Hello everybody! Welcome to chapter 6 of this story. I might start making my author notes at the end of the story like I will for this chapter because I might end up ruining the chapter for you so….

I don't own anything other than my own ideas.

"You can't beat me Uzumaki!" An enraged Gaara spat out. The red-headed thirteen-year-old was covered in sand that threatened to engulf him. A sand fist shot out and extended a few meters, trying to envelop a young looking Naruto. The blonde dodged the hand by jumping left and threw a kunai with an explosive tag attached to it at the sand Jinchuuriki. It blew up causing Gaara's sand arm to blow off, only for it to reform.

"Gaara! Stop this!" Naruto begged him. "Don't make me do this again!"

Naruto charged a rasengan and prepared to charge the enraged sand user.

"Gaara!" "Naruto!" They both called out.

Gaara woke with a start, sand flowing freely at his bedside. Ever since Naruto had fixed Gaara's seal, cutting Shukaku off from influencing him and allowing the sand user to sleep.

Commanding the sand to calm, Gaara rose from his bed and made his way to the living room of the Titan's Tower. It was quite late in the afternoon and the entire tower was empty. Everyone else had went out to their favorite pizza joint while Gaara had opted to get some sleep instead. The sand user walked to the kitchen after a moment's hesitation and brewed himself some coffee.

"Hello friend!" A bright a cheery voice said from behind him. Sand quickly engulfed the intruder and pinned them against the wall.

"I ask that you not sneak up on me." Gaara stated. He turned around to see a sheepish looking Starfire. She rubbed the back of her head, breaking Gaara's hold on her quite easily. The action surprised Gaara, after all, breaking his sands hold was pretty hard.

"You must not be like that friend Gaara! I mean you no harm." Starfire walked out of the sand holding her against the wall with ease.

"Why are you not with everyone else?" Gaara asked the Tameranian.

"I was… banned from the place of pizza." Starfire blushed and prodded her fingers together.

Gaara sighed and offered the girl a cup of coffee. She happily nodded and was given a cup. The two went back into the living room, Starfire jubilantly talking about the things she was interested in. Gaara nodded along when Starfire stopped for some sort of response. Truthfully Gaara didn't mind Starfire. Years of being alone and psychotic had made the container crave human interaction. Naruto was his closest friend and confidant, but having someone else who didn't understand the burden of carrying a demon want to talk to you was an amazing feeling. Starfire was quite possibly his second closest friend, though he barely said more than a few words to her in a day. She was just this bright… thing. Starfire was persistently and stubbornly happy and not much could get her down.

"So… Were you and Naruto friends as children?" Starfire's question broke Gaara of his thoughts.

"We were from different villages." Gaara stated. Starfire looked down, a bit disappointed at the blunt response. A frown made itself apparent on Gaara's face.

"I first met him when we were six."

There were five people walking down a street of a large desert village. Three were wearing green flak jackets with a headband that had a leaf insignia carved into the metal plate on it. One was an old man wearing white and red robes with a matching hat. The last one was a young boy the age of six that was playing a game that involved throwing sand clods.

"Hey! Hey Jiji!" A young blonde haired boy exclaimed brightly

"Yes Naruto-kun?" He asked the young boy.

"Can I wander around Jiji? I promise I won't get into trouble." Naruto asked him. The old man took a moment to think about it and gave another small chuckle.

"Go ahead Naruto-kun, I'll find you when it's time to go."

The blonde boy cheered and ran off with his arms wide out. As he made whooshing noises running down the street, the old man made a hand sign. With a 'Hai Hokage-sama' one of the ninja walking behind him suddenly disappeared in the direction of the young boy.

The young boy had tired of pretending to be a ninja jumping through the trees and was looking around the sandy streets. Naruto really reeeaaalllyyy wanted to find some other kids his age and play with them, which is what he set out to do.

It took him a half hour but he did it! Naruto had found someone to play with. Multiple people in fact! They were playing a game with a ball, soccer. Naruto ran up to the children and asked to join their game. They happily agreed and played for a little bit.

Eventually one of the boys kicked the ball a fair distance away and went to go get it. Naruto watched as a small boy offered the soccer ball back to the kid, only for the kid to run away screaming about a 'demon'. Naruto frowned as the other kids ran away and tears ran down the small boy's face in sadness.

"Hey. My name is Naruto, what's yours?" He asked when he walked up to him. The smaller boy flinched and turned away from him.

"…Gaara." He said in a small voice.

"Wanna play a game Gaara?"

"You and Naruto must have been the best of friends!" Starfire threw her arms up with a sparkle in her eyes.

Gaara let a small smile trace his lips before he frowned again.

"Not really. Next time I met him I tried to kill him." He declared in a small voice.

Starfire gasped and gave him a concerned look.

"Do you still wish to kill friend Naruto?" She asked him.

"No. He's my closest friend." Gaara said.

Starfire plastered a small smile on her face and took Gaara's hand.

"We have been serious for too long! Come, let us play a game of the video!" Gaara allowed the girl to pull him to the gaming consoles and began to help her choose a game. They eventually ended up choosing a game called 'Mario Kart Double Dash' and began to play it.

Pale blue hair shone from the light of the full moon. Pale pink lips curved into a dark smile as fingers clacked against a keyboard. The door behind the woman opened without warning, causing her to swing her chair around and look at who dared to interrupt her.

"Ah, Kumo." She stated in a dark tone. Her fingers curled around each other as she rested her chin on her knuckles.

"I do hope you have good news for me. You did complete your mission yes?"

The man who entered, Kumo, knelt down on one knee and bowed his head to his boss. Kumo wore a tight fitting muscle shirt, baggy track pants, and combat boots. He had black hair and scars littered all over his body, with one particular nasty scar that started from the top of his right shoulder and spiraled down his arm to his wrist. Though by far, the most interesting thing was that instead of two arms, Kumo had six arms.

"I have good news and I have bad news."

"Let's start with the bad news." His boss said with a tinge of fury in her voice.

"Priority B-09 has escaped his prison."

A giggle escaped from his leader. The giggle quickly turned into laughter which in turn quickly turned into a mad cackle. She eventually calmed down and seemed positively giddy.

"This is very good news dear Kumo! Now tell me the good news!"

"Subject B-05 has made contact with Priority B-02."

A gleam entered the woman's eyes. This was a very good day. A very good day indeed.

"Good work Kumo. Bring me Subject U-08 and then take a couple days off."

Kumo nodded and stood up, bowed, and left. The door shut behind him with a sharp sound of metal against metal. The woman bit her lip in thought. If B-09 had escaped, that meant they could finally start their plans. Oh she couldn't wait! The thought of the power they could harness almost made her wet herself in glee. Almost.

The door opened once more, revealing a boy with bright blonde hair and shocking cerulean blue eyes. A twisted smile was plastered over his face as he looked at the woman.

"You wanted me? Mother?"

It came as a surprise to everyone when they saw Raven smiling. Raven never smiled in fear of blowing things up. The second surprise came when she laughed. Raven NEVER laughed in fear of blowing things up, except in very very rare circumstances. The last time she laughed the world was about to go through an apocalyptic event that no one was sure they were going to survive. So Raven had taken it upon herself to try and have one last day with her friends and had smiled and laughed with them. This being said, made all of her friends very nervous.

"Raven. Why are you laughing?" Asked a very nervous Beast-Boy in a pizza restaurant.

"Why can't I laugh?" She asked the teen with a raised eyebrow.

"The last time you laughed the world was about to be destroyed by an apocalyptic event caused by your father. So please, tell me the world isn't going to end again." Beast-boy begged her.

"Relax green bean." Naruto told him. "I helped her out with something and now as a result she has far more control."

Beast-boy bristled at being called green bean and almost yelled at the blonde but was interrupted by a curious Robin.

"How did you help her out?" The traffic light dressed man asked.

"Well… I used my seals to merge her 'personalities' into one 'personality'" He said brightly, only to receive a glare from Raven.

"Well, if it gets Raven to relax a little bit more I say good job Naruto. Maybe Raven can meditate a little less and have a little more fun." Cyborg interjected.

Raven gave an appreciative glance at Cyborg and grabbed a slice of pizza.

"Hear, hear." Chorused everyone minus Naruto.

"By the way, where's Starfire?" Beast-Boy asked.

"She's back at the Tower. She got banned a month ago remember?" Robin told the green shapeshifter who had a look of remembrance.

"Oh right! Wasn't it because of-"

Robin quickly covered Beast-boy's mouth with his hand. A dark blush stained his cheeks as he tried to fight it back.

Naruto grabbed a slice, oblivious to the actions of the two across from him and engaged Raven in a conversation about the differences between magic and chakra. She happily obliged the blonde man with a smile and began theorizing with him.

"So what if magic uses only the spiritual side of chakra? It would make sense since you don't need to be fit to use it, but you need to be fit to use chakra even remotely well."

"Well, if that were true then chakra should be able to do more than just channel the elements."

"But from what you told me it does already do more than just control the elements…"

An hour later saw the group entering the living room of the Titans Tower only to see Gaara and Starfire playing some sort of racing game against each other. They stopped and stared in a little bit of shock. Naruto, because Gaara was actually socializing. The other Titans because Starfire was actually doing good on a game. Either that or Gaara just sucked worse than Starfire did, which was a definite possibility.

Starfire turned around at the sound and saw her friends.

"Hello friends! Would you like to join us in a game of Mario Kart?"

Weeeeelllll that's it for now. We start to get into some plot and some more building of characters. I do hope you all enjoyed the chapter. I had a lot of inspiration for it and this is the turn out.

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