Once again I am alive! With another chapter as well!

When Naruto woke up, he looked over the side of his bed to see the trundle bed pushed in and no one in sight. He was a little disappointed, he had fully expected Gaara to be there with him. Did Tsunade come home? Is that why he left? He started to feel furious at Tsunade for possibly making the raccoon leave, but quickly shook it out of his head. He couldn't angry at his master, he loved her too much.

He hopped out of bed and fixed his robe which had came undone during the night. He moved around in bed a lot, you have no idea how many times he's woken up in weird positions, the funniest was when he had his head sideways, drooling, with his arms straight, under his body with his butt in the air. Tsunade had found him like that and would never let him forget, even until this day. He kind of missed her, a lot. It seemed as though he hadn't seen her in days.

Naruto walked out to the kitchen and looked out the window. Her truck still was not there. Naruto got real worried now. Has she been out all night? Where was she?! She's hurt, he knew it! She probably got into a car accident and lost a couple of limbs and-

"Your master is fine." A deep voice spoke out. Naruto turned around to see Gaara standing there, thankfully in clothes. The redhead wore a black tank top, long, black cargo pants, and socks. How did he even get clothes? How did he know Naruto was worried about his master? "I know what you are thinking, no I'm not psychic, your tail and ears are frizzed up and your tail was going a mile a minute with your ears going in every direction."

"How do you know she's okay?" The blonde asked with a nervous pout.

"She came into your room this morning. I hid behind the door. She left a note too. I took clothes from her room, she surprisingly has a lot of masculine clothing."

"Oh. Well do you want anything to eat?" Naruto questioned again as he began to take out eggs, bacon, and pancake mix. Gaara gave a small nod and the fox began breakfast. Minutes later, he set three plates full of bacon, pancakes, and eggs down onto the dinner table. Then he took out two more plates and a bottle of syrup and set one plate and the syrup down in front of Gaara while the other plate was across from the redhead. "Eat up while I clean this mess up. Tsunade hates when I don't clean up." Naruto then set some silverware down too.

Gaara grunted then started picking what and how much he wanted. He was a little iffy on how good the blonde's cooking was, nothing was burnt but that didn't change flavor much. He was a bit surprised when he put a fork full of eggs in his mouth, they were delicious. Then he started piling on the food. Once the blonde was done with the dishes he sat down across from Gaara and quickly took some food before the redhead ate it all.

"Is it good?" Naruto questioned then took a bit of his bacon.

"Better than good." The redhead murmured back making Naruto grin.

"So I guess this means we're friends now!" The fox said his grin seemingly growing. Gaara paused, a friend? He's never had one of those before. It felt nice to have...a friend. A small smile spread on his lips, not getting unnoticed by his blonde friend. "You should smile more, it makes you look a lot better. Uh..not that you don't look good without one! You look extremely nice with one! A-and without one too!"

The redheaded man just had to smirk at the younger's little rant. He didn't take any offense to it, in fact a lot of people, men and women, have said he looks handsome. Or sexy, he got a lot of that too. Though, hearing that from the blonde was different. It made him feel even better, made him feel as though he were one of the most handsome men in the world. hen he was disrupted by the sound of a truck, Tsunade was back.

"I have to go." Gaara said as he got up and went towards the back door.

"Wait!" Naruto quickly opened up a cabinet and pulled out a large container. He stuffed it full with the breakfast and gave it to Gaara. "Just bring the container back at some point. Bye Gaara." With that Gaara left the house with the food and a smile on his face.

Naruto put the two dishes in the sink before Tsunade came into the house. He grinned at her and ran over to hug the woman. She smiled just as largely and squeezed him back.

"Sorry I haven't been around for the past night, so in return I'll let you outside for a while." Naruto hugged her again and bolted out the door and to the river.