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Warning: GaaSasuGaa! Nekkid-ness! And one (maybe two)perverted mind.


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blackflame180: Indeed it has begun. The lines are drawn and the battlefield has been chosen (aka: Gaara's heart... poor Gaa-chan).

Ninee Kisuragi: Ah yes, the plot twist, I love them. :) Hmm... plushie-mation movie? That would so rock! And no worries about Sasu-kun, I'm sure he'll get some sugar (if you know what I mean...). Thanks for the review Ninee-san!

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puptastic25: Mou, thanks for that note. I know basically what the purpose of 'teme' is for, and I know that Naru tends to call Sasuke that, I suppose that I should have not used it in that particular part.

YINGYANGBLOSSOMS : Thankies! I try to keep things interesting and I'm glad you liked it, hope you like this new chapter!


"Sasuke?"

Gaara got no response. Stepping towards the raven haired boy, Gaara crouched down beside him. Reaching out a hand, he shook Sasuke's shoulder. The black haired boy just limply shook. Gaara raised an eyebrow. Poking Sasuke's cheek, Gaara tried to wake the boy up, but nothing seemed to be working. Sighing in defeat, Gaara grabbed onto Sasuke's arms and pulled him out of the bush. Grumbling, Gaara slung one of Sasuke's arms over his shoulder and managed to get an arm underneath Sasuke. Grunting with exertion, Gaara managed to get Sasuke off the ground.

"I hate you…" Gaara mumbled, starting to slowly make his way to his house. Sasuke was a dead weight and Gaara just wanted to get out of the rain at this point.

Finally his house was in sight. Gaara quickly checked the driveway for his father's car, not seeing it Gaara trudged up the walkway to the porch. Cringing a bit, as if remembering the pain he had been in over a week ago, Gaara stepped onto the porch and made his way to the door. Frowning for a moment, Gaara carefully reached out a hand to ring the doorbell. Sensing Sasuke slipping, Gaara immediately grabbed onto the raven haired boys hand. The door opened after what seemed like an eternity and Temari just blinked at Gaara for a minute.

"Gaara?" she asked. Gaara nodded.

"Help me get him inside," he said, indicating Sasuke with his head. Temari nodded numbly and grabbed onto Sasuke's legs. Gaara readjusted his grip on Sasuke quickly so that he was holding onto his chest, arms under Sasuke's. Carefully the two of them managed to get into the house.

"Kankuro!" Temari shouted. Seconds later Kankuro came into the hallway grumbling. He blinked in surprise as he saw Gaara and Temari holding onto Sasuke.

"What the heck happened?" he asked. Gaara shook his head.

"Close the door," Temari said. "We're going to get him into the upstairs bathroom."

Gaara just followed Temari as she began walking backwards towards the stairs. Barely managing to get onto the stairs without bumping into the wall, Gaara flinched as Sasuke's limp arms practically dragged on the ground, bouncing against the stairs. Temari started moving down the hallway as she reached the top of the stairs, and Gaara had to rush up his final stairs in order to not drop Sasuke.

"Kankuro!" Temari shouted again, Gaara flinched.

"What!" Kankuro shouted back. Gaara twitched.

"Get up here and open the bathroom door!" Temari yelled. Gaara hung his head.

"Can't you two be quiet?" Gaara asked. Looking up Gaara caught his sister glaring at him. "Never mind."

Kankuro, grumbling once again, came up the stairs, maneuvered past his siblings and opened the bathroom door.

"There, happy now?" he asked sarcastically. Temari glared at him and he backed away from here.

Bringing Sasuke into the bathroom, Temari seemed to realize they needed to turn him around. Temari ordered Gaara back out into the hallway. As she got into the hallway she walked backwards and told the red head to go into the bathroom first. Gaara obediently followed her instructions, fearing her wrath.

"Let's prop him against the tub," Temari said, gently putting down Sasuke's feet. Gaara stepped into the tub, and put down Sasuke's torso making sure he wouldn't fall over.

"Now, fill the tub with hot water and start stripping him. When the tub is full put him in. I'm going to go get some towels," Temari stated, walking out of the bathroom. Gaara blinked, and then blushed bright red, rivaling the color of his hair for a moment.

"Have I mentioned that I hate you yet?" Gaara asked Sasuke quietly, knowing that Sasuke wouldn't reply. Hanging his head, Gaara took a deep breath. Looking back up, Gaara brought his hands forward and grabbed the hem of Sasuke's shirt. Sensing that the boy wouldn't wake up any time soon, Gaara pulled the fabric up. Manipulating one of Sasuke's arms, Gaara managed to get off a sleeve. Moving Sasuke's arm in a similar fashion, Gaara got the other sleeve off as well. Gaara pulled the shirt over Sasuke's head. Suddenly it hit him; he just took off Sasuke's shirt. Blushing brightly once again, Gaara backed away from the other boy.

"Ah. I see you've already gotten started. Don't forget to watch the water once you've gotten it started," Temari said, putting some towels and dry clothes onto the sink counter. "I brought you both some dry clothes."

Gaara nodded and Temari left again, closing the door behind her. Gaara turned his attention away from Sasuke, grateful for the excuse to do so, and plugged the drain of the tub. Turning on the water, Gaara just turned the hot water up all the way. Watching as the water gradually worked its way up to a steam, Gaara finally turned on the cold water, evening the temperature to something bearable, but still hot. Gaara looked up and saw a cabinet, standing Gaara stepped over Sasuke to reach the cabinet. Opening the doors Gaara looked at all the different things for baths, showers, general cleaning and spotted two things that would be useful: bubble bath, and a blow up headrest that could be attached to the side of the tub. Gaara immediately moved back to the taps and poured in a generous amount of bubble bath to the water. Ignoring Sasuke for a moment longer, Gaara started to blow up the headrest.

Having finished the headrest and attaching it to the tub, Gaara was left with only one thing to do: finish undressing Sasuke. Turning scarlet, Gaara moved to pull off Sasuke's shoes. Unlacing both shoes, Gaara tugged them off one by one and put them by the door. Then Gaara rolled off Sasuke's soaked socks. Gulping as he set them next to Sasuke's shoes, Gaara noted that the only things left to remove were Sasuke's pants and underwear. Gaara idly wondered if it would be possible to just leave the raven haired boy in his underwear and put him in the tub. Then his sister popped into his mind, and Gaara knew he'd have to totally strip the lithe body in front of him.

Reaching shaking hands out, Gaara unbuttoned Sasuke's jeans. He quickly looked up to search Sasuke's face for any sign of waking, and seeing none, pulled down the zipper. Gaara found his palms sweating. He hooked his fingers through two of Sasuke's pant's belt loops and pulled. Gaara glared at the pants. They weren't going anywhere. Gaara cursed his horrible luck, but then again… no! Bad luck! Gaara blushed furiously and put a hand to Sasuke's back. Feeling very inappropriate, Gaara put his hand down the back of Sasuke's jeans, but not down his boxers, and lifted the other boy's hips. Gaara quickly tugged once again on Sasuke's jeans with his other hand, feeling the other boy slipping, threatening to fall. The jeans made their way down and over Sasuke's hips and Gaara quickly removed his hand from Sasuke's bum. Knowing he was as red as his hair, Gaara focused on the water level of the tub for a moment. He could get Sasuke's jeans off and then he'd have to stop it, he decided. Grabbing onto the cuffs of Sasuke's jeans, Gaara deftly pulled them off and had to toss them quickly in order to stop Sasuke's from falling onto his side. Wrapping his arms around the nearly naked boy, Gaara twitched.

"I'm starting to think maybe you have all this planned…" Gaara murmured. He inhaled deeply and found himself intoxicated by Sasuke's smell: lavender and pine. It was a strange combination, but for some reason it worked well together, and in Gaara's opinion, it fit Sasuke. Blinking, Gaara realized that he had just been smelling Sasuke. Quickly balancing Sasuke once again against the tub, Gaara quickly turned off the water.

"… This might over flow when I manage to get this good looking dead weight in here…" he muttered. 'Good looking?' … Gaara brought a hand to his head. He needed an extended mental vacation away from all blondes with sunny smiles and endlessly blue eyes, and raven haired boys with black as coal eyes and lusty lips. Gaara twitched. This wasn't his day.

Gaara looked once again at the raven haired youth, his face heating up. He had to take off Sasuke's boxers, which he dully noted, were pitch black with little red hearts on them. Gaara crouched down and tried one last time to wake up Sasuke. He grabbed the boy's shoulders and shook him. Nothing happened. Gaara felt like crying, but he wasn't sure if it was because he was anguished or joyful. Gaara didn't think he wanted to know. So he grabbed hold of Sasuke's boxers and pulled. They went nowhere.

"There is no way I'm putting my hand down his shorts," Gaara said. He looked around, as if paranoid, and then sighed. No choice. He'd have to do it. Too bad Gaara didn't know there was a small perverted smile on his face.

Gulping, Gaara ran a tentative hand down Sasuke's bare back and hesitantly pushed it under the black material. It registered in Gaara's mind that Sasuke's skin was sinfully soft, and then Gaara lifted the other boy's hips. Slowly tugging the black material over Sasuke's hips, Gaara kept his eyes firmly planted on the bubble filled tub. Flinching, because he knew he had to look down, Gaara saw that the boxers were pulled down far enough to put Sasuke back down on the ground. Gaara gently put the fine body back where it was and retracted his hand, his fingers unintentionally lingering on that silky skin. Turning back to the task at hand, Gaara quickly ripped off Sasuke's boxers, grabbed his friends limp form, and somehow managed to lift him off the ground, arms under knees and arms.

"I feel like a groom carrying his wife over the threshold," Gaara grumbled. Carefully setting Sasuke's legs in the water, Gaara slowly lowered the rest of Sasuke's body into the water, placing his head on the headrest. Gaara smiled happily at his handiwork, pushing all available bubbles over Sasuke's lap. A groan from said raven haired boy snapped Gaara out of his brain dead state. Snapping his eyes over to Sasuke's face, from where Gaara's eyes had been lingering on where the hot water lapped at the ivory skin of Sasuke's chest, Gaara watched as black as sin eyes cracked open.

"…?" Sasuke questioned without saying anything. Gaara just deadpanned at him for a moment.

"I found you passed out in a bush in the pouring rain by Naruto's house, I had to do something with you, it wouldn't have been right to just leave you there," Gaara explained. Sasuke flushed.

"… Thanks," the black haired boy murmured. Gaara just nodded.

"Why were you in those bushes anyway?" Gaara asked. Sasuke avoided eye contact.

"I…" he started, but then seemed to notice that he was indeed naked and in a tub of hot water. Sasuke turned suspicious, and yet lusty eyes to Gaara. "Why am I naked in a tub full of bubbles?"

Gaara blushed. "Temari made me."

Sasuke nearly laughed at the expression on Gaara's face. "Oh?"

"I suppose it had something to do with the fact that you weren't conscious and felt cold," Gaara said, avoiding Sasuke's eyes.

"But how did I get naked and in a tub of bubble bath?" Sasuke leered. Gaara fidgeted.

"Umm…" he managed to say.

"You wouldn't know anything about that, now would you?" Sasuke asked, enjoying teasing the red head.

"I…" Gaara said.

"Who took off my clothes and put me in here? I'm sure they enjoyed the view," Sasuke said. Gaara's blush got darker.

"…"

Sasuke grinned ferally and grabbed onto Gaara's collar, pulling him to face to face. Gaara blinked his wide eyes.

"Did you like what you saw?" Sasuke purred. Gaara opened his mouth to reply, but lips pressed firmly onto his mouth, effectively stopping his retort, if he even had one.