Chapter 21

"Naruto we really have to stop fooling around. You still haven't learned enough to be Hokage. We've been getting really distracted." Gaara said and folded his arms in front of his chest, towering over Naruto. The blond went on the tip of his toes and lifted his chin, trying to seem taller and more intimidating than Gaara, but it didn't work.

"But whyyyyyy!!!? I can do it myself! And we can do it some other time!" Naruto whined and stuck out his bottom lip in a pout.

"Look Naruto I don't have much time left. I'm going to be leaving soon and you really need to learn some more stuff about being Hokage, or else Konoha is doomed with your lack of attention and power." Gaara said simply and expected Naruto be mad at the insult, but the blond was starting to cry! Gaara's insides were tearing apart at the scene in front of him. Naruto was on his knees, his hands were wiping away tears that continuously fell down his cheeks, and his body was shaking slightly.

"Naruto?" Gaara kneeled in front of the boy and let his emotions show a little. Naruto still didn't meet Gaara's eyes as he continued to sob uncontrollably.

"Naruto?!" Gaara asked, a little more demanding this time.

"Gaa-kun… Is gonna leave me?" Naruto choked out. He pounced into Gaara's chest and wrapped his arms around him. Gaara, used to the random and sudden embraces, immediately wrapped his arms around Naruto.

"Naruto's it's okay… I'll come visit as often as I can…" Gaara tried to reassure the boy but Naruto just kept on crying, getting Gaara's shirt all wet in the process.

'Okay how do I cheer up Naruto now? Uuuummmm…' Gaara, had no idea what to do… and as if Kami-sama was actually watching out for Gaara, there was a noise at the door. It sounded like someone was scratching at it.

Gaara first thought to this was…

'Rabid Fan Girls??? Maybe that pink moose thing? Or that she/man that tried to rape Naruto?'

Naruto sat on the floor, still sobbing, while he watched Gaara make for the door carefully. Gaara cautiously reached for the door knob and slammed the door open. To his surprise, there was a dog standing outside the door, wagging it's tail happily. Naruto squealed and leaped for the dog. It wagged it's tail even more and let the small boy cling to it. The dog stood about up to Gaara's hip and he seemed well trained.

Naruto hummed happily and stroked it's soft black fur lovingly. Well at least he wasn't sad anymore…

Gaara went to turn around to walk back to the kitchen but before he left he looked back at Naruto. The dog was licking the blonde's face happily and was practically on top of him. The dog looked up from it's playful antics to gaze at the redhead, and Gaara could have sworn he saw a smug smirk appear on the thing's lips. Gaara shook his head.

'I think spending this much time with Naruto is causing me to go a little crazy. How can a dog smirk? Geez… I'm loosing it… Well it's not like I wasn't crazy before. I mean sure I've tortured people to death… but they were askin' for it! And sure I had a whole anti-social thing going on, but nobody would really want to talk to me, besides Naruto…'

While Gaara was having an inner-struggle with himself, Naruto went on his hands and knees and started crawling towards the oblivious redhead. He went over to Gaara and started rubbing his cheek against his lover's knee, whining and yipping.

Gaara flinched and peered down to see Naruto rubbing his forehead against his knee and occasionally his thigh. He felt his non-existent eyebrow start to twitch at the sight.

"What the hell are you doing?" Gaara grumbled out.

"I'm pretending to be Cheerio!" Naruto chirped while he continued making cute puppy noises.

"Cheerio…?" Gaara asked aloud though he knew he probably really didn't want to know…

"That's what I named him! Isn't it a cute name?!" Naruto asked enthusiastically while pouncing onto the happy puppy, smothering it in hugs and kisses.

To say the least, Gaara felt kind of jealous that this… dog-thing was getting most of Naruto's attention now. Gaara glared at the black dog now known as 'Cheerio' and the dog just glared back at him, also looking rather superior and triumphant that Naruto was paying more attention to it.

Gaara was about to just turn away and leave the two 'love-birds' alone, but he froze when he saw what happened next. Naruto got up and bent down to dust his knees off. That's when Cheerio smirked and started sniffing Naruto's bum, and Gaara noticed that the dog wasn't really sniffing but he was just getting closer to the boy, a mischievous glint in it's eyes. The idiot didn't even realize that he was being violated by the so-called dog! Cheerio was about to nip Naruto's small bottom, but The Gaara suddenly pulled out a squirt gun and started squirting the dog in the face, and he was enjoying the thought of making the pup go blind.

"Bad dog! No biting butts! Especially Naruto's! That's off limits!" Gaara growled as he continued squirting the dog, making him soaking wet. The dog whined sadly and scampered to hide behind Naruto, who was fuming right about now.

"Gaara! What the hell is the matter with you?! He's just a poor innocent puppy! And you know that dog's sniff butts as like a 'hello'. Like how we shake hands. So just relax! And look what you did! He's soaking, and he's gonna smell bad now!" Naruto crossed his arms pouted at Gaara and looked down at the gloomy looking dog. "Well I guess you're gonna have to take a bath with me." Naruto said happily. Cheerio immediately perked up when he heard that. The dog stood up and started waging it's tail furiously. Naruto giggled and started walking towards the bathroom, with Cheerio right on his heels.

Gaara could sense that this was no ordinary dog. There was something strange about it, like it wasn't even a dog. The redhead shook his head and refused the urge to pull at his hair. God they could be so aggravating!

Naruto twirled around the bathroom in a bored way as the water poured and flooded the bathtub. Cheerio sat on the toilet lid looking amused when Naruto spun too far and slapped himself in the face. The blonde groaned and held his forehead before making another attempt. This went on until the bath was full, where Naruto threw off his shirt and picked up Cheerio, squeezing the dog to his bare chest.

Cheerio let out a grumble from his throat that sounded happy, pressed against Naruto's tan muscled abs before the dog suddenly found soap in his eyes and water going down his throat. He thrashed his paws wildly and barked; biting at the water and anything close to him before jumping out of the bathtub and cowering in the corner.

Naruto fell backwards; bewildered, his chest was completely scratched and he was soaked with soap bubbles floating in the air.

"What happened?" he asked no one in particular before turning and facing Cheerio,

"Did I hurt you?" he asked quietly, and the dog nodded with its bottom lip puckered. Naruto's eyes swelled with tears at the pain he caused his new friend and he nodded; choking on sobs before climbing into the tub. He then held out his arms expectantly and chided;

"If you get all soapy again, you can squirt bubbles into my eyes until my cornea bleeds, okay?"

Cheerio, finding this deal reasonable, scrambled back into the tub.

Meanwhile Gaara paced unhappily around Naruto and his bedroom, chewing on his thumb nail while he heard the banging in the other room. Sure, Gaara knew that beastiality was below Naruto—but it sure as hell wasn't beneath the fiend that had his Naru-Chan chained and raped in the bathroom.

But wasn't Kyuubi always in Naruto? Wasn't that bestiality?

The red heads eyes widened and he instantly reeled on his heel before bolting into the opposite hall and thrashing against the bathroom door.

"Naruto!" he demanded repeatedly. There was the sound of flowing water before the door was tugged open and Naruto stood before him, his pants to his knees and his shirt Kami knows where, with scratches on his chest.

"Wha…?" Naruto asked simply, cocking his head to the side. Gaara instantly pulled a soaking Naruto towards him and kissed the crook between the blonde's neck and shoulder blade; Glaring over at the mussy black mutt who lent against the bathtub in a satisfied way.

"I've decided Cheerio is a genius." Gaara stated simply. Naruto grinned—though the kage didn't see it—but squashed Gaara closer to him anyway.

"Ha! I knew you'd warm up to Cheerio, Gaa-Kun!" Naruto pumped his fist in the air, though still hugging his lover.

Gaara smirked and nodded into tanned skin. "Exactly. And as a genius I think that he can bath himself." With that, Gaara hoisted the blonde onto his shoulder and tugged off his soaking pants. He saluted the stunned pup and closed the door, turning despite a heavily protesting Naruto and slothfully heading back to the bedroom where he planned to molest the blonde several thousand times, just for the fun of it.

"Cheerio" was furious. He angrily tore the head off of a sad faced rubber ducky and laid back in the tub; combing back his obviously gorgeous pelt and scrubbing behind his masculine pack leader elbows. Originally the plan was to break that red-headed loser, but looking upon the blonde God he changed things up a bit. It wasn't necessarily bestiality as long as he kept things PG-100

13 wasn't enough to hold this one back. 'Cheerio' sighed and looked around the bathroom in boredom. He spotted some conditioner on the other side of the bathtub and saw that it was watermelon flavored. Well that explained why Naruto's hair always smelt so fruity. Even the redhead moron's hair smelt of it. Then an idea struck Cheerio. He chuckled/barked evilly to himself before going to work on his evil plan. He will be able to break Gaara and get the blonde for himself after all.

'But first thing's first, no point in being a dog when nobodies around and waste chakra.' 'Cheerio' made a couple of disoriented hand signs with his paws and disappeared in a poof of smoke, only to be replaced by a man. His long raven hair stuck to the back of his neck and the side of his face from the water. Nimble fingers grabbed onto the watermelon scented shampoo bottle and he started to clean himself, but he froze when he heard noises coming from the other side of the wall. They sounded suspiciously like moans and yells. The man glared at the wall with burning crimson eyes as the noises continued and they were gradually getting louder. He recognized it as Naruto's voice.

"Stupid redheaded horny bastard….but you better enjoy him while you've got the chance 'cause he'll be mine soon…" He grumbled and smirked evilly.

He quickly finished cleaning himself and jumped out of the bathtub. He grabbed the shampoo and started to unleash his plan. He tied his long hair back with a tie at the base of his nape and walked over to a drawer.

"Ahah!" He exclaimed and pulled out a small box of ingredients. He slyly poured the mixture into the bottle and shook it up to mix it together.

"Kukukuku…" He laughed evilly to himself. He put the bottle back where it was and transformed back into his dog form while skipping out of the bathroom. He ran down the hall and skidded to a halt right in front of the bedroom door where the source of the moaning was coming from. He took his paw and started scratching at the door but it seemed that they couldn't hear him.

"Mmmm… G-gaa-kun… Stop teasingggg…" He heard Naruto whine followed by more moaning. 'Cheerio' huffed in annoyance. He started scratching harder on the door and whined in his adorable doggy voice.

"G-gaara…. Hold on. C-cheerio's at the door." Naruto whined some more.

"He's a smart dog he'll leave when he realizes that he's not wanted at the moment." He heard Gaara reply coolly.

'That's it….' 'Cheerio' stood up on his hind legs and grabbed the door knob with his teeth and snapped his head to the side so the knob turned. The door swung open and 'Cheerio' pranced into the room. He looked and saw them both on the bed; Gaara on top of Naruto, their shirts gone and going at it like sex-deprived rabbits.

'Cheerio' whined pitifully and pawed at the bed to get their attention, and the only one who seemed to notice—or cared to notice was Naruto.

"Gaara, didn't you say you locked the door…?" Naruto asked curiously. Gaara grunted as a 'yes' but he never stopped his Naru-molesting.

"Then how did Cheerio get in here." Naruto asked and blinked in confusion. Gaara lifted his head from Naruto's neck and there was, indeed, the annoying black dog who was dubbed 'cheerio' sitting there looking rather smug. Gaara glared at him but the dog just smirked as if saying 'I know something that you don't and you won't like it'.

Naruto was about to ask another question but was interrupted by his stomach growling. Cheerio and Gaara looked at him in slight surprise and Naruto laughed nervously.

"I guess I'm hungry…. Gaara why don't you go get cleaned up, while Cheerio and I make something to eat." Naruto suggested and sat up. "And we'll continue this later okay?" Naruto suggested and gave Gaara a quick kiss. The redhead grumbled for not being able to finish having hot sex Naruto until later. He turned to see Naruto happily bouncing out of the room and Cheerio following behind, the smirk still on its narrow face.

"Stupid dog I hope he fucking dies. Hmmm…. maybe I could 'accidentally' kill him by putting poison in his doggy-food." Gaara chuckled evilly before walking into the bathroom. He discarded the remaining clothes he had on and climbed into the bathtub. He grumbled when he realized that he'd need to take a cold shower in order to get rid of his hard-on; another reason to hate that damn dog. He turned on the shower and hissed in surprise as the cold water engulfed him. He blindly grabbed for the shampoo and poured some of the fruity scented soap onto his hand before rubbing it into his hair.

[( time skip! )

Gaara stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around his waste. He stepped towards the mirror but stopped dead when he looked at his reflection. He blinked a couple of times and rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't hallucinating. He looked at his reflection again and it was still the same. He combed his hands through his hair that used to be a deadly red but was now a bubble-gum-ish pink! It looked like the color of Sakura's hair only it was a lot shorter and wilder looking.

"Graaaaaaaaahhhhhh!" the kage roared, his muscles spazing in anger before he literally tore the bathroom door off of it's hinges and threw it through the next wall over; making a clear path into the kitchen. With animal-like movements, he leapt from the bathroom and onto the kitchen floor. Cheerio looked up innocently before snorting. Yes, snorting. And Naruto had his back turned to him; microwaving instant noodles at the moment.

Gaara's narrowed eyes scanned the blonde's back like a laser for any chance that Naruto had heard his obnoxious entrance; but he continued swaying his butt back and fourth in time with the microwave. Taking this opportunity Gaara grabbed Cheerio by the throat and dragged him outside; not caring that his towel had dropped in his wombat leap as he began mercilessly ripping chunks of fur out of the oddly bound-up dog

"Cheerio" stood in human form in front of the bathroom mirror. Naruto had fallen asleep under the kitchen sink with his ramen in the process of Gaara raping his elegance, and even though the kage was now running from fan girls somewhere crying about deja-vu, Cheerio was attempting—however teary eyed—to comb over the bald spots on his scalp.

After a final attempt and a side pony tail, the man turned and walked out of the bathroom into the bedroom where he easily grabbed a black tee shirt and black boxers. The shirt—meant for a midget of some sort—rose up his toned abs, and the boxers became short-shorts. Knowing he looked incredibly gay, and being fine with it, Cheerio strutted into the kitchen, using the new entryway and all.

He opened the bottom cabinet and reached in; tugging at a few substances. After having his patience gone at the first few rodents and a stray cat he pulled from underneath the sink, and then, to his horror, a humungous spider; he worried about what he would pull out next when he suddenly found a slumbering Naruto in his arms.

He looked down at the boy without a trace of emotion, when the blonde suddenly awoke.

"ITACHI!" Naruto screaming in an accusing manner, before being knocked unconscious by unknown things.

Itachi himself scoffed and turned on perfectly manicured toes before strutting out the door, disappointed that he couldn't even scold his new pet for his untidy house keeping, and with Naruto lying limply in his arms.

[Meanwhile, Gaara was somewhere in the land of waves fending off rabid fan girls with a swifer.