Chapter 2 That Night at Naruto's

"Stupid Gaara..." muttered Naruto as he paced around the room. "Why does he get to be Kazekage before it get to be Hokage..."

He quickly shut up when the door opened "Naruto...?" asked Gaara quietly.

"Yes Gaara, I'm here."

"Good." He walked in and locked the door. "Where's the box?"

Naruto pointed at the box sitting on the empty table.

He walked over and picked it up. "Naruto, come over here."

Naruto walked up. "What is that?"

"You're going to love this," said Gaara in what had to be the most mischievious tone possible."

He opened the box and pulled a locked chest. Taking a key from a fold in his robe, he unlocked and opened. He reached in and pulled out a small scroll. Handing it to Naruto he said, "be very carefull, this scroll is extremely delacate."

"Okay," said Naruto. He carefully took the scroll, opened it, and began reading. He read for a few minutes when he stopped, looked up and said," you have got to be kidding me."

"Nope this is real."

"How did you get ahole of this?"

"We confiscated it from some thieves that made the mistake of trying to sell it to Temari."

"Bunch of morons. I'll bet they had no idea what the had."

Gaara nodded, "Temari hauled them all the way from the market to our headquarters so the could explain how the got it. Supposedly, they stole it from some wealthy merchant a few years ago, but its more likely they had something to do with the break in at the Hokage mansion a few years back."

"But how could they have stolen it there? It wasn't listed as a stonlen item."

"Thats because it wasn't supposed to be there. Look at the writting. Those are Sand Village symbols, not Leaf Village. This once belonged to the first Kazekage, but it went missing after his death."

"I still can't believe you brought it here. Not only that, but you're showing it to me. It's amazing."

"Well Naruto," Gaara replied," I know i can trust you, that much is obvious, but its also because of something inside the scroll."

Gaara gently took the scroll and opened it farther. He scaned throguh untill he found what he wanted to show Naruto. "Here we go."

Naruto looked at the scroll again. "Oh my God!!! Is that who i think it is???"

Gaara nodded," you're not as alone as you think you are."

Naruto was still too stuned to respond.

The two freinds talked for hours about whatever came to mind. They relished in the company. It wasn't often that they were able to just sit and talk. With Gaara's Kazekage duities, and with Naruto now a Jounin, they did have much time to spend together. Naruto had aplied to be the new ambassador to the Sand Village, but as of yet Tsunade-sama hadn't chosen anyone. It was only because of the upcomming Chuunin Exams that Gaara was even there.