Ah, thank you so much for the awesome reviews for chapter 12! My reviewers are so kind…

Neji: Tina-chan does not own Naruto. If she did Hinata-sama would be a scary yaoi fangirl… -shudder-

Hinata: A-anou… s-shounen-ai w-warning… I-if you don't like it… DON'T' READ IT!

-glare-

Neji: -meep-

Kankuro was lazing about upstairs when he smelled something baking. Someone was baking?

'Kami, don't tell me Temari is cooking! I don't wanna go to the hospital again…'

Then Kankuro remembered that Temari had 'gone out' as she called it. She couldn't be baking. That only left one person… but that wasn't possible, was it?

'…I don't want to, but I guess I should check.'


"Wow that was a little harder than I thought it was going to be! I think we did okay though, what do you think Gaara?"

"…Hn."

They had started to do the recipe when they realized that the measurements were strange English measurements, like cups! ( A/N remember that Americans and such people have weird measurements… cause we're all just weird like that.) None of them knew how to convert the measurements to the metric system, so they just decided to wing it. I mean, they knew all of the ingredients, right? How hard could it be to figure out the measurements? After Naruto said that it somewhat resembled cookie dough they had put lumps of it on a cookie pan and put in the oven. After ten minutes they took the cookies out again and let them cool, and then they examined them.

"Anou, they look okay."

"…are you sure?"

"Yeah! I'm sure they'll be good"

"…maybe we should test them first."

"Test 'em on who?"

At that moment Kankuro walked into the kitchen to see who was baking. He saw Gaara and Naruto with a pan of cookies, and Gaara was staring at him weird… He turned around and was about to run away when his little brother spoke.

"…Kankuro."

He froze. It was not a good idea to ignore Gaara, unless you wanted to die…

"Uh, yeah Gaara?"

"…Have a cookie"

It wasn't a question it was a demand, and Kankuro knew it. He gulped slightly and took a cookie. Gaara's cooking couldn't be as bad as Temari's, could it? Gaara was glaring at him and he knew that he had to eat the cookie or suffer the consequences. He took a bite and…

"Whoa!"

He ran to the fridge and drank a lot of water to dilate the immense amount of sugar that was now circulating through his blood stream.

"…how much sugar did you guys put in this!"

"Uh, I dunno, we kinda just poured it in until it looked right."

Gaara nodded in agreement.

"Did you do that for the brown sugar, white sugar, and chocolate chips?"

They both nodded.

"Anou sa, anou sa, how did it taste?"

Kankuro thought about it. The cookies had actually been pretty good, they just had way too much sugar… and everyone knows how scary people can be on sugar high.

"Yeah, they were pretty good. I wouldn't eat too many of them at once though. So… why are you guys baking?"

"Well, Gaara ate cookie dough ice cream and he really liked it and I asked him if he ever had cookies and he said no so I thought that maybe we could make some so he could try them and we came over here cause you guys have a better kitchen and Temari asked of she could help but Gaara told her no and then we got the ingredients but recipe had weird measurements so we just kind of estimated how much stuff to put in but they turned out okay so its fine!"

It took Kankuro about five minutes to actually comprehend what the blonde was saying, and when he did he was still confused. Since when did Gaara like ice cream? Or cookies? Then again, since when did Gaara hug people or wear panda ear beanies? Kankuro looked at Naruto. Was this blonde kid really the cause of all of this?

"So you guys are friends now, huh?"

"Yeah, 'cause Gaara's really cool!"

Naruto immediately hugged Gaara. Gaara stiffened and… was that a blush?"

'Gaara's blushing? Something's definitely missing here… but it couldn't be that, could it? Then again, if Gaara has started blushing who says the impossible can't happen?'

"So you guys are just friends?"

"Um, well…"

Naruto blushed a bit and looked at the floor. Kankuro smirked.

'So they are a little more than 'just friends'… and I wasn't hallucinating that time I saw them hugging… Still, who would have thought that Gaara swung any way, especially that way?'

Gaara glared at his brother for making Naruto uncomfortable. Kankuro put his hands up in defense.

"Hey, I don't have anything against you guys, I think its great. Just don't be too loud at night, okay?"

With that last comment Naruto blushed even deeper and Gaara had a vein pulsing in his forehead. Kankuro decided to exit and ran for his life. He was still smirking though, because who would have thought that he would be able to tease Gaara and live? Naruto was going to make living with Gaara a lot more bearable…

Gaara was still slightly pissed off at his brother, and Naruto decided that now would be a good time to distract him.

"Hey Gaara, look at me!"

Gaara turned around and Naruto popped one of the cookies in his mouth. His panda eyes widened considerably. Cookies tasted good! Really sugary… Sugar! Now, Gaara had never really had sugar besides the ice cream. Sweets weren't big in Suna. Therefore Gaara didn't know that he was highly susceptible to sugar high. Anyone who's ever had an excess of sugar knows the strange things that sugar high makes us do….

"… Naruto, do you want to taste the cookies?"

"Yeah, they look really- mmph!"

Gaara kissed him, pulling his tongue into his mouth. Naruto tasted sugar… lots of sugar, and chocolate! Yummy… Naruto made a happy purring sound in his throat. Gaara pulled away and smirked.

"…Did it taste good?"

"Yeah, could I try some more?"

"Try this instead."

Gaara stuffed a cookie into Naruto's mouth, payback for earlier. Naruto was slightly disappointed, but the cookie did taste good… mmm, sugary! It tasted like Gaara…

'Two new favorite things besides ramen: pandas and chocolate chip cookies!


T.C. was savoring a 'happy yaoi/Naruto fangirl' moment. Hinata's eyes looked slightly glazed over (it was hard to tell though). They had watched the Naruto/Gaara/cookie make-out session from a bush through the kitchen window and taken pictures. Unbeknownst to them, above them in a tree were Temari and Sakura, who had also watched. T.C. and Hinata went to update the Naruto fan club while Temari and Sakura went to inform the KYF club.

Kankuro was heading back to the Panda Yadoya when he saw two girls walking back from that direction. Kankuro raised an eyebrow. Hadn't he seen those two briefly when he had run out of the house for dear life? And why in the world were they carrying cameras?

'Guess it wouldn't hurt to follow them, if Gaara's still angry I won't be able to enter the Yadoya anyway. Are they Gaara fangirls or something?'


Neji was walking around when he saw a guy with purple paint on his face following his cousin Hinata, and Hinata was walking with some strange girl and still carrying his camera. He decided to follow them for two reasons: one, to see why the weird paint-faced guy was following his cousin, and two, to see exactly where Hinata-sama was going with her newfound friend and his camera…

Neji walked over to the paint faced guy.

"…Why are you following my cousin?"

Kankuro turned around to see a long haired guy with weird eyes glaring at him.

"Uh, sorry, I didn't know she was your cousin, but I think that she and that other girl were spying on my brother."

"And why would Hinata-sama be spying on your brother?"

"Beats me, that's why I'm following them."

"Then please allow me to accompany you."

Neji's glare left no room for argument, so the two boys silently followed behind the girls to their destination.

"Okay girls, here's the update!"

The Naruto fan club was in T.C.'s backyard sitting in front of a projector screen and Neji and Kankuro were hidden in some bushes watching them. They wondered why all the girls were gathered there; what was their purpose?

T.C. loaded her and Hinata's photos onto the projector.

"KYAAAAAH, SO KAWAII!"

One of the members of the club raised her hand.

"I move to change our name from the Uzumaki Naruto fan club to the GaaNaru fangirl club!"

T.C. considered it. That would be huge. It would mean that the girls would pledge themselves to keeping the two together as a couple, and protecting them from all that would tear them apart. Would they be able to handle that? And what of Sabaku no Gaara?

"That is a possibility that will be voted on. But first, I would like to know a bit more of Sabaku no Gaara. What is he like? What's his history and-"

"T.C.-san."

"Hai Hinata-chan?"

Hinata had her Byakugan activated.

"…We're being watched."

Neji and Kankuro looked at each other in horror; they had wandered into the middle of a group of rabid fangirls! And not just any fangirls, Yaoi fangirls, who were ten times as worse as the ordinary kind! Kankuro was slightly intrigued though. Who knew that Gaara had it in him? His little brother was growing up, that was for sure. These fangirls seemed kind of iffy about Gaara though, and Kankuro didn't blame them. Thanks to Naruto, Gaara was more stable but would he stay that way?

Neji was somewhat mortified. Hinata-sama was stooping so low as to spy on people for pictures? She was obsessed with yaoi? Who was this person, and what had she done with the old Hinata? And the whole Gaara/Naruto thing. Since when had they started to do that kind of stuff? And why did it bother him so much? This sucked!

"Neji-niisan?"

And of course fate had to be cruel and make it worse.

After being told that they were being watched, the fangirls decided to figure out who was watching them. They snuck up to the place that Hinata indicated, armed with shuriken, senbons, and various other sharp and pointy objects. T.C. pulled back to the bushes to reveal… Neji and Kankuro. Hinata was confused.

"Neji-niisan?"

Neji and Kankuro were terrified, to say the least. What kind of boy wouldn't be afraid of armed yaoi fangirls?

"Okay, who are you guys and what are you doing here? Talk fast or face the wrath of fangirls!"

"Anou, one is my c-cousin Neji-niisan. I-I don't know the other person…"

"Uh, I'm Kankuro and Gaara is my little brother and I'm here because I wanted to know what you guys were doing hanging around the inn."

"You're Gaara's niisan?"

"Yep!"

"Okay, I'm T.C., president of the Naruto fan club. All of us here are devoted to the happiness of Naruto, who is currently dating your otouto. Tell us about him. What is he like? Did he have a happy childhood? Is he mentally stable? Will he be a good match for Naruto-kun?"

"What if I don't want to tell you?"

T.C. smiled sweetly.

"… I'm sure we can think of something. Girls?"

All of the fangirls had evil glints in their eyes as they thought of ways to get Kankuro to talk. Kankuro decided that he would rather talk than find out what they were planningto do with him…Who knew what fangirls could come up with with their twisted minds?

"What's Gaara like? Sure, I can tell you that!"

"Let's go inside shall we?"

Neji tried to sneak away but both he and Kankuro were caught and dragged into T.C.'s house by the fangirls.

'Damn you Gaara, why is your relationship causing problems for me? I'm gonna get interrogated by rabid fangirls!'

'Damn you Sabaku no Gaara, your relationship with Naruto is pissing me off! And it's making Hinata-sama act weird! And since when did Naruto have a fan club?'

TBC

Poor Neji and Kankuro… let's pray for their souls. -kekeke-

I have a confession to make; I have writers block for the KakaIru pairing! Would my readers be really awesome and give me some ideas? If not, the pairing might not appear for a loooong time… have pity on them! And Neji-kun seems to be getting a bit jealous… -smirk- What will become of him and Kankuro?

Kakashi: who cares about them? What do you mean by a loooong time?

Iruka: Yeah!

Tina-chan: Sorry, I just don't know what to do next!

Iruka/Kakashi: Well, figure it out!

Tina-chan: Don't yell at me! You guys are mean… You keep this up and I'll change the pairing! How does ItaIru sound huh? Mess with me and I swear I'll put it in!

Naruto: Wow, she's cracking up... You guys better be careful, I think she's serious!

Iruka/Kakashi: …Nooo!

Tina-chan: -points finger at them- You two better hope that the readers have pity on your souls and give me ideas!

Please review! Please help feed my soul… and save the souls of others. coughNejiKankuroKakashiIrukacough