A teenage boy walked up the sidewalk towards a large house. He knocked on the door several times before looking at his watch.

'It's still sort of early, he might still be sleeping. At least he was before I came and woke him up!'

The teenager rang the doorbell a few times. Footsteps could be heard coming down a flight of stairs from inside the house. The boy standing outside thought that it would be funny if he rang the doorbell once more. So he did.

"Alright already! I'm coming!"

The door opened, revealing a tired teen boy with his eyes almost completely closed. The boy that rang the doorbell pounced atop the tired teen and they landed with a loud 'thud". He licked his cheek and then lightly kissed the tired teen boy on the lips. The tired teen's eyes opened wide.

"G-Gaara?"

The teen on top nodded. They both sat up.

"Hey Sasuke. I'm sorry if I woke you, but I arrived here in Kohona an hour and a half ago and couldn't stand not being with you for one minute! I would have been here earlier, but Temari wanted me to get some rest."

Sasuke pulled Gaara into a very tight hug.

"I don't care if you woke me up at midnight just to see me! I'm just glad that you're here with me! With you being gone for three months back in Suna, doing Kazekage stuff… Oh I am just so glad that you're back in Kohona!"

Gaara loosened Sasuke's grip so he could hug back.

"I'm happy to be in Kohona too." stated Gaara.

The two boys held hands as they walked up the stairs and into Sasuke's room. Once there they gave each other fiery kisses, no tongue of course. Gaara yawned and Sasuke shortly after.

"I guess we're still a bit tired. Why don't you go into the guestroom to rest Gaara?"

The red head turned to walk out the door when he was turned back around and licked on the cheek.

"Just returning the greeting." Sasuke winked at Gaara. Gaara walked out the door and Sauke sat on his bed.

'I'm ecstatic that Gaara's back in Kohona! We were only together a month and a half before he left for Suna. I must spend as much time I can with him before he goes back to Suna. He looked really tired; I bet he's already asleep in the quietness of the guestroom…Crap! I forgot the guestroom doesn't have a pillow!"

Sasuke grabbed a pillow off his bed and walked into the guestroom.

"Hey Gaara I…" Sasuke froze as he saw a pale, shirtless body sprawled across the bed. Sasuke had never seen Gaara shirtless, let alone so much at peace. Gaara's chest looked soft and Sasuke wanted to know if it was as soft as it looked. So he walked over to the bed and put his hand on Gaara's chest and sliding it down towards the bed.

'So warm…so, so soft.' thought Sasuke. Dropping the pillow he rested his hands close to Gaara's shoulders and leaned a little forward.

'Why am I getting nervous? It's only a kiss; we do it all the time!'

Sasuke placed his lips upon the velvety ones of Gaara's. Suddenly two pale hands shot up and cupped Sasuke's face. Gaara was kissing back, but he wasn't sleeping. They separated for air and Gaara removed Sasuke's shirt to reveal another warm pale chest. Sasuke laid himself on top of Gaara.

Skin against skin, lips upon each other's lips, they were both enjoying each other's presence. Sasuke was twisting his fingers through Gaara's silky blood red hair and Gaara was running his hands through Sasuke's smooth raven locks. Sasuke flipped over so that Gaara was on top. He moved his hands from Gaara's hair to his neck and downwards, resting on the red head's lower back. Sasuke pushed down on Gaara's lower back and then arched his own back so that their hips ground together.

Gaara let a tired groan and flipped over so Sasuke was on top. Though both tired, the raven haired teen hadn't had enough. He kissed his way down Gaara's pale body and back up again. Sasuke nips at Gaara's neck and pinches one of his nipples, causing him to have groan, have shout.

Gaara's eyes were closed tight and he was breathing heavily. Sasuke took this as an opportunity, so he moved down and unbuttoned the red haired boy's pants. Gaara didn't notice anything until he heard a zipper. The jade eye's of Gaara shot open. Sasuke looks up. Gaara shifted so he stared directly into Sasuke's coal eyes.

"Something wrong Gaara?"

"Too…far, okay?" responded an out of breath red head.

Sasuke nodded and re-zipped and buttoned Gaara's pants. Moving up to Gaara, they held hands and stared at each other.

"Sorry," apologized Sasuke, "I shouldn't let my lust get to me."

Gaara kissed Sasuke's cheek, "It's alright. Just remember that we agreed on taking it at my pace."

Sasuke nodded in understanding. The both sat up and leaned against the backboard of the bed.

"Gaara…"

"Hmm…" Gaara closed his eyes.

"I love you so much. You feel the same way right?"

Gaara opened his eyes at the word 'love'.

"You do feel the same way…right?" the Uchiha teen asked again.

The red haired teen sighed before looking into a pair of sad black eyes.

"Sasuke, you know I care very, very deeply for you and that I'd do anything to protect you, but the truth is…"

Gaara looked away. Sasuke took hold of the red head's shoulders and turned him so they saw eye to eye. Gaara had a few tears racing down his face.

"Sasuke, I don't know what love means or is. It's not like I don't want to be with you, because I do want to be with you. It's just that love is a powerful word and it means a lot of things. I haven't figured out what its true meaning is…yet. Right now…to me it's just a word."

Gaara hoped the words he just spoke didn't tear Sasuke's heart. Sasuke looked a little angry.

"So is that all 'love' is to you? Just a silly word? What about our relationship? What about me and my feelings? Is there some bet to get me to say "I love you' and then you break it off? Huh? Well is it?" yelled Sasuke.

Gaara was now sobbing, loud gasping sobs with tears streaming down his face.

"I thought that you'd understand! Maybe you are the one making the bets! Seeing how far you'd have to go before I break! Well, I'm broken! Why couldn't you accept the fact that 'love' is a word I've never usedbefore," sobbed Gaara, "If you can't accept me, then I'll remove myself from your life…FOREVER!"

"Fine!" screamed Sasuke, "Be gone!"

Gaara got off the bed quickly, ran down the stairs, and out of the house. He didn't care who saw him shirtless and bawling his eyes out, he just wanted to end all his pain, starting with getting away from Sasuke. Gaara didn't even notice Kankuro and Temari passing by.

"G-Gaara?" questioned Temari as she took a few steps towrd the direction Gaara went. Kankuro put a hand on her shoulder.

"Let me talk to him."

Temari nodded and Kankuro ran off after Gaara. Gaara stopped on a bridge and climbed up onto the railing. Kankuro saw what Gaara was about to do and called after him.

"Gaara! Don't do it!"

"I must do it! I have to jump! He doesn't care! He doesn't understand!"

"Who? Who doesn't care or understand?"

Gaara still sobbed loudly, "It's too late! Sasuke hates me because he thinks that our relationship is a bet because I can't say 'I love you' to him! Tell him that I'm sorry and that if he wants to know what I think love is to me, to me… Sasuke equals love!"

Gaara jumped off the railing and into the water below.

"Gaara!"

Temari showed up seconds later asking where Gaara went. Kankuro told her that he jumped off the bridge and Temari burst into tears. Sasuke ran up to Kankuro and Temari, shirtless and crying.

"Please tell me where Gaara went! I have to find him and tell him I didn't mean a thing I said to him!"

Temari walked over to Sasuke and poked him in the chest.

"You! Do you know hat you just did! You hurt our little brother so much that he jumped off the bridge!"

"No…" whispered the Uchiha teen. Kankuro moved Temari out of the way and pushed Sasuke down.

"You just couldn't accept the fact that Gaara was only ready for a relationship at his own pace! Then you yell at him because he's not ready to use the word 'love'! He told me that you meant love to him."

"No!" Sasuke ran over to the bridge railing and looked over into the water. He ran over to the over side of the bridge and looked over the railing. The wind picked up and the water rushed faster. Just when the Uchiha teen was about to give up, a flash of red appeared in the wake and then disappeared again.

"Gaara! I'm coming!" Sasuke climbed over the railing and jumped in.

While keeping from drowning, Sasuke swam over to the bobbing red head. He put an arm around Gaara's waist and put one of Gaara's arms over his shoulder. The wind died down making it easier to swim to shore. Once a shore Sasuke shook Gaara's shoulders a couple times. Mouth to mouth was his last choice.

(SASUKE P.O.V.)

"Oh no! Gaara! Wake up!"

I tilted Gaara's head back, opened his mouth, pinched his nose, and breathed in. No response came. I repeated the steps once more. Finally I got some coughs. I was relived when a pair of beautiful jade eyes cracked open and gazed at me.

"S-S-Sasuke?" shivered Gaara.

"Oh my God! Gaara! I don't know what I'd do if I had lost you!" I cried. I pulled him into a tight hug.

"D-Did you p-p-pull me out of the w-water? Why? I-I thought you didn't care."

"Oh Gaara! I can't tell you how sorry I am for snapping at you! Our first fight and we both end up jumping over a bridge in the end. Gaara, take as long as you need to use the word 'love'. I'm so sorry."

(NORMAL P.O.V.)

Streams of tears ran down both their faces as they held each other close.

"I promise to never get angry at you or upset you again," Sasuke vowed.

"Sasuke…" Gaara kissed Sasuke on the lips, "T-Thank you."