Chapter 6 – Homecoming Decisions

Naruto fell asleep quickly after that intervention, he was so mentally exhausted after all the fuss. When Naruto was finally asleep Gaara wiggled out of Naruto's grip and carried him to bed, he tucked his lover in and gently moved his hair out his face. He sighed before he stood up leaving Naruto to sleep comfortably, he returned to the main room of the tour bus to find that Neji had returned to the room also and was reading Narutos' untitled song.

"Where's Kiba?" Gaara asked.

"He was too angry so I convinced him to call Hinata, she can always make him calm down when he's stressed," Neji replied in a matter of fact tone. He then lifted the sheet of paper and waved the sheet music at Gaara, "This is really good."

"I know," Gaara replied.

Neji gathered up all the sheet music with the untitled piece on top, "What are we gonna do about him?"

"I might have an idea," Gaara replied.

Neji rolled his eyes, "Oh please be more cryptic," Gaara smirked in response, "Well whatever it is, it better work I don't know how much longer Kiba will take Narutos' indecisiveness."

Gaara nodded and ducked his head down but Neji nudged the pile of papers to him which caused him to look up at the brunette again, "Put these away will you? I think you need them more than me right now."

Gaara took the music and held it in his hands whilst Neji left the room, he slided down the wall and looked through the music, so much good talent, so much heart poured through these pages. He looked at the unfinished piece and sighed in frustration, wondering what he could do to help Naruto. Then it hit him.

Gaara quickly put the papers down and grabbed his laptop, after searching for about five minutes he picked up his phone and dialled a very familiar number to him, "Hello Tsunade, it's Gaara, I think I might have a solution for our little blonde haired problem."

Time skip

A few days later Gaara took Naruto to the surprise he's orchestrated.

'Hopefully' he thought, 'hopefully this will work.'

"Okay Gaara what is going on?" Naruto asks as he's being guided through the tour bus by his lover with his hands over his eyes.

"Just a bit further babe," they walked a bit more, "Okay," He let go of his lover and removed his hands from his eyes, "you can open your eyes now,"

Naruto did so and looked around to see nothing particularly interesting or unusual; the tour bus looked exactly the same as it had the past few days. But then he looked down onto the table and saw two plane tickets to the one the only Konoha city.

He picked up one of the tickets, "Gaara you can't be serious?" He had a slight smile on his face.

"You bet he's serious," Neji interjected.

Naruto turned around and saw both of the remaining members of the Konoha Ninjas.

"And guess what?" Kiba followed. He raised another ticket, "We're going too!"

Naruto's eyes widened, "What?" he looked to Neji who nodded and also presented his plane ticket to Konoha."

"All of us? Go back to Konoha?" Naruto asked, slightly scared.

"Yes," Gaara took hold of Naruto's hands, "Think about it Naruto. You've never been back home since you left, you never even said goodbye, and I've told you before you probably left mentally years before you left physically. Konoha is still an open wound but you won't give yourself the satisfaction to stitch it back together."

"Great metaphor there Gaara," Kiba interrupted to have Gaara and Neji glare at him which caused him to raise his hands in a silent apology.

"But you still love your home," Gaara continued.

"You even named the band after the village," Neji stated.

"I…we all of us really believe that going back home will help you, help end this chapter in your life and finish the album you loved to make," Gaara concluded.

"All of you?" Naruto asked timidly.

"Yeah mate," Kiba replied.

Neji nodded, "Even Lady Tsunade thinks a good idea."

"You need closure Naruto, you've already forgiven your ex, it's time you forgive yourself," Gaara hands Naruto his plane ticket.

"Are you ready Naruto?" Neji asked.

Naruto rubs the ticket in his hand, trying to get this whole situation in his head. After a couple of seconds though he stopped and nodded his head, "Yeah, I think I am."

The whole band looked relieved at Naruto's answer, satisfied the band relaxed with Neji leaving the room to sit down and read whilst Kiba stretched his arms, resting them behind his head. He had his eyes closed with a small smile on his face.

"What are you so happy about dog face?" Naruto asked smirking.

"What dya think whiskers? I'M GOING TO SEE HINATA!" Kiba was now grinning from ear to ear as he left the room also.

"Of course that's what he's happy about," Naruto said to no one in particular, smiling also.

Gaara sighed and sat down on the sofa, Naruto didn't even have to say a word to understand Gaara's current state. He sat down next to his lover with a bit of a gap between them; he faced forward bot being able to bear to look in his eyes right now.

"Gaara you do know that we'll see Sasuke, don't you?" he asked wearingly.

Gaara also facing forward could not look in the blonde's eyes either, "Yeah, I know."

"Are you prepared for that?" Naruto asked with a hint of sadness in his voice.

"When am I ever prepared to see your ex-bastard?" Gaara replied stubbornly. He looked at Naruto who was still facing forward. He stopped for a moment before saying, "Sorry. I know you've forgiven him but…I can't for what he's done to you. To me, he hasn't received any of comeuppance that he deserves."

"You don't think an entire album about his cheating ass is embarrassment enough?" Naruto asked shocked.

"The album's not released yet Naruto," Gaara replied.

"I know, I'm sorry," Naruto put his head in his hands.

Gaara, feeling bad, put his hand on Naruto's shoulder, "Hey, it's alright." Naruto brought his head back up and finally faced Gaara. The red head smiled a small smile and pecked him on the lips, "Let's give Konoha a homecoming worth remembering."

"With ramen too?" Naruto asked quietly.

Gaara smirked nearly laughing; he pecked Naruto again which Naruto responded with much passion. They broke apart and Gaara ruffled his hair. "Naruto we will shut down Ichiraku's"

Naruto gleamed at his drummers' response.

Hey Guys!

So I had a review from 'I neverrrrrr (Guest)' and since they do not have an account I thought I'd reply here at the bottom of the chapter :)

I just wanna say thank you so much for reviewing and reading the both of my Naruto fanfic. As to your question about Naruto's endgame love interest, I can't reveal that because that would spoil the ending, sorry. I do agree Sasuke is completely unstable but at the same time I do also think he's improved since the first fic and is now at a point where he's being tested. To me he seems at a stage where he wants to get better which is a much better place then he was originally but Naruto is in a sense his poison and vice versa. But whether they end up together I cannot say at this moment in time, I'm sorry.

Thank you for saying I 'deserve' more reviews (if anyone else is reading this, that was the actual word used in the review, I do not write that because that is my personal opinion.) I don't personally think I deserve review, but I am grateful that you and everyone else has taken their time to tell me their opinions or ask me their questions about a character or the general plot. I like responding to the reviews for even though I can't reveal all my secrets I do like to feel that you and you guys as the audience are somewhat involved. Especially because I love reading everyone's ideas about where the fanfic will go and sometimes I try to morph the ideas within my fanfics if they fit with my general plan of where the story's going.

Side note, I also think that the fact I didn't upload the sequel for a year did affect things which is completely my fault I'm not gunna lie XD

If you haven't been able to tell but I'm not really comfortable replying to reviews publically, I do try to avoid that, instead I normally reply via private messaging on but as this person does not have an account and I really wanted to respond...I did this...so yeah. If this person does read this I would please ask, if you don't mind, to get a fanfiction account, that way I reply privately to you if you do so wish to talk again which I would be happy to do :)

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