Naruto One-Shot (Yaoi)

Harder

Gaara stood up from his desk chair and walked to the round window, looking out at Suna. He was itching to leave the office, but it was still a little early. He hadn't even received word that the Konoha ninja had arrived yet, but he gently worried at his cuffs and hoped that his sister would walk in any minute now.

He turned back to his desk and shuffled a few papers around, glanced at a scroll, and sure enough, Temari appeared in the doorway moments later.

"They're here," she said with a wry smile, crossing her arms in front of her chest and leaning against the doorway. "We had them escorted to the hotel to drop off their things, but they should be heading down to the restaurant soon."

Gaara set the papers down and looked up at her calmly, but she knew how to read those bright eyes of his. He might as well have been trembling with excitement.

He walked towards her, and she stepped out of his way. She walked alongside him, stepping in tandem.

"Are you excited to see him?"

The gently incredulous look Gaara gave her spelled out his answer very clearly: Excited, me, really?

Temari blinked and then grinned. She didn't say anything else, just smugly held onto the thought that her little brother had it so bad, he didn't even recognize how bad it was.

They reached the end of the hall, went down the stairs, where Kankuro was waiting for them. He looked a little sour, but he was also wearing a half-smile, so maybe that was just his resting face. He greeted Gaara with a pat on his shoulder. "You excited to see him, Gaara?"

Gaara's eyes widened and he looked a little annoyed. Temari held her hand up in a failed "stop" gesture. Of course, he appreciated how his siblings involved themselves in his life, but this was getting a little excessive. Gaara placed his hand over Kankuro's and huffed softly. They both sheepishly tensed up.

"I am," Gaara answered. He continued walking, and his siblings gave a sigh of relief. For just a moment, it had felt like they provoked the younger, cruel Gaara from a few years ago, but Temari smiled, reminded that he had changed so much. Kankuro beamed at Temari, relieved and pleased.

They had no idea. Gaara's heart was bursting to know that Naruto would be in his arms in a matter of hours. He and Naruto weren't in some secret relationship, but their visits were few and far between, and his siblings didn't need to know the specifics of their habitually marathon sex.

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In all, Shikamaru, Sakura, Naruto, and Kiba had made the journey to Suna. They sat with Temari, Kankuro, and Gaara at a low table, sharing sake, barbeque, and stories.

Shikamaru sat next to Temari and regaled them all with tales of Konoha antics and ninja politics, supplemented by Kiba's well-timed talent for chiming in. They complained that Suna was like the beach, except all sand and blazing sun with no ocean breeze, and Kiba made a show of feeding Akamaru scraps from his plate.

"That dog is so huge, if you keep feeding him, he's gonna grow to the size of a house," Shikamaru said in that snide tone of his.

Kiba smacked the table. "Are you calling Akamaru fat?"

"Aha, if only Chouji had come along!" Sakura said. She actually had a bit of a soft spot for the pudgy ninja these days, especially since he and Ino had started dating.

Shikamaru shook his head. "Nah, nah, if he'd come along we'd all be going hungry." He gulped down the rest of his beer, and Temari picked up the bottle to pour him some more. This was glass number four, and he swayed in a little more than he'd meant to, completely breaching her personal space.