Disclaimer; *sighs sadly* Do not own. If I did Sasuke definitely wouldn't of left, instead he would've become a fanboy of Naruto!

Warnings; nothing much just a happy Riku, a weirdly protective Gaara (duh)and somewhat annoying, protectve older sister Temari. It's kind of story will most likely be in four chapters, all different ages. The fourth would most likely be a Epilogue, though i'm not planning that far ahead, bad things happen when I plan ahead ¬.¬

SnowBear; HEEEEEEEY! Chapter two! OMG!

Naruto: She's gone crazy!

Sasuke; Dobe, you just figured that out?

SnowBear; *laughs evilly* Next stop world dominati-*gets sand burried AGAIN!*

Gaara; Please read and review, it would be mostly appreciated and might tame SnowBear enough to write.

Chapter 2: A Second Chance.

(Riku-age twelve)

Riku sat watching the sky, or he was watching the clouds, either way he was bored and when he was bored he got very restless. Hence why he hated being bored like he was today. He was now living in a different part of Suna, his uncle died a few years ago so he was on his own now but he still had his house and he was able to get a job, helping out a stand so he wasn't going to get behind in the debts.

And that was the best thing in his life, not having to worry about the next time his uncle was going to get drunk. His uncle was a good man so Riku couldn't moan about him really.

Anyway back to the boredom.

The light brunette look over the edge of the roof he was on when he heard mummering, his eyes widening with shock when he saw a red mop of hair. No that couldn't be, could it? It surely couldn't be Gaara? Riku was up and off the roof in a instant, he landed with a thud and looked round, he spotted the red head and started running. He pushed past people, ignoring their insults.

He pushed himself into a clearing and sighed, he had lost sight of Gaara. He jumped when a oldish man grabbed his arm and started to shout at him. Riku just stood there in shock. The man pulled his arm back as if to punch Riku when a hand caught the fist. The man's eyes widened and he let Riku go and stumbled back before running off.

Riku dusted his clothes and looked at his savior, his eyes lightened when he saw who it was. " Gaara!" The red head turned to him and stared at him with cold eyes, not that it bothered Riku. Gaara grabbed Riku's arm and dragged the other through the street, ignoring the hatefull glares. The brunette followed silently, he could tell he had somehow upset Gaara but he couldn't figure out how?

When Gaara got to his siblings, he pushed Riku roughly in front of him and Riku found himself looking at a blond woman who looked like she could kill him at any moment and another man with purple face-paint all over his face. Now Riku was sure he should be scared but he couldn't find it in him to be. He was too excited about finding Gaara.

" Hey Gaara, do you remember me? I found your be-"

" Be quiet!" Temari snapped at him and Riku just raised a brow, was she supposed to be scary? Riku bit his lip so he wouldn't suddenly start laughing at the woman. Gaara sent a look to Temari that kind of looked like an order. The blond backed down but she continued to glare at Riku while the other guy looked embarressed.

" Yes, I remember you." Riku grinned at Gaara's words while the other two stared surprised.

" So who are they?" Riku asked, while stepping closer to the red head, he didn't know why but there was a funny feeling in his chest that he couldn't identify.

" This is Temari and that's Kankuro." Came a disgruntled reply, Telling Riku that Gaara didn't want to answer twenty questions. So Riku stopped, they stared at each other before he squealed and jumped Gaara, hugging the red head tightly.

" Oh my god I missed you so much, I thought I'd never see you again.." Riku blabbered on about this and that while still hugging the red head tightly. Temari was about to charge over there and drag the boy off when Garra carefully wrapped an arm round Riku's waist in a sort of hug and she stopped. She was shocked, no one had even hugged Gaara before never mind the boy hugging someone back! Kankuro whistled at the sight but soon went back to playing with his miniture puppets. Gaara glared at Temari who backed down and mumbled something under her breath.

" Gaara, where did you go? I looked everywhere for you!" Riku huffed after the hug had ended, he placed his hands on his hips. He was not a very happy person, when he had finally found his Uncles house, he had a nap and then searched all over Suna for Gaara, checking every place twice until his Uncle had dragged him home; shouting at him for worrying about a freak monster. To which the man found his alcohol being hidden for a few days. Riku had been upset when he had heard no news of Gaara anywhere. People tended to mumble about him a lot but that was about it. No one cared for the demon carrier.

Gaara coughed and looked somewhat sheepish. And Temari had to grabb onto Kankuro, her face set into a permanant expression of shock. If she didn't know how dangerous Gaara was, she would even say that someone had kidnapped her brother and replaced him with a clone.

" I was on a mission." Riku glared harder, his eyes narrowing dangerously at the red head.

" Oh? And you think that gets you off for worrying me? What are people teaching kids nowadays?" Riku trailed off into a rant while Gaara just blinked his jade eyes, one none-existant brow raising as he did. This...boy was strange, besides not being afraid of him, Riku had practically told him off! It was unheard of in Suna for anyone, and I mean ANYONE, to stand up against the Subaku.

Gaara sent Temari and Kankuro a look, obviously telling them to leave. They nodded stiffly, still in shock. They disappeared just as Riku finished his rant and stared expectantly at the red head, waiting for him apolagise. Which he didn't of course, because that would be way out of character and Gaara wasn't really paying much attention to Riku at that moment in time.

Smack!

"OW!" Gaara stared at Riku in surprise, holding his cheek. " What the? What was that for?"

" Oh figure it out! And let me know when you leave next time!" Gaara watched as Riku stormed off in a rage. He would never understand the boy, one minute he was being sweet-annoyingly so- and clingy, the next he was a raging ball of fire, ranting and shouting like no one has done before. Yes. Very strange.

Gaara shook his head, rubbing his now red cheek. He could hear Subaku laughing inside his head and sent a mental glare at the one tailed demon, which did nothing. Only made the demon laugh harder. In the end, Gaara gave up and decided to find his troublesome sibling, Really, they were just annoying. Not as annoying as that Riku kid, he was just impossibly annoying.

His cheek pulsed with agreement.

SnowBear: *rubs head* You're all against me, I swear.

Gaara: what gave you that idea?

Naruto: heheh no, we're just making sure you stay on the right path.

SnowBear: What path!

Lee; The path to YOUTH!

Everyone: *sweatdrops*

Lee: Youthfulness for those who review!

SnowBear; Is that even a word?