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Chapter Eighteen:

Emotionless The Eyes Stare

Both Naruto and I looked at him as he handed one tube to the blonde on my right, and one tube to be keeping the third for himself.

I watched him a moment.

I didn't have a reason for watching I just felt like it.

I don't kow if anyone noticed and I didn't really care at that point.

Things were becoming more and more complicated with each day.

At the time, I just wandered if he felt the same about me- of course later I recieved my answer.

I undid the tie on my tube to find that two slips of paper fell out landing on my knees, one was from Ino and the other one was from the fifth hokage, Lady Tsunade- my sensei.

I still have both of the slips of paper tucked safely inside a velvet covered book that use to belong to Gaara; the book that I'm talking about was a child's story about a traveler who went around the world in search of a necklace called the Sand Stone.

You see in Suna there is a myth that says that the wearer of the Sand Stone can control vash amounts of sand, but more than that the wearer was unable to die when they were fighting for the one they loved.

It was presumed to be a legend and nothing more.

Still, it was a lovely book, and is a lovely book filled with beautifully colored pages; it was one of the few items he had from his former child hood, along with a tattered brown bear, and a small blanket that his mother had made him the night she had found out she was pregnant. He keep those choice three items inside a whole in his former room in Suna.

He told me about them one night while Naruto was off scouting out an area right before it happened.

The paper- I memorized both messages because I have often gone to them to reread so that the happy memories created from that day wouldn't leave me- and the one from Ino read:

Dear Bill-Board Brows,

How are you doing? I hope that your mission is going well! Bring our Sasuke back so that things can be the way they were before. Its been three months since me and Shikamaru hooked up by the way. Anyways send a message back and be careful.

---Ino---

I chuckled at her letter- we had become such good friends since he had left.

Naruto was steadily reading his letter that I knew to be Hinata's while Gaara's face was drawn together in concentration as he read his own letter; I remember thinking that he look so cute when his eyes were focused as hard as they were on what he was doing.

The next letter, the one from Tsunade read:

Sakura,

I hope that you are well. We have recieved some disturbing information about what the Akashi are up to. I must warn you that both Gaara and Naruto are in danger- a serious danger. Do not allow them to leave your sight for no longer than ten minutes at a time. If you need any thing do not hestiate to tell me.

---Tsunade---

P.S.: Do not tell the boys about what I have ordered you to do, I know Naruto doesn't want you to worry, and I'm sure Gaara doesn't either.

P.S.S: Yes I know that you are traveling with Gaara thanks to Kakashi.

I reread the letter twice before putting both of them in my pocket.

The letter was troubling, but I knew my orders, and I followed them.

Naruto sat down on the floor as he stared at his letter in shock, his eyes almost looked like they were about to tear.

Walking over to him, kneeled down, "Whats wrong?"

His reaction to the letter had troubled me greatly.

"N-nothing," he muttered a small grin forming on his face, "nothings wrong."

"Well then," I said pushing him gently, "Then why do you look like your about to cry?"

"I'm not!" he snapped at me, rubbing his eyes with his arm.

"Naruto," I said more forcefully, Gaara had finished reading his note and was now watching us.

Naruto didn't look at me, he was just staring contently at the letter. His sapphire eyes revealed a more serious side to his personality I had rarely seen him display with the expection of battle- but that was not always the case.

"Naruto let me see," I snapped jerking the letter from him, he didn't fight.

Sitting down next to him I read it.

The news was startling and yet renewed my hopes in people.

Strange isn't?

I had never thought that it would be her to be the first out of the group of girls to bring new life into the world.

I also remember what the letter had said:

Dear Naruto,

How have you been darling? Things in Konoha have been alright though I miss you, its so quiet when your gone. Things are well at my home, Father and I have rekindle our relations together just as you suggested. By the way, the question you asked me right before you left for your mission- if you want to then the answer is yes. I have some news that I think that you might want to hear. Actually I don't know exactly how to say this but that I'm pregnant. Of course, theres no doubt that it your child. Ino and Ten-Ten have been helping me and Neji is convince that I'll go into labor at any moment, even though Ino has beaten him up and informed him that babies aren't born after two months. Anyways dearest I have to go please be well and come home soon.

---Yours Only: Hinata---

The letter shook in my hands- I couldn't seem to make sense of the letter.

Not in a million years would I have guessed that they'd be the first of our class to have a child.

The very idea of a little Naruto running lose was mind blowing enough, but then I wandered about the question he asked her.

"Naruto," my throat was dry, the excitement slowly building in my chest, "What question did you ask?"

He looked up at me, his eyes couldn't seem to hide his happiness- a pure happiness, "To marry me."

I jumped to my feet, I couldn't seem to sit still.

Gaara's eyes were wide in his own shock- like me he didn't expect this to happen, but then at that moment he didn't know the second part of the news.

I was happy,

I was happy for Naruto and Hinata.

Naruto jumped to his feet as well beaming widely at me, you could see he was over joyed.

Now he had the chance to have a family that he could truely call his own.

Or at least we thought he had the chance.

Fate is a cruel thing.

A hateful thing that even now as I sit here and tell you my and his story I loathe to the core.

"Can you imagine little mini yous running around?" I asked him taking his hands in my own forgetting about what I had seen earlier.

"Mini yous?" Gaara asked, then he put it together and fell silent.

"Yeah!" Naruto yelled as he started to jump up and down, "I finally have my own family!"

He could seem to hold still, before me or the sand nin could say anything he jumped out the window, yelling down the street at everyone he saw and didn't see, "I'm getting married and I'm a father!"

Both me and the red head watched his as he disappeared on a turn, but we could still hear his voice.

I looked over at my comrade, "Can you belive it?"

"Hn," he replied folding his arms over his chest.

"I mean one Naruto is enough but mini Narutos?" I contuined on.

He didn't reply- I could tell something was bothering him.

"Whats wrong?" I asked him as I moved.

I wanted to know how he smelled, I wanted to see his chest rise and fall with his breath, I wanted to hear his heart beat, I wanted to taste his lips, and I wanted to touch his scarlet hair that was a mess on top of his head.

"I will never have a family," he muttered to me.

"Yes you will," I said- I admit that I was surprised that he had opened up to me.

"No," he replied, he stared directly in my eyes, "A monster can never be loved."

Before I could stop myself, my hand on its own will lifted to his cheek, "Your not a monster."

We stood there in that position our eyes locked on each other, then in a swift movement he place his forehead on my own, "How do you know what I am?"

"Because I see your soul," I mumbled, "And its beautiful."

He moved so that his lips were nearly touching my own, they were so close in fact that I felt the tiniest touch from them.

Just as he was about to kiss me, Mai- along with a younger girl with blonde hair, stormed into our room making us part instantly.

"We wuz wanderin' if ya could lend us a 'and," the woman stated rudely.

I could feel a deep blush on my cheeks and to my utter surprise so did he.

"Yeah," the younger one added, "We're short handed and Aiko wants to know if you guys would lend a hand for an exchange for two free meals for each of you and another free night."

It seemed that our luck had changed from good to bad considering that particular day's events.

Too bad that it was really an illusion.