"It's so warm." Kiku mumbled as she slowly awoke. She sighed and pulled herself closer to her pillow, burying her face against it. As she did so, however, her pillow suddenly moved. Kiku's eyes flew open in a flash and she found herself staring at a shirt. Gaara's shirt.
Her gaze slowly moved upwards and was met buy Gaara's own wide eyed look of surprise. It took her a few moments to realize she still had him in the death grip she reserved for her pillows, her arms wound tightly around his middle. As quickly as she could she disentangled herself and sat up in her bed, trying to remember how she'd ended up in this awkward situation.
Then she remembered. She hadn't wanted to be alone.
The Kazekage's funeral had shaken her up quite a bit, and the thought of spending her night alone in her empty house had worried her. When she asked Gaara if he could stay with her until she fell asleep he had quietly agreed. He even sat beside her when she had asked him.
"Only until you fall asleep." he had told her. Yet he was still here.
As if sensing her question, Gaara spoke up. "You like to grab things in your sleep."
Kiku slammed her head into her palms and shook it from side to side.
"Please tell me I didn't keep you here all night because of that." she groaned into her hands.
"You did. I thought if I tried to go I'd wake you."
Kiku could feel her face burning.
"I'm so so sorry Gaara-kun." she mumbled.
When she looked up she saw Gaara walking across her room to pick his gourd back up. As he set his gourd on his back he looked back at Kiku calmly.
"There's no need to be sorry. I had nothing else to do. I'm just glad you slept well."
Kiku didn't really know what to say, so she just nodded at his words.
"Ummm...do you want some breakfast?"
Gaara shook his head.
"I should go find Temari and Kankuro. Maybe another day."
"Y-yeah." was all she could say as she watched him go. When she turned to watch him out of her window she caught a sudden glimpse of herself in the mirror. Her eyes opened wide in terror.
Her hair was a mass of purple sticking out in every direction with a giant ball of curls seeming resting on the very top of her head. She hadn't even changed into night clothes and her dress from the day before was wrinkled and starting to fall from her right shoulder as random buttons had become undone in her sleep.
"He saw me like this?! This is so embarrassing!" she shrieked to herself as she threw herself face first into her pillows. Kiku was so distraught at the thought she didn't even hear the banging on her front door or the voice yelling that it was coming in. It wasn't until she heard the footsteps coming up the stairs and towards her door that she sat back up.
"Did Gaara forget something?" she wondered. However, the red hair she was expecting never came instead all she saw was was a flash of blonde before she found herself face to face with Aya.
The young girl had grabbed Kiku by the shoulders.
"Kiku! Are you ok? He didn't hurt you did he?"
"Gaara?" Kiku looked at Aya questionably.
"Of course Gaara! I just saw him leaving your house! Alone...without you. I thought you were hurt or dead when you didn't answer the door." Aya held Kiku's face in her hands.
"He didn't hurt me, Aya. He just stayed the night...he had to go talk to Kankuro and Temari. I didn'thave to go with him."
Aya dropped to her knees in front of Kiku's bed. She silently looked the younger girl over.
"Please tell me this didn't happen because I gave you that book. I am the worst friend ever! I should have waited until you were older to let you read it!" Aya's face fell.
Kiku looked at her curiously before looking around the room.
"Ummm...I don't know what this has to do with your book, Aya, but I haven't read it yet...it's over there." Kiku pointed at her desk.
Aya got up to get the book, but Kiku cut her off and swiped the book off the desk before Aya could reach it.
"What is so important about this book?!" Kiku groaned. Flipping open to a random page in the book Kiku stood still, staring blankly at a small illustration in the corner.
"W-what are they doing?!" Kiku's eyes searched the page for some sort of answer.
"...the man then puts...WHAT IS THAT!? in...WHERE?! and then...Uh...ummmm..."
After a few moments of her flipping back and forth between the pages, the book fell to the floor and Kiku stood still staring at the empty space the book had just been in her hands. Aya cringed slightly, remembering her own past experience with that book.
"I really should have thought this through before giving it to you." she said. "Soooo...any questions?"
"Y-you thought I did that?!...and...and Sekka-san thought..." Kiku slowly slumped down to the floor. She stared blankly at the floor.
Aya chuckled nervously. "Well I see I had nothing to worry you didn't do anything." She rubbed the back of her head. "I'm gonna go...let you take all that in...ummm...be back later..."
When Kiku still didn't respond Aya slowly backed out of the door and ran out of the house, shutting the door behind her. Once outside she headed straight for the hospital.
"Emiko-sensei is gonna kill me." she yelled. "I think I just broke our new medic."

{A/N} This is the result of a crack conversation between my friends and I O.o Was also written way late last night. So yeah...more filler. An actual full chapter should be up soon.