A/N:
WOAH! WE DID IT! WE HIT 50 K! OMG WHAT?! I can't even...I feel bad for not updating in awhile. So what should I do? I've already done an extra chapter, maybe another one? Or should I do a Q&A? I don't know anymore, you guys can decide.

Also, this chapter will have a lot of things smushed together, and a few time skips. You have been warned, a few things may not make sense.

3rd POV

Two days later, Itachi found himself at the gates of Konoha with Naruto, who was eagerly waving a goodbye to Shisui.

"Bye Shisu-nii!"

"See ya, take care of Itachi would ya?"

"Huh? You mean if he gets a booboo?"

"Uh...yeah! A booboo!" Shisui mumbled something under his breath, and waved at his adopted brother. Long story short, Itachi's parents, or rather one of them, flipped a table when they found out about how Naruto's family treats him. They spent only about 2 hours seeing if anybody wanted to adopt him, they knew that the orphanage owner had a grudge against the Kyuubi attack, and didn't want anything bad happening if he wasn't adopted by one of them.

And, well, since Shisui was such a doting friend, he asked his parents to adopt Naruto. Tada! They're now adopted brothers, yippee!

"Let's just go, Shisui, don't you dare."

"What~? I would never peep into your room to gossip with Kuro....never..."

Itachi 'tch'ed at him, and turned around and started walking away. He held Naruto's tiny hand, and they began their journey to Suna, where Itachi would be tracking down a B ranked shinobi that was rumored to have a plan to assassinate the Hokage. He did want to spend more time with Naruto, but maybe going on a mission that was supposed to be a solo mission wasn't a very good idea.

"Hey, Naruto, would you mind changing your appearance again?"

"Huh? Sure, should I just get rid of it?"

"Umm, that may be a good idea, just change your hair to black and change your eye color to black as well." Itachi responded, having an entire different objective for this little thing. 'I wonder how he'd look if he were a Uchiha....well I plan on making him one in the future anyways." (Maybe I went a little too far...he's only 9 or 10 gosh dang it)

"Hm? Ok then." Naruto paused for a moment, then changed his appearance so that his white hair turned midnight black, and his light periwinkle eyes turned a dark grey color.

"Is this good?" Itachi turned around to see a nosebleed worthy Naruto in front of him, and he had to admit, he almost got one.

"Y-Yeah, I-I'll change my hair to brown, it'll also be shorter, and my eyes will be green, ok?"

"Ok!"

A few seconds later, Itachi looked completely different. His got got shorter, and it turned into a chestnut brown color. His eyes transformed from onyx to emerald green, and his skin got significantly tanner.

"R-Remember what I look like, I don't want you to get lost and think I'll try to capture you with this look." Itachi told him, a small blush forming on his face. Naruto continued to stare at him, not saying a word.

"W-what?" His voice was pathetically useless right now, and his green eyes widened slightly.

"Oh, sorry. I just tried to memorize what your new face looks like. You look really different Ita-Ita!" Naruto beamed a smile at him, and Itachi's instinct was either fight or flight (against Naruto's cuteness, he can't have a nosebleed right then and there) , he chose flight.

"Let's go, you can ride on my back, it'll be faster."

"Ok then, Ita-Ita!"

-a few hours later-

Itachi nearly collapsed in front of Suna's gates, his heart apparently couldn't handle having this child on his back for so long. Naruto, sensing that Itachi was tired, forcefully got off, even against Itachi's will. Itachi felt the air brushed against his back, and shivered slightly, barely noticeable.

They walked up to the guards, who were actually awake and alert unlike Konoha's guards, and was asked the typical questions about why they're staying here and they also wanted to check their passports. It took no longer than 5 minutes, and they were now in Suna's walls.

-about an hour later-

"Ok, I'm going to complete my mission, and I know you wouldn't like to watch me do it, so you can play at the park. Yuudai-san will be watching you, and I have no idea where Kurama is. Madara will act as your father, so make sure you watch over him like his grandfather would." Itachi instructed Naruto, who nodded with enthusiasm. He could possibly make a new friend!

They walked away from Itachi, and headed towards the public park where about 5 kids were playing around the jungle gyms. Madara decided to sit next to a tree, and Naruto was left alone.

"Hmm, everybody looks busy...oh!" He noticed a little boy with red hair playing alone near the swings, and quickly walked up to him. While he was walking, he heard whispers from the other adults walking around.

"I've never seen that child before, she doesn't know..."

"Such a poor soul, so young and beautiful too."

"I can't believe it, that young girl, I hope she turns around."

"It's such a shame...she's going to get killed."

Naruto didn't stop, however, and kept on walking. The red haired boy looked up in shock, and then looked around his surroundings to see if this person was really walking towards him. When he found none, he turned back to Naruto.

"W-what are you doing?"

Naruto reached out a hand, and smiled brightly.

"Can I play with you?"

Gaara, who was still shocked at the sudden appearance of a 'girl', a beautiful one at that, didn't know how to answer. He reaches out to shake Naruto's hand, but stops mid way when he spotted the sand moving slightly.

"I-I...you should play with other people, I'm dangerous.." He muttered, looking down and was about to put away his hand. Then, he felt a sudden warmth on his hand and was yanked off his swing.

"Nonsense! You're not dangerous, let's go play at the monkey bars!" Naruto told him, and was shocked when he was suddenly shoved away, feeling Gaara's cold hand slip out of his.

"N-no! You could get hurt! Stay away! You'll...die...now...." Gaara trailed off, shocked that the sand had no reaction towards Naruto.

"Huh? I'm not going to die anytime soon, so let's play for a bit! What do you want to play? I'm sorry if I was being too pushy." Naruto cheered him up, and his light blue eyes shimmered with joy. She didn't die! She was alive, and was willing to talk to him! She even apologized when he was the one who pushed her away.

"Ok then...we can go to the monkey bars."

Gaara smiled slightly, his hopes of having a friend was slowly coming back. He let Naruto grab his hand, still flinching slightly, and found himself having fun for the first time in awhile.

"I can climb all the way to the top! Come on, you try!" Naruto yelled at Gaara, who was at the base of a very tall tree.

"Isn't it dangerous for you, you might get hurt...." Gaara asked Naruto, reaching up to grab a few branches to pull himself up.

"I'll be fine, I'm a strong boy now!" Gaara let go do his branch by accident, and fell about two feet down. He landed on his behind, and groaned slightly in pain. So, this girl, was actually a boy?

"Are you ok? What happened, you were doing really good!" Naruto jumped off from his branch, and knelt besides Gaara who had a bruise.

"Y-You're a boy?" He asked him, and realization hit Naruto.

"Ohh, so you thought I was a girl, too. Haha, I get that a lot. I'm sorry for not telling you." Naruto apologized, healing his bruise quickly and bowed slightly. (He did not, and I repeat, did not, touch his butt!)

"No no no no no! It's fine, I just thought you were a girl because you were really pretty! Your voice is also really high, and you look like a girl." Gaara stuttered out, he didn't want to loose a friend because of his stupid mistake. Although, it seemed like many others made the same mistake.

"It's fine, we can just resume playing right? Mada-nii might wake up soon, maybe we can go to a flower field." He suggested, thinking about how he didn't see any other plants other than this huge tree that was probably made by Kurama or Yuudai. He remembered his Onii-chan saying something about this place needing some sort of way to know it looked alive.

"We don't have any flower fields near by, the closest is about a weeks travel with our level of speed."

"Oh, then it's no problem, tell me where it is."

"W-what?" Gaara asked him, confused at what he was suggesting.

"I can take us, Mada-nii helped me increase my speed and stamina, Kura-nii taught me how to do the Hokage's Hiraishin, but I changed it so I won't need the kunai." Naruto grinned, and held Gaara's arm with one of his hands, bracing himself for the sudden burst of speed.

"Huh? It's just North of here, then, but I don't kn- AAAAHHHH!!....." Gaara was in the middle of talking when he felt like he was being lifted off the ground and was being dragged around, Naruto's arm was the only sense of security he could find, so he naturally grabbed onto it. He screamed in fear because he has never traveled as fast as that before, and it lasted for about 5 minutes.

"Sorry, I'm still perfecting it, but you're not hurt right?

When Gaara finally processed what happened, he saw the sudden lush greenery and bright flower fields.

"Wow....it's so pretty." He sighed out in amazement, he's never seen flowers and leaves, the tree itself was quite a shock.

"It was really far away, I think rather than taking a week for villagers to walk here, it'd take a week for chunins (is this how you spell it? Curse my bad memory) to travel here while sprinting. I really need a break..." Naruto spoke softly, leaning against a tree trying to catch his breath, sweat beading off his small face.

"Oh right! You didn't have to bring me."

"It's fine, I wanted to come here anyways. You can look around, you've never been to a place like this before, right?" Naruto said, letting out a breath of content. Here, it was much cooler and felt more alive than the village did, and it was more dense and humid here than the Forest of Death.

Gaara listened to Naruto, and explored the area while Naruto took a rest. He'd need it since he'd have to bring the, both back later.

-2 minutes later-

"Woah! Is this an apple?"

-10 minutes later-

"I see flowers! They're so bright!"

-20 minutes later-

"A raven?"

-1 hour later-

"Hey, Naruto, do you like this place? I think it's really cool!"

"Huh, oh yeah, I really like it here. If I were to make a village, I would make it here."

"You want to make a village?"

"Yeah, I want to make it a nice big village filled with plants! There would be no bullying, and only good people can enter!"

"Wow," Gaara had a new spark of respect for Naruto, he was planning to make a whole village here! Most people only want to become strong ninjas or become the next kage of the village.

"Then, in the future, I would help you!"

"Really? You would?"

"Yeah, you've already become my first friend who isn't scared of me, I already owe you a lot!"

"I just wanted to be your friends. To be honest, my village doesn't like me very much either. Sasuke-nii, Shikamaru, Choji, Shisui, Okaa-san, Otou-san, Kura-nii, Mada-nii, Ita-Ita, and Onii-chan likes me, though. I'm happy they do, you can meet them in the future! Sasuke might be moody though."

"Why?"

"Okaa-san told me so thing about pooperty? Poof earth-y?"

"Pou? Earte?"

"Oh, sorry, Kura-nii taught me something called English when I was 4, it's a habit now." (ITS MAH FANFIC I CAN MAKE THINGS HAPPEN MUAHAHAHA!!...Wth did I just write?)

"Oh, you mean that, isn't it really new though?"

"Yeah, Kurama wants to tease everybody else by talking to me about them in English, so I crammed it all in my brain. But then they found out about it, learned it, and now he can't do that anymore."

"Oh, what a strange thing. Maybe I should learn it too!"

"It's fun to learn it! You should!"

"I'll try my best...also, how old are you? I thought you were 4 or 5."

"No, I'm 6 now, you were close though!"

"Really? I'm going to turn 8, so then I'll be able to learn about it soon!"

"That's cool! I'm starting the Academy in about a month, Otou-san thinks I'm already passed it, so I should just enroll now to get a head start. I wanna join the ANBU with Ita-Ita, so I'll be able to spend more time on him."

"That's really nice! I- what's that?"

They both turned towards the direction where they heard loud stomping, and stopped their conversation. Naruto pulled out a kunai just to be safe, and Gaara pulled a sharp branch off a tree. Even if his sand will protect him, it's humid here so it might be slower, and he wants to be stronger anyways.

He noticed that Naruto almost instantly relaxed when he heard a loud voice call out to him.

"NARUTO!! I WAS SLEEPING AND YOU JUST LEFT ME!!!"

"M-Mada-nii...."