Gaara
Naruto and I ate fast, both of us being hungry. Naruto ordered a big stack of fluffy pancakes, and I got some eggs and sausage and a tall glass of coffee. Shopping was next; I picked out some things that I had taken advantage of in my old house. Like a coffee maker? I don't think I could live without caffeine in coffee form. A toaster oven came in handy, and I had to buy a set of cooking bowls, a measuring cup, a spatula, a frying pan and an ice cream scoop. I let Naruto pick out the silver wear design, which he was happy about, and I decided on parceling plates because they looked nice and they lasted long, not to mention they were microwavable. Naruto and I picked out matching coffee mugs, same mug but different colors, mine was red and his was orange.
Next we went to J C Penny, where we picked out curtains and set of towels for the bathroom.
at Spencer's, which I dared to take Naruto into, I got a welcome mat that said come in if you look at it from one angle and go away if you look at it from another. Naruto thought this was funny.
"Ne, Naru, do you want a disco light for our bed room?" I pulled out a small disco light you hang from your ceiling.
Naruto
I smiled at the thought.
"You're really like that stuff don't you?"I held his hand.
"What you mean?" Gaara looked at me just a little oddly.
"You love all that cool retro stuff. First a water bed now a disco ball I'm surprised you don't have a lava lamp." I softly giggled.
"What can I say? The stuff is cool...a lava lamp would be a nice touch to though..." Gaara smirked and held up the disco ball again as if asking like a 5 year old. The puppy dog eyes and all. He shouldn't have to ask me it's his money. But how could I say no?
"Yeah. We can get the disco ball." I had the sudden thought of Gaara doing a victory dance and I laughed again.
We stayed in Spencer's a little longer and I couldn't help that blushing at some of the things. I never really came in this store before. At all actually. And in truth I haven't really been to the mall that often, being scared on how I would get treated. But Gaara's with me so I shouldn't really care.
In this store Gaara seemed to be in his own little world. Looking at different things including the belts and necklaces on the walls. I could tell that he was trying to stay clear of the...sex objects in the shop. But I could tell that he was tempted to pick some of the things up. Including this one leather collar or this one sex game. After buying the disco ball we left the store and Gaara pulled me into sears.
At first I didn't know what we were doing. We had gotten a lot of things and Gaara said he had enough money but I didn't know what he was doing.
He pulled me into the electronics and to the cell phones.
"What are we doing here? Is your cell broken?" I asked him worriedly.
"No. It's not broken." Gaara smiled, "Hey which one is your favorite? You like orange right?" I nodded my head.
"Here's some that are orange. Others are blue and black. Plus these allow you to write in a document then send it by email..." Gaara rambled on pointing at different phones. Where was he going with this?
"How come?"
Gaara
"Don't you want a phone? I'll let you text me in class as long as you don't let your grades drop too low. And plus what if it's raining and you need a ride home? Or maybe I'm working late and can't come pick you up I could tell you to find a ride. And I.C.E." I told him.
"I.C.E.?" he asked.
"I-C-E, In Case of Emergency." I spelled it out. "Should be the first thing on your phone in case you pass out and someone needs to know who to call for you." i explained. "On my phone that's Tsunade's number."
"You're getting me a phone? Really?" he sounded exited. He looked over them all, asking the guy to see the different options and fiddling with the buttons to see the ones he liked.
He ended up getting one with a big screen, and the buttons on the bottom was the green and red arrows only. The screen was a touch screen, but it slide open straight down, you didn't need to turn the phone on the side, to show a full keyboard if you needed it. But when texting you can turn the phone to the side and use the touch key pad as well. And guess what? He got an orange one.
Naruto
I smiled as Gaara put me on his same plan. I pushed the buttons on the phone testing all the different sounds and ringtones. Gaara smiling next to me as he led me out of the mall and we headed to his car. Setting the bags in the car Gaara sat in the front seat all along letting me play with the phone. Trying out the key board and the touch screen.
"Naru, you know you should put my contact in your list." He smirked at me.
"Hm? How do I do that?" I asked. I never had a phone before. I didn't know really how anything worked except for the few buttons I pushed on Gaara's own cell.
"I'll show you." He held out his hand and I placed the orange phone into his hand softly. He showed me how to get to the contacts and add a new contact onto the phone.
"See now I'm the first person in your phone. I feel special." Gaara smirked and I smiled, "Now if you text me ill get your number. But you can do that later if you want." Gaara started the car.
"Now...where are we going?" I asked noticing that we weren't going in the direction of the apartment. I might be clumsy and I might get lost very, very, easily but I'm getting better and I now know the direction of the apartment...mostly because we only made about a few turns to the mall.
"We are going to the grocery store." Gaara smiled." We can't really have anything like freezer foods but we can still get other main things."
I nodded my head in agreement. It made sense.
"Would you like anything Naruto?"
"Can we get ramen!" I said just a little excitedly
Gaara
Naruto tagged along behind me putting numbers from my phone into his. Like Tsunade's number, and Kankuro's number, and Temari's number. He added his number into my phone, and then gave it back to me.
"I got to go to the bathroom." he whispered in my ear. I told him where the bathrooms were, and he scurried off. I continued shopping; if he couldn't find me he could use the texting to find me. I got to the cereal isle and wondered what kind he wanted, so I texted him that question.
'Something with the mini marshmallows' he texted back. I picked up a box of lucky charms and something less sweet for me. I liked granola. I got some strawberry pop tarts, and then headed to the fresh fruit.
My pocket vibrated. 'where r u?' it read.
'By the fruits, but can go get in line at the deli? Grab# I'll meet you there.' I texted back.
We ended up getting turkey and ham, American cheese and provolone cheese and some mayonnaise. Then I pushed the cart to the register while Naruto was figuring out how to play the demo game of Tetris on it.
"Oops." he said, his ears drooped down low and he looked a puppy that just peed on the floor and knew he did bad. I was loading the groceries onto the conveyer belt and I turned to him and asked what. "It stopped my game half way through, and I tried to go restart the demo... but I think I just bought It." he said. I started laughing. He looked at me like I was crazy.
"I'm sorry, but your face was so scared, you looked like you did something wrong. Big deal you bought Tetris. Congrats. I have like 60 games on my phone, your fine. Did you want some ring tones as well?" I said still smiling from my laughing mood a few seconds ago.
Naruto
My ears perked up. There haven't been a lot of times when Gaara would laugh like that. Yes there had been times when he would chuckle or maybe snicker but he never laughs like that. It made me smile. I liked his laugh.
"Thanks Gaara but I don't need ringtones right now." I smiled. We stared in each other's eyes, getting lost for a bit. Kicking out all that was around us. We were truly acting like a real couple.
A cough broke us to of our trance and I think it was the bagger because afterwards he had asked us "paper or plastic" Gaara said plastic probably because it's easier to take the bags up the stairs to the apartment.
The cashier looked at me first, giving me a little sneer then back to Gaara with a smile. I ignored her and went to go sit down on the bench, playing with my phone still.
"Hello. I hope you had a nice time shopping today." She smiled and lightly flipped her hair over her shoulder.
"Yes." Gaara responded looking in his wallet for his credit card.
"Can I ask why so much for one person?" She giggled a little. My fox hearing let me hear every word of her flirting and I brought my head up to stare at them.
"I'm not eating for 1 person." Gaara said blankly obviously knowing the flirting.
"So you have a family?"
"Yes. But this isn't for them. Can I use my card?" He said.
"Yes you can. Just scan the card and sign your name." Gaara nodded and waited for her to scan all the food items.
"So is it for your girlfriend?"
Gaara scanned his card and signed, noticing that all the food was now in bags and placed into eh cart.
"Nope. Boyfriend." He smirked and left, "Come on Naru." He held out his hand and I gladly grabbed it, trying to ignore the glare of the cashier even if I had the urge to turn around and stick out my tongue a bit like a child. Finally we pushed the cart out and to the car.
Gaara
Today, in my opinion, was the best we've had yet. It was filled with nothing but smiles, and Naruto was less embarrassed to act like a couple in public. We held hands, and were caught staring at each other, and buying items for our house. We grabbed the loot from the day and hauled it to the apartment. There was quite a lot actually. There was no sign of our landlord, thankfully, but I kept my eyes open. Naruto and I took out everything from the bags and gathered it all on living room floor. I had bought a rug for the floor, to make it seem less... blah. Naruto helped me stick the nails in the wall to hang the curtain rods and the curtains, and we put the all the new dishes away. The walls still looked bare.
"Hmm. Naruto, what do you think we need on the walls? Pictures? A painting maybe? Oh hey I have an idea, I should paint us something." I said smiling.
Naruto
I looked at Gaara, a grin on my face.
"Yeah. I think that would be nice buuuuut." Gaara looked at me oddly as I ran back into the bedroom, noticing the picture Gaara drew still in a frame and laying lazily on the dresser.
"But what Naru?"
"But I want to put this one up first. It...It's special to me. Can we Gaara?"
The red head smiled and nodded, "Yeah we can. Where you want to put it?" He held up the picture as if examining the perfect place to hang it.
I looked around thinking. Where should we put it? I want to put it out in the living room but I also want to put it in the bedroom. But if we put it in the bedroom it's as if no one will be able to see it. But if we put it in the living room the land lord would see it and defiantly know about our relationship. But as of now I truly don't care if he knows.
"How about here?" Gaara pushed the picture against the wall of the room. Just next to the window and door. "If we don't like it we can put it somewhere later."
I smiled and nodded my head in agreement.
Being thoroughly pooped, we sluggishly made our way to the bed room and collapsed on our bed. I was lazily lying on Gaara's chest while his hand caressed my scalp as he combed my hair with his fingers, while softly petting my ears. My arms wrapping around his waist. Everything was calm
Gaara
Cuddling with Naruto was great, but a few things where eating at my mind. "I know I promised no more talk of school for today, but I'm going to call and see if we can make an appointment with the principal. Is that ok?" I asked.
"Yeah I guess."
I pulled out my cell, seeing as there was no need for a landline; I was just going to keep with the cell phones. The school number wasn't on my phone, and we didn't have a phone book, so I had to dial information and have them redirect me. It rang a few times, but it wasn't that late, someone would still be at the school right?
A receptionist answered and the next date was tomorrow at noon. I asked Naruto if that was ok with him, and he seemed fine with it, I knew he was nervous though.
"Hey Naru, don't be nervous." I said gently when I hung up the phone. I pulled him into my lap on the bed and I pet his head, stroking his ears and rubbing his lower back with my other hand, my hand willing his nerves to go away. "I'll be with you tomorrow I promise. Nothing to worry about, you'll do great. Your smart, and an amazing writer, and so cute that anyone who sees you will instantly love you and want to protect you. At least, that's what happened when I saw you." I kissed his forehead
Naruto
I grinned a little shyly at Gaara. Even if he gave me some encouragement I was still extremely nervous and scared. He says that everyone will love me but would that really happen? Maybe the adults would, if they were open minded, but the teenagers? That just might not happen. I could just imagine myself getting beat up then Gaara getting extremely pissed and killing someone. Causing him to go to jail and me never seeing him again...Here I go again. Thinking of all the negatives. Stupid mind.
I know, since its Gaara, that he would probably check up on me every hour on the hour to make sure I hadn't gotten lost and died somewhere in a gutter. So if I told him that I got hurt, mentally or physically, he would do just that. And I do not want that to happen.
But off on that thought...am I smart enough to get in? Gaara says I am but am I really?
"You're going to do fine." Gaara repeated and I nodded not that sure about myself.
"Are you sure people will like me?"
"Not like, love. They will absolutely adore you. I just know it. Plus I said I would protect you. I already failed a few times at that promise but I will succeed this time." he kissed my forehead again but repeated kisses down my cheek to my lips as if giving me good luck.
He stopped and smiled.
"I love you Gaara..."
Gaara
"Love you Back Naru." I let my lips find his in a small but passionate good night kiss, before tucking him in and shutting the light. I crawled in with my Naru and surprisingly sleep came fast. I guess I was more tired than I had let on.
There was suddenly cold air touching my side. I moved in that direction, to scoot closer to Naruto for warmth. I didn't move into him, he must have been further than I thought. I put my hand to feel for him, eventually touching the edge of the bed. I sat up and squinted in the dark.
"Naruto?" I whispered, my voice shaking just a bit.
It was still dark out, only like 2 in the morning.
"N-Naruto?" I called, a bit louder.
"I'm in the kitchen." he said loud but trying to stay hushed. I saw a feint glow coming from the kitchen area. I got up and walked out into the room Naruto was in.
"What are you doing out here?" I asked, sitting on a chair to his side and turning to wrap my arms around his waist. He was sitting on a kitchen chair with my laptop on the table and he was typing away. I let out a yawn, leaning my head on his shoulder barely awake and trying to keep my eyes open.
"Sorry, I couldn't sleep. I'm just trying to wash away some of the nerves by typing." he told me. I understood what he said, but I had to think about it to comprehend it.
"There is nothing to worry about babe, come back to bed." I nibbled on his ear, trying to lure him back into our room.
"I hope you don't mind I used your computer." he said a bit small and shy.
"Bed." I said, too tired to care. He took my tone of voice as if I was punishing him for using the laptop. I corrected myself, placing a hand on his face and manually petting his ears so they didn't droop in that 'I just did wrong' position. "I don't care, what's mine is yours, but it's too late to be typing away."
Naruto
"Okay..." I whispered, yawning a little. I guess it was too early to be doing anything. But I couldn't help it. When I get nervous I normally can't sleep, normally meaning I'm getting stressed. Writing always calms me down, or Gaara. But he wasn't awake and I didn't want to wake him up so the only thought I had was to write.
"Come on Naru." Gaara stood up, a little slowly being obviously tired. I sighed closing the laptop softly. I could save what I was writing tomorrow morning.
I grabbed his hand, walking easily through the dark, because of my eyes, back to the bed.
The red head yawned again lying in bed, me following behind him. Snuggling up under the covers. Gaara kissed me again on the lips as if a good night kiss and I smiled.
"You'll do fine. No need to worry." his voice was soft as he put his arms around my waste pulling me closer, "It was cold...without you in bed." I grinned.
"I won't leave the bed again."
"Promise?" He asked. I could tell he was actually really tired. Slowly going back into a sleep like state. Normally he's wide awake no matter what time. He may be a little slow sometimes but he's never been this out of it.
"I promise. I'll go to bed now okay Gaara."
"I love you Naru."
"I love you to Gaara."
And again we slept. Me waking up almost every hour worrying about the interview.
Reveiw! From this point on im probaly gonna be putting more authors notes since im actully going to update once i edit and i will actully know what to say =3