Chapter 13: Chapter 12 : Unexpected(3)
Everyone looked at the two boys for a moment with confusion clear on their faces but before anyone could ask what they were talking about the red headed teen in the thick leather coat uncrossed his arms and let them hang loosely at his side, for a moment nothing happened except the thug holding Gaara at gunpoint sifting his stance and held it with both hands. Then without warning sand exploded out of his sleeves and the bottom of his coat, spreading out across the whole room and left them all blind for a moment until it settled.
When they could all see again Raven, Beastboy, Starfire and Terra were left speechless.
Floating in the air above their head upside-down were the 5 thugs and Mr Gold trapped in cocoons of sand, their faces slowly turning red from the blood rushing to their heads. They all had sand covering their mouths so that they couldn't make a sound but they could all see from the wide bloodshot eyes that they were screaming inside.
Walking over to stand next to the red headed teen, Naruto patted him on the shoulder with a smile before nodding his head towards the door and without a word Gaara slowly made his way to the front door and used his sand to throw the 6 men out onto the street before making his way back to the still stunned group.
Terra was the first to brake out of her shock and quickly ran up to Gaara, who had just finished collection his sand back into his coat, with a wide grin and stars in her eyes.
"You're an Earth Elemental to? This is so great; we have so much to talk about. How did you control the sand, I can't do that is it like a more advanced control thing?"
All she got in reply was a blank stare.
Chuckling to himself Naruto walked up behind his fellow blonde and rested his hands on her shoulders.
"Sorry to disappoint you Terra-san but Gaara isn't an Elemental. His ability is control over sand, not the earth."
Seeing the sad look on her face Naruto had a mischievous smirk cross his lips.
"Though to be honest your abilities are similar, maybe he could help you with your training. What do you think Gaara, want to help a cute girl with her powers, share your wisdom?"
The look of absolute hope that was now on Terra's face as she looked at the sand user was enough to made even Gaara crack, who knew that the Puppy Eye Jutsu could be used by girls in both worlds on pure instinct alone.
Sending his blonde friend a small frown Gaara thought for a moment before nodding his head.
"Inform me when you are ready and I will see what I can do."
Without waiting for an answer the red headed teen turned his back to the group and made his way back down the stairs to finish what he had been doing before Mr Gold had showed up.
Shaking his head with another small smile Naruto looked back to the teens on the balcony with him and was met with four faces full of questions. Letting out a sigh as he walked back to the table with the book he was working on restoring Naruto got back to work and just as they were about to bombard him with questions he spoke.
"I've known Gaara for around 5 years, give or take a few mouths; he was from a neighbouring village. He, his brother and his sister came to my village for an even and that's when we met. He's been able to control sand ever since he was born and because of it his life hasn't been easy. That's all I'll say on the matter, the rest is for him to tell."
Nodding their heads in understanding the four teens said their goodbyes to both Naruto and Gaara and left, inviting the sand user to Robin's party on their way out.
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Later that night after they had locked up the store both Naruto and Gaara were stood in one of the training grounds that the blonde and his clothes had added the night Gaara had first moved in. It was basically a large circular room with seals pained into the roof for light and a lot of sand that he had had a clone bring using a sealing scroll to transport it. It still amazed him no one had noticed the large hole the clone had left in the middle of the desert.
The reason they were here was because the sand help to calm Gaara, who had been having trouble staying in control of his... darker, urges even since what had happened with Gold and his thugs earlier in the day.
The sand user could still here the one tail in his head, whispering in his ear and trying to get him to go on a killing spree. Naruto had been trying to find a way to strengthen his friends seal but there were a lot of scrolls about seals in his library and he was yet to find anything that could help.
The blonde teen watched from the side of the room as Gaara sat with his legs crossed in the centre, arms crossed over his chest and eyes closed as he made the sand spin around him so it looked like he was in the middle of a sandstorm with long tendrils flailing around outside the cyclone in seemingly random patterns.
After he had done this for an hour straight Gaara let the sand settle and slowly stood, wiping of grains of sand and walked over to lean against the wall next to his friend.
"Have your clones finished the room yet?"
"About half an hour ago"
"You realise that if you're wrong about this it could be a disaster?"
Smiling to his friend with the brim of his hat covering his eyes Naruto moved to the door without answering him, Gaara following a moment later. He led the red headed sand user to the corridor that had the bedrooms and stopped at one that stood out from the rest.
Instead of an oak door like the others that lined the walls it was made out of thick steel, with large blots around the edges and five different locks hat could only be undone from the outside. When he opened the door it was to reveal a normal looking room with a large king sized bed, dresser and a desk. The walls, ceiling and floor were covered in seals that to Gaara meant nothing.
Turning to look at the blonde stood next to the door Naruto saw the rear emotion that was being shown on his face.
Fear
He might not have found a way to fix the seal on Gaara's stomach yet but he had found a way to let him sleep, at least he hoped he did. The seals were designed to absorb the Shukaku's demonic chakra if it reached a certain level an would purify it into nature chakra. The theory was that when Shukaku tried to flood Gaara's coils with its tainted chakra to gain control the seals would suck it out fast enough to stop it from gaining control. They were lucky the one tails was the weakest of the tailed beasts because Naruto wouldn't have been able to do something like this for anything above the three tails, and that was a stretch.
Te reason Gaara was scared was because if he was only slightly off with his calculations then Shukaku would be released and with them being in such a large city thousand could die.
Giving the teen one last smile Naruto closed the door.
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