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Chapter 6 confidence, making out and thinking like a failure

We were in Gaara's room on Gaara's bed under the sheets but we were both dressed. I looked around the blood-red room. His red-wood desk was under a mess of paper, his blackened closet doors were opened and I could see his clothes were a mess. The rest of the room was neatly organized.

And I thought we were nothing alike I thought. Turns out, we were both organized (except I'm obsessed with it but we'll leave that alone.) That's one out of the many similarities I have figured out by now. I turned to look toward the window and became blinded. I quickly turned away and faced Gaara, who was wide awake now.

"Good morning." He said.

"Morning." I moaned as I tried to blink away my blindness away.

"How you feeling?" Gaara's voice was smothered in concern.

How am I feeling today? Hmmm, let me see crappy, shitty, gullible and stupid!? I screamed in my head but verbally remained silent even though I wanted to say that. Gaara knew me so well that he can sometimes read my mind.

"That bad?" He asked. I just nodded at him and rested my head against his shoulder. "I'll find him and make him pay after what he has done to you." Gaara reassured me and tightened his grip around me.

A thought suddenly came to me. "We. Not you. We." I said.

"What?"

"What's the point for wallowing in pain and brokenness when nothing comes of it?" I replied. "There is none. So we are going to go after him. Kankuro and Temari can take over for you."

"Just you and me? No way, we'll never be able to do it on our own." Gaara asked. He stood up and faced me. Our faces were an inch apart.

"Not just us. Before we go after Kenmaru's ass, we stop in Konoha." I said. I stood up and begin to walk away but something stopped my. "I should have listened to you, Gaara-kun."

"I never told you anything." Gaara lied.

"Don't lie, Gaara. I know you too well and I can tell when you lie, just like you can tell for me. You didn't like Kenmaru. I could tell by the way you snarled when he was around and the way you always started to mumble when you'd walk past him." I said, my back to him while I fiddled with a bracelet I had. Gaara had given it to me as a Jonin, congratulations gift, a year ago. "I totally should have taken your actions into consideration. If I did, I wouldn't be in this mess. I should have paid more attention to you. I'm sorry."

I had started to walk away again but Gaara had grabbed my wrist and twirled me around to face him. "One, don't apologize because I was jealous. Two, I've liked you for a very long time so, again, I was jealous. You're my best friend, my sister, my equal and the girl who've I've loved. You shouldn't be sorry. I should be because I didn't protect you." He said. Gaara's hard eyes softened as they looked into my confused ones. Now I felt really dumb because I never realized how much I meant to him nor him to me. Gaara released my wrist and went to the window. I made a spilt decision. One of those you think you're going to beat yourself up for or it was the best thing to decide in that spilt second. I hoped it was choice number 2

"Hey, Gaara?" I said.

"Hmmm?" He said. I guess he didn't want to face me. I rolled my eyes and spun him to face me. "What are you doing?"

"You're wondering what my feelings are, aren't you? Here's how you can know." I replied and pressed my lips to his, wrapping my arms around his neck and closing my eyes. After a second of our kissing, Gaara wrapped his arms around my waist. His lips moved down to the base of my neck. My head tilted back. Our lips didn't want to separate. We needed air but we didn't want to breathe air. His lips were soft on my skin. Gaara's lips moved back up to mine and we fell over onto his bed. Our lips parted as began to roll and get comfortable to start again. Gaara pulled me onto him. His arms moving back to my waist. My arms were around his neck. We looked into each other's eyes for a few seconds. Time stood still for just us. Everything has slipped away but Gaara, me and the bed we were laying on. It all faded away. I smiled and pressed my forehead to his. This feeling would never get old. Nothing was going to separate us. Not now. Not ever. He smiled back. He felt it too.

The sound of applause of 5 sets of hands made everything come back. We suddenly we had an audience and jolted off the bed. I don't know about Gaara's but my heart was beating 2 beats a millisecond of embarrassment. Neji, Hinata, Kiba, Temari and Kankuro were still clapping when my heart was beating normal again……..5 minutes later. My face burned from blushing but my grin didn't go away. Gaara stood next me. His face was just as red as his walls. I gripped his hand. He smiled.

"Were you 2 having fun?" Kiba teased.

"They were going to start up again but Hinata had to start to clap." Kankuro snapped.

"It was cute." She said

"Amaya!" Neji snapped while grinning. I couldn't tell if he was mad or if he found Gaara's and my little make-out session funny.

"Gaara." Temari said in a warning tone but it was the same deal with her as Neji. I tried to keep from blushing and smiling. Gaara couldn't help smiling.

"Yes?" We said together. We couldn't help it. Gaara let go of my hand and went downstairs. I went to my room. I began to pack up stuff for a long mission. My door opened. I didn't turn around. I just continued to pack.

"A few hours ago you were hanging on a guy who turned on you and tried to kill you slash kidnap you. Now you're arms, and lips, are all over Gaara. Mind telling me what the hell is going through head?" Neji's voice wafted into my ears. He closed my door. More like slam.

"I've liked Gaara for years. I just didn't notice it until this morning. I don't even know why I like Ken-maru so much. Probably because he was deceiving me the entire time and I was way too stupid to realize it." I said, sadly. It was the truth.

"You're not stupid. You were just fooled." He said, coming behind me. Neji grabbed my back-pack and zipped it up.

"I am stupid for not realizing something like that! My IQ is almost as high as Shikamru's. I should have seen right through his false charm. I should have kept my guard up but instead, I let it down and let someone in. I'm a total idiot, Neji." I said and sat down.

"You are not!" He snapped. Neji sat down next me. He placed his arm around my shoulders and began to ball. I didn't know what I was I going to do. How can I kill or capture the man who deceived me into thinking I'm in love with him?

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