Just Stay Awhile

In the morning he did his daily routine, only there was a slight problem, he had complete forgotten that he said Gaara could stay with him. The raven haired male sat in the kitchen in only the silk blue boxers as he started to boil some water.

Gaara walked into the kitchen his hair messier then normal, he took one look at Sasuke and turned red. "Sorry sorry sorry!" He said and stumbled back out of the kitchen tripping over the older males anbu mask and landing with a loud thud on the carpet. "Oww.." He muttered his eyes tightly closed. 'It hasn't even been ten minutes and i made a fool of myself!' He thought.

Sasuke tried to keep his calm and act like he wasn't freaking out as he walked over to gaara holding his hand out, "Er no i am sorry.. I forgot you were my guest.. I will go uh change.." He said smoothly. 'Gah! What the hell is wrong with you Sasuke?! Are you trying to scare him away! God hurry go get clothes on you are embarrassing yourself!' His inner self scolded him but he tried to shoo it away.

Gaara blushed deeply as he took the older males hand and picked up the anbu mask looking at it. "Um c-cool mask.." He said sounding awkward.

'Uh.. yeah.. be right back.." Sasuke said trying to keep his voice normal and not stuttering as he ran to his room and slipped on a pair of pants and a black shirt that was cut down to the middle of his chest and was semi skin tight. After he came out of his room he exclaimed, "Shit!" Running over didn't help the situation Sasuke was yelling about. The water not he stove was over bubbling and burning everything around it, but when he ran over he slipped on some of the hot water that had gone on the floor and fell with a thud. 'Come on! Second time making a fool of myself, god you must seem so weak to him right now..' The raven haired boy thought.

Gaara walked into the kitchen and tuned off the water then knelt down next to the older male. "Are you ok??" He asked worry written all over his face as he placed a hand on Sasuke shoulder.

Right at that moment Sasuke didn't want Gaara to ever stop touching him, he looked into the soft green eyes and couldn't help but smile. As soon as he realized what he was doing though, his face went blank and he pulled away, getting to his feet. "Yeah.. I am fine.." He said under his breath as he moved around the smaller person to get a rag to clean up the damp floor. 'No.. what you are thinking is wrong.. you can't like him.. he is a guy.. and.. Gaara at that..' he thought to himself as he cleaned. While he thought those things he kept glancing over his shoulder at Gaara but he would shake his head, mumble something and look away quickly each time.

Gaara stood up and looked around the kitchen, he noticed a cloth laying on the counter and picked up then knelt down again wiping up the water. "You sure your alright? You seem kinda tense.." Gaara said watching the older male and looking a little worried.

"Y-yeah.. I am fine do not worry about me.." Sasuke said his voice low and calm as he shut his eyes, making sure he didn't look at Gaara. After finally cleaning the counter and floor he added tofu, cabbage and carrots into the water and added chicken broth as well. "Tear drop soup ok for breakfast?" He asked after a moment.

"Sure.." Gaara replied and sat down at the small table, he moved the long ends of his coat so they draped on ether side of the chair and rested his arms on the table.

Sasuke finished cooking the food and set them each in a bowl, handing him one of the spoons and sat down across from him at the table. He ate in silence and tried not to look at Gaara but finally he couldn't take the silence anymore and said, "how did you uh sleep?"

Gaara looked up from his bowl and blinked. "Sleep? Oh...I didn't last night..its still hard to get used to." He said and finished his food then moved a little bit of tofu around the bowl with his spoon.

"Oh.. uh is there something wrong with the bed or blankets..? I can change them for you.." Sasuke replied as he took both of their dishes to the sink and washed them.

Gaara sweat dropped a little and shook his head. "No...I didn't sleep before..so its hard to get myself to fall asleep now a days.." The Kazekage muttered and rested his arms on the table again. "If your anbu do you have to go on a mission soon?" He asked after a few moments. He found that he enjoyed being around the older male...well when he wasn't being rude but Sasuke was so different from everyone else and didn't look at him with hatred like a lot of people still did.

Sasuke looked at the time and thought, "No I do have a mission today, but it isn't until the sun sets, why do you ask?" he said his voice soft. Inside of his own home he acted different, here was a place where he could relax and be his own self. He walked back over and grabbed a book from his book case going to a chair and sitting in it.

"I was just wondering.." Gaara replied and stood up walking to the book case to see all of the books. "I didn't know you liked to read." He said tilting his head to read a few of the titles better.

"it is a way t keep to myself and not have people bothering me every now and again.. like relaxing.. you know?" The raven haired male asked as he opened a book and his coal eyes started skimming over the words on the pages.

"Yeah.." Gaara fell silent not wanting to bother the older male as he read and moved his hand up to slide it over the spines of the books trying to find one to read. The zipper on his sleeve got tangled with a ribboned that was hanging from one of the books, he blinked and pulled his arm back but the book fallowed and dangled from his arm. 'Huh.. thats never happen before.' He thought with a sweat drop

The older man looked up and chuckles under his breath, closing the book and getting up. he strode over to where the smaller male stood, the book dangling from his arm like a clinging kitten. "Need some help?" He asked his rich voice full of amusement as he untangled the small redhead from the book. "You won't want to read that one, it's a romance.." Sasuke added as he slipped the book back into it's place and let his pale fingers trace over the spines before stopping. "Here read this one," He said as he pulled out a dramatic love story between two males who were alike in so many ways yet different. 'Sasuke.. what are you doing.. don't give that to him.. pull your hand back!' His mind yelled at him but his body refused to listen as he smiled and continued holding out the book.

Gaara tilted his head looking at the book then took it and gave a small smile. "Thanks.." He said looking up at him. 'He's a lot kinder then I thought...I'm glad I got this chance to really get to know him.' Gaara thought and walked over to sit down on the couch and opened the book and begin to read.

Sasuke smiled and walked over, he tussled Gaara's hair lightly before sitting down. "You are welcome Gaara-kun," he said. Gaara's name rolled off his tongue like velvet as he opened his book back up an started reading. The room was quiet for a long time before the raven haired male grew restless and annoyed with not having something to do even though anther person was in the room. "Gaara.. would you like to go.. er well do something?" He asked his voice oddly hopeful.

Gaara was lightly blushing as he read the book and he jumped when the black haired male spoke. "H-Hai what would you like to do?" Gaara asked and pulled a blank ninja tag out of his pocket to and slide it between the pages of the pages of the book. 'I have not read a romance story like that before I wonder how it ends.' He thought shutting the book.

"Umm.. we can go ice skating if you want.. the pond is frozen even though it hasn't snowed yet.. and no one is there this time of day..after that we can stop and get some lunch," Sasuke said as he got up. he was trying not to make it sound like a date, but it obviously was. Friends do not just randomly decided to go ice skating together and get lunch afterwards, friends joke around and be informal with hanging out.

Gaara sweat dropped a little. "I have never ice stated before." He admitted and rubbed the back of his head. "Do you have a extra jacket or scarf I may barrow?" Gaara asked looking out the window to see it was snowing.

"Oh heh, Guess it is snowing now," Sasuke said with a laugh as he walked over to the closet. "Um.. you are kinda small compared to me.. does this fit?" Sasuke asked pulling out a light purple coat. "Sorry about the color," he said with a sweat drop.

"I didn't know you liked purple." Gaara said smirking a little as he pulled on the coat and zipped it up, he sweat dropped feeling a little puffy in it.

"I don't.. Ino left it here when she was complaining to me about something and she never came back for it. God why can't the girls in the village understand I like m-" Sasuke cut himself off. 'What was I about to say.. I was not going to tell him THAT! was I... change the subject hurry before he gets curious. "Um So anyways, Does it fit?"the raven slurred out quickly as he yanked a slimmer blue jacket from the closet and shut it, slipping it on.

"Its a little big how is this a girls coat?" Gaara asked and pulling a feather out of the coat. "Do you have a hat..?" He said and tired to fold his arms finding it hard cause of how big the coat was on him.

"Because it's poofy and Ino is weird?" Sasuke said laughing a bit. He smiled and pulled out a blank hat for Gaara handing it to him, along with mittens. "There you go," He said with a soft smile before grabbing the keys next to the door.

Gaara blushed faintly from Sasuke smiling at him like that and pulled on the hat and mittens. He turned to walk to his room planing on grabbing his gourd

Sasuke reached out and grabbed his hand, stopping the smaller guy from leaving the room. "Where are you going?" He asked smoothly as he slipped his keys into the pocket on the navy blue jacket.

Gaara blushed a little darker and looked down to hide it. "Getting my g-gourd." He replied feeling awkward.

A pout played on the raven haired man's lips as he looked into Gaara's soft green eyes. "What, The kazekage doesn't think an anbu can protect him?" He asked his voice a mere whisper, hinting at being upset, but it was obviously fake. Sasuke was only joking around, he couldn't help it, that was the real him and he wanted Gaara to know the real him, not the jerk he acted to be.

Gaara blinked in surprise and stared at him. "Protect me..? Huh I have never heard anyone say that before...but I guess I could leave it behind.." He said glancing at the door to the room he was staying in then back at Sasuke.

"Alright, then let's go," Sasuke said holding Gaara's hand as he dragged him out of the apartment and shut the door locking it behind himself. "You ever been ice skating before?" He asked his voice still hinting at him smiling even though the smile was no longer there.

"I already told you I didn't." Gaara said with a small sweat drop and glanced at their hands. 'No one has ever held my hand before..' He thought and rubbed his neck with his other hand.

The Uchiha let his smile dance back onto his lips as he started to lead Gaara out the other exit door of the building and onto the street. "Oh yeah, well I am going to have to t-" He froze when he noticed some people looking at hi and he slipped his hand out of Gaara's his smile fading away to nothing but a expressionless face and his voice even changed from being happy to just normal ad laid back, "Teach you then.." He finished his sentence.

Gaara blinked and folded his arms even though it was a little hard to and he went back to using his normal mask seeing the older male was. "I guess you can..." Gaara muttered and closed his eyes.

'..I really wanted to keep holding his hand..' Sasuke thought his black as coal eyes shifting down to glance at the small slender hands inside of the black gloves. A thought then came to his mind. "am I going to have to hold the baby's hand while teaching him?" the Uchiha mused at a smirk coming to his lips as he took a turn down an alley way.

Gaara twitched and narrowed his eyes at the older male. "Don't call me a baby." He said frowning and moved around a trash can that was in the middle of the ally.

'Shit.. it failed.. I figured it would..' Sasuke's inner self said behind him, is head sinking as he got upset. "Well only baby's don't know how to skate.." The Uchiha said simply as he jumped over the trash can landing next to Gaara and continued to walk to the park with him. 'Damn it.. why are we insulting him! Don't insult him! Just say it say 'Gaara I think I am falling for you'! God damn it.. why are we acting like this.. earlier was fine..' Sasuke's mind was yelling at him, racing with many thoughts that both made him happy, upset and confused.

Gaara turned his head around to glare at him. "There is no ice in the desert how would I learn?" He snapped and walked faster.

'Sasuke! Stop it, what are you doing?!' inner Sasuke yelled as the real one ran up and grabbed Gaara. "Hey i was just fucking with you, relax, what is your problem?" the black eyed male said his eyes narrowing down at gaara, not letting go of him.

"Why do you keep having these mood swings?? why all of a sudden are you acting like a ass?" He asked and tried to squirm out of his grip.

"Because I... Ugh! Just.. will you hold still?!" Sasuke yelled as he made the redhead stay still. "Why are you acting different? You don't seem like the one I know! So what is up with that, don't pin this on me I am not the only one being an ass!" the Uchiha yelled. 'What are you doing.. don't yell at him.. tell him.. why can't you just tell him?!'

"What do you mean the one you know? And I'm not acting different you are! Stop being such a jerk." Gaara said starting to raise his voice a little, he tried again to move away but found it hard since the older male had a grip on the coat.

Some fan girls came over and giggled seeing they were fighting. "Hey Sasuke-kun, once you are done there you can come cry on my shoulder," One called to him. A sigh came from Sasuke's lips as he said, "Oh come on! Not this now.." He let go of Gaara and turned to them, his eyes narrowed and cold. "What the hell do you not get?! I like men! There happy I said it!! Specifically I like that one right there! Now if you could kindly go the fuck away! I would calm down and... and.. what did I just say..?" Sasuke said to himself his voice finally getting quieter

Gaara was about to yell something but stopped and gapped at what Sasuke had said. "N-Nani?" He stuttered his anger disappearing since he was confused. He felt himself blushing again and reached a hand up to mess us his hair. 'I'm so confused how did he go to yelling at me to saying that...is it another thing to get rid of the girls or....what am I thinking there is no way he would like me in that way.' Gaara thought bitting his lip.

"I uh.. forget that! Why would I love the kazekage.. even though he is sweet.. and a lot nicer then I thought and agh! What are I saying?!" Sasuke scolded himself. The fan girl's eyes were wide and just as confused as the redhead behind Gaara, "Umm.. yeah.. right.. we are going to go... bye Sasuke." They murmured as they walked away gossiping to each other. "Fuck.. at least they went away..." The raven haired male said turning back around.

Gaara was staring at him with a really confused expression. "I...I really have no idea what is going on now.." Gaara said with a sweat drop. "And yeah I'm nicer...I changed remember." He added blinking when he noticed he could see his breath.

"I.. I.. forget it.. we can go home now.." Sasuke murmured as he looked down. 'damn it.. why am being so stupid.. How could i fall for fucking Gaara..' Sasuke thought to himself as he winced thinking of how he had hurt Gaara in the past.

"Are...are you sure? I was kinda looking forward to you teaching me to stake." Gaara said looking down as he blushed faintly.

Sasuke's eyes widened and he looked up, "W-what really..?" 'Don't question it go along with it you idiot!' his inner self yelled. For once the raven haired male listened to his inner self and shook his head, "I mean uh, yeah sure, come on." A smile danced back onto his lips as he walked over and held out his hand for Gaara to hold.

Gaara blinked in surprise and blushed darker as he shyly took his hand. "S-So which way?" He asked keeping his head down to hide his face.

Sasuke couldn't help but smirk as he said, "This way Gaara-koi.." He lead the smaller man to the park and back the where there was a pond with a rink around it and a small booth. He went up to the small booth and got skates for himself and guessed on Gaara's size before walking back over to a bench and starting to put his skates on, "Do I need to help you with putting them on?" He asked.

Gaara was still confused why Sasuke had added koi to his name and snapped out of his thoughts to look at the states. He sweat dropped as he picked them up upside down and tilted his head. "Why are there blades?" He asked.

The older male got his skates on and balanced himself as he took the skate from Gaara taking his shoes off and putting the skates on. "Because the blades dig into the side, while roller blades will not do that," He said to him. After struggling he finally got Gaara's skates on, "Stay here while I give the shoes to the man to watch," Sasuke murmured as he grabbed their shoes.

Gaara nodded and lifted his leg to look at the stakes on his feet. "Kinda heavy." He muttered to himself and tilted his head staring at them. He looked out on the ice to see no one was around.

"Arigatou.." Sasuke said in his smooth rich tone to the male after he set their shoes down on the counter, he walked back over to his new love and held his hand out. "Come on, you have to stand up now and try not to fall," He said his smiling staying since no one wad around and it most likely was already around the village that he loved Gaara since he yelled it at the fan girls.

Gaara gave a small smile back and placed his hand in Sasuke's. "Alright..I'm a ninja this shouldn't be to hard." He said straiting the hat on his head with his other hand since it was pushing his bangs into his eyes.

The taller male helped him to his feet and balanced him, "Do not pick up your feet, move them in a v formation out wards, only pick them up if you have to, ok?" Sasuke said starting to skate backwards leading gaara away from the bench.

"Whoa!" Gaara said reaching out to grab Sasuke's other hand and gripped tightly nearly falling over. "Uh..heh sorry." He said with a sweat drop looking up at the older male.

Sasuke chuckled under his breath and moved s he was next to the redhead, wrapping an arm around his waist. 'Here.. lets try and learn like this.." He breathed out into Gaara's covered ear as he slowly skated to the rink, allowing himself to push Gaara on the skates.

Gaara blushed and placed his hand over Sasuke's but started to calm down as they stated together. "this is kinda nice..who taught you how to state?" He asked looking down at the ice.

"I taught myself.. skating in the winter gave me time to get away from fa girls as a kid.." Sasuke murmured softly as he held Gaara's hand in one of his own and his other rested on Gaara's small hip. "Just.. think of it as gliding on the ice," He said to Gaara as they got on the ice and he started to lead him around. 'I can feel the slight heat from his hand.. but that is it.. I wish i could be closer to him..' Sasuke thought as he looked down at Gaara.

Gaara looked up at him and gave a small smile. "Thanks for bringing me here.. I never thought I would ever try this." Said the Kazekage. He gasped as he almost fell and grabbed onto the front of Sasuke's jacket with his other hand.

Sasuke jerked forward a bit but caught himself and the smaller man effortlessly and regained his balance. He laughed to himself, "You almost got me to fall there."

Gaara looked embarrassed and tried to straiten himself up. "Sorry this is really hard." Gaara said sweat dropping.

"Heh, It is alright, you will get the hang of it," Sasuke said softly to him as he held him to skate again. The whole time Sasuke didn;t notice he was leading Gaara in little heart formations leaving the trail of hearts behind them.

Gaara tried to keep close to the other male and blushed faintly. "This is...pretty fun.." Gaara said after a moment and smiled.

Sasuke didn't notice the nick I the ice and he tripped causing the redhead to fall down on the ice along with him. Out of instinct reaction Sasuke moved them so he was the one to hit the ground and Gaara was on him, the rave haired male's body protecting gaara from the impact. Just there was one problem. Gaara's head. His lips were pressed up again Sasuke's. 'his lips are so soft... but.. why do they.. oh wait.. the sand armor..' Sasuke thought to himself.

Gaara turned red under his armor and froze up, he tried to will himself to get off the older male but his body didn't want to move. 'I c-can't f-feel it yet...my h-heart is r-racing..' He thought feeling the fast drumming in his chest.

The older male felt his heart slightly pick up in speed and he blushed faintly pulling back, "U-um sorry.." He murmured softly looking to the side, unable to look at Gaara now.

Gaara snapped out of his daze and carefully climbed off him. "I-Its ok r-really.." He stuttered and struggled to get to his feet, once he was standing he tried to move only to end up falling backwards and landing on the ice which made cracks appear all over his armor.

"Y-you ok?" Sasuke said getting p quickly holding his hand out to the redhead, the blush and shyness going away and being replaced by worry and concern.

Gaara started to laugh and turned his head to look at him. "I'm fine but I seem to become more of a klutz around you." Gaara said and closed one of his eyes as a little sand armor fell away from above his eye and onto the ice.

"I can see that," slowly Sasuke brushed the sand off of Gaara's face and smile being able t finally feel his warm soft skin. Then he remembered he had no gloves on and his hands were probably cold so he pulled them away.

Gaara blushed at the touch and gazed at him. "Why did you..pull away?" He asked shyly wanting to feel the older males touch again, people rarely touched him and he found he was starting to like it when Sasuke did.

"..My hands are cold.. I don't want to make you cold as well.." He said softly as he looked down at the ice averting eye contact from the redhead, not used to people just gazing at him. They normally always had hatred, the intent to kill or gaga crazy in love. Seeing someone who actually looked at him differently made Sasuke feel awkward and a bit confused.

Gaara sat up and tried to get up again. "Its ok i don't mind." Gaara said rubbing his elbow. "Want to head back?" He asked and tilted his head back to look up at the sky seeing it was starting to snow.

"Hm.. alright.." Sasuke said softly as he stood back up strait, helping Gaara up as well. He skated both over and got their shoes on then returned the skates. He walked back over to Gaara and slipped the keys he had into the pocket on Gaara, "There, the jingling will allow me to find you," Sasuke said jokingly as he wrapped his arm around Gaara.

Gaara blushed a little and pulled on his boots. "Its snowing more.." Gaara said looking up at the sky again and blinked when it landed on his arm and soaked into the sand armor there. He sighed seeing he would have to take off the armor or he would have to put up with it being soaked and being really heavy. He closed his eyes and the sand fell off him and onto the snow.

The older man laughed and slipped on his shoes then stood up, keeping his arm tightly wrapped around Gaara, "Guess we have to take the short cut home then," he said and did a hand sign and made the both disappear in a poof of smoke and reappear in front of the door of the outside of his apartment building.

Gaara blinked in surprise and looked around. "You should have told me you were gonna do that now I just wasted a lot of sand." He said trying again to fold his arms but failing because of the coat.