Chapter Two

I could feel myself trembling with fear as I shakily stood up and made my way into the lounge room, I saw Gaara glaring down at Sasukes sleeping figure, I could see by his expression that Gaara was furious with me at that moment.

"Gaara..." I tried to explain calmly but was interupted by a furious growl.

"Don't you, Gaara, me like that! Don't even try to make me the guilty one here! You know I hate this piece of Shit! So why the fuck would you bring him here! In my house!" He growled angrily as he stared at me, waiting for a good excuse.

"He's drunk" I sighed in defeat as I shrugged my shoulders as though that should answer all of his problems.

Gaara stared at me in disbelief then just shook his head and left – and when I meant left, I didn't mean walk up the stairs to his room, I meant shove a leather jacket on and slam the front door on his way outside of the house.

At first I was silent with guilt, but then I reassured myself that Gaara would come home sooner or later so I quickly ran into the kitchen to find that Tay and Hinata were sitting on stools in shock – they must have heard Gaara's rant and his departure.

"Will...Gaara be okay, Tem?" Hinata wondered, concerned for his safety.

"Yeah, he'll be alright. He's just probably letting off some steam" I assured Hinata the sat down on a stool with my head bent down thinking about what had just happened.

I should apologise to Gaara...its just that I thought he would have understood, I thought sadly while looking out the kitchen sinks window, the stars were shining brightly, it reminded me of that night...Gaara had come home with his friend Naruto who was injured.

Flashback

I was watching Maroon 5 on MTV when a bang on the door interupted my thoughts on the song. I quickly stood up and ran to the door which would have been knocked down if who ever behind the door didn't stop banging the door impatientingly.

I opened the door to find my youngest brother Gaara helping a badly wounded Naruto, who was a very close friend to Gaara since the day Naruto had helped Gaara stop drinking, I quickly ushered them inside while retrieving the first aid kit from the bathroom.

"What happened to him?" I asked worriedly as I took his shirt off to tend to the stab wound.

"Sasuke happened, that little rat, he started a fight with Naruto over something stupid! He left Naruto there! Injured, and just walked away like he hadn't even nearly killed his best friend!" Gaara explained heatedly as he left me to take care of Naruto to go wash his hands in the sink which were covered in blood.

My eyes widened at this as I added some alcohol to his wound so it couldn't get infected. Naruto winced slightly in pain when I started to wrap a bandage around his waist to keep pressure on his wound so it would stop bleeding.

"...Thanks...Temari" Naruto gasped, smiling through the pain.

"It's alright, just make sure you bandage yourself after cleaning the wound so it won't get infected and it should be better by next week" I stated firmly so he knew that I wasn't joking around.

Naruto nodded thankfully while slowly getting up.

"You can stay here for the night, if you want" Gaara suggested while drying his now cleaned hands.

"Thanks, Gaara" Naruto thanked while sitting back down.

"Well, I'm going to bed, If you need anything just help yourself and Temari will show you to the guest room" Gaara said tiredly while walking out of the kitchen.

I sat down next to Naruto after I had finished packing away the first aid kit, he looked like he was deep in thought so I whispered, "Why did he do it?"

Naruto looked over at me sadly, he knew what I wanted to know but he wasn't really sure how to tell me.

"I told him...that I was gay" He whispered sadly while looking down at the bench.

My eyes widened in sadness for my brothers friend, I knew that he was gay and I didn't have a problem with it really. He had only come out of the closet a few days ago. I was literally speechless, he had been planning for weeks to tell his bestfriend Sasuke that he was gay and for what? To get stabbed.

"What exactly did he do? His reactions..." I wondered thoughfully, I didn't want to be nosy I just wanted him to open up and tell me about his problems.

"Well, I like asked him if whatever happened to us we'd be like still bestfriends and stuff and he was like yeah your my bestfriend so I like told him that I was gay...and he just stared at me. At first I thought he was just checking to see if I was joking or anything but then he got all angry and stuff and then next minute...he had a knife in his hand! And he...stabbed me!" Naruto recounted heatedly.

I sighed unhappily as I hugged Naruto, we stayed like that with Naruto crying softly against my shoulder and me whispering encouraging words to him.

Ever since that night I've secretly hated Sasuke Uchiha and what he did to Naruto...

Flashback end

"Temari? Where did Gaara go?" Kankuro asked while standing right in front of me.

I was so caught up in my own thoughts that I hadn't even seen Kankuro walk into the room, I placed my hand on forehead, I was burning up. Great, now I'm getting a fever...I thought miserably.

"He left after seeing Sasuke on the couch" I answered dejectedly.

Kankuro sighed as he said eventually, "Well, I'm going over to Ino's so don't wait up for me"

He kissed me on the cheek and left without another word.

"It's alright Tem, he'll come back" Tay assured me while walking into the lounge room to check on Sasuke.

I sighed as I stood up and told Hinata that I was going to bed now, they knew they could sleep anywhere in the house so I left them to themselves and made my way up the stairs, towards my room which was at the end of the hallway.

I walked into my room to find a parcel on my desk, I picked it up to find that it had been sent from Shikamaru. I sat on my bed while I slowly opened the parcel, I gasped when I realised what it was – the dress I had practically drooled over, it was a light green with a violet floral design on it, it was a summer dress that came to about my knees.

I smiled in happiness, while lifting the dress out of the parcel to delicately hang it up in my large wardrobe.

I should say thanks...tomorrow...I thought tiredly before I finally fell to sleep in my double bed.

A/N: Review! And yes, Naruto is Gay! I needed him to be gay so a certain someone would have a pairing. Shikamaru was so sweet to send her a dress that she had really wanted. Oh, well til the next chapter...