The New Family

Chapter 6

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“Daddy? Papa? Kyo?”

The sun beat down upon his blond head, and his black eyes were shining with confusion. He had just gotten out of class, and was very surprised to see his parents with his new friend.

Kesuke shrugged it off and jogged over to where they were sitting in the shade of a tree that had a single swing hanging from it.

“Hi!” He chirped, “What are you doing here Kyo?”

He was puzzled when the redhead did not respond, and was startled when he felt a weight on his head. He looked up and saw Sasuke glaring down at him.

“Itoshigo, I was informed you left school today, would you care to tell me why?”

Kesuke frowned at Kyo who only puffed up his cheeks like a chipmunk, strangely enough; it served to earn him his forgiveness. The little blond grinned up at the brunette with the best and biggest most innocent, puppy dog smile he could manage, “I just wanted to show Kyo around the village papa! After all, he is the Kazekage’s son!”

Sasuke rolled his eyes, “He tried that already, it won’t work”
Kesuke sighed, he gave it his best shot, but if his father managed to say it didn’t work with a straight face, then it would not work. Not that he had really expected it to, but he had hoped that maybe Naruto would be affected and step in. Oh well.

“OH! Don’t be like that Sasuke!” whined Kyo, tilting his head back in sticking out his lower lip as he spoke in the traditional child tantrum way, “We won’t do it again! We swear!”

The raven hair glared at him stoically, “Where is Gaara?”

Kyo and Kesuke exchanged a sly glance and burst into a fit of giggles, causing the two adults to stare at them.

“Oh yes,” said Kyo, “Daddy is uh... Busy”

Naruto rubbed circles on Sasuke’s back, in an effort to calm his fuming lover. He didn’t know why Sasuke seemed so irritable towards the little redhead, he was cute.

“But that isn’t important!” exclaimed Kyo suddenly turning serious, “What is important is taking me where I can get a lighter!”
Receiving blank looks from the other three, he explained, “You see, I feel that I need one, because you never know when you will need fire!”

Kesuke seemed to take that information into deep consideration, and after a moment he nodded his agreement.

The slight wind began to blow again as Naruto and Sasuke gave the younger two the bored cow face. Of course, their already unstable son just had to make friends with Gaara’s little pyromaniac gift from below!

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Gaara jumped from rooftop to rooftop, eyeing the scenery below him, hoping to see a spot of vibrant red. After ‘talking’ with Neji, he had set out to find his son, who had run much farther than he had expected.

‘Where the Hell is he?’

-Maybe he went back to the school?-

‘I guess’

Halting momentarily, he spotted the academy and quickly headed towards it. There was no measurement as to how much he desperately wanted to get home. It had been a strenuous thing seeing Neji; he just wanted to get Kyo and leave.

He reached the school and landed at the front gate. There he spotted his son and three other people.

“DADDY!” cried Kyo rushing over to him, “How are you? Where were you? Did you have a nice chat?” At this he nudged the taller redhead with his elbow.

Gaara frowned, “What?”

“Gaara!” Said Sasuke, “Do you realize what your child did?”

Gaara stared at him, the expression on his face, blatantly expressing that he didn’t care in the least. However the Uchiha took no notice of this fact and continued, “He skipped school”

The other shrugged, “So?”

“And also!” piped up Kyo, “I threw rocks at people and told them they were going to die!”

The three adults hardly reacted... At least in the way he was used to. Because Naruto started yelling, Sasuke glared at him for all he was worth and Gaara merely picked him up. Well, he had wanted this. However, the blond currently saying something about that not doing that, because it was bad was very annoying. He smelt like ramen.

“And another thing!” ranted Naruto, “You can’t just-“

“Daddy?” said Kyo, completely cutting off the kitsune, “I want to go home”

Naruto did not react well to this and switched his tactics to yelling even louder. Only this time it was to Sasuke who was the victim to the blaring voice only Naruto could posses.

That was the scene Gaara decided to take his leave at. Sasuke and Naruto yelling at each other, looking very close to settling things with the fists, and Kesuke laughing at them as usual.

He sighed, “You can have the worst affect on people” He muttered to Kyo who only laughed in return.

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“Daddy? Did you talk to Mr. Neji?”

Gaara sighed, “Just wash your hair”

They had gotten back to the apartment an hour ago. Gaara had told Kyo to take a bath, but the usually cooperative little boy had a fit. After much toil and hardship, AKA facing the giant puppy dog eyes, he had managed to get him in the tub. Now Kyo was continually asking about Neji, which was completely undermining his plan of forgetting the Hyuuga.

“But daddy,” whined Kyo, “I wanna know”

Gaara walked into the bathroom and stared hard the boy who was currently playing with a pile of fluffy white bubbles.

“Why do you want to know?”

Kyo grinned, but shrugged, “Because” he replied

“Look,” said Gaara crouching beside the tub, “You can’t leave a place I tell you to stay. And you can’t just go running around a village we just got to” He stood up and grabbed a towel off the rack on the wall, “Do you understand?”

Kyo pouted and got out, allowing himself to be dried off, “I went to find you daddy! And I didn’t go by myself! Kesuke was with me”

“Kesuke who is even younger than you”

Kyo’s bottom lip jutted out as he wrapped the towel around himself, “Daddy!”

“Enough,” said Gaara harshly, “You can’t do whatever you want! You are MY son and you need to behave!”

Kyo’s lip went back to normal as his eyes narrowed considerably, he held the towel tightly until his knuckles were white, “I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING!” He shouted

Gaara returned the glare, completely unfazed by the boy’s outburst, “Yes, you did. And you’re grounded. If you don’t want to stay in one place, I’ll seal you here” The threat wasn't actually possible, but Kyo didn't have to know that.

“WHY CAN’T I GO WITH YOU!”

“I CAN’T TAKE YOU EVERYWHERE!”

“BUT NEJI-“

“OOHH, NOW WITH NEJI?”

Kyo jumped in fear as Gaara slammed his fist threw the wall. His father was now shaking with rage, “Did he turn you against me? Is that what’s going on!?”

“No! I.. I .. I HATE YOU DADDY!”

With tears in his eyes Kyo turned and fled out of the room. Gaara remained, staring blankly at the hole he had just made in the wall.

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“Hiashi-“

“Don’t you even start boy!”

Neji was in his uncle’s room. After his encounter with Gaara he had returned home immediately and confronted him. However Hiashi had not been pleased, and had already dismissed him repeatedly.

He had sat down and continued with his fruitless efforts. “I will NOT be forced to marry my own cousin!”
“Yes, you will” Hiashi smirked, “And our bloodline will remain pure, so that our bloodline limit may be kept”

Neji sighed, standing up, “Hiashi-sama... Is that all that matters?”

All he received was a cold hard glare, “Yes”

Neji growled, “You are unreasonable”

The elder Hyuuga did not seem effected by the statement and merely smiled, “Is that so? My dear nephew, you have no idea how
reasonable I am”

“What do you mean?”

Hiashi chuckled and stood up, “It’s quite simple. I have noticed your growing apprehension to this wedding… So I moved the date”

Neji’s mouth fell open as he stared up at his uncle in horror, “To when?”

“Tomorrow”

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“Daddy?”

Gaara didn’t respond. He was sitting on the balcony, staring off in the distance. Kyo walked out there, dressed in a long white shirt and with his hair still wet. He approached his father, who didn’t make his usual move of picking him up.

“I’m sorry daddy, I really am!” he said, “I promise I’ll be good! Please don’t be mad at me”

Gaara still did not respond. Kyo had tears coming to his eyes again as he stared up at the taller redhead. He gulped and tried to force a smile, “I’m sorry daddy! Really! I don’t even care about Neji! Honest!”

His father sighed and turned to him, “Kyo,” he murmured, “Aren’t you happy with me?”

Kyo’s tears fell as he ran to Gaara and leapt into his lap, “Yes! I am! We don’t need Neji, because I’m already happy!”

He hugged the elder’s chest as his small frame was wracked with sobs, “I am, I’m happy” he muttered over and over again. They sat like that for a while, as Gaara held his sobbing son.

‘It’s ok now,” thought Gaara sadly as he petted his now sleeping child, ‘It’s going to be ok’

Kyo moved slightly and smiled in his sleep. Gaara sighed, well, that had been their first fight.

-Do you blame the Hyuuga?-

‘I don’t know’

-Hm, I do-

‘...You made me call him a dingbat’

-Hehe, yeah, I’m good like that-

‘How am I going to do this wedding?’

-I’ll be honest kid... I don’t know-

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The Ichiraku Noodle shook, in fact the area around it shook. That is how they got the water to ripple in the film Jurassic Park. For you see, something happened. And that something set off a chain reaction. The wedding date was moved, notices were sent out, notices were received and then one Uchiha Naruto happened to get said notices.

“WHHHAAATTT?”

Sasuke rolled his eyes, the only reason he agreed to eating at this place was to avoid outbursts like this. Yet of course, Kesuke, who had gotten into the mail, had found the invitation and happened to bring it up.

They were there for dinner, and now, his hopes of a peaceful meal were dashed.

“I can’t believe they’re doing this!”

Sasuke sighed, “Calm down dobe, it’s not like there’s anything you can do about it” Naruto sat back down after getting off the counter which he had chosen to stand on when yelling.

“Kyo said he could burn the Hyuuga house down” said Kesuke trying to be helpful

Naruto laughed nervously, “Yeah... Gaara sure did do an interesting job with that kid”

Kesuke frowned, “What does that mean?”

His blond father merely shook his head, “Nothing. Hey, teme, do we even have a gift for them already?”

Sasuke rolled his eyes, “Of course. Because I had the presence of mind not to entrust a simple task to you”

“Kyo wants Neji to be his papa”

They both froze and stared at their son, “huh?”
Kesuke smiled, “He says that he wants Neji to be his papa. Even if he is a Hyuuga”

Naruto and Sasuke sat quietly in their seats, each one in his own thoughts of what that could mean. If maybe Neji knew about the boy’s affection... He would not force himself to go through with a wedding he clearly had no desire for. Then again, he was still being forced, neither Sasuke, nor Naruto had any doubt about that.

“And also, he says Sakura sounds like a whore”

Naruto gaped and Sasuke smirked, maybe he liked the kid after all.

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“Wake up Kyo” Gaara shook the child gently. They had gone to bed around seven and Kyo surprisingly had slept until ten. ‘Yesterday was too hectic’ thought Gaara, he looked at the crumpled piece of paper in his hand, ‘Too bad it’s not about to get better’

“Wake up Kyo, we need to be somewhere in an hour” The boy stirred and his eyelids fluttered open, “Huhn?”

Gaara sighed, “It’s time to get up,” he said, “We need to be at a wedding very soon” Kyo sighed and lay back down, pulling the covers over his head, “I don’t wanna go”

Gaara frowned, “Get. Up.”

Kyo sat up and rubbed his eyes, “Fine... Who’s wedding?”

Gaara looked down, “Neji and Hinata Hyuuga”

His son stared at him, “Neji?” He received a nod

“Oh...”

Gaara tilted his head up by his chin, “What’s wrong?”

Kyo shook his head, “It’s nothing!”

Gaara stared at him a moment longer, but shrugged, “Ok” He stood up and left Kyo to dress himself. He didn’t give a damn what he wore. He wasn’t about to dress up for the stupid Hyuuga who could go to Hell.

-Then why are you wearing leather pants?-

‘...Shut the fuck up’

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End Chapter

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