Do Over

Hello Everyone XD I would like to say first that I am not one to make people wait for a chapter it just seems like alot has happened this week to delay the chapter being uploaded and I apologize for that I will try to have it updated sooner in the future. I appreciate your patience in waiting, this chapter delves into Naruto and Gaara's first meeting so I hope you enjoy it. Again I would like to thank everyone for all your support and comments. So without further ado here's Chapter 9.


Disclamer: I don't own Naruto that honor is held by Masashi Kishimoto, I'm just a fanfiction writer doing this for fun.


DO Over Chapter 9

Gaara had planned their date for the Saturday of their first weekend off from school around an old community pool in their area that everyone frequented during the summers. Apparently the redhead knew the caretakers of the pool during the winter months and had gotten the keys from them in order to have his date with Naruto this evening.

Naruto eyed the pool speculatively. 'And this is romantic...?' he wondered, raising a questioning brow. "So..." he asked Gaara out loud, "Why are we here? Isn't it a little cold for swimming?" He gripped the leather jacket he was wearing closer about him while suppressing an involuntary shudder at the thought of diving into the cold water at this time of night.

Gaara smiled secretively, "Don't you remember the first time we met?" At the blonde's blank-eyed look he sighed dramatically and lifted his hands and gaze to the sky, "Oh, Kami-sama, why am I burdened with such an unromantic boyfriend?"

"Hey!" Naruto punched him playfully, "That's not fair you know..." he crossed his arms and pouted, "And for your information that first meeting didn't count..."

Gaara tried not to laugh at his boyfriend’s serious expression, "And why doesn't that count again?"

"’Cause I don't want to remember the reason we met..." the blonde turned to look at the water again, memories attempting to flood their way back to his subconscious of that day two years ago. Gaara tried to only remember the first time they met fondly, but he knew the beginning wasn't.

It had been near the end of summer and Gaara and his gang, "The Tanuki," had decided to hang out at the nearest community pool to escape the summer heat. The day came and went pretty uneventfully, and with the evening quickly approaching everyone had decided to call it a day and come back the following morning. Gaara and his gang had been the last ones to leave the pool and had started walking to the nearest railway station to take the next line home when the redhead remembered that he had left his favorite leather jacket behind on one of the chairs by the pool. It was the one thing that remained of the items that his mother had given him that still fit, so he cherished it.

Arriving at the pool area, he had gotten ready to jump the gated wall but noticed that the gate hadn't been locked. Believing that it was his luck the caretaker hadn't remember to lock it, he quickly went inside to retrieve his forgotten item, only to notice in shock the body floating face down in the center of the pool. The pool made the blonde locks seem darker, and he was eerily reminded of the day his mother had committed suicide and almost killing himself along with her. If not for his quick thinking that day and the instinctual need for survival he would be dead. With these thoughts in mind he jumped into the pool and swam out to the person hoping that they weren't dead. He quickly retrieved the small form and dragged the body and himself back to the edge of the pool.

Gaara quickly checked the boy’s vital signs first but found the person wasn't breathing and his heart had stopped. He mentally thanked the military academy that he had recently gone to which had managed to teach him CPR before he'd been kicked out due to beating up a fellow student. The redhead set about performing the necessary moves of reviving the smaller teen. Gaara alternated between tilting the head back and breathing into the other’s mouth and positioning his hands near the center of the boy’s bare chest so that he could press life back into the heart and lungs. Thoughts of who this blonde was and what he looked like hadn't mattered at the time, only saving his life. It seemed like forever alternating between giving breaths and pressing down on the boy’s chest. Gaara could feel himself getting tired the longer he continued the procedure and had almost given up hope when he was rewarded by the other boy coughing up water and beginning to breathe. Gaara quickly helped to turn the blonde boy over so that he could cough up the rest of the chlorinated water out of his system. Seeing his jacket, the redhead laid it over the boy in an attempt to keep him warm and was about to get up to call the hospital when he felt a small yet firm grip keeping him from moving.

"Just rest here a moment," he stated calmly to the boy, though he didn’t feel at all calm himself, "I just want to call the hospital so they can send someone here to help you." He proceeded to get up again, but the hand refused to budge. Looking into frightened, large, and impossibly blue eyes, he knew without asking that the other didn't want him to leave; in this blonde boy's eyes a sadness seemed to mirror his own, and he found himself smiling slightly and agreeing silently to the other boy’s demands despite himself.

Satisfied that the redhead that had saved him wasn't going to leave, the boy dropped his arm and, before he fell asleep due to exhaustion, mumbled, "Don't...leave..." Gaara moved to push away some stray, soft, blonde strands from the boy’s forehead and leaned down to examine the smaller boy's features finding himself drawn despite himself to the person he knew instinctively was like him; despite Gaara's current circumstances of belonging to a wealthy family and being the leader of his own gang, he knew this boy was just as lonely and afraid of that loneliness as him. Without giving it any thought why he chose to do so at this time with this boy, the redhead leaned down and kissed the other softly on the lips, relishing the feeling of the softness of another's mouth for the first time since it was his first kiss. He wondered briefly, leaning back up from the kiss to stare again at the beautiful boy, if it was possible to fall in love at first sight.

"You’re lucky I decided to come back to see what was taking you so long instead of Deidara..., since he'd probably try to rape that boy..." Gaara turned in surprise at the presence of his second in command, Aburame Shino. The boy wore a high-collared jacket over a white tank top and dark blue swim trunks with a medical mask covering the lower part of his face, dark, round glasses covering his eyes making him resemble Ozzy Osborne, and his hair as always in a spiky version of an afro.

"Well..., Deidara probably wouldn't have saved him first to fuck him though..." Gaara grimaced at the imagery, knowing how true those words from Shino were, since he had heard of Deidara's less than honorable actions towards fellow students at his last school.

Shino only nodded silently at him, crouching down with his arms crossed over his knees to get a better look at the blonde boy lying on the ground sleeping. He had seen Gaara kissing this guy. "You like him." It didn't surprise him that Gaara had unusual taste, whether it be in clothing or opinions on life, so he didn't think falling in love for the redhead would be normal either.

It wasn't really a question since they both knew the answer before Gaara even spoke, "...Yes."

"Deidara will try to kill him..." Shino stated again simply.

Gaara snorted in annoyance at the comment, "Not if this guy doesn't try killing himself first..."

"Ah... I see," Shino nodded, "That explains why there's no one else here. So what are you going to do about it?" He turned to look at the other curiously.
"I'm not sure actually..." Gaara blushed for the first time, finding the whole situation something he was unaccustomed to.

Which made Shino laugh, "You know...I never would have pegged you as the type to fall in love at first sight," he looked down at the boy again, "but the kid is cute...almost girly cute. To be honest, I don't blame you."

"I'm not a girl..." a small voice coming from the blonde mumbled sleepily.

"Ah... My apologies, oh ambiguous one," Shino mocked playfully.

"Bite me!" the other growled while shakily getting up to sit in a more upright position. He turned to look curiously at the redhead that had saved him, since having seen the boy at the pool earlier with his gang he didn't seem like the type to care about such things. His savior had pale skin like his old boyfriend, had a similar 'Quiet Guy' attitude, and wore dark clothes like Sasuke, but that's were the similarities ended. The boy in front of him was almost a foot and a half shorter than Sasuke, had a short, almost military buzzed, haircut, and hair a shade of red almost like blood. His eyebrows were shaved and on the left side of his forehead was a large tattoo in red that nearly matched his hair that meant “love” in kanji. His blue-green eyes, 'Are gorgeous...' Naruto thought, and he found himself blushing at the thought. "Why'd you save me?" he found himself asking, interested for once in someone who wasn't Sasuke.

"I've never known anyone who didn't want to be saved before..." The redhead grinned a bit at seeing the blonde blush becomingly again against that caramel-colored skin. "My name's Suna Gaara and this..." he pointed to his quiet second in command, "is Aburame Shino."

The other raised one hand in greeting, "Yo..." Naruto waved slightly at him in return.

"So..." Gaara said, leaning closer to the smaller boy and bringing their faces so close their noses almost touched, "What's your name, Goldilocks?" He found himself tugging playfully on a now dried spike of hair that decided to stick up defiantly in an odd direction.

The smaller boy slapped the hand away in annoyance at the nickname, "It's Uzumaki Naruto not Goldilocks. Get it right, ...Panda-san," he grinned at the last remark, having thought it was a suitable nickname for the way the redhead liked to ware his makeup heavily kohled around the eyes making him resemble, at least to Naruto, a panda.

"What the hell?! Panda?" Gaara looked in anger from the blonde to Shino who had started to laugh at the new nickname, "I don't look like a panda..." He humph'ed in the negative.

"Actually..." Naruto grinned in the other’s direction, "It looks very hot on you. I wouldn't change it..." he winked, "Panda-san..."

Gaara growled in mock warning liking the playful tone coming from the blonde much more than the somberness of earlier, "Better watch it with the 'Panda-san' nickname... I don't think you want me to continue calling you ‘Goldilocks’ do you?" He raised a hairless brow in question.

Naruto smiled, shaking his head, "No... " He sighed, noticing the clock for the first time on the side of the building beside the pool which read 11:23pm. It was late and Jiraiya would kick his ass if he was late getting home, but he found himself not wanting to leave since he felt more comfortable in the redhead's presence than he had anyone else's for quite some time. "Look... I have to get going or someone will really come looking for me this time," he got up and turned to the other two in thought, "Maybe I'll see you later?"

"Sure," Gaara grinned to himself, not having any doubt in his mind about seeing the other again, which made Naruto smile warmly in his direction as though reading his thoughts. Shino nodded his agreement silently while watching the pair’s interaction with each other, still amused at the earlier nicknames since it appeared as though the Panda Bear had finally fallen for his very own Goldilocks.

"Well..." Naruto started, getting ready to hand the leather jacket back to Gaara, "I guess this is yours. Thanks for letting me use it," he smiled warmly into turquoise eyes, finding himself again drawn to this unique person so like yet unlike himself.

"No..." Gaara gave a secretive half-smile back while pushing the jacket back into the blonde's hands (much to Naruto's confusion at the gesture and Shino’s surprise since he knew of the jacket’s significance), "Keep it... I have others," which wasn't true, but it symbolized how important this meeting was to the redhead.

"Thanks, again," Naruto put the jacket on. It was a little too big for his smaller frame, yet to Gaara it seemed to fit him perfectly. "Later..." and with that the blonde left. It would be a couple weeks later, when Gaara transferred to Naruto's junior high school, before the two met again, but the emotions started that night only became stronger between the two.

Naruto remembered that evening clearly despite his earlier comments to Gaara and thought of how hopeless he had felt til he had met Gaara that first time. The blonde had almost succeeded in killing himself because of what had happened earlier that day. He had received anonymous photos in the mail of Sasuke and another boy his age having sex and had felt his doubts about their breakup shatter at the news along with the remaining pieces of his heart that still pined for the singer. Turning to look fondly at Gaara, he knew that the other would never hurt him like that and only worried, due to previous incidents involving the Uchiha, that despite his convictions something might happen that would make him fall for Sasuke again. "Hey..., Gaara...?" he started, finding himself at a loss on where to begin, "That night... " he paused to take a steady breath, "It was because of Sasuke." He turned saddened eyes to look at Gaara, "It was the night I realized that it was really over between us, and I couldn't handle it. I thought I was stronger than that, but..."

Gaara walked over to press a finger to the seal of Naruto's lips, effectively silencing him, "It makes sense now, but you know I don't care." He leaned down to kiss the blonde’s temple affectionately, "You’re the only one that exists for me. I love you, Koi." Naruto smiled before licking at the finger pressed against his lips playfully.

"I love you too, my smexy Panda-san..." He winked mischievously at the redhead who growled menacingly at the remembered nickname.

Gaara grabbed his boyfriend close before he could get away, "You know you’re going to pay for that, don't you, Goldilocks?"

Naruto grinned, "Is that a promise?"

"Why don't I show you?" the redhead parried back.

The blonde’s smile grew wider at the suggestion, and he moved his arms to grab Gaara's head to pull him down til he was at eye level, then proceeded to kiss him slowly at first and then with even more passion, "So?" he gasped, pulling away from his stunned boyfriend, "What's stopping you?" he smirked.

"You know..." Gaara said while encircling the smaller boy within his arms, "It’s not nice to tease your boyfriend..." He leaned over and took possession of Naruto's mouth and proceeded to kiss him deeply which caused the blonde to moan in delight against his mouth. Encouraged by the moan the redhead leaned down to grab the blonde's hips pressing them closer against his own. Naruto gasped breaking away from the kiss briefly, having felt Gaara's desire for him pressed against his abdomen. The redhead, caught up in the enjoyable sounds his boyfriend was making, leaned over and began to suck and kiss along the length of Naruto's neck, "Hn... Koi..."

Naruto gasped at the feel of his boyfriend's warm lips against his cold neck, "Ah... Gaara..." He leaned his head to the side to give the other better access, "Shouldn't we...uhm...ah..take this inside?" Gaara paused to lean his forehead against Naruto's shoulder a moment before standing up straight.

"Sure..." He smirked, kissing the tip of Naruto's nose that had turned red due to the cold. "Let’s grab the food first though. Wouldn't want it to go to waste."

Together they went and grabbed the picnic that Gaara had placed out on one of the tables surrounding the pool, then the pair walked off while holding hands in the direction of Gaara's apartment.

Well, thats the end of Chapter 9. I am not sure when the next chapter will be coming out, but I will update the story as soon as I can. As always I hope you continue to review since I look forward to seeing your comments and opinions on my story.
Also Many Thanks again to LadyChimera for her Beta help, its very much appreciated. JaNe for now