"Maybe," Naruto shrugged. Honestly if they fought again and Gaara was actually sane he was not sure who would win. Plus they were in a desert now, Gaara had a whole country of sand that he could bury the blond under if they fought here. The thought of being buried under several thousand square miles of sand made him shudder.
"You know I don't think I ever asked this," When Temari was sure Naruto was paying attention she continued. "How long have you been a Genin?"
Naruto blinked at the odd question but figured she was just trying to make conversation, "About six months all told…well maybe seven now."
"That's it?" Temari's eyes widened a bit, causing Naruto to chuckle. "You must be some kind of super genius to gain enough strength to take on Gaara after only six months as a real ninja."
Naruto grimaced, "Please don't call me that. Unlike most geniuses, I actually trained hard for my skills. In fact, my training would probably kill most people."
"You don't like that title?" Temari asked, curious.
"It's not that I dislike…geniuses," Naruto grimaced again. "It's just that every year in Konoha some new 'genius' comes out of the academy. Seriously both Neji and Sasuke were considered geniuses of their year, and I kicked Neji's ass, badly I might add. And I'm pretty sure that Sasuke would not stand a chance against me either. Yet everyone thinks he's like the second coming of the Yondaime Hokage or something, though I think that's just because he's the 'last of the Uchiha clan'." Naruto ended his speech in quotation marks.
Temari giggled a bit, causing Naruto to grin. He looked back over at Kankurou and Gaara, sweat dropping as he saw the two were really out of it, yet they still managed to keep singing. "I think it's about time we got them off the stage, I'm pretty sure Gaara is actually scaring the villagers more than usual."
Later that night Temari had led Naruto to her large mansion as two Kage Bunshin were shouldering Kankuro, who was passed out from drinking, and Gaara who was still awake but muttering something about teddy bears. As Naruto's clones set the pair down in their beds the real Naruto looked at Gaara with a thoughtful frown.
'Hey Kyuu-chan, how come Gaara's not recovering from the alcohol like I do?'
Kyuubi yawned a bit before answering, 'That's because aside from you being a Hanyou, Shukaku's power is different from mine. Each Jinchuuriki comes with different abilities given to them by their Bijuu, Shukaku gives Gaara his sand shield while I gave you regenerative abilities.' She gave a dismissive flick of her tails, 'Don't worry about him too much, he will still recover in a few hours or so.'
Naruto nodded before he left the room and found Temari waiting for him, "Let me show you to your room Naruto-kun."
Naruto blinked as he heard the added suffix but was not given time to think on it as Temari grabbed him by the hand and led him to where he would be staying, "Here we are. This is where you'll stay until you leave."
"Thanks Mari-chan," Naruto grinned at the girl.
Mari-chan? Temari felt her face heat up at the nickname. Truth be told while Temari was considered to be one of the most beautiful kunoichi in Suna, she had never really gotten an opportunity to date anyone. While in Suna everyone knew her as 'the demon's sister' and stayed away from her, and when she went out she only seemed to attract perverts. Naruto was different, she could tell he was still kind of perverted but it did not seem to rule over him like it did most males. And he was not actually hitting on her; she could tell that for the most part his ability to make her blush had been unintentional. Because of this being around Naruto was always kind of awkward, though not always in a bad way.
She watched as Naruto opened the door and bit her lip. "Wait."
Naruto turned around and raised an eyebrow at the now pensive female blond, "Yes? Something wrong?"
"No I…" Temari paused before looking down, "I wanted to…apologize." She looked up and saw Naruto's confusion so decided to elaborate, "When I was fighting your friend, that girl with the buns, I was overly cruel. I'm sorry."
Naruto looked at her for a while and Temari began to squirm a bit. Being the daughter of the Kazekage she never really had to deal with this kind of thing, and had never apologized to anyone so she was a bit uncomfortable.
After a few seconds however Naruto merely gave her a soft smile, "It's fine, I'm not angry or anything. I mean, yeah I was at first, but I don't like to live in the past. Besides," Naruto grinned, "I could never stay mad at such a beautiful girl."
Temari blushed as Naruto made his way inside the bedroom she had given him.
The next day was for the most part filled with boredom. Because Naruto was something of an ambassador he was forced to listen to the Suna Council nit-pick over the new alliance agreement, despite the fact that everyone knew they were going to sign it anyway. The agreement would actually help improve their village far more than the previous one did; it made Naruto wonder why they were so adamant on arguing over the damn thing.
Thankfully Baki had told him that he only needed to be at the first meeting as a formality and that he would not be forced to sit through the negotiations after that.
Sometime after the first meeting Naruto found himself back in the Sabaku mansion looking over Gaara's seal. As he did a frown made its way on his face, "Well I was right, the seal while not terrible is far too weak and shoddy to properly contain a demon."
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