This popped into my head and I just wanted to type it.

Disclaimer: I definitely do not own Naruto. Though I'd love to have Gaara and Naruto and watch them do things. *Blush*

Help me sleep.

~Liz

Naruto rolled onto his other side. He just couldn't sleep. Ever since seeing Gaara dead two days ago he could hardly close his eyes. He sighed and got up. He wasn't going to sleep anyways, he might as well go watch the waterfall they were camped next to.

He quietly left his tent and walked through the camp. He could barely see someone watching the water. Then, with the weak moonlight, he saw red hair. He sat down beside his friend.

"Can't sleep?" Gaara asked.

"Nope," Naruto answered.

"Me, too."

They were silent as they watched the water.

"Naruto?"

"Hmmm?"

"What does… a kiss feel like?"

"I don't really know," Naruto answered as he rubbed the back of his neck in embarrassment. "The only 'kiss' I've had was when someone knocked me into Sauske."

"Oh," the redhead sounded disappointed.

"Why'd you want to know?"

Gaara was silent for a moment. "I've never had anyone… show any … affection to me. I wanted to know what it feels like."

"No one?" Naruto asked. Surely the boys siblings might have?

For the first time that night Gaara looked over at the blonde. "I've never been hugged."

Naruto shut up. He didn't know what to say to the boy beside him. He decided to say nothing. Instead he put an arm around the redhead's shoulder. He was thankful for the darkness that hid his blush.

Gaara was completely surprised. Of all the things he had expected when his friend sat beside him this was not it!

"Gaara?"

"Y-yes?"

"Don't panic," and with that Naruto, before he could think, leaned in and pressed his lips to his friend's. He just wanted to make the sad look on Gaara's face go away.

Both boys were surprised when a small moan escaped Gaara's throat. They pulled back blushing. Silence once again took over as both boys didn't know what to say.

Gaara's pants felt uncomfortable and he didn't understand why. It had never happened before.

Naruto was shocked. He'd just kissed one of his best friend's that he had realized he loved after the redhead had died. He'd felt so heartbroken when he thought he'd never see the redhead smile. He felt warm and was aware that all he wanted to do was take the boy beside him in his arms and kiss him until he could rid himself of the fear that he'd wake from a dream and Gaara would really be dead.

Gaara seemed to come to a decision and turned to his best friend. "Naruto… please help me sleep."

"How"

"Have sex with me."

Gaara was shocked when one second the blond was right beside him and then the next he was down by the pool. He was puzzled as to what made the blond react like that.

Naruto had run as fast as he could to keep the boy from seeing how his nose had started to gush blood.

"Naruto?"

The blond looked back and saw that the redhead had come up behind him. He turned away again. "Are you sure?" he asked in a choked whisper.

"Yes."

"Okay." Naruto quickly cleaned his upper lip and turned to his friend and soon to be lover. Then he realized something. He didn't know how he'd start this.

They stood in silence, neither knowing what to do. Finally, Gaara spoke.

"Um… how do we do this?"

Naruto raised an eyebrow. He suddenly had a worry eating at him. "G-Gaara… do you … do you know what sex is?"

The redhead blushed. He hated to be ignorant and he knew he was. "Not quite. I've heard Temari say that she always sleeps better when she has sex with Shikamaru."

Naruto couldn't help the laugh that escaped him. Gaara, mortified, started to turn away. "No! Wait! Gaara," he caught the boys arm. "I laughed because I didn't know that Shikamaru and Temari were … together."

"Okay."

"Has anyone ever told you about… kissing and sex and all that?"

"Naruto, I was only meant to be a weapon. Some hardly even consider me human still," Gaara said.

Naruto's eye's softened. "You're human. You always have been. They can't even say anything about Shukaku anymore."

Once again silence took over. This time Naruto broke it.

He took Gaara's hand and led him back to where they'd been sitting earlier. "I'll tell you now, but don't blame me if I start blushing."

Gaara sat close to the blond, attentive.

"Well, when two people really like each other and are … attracted to each other they start to touch each other," Naruto remembered the 'talk' Iruka had had with him years ago. "If things go far enough they have sex. Usually, the girl-"

"Naruto." Gaara interrupted.

"Yes?"

"I don't think I'm… attracted to girls."

"Okay. That means you're gay. It's a little different," Naruto started to blush. "Um, -"

"Naruto."

"Yes?"

"Are you gay?"

"Wha?" Naruto asked, blushing bright red.

"When I asked earlier you said yes. Are you gay?"

'Damn it,' Naruto thought. He was hoping that the redhead wouldn't remember that. "Um, yes."

"Would you teach me?"

"Teach you what?" Naruto asked, nervously.

"Teach me about sex."

"I was."

"No. I mean teach."

Naruto's eyes grew as he realized what Gaara meant. He sputtered for a few seconds. "G-Gaara! You should only have sex with someone you love!"

"Oh." A thought struck Gaara. "I love my siblings, but I don't think I want to have sex with them."

"Right! That's two different types of love. There's the one you feel for family and then there's the one you feel for… well… someone you want to be with for the rest of your life," Naruto said, blushing about what Gaara had said.

"Naruto."

"Yes," the blond was already scared what Gaara would ask.

"I- I think I love you," Gaara said, blushing for the first time since they had started talking.

Naruto was shocked into speechlessness, but inside he was screaming 'YES!'

"When I was dead I was… lonely. But it was worse than how it was back before the Chuunin exams. I was sad. When you came and got me I wasn't lonely anymore and I didn't want to leave you. Naruto, I think that I want to live the rest of my life with you," Gaara said. He looked up at the blond to see what his reaction would be.

Naruto was ecstatic. He kissed Gaara's forehead. "I love you. It's taken me a while to realize it but I have been since we fought."

"Naruto, please, then teach me about sex. Teach me about love," Gaara said, scared of being rejected again.

"Are you sure?"

Gaara looked up into the blondes eyes. "Yes."

The blond slowly leaned down and captured his (finally) soon to be lover's lips once again.

He pulled back a little and rested their foreheads together. "We may want to move to somewhere… more private."

Gaara took his hand and nearly dragged him to his tent, Naruto laughing the entire short amount of time.

Naruto heard voices when he woke up.

"Do you think they did that?" Temari asked.

"Well, it's kind of obvious they did," Kankuro replied.

"But! He's our little brother and the Kazekage! Naruto's from the leaf village!"

"Would you two be quiet! He's actually asleep!" Naruto whispered.

The two sand siblings blushed as they saw that one of the people they had been whispering about was awake. They soon left.

Naruto looked down at the redhead sleeping on his chest. His lover. He kissed the boy's hair and held him tighter as he drifted back to sleep.

Well that's it. Hope you guys like it. Just felt like doing a sweet little oneshot. My mom was in the room while I wrote most of this so it was awkward. I'll get the next chap of The Last Night out soon!

~Liz