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Desert Flowers Still Have Thorns Completed	By : Royality Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Naruto/Sasuke Views: 1296 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Outside of the farmhouse, Gaara sat on a sand dune, leaning his tired head against Shiro's shoulder. Kankuro and Naruto had effectively worn themselves out fighting, both battered and a little bloody from exchanging blows and throwing insults. While Gaara's eyes were closed, Shiro's were focused ahead. He didn't say anything, and finally moved to stand when Akane and Sasuke emerged from the front door of the farm house. Kankuro was first to run up, pushing Sasuke aside. "Did you touch you?!" Grabbing Akane's shoulders, he was completely serious in his accusations.
The prince's eyes grew wide as such embarrassing things kept coming from Kankuro's big mouth. "Wh..What? NO! What the hell are you talking about and why are you all beat up?!"Jogging up to Sasuke, the former Uchiha wondered the same thing about his own lover. "The hell, Naruto?" The blond only laughed, wiping some blood that kept dripping from his nose.
"It's nothing." When it was Gaara's and Shiro's turn to approach, the group was surprised at Shiro's deep bow.
"I'm very sorry, your highness. I...killed your brother a long time ago. I do not remember being him. Whatever I did, please punish me instead of attacking my friends..I...ow..." The sincere apology stopped after Gaara's fist gave Shiro's white head of hair a prompt hit.
"That's not something for you to say. You're mine, so anything that needs to be done, I'll take care of that."
"But I..."
"You're mine, Shiro." Turning to Akane, he looked at the young man, more grumpy than anything. "Next time you attack my village or people unprovoked, I will raise you kingdom to compost, do you understand me? You're a leader to your people, and this is not how you act. You are irresponsible and reckless. You are restricted to your apartment until further notice under watch and guard, do you understand me?" Akane was surprised how easily Gaara gave out orders, and could finally start to see why he commanded so much respect.
"I....Yes....Kazekage." Kankuro was about to argue, before he was promptly glared at by his younger brother.
"And you, you defy me again and I'll tell Temari about that time you..."
"Wait! Wait! Don't do that! I...understand. I'm....sorry....Kazekage."
Smirking, Gaara folded his arms over his chest. "And you are now Akane's keeper and guard. Don't let him out of your sight or out of the house until I've made up my mind what do to with you. Both of you." Suddenly, Kankuro wasn't so mad. "Yes, sir! Come on."
"But I... Ack!" The weak protest of the young prince was cut off after being flung over Kankuro's shoulder and suddenly carried off like a bag of sand. Shiro only watched, but didn't speak up in fear of getting scolded again. "Well, that solves one problem. I'll have someone come by later today to repair your windows. I apologize for today." Naruto gave a hearty laugh, scratching the back of his head. Gaara sure was scary when he was pissed off. "Not a problem. They only got the first floor anyway. So...uh, Sasuke..what did you find out?" Sasuke had all but blanked out, but spoke causally.
"Huh? Oh, right." A finger pointed to Shiro. "He's the host of the six-tailed beast."
"Huh?" Giving a nod, Sasuke went on to explain what he was told. Giving a quick rundown about how the slug beast once attacked the Village of the Hidden Oasis, and they managed to store some of its chakra from that time. How Shiro's original body, Shura, was forced to be a host and betrayed the village because of it.
"So...basically, Akane was getting revenge, because he thought that Shiro...is this...'Shura' person, still? But he doesn't remember anything." Sasuke only shrugged.
"He also said that once you become a host, you can never 'not' become one...and possibly since Gaara survived the extraction, more or less, he's still carrying around remnants." This time, a finger pointed at Gaara. The sleepy green eyes suddenly got very wide. "...Say...that again?"
Sighing, Sasuke put an arm around Gaara this time. Poking the shorter man in the chest, he smiled as he spoke. "You never lost your sand abilities after the extraction...and you didn't become weaker. Don't you think there's something left inside of you as well?" Looking away, Gaara gave a small shrug, although it did make sense. He had never quite....recovered...from being a host. He still had nightmares, although they didn't seem to frighten him as much. "I suppose...you might be correct in your assumptions, but I cannot...manifest the creature. I no longer...turn." It was then, when Naruto had a horrible idea.
"Let me train you! Both of you!"
"What?"
Everyone seemed to stop and stare at the blond in disbelief at the same time. Frustrated, Naruto continued. "Hey, don't give me that! We're going to fight Kabuto, right? And Kabuto wants the hosts, which means all of us! I'm the only one that knows how to conquer these damn things, and we might have a fighting chance against him."
Still, everyone seemed....distant. "Come on, guys!"
"No...offence, Naruto. But you haven't...changed intentionally since your merger with Sasuke. Who knows what sort of effects that might have on you? The both of you." Still trying to process the logic, Gaara was making a fair point. Naruto might have conquered his own beast, but what of Sasuke? Would the former Uchiha be able to hold back the evil that took Naruto quite a bit of training to do. All of these questions would have to be answered later, since everyone, but Shiro, still seemed to be rather tired and hung over. "I'm...going back to bed..." Sasuke announced his departure, grabbing Naruto's waistband to drag him along. Gaara waved, taking Shiro by the hand to drag the taller man behind him. With the morning sun in the sky, the pairs went their separate ways.
Back in the tiny apartment, Kankuro was already enjoying himself. After roughly taking off Akane's Vanguard uniform, he pinned the poor prince to the twin size bed. The weight of the older man easily held him down, and the rough, messy kisses didn't help either. "Wait...Wait a moment...Kankuro...KANKURO..." The only pause Akane seemed to get, was when Kankuro was busy pulling off his hooded shirt.
"Wut?"
"You never answered my quest...my question..." It was rather hard to talk while being naked and molested at the same time.
"What question?"
"How...How did you know what I was going to do..?" The prince pouted, managing to get his hands to Kankuro's shoulders with enough force to actually push him up. "Oh? That? That was easy." Grabbing the blocking hands, Kankuro leaned down to steal yet another deep and wet kiss.
"Kankuro!" Sighing, the man stopped for a moment, curling up on Akane's side with a rather impressive erection that was clearly felt against Akane's bare thigh. "I keep tellin' ya. I know everything there is to know about you. I mean, not like your entire history or something, but like..." There was a small pause as Kankuro thought for a moment. Finally, with a grin, he found the right thing to say.
"I love ya, so I know everything you're thinking...I know what your expressions mean. I know a smile when you're happy or when you're sad. I know when you're lying and when you're telling the truth. What I saw...was a look like you weren't ever gonna see me again, after you talked about your brother. I...got scared. Only people about to do something reckless look to people they really love with looks of goodbye like that."
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