Naruto
It's been almost been two weeks since the day after thanksgiving. And I've loved almost every minute of just being with my boyfriend.
Yes maybe it took a lot of convincing to get my uncle to finally leave our home but in the end he did leave. I mean after he had heard of...everything we have done since he was here he was convinced that I was in danger of losing my innocence and hadn't wanted to leave me with a demon. And maybe it is true that I might be in danger of finally being a non virgin but I really don't think about it much
I mean I am getting older, and we have been dating for awhile so I'm not afraid that I know that we might get into that point of our relationship sooner or later.
Anyway, my uncle took a lot of convincing to leave but in the end he did and we were at peace.
But sadly, like I said, I had to go back to school because the break week was over and I had to be away from him. You could think that I would stay home while Gaara went to work, but I actually got the courage (and after he begged A LOT) to go back to the tattoo parlor and be in the same vicinity as Deidara. I still dint trust him much…even if he apologized over and over again in hope for my forgiveness.
But now it's finally the weekend and we started to empty the things we bought from black Friday. We've been so busy with just being with each other that we forgot about the bags in the corner of the room. The only time I remembered them was when I got Gaara's gift and gave it to Temari when she stopped by real quick.
I remembered the beanie that I had got with little frogs on it and Gaara helped me cut some holes so my ears fit out of it perfectly so they weren't cramped inside.
"There." he put the hat on my head, "See, adorable."
I just grinned at him. I was still smiling at how he enjoyed the lava lamp I had given him for our room.
Now there was only one bag left and it made me curious why Gaara hadn't unpacked that one yet.
"Gaara?"
"Hm?"
"There's one bag left."
"Oh! Those are the Christmas gifts I got." He said softly and shrugged his shoulders as if it was no big deal. But the thing was it WAS a big deal to me and my ears twitched in curiosity.
"Can I...um" I played with my feet and shifted, "can I look?" I said deviously.
"Nope." He said instantly.
"Ahww why not!" I yelled
"Because there gifts and you will just have to wait until the Christmas party to see what other people got." He looked at me and I only pouted trying to give him my best puppy dog eyes I ever pulled off. But can you blame me? I do love Christmas and I was excited, especially since I could tell it would snow soon.
Gaara
"Oooohhhhh!" I whined looking out the window one morning. Naruto was at peace sleeping next to me but the sound of my whine he stirred.
"Mn...Gaara?" he asked yawning cutely and sitting up in our bed. He saw me staring with a frown out the window and directed his eyes outside.
"SNOW!" he shouted jumping out of bed and pressing his nose to the freezing glass.
"Snow" I said with distaste.
"look at it's so pretty!" he said his breath making the glass window all foggy.
"Pffft." I said rolling my eyes.
"So beautiful...!"
"Disgusting..."
"Pure..."
"Cold..."
"White..."
"Icky..."
"Lovely..."
"Cold!" I said a bit sour now.
"Oh common Gaara... look it's so sparkly!"
"One you sound really gay, and two, I'd much rather look at you than the scenery." I said honestly.
He blushed realizing once again we slept without shirts on, and he rushed to get dressed. "I'm gonna take a shower!" he called.
"I'm gonna join you!" I called. this wasn't a sexual thing, I mean every once and a while, but normally we just washed and got out using less water than if two were to take a shower. so I absentmindedly shampooed his hair with the pink strawberry shampoo he made me buy, while he chatted on about how he wants to invite everyone over and we should have a big snowball fight, and make igloo's and forts and snowmen!
"And maybe we can go skiing! Can we go skiing Gaara? Please?"
"Sure" I said half paying attention to his ramblings half washing his back with a wash cloth.
"I've always wanted to, ever since I was little. My mom had promised we could go the summer she..." he stopped talking. It took me a second to realize why he stopped because at first I didn't realize he went quiet and then I had to think back to what he said. He rarely talked about his parents.
"We can go skiing Naruto." I said hoping he would start talking again. His adorable ramblings were much preferred to this horrible silence.
"She always loved the snow... she was born up north, she said there was snow most of the time not just during winter like it is here. She had white ears and a white tail, like an arctic fox. She was really beautiful. We used to have so much fun in the snow; we'd spend all day outside. She told me one day she'd take me skiing, but my dad was always against it, you see he didn't like going near humans. Where we lived we were far from them. He didn't want to chance it, but mom managed to convince him... but then she... she..."
"I understand." I made a vow to myself to never put down snow again.
We finished washing up, and Naruto tried every second to run out the door.
"Naruto wait you need gloves... and a scarf!... and a hat, come on sit still and eat! We'll go out in a minute... Naru, shoes much?"
"Gaara what are you my mother!" he said pulling on his boots, pouting at me from under his adorable froggie beanie.
I leaned down and kissed him. "No, I'm much much worse!" I teased, pulling on my jacket over my two long sleeved t-shirts and my turtle neck sweat shirt.
"It's not that cold Gaara!" he said. Easy for him... his mother was an arctic fox... demons belong in hell... you know... fire? Heat?
"Naru wait up!" I called at he darted down the stairwell. I saw the landlord freeze in picking up the newspaper covered in icicles outside, once I got there.
"Gaara look it's so beautiful!" he plopped down ignoring the death glare from Marvin and began to make a snow angel.
"You're gonna get snow in your tail and I'm gonna have to wash it!" I called.
"Oh my gosh can we make a snowman Gaara please? Do you have a carrot? I can go get some sticks! And rocks too! Come on come on!" he said.
I packed a snowball and began to roll it along the ground, it was the size of my head, Naruto continued rolling and I started on another one.
"Gaara Gaara help me push!" he said, I walked over to him; it was just above his knee. When we were done it was waist high. "This is gonna be the biggest snowman ever!" he smiled. I kept an eye on the window where Marvin was drinking some coffee and watching us, but at least Naruto didn't notice and it didn't spoil his fun. It took both of us to lift the middle part on top the first, and Naruto started making the head while I made sure the middle piece was attached to the base.
Naruto
I don't know why Gaara was dressing up with so many layers. I mean it's almost like a proven fact that when it's actually snowing it's not as cold as when the snow is on the ground and the temperature stays 10 or lower. But then again...I could care less because I knew I was sweating from running around so much. And yes you sweat; especially if you have layers on that a demon forced you to wear. Gladly it wasn't as many layers as he had on.
Anyway I was pushing the snowman head around while Gaara watched me closely. Like I was going to slip on the ice or something. He also looked like the type to try and avoid every single snowflake that was falling from the sky. It made me roll my eyes. When I made a decent size head I grinned at myself.
"Gaara I will be right back!" I said excitedly.
"Hm?"
"I have to go get one of my old scarves. Do you have a hat that you don't want to add to your layered body?" I rolled my eyes.
"Don't give me that look. It's just cold." He said before he told me where one of his older hats were.
I ran up the stairs as while Gaara yelled at me to be careful for ice and I just laughed. If I fell down and hurt my butt then Gaara would just kiss it to make it feel better.
While in the apartment I got a carrot stick from our fridge and some buttons from a kit (seeing as how we didn't have coal) and I finally made it out of the apartment only to see the stupid landlord talking to my red head. But somehow it didn't bother me seeing as how I could feel his eyes on me the whole time we have been outside. But the whole thing about having snow was making me extremely happy so I didn't care what he said or not.
So I just stood by the stare case and used my ears.
"And what do you mean?" I heard Gaara say.
"I just mean, you shouldn't let him have so much control over you." Marvin said and I rolled my eyes.
"He's happy, I'm not going to be an insensitive jerk and tell him he can't have fun."
"But he's a neko."
"Correction, Kitsune." Gaara snarled.
"Yes, Kitsune. And...If you let him run around out here it might look bad for ME seeing as it might look like my establishment is bad."
God...I could tell Gaara could blow at any moment. I walked out finally into the falling snow, to feel just the tense air surrounding them.
"Look, 'Marvin' I-" Before Gaara could say anything else I tugged on his jacket to make him look at me. All I did was shake my head.
"I...I am sure that Naruto here will not cause you trouble I'm sure of it." And with one last nasty glare at me Marvin was gone.
"You okay?" I hugged him.
"I should be asking you that." he smiled.
"Look, as long as there is snow nothing can bring me down!" I laughed and he just chuckled softly.
With that said we finally finished the snowman and I smiled at the result. I had to sit on Gaara's shoulders to put on the head and the other materials like hat scarf and buttons for the eyes and mouth. The nose was the last thing I connected on the face. We had gotten some sticks for the arms.
"Perfect!" I screamed giddy and Gaara laughed.
"You're hyper." He smiled.
"Well there's snow!" I said happily.
"Yes yes you've said that multiple times. And by the weather I don't think that it will be gone any time soon." He said and I could hear a bit of distaste in his voice.
In a few minutes we stopped gawking at the snowman and I walked further in the snow to my secret stash of small snowballs that I created.
With a little devious grin I picked one up and hid it from behind my back.
"Ne...Gaara." I smiled and gave him puppy dog eyes that looked like I was innocent.
"What?" He looked at me confused and before I said anything I threw the snowball at him to hit him in the middle of his 3 layered chest.
Gaara:
"Oh it is on!" I shouted to him, Marvin standing by the window again, but this time it was open a smidge so he could hear what Naruto and I were saying. I got a mound of snow ready, and began to smooth it out, I saw Naruto doing the same, but I had started to make snowballs behind my mound and stack them, but I made sure when he was looking at me to act like I was still working on my crappy fort.
I chucked a snowball to test the weight and get a feel. I haven't had many snowball fights, demons hate the cold. I was short by three feet, sighing I lobbed another one over my fort and I heard Naruto's cry of shock as he lifted his head behind his wall of snow. I hit him right between the ears.
I threw my hands in the ear with a smirk as a snowball whizzed by my ear from behind. I turned in confusion to see Hinata with a snowball in one hand, Shino's hand in her other hand and a big grin on her face.
"I got your back Naruto!"
"Hinata!" he cheered, standing up from behind his fort. "What are you doing here?"
"Taking a walk with my boyfriend, is that a crime? Come on Shino, let's go help Naru!"
"Wait wait wait, 3 against 1? How is this fair?" I asked at an armada of snowballs were sent flying my direction.
I began to chuck mine blindly, before I realized that Shino was making them all and I was getting bombarded by Hinata and Naruto only. I got a few good hits in though, I got Hinata in the boob by accident, I got Naruto in the chest, I got Shino a few times too, I stood up to call a truce and Naruto launched a sucker right into my nostril. I sneezed cold and wet ice from my nose when I was pelted like a machine gun was hitting me.
"Hey no fair!" I started dodging as I gathered some snow and making my way closer, enough to get Naruto a few times without miss, then I tackled him into the snow.
"Ha!" I said, he was giggling underneath me, and I kissed him on the lips, Hinata awwing behind me. It was her aww that made realize I had an audience, and not just Hinata and Shino but Marvin too. I glanced to see if he was still watching, which he was. Oops. Naruto nearly purred under me, his tail swished happily.
"How are you not cold?" I asked doing all in my power not to stutter.
"Are you kidding me? This is the best day of my life! I love you Gaara!" he gave me one more peck on the cheek before making a snow angel where we landed.
"Do you two wanna come in and have some hot chocolate?" I asked.
"Aww were going in already?" Naruto whined.
"To have hot chocolate yes." I said.
"Oh yeah! Hinata come on in, you have to! Gaara makes the best hot chocolate ever!" Naruto said so hyper.
Naruto
Gaara sighed happily when we made it into the heat of the apartment right before he lectured me of having to take off all of my now wet clothes form the melted snow. Even though I was convinced on going outside right after we finish our hot chocolate.
"So you like the snow?" Hinata smiled while she sat down on a chair with Shino.
I nodded my head, "Uh huh! Love it." I smiled at her which caused her to grin back.
"It's beautiful isn't it?" She said to me and I couldn't do anything but agree with her. It was pure, white and shiny! Can't get wrong with shiny stuff or glitter.
"It's cold." Shino said quietly.
"I agree with you 100 percent." Gaara spoke in the kitchen, him making his hot chocolate. My mouth was watering from the smell. Just waiting to drink it, oh! And the marshmallows are the best part.
"Oh stop being a spoil sport Shino." Hinata grinned and kissed his cheek while I clenched and unclenched my fist. Control, Naruto, stay in control, "He just doesn't like the cold because bugs don't come out." She said
"Naru, can you help me?" Gaara spoke and I nodded my head to myself as I got up for the hot chocolate.
When we brought it back to the living room Gaara and I sat on the couch. Or I sat on Gaara's lap while my back rested on the arm rest.
I took a sip and my ears perked up, "So...good!" I yelled happily while I sucked in a mini marshmallow.
Gaara
"yeah so good." I looked at Naruto.
'But you didn't even take a sip of yours yet Gaara..." Naruto said his face twisting up in confusion.
"He means you silly." Hinata giggled.
"Oh right! Hey Hinata Gaara's taking me skiing! Isn't that great?" Naruto said with a wide grin. It was like a black hole with teeth... pointy pearly whites.
"Oh my family goes every year, we should all go together! It's so much fun, have you ever went before?"
"no.' Naruto admitted. 'but I always wanted to!" he redeemed himself.
"That's ok; it's really easy, I can teach you, what about you Gaara?"
"Once. It was ok... I went with... Sasuke but he sucked at it... I should have let him fall..." I gave a pout and looked at Naruto. "He wasn't good at ice skating either..."
"Ice skating! Oh my gosh we have to do that too! I haven't been in forever, but I used to be really good at it."
"I like ice skating, I played hockey a lot for fun. I never joined a team though, I don't like the cold. That was my problem."
'Yeah we should all go ice skating, I'm a figure skater.' Hinata said with an air of girlyness I will never understand but Naruto's eyes became the size of tea cozy's as he said "wow really?"
"yeah since I was 6 I've been taking lessons."
'You have to teach me some stuff, you just have to!"
"Hey Naruto, you know what we should do today?" I asked trying to come up with a reason for the kid to stay inside.
"What?"
"We should put up the Christmas stuff, like the tree and some decorations."
"But we don't have a tree." Naruto said confused.
"That's why we have to go get one... duh." I smiled.
"Oh yeah!" he smiled.
"A real one or a fake one Naruto?"
"A real one!" he laughed happily.
"Ok then let's go!"
They said goodbye to Hinata and Shino and Naruto jumped in the car and we drove off to the Christmas tree place.
"Ok I have no problem getting you whatever tree you want, but keep in mind; the living room is only 10 ft high." I said. Naruto looked at every tree twice before making a decision. I just followed around behind him trying to blow heat into my gloves. He finally picked one and we began to saw it down, then I dragged and he pushed and we got it to the car.
"ok, were gonna go to the mall and pick up some decorations, and then its home, ok?"
"Ok!" Naruto said enthusiastically as we tied the tree around the car
Naruto
Gaara again seemed to feel better once we were inside the mall where the heat was blaring. I would have to make a note that I should find a way to make Gaara warm tonight since I'm the one making him go outside with me most of the time...
"Oh! I love this! It's so pretty." I smiled as I picked up an orange fox ornament. But it wasn't something extremely cheesy that old women would have. It was cute because it was like a small kit.
"You can get it." He chuckled at me.
"But...you need one to." I spoke out loud, but mostly for myself as I looked at the display for something that just screamed...Gaara. I mean there were snowmen and different Santa's but there was for a fact nothing that I could picture matched Gaara...until I saw it.
"Do you like this?" I picked up a raccoon and showed it to him and just for a second he lost his cool and his eyes widened.
"Raccoon? You remembered that it was my favorite animal?" He asked me and I nodded. It was the time we were in the hot spring together and he told me he liked raccoons...even if they were fuzzy and cute.
We picked out more plain green red yellow and orange ornaments and some red and yellow lights for the tree.
But we weren't done there. We got some more lights to hang on our windows and some holly for a little extra something. Oh! And we even got a mistletoe! Even if we don't really need it in the first place.
We had a few bags but we both held them so we could hold hands in the middle as we walked in the mall. Only to see all the decorations hanging and lights. Everything was so...pretty and calm...until we heard crying.
It's that time of year when little kids cry all the time in the mall. It's because Santa is scary and they want to get away. But poor Santa has to hold the child down just for enough time to take a picture. I feel sorry for any of those guys who have to dress up as elves or Santa.
"We should take a picture." Gaara whispered and I just looked at him shocked.
"You're...kidding me right?"
"What? It would be fun."
"Gaara are you trying to stall going back in the cold?" I nudged him.
"No seriously. It would be a memory to remember your favorite day ever." He smirked.
"Gaara...I'm 17. It's embarrassing." I mumbled.
"More embarrassing if I kissed you right here in the middle of a large crowd?" he smirked at me and I knew he had one...sadly.
Gaara
"alright... fine." he said to me as we turned to stand in line. Naruto glared at the elves going up to the kids and trying to make them laugh. This little girl started crying, I started laughing, Naruto hit me in the stomach.
"don't be heartless." only because I wasn't expecting it did it hurt, well it didn't really hurt, but it didn't feel good.
"Oh come on, that's hilarious..." Naruto glared at me ", elves aren't that tall I mean come on, a five foot elf? Pfft." I rolled my eyes away from him and looked back to see him shaking his head like a mother who knows her child was lying but is too pissed off to reprehend him about it. Naruto looked really sad to me. "Hey... are you mad?" I asked.
"No." hen didn't sound to convincing. I let out a defected air, and I looked around, and then I saw it. There was no one behind us in line, so I said "well, we can't see Santa if you're in a bad mood because I don't our first Christmas picture to have your pouting face." I dragged him out of line.
"No... Hey... wait, I'll take the picture if you want to, Gaara I'm sorry, hey I'll take the picture ok? Gaara? Where are you- huh...?" I pulled him into the build a bear workshop where a bustle f kids were running in and out and shouting names at their parents on what they want the bear to be called.
"Go ahead; pick out whatever one you want." I told him.
"Gaara, aren't I a bit old for this?" he asked.
"I'll get one too, fair enough?"
Naruto grinned and went over to the wall to look at the stuffed choices to see what they looked like when fluffed up. "Aww look at the cute bear? And look at that one! And the doggie! And...Oh...my... gosh!"
I picked out a simple bear, it was tan.
"Oh my gosh Gaara... Gaara... Gaara, look at this one!" it was a snow fox. "They have all the snow animals out for Christmas! Can I get it?"
"of course." I smiled. we stuffed it, and put our hearts on the inside, then the lady sowed each of ours up, giving us both evil glares, and I know because I was once hanging out with a group of teenagers who came in here, all stuffed a bear and left them here, without purchasing. And she glared at Naruto because he was a Kitsune.
"I'm going to name mine Yuki, it means snow. What do you think?" Naruto asked holding it up to his face.
"adorable."
"what are you gonna name yours?"
"um... Mr. Snugglewuddykinns."
"What?"
"Mr.-snuggle-wuddy-kinns."
"I'm serious." I said.
"I'll have to write that one on my hand."
I paid for both bears and we got back in line, Naruto fussing over his bear. We both sat on either side of Santa's lap, he's used to it, and teens do it all the time, sometimes parents too. Naruto and I smiled for the picture, both holding our stuffed animals.
I bought the picture, and I also bought a nice frame to put it in, then we headed back to the car.
When we got home, we put the tree on a stand and put a tree skirt around the base to collect all the bristles that fall off, and we began to decorate the tree.