CHAPTER 11

Gaara's POV

School has started back up again. Kairi and I don't have as many classes together this year. This year, we only have four bells together. Thankfully, we still have our lunch period together.

Kairi and I haven't really done anything intimate like since what happened at the dojo. I don't really know what to do. No one knows about the fact that we have kissed, and I personally think that it's better that way. I really don't need my siblings babying me and teasing the two of us.

On the night of the homecoming dance, Kairi came over my place and we hung out. We watched some movie that Kankurou told us we needed to watch. It was some type of horror film. I was surprised that he had suggested that we watched it. It was incredibly grotesque.

Kairi kept clinging onto me and hiding her face in my clothes every time a scary part came onto the screen. I was surprised that Kairi was able to watch it all the way through.

After that ended, we popped in another movie. This one was a little better. It was more of an action/suspense film. Kairi really seemed to get into it, which became pretty entertaining.

By the end of the movie, she had started falling asleep on my arm. I just wrapped my arm around her and let her snuggle in close to me.

"Gaara," she mumbled. I looked down at her, seeing that her eyes were barely open.

"Hmm?"

"Why do you put up with me?" I frowned at her.

"If have already tried ignoring you, and it didn't really work out very well," I told her softly. "I want to be with you. You are one of the first people to accept me as I am. There is no way that I am going to let someone like that slip through my fingers." She sighed, burying her head deeper into my clothes.

"Don't leave me," she said tiredly. "That stupid movie is going to haunt me. Remind me to kick Kankurou's ass tomorrow. I smirked and nodded, even though she couldn't see. I took one of the couch pillows and got myself comfortable. Kairi did the same.

"Goodnight," I whispered into her ear.

"Goodnight," she yawned. I listened as her breathing began to even out and smiled to myself. Slowly, I began to fall asleep. I don't know why, but whenever I was with Kairi, I found it so much easier to sleep.

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Naruto's POV

I dragged Kairi along with me back to my home town. Of course, she dragged along Gaara. I didn't mind. The more, the merrier. After all, we liked having as many people as we could when we were playing Ultimate Frisbee. Kairi's sempai at the dojo, Lee, drove us there and was would be picking us up as well.

"You guys are rather insane to be going out and playing in this type of weather," Lee us. Gaara and I were sitting in the back seat while Kairi sat up front. I grinned at him and shook my head.

"Have you ever played ultimate Frisbee before?" I asked, raising an eyebrow. Lee shook his head.

"I am sorry to say that I have not."

"Well, there you go! Anyone that has ever played a real Ultimate Frisbee game knows that it is always more fun to either play in the rain, or in the snow."

"And I am guessing that you are planning to play this game in the snow." I grinned and nodded. "Have you ever played Gaara?" I asked. He shook his head.

"I haven't done it in the snow either," he said emotionlessly. "This is the first time I've actually been in the snow." Kairi turned around and stared at him in shock, as did I.

"You have never been out in the snow before?!" she asked in shock. Gaara shook his head. "How is that even possible?!"

"I practically lived in the desert before I moved here last year. It didn't snow here last year, so this makes it the first time that I have actually been out in it." Kairi and I smirked at him.

"Well, we are going to make sure that you have a good time," I told him.

Gaara was wearing an extra snow suit that we had, along with some extra snow gear that we had. The snow suit was a dark grey. He wore his coat over top of that. His coat was black with the picture of a skull on the back. He also wore a pair of black gloves, a pair of black snow boots, and wore a black snow hat that had grey horizontal stripes. Kairi was wearing a black snow suit with a dark purple coat on top. She had on black snow boots, black gloves, and a purple snow hat. Rina had braided her hair for her so that it wouldn't get all messy and tangled up when we played. I was wearing and orange snow suit with a blue coat. I wore orange gloves, a dark orange snow hat, and dark blue boots.

"Is your girlfriend going to be there?" Kairi asked me, smirking. I rolled my eyes at her but nodded.

We finally got there, and were surprisingly the last people to arrive

"You made it Naruto!" Kiba exclaimed, "And you brought friends!" I grinned and nodded.

"Everyone, this is my sister Kairi!" I announced, pointing at her. I then pointed at Gaara. "And this is our friend, Gaara."

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Kairi's POV

I couldn't help but blush a little when Naruto referred to me as his sister. It made me feel so special.

"Nice to meet you. My name's Kiba and this here is my dog Akamaru." I smiled as looked down at the little white dog. "The other guys over there are Sasuke, Shino, Choji, Haku, Shikamaru and Neji." He pointed to each one as he said their names. A girl wearing different shades of pink stepped forward and grinned at me.

"I'm Sakura," she said, introducing herself. "The other girls over there are Ino, Hinata, and TenTen." Each girl gave a little wave as her name was said. I just smiled and waved back. Just then, she took me by the arm and pulled me over to the girls. Naruto took Gaara to the arm and pulled him over to where the boys were. The Sakura and Kiba stepped out into the middle.

"Alright, so we are basically going to play boys against girls. There are more guys than girls, so we get to pick who we want to be on our team out of your group."

"Fine, but we get to choose who gets to pick," Kiba told her. Sakura smirked and nodded. Kiba looked back at the boys and all of them except Gaara nodded. "We choose the new girl." Sakura frowned and waved for me to come over. I smirked and walked over.

"You get to pick two boys to come be on our team," she told me. I nodded.

"First of all, I want to ask something about the rules," I said. Sakura pointed at Kiba and I smirked.

"What do you want to know?"

"Do you guys do the 5 second tackle rule?" Kiba raised an eyebrow in curiosity.

"You give whoever has the Frisbee 5 seconds, and then you are allowed to tackle them. It's something made especially for the snow and rain." Kiba smirked.

"I guess we can do that, but I don't know if you girls would really be able to tackle us." The guys laughed from behind him. I just smirked.

"Okay." I put a finger to my chin, thinking about who I didn't want to tackle. After a couple of minutes I grinned.

"I choose Haku and Shino." Haku smiled and Shino silently walked over. Some of the other's teased them, including Naruto.

We all huddled up and discussed some strategies. Then after saying what the goal lines were, we started playing.

Haku started with the Frisbee, giving us all the chance to run out. He threw it to Hinata, but Kiba ended up intercepting it. He threw it Neji, who was just about to throw it to Shikamaru. I blocked him. He kept on trying to throw around me, but I wouldn't let him.

"Five!" I shouted with a grin. Neji's eyes went wide as I tackled him into the snow. Everyone stopped and stared. I got up and helped Neji to his feet. The two of us were grinning. He handed the Frisbee to me and I threw it to TenTen.

"Nice one," Neji complimented. I smirked and nodded.

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We had so much fun. Hinata ended up tackling Kiba, which had everyone shocked. After awhile, we got bored with Frisbee and started a snowball war. We even took prisoners, which was really funny. TenTen captured Naruto, telling him that if he didn't surrender, she would stuff snow down his suit. Gaara seemed to enjoy himself too. I think I actually saw him smile, and I think I heard him laughing too. I don't know how many times I hit him in the back of the head with a snow ball. I kind of lost count. He eventually got me back though.

We were shaking uncontrollably by the time Lee came to pick us up. I am so grateful to Lee. He brought along a nice warm blanket for us to use. The three of us clambered into the back seat, shivering beneath the blankets. I laid my wet head against Gaara and he wrapped a welcoming arm around me. Naruto smirked at the two of us, but we just ignored it. Neither of us really cared. We were very close friends. Hell, you could even say that the two of us were a couple. We didn't go out or anything, but we didn't really need to. We spent most of our time together anyway. Ever since that time in the dojo, I've considered us to be a couple, and I'm sure that if I asked Gaara, he would agree.

"So did you like the snow?" I asked, looking into his sea-green eyes. He smirked and nodded.

"A was a little cold for my taste, but it was still fun." I smiled and giggled.

"Want to come over for some hot chocolate Lee?" I asked.

"Thank you Kairi, I would love to."

"What about you Gaara? I bet you have never had hot chocolate with a group of friends before." Gaara shook his head.

"No, I haven't." Naruto looked at him in shock.

"Then you are definitely staying for hot chocolate my friend," he said with a grin. He smirked at him and nodded.

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Okay, so this chapter was a little weird. I'm kind of running low on ideas, so it's going to start taking me a bit longer to update. If any of you guys have any suggestions, or want to see something happen, I'd love to hear it. Basically, I have been basing everything off of what has been happening around me. For instance, it just snowed the other day and I saw some kids playing in the snow. Then I kind of got an idea for this chapter.

I have some ideas, but they are all really stretching it, or are sad. I want to try and keep it on the happy side for a little while longer.

Anyways, please review! I need ideas and the motivation, so REVIEW!