Rue and Gaara Chapter 30: Home, a naruto fanfic

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Part 30

The next few days, Rue stayed in her old home. Cleaning and sorting through her parents belongings.

Since she went to Naruto's, All of her families food spoiled. But she wasn't concerned with that. She just threw it away with her childhood stuffed animals. And she did throw away her childhood toys. All but a small stuffed tanuki.

Looking at it, she didn't remember how she got it. But she'd cling to it at night when she had difficulty sleeping. Which was most nights.

The tanuki was the last thing on her mind at the moment. She was sorting her parents belongings. Clothes; she was giving away. Suna memorabilia; she was packing away. Photos; went into her back pack with the registers money, the books and the flyer from Lady Tsunade.

Tsunade was certainly persistent about meeting with someone from the shop. Since taking down the first, many more appeared. It felt to Rue that every time she took down one, twelve more were placed in its stead.

And as much as Rue liked her persistence, she was busy. Too busy. She'd thought the sorting and cleaning would only take a day. But then she'd found the tanuki.

It appeared in practically all of the picture's of Rue. Nestled under her arm like a favorite toy.

Rue's stomach growled, ending her train of thought. She looked at her stomach. It was covered by one of Katya's dresses. The only article of clothing she couldn't part with.

"I'll feed you when I'm done. So shush." She snapped at her body. But it grumbled again in protest and Rue smacked her abdomen

Getting up, Rue sighed.

"Fine. We eat now. But I don't want to hear it later when I have to finish sorting." She said to herself, caving to her bodies hunger.

She took the bags of Arin's clothes and dropped them off at a secondhand store. His clothes were pristine, mostly brand new. Rue smiled as the thought of someone else being able to use them crossed her mind.

Though in her mind the person was Gaara.

Shaking the thought away, she went into a sweet shop. To be honest, she wasn't exactly a fan of sweets. But she loved bitter candy.

With a cheerful grin she purchased quite a lot of lemon sweets. She ate some as she returned to her old home.

Reaching the door she froze. The shop and houses doors and the shops window were covered with summons. Completely covered.

This time she didn't tear any down. She stiffly went inside and shoved the rest of Katya's clothes and jewelry into the donation bags.

Leaving again with the bags in hand, she tore a flyer off the door.

After delivering the bags to the place she'd taken Arin's, Rue ran to the Hokage's office.

"What's the meaning of this?" She ashed sharply as she barged into the office.

Tsunade arched a blond brow at her, looking past Shikamaru, Neji, Naruto, Kiba, Akamaru and Choji. Rue's cheeks turned a pale pink as they turned to her.

"Did something happen?"She asked shyly.

"Nothing you should worry about." Neji told her while Naruto grinned.

"Whatchya got there?" Naruto asked looking at the flier in her hands

"Lady Tsunade has been very persistently trying to meet about my families shop." Rue said, moving forward and placing the paper on her desk.

Tsunade looked at the flyer.

"I'd have come sooner but with my parents deaths I've needed to sort their belongings quite carefully and decide what I'm keeping. But thanks to the numerous summons I've been trying to finish quicker than I should and making rather hasty decisions that may haunt me later." Rue said in the most dignified way she could

"I apologize for my persistence, but I'm trying to run a village and I wanted to meet with businesses." Tsunade explained

"Yes, well my business will be shutting down. I refuse to continue while only knowing the poison half of things and my father never took an apprentice."

"Very well." Tsunade nodded and turned to Shizune.

"Shizune. Help her finish what needs to be done. Then report back here." Tsunade ordered.

Shizune nodded and set a clothed pig in a... are those pearls? Or beads? Well in a collar of some sort. Where did the pig even come from?

Rue lead Shizune out of the office and back to the shop. When they arrived they stared at all the flyers.

"Persistence is right. That's insane." Shizune mumbled as Rue began to take them down. Shizune helped her and they were down in moments

"The shop is already cleaned up to resemble exactly how in was when we moved in. Dad had bought the house and business from a man running a failing custom weapon business." Rue explained.

"Oh. Well since you didn't speak up back at the office, I'm assuming you'd like something from me still." Shizune guessed.

Rue nodded and took her into her former home. Now that her life there was nearly cleaned away it felt so large.

The house, while it was in a way right next to the shop, it was more above it. Next to the shops entrance was a door. Behind the door was a staircase. Up the stairs was the real front door.

Inside the door was the kitchen with three doors. One door was on the wall to the left of the front door and that was Katya and Arin's room. On the wall across from the door was Rue's room. Then there was a littl room jutting out of the wall by Rue's room, that was the bathroom.

The walls were a sandy brown and everything seemed quite plain. Rue was used to it and even she thought it was boring and ugly.

Shizune looked around. Rue thought she'd turn tail and run at any second. But instead she looked at Rue.

"What do you need exactly?" She asked.

Rue smiled and went into her parent room. She came back a moment later with a plain looking scroll, the houses Suna memorabilia, the bag of scrapped weapons, blacksmith tools, weapon plans and the bracelet Arin had given Katya for their last anniversary.

"I'd like these sealed into this scroll please." Rue said."

Shizune looked confused.

"Why"

"I'm selling this place and these are the last of my parents belongings. I want them. But I also want to be able to leave without a moment's notice, at any point."

"You're leaving?"

"Not yet. But someday."

"Where to?"

"Home."

"Home?"

"Yes. You see I was born in Suna. My family, what's left of my family, is there, The boy I care about more than anything, it there. I was moved here when I was to little to have a say. Yes I made friends, but I was making the best of a situation I had no say in."

"What about Naruto? He sees you as a sister. Won't this hurt him."

"Naruto will understand. He won't like it, but he'd understand."

"Very well." Shizune nodded and took the items from Rue.

As Shizune prepared t seal the items Rue went back to her parents room. She'd been staying in there since that's where she'd been working mainly.

Sitting on the bed she took a look at the book she'd been ignoring since she found it.

It was written by Katya as some sort of diary about the Fourth Kazekage. He and Katya had apparently been close. The book contained thought, regrets, and general ramblings. It seemed like Katya was a therapist to him rather than the lover villagers thought her to be after the death of his wife..

Rue closed the book again and took it out to Shizune, who was hard at work.

"Can you seal this with that stuff?" Rue asked.

"Sure. Just throw in on the pile." Shizune said not even looking up.

"Thanks." Rue smiled, placing it on top of the other things.

She went back into her parents old room and looked at her backpack. It was large with money, books, and lemon candy in it at the moment. She took the bag with Katya's box and tucked it into the backpack.