"Kankuro, explain something to me."
Kankuro looked up from his flirting with Tenten to his brother, who was frowning thoughtfully. "Er, yes?" Going by Gaara's expression, it had to be fairly important. Kankuro had thought that Guy's team was just passing through, but if the scroll they'd brought held something important--
"What does winking mean?"
Kankuro froze. While not of importance to Suna's safety, his own was at stake. Temari had charged him with watching over their little brother while she was gone, and part of her orders had been to make certain that "those bimbo fangirls" stayed away from him.
Before Kankuro could say, "Nothing. It doesn't mean anything. And what are you doing with those girls anyway, I thought you were talking to Lee," Tenten distracted him with a small outburst of her own.
"Oh my God, he didn't. Tell me he didn't." She buried her face in her hands.
"What?" asked Kankuro. Gaara was watching him, still waiting for an answer, but . . .
Tenten continued muttering to herself. "He said he would, but I thought he was joking. I mean, who would actually ask out Gaara of the Sand?"
Kankuro stared at Gaara wide-eyed. "It means-- " that Lee apparently had a thing for redheads, "--that Temari is going to want to have another talk with you. And I'm going to go have a talk with Bowl-cut. Be right back."
He left Gaara with a still sputtering Tenten. He needed to go give the big brother, "I'll break your legs if you break his heart and he doesn't sand coffin you first" talk to Rock fucking Lee. And Temari was probably going to kill him when she got back.
Kankuro almost missed the days when Gaara was a psychopath and this dating shit wasn't a concern.