sandsibling4: Whoo-hoo! ShikaTema and GaaNeji rocks! Anyways...warnings, warnings, warnings. Take it away Gaara.
Gaara: Unfortunately for you god-forsaken homophobes, there is yaoi. There is also het and bi content. Enjoy. Why am I uke?
sandsibling4: Cause you're so cute.
Gaara: I disclaim myself and everyone else in this fic. Who knows what this crazy fanfic writer will make me do. Don't call me cute.
Tsubaki
CHAPTER ONE
'Hey, Chouji. Where's Shikamaru?' Ino asked her boyfriend of 2 years. Chouji grinned at the blonde kunoichi who had her hands on her waist waiting for an answer. 'Shikamaru went to meet with Temari-san. Temari-san is visiting Konoha again.'
Ino smiled. 'Sigh, with all the time the two of them spend together it's a wonder that there aren't any rumours about them.' Chouji nodded in agreement.
'Haha, the only person who teases them is Naruto and when he does they both always deny it.' Chouji said, laughing. Ino looked at Chouji laughing along and suddenly she stopped to think.
'Hey, Chouji...Don't you think this feels familiar?' said Ino after pondering her thought. 'What is?' Chouji asked. 'Shikamaru and Temari-san, they're just like Asuma-sensei and Kurenai-sensei. You know, one person teases them, like Kakashi-sensei for instance, then they both deny it, and now Kurenai-sensei is mothering Asuma-sensei's child.'
Chouji gaped at his girlfriend's sudden thought. He recovered and chuckled. 'Oh, c'mon Ino, you don't seriously think Shikamaru would be the type to do that right? I mean, if he was with Temari, he would have at least told me.'
Ino cocked an eyebrow at her boyfriend and shrugged. 'I guess you're right. But they hang together too much to be 'just friends'. I mean, Temari is his girl best friend and all but there has to be something between them.'
'I think you WANT something to be between them, Ino.' Chouji said. Ino frowned. 'You know me too well.' she said pinching her lover's ruddy cheeks.
'HEY LOVEBIRDS!' said a very enthusiastic Lee from behind a tree (A/N: Chouji and Ino are at the training grounds so yeah, Lee was behind one of the many trees there)
Ino let go of Chouji's right cheek and looked at Lee who she know knew as Sakura's fiance (AN: Yes, I like SakuLee. Don't kill me)
'Oh, konnichiwa Lee-san. What are you doing here?' Ino greeted the thick-browed jounin (AN: He's a jounin now) politely. 'Nothing much, I was hanging out with Sasuke-kun and Naruto-kun but they went off to greet the Kazekage and his siblings.' Lee said. 'So I just wanted to come and train.' Lee was always training even though he was already so powerful as it was.
'Wait, Gaara and Kankuro, those two scary guys are here?' Chouji was okay with Temari but he still had the shivers with Kankuro and Gaara. 'The Kazekage-sama and Kankuro-kun aren't scary at all now!' Lee grinned.
'Really?' Chouji asked. Lee nodded.
'I think I saw Shikamaru-kun joining Sasuke and Naruto to see Kankuro-kun, Temari-san and Gaara-sama.' said Lee, remembering. 'Are Shikamaru-kun and Temari-san dating?' asked Lee again. Ino giggled.
'Although they act like they do they'd probably deny any implication that they are dating.' Ino said, patting Lee on the back.
'Really? Well, the last time Temari-san was here I caught the both of them kissing.' Lee said, confused.
Ino and Chouji froze at the last word. Chouji locked his arm around Lee's neck.
'Would you please repeat?' Chouji asked. 'Um, okay. Well, the last time Temari-san was here I caught the both of them kissing in a dark alley.' said Lee again. Ino looked as if she was about to do a banzai and shout 'Yatta!'
'ARIGATO, LEE-SAN!' Ino said, hugging Lee. Chouji clicked his tongue.
'I'm sorry, Ino-san! But I love Sakura-san!' Lee said, blushing. Ino let go of the green-spandex wearing jounin and grabbed Chouji's hand.
'We have to go Lee-san! Chouji and I have a lot to talk about!' she said, running while pulling a flabbergasted Chouji.
Lee waved at them energetically, not noticing the pink-haired kunoichi who had just witnessed her best friend hugging her husband-to-be.
Lee turned around, facing the livid girl.
'E X P L A I N .' Sakura plainly stated.
Lee laughed nervously.
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'GAARA! GAARA! You're here!' screamed Naruto tackling his red-head best friend to the floor. Gaara said nothing.
Sasuke glared at the red-head who was currently being hugged by HIS boyfriend. 'Oi, dobe, get off. He's the Kazekage remember.' Sasuke said, pulling the blonde off the redhead and pulling him into a warm embrace. Naruto blushed and struggled in his hold shouting 'teme' repeatedly.
Tsunade popped a vein. 'Hey, stop being so lovey-dovey inside here, would you?' Naruto laughed sheepishly and jumped out of his disappointed seme's arms.
Gaara couldn't help but smirk. Kankuro looked really uncomfortable and Temari was standing next to Shikamaru, both of them sweatdropping.
'Anyways Naruto, Shikamaru, I wanted you all to greet them because I know you know them quite well.' Tsunade looked towards Shikamaru suspiciously. Shikamaru returned her gaze with a bored look.
'So, lessee, Sasuke you're not supposed to be here...' she said. 'So Naruto, you're escorting Kankuro and Shikamaru, you're escorting Temari.' said Tsunade. Naruto gaped at the Hokage.
'Obaa-san! Why can't I escort Gaara?' Naruto whined. 'Yeah! Why can't Kiba or someone else escort me?' asked Kankuro, equally peeved. Temari looked at Kankuro, half-amused and half-shocked.
'I didn't know you were swinging that way, Kankuro...' Temari said grinning. Shikamaru tried to stifle a laugh which was forming at the bottom of his throat but failed miserably. Kankuro blushed through his makeup and mumbled stuff to himself. Gaara's smirk was getting clearer by the moment.
'You can't escort Gaara because I asked Neji to do it.' Tsunade said 'Where is he anyway?' She turned to Kankuro. 'And I could ask Kiba to replace Naruto, if you'd like.' Tsunade said smiling sweetly.
'Please do.' said Sasuke, wrapping an arm around Naruto's waist.
Temari smiled and Shikamaru couldn't help grinning. Shikamaru looked at the blonde kunoichi standing besides him. It was always troublesome to escort her but he somehow found her a lot more tolerable than other kunoichi. Tenten was always talking about feminism which was troublesome for Shikamaru, Sakura was always beating Lee and never really said anything of interest to him, Ino was too lovey-dovey with his best friend Chouji for him to stay around without puking, Hinata was okay but she made Shikamaru sleep.
As Shikamaru was thinking about this, a loud crash could be heard.
Naruto hissed and Gaara stared at the two people who had barged into the office.
'Chouji? Ino?' Shikamaru said, looking curiously at his two team-mates who were lying on the floor.
'Shikamaru!' Ino scolded. 'WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME YOU AND TEMARI WERE KISSING THE LAST TIME SHE WAS HERE!!!' Ino practically screamed at a confused Shikamaru.
Gaara and Kankuro's eyes narrowed in unison. Gaara approached the blonde kunoichi who wasn't his sister. 'You, blonde kunoichi who isn't my sister, what did you just say?' Ino swallowed and repeated.
'Well, someone told me that your sister, Temari-san and Shikamaru were kissing.' Gaara's eyes narrowed even more. 'That's what I thought. Kankuro.' Gaara said, looking to Kankuro. Kankuro nodded.
Shikamaru looked at the two protective brothers towering above him.
'So, pineapple-head, care to explain?' Kankuro asked. 'Where did that come from?' Shikamaru thought. Gaara had stepped in front of his sister and looked at Shikamaru expecting an answer.
Shikamaru sighed.
'Kagemane no Jutsu' Shikamaru murmured.
Kankuro fell to his knees, in the same position as Shikamaru. 'Damn, I went too close.' Kankuro groaned. How embarassing. An elite ninja like him falling for such a simple trick.
Shikamaru got up and in effect, so did Kankuro. He released Kankuro and walked towards Chouji and Ino. 'Now, what were you guys mumbling about?' said Shikamaru, glaring at his two team-mates. Temari followed suit.
'Um, Lee-san was saying that he saw you and Temari kissing...' said Ino, smiling nervously at the blonde jounin and the genius.
'Well, that didn't happen.' said Temari.
'Wait...didn't Kakashi-sensei and Iruka-sensei get together around last month when Temari was here?' Naruto piped up. Everybody turned to Naruto except for Tsunade who was dozing on her desk. Sasuke nodded. 'I believe they did.'
'So?' Ino asked, not getting the connection. Shikamaru sighed.
'Obviously, Lee-kun thought Nara-san was Iruka-sensei. After all, Nara-san and Iruka-sensei have the same hairstyle. And they were in a dark alley.' said a stoic voice. It was Neji.
'Sorry I'm late. I'm supposed to escort the Kazekage-sama.' said Neji, smirking at Shikamaru who mouthed a tired 'thanks'. Ino looked at Shikamaru who was glaring daggers at her and her boyfriend.
'Gomen, Shikamaru, but really...If you were dating Temari it'd be terrible if you didn't tell Chouji or me at least.' Ino apologized. Gaara and Kankuro had calmed down some and Temari was now massaging her temples.
Tsunade had woken up from her nap by now from all the commotion.
'You're all sooo noisy...' she whined. She noticed Neji standing next to Gaara. 'Ah, Neji-kun, you're here. Well then, since you've all got your escorts, please go.' Tsunade said, grinning.
All three sand-nin and their escorts, and Sasuke left.
Chouji and Ino excused themselves a few moments later after being glare at by the godaime.
GAANEJI
As soon as they were out of the office, Neji grabbed the skinny kazekage's arm causing the redhead's eye to twitch and making him blush furiously. Neji smirked. 'Gaara, you're still so innocent. I mean,' Neji whispered into Gaara's ear. 'When I touch you,' Neji raised his hand up to Gaara's fair face. 'even like this,' Gaara almost moaned. 'You still blush like a schoolgirl.' Gaara pushed Neji away.
'Pervert.' Gaara hissed.
Neji grinned and caressed Gaara's soft hair. 'You say that but I know that you like being treated like this.' Neji murmured planting light kisses on Gaara's forehead.
'Baka...' Gaara managed to say before turning into jelly at the Hyuga's touch. Neji smiled and pulled the sand-nin into his arms.
'Gaara, I missed you so much.' Neji said, nuzzling Gaara's bright red hair. 'Me too...' a slight awkward smile graced his face.
'Gaara...I love you so much...' Neji thought. Ever since Gaara almost died, Neji had gotten this weird feelings for Gaara and now he had Gaara.
'Aishiteru...Neji...' Gaara said, clutching on to the taller boy.
Neji smiled at this gesture. 'Aishiteru...Gaara.'
Gaara was all Neji needed.
(AN: Yeah, this is some
SHIKATEMA
Shikamaru took hold of Temari's hand .Temari had tears streaming down her beautiful face.
'Did you see how my brothers reacted?' said Temari, a mixture of anger and sadness in her green eyes. Shikamaru nodded and wiped Temari's tears away.
'Shikamaru, my brothers will kill you if they find out...' Shikamaru nodded. 'I know that but I'm still with you. Because like I told you before, even if it's troublesome, I DO love you, Temari.' said Shikamaru.
Temari looked at Shikamaru.
'Thank you, Shikamaru.' she said, holding Shikamaru's hand tightly. Shikamaru smiled, a small smile.
'I love you...Shikamaru...' said Temari.
sandsibling4: Hohoho, I wonder what the Sand brothers are supposed to find out...
Temari: You know...You're making me suffer because I'm...(sandsibling4 covers Temari's mouth)
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