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Chapter 11: Stay

A/N�s: You people are all worried about Sasuke
figuring out he loves Naruto, aren�t you?
Well�I�ll admit that there is going to be drama, but I think you will
all be satisfied with the ending of the story.
That�s all that I�m willing to say.
There is only one person that even remotely knows what�s going to happen
to Sasuke�hee-hee.
I promise that it�ll all turn out all right. Oh, and one of you reviewers hit the nail on
the head with what will happen�if you read the last few reviews or even just
think about it after reading this chapter you�ll probably figure it out.

DISCLAIMER:
(apparently added by AFF now, so I shall not bother anymore)

Warning: There are spoilers and references to things
that happen in the 250-current manga chapters in this chapter of Hot Sand. If you haven�t read that far I apologize and
hope that you will still read the story.
I try not to say too much, but there is a part with Kankuro and Sakura
that references the �Save Gaara� arc of the Naruto manga.

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BEGIN CHAPTER

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Kakashi waited for two hours in the training area before
Sasuke showed up. When the younger man
arrived he looked completely devoid of emotion and only motioned at Kakashi to
begin their training. The silver-haired jonin
sighed, thinking that Sasuke had ignored his advice, until the copy-nin noticed
how distracted the Uchiha was while they fought. Kakashi actually connected three punches and
caught him twice when Sasuke retreated to regroup. It had been years since Sasuke had allowed
Kakashi to win so easily, and the young heir didn�t even break out the
Sharingan.

Kakashi stopped battling and waited in the middle of the
training field. Sasuke came to attack,
but Kakashi easily blocked two punches and growled at the raven-haired man to
sit. Sasuke gave his ex-sensei a
confused look and then backed off and plopped down on the ground.

�I shouldn�t have told you before your tests, it�s obvious
that you took my advice to heart and it�s really messing with your head,�
Kakashi told the secretly seething man on the ground.

Sasuke didn�t say anything right away, only gazed off into
the distance with a disinterested look on his face. Kakashi was about to continue lecturing
Sasuke when the young man finally spoke.

�I really hate you,� Sasuke muttered under his breath.

�Me? What did I do?� Kakashi asked with a lazy lifted
brow.

�I don�t like men,� Sasuke grumbled.

�But you like Naruto,� Kakashi told his friend with a grin.

�NO�I�� Sasuke didn�t
finish his statement, only let the anger drip away as he shoved his hands into
his pockets and averted his gaze from the silver-haired man that was taunting
him.

�Okay�well, if you don�t like men, then you obviously like
women. I don�t believe even the great
Uchiha Sasuke can be asexual. What woman
has caught your eye lately?� Kakashi
prodded, preparing to catch Sasuke in his little lie.

�I don�t need anyone.�

�Well, Tsunade and the rest of the Konoha Elders Council
would have to object to that�because you need to revive your clan, don�t
you?� Kakashi watched as Sasuke�s eyes
seemed to bore holes into the ground.
�Somehow I think that you need a woman for that, and I don�t believe the
council would look favorably on you not being involved with raising and
training your own family.�

�What if I don�t want to revive my clan?� Sasuke
whispered. �Maybe it should just die out
with me.�

�Why do you say that?�

�Perhaps my clan is just irrevocably screwed up�so far my family
has been filled with uncaring, disloyal psychopaths. Who wants more of that running around
Konoha?�

�I wouldn�t mind a few more of you bratty Uchihas. I don�t
find you all that terrible�a bit too haughty and self-important for your own
good, but not that annoying. And
besides, it would be nice to have some more worthy students. I don�t see a lot of the up and comers having
the talent for me to bother with, but if you had kids�I�d train them, no matter
how unbalanced and screwed up they might be.�
Kakashi watched as Sasuke absorbed his back-handed compliment with a
snarl. �Besides, you came back. I don�t think that you are that unstable.
Well�not anymore, so I doubt your children would be either.�

Sasuke remained completely silent, unable to think of
anything to say. He watched the older
man that was standing over him, and noted the slight worried expression on
Kakashi�s face. What was so
disconcerting about Sasuke hating the idea of rebuilding his clan�it was one
duty that he wasn�t sure he wanted to fulfill, couldn�t Kakashi leave it at
that?

�You know I�m in the same boat,� Kakashi grumbled. �Even when I was with Iruka
I was pressured into reviving the Hatake clan, it was
something that was inevitable. Hell, it
still is. Iruka
and I had planned on having a surrogate mother birth my child and then raising
it as our own. That appeased the elders,
but honestly you aren�t in the same situation I was in.�

�What do you mean by that?�
A quizzical look crossed Sasuke�s face as he pondered what Kakashi had
meant by his own situation.

�I mean that you aren�t with anyone, and even though you are
still fairly young, you will probably be matched with someone soon if you don�t
pick a lover of your own. So why not
have it be someone you like? What woman
floats your little Uchiha boat?� Kakashi
grinned maniacally as he pointed at Sasuke�s crotch. The copy-nin was being anything but subtle at
this point and it actually caused Sasuke to blush just a bit.

�I don�t know,� Sasuke hissed, repositioning his hands to a
place in his lap that kept the area away from Kakashi�s peeping eyes.

�See�if you don�t even have a clue that means��

�DON�T say it,
because you are wrong, I don�t like
men,� Sasuke shouted at his old teacher.

�Just Naruto.�

�Yes, just�� Sasuke
stopped his sentence. He loathed that fact
that Kakashi had actually goaded him into admitting that he liked Naruto aloud. �Like I said earlier, I hate you.�

�Hmm, sure you do,� Kakashi brought his hand to hair,
scratching his head with quite a bit of amusement. �It�s too bad that Naruto is already taken,
isn�t it?�

Sasuke�s shoulders slumped slightly and Kakashi noted that
he bit his lower lip very faintly. �What
am I supposed to do about that?�

�Nothing. If you really do care about Naruto you�ll let
him be happy.�

�Then why did you bring it up in the first place?� Sasuke
asked his teacher, voice brimming with annoyance at Kakashi.

�Because you needed to realize who you really
are. Some of us like it both
ways�and even though you messed around with a few girls, I don�t think you do,� Kakashi stated
matter-of-factly.

�Just because I�m not a huge pervert like you, doesn�t mean
that I don�t like women too. I do get
plenty of action in that department,� Sasuke muttered under his breath. He knew better than to criticize his teacher
too harshly, Kakashi was very sneaky with his payback.

�So you admit that you like men.�

Sasuke glared at Kakashi, the man could be infuriating at
times. �I like Naruto, not men.�

�Well, Naruto is a man, and you like him, therefore you like
men. I think that is the way it works,
but I could be wrong. Maybe I should
inquire about Naruto to Gaara�maybe there is something that our little friend
never told us. Sai
did nickname him the dickless wonder. Maybe he can
bear your Uchiha brats,� Kakashi teased, chuckling to himself at the thought.

�That�s not funny,� Sasuke growled.

�Oh, so you want him to have a cock�because you like that
kind of thing?� Kakashi continued, not at all holding back the lewdness for the
sake of a now very embarrassed Sasuke.
�Or did you just plan on ignoring that part of Naruto�s anatomy?�

Sasuke remained silent, trying to breathe calmly and not
think about the things that Kakashi was saying.

�I hear that Naruto shares bottom with Gaara, so I don�t
think you would be able to ignore the fact that he has one for very long. I doubt he would have played the happy little
uke all the time, even for you, Sasuke. You�d have to take it eventually, but my
money is on you liking that kind of thing.�

�I�m not a bottom,� Sasuke growled.

�Sure you aren�t,� Kakashi said in a very sarcastic
tone. �Who was in control that one time
you fooled around with Naruto?�

Sasuke was stunned, and he made a mental note to kill Naruto
for spilling that information to Kakashi.
�How do you know about that?
Naruto didn�t��

�No, he didn�t say anything.
Obviously you don�t know all the tricks of your Sharingan yet�maybe I do
still have things to teach you.� Kakashi informed Sasuke, finally taking a seat
on the ground close to the Uchiha, making the other man fidget at the closeness
of his teacher who was interrogating him in an odd way. �Who was in control?�

Sasuke didn�t say anything�just because he had been writhing
underneath Naruto during their prior encounter didn�t mean that he was going to
take bottom, did it? Sasuke glanced up
and shot Kakashi a confused look, trying to figure out what really would have
happened.

�So?� Kakashi prodded.

�He was,� Sasuke exasperatedly admitted.

�You know that means that you were going to take it in the
ass, right?�

Sasuke was done with this conversation. He had put up with Kakashi�s questions for
too long, and in an unusually angry display he stood and kicked at a wet pile
of leaves that had been stuck to the ground.
�I�m leaving,� Sasuke muttered and headed off toward Konoha.

�Okay, have a good day,� Kakashi
waved away his student. �I�ll see you
bright and early tomorrow morning. We
still have some training to do.�

�Yeah, whatever,� Sasuke grumbled.

++++++++++++++++++

Sakura waited nervously by her door, pacing back and
forth. A clock that was hung on the
nearby wall showed the time as 7:58,
almost eight�Kankuro would be at her door soon.
The kunoichi�s hands twittered and shook, forcing Sakura to shake them
in an attempt to rid herself of the nerves that plagued
her. What if Gaara had been wrong, what
if Kankuro wasn�t actually interested in something more than a sexual
relationship with her? Naruto had
assured her that Kankuro would have nothing but pure intentions after talking
with Gaara, because even now the Kazekage�s brother feared the wrath of his
younger sibling.

Someone knocked at the door and Sakura whimpered, it was eight on the nose, so the person had to be
Kankuro. Trying to steady herself and
calm her rapidly beating heart, Sakura took a deep breath and opened the door
to find the puppet-nin smiling at her and holding two flowers.

�Here, these are for you,� Kankuro exclaimed with an excited
grin. �I�m sorry that I didn�t get you
more, but it isn�t the right season and flowers are pretty rare in Suna. This is the equivalent of two dozen flowers
in Konoha.�

�Th-Thank you,� Sakura stuttered,
taking the flowers from Kankuro and walking them over to a vase that was in the
corner of the room. There weren�t any
flowers in it, so Sakura poured some water into the vessel and placed the two
flowers inside. They seemed a bit sparse
in the vase by themselves, but also nice.
Sakura grinned as she touched one of the flower�s leaves. As she stared
at the gift she could feel the last of her doubts about Kankuro starting to
dissipate. The man was as charming as
they came.

Kankuro crept up behind the kunoichi and hugged her from
behind, �Are you hungry?� he asked while wrapping his arms around her
waist. �I have a great restaurant that
we can go to, best food in town.
Breakfast is never busy there either, so it�ll be nice and quiet.�

�Mmm, yeah, that sounds good,�
Sakura hummed, realizing that Kankuro�s warmth was very inviting.

�I missed you a lot.
I tried visiting, but you were busy,� Kankuro whispered in her ear. �And you haven�t been back down here, so you
must have been swamped. Are you always
so preoccupied with your work?�

�It was a busy summer,� Sakura lied. She didn�t want to tell Kankuro that she had
been avoiding him, not when he was being so sweet, and furthermore, she was
done avoiding him. �My schedule has
cleared up.�

�Hmm, well�� Kankuro sounded sad and didn�t finish his
statement. There was definitely something
wrong, and it had Sakura worried. �I
think that my schedule has just been booked for the winter.�

�What do you mean?� Sakura queried.

�Gaara told me last night that I�m going on diplomatic mission
to the surrounding areas of Sand and Leaf, I�ll be gone for a good four to six
months,� he mumbled, obviously not wanting the new mission.

�Gaara? He told you this last night?� Sakura was
angry, Gaara had said that he was going to talk to Kankuro about his intentions
toward her, not force his brother to take a mission that would separate the
two.

�Yeah, right after he told me that you came to Naruto�s room
crying.�

Sakura turned beat red�of course Gaara wouldn�t censor
anything that she�d said. He was always
far too honest for his own damn good.
�How much did he tell you?� she asked through gritted teeth. This wasn�t good, because she already knew
the answer.

Kankuro chuckled before replying. �Everything. That idiotic little brother of mine told me every
detail he knew, and what he didn�t know Temari filled me in on.�

�Temari?� Sakura squeaked. Temari actually hung around her and Ino quite
a bit, so she knew that between his two siblings Kankuro probably did know
everything. Sakura wanted to crawl into
a hole and die. The embarrassment of the
whole situation was too much for her to handle.
The kunoichi tried to slink away, but Kankuro�s arms held her firmly to
him, molded perfectly to his body.

�I�m not Kakashi. I
just haven�t had someone that was worth pursing before,� Kankuro murmured
quietly and then paused for a moment, reflecting on something in his mind. �Do you remember that one time when you were
sixteen?�

Kankuro�s question was very vague. �Kankuro, a lot of things happened when I was
sixteen�it was a pretty eventful year,� Sakura informed the puppet-nin, and it
was true. That year was the one that
Naruto returned to Konoha from his training with Jiraiya and the year that they
found Sasuke and rescued him from Ochimaru.
Honestly, it passed in a big blur of events that seemed to slip one into
another, and she wasn�t sure what exactly Kankuro was referring to.

�I hated you back then,� he whispered. �You bruised my pride pretty bad.�

�Huh?� Sakura asked
confused as Kankuro lipped the ridge of her ear.

�You were the one that killed Sasori, something that I
couldn�t do. Not only that you were the
one that saved my life by neutralizing that puppet-bastard�s poison. I owed you everything, but honestly I was
young and quite bitter at the girl who had bested me. I thought that being saved by you made me
weak,� Kankuro told Sakura.

Sakura had completely forgotten that it had been her that
saved Kankuro and defeated the first of the Akatsuki
members with Chiyo�s help. She sighed a little at the thought of the elderly
woman that had used her as a puppet to destroy Sasori, who was Chiyo�s own grandson.
Not only that, but older woman had also given the last of the antidote for
Sasori�s poison to Sakura and then sacrificed herself
using a jutsu that brought Gaara back to life after
he had been killed during the removal of Shukaku. Sakura�s eyes watered even thinking about the
strong Suna woman that had given Sand such hope and shown such
determination.

Forcing away the grief Sakura returned to thoughts of saving
Kankuro. �How do you feel about the
whole thing now?� she asked with a smirk.

Kankuro squeezed her tightly, �I�ll have to admit that I�m
still a bit miffed about it all, I�m stubborn like that.�

�I think that runs in your family,� Sakura giggled and
placed her hands on top of Kankuro�s which were still woven around her waist,
squeezing them reassuringly as Kankuro kissed her neck.

�Yeah, it does. I�m
also finally able to see that it is the reason I�m so attracted to you,� the
puppet-nin murmured between kisses.

�I think that makes you a masochist,� Sakura told him with
another smirk.

�No, not really, at least not most of the time,� Kankuro
replied, grinning like a fool. �I mean I
think that your strength is admirable. I
don�t think I could handle someone that I could walk all over�too boring.�

�I�m anything but boring,� Sakura mused.

�Exactly,� Kankuro stated as he spun Sakura around so that
she was now facing him. �And I like
that.�

Kankuro kissed Sakura gingerly, not getting too deep with
the kiss. The one thing that Gaara had
made very clear was that he was not to hurt Sakura�and going too fast might
push her away. Kankuro didn�t want that
at all, he desired the woman that stood before him, more so than any person
that Kankuro had ever been with.

Kankuro pulled away from the kiss and asked if Sakura was
ready to leave for breakfast and the pink-haired woman nodded. Kankuro sighed, just when things were going
well his brother had to send him off on one of his stupid diplomatic missions
that was most definitely the brain-child of that idiot Naruto. Damn that Hokage, it wasn�t fair, not when
Sakura was here with him and there was possibility of something happening between
them.

+++++++++++

Gaara grinned at the sleeping blonde in the bed next to
him. He wondered if Naruto ever was as
hypnotized watching him sleep as Gaara was whenever observing his lover
dream. Naruto didn�t even wake up when Gaara
had returned from talking with Kankuro in the middle of the night, and he
couldn�t wait to tell Naruto the devious little plan that had been devised for
Sakura and his brother. To Gaara, it was
completely ingenious.

�What are you smirking about?� a sleepy voice inquired of
the devilish red-head.

�You�re awake,� Gaara stated, verbalizing the obvious.

�Mmm-hmm, now what were you
smiling about? You only smile like that
when you are up to something,� Naruto told his lover through a yawn as he
rubbed the dried bits of sleep from the corners of his eyes.

�I am sending Kankuro on a mission,� Gaara began.

�Huh? Why�s
that? Wasn�t he serious about Sakura?�
Naruto asked with a confused expression.

�Very serious, and that is why he is going on a
mission. I ordered him to,� Gaara told
Naruto as he crept closer to the naked man beside him. One of the red-head�s hands snuck under the
sheets and found a stiff arousal waiting for him. Gaara gave it a couple of hard tugs.

�Ripping my clothes and sex in the morning�those are your
two biggest faults,� Naruto mumbled. Not
being the most well-adapted to the early morning hours, the blonde preferred getting
laid after he�d had breakfast at the very least, but Gaara was always jumping
him at the crack of dawn. It was amazing
that Gaara hadn�t already woken him for a morning session.

�It is a very long mission, one that will take a good fraction
of a year. I want you to order Sakura on
the same mission,� Gaara informed Naruto.

�Both of them�together? Is that a wise idea?� Naruto sniggered.

�Very wise,� Gaara told Naruto firmly. He really did believe in his plan to set up
his brother with Naruto�s friend. It
would force the two to spend time with one another, but it would also have the
guise of being a working assignment. �It
is important to both of our villages, a peacekeeping envoy of sorts,� the
Kazekage continued and then returned his attention to the hand job he was
giving Naruto. The Hokage considered
Gaara�s proposition for a moment and then nodded, it actually sounded fine for
Kankuro, Sakura and the two ninja villages�good things for everyone.

Pushing away Gaara�s eager hand Naruto sighed as it only
spurred Gaara to pull the sheet away from his waist and the Hokage watched as a
mass of messy red hair moved down his body and hovered right above Naruto�s
erection. �Geez
Gaara, really�I hate morning sex.�

�Then I suppose that you don�t want me to do this?� Gaara
hissed, locking eyes with Naruto. Slowly
Gaara�s tongue slipped out seductively between his lips and traced Naruto�s
weeping slit that was already leaking pre-cum.
Swallowing the milky liquid Gaara purred and watched as Naruto�s head
snapped back and a loud moan filled the room.

�Damn it, Gaara,� Naruto said as his body shuddered in
anticipation. Naruto lifted his hips,
offering the length to Gaara, who didn�t take it right away. �You are such a fucking tease,� Naruto grumbled
at his lover.

Gaara�s lips wrapped around the head of Naruto�s cock and
suckled on the overly sensitized area.
Pulling off of it with an audible pop, Gaara asked, �Who�s a tease?�

�If you are going to suck me off, suck me off!� Naruto
growled. The Kazekage�s penchant for
making him into a quivering pile of desire before they screwed in the morning
always made the Hokage antsy. Gaara only
grinned and traced Naruto�s inner thigh with his tongue, and the blonde watched
as one of Gaara�s hands moved to his own rear, preparing himself for Naruto.

�You are too close, be patient,� Gaara commanded.

Naruto reached over to the nightstand and grabbed the lube
that was still sitting out from the previous night, tossing it at Gaara. �Turn around,� Naruto ordered his lover. �I want to see you finger yourself.�

Gaara complied with a smile, and absolutely loved the groans
that came from his lover�s throat as he watched the little performance. Gaara was on all fours, but his chest was
resting against the mattress while his ass was placed high in the air, a
compromising position that was tempting his lover. Naruto watched carefully as Gaara�s fingers
moved slowly in and out of the tight heat that the Hokage desperately wanted to
sheath himself in.

�I want it slow,� Gaara murmured through strained moans.

�You aren�t getting it slow,� Naruto growled, sitting up and
taking over the preparations with his own fingers. Gaara�s hands simply moved to his own
arousal, stroking himself as Naruto�s fingers skillfully filled him.

�Can�t handle it? I thought
you had better control than that,� Gaara teased, hoping that it would goad
Naruto into giving him the sex that he desired.

�You�re too much in the morning,� Naruto murmured into the
skin of Gaara�s lower back as he kissed the Kazekage with fleeting touches of
his lips. �I couldn�t if I tried.�

A sharp nip to one of Gaara�s cheeks punctuated the blonde�s
neediness. Naruto rose to his knees and
positioned himself at Gaara�s entrance.
As much as Naruto didn�t think that he�d be able to comply with the
Kazekage�s request, he moved into his lover�s cavern as slowly as possible
before leaning forward and pulling Gaara up as well. The two men were upright except for the fact
that they were both settled on their knees, and Naruto was still fully sheathed
inside the red-head. This wasn�t a
position that Naruto could pound into the heat that called out to him, so Gaara
let out a satisfied moan as Naruto swiveled his hips slowly and kissed the back
of Gaara�s neck.

�I can�t kiss you back like this,� Gaara murmured and
strained his neck to try and tempt Naruto�s lips to his own.

�Now who�s impatient,� the blonde man hissed, gripping his
fingers into Gaara�s hips hard as he nearly came early. Gaara really was too much to make love to in
the morning�like a very alluring horny cat, one that Naruto could never refuse.

Gaara noted that Naruto had stopped moving inside him and
waited for the blonde to regain his composure.
A grin spread onto the Kazekage�s lips, he loved making Naruto squirm
and flexed muscles that caused the tight ring of flesh that held Naruto to
clamp down hard on the blonde.

�Stop that,� Naruto cried, �Or I�m just going to fuck you
silly instead of slow like you want.�

Naruto�s death grip on Gaara�s hips loosened and the blonde�s
spry fingers traced the hard curvature of the Kazekage�s abdomen, caressing
each subtle dip and curve of their cambers before moving lower to stroke the
twitching hardness that Gaara�s hands had abandoned. Gaara arched his back and sighed as Naruto
firmly fisted him, and then moaning when Naruto gave the hanging sack that was
underneath his cock a tender squeeze.

�You feel good,� Gaara said swallowing the excess amount of
drool in his mouth, trying to keep the cries that his voice randomly expelled
down to a dull roar. Naruto didn�t
reply, only grunted and thrusted into Gaara and barely hit a spot that made the
Kazekage nearly scream. In this position
it was really hard to angle in and reach it, but Naruto was trying. The blonde�s head found the dip between
Gaara�s shoulders and neck and rested there, the out of control panting warming
Gaara�s skin as Naruto grimaced, trying to keep his composure. The warmth was so intense that Naruto could
barely register anything else�damn Gaara and his thing for sex at sun-up.

�Harder,� Gaara growled.
He realized that Naruto wasn�t managing well, and decided that letting
his lover have control of the pace would be better for them both in the long
run.

The blonde smirked and pushed Gaara down into the bed on all
fours and grabbed his hips with a needy kind of desperation, pulling out
quickly and thrusting in hard. The force
that propelled the hardness into Gaara was startling, and the Kazekage lowered
his head to the bed yelping as Naruto hit that spot again. Gaara moved his fingers to his own arousal and
stroked furiously as the Hokage brutally pounded away behind him. They were both close, so when Naruto saw
Gaara�s back arch a bit and felt the muscles around him compress and hold him
tightly Naruto finally allowed the release that his body was begging for. Warm liquid streamed into Gaara, filling him
completely. Slumping forward Naruto
kissed the spot between Gaara�s shoulder blades before pulling out and bonelessly crumpling into a pile of mush at Gaara�s side.

After catching his breath Gaara cleaned himself and Naruto
up before curling into the blonde�s arms.
Naruto could tell him how much he hated sex in the morning all he
wanted, because Gaara knew better.
Naruto was very good in the mornings, and always left him
satisfied. As tired as they both were
Gaara cupped Naruto�s cheek with one hand and kissed his lover lightly.

�Can you stay?� Gaara asked.

�A few days,� Naruto whispered, his eyes closed and sleep
quickly returning to take him to dream once again.

�No, I mean I want you to stay,� Gaara reiterated.

�For how long?� Naruto�s tired
voice asked with a bit of confusion.

Gaara was silent, he didn�t really know why saying this was
so difficult, but it was. �I want you to
stay,� was what his mind finally
settled on.

�You mean stay here�with you? Live here?�
Naruto�s sapphire eyes were now surprisingly alert and watching Gaara
intensely.

�Yes, that is what I meant.�

�You know that I can�t,� Naruto replied sadly, which made
Gaara�s face crinkle in disappointment.
Naruto kissed Gaara�s forehead right on top of the tattoo and added,
�That doesn�t mean that I don�t want to.
If I weren�t Hokage I would be here in an instant, but you know why I
can�t. We both have obligations to our
people, and unfortunately those obligations take priority over the fact that
I�m madly in love with a certain leader of Suna.�

Gaara grinned at Naruto�s words. The one thing that the Hokage was very good
at was telling him time and time again how much he was loved. After the life that Gaara had led it was
something that he appreciated greatly.
�I love you, too,� he told Naruto.

This made the blonde pull Gaara into another fevered kiss,
it was only the second time that Gaara had admitted this and it made the Hokage�s
heart ache. It wasn�t fair that the two
couldn�t be together all of the time, but what they had wasn�t bad by any
means�it was just very lonely at times. This
was the life that Naruto chose, to be with Gaara. It didn�t matter that there were great
distances between them, he loved the Kazekage fiercely and would do just about
anything to make their relationship work.

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END OF CHAPTER

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A/N�s: Hee-hee�I�m just a
writing machine this week. I wrote twenty-four
pages for you yesterday (yes the next chapter is done as well and I�ll post it
after I proof it) and I really should be doing other things, but I can�t help
it. This story won�t let me stop
writing. I hope to have more for you all
in the next few days. (Cripes, I just
said �you all� and the only way that would have been worse would have been a
�ya�ll� instead. I blame the local farm
folk.)

I�m sorry for those of you that are waiting on other stories
to update. I noticed that my writing is
stronger when I focus on one story at a time.
So I�ll work on this one for awhile, and then I�ll move on and work on
another one. Eventually they will all
get done.
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