A.N.-

Hey guys! so yes chapter 7 is out today. sasuke will be in this chapter as well, maybe perhaps you will see a bit more of how i want his character to be. and like i said with chapter 6 i hope my version of him doesn't offend people.

To superme383- you think they're all great!? Thank you!! i am glad you got a good tan from your vacation. hope you had tons of fun. but it is nice to have you back. just in time for school right...yay? and on that part with Naruto and his stuff i giggled at it as well. i thought it was something he'd do. and thank you for saying my skills are o-mazing. that means alot to me because it makes my hard work worth it even more. i hope you enjoy my next chapter!

To xoLovelyEyesox- nice to hear from you again! and i did use it i told it to two of my friends on friday actually. because they said i knew too much about anime things. so thank you for your help. you're in a catholic school? neat. i always wanted to go to one but i never could. not one near enough to me...oh well. and yes i am trying very hard to get at least one chapter out every day. they come out at different times but so far i think i have managed to do it...i hope so. i always get upset when something great happens in a story and then i have to wait almost two weeks to find out what happens. so i'm tryin not to let that happen. and...yes! i did it! i got you to hug your computer! thank you! my goal has been met. thats great! a square shaped Gaara would be funny i think. kind of like a weird chibi version...also no, parents hardly understand. but eh, what can you do right? i hope you enjoy my next chapter!

To itachi2011- yep sasuke. hee hee. and i hope he doesnt do anything to piss off gaara. that would be most unwise for his health. but its hard to tell since my story is kind of writing itself so i guess we'll both see...thank you for reveiwing! i hope you enjoy my next chapter!

To HalfBloodPhoenix- you're right, jealous men are amusing. i love them when they're like that. and thank you for noticing how quickly my chapters are coming. i am working very hard to keep my chapters coming out. i want to be able to have a chapter out each day. so it makes me happy that people notice and appreciate it. and i know what you mean it is more fun when you dont have towait too long. i just hate waiting weeks and weeks for a chance to find out what happens next in a story. and i dont want to do that to people. hopefully i wont. i hope you enjoy my next chapter!

thank you again to all of my reviewers! i really, really appreciate all of your dedication! it means a whole bunch to me.
i hope everyone likes what happens next in my story!

Disclaimer: nope Naruto and co is still not mine. i promise it isn't and probably never will be.

Naruto stood staring, mouth wide open, at the door in front of him. Quickly he glanced at the piece of paper that held his room information one more time.

He looked to Sasuke, who's face very closely mirrored Naruto's.

Then to Gaara who suddenly seemed angry at the entire world. Or ready to kill something…or both.

Why? Because.

Dorm 8. Said the paper.

Dorm 8. Said the door.

He was in dorm 8.

Sasuke's paper, which was currently crumpled tightly in the Uchiha's fist also said dorm 8.

And according to Gaara his things lay behind the door of dorm 8.

Which if Naruto followed all of that correctly it meant that he, Sasuke, and Gaara were roommates.

He was roommates…with…two of his closest friends! This was the best!

Sure one was almost emotionless and the other refused to show any emotion that could pass as 'weak' but hey at least he knew what to expect from them both. And he liked them.

Smiling at the turn out, Naruto looked to Sakura who was waiting patiently by the door for the three boys to get over their shock of finding who was in their room with them.

Sasuke finally frowned at the paper in his hand and then flipped his hair out of his eyes in that way that Naruto swore made him look like a girl tossing her hair while she flirted, and he muttered, "Figures."

Sasuke stepped forward and gently moved Sakura out of his way. He then entered the dorm and saw that yes indeed the section farthest from the door was occupied. Not by much though, apparently Gaara had few things he deemed important enough to bring with him.

Sasuke's eyes went to his own long duffle bag that held all of his possessions.

He didn't have much room to talk. He'd had few things as well.

Thinking back on the simple book bag that Naruto carried, it seemed that Naruto won the fewest things brought with him award. He'd chosen only the essentials he needed when leaving and apparently hadn't felt the need to add much to that since then.

Sasuke hadn't really liked Naruto leaving Konoha, but he figured it was his just desserts for his past actions. Getting a taste of his on medicine and all that jazz. And he didn't blame Naruto for wanting out and away from all those judgmental fools. But he also hadn't defended the fox boy. Not many of his friends had. They'd known the truth, like him, and not a single one of them had spoken up for Naruto. Naruto believed that they had defended him by simply staying his friends. But that was not true, that wasn't defending him. And once he was gone they'd all felt like shit for it.

Sasuke, shrugged the thought off. It was a new place, a new situation, and a new chance.

Glancing out of the corner of his eye at Sakura who was over in Gaara's section looking over things with a smile on her face as she chattered with the sand master about the things he'd brought, Sasuke smiled.

Not a smirk. Not a grin. Not a sneer.

A real smile.

He did it rarely, but when around Sakura he'd been able to. At least more than other times. Which then it was never.

When he'd been younger he'd been a douche to her. Hell to everyone. He knew that. But he'd been young and angry at everyone and everything. Sakura included.

Sometimes especially Sakura.

He'd thought she'd had the perfect life. A father who taught her everything she needed to know. A mother who doted on her every chance she got.

And a happy love filled family home.

All the things he secretly desired.

But then…then he'd learnt the truth. And he wished he could take back every cruel word he'd ever tossed at her simply for spite.

The year Sasuke came back was the same year Naruto had noticed the bruises. It had been during a rest period after some intense sparring. Her sleeves had been rolled up. And Naruto asked why she hadn't healed those bruises since they looked at least two days old if not more. She'd said she didn't want to waste her chakra on such tiny wounds. That her chakra was better saved for major injuries that could come up or for her training with them.

Naruto had gone along with it taking her explanation as a valid point but just like Sasuke he'd secretly despised seeing bruises on her skin. They hated seeing her hurt. Which always pissed her off, because they hated seeing her hurt in meant that they'd always tried to not hurt her when practicing or sparring. They should have asked more questions about the discolored skin on their precious kunoichi. But because it was Sakura they'd believed her when she'd said it was nothing.

She'd really smiled that day like there was nothing wrong. And they'd believed her. Ignorantly. Blindly. They'd believed her.

But that bastard…That damn bastard…Sasuke clenched his fists. Real father or not, you didn't call yourself a father and turn around and do that to someone whether you were only pretending to care about them or not. It didn't matter.

And the mother had been just as bad. Never once stepping up and defending Sakura or putting the beatings to an end. Just sitting back and letting that bastard walk all over her was almost as unforgivable.

Sakura had defended them though.

They'd grown suspicious after three more weeks of bruises being spotted on Sakura's skin. There was no denying it she was continuously getting more. She may have a good reason for not healing them but what was her reason for having them in the first place? So they'd followed her, trying to see how she was getting them. They knew for a fact it wasn't from her training with them. They'd thought she'd been training too hard on her own. Or that she was just being abnormally clumsy lately for some reason. If only that had been the case. If only it had been that simple. But no.

They'd seen the awful truth.

And she'd defended them. She'd defended those damn fools!

She'd tried to get Naruto, Sai, and him off the subject once they'd found out the truth by saying that they were just mad that she was Tsunade's apprentice. And that she was going to take the head medic position so Tsunade could focus all of her attention on running Konoha.

Something Sasuke would have thought most parents would have been proud of. He and Naruto and Sai had all been proud of her. Naruto had been the only one to outright tell her though. But Sakura being Sakura she had known his and Sai's feelings about it. She always knew somehow.

That was one of the ways that Sakura had matured under Tsunade's tutelage. She'd learned to read people and understand people far better than anyone he'd ever met before. It made her more special. But Sakura had always been special, even when he'd been acting like an ass to her he'd thought that.

He'd wanted to see how else she'd matured. She how else she'd grown. But those bastard foster parents ruined that. It was their fault she'd had to leave. Tsunade said it wasn't, but he knew the truth.

Though, Sasuke may have missed Sakura when she'd left; he had been happy she'd left Konoha. Happy she'd left that house.

Her bastard of a foster father had gone too far one night. Hurt her so badly she hadn't had enough chakra to heal the major wounds.

Usually she had enough to at least do that much and then wait till the next night to heal the small bruises and injuries that she couldn't the first night. But that time…he'd done too much. He'd gone too far.

Tsunade had taken Sakura from them immediately. Yelling at Sakura for her idiocy the whole time.

After they'd left he, Naruto, and Sai had given the bastard a re-education in how to treat people.

Then Tsunade had come back and given him her own lesson.

Sakura never knew.

Probably never would.

It was better that way.

She hated seeing people hurt. That was why she'd devoted her life to healing people.

Her laughter brought Sasuke from his thoughts.

Naruto was over with her now, being a moron. Of course.

Sasuke turned to walk over to the part farthest from Gaara's.

"This part's mine." he called over his shoulder.

"Aw sweet!" Naruto cheered, "I get to be between you guys! Thanks, Sasuke!"

"Idiot." Sasuke muttered.

Naruto just laughed, "Yeah feelings mutual, buddy."

As he began unpacking his bag Sasuke made an oath.

Since this was a new place, a new situation, and a new chance he was going to attempt to be a better friend to the idiot who never gave up on him and maybe win the heart of the girl who'd always believed in him. He'd attempted to start such a transformation when he'd returned to Konoha. It had been going well…until Sakura had had to leave. For some reason after she left things began to grow apart. They'd trained together but that had been it. At the end of the evening he went his own way, Naruto went his and Sai went his. So he wanted to pick up and maybe finish fixing things between him and his team.

"Hey, Sasuke!" Naruto called, "No sneaking into my bed at night, you hear me? I don't want you showing me any 'special' techniques Orochimaru taught you."

Sakura giggled.

Clenching his fists he struggled to remain calm. Of course, he could always just work on his relationship with Sakura and forget about Naruto.

"That is, unless he taught you something I could use…but on a girl!" Naruto taunted from where he stood across the dorm.

Yep, that was it.

There was just no fixing anything with that!

"Oi! Sasuke. Can you hear me? Or are you busy daydreaming about your old teacher? Or maybe the term ex-boyfriend fits him better?" Naruto asked as he did some funky little dance that involved shaking and spanking his butt.

Sasuke felt his control slip.

Twisting to face the others he saw what Naruto was doing and he lost it. The ever cool Uchiha, lost his cool.

"Baka!!" he screamed as he dove across the room tackling Naruto to the ground.

Immediately the two of them were rolling around the dorm throwing punches and kicks everyway they could.

Unbeknownst to them however Sakura could see the grins they both were wearing on their faces.

She tilted her head towards Gaara and covered her mouth and said to him, " The first of many lover's quarrels. Naruto always was protective of his Sasuke. And not to mention jealous of all the attention he got from Orochimaru too."

Nodding, Gaara added in his deadpan voice, "Yes, that would explain his determination to bring his…lover back to Konoha…and his bed."

They'd both spoken just loud enough for the fighting boys to hear them. Both of which froze mid swing and whipped their heads around to glare at Sakura and Gaara.

"What did you say!?" they shouted in unison.

Sakura shrieked and latched onto Gaara's neck.

"Quick, Panda, get us out of here!"

Cutting her a glare for using his forbidden nickname Gaara silently obeyed any way. With a flick of his wrist both he and Sakura disappeared in a cloud of sand.

Leaving two very red faced boys. And it was not due to the exertion from their fight…