Sweet Tooth

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‘Sweet Tooth-Chapter 3’ by KitsuneFun

Naruto turned to look down in curiosity at Gaara as he felt the other boy’s head rubbing into his side like a cat, as they watched the movie, and smiled. He didn’t think even the redhead knew he was doing it and he found the site adorable.

‘What am I going to do with you’ the blond thought, lifting his hand that had been resting leisurely against the back of the couch, behind Gaara’s head, before running his fingers slowly through the younger boy’s soft red locks. The action bared the area of smooth skin over Gaara’s forehead on the right side, revealing a blood-red tattoo with the word ‘love’ in Japanese kanji.

The soft action of Naruto’s hand gently caressing the skin on his forehead made Gaara turn away from the movie and look up at him hesitantly, he watched in fascination as the blond lifted a finger to softly trace the curves of the tattoo before looking down into the redhead’s green eyes that had widened in wonder at the action, “When did you get this?” the blond asked.

The redhead knew from his experiences at school that not many people liked the idea of tattoos, let alone seeing one the color of blood resting against the forehead of someone they considered the monster of Konoha High, “It’s something I got years ago,” he didn’t want to mention the reason to Naruto had been because he had once thought himself incapable of love, ‘but if that was true’, he thought the simple touch of Naruto tracing his tattoo affectionately wouldn’t have affected him this much.

Gaara hadn’t cared before if anyone saw it, but seeing the oddly blank stare suffuse those normally lively blue eyes at his comment made him feel nervous and the redhead quickly lifted his head from against Naruto’s chest, in to move away from the other’s touch, because he was secretly afraid that the blond might reject him now like everyone else had.

He didn’t expect Naruto to put a restraining hand on his shoulder in order to hold him back, “You don’t have to go…” the redhead stared up at Naruto in surprise at the concern he heard in the older boy’s voice.

Gaara was almost tempted to ask why Naruto wasn’t disgusted like everyone else about the tattoo, but it seemed the blond didn’t care about that, instead he moved over the redhead till his mouth resting over the younger boy’s forehead where the tattoo lay and gently placed a kiss on it, “I like it…” the blond’s voice was partially muffled as it lay against Gaara’a skin, but the redhead heard it all the same and it sent a tingling shock of pleasure racing up his spine at the words.

“Thank you…” Gaara managed to mumble back, feeling his face heat up in embarrassment over the blond’s words.

The redhead watched as the older boy leaned back and stared down at him a moment before smiling, one of those huge natural smiles of Naruto’s that made Gaara’s stomach flip in happiness like he had just gotten his favorite piece of candy. The redhead felt an almost overwhelming desire to kiss the other boy back, just to see what he would do.

Gaara watched the older boy’s face tint a soft red as he blushed and the redhead wondered briefly if Naruto was feeling the same emotions he was every time the blond touched him. The redhead found himself leaning closer till he could almost feel the blond’s breath against his lips and had to suppress the whimper that threatened to escape his mouth at the other boy’s closeness, ‘God he smells good.’

“Gaara…” the redhead heard the older boy’s voice crack a bit as he drew closer to Gaara.

Naruto's breath was warm against his lips and the redhead unconsciously licked at his suddenly dry lips slowly before responding back, “Naruto,” Gaara still didn’t understand what these sudden emotions were coursing through his body, but he was more than willing to allow the blond to show him what he needed to know.

Before Naruto could press his lips against Gaara’s, a very loud and annoying rendition of ‘Gay Bar’ by the Electric Six could be heard; interrupting them, the sound made the older boy frown as he turned his head to the side to stare down, in an annoyed manner, at the pocket of his faded blue jeans where the music was coming from, ‘Stupid phone…’

Naruto was almost tempted to chuck the contraption out the nearest window in favor of answering the same hunger he saw reflected in the redhead’s jade green eyes, he could still feel the other boy’s intense stare on him, and cursed his luck, before leaning back in his seat to grab at the phone stuck in his right front pocket.

Looking at the caller id, he sighed in annoyance as he flipped the phone open, having recognized the number as belonging to his other best friend, “What is it now Kiba?”

Blond brows furrowed as Naruto tried to understand the muffled voice on the other end of the receiver, he could hear sniffling in the background, but he couldn’t hear anything beyond the hysterical note in the dog lover’s voice, “Dammit puppy will you calm down a moment and tell me what the hell is wrong?”

There was a large growl in response to the puppy comment, before Kiba finally responded back in a way that Naruto could understand, “Stop being a jerk Foxy… Kanki-bottom said he was leaving me…” at the mention of the brunette’s long time boyfriend, Kiba began to cry anew making Naruto roll his eyes at the action.

The blond was already used to the occasional fights that happened between the two love birds, which ultimately lead to bouts of makeup sex that the brunette loved to brag about later, being the best ever, even though Kiba always complained about being on the bottom. It was amazing how his friend tended to forget the bad stuff that lead to those moments.

Naruto personally didn’t care either way, when it came to sexual positions, he liked being both on the bottom and the top, it’s just that he sometimes preferred the bottom because it required less work than being on top.

“I’m not surprised he left you puppy, considering you constantly refer to him as being at ‘the bottom’ of the relationship with that nickname… you do realize he prefers being on top, don’t you?”

The brunette nodded against the receiver, giving another sniffle, “But Foxy, he wouldn’t tell me why he left this time only that he had something more important to do… but what’s more important that cuddling Naruto… what?” the blond had no idea how to respond to that question, having never been in a long term relationship before.

Naruto sighed, he knew even before answering Kiba’s call, that this was going to take a while, “Just one minute puppy…” he put a hand lightly over the receiver before turned to look apologetically at a slightly fuming Gaara who sat glaring at the phone, “I’m really sorry… but I have to take this… it should only take a couple of minutes, but I will be back soon… ok?”

The redhead could only nod in response, knowing that it wouldn’t change the fact, that whoever this Kiba was, they had just interrupted his first official kiss. Therefore Gaara vowed that if he ever met the bastard, preferably in a small dark alley later, he was going to beat the living crap out of him.

Seeing how frustrated and angry the blond had looked himself, when they were interrupted, had pacified Gaara a bit and he continued to sit silently as he watched the blond give him a relived smile before standing up and heading off towards his bedroom in the back of the apartment.

It was then that Gaara suddenly realized that Naruto left him alone with the one person he didn’t want to be alone with…Sasuke. He turned to glare over his shoulder at the raven-haired boy who had taken to watching Naruto walk away with a satisfied look on his face as he stared in partial lust at his roommate’s bottom as it swayed a bit, from side to side, when the blond walked. It was a site that the raven was fond of.

‘It wasn’t fair’ the redhead thought while glaring holes over at the raven-haired boy’s profile silently, He could admit, only under bouts of torture, that Sasuke was attractive, even though (in Gaara’s mind) he was no where near as gorgeous as Naruto, it made the redhead slightly worried that if Sasuke decided to perused his roommate in earnest, Naruto would forget about him.

As if feeling the redhead’s eyes on him, the raven turned to stare back at him a moment in curiosity before his lips peeled back into a condescending smirk. Naruto didn’t realize the opportunity he had given Sasuke by leaving him alone with the younger boy, but he planned to use it to his full advantage against the redhead, “So do you have a last name, Gaara?”

The way the raven-haired boy said the redhead’s first name made it sound dirty and Gaara was tempted to tell the bastard to Fuck-off and stay away from what was his, but the redhead decided to play devil’s advocate for once and instead responded back just as calmly, “It’s Suna…” mentally he added, ‘You lily-assed son of a bitch.’

Sasuke was amused by the look of frustration that the younger boy couldn’t hide, “Have you ever heard of the name Uchiha before Suna-san?”

Their wasn’t anywhere in the city of Konoha where that name wasn’t shown or mentioned. The Uchiha’s owned ‘Sharingan Bank’ which was not only listed as one of the top 100 influential bank’s in the country it was also one of the most richest and influential families in town. Gaara slowly nodded in response, wondering why Sasuke was mentioning that name.

The other boy stood up from his seat and proceeded to move towards the redhead till he was standing directly in front of him. Sasuke then leaned his head down to Gaara’s level, the older boy couldn’t hold back his look of contempt as he eyed the younger boy slowly up and down as if he was an unwanted piece of trash, “Well Suna-san I am the youngest heir to the Uchiha conglomerate,”

Sasuke had mentioned it in order to intimidate the younger man and make him realize that he would never be worthy enough to be with someone like Naruto, especially with Sasuke around. It was something that had worked on the dates that the blond had brought home in the past to great success.

“So you see…” Sasuke said while lifted a hand to brush at some invisible dust off of Gaara’s shoulder, pleased to see the look of anger suffusing the younger boy’s face, “Your nothing and will always be nothing… Naruto will see that sooner than later so shouldn’t you leave now before he gets tired of you?”

It wasn’t Sasuke’s right to make that decision, it was Naruto’s and Gaara could feel his feel his teeth clench in anger before he pulled his fist back and hit Sasuke directly in the mouth in anger, making the taller boy stumble back in surprise.

The redhead could care less who Sasuke thought he was, he had never allowed anyone to bully him, in either the past or present, in order to get what they wanted and he certainly wasn’t going to allow this bastard to be the first, “You should also realize Uchiha…” he said the last name with a sneer as he stood up and faced the older and much taller boy, “ Who your messing with…”

A dark brow rose in amusement at seeing Gaara’s anger, “Oh really…” The Uchiha wiped at the bit of blood that fell from where he had accidentally bit his lip when the redhead hit him, “Cause from where I am standing I see nothing, but a poor, young, unattractive, and wannabe Goth kid… who has stepped into something he doesn’t understand and could never possibly finish.”

A loud growl, from the redhead’s throat, was the Uchiha’s only warning before Gaara suddenly tackled him around his middle, throwing them both to the floor under the pressure of the redhead’s weight.

The sudden movement and loss of air stunned the Uchiha as he hit the floor hard, on his back, but he quickly retaliated by dodging the fist that headed towards his face a second time.

Sasuke, knew how to fight back, he had been trained in karate since he was 5 and was currently a 2nd Dan Black Belt, so defending against the redhead’s erratic street brawling was easy and he quickly ended it by flipping the younger boy’s position till the raven was the one now straddling Gaara’s waist and using the strength in his forearms to press the redhead’s arms high above his head, “Nice tackle, but I’m better…”

Neither of the boy’s realized that they were no longer alone or how compromising their position looked, to the onlooker, till they were interrupted by the sound of Naruto’s angry voice, “What the hell is going on here?”

The blond had finally managed to calm Kiba down and reassure him that Kankurou wasn’t leaving him for someone else and would eventually return for makeup sex tomorrow. Mentioning the word ‘sex’ had surprisingly calmed the dog-lover down and the other boy was finally able to go to sleep where he was no doubt dreaming up ways his lover could make it up to him in the morning.

Only to find, when he returned to the living room, that his normally stoic roommate was not only leaning over his date, but he looked like he was ready to molest the younger boy. The site of the redhead looking nervous and struggling against the bigger boy hold worsened the image.

Sasuke had enough common sense to know that it didn’t pay to get on Naruto’s bad side, from past experience, “Dobe…”

“Don’t Dobe me bastard,” The blond growled while continuing to glare down at Sasuke. It may have been a trick of the light, but the raven haired boy would have swore later, that the blond’s normally blue eyes, at one point, seemed to turn red in his anger making Sasuke visibly gulped in fear at the intense look.

Sasuke quickly realized his mistake and quickly got up from his position on top of Gaara allowing the younger boy to leave in the process, “I can explain…” He knew better than anyone, not to mess with Naruto when he was like this, considering Naruto was currently at a 4th Dan-Black Belt and was in training for his 5th and final belt level.

“What were you doing to Gaara?”

“It’s not what you think…”

“Really?” a single blond brow rose mockingly, Naruto moved till the top of his head almost touched Sasuke’s chin, he regarded the raven-haired boy while looking up at him coolly, their was a clear difference in height between them by a few inches, but in Naruto’s case that only made it harder for someone like Sasuke to beat him since what Naruto lacked in height he easily made up for in speed.

“Look…” Sasuke said, feeling his insides clench in fear as he leaned down and helped Gaara to his feet by grabbing the redhead’s wrist with his hand and pulling the younger boy up, “It was just a misunderstanding between us nothing more…”

The blond looked between Gaara and Sasuke and back again, he could feel the tension between them, but he blamed it on his roommate who tended to get a little domineering from time to time.

Naruto was worried that Sasuke might be attracted to his date and hadn’t liked how the raven-haired boy held his date to the ground and looked ready to kiss him. The site of the two of them together, like that, had instantly pissed him off, “Why don’t you head to your room now Sasuke… we’ll talk about this later” he managed to grit out between his clenched teeth.

The Uchiha knew better than to argue, he didn’t like the fact that Naruto was angry at him, but he was confident that he could turn it all around by tomorrow because the blond wasn’t one to hold a grudge, “Goodnight Dobe…” he gave a weak smile before leaving, not even daring to give the redhead another look as he left, knowing it would only complicate matters between him and Naruto.

After Sasuke left, Naruto let off a visible sigh before moving towards the couch and collapsing against it before closing his eyes. He was followed by, a surprisingly silent, Gaara who eyed him a moment in curiosity, “I’m sorry,” soft blue eyes opened to stare up at the redhead a moment in apology. The site made Gaara’s stomach clench and flip in awareness as the blond made room for him to sit down next to him on the couch.

“There nothing to be sorry about…” the redhead mumbled before taking a seat next to the blond, Gaara turned his head to look over at Naruto and blushed when he found the older boy smiling reassuringly at him.

“I’m glad…” Naruto said letting off a breath, he hadn’t realized he had been holding till then, he still couldn’t understand this sudden attraction to Gaara and wondered briefly if it was because he saw a bit of himself in the younger boy, “I don’t normally get angry like that… its just that Sasuke went a little too far this time.”

The redhead nodded in understanding, despite seeing the anger that fairly radiated off the boy earlier and his own fear that the blond might reject him, Gaara hadn’t been afraid that the anger was directed towards him… sure it had been unexpected, considering Naruto looked like he was used to smiling more than any other emotion, “It just surprised me…”

Blue eyes regarded him silently a moment before that tan face moved towards him again and placed a slight kiss on his cheek, as if the blond was thanking him. Instead of moving away, after the kiss, Naruto leaned in till his mouth was resting against the outer shell of Gaara’s ear, “Well I have been called the #1 most surprising student at my college for nothing.”

Naruto’s husky and warm voice against his ear, sent shivers down Gaara’s back and the redhead was instantly reminded of what had been interrupted earlier that evening and he turned to look at the blond expectantly, “Are you planning on surprising me more?”

The redhead didn’t realize the heated look he was sending Naruto and how it suddenly made the blond’s belly clench in awareness, ‘God… he doesn’t realize how cute he looks when he stares at me like that,’ Naruto was almost tempted to throw caution to the wind and ravish the redhead against the couch, but he knew it was too soon for Gaara…although a simple kiss, for the first date, wasn’t out of question.

Naruto eagerly pressed his lips against Gaara surprisingly soft ones, allowing them to massage gently against one another’s, in order to allow the redhead time to get used to the simple action, since it was clear from the first kiss and the obvious tensing of the younger boy’s shoulders that the redhead wasn’t used to this particular form of touch.

Gaara felt overwhelmed by the heat that seemed to pool in his belly before instantly spreading towards his groin at the simple touch, the redhead found himself wanting more than this, he just didn’t understand what it was that he exactly needed. All Gaara could do in response was press his lips back, trying to imitate the blond’s actions, hoping that the older boy would eventually understand what it was silently asking for.

The prospect of being with someone, like Gaara, who had never been touched like this before, excited Naruto. It might have been the fact that the redhead couldn’t judge him on what the kiss felt like, having nothing to compare the blond’s action to, but Naruto also felt a certain satisfaction in knowing that he was Gaara’s first.

The blonde moved from kissing to slowly sucking on the younger boy’s upper lip before proceeding to the lower lip, and almost purred in satisfaction at the little whimper of desire that escaped Gaara’s mouth at the slight action. He wondered if it meant the redhead was sensitive, the idea lead to more interesting ways he would like to prove that theory.

Naruto slowly repeated the movements of his mouth, eager for more of the sounds while awaiting the feel of the redhead responding back to the new way of kissing with his own movements… he didn’t have to wait long.

Gaara had been surprised at first by the movement and sucking motion of the blond’s mouth on his, but he didn’t waist time in responding to whatever Naruto did, by imitating the actions, until it seemed like the two of them were kissing forever.

He didn’t even recognize the sounds that were exiting his mouth or for that matter Naruto’s, all Gaara could feel was the warm fuzzy heat that was slowly making his brain numb to any other sensation.

Apparently the redhead didn’t realize that the affect was due to lack of oxygen, and was surprised when the blond eventually separated their lips and started breathing heavily, “Damn…” Naruto gasped while running a hand through his hair as he tried to regain his breathe, “For someone who’s never kissed before you certainly learn quickly…”

The redhead found he was breathing hard himself, and his face turned a bright red at the sound of appreciation in the blond’s voice, “I’ve never…”

“I know…” the blond gave a quick smile before winking, “Who knew you were a natural.”

Gaara found himself smiling in response and he realized that he didn’t care if he stopped smiling or not, he was with Naruto after all, and he only wanted to be with the blond more and more from now on in order to retain these new and exciting emotions.

Their was a sudden and loud ringing overheard from the doorbell, surprising Naruto as he turned to look, over the top of the couch, in the direction of the front door, “Who the hell could that be,” he mumbled before getting up from his position on the couch and heading towards the door.

Swinging open the door, Naruto was surprised to see Kiba’s boyfriend of all people standing there, considering the older boy didn’t even know where he lived, “What are you doing here Kankurou?”

Kankurou wore a similar hairstyle to Naruto’s, but his hair was more of a dirty blond in color and the other boy tended to wear it longer than Naruto’s own length that barely reached past his chin. Kankurou looked liked he had just jumped out of bed in order to get there, because he was without his normal black kabuki-like face paint and had a pair of dark blue sweats on along with a long sleeved black t-shirt.

Naruto couldn’t resist asking, “So just got out of bed?” having just spoken to Kiba, he had an inkling that Kankurou hadn’t been happy about leaving and had obviously been in a hurry due to his state of dress.

Kankurou glared at Naruto for the comment, he had a feeling Kiba may have spoken to him earlier about having to leave, it was confirmed by the look of amusement that suffused Naruto’s face and he mentally reminded himself to get his boyfriend back, about it, later, “I’m here because Sasuke called saying that my brother was over here and needed someone to take him home.”

“Your brother?” Naruto was confused since he hadn’t known that Kankurou had a brother, having only been introduced to Temari that one time the two lovers had a party at Kiba’s place. He also wondered why Sasuke would have called the other boy here.

“Kankurou?” both Naruto and Kankurou turned to look at Gaara as he moved towards them, there was a surprised look on the redhead’s face, at seeing his brother in the doorway, “What the hell are you doing here?”

The other blonde seemed as confused as Gaara and even looked a little scared by the sound of anger permeating his smaller brother’s voice, “Well…” he rubbed a hand through his hair nervously, “Sasuke said that you needed me to pick you up here… so…”

“Why exactly would he do that?” Gaara asked a little too calmly, Kankurou knew instinctively not to mess with his brother when he was calm; it meant his possible death later if he tried.

He still didn’t understand why his brother was here of all places unless Gaara had being trying to find Kankurou which was an even odder occurrence since Gaara hardly left his room for any reason other than for school, and Kankurou knew he hadn’t done anything recently to piss his younger brother off.

“You mean Gaara’s your brother?” Naruto was still trying to process the unusual information being given to him because it didn’t make sense how someone like Gaara could be related to someone like Kankurou… they were so different.

Kankurou turned to look at the blond oddly for a moment, “How do you know my brother Uzumaki?”

“Piss off princess…” Naruto muttered under his breath. He wasn’t in the mood for the other boy’s attitude, “I didn’t even know you had a brother.”

The once simple date was quickly turning complicated, in Naruto’s mind and it wasn’t making him happy, in fact he was pissed that Sasuke knew who Gaara was from the beginning and had acted like he didn’t know and in fact had called the younger boy’s brother to come and get him.

For his part, Kankurou didn’t even know what to say in response, that wouldn’t start a fight between him, Naruto or Gaara… not that either was preferable in that moment, “Well it’s getting late, and I need to go…” He just wanted to ignore the whole scene; hopefully it would make more sense in the morning.

“I’m coming with you,” both of the older boys turned to look at Gaara in surprise, for different reasons, and neither could understand why he suddenly wanted to leave.

The redhead shrugged as if it didn’t matter, “I still have school tomorrow…” Gaara didn’t want to say that it was partially Kankurou’s fault being there and making the situation uncomfortable between him and Naruto, who he feared might not be interested in pursuing him now, having met his brother, who he obviously knew.

“Hey Gaara…” the redhead turned to look up at Naruto and found his mouth occupied by the pressing of Naruto’s lips against his own for a second before the warm mouth retreated, “Well have to try this again sometime… ok?”

Gaara found his lips tugging up into another uncharacteristic smile as he nodded in answer to the blond’s question before heading out the front door. He didn’t notice the look of horror that overcame his brother’s face at the simple action between him and Naruto. He was only happy that Naruto wanted to see him again, his ‘Gummy Man’ the thought made his heart beat in renewed excitement within his chest and the redhead found he couldn’t wait for the next date to come.