Chapter Two – Sunsceen

Naruto stretched like cat, back cracking as his arms raised themselves into the air lifting the thin sheet away from his body. He poked his head out with a yawn and scratched his head, disappointed by the absence of his sleeping cap. It was far too hot to ware it in Suna, but to looked at one of the bed posts pleased to see it still hanging there.

Lee was already out of bed, wearing nothing but his boxer shorts doing one handed push-ups in the corner of the room counting a steady rhythm of numbers "One hundred and twenty two, one hundred and twenty three…"

"Bushy brows you do realise this is a HOLIDAY." Naruto stressed the word saying it slowly and elongated hoping this might get the point he was trying to make across. "What time did you get up…" He peered over at the clock on the wall which told him it was ten in the morning.

"I couldn't sleep past six." Lee said keeping count in his head, "I didn't want to wake you so I started my morning warm up and let you sleep."

"Your training while you're on Holiday?" Naruto threw the sheet off him and headed for the bowl of cool water and splashed some on his face and soaked the cloth to wash himself off from the heat of the night and cool his skin down. It may only have been morning but it was already getting too hot for him to be comfortable.

"Well I can't really call this training, it's only half of my routine training and I decreased the amount of everything by about 50%." Lee said finishing his last few press ups and walking over to steal the cloth from Naruto.

"Whatever." Naruto pulled on some pants and sat there considering for a moment. "Do you think it's against the rules not to wear a shirt?"

Lee paused in in washing his well-muscled left arm. "Ummm I don't think so."

"Good cos I'm way too hot for covering up." Naruto stood and searched around for his deodorant and sunscreen. Thankfully he hadn't burned before he got here, he was however very nicely tanned and lee found his eyes following the paler lines of Naruto's torso as he leaned over and grabbed the sunscreen bottle and started to rub it into his shoulders and chest.

Putting the cloth down he walked over to his own bed and started looking for a pair of trousers. Tsunade-Sama had forbidden him from wearing his suit around the Sand village just as Naruto was not to ware his normal black and orange.

"You're off duty for god sake. Look like it!" she had said before dismissing them.

Naruto smiled when he noticed that Lee was watching him, he had always had a crush on the bowl-cutted boy since he had lost Sasuke. They had been hanging around each other a lot more and training together, thankfully Lee had gotten over his crush on Sakura while Naruto had been training away from the village.

"Hay Lee…mind getting my back for me?" He looked over his shoulder just in time to see a blush creeping up Lee's neck and had to hide a smile. If the idea made him blush he must be in with some kind of chance right?

Lee turned his face a painted picture of calm as he smiled and held out his hand for the bottle. Naruto gave it to him and turned to face the window at the first touch of Lee's fingers against his shoulder blades. He smiled at the slight tickle of the boys fingers near his spine and he leaned forward to curve his back.

Lee worked methodically but he couldn't help the little slips of his hand down his friends sides and the massage he started to administer as he rubbed the sunscreen into the tanned skin. He was bright red unable to think straight. He knew he was into other guys, something he had discovered when he had seen Kiba and Shino kissing in the forest one day. After he had seen that he couldn't look at girls in the same way again.

Naruto was relaxed greatly by the feel of his muscles being worked by Lee's fingers and couldn't help the happy little sigh that escaped from his lips. Lee was pulled back to the present by the sound he looked at Naruto with a smile playing on his lips.

"Lee…?" Naruto said quietly.

"Yes Naruto-Kun?" His finger faltered in their play against the tanned boy's skin.

"Do you think we will need shirts in a restaurant?" Naruto stood straight and turned with a grin on his face.

"Well I…I would have thought shirts would be more hygienic. Why?" lee looked confused.

"Because I want you to come out with me tonight for a meal or something." Naruto said messing up Lee's hair before bounding out of the door with a shout of "Race you to Gaara's office!"

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Lee won the race hands down, despite Naruto's head start. In fact Lee had to wait five minutes for Naruto to catch up, something that Naruto tried to shrug off even though Lee teased him very gently about it as they climbed the stairs towards Gaara's office where they were expected to have a nice breakfast organised by Temari.

There were two sand Shinobi standing guards at the door to the Kazekage's office. They inspected the youths in front of them with some suspicion as they inspected the Identification, not being used to the leader of the village receiving half-naked ninja at lunch time.

When they were forced to conclude that the two in front of them actually were on the Kazekage's schedule for this time, the taller of the two pushed the door open and waved them through. The leaf ninja walked into the office and looked around with interest.

Potted plants stood by the windows; the large desk in front of it was covered in papers and scrolls and also, most probably put there by Temari, a large crystal bowl filled with fresh fruit. The walls where covered in historical artefacts and shelves which held more files and important documents.

Gaara was sitting behind his desk, aquamarine eyes skimming over the black line going up and down the scroll. He looked up without his expression changing as he watched the two shinobi looking around. Rolling up the scroll he had been reading, he lean back watching them eyes following one then the other.

"Wow Gaara your office is huge!" Naruto said landing into a chair on the other side of his desk.

"It is an adequate space." Gaara said still watching Lee who was inspecting a vase on one of the shelves.

Naruto picked up a red apple and threw it at the back of Lee's head who spun on his heel and caught it grinning and taking his seat next to Naruto biting into it leaning against the blonde as he munched on the sweet fruit.

"So Gaara, what are we doing today?" Naruto asked with a sunny smile.

"I wanted to ask you both a question." Gaara said very slowly.

"Sure what do you wanna know?" Naruto asked

"Would you both kiss me?" Gaara said without any emotion at all.