Chapter 42: CH 42
This confused Gaara as to why he was being thanked, "Why thank me Uzumaki? I tried to kill you and destroy your village. I don't understand."
Naruto shook his chopsticks at Gaara chidingly before throwing them into the fire, "But you didn't kill me or destroy anything did you? All you ended up doing was giving me my fighter IQ back. That's why I'm grateful, because if you didn't do that who knows how I might have ended up, I mean did you see me beforehand?" Naruto shivered, "It gives me the creeps just thinking about it sometimes."
That brought a round of laughs from the siblings minus Gaara. Temari was still curious about some things though, "Naruto. You say you're a host like Gaara? Well how were you treated? Gaara had assassins after him since he was six years old."
Naruto thought to himself for a moment before speaking, "Well it was kind of like him, minus the assassinations for the most part. It was mostly people treating me like crap until I up and disappeared for a while, I just stopped caring for a while and stayed out of public. When I got older nothing really changed, even now I'm just now starting to get some respect in Konoha."
Gaara looked at him, "How did you take it?"
His blonde fellow container shrugged, "I had a few ways. First of all, like I said I just stayed out of public. Another reason is because I was always busy. When I was a kid I always had something to do to occupy my time. The last reason is because eventually some people actually started treating me like a real person, that was probably a big reason why."
Naruto looked up at the moon, "Being acknowledged positively for being you is a powerful thing. When the people around you are just glad that you're alive... There's just something about that that just doesn't compare to most other things... Guys like me and Gaara can relate to that."
He lowered his head and noticed that all three siblings were giving him their undivided attention. Sweat-dropping because he really had nothing else to say Naruto stood up, "Well, you can all get some sleep. I'll stay up and keep watch first."
Gaara blocked Naruto's way with his sand, "Uzumaki I will keep watch for the night. I cannot sleep anyway so it isn't inconvenient to me."
Naruto looked at Gaara and smiled at him, "Sure thing Gaara, thanks a lot then. Alright, I'm going to go drain the lizard before I go to sleep. I'll be back in a flash." As Naruto walked away and Gaara left to find an area suitable for watching over the camp site for the night Kankuro and Temari were stunned. Kankuro looked at Gaara walking away, "Did Gaara just volunteer for night watch? He never did that before!"