Do Over-Ch 18

‘It was nice,’ Sasuke thought, ‘walking next to Naruto without saying a word.’ It was the longest period of time together since their reunion that Naruto hadn’t argued, yelled or cried at him over something… the last was hardest to see because it hurt his heart to know that he was the cause of so much pain.

Sasuke turned his head and stared down at Naruto a moment, his face seemed deep in thought, and Sasuke wondered what was on the blonde’s mind.

“Cup of ramen for your thoughts…” Sasuke joked, hoping it would ease his friends mind to say it.

Naruto turned to look up at him, a glare on his face, “Shut up idiot… I don’t eat that stuff anymore.” It was true, ever since Gaara had started cooking for him; he hadn’t wanted to eat any of the stuff. Life was going to be hard for a while, Naruto thought with a small smile, trying to imagine going back to ramen while him and Gaara were apart.

“Well will wonders never cease…” Sasuke’s lip tipped up in a half grin, as he continued to eye Naruto’s face out of the corner of his eye. He watched Naruto’s face redden and his eyes darken a bit in annoyance-it was a nice site. It was better that Naruto was mad at him than ignoring him.

“What no comeback?” Sasuke whistled a bit under his breath while shaking his head, ‘If this last comment didn’t get Naruto to say something nothing would’ he thought while smirking, “Boy Gaara has you so pussy-whipped…”

Naruto stopped dead in his tracks at the words and turned to look at Sasuke with fists clenched, “You call that helping…” Clearly the temporary truce that had been erected at Sasuke’s house hadn’t lasted long because Sasuke was already trying to get on his nerves.

Sasuke turned to look at him with a brow raised, pretending innocence, “I don’t know what you mean.” He mentally gave an inner cheer when he saw Naruto’s eyes sparkle with hate.

“You Son-of-a-Bitch!” Naruto tackled Sasuke to the ground, straddled his waist, and starting punching him in the face. He didn’t notice till a few seconds later that Sasuke wasn’t fighting back or hiding his face, but was calmly accepting the punches. He paused in mid-punch in order to stare down in shock at Sasuke’s upturned face. It was bright red and slightly swollen with a smattering of scratches where his dry nails had cut into the soft skin.

Instead of being mad, Sasuke only stared up at him with a smile on his face-nothing forced-but a genuine smile, as if he was glad Naruto had hit him. “What the hell…Teme?” Naruto yelled down at him, he was confused by the actions of his former best friend, “Why aren’t you fight back?”

Chuckling a bit, Sasuke lifted himself onto his elbows, took a breath before looking Naruto square in the eye. He loved the look of confusion on his friends face while his blue eyes sparkled with barely simmered anger, without thinking about it he leaned in and kissed Naruto softly on the cheek before pulling back, “I think it’s better this way… I don’t think I could handle you being completely complacent with me…”

Naruto sat back on his heels as he regarded Sasuke. He could never really figure out Sasuke, at times while they were growing up together he thought he had the Uchiha pegged, but often times Sasuke would surprise him by doing something unexpected-this was clearly one of those times. But he had never heard of anyone purposely picking a fight just because he didn’t like the quiet, why couldn’t Sasuke have started a conversation like a normal person. The idea was so ludicrous that it made him laugh, Sasuke soon joined him.

“Naruto?” The last thing Naruto expected to see, while sitting on top of Sasuke laughing, was Gaara standing over them with a shocked expression on his face.

It was then Naruto realised the awkward position he had taken when he had fallen on top of Sasuke in order to beat him up. His legs were kneeling on either side of Sasuke’s hips, his butt laying over the indent of his pelvis, and with Sasuke leaning close to him, it might appear to Gaara as if they had just finished making out. It was then Naruto remembered the brief kiss Sasuke had given him and the fact that Gaara might have just seen it.

“Shit!” Naruto yelled jumping off of Sasuke in a hurry, in order to stand and face Gaara, with some distance between himself and Sasuke, “It’s not what it looks like… he,” pointed at Sasuke, “That idiot kissed me… and…”

If the incident had happened before the talk him and Naruto had at his house, Sasuke might have considered using the incident to his advantage to create a further rift between Gaara and Naruto. But having realized that he didn’t stand a chance since Naruto was clearly insane over the Goth-prick their wasn’t much he could do until Naruto fell out of love for him, other than offer his support.

“Nothing happened.”

Unfortunately the situation, from an outside perspective, did look bad. But Gaara, having searched over the past couple of hours for Naruto and thinking the worst had happened, was happy to finally see Naruto alive, especially since he had feared the worst after the phone call he had received earlier that night from Shino.

Gaara noticed a bit of blood on Naruto’s cheek and knuckles, but looking towards Sasuke and noticing the slowly emerging bruises, he assumed it hadn’t been a sexual encounter between the two that he stumbled upon, but a one-sided fight and it calmed him a bit.

Without thinking about the situation further, Gaara quickly grabbed a hold of Naruto and hugged him close. Gaara leaned his head against the blond’s neck and inhaled the clean orange-like sent while nuzzling the soft skin there. He felt Naruto stiffen a bit in reaction before hesitantly lift his arms and hug him back. It felt good to Gaara to be back in his boyfriend’s arms-even if they were colder than normal.

“Gaara…” Naruto sighed into the warmth of his boyfriend’s embrace even though his body was still shaking a bit in adrenaline-fueled fear over Gaara having caught him with Sasuke and he wondered briefly what his boyfriend must be thinking in that moment.

Lifting his head reluctantly away from Naruto’s neck, Gaara looked down at Naruto’s confused face a moment before leaning in and kissing him softly on the lips. Naruto was the one to pull away first because he still didn’t understand where he stood with Gaara, especially since a few hours ago, Gaara had made it clear that he didn’t want anything to do with Naruto until he had finished whatever feelings he had for Sasuke.

“I don’t understand…” Naruto briefly eyed Sasuke out of the corner of his eye, who had stood up during the time he was hugging Gaara and was quietly watching them with a thoughtful look on his face, before lifting his face to stare into Gaara’s intense green eyes.

Gaara lifted his hand and gently cupped Naruto’s cheek, caressing the soft-yet smooth-chilled skin with his thumb, “I was worried about loosing you,” he moved his thumb softly against the edge of Naruto’s mouth before pulling the blond swiftly into his arms again, holding him close, “When Shino said that you never came home and were missing for hours… I.” he started to shake, feeling the effects of the adrenaline, that had been racing through his system, dissipate, “All I could think was that you were gone and that I would never see you again…”

It had struck Gaara just how much he needed Naruto in that moment, he knew it wasn’t smart giving in to his feelings when Naruto still had issues with his ex, but having relived the incident of his mother’s suicide in his head, Gaara couldn’t stomach the thought that something could have just easily happened to Naruto taking his love from him as well.

Naruto’s stomach clenched in shame over not having contacted anyone during his absence, hearing the real fear in Gaara’s voice, and knowing he had put it there by thoughtlessly ignoring everything else, in his effort to escape the pain over their recent breakup.

“I’m so sorry,” Naruto could feel the hot tears touch his neck and he clutched Gaara closer, “I should have called…” He moved back and grabbed Gaara’s face within his hands, leaning up, he pressed kisses across the pale wet skin, while softly whipping away the tears with his hands “I wasn’t thinking… I.”

Gaara gave him a soft smile, “I know…” he leaned down and pressed his forehead against Naruto’s, “But next time don’t expect me to be so forgiving about it,” Naruto laughed at that.

“Deal,” Naruto kissed Gaara briefly on the lips to act as a promise, he could feel his eyes water and he suppressed the desire to cry himself since he was happy, but a couple still escaped running down his cheeks as he smiled up at Gaara.

Watching everything, Sasuke had never felt more like a ‘third-wheel’ in his life, seeing the way Naruto and Gaara acted with one another, made him want that life with his ex back. But he knew that he didn’t stand a chance with Naruto feeling the way he did about Gaara. It was funny to him, since he had millions of girls and some boys yearning for him and willing to throw away everything to be with him, but the only person he wanted-wanted someone else.

It was clear, to Sasuke that he needed to walk away and he didn’t know why he had stayed to watch the two as long as he had. Turning to leave the two of them alone, he was surprised to feel a hand on his shoulder pulling him back around, turning around he noticed Gaara’s face glaring in his direction.

“I think I mentioned something about touching what was mine,” the clear loathing Sasuke heard should have been a hint that he needed to run away, but he stood his ground, annoyed that this Goth-idiot was still throwing something like that back at him when it was clear that he had won.

Sasuke pushed off the arm, “I wasn’t the one who came to him this time,” He should have realized that was the worst comment he could have made in that situation. So Sasuke shouldn’t have been surprised to feel a hard fist swiftly punch him in the face.

The small crunch of the cartilage breaking in his nose was the last thing Sasuke remembered before he passed out other than the thought that swiftly ran through his mind over how such an emo-and thin-looking boy could hit so hard.

Dream Omake (well sort of an omake because this is what I was thinking to torture Sasuke with while he was passed out for the second time due to a punch… I might have to have him and Gaara have a more drawn out fight in the future either that or a three-some but somehow I have a hard time imaging the three of them staying in the same space without some sort of antagonism)

The warm sun shining down on the field of kumquats made the dewdrops on the green leaves sparkle and the orange-yellow fruit glitter in the sun. It was a nice day for one to lie back and take a quick nap while basking in the early morning warmth-well for anyone except Gaara the ‘Emo-fairy’ who stood on top of one of the branches and was currently glaring down at a dark-haired human who dared to masturbate in the vicinity of his kumquat trees.

Flying down towards the human’s head he quickly brought out his sword made from a wasp’s stinger and pierced the human on his nose.

“WHAT THE FUCK!” Sasuke yelled gripping at his nose that sudden throbbed in pain. At first he assumed the winged creature was an exceptionally large form of bee and waved his arm to swat at the creature in order to push it away before it could cause further damage to his poor nose.

Today was turning out to be one of the worst days ever, not only had he been rejected by the beautiful boy (whose family owned the kumquat orchard), but he had also gotten stung while venting his sexual frustration behind one of the kumquat trees.

Unfortunately, whether it was because the bug was stupid or purposely adding to Sasuke’s stress level, it refused to go away no matter how many times Sasuke waved his hand at the annoying bug.

Gaara, at this point, was so annoyed at the human that he ignored one of the rules of Fairy-dom, ‘Thou shall not show thyself to a human’ and showed himself to the capricious human.

In a cloud of sparkling orange glitter, Gaara emerged wearing his standard and skin-tight black and yellow leotard with matching black tutu and satin ballet slippers, in order to glare at the dark-haired boy while poking him with his wasp sword, “Stop your foolish waving human!”

Sasuke’s eyes bugged and his mouth dropped open as he pointed at the red-haired fairy in shock, “What sort of whimsical nonsense is this!”

“WHIMSICAL…” Gaara continued to poke the human boy with the tip of his sword, making sure not to skewer him, otherwise the fairy queen Temari might make him look after Sakura trees instead which would require him to wear a pink tutu. The thought of wearing pink made him shudder in fear since badass fairy boys don’t wear pink.

Putting the sword into its holster on his back, Gaara proceed to poke the impertinent human in the chest with his finger instead of his sword, “Your lucky I don’t remove your important human appendages for defiling my kumquat trees!”

Sasuke’s mouth closed and he gritted his teeth in anger, ignoring the phenomenon that was seeing a real-life fairy, in order to push back at the annoying redhead invading his space (something only a certain blond-haired farmer’s boy had the right to do), “I can do whatever I damn well please you stupid tutu wearing freak!”

“POPPYCOCK!” Gaara yelled pushing the annoying human back, “It should be considered sexual harassment of produce what you were doing to that plant… you kumquat hentai!”

“Hentai… you son-of-a-bitch!” Sasuke yelled out, tackling the redhead to the ground before proceeding to punch him out.

Gaara grabbed first his right fist then his left, when Sasuke sought to hit him with his remaining hand, then forcefully pushed the human onto his back while holding the dark-haired boy’s arms above his head, “Your lucky I don’t want to wear pink otherwise I would kill you right now.”

Sasuke opened his mouth to respond to Gaara threat, but was interrupted by the appearance of his ‘farmer-boy’ crush, “Naruto!”

Gaara turned to look over his shoulder at the person interrupting his beat-down of the human and was surprised to see an attractive blond-haired boy with sparkling blue eyes the color of cornflowers looking down at them in shock. He found his lips curving appreciatively at the exquisite features of the human staring at him and thought maybe all humans weren’t entirely terrible as he licked his suddenly dry lips.

“Ah sorrow to interrupt,” Naruto’s cheeks turned pink and he stuttered in embarrassment over having found his neighbor in a compromising position in the kumquat field. He had been out wandering the fields in thought over whether or not he should accept a date with Sasuke, when he had stumbled upon the boy clearly not waiting for him, and making out with another attractive male with an odd sense of style. (It wasn’t everyday you saw a boy wearing a black and yellow leotard with matching tutu and a set of wings on his back… Naruto decided he was clearly a fan of bug cosplay)

Deciding to leave, Naruto turned around and ran off in the direction of his house, “I hope you’re happy!”

“No… NARUTO!” Sasuke watched his crush leave, clearly thinking something that wasn’t anywhere near the truth, “Its not what you think.”

Gaara tapped his chin thoughtfully, “Hmmm I don’t know why you would want to fornicate with a kumquat tree with that delicious human nearby,” he shrugged before getting up and looking down at Sasuke with a knowing smirk on his face, “Ah well another’s loss is another man’s gain.” And with that said, he gave Sasuke a wink before disappearing in a cloud of fairy dust.

Sasuke clearly not amused, jumped to his feet and shook his fist in the air in anger, “Lay off my kumquat you ass!”