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Gaara watched her leave, the female. "Hinata." He said out loud, feeling her name on his tongue for the first time. It felt, nice, right even. Such a delicate name, matched the person whom it belonged to. She brought out new emotions in him, he felt like he wanted to protect her, to keep her safe. It was such a brief conversation yet he could feel the loss as soon as she walked out the door. 'I just haven't had human contact for a while, it has nothing to do with the female.' He thought to himself.

Back at the tower, Gaara fully intended to do some work. He shut himself in, gave his frightened bookkeeper orders not to let anyone through the doors. He didn't understand why his head kept wandering towards a petite blue-haired female. This wasn't like him, he never thought about anyone for this long, especially not females. He wondered if perhaps he thought about her because he wanted to destroy her, he hadn't felt that way in years either. Gaara didn't have time to dwell on it however, as a head full of bright yellow hair came crashing through the door.
"Hey Gaara, boy are you hard to find these days!" Said the intruder. The only person who would ever be brave enough to barge into his study and not fear the consequences.
"Naruto Uzumaki, to what do I owe the surprise?" Gaara hadn't seen his only friend in months, him being busy as the village ruler, the Kazekage, and Naruto travelling all through the lands. Theirs wasn't a usual friendship, one day after one of Gaaras rampages, Naruto had taken him down and helped him see the error of his ways. After that, Gaara seriously worked on changing himself, and he and Naruto just grew closer. Naruto was from a different village, a leaf village, so they didn't see each other often, but ever since that day they had a strong bond.
"Well Gaara, I was hoping you could tell me," started the nervous looking blonde, "I understand you probably have the best at heart and you're hoping that it'll bring the villages closer maybe or maybe you just think it'd be a good match and if you really want me to I'll give it a go, who knows it could maybe work out really we-", "Naruto Slow Down." Gaara snarled, getting a headache from the chatter, "I have no idea why you're here and you are complicating this entire conversation. Just tell me in simple terms, why are you in Suna?"
The blonde looked shocked and confused, looking at Gaara like he should already know. "Well, Gaara. You asked me here so I could marry one of your villagers."

Hinata didn't want to leave the comfy little house, just on the way back from the forest she could hear people whispering and feel them staring. When she came out of the clearing and went into the desert-like village it seems that all of the bustling noise came to a quick stop and everyone started watching her. She was also nervous, she had heard that her would-be husband had arrived in Suna, and was currently in the tower. She knew of Naruto, in her time spent in Konoha, the leaf village, she had heard lots of stories about the rambunctious teen. He was an orphan which had been the outcast of the village, children wouldn't be allowed to play with him, the elders seemed to do nothing and just ignore him completely. Some had said that he had "impure blood".
That didn't change Hinatas' view of him, she saw him as lonely and hurting when she had seen him those few times sitting by himself. She had even talked to him once, and he seemed really happy that she had, he didn't seem to have bad blood at all if the smile on his face was any indication. He had bright blue eyes, bright blonde hair, and bright white teeth. Everything about him was bright, including his personality. But the time that she did talk to him, she got dragged away and punished for mixing with the bad crowd. Hinata shook her head, 'No use thinking of the past,' she told herself, 'time to figure out a way out of this mess.'

She made her way to the little cottage that her mother and her used to share, wishing she was back at the clearing in the forest, at least there they wouldn't be able to hear her cry through the thin walls.

Gaara stared at Naruto, wondering again if his friend really wasn't daft. Sometimes he was really smart but at these times Gaara worried about him.
"Naruto, I didn't send for you at all, especially not so you could marry one of my villagers." Gaara wouldn't have been able to find a villager deserving of his only friend anyway.
Naruto just shrugged his shoulders, reached into his backpack and pulled out a missive. "I got this a couple of days ago, it bears your seal and your signature." Gaara took the missive and read through it, a bitter feeling settling in the pit of his stomach with each line that he read.
Naruto Uzumaki, please come to Suna at once. I humbly ask you to wed one of my villagers, a one Hyuuga Hinata, to provide for her and take her to your village in the leaf where she will stay and become a citizen. You will come as soon as possible and be married at week's end.
Signed – Kazekage Gaara.

Gaara grit his teeth, anger coursing through him. Those bastards had pretended to be him, called his friend, and organized a marriage between him and the Hinata girl. It was one thing to slowly decay the village without his knowledge, it is another to do so while pretending to be him.

"I will deal with this immediately, there will be no marriage."

~~~ (Narutos POV)
Naruto left his friends office, feeling sad for the red headed leader. He understood why Gaara was afraid of showing himself to the people and why he stayed out of village affairs. Gaara had just wanted to be a good ruler, not wanting to scare his villagers and thinking that the council would do a better job of creating a peaceful village. Naruto also understood what it was like to be treated like a monster, to be feared or ignored. Now he had friends and people that trusted him, and he was sad that Gaara only had him. He wished Gaara could find someone to open up his heart and to love him regardless of his past.
Naruto walked along the streets of Suna, hearing the familiar sound of people whispering and feeling their stares on the back of his head. There were two loud ladies behind him, mentioning his name and talking about him, so he turned around and stared straight into their eyes.
"What do you want?" He asked the two women, shock in their eyes that he would acknowledge them.
The oldest one, a woman in her mid-40's with bright green robes on stared back at him, squinting her eyes as she looked him up and down, "You're here to take away the little outsider aren't you? Good riddance."
Naruto was confused, "Who do you mean?" he asked.
"That little Hinata, always so creepy with her white eyes and stutter, like she fell from a tree when she was young. You're the one who's gonna marry her and take her out of our sights." She explained, laughing in a shrill, high pitched voice.
Naruto growled and went up to the woman, standing so close that their noses nearly touched, "Don't you dare speak of her that way again." He said to her, baring his teeth afterwards, causing panic in the women's eyes.

Naruto walked away, determined to find this Hinata and speak to her.