Sweet and Sour
Chapter 1: A- date Almost perfect
Gaara sat waiting for the young leaf ninja to show up for their 'date'. A small barley noticeable smirk rested on the red heads lips, though his eyes didn't show the soft bubbling in his heart. He let out a small chuckle as he saw a bowl cut haired boy trotting towards him, looking disheveled in every sense of the word. The boys hair was sticking out all over the place, there was a piece of god only knew what hanging out of his mouth, as he got closer Gaara realized it was a lollypop stick. The lollypop stick was discarded on the side of the road as the boy came closer to Gaara. The leaf ninjas normal attire was changed, which made the red headed boy raise his non existent eyebrows. "Lee?" He said in his normal flat voice.
Lee looked to the boys face, beaming. "I am sorry I am late." He said, rubbing the back of his head, and tapping the tip of his sneakers on the ground. Gaara slowly looked Lee up and down, taking in the new clothes. Long pants that covered the back part of his sneakers, chains clinked softly from the pockets of them. a short sleeved grey t-shirt with the words, 'I am in love with a psycho…DEAL' sat on the boy's thin shoulders. Gaara inhaled sharply at the word love, but his eyes still showed no emotion. Gaara wore his normal clothes, his gourd of sand was strapped to his back. Lee looked up to the red head and raised one of his caterpillar eyebrows. "What's the matter Gaara-kun?" He asked softly, his big eyes gave a look of worry.
That's one of the things Gaara loved so much about the lug, Lee loved him even after their fight at the chunin exam, even after he knew about his demon, it was something he had never had before, he was starting to really like it too. His eyes seemed to soften a bit as he looked at Lee, he smoothed down the black hairs that were stray on Lee's head with a careful hand. "Nothing. Sorry. Its…just your shirt…I like it." He said lightly resting his forehead on Lee's. Gaara saw Lee flush and he smirked slightly. "We better go now." Lee said, obviously flustered and embarrassed. Gaara removed his forehead from the warmth of Lee's, and gave a twitch of his head, meaning he agreed.
They both made their way to the ramen house, Lee's shoulder pressed to Gaara's, his face bright as always. Gaara let himself relax as they walked, his usually tense attitude was replaced by a light airy feel. Though people on the streets still shied away when Gaara and lee came close. When they neared the ramen house Lee's bandaged hand slipped into Gaara's open one, then grasped it softly. Gaara allowed this, he felt his hand lace their fingers together, then clench over the other boys hand. They entered the ramen house, and seated themselves side by side. Gaara asked to sit at a booth for something to have his back against, but Lee had pulled him by the hand over to the stools. "No no Gaara! Don't worry. Were on a date, relax will you?" He had chirped happily. Gaara couldn't deny that he had a huge soft spot for the bowl headed boy.
They ordered the same bowl of ramen, the waiter gave them a sort of odd look since their hands were together under the counter. Gaara was leaning on Lee, his head resting at the base of his neck. His cold, soft eyes closed as he waited for their ramen to come. He could feel lee messing around with his hair, Lee had tendency to do that with Gaara's hair. Gaara liked the changes he had gone through with Lee, it was all pleasant. Lee never judged him, he always gave Gaara good advise on 'loosing up'. Admittedly Gaara hadn't completely wanted to change, but he decided to do that for Lee. Now he was very glad he had. The hurt that had always been in his heart seemed to have disappeared the day He and Lee admitted their feelings. As Lee would say Gaara was his 'someone precious'. To Gaara, Lee was a treasure that he would always protect, no matter the cost.
The ramen came as Gaara was falling asleep, his mouth slightly ajar. Lee smiled and took ramen before placing some in Gaara's mouth, then shoving the rest in his mouth with a huge smile. He could feel Gaara squirm a bit, his head moved and he sat up straight, his eyes half open and the ramen that Lee had put in his mouth hung out. "Gaara you almost fell asleep on me." Lee laughed, poking Gaara's forehead. The red head slurped up the ramen so it didn't fall onto the ground, then looked at Lee with a mixture of so many feelings, all positive. They shared the ramen and took turns using the pair of chopsticks, mostly because they were both to lazy to go get another pair.
After they finished Gaara and Lee argued about who would take the tab. Gaara wanted to treat Lee that day, but Lee kept saying that Gaara should use his money to get some different clothes. They both agreed to split the tab. As they made their way back to Gaara's house Lee whined . "But Gaara-kuuuuuun! Why won't you at least try on some different clothes?!" He said, tugging on Gaara's sleeve. Gaara chuckled, looking at Lee's hopeful eyes. "what so you can check out my butt?" He teased. Lee blushed and frowned a little. "No Gaara, don't be so full of yourself…I just wanna see you in something other then that." His lips were pressed together tightly making him look really silly. Gaara patted his head and smiled faintly, not his old scary smile, this one was genuine. "Ok ok Lee, just don't look at me like that ." He said, little desperately, he hated seeing lee like that, he looked sad. At the red heads words Lee smiled wide and jumped up and down, shouting. "ALRGIHT!!!!!"