Garra looked into her eyes and saw the same love he saw in Naruto's when he looked at him. he was thrown for a loop. his mind was wondering why and how long and his heart was beating rapidly at the simple fact that yet another person loved him like his fox did.

Naruto was staring from his red head to the brunnet, waiting anxiously for Garra to say something. He could see tears forming in Helen's eyes at the lengthy silence. Helen was beginning to take the silence from Garra as rejection. She could feel the tears in her eyes but willed them not to fall. she knew Naruto loved her, he had said it before the last mission to get Sasuke, but she refused to do anyting without the red head's consent. She loved them both with all she had but knew that if it was not the same for Garra, she would settle being their friend as she had been.

Garra took his hand from hers and in that second she figured it was a no and bowed her head.

"I understand," she muttered in a low voice, not trusting anything loud er, her eyes closed.

then she felt a soft hand caress her wet cheek, she wanted so badly to believe it was out of affection, but the feelings of rejection warped it into pity. She let go of Naruto's hand, stood and took a few steps away, the hand that was on her cheek hovered in the air where she was.

She sniffled and turned towards the door, contemplating leaving for a while or going to Tsunade for a mission. Yet she stood there, tears flowing unchecked down her face adding to her previous tear stains from earlier.

"I understand." she repeated, "you don't have to make me feel better." she sniffled one last time before straightening her poster and plastering a fake smile on her face, a trick she had learned from the blond fox. "besides, we can still be great friends right?"

even though she had a smile on her face, her heart was shattering and her mind was screaming knowing that she may have to leave so her two friends could be happy. Now she understood Naruto's pain, the pain of someone not caring about you as much as you care for them. "well, i guess i'll leave you two alone..."

"Helen."

"... You both have some catching up to do..."

"Helen."

"...Maybe Tsunade will have a mission..."

"HELEN!"

she stopped her sentence cold, not realizing til now that Garra had been trying to get her attention. he was now standing behind her, so close that she could feel his soft breath on the back on her neck. Gentle hands turned her araoun but she was too afraid to look up, but he wasn't taking that and he lightly lifted her chin with little resistance and looked deep into those watery blues. he felt his heart stir and thought about what she said about loving more than one person and decided that it was possible, at the same time he relized he loved the girl. granted he did before but now he could express it and knew what it was.

out of the corner of their eyes they could see Naruto smiling. Garra then did something he'd wanted to do for months. he leaned close to her face, his lips a hair's breath away from hers.

"I love you too Ookami Helen." he pressed his lips to hers and sealed the deal.

Helen was on cloud 9, Grra was kissing her! her lips moved with his and for a few moments everything seemed to fit in perfect place. They should have expected what came next though. A blond blur blind-sided them in ahug which caused all 3 to fall to the floor, followed by rolling laughter, anickers, snorts and giggles, mostly from Naruto and Helen.

Aftr finally catching their breath, Helen sprawled over the 2 boys, finding them very comfy. She looked at them and realized she was truely happy, now if she only didn't have to bring back the original reason for the sand-nin to be here.

"Naruto, you know what happens now, since you distracted us and yourself from a more pressing issue." her eyes, that moments ago were bright, now turned serious with flashes of silver as she looked at her blond.

"aww crap." the fox whined.

"that's right, now lets sit up and talk." Garra said.

They all got up and walked onto the living room. Helen continued to the kitchen to make tea, but gave them a look that said, 'talk now'.

the boys sat on the couch and after adjusting the pillows, Garra began the interigation.

"So what happened?" he asked, letting his concern bleed into his voice.

"Well lets just say that i failed again, and now there's no way i can achieve what i promised." Naruto said in a low voice. "He won't come back and no longer considers me a friend. Now i'm just another enemy. i was too late."

"you know it's not your fault." was the almost mono-tonal response.

"yeah, but i really thought i could save him."

"some people just can't be saved Naru.

"But it's just..."

"Hard, i know, but you tried.".

"he's just an ass." Helen said, reappearing with 3 mugs of tes. "he chose his path and now he's an ememy. " She handed them their cups and plopped down between them, resting her head on Naruto's shoulder for a second in a comforting manner before pulling her legs up under her and taking a sip of her tea. The other two followed suite and drank as well.

"so what are you going to do?" Garra asked looking at Naruto who didn't answer right away.

"i know what i'm gonna do. i'm taking all your kunai away." Helen stated in a serious voice which sounded very growlish.

"i know i was being stupid, but in my defence i was half asleep.

"don't care, and it was very stupid you dumbass."

"i still want to smack you." Garra mumbled over his tea.

Naruto sat quietly as his loved ones scolded him. in his mind he was settling the fact that now the raven boy, who had been his friend for so long, was an enemy now hell bent on killing him, the other carriers and the village he called home.

"But i see now," Naruto stated in ahard voice the other two rarely heard outside of the battlefield, "he's the enemy of the Leaf, and the others so i have no choice."

"like i said, he chose his path and we will simply have to kill him." Helen said with a shrug, "sorry love."

Naruto knew she was right and he had to forget his friend and kill him before he destroyed all that he loved.