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"Lupin sensei, please come quickly."
Lupin looked up at the sound of Shino's voice and followed the bug nin as he ran outside.
As soon as Lupin saw Gaara he felt like someone had punched all the air out of him. Now he understood why Gaara had skipped his turn with the boggart and guessed that Naruto had had the same reason. Luckily Lupin knew all about Jinchuuriki and Shukaku was one that he'd studied about.
Naruto kept trying to punch Gaara awake like he'd done in his fight with him during the chuunin exams, but the sand kept getting in the way. Gaara's tail came crashing down and Naruto barely managed to do a replacement jitsu in time.
Proffessor Lupin whipped out his wand and said a spell for waking people up. Slowly Gaara's world blurrily came to focus, then he shot up in a panic. He didn't need to look at all the damage he'd caused to know it was there, but he couldn't stop looking. At first all was quiet. Everyone glad the danger was past. Then someone still quivering stuttered,
"Wh-what k-k-kind of monster are y-you?"
Before Gaara could say anything Lupin snapped,
"Just because someone is different than you doesn't make them a monster."
The matter wasn't closed. The students were just too surprised by how defensive their Proffessor's voice had been to say anything else while he was around.
Unfortuneatly Proffessor Lupin had to get to class, so the moment he left someone yelled,
"Monster!" and threw a rock at Gaara
They didn't have time to be surprised by Gaara's sand wall because Naruto had tackled them to the ground.
"Shut up! I'm a Jinchuuriki just like Gaara, and none of you have the right to judge us for it!"
Kankurou asked if anyone knew where the Ravenclaws were, but Gaara said that he'd be fine. The truth was he wanted to prove he could handle this without both his siblings at his side 24/7.
Everyone minus the other shinobi were keeping their distance from Gaara and Naruto after that, but they could hear the all too familiar whispers. The two of them seemed to draw closer together. Then the Weasley twins managed to catch them.
"Gaara, Naruto, we didn't know about you being Jinchuuriki." Fred told them
"Yeah, sorry about that." George apologized
Gaara was surprised they weren't scared of him, too. So he and Naruto accepted the apology.
Later Hermione gave them both a hug and Gaara thought,
"So this is what hugs feel like."
It turned out that he had said it out loud, which only caused Hermione to sob and squeeze him tighter.
Hermione and the Weasley twins' reactions made the shinobi decide to give something a try.
"Fred san, George san, Hermione san." Naruto bounced up and down in front of the three
they plus Shino, Shikamaru, and Kankurou were the only ones in the common room.
"We'll let you in on something if you can keep it quiet."