I'll admit I was looking forward to this chapter, but It turned out rather dull and not how I wanted it to turn out. But only so much you can do with fragment backstories without out skipping ahead and messing everything up so... Here it is.

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~Nightfire~

A new scene appeared, it was very bright. They were in the hospital. Naruto was freaking about something and yelling at Shikamaru.

"What the?" Boruto said. "How did he end up here?"

"He probably passed out from training." Sarada said.

"That's most likely what happened." Shikadai said. "But what is my dad doing here?"

Naruto started to look for something on his bed before suddenly stopping.

"What's wrong with Lord Seven?" Sarada asked.

"Maybe he'd hungry?" Chocho said.

"Hey, Naruto." Shikamaru said, trying to get the blonde's attention. "What's going on?"

The blonde slowly faced his friend, hold his stomach.

"I'm...So hungry." Naruto said.

"Told you." Chocho said smugly.

Shikamaru relaxed, telling his blonde not to scare him like that, and proceeded to pull out a basket of fruit.

"Huh?" Shikadai said. "Why does he have that?"

Shikamaru set the basket on the bed, saying he brought it for Choji as a get well basket. But the doctors said he couldn't have it.

"Choji?" Naruto said. "Is he sick?"

"No, no, don't be fooled." Shikamaru said. "He made himself sick by eating too much BBQ."

Naruto burst out laughing at that. He wasn't even a bit surprised.

"When is something interesting going to happen?" Boruto asked. "How is this even important."

As if to answer him, the scene shift to another hospital room.

"Dad?" Metal Lee said when he noticed who was asleep in the bed.

The door to the room opened. Sakura walked in. She set a single white flower on the bedside table.

"Why are we seeing this?" Mirai asked?

"You wanted to know more about the Kazekage." The women said, appearing. "Did you not?"

"Yes." Mirai said cautiously, "But I don't see how Lee-sensei and the Kazekage have any connection at this point."

"No?" The woman said. "I think you better look again."

Everyone turned back to the scene.

Sakura had left and it seemed like the room was shaking a bit. WInd blew the curtain up over the bed just as Gaara entered the room. The red-head stared down at the sleeping boy.

"What's wrong with him?" Shikadai asked when he saw his uncle holding his head.

He turned to the women but she wasn't there anymore. He frowned. His Uncle was in pain and acting weird and they weren't getting any stright answers. Images over took the scene of flashes.

The first one was of Gai at the end of Lee's battle with Gaara.

"Why save him?

"Because he is an important subordinate whom I care about."

"Why are we seeing this again?" Boruto asked.

No one answered him.

More images past by them. A young boy stood in shadows, looking sad. Everyone recognize the child form of the Kazekage. Another was a man, smiling kindly with a small bruise on his cheek. The next was of Gaara, still as a child, gripping his chest. He seemed to of been yelling at someone but his voice wasn't heard as his lips moved. That changed into a picture of a beautiful women. After that was the kind man again, but this time his eyes were dead as he turned his bloodied face forward with a fake smile on his lips. Child Gaara was crying, holding his head.

"Who was that?" Sarada asked. "Shikadai?"

The young Uchiha turned to the Nara child.

"I don't know." Shikadai said, crossing his arms.

The boy seemed upset he didn't know who was shown.

"I only recognized the women in the photo that was shown." Shikadai told them. "It's my grandma. But I don't know who that guy was."

They watched as the cork from Gaara's gourd fell to the ground and sand inched closer to the sleeping boy.

"How?" Metal Lee spoke up, clenching his fists. "How did my father and the Kazekage become friends after all this?"

They watched with bated breaths.

The sand snaked around Lee's sleeping body. Gaara moved closer to the bed and held is arm out, getting ready to close his hand to use his crushing technique.

The eight could only watch, since it was just a memory. Chocho cover her eyes. The others couldn't tear their eyes away. Metal Lee cover his ears and closed his eyes. He didn't want to see what happened next.

"Stop! I don't want to see this!" He yelled.

Metal Lee opened his eyes after he didn't hear screams of pain. Gaara had stopped.

Shikamaru and Naruto had entered the room.

"You jerk!" Naruto yelled, punching the redhead. "What the hell do you think your doing?"

Shikamaru fell back as well. He had used his shadow possession to stop Gaara but that meant he was also affect by Naruto's punch. Which he berated the blonde about. Naruto apologized before both boys turned to the redhead, who's sand armor had been cracked.

"Boruto, Shikadai." Metal Lee spoke, turning to his friends. "I am eternally grateful to your fathers."

Boruto clicked his tongue, he wasn't happy the Metal Lee said that to him but didn't say otherwise for the sake of his friend.

"Don't thank me." Shikadai said, rubbing the back of his head. "My Uncle's the one causing all the issues."

"What the hell were you trying to do?"

The eight foucued back into the scene at Naruto's voice.

There was a tense pause before Naruto asked his question again.

"I was trying to kill him." Gaara told them.

No one liked that answer.

Shikamaru asked Gaara why he would want to do that. Asked if the redhead had something personal like a grudge or something, to try and kill Lee after their fight. Gaara said no, that it was nothing like this, just that he wanted to kill him.

"How can you say something so selfish." Naruto yelled at Gaara.

"You.. You had a lousy upbringing didn't you?" Shikamaru asked, "All you care about is yourself."

"If you get in my way." Gaara said. "I'll kill you both."

Naruto didn't like that. He stared being Naruto, but Shikamaru stopped him. Shikamaru started talking. Saying that he and Naruto knew he was strong but that the two of them could keep up him, especially if it's two to one.

"What is he doing?" Boruto asked?

"He's bluffing." Shikadai said. "Trying to get Uncle to back down and leave or to by time for someone to notice outside the room."

Gaara didn't fall for it repeated what he said. Naruto started yelling again.

"I've been telling you to back off, haven't I?" Shikamaru said, trying to stop Naruto. "This guy has the strength of a monster. You get it, don't you?"

"I have a real monster in me!" Naruto said with no hesitation. "I'm not going to lose to this guy!"

"Not subtle at all, is he?" Mitsuke asked.

"No, not really." Mirai said.

Shikamaru nudged Naruto in the side to get him to stop.

"A monster, huh?" Gaara said, closing his eyes. "Me too, actually."

Everyone's eyes widen.

"Just like you said. I had a terrible upbringing." Gaara said. "When I came into this world I took the life of the women, some might call my mother."

Gaara then proceeded to tell the two leaf ninja more about him. Saying his father, spoiled him, taught him ninjutsu, and that he'd been possessed by a sand demon.

"I was born a monster."

Naruto and Shikamaru weren't expecting that.

"It's called Shukaku." Gaara told them.

Shikamaru tried to reason that out. Naruto however how a new look on his face. The best to describe it out be understanding, mixed with pity, mixed with slight fear.

"Could it be that Lord Kazekage was a jinchuriki?" Sarada asked. "He mentions Shukaku by name and that's the One-Tail."

"I wouldn't doubt it." Mirai said. "But there's something that doesn't make sense."

"What's that?" Boruto asked.

"Most of the Tailed-Beasts are free in the world." Mirai said. "And the Kazekage is alive."

"What does that mean?" Shikadai said.

"When a Tailed-Beast it extracted from its host, the host usually…. Dies." Mitsuki said.

"What happened?" Naruto demanded.

His shout drew attention back to the scene. They saw a evil grin form on the redhead's face.

"In the six years from the time I was six years old." Gaara started. "My father had tried to assassinate me more times than I can count."

The scene ended there.

Ugh, I really really didn't like how this chapter turned out, I might end up changing it or just flat out rewrite it at a later date.

I thank you all for reading.

I'll try to make the chapters a bit better and longer.

Don't expect a new chapter soon. I am working all week but I will be getting it out a soon as I can.