Sasuke, Naruto and Gaara walked through the cool stone corridors from the potions room, Kiba a stumbling behind.
"Inquiry." Sasuke commented to Naruto without looking at him.
Naruto looked over at Sasuke politely while Gaara glanced over his shoulder to see Kiba walk head-first into a suit of armour.
"Why did you kiss him?" Sasuke asked over the cursing and crashing coming from Kiba and the suit of armour alike.
A slow, evil grin melted onto Naruto's face. "Jealous, are we?"
Sasuke wrinkled his nose in a somehow dignified manner. "You wish, dobe."
"I'm sure he does." Gaara flicked his two cents into the conversation.
"Gaara-chan, did you get those nipple-rings you thought of getting?" Naruto countered with an innocent look.
Gaara looked away, refusing to answer, while Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
"He was going to get some ruby-studded ones!" Naruto grinned gleefully at Sasuke.
"And," Gaara cut in as Sasuke's eyes widened in shock, "did you get your thing pierced, like you wanted to, dear, little Naruto-kun"
Sasuke choked while Naruto blushed beet-red, the three of them stopping walking for the moment.
"Yes, now that you ask." answered the blonde.
Sasuke clutched his head, stamping his foot and gritting his teeth. "Oh god, the mental images! They burn!"
"The piercings healed over." Naruto grinned at Gaara, who raised an amused eyebrow under is cap. "I had to take them out because they were getting itchy, and they healed over the next hour."
Gaara nodded. "I told you so."
Sasuke desperately tried to stop the mental images by whacking his forehead against the floor.
... It worked, actually.
Five minutes later, Sasuke, Naruto, Gaara and Kiba stood outside the transfiguration room, waiting for their teacher and classmates.
Sasuke raked his fingers through his fringe and patted it over the forming bruise on his forehead. "You never answered my question, usuratonkachi."
"I kissed him because i wanted to!" Naruto grinned happily.
"Ignorance is bliss." Kiba growled under his breath, leaning against the transfiguration door.
"So is a virgin mind." Gaara smirked.
Sasuke sent an annoyed glare in Gaara's direction and the red-head decided to innocently stare at the ceiling.
"Did you get those nipple-rings, by the way?" Kiba asked Gaara, fiddling with his lip-piercing, looking at the red-head curiously, ignoring Sasuke, who flinched violently.
Gaara raised a concealed eyebrow at Kiba. "Why is everyone so interested with my nipples?" the red-head asked.
Naruto ignored Sasuke, who gagged. "We just wanna know!" the blonde squealed happily, clapping his hands together.
Gaara sighed a ever-suffering sigh, which made Naruto wonder where he'd learnt it. "Yes, i have the nipple-rings."
Naruto cheered, flinging his arms up in the air. "Lets see! Lets see"
Sasuke was now struggling to hold his breakfast in.
"I really don't think--" Gaara started, but was immediately pinned up against the wall by Kiba, and Naruto yanked the red-head's shirt up.
Ignoring the shouts of 'oh my!' and 'goodness!' from the portraits, Gaara sighed.
Naruto giggled like a a lunatic while Kiba let out a whistle, both of them staring at Gaara's pale bare chest, two red piercings glimmering at them, a thin silver chain connecting the pieces of metal.
Gaara vaguely heard Sasuke retch from behind a suit of armour.
"They're red!" Naruto squealed, his eyes sparkling as he twisted one of them, making Gaara squirm.
"Where did the chain come from?" Kiba smirked, golding Gaara's unresisting arms above his head with one hand.
"Temari's jewelry box, if you must know." sighed the sand-nin.
"What did she think of them?" Kiba smirked, ignoring Naruto who was still giggling and staring at the rings.
"She..." Gaara paused as Naruto twisted his other ring, making him squirm again. "She dislikes them, but she's got piercings too, so, she puts up with them."
"She has piercings too?" Naruto blinked, tearing his eyes off Gaara's pale chest. "I never saw them!"
"I'd be surprised if you had." Gaara said shortly.
Sasuke sat with his face in his hands, shaking, muttering something about virgin minds not being all they were cracked up to be.
((TBC. i am sorry. so very sorry. for the lateness, and the... -AHEM- 'topic' of this chapter. i love Gaara. i love paircings. simple. anyway, thank you all for your support, and please, i love little Sasuke and his virgin mind. don't think i don't. XD Temari is badass. i assumed she had piercings in that... 'certain' place. . . . hey! don't look at me like that! see the rating? it says 'M'! that means you were warned of my warped sense of humour! ... no? ... damn. x.x anyway, i've been feeling really bad lately, so, uh... yeah.))