Shadow Clone
Gaara x Kagome
"Oh, come on, Gaara. You still haven't tried it?"
"—just outside the wall, Kazekage-sama. It does not seem like a serious issue at the moment, but Yukima-taicho is insisting that you—"
Now, a small smirk upon his face, Gaara understood Naruto's insistence for him to use the shadow clone technique he had been determined to teach him. Of course, the Kyuubi vessel would deny the fact that he had taught him the technique for any other purpose than to unite their two villages just a little more.
Those who believed him clearly did not know of Gaara's recent marriage. Or of the fox vessel's constant urge to help each and every one of his friends in the one area he felt they were all lacking.
That, of course, was apparently the Kyuubi's influence. Or so Naruto said.
"It's… the best thing in the world. Don't look at me like that, I mean it!"
It was the best thing in the world. Being in two places at once. Knowing exactly what had occurred in those few scant hours while he was, technically, stuck within his office listening to so-and-so complain or filling out paperwork.
Oh, how he hated that blasted paperwork.
"—and—"
While it had seemed like nothing more than a tedious task, now it seemed to be purposely designed to keep him away from the pretty little woman that had agreed to live her life with him. And that complaint, he supposed, was most likely what had formed the very idea in Naruto's head.
"Just imagine it, would you? Sitting here in your office, alone, while your wife is back at home sandwiched between two clones that you've created. It's not cheating. It's you. Though… Hinata certainly didn't think so."
Poor fool. They could not all have a woman as wonderful and open-minded as Kagome. Because while Naruto's fiancé, Hyuuga Hinata, might have shot down the very idea, Gaara had no doubt that his wife was sandwiched beautifully between the two clones he had dispatched in her direction.
And, soon, it would be as if he had been there himself.
"Kazekage-sama…?"
--Fin