I'm counting the reviews from the first chapter, so, for 15, I'm moving on! Hey, I've been surfing around the Naruto fandom, and I see a lot of fics starting with 'Thinking, Talking,' etc. What does that mean? I'd ask Flame-sempai, but she's out of town for the summer, and out of reach of a computer for a while. (sigh) Well, if you know, could ya tell me, I'm curious. Okay, onwards!
Title:Proving Them Right
Pairing: KakaNaru
Warnings: ... will be hard to write, but so will the yaoi. Oh! And a cuss word being used a couple of times.
Disclaimer: I can't draw worth a crap, and Naruto would be REALLY deformed if I owned him, so be glad I don't
Random Trivia: Naruto is the only series Kishimoto published outside of Weekly Shonen Jump
Chapter 3
"Hatake-san, if you have any questions about my identity, you could ask like a normal person." Eien said nonchalantly, and the ANBU froze, staring at the hunter with one wide black eye.
"W-what do you mean? Hatake Kakashi is the only Hatake in this village, and he is just a jounin." Danzou said, glaring at the frozen man beside him, willing him silently to act like this didn't affect him at all. It didn't work.
"And the only one that wields the dog summoning contract at the moment. I am not a fool, Hokage-sama." Eien replied, and though they couldn't see his face, his voice sounded amused.
"I-inu, you are dismissed for the night." the Hokage ordered, trying to at least keep some order, and the ANBU seemed to snap out of his shock, and made the first hand sign for a shunshin when the Suna ANBU called to him.
"Ah, but Kakashi-san, I was just beginning to have fun." Kakashi glared at the fox masked man before completing his jutsu and disappearing.
Gaara glanced over at his Master and suppressed a sigh. The man may be the leader of most of the continent's hidden villages, but that didn't mean he did not act like a fifteen year old. And sometimes younger, Gaara reminded himself, as he thought back on one of the pranks Eien had pulled on him not too long ago...
Flashback: One Month Ago
Gaara walked through Suna not long after his promotion to Kazekage, smiling at random people that passed him. The adult villagers that had lived there had all been executed, either during the battle, or after in the massacre Eien had allowed Gaara to perform, but the children had been spared. All of the adults who now resided in Suna were the warriors who had won the right.
One child ran by him, gleefully chased by more. Gaara was glad Eien had figured out that memory suppressing jutsu, and none of the children of any of the places they had conquered realized the people they now lived with were not their parents, or that there had been any change at all from one way to the other. There were no orphans, as every child was given parents.
Gaara decided that he didn't feel like going through the front entrance of the Kazekage tower when he got there, and just walked up the side of the building to his office. What he found there shocked him beyond words.
In his seat, as if he had been there all along, sat the person he had taken joy in killing last, savoring the death screams. It was impossible he was here now! Yet, there he sat.
His father, the Yondaime Kazekage.
The Yondaime spoke. It, at first, followed Gaara's memories of mission assignments, but then swerved severely.
"Gaara of the sand, you are to go to Konoha and... and... Crap! What was I going to say next?" the supposedly dead man started searching through his robe frantically, and the red head just stood there silently, finally realizing what was going on. When seconds turned into minutes he finally helped.
"Try your breast pocket, that's usually where you keep things, Master." he murmured, and the Yondaime obliged, pulling out a piece of paper from said pocket before studying it for a moment and tossing it aside.
"Now where was I? Oh, yeah, um, go to Konoha and tell the Hokage from me to go fuck himself." he finished in a dead pan voice, which lasted for a moment before both teens burst out laughing, though the red head was a bit more reserved than the man who was now slowly shrinking.
"Master, I do not think he will appreciate that in the least... and I am so busy, possibly some other time?" Gaara asked the blond boy who now replaced his father, but not before catching the irony.
The boy had replaced his father in more ways than one.
Eien sobered. "Actually, Gaara-kun, that is what I wanted to come talk to you about. I just couldn't help myself when I saw you weren't here," he said. Gaara knew he could take that and turn it into a joke, something he wouldn't have even considered so many years ago, so he gave into the impulse.
"You really wanted me to go tell the Hokage to go fuck himself, Master?" he pretended to be shocked, and coaxed a grin out of Eien.
"No, in fact, leave that to me. That will be the last words he ever hears." Eien's grin went from amusement to evil, before disappearing all together. "But first, we have to get there. How does a quick trip to Konoha sound? As the Kazekage we can 'strengthen' the treaty your father signed with ji... the previous Hokage. We won't attack this time, just get our bearings and plot the terrain."
"It sounds almost completely fool proof, Master." Gaara replied, serious now. Eien nodded, and the plans for the begining of the end of Konoha were set in motion.
End Flashback
"Kazekage-dono, are you all right?" once again Danzou's voice brought him back to the present.
"I am sorry, Hokage-dono, I suppose I am a bit tired from the long journey..." Gaara hoped the man he had come to despise in the short minutes he had known him would take a hint. He didn't.
"That is quite all right. As I was saying, I have read the treaty our predecessors signed, and must say that some of the conditions are disagreeable. I propose we sign a new one that is more satisfactory to both of us." Danzou said, remembering that te benefits of the treaty leaned too much towards Suna's advantage, and he would fix that.
"I suppose we could discuss new terms in the morning. I would appreciate it if I could get my party settled into the quarters you have provided us," Gaara tried again, but once again to no avail.
"Why save for later what we could do now? Why, I can call a scribe to-" the old war horse was interrupted by the mysterious and worrying Suna ANBU.
"Sir! Kazekage-sama has tried twice, unsuccessfully to insinuate he was tired and would like to be excused." Eien said irritably, and Gaara looked at him once with gratitude before turning his attention back onto the thick headed idiot Konoha had chosen for its leader. The council, he decided, must have been made up by a bunch of witless monkeys.
Danzou was taken aback by the sheer rudeness of the ANBU's words and actions, and waited for the Kazekage to reprimand or punish the distasteful outburst, but none was forthcoming.
"Of course. How foolish of me, I forgot momentarily that you are only a growing child, and need your sleep so that you can grow into a real man. Excuse my mistake, and follow Neko to your rooms, if you would." he retorted, going for what would should have sent the adolescent into a rage, but was disappointed when all that haened was another Konoha ANBU dropping from the ceiling, and the two Suna nin leaving him to his silent tantrum.
Outside the window Inu raised an eyebrow behind his mask at the childish act of the Hokage, and the lack of reaction from the Hokage.
If things continued at this pace, these negotiations were going to be interesting.
Okay, so Gaa-chan is a little OOC, but, remember that he grew up under different conditions than Canon, so he would be different. Naruto I wouldn't expect to go through that much change, just being a bit more serious and mature at the appropriate times. Danzo is fun to mess with (evil grin). Oh, and just imagine living with Naruto, who still enjoys pranks, is just as forgetful, is twenty times as powerful, and a billion times more sadistic than canon. Life would certainly never be dull. I rather like his prank, but that's just me. :) Oh, and the kids were spared was because they had never done anything to Gaa-chan, and mind wied because who wants a bunch of emo kids running around cutting themselves otherwise? We don't need anymore little Sasukes. Okay, you know the drill, R & R!