Quick Author's Notes: This is a request from INSANITY411. She requested a Gaalee story, so here I am! 8D It's told in Lee's POV, from the first person. Hmm, this may seem a bit limey because it involves someone's hand under another guy's shirt, but…it's just fluff, okay, they don't do anything :D You can either boo or cheer now…
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We lay side by side, just breathing. Our hands were clasped together under the warm covers. His smaller body was pressed against mine. My face was buried in his untidy scarlet hair—he smelled of sand and roses. It was a lovely smell.
Gaara leaned his head back into my neck. "Lee..." Oh, how he whispered my name so sweetly!
"Yes, Gaara-sama?"
He just shook his head and a faint smile graced my lips. Gaara-sama's actions were sometimes hard to understand; he often did strange things without giving any sort of reason. Like now, as he grasped my muscled arm to wrap around his slender, pliant waist, slipping my hand to rest on his stomach. He intertwined his small, pale fingers with mine. I glanced at him quizzically.
"Uhm…Gaara-sama?"
I saw Gaara's magnificent jade-green eyes dart around uncertainly a bit, before he turned his head and shyly gave me a small, sweet kiss. Blushing, he quickly looked away. I just chuckled—he looked so adorable!—and stroked his soft skin and ran my bandaged fingers through his hair. His shoulders slumped as he relaxed into my gentle touch.
"L-Lee?" Gaara murmured nervously. "Lee…I-I think I might like you…or love you…"
I could sense how terribly strange it was for him to say that. In turn, I just cuddled his little body closer, and in my mind I set a new life goal for myself. One that I would make sure to do everything in my power to complete:
I will make my Gaara happy, and never again will words like "love" seem strange to him. And if I fail to reach my goal, my punishment will be…
I looked down at Gaara-sama; I was surprised to find that he had closed his eyes and was sleeping, his breathing calm and rhythmic. I smiled and my lips brushed his hair. I watched him sleep for a little while before snuggling into the blankets and pillows, preparing to fall asleep myself.
No punishment I can think of would be greater than letting myself fail in my quest to make my beautiful, wonderful Gaara truly happy.
Author's Notes:
Well, INSANITY411, I hope you liked it :D Took me the last ten minutes of How I Met Your Mother, two full episodes of The Class and Two and a Half Men, and the first forty-five minutes of CSI: Miami to completely write this, including all the revising. OMG, YES, I actually revised and edited something I wrote :O