Today is valentines day.. And of course I'm spending this romantic day with my favorite couple. So I will start with the next chapter today and I'm pretty sure that chapter 10 will be up in this weekend.
So happy valentine to all of you who are spending it with that special someone.. and for all the rest - Enjoy another chapter
Chapter 9
Naruto's POV
I frown. Is he saying what I think he is saying? Gaara likes me. He wants to be friends with me.
That couldn't be. He is always so cold towards me. I went through all our encounters in my head. I remembered the look in his eyes a while ago. I had disregarded the thought that it was concern at that time, but maybe I had been right? If Shiii.. something is right. If Gaara really likes me, then maybe he really had been worried about me.
It just seems unreal. The Gaara that hates everybody, likes me. I smiled and a warm tingling feeling formes in the pit of my stomach. I did it. I finally succeeded in making him my friend. I felt like jumping around or high-five myself. Now I just had to make Gaara realize it too. I still don't completely understand why he did all those things, but now I'm ready to fight again, and I'll definitely make him talk.
I suddenly remember that Gaara doesn't have class. That would mean he is in his room now and we're practically all alone. I smile mischievously while I ran to his room.
Gaara's POV
I heard a knock on my door, but ignored it. There isn't anyone who in their right mind would knock, except..
I sigh. I hope it isn't Naruto out there. I'm avoiding him, why can't he just let me be.
"Gaara, Gaara, are you in there?" I heard a familiar voice yell, while knocking even louder. I sat completely still, hoping he would leave after some time.
"Gaaaaara. I know you're in there. You don't really leave your room, so you have to be in there" I growled. What's wrong with him? Doesn't he know when to give up?
"Gaara, Gaara, come on. Let me in. Gaara. You have to let me in" He just kept going, but he has to get tired of it sometime.
Naruto's POV
I was beginning to get a little irritated. I finally find out that he likes me and then he begins ignoring me. What should I say to make him open the door? I smile when I realized I knew precisely what to say.
"Gaara. I'll help you fix you're problem. You just have to let me in" I snicker. He definitely will open now and I was right. Soon after I heard the sound of someone stumbling to get up quickly and the door opened. He held it and allowed me to get in.
"Alright. Fix me" He said in a monotone voice. I looked into the carpet. I was a little worried about how he would react about all this.
"I don't actually know how to fix this. It isn't something that needs to be fixed. It's normal, I feel like that too, you know" I said softly.
Silence fills the room and I slowly lift my head to look at him. I sigh. As If I can figure out what he is feeling by looking at him. He looks as expressionless as before.
"The thing you are feeling. It's friendship" I tried lamely.
"Wanting to be together, to know more about someone, thinking about them" I said slowly trying to make them sink in. "Protecting someone" I just remembered that he was also angry about that. "All those things are normal for friends"
"So" Gaara said in a low lifeless tone. "You're saying that I" He points towards himself "have feelings for you" He points at me.
"Yeah, you want to be my friend" I smile at him. I just hope he understands and that we can be friends immediately.
"Friends" Gaara's growl makes me flinch a bit. "I don't do friends. I like being on my own. I hate it when you always annoy me" I frown. I knew it wouldn't be easy, but he could at least try to accept this.
"You do like me, even though I annoy you. You like being together with me, and I like being together with you. Therefore we should just hang out together and talk and such" I smiled brightly at him, but my smile falters when he glares at me.
"Then explain to me why you have felt all those things, if it isn't because you like me" I sat down on his bed. This was probably going to be a very long conversation. And people say I'm thick.
After I had explained everything to him again and again, he ended up throwing me out. I pout. How can he throw me out when I'm talking about friendship?
Gaara's POV
Frienship. I frown. I don't want friends. Humans are all just egoistic, manipulative and weak. I don't want to be dragged into all their superficial feelings and pretenses. Love and such things are an illusion and they all dumbly believe in it.
I like you.
Naruto's voice rings in my head. Like me. How can he say that? He doesn't know anything about me. He is trying to manipulate me to do something, to get something from me. He has too, why else would he do all these things?
