Listen up ya'll! Now a few months back, a side of GaaNaru somehow jumped it's way into my story, and so this chapter is all about that. You can totally skip it if the couple isn't your cup of tea, because it's not totally crucial to the story. I just thought it would be cute to add, as well explain the whole scroll thing and what happened that night with the drunken people, when Naruto and Gaara disappeared. So! Here you are, the fifteenth chapter! Naruto's POV! (Also! We're traveling back in time to see what kind of drunk Naruto is! Fun, huh?)
The sun was shining brightly through the window, lighting the dark room. Naruto lay across the bed, his head propped on his arms as he stared out the window, solemnly.
He missed his teammates, even though they had only left two days ago… Stupid teme… Why did he have to sell him out to Temari, like that? The teme could easily have stayed behind, or even Sakura. But no… Stupid teme…
Naruto whined, as he turned on his back, and glared at the ceiling, pouting. He hadn't left his room for more than a few trips to the bathroom and to the kitchen, where he had snuck some very delicious ramen to his room. He smiled, nearly drooling at the thought of his delicious ramen.
Someone suddenly knocked at the door, startling him, as he sat up in a flash. Naruto stared warily at the door, not bothering to get up, as he leaned back on his hands.
"Naruto! Answer the door, it's me!", he heard Kankuro say through the door.
He sighed, relieved it wasn't Gaara… Ugh!… He really didn't wanna think about him, let alone see him, right now.
Naruto got up, and went to the door, opening it. His eyes landed on Kankuro, first, who was leaning against the doorway, smirking at him, before his eyes landed on Gaara. The Kazekage was leaning on the opposite wall, his arms crossed, as he gazed at Naruto, hopefully.
"Liar!", Naruto said, loudly, as he pointed an accusing finger at Kankuro, while glaring at him.
"Please", Kankuro said, snorting, "I just said that's 'it's me'. I never said that it was just me"
"You still tricked me", Naruto said, pouting, as he crossed his arms, and looking to the side.
Kankuro snorted again, as he rolled his eyes, "Not my fault that you're easy to trick" With that, Kankuro turned and walked away, as Naruto looked uneasily at Gaara.
Gaara looked back at him, as the two of them silently stare at each other. The silence was a little… okay, very uncomfortable. Naruto leaned a little against the doorway, as he shuffled his feet nervously. He was having a little trouble keeping eye contact, as he began to nervously shift his eyes up and down, anywhere to avoid those pale green ones.
"So… uh… Why did you have Kankuro trick me?", he asked the other, nervously.
"How else was I going to get you to see me?", Gaara said, silently.
Naruto pouted further. He found himself understanding where the other was coming from. If Gaara had come by himself, without tricking him, he would never have opened the door… He would have been too scared to have this uncomfortable moment with Gaara.
"Would you mind taking a walk with me?", Gaara asked, as he looked down at the ground, shyly.
Naruto sniffed, nervously, as he rubbed his nose with his finger.
"Please?", Gaara asked, quietly, as he lifted his eyes to look shyly at him.
Naruto paused at the look, before he relented, nodding his head. He pushed off the doorway, and quickly shut his door as Gaara pushed off the wall, himself.
When he turned back to Gaara, the redhead nodded his head towards the side. Naruto started walking down the hallway, as the other walked by his side, the two of them quietly walking alongside each other.
The two continued walking until they found themselves walking quietly outside, the setting sun casting a beautiful glow about them.
Naruto glanced at Gaara out of the corner of his eye, feeling his cheeks heat up a little. He looked away quickly, trying to deny the fact that Gaara was beautiful in the sunset. He violently kicked the thought out of his head. He loved Sasuke not Gaara.
He bit his lip nervously, as he chanced another glance at Gaara, before he closed his eyes tightly, as he put his arms behind his head. He growled mentally at himself. Stupid Gaara confusing him.
Unwillingly, thoughts of the other night appeared before his mind… He groaned mentally… He still couldn't believe what had happened that night…
Time-Traveling Back In Time With Naruto!
Yay! Naruto happily hugged Gaara around his waist and nuzzled his face in the redheads shoulder.
He couldn't believe that he was actually cuddling with such a cutie!… Hmmm… What was his name again?… Oh well! That didn't matter! The redhead was so pretty! Naruto giggled, as he tightened his hold on him.
As he was enjoying the company of… of… the pretty redhead, Naruto suddenly felt something touch his feet. He easily ignored it, as he continued nuzzling his pretty redhead.
Time was soon lost though, as Naruto was suddenly pulled down to the floor, along with the pretty redhead, and whatever that pink thingy was.
Naruto splayed out on the floor next to his pretty redhead, as he heard someone giggling.
The pretty redhead suddenly disappeared, as Naruto turned his head around, and the world spun around him. Where was he!?
"No! I need you!", he heard the pink thingy squeal.
Naruto whined, as he rubbed his forward, wishing doom on the pink thingy! No squealing!… Ooh! But maybe the pink thingy didn't speak his language. Aww! But he didn't speak pinky!
He looked to the side, as he saw this black thingy start talking. Wow! So cool! "Wow… What… What's that… that… that thing that makes… you know", the black thingy said.
The black thingy suddenly sat up, seeming to dissolve into four black thingy's in his view, as all of the black thingy's loudly said, "Noise!"
"Sound!", Naruto yelled, smiling happily. Yay! He was smarter than the black thingy! Take that!
"What do you hear?", another voice said.
Naruto's eyes went wide, as he tilted his head backwards. He knew that voice! He did! He did! He did! It was… his name was… the pretty redhead!
He heard the pretty redhead speak some more, as he savored the sweet voice, before a loud banging noise broke through his hearing. Naruto whined, as he covered his ears with his hands, and looked up at the ceiling.
Wow! Why hadn't he ever notice how interesting the ceiling was! You go your whole life thinking that it just sat there, but look! Wow! The ceiling was moving! And it could dance! Cool!
Naruto enthusiastically watched the ceiling, before he turned his eyes to the black thingy being carried away by this funny look grey blob thingy. Bye-Bye black thingy! Bye-Bye grey blob thingy!
He looked around, searching for his pretty redhead, and saw the coolest things! A yellow big bird ruled the world, and flew in the air doing this strange dance, while that pink thingy from earlier, that he could remember didn't speak his language, began cheering their ruler on.
Naruto slowly moved his body, and got on his hands and knee's, when bam! There was the redhead!
He crawled slowly over to the other. He wished he could have moved faster, but the stupid world was spinning quickly, trying to stop him from his goal.
Haha! Take that spinning world! Naruto cheered, as he finally flung his arms around… what was his name again?… Uhhh… the pretty redhead!
He nuzzled the pretty redhead. He couldn't believe that he had found the other again! But, he shouldn't have worried. He was Naruto Uzumaki! And he could do anything!
"Hey… Are you with the government?", the pretty redhead asked, suddenly.
Naruto eye's went wide with joy, as he happily crushed the other. The pretty redhead was talking to him! He really could do anything!
"I dunno! But you're really pretty! What's your name? I bet it's really pretty! How do you get your hair like that? Cause it's really pretty!", Naruto chattered, excitedly.
He was about to go off, telling the pretty redhead how pretty he was, when something stopped him. Naruto looked down, seeing a hand covering his mouth, before his eyes followed the hand up to the pretty redhead.
Oh… Wow! The pretty redhead was touching him! Yay!
The pretty redhead suddenly leaned close, as he suspiciously looked all around. "Do you want to escape with me? We have to get out, or the government will get us!", he said.
Naruto's eyes shined with happiness, as he cupped his hands together… Oh wow!
"I'll go anywhere with you, pretty redhead!", Naruto said, breathlessly, as he died of joy on the inside.
The pretty redhead grabbed his hand, and led him out of the room, as he walked slowly, trying to use his amazing Naruto Uzumaki powers to make the world stop spinning.
Naruto woke up the next morning in a daze, as he stretched his body in bed, and looked around him, before he realized two things… One, he was naked in what appeared to be a strange bed, and two… he was in bed with freakin' Gaara!
He let out a manly squeal, as he turned around sharply, accidentally falling out of the bed.
Naruto hit the ground like a dead body, as he groaned loudly, clutching at his poor head. Damn… What happened!? One minute he's trying to figure out what language that pink thingy spoke, and the next he was sleeping with Gaara!…
Ugh… That was it! No more alcohol for him. Parties would become dull, sure, but if this is what drinking meant, then hello boring parties!
Naruto groaned mentally, as he relived that night in his mind, as well as the next morning. He still couldn't believe that they had slept together! And they had been dead drunk too!
He was close to finding a nice hard surface to bang his head against, before Gaara broke through his thoughts.
"Naruto?", Gaara whispered, catching his attention.
He looked at the redhead, with wide eyes, as he dropped his arms from behind his head. "Yeah?", he asked.
"I know you're confused about what happened that night", Gaara said, softly.
Naruto didn't bother nodding or saying anything. He knew that Gaara knew how confused he was. He wished Gaara could be as confused as he was, but no… That morning Gaara told Naruto how he truly felt.
He still couldn't believe that either. Gaara loved him… Gaara loved him… Wow, it was kind of mind-boggling.
"So… I want to clear the air… First of all, what I told you was true. I love you", Gaara said, seriously, his voice nervous as he spoke.
"For how long?", Naruto asked, curiously.
He looked at Gaara, this time not stopping himself as he admired how… pretty Gaara looked in the sunset. He felt his cheeks heat up slightly, and he rubbed his cheek, awkwardly.
"I'm not sure… But… I remembering just stopping what I was doing one day, as the realization came to me… Ever since I've been trying to spend more time with you… which is why you're here", Gaara said, thoughtfully, as he turned his gaze onto Naruto.
He furrowed his eyebrows at the redhead, as he tilted his head in thought. "What do you mean?", Naruto asked.
His eyes went wide in wonder, as he watched Gaara's face light up in a heavy blush. Gaara sighed, before reached his robes and pulling a scroll out. "Here", he said, as he handed the scroll to Naruto, "This should explain everything"
"The scroll we brought you?", Naruto asked, as he took the scroll, looking at it, curiously.
Naruto slowly opened the scroll, and looked at it's contents before his eyes went wide and his mouth gaped open. The scroll was… empty!? Huh!? He looked at Gaara, raising an eyebrow in question.
Gaara blushed further, as he shook his head, before turning it where Naruto couldn't see his face. "Your mission was fake… I just wanted you to come visit", Gaara whispered.
Naruto looked at the other with shocked eyes, before he calmed somewhat, as he turned his focus on the scroll in his hands. So… Gaara had sent them on a phony mission just so the redhead could see him?
A small, affectionate smile lit up Naruto's lips, as he looked back at Gaara.
"Hey, pretty redhead, wanna go catch some ramen to eat?", Naruto asked, shyly.
Gaara's eyes grew wide in disbelief, as he looked at him, before they softened. The redhead looked down at the ground, blushing as he shrugged.
Naruto laughed, as he grabbed onto Gaara's hand and began dragging the other away. "So, while we're eating you can tell me the rest, okay?", he said, happily.
He wasn't really sure what was going to happen, but for some reason, he found himself thinking whatever it was, he wouldn't mind that much… Hmmm… At least, whatever did happen he would be able to remember the pretty redhead's name this time!
Okay, people, I've made a decision! I hope those of you who don't want it to end won't be disappointed. I've finally made the decision to just end it the original way… Which kind of sucks really, because I looked through my outline again, and with the way I had originally planned there are only two more chapters left, including this one… Sorry! But it kind of makes me happy really, because this story for me was all about trying out writing my first multi-chaptered fic for FF, and seeing how it would go and everything. And now that I'm at the finishing point, I'm really excited and happy that I've seen it through to the end… even if it took me a few months. So, sorry for those who don't want it to end, but if you really like my story, clap your hands, cause I'm planning a sequel for it.