Title: Exotic Light
Authoress: Darka-Chan
Summary: Gaara is a dancer, a stripper, and Neji is always there to watch him dance. NejixGaara, SasukexNaruto

Few fanarts to this fic on DeviantArt, the link to my account is in my profile. They'll give a few hints of what is still to come ;)
Chapter 04: Drowning one's sorrows
"Ah, that's another two weeks of food." Temari grins, releasing her hair from the four pigtails it was in.

Gaara nods, wiping the make-up off of his face carefully, but making sure to leave the eyeliner. He would never openly admit it, but after always wearing it for the shows he had gotten pretty attached to it. After all, they're the only things that can really hide his insomniac rings, since foundation is too light.

"Say Gaara." Temari pipes up. "When we're done changing, we're going to get a drink. I have to talk to someone, k?"

Gaara nods, this has happened a few times before so he's pretty used to it by now.

"Oh, and you smell, take a shower."

Gaara lets out a mental sigh. Seems like he's going to have to re-apply his eye-liner anyway.

After ten minutes, Gaara walks out of the shower, rubbing the water out of his hair furiously, messing it up even more.

Dripping water from the bathroom to his chair, Gaara scowls. 'Great, the cleaners will be very happy when they see my bathroom, and notice I dripped water in my changing room again.' Letting out a sigh, he realizes he just can't bring himself to care.

Just as he is about to reach down and grab a clean pair of boxers from his bag, the door opens and Kankurou steps in, before facing Gaara who is still in all his naked glory.

"KANKUROU!" Gaara yells flushed. "DON'T WALK IN JUST LIKE THAT!"

No matter the fact that he goes naked in front of a complete room of john does, Gaara still finds it highly uncomfortable when one of his siblings walk into him when he's naked.

Kankurou chuckles, "I just came to tell you to hurry up a little, midget."

Gaara nods; flush slowly seeping away as he manages to cover himself up with his fluffy blue towel.

Kankurou leaves and Gaara locks the door behind him before dressing himself.

CLOTHING TIME!
This is what Gaa-chan is wearing now XD

A black fishnet shirt that has a torn sand-coloured shirt on top of it, the shirt having an hourglass on the front.
Black emo-pants that have chains dangling from them and are riding low enough to see the rim of his red boxers.

Tying his red and blue skater shoes with the red laces that go with them, Gaara takes a seat at his make-up table where he expertly applies black eye-liner in the way he loves most; Panda style! Oh, and because Temari thinks they're cute.

CLOTHING TIME OVER!

Tonight is one of the nights that it is too late to have to disguise himself, seeing as the only people out now are either piss-drunk, or just hang out on the street and thus have never seen him dance.

That, and Kankurou is there now.

Gaara grabs his back, before unlocking his door and making his way to the bar, knowing both his siblings will probably be on their third drink by now.

"So, when Hinata-san told me that you worked here, I just thought that you had your shifts at different times then I'm here." Neji finishes.

"That's so weird." Temari laughs. "You've been coming here for months now, almost a year, and we never recognised each other!"

Neji nods. "Hai, we've seen each other for almost a year now… Time flies, ne?"

Temari nods. "Hai."

"Uzumaki, whisky, double shot." Comes a soft voice from behind Kankurou.

"Gaara!" Temari grins, turning to the sound. "There you are! I was wondering what kept you so long!"

"Hm..." Gaara glances at Neji, before looking at his sister and takes a huge gulp.

Neji's voice is caught in his throat as he sees his Angel sitting there so casually, drinking his alcohol. He looks so much more beautiful like this then on the stage, so casual… almost normal!

But Neji will never think his Angel normal. After all… Aren't Angel's heavenly creatures? Creatures that take your breath away with their immense beauty? They can hardly define as normal… right?

No, Neji will never think of his Fallen Angel as normal; that would degrade the boy's beauty too much… The beauty… That is definitely Gaara.

People tend to say that beauty is on the inside, but there is no inside that looks more beautiful then Gaara who is still sitting there, drinking, a slight flush staining his otherwise pale cheeks.

Neji is sure he feels a nose bleed come up.

Temari looks at the Hyuuga amused. It is pretty obvious to her that the white-eyed boy has a crush on her little brother, she knew this was going to happen when she first saw him watching Gaara.

In the beginning it was mere lust that drove the Hyuuga to watch the red-head, but Temari, observant as always, had seen it change into more… Love perhaps?

'A crush.' She thinks humorously. 'Hyuuga Neji, one of this town richest and hottest bachelors, has a crush on my little brother.'

Clearing her throat, she forces the attention of all upon herself. "Well, the three of us still have to take care of a few things, so we have to go." She says, giving Neji an apologic smile, before turning her attention to the bar tender. "Ne, Naruto. Give my greetings to TenTen, k?"

Naruto nods; and waves as the siblings shoulder their bags and start to leave. Kankurou and Temari wave back at him while Gaara just offers him and Neji a slight smile, making the dark-haired boy's heart skip a beat.

After a little over ten minutes, Neji can still feel his heart beat in his chest wildly.

'He was right here! Right here and I couldn't say a damn thing!' Neji thinks, before groaning mentally. 'I made such a fool of myself…'

And while Neji is now trying to drink away his new sorrows, Naruto frowns. 'I still feel like I'm being watched…'

Next chap, SasukeNaruto gooddies XD
and some SakuraIno if you want to view it like that, though I'm not really sure if I'm going to pair them up, lemme know if you like that idea or not, k?