Title: Stolen Kisses

Author: Rosekk2000

Fandom: Naruto

Rated: NC-17/M

Pairing: Gaara/Kei(OC)

Summary: One crazy day, one stupid dare, and a life time of love. After all even a KazeKage needs love right????

Disclaimer: Not mine, never was never will be.

Authors note: denotes a change in perspective. (IE: Gaara to Kei and vice versa)

Part 1

Gaara glanced up at the clock on the wall. The large numbers read 12:25 then he glanced at the window and shook his head. He had promised himself he would stop indulging this stupid fantasy and yet he couldn't wait until 12:30 rolled around. Would she be there looking up searching he imagined for a glimpse of him in the window.

He knew it was a stupid idea first of all it was unlikely she could even see him from that far away besides why would she or any other girl be looking for him. Still she had been there every day for the last month staring upward at 12:30 sharp as if looking just for him and then she would wave. He liked to pretend it was him she was waving to but he knew full well she most likely had a friend or family member working in the building and it was them she came to see to wave at every day.

The long hand slipped all too loudly downward onto the 6 opposite the small hand. 12:30 and despite himself Gaara rose and walked smoothly to the window looking down into the square below. It didn't take him long to spot her since her long golden locks all but glowed in the sunlight. On cue she turned her face upward and it seemed she was staring right at him, he imagined a soft smile on her lips and then she waved.

Kei ran into the square her breath coming in great heavy gasps. If she didn't hurry she would be late and she would miss her chance. She stumbled to a halt and glanced upward just as he moved to the window. Relief flooded her she hadn't missed him.

She liked to pretend he was looking down just at her. Kazekage Gaara checking to make sure she, and she alone was safe. She knew it was a silly girlish dream after all he was a very important man and she was just a lowly chunin and not even a very good one at that.

Then there were her friends they wouldn't understand just like her parents hadn't. Kazekage or not most of them were still afraid of him just as her parents had been all those years ago.

She remembered well the day she had tried to go play with the sad boy sitting all alone watching the others play. Her mother had nearly shaken her head loose from her body. 'He is very dangerous Kei if you're not careful he will kill you. You make sure to stay as far away from that Gaara as possible.' Her mother had warned. She had thought in was silly then and she still did

Smiling upward she waved imagining that he saw and smiled back.

"What are you doing?" Kankurou' voice carried loudly into the room causing Gaara to step a little too quickly away from the window an odd flush rising to his pale cheeks.

The older boy moved quickly to the window and looked down spotting a small group of girls looking upward from the square. Kankurou allowed a sheepish grin to cross his painted face. "Were you actually staring at girls?" he teased something only a few years ago he wouldn't have dared to do.

"No." the Kazekage replied a little too quickly making his older sibling smile wider.

"You were. I would never have guessed it. Which one is it?" he asked

"None of them I wasn't staring a girls. I don't have time for that." He snapped defensively.

"Kankurou don't go pissing him off." Temari said from the doorway.

"To bad that blonde looks like she could be really cute." Kankurou said ignoring his older sibling while watching Gaara' face for any telling signs but the other boy just gave him a neutral stare.

"Kankurou" Temari snapped again "He has work to do and so do you if you don't mind?" she said trying to usher the older of her two siblings out the door.

"Yeah I saw what kind of work he was doing." Kankurou managed to squeeze in one last jab before Temari pushed him out.

"I'm sorry Gaara he wasn't…" she started to explain but he cut her off with a simple wave of his hand.

"It's okay Temari, he was teasing me. Isn't that what siblings do to one another?" he asked glancing out the window once more rather than at the young woman across the room. She was walking with her friends her back turned to him long blonde hair gleaming in the sunlight. He gave a heavy sigh and looked to Temari "I can't make the people of the village stop fearing me as long as my own siblings do." He finished softly.

"Old habits die hard. I'll try harder little brother." She said smiling "And he still doesn't need to go around pissing you off." She added for good measure

"What are you doing?" a tall slender dark haired girl called to her from across the square.

Kei looked away and spotted Ren coming her way, Ami a shorter stouter girl with short red hair followed close behind her. 'damn…' she thought to herself as she glanced back upward to find the Kazekage gone from the window above.

"She's looking for her boyfriend… you know Kazekage Gaara." the shorter stouter girl sniped from behind her friend.

"What?" Ren asked a silly smile on her face.

"Didn't you know Kei has a crush on the Kazekage?" the shorter girl said with a giggle.

"I do not." Kei protested her cheeks flaming.

"Really then why is it you come here every day to stare at him?" the girl asked pressing the issue.

"Come to think of it you do disappear every day at this time and well if you could see your face right now." Ren agreed

"I don't have a crush." Kei snapped embarrassed to the bone "It's just that… well I'm curious."

"About what? What it would be like to kiss him." Ami teased making Ren frown.

"Okay yuck… he is sooooo creepy."

"No he isn't" Kei snapped then realized her mistake "I mean I think he's kind of sad… you know lonely. He's always been lonely." She mumbled her voice going soft.

"Hello how many people has he killed." The other girl asked.

"That was before… he protects as all now. You should be grateful." Kei snapped

"You're not afraid of him them?" Ren asked.

"Why should I be?" Kei replied refusing to back down from the challenge.

"Well if you're so brave then perhaps you would like to prove it?" Ren challenged

"How?" she asked her eyes narrowing uncertain just were this was going.

"Oh, I know… You like him so much why don't you steal something from him a souvenir of some kind?" Ami interject enthusiastically.

"I'd really rather not go to jail thanks." Kei said rolling her eyes at her friends.

"I know something they wouldn't put you in jail for stealing?" Ren said smiling evilly.

"What?" Kei asked a tight ball of nausea forming in her stomach.

"A kiss." Ren said in triumph so certain was she that Kei would turn and flee from the very idea.

"But that's silly even if I did it how would I prove it?"

"Oh I think if you managed to steal a kiss from the Kazekage it would manage to make itself known to the entire village. That is if you made sure someone… anyone saw it."

Kei stood there staring at her friends her stomach twisting in wild knots. She wanted to turn and run away as fast as she could and never look back, but she had never been a quitter.

"Fine… one kiss it is." She said with self confidence she didn't feel as she turned and headed out of the square her two friends following close behind.

TBC…