Gaara climbed out of the bed. "Temari, please escort our guests to the dining room. They must be hungry after their long journey," Temari rushed out of the room. Sasuke was rooted to the spot. 'What is this feeling?' Sasuke thought. Naruto smiled appreciatively at gaara as he threw him a dressing red silk gown. Forgetting his situation and forgetting Sasuke Naruto burst out laughing. "Gaara, do you have anything that isn't red and silky? Your hair…clothes…" He turned around to see a fuming Sasuke. He had no idea what to say so fortunately, gaara spoke for him. "Uchiha, I suggest you go downstairs with the others we will be downstairs to explain in about five minutes." Sasuke gave gaara a dirty look before he left. "Damn. Who would've guessed? Neji and Sasuke. Naruto, I think were both screwed." Naruto smiled sadly. "Yeah. Though I didn't have a chance in the first place. I defiantly can't go home now; they probably thought we had done something…" both boys blushed. "Gaara, what are we going to do?"
"I don't know, but first your going to get rid of that ridiculous hair colour." Naruto ruffled gaara's hair. "Your right. I only used this ridiculous charade not be found, but I think it's a little too late for that." Gaara pulled on a matching silk gown and they both burst out laughing. "Naruto, I hope you stay here. I haven't laughed without you being with me. And you help me sleep." Naruto laughed.
"I'm surprised you got any sleep at all with me on top of you… sorry, you were comfy." They both laughed again as gaara walked out with Naruto following close behind. "Wait! I'm sure Neji wouldn't mind, but if were trying to convince everyone nothing happened, we better get dressed." Gaara nodded in agreement.
They appeared ten minutes later and sat at the table where everyone had been escorted to. Neji looked pissed, Sasuke looked ready to kill, Shikamaru looked mildly interested in Temari who wasn't sitting too far from him and kiba was simply eating everything Temari had brought. Shikamaru took his attention from Temari and looked at Naruto. "We have been assigned to bring you home." He said. Naruto glanced nervously at Sasuke. "I'm not coming home." He mumbled.
"We didn't come all this way to ask, we came here to bring you back." He said kiba grunted through his mouthful of food as what Shikamaru took as encouragement. "I don't think you heard me properly! I'm not going back to kohona!" he said angrily.
"Why not?" hissed an all to familiar voice. Naruto looked at gaara in a panic. 'Gaara, please don't tell Sasuke why! Don't tell him I left kohona because I had feelings for him that were scaring me and getting out of control!' Naruto mentally begged. Gaara leant over to Naruto and whispered something in naruto's ear. "If you want to stay here, just go along with my plan. Left pocket." Gaara whispered. Naruto pulled out something from his left pocket and found it was gaara's sand headband that he had somehow slipped in there. Naruto got the plan instantly. He held it up for the group to see. "I'm a sand shinobi now. As a sand village ninja, you have no right to take me." Shikamaru sighed, defeated.
"He's right." He told the rest of the group. "We can't legally take Naruto, mission or no." Sasuke jumped up and slammed his fist on the table. Grinding his teeth he hissed; "put it on then"
"What?" asked Naruto.
"If you really are a sand shinobi, you should have no problem in wearing the headband to show you are proud of protecting your village" he spat. Naruto looked at the headband he was holding and began stuttering. Sasuke threw something at Naruto that he caught easily. "Or would you rather wear this?" Sasuke said. He saw what
Sasuke had thrown at him; his leaf headband. Gaara looked at Naruto; they had him cornered. Naruto threw one of the headbands to the floor and clutched to the other one desperately. They all eagerly looked at the headband he had thrown away.