"Don't touch me. I don't know what you had to say to me here but now I don't want to hear it!" Naruto stormed out of the house and just kept running. Kyuubi had stayed in the same place. He didn't run after him. He remand silent for a several moments.

"Fuck…This is all Itachi's fault." Kyuubi fished his phone out of his pocket and looked through his contacts, when he got to the S's he stopped and selected 'Sasuke'. The phone rang three times before it he answered which Kyuubi found extremely annoying. "Sasuke, you're going to do something for me…well dump the whore somewhere then I want you to find Naruto Uzumaki… did I ask if you wanted to? What do you mean she won't get out? This sounds like a personal problem Sasuke and if I don't get a report on the whereabouts in two hours." He purposely paused. "Well you'd have to use your imagination about what would happen to you if you don't." He ended the call.


Naruto finally stopped running when he made it to a park. He sat on an empty bench out of breath. He had no clue where he was or how far from home. There was no one around so he began to talk to himself. "This is why I need a cellphone. This is exact why I need one. This is a new town; I doubt it would repeat what happened last time. I doubt they'd get my number and harass me like that again. I made a friend, I could text Gaara."

"Uzumaki." Someone growled. Naruto jumped and turned to see it was Neji.

"Are you going to hit me again?" Naruto asked nervously. He didn't want to get punched but at least he wanted to be ready. He thought about how many times he'd cut through the park to go to school and get attacked.

"I might if you don't tell me what I need to know." He glared at the blond.

"Seriously if this about me befriending him, I don't know why but it happened." Naruto put up his hands. "Promise!"

Neji sat next to Naruto on the bench. "He doesn't just befriend anyone you dumbass and do you know where he went? He skipped detention."

"Home? I don't know."

"Fuck, then I can't talk to him till tomorrow." Neji closed his eyes and rubbed the bridge of his nose before coming to a realization "…but you can. Come on." Neji yanked Naruto but the arm and made him follow him to a car.

"Let go of me you crazy moth-"

Neji snapped back, "Listen, if you get me on Gaara's good side, I'll owe you one and believe me when I say that I rarely owe anyone any favors."

"Really?" Naruto asked eagerly.

"Do I look like I'm playing with you?"

"I'm just making sure. Deal but for starters you're going to have to let go of me, like right now."

"Alright Naruto." He let him go. "Get in the car, I'm going to take you to Gaara's home and you're going to get him to invite me in."

Naruto agreed but mainly because then Gaara could get him in the right direction on how to get home.

"This is a nice car…did you just buy it?"

"Yes, I had planned to have Gaara and I in the back seat by now."

"Why would you both be in the backseat if-Oh I get it." Naruto blushed and Neji smirked to himself. It was a silent ride to Gaara's house, thought the way Naruto had fidgeted in the seat.


"Here we are." Neji stopped the car.

"You're kidding me? This place is huge, like really huge? What does Gaara's parents do?"

"Maybe you should go ask Gaara, really get out of my car." Neji glared at Naruto who does get out of the car and heads towards the door.

Naruto knocks on the door and rings the doorbell rapidly. He was shocked when a blond girl answers the door yelling, "Stop fucking doing that! What do you want?"

Naruto kept his smile, "Is Gaara home?"

"No." She slams the door in his face. Naruto tried again with both knocking and the doorbell. "Seriously kid do you want to die? I can kill you here and now."

"Do you know where Gaara is? I want to talk to him."

"Kid do you know-" Naruto interrupts her.

"My name is not kid, it's Naruto Uzumaki. I'm Gaara's friend from school." He yells. The girl burst into laughter.

"My little brother doesn't make friends."

"Temari, what's all the noise about?" Gaara stood behind her. "Oh Naruto."

"Can I come in?"

"Temari, let him in."

Temari's jaw dropped to the floor. "Oh my- Naruto is it? How did you do it? Make friends with my brother?"

"Am I going to get punched in the face if I saw 'I don't know?'" The blond girl sent Naruto a confused look. "Gaara can my…new friend, yeah new friend come in too?"

Gaara looked skeptical but shrugged and started to walk off. Naruto waved to Neji who had stood by his car waiting to some signal. Before Naruto even realized it Neji was walking in the house before him.

Tamari yelled to Gaara, "I thought you swore you'd never invite Neji into this house."

Gaara quickly turned his head toward him. "Why are you here?"

"I wanted to talk to you since you skipped detention. I wanted to apologize. See Naruto and I are even friends now." Neji smiled at Gaara.

"Tamari. I'm taking Naruto…and Neji to my room. Don't bother us, ok?"

"Ok, litter brother I'll call you for dinner. Wait are they staying for dinner?"

Gaara lifted an invisible eye brow and looked towards Naruto. "Are you done with your brother today?"

"I don't want to talk about that asshole and I can stay out till ten! Oh by the way can I get a ride home?"

"Tamari can you please tell the chief to make extra portions tonight? I'm going to take my guests upstairs."

"Oh- ok." Tamari looked even more studded than before.

"Come on this way." Both Naruto and Neji followed close, Neji a little closer than Naruto. When all three boys were up stairs Gaara stopped in his tracks. "Neji you look like you need to use the bathroom."

"I don't need to-" Gaara shot him a glare. "Where is it?"

"This door, we'll stay outside so you don't get lost and snoop through my home." As soon as Neji went inside the bathroom Gaara began to question Naruto. "What happen?"

"It's a long ass story. How about you, your parents must be loaded. What do they do?"

"Police family."

Neji popped his head of the bathroom, "Do I still need to be in here?"

"You're from what?" Naruto shouted. Neji shrugged and went back into the bathroom.

"Nearly everyone in my family is in the police department. My father is chief of police."

"Are you going to be a cop?"

"No. Now tell me what happen."

Naruto sighs. "Are you going to tell your dad?"

"No. He's a bastard." Gaara said in a monotone voice and if he was stating the obvious.

"Well if you promise." Gaara gave an affirming nod and Naruto started with his story.


(( In the bathroom ))

Neji was leaning on the counter top. He tried to listen through the door and failed, quickly realizing that the door was too thick. Apparently this was the only idea that Gaara had come up with to talk to Naruto.

Neji shook his head and thought out loud, "Let's see I meet Gaara when I was nine. I took an interested in him at eleven. It took four years after that for him to talk back to me when I talked to him...we. Now it's been a year since I confessed. Six months to start kissing me back. Five months since I beat up that guy who latched on to Gaara and we fought. Three weeks since I told him I loved him and he pulled back from me. Yesterday he seems to finally get that we're together. All that time and effort, and that kid just come in and befriend him. Fuck that shit. Ugh maybe I'm just sexually frustrated."

The phone is Neji's pocket starts to vibrate, taking him out of his thoughts. He looks who it is and answers, immediately Sasuke starts talking. "Hey remember that favor you owe me? I need your help to find that kid who you knocked out earlier today at school. His name is Naruto Uzumaki. I need to find him as soon as possible."

"You don't say? Well Sasuke, I know for a fact that I don't owe you but I'll make you a deal. If I tell you where he is, you have to come and pick him up as soon as possible."

"Deal, where?"

"Gaara's."

"Be there in Thirty." Sasuke said before hanging up.


A/N - Here it is. Sorry to those who wanted a really long time. I hope to make the next chapter more eventful :3 Btw the way to try to get myself to update more often I may start writing shorter chapters. I will put out at least 1,500 words per week on this story but if I'm feeling lazy it might be in two/three chapters. Though I will try to make them more interesting.

Yet another typical I don't own this story but if I did... disclaimer

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