Gaara sat silently in his Kazekage chair, looking at a pile of his paperwork, but not seeing it.
He was in a large green paddock, a few gold butterflies fluttering around him, a large fox slept silently near the horizon.
He wanted that fox.
He needed that fox...
Gaara started walking toward it... Jogging toward it... Running for it...
It didn't seem to be getter any closer, he reached out his hand with all his might, his fingers grazed the soft blonde fur of the fox when--
"Gaara!"
Garra jerked out of his daydreams and with widened eyes looked up at his older sister.
"When did you get here?" blinked the Kazekage, rubbing his fingertips together, wanting to feel the silky touch of the blond fox again.
"A few minutes ago." answered Temari moodily. "That's the fourth time i said your name, Gaara. What's wrong with you?"
Gaara gave her a flat look.
"... Okay, what else is wrong with you?" Temari corrected herself, placing her hands on her hips.
Gaara sighed softly, shrugging.
"You're tense?" Temari guessed, walking around the desk and placing her hands on her brother's shoulders.
Gaara closed his eyes and he felt Temari's fingers knead at his shoulders softly.
"Dude! Your shoulders are like rock! I didn't know anyone could be that tense!" gasped Temari, continuing to massage gaara's shoulders.
"That kind of thing happens when you have numerous assassins come at you from when you are five years old." Gaara said softly, leaning back a little as Temari continued.
"Yeah. I guess you're right." sighed Temari, feeling her brother relax under her fingers a little.
"But that's not the reason why you spaced out, is it?"
Gaara looked up at his sister and Temari looked down at him.
"... No."
Temari nodded. "Then what's wrong?"
Gaara looked back at his pile of paperwork and sighed, saying nothing.
"Gaara... You need a girlfriend."
As suddenly as a light-bulb had been blown, Gaara tensed.
Temari's hands relaxed on Gaara's stone-hard shoulders.
"... So you like guys, huh?"
Gaara was silent, then he slowly rose out of his seat and walked around his desk toward the door.
"It's nothing to be ashamed of, Gaara. Just look around. You'll find someone." Temari said softly as Gaara's hand was placed onto the doorknob.
"I have found someone, and they're coming in a few weeks... Then i'll find out if they'll reject me like everyone else." Gaara breathed almost inaudibly, pushing the door open and disappearing down the hall.
Temari watched him disappear down the hall and looked at the paper that was on the top of the pile of paperwork that Gaara was staring at.
Konoha requests a meeting between Suna and Konoha about the peace treaty. We will send the below shinobi to discuss it with you, Kazekage-sama.
Nara Shikamaru and Uzumaki Naruto.
sincerely yours;
Tsunade, the fifth hokage of Konoha.
Temari read that message a few times, scratching her neck absent-mindedly.
'Nara is my man, so, unless Gaara is horrifyingly kinky about threesomes, my guess is Uzumaki!' Temari thought, nodding.
"We'll just find out in a few weeks, won't we?" Temari chimed, skipping down the hall like a princess.
"Oi! Temari! Put on a tiara before someone asks me if stoned or not!" came a shout from a room.
Temari turned around to see Kankurou poking his head out of an ANBU office.
"What's wrong with being happy?" beamed Temari.
"It's the way you show that happiness that puts you on one side of 'insane' or the other. Anyway, why are you so happy?" Kankurou said in a lazy voice, leaning against the doorway of the ANBU office.
"Gaara's getting a b--girlfriend!" beamed Temari.
"GAARA IS GETTING A WHAT!" shrieked Kankurou, his eyes nearly popping out.
A few more heads poked out of other ANBU offices and looked at the pair siblings.
"GAARA IS GETTING A--"
"TEMARI. KANKUROU. BOTH OF YOU, IN MY OFFICE."
Temari and Kankurou shuddered.
The Kazekage, Gaara, stood at the end of the hall, a large mug of coffee in his hand and a mutinous glare on his face.
"It's nothing to be ashamed of, Gaara!" chimed Kankurou happily.
"SHUT U--"
"Yeah! Getting a puppy is so cute!" squealed Temari.
Gaara froze and Kankurou raised his purple eyebrows at Temari.
"A puppy!" squealed one of the ANBU ladies. "That's so damn cute! What kind?"
"Not sure yet!" beamed Temari.
"Gaara, you wanted to see us?" grinned kankurou, getting the gist of Gaara seeming to like the cover story of getting a puppy.
"Yes." Gaara said shortly, two hands of sand grabbing the fronts of Temari and Kankurou's clothes and dragging them off into the Kazekage's office.
Kankurou and Temari stood up, looking at their younger brother who was standing with his back facing them after closing the door behind them.
Gaara slowly turned around and Temari and Kankurou quickly looked away.
His eyes were black with a brown-gold iris.
"What the hell did you think you were doing?" he hissed, shukaku's eyes glimmering.
Temari shrugged a little, refusing to look at Gaara.
"Temari told me you were getting a girlfriend, Gaara. Is it true...?" asked Kankurou timidly, stealing a glance at Gaara.
Gaara was always touchy when he was pissed. Temari and Kankurou knew always to treat him with care whenever he was like this.
Gaara snapped his gaze to Temari who closed her eyes tightly, waiting for the explosion.
"... Boyfriend, actually."
Kankurou and Temari's heads snapped up to stare at Gaara.
Gaara shrugged, his eyes fading back to normal.
"... B... Boyfriend?" gaped Kankurou, turning to Temari who sighed and crossed her arms.
Gaara shrugged. "You're my sibling i thought you would've noticed by now." he said in a matter-of-fact voice, walking around them and sitting at his Kazekage chair, setting his large mug of coffee on the table.
"Well, i noticed you didn't take any notice of girls, yeah.. but i didn't know you were like that!" Kankurou gaped.
Gaara shrugged again, taking a sip from his coffee, his eyes wandering around the room, across his siblings, across his table and resting on the letter he had received yesterday about the peace treaty.
"So, which dude have you got the hots for, then?" asked Kankurou, seeming to get used to the fact that his brother is now gay pretty easily.
Gaara closed his eyes and didn't answer, continuing to drink his coffee.
Temari nudged Kankurou's shoulder and pointed to the letter.
"Oh, okay. You like Temari's dude, what's his name? Shikamaru?"
Gaara choked and sputtered, his mug shattering as he dropped it, sending black coffee all over the floor.
Temari slapped her forehead and groaned while Kankurou watched Gaara choke up black coffee onto his nicely-polished desk.
"W-What... the... FU-FUCK?" choked Gaara, wiping his mouth on the back of his hand, staring at Kankurou.
Temari grabbed the letter and jabbed her finger at the other name.
"... Oh! You like Uzumaki, then?"
Temari slapped the letter down on the table and saw Gaara glaring daggers at her.
"What? he has the right to know!" said Temari, trying not to squirm under the intense glare.
Gaara was silent for a few moments, then sighed heavily.
"Tell anyone and i'll kill you, and I'm not joking this time."
"Aye aye, cap'n!" beamed Kankurou, saluting Gaara and zooming out the door.
Gaara sighed again and looked at the coffee-stained paperwork on his desk silently.
"Want another coffee?" asked Temari politely.
Gaara's eyes floated over to her, giving her a flat look.
"need you ask?" breathed Gaara.
Temari grinned and skipped out of the door.
((TBC. my first GaaNaru fanfiction. a friend of mine loves the pairing. xD more chapters to come!))