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: I hope the last chapter wasn't too confusing on how it just jumped form one year to the next, and thank you to the reviewers, you make me so happy, like my literature is actually appreciated! Thank you! Anyways, I just found a new anime magazine, I usually read shounen jump, which sadly has been discontinued, it is now on the internet known as shounen jump alpha, well anyways I found a new anime magazine called otaku usa, it's awesome because it has a yaoi section! I know, and it comes with a poster for fmab: star of milos, and a hunter x hunter poster, and a bakuman poster, it's awesome. I also found a new shounen-ai website called , well it's not specifically for shounen-ai, but it's got over 800, its pretty cool. I bought some blue Exorcist today and Black butler, the newest volume, so happy! And I'll recomend a manga, it's called 'Lucky Dog 1 Blast' or 'Lucky Dog 1' I'm not sure. But whatever, enjoy the story ^-^
Chapter 7 (Already I know, time flies)
"You did it Naruto, you're the new Hokage!" Kakashi took off his mask (he does this a lot now a days) and smiled at me. "Tsunade woke up, and she sayd she wants you to be Hokage, isn't that great?" I hugged him.
"Thank you, Sensei." I could remember how Tsunade had never shunned me like the villagers, before and after coming out of the closet. She had stood beside me and Gaara as we faced the glares of the village's inhabitant. They eventually came around, but it would have been hard without her support. And the sad part is, the more I think about it, Gaara could have been accepted by his villagers too if he had stayed. It's all my fault for making him leave.
"Tsunade wants you to go over to the tents, she has to talk to you about it."
"Kay." Kakashi put his mask back on and we walked towards the tents. We saw Tsunade talking to some ninja on the medical ninja squad and waited for her to finish talking.
"Good evening, Naruto." But before she could say any more I had her in a bear hug, tears flowing down my face.
"Thank you, Granny Tsunade!" I cried into the fabric of her robe on her shoulder.
"I see Kakashi told the news I sent with him! I'm so proud of you, you saved the entire village and avenged the perverted old man." She put her hand on my head and smiled down at me, if anything, Tsunade was the closest thing to a mother I had. She was always there for me, and she always watched my back.
"Thank you, you don't know how much this means to me, I mean, this is what I wanted my entire life. And, now I have it, thank you so much." The tears overflowed from my eyes and I tried my best to wipe them. I smiled at her through my blurry vision.
"No problem, I think out of anyone in the village you deserve it the most. I don't think anyone will say anything different." Tsunade put her arm around me, leaving the other one on the back of my head and hugged me back. Then I remembered Kakashi was still here. I turned to him.
"Thank you Sensei, I couldn't have done it without you." I smiled at him. Kakashi came over and placed his hand on my head and I think he smiled at me, I couldn't tell through the mask.
"You could have done it without me. Wow, you sure have some a long way haven't you? I remember when we went on the mission to the land of mist, did you know that bridge builder named the bridge after you. He probably did it because you saved his village. Or do you remember when I put you guys into the Chuunin exams and you beat the Hyuga kid, everyone was so surprised when you used the nine tails chakra. Wow, you really have come a long way. I'm so proud of you."
"Thank you Sensei." I tried to stop the tear but they just kept coming. I remembered how much work I had to do to get this far, the people who died along the way, like Haku and Zabuza, the Third Hokage, Jiraiya, Asuma Sensei, and Granny Chiyo, without them I don't know what I would've done, I don't think I would be the person I am today.
Then again, there was a person who ruined my life, Sasuke, no matter what happened I used to think of him as my best friend, and then he left me for dead at the Valley of the End. He abandoned the village, his friends, and he abandoned me. We were the same, we both had no more family, both our parents were killed by something close to us (I had just recently found out by my father that both my parents were killed by the Nine Tails). I had thought he was the only one to understand me, when we were younger, just like me, no one wanted to be with us, I used to see him on my way home, sitting by the river, crying, staring at the lake, wishing for things to go back to the way they used to be. The person who took him away from me was Orochimaru. It all started at the Chuunin exams. And to make matters worse, he was, unfortunately, my first kiss.
But, now I have someone more important to me to fill the void left in my heart where Sasuke used to be. Gaara helped me get over him, he helped me regain my sanity. Some nights I would wake up thrashing and crying over what had happened to me, but Gaara would always hold me close to him until I would go back to sleep. Eventually that stopped happening, but only because I had someone there for me. I don't know how I lived without him. Tonight we should do something to celebrate, but only something he can do for me.
I felt the tears stop and wiped the remains from my face and let go of Tsunade. I looked up at her and smiled.
"Thank you, I'm going to go tell Gaara!"
"Okay, I think he's in the tent right next to this one on the right. Have fun!" She waved me off, but before that she kissed my fore head. I waved back and headed towards the tent where Gaara was occupying.
I walked and thought about how I should say it. Should I be like, 'Gaara, my love, I have great news for you, I'm going to be the new Hokage!', or should I play it nonchalantly and be like, 'Gaara, I'm the new Hokage, what do you think?" No, both of those sound to unlike me, I should just say what feels natural, after all, he'll be happy for me no matter which way I say it.
I spotted his fiery reddish brown hair almost instantly. He was talking to a medical ninja. I walked over and popped up from behind him. He jumped and turned around.
"Naruto, you scared me. Why did you leave the house, you shouldn't go out a lot, we already went out today, you know that right?" he looked worried.
"I'm sorry for worrying you. I won't do it again. But guess what, I have great news!"
"What?"
"I'm going to be the new Hokage! Isn't that great?" Gaara held out his arms to hug him, but instead Naruto jumped into them and wrapped his arms around the red heads neck.
"That's great news Naruto! I'm so happy for you!"
"Thanks for staying by my side the entire time, I love you so much!" The tears of joys started to roll down my face once again. He smiled at me a lightly pecked my cheek. I looked over at the medical ninja and could tell he was a little uncomfortable watching our love. "Sorry." I said to him and got down from Gaara's arms.
"It's quite alright, I mean, after all you're the new Hokage. I'll let you two go along with your business." He waved and I swear I heard him sigh in relief as he walked away. I felt kind of embarrassed, but my embarrassment slowly disappeared as I held firmly onto Gaara's hands.
"Gaara?"
"Yes, Naruto?"
"I'm so happy!"
"Well I'm happy for you, I mean, this has been your dream your entire life."
"But it's ironic you know, I finally have the respect of the entire village after saving everyone, and now that I am the Hokage I already have everyone's respect. I don't know, it just seems weird, but I'm still so happy it's not even funny."
"I'm so proud of you,
"You deserve it more than anyone else in this village."
"You want to know what's ironic; Granny Tsunade said the same thing to me."
"Really, well it does sound like something she would say. It's too bad though, you're Sensei didn't get to see you fulfill your dream."
"Yah, I can just imagine what he would say, probably something like, 'you finally surpassed me, now that you're Hokage, could you let me into the women's bathhouse,' gosh he's such a pervert." I wasn't good at hiding my sadness; I hadn't even thought of Jiraiya Sensei, it made me feel even worse than before. But luckily, Gaara had also been there for me when he died.
"Well I'm happy for you, and I'm sure he would be too. But you have to think about the people here now that will be happy for you, like Sakura, or Tsunade, or your Sensei, Kakashi. I'm sure they're all happy for you, but you probably haven't told Sakura yet, she's really busy treating the wounded at the moment."
"Yah, you're right. I shouldn't dwell on the past. I'm just too happy right now. Too bad there is no more Ramen shop here anymore; I guess you'll just have to reward me some other way." The blush crept up Gaara's face and he turned beet red.
"Do you want to go home?"
"Sure, I call top!" I looked around; luckily I hadn't said it too loud. Tonight was going to be fun…
TBC
A/N: OMG, can't wait till the next chapter, it's going to be the spiciest of them all! But, I won't do hard core; even I can't handle that, way too much for my young mind. This chapter was awesome because the entire time I was writing it I was listening to the same thing on YouTube called Naruto top 5 saddest songs (Hokage funeral, Sadness and sorrow), it made me want to cry for some reason, it made me want to write everything so sad, so sorry if it seems a little depressing then super happy, it's kind of weird like that, so I apologize. Can anyone recommend some good Shounen-ai? And, guess what I'm doing this weekend? I'm watching the entire Pein arc over again, just watched the part where they told Naruto Jiraiya died, I cried even though I knew he was already dead. Then Naruto was all depressed and it made it even sadder. But I got a bookshelf the other day, and I have Blue Exorcist series and soon I'm going to buy the entire DeathNote series, it's such a good series. Well I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter, until next chapter, later ^-^!