CHAPTER THREE

Gaara kissed his way down Sasuke's neck. Sasuke arched his neck back so Gaara could get more access. Sasuke never knew that Gaara could be so gentle. Gaara was always emotionless and stiff. For Gaara to be loose like this was unexpected, and Sasuke was liking Gaara's passionate side.

Gaara felt a pair of cold hands run up his shirt. Gaara broke away and sat up a little. Sasuke looked at him with a look of confusion. Gaara pulled the lever again and Sasuke sat up, his lips meeting Gaara's. Gaara parted and climbed over the gear shift and into the driver's seat.

"I-I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking. You should get out now."

"Gaara…"

"I can't explain it right now, but I just can't handle this. I've been alone for too long and I just can't grasp it right away."

"It's alright. But, before I go…Gaara," Sasuke took hold of Gaara's hands. "Will you go to the Valentine's Day dance with me?"

Gaara hugged Sasuke and then responded, "Yes. I'd love to go with you."

Sasuke got out of Gaara's car and walked over to his own. They waved to each other as Gaara drove away. Sasuke sighed with happiness.

'Now we're making some progress.' Sasuke thought as he got into his car and drove to his house.

Gaara drove up into the driveway and grabbed his guitar. He pranced inside the house with a joyful smile across his face. Temari and Kankuro looked at him strangely as he trotted up the stairs. They heard his door close and then…a loud giggle turned into laughter full of happiness and pleasure emanated from upstairs. Gaara opened his door and walked back down stairs.

"Someone has had a really good day. I've never heard a sound even close to that ever come from you." Kankuro stated.

"Sorry. I guess I'm just really happy. AND IT'S CREEPIN' ME OUT!"

Kankuro and Temari laughed. They'd never seen Gaara so happy before and they were glad that he was finally enjoying life. Gaara growled at them and then sat down at the kitchen table. Gaara looked over by Temari who was stirring something in a large pot.

"What are you making?" asked Gaara.

"Spaghetti."

"What's the occasion?"

"I just felt like making spaghetti tonight. That's all. So tell us Gaara, why are you in such a good mood?"

""Yeah. What's up with the sudden happiness in you? You are usually never this happy."

"Well…you know how Sasuke is my perfect match?"

Kankuro and Temari nodded and Gaara continued, "Well, today Sasuke kept asking me what my animal was. He bugged me about it until I finally told him after practice, when everyone was gone. And then I ran out of the community center and drove to the park where I walked done to the beach. After a while Sasuke came. He sat next to me and said that he was glad that I was his perfect match. I hugged him and he…."

"He what? Tell us!" Temari pleaded.

"He kissed me."
Temari hugged Gaara, "Good for you! I'm happy for you! Does that mean you two are going out?"

"I don't know. I never asked him. But he did ask me to go to the dance with him on Friday. I said yes."

Temari dumped the spaghetti noodles into the strainer in the sink and took three plates out of the cupboard. She set one in front of Gaara and Kankuro and set the other one next to Gaara.

"That's great that you have a date to the dance on Friday. If you didn't, well, then I'd go with you!"

"No, Temari. If I didn't have one, I wasn't going. Is dinner ready yet?"

"Almost. The sauce just has to heat up a little more. Go ahead and start putting noodles on your plates though!"

Kankuro grabbed his plate and walked over to the sink. He took a large fork out of the side drawer and used that to serve himself a load of spaghetti noodles. Gaara got up and put some noodles on his plate. Temari stopped stirring the sauce long enough to put spaghetti on her plate as well. The sauce was done a minute later and then everyone ate a quiet dinner.

When he finished eating, Gaara rinsed off his plate and went upstairs.

"Gaara? Don't you want dessert? I made chocolate chip cookies!"

Gaara stopped dead in his tracks as he heard the word 'cookies'. Gaara turned around and walked down the stairs again. Temari took out a jar and set it on the table. Gaara was the first to grab for the lid. Temari turned her back for a few seconds and then turned back around to find a handful of cookies missing from the jar.

Temari shook her head and grabbed a cookie out from the jar. She put the lid back on the jar and hid it so Gaara wouldn't eat them all. Then she remembered that Gaara was rushing up the stairs when she turned back around.

'He's not as sneaky as he thinks he is! Stealing all those cookies! Man, little brothers these days!' she thought.

Gaara quickly closed his bedroom door and ran over to his bed. He dropped his cookies and then sat next to them on his bed.

'One…two…three…four…five…six…seven…eight! I have eight cookies!'

Gaara picked one up and took a bite out of it. He ate the cookie and then picked up another one as he heard the phone ring down stairs. Gaara listened to the footsteps coming towards the door. The door opened slightly and Gaara jumped off his bed and shut the door.

"Gaara! Let me in! Or don't you want to talk to your boy toy?" teased Kankuro.

Gaara opened the door enough to grab the phone from Kankuro and then closed it again.

"I don't know what your problem is Gaara. Why do you lock yourself in your room every night?"

Gaara opened the door about an inch and looked at Kankuro, "I like my room. It's 'My Space'. Now go away."

Kankuro huffed and then walked down the hallway and then down the stairs. Gaara sat on his bed before putting the phone up to his ear.

"Hello? Anyone there?"

"Hi Sasuke! How are you!"

Sasuke was taken aback by Gaara's sudden shrill of joy.

"I'm good Gaara. What's with you?"

"Huh?"

"You're all joyful. It's sorta creepy."

"Oh. Sorry. So what's up?"

"Nothing. Just wanted to see what you were up to."

Gaara was munching on a cookie while Sasuke was speaking.

"Gaaaaarrrrrraaaaa…."

"Oh! One sweck!" Gaara swallowed the cookie is his mouth. "Sorry, cookies."

"Cookies? What is that? A new name for me or something?"

"No, no. I'm eating cookies."

"Oh. So you want to do something tonight?"

"Sasuke, you do realize it's 8:25, right?"

"Yeah. I know. I just wanted to see if you wanted to come over for a bit."

Gaara left his room and walked down the stairs and into the living room where Temari and Kankuro were watching TV.

"I wouldn't mind. As long as Temari and Kankuro don't care."

"Don't care about what?" asked Temari.

"Can I go over to Sasuke's for a while?"

Temari nodded. Gaara literally jumped for joy. He ran back upstairs and slammed his door.

"Yay! I'm comin' over! What time do you want me over there?"

"How about in ten minutes? I have to clean up a bit."

"Sounds good! Bye! Loves!"

"Um… 'kay. Bye."

Gaara hung up and dropped the phone on the floor. He quickly finished his cookies and then ran to the bathroom. Gaara brushed his teeth and combed his hair with his fingers. Walking out of the bathroom and back downstairs into the living, he asked Temari for a piece of gum.

"All I have left is winter fresh."

"I take it!"

"But Gaara, you don't like mint gum."

"Oh well. Just please give me a piece!"

Temari shrugged, "There's some gum in my purse. It's on the kitchen counter."

Gaara nodded and walked over to the kitchen counter. Gaara reached inside a small black purse and pulled out a stick of gum. He grabbed his keys off the key rack and walked out the door. Gaara listened to 'Bounce' by Bon Jovi on the way to Sasuke's house and soon, Gaara pulled into Sasuke's driveway, next to a silver sports car. Sasuke walked out of the house and over to Gaara.

Gaara put the chewed piece of gum into its wrapper and put it in the ash tray. Gaara got out of his car and Sasuke stood next to him.

"Awesome car Sasuke! It's so hot! What is it?"

Sasuke put an arm around Gaara's shoulder and led him over to the silver car, "This, Gaara, is a 2004 Dodge Viper SRT-10 Mamba Edition. Nice huh?"

"Yeah! I'd say! That must have cost more than mine."

"Try, 80 thousand."

Gaara's jaw dropped.

"Come on. Let's go inside. It's chilly out here."

Gaara followed Sasuke inside. Gaara knew Sasuke was rich, but he never knew he was that rich. The inside of Sasuke's house was large and pretty. Tiled and white carpeted floors, a winding staircase to the right, and high ceilings. Sasuke took hold of Gaara's hand, taking him out of his trance.

"Come. I'll show you my room." Sasuke took Gaara up the carpeted stairs and down a long hallway. At the end of the hallway was a door with pictures of Dead Silence band members. Gaara saw Sakura, Ino, Hinata, Neji, Lee, Sasuke, and a few pictures of himself. There was one picture of Gaara and Sasuke, in between and above Gaara and Sasuke in the picture was a red marker heart.

"Sasuke? What's that heart doing in the picture?"

"Just forget about that! Come inside! This is my room!"

Sasuke opened the door and pulled Gaara inside. Sasuke's room was painted navy blue and had posters of Nickleback, Linkin Park, and other various artists. There was a desk with a laptop and CDs on it on the other side of the spacious room. Next to the desk was a window with black drapes. Against the left wall was a large bed and on the opposite wall was a flat panel TV, a DVD player, and they were sitting on a TV stand.

"Too much?" Sasuke asked.

Gaara shook his head, "It's actually quite comfortable, compared to the rest of the house. Too much white out there."

"Good." Sasuke closed the door. He let go of Gaara's hand and walked over to his desk. Gaara followed him. Sasuke moved the mouse that was attached to his laptop and the black screen saver went away. Gaara watched closely as Sasuke went to his favorites and then clicked on 'My Pictures'. A file opened and Sasuke clicked on a button that said 'Slide show' on it.

The screen went blank for a while and then a picture of the band came up. It disappeared and then Neji came up with the word 'Drums' under it. Hinata came next and under her picture was the word 'Keyboard'. Sakura and Ino came up next with 'Background Singers' under their picture. Lee came next and his picture had 'Electric Guitar' below it. Sasuke came next with 'Lead Singer' under his and then it disappeared.

A black screen came up and then dark red words formed onto the screen. It read 'This next picture, or should I say, pictures, are of the best band member of Dead Silence. He is our bass guitarist and he's really hot!' The words vanished and then a picture of Gaara came up onto the screen. Words scrolled across the screen as pictures of Gaara came and went. Gaara read the words: 'This is Gaara. He's Dead Silence's bass guitarist. He can play really well and writes really good songs. Not only is he a good guitarist and song writer, but he is also really cute.' The screen went black again and then 'By: Sasuke Uchiha' appeared in white letters. The slide show went away and the original screen came up.

"So…what did you think of it?"

"What was with all the pictures of me? How did you even get so many pictures of me?"

"I had Haku be in the front row at some of our performances and take pictures of you and the other band members. Wasn't it cool though?"

"Yeah. I liked it, but why were there so many pictures of me?"

"Didn't you read the words? You're the best! You are a really good guitarist and song writer! You are also super hot!"

Gaara blushed a bit and it quickly went away.

"Did I just see you blush?"

"N-No."

"Yes I did! You are so cute when you blush Gaara!"

Sasuke got up from his chair and hugged Gaara.

"You stay right here, okay? I'll be right back."

Sasuke was about to walk out the door when his computer beeped, letting him know that he had a message.

"Gaara, will you take that? I don't care if you talk to them. Just tell them I stepped out for a couple minutes. Be right back!"

Sasuke walked out the door and Gaara sat in Sasuke's desk chair. Gaara clicked on the person's name. A screen came up and a message came with it.

PrettyPinkBlossom: Hey Sasuke!

Gaara hesitated, but finally typed a message.

YoungUchiha: This isn't Sasuke. Who is this?

PrettyPinkBlossom: This is Sakura. Who r u?

YoungUchiha: This is Gaara. Sasuke's not here right now.

PrettyPinkBlossom: Hi Gaara! Why are you on Sasuke's computer?

YoungUchiha: I'm at his house.

PrettyPinkBlossom: Oh, okay. I guess that would make sense. Well when Sasuke gets back just let him know I just wanted to know when our next practice is.

GreenDragon1 has just logged in and joined the conversation.

GreenDragon1: Hey Sasuke! Hey Sakura!

PrettyPinkBlossom: Lee….that's not Sasuke. It's Gaara. T.T

GreenDragon1: O Hi Gaara! What are you doing on Sasuke's computer?

GreenDragon1: I know! Ur at his house aren't you?

YoungUchiha: So what if I am!

GreenDragon1: u 2 didn't do anything did u

YoungUchiha: sighs No Lee. We didn't.

PrettyPinkBlossom: Is Sasuke ever coming back?

YoungUchiha: Yeah. He just came back into the room. Hang on 1 sec Sakura, I'll ask him when practice is.

Gaara turned around and saw Sasuke set a couple sodas and a big bag of chips down on his bed along with a DVD. Sasuke walked over to Gaara.

"Who's all on?"

"Sakura and Lee. Sakura wants to know when the next practice is."

Sasuke typed a message.

YoungUchiha: This is Sasuke. Hey Lee. Sakura, the next practice is Sunday at 3 pm. I told you that earlier 2day.

PrettyPinkBlossom: Oh oO. I forgot. Bye everyone!

GreenDragon1: Yeah, I think I'll leave too. It's late. Bye Sasuke, Gaara! Don't have 2 much fun!

PrettyPinkBlossom: See you Lee! Sasuke! Gaara!

GreenDragon1: Bye Sakura!

PrettyPinkBlossom has logged out.

GreenDragon1 has logged out.

Sasuke logged himself out and walked back over to the bed and sat down on it. Sasuke motioned for Gaara to sit next to him and Gaara did. Sasuke got up again, with the DVD in hand, and walked over to the TV and DVD player. He opened the DVD player and put in the disc. He grabbed the remote and turned on the TV as he sat back on his bed next to Gaara.

"We're watching a movie? It'll be really late by the time I get back home."

"Don't worry about it. I have it covered already. I called your house and told Temari that you were staying the night."

"You what!"

"Relax. Just have a soda, some chips, and watch the movie."

"What movie is it?"

"It's called, The Notebook. Itachi watched it, which really surprised me because he never watches stuff that doesn't have bloody gory stuff in it, and he said that it was actually pretty good."

Gaara snuggled up to Sasuke and Sasuke put an arm around Gaara's shoulder and pulled him even closer. He kissed Gaara lightly on his tattoo and then the movie began to play. Sasuke had a feeling that they weren't going to be able to finish the movie.