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 just caught up with One Piece, I cried when the queen died, I always cry when good people die in anime, by the way, can anyone recommend a good anime, I've watched a lot and I can't think of one to watch now. You want to know which book series is my favorite? Cirque-du-freak, omg it's such an amazing series, but I hated the ending. Well anyways, I'm watching Dragon ball Z kai, it's really good, but I kind of skipped the entire dragon ball show, I didn't feel like watching it, I rather watch the Saiyans fight, it is more awesome, but it is cool. I just finished drawing Kimimaru and Naruto nine tails mode 1, and I already drew mode 2 a while ago, they turned out awesome. Well I hope you enjoy reading this chapter.
Chapter 9
I woke up to the sounds of someone knocking steadily on the door. I slowly got up and looked down at my body. I was wearing pyjamas, but I don't remember putting them on. I looked over to Gaara's sleeping body and smiled at myself for what we did last night. I smiled at him; he must have dressed me himself. I swung my feet off my bed and walked drowsily toward the knocking sounds. I opened the door and came face to face with Tsunade. She had a serious look on her face and her arms were crossed over her chest. Then a little bit of her smile broke out from behind her mask of no emotions.
"Congratulations, Naruto, how are you today?"
"I'm fine, I'm just really happy."
"Well, you should be, after all, you are the new Hokage."
"Yah, my dream has finally come true! And it's all thanks to everyone who helped me along the way!"
"Well, today I'm going to teach you about being Hokage and you're going to help me with the villagers for a while. Is that alright?"
"Yah, just let me go tell Gaara I'm going to be out for a while and get some clothes on.."
"You're going to be gone for more than just a while, we'll be gone all day, after all, we have to help the villagers, then I have to get you ready for the job, you'll have to know the rules and everything. Okay?"
"Okay, I'll tell him that, one sec…" I kept the door open but walked into our bedroom and tapped Gaara lightly on the shoulder. He turned over onto my hand then squinted one of his eyes at me.
"Yes, Naruto?"
"I'm going to go with Tsunade for quite a while, so I'll be gone for some time, will you be able to manage?"
"Yah, now go Lord Hokage." He smiled at me and I smiled back. I walked over to my dresser and quickly put some clean clothes on. I walked back to the door and saw Tsunade waiting.
"Ready?"
"Yah, let's go." I answered back. We walked over to the tents and Tsunade piled thing after thing on my to do list. I helped with the bandages and Tsunade tried to get me to do anything I could do to help out with.
We did that all day then when the sun set we stopped for a break. My hands were sore from all the bandage wrapping and my legs were numb from all the running from place to place. My eyes were slowly trying to close and I had to stop myself from falling asleep to many times to count.
I walked over to Tsunade lazily. She wasn't in the least bit tired. What made you be able to handle all this work without being the least bit tired, and to make matters worse, she did at least twice the work I did. Was being Hokage that hard? Well whatever, I can't give up on my dream when I'm so close just because of a little fatigue.
"Hello, Granny."
"Why must you always call me that name, I'm not an old woman you know?" She rubbed the bridge of her nose, irritated.
"Because you're Granny Tsunade."
"Whatever, have you finished what I asked you to do?"
"Yes, I'm done."
"Okay we're done the village work today, now I can help you with your Hokage training, you ready?"
"What, more work, it's like ten o'clock. Don't you think we should go to bed at this time?"
"That's unusual, you usually never complain, you must be hanging out with Shikamaru to much." She smiled. "But, this will become normal for you when you become the Hokage, you'll be pulling all nighters regularly. Did you think being the Hokage was only about protecting the village when it's under attack? You've got that down; I'll give you that at least. But there is tons of paper work and organizing, didn't you at least ask Gaara about being a Kage?"
"No, I didn't want to say anything I shouldn't around him."
"Well I guess you're right in that sense. Well lets go, I'll try to teach you the best I possibly can." We went to many places in the village after that. Tsunade kept telling me about the history of the village and what I was supposed to do a Hokage.
I walked home and it was around one am when I got home. I took my shoes off and left them by the door. I walked toward my bed, but stopped when I saw a shadowy figure sitting on the couch. It got up and turned around. I could tell from the way the moon shone through his red hair that it was Gaara. He had his arms crossed and it looked like he was about to cry.
"Naruto, where have you been, I haven't seen you all day."
"I told you I would be busy, I couldn't come home. Tsunade was teaching me how to be hokage."
"Till one in the morning!"
"That's what I want to know, it's too late for anything."
"Well, I missed you Naruto." Gaara walked over to me and wrapped his arms lovingly around my waist. I wrapped my arms around his shoulder and pulled him tight.
"Gaara, you know it's not going to get any easier. I'll probably busy like this until we can fix the village. There are lots of hurt people, and I have to help them, okay?"
"Okay, but next time can I go with you?" his question brought up a dreaded answer I didn't want to say. Tsunade had told me earlier that I wasn't a loud to bring Gaara with me for a while. She said he would distract me and I wouldn't be able to do anything. She told me that until everything was over I wouldn't be able to bring Gaara with me.
"Sorry, you can't come with me, I'll get distracted and I won't be good to anyone. Sorry." I let go of Gaara and walked slowly away from Gaara. I didn't look back; he would have seen the tears in my eyes. I got into my bed and heard the sound of Gaara sitting down and the sounds of a stifled cry echoing hollowly throughout the house.
It was broken in a lot of places, but it still held together. Not much of our house was damaged by the carnage of Pein. And, luckily, our bed was still in one piece.
Gaara, I'm sorry, even if he can't hear me, please forgive me. I know it is selfish of me to take you away from me, but I have to take care of my business and if I have you there, you will only distract me, I am sorry. I cried myself silently asleep.
I woke up in the arms of the man I love. I rolled over and wrapped my arms around him tightly. His embrace was what made me go through the day. I got up and got ready for the day ahead of me.
The day was long and hard. Tsunade kept lecturing me about the previous Hokages and how their reign had impacted the village. Tsunade said that the time she was Hokage was the shortest and she would stay Hokage until I finished my training. This training was far harder than any ninja training I had gone through. She taught me all the different seals and what kinds of paperwork she had to do, and what kind I would have to do when I started.
I mostly helped out with the wounded villagers again and helped with the rebuilding of the village. Later in the day I saw the odd glimpse of Gaara as he helped with the heavy lifting using his sand. He was faster than the builders were just carrying them. So he did what they asked of him and the building went smoothly. What id didn't get was why they didn't fill in the huge crater left by Pein's 'Almighty Push'. We could have gotten the earth ninja to fill it in. it didn't make any sense to me.
The day continued on, but even if Gaara wasn't there I kept getting distracted. Whenever I started to think of him, would become unaware of everything around me. I would wonder how Gaara was doing after what I had told him this morning. How I had told him that he wasn't a loud to see me. And every time my wandered to Gaara Tsunade would get mad at me for getting distracted. But I think it is because I told him he couldn't see me that I am getting distracted.
"Gaara." Before I had said it the words slipped out of my mouth. Tsunade shot a look of irritation at me then massaged the bridge of her nose. She stood there and sighed heavily. I knew what was coming; she was going to yell at me again. She was doing it a lot lately, probably from all the stress from the destroyed village.
"Naruto."
"Yes?"
"I think you and I need to take a break."
"Really." I shot out of my chair and headed for the door but stopped right and the edge of the tent. "Are you sure, granny Tsunade?"
"Yes. You got half an hour, so use it wisely." I ran out the opening and started to look around for Gaara. I looked for a while but to no avail. I walked behind some logs and spotted someone. It was Hinata.
"Naruto!"
TBC…
Oooo, what's going to happen next? I can't wait to write it. This chapter was kind of boring to write, nothing really happened except Naruto and Gaara had a little lover's spat, why do they say lover's spat? Well anyways, I watched the fmab movie, it was pretty good, but it was messed up. And guess what, once again I was listening to that song again, shocker *no sarcasm whatsoever, lol* well I kind of rushed this chapter, after all I only had like four hours to write it, plus I kept going on Facebook and watching Dragon Ball Z Kai, it's pretty cool, I'm just getting to the super Saiyan part, a blonde Goku! Yes! So cool, well I have 21 pages in my sketchbook and they are only Naruto characters, I colored 2 completely, they turned out awesome. One was Orochimaru and the other was Naruto Sage mode, it is cool, I used pencil crayons, they are really hard to use when you use them properly and you're just guessing. I changed Gaara to bottom in chapter 8 just to let you know.Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter as much, or even more, as I had writing it ^-^! XD