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Chapter Twenty-Three:

Flight On Ebony Wings

Like our first kiss this one was filled with passion.

When we pulled apart I smiled up at him as the storm outside became fiercer and fiecer, making me jump from time to time when the claps of thunder would shake our cave, causing a number of rocks to fall from the cieling. He pulled me closer to him and for a few minutes simply stared into my eyes as if he was trying to decide something that he wasn't sure about.

There was something that I had been wandering about myself, so I asked him, "Gaara?"

He leaned against the cave wall closing his eyes again, "Yes?"

"When we find Sasuke and Itachi, and well you know- what will you do?" I looked at his face trying my best to guess what he was thinking but he revealed nothing to me, I could only guess that he was thinking about his answer to my question.

"I don't know," he finally stated as he down at me his eyes puzzled by my question.

"Well," I focus on my feet as I tried to pull some of the moss of the cave floor up by my hands, "I was wandering if maybe-"

I was cut off by another clap of thunder, and the sound of someone's chuckled.

I stopped talking to see if he had heard it, but when he showed no signs of alert I contiuned on thinking that maybe it had all been in my mind, "Maybe you should come back to Konoha with Naruto and me."

He looked at me for a few minutes before leaning down and kissing me again on my lips an action that I took as a yes from him considering he never said that he wouldn't come back home with us.

I ran my hands through his messy hair, as he wrapped his strong arms around my waist.

I wont go into detail about what exactly took place that night considering that is not what we are here for, and quite frankly that is very personal for me and is none of your buisness. What I will say is that it was one of the best nights of my life, my best and last night with him alone.

If only I had known what was going to happen the next night then maybe I could have stopped him from fighting him, maybe I could have made Naruto promise to leave Sasuke alone so that he could have had a chance to meet his son.

I shouldn't have been so selfish as I had been.

I should have helped them more.

I should have done something, anything.

The next morning I woke up to find myself wrapped firmly in his arms, his forehead pressed against my shoulder and his hair lightly touching my shoulders each like a soft kiss from his lips. It felt good to be there in his arms, it felt right- more right than anything else in the world. We had become one that night, and I knew that he was the one and only one that I wanted.

And I knew that it was the same for him.

After all in the middle of it he had told me that he wanted me to be only his and no one elses- it wasn't much of a proposal but its the effort that counts, right?

It was love, plain and simple.

You can shake your head and say it had been hormones all you want but you hadn't been there. You didn't feel the passion, the love, the lust that our bodies had been swept with during that storm. We had been in love and thats the truth. To me there is no age limit to love, you can fall in love at any age and you just know when you are.

Heres something I've found out personally:

With love you just know, and you never doubt.

With love there is no time limit.

If you're truely in love with someone than there is nothing that can stop your love for each other, not death, not life, not other people. Its a bond that you can never break, its a bond that you can never ever shatter no matter what happens.

Love is different than any other emotion a human can ever experience and we experienced it with each other.

I know we did.

I realized it more when his lips were pressed on the tender skin of my shoulder blade, when his individual hair strands kissed my shoulder blade, when his teal eyes opened and for once they smiled a silent smile that was meant only for me.

Thats the moment I knew.

Thats the moment he knew.

Thats the moment we both knew we knew.

Sitting up, I brushed my hair out of my face, and smiled down at him considering he didn't move from the spot he was lying in. Thats was the first time I ever witness a smile from him, a true smile that truely meant he was happy. I leaned down and we kissed again.

When I tried to pull away he jerked me back down to the mossy floor, and leaned over my nude form.

I laughed as he smiled wider, apparently pleased with himself.

But then his smile melted into a frown and he said to me, "Someone is coming."

We both stood up, quickly getting dressed and walking out of the cave into the damp forest.

There he stood, a smirk on his lips, "So its true then?"

"Uchiha," Gaara growled setting in front of me.

"This," Sasuke stated pulling out his sword, "Isn't between me and you I have things with her that need to be dealt with."

His crimson eyes bore into my own, but Gaara shifted in front of me so that he blocked Sasuke's view, "You will deal with me."