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Note: Here's the first real chapter, I hope you'll all like it!

Protect Me

Chapter One:

Naruto pressed his body closer to the cold concrete wall. With Gaara's cleverness and Naruto's brute strength, they had managed to escape the Sound Genetics lab. They had made one mistake though…, the guards had been late changing stations so, Naruto and Gaara were spotted.

Gaara pushed off from the wall, and started to run into the woods. Hearing the guard's dogs behind him, Naruto quickly followed. Gaara took weird twist and turns while running, sometimes turning around and going the other way. Naruto was beyond annoyed.

"Gaara what the hell are we doing?"

Gaara stopped for a second and looked at Naruto. "Confusing the dogs…" he answered shortly before a light flashed near them, and they ducked down.

Naruto felt his anger disappear at the logical answer, until he felt sand around his feet. Naruto knew Gaara could control sand, but this sand was forming out of nowhere. Now, it was slowly pulling him into the ground.

"What the fuck?" Gaara gave him a blank stare as sand pulled him too, into the ground.

Naruto struggled to get free of the sand, but couldn't. He closed his eyes and his mouth when the sand pulled him deeper into the ground. Naruto dropped hard onto a concrete surface, with his head still slightly in a daze he asked. "Where are we?"

"Pipes…" was Gaara's simple answer as he headed down one of the large passage ways.

Naruto gazed at Gaara , repressing memories he would rather forget. For eight years he had wanted to get out of Orochimaru's facility, and now he was finally getting the chance. He felt emotions so strong at this thought, that he felt as if he was winded. It was all thanks to Gaara, Naruto would find some way to pay the red head back.

Naruto was still thinking ways to pay Gaara back, when he noticed Gaara was far down the pipes and he ran to catch up. "Wait up damn it! That was an awesome technique; I didn't even know you could do that since they took your sand away!" Naruto gave Gaara a foxy grin, and without waiting for him to reply, he rambled on about all the different types of ramen he would eat, when they got to the city.

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Naruto took a shalllow breath, as Gaara pushed the manhole above them with his sand. This would be the first time in eight years; he was out of the Sound. "

Gaara slowly stuck his head out of the manhole, wary of traffic. When he found none, he climbed out of the manhole and grabbed Naruto's hand.

"We need to keep moving" Gaara crossed the deserted street, heading into a secluded park.

Gaara was silent as he sat on a bench. He crossed his arms staring off into space under a dim light, Naruto reluctantly joined him.

"This is stupid…" Naruto made a face and glared at Gaara, who simply ignored him. "What are we waiting for?"

"Clothes"

"What! That doesn't make any sense…I'm going to…Naruto never got to finish his sentence because, Gaara pulled him off the bench and into the bushes.

"Silence!" Gaara's quietly commanded, holding his hand over Naruto's mouth.

Naruto rolled his eyes. 'How can I talk with a hand over my mouth?' He continued his mind rant, until he heard voices coming toward them.

"Yea and she was like 'I love you Gindo' and I was like 'Come here and give daddy a kiss…'"

"Sweet!"

Gaara took his hand away from Naruto's mouth slowly. "On the count of three, we'll attack and take anything useful they have on them. 1…2…3!" Gaara said as he and Naruto, jumped from behind the bushes, surprising the two guys that were deep in an 'intelligent' conversation. Gaara kicked the one in front of him low in the stomach, and Naruto head butted his guy. After they were out cold, Naruto and Gaara quickly removed their clothes, and replaced them with the Sounds plain white uniform.

"Sorry guys…no hard feelings right?" Naruto smiled as they groaned but still remained unconscious, when he dragged them into the bushes. Naruto looked down at himself, he was dressed in a oversized black t-shirt with a large orange spiral on it, and blue baggy jeans. When he glanced at Gaara, Naruto had to hold back his laughter. He was dressed in baggy black pants, with pockets all over them. Also he had a fishnet shirt on, and over that was a t-shirt was a cute fuzzy panda sucking on a lolly pop. He looked so funny. (Poor Gaara oo)

When Gaara sent a glare his way, Naruto couldn't hold back his laughter any longer.

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Sasuke drove above the speed limit, to his house. He had stayed at another one of Shikimaru's drinking parties. Sasuke sighed, he didn't know why he hung around him, he had much better booze at his own home he shared with Neji.

He turned up the music in his car, as he drove further into the residential area. His vision was slightly blurry as he got closer to his house. Thinking there was probably know one on the road at 3:00 am in the morning. Sasuke closed his eyes, and blocked himself off from the rest of the world.

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"So Gaara…What was the plan again?" Naruto asked him again, they had been traveling for a few hours, and it was already the fifth time he had asked.

Gaara sighed, he really didn't know why he had brought Naruto with him. Sure he helped him escape the Sound, but once they were outside, he could have left Naruto to slow down Orochimaru's men. Which was another strange thing. 'Why are Orochimaru's men not coming after us?' Gaara pondered this as he unconsciously crossed the street.

Naruto yelling his name snapped him out of his thoughts, as he was roughly pushed to the curb.

"Naruto, what the…" His sentence was unfinished, as he looked in horror at the scene before him. A black car was now crushed against a tree. Naruto lay off to the side of the car, blood pooling rapidly around him , from fresh injuries. Gaara got up and ran silently over to Naruto, though inside he was screaming. 'Naruto… you dumbass! Why did you have to jump in front of that car and save me? My sand would have shielded me from the car! Why…?'

Naruto looked up at Gaara in his half conscious state, seeming to know the question Gaara was asking.

"Because you're my friend…"

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Note: I know it was short but I promise the next one will be longer! I tried to make Gaara as in character as I could so I apologize if he was kind of out of character. It's kind of hard to tell what he's thinking most of the time. We'll I hope that you guys will stick around for the next chapter and please review!