Warning: This contains yoai/Shounen-ai/Boy x Boy

Disclaimer: I own none of the characters or anything in this story, well, maybe the odd thing I make up, example: plot line, except pieces of the storyline the beginning of the dialogue. It all belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and whichever publishing company he uses, and the magazines it goes into.

A/N: this is my first FanFiction, so I hope it turns out right ^-^ also you have to have read up to chapter 279-280 of the Naruto manga or episode 22 of Naruto: Shippuden. I noticed not many Naruto x Gaara yaoi is from Gaara's point of view, mostly Naruto or third-person, so I thought why not let Gaara have the spotlight.

Chapter: 1

The light flooded into my vision, temporarily blinding me. When it passed standing over me with a friendly smile on his face was my blond haired saviour.

"Welcome back, Gaara," Naruto stood a foot from my face. I was shocked for a few moments, wasn't I supposed to be dead; killed by the Akatsuki. It was all so confusing. I stared at Naruto hoping for the answer.

"…Naruto…," I looked around confused, "This is." He was smiling softly and happily.

"Everyone…I'm saying everyone came to save you!" His smile brightened and he glowed with joy.

"You put us through a lot." Even if he said it like a complaint I knew he was joking.

I stared at the people around us, then at the limp body in Sakura's arms. Naruto saw my distress.

"She's passed out from tiredness now, but she'll be fine when she gets back to the," But he was cut off.

"No." Naruto looked confused at Kankuro's interruption.

"What d'you mean be 'no'?" Naruto asked Kankuro.

"That was no medical ninjutsu, it was a tensei ninjutsu, Chiyo is dead." You could hear the sadness in Kankuro's voice, "A ninjutsu that restores life… In exchange for the users own…"

"…What… are you saying?" Naruto was starting to grasp the situation, Chiyo was dead. It was quiet all around.

"People tried to research and develop a jutsu to give life to puppets…Chiyo led that, at one time in the Sand's puppet squad." Naruto stared in horror at Kankuro, haunted by his words.

"Before experimentation, it was designated a forbidden jutsu, and sealed away…She worked out a theory behind the jutsu but… In the process…saying that the risk of the jutsu was too high." Naruto looked off for a moment, probably remembering something that had happened while I was out of this world.

Sakura held Chiyo closer and Silent tears fell down her face. Her brother, Ebizo, stood over her dead body sullenly.

"Such a peaceful expression she has now…I keep expecting her laugh out loud and say that…hmm… 'I'm just playing dead'."

"Yes," Sakura whispered quietly, fighting back a full-out cry. I stared at her for a while.

"Naruto, you really are a mysterious person, you have the power to change people," Temari said to Naruto.

"Chiyo entrusted the future to you and Gaara… A fitting last moment for a shinobi." Kakashi said as he walked closer to Naruto.

"She wasn't the kind of person who would do something like this for Gaara…Chiyo was always saying how she didn't care about the future of the village." Temari said as she watched her newly alive brother.

"Yeah.. I understand the old lady's feelings for sure now, the same as the third hokage's…yeah." Naruto said softly, his voice quivering.

"That's right…" Said Kakashi. I started to regain my senses and got up, but Naruto grabbed my arm to assist me so I leaned on it. I started to stare at his light cerulean eyes for a couple seconds then, and I don't know why I did it but, I kissed him.

His lips were soft and smooth. His eyes widened for a second and then he relaxed. The worlded around me lulled and went quiet. I could feel his warmth and kindness in his touch. I wanted to feel special to him, he was the only one who I could ever hope to understand me. I wrapped my arms around him, and after a short second he followed. We held each other closely. Our lips parted but I was still wrapped in his arms. His embrace was warm comforting.

Then reality started to step in, I heard someone gasp, not just in shock, but I could hear the disgust in the voice. I let go and Naruto did the same. I looked around and saw the faces of disproval. The crowd went quiet except for a few whispers circulating through the crowd.

My eyes widened as I realized what I had done, and even more so that Naruto had gone along with it. I looked over to my brother and saw his face, he looked confused but also disappointed. I looked over to Temari and got the same expression. I felt shunned under the eyes of the people around us.

I looked to Naruto and Saw that he was looking around at the surrounding crowd. I felt guilt well inside me, I had just gotten my village to accept me, but more importantly Naruto was so close to being accepted by his entire village. I wanted to cry, I had destroyed Naruto's chance of being accepted. I turned toward Chiyo for a second, thanked her quietly under my breath then ran.

The wind rushed past me, and my body was stiff after having my tailed beast pulled from my body. Wait, that means I'm no longer a jinjuriki, I no longer have any reason for being shunned, or had at least until I ruined that. God, why am I so stupid. I felt hot tears running down my face as I leapt through the tree's escaping the eyes of those who ridiculed, but more importantly, the one who would be ridiculed.

I could hear the footsteps of someone foolish enough to try and follow me. I didn't dare turn back to look and see who my pursuer was. I could hear by the way he was breathing that it was a 'He'. I kept going for as long as I could but my body wouldn't let me go long so I tripped and plummeted toward the forest floor.

I heard a gasp behind me and then I felt someone catching me. He held me in his arms, panting hard.

"What were you thinking, whatever, I'm just glad you're safe." Naruto panted as he held me in his arms. I couldn't look him in the eyes. There was an akward silence between us, then Naruto broke the silence.

"Gaara, why did you run away?" Naruto looked at me with his big, blue, confused eyes. I looked up at them and felt tears running down my face.

"I'm sorry…I am so sorry… Naruto…please forgive me…I…I ruined it… your chance at acceptance… from the villagers…I'm sorry." I pleaded to him through blurred eyes. He held me closer to him, my head buried in the base of his neck.

"It's alright, don't cry. I don't care about the villagers, this might sound corny, but the only acceptance I will ever need is yours. So please, stop crying, it ruins your good looks." He smiled softly at me.

I looked up at his face and a small smile broke out of my usual blank, emotion-less face. He sat down at the base of the tree; I was still sitting on his lap. He put his hand on my cheek and looked into my eyes. His eyes were full of feelings stronger than friendship. I think it was what people called love.

I placed my hand on his cheek in return and pulled his lips to mine once again. His lips were soft against mine and the pleasure I got from kissing him was the greatest thing to happen to me, I was new to it, but even I, suprising as it is, know how to kiss.

Our lips parted and I stared deeply into his eyes. The blue shone brightly against the colors of the forest. I stared at them, our eyes are both blue, but somehow, his contain more life in them, they shine brightly with his hope and dreams, but also contain the hardships he has undergone.

We both knew how hard the lives of being a jinjuriki were, and how people reacted toward the demon host, directing their hatred toward the person who hold the demon in their bodies. We both could understand each other's sufferings and the pain we had felt growing up. I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes as I started remembering what had happened in my childhood, the kids who I had ones saved their ball from the height of the roof, the assassins my father had sent to end my existence when he found out he couldn't control me, and… the night I killed my uncle, the only family who I thought had loved me.

I pulled myself closer to Naruto's neck and wrapped my arms around his neck, silently crying into his shoulder. I could feel the fabric dampening as I continued to sob. Then I realised that I could hear more sounds of people coming closer, heading in our direction. I looked over in the direction of the sounds and the first person I saw to land on the ground was my sister, Temari. She had replaced the disappointed look from earlier with a relieved look.

"I finally found you, what do you think you're doing running away like that?" \She put her hand behind her head then her eyes widened as she saw where I was sitting. Her face went red as she saw how close I was holding Naruto in my arms.

The next to show up was Kankuro.

"Gaara, what do you think you're doing?" and just like Temari he instantly noticed the lack of gap between Naruto and I.

" I'm sitting, and what are you doing here anyways, I saw the way you looked after I…uhmm… I …I kissed Naruto, there I said it. Are you happy?" they saw my red face and the remnants of the tears on my face.

"Gaara, I'm sorry, we're sorry, I just don't know how I feel about boys with boys, or girls with girl as a matter of fact. I just think everyone was shocked at how there leader's, uhmm, how do I put this, a homosexual? Right? Well, when you saw our reaction, I guess your reaction makes sense, so, I'm sorry." Temari started walking forward but was stopped when someone put their hand on her shoulder.

"Naruto, It's not that I'm against it but don't you think by doing this you'll be adding insult to injury," Kakashi warned from Temari's and Kankuro's side. I saw Naruto's and his eye's meet, there was friction in the air.

"What do you know, none of the villagers understand me, so what makes this any different? Nothing, Gaara is the only one who has any chance at ever understanding me, so why must they ridicule everything I do," Naruto's face was strong, but I could tell he was having just as hard of a time as I was. More people slowly showed up and I got off of Naruto's lap and onto my feet. I reached out my hand and pulled him up.

"Naruto…" Kakashi looked at him with confusion and pity. Kakuro stood there pondering on what he should, and shouldn't, say.

"Gaara, I'm all for 'same-sex-relationships' and all, but it feels different with family. And think about you responsibilities as Kazekage, the villagers might not respect a gay Kazekage as much as one who's not? Not everyone is as accepting toward that kind of stuff. Just don't screw up what you tried so hard to get." I could feel Kankuro's sincerity in his words.

Then Naruto put his arm around my waist and I felt my face turn red, which was quite obvious with my whiter-than-sour-cream skin. Naruto held me tighter; he probably wanted to comfort me.

"If the villagers are against a Kazekage like that, well, then I guess I won't be the Kazekage anymore." Their faces were shocked. "I'm serious, if they're against it then I won't be Kazekage, I'll leave the village, permanently, and stay with Naruto in the Leaf village."

"You don't have to do that Gaara, if you leave, who'll replace you, you're the strongest ninja in the Sand village. If you leave what will happen to the people?" asked Temari. I hadn't considered the people, which, recently, was all I ever did.

"I don't know…I just don't know, okay?" I looked at her pleadingly. Then Sakura came out of nowhere.

"What do you guys think you're doing fighting? Someone just died and you've totally forgotten about that. Chiyo just sacrificed her life so you could live; she gave up what little time she had left for you. And you, I might not be the most open-minded person, but aren't you family? You should accept him no matter what happens. I just can't believe what happened. How can you just stand here, one of the famous siblings of the Sand has just died, and you're just going to forget about it mere seconds after her death." Sakura was crying. I realized what she meant by that .

"Sakura right? I'm sorry." I jumped up and landed on a platform of sand and flew toward the body of Chiyo. When I got there, no one was there, they had left her body alone because of my selfishness. I jumped down from my floating island of sand and it dissolved the instant I jumped off.

I slowly walked over to the silent body lying on the ground. She did look peaceful with that expression on her face, like all the weight on her shoulders was gone. She had been a selfish lady when she was alive, or at least that I know of. But, Naruto must have done something to change her mind like that. She would never have done something like that.

But Naruto had done the same thing for me. I used to be a psycho-path whose purpose in life was ending others, that is until I was defeated by Naruto. He had told me that he was my friend and that I was the only one who could understand him. I wanted to feel special to him, I loved him more than I thought I could love another human being, let alone another member of the same sex.

I looked down at her still body and kneeled in front of her. I put my hands together in front of my hand and prayed for her, thanking her for what she did and hoping she had a safe trip to heaven. I felt a hand on my shoulder and looked up at Naruto familiar face. He sat down beside me and did a small prayer for her. heher up gently and held her body gingerly in his arms I watched and knew what he was doing.

We left before the others could show up.