Authors note: Here's chappie 4. Weeeeeeeeeeeee!! –cheers- chappie 4! Yay! Thanks for reading!!!! I love you all!!! reviews are always loved too. Even the evil critic reviews are loved. Lol. Anyway Katharine helped me on this one as well. She's probably gonna help me with the whole thing so… yay!

This story contains YAOI!! If you don't like YAOI then don't read!!

Kk just wanted to get that outta the way.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto or any of the other Naruto charries.

Chapter 4

Gaara made his way to the pink haired girl. She was talking to Chouji about diets, and he seemed to be ignoring her. Gaara tightened his hands together into a fist and was about to punch the shit out of her, but he stopped himself. He thought about what he was about to do. He thought hard about the consequences for punching the annoying girl. If he were to punch her right then he would be frowned upon as Kazekage, but punching her would only make his relationship with Naruto even worse than it is right now.

Gaara stepped away from Sakura and looked around for Naruto. He saw him with Shikamaru, Kiba and Hinata and Sasuke. Naruto was smiling and they all laughed occasionally at something, but Gaara was too far away to hear. Sasuke knelt next to Naruto and leaned toward him, placing a band aide where Naruto's cut was. Gaara was jealous of the raven haired ninja. He wanted to be close to Naruto. He wanted to be next to him and be able to share the same relationship with him like Sasuke had. Gaara turned and stomped through the forest. The last thing he heard before he was out of sight was Naruto and Chouji fighting over the last piece of meat. Then everything went quiet.

It didn't take Gaara long before he was in Konoha. He trudged his way through the busy streets. He was starting to get a little home sick. He missed the scorching dessert sand and he missed Konkuro and Temari, but mostly the sand. He broke himself away from his daydreams and looked around to see a whole row of gift shops. Shrugging Gaara decided to visit one since he had nothing better to do with his time.

He went into the first store he saw and entered it. As he entered he also attracted a couple of girl's attentions.

'Of course…' Gaara sighed and continued to walk through the store with the girls hot on his trail. They followed him like the way Naruto did at the house. Gaara sighed again and continued looking through the shelves of random items and delicacies. Finally he paused, and the girl closest to him accidentally bumped into him, causing Gaara to flinch away a little bit too quickly. What could be said? The Kage had contact problems.

"Hey what's his problem?" the girl whispered to her friend and they shrugged away, scared of his personality. That was the problem, not Gaara's appearance…but how he acted. The Kage cursed himself and was about to start picking away at the bad details of his being, like he'd done several nights without sleep, when a soft melody chimed into his ears. It was immensely refreshing…original and sweet, with a slight high pitched chime to it, big spaces in between each note. The red head followed the melody through the shops until his eyes landed on a little boy with short brown hair and large green eyes, with one hand he was sucking his thumb, with the other he was holding open a small silver music box. It had mahogany out lining and the pattern of teddy bears holding different kinds of instruments indented along the silver plate. On top sat another silver bear, playing the saxophone. It still had a price tag on the side, so Gaara guessed that the boy didn't buy it yet. Gaara let out a slight sigh of relief. He'd thought that music box would make a nice gift for Naruto, since the boy had trouble getting to sleep, or calming down; whichever. He would usually toss and turn around in his bed until he fell asleep but usually ended up having bed dreams.

Gaara walked up to the kid and looked at the kid with kind eyes.

If I'm gonna get that box from him I might as well act nice and not scare him, he might break the box and then what would I do to make Naruto forgive me?' Gaara thought deviously. He knelt down so he was eye to eye level with the boy. He would've smiled but Gaara wasn't gonna be that nice to the kid.

Gaara held out his right hand curiously and looked at the boy. "May I please see that music box?"

"NO! It's MY box!! MINE! You can't have it!!" the boy yelled. Gaara's eyes went dark and deathly again and he stared at the boy menacingly, but he tried to talk him into giving the box up, instead of beating it out of the boy's tiny hands.

"But the price tag is still on it. Are you sure you bought it and it's yours? If you did do you have the receipt?" Gaara argued. And the boy went stiff as if he was just caught doing something bad.

"Well…. No…." the boy confessed. "But I have it in my hands so I'm allowed to get it!"
Gaara had to admit that the boy was putting up a good fight. But the brat was being rather spoiled. Then all of a sudden a woman, in her late 30's it seemed, came over and held the boy by his right ear and glaring at him.

"Tokoben! I told you to stay with me! You shouldn't wonder off like that! And I also told you that we weren't going to buy anything today. We just don't have the money right now…" The mother explained, taking the box away from Tokoben and putting it back on the shelf.

Gaara laughed inside his head. He was glad that the mother came along, because if she wouldn't have his anger probably would have gotten the best of him and took it out on the little boy, however, he watched triumphantly as the boy walked away holding his mom's hand, complaining in a high pitched voice. Tokoben was about to exit but stopped sharply to turn towards Gaara and stuck out his tongue at him. Gaara ignored him and walked over to the bear covered music box. He picked it up carefully and placed it on the desk in front of the seller.

"Will that be all, sir?" The middle-aged man with graying hair asked while grabbing Gaara's money eagerly.

"Yes that will." Gaara scoffed and walked away; leaving the seller standing there with the change from the money Gaara gave him. The seller greedily stuffed the change into his pocket and spun around returning to his other customers.

Gaara walked back towards Naruto's house at a slow but steady pace, his hands were in his pockets, one hand cupped carefully around the music box; he was being extra careful not to damage the delicate wood frame with his fingers which always crushed into the palms of his hands when he became severely frustrated.

Rounding the corner that was just blocks away from Naruto's house Gaara's mouth dropped open; there, sitting on a bench and eating ice cream, sat Naruto and Sasuke.
A dribble of vanilla ice cream ran down Naruto's lip to his chin. Much like the milk Gaara had wiped away from Naruto's lip, Sasuke ran his thumb over the ice cream spot before then licking his finger and smirking at Naruto who blushed furiously shoving another scoop of cream into his mouth. Why did Naruto not back away from Sasuke like he did when Gaara did that? ' Am I that repulsive? ' Gaara asked himself.

He watched as the two talked and be close for what seemed like hours. Gaara thought he was about to explode. Then Sasuke got up, stretched and walked away with his hands in his pockets saying goodbye. Naruto stood there watching Sasuke leave, waving franticly screaming

"Have a good night Sasuke!!" But Sasuke was already gone, and Naruto sulked slightly at the thought of being alone.

After a while, Gaara made his way towards the blond, still holding onto the music box in his pocket, but making sure that it didn't play any music yet.

"Naruto!" Gaara said loud enough for the blond to hear. As soon as Naruto saw Gaara coming Naruto's face lit back to life.

"Gaa-chan!! Are you okay? Where have you been? I was starting to worry. Sasuke said I shouldn't worry but I was anyway." Naruto said as he inspected Gaara. Seemed like you were just fine with Sasuke a second ago…' Gaara thought, making sure not to say it aloud.

"I was walking around Konoha. That's all. I just needed some time alone." Gaara shrugged. "And I-" But Gaara was cut off in mid-sentence when the knuckle-head started talking again.

"Sasuke was being kind of mean, I'm sorry Gaara. But Sasuke says that-"

"Sasuke this, and Sasuke that! Why can't you stop talking about him?!" Gaara blurted out, without noticing what he was doing. Gaara couldn't stand it anymore. He didn't like the thought of Naruto hanging around other people or talking about other people, especially Sasuke Uchiha. Gaara stomped his foot leaving a big indent in the ground and stormed off.

"W-Wait! Gaara!" Naruto tired chasing after Gaara and tripped in the large foot shaped hole in the ground. He landed on Gaara back and Naruto wrapped his hands around Gaara to grab the part of the shirt in front of Gaara's stomach, so Naruto wouldn't fall. Gaara fell forward and they both crumbled onto the ground. Naruto was still on top of him, his head on Gaara's back. Gaara's right eye twitched slightly with the contact; he wasn't really used to it yet. But he didn't really mind it when it was Naruto. Naruto clutched a little harder onto Gaara's shirt, and they didn't talk for a while. A cold silence fell onto them, ruining the moment, for Gaaram at least.

"You know… we're not falling anymore. You can stop holding onto me…" Gaara stated, trying to break the silence.

"But….. but if I let go of Gaa-kun…… Gaa-kun might leave… And I don't want be alone…" Naruto choked out. Naruto let Gaara sit up. Gaara saw that Naruto was crying a little bit, and had his hand in an almost-fist, trying to wipe some of the tears away.

"I'm not leaving." Gaara muttered giving in to Naruto. I mean who could blame him. Naruto was just being too damn cute!

Gaara leaned towards Naruto and lifted his face with his right index finger and saw that Naruto was still sniffling away some tears. He slid his left hand over Naruto's right wrist and tugged onto him gently so he leaned forward, Naruto's eyes widened almost as if he thought Gaara would do something bad to him, but instead Gaara pulled him into a hug.
Wrapped in Gaara's arms Naruto could actually feel the strength radiating off of Gaara's form. He shivered slightly, causing the Kage to hesitantly pull him closer, as if Naruto were cold. Hah! The flush of his cheeks brought so much blood through his body he was sweating slightly. In any case, Naruto wrapped his arms around Gaara's waist, not minding the embrace but still feeling weak and incompetent next to the red head. Here he was; crying at every given thing while Gaara could, with one stomp; put a crater in the ground.

Gaara leaned his cheek into the blonde's hair, being completely vulnerable around Naruto while he inhaled the boy's scent. A gentle 'chink' brought his senses back slightly but with pale blues watering against his chest Gaara ignored the sound. Naruto was the first to pull back, almost two minutes later with a smile on his face.

"So you're…not going anywhere right?" Naruto asked cutely, his voice slightly feminine.

Gaara smirked and shook his head before rising to his feet and holding out a hand to Naruto, who took it and rose to his feet quickly. The chink sounded again and Gaara's teal eyes widened before he reached into his pocket and pulled out the small music box. Naruto had all ready started shuffling forward but with the glimmer of silver he turned his head and a grin spread onto his face.

"Gaa-Kun likes teddy bears?" he asked loudly, but in his newly found sweet-voice that sent shivers down Gaara's spine. He gulped, thinking Naruto had been cute before but since he'd changed even more it was…amazing.

"No it's not- I mean yes I do… but that's not the point…" Gaara said and held it out closer to Naruto, so Naruto could reach it.

"Oh! It's for me?" Naruto asked cautiously. Gaara nodded and Naruto took it thankfully. His fingers had just curled around the small lever when thunder started to crackle in the distance. It sounded like it was getting closer, and Gaara cursed at him self for not realizing that everything was dark and the sky was engulfed by black clouds. Another Thunder crack broke through the sky and Naruto froze. His eyes grew wide and all of his muscles tensed. It started to rain, releasing pellets of ice cold liquid upon the two boys. Anyone else had been smart enough to get inside by then but the two had been too involved in each other to notice the storm. It poured down hard, and Naruto bolted towards the door to his house, still clutching the music box.

Gaara stood there confused. He never saw Naruto act like that before. It was just a storm…was Naruto afraid of storms? The Kage snapped out of his thoughts as another bolt of lightning whipped through the sky and thunder roared. He was soaked by now and his hair clung to his face and the all ready tight-clothes that he wore stuck to his body. Finally his instincts kicked into action just before he ran toward the door to go after Naruto.

Gaara quickly opened the door and slammed it shut just before the rain started pouring down even harder. Next to the rain and thunder, the quiet house seemed to echo the slam of the door. He walked through the living room, puddles formed under his feet as the floor became soaked, but he didn't care about that right now. All he cared about was finding Naruto. He checked the nearly every room of the house carefully, hysteria rising as he couldn't find his[ the blonde. The place Naruto had to be was his bedroom. Gaara walked in to the room and found the music box on the floor near the desk and a huge lump under the blankets on the bed. Gaara picked up the music box and set it down next to him as he sat on the bed near the giant lump known as Naruto.

Gaara lifted the covers to see Naruto sitting and holding onto his knees and his eyes were tightly shut. He looked so fragile that a breath could break him. The boy was like a butterfly to the storm, completely defenseless. It made the Kage's heart go out to him, recognizing his expression as the same one Gaara wore as a child. Gaara lifted up the boy to bring him closer and pulled him into another embrace. Naruto still had his eyes closed and he was shivering from the cold water that covered both of them. Gaara wrapped his arms around Naruto tighter and held onto him, attempting to calm his shaking figure. Naruto rested his head on the base of Gaara's neck and clung to him like a small child would after a bad dream. Gaara fretted slightly readjusting his hands and rubbing Naruto's back in an attempt to sooth him further. Naruto knew he was being a big baby about it, but he couldn't help it. The lightning and thunder scared him nearly to death.

Gaara could hear the rain pound against the window, and flashes of lightning penetrated through the once clear but now distorted glass. He was still holding onto Naruto though now he played the music box to help Naruto forget the storm. It seemed to help because Naruto was no longer crying and shivering. He was still clinging to Gaara but he didn't mind one bit. Actually Gaara was enjoying the fact that he was so close to Naruto, but he didn't like Naruto being upset and scared like this. Gaara would sit here like this for days if that's what it took to bring that large grin back on Naruto's face. The fact that the scent that now was let off of Naruto's body, fresh in the rain, and the droplets of water coursing through his hair and down his cheeks, mingled with tears; made Gaara feel as though he needed to be there, forever if he could cause the pools of ocean blue to brighten.

Gaara realized that the blonde's head that was cupped underneath his chin was bobbing against him, restlessly, so he laid him down on the bed just before Gaara lay down beside him, then covering themselves in the blankets. He moved in closer to Naruto, placing his arms around Naruto to comfort him. Somewhere in the back of his mind the Kage remembered something about not supposed to sleep in wet clothing. Going slightly around these guidelines he slipped the tight black shirt he wore over his head and dropped it to the ground before turning to Naruto and urging the blonde's shirt off. Naruto hesitated tiredly but yawned, throwing his arms him the air; Gaara took the opportunity to slip off his shirt before tossing that, too, on the floor. The red head stood carefully as Naruto snuggled back into his comforter and closed his eyes tightly. Gaara, making his way into the bathroom, grabbed a few towels and headed back to the bedroom where he nudged the cloth around Naruto's legs to try to dry him slightly. Otherwise he climbed back into the bed and wrapped his arms securely around Naruto's, Naruto's cool wet skin pressing against his own. The Kage waited, clinging onto the ninja like he was the one who needed him, until heat spread fully through his skin. Soon enough the storm lifted, calming both of their nerves just before they relaxed into the crevices of each other's bodies; they both fell asleep to the sweet sound the teddy bear covered music box made.