Gaara
I opened the door to the shop to see Naruto moving away from a brunette haired boy.
"J-Just leave me alone okay?" Naruto had said to him. It took me a second to hear what was said from across the street.
"Oh come on Naruto? I haven't seen you in ages. It's no fun since you left." So Naruto knew this kid? He talked with a sneer, as if there was a secret meaning behind the words, one that I didn't understand. I crossed the street so I was by Naruto's side. The boy's eyes got wide as he sniffed the air. "H-Holy shit man." The brunette took a step back, trembling a little.
"Kiba, Gaara won't hurt you." Naruto said, turning to me.
"A friend of yours?" I asked pointing to Kiba.
"Yes... Well no... Well... Once upon a time." Naruto looked at his feet.
"Oh." I looked back to the boy who was frozen in shock. "Well... um. Anyway... Did you still want ice cream?" I asked Naruto trying to get him to smile. Naruto looked up at me with that goofy grin.
"YEAH!" he said putting his arms in the air. "Duh." He added nudging me in the side.
"You're fucking nuts!" Kiba shouted. Taking another step back, but not wanting to dash, his instincts telling him that a demon would chase him. But I wouldn't.
"No he's not." I said rolling my eyes. "He's better off with me than on the streets." I said to the brunette. Kiba Naruto had called him.
"Yeah? And what does it cost to live with you? Huh? Sex all the time?" Kiba sneered.
"Ha, I wish." I shook my head with a smile.
"Gaara!" Naruto said pouting.
"Kidding... Well I mean, I wouldn't mind-"
"Gaara!" Naruto stopped on my foot as a blush broke over his nose and cheeks.
"Ok Ok. Naru, get in the car. I'm sorry." I said chuckling and rolling my eyes at his blush.
"Yeah sure you are." Naruto said sarcastically with a fake pout.
"I love you." I said but he only stuck out his tongue at me. Then he gave in *sigh*
"I love you too." I unlocked the car. The brunette's eyes shifted to the car at the beep. His ears flicking up under the hat in interest just as Naruto's does. He must have his tail hidden. Then his eyes flickered to the keys in my hands.
"That car is yours?" He asked not believing it. Naruto jumped in the passenger seat, but the door was still open 'cause I hadn't shut it yet.
"Did you want to invite your friend along?" I forgot that Kiba could probably hear me. Naruto looked up at me.
"He wouldn't come... Even if he was still my friend." Naruto said... Then he gave in. "Hey Kiba, want to join us for ice cream?" Naruto asked. Kiba looked torn between wanting to go and not wanting to go.
"I have no money." He decided.
"Gaara will pay. Right?" I nodded.
"Naruto..." Kiba whined. Not wanting to go but so tempted.
"You get to ride in the cool caaaaaar." Naruto teased.
"Well... I guess?" Kiba said. I walked around and sat in the driver's seat. Kiba didn't move until I was completely seated. He sat behind Naruto, shutting the door and leaning against it, trying to stay as far from me as possible.
"So what did my sister want?" I asked Naruto.
"Oh Temari? She... uh... she just... um... she wanted to see how we liked our new fridge..."
"Is that all?" Why did Naruto seem so nervous?
"Well... because she said she had liked a certain amount of days to return it or exchange it or something... and she wanted to um... check up on me." Naruto said.
"From what?" Kiba asked curious.
"Nothing." Naruto said looking at his hands.
"Ok so friendly's or dairy queen?" I asked.
"We just went to Friendly's the other day didn't we? So... Dairy Queen." Naruto said.
"I could eat at Friendly's every day of my life... or red lobster." I said truthfully. "You'd get tired of it at some point." Naruto argued.
"That's like saying you can get tired of my cooking." I pointed out.
"But that different! You're amazing!" Naruto argued. "Plus you don't make the same thing..."
"I don't have to order the same thing." I shut off the car, having pulled into the parking lot at DQ. Naruto looked at me and started giggling.
"Whets so funny?"
"You... ah ha... you still... you still have your fake mustache on!" He could not stop laughing. I turned my rear view mirror to face me.
"Damn it... The guy in the jewelry store must have thought me a real creeper... now I understand why he didn't ask any questions... he probably thought I was mentally retarded or something..."
"What did you buy in the jewelry store?" Naruto asked getting out of the car by himself.
"Well." I gave Naruto the bag; Kiba followed us out of the car. "I didn't want another mix up to happen like on New Year's... So I thought it would be best if, maybe you had some form of identification on you. But at the same time, I didn't want you to just put a collar on, because I don't see you as my pet, but others... do." I sighed. Naruto pulled it out

Naruto
Well… at first I thought it was just a damn collar as I took it out of the bag. But then again… Gaara did just get it to make sure that incident with that place didn't happen again so I guess I should be happy. Plus… when I looked at it, it seemed almost… beautiful. I mean, it was a collar but it didn't look like one as well.
"G-Gaara." I looked at him.
"Open it… please? It might make it be better than it seems." He said scared that I might get mad at him for giving me the collar in the first place. I just did as I was told and gasped. It was so cute! The picture and our names, everything! It was so pretty… and it was shiny
."Gaara." I started again.
"I hope its good enough. I mean I didn't want to offend you. I just don't want that crap to happen again!" He said worried as he finally took off the mustache which I again giggled.
"You want to know what I think." He nodded, "I'm thinking… I'm surprised it's not leather!" I smiled and he just gave me a look that says 'tell me the truth'. "Okay okay… I really do like it… I like the picture and I love how you engraved it. It's shiny and pretty! And I'm happy you got this so that there wouldn't be another misunderstanding… please don't tell me it was expensive though." I asked him as he came around the car and hugged me.
"Actually… no. Not that much."
"Gaara." I warned.
"It was cheaper than the bracelet." he said his voice suggesting he knew I was going to make him spill.
"Gaara!" I shot him a glare.
"Okay, Okay!… It was possibly 95. But that was because I got the picture and engraved it. Plus I got it connected to the collar." He told me the truth and I smiled.
"I love you."
"I love you too." It wasn't until then did I notice Kiba standing right behind us... Well behind me. He seemed to be scared of Gaara and I could understand that. We became friends because of our losses from parents.
"How the hell can you be happy being treated like… like a fucking pet! He says he's not but then he gives you a collar and you 'like' it?" Kiba said flabbergasted as he rolled his eyes and I just glared at him, as I turned around in Gaara's arms so my back rested against his chest.
"You don't know anything Kiba. And how could you say that when you know well that I would rather be here than there. With you." I said honestly before looking at the ground. I really still was… what's the word, scared? No, weary? That could be it. Anyway I feel that way around Kiba, even with Gaara here massaging my arm.
"Pfft."
"See Gaara?" I tilted my head a little to look at him, "Told you he wouldn't feel right even after I invite him, against my better judgment, for good ice cream… by the way, can we get some now?"
"Sure." He kissed my forehead while I put the collar back in the bag. There was no need to wear it right now since Gaara was next to me and… I didn't really feel like it. He seemed to understand and grabbed my hand walking into Dairy Queen. I took in a semi-big whiff and my tail wagged slightly too side to side from the smell. I could still hear Kiba following and see him out of the corner of my eye, while he took the same sniff of the place.
"So what do you want?"
"Strawberry Oreo blizzard!" I had a giddy smile on my face while Gaara looked confused, "You never had it? Its strawberry ice cream with vanilla Oreo's." I explained.
"What he said." Gaara said to the cashier giving me a weird look but I just rolled my eyes. "And you?" At first I thought he was talking to me but then I saw Kiba shiver slightly.
"Oreo blizzard…" he said a bit softly. Not wanting to anger Gaara he added a please to the end of it.
"And an Oreo blizzard… Mediums for them. And I would like a Sunday, with cherries on top." Gaara smirked and licked his lips.
"Is that all?" She spoke and Gaara just nodded his head and unhooked his hand from mine to take out his wallet. My wrist must have jangled because I saw Kiba's ear twitch under his hat and his eyes to glare at my wrist… The one with the bracelet.
"That's expensive as hell man! How the hell did you get something like that!" He said confused and shocked.
"I bought it for him." Gaara said bluntly looking at the brunette as I looked at my wrist.
"Ino would DIE for that! She is so… ugh!" he said clutching his head.
"Having problems with Ino?" I asked confused and a bit sad.
"No!" He whined, "She just wants to go to every expensive restaurant in the fucking world and wants me to buy her everything! I only get some cash form working at her stupid shop and in the end I'm using it all on her. It's getting annoying!" He complained before he realized he was actually talking to me like an equal and looked away with a grunt.
See… even he is working! I need to find a job. "Here you go, thank you for coming to Dairy Queen." The cashier gave a fake smile as I grabbed my blizzard and looked around the shop for a booth. Finding one I ran over to it and slid in on one side, Gaara next to me and Kiba across from me, staying as far away from Gaara as possible. It was quiet around the table as Kiba lazily spooned up his ice cream putting it in his mouth. I felt… almost awkward. Having an old crush who turned bastard eating ice cream with me and my demon boyfriend… and Kiba hates demons, or scared of them. I don't know which one.
"So... Every awkward silence a gay baby is born." Gaara said causing me to giggle. "Nice to know how we came into this world."
"Pfft." Kiba rolled his eyes. Really? "Naruto, are you really telling me this noble isn't making you have sex as payment for him caring for you?"
"Not that you really care but, He loves me, I love him, I don't care if he's a demon, and he doesn't care if I'm an anthro. I don't need to pay him anything to be with him…" even if I want to, I said to myself.
"So… you're still a virgin?" He gave a cocky grin and I rolled my eyes as I blushed.
"Y-Yes…and I guess you aren't."
"Nope." He smiled.
"Then again… Ino has been having sex since she was 12 so I would have thought she would have done it with you already." I muttered. She's an effing slut… and still dresses like one I bet. She sort of looks like Deidara in some sort of way.
I continued to eat my ice cream, smiling at the taste as my ears twitched. Gaara has taken the cherries out of his Sunday as he ate his own ice cream. I guess he was going to save them for last.

Gaara
"Why'd you remove all the cherries?" Naruto asked me.
"I have a cherry fetish." I admitted.
"Does it have anything to do with the cherry milk?" Naruto asked.
"Precisely. My favorite fruit in the entire world are cherries. I could eat... like... a pound of them..." I said picking up one and eating it. Stealing a taste. "I can tie a knot in a cherry stem with my tongue." I added.
"No way!" Naruto said "Show me! How did you learn?"
"I used to have a looooot of time on my hands." I said putting the stem in my mouth. The situation got quiet, Naruto and I being the only ones making conversation at the moment. Kiba continued scooping his ice cream, while Naruto stared at my mouth, as if making sure I don't cheat. After a few minutes he got bored and scooped his ice cream while watching me out of the corner of his eye, like Kiba was. All of a sudden I pulled it out of my mouth. "There!"
"Wow!" Naruto said. "That's amazing."
"It's not that cool." Kiba said.
"Oh shut up... He just bought you ice cream. Be nice." Naruto said, having more of a spine since I was here. He seemed to shy away from Kiba, as if the kid used to always be mean to him or something.
"So Naruto? What do you want to do after this? I doubt you want to go home." I said thinking about what he said he was sick of the place.
"Well... What else is there to do? I mean... Every time we go somewhere people are mean to me." Naruto looked down at his ice cream.
"Maybe if you hid your ears and tail..."
"I don't like him to do that. He shouldn't have to hide himself. And no one will hurt him when I'm around."
"Not everyone knows you're a demon." Kiba argued.
"No but even if they don't I can still kick their ass." I said with a smirk. Kiba shivered, having second thoughts about being mean to Naruto.
"He's really over protective." Naruto sighed. "It's annoying; he frets over me when I hurt myself..." at this Kiba started laughing.
"Yeah, you're the clumsiest person on the planet! You hurt yourself all the time. I can only imagine!" He laughed. Naruto gave a small smile. I don't know why.
"It's been forever since I heard you laugh." Naruto muttered.
"Remember the time you fell of the porch at my place? And you landed in a pile of dog crap?" Naruto smiled a bit more at this.
"I was so mad, but we would joke about that for years!" Naruto smiled.
"Then the time we walked in on Jiraiya watching porn, and you got a nose bleed and fell backwards hitting the wall!" Kiba said.
"He locked is door from that day on..." Naruto said taking a bite of his ice cream.
"Oh and the time we were on the swing set, and there was a bee, so you jumped off at the peak of your swing and you nearly broke your ankle?" Kiba said.
"That time was not funny." Naruto said. "Someday I'm really going to hurt myself... like you don't want to know what happened this morning." Naruto rubbed his forehead.
"What?" Kiba asked his eyes flickering to me.
"Well, I was cooking, Gaara usually cooks, but he's been teaching me, anyway, I spilled an egg, and then I slipped on it, and got maple syrup all over the floor, and then when I was done I turned around fast, exited cause I did it right, and I fell forward and slammed my head on the corner of our table."
"Ouch." Kiba said wincing. "You dropped everything when we were little."
"No kidding. Jiraiya used to hate it. He'd get so mad." Naruto rolled his eyes but he looked sad.
"And he doesn't mind?" Kiba pointed to me.
"I think it's cute." I said, since I finished my ice cream, I started working on my other two cherries. "Naruto is less clumsy when he's not nervous. And he's mostly not nervous around me. I try to keep him calm." Naruto nodded at this.
"Gaara was wonders for my personality. I don't feel trapped anymore. I don't feel like a stupid animal. I'm not so shy, at least not around our friends. I'm less clumsy most of the time, and I feel safe." Naruto shrugged. It was silent for a few moments. Neither anthro knowing what to say.
"So Naruto, maybe we should hang out with Hinata maybe? I'm sure she's dying to see how you're doing, and you haven't talked to her since New Year's. In which time we were avoiding her... or maybe even visit Shikamaru or Choji? Or we can all meet at the park or something." I said.
"Can we have a picnic!" Naruto asked excited.

Naruto
"A picnic in the snow?" Gaara had this frown to him. He hated cold weather.
"No, a picnic, like, under a gazebo. I know they have those things." I pointed out, "And we don't have to be the only ones bringing food. Everyone could pitch in!" I yelled excited then realized I was being loud and blushed from embarrassment.
"Yeah we could do that. Who you want to call?" He asked me and I pulled out my phone.
"Well… Hinata like you said. But I guess we could also ask her cousin since he's your friend. Um… Shino would probably come since Hinata wants him but I think we should also ask Shikamaru and Choji. Since it's Sunday they're probably hanging out together anyway doing nothing. Oh and lee, since he's another one of your friends…should I ask the other girls?" I looked at the red head now.
"Every time I call them and we are around them I never get to spend time with you."
"I think Hinata's good enough and that's a bunch of people anyway. It's a picnic not really a party." He shrugged and I just finished my ice cream as I started to text the people I had named off. They all pretty much gave me instant replies saying they weren't doing anything so sure. I made sure to tell them that they have to bring some sort of food seeing as how I don't want us bringing everything.
"Kiba you can come too, and don't say you don't want to because I can hear your tail wagging inside your pants." I said without looking up from my phone. The brunette just decided to look down at his ice cream that he finished and I chuckled.
"Sure…whatever."
"Okay, were gonna hang in the park with people. For a picnic... we need to stop by the store first for chips or something."
I nodded my head once before we cleaned up and walked to the car. Kiba doing that same thing, waiting for Gaara to get in and buckled before he did, sitting behind my seat. I will admit… it's sort of good to see like… as in nice to see him actually talking to me. It makes me wonder if Gaara being here changed his mind about hurting me mentally. Which that might be the answer. Or maybe it's the fact that I don't like him anymore that he feels comfortable. Anyway it makes me a bit happy that Kiba is laughing and smiling at least if it's only for a second. Because it has been forever since I had heard that. Before he became a bully.
We stopped by a store and picked out some Dorito's, Cheetos and Pretzel's before he went back into the car. I know Kiba was tempted to stick his head out of the window… since he did that a lot when he was a kid but I knew he didn't want to ask for it. So instead I just rolled down his window and without a second chance he stuck his head out of it like a dog. I saw Gaara smirk slightly and I just smiled as we pulled into the parking lot of the park. Seeing Hinata and the gang in the distance.

Gaara
"That's a lot of people." Kiba gulped.
"None of them will hurt you. You can take your hat off and your tail out. I know it hurts to be like that." Naruto said.
"But... they are all... human... come on? Really?"
"Yeah none of them ever hurt me."
"But you have Gaara."
"Gaara's not always around when I'm with these people. I know most of them from school. Gaara works while I'm at school." Naruto explained. Kiba didn't seem convinced. "Gaara won't let anyone hurt you Ok? I'm going to tell them anyway. I don't want to lie to my best friends."
"oh..." Kiba let out a very dog-ish whine. "alright." he said pulling off his hat, then pulling his tail out from his pants leg. Smiling, Naruto grabbed his hand and pulled him to the group of people, excited. I just locked the car and followed behind at my own pace.
"Guys this is my friend Kiba! He's on vacation here. Kiba this is Hinata, Choji-" I stopped listening to my Uke give introductions as I noticed my sister was there, she was next to Shikamaru. They were talking in low voices, it seemed like they were having a bit of an argument. I sat down next to them.
"What's up guys?" I asked being nosy. Like I said, I was protective of my sister.
"Nothing." She said obviously lying.
"Temari's trying to deny the fact that you two are demons." Shikamaru stated. "Once I started paying attention it was easy to figure out."
"But were not Shika!"
"He's too smart for his own good Temari. Don't lie to him, just tell him the truth. I mean I'd tell someone if I wanted a serious relationship with them. Besides, Shikamaru is Naruto's friend. If he's nice to an anthro, he'll be fine hanging out with demons. Right?"
"I honestly don't mind. When I hang out with Naruto Gaara's like always there unless it's at school. Seriously I don't mind and I won't tell anyone else." Shikamaru said.
"And that's Shikamaru and Temari, Gaara's sister, but I didn't invite her so I'm guessing Shikamaru did! Does that mean you guys are dating?" Naruto had just finished his introduction for Kiba.
"Uh... yeah."

Naruto
"I knew it! Score one for Naruto!" I smiled slightly but then tilted my head to the side at the end of their conversation. So Shikamaru knew Temari was a demon? I kind of suspected such! He's too smart for his own good!
"You didn't say there would be another demon here." Kiba fretted and I just rolled my eyes. "Relax. Temari is nice. She wouldn't hurt you unless you call her a bitch…which I would say not to."
"So she's like Hana?" He said and I chuckled. His sister was probably just like Temari if you got her temper messed up… I learned that the hard way.
"Exactly."
Before I knew it Hinata had jumped me from behind causing me to fall into the snow "Naruto!" she yelled.
"Yeah?" I said confused.
"How are you?" She smiled.
"Well…better but I would be even great if you would take your knee off my groin." I hissed and she got off of me blushing.
"I've been… so worried about you. Ever since new years." She looked like she would start crying.
"H-Hinata!"
"I thought I w-w-could never see y-you again." She wiped her eyes.
"Hinata-Chan, stop crying. Okay? I'm alright everything worked out alright."
"A-And when you called me you sounded… broken." I just sighed and brought her into a hug, "You know I'm alright. So stop worrying. Seriously I'm fine, that's all behind us… except for a few memories. Seriously." I tried to help her calm down which soon she did, Choji coming over in the little love fest.
"What happened?" Kiba asked interested and I just let out a loud breath.
"J-Jail." I stuttered and his eyes went wide.
"Do you KNOW what they do in there!"
"Well duh Kiba." I grunted out, "And for your information believe all those childhood stories. They're all correct."
Hinata soon calmed down and I got her to smile by poking her side and I laughed, "Okay so…" I looked at Gaara who was glaring at the new couple a bit from the corner of his eye. He is really going to be very over protective.
"So we brought the chips." Gaara finally stated walking up behind me, seeing as how Hinata was finally calmed down and was now next to Shino. He hugged me from behind.
"Oh yeah I'm starving!" Choji yelled and we laughed.
"You're always hungry."
"Still doesn't take the fact away that I'm hungry." He rubbed his stomach and took some cake that was in a box, "My mom made it from the bakery." He stated while everyone else started to take out their own thing of food to share.
I noticed Kiba being quiet. And he's never quiet he's more obnoxious than anything else.
"Hey." He poked me slightly getting my attention and I looked at him, "Why did you call me your friend?" He asked me curiously.
"Would you rather want me to call you friend turned crush turned bully who would beat me every day to these people? They would murder you!" I said honestly and he just grunted a reply.
We sat around one of the long picnic tables eating the food that was brought telling stories. And random stuff. Well it was fun until Kiba got into telling a story about me that caused me to blush.
"Shut up Kiba!" I blushed hiding my face.
"But it was hilarious! Not only did this guy get hyper enough to shake but what he said to his uncle when he was stark naked standing in the middle of the room caused me to explode in laughter."
"T-That was one time, I was young and I had gotten into coffee it was an accident!" I yelled out blushing.
"You weren't young you were 10." Kiba corrected.
"What did he say?" Hinata into the story and I just hid in my hands muttering, I'm gonna kill him.
"He said, 'but uncleeee! You like naked people. I saw it in the place with the poles! I wanna be naked too, it's breezy and feels nice!' and that's how it went… until Naruto was running down the streets while his uncle tried to catch him." Kiba smirked and everyone else laughed.
"It's not my fault Jiraiya brought a 10 year old boy into a strip club so he didn't have to pay a baby sitter! It scared me and then I had coffee!" I complained.
"It means you're cute… how come you're so embarrassed to be nude now?" Gaara asked with a smirk.
"Gaara!" I yelled.
"Kiba!" I froze at the voice while we both turned around.
"Hana?" We said at the same time.
"What the hell! I leave for five seconds." She started. "Correction, you left to shop for 15 minutes while I tried to learn what to do." He said cockily.
"And you have your ears and tail out! What is wrong with you?" She yelled.
"Um… Hana?" I said shyly and she looked at me.
"Naruto?"
"Yeah."
"I heard you became a sex slave." She added with a frown. She actually continued to like me unlike her brother.
"N-No…" I looked at Gaara
She took a whiff of the air then glared at Temari and Gaara, "Oh my… God Are you INSANE!" She yelled exasperated.
"I guess so." He sighed, probably having second thoughts on coming… remembering the demons.
"What about pa huh?" I whispered in Gaara's ear that demons killed his dad and his face fell almost instantly.
"Hana, this guy is with Naruto, and has been for like ever nothing has happened yet." Kiba sighed getting up from the table, giving me one look… Was that an apology? It sort of seemed like it.
"You are nuts kid!" She muttered actually tripping Kiba into the snow and started to drag him away.
"Yes it's been fun but as you see I am gonna have to go! Bye Naruto!" He yelled before he was dragged away totally by his sister.

Gaara
"Well that was... odd." Hinata said. Everyone but 4 people agreed. Those four being me my sister and our dates. Naruto and I looked at each other, Naruto had a look of guilt on his face... regret?...
"Well what was I planning on having happen? That Kiba would be my friend again? Gosh... I'm stupid." Naruto said to himself, anger making heat rise to his cheeks. "Everything is just all hunky-dory now isn't it?" he crossed his arms and scowled at the ground.
"Naruto, you're not stupid." It was barely a whisper but I knew he could hear me. We finished up with the party/picnic, and headed back to our apartment, where I turned on the heat and cuddled with Naruto on the bed, under the covers.
The next week passed much the same. Naruto just wanted out of the house. We went to the mall, out to eat, to the park countless times, to visit my brother and sister, to visit Chouji's shop. There was theme park at the town over, but it was closed for winter. By the end of the week we were racking our brains for ways to stay out of the house. Naruto came with me to work until school started back up, but then he went to school. Before I knew it, I had about 2 days left until my birthday. I thought my sister forgot, because unlike her, she wasn't bugging me about throwing a huge party. I hope she wasn't throwing a surprise party or something... maybe I'll just treat myself to a fancy dinner with no one but Naruto to keep me company.