprised that the Harusame onsen seemed busier at night than in the day.

"Most of their usual guests come at night. Having trouble sleeping?"

Gaara turned around, eyes narrowed. He relaxed only slightly when he realized that Garra was there.

"…Insomnia is a hard habit to break."

"Don't I know it. If it weren't for Naru I probably woudn't sleep at all.

"Hn."

"You're not much of a conversationalist are you?"

"…Why are you here?"

"Couldn't sleep. Too many nightmares... Why are you here?"

"…Thinking."

"I see."

The two sat there in silence for a while, gazing at the sky. Suddenly Gaara thought of something that he wanted to ask the other girl.

"…How did you meet Naru?"

Garra looked at him for a moment then back at the sky.

"It was lonly were I was, slowly losing my sanity, my very purpose and morals also. I wanted to get out, but I couldn't find any way to escape. Then... I found a flame. There was a girl, shining brilliantly in the darkness. She was in pain... so I put out the fire. When she smiled at me, through pain and tears, it was one of the most pure things I had ever seen in that hell. Then... we were transported into the light. Did you have someone who saved you from being consumed in darkness too?

"…Naruto."

'He pulled me from the darkness when no one else cared. He saw the human in me and forced it to the light, out of the darkness of the demon.'

Suddenly the girl winked at him.

"You guys were in an interesting position today. Did you like being on top?"

All color left Gaara's cheeks and he stared at her, shocked. Then, almost imperceptibly, his were dusted with a light pink. Garra grinned and pinched his cheek.

"Calm down, I was just teasing you! But you must admit, Naruto is pretty cute. Actually, it seems that our lovely blondes are out right now. Wanna go visit?"

She pulled him on the arm and transported them out of there.

Naruto woke up when he felt a presence leave the room.

"Gaara?"

He looked around groggily and noticed that the red-haired shinobi was nowhere in sight. Feeling a bit worried, he pulled his orange jacket on over his yukata and went outside to look for the sand-nin. Then… he got lost. He sweat dropped as he looked at the seemingly endless hallways.

"Lost? Don't worry, when we first came here I got lost all the time!"

He turned around to see Naru grinning at him cheerfully. He grinned back.

"Yeah, I'm a bit lost… what are you doing up?"

Naru started leading him in the direction of the gardens.

"Looking for Gaa-chan. You?"

"Anou sa, me too! I guess Gaara hasn't gotten over his insomnia yet…"

"Same with Gaa-chan. She worries me sometimes. She gets almost no sleep, and doesn't even eat properly! I mean, how can you survive without food? It's unthinkable!"

"Yeah, you're right! Now that you mention it, Gaara doesn't seem to eat much either. He always looks kinda pale and has those circles around his eyes."

"Eh, it looks kinda cute though."

"Heh, maybe. So what should we do when we find them?"

"I say we make them go to sleep then feed them in the morning."

"And how will we manage that?"

"I have my ways… you shall learn the way of the Naru!"

"I just hope Gaara doesn't kill me for this…"

"Why would he? You guys seem friendly."

"Well, I'd like to be… hey, what gave you that idea?"

"Um, when you guys were on top of each other?"

"That was an accident!"

They reached the outside and were momentarily transfixed by the sight of dozens of fireflies, glinting bright against the darkness of night. They sat under a tree to watch.

"Hey Naru?"

"Hai, Naruto?"

"How did you meet Garra?"

Naru smiled.

-Flashback-

Naru lay curled up into a ball, every cell in her body literally burning with pain. She was shrouded in darkness, nothingness, with only her agony soaked screams for company.

'Otosan! I'm scared! It's never hurt like this before! I can't feel Kyuu-nee! Otosan!'

She was bleeding, pain and confusion twisting her mind until she cried, cried from the pain, the loneliness, the heat, the guilt… everything. She was falling, with no one to catch her. Falling into the bottomless pit that was her mind… Suddenly, the burning stopped.

'Something cool… putting out the flames… sand?'

She opened her eyes and teary red-blue was met with the most beautiful shade of emerald green. Then came those three little words.

"...Are you okay?"

Naru smiled at the girl; through tears and pain she smiled brightly.

"Arigato.

-end flashback-

Naruto stared.

"Um, that sounds… Wow. That's pretty different than what happened with me and Gaara… Wait, you knew your parents?"

"Only otosan. Okasan died soon after I was born. I don't remember her."

"Where's your dad now?"

"I don't know. I thought he was dead, but Iruka-sensei said that he wasn't. She said that she could feel it so I'm waiting for him to come back. What about your parents?"

"I never knew my parents. I don't know anything about my family."

Naru looked at him for a moment with concern in her eyes. Suddenly her face split into a huge grin.

"I know, you can join our family!"

Naruto stared at her.

"I thought you said you didn't know where your dad was."

"I have other family too! There's Gaa-chan, Neji-chan, Iruka-sensei, Shika-chan, Sakura-baachan, Kakako-sensei, 'Tachi-nee… a lot of people! And we add new people all the time!"

Naruto grinned at her.

"So if I join your family, I guess that makes you my sister?"

"Yup! You're always welcome to my family Naruto-kun! Both of 'em!"

Naruto smiled. It wasn't one of his usual fake cheerful smiles, but a real one.

'So this is what its like to have a sister. She's probably the closest thing i'll ever find to a blood relative.'

"Arigato."

Another amused voice spoke.

"Hey, all of us weirdo's have to stick together, y'know?"

Naruto and Naru turned around to find Garra and Gaara. The blondes suddenly cracked identical foxy grins.

"GAA-CHAN!"

"GAARA!"

Both Gaara's found themselves glomped. Garra just smiled and ruffled Naru's hair. Gaara looked slightly panicked.

"We were looking for you guys!"

"Hello to you too Naru."

"…Get off."

"Heh, sorry Gaara!"

Both of them unglomped the Gaara's. Naru spoke.

"Okay, you two definitely need to get some sleep! I don't care if you have insomnia, you need to sleep!"

"Yeah! Its not healthy!"

"…This is from someone who practically lives off ramen."

"At least I eat panda boy! Look, I can see your ribs!"

To demonstrate his point Naruto pulled open one of the sides of Gaara's yukata. True to his observation, you could see Gaara 's ribs poking out through his pale flesh. He didn't notice the slight tick growing on Gaara's face... and was that a blush?

"…Let go. NOW."

"Only if you go to sleep!"

"…Okay, now let go!"

Satisfied, Naruto let go of Gaara 's yukata and started to drag him away.

"Naruto-kun!"

"Hai?"

"The rooms are in the other direction."

"Anou, arigato Naru-chan!"

"Don't worry; we'll walk you guys there."

The Next Day

When everyone was awake Haku led them into a large room for breakfast. They each sat down at a place and started to eat; the food was delicious. The entertainment wasn't bad either… Naruto and Naru faced down Gaara and Garra.

"Eat."

"Not hungry."

"…Garra, don't make me force feed you again."

Garra got a horrified look on her face.

"…You wouldn't."

"I swear I will do it to both of you, and this time I have back up."

"Yeah! C'mon Gaara, it won't kill you to eat!"

Gaara stubbornly refused. Garra leaned over to whisper to him.

'I would do it if I were you. Naru… is stubborn. If she has help it'll be even worse. Besides, they're just doing it because they're worried.'

Gaara thought about it. Eat or be force fed by two stubborn blonds in front of an attentive audience. Grudgingly, he picked up some food and started eating. Garra started to eat also. The two hyper blondes grinned proudly at each other and the spectators were amazed. Much clapping ensued.

-Sakura spent the night at the Hokage tower explaining things more to Tsunade. Tsunade had sent everyone home with strict orders not to reveal anything to anybody that did not already know. She just had one little problem…

"So what should I tell the family's of the gaki who left?"

"Anou, maybe you could say you sent them on a sudden urgent mission?"

"Ah, that's a good idea. So besides the two that we already saw… who else do you think will come to help us?"

"If Garra, Naru, and Shika are going to be here then -Neji is most likely to show up too. We'll probably need one of the more experienced guardians also…"

"So we have to wait for them to show up? What if we get attacked again?"

"I don't sense any immediate danger to this town. If whoever is behind this is aware that there are guardians here they will probably proceed with caution. If there is an attack I should be able to hold them off for for a bit."

"So what are you exactly?"

"I am a healer. I was taught by -Tsunade-sama, along with her other apprentice -Shizune-nee. I thought I was going to be a regular healer, one that travels and tries to help those in need… but then…"

Sakura trailed off and Tsunade could see deep pain in her eyes. Pain that she obviously didn't want to talk about at the moment.

"…Things happened. So instead I somehow became a world traveling healer. Then I met those four, and I found a whole new side of healing... and how people's bodies work. Demons and half demons are unpredicatble when it comes to healing... both in body and soul. So... how would the town or elite ninja react to all of this? Are you going to tell them or keep this known to a select few?

Tsunade started to get a very bad feeling about all of this…. Think of all the paperwork she would have to fill out!

TBC

Hee, what will happen next chaptet? Will we meet someone new? Travel to a new world? Go back to Konoha? Stay tuned to find out! ;)

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