Authors Note; yup, me with my first fanfic. I've done thousands before this one, trust me, I have about 30 alone on the main comp and about 40 on my lap top, but this is my first one on the net, and on this awsome site!

Disclaimer; Oh... Naruto... nor any of the other Naruto characters... belong to me ¬¬'. These prescious and mind blowing characters belong soley to Kishimoto Masashi! one of the worlds ruling manga artists !

Warning; erm, this is A yaoi, so, some OOC might be coming up later in the chapters, shounin Aye blah blah blah... i don't think I even spelt that right o0'...

ENJOY!

"Here are you keys... I hope you enjoy this place as much as I did..."

The old, bald man handed Naruto his keys, well, more or less dumped them in his hand, almost regretting it. Naruto had his other hand in his pocket as he juggled the keys he just got;

"Yeah... so do I..."

The man gave one good look around the overly spacious apartment, he was trying to smile but when he did, it was almost very sad. He turned back to Naruto, and shook his hand very shakily;

"Thanks son..."

Naruto wasn't his son; it was just some thing he said. He put on his hat, waddled out into the corridor and pulled at his luggage handle, taking one last glance back at Naruto, his smile turned his lips into a thin line and he began to walk off.

Naruto paused, but brought up the courage to ask;

"Hey old man... why are you leaving this place any way...?"

The man stopped down the hall, but didn't turn around as he said;

"Oh, my niece and nephew have me a nice room in a retirement's home..."

Naruto, feeling odd about this sudden leave, ran after him and took the luggage handle;

"Here, I'll take that for you..." The man smiled thankfully at the blonde;

"Ah, thank you Naruto..."

As Naruto piled the old man's belongings into the trunk of his cab, and stood straight, smiling and clapping his hands together to get rid of any excess muck; "There we go..." The old man couldn't help but smile; That Naruto... always happy with just the simplest of completed tasks...

Naruto then turned around and held out his hand; "Well, I guess this is good bye grandpa..."

He wasn't Narutos grandpa either; they were just names for each other. The older man nodded and shook his hand;

"Thank you Naruto... enjoy the place..."

The cab was off in the distance with Naruto looking after it;

Odd... why was the old man acting so... sad? He shrugged it off and made his way in side the building, his apartment was on the top floor.

He stood with his hands on his waist in side his new place, he liked it like this, but he had to move some of his own furniture in some time. He clapped his hands together suddenly in front of him and said loudly to him self;

"Alright! Let's move some stuff in!" He walked over to the door and opened it; taking out his mobile he flipped it open and leaned against the open door way;

"Hey Shikamaru, say, wanna' come over and help me move in some stuff...? Nah, I just got a new pad, sure, bring every one then maybe we could go out for a burger after wards yeah? Yeah, sure, okay, that's great! See you then buddy..."

He smiled and took a nice deep breath in, letting it out loudly and slowly. Just then, he tilted his head, and looked over his shoulder into the apartment;

"Hnn, strange..."

He turned fully to the open space;

"I could have sworn... nah... I'm loosing my Bento..." He shrugged, and then took his keys out again, tossing them up into the air now and again;

"It was awful nice of the old geezer to..."

His keys got flung into the hall whilst they were in mid air;

"HEY!" He dove after them, just barely keeping on his feet then heard the door slam behind him. He turned back around, his door had shut on his ass, and his keys were thrown into the hall whilst they were in mid air? Okay, Maybe Naruto didn't see nothing, he suddenly gripped his head with both hands and squeaked;

"Oh shit! It's happening again!"

With that, he sped down the hall as straight as a stick;

"M- Maybe I'll just... wait down stairs for the guys..."
When he reached the end of the hall he broke into a run and almost flew down the stairs he was taking the steps so fast and like hell he was going to take the elevator, not when he could get stuck in it and be a sitting duck.

He was leaning against the wall out side the building blocks waiting just like he had planned, one of his hands in his pockets and the other one drumming his leg now and again in a beat. He was tapping his foot off the ground as well, looking from left to right and over the heads of passers by. Suddenly, he got what felt like a bolt of wind travel right up his insides through his stomach to his chest, and he had the sudden urge to move, and so, he did.

Not a second later a plant pot with nothing but soil in it smashed to the ground, right where Naruto was standing too. He swore and jumped up about seven feet to avoid any rick- shay from smashing into his shins;

"HOLY SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!"

Some people had yelped at the sudden smash and started to stare.

Naruto decided to wait in the door way... that... might be a bit safer for him. As he stood leaning against the door frame going right back to the tune in his head, there was a screeching of wheels and loud music could be heard from down the road to his left. His head turned and a smile made its way onto his face, a nice, bright one. Some woman passing by blushed and tried to avoid his face. Naruto, when he smiled, was just a bundle of hot and dazzle a real sight for sore eyes.

A Jaguar Saloon XJS came to a stop just to the left of the door and Naruto, full blown grin on his face now, walked over to it as the door opened. A loud, brunette boy Narutos age jumped out of the car, small red triangular marks on his cheeks, one on each. Naruto grinned and smacked hands with him;

"Kiba ma' man..."

Kiba grinned back and gave a chuckle as he spoke to begin with;

"Heeeeey Naruto, haven't seen you in two days, where the fuck have you been man?!" He pulled Naruto into a bear hug and Naruto could do nothing but try to breathe and smile. He patted him on the back; "Yeah Kiba... good to see you too man..."

Next out of the car was lazy ass him self in all his glory, so Naruto jumped him, glomping him to be exact;

"Yo Shika, ma' other man...!"

Shikamaru gave an exasperated sigh and tried to pry the bouncy, fun loving blonde from his torso;

"Yeah, hi Naruto..." Naruto grinned at him, beaming his dazzle all over him getting it right into his eyes; he looked so god damn innocent. Shikamaru finally gave in and gave him a one arm hug;

"Fine, Heya' Naruto how've you been...?"

To any one else it might have seemed Shikamaru truly didn't care, but that wasn't the case. He gave a short smile and Naruto tackled him again;

"YAY...!" Some times Naruto just couldn't help him self, he had such great friends, he just wanted to glomp 'em all.

Out of the car next was the man eater present in flesh and blood; "Choji...! I would have never thought they woulda' taken you!" He slid over the bonnet and rammed straight into a hug with him, Kiba pulled at his hair but stayed silent at the fact his friend could have scratched his beloved car;

"I've missed you guys so much!" Choji, who was munching on some crisps, muffled; "Hey man, you've only been gone... what... three days?" Naruto looked up at Choji's face, his eyes filling with water so childishly and his voice going all odd and crying like;

"B- But I missed you guys so much..." Choji paused for a moment, really thinking that if he did nothing Naruto would cry, and so, patted his head before rubbing it;

"There- there Naruto... we missed you too... Gaara actually spoke about you the most..." Naruto gasped and looked around like an excited puppy;

"Ah, Gaara, where, is he here...?"

Out of the other side, a red head appeared above the roof of the car;

"I would say I missed you too but that would be a lie..." Gaara, stoic in all his red head mysterious beauty, was clearly visible and noticeable among all of his brunette friends. Naruto yelped before diving over the roof of the car;

"GAARA...!" He had flung him self over the roof of the Jag and wrapped his arms around his emotion passive red head friends' neck. Kiba silently screaming and pleading to the gods that Naruto didn't scratch his car. Naruto rubbed his cheek against Gaara's head;

"Hey Gaara...!" Gaara stayed put, his arms folded as usual, his face impassive as usual, his death aura hanging over his head constantly... as usual. Naruto didn't always see why every body else was so scared of him though, sure, he would feel cold chills emitting from Gaara's form, but he paid no mind, not after he thought that it had gone away.

He opened up his apartment door for Shikamaru and Choji to carry his couch in;

"Yeah...- yeah alright- alright and... you're in... Now just... put it over there... some where..." He was pointing to every corner of his living room, Shikamaru and Choji following his finger until Shikamaru sighed, stopped in the middle and asked;

"Where do you want us to put the fucking couch Naruto...?" His voice was dry and had no humour in it, though Choji must have found some in his words because he was beginning to snigger.

While Naruto thought, Shikamaru blew some rouge hair out of his face, and Naruto finally came to a conclusion;
"Ah, just dump it there... guys, I'll move it later." They dumped it loudly on the floor then went past Naruto;

"Hey man we're going back down to help Kiba with the chair..." They shuffled out of the door and down the hall, leaving Naruto looking at his couch in thought of where to put it;

"Now how will I have you...?" He walked over to it, and pushed it out of the centre and out of view of the door to the left.

"Nah...- Nah it won't do here..." Naruto could then be seen from the door way shoving it over to the right hand side of the room, where there was a muffled curse and some more floor scraping as he moved to shove it under the window.

Kiba came up and knocked on the open door;

"Hey Nar..."

It slammed in his face and so Kiba just stood there with his hand up in knocking position. "Fuuuuck... what was that...?" His swear word dragged on for a while, until he heard a curse, the running of feet and the door opened to reveal Naruto's head sticking out, he looked pretty exhausted.

"Yeah, sorry 'bout that man, the door seems to have a habit of slamming on people..."

Naruto frowned at the door and then opened it up all the way, putting a shoe near the frame. Kiba looked at the shoe for a few moments and looked at Naruto who was walking back to his couch, still in the middle of the floor.

"Oh, yeah, it's to stop it from closing fully... it if slams again..."

Kiba raised an eye brow and said slowly;

"Riiiiight..." Naruto stood in front of the couch with his hands on his hips and half of his mind on his words as he asked in a muttering tone; "So, um, where is Gaara and that...?" Kiba rubbed the back of his head before saying; "Yeah, Gaara is refusing to come near this floor... he says some thing about death, he's really starting to freak me out with all this shit..."

Naruto paused, bent over and hands on the couch arm to push when he looked over his shoulder; "Say what, death?" Kiba nodded and flipped a piece of stray paper over with his shoe; "Fuck yeah, and no he's going on about you should get this place exorcised and stuff... what the fuck does that mean any way? Get the apartment a date or some thing?!"

Kiba was dumbly referring to how he didn't know what exorcising Naruto's apartment meant, poor Kiba, and he's in collage too.

Naruto suddenly paled, causing Kiba to furrow his brow;

"Hey man... you okay... wait, don't tell me you actually believe Gaara...?" He began to chuckle and look back down at his shoes again, only to have his laughing slow down. That piece of paper... he just flipped it over so that the torn picture was facing the floor. He flipped it back over again, seeing the print on the other side before looking back at Naruto.

"Listen dude, you wanna'... come help me and the guys get the rest of your stuff up here?"

Naruto thought about that, he really didn't want to be in here much longer, who knew what this spirit or soul was capable of? Well, so far, he'd seen it could slam doors, and he was hoping that was all it was capable of. He shook his head and stood up. "Nah', I'll stay here, that door might slam again..."

He hinted towards the door with his head as he had put his hands into his pockets again. Kiba shrugged;

"Well, the shoe is there to stop that from happening right...?" He chuckled and nudged the shoe with his foot like it was dead sea- weed or some thing. He whined slightly to stop him self from chuckling, and looked back up at Naruto as he walked back wards out of the door;

"Ah- heh- heh... well, okay then, we is bringing up the bed frames next..." Kiba clapped his hands together, deliberately using his bad grammar as a sort of bad- boy front, yet he couldn't help but notice though, that that piece of damn paper had flipped over again!

Naruto gave a short laugh and smile him self and nodded Kiba off; "Alright..." With that Kiba nodded back to Naruto and turned around to walk forwards.

The door swung suddenly and the force of it sent the shoe flying before it bounced back, and since the shoe was out of the way, the door slammed shut, causing a loud and horrible BANG as it did so.

Kiba jumped a mile and spun around in a ready stance, feeling like he was about to be charged, his hands in his pockets though as they didn't react fast enough. The hall was freakishly dark other than the smallish window at the end, emitting some form of light onto the hall floor boards under it, but that was about it. Almost as soon as the door slammed and Kiba had spun around, there was a loud; "Damn it..." from Naruto's pad, the light stepping of feet, and the door opening again to reveal a sheepishly grinning blonde head.

"Heh... Sorry man..."

Kiba nodded slowly; "Y'know what... Ima'... just go, and help the guys..." He turned around; taking a few slow steps at first then he shook his head and continued walking at a reasonable pace.

Naruto continued to grin after Kiba's form, even long after he had gone out of sight, before stopping and standing straight. He turned to his apartment and looked around like he had done earlier and then muttered to him self; "Alright... let's see how this plays out shall we...?" He clapped his hands together and then rubbed them; "Let's get moving this couch then!"

He snuck over to his couch like it was facing the other way with some body on it and he was going to pounce them, he was sniggering as well, which just made him sound funny. He placed both of his hands on the couch and pushed out his chest; "Ima' put you in yo' place foo'!" With that, he pushed it right back against the wall, stopped and looked at it, then around the small square that was his living room area.

"No, I know!"

He had finally made up his mind, as he shoved it to the middle, turned it to it was facing the right hand wall and stood straight smiling at his little work; "There we go, nice and put. Now... where am I gonna' put my rug...?" He looked around his pad, and smiled. He had always had a lot of rugs, mainly because they were all old family rugs.

He never knew any of his family, other than his grandmother Tsunade and Grandpa Juriya, but they were always else where, Tsunade always following Juriya all over the country to keep her brother out of trouble.

Now that Naruto thought about it, he really did have a lot of rugs; maybe this apartment wouldn't have enough floor space for them all. He only ever used about four in his old place, since that was so small; he had the rest all away in boxes.

Half of those rugs hadn't seen daylight in years; maybe Naruto would take pity on them and put them all out. He would, of course, place the less desired rugs else where, since he did have a few rugs he didn't exactly like the look of.

There were loud shuffling feet from down the hall and a struggled voice called out; "Hey Naruto... help...!" Naruto wandered to the door and looked down the hall, only to see Kiba and Shikamaru trying to haul the WHOLE bed frame up the stairs and along the hall. Naruto fretted before running to help them; "Kiba, I thought you meant you were taking it up in pieces!"

Kiba struggled to say; "What...? No, I said we were taking up the bed frames next... or some thing..." Naruto was now right beside Kiba and helping lift it properly; "Yeah...? Well... any normal... man would... take the bed apart before they... tried carrying it up the stairs!" Shikamaru was pulling it through the door.

"Guys, try paying more attention... to the problem at hand, yeah?!"

Naruto slumped on the floor and sighed, only to get kicked over by Kiba who sat above him on the end of the bed. Naruto sat back up; "Hoi!" Kiba sniggered and patted him on the head.

"Sorry man..." Kiba gave a grin, but Naruto simply huffed and turned away from him. Shikamaru came to the bedroom door and smirked, leaning on the door frame; "Would you two stop playing on the bed and get some more stuff..."

Kiba smiled and bounced off of the bed, he liked being help full, especially if it meant a party or some thing after wards. Naruto simply groaned and fell over on his side, his legs still crossed; "I don't wanna'..."

Shikamaru gave a sigh before walking into the room with his hands just barely in his pockets.

"C'mon Naruto... it's your stuff we're moving in..."

Naruto let out a loud forced groan and let his head fall back as Shikamaru pulled, well, tried to pull him up. Naruto slumped, leaving Shikamaru to drag his small yet heavy form along the ground; "Geez Naruto... you need to lay off the instant Ramen man...!" Naruto huffed and mumbled, his arms being pulled by both Shikamaru and Kiba now; "Oooooh I'm not fat so shut it Shika..."

Shikamaru dumped him at the door and placed his hands on his hips; "Geez Naruto... get up already before I break my back..."

Naruto lay slumped in a heap on the floor, and the heap merely emitted a groan before getting up. Kiba giggled at Naruto's loose and mangled looking form push its self off of the floor.

As Naruto carried a box of rugs up the steps, he was thinking about a lot of different things, they all seemed to just run together into one thought in the end, the old man; How come he seemed so sad...? Sure this place is nice but... well, maybe he lived here for a while and had a lot of good memories...

Naruto shook his head; "Pfft, yeah, every body has to have some form of good memory right... but... he never seemed alone. When I came round some times, sure, he was always happy to see me, and a bit sad when I left yet he seemed like he always had some body else there. I guess I never stayed long enough to find out...

It was true, Naruto only ever went there to deliver some things or what ever, the most he ever did was stand in the door way, maybe once or twice in his kitchen or lounge. He had only actually ever spent a maximum of five... maybe six minutes there? Yeah, about, and sure, he got cold chills every now and then as well, but since the old man never seemed to think any thing of it, he didn't either.

Now he was walking along the corridor to his pad, the floor boards beneath his feet creaking some times, about three of them made a sound the entire time, the rest of the time it was just the sound of his loan shoes clomping along the corridor.

He reached his door, and forced his way inside, thinking that if he didn't push the door hard enough, it might just stay closed, and he didn't lock it on his way out.

As he entered, he peered down into the box and smiled; "Heh, I finally get to use some of you guys..." As he peered back up, his smile fell right off of his face like a stone in water. His couch, it was his couch, it was facing him... again... in the middle of the floor... where it had started off. Naruto had dropped the box, and a cloud of dust arose, but he paid no mind, instead he simply gocked at his couch. His mouth slowly made its way into the shakiest smile ever that was more or less a terrified curve in his lips as he bent down side ways to pick up the box, eyes still on the couch.

"Heh...- heh- heh... yeah, um... I was thinking about putting a rug under the couch any way... saved me moving it my self I see..." His voice was just as shaky as his smile as he made his way over to his couch. He was talking to no one... no one at all, the rest of the guys were down six stories unpacking his lamp or some thing. Naruto walked right up to his couch and stared at it, his mouth slightly open in his freaked out smile. Just standing there staring at the couch facing him seemed to make his heart beat slow down, stopped it from racing and breaking his ribs, he didn't know why though. He was getting warm vibes from his couch, mainly because it was the only thing he knew in this big empty space other than his bed in another room and the box under his left arm being supported by his right hand.

Very randomly, he let out a chuckle that could have broken into many little pieces it was so shaky and freaked out, he placed the box down on the floor in front of the couch to his left.

He stared at the couch... then muttered; "Great... another freaky spirit thing... and I thought I was off the hook..."

But who are you...?

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