Thanks for the reviews. As always, I don't own Naruto. For summary and/or pairings, if it wasn't obvious, it's in the first chapter.
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As Naruto walked to the stairs, where Sakura was waiting, he felt his neck, where the Subaku had bitten him.
Unlike what he had thought, the moment was pleasant and though the mark would bruise, he didn't care.
He kinda like the feel of the redhead's lips against his neck; it felt sensual and part of him wanted more.
He reached the side of the stairs, where the pinkette emerged.
"Naru!" she said, her voice full of concern, "are you okay? Did he hurt you?"
"Yeah, I'm okay. He just got my cheek. I think it would have been much worse if Gaara-san hadn't come and got him off of me."
"Gaara saved you?" Sakura squealed.
The blonde teen nodded.
"Kinda."
"Kinda? What do you mean?"
He pulled down his jacket to reveal a bite mark.
The pinkette squealed.
"Did it hurt?"
"No, it actually was pleasant. It was almost sensual."
"Ooh, he likes you!" the girl, squealed again as she jumped up and down.
"This is getting really annoying, really fast. If only I could just get her to shut up!" Naruto groaned to himself.
Then he remembered that he had to get to the front gate to meet Gaara.
"Sakura…"
"Huh?"
"I have to go meet Gaara at the main gate."
"Oh, I'll see you later then?"
"Yeah. I'll fill you in later."
"Please and thank you," she said, grinning like a Cheshire cat.
Naruto nodded and scurried to the front gate, where an impatient Gaara stood waiting.
"Sorry. Sakura held me up."
"It's alright," Gaara said, a slight smirk tugging at his mouth.
He knew that the pink haired girl could be the only reason that Naruto would probably lose track of time, mainly because she never knew how to shut up.
"Shall we?" the redhead said, walking the blonde to the red convertible that was in the student parking lot.
They arrived at the Uzumaki house, Gaara cut off the engine.
"Gaara?" the blonde said, nervously.
"Hm?"
"Why did you do this? I mean, why me?"
The Subaku closed his eyes for a minute.
When he opened them again, he looked at the blonde, who saw a mixture of longing, hurt, passion, and something else that he couldn't pinpoint.
"It's because I know what it's like to be tricked by that black haired bastard. I wanted to say something, to help you somehow. I wanted to tell you all about how the Uchiha was going to play you like a fool and then make you look like an ass, just like he did me."
"When?"
"Last year, we were together. We were the power couple of the school. He made me feel special. I was on top of the world. Everywhere we went, everyone looked at us and smiled because they knew that we wore happy with each other. But then, that bastard did something that I could never forgive him for."
"What did he do?" the blonde whispered.
"I caught that bastard letting a senior fuck him. I watched that bitch let the boy take him and he didn't even fight him. The only reason that they stopped was when I screamed Sasuke's name. When he turned and looked at me, there was this dead look in his eyes. There was no life in his eyes. Then, he just turned and walked away with the senior. I was crushed and all I remember is wanting to just make him come back, but then those feelings turned into rage and I wanted to kill the SOB that broke my heart into a million pieces. So when I found out that you two were going together, I wanted to warn you, to tell you not to mess with him, not unless you wanted to get your heart broken, but he told me that he had changed since us, so I wanted to see just how much has changed. And he hasn't changed at all."
When he had finished, he closed his teal eyes and let the blonde ponder over what had just been said.
When the blonde finally spoke, he said something that caught the Subaku off guard.
"I really think I love you."
"What?" the redhead said, teal eyes snapping open.
"I've always had a crush on you, but I just went with Sasuke because he wanted me to and because even though I knew that being with you was an unobtainanle goal, I figured that if I was with Sasuke, I'd be living in the dream of the next best thing."
"Naru…" the redhead breathed, his normally stoic eyes showing a deep emotion that Naruto could not pinpoint.
Then in a flash, his felt his lips smash against the smaller pair.
"Damn, this is good," the redhead thought as his lips molded into the blonde's like the perfect piece to a jigsaw puzzle.
When they broke apart, both breathing heavily, the blonde raised an eyebrow.
"Um…"
"I don't know," Gaara replied to the unfinished question, "did you like it?"
The blonde only nodded.
"I'll see you tomorrow," Naruto said, a bright smile on his face for the first time since the thing with Sasuke went down.
"Yeah. Okay."
And the blonde watched as the Subaku drove off.
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And the plot thickens. (Muhahaha… and just when you thought it couldn't get any better, it does!)
But seriously, you have to wonder how Sasuke's gonna feel when he finds out. **Laugh**
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