Chapter 13: Kisses

'human thoughts'

"human speech"

"Jutsu"

"demon speech"

'demon thoughts'

"Shitamo, what're you doing here?" the voice asked.

I looked up at the figure, Gaara. He pulled out his arm and I took it, he pulled me up.

"Hiding." I answwered.

"From who?" Gaara asked.

"Shikamaru." I replied.

"Your cousin?"

"Yeah."

"Oh. Wanna go somewhere?"

"Sure." I replied, "I was getting kinda bored anyway and... I was lost."

"Figures."

"Why are you here, Gaara?" I asked.

"Looking for Uchiha." Gaara replied.

"Oh, let's go then, he's distracting Shikamaru." I said.

We walked hand in hand, we would always let go of each other when people were around, to Ichiraku. Before we got inside, I heard a familiar voice, "Hit me chef! Seconds on that ramen!"

"Naruto." I sighed.

We walked inside, my guess equals correct, it was Naruto inside and why is he sitting next to a stuffed animal?

"Hey, Naruto." I greeted, before I sat down with Gaara.

Naruto turned to me with noodles on his mouth, he slurped it in, "Hi, Shitamo!"

"What're you doing here? I thought you were hiding from Shikamaru." I said.

"I forgot that he was chasing us." Naruto said, "Oh well, I was training with pervy sage!"

"Who?" I asked.

"The guy nex-" started Naruto but stopped when he saw the stuffed frog next to him, "HE LEFT!"

"What're you talking about now, Naruto?" I asked.

"Pervy sage was sitting next to me and now - uh! - he's gone!" Naruto shouted.

"O-kay?" I said, while I backed away and pulled Gaara with me.

"Wanna go to the forest?" Gaara asked.

"Ok." I said.

We walked to the forest, near the training grounds, it's actually just infront of the Memorial Stone. When we got there I sat on my favorite spot, where I had carved my name on a tree, Gaara sat next to me.

"So this is your property?" Gaara asked me, when he saw the words, 'Property of Shitamo Tsuchigumo', carved on the tree.

"Not exactly." I said, "I just put my name on it cause, you know how people are, they go 'does it have your name on it?' and stuff. It's just to show it's my spot."

Gaara smiled at me, "You know how to think things over, huh?"

I smiled back and nodded. I laid my head on his shoulder and silence filled the air, all you could hear is nature. Birds cherping, trees rustling, and leaves falling on the ground. After a while of silence, Gaara jumped up from his spot and turned to me, "Wanna see something? I came across it during my night stroll yesterday."

"Uh, sure." I said.

He pulled out his arm, which I took; he pulled me off to somewhere, maybe to the thing he talked about. He stopped; I stared in awe at our surrondings, we were surrounded by meadows of flowers, most of them were purple, and some odd trees, one of them was in the middle, right near me and Gaara. I turned to Gaara and kissed him, with my arms around his neck, you could almost see the leaves of the trees go into like slow motion - is that even possible? - and the purple flowers were moving, in slow mode, to the direction of the wind.

Gaara licked my bottom lip and I opened my mouth, he put his tongue in my mouth, and we fought for dominance but in the end, Gaara won. We pulled away to catch out breath. (A/N: First kissing scene I wrote, I think, but if it isn't then I don't remember writing any. Sorry if the kissing scene was horrible, I greatly apologize.)

"Do you think we should carve this tree?" I asked.

Gaara smiled, "Yes."

I got out a kunai and started carving, 'Property of Shitamo Tsuchigumo and Gaara', but I was stopped by Gaara when I finished carving, 'Property of.'

"It's my turn." Gaara said.

I smiled and handed him the kunai. He left a big gap between 'property of' and our names. When he finished, I asked, "Why'd you leave a gap between 'property of' and our names?"

"Because..." Gaara started and began to carve something in the gap, when he finished again he said, "We're gonna be together forever." On the tree was carved, 'Property of Shitamo Tsuchigumo and Gaara', and a heart was around our names.

Again sorry about the kissing scene thingy, I don't think it's my first one but oh well let's just say it's my first anyway.