Gaara
Morning came, My hangover was barely there, but I got up and realized we were low on food. I let Naruto sleep till noon as I raided the store. I bought some party snacks for the Christmas eve party in a week, I bought some more pancake mix and some more milk. we needed a bigger fridge. I knew they were expensive, but what if Naruto got beat up tomorrow? And I had to pay for some surgery? Or if my car breaks down? I just don't want to waste that money.
I filled up the car on the way home. Kinda wishing I still received an allowance from my dad. I mean, even with my great pay, it wasn't enough to support two people, save for a fridge, save for college and keep money in case of emergency. I wonder if my dad would lend me money, I could pay him back later. its not like I'm just taking money this time.
When I got home I had to take three trips to get everything in the house. I called my sister since Naruto was still asleep and I talked to her as I made Naruto pancakes for 1:00 in the afternoon.
"Hey bro, what's up?"
"What are you doing for Christmas?"
"Well, dad was talking about coming here. he said we could all have Christmas as a family." she said.
"Well, it's me and Naruto's first Christmas together, so maybe Christmas eve, sure. but I'm having a party at night."
"Cool. so what do you want for Christmas?" she asked.
"its in a week." I said doubtfully.
"But that doesn't bother me. I want to see if you'll like what I got you." She said a smirk to her voice.
"I don't care what I'm getting, but honestly, when you got me the couch, I wish I had asked for a fridge." I said truthfully.
"Don't you have one?"
"It's so small. I have to go shopping every other day."
"Don't you have money to buy one?" She inquired.
"Yeah but what if my car breaks down? I've had it for two years and not one problem, so I'm going to have to put money into it soon. and Tsunade's been great with the hospital thing or I'd be broke, but something's going to happen to Naruto that I wont be able to have Tsunade do for free. I just want to keep emergency money. You know? As it is, the money I make goes into food and bills and toilet paper. I have none left over for other stuff."
"True. Do you want a fridge? I had bought red rims for your wheels... but I didn't order them yet because if dad sees he'd bitch at me, so I wanted to do over night shipping like 2 days before..." she said.
"Hey, a fridge is cheaper." I shrugged.
"True. I'll just have to get one that's equal the price of the rims then." a smile in her voice.
"Don't do that. Seriously. Just get one with a freezer please. I want ice cream damn it." Me and her both laughed.
"You know bro. We talk more now that you have moved out than when you lived here."
"Sad huh? But I believe it goes: we talked less before Naruto came into my life."
"True."
"Ok well, I gotta go wake up Naruto."
"Ok bye Gaara."
"bye Temari"

Naruto
The light against my eyelids made me groan inwardly and out loud since it made that yellowish hew against them. Not only did it make me feel sick but it made me feel horrible. I dug my face further into my blankets as I tried to find sleep again but I had a small headache… It wasn't that horrid though (which I'm thankful for)
I tried to concentrate falling back into sleep, to get away from the outside world that pretty much hated me at this moment, but that didn't seem to work. So really I sat there for possibly 15 minutes with my eyes squeezed shut under blankets trying to fall asleep…and I was almost there to if the door hadn't creaked open.
"Naruto?" Gaara said softly and sweetly but I didn't move. Trying to ignore him and fall back to sleep.
I felt him sit next to me on the bed and put a hand on my shoulder, "Come on, sweetie. you should get up now. Your hangover shouldn't be so hard or is it?"
"No amount of sleep can help me. What happened?" I whined and slowly took the blankets off from my face.
"Some moron spiked the punch. And seeing as you drank about 4 cups…"
"I got drunk? Great." I complained and looked at Gaara innocently.
"I made you some pancakes and I'll get you some pain medication for your head ache." He told me and patted my head, rubbing my ears in the process. I love him so much…
"I love you…" I whispered to him, nudging his hand to keep petting me.
"I love you to. Now come on, your pancakes will get cold." He helped me stand up out of bed and I followed him out of the room to go sit at the kitchen table. I looked at the clock and gaped.
"I slept till after one?"
"Yep."
"And you didn't wake me up?"
"Nope."
"Because you knew the worst of my hangover would be in the morning?"
"uh huh."
"Did I mention I love you?" I spoke and he chuckled
"Yeah." He kissed my cheek and fixed my plate of pancakes to put it in front of me with a glass of milk.
I looked around a bit practically forgetting my head ache and digging in to my pancakes. Shopping bags?
"And you went shopping?"
"Yeah, Christmas is next week if you remember."
"Yeah I know…" I blushed slightly remembering one of his gifts but then I frowned, "Sorry…"
"Hm?" he said confused, eating some of his own pancakes.
"I was useless today…I'm so sorry." I felt like crap for not being able to do anything for him. All I did was sleep today and he even went shopping without me.
"You don't need to be sorry. Some dumb ass teen spiked the punch. You couldn't of known that."
"But still…"
"No buts. Eat your pancakes. I made them with love." He smiled softly at me causing me to grin back.

Gaara
I hadn't really eaten breakfast, so I forced myself to eat the pancakes. Afterwards I kinda thought I would puke, even though I had half as much as Naruto did, but again I forced myself not to.
"Gaara, is something wrong?" Naruto asked me.
"I just... I kinda feel weird today." I said honestly. "Normally I only have eating problems when I'm depressed. but I'm not, something just feels... off."
"Like what?" Naruto asked sounding curious and not too worried.
"I have no idea..." the room got quiet. Naruto finished up eating and began to wash the dishes. He seemed happy having something to concentrate on. I let him do it, normally I'd offer to help, but I just wanted to figure out what was wrong. "Maybe we should do something tonight." I suggested.
"Like what?" Naruto asked innocently. I smiled.
"Just to get out of the house, but not like to a dance but somewhere we can just be... us. like maybe we can go see a movie, or take a drive and go see all the Christmas lights? or maybe... hey I got it, we should go ice skating at the park! They put all the fancy lights up and it's real pretty!" I said excitedly.
"Ice skating? I'm not the best with balance with you know?" Naruto said sheepishly.
"I'll hold you up. Come on, it'll be fun!" I begged.
"Oh... ok." I dug my ice skates out of my closet, and I took Naruto to the sports store and bought him a pair of white figure skates. I then drove us to the park, only a few others where there but no one was on the ice at the moment. Naruto sat on the bench by the lake edge as I tied his laces good and tight, then laced my own. I stood up and pushed off onto the middle of the ice, taking one lap to get a feel, and then coming back. my blond kit stood up wobbly and took three shaky steps to the edge, where he slipped and leaned on me to catch his balance.
"Got it?" I asked, skating slowly and pulling him with me, a big smile on my face at how he looked trying to concentrate. He was wobbly, and kept falling into me. I just laughed and helped him up. he fell on his butt the first time he let go, I just helped him up and whipped the snow off his pants, groping his ass to make him blush in the process. I then leaned in to kiss him. I heard a grunt, and some guy with his girlfriend and another male came onto the ice. both males where eying us wearily. The girl could care less. Naruto's tail tucked in, I saw he was scared of the muscular friend with no girl clinging to him. He and I drifted to a corner of the lake, and there I tried to help him find his balance without clinging to me. A snowball hit Naruto on the side of the head. We looked over to see some 12 year old kids laughing and pointing. "I'm sure their not aiming at you because your a anthro. I can guarantee they've been doing this to people all night. Another one hit. I turned on my skates.
"Listen punks, I'll go up there and kick each of you in the ass if you do that again!"

Naruto
"Gaara." I said a bit quietly but loud enough to hear. The snowballs didn't really hurt and at first I did think it actually was an accident…okay not an accident since it was plainly not an accident but aimed, but I did think that they had been doing that to everybody without Gaara even saying that much. But then the second one hit and I knew it wasn't really an accident. Gaara turned his head to face me at the sound of his name, "Don't even bother."
"But Naruto! They shouldn't be aloud to do that to you!"
"There only kids."
"And?"
"And your…not a kid. If you beat them up you would be only a bully bullying bullies. Not to mention you could possibly go to jail." I frowned at him as I hugged myself.
"But…I wanna kick there ass! Let me do something!" He said frustrated and I only sighed.
"Calm do-" and another one hit me on the side of the back of my head, hard enough to cause me to stumble and fall forward, only to be caught by Gaara who I knew was getting angrier by the second, "Gaara…don't do anything. Okay? Help me off and let me get on my shoes okay? I don't want you to feel more…weird like you were this morning." I kept on talking to try and calm him down since he was still a bit off about the whole situation. But he listened to me and helped me get stable and bring me back over to the bench to take off my skates. He didn't ask any questions as he undid the laces and started to put back on the shoes. But I did tell him to not take off his skates seeing as how if anything did happen I didn't want him to freak out and come to my rescue to beat up some 12 year olds. If I cant handle these kids then how weak am I?
I looked around to see that the kids were staring in my direction and I only smiled brightly and waved at them, probably confusing the shit out of them.
"Gaara, I swear if you leave this ice rink and do something stupid for me…I will…hm…um…" I thought for a second, "Not kiss you the rest of the day." I was going to originally say that I wasn't going to do anything with him for a week. You know…do something, but really I have been planning not to do anything more so that Christmas could be better for him.
Gaara frowned but nodded and kissed me softly before I stood up from the bench and walked away from the park, finding a blind spot of the kids, like right behind them where they had no clue where I had went and started a few snow balls. Only 3 of them, one for each of there pretty little heads.
It didn't take me long to make them and it didn't take me long to hide them behind my back as I snuck up behind them. "Hello~" I smiled making the three kids snap there heads at me, frowns on there faces.
"Hn." One of the kids grunted at me and I frowned.
"What? Only a grunt? I would think you wanted to see me since you threw a snowball at my head three times. Or do you do that with everyone?" I asked looking completely innocent with my eyes.
"No, you're a dumb anthro."
"So you don't want to play?"
"Why the ell would you think that? My moms neko is dumb and lame so why would we want to play with you?"
"Because you're a spoiled brat that doesn't know what real life is and have no real anything so you try to bully people different than you." I told I'm honestly with a grin that was almost obviously fake. Just thinking about how this little kid was taught to…not like us pisses me off.
"Shut up. That's not true."
"So you were bothering other people as well?"
"Why would you care?" I sighed.
"Because I guess I actually have to do this. And I was just about to like you and your snotty little voice." I looked at their faces witch were confused. Since I was older and since I had more time to make snowballs they were bigger…and so I threw them at each of there heads.
"I guess that was fun!" I smiled brightly, "Now listen here. My big bad boyfriend over there really will kick your asses…possibly kill you. So what I did was way easier. So if you do hit me, or any other person on this rink again today I wont be afraid to sick him on you. Are we clear?" I said to them in an almost sinister voice but it was laced with innocence. The three nodded there heads frantically, "Oh…and don't treat us like crap because were different. Or I can just do the same with your big ears…or his squint y eyes. Or even his big nose." I smiled softly, feeling a bit bad for what I did as I took one look at them as each one was looking at each of the body parts I had mentioned before. I skipped back to the ice rink. Gaara had been watching me closely while skating on the rink to try and keep him occupied. So when he came back to where I was sitting on the bench he gave me a small smile.
"Snowballs? You threw snowballs at the kids."
"And talked. Better than ripping their throats out." I sighed and wiped my eyes, "They were saying how they did throw at others, but one's mom has a neko…probably a slave. He was taught to treat us like non-humans. Who does that? Its not right."
"I know I know, sweetie."
"They said they wouldn't throw anymore because I threatened to sick my big bad boyfriend on them with no restraints." I grinned softly at him.

Gaara
"Gee thanks. Ok, I'm going to admit to myself this was a bad idea. Want to go around town looking at lights? In side the car no one can throw snowballs at your head, and it's warmer. But we have to wait for it to get a bit darker... Maybe we can stop and get a coffee to warm up?" I asked.
"Yeah sure. That's a great idea Gaara." Naruto smiled. I took off my skates and put on my shoes, walking the two of us back to the car. We went to a coffee shop down the street and walked inside quickly because it was stating to snow lightly outside. "Wouldn't it be great if it snowed on Christmas Gaara? Oh! Can we sit by the window so I can watch the snow fall? Please?" There was only like 3 other people sitting in the store, without including the cashier so I didn't bother to tell him to keep his voice down, because everyone would hear us anyway.
"Yeah, what do you want to drink?" I asked Naruto, who had his nosed pressed against the window, as I walked to the counter. He ran over to me, looking at the board. "Uuuuum... Can I have... a Cappuccino?" I asked.
"Yeah, what he said and a amaretto flavored coffee." I told the teen girl working there. Naruto was looking at the pastries in the glass container.
"Gaara... What's that?"
"A cannoli."
"Is it good?"
"Yeah." I shrugged.
"Can I try one?"
"And one cannoli... The one he's drooling all over right there." I pointed, Naruto pouted at me.
"Hey!" He hit me with his elbow and I just laughed at him.
"I'm kidding!" I said, putting my arm over his shoulder. We got our drinks and Naruto's Cannoli and walked to a corner so Naruto could watch the snow fall, his tail swinging side to side in a gentle rhythm. I looked at the other people there, a couple, who were now leaving and a man in his 30's. He saw me staring and I looked down, only to see a bunch of crumbs from Naruto trying to eat his cannoli. "What are you trying to do?" I laughed.
"How do you hold it? I can't fit it in my mouth!" Naruto said. I laughed.
"You eat it like a burrito." I said. "silly Naru".
"Oh... that makes sense. I feel stupid now."
"But your my stupid." I grinned, putting emphasis on the word my, and he grinned back. The guy was still staring. I rolled my eyes. "Do you have a problem?" I asked. Naruto jumped at my tone, and turned to look at the guy who he saw I was talking to.
"Gaara, cool it." Naruto warned.
"I just think you're spoiling that thing."
"Don't talk about him like he's an animal." I said struggling to keep my voice steady.
"Gaara... stop." Naruto said, putting a hand on my shoulder.
"Teenagers don't know how to take care of pets." The male said.
"Then it's a good thing I don't own one." I spat. "Come on Naruto, let's eat in the car." I said, picking up my coffee. Naruto whispered sorry to the guy as we walked out the door.
"Sorry? what are you apologizing to him for?" I nearly yelled.
Naruto's eyes swam up with tears. I'd never yelled at him before, it wasn't his fault, I was the one who kept thinking of bad ideas. "I just... I'm tired of you yelling at people for what they were raised to believe. It's not any one person's fault, this whole society is... fucked up." I saw Naruto hesitate to swear but he was really upset, I could tell by his body language.
"Well maybe I'm tired of people giving you dirty looks and treating you like crap everywhere we go. Maybe it hurts me to see people put down the person I love, maybe I just want to us to have a normal time. Is that so much to ask?" I said, trying to keep the anger from being apparent in my voice. It wasn't fooling him, but it was hurting me to see him so upset. By how others treat him, and by me trying to butt in.
"Then maybe, we won't work, and you need to find yourself a normal boyfriend." Naruto's tears poured down his face as he turned on his heel and ran off.
"Wha- NARUTO! that's not what I meant! Naruto!"

I know...I'm a real bitch for having a cliffe hanger but its not going to be as long as you think. I just have to convert all of the corrected chapters onto facebook then into document and...its a long process. So ill update this later this week hopefully, but when cliffehangers were ORIGINALLY supposed to happen I'm still gonna do them ^^ becuase im just that mean!