"Um... Kankuro? Maybe you should... like... get off?"

The sound of Gaara's voice brought Kankuro back to his mind. He began an attempt to remove himself from both the shower curtain and his brother. Then, so suddenly he nearly blanked out again, he became aware of the full anatomy of his brother below him. He flushed a deep red.

"Kankuro." Getting no reaction from the other, Gaara turned his tone to authoritative. "Kankuro. Get up and get ready. Now." Gaara pushed on his chest to emphasize his point. Kankuro quickly resumed his efforts in... well in getting off, attempting to ignore some of Gaara's lower regions.

Finally accomplishing most of his goal, Kankuro grabbed the towel and wrapped it around himself. Meanwhile, Gaara had managed a sitting position while simultaneously covering most of his body with the curtain.

"Hurry up."

Kankuro obeyed, drying off quickly and putting his clothes on, still frighteningly aware of Gaara's lack of clothing and embarrassed by his own. He handed his younger the towel, beginning the task of applying his face paint. He completed this task deliberately quickly, trying to push his more disturbing thoughts aside.

The water cut off. Kankuro hadn't even noticed it was still on, nor that Gaara had already dried off and clothed himself. The redhead reached for the comb, which was on the far side of the countertop. Unfortunately, Kankuro had just finished with the paint and was also reaching for it. Gaara's hand closed around the comb, but Kankuro's hand closed around Gaara's. They both quickly released, Kankuro blushing a dark red, Gaara a light pink.

"You go ahead."

"No, you can."

There was an uncomfortable, awkward silence between them yet again, but they both noticed the other reaching and stopped. Gaara's blush grew darker, but he grabbed the comb before Kankuro recovered. The puppet master fixed his paint, although it was already perfect, and awaited his turn.

Gaara finished, handed over the comb, and left to his room to finish getting ready.

Hope the meeting will be less eventful...