Disclaimer: I do not own any of the content in my story, although I really wish I did, it would be awesome, but sadly it all belongs to Masashi Kishimto and whichever publishing company he uses and the magazines his manga goes into, and I know I've forgotten to say this every time, but the credit also goes the company that created the Naruto anime, and the one presently creating the Naruto: Shippuden anime.

Warning: This story contains Shounen-ai/Yaoi/Slash-Fiction/boyxboy which is boys love, so if you are not open-minded or your religion does not approve of this, you might get scarred for life, so you should go back to the previous page.

A/N: It's been a year and Jiraiya has died and Pien is dead. Tobi is the known leader of the Akatsuki, and Sasuke will show up, plus everybody knows that Orochimaru and Kabuto, I know in the real version he doesn't die, but in this one they are both dead. Itachi does not, repeat, does not die in this version of Naruto. This is right after Pien died, a couple days after to be exact like 3-4. Okay, now that that's settled enjoy my story. By the way, I don't think I'll post a chapter every day, it's too hard, so probably 2-3 days, sorry for the people who like it, it sucks I know, but I got school and it's hard to write in such a short time span. Once again I am sorry.

Chapter 6

Off far away from the Hidden Leaf Village, in the Akatsuki hide-out Tobi plans his next move. Tobi paces back and forth, wondering how a weakling like Naruto could defeat the heir to the Sage-of-Six-Paths, it didn't make sense. He would have to find another, more devious way to capture Naruto. How about a hostage, no that would be too direct, How about make it so Naruto doesn't know that person is a hostage, all he would need is Itachi's sharingan and he could control that person, after all Itachi's sharingan was stronger in that area. Perfect, and he knew just who to use.

Naruto Point of view

I lay in my bed, the warmth of another body next to mine comforting me. I turned over to the red head that was responsible. I smiled at him, but he was still asleep. My body was sore all over while the Nine-tails healed my body. Gaara opened one of his eyes and wrapped his arms around my body.

"Good morning." Said Gaara lazily.

"Good morning to you."

"I should probably get up; I have to go make breakfast."

"No, don't go. Just a couple more minutes like this."

"Okay." I bent down and pecked Gaara's nose, but missed when he evaded and targeted my lips.

"I love you."

"I love you too." Gaara took that as a chance to escape, leaving me in bed alone to think about things. I thought about Nagato and

what happened I thought about what happened with Jiraira Sensei, it still made me want to cry, and I thought about what happened?

after Gaara died, how he left his village to be with me, I truly loved that man.

I stared at the ceiling, then I remembered what Kakashi had told me earlier when he came to visit me. "Naruto, If Tsunade doesn't make it, and even if she does, you'll probably be made Hokage since you save the entire village." I felt my cheeks redden with excitement. My dream could become reality in a couple days.

I was also glad because my house wasn't affected when Pien did that huge explosion that destroyed most of the village, even ichiraku's, that was a sad day.

"Naruto, breakfast is ready." I heard Gaara call from the other room.

I got up and headed for the kitchen, and when I arrived there was food waiting for me on the table. I sat down and saw Gaara standing behind his chair, dressed in a pink apron and smiling. He always wore that apron when he was cooking, but no matter how many times I saw it, I couldn't get used to seeing Gaara in the most girliest thing I had ever seen. I bought it for him as a moving-in present, as a joke of course, I had something way better for him planned that night if you know what I mean, but he cried tears of joy because he said it was the first present he had ever been given. "Eat up, Naruto." Gaara sat down and watched me take the first bite. It was delicious, Gaara's food was always delicious. "How is it? Did I add too much salt?"

"It's perfect, thank you, Gaara." I reached my hand across our tiny table and held Gaara's in my own. "I love you."

"I love you too... you know what we should do today?"

"What should we do today?"

"We should go visit my brother, we haven't seen him in so long, how about it?"

"Sure, how is he doing after the Pein thing happened?"

"Luckily he wasn't in the village when that happened; he was visiting the Kazekage at the time."

"And how is she doing? I mean Temari was just made Kazekage not to long ago after all, that's got to be stressful."

"She's fine, you have to remember, I was Kazekage too at one point."

"But that was so long ago. Oh yah, did I tell you, I might get elected Hokage! Isn't that great?"

"Yah, as long as you let me stay by your side."

"I wouldn't have it any other way." We ate our breakfast and walked over to the tent where the people who lost their homes were staying. We made our way through the aisles and couldn't find Kankuro anywhere. We went to the next tent but found him as soon as we went inside. He looked over and saw us with a look of relief on his face.

"I was so worried about you, Gaara. If anything happened to you again I don't know what I would do." He hugged me then shortly let go.

"So, how was the Sand village doing? And Temari?" Said Gaara.

"Same old same old, and Temari's doing fine, I could barely see her though, she was really busy with her job. Makes us wonder how you did it so easily."

"Don't say that, it was hard for me too ." Gaara said.

"So, did you just get back, or have you been here for a while?"

"Actually, I got back last night, but I couldn't go anywhere because they made me help the injured."

"Oh, well guess what."

"What?"

"I might be made the Hokage! Isn't that awesome?"

"Really? Wow, you've come a long way, I remember when you were a little brat at the chuunin exams. Wow, time goes by fast."

"Yah, I remember that too, that's when it all started…" I shouldn't have said that, it just came out. I made the atmosphere awkward.

"So, how was the journey back?" thank you Gaara, you save the air from an eternity of awkwardness.

"It was alright, it rained a little though, thankfully none of my stuff got wet."

"Do you want to come over to our place?" Gaara said.

"Sure." So we walked over to our house, talking about various things the entire way. On the way I could see the town very clearly in the daylight now, it showed just how much damage the town had been given. There was a massive crater in the center of the town, only the very edge of the town was still intact, everything else was left barren and desolate. The land was ruined and everything, except the people, was gone.

We got home and the first thing I did was head toward the couch. My body was still hurting from where Pein had stuck those black metal poles into my body. There were scars on my hands where the holes were, they were the ones that hurt the most. I closed my eyes while Gaara and Kankuro talked.

I thought about things. I had gotten over Sasuke with Gaara's help, like Gaara I used to think we were similar, and like Gaara I think I used to love him, but I have Gaara so that's the reason why I could get over it.

The day went by slowly, all I did was laze around to let my body heal, and Gaara visited with Kankuro. Eventually they went out together to go help the villagers who were hurt. God, I love Gaara, I can't imagine how I lived without him. He makes me feel whole, unlike how I used to be.

It was tough to get the villagers to accept me and Gaara's relationship. It did go as Kakashi said it would for a while, but eventually people came around, I think the entire village has accepted me now, since I saved everyone from Pein. But it was hard, I felt the glare of the villagers once again whenever I would walk around town with Gaara. It was ok when we just went shopping, but if I showed any signs on intimacy, I could feel eyes of contempt directed towards me.

But, I still loved him; he was worth everything I had to go through. Just having him there was enough to comfort me, and whenever he left, even if it was just to get groceries, I would feel like I would never see him again. If something ever happened to him, or he left me, I honestly don't know what I would do. Come to think of it, I have never fought about anything with Gaara, it's like we were made for each other, both cursed to bear the weight of being a tailed beast host on our shoulders.

I never asked Gaara about his childhood, and in return, he never asked about mine. Whenever I thought about it, I couldn't think of anything nice to tell Naruto, well maybe the time Iruka Sensei started to warm up to me, but I couldn't think of anything else worth sharing. But, Kankuro did tell me about Gaara's childhood once, he told me the reason he was telling me was that he had never seen Gaara as happy as he was when he was with me, and that he wanted me to know what Gaara's gone through.

Kankuro's story went like this, 'When Gaara was a baby, his father sealed the Shikaku into his body, an extremely painful experience, it almost killed him, but luckily it didn't. He developed severe insomnia, that's why he has those black lines around his he was growing up he distanced himself from everyone because he could tell he was different from how the villagers looked at him. Then, when his father realized he couldn't control him he sent assassin after assassin after him, but to no avail, then he realised Gaara was only close to one person, his mother's brother, and the uncle to Gaara. So, against his will, he ordered Gaara's uncle to kill Gaara. He failed, and in the process Gaara went insane, you saw what he was like at the Chuunin exams so you know what I mean by that. That's when the Shikaku put that sign on his forehead to show that he couldn't love anyone, but then you came along and proved it wrong.'

The story made me cry for Gaara, and made me realize how much worse his childhood was than mine. I would rather have no father than one who continually tried to kill me.

Then I heard a knock one the door. I walked over and peeked through the eye hole, it was Kakashi Sensei. I opened the door.

"Hello, Sensei. What brings you to my humble home?"

"Well, I have great news for you!"

TBC….

A/N: Omg, what is the news that Kakashi is delivering? Well I had tons o' fun (ha it rhymes) writing this chapter, all the while listening to Futatsu No Kodou To Akai Tsumi by on/off the entire time, it's the opening for vampire knight, a good show, but I think that they all act a little to dramatic, but I believe everyone is open to their own opinion so don't let mine sway yours. Anyways, this chapter kind of went by fast and it was like at least a year further than the last chapter, can someone tell me exactly how far into the future it is, I'm kind of lost, I caught up on all the Naruto chapters in the summer, which was a long time ago. So this chapter is one of my favorites, but if I was to name favorites it has to be the very first chapter, where Gaara is brought back to life, it was amazing, my favorite part in the manga by far. Do you want to know something ironic I discovered, both of my favorite anime characters do not have eyebrows, can you guess who they are… Gaara and L from deathnote, omg I love him so much, I should read up some yoai on L and Light (Raito) does anyone know any shounen-ai sites for them, but please not hard-core, I can't handle it, it's too scary for me. Anyways, has anyone read BitterSweet yet? Please do, and tell me if you do, it would make my day, well I hope you enjoyed reading it ^-^ !