I don't own Naruto…
Author's Note: Third chapter and one happy camper. Me:D After I post this I'll be re-checking all of my other chapters for spelling and crap like that. Sorry that it took so long for this one to get out. First it was writing it, then I got sick, then aunts stealing me to show me how to drive 'right', and then my internet not working. xP
Pairings: Neji/Gaara, Naruto/Sasuke…Not to sure about others.
Warnings: violence, guy and guy loving, self inflicted violence, OCCness.
Reviewers:
wIthOUt A nAmE Yeah it does and here's number three!
Corvin: Yeah I love your stories! Gaara's daddy is so mean. I get my ideas for him from my dad. But what has all the Naruto episodes on it? The beginning of this is for you! And there is going to be a lot of Gaara/Neji moments in this chapter. Hehe, WOOT FOR BATMAN GAARA!
SarcasticallyShy: I would go to Borders but I don't have a car and it's in the next town…small towns suck sometimes. BUT my mission for the next few days is to find a ride and get the books. My computers really weird about downloading stuff so that wouldn't work. (Cries)
Darka-Chan: Oh shoot you're right! (Bangs head on desk) I fixed all of them I think. God I can be so retarded at times. xD
Catsmeowh44: I wish I could steel Gaara too! That's be great if you could beta(sp?) this but how do I get your E-mail? O.o;; (laughs) I'm so slow…
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A Dangerous Game: Pass Out
By: Dead Walking Raccoon
"I am not short Teme!"
"Then you're a tall midget."
"You're such a bastard! Hey, give me back my lunch!"
Gaara watched the two in front of him with a raised eyebrow. Naruto was reaching for the brown paper bag which the Uchiha was holding above his head and out of reach. A girl with pink hair, Sakura he believed her name was, was yelling at Naruto for yelling and upsetting her 'love' about something this morning.
"How troublesome." Shikamaru mumbled from his right. Hinata and Kiba nodded from next to the lazy boy.
Yesterday Gaara had been thrown into a whirlwind of meeting people. Naruto thought it would be best for him to meet all his friends. The red head didn't exactly agree with him but after he had been getting picking on again and Kiba had all but thrown the guy down the hallway he didn't argue out loud about it anymore.
Naruto pouted at the dark haired boy holding his lunch before sitting down with his arms crossed over his chest. "Giving up so easily Dobe?" Sasuke taunted.
Puffing out his cheeks, Naruto looked away from the other. "So Gaara, how's life?" Naruto leaned over the table completely ignoring his rival.
The redhead looked at the two boys nervously before settling on Naruto. "Good…I guess."
"That's great!" The blond all but yelled. People at the lunch tables around them turned and looked at the blond who had given the outburst. "I was fine until I found out some one was goin' to the same high school as me." He eyed Sasuke next to him who was still smirking and holding his lunch bag. "Then when I got to school today the prick walks over to me and says 'the only reason I would come near you is because the girls seem to go anywhere but by you'." A glare had been sent to his side.
Gaara's eyebrow again raised at the two in front of him.
"Naruto stop bothering Sasuke-kun!" Sakura hit the blond up side the back of his head for good measure. Turning to the black haired boy, she smiled. "Don't worry Sasuke-kun, I'll keep Naruto away from you!"
"Hn." Sasuke grunted. He looked over their heads suddenly and fallowed something unknown to the rest of them.
All of the students, even Shikamaru after muttering about how troublesome all it seemed, looked over their shoulders at what had caught Sasuke's attention. Towards the front of the lunch room was a cluster of girls and one Hyuga Neji. A girl with light brown hair was hanging on him more then the others and Gaara almost would have thought they were going out. That was, before he glared at her in such a way it would make a bullet stop dead in it's tracks.
He said a few words to the girl, in which she jumped away from him, tears in her eyes, and he walked away with out looking back. He scanned over the lunch tables and Gaara glanced at the empty seat next to him. Neji probably wanted to eat in peace with out a flock of girls all over him and there weren't very many where Gaara was. He had helped Gaara out a few days ago so the least he could do was give him a place to eat with out a hoard of girls fallowing him.
Raising a hand uncertainly, and to every one else's curiosity and amazement, he waited until the white eyed boy had seen him before putting it down. Gaara turned back toward the table to see every one looking at him and looked down at his shaking hands.
It was when Neji sat down at the empty space next to him that Gaara came out of his trance. Naruto and Sasuke were still looking at him curiously as the elder gave the shorter back his lunch. Around the table it was quieter then it had been, Sakura trying to start a conversation and keep one ear to anything that would explain why the older boy was at their table when he could sit anywhere in the lunch room.
"What the hell are you doin' over here?" Naruto asked not being able to stand the quietness around the table any longer.
"Sitting." Neji ate, not even blinking an eye at Naruto.
Gaara's cheeks felt hot as he side looked at Neji. He felt nervous. Nervous that every one was looking from him to Neji with curious looks, and nervous about being so close to the dark haired boy. The other's arm would brush his occasionally and make Gaara jumpy. After living a life time with his dad any one would be twitchy at physical contact.
"Aren't you going to eat something?" Neji's voice broke the redhead out of his trance.
Gaara blushed even more and rubbed the tattoo on his forehead nervously. "Ah…no, not hungry." He added the last part as an after thought. He ignored his belly who gave a small grumble in defiance at the remark as if saying 'give me fooood!'.
Who wouldn't be nervous? Here he was, a no body who couldn't even speak right half the time, talking to a Hyuga. Neji Hyuga. One of the top students in the whole school, popular, handsome, and not to neglect rich, Hyuga Neji. (Naruto had told him so.) Gaara had every damn right to be a little nervous!
Neji looked up at him then, green eyes meeting white in what Gaara believed was a calculating look. Such a tense look caused the red head to squirm and feel embarrassed even more.
"Cute." That statement coming from the Hyuga made every one within the hearing rage to turn and stare at him and the redhead. The girls who had been looking at him almost fainted when the teen smirked at Gaara whose face was turning the same shade of his hair. "You should eat something." Neji stood up from his seat caring his tray, throwing out the remainders before leaving the cafeteria.
"Oh. My. God." Sakura stared wide eyed at where Neji had been sitting. Her eyes darted to Gaara's. "Did he just call you cute!" She squeaked.
Gaara looked down at the table again rubbing his tattoo. His heart was racing and he couldn't get the damn blush off his face! "I-I don't know…"
Even Hanta looked surprised. Naruto was grinning ear to ear as he walked across the table and nudged Gaara. A few girls at the other table, part of Neji's fan club, glared at the redhead and telling the other girls who hadn't heard (or had pasted out) about what had happened.
Gaara had a feeling there was soon going be an 'I hate Gaara because Neji called him cute and giving him more attention then me' fan club.
After lunch Gaara and Naruto quickly left the cafeteria for the locker rooms in the gym. Gaara took his clothes into the bath room to change and when Naruto asked him why he only shrugged. He made a mental note to get there earlier so he could get dressed and not have to worry about people seeing any of his bruises or scares. He'd brought his own long sleeved shirt just for gym to cover his arms. They still hurt a lot from his beating.
About five minutes after the bell had rung their teacher finally showed up. Gaara's art teacher also happened to be his gym teacher though he thought some one like Zabuza- sensei seemed like he would be better fit for a gym teacher then Kakashi- sensei. Then again Zabuza- sensei would work them until their last breath.
"Today you'll be running the mile." Kakashi announced fallowed by groaning from many of the students. "Better get to it if you don't want to stay after the periods up to finish."
"Yes!" Naruto pumped a fist into the air. He looked ahead of him and pointed to Sasuke up ahead. "This time I'll show him who's faster!" He yelled loud enough for the other to hear even from ahead of him. Said boy turned and smirked at him, starting to run as soon as he was on the field. "I'll see you in a bit Gaara!" Naruto called as he took off after his rival.
'Maybe this will cut down his energy.' Gaara thought but then shook his head as he started to run. No, Naruto had enough energy to power the whole city.
It was after his first lap that Gaara started to feel weird. He ignored it for another half a lap but soon he was feeling worse. He reasserted himself that he only had one and a half laps to go then he could rest. Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji were already almost done as well as a quarter of his classmates. He'd rest when he was done.
His body, or maybe mind, had a different idea about that. Gaara a high tolerance of pain compared to other people so when he felt a gut wrenching pain in his stomach he new something was wrong. He knew things were even worse when his head started spinning and he fell to the ground.
"Gaara!" A voice called out that faintly resembled Naruto's though it sounded far off. "Kakashi-sensei!" The voice called.
Gaara opened his lazy eyes and saw Naruto waving halfway across the field at the teacher. Sasuke and Neji looked over at the blond from the finishing place. Gaara's eyes shut again and were consumed by blackness.
Gaara moaned painfully, faintly aware that his body was moving but he wasn't the one moving. Something was holding onto his thighs and was in between his legs. His arms were wrapped loosely around something hairy. He most have fallen asleep on the coach again and Kankuro was taking him up to his room.
"Are you awake?"
Gaara jumped at hearing the voice that was most diffidently not Kankuro's. He didn't have to open his eyes to know who it was but he did. Long black hair and a single white eye looking over a shoulder at him. Yup, it was Neji.
Gaara blushed and looked down but that only added to his reason of blushing. He was very close to the guy who had called him cute not even an hour ago whose hands were very close to his butt.
"Yeah." He mumbled noticing that they were walking to where he knew the office was. "What happened?"
"You passed out." Neji said looking forward again. "I'm taking you to the nurse."
"I-I'm fine, r-really." Gaara tried to advise the other boy. His body was still hurting, mainly his stomach, but if he went to the nurse then she might call his father. If she called his father he would get in trouble for being so weak and disturbing him at work.
"That's why you passed out in the middle of gym class?" Neji asked. He pushed open the door to the main office and walked through it to the nurse's office.
The lady looked up from her work with a smile but it fell when she saw the two come in. "What's wrong?"
Before Gaara had a chance to say nothing was wrong, Neji jumped in. "He passed out during the mile." Setting the redhead down on the bed/chair he stood near the boy.
"Oh my." The nurse came to kneel next to the boy. Taking out her stethoscope and placing it on a jumpy Gaara's chest. "How do you feel?"
Biting his lip in nervousness, he answered. "D-dizzy, my head kinda hurts f-from when I feel…but m-mostly my s-stomach…" Agreeing with him, his stomach gave a loud grumbled making the redhead blush.
The nurse stood. "What did you have for breakfast?"
"A p-piece of t-toast…"
"And for lunch?" A small frown on was on her face.
"…n-nothing."
"There's the problem. You've nearly eaten nothing all day and being in gym, running more so, hasn't helped. You have nothing in your stomach for energy." She said while walking to a small container at the side of the office. She picked up a small bag. "Eat these for now and I'll get you something when-"
"Nurse." A woman popped her head into the room. "Tsunade needs to speak with you in her office." Nodding the nurse placed the bag in Gaara's hands before leaving her office.
Gaara looked at the bag down in his hands and saw it had crackers in his hands. He placed them down next to him not wanting to eat them. The voice of his father calling him fat echoed in his ears.
"You're going to eat those." Gaara jumped and had almost forgotten Neji standing a few feet away from him, leaning against the wall. He hadn't asked if he was going to eat them, he had almost commanded that he eat them.
"I-I'm not hungry." Gaara said looking away from the other's white eyes. He became anxious when he felt the bed next to him dip down under the other's weight. He turned and looked at the cracker held in front of his face. "What?"
"Eat." Neji said firmly putting the cracked closer to Gaara's lips. Sighing, the other took the cracker and took a small bite while looking away with burning cheeks. "I told you to eat something at lunch."
"I-I wasn't hungry…" The redhead tried to defend himself but knew that someone as observant as Neji would see through it.
"You shouldn't lie; you're not very good at it."
"I-I'm not lying!"
"Then what are you doing?"
"I-I'm-"
"Eat." Neji pressed another cracker into his hand.
"I am eating!" Gaara said putting the whole cracker into his mouth and turning away from the other teen. His face was flush from both anger and embarrassment as he chewed on food in his mouth.
A chuckle came from beside him. "You look cute when you blush."
The comment caused Gaara to blush even more and was glad the nurse came back in to interrupt anything more the Hyuga would say. "Hyuga, will you bring Gaara his clothes to change. I don't want him to go back to gym today."
Neji nodded, standing up. Gaara took the bag of crackers handed to him and looked up as a hand was up on his shoulder by the white haired teen. Neji smiled, at something Gaara wasn't sure about, before leaving the nurse's office.
It wasn't until later that Gaara finally noticed that he hadn't jumped when Neji put his hand on Gaara's shoulder.
"Are you sure you're ok?" Temari asked for the fifth time with in the pass two minutes school had gotten out.
Answering her with the same as he had the other five times, he said it once again. "I'm fine. The nurse said I have to eat more…"
"Gaara!" Naruto shouted skidding to a stop; the blonde obviously hadn't lost any energy during gym. "Are you ok! I saw Neji carry you off and Kakashi-sensei wouldn't let me go to."
"Neji was carrying you?" Kankuro asked with narrowed eyes. He looked at his little brother very carefully. He knew Gaara didn't like any physical contact beside from him or Temari.
"Yes, I'm fine." Gaara answered both of the questions thrown at him. He looked at Kankuro for a second longer as if telling him that he was fine once again.
"Oh, well, see ya then!" Naruto waved to the three before handing off.
"Neji gave me an invitation to a party Hanta's having this Friday…" Kankuro thought out loud. "He said he didn't know if you had the invitation so he gave it to me during our science class. Said you were going?"
"That's great!" Temari announced. "You'll be socializing with a group of kids your own age. Oh Kankuro we should go to."
Gaara cursed the older boy mentally. He wasn't going planning on really going to the party but now he would more then likely be forced to go. But his dad would never let him. He wasn't sure which was worse, going to a party with a bunch of people or being at his house with his father.
"Hey dad." Kankuro suddenly said at dinner that night. His siblings looked up at him in question for his out burst in the eerily quietness of their home. "Hyuga Hinata is having a party this Friday and she invited us to go. Can we?"
His father looked up at him from cutting his steak with narrowed eyes. "All of you?" he asked eyeing Gaara.
"Yeah, it will get us all out for most of the night." He added the last part as a break it or make it part of the deal.
Their father looked back at cutting his food, keeping all of his children waiting for an answer. Just as Kankuro was about to ask again, he answered. "Fine."
The three children smiled at each other.
Whoo, done. A lot more Neji/Gaara in this one huh? (Laughs) Next chapter will have once again have a lot of Neji/Gaara and some look into Gaara…
Done at 1:06am. Woot! Pass out time!