Hey Guys,
Even though I wanted to wait for my beloved to catch up reading, I decided to post the next one. I couldn't wait! ;)
As I said don't prejudge, there's a reason for everything.
Have fun!
SquaMata
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31. Gentlemen
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Sakura woke up in luxurious whine-red Egyptian cotton sheets. She looked around.
Over the vintage half-tester bed was an oriental lantern hanging in a drop-shape. The bed area was separated from the rest of the L-shaped room by a wooden lattice adorned with oriental handcarved patterns. To her left she could see through the lattice that there was a small area with wardrobes and doors. Apparently it was an anteroom functioning as walk-in closet too. In the direction of the foot end of the bed there was an open portal in the lattice which led to the main part of the room where mirrored floor-to-ceiling windows gave a wonderful view over the village. A large Persian carpet, wooden panels with carvings and book shelves on the left and two cream coloured vintage loungers on each side of a potted palm in the free upper right corner completed the traditional desert styled bedroom. All the wooden elements were in a dark teak, the prevalent accents of the room were held in whine-red and creamy colours. Sakura liked the combination of traditional with modern style, it was classy and showed stylistic assurance.
Apparently she was alone in the kazekage's bedroom, so she stretched out contentedly and yawned full-heartedly. The young kunoichi remembered last night. She had felt incredibly alone and needed comfort, she had also been afraid that she had offended the kazekage in any way, so she had decided to visit him. Gaara had let her in and had given her a pair of boxers and a t-shirt and put on something himself before they had spent the night together in his very comfortable bed.
He had been a true gentleman. They had kissed and touched innocently, the couple had decided to not rush things. It had been really sweet and wonderfully pleasant to be so near to another person who showed sincere affection for her.
Sakura crawled out of his oversized bed and walked to the doors in the anteroom area to search for the bathroom.
The one on the left was what she had been looking for. Temari had been right, the bathroom was like his personal spa area. A huge whirlpool and an open shower with an artificial waterfall where in front of a mirrored glass wall overviewing the village. The whole room was created with boulders, grey natural stones as tiles and decorated with plants. There were two other doors, one led into the main hall of his apartment and the other into a separated lavatory, which seemed more like a stone throne.
Dammit, it's like being thrown into another world! If Tsunade could see how luxurious the kazekage quarters are she would probably burst with envy!
It was almost breakfast time. Sakura wanted to go to her own room to change into her everyday's clothes and join the meal with the others, so she went into his personal hall. Unfortunately there were 8 doors, 6 led to different rooms and two looked like front doors. The young Konoha medic stared at the two front doors, they looked the same. She opened both, maybe she would recognize the right one when she could see what was lying behind, but seemingly she was out of luck. Both doors led to similar looking descending stairs.
Shit, which one is the right one?
Now you're finally talking with me again?
Please help me! Do you know which one leads back to my room?
Now I'm good enough, huh?
Please help me!
I'm sorry I don't know. To me they look the same.
Dammit.
Take the one on the right!
Why?
Intuition.
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So she walked through the right door and went down until her way was blocked by another two doors. She knew she had taken the wrong staircase and ran back up, but apparently the door couldn't be open from outside without a key.
Shit!
So she went back to the doors on the other end of the stair.
The left one!
Intuition?
Yep.
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Hesitantly she put her hand on the handle of the right door and opened it.
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! NO!
I told you to take the left one!
Sakura was mortified, while inner Sakura laughed her ass off.
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Obviously she had bolted right into a council meeting. The door led directly into the council room.
The pinkette's face turned beet-red, she wanted to curl up and die instantly. What made it all worse the councils smiled friendly, but knowingly as she noticed she was wearing the clothes Gaara had lent her for the night. It was obvious they had spent the night together. The young kazekage seemed calm and composed as ever, he didn't show any reaction as he stood up and indicated her to follow him. The two went through a door directly into his official kazekage office.
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He closed the door and stood in front of her. Sakura thought he would be angry and waited for a scolding, but he smiled at her instead and laid his hands gently on her shoulders "Good morning! I'm sorry I had to leave so early." Then he bent down a little to kiss her softly.
Sakura smiled and whispered "I'm a big girl, I can sleep alone." She deepened the kiss and grabbed his fire-red hair.
"Mhm, I see" the young man murmured into the passionate kiss.
All of a sudden he pulled her with him to his desk, where he lifted her up easily and sat her down on the dark wooden tabletop. The young man stepped in between her legs and kissed the surprised girl fiercely, soon she pulled him down with her as their passion rose. The shinobi couple dropped a few papers and scrolls in the heat of the moment. But as his tiny potted cactus fell next with a loud clank Gaara regained his senses.
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No matter how much he hated it but he had to stop their make-out session, they couldn't get it on right there in his office while the council was waiting for him to continue the meeting in the very room next to them. He was the leader of the village and the head of the council after all.
Out of breath he pressed his forehead onto hers and said "We will continue that later." He didn't miss her disappointed sigh, but she nodded in understanding.
Gaara helped her up and adjusted his clothes, she fixed his tousled hair and both smiled showing still a burning fire in their eyes.
Then he showed her the secret door in the wooden panels which led back up to his apartment from where she could go downstairs right to the annex.
"I'm sorry I forgot to tell you about the doors." He handed her a key for the door to his apartment and kissed her goodbye. "Just leave it on the sideboard in the hall upstairs. I'll catch you later!" Smirking the kazekage went back into the council room next to his office.
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That time she took the right door, passing by two ANBU she rushed to her room, took a quick shower and changed into her own clothes. Then she went down to the family kitchen where she found only Temari at breakfast. Of course Kankuro had to join the meeting too, he had been the council looking at her with the broadest grin as she had accidentally disturbed them. Strangely Kakashi was absent.
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In the meantime Gaara had entered the room and sat back down on his seat.
The councils smiled. "So the Konoha medic. She seems nice." One of them remarked.
"Mhm, in fact she is." The kazekage couldn't suppress a one-sided smirk.
"Good choice!" The council agreed, except the two guys who repeatedly wanted him to marry one of their daughters.
The red-headed chairman regained his business composure and answered sternly "We will adjourn that discussion to another day, now we have enough to focus on. Today we must finally achieve agreement on the market problem with the surplus production of chickpeas this year and then we need to do the last poll about the structure and the renovations of the location of the new med school finally."
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Later Gaara had invited her into his apartment, he showed her around. There were a gym, a living room, a kitchen with a dining area and an office she hadn't seen before, because she hadn't been snooping around in the morning. Then they had a romantic, although silent and tense dinner on the balcony of his living room. He had prepared the meal all by himself, it turned out he was a really good cook.
After some grilled banana with chocolate for dessert she helped him to clean the table. It was getting cold and so they decided to have a glass of wine in his living room. It had an L-shape like his bedroom, there was a huge L-shaped couch in the main corner, a fireplace on the upper wall on the right, also there were shelves with books, decoration and hi-fi equipment on the other two walls. Gaara had a good taste in interior design.
Sakura stood up from the comfortable sand-coloured couch and walked over to the pictures on the wall. There were photographs of his family and some paintings. There was a huge oil painting of Shukaku right above his couch.
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The young kazekage returned with a bottle of Suna's best wine. The two shinobi sat down and clinked glasses. The red wine was amazing, it had a rich, full-body and fruity taste with hints of cinnamon and figs.
Sakura pointed at the wall behind them. "This painting is fascinating! He looks so powerful, but also very timid and sensitive. Whoever made this had once a special experience with him I guess."
"Mhm, you have a keen perception. It is one of my favourite works. I've painted it as I had to deal with the silence..." His turquoise eyes bore right up into her soul.
She leaned forward and sealed his lips with hers. Slowly he returned the kiss and soon the situation heated up.
As they began to explore what was underneath their clothes, the young redhead stopped her hand by taking hold of her wrist. He kissed her hand and looked her deep into the eyes.
"Ehrm, Sakura, I think… Maybe it's time to talk about, ehrm, contraception? I would prefer to preview that before we… do something."
The pinkette smiled at him, he was such a thoughtful and careful person. She made some handsigns. "It's a strong contraception jutsu I learned directly from the hokage. We're more than safe now. I'm a very skilled medic nin as you know."
He smiled at her, nodded and took her hand to lead her into his bedroom. There were no more words needed.
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She was standing in front of the bed, he stepped behind her and kissed her neck as he helped her to undress to her underwear. She seemed a bit tense and so was he. He discarded his own clothes until he was left in his boxers and crawled under the sheets with her. For a few moments of awkward silence they were just lying next to each other until she leaned forward and kissed the hesitant young man.
Tardily their hands began to wander over soft skin. They haven't seen each other fully naked yet. His gentle hands shoved away her bra and she unclasped it confidently to remove it fully. Apparently he liked what he saw as he caressed her breasts with tender touches of his hands and mouth. Sakura moaned in appreciation.
He was pure eye candy, strong arms held him above her, a broad, muscular chest led down to a hot sixpack and further down she could feel his erected member rubbing against her. Her hands found the hem of his dark green hipster boxers and slowly stripped them off. She let her fingers brush over his hard rod and smiled into the kiss as she felt him shiver in reaction. Then he sat up, smirked at her and pulled off her black lacy brazil-cut thong.
Both looked at the now fully naked body of the other. His penis had decent size and narrow girth, she liked what she saw it was pretty imposing. He noticed her longing look, since it was the same look he gave her. Gaara had a thing for her body, his eyes travelled from her perky not too big breast to the toned stomach and the small pink landing strip she had shaved.
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He leered at her.
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"Tell me what you want me to do! What do you prefer, Sakura? What do you like?"
How could I know what I want or what I like? It's not that I've got much reference…
"You're doing great, just keep going." She pulled him closer until he was lying on top of her propped up on his elbows and she whispered "Kiss me!"
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He complied willingly and kissed her deeply while he entered her. He started slow and gentle and watched her every move and sound. She seemed a bit tense, so he hesitated to move more and gave her a moment to relax. Soon she pulled him closer to kiss him again and he started to move faster.
Gaara was absolutely quiet during sex, his head rested between her neck and her shoulder as his thrusts became more and more urgent. Sakura was just lying there on her back as her thoughts oddly drifted off to a certain silverhead, she couldn't explain why. The young redhead didn't last long and came stiff with a pressed, quick exhale of the breath he had been holding.
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The morning in his office and their evening had started so passionately, but it ended in tense and unsatisfying sex for her, she found it weird. She begged inwardly that it wouldn't be always like this.
Remember what Temari said about the special room!
But there is no other room in his apartment.
Maybe it's in the vault he mentioned yesterday, or it's another secret door like the one in his office?
I hope you're right.
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Still sheeted inside, Gaara propped up on his hands to look at her. "Are you alright?"
"Yes" she smiled at the tousled redhead..
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"But you didn't cum, right? Should I..?" he retreated and began to descend, but she stopped him.
"No, I'm fine. It was great, really. I just need some time to adjust to a new partner before I could let go. Don't bother too much." Her mood was definitely gone for tonight, although she was here to please him according to her mission, she had doubts now and needed some time to clear her mind.
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"Are you sure?" Gaara put a strain behind her ear.
Sakura gave him the most beautiful smile she could pretend. "Yes."
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"I'm so sorry, Sakura. I haven't been with anyone for a long time now." He ascended and kissed her, then he lay back and pulled her to him. "You should know you're the first woman in my bed."
She was very confused, that didn't fit what she had heard and what she had been trained for. "What? Really?"
That would explain much!
I bet these rumours were just made to let him be sitting pretty!
Gaara sensed the small misunderstanding and wanted to clear it up "I mean I had been with women but never in the same bed where I'm trying to sleep in."
"Uhm, okaaayyy…" She didn't know how to react.
That's weird.
Yep!
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"You'll understand someday." He cleared his throat before he asked her out of pure curiosity "Do you mind telling me about your first time?"
Sakura was palpably uncomfortable now. "Uhm, I don't know, Gaara. It happened a few years ago and it doesn't matter anymore."
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"We should be honest to each other, Sakura." He had heard rumours and some stories from his sister and wanted to know the truth. The redhead caressed her back slowly as a sign of reassurance.
The pinkette took a deep breath before she continued. "It happened with my childhood crush after the war. I tried to convince him to stay in Konoha. It was unromantic, loveless and over soon. I was such an idiot. By dawn he was gone."
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Inside Gaara's head:
So it's true!
If Konoha wouldn't be an ally you should spirit that Uchiha bastard off!
Great, now I'm imaging Shukaku's voice again.
Believe it or not, but I'm still here!
At least I'm imaging he likes her.
I don't like your pink-haired bitch, you know what we prefer, but I've always wanted to kill that cocky Uchiha since the chuunin exams. Now you have a reason!
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Gaara looked at the beautiful girl in his arms. "That's sad. You would have deserved so much better, Sakura." He pulled her closer to his chest.
She relaxed to his heartbeat. "Hm. And how was your first time?"
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Now he was the one who needed a deep breath first. "It was weird. Kankuro dragged me to a local brothel during the war. He said I need to unwind before I would lose control." She raised a brow and looked a bit disgusted. "Look, the thing we two have is like entering new territory for me, I've never been able to date someone. First there was no one I was really interested in, second as kazekage it's not easy to meet women of my age who come into question and are earnestly interested in me as a person and not only in my title and state. And third in my position I cannot go out and date random girls. Imagine all the rumours. I have a reputation to lose. There was no better alternative."
"Haven't you felt lonely?"
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"Not really, I have my siblings and all the people working around me, but after I had lost Shukaku deep inside I have felt lonely sometimes. Maybe that is why I imagine his voice inside my head. I don't know why I'm telling you this." He closed his eyes and rubbed his forehead.
"I'm glad you open up to me, Gaara." Sakura smiled at him. His eyes met hers and he smiled back before he kissed her again. "I'm glad you came to me, Sakura."
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She liked his affection, she wasn't alone anymore.
They lay there for a long time just relishing the aftermath of their first sexual encounter and feeling the warmth and comfort of their naked body contact. Occasionally they looked at each other, their showing emotions were underlined by soft caressing touches. Maybe there was hope for them being together for real, but a small part of her told her it wasn't right, that he wasn't the right man at her side and she was just pretending and fooling herself. But she decided to ignore that for the sake of the kazekage and the two villages.
It will get better.
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As Sakura slowly began to drift off, embraced in his strong arms, he retreated carefully and wanted to get up again, because he knew he can't sleep. The Konoha medic sat up and looked at him questioningly.
"You know I can't sleep. I…"
"Ssshhhh!" She pointed him to lay down "Let me help you."
Then her green glowing hands made him sleep. She used the time to detect if there were remains of Shukaku and she found them indeed. Sakura was tired, but she couldn't sleep, it had all been too crazy for her. She didn't want to disturb him and so she went down into her room.
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The pinkette was sitting on her bed as tears washed over her face, she cried of her own damn weird feelings, because she liked Gaara but was angry that she couldn't fully concentrate on him. Even during their sex that silverhead haunted her thoughts.
In the room next to hers Kakashi was lying awake in his bed, as he heard her sobbing and crying. There was only a wall separating their beds from each other. It hurt him deep to the core, but what could he do? He doubted it would end beneficial for the mission if he would walk into her room right now, so he decided to summon Pakkun. The jounin sent the cute pug over to comfort her and went for a night work out to cool down.
That night Sakura fell asleep in her own bed with Pakkun in her arms. She hadn't ask why he had shown up and they hadn't talked a single word, he had just lay down on her lap and she had started to pet his smooth fur.