lostmoonchild: Wow, six reviews this time around. Nice. Okay, I'd like to thank everybody who has left a review and/or has added this story to their favorites. I'd especially like to thank ArtIsABangDeidaraLove4Ever for getting my butt moving with perhaps the most important rule regarding snitches and Akira Acumichi for her suggestion that Gaara should be with Hinata. I was honestly leaning towards him making out with Naruto but your suggestion was so much better.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. If I did then we'd all be able to see Kakashi's face.
Rule Seven: Snitches Shall be Punished
Gaara didn't know why his brother liked the crazy ones or even why he liked kunai happy girls. Most of all, he didn't know why his brother was so ecstatic when crazy and kunai happy both came from one girl. He personally saw those kinds of girls as reasons to watch your back and to sleep with one eye open but his brother always had been a little off in the head when it came to women.
Temari liked that lazy Nara boy and Kankuro liked that Anko woman but his attention was on somebody more quiet. Her white eyes so full of shyness that he couldn't help but wonder what she was like once the shyness was taken away, the way she'd press her index fingers together when talking about something that made her blush. Most of all, Gaara decided that he liked her voice.
Fortunately for him, Naruto had decided to drag him over to visit with the woman. "Hinata-chan!" Naruto shouted happily as he hugged the woman.
"N-Naruto-kun." Hinata responded with a blush before bowing slightly. "L-Lord Kazekage."
"Just Gaara will do. I'm not here on official business." Gaara told her.
Hinata's face turned bright red for a moment before she nodded quickly in understanding. "I was just telling Gaara that you've got a pretty good idea of what's good to drink." Naruto said with a grin. "Obviously he's not from around here and so far he's shot down every single drink I thought he'd like. You wanna take a stab at what he might like?"
Gaara wasn't certain that his friend had tried to get him to try every single drink that he could think of simply by the look in his blue eyes. It was a look that Gaara had long ago learned meant that he was scheming and to be wary. From how Hinata was suddenly looking a little wary it was a lesson she had learned as well from Knucklehead Ninja 101. "I-If you w-want me to." Hinata looked at Gaara with a slightly questioning look. "I-Is that o-okay?"
A single glance in his brother's direction told him that Kankuro was more interested in if it was possible for someone to choke someone else with their tongue than what his little brother was doing. "If you want." Gaara shrugged.
White eyes studied him for a moment, Naruto's blue eyes dancing with excitement. From how he was barely able to bite back a grin it was clear to the redhead that Naruto had seen the shy woman do this sort of thing before and with great accuracy. After a few minutes she made an order for a drink that Gaara wasn't even sure. "Here." Hinata handed him the drink.
Teal eyes regarded the drink with wariness before he lightly sniffed it. It smelled okay but so did half of the drinks that Naruto offered him. Surely this angel wouldn't have picked up any of Naruto's habits… would she?
Deciding to throw caution to the wind, the redhead took a sip of the drink and paused as the sweet flavor rushed over his tongue to be replaced by an almost tangy flavor. Nodding his approval the young Kazekage frowned when Naruto began laughing. "See? Hinata-chan's got a talent for this kind of thing. If baa-chan wasn't stuck on her sake then I bet Hinata-chan could figure out what exactly baa-chan would drink!" Naruto laughed as he threw an arm around the woman's shoulders. "Hey! There's Kiba! Kiba!"
Hinata's cheeks turned red again when Naruto released her to go chasing after the Inuzuka. "Kiba made a bet with Naruto." Hinata explained softly. "Is your drink really okay?"
"It's fine." Gaara confirmed as he looked at her. "I'll be sure to pay you back for the drink."
Immediately her eyes widened. "Oh, no. Y-You don't n-need to do that, L-Lord Kazekage!" Hinata protested.
"I thought I told you to just call me Gaara." His voice was low as he murmured the words into her ear.
He couldn't help but smirk as her cheeks turned bright red from embarrassment. "G-Gomen." Hinata stammered.
Her cheeks turned an even brighter shade as he cupped her heated cheek in his hand before lowering his head. A jolt shot through their beings as their lips met in a silent kiss, both unaware of the brown eyes that were watching with a mischievous glint.
"So you and that Hyuuga heiress. Nice." Kankuro commented the next morning.
Gaara glared at his brother through his splitting headache, trying to remember if anybody had taken anything remotely hard to his head. "Shut up." Gaara groaned.
"Well, at least Temari and I don't need to worry about you finding a girl. Then again you could just swing both ways and be blissfully ignorant." Kankuro sighed softly. "I wonder what Temari would say if she found out that you were having a make-out session in a bar."
The brunette stiffened when sand suddenly surrounded him, his brown eyes dancing with excitement as he looked at Gaara. "You will not tell Temari." Gaara snarled dangerously.
The last thing he wanted was to have his sister of all people getting involved with his love life. He could just imagine what she'd do the next time she came to Konoha and decided to check out her youngest brother's fascination. She'd probably make Hinata start crying or make her want to stay away from him.
His heart clenched painfully at the thought and he looked at his brother for an explanation as the sand released him. "Gaara, sorry but you're in love." Kankuro stated. "I'd call it lust but I know lust and that look wasn't lust."
"Tell Temari and I'll make you regret it." Gaara warned his older brother.
"My lips are sealed."
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"So then Naruto drags him over to that Hyuuga heiress so she could try to determine what drink Gaara would like and he'd been staring at her like he'd just seen the light for the first time. So she picks out a drink and of course he downs it after their make out session."
"He what?" Temari questioned with wide eyes as Kankuro took another shot of sake.
"Oh, yeah. Gaara and that Hyuuga heiress had a make out session right there in the bar. I thought they were going to drown each other in spit but I guess they remembered that they need air." Kankuro laughed.
The two siblings laughed as they each took another shot, each of them fairly drunk. "So what happened afterwards?" Temari questioned.
Kankuro grinned and leaned forward a little before whispering, "He offered to walk her home but I guess one of her teammates was worried that he'd ruin the Hyuuga girl's innocence or something so I grabbed Gaara and we went back to the room. Of course he told me not to tell you."
"You realize if he finds out then he'll be able to get revenge."
"Nah. Just don't say anything and we'll be good."
Oh, if only he realized that the little brother they both were talking about had been listening the entire time and planning his revenge.
Too. Bright.
Kankuro groaned as he slowly opened his eyes before realizing that everything was not only upside down but he wasn't in his room! Instead he was in the center of the village hanging upside down in a cocoon of sand with a crowd gathering around him with questioning looks on their faces. "Tell Gaara to let me down!" Kankuro shouted at one of the Jounin.
The Jounin took off in a flash and a couple minutes later the brunette found himself crashing down to the ground. Brushing the sand from his clothes, he froze when he realized that he wasn't wearing his clothes. Instead he looked like he was wearing one of Temari's more formal outfits. "Gaara!" Kankuro shouted as he kicked off the heels and darted towards the house.
He was so dead. Kazekage or not, Gaara was going to die again.
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He hadn't anticipated his prank being this amusing and from how Temari was struggling to hold back her laughter, it was clear that she found the joke amusing too. He had to admit that pink was a color that suited his brother fairly well and the makeup that he had stolen from Temari's room looked pretty good if he said so himself. "You are so dead." Kankuro growled at his younger brother.
"I believe I told you not to tell Temari about my little tryst in Konoha and you did so last night." Gaara responded simply. "I believe that it's my duty as the one being snitched on that revenge was justly due."
"You… You…"
"Get yourself cleaned up, Kankuro." Temari laughed. "Maybe next time you'll remember to keep your trap shut when told not to snitch."
Kankuro frowned in irritation and was about to leave when Gaara held up a hand for him to stop. "By the way, that dress looks very nice on you." Gaara commented. "The makeup isn't too bad either."
Raising his middle finger to his little brother, Kankuro sneered before teleporting himself from the room. Payback was a bitch but as he looked in the mirror, he couldn't help but be proud that his little brother had taken the time to plan such an ingenious way of beating him.
It was just too bad he didn't know that Gaara had taken a picture of the outcome of his work.
lostmoonchild: I neither confirm nor deny that I may or may not have given my brother such an interesting punishment for snitching on me. I will confirm however that I was laughing at the mental image produced by Kankuro being in a pink dress with makeup (eyeshadow, blush, lip gloss, ect...) so I think this rule pretty much got ruined. Ja ne for now and please leave a review!