Okay. I had a great idea for turning this into an actually long story. So, I don't know if I can, but I have to change the title because it was going to be a oneshot. Bah. Okay.
So. I had LOADS of people adding it to favourites and story alert, but only had 5 people actually reviewed. So, thanks to those five people. Because of them, I decided to get the next chapter up.
Okay, so, I'm sure no one actually read that. Let us begin :D.
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"It's me and Kankurou." It was his sister.
"We just got back from a mission," Kankurou said.
Why did he have siblings again? He couldn't let them see what was going on. Especially as they didn't know about him and Naruto. Temari would probably shout at him for hours for doing such things. Kankurou would probably say something along the lines of 'that's my little bro' he shuddered. That thought was almost enough to make his member go limp. Neither of them would ever, ever, ever… ever, ever, ever. EVER. Let him live it down.
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The handle turned, but before the two siblings had the chance to enter, Gaara had hurried his sand to slam against the door.
"Oi!" Temari yelled, banging on the door. "Let us in. You may be the Kazekage, but that won't stop me kicking your arse."
"Calm down," Kankurou mumbled.
"I'm… busy." Gaara's voice broke halfway through the sentence as he tried not to moan. Naruto hadn't slowed down and wasn't giving Gaara any leeway to talk normally.
"What's the matter? What's going on in there?"
This couldn't be happening. When the hour was up, and he had that picture in thousand of tiny pieces, Naruto was going to pay big time.
The blond lifted his head. "Let them in," he said, trying not to laugh.
"Are you crazy?"
Naruto stood and grabbed the Kaze robes, before throwing it over Gaara's head. A look of pure shock and confusion ghosted the red-head's face, before Naruto dragged back onto his leather chair in front of his desk. Naruto hid under the table.
Sighing, Gaara dropped the sand from the door.
"Why the hell did you lock us out?" Temari threw the door open.
"I told you I was busy," Gaara said in his usual stoic voice as he went to pick his ink pen back up. His eyes widened slightly when he realized it'd been knocked to the floor and his papers were all over the place.
"What's happened in here?" Kankurou asked as he looked around the office floor.
"Nothing."
"Did you get frustrated with your paperwork again?" Temari asked, putting her hands on her hips. "I've told you before, Kazekages don't have tantrums and throw their papers around the room."
Gaara heard a stifled laugh coming from under the table. He pretended to cross his legs so he was able to give a quick boot at the person crouched around his feet.
Naruto rubbed his chin and growled silently. He wasn't going to let Gaara get away with that. He lifted the kaze robes and engulfed the semi hard member in front of him.
"Ugh." Gaara doubled over onto the table. His head almost banged the surface as he gripped the edge of the wood.
"What's the matter?" Temari's eyes flashed with worry as her brother winced slightly.
"Nothing," he mumbled.
The female ninja approached the desk and put a hand over her little brother's head. "You're burning up," she cried, grabbing his arm. "Come on, I'm taking you to the medic room.
Gaara pulled his arm back before she could pull him to his feet. "I'm fine."
"No you're not," she said, noticing his fingers digging into the corners of the table.
"I said, I'm… fine." Gaara swallowed hard. He could feel his body begin to shake. It took all his strength to keep himself completely still.
"What's that?" Kankurou asked as he headed for the picture on the windowsill.
"Nothing!"
Both his siblings stopped in their tracks. They'd never heard Gaara shout like that before.
"Woah," Kankurou mumbled. "Okay, I was only asking. It looks like-"
"Get out!" Gaara shouted. "Just get out!"
"Jeez," Kankurou said. "We're going. Don't get so touchy."
The door slammed, covering up the sound of Gaara's throaty moan as he was forced over the edge. He narrowed his eyes as Naruto climbed from under the table, wiping his mouth.
"Oh, my god." He laughed. "I actually thought she was going to drag you to the hospital then. That would've been hilarious."
"You wouldn't have lived long enough to find it funny," Gaara mumbled.
There was a short silence in the room.
"You have tantrums?… Woah." He just about managed to dodge the flying sand.
Gaara stormed over to the windowsill and picked the picture up. It hadn't been an hour yet, but now he had it, he wasn't letting it go.
Naruto laughed. "Do you really think that's the only one?"
"What?" Gaara paused before he could rip the picture into tiny pieces.
"I have-" His back slammed against the wall.
"Where's the others?" Gaara's eyes were on fire. He was ready to rip his boyfriend limb from limb.
"I was joking," Naruto squeaked as the sand wound around his neck.
"Where is it?"
"My… back pocket. Ugh." The sand flipped him over so Gaara could get the picture.
The red-head's eyes widened. This wasn't a picture like the other one. When had Naruto taken this one? Did the boy go around taking pictures of him?… That was kind of stalkerish. In the picture, he lay asleep tucked up in a blanket. He sighed. It wasn't really blackmail material, so he would allowed the blond to keep this one. He put it back in the boy's back pocket.
"It hasn't been an hour yet," Naruto mumbled weakly as he dropped to the floor.
Gaara glared at him, before putting the picture down on the desk. Naruto grinned and went to pick it up.
"Sand coffin," Gaara growled, engulfing the picture in sand and smashing it into thousand of tiny pieces.
"Uh…" Naruto was stunned as his hand still stretched out for the picture.
Gaara never imagined he'd ever have to use his sand coffin for something like a picture.
"Wasn't that a bit extreme?" Naruto mumbled as he watched the tiny pieces float to the floor.
"No. And if you ever do that again, next time, that'll be you."
"Fine," Naruto mumbled. "But… Woah!" His back hit the floor as sand wrapped around his ankle and dragged him after Gaara toward the door.
"Wait? What're you going to do?" he cried, clawing at the floor.
Gaara smirked. "I haven't decided yet, but it's going to include my sand, your arse and a LOT of blood."
"Wait!" Naruto cried as he was dragged down the hall toward Gaara's bedroom. "Stop!"
They past Gaara's siblings.
"What was that all about?" Kankurou asked Temari as they watched Naruto claw the floor for his life as Gaara dragged him down the hall.
Temari put a hand to her head and sighed. "I find it's best not to ask."
Kankurou sighed and began to walk down the hall in the opposite direction. "I'll go alert the medic nins."
(Okay. You can probably tell that I wanted to speed past the lemon bit. So that was a bit crap. But like I said above, if anyone actually read it. I want to turn this into a proper story, so, I wanted to ACTUALLY get to the story bit. Heh. Sorry about the crappiness. Okay, now to carry on.)
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The two teen boys lay in the kingsize bed with a silky red duvet curled around them. Neither one was asleep, but both extremely exhausted. Gaara laid his head on his boyfriend's shoulder, and Naruto wrapped his arm around the boy to pull him closer. Blond and red were such clashing colours, but in this case, the tones fit perfectly.
Gaara watched his fingers run around the blond's chest, until Naruto reached down and clasped his hand around the thin digits to bring them up to his mouth and give a little kiss.
"I thought you said you were busy," Naruto said.
Gaara sighed. "I am, and now I'm going to be up all evening finishing off that paperwork. Not to mention sorting out the papers which you knocked on the floor."
"Sorry about that." Naruto sat up. "I should really get going. Grandma will have a fit if I'm too late. It's still a three day trip back from here."
"You just got here." Gaara reached out for the blond's arm to stop him from getting up.
Naruto looked down at his red-haired lover before sighing and cupping the boy's cheek. "I know… but I have to report back as soon as possible. I'm on my way back from a very important mission."
Gaara nodded and moved his head to lose the hand cupped around his face. "Will it be another couple of months before I see you again?"
The tone in Gaara's voice stopped Naruto in his tracks. He saw the loneliness in the other boy's eyes. He wanted to stay, but he knew he couldn't. "I don't know, Gaara. Things would be a lot easier if you'd agree to be open about our relationship."
"You know why I can't," Gaara said. "It's against the law in Suna."
"You are the law! Just abolish that damn tradition."
"I can't."
"Why not?"
"I," Gaara looked away. "I can't do it. People have only just started acknowledging me. They look at me now without fear in their eyes. If anyone found out I was… was… with you. Especially someone from another village." (AN: I know, I know. Just go with it.)
"If people hate you for something as stupid as that, then you shouldn't care what they think. Your brother and sister will still be there for you, and so will I."
Gaara shook his head. "Temari won't like it, but she won't hate me. Kankurou would disown me as a sibling." (AN: again, go with it. I'll make it obvious why this is the law very soon.) "You're already going to be a couple of hours late back now anyway… a few more couldn't hurt… right?" Gaara stared at the silky bed sheets as he spoke. He looked up into the blond's eyes and smiled awkwardly.
Naruto sighed. "Why do you always do this to me?" He put a hand to his head and rubbed his hair.
"Do what?"
"Those eyes." Naruto chuckled. "For someone that had such a stoic expression for so long, you sure have perfected the puppy dog look." He groaned. "Grandma's going to kill me." He flashed a grin and stood to pick up his backpack. He pulled out a kunai and slashed it over his arm in a couple of quick moves. Crimson blood trickled down his flesh.
"What're you doing?" Gaara asked, half getting out the bed to stop him.
Naruto winced as he tried to grin. "I was attacked on my way back to Konoha and had to stop off at Suna for medical assistance. Grandma can't be mad at me for that."
"You're crazy."
Naruto sat on the bed and gave a quick kiss to the scar on Gaara's forehead. "Only for you."
Sighing, Gaara ran his fingers over the blood on the boy's arm. "I'll send Hokage-sama a message alerting her of your late arrival."
"Great." Naruto stood again. "Come on, we'll grab a quick shower, then I'll take you out for a 'friendly' dinner."
Gaara nodded and climbed from the bed to get ready.
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"Woah. Did you two have another fight?" Kankurou asked as him and Temari past the two in the hallway.
"Something like that," Naruto said, scratching the back of his head.
"Ahh." Kankurou put a hand to his head. "I've already alerted the medic nins that you were here. They're probably waiting for you."
"Eehhh?! Why?"
"Because the last few times you've come, you both ended up in the hospital wing."
Temari giggled. "You two act like a married couple."
Naruto laughed awkwardly.
"Don't say that Temari, that's sick," Kankurou said, and he didn't sound like he was joking.
"Could you two please escort Naruto down to the medics. I have to sort out some paperwork."
"Sure thing, bro."
Gaara left, leaving the other three to make their way down to the medical room. They walked through the corridors in silence, until Naruto decided to initiate a conversation. He wasn't used to silence for so long and was finding it rather annoying.
"So, how've you two been?" he asked, not expecting much of an answer.
"Fine," Kankurou answered.
Temari nodded. "We've just been a little worried about Gaara."
"Oh? Why?"
Temari sighed. "You're his best friend, right? Do you know if he has his eye on anyone yet?"
"What? Me? Why would I know something like that." Naruto laughed nervously. "Why do you ask, anyway?"
They made it to the medical room, and Naruto sat on the bed to allow the nurse to wrap a bandage around his cuts. Temari and Kankurou leaned against the wall.
"Well," Temari said. "He's coming to the age where he should start thinking about having an heir (AN: let's pretend that the title Kazekage gets passed through the family in Suna, shall we XD?) and to have an heir, he's going to need a wife."
"An heir?" Naruto repeated.
"Yeah."
Naruto frowned slightly. "Does Gaara know about this?"
Kankurou nodded and laughed. "We tried bringing it up last week over dinner. Let's just say it didn't end very well."
Naruto stared down at the bandage on his arm. "He doesn't have to though, does he? I mean, he's the Kazekage, right? He can do what he wants."
"The Kazekage has to follow the traditions like everyone else."
Temari nodded. "We've been thinking about trying to set Matsuri up with him."
"His student?"
"Yeah, she's had a thing for him since we used to work at the academy. She's such a sweet girl. I'm sure she could make Gaara very happy."
"And if he doesn't pick a wife soon," Kankurou said. "The elders will pick someone for him, and I'm pretty sure Gaara won't like anyone the elders pick out. So you can we that we have a bit of a problem?"
Naruto's eyes transited the floor. He found it extremely hard to keep his usual happy mask on while his chest was aching so badly. "Yeah," he mumbled.
"So, could you talk to him for us? Maybe give him a nudge in Matsuri's direction. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have that kind of capability when it comes to girls." Kankurou laughed.
"And we'll talk to Matsuri." Temari beamed. "If we're lucky, we can get them together by the end of the week."
Naruto laughed, but it wasn't his usual sound. Even for someone that hid behind a smile his whole life, keeping his usual tone while feeling his chest break in two was difficult.
"So will you do it?"
Naruto grinned. "Sure."
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!DUN!DUN!DUN!
OO. What will happen? Stay tuned to find out!
(I really need to change the title to this fanfic… but don't know how ahh! I'll probz just keep it the same. Meh. With a title like that, who can resist reading it.)