Warning: This story contains boyxboy action.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
Walking down the empty street toward his new house, Naruto shifted the tiny bundle into a more comfortable position in his arms. "Man I wish I had something to put her in." the blonde thought to himself. "You never know, you might just get what you ask for" Kyuubi cryptically answered the blonde. " I don't know what you are talking about" Naruto pushed the fox far from his mind as he rounded a corner and spotted a house that was unmistakably his. There were orange flowers as far as he could see, the shutters on the white two story house were orange, as was the picket fence surrounding the front yard. Naruto spotted Iruka and Kakashi sitting on a porch swing, "Hey, what are you doing here" he asked his teachers. "We wanted to be here to show you around the place." Iruka answered. " I just came for the free food" Kakashi said, receiving a hard smack from Iruka. "Shut up, Baka! Naruto ignore him, come in and let me hold my beautiful niece" Iruka walked up to the blonde and held his arms out to take Kazue. Naruto passed the baby to his brother, and Iruka cradled the infant close to his chest and kissed her forehead. "Okay, let's go inside so I can show you around" Iruka turned and walked into the house.
Naruto looked around while kicking off his shoes, to his right was the living room. There was a reclining chair and a leather sofa, a flat screen television, and a fireplace. The walls were a bright cream color, while the floors were covered with a chocolate colored carpet. There were bookshelves filled with books for both Naruto and Kazue. Naruto walked into the room and sat down on the sofa, "Man, this thing is so comfortable I could fall asleep right here." Kakashi laughed, "I thought the same thing when I bought it, I also picked out your bed." Naruto cringed, "What the hell were you doing in my bed?" "Now Naruto, don't worry about that now, let's go into the kitchen." Iruka interrupted, "I'm sure that you will like it, and you can put away the baby's formula." Naruto got up from the sofa and followed Iruka into the kitchen. Looking around, Naruto saw a moderate sized room with bright yellow walls and an island in the center of the room. There was a small table to the left, and all of the important things, like a refrigerator and a stove. Walking over to the pantry, Naruto opened the door and was happy to see that it was well stocked with food. There was even his favorite, ramen. Opening the fridge to put the formula away he saw that the fridge was the same way, well stocked with healthy foods for him and his daughter. " Iruka, where did all of this food come from?" Naruto asked the pony tailed chunin. " The food was donated by all of your friends, we agreed that for the first few days that this would make things easier for you." Iruka answered. "Wow, that was really nice of them." Naruto said, really surprised that the others would do something like that for him. "You haven't seen anything yet." Kakashi said, earning another smack from Iruka. "Baka, shut up!" the chunin reprimanded the copy nin, "Okay, Naruto, come with me and I will show you your bedroom."
Sliding his hand up the elegant banister, Naruto followed Iruka up the stairs. "Now, this house has three bedrooms. One is a spare room for guests, one is yours and one is for Kazue when she is old enough to sleep on her own through the night. The bathroom is the first door on the left." Opening the door to the bathroom, the first thing Naruto saw were the bright blue walls. Stepping in on the white tiled floor, He saw a bathtub that had claw feet and a separate shower on the right side of the room and on the left he saw a fancy mirror over a double sink, and a towel rack with deep blue towels. On the wall above the bathtub, someone had painted a huge Uchiha fan. The only thing that Naruto could say was a quiet, "Wow." "Wow is right, when we told Kiba and Shino that they were in charge of the bathroom, we didn't expect this. They did an amazing job in here. Let me show you to your room. I let Sakura and Ino decorate your room . They promised me that they would do a good job, and I think that they did just that." Iruka walked back out of the bathroom and opened the door across the hall, "This is the spare room, we didn't do much in here. You should be able to decorate somewhere in the house", Iruka opened the next door and pulled Naruto into the large room. Naruto gasped, the walls were light beige color as was the carpeting that covered the floor. In the center of the wall over the bed, they had painted a huge Uzumaki swirl in gold that had a small Uchiha fan in the center. The bed itself was a large king size bed, covered with a dark red blanket and cream colored sheets. Next to the bed was a night stand and the bassinet. There was a full size dresser on the opposite wall next to the closet. "I guess this is where all of my things have been put for now." Naruto said, walking around all of the boxes. Iruka ignored Naruto's comment "Okay, I guess you want to see the baby's room now." Kakashi leaned next to Iruka's ear "I'm going downstairs to set the final step in motion." he whispered, "Get him downstairs soon." "Naruto, I'm going to take Kazue-chan downstairs and let her see the backyard." the silver haired jounin said. Iruka reluctantly handed the baby over to his boyfriend, "Make sure to support her head." "Stop being so anal, 'Ruka." at Kakashi's comment, Iruka blushed bright red and slapped Kakashi again. Kakashi shifted Kazue so that her head rested against his shoulder, and walked from the room. Iruka pulled the blonde from his room and brought him to the last door on the left. "Kakashi and I decorated and furnished this room," Iruka said proudly, "I hope that you like it." Naruto walked into the room. Glancing around quickly, he processed the same bright blue walls that were in the bathroom. A crib stood along the far wall next to a window that was covered with light blue drapes. A changing table stood next to the crib. Across the room was a rocking chair and a dresser. "We have a larger bed for her when she grows out of the crib," Iruka said, " we put it into storage for now." "It's beautiful, Aniki. You didn't have to do all of this for us." Naruto said, tears threatening to fall down his face. "I wanted to, and I wasn't the only one who helped." Iruka answered.
Downstairs, Kakashi brought the baby out into the back yard and was immediately surrounded by Sakura and Ino. "Kakashi-sensei let me hold her" Sakura begged her sensei. " Why should he let you, billboard brow. I know more about babies than you do, I babysit for Kurenai-sensei all the time." Ino argued. "Shut it, Ino-pig, because Naruto is her father, I am unofficially her auntie, so I get to hold her first." Sakura yelled her friend. "Stop arguing, I've already held her and I can tell her youthfulness is in need of a quiet person. I think Hinata-chan should hold her." Lee pushed Hinata closer to Kakashi -sensei, and Kakashi passed the baby to Hinata. "Maybe, If you to learn to behave and get along, you might get to hold Kazue-chan." the jounin said to the girls. "A-and I'm sorry to tell you two, b-but I've been holding her all w-weekend." the shy Hyuuga heiress told them. Turning with the baby away from the stunned girls, Hinata walked over to where Kiba and Shino were talking, but before she got too close, Kiba covered his nose and started to gag and back away from Hinata. "Stop, don't come any closer with her." Kiba said. "What's wrong, Kiba-kun?" the heiress asked, stepping closer. "Hinata, stop, don't come closer, please. That kid is in serious need of a diaper change." Kiba answered with tears streaming down his face. Hinata had momentarily forgotten Kiba's heightened sense of smell, so she backed away quickly and went to see if Kakashi knew where Kazue's diaper bag was left.
Hearing a commotion downstairs, Naruto gave Iruka a confused look, "Aniki, what's going on." Iruka blushed, "Maybe, you need to go down and find out." Stepping out of Kazue's room, Naruto walked down the hall and started to run downstairs after hearing his daughter start to cry. Following the sound of the crying, Naruto ran into Hinata at the back door. "Don't worry, Naruto-kun, she just needs a diaper change, where did you leave her things." the brunette girl asked. "Her bag is in the kitchen, I left it there after putting her bottles in the fridge." He told her. "I don't understand, what's going on, why is Hinata here?" the blonde asked Iruka. Grabbing his arm, Iruka pulled Naruto out the back door. Guy-sensei, who had been stationed near the back door, yelled out, "Naruto, SURPRISE!" At his yell, all of the people in the back yard also yelled, getting louder and louder, trying to out do each other. "ENOUGH!" Iruka yelled in most stern teacher voice. Everyone immediately got quiet. Iruka led a stunned and blushing Naruto toward a seat that was covered in pink crepe paper and ribbons. "Aniki, what is going on, why are all my friends here?" Naruto asked his brother, confused. Sakura came running up and hugged the blonde, "We're throwing you a baby shower, baka." the pink haired girl told him. Glancing around the back yard, Naruto took in everything, the table laden with food that Shikamaru was having a hard time keeping Choji from, another table covered in presents of all shapes and sizes, to the pink balloons. "So Naruto, what do you want to do first, presents or food?" Sakura asked. "I think the safest thing would be to let Choji eat, so food first." Naruto said, a grin slowly crossing his face.
Gaara was standing by himself in a far corner of the yard. Sometime during dinner, the baby had been passed back to his blonde friend. Moving ever so silently closer to Naruto, Gaara got a quick look at the tiny baby in his friend's arms. Naruto had just finished feeding Kazue and had moved her so her head rested against his shoulder. He took in the blue black hair, the pale skin, the button nose and the pale pink lips. Slowly raising his hand to touch the tiny infant's hair, Gaara froze as she opened her sea green eyes. Shock crossed his face again as the red head looked into his own eyes, her pale pink lips forming a small smile. Gaara felt his own face start to form a smile, but was interrupted by the small girl burping, which was followed by spit-up. Gaara schooled his face into a look of indifference, and pulled his hand away from the baby. The blonde cracked a smile and turned around to face Gaara, "Would you like to hold her so I can go inside and clean this off of me?" Naruto asked his friend. Gaara let a scared look cross his face before he caught it, "You want me to hold her, I don't know if I can." "Of course you can," the blonde said, "Just hold her in your arms like this and make sure to support her head." Naruto slipped the baby into Gaara's arms then disappeared into the house. The red head looked at Kazue, she was still smiling at him. "What is wrong with this child, she should be scared of me. Everyone is always scared of me?" he thought to himself. Gazing into her eyes, the stoic red head felt something warm start to fill his body. His stomach felt like he was about to be sick, but he felt really happy. Letting a full grin settle on his face, Gaara touched her tiny lips with one finger. Kazue looked at the person holding her and decided that she liked him at first sight, and reached to grab the finger that was on her lips. "Wow, not only does she like me, but she has a strong grip too." he thought to himself. "Wow, little brother, I never knew that you could smile like that at anyone. She is definitely an amazing little girl." Temari said, reaching to touch the black hair. "Shut up, Temari." the red head growled at his sister, letting a frown cross his face once again. Gaara turned and stalked away from Temari, walking into the house. Looking for Naruto, Gaara decided to give the baby back, then Temari couldn't tease him anymore. Not finding Naruto anywhere on the first floor, Gaara walked upstairs. Looking in all of the rooms, Gaara finally found the blonde in what was obviously his bedroom. Naruto was sitting on his bed, with his head hanging in his hands. "What is wrong, my friend." Gaara asked. Startled, the blonde looked up and seeing his friend, said " This is all happening so fast, I'm not sure I can handle all of this. Taking care of Kazue, living in the Uchiha compound. What if I need help and no one is able to help me. What if Kazue gets sick. What if I get sick, I wont be able to take care of her. I don't know what to do." the blonde rattled off, tears streaming down his face. Gaara sat down next the blonde and handed the baby back to her father, "Naruto you are a powerful shinobi. I have faith that you can handle anything that is thrown at you. Tsunade-sama put her trust in you to be able to raise this child, and I don't think Iruka-sensei will let you raise her alone." " I know they say that now, but what if they change their minds because I am a terrible Dad to Kazue." Scooting closer to the crying blonde, Gaara put his arms around his shoulders. Naruto looked up, shock crossing his face, and looked directly in sea green eyes of his friend. Gaara looked back into bright blue eyes, " I know that you can handle this and you will be an amazing father to this little girl." Naruto sighed and put his head on Gaara's shoulder, " I'm so happy to have a friend like you, it's too bad that you live all the way in Suna. It would be nice to see you every day." Naruto lifted his head and looked into Gaara's eyes again, trying to see the red head's reaction to what he just said. Gaara looked away quickly, not understanding what was happening, why it felt like he was going to be sick, just like when he looked at Kazue. Gaara moved quickly away from the blonde and left the room.
"Man, I didn't mean to scare Gaara, but I let my feelings for the stoic red head get away from me. I hope that I didn't ruin our friendship." Naruto thought to himself. Moving Kazue to his other shoulder, Naruto walked into the bathroom and washed his face with cold water to remove the tear tracks, then walked down the stairs and back outside. "Well, now that Naruto has decided to join us again, how about we open the gifts." Iruka asked, passing the blonde a rather large box. Grinning the blonde tore off the wrapping paper and opened the box to reveal several outfits for Kazue in a rainbow of colors. Pants, shirts, dresses, sleepers, socks, undershirts were in the box. "T-that gift is from me and Neji-niisan. I hope that you like what I picked out, and don't let N-neji fool you he picked out the dresses." Hinata told him while giggling. Naruto turned to Neji just in time to see a blush creep across his face before he turned away. "The next gift is from me, Naruto. My mom said since we didn't need it, you could have my old baby carriage. I made sure that everything works just fine, and I even repainted it for you." Sakura told the blonde, pushing the carriage to him. "Thank you, Sakura. That means a lot to me." the blonde said. Ino handed a medium sized box, "This is from Shikamaru, Choji, and me. We put our money together and got this for you." Naruto opened the box to find a baby monitor "Now I will be able to hear her wherever I am, inside or outside. This is great, thanks guys." "Guy-sensei and I are giving this gift to you so Kazue-chan will be able to celebrate her youthfulness with us." said Lee as he handed Naruto a gift wrapped with green wrapping paper. Naruto took a deep breath to calm his nerves, and opened the gift. Deep underneath the green tissue paper, was a tiny green spandex suit. "Oh My Kami!" was the only thing that Naruto could say to describe his feelings for the gift. Hearing chuckles coming from all around him, Naruto had to push his laughter aside, "Thank you both so much." Kiba walked up to Naruto, "Shino and I didn't know what to get you, so we asked Kurenai-sensei what she thought would be best, so we bought you a large supply of diapers." "Thanks, she goes through a lot of those." the blonde told his friend. "Okay, Naruto, Now on to the serious gifts, this one is from Asuma and me" Kurenai-sensei said. Handing the blonde a small rectangular gift, Kurenai-sensei smiled. Opening the gift, Naruto's smile disappeared when he realized what it was, "This is a gift certificate to get her ears pierced." "This is the best time to do it." Asuma-sensei said "that way she will leave them alone and you will be able to keep them clean." "Okay, Naruto, this is from Tsunade-sama and Shizune" Iruka said while handing Naruto another gift. Reaching into the gift bag, Naruto found baby wash, lotion, wipes, powder, and other bath things. Thanking the hokage and Shizune, Naruto realized how late it was getting. Taking Kazue and the monitor to his room, Naruto gave her a final bottle for the day, changed her diaper, and put her down for the night. Making sure that the monitor was set up right, the blonde went back downstairs to his guests.
While Naruto was upstairs, Gaara walked up to Temari and nudged her side, "I need to talk to you." "What do you want?" the blonde shinobi asked, "I'm trying to corner Shikamaru." "Earlier, when I was talking to Naruto, he was crying, so I put my arms around him, like you do for me, and I started to get a weird feeling in my stomach. Am I getting sick, whats wrong with me." "Well, little brother it sounds like you have your first crush." Temari said. Gaara turned away from his sister and walked into the house to think about what she said. A few minutes later Naruto walked back outside and went to talk to Sai. Naruto asked the ink user "Hey, dude, what did you get for the baby?" "Did you see the murals done in the bathroom and your bedroom, I did those." the pale man answered. "Wow, I thought that the others did that. Could you help me with the spare room, I don't know what to do with it." Naruto asked. "I'll think about it, dickless." Sai told him and walked away. At that moment Temari walked up to Naruto, " Hey, there is something wrong with my little brother. Do you know what's up?" she asked. Remembering what happened earlier, Naruto took off to find the red head. After searching for a while , Naruto found Gaara in his room. The red head was silently watching the baby sleep. "Gaara we need to talk, can we go to the kitchen?" the blonde asked "Okay." Gaara muttered, and left the room without waiting for Naruto to follow. Once in the kitchen, Naruto immediately went to the stove to put on some tea, "So, Gaara, what's up. Temari said that there was something wrong, so I want to find out what." "No." Gaara answered the blonde. "Aww... come on, whats up? Did you find a girl that you like back in Suna and you're missing her? You know that you can tell me, I wont say anything." the blonde harassed the Kazakage, "You know that I'll find out sooner or later, so you might as well as tell me now." "Fine." the red head muttered "I like...I like...I really like Kazue-chan." the Kazakage chickened out and told his friend a half truth. Gaara had finally realized after talking to Temari that the warm feeling that he had been feeling around the blonde was his first crush. "Well, I'm glad that you like her." Naruto said. Gaara realized that the only way for the feeling to go away is to tell the blonde his true feelings, "I not only just like Kazue-chan, I like you, too, Naruto." "I like you too, Gaara. Friends should like each other." the blonde said, not totally getting the red head's meaning. Gaara decided that the only way for Naruto to understand would be to show him what he meant, so slowly leaning forward, Gaara brushed his lips softly against Naruto's full mouth. After his initial shock, Naruto began to respond to the kiss. Tracing Gaara's lips with his tongue, Naruto asked for permission to enter his mouth. Not understanding what the blonde wanted, Gaara did nothing,so Naruto ran his fingers through bright red hair, massaging the scalp. Gaara moaned in response, and Naruto took full advantage, slipping his tongue into Gaara's moist cavern. Tracing the gums and teeth, Naruto shyly meet Gaara's tongue with his own. After fighting with their tongues for a few minutes, Gaara finally submitted to the blonde, letting him dominate the kiss. Separating a few minutes later, both men were left gasping for breath. "Do you understand what I mean now?" Gaara asked his friend. "I do", the blonde answered, " and I like you that way too." Smiling, both kissed again, but slower and softer than the last time. "When do you go back to Suna?" Naruto wondered aloud. "I leave first thing in the morning, but I will be back in about six months. Wait for me to come back?" Gaara asked his friend. "I'll be here, waiting for you." Naruto replied.
Walking outside, hand in hand, both boys were looked at with curiosity. Iruka and Kakashi walked up to the boys, "It's late now, so we will be going." "Yup, so don't do anything we wouldn't do." the silver haired jounin said, earning him yet another smack, "Ruka, If you don't stop smacking me, I will tie you up and make you like it." he said with an evil grin. "Kashi, not in front of the boys." Iruka said with a bright red blush coloring his scar. Naruto turned to the rest of his guests, "Okay everyone, I've had a long day, so it's time for you to go." Grinning his friends walked up and clapped him on the back. "If you need help, all you need to do is call. You have all of our numbers." Kiba said, then he and the guys left. Sakura, Ino and Hinata, all walked up to him at the same time and hugged him, "The same thing goes for us, but do us a favor and call us first." Sakura said. "I may be blonde, but I'm not stupid." Naruto replied, "You will definitely be the first on my call list." Walking his friends to the front door, Naruto said goodbye to everyone. Gaara was the last one out the door. He stood up on his tiptoes and kissed the blonde nin. "Six months",he muttered, "don't forget." "I wont forget anything." Naruto told the red head, and softly kissed him back, "I'll see you soon."
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