Title- Smile Like You Mean It

Challenge # 10- Smiles to suit the circumstances.

Rating- PG

Word Count- 406

Disclaimer- Don't own Naruto. I also don't own the song 'Smile Like You Mean It' which belongs to The Killers.

A/N: I wrote something happy! Hurray! –claps- It is fluffy! Kawaii fluff, no evil angst (well maybe a teeny bit) but it's a happy fic this time, I swear!

Smile Like You Mean It

Sasuke can't remember the last time he smiled a real smile, the times when he smiled are long gone, nothing but faded, bloodstained memories. He smirks and his lips curl upwards, but his eyes are never laughing, never smiling. He can fake it.

Gaara can't remember the last time he smiled a real smile either. Maybe when he was younger, before Yashamaru, maybe then he smiled, but he can't remember. When he used to kill people, he would grin maniacally, but that was Shukaku and his bloodlust smiling, not Gaara.

Sasuke hasn't wanted to smile for a long time, he hasn't had a good enough reason to do so, and he doesn't care. What's so great about smiles anyway? He wonders. Sakura wants to see him smile, she told him so, but he doesn't understand why. Will smiling help him kill Itachi? He doesn't think it will.

Gaara doesn't even remember what a smile is anymore. Hasn't felt happy in so long, he doesn't even remember what that is. And he doesn't care. Smiling will not help him find a reason to exist. Temari thinks he would look nice if he smiled, she told him so. He doesn't believe her.

Sasuke and Gaara are both men of few words as the saying goes. Sometimes when they're lying in bed together they talk, but not usually. But that's okay with them, they don't need to talk, they understand each other. And they're not used to talking anyways.

Naruto took a picture of them once, with Iruka's camera. They're walking down the street together, fingers nearly touching and almost shoulder-to-shoulder. It was sunny, Gaara remembers, and Naruto kept insisting that the clouds were shaped like animals, you can see a few off in the background, white and fluffy. Naruto wasn't a very good photographer and didn't quite get them centered. He blames it on Kiba bumping into him.

It's a cute picture, Naruto says. He even framed it for them and gave it to them as a gift, it's sitting on the mantle in Sasuke's house that they share now. Gaara thinks a photograph is an odd gift to give, but for some reason he doesn't know, Sasuke looks better than usual in the picture, so he doesn't say anything. Sasuke thinks it's an odd gift too, but he doesn't say anything, Gaara looks especially cute in that picture for some reason.

In the picture, they're both smiling.

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Nrrr…too lazy to do reviewer replies right now and I need a shower before I go to bed. I'll edit this chapter and add 'em in sometime tomorrow.