Black Sand

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“Chapter Eight”

Gaara followed the artist further into the forest behind the Hokage mountain, he had no idea where they were going or why, but when Sai asked you to accompany him to someplace you went. They had to meet separately, even though the redhead hated it Sai was right when it came to politics and where their relationship fit into that. If the elders caught onto it they would be forcefully separated from one another by duties or other such nonsense the old ignorant bastards could come up with.

“What is this about Sai?” Gaara asked his curiosity finally getting the best of him.

Sai stopped right outside a clearing, that Gaara could barely make out through the brush, and turned a blank face to him. Well the face may be blank, but those dark eyes spoke of something more important and possibly even joy.

“You showed me something important and special to you, so I have finally found a way to do the same.”

Gaara’s brows knit in confusion but all he got was a faint smile and then the man pushed through the brush. The redhead sighed and followed suit, when he came to the other side his eyes widened a fraction at what he saw. Before him was a small oasis, or at least that’s what it would have been if he’d found it in the desert, a small lake a waterfall cascading down split rocks and sandy shores. Tree branches hung elegantly down around the clearing, and snow white swans floated across the sky blue waters tinged with faint green.

It was quite amazing.

“This is where I go when I can’t think.” Sai told him.

“Its…” it was what? He couldn’t really decide.

“This place reminds me that I am human when others don’t really think so. It makes me… feel.” Sai continued looking out over his area.

“It suits you.” Gaara murmured.

Sai looked at him a moment, “yes, I suppose it does.”

“This is, better than my sand carving.”

“No, it is equivalent. You carve to remind yourself of what you have become and the pictures are of things you hold dear. This place is the same for me. Equivalent.”

Gaara shook his head, “alright equivalent.”

“The water is cool, but not cold at this time of day. Do you wish to join me in it?” Sai asked as he stripped.

The redheaded man watched the dark haired one undress and stand completely nude for the world see unashamed. It amused Gaara to no end that the man was not shy about his body or words, but could be shy when they were doing things with one another. Sai’s obsidian looked into his sea green questioningly.

“I will join you,” he stated loosening the belt that held his gourd up.

Sai nodded and then waded into the waters to begin swimming. Gaara placed the gourd down on the edge of the water upon the sand feeling safer with it there than further up. Nimble fingers undid his burgundy jacket only to fold it into a neat pile. Pulling the black mesh shirt off over his head he took the fishnet arm bands with it the articles joining his organized pile. Soon he to was in the nude and as he stepped into the water the sand he had covering his entire body peeled off to settle into a pile next to his other things.

Sai was right the water was a pleasant cool to the heat of the day. Now waist deep he paused and placed his fingers tips on the top of the water to move them across it making small ripples. Gaara closed his eyes and listened to the sound cicadas sing, a peacock call out to have another one return his call, the breeze move and bend the trees, the water move. It was peaceful, the same kind of peace he felt when he carved.

Equivalent.

Fingers trailed up his back and he sucked in a breath of surprise, surprise at having been touched he had heard the man coming over. The long fingers slid over his shoulder then down his arm as Sai began to circle to stand in front of him.

“Sai?” Gaara questioned before lips pressed against his own.

The redhead’s heart began to speed up, Sai normally wasn’t like this and he had to make sure that the chakra signature so close to his was the one he knew so well. Water cooled hands brushed the sides of his neck and cupped his face tilting it a little to deepen the kiss. A tongue slid out asking, and he opened his mouth and groaned in the back of his throat. Sai got better at this every time.

Gaara reached his arms up to trace down Sai’s arms then down over his shoulders, the motion causing the man to step closer to him. Their lips parted but their eyes stayed closed as foreheads rested against each other for a few moments.

“I think I will miss you.” Sai confided quietly.

Something tugged in his chest, “I, you.”

Sai pulled back much to his inner disappointment, but hands slid down over his chest and then wrapped back around his body before making their way upwards again with a little more pressure. He bit back a moan and followed Sai’s example of exploration.

“We are far from ears here,” Sai explained.

As the full meaning behind that statement sunk in it made Gaara stop everything for a few seconds. He looked up into the eyes of the slightly taller man, his nose coming to Sai’s chin, to make sure he was gleaning all that he was supposed to be. At that moment his heart stopped beating, though he couldn’t tell for how long.

“Are you-” He was cut off when a mouth was over his again.

Gaara’s heart had never pounded so hard in its life over something like this, yet as his back it the soft grass it was all he could really hear. He felt like, as if, he was the small child again knocking on that girls house to offer ointment and bandages his apology. He shook himself internally he was not new at this, yet when Sai was touching him it always left him feeling all wobbly and jittery inside.

A tongue slid over his right nipple and he made a noise at the back of his throat from being shocked back into the moment. He looked down to see Sai watching him with something akin to amused mischief shining in his dark eyes.

“Sai, you don’t have to, to do this…” He struggled to say, another thing this man did to him was take away his ability of speech, something he hadn’t always been great at but he’d learned.

“I know I don’t.”

Wish that said the man’s mouth was hot on his skin once more and he groaned low in his throat when a tongue raked up his hip just above his curls. They’d never done this before, ever, touched yeah but never…

Gaara’s eyes rolled to the back of his head as a mouth closed over the tip of his hardening cock and applied suction. No more thinking only feel, he admonished himself. A tongue slid over the slit and his hips arched upward. Thankfully Sai had had an arm over his thigh or the guy would have possibly been gagging.

His fingers tangled in black hair when Sai began to take more in only to pull back while sucking. When teeth scrapped uncomfortably he cried out in pain and tightened his hold on the hair stopping him.

“Teeth, teeth oh fuck watch the teeth Sai…” He gasped.

A tongue slid over the abused flesh, an apology of sorts he supposed, before Sai went back to giving him head. This time it was blissfully toothless. A hand wrapped around the base of his cock and pumped in time with the mouth and he moaned tossing his head back against the grass. Sai was pretty good at this for someone who’d never done it before, not fantastic but it felt great anyway.

“Sai…” he huffed chancing a glance down.

Gaara felt himself go cross eyed watching his cock disappear into the mouth and he had to look away or orgasm just by getting to hot by the erotic vision before him. He was already close, and knew it wouldn’t be much longer anyway so holding it off for a bit more was ideal.

Fingers found their way to the hidden entrance and circled teasingly making his eyes snap back open. Gaara hadn’t even realized he’d closed them until just then…

“Oh fuuuuuck…” He groaned when the fingers teased him again.
His balls were tightening and his dick throbbed in time with Sai’s mouth’s movement. Gaara panted, moaned and groaned as he got closer, his body covered in droplets of sweat as he lay there in the after noon son.

“I’m… I’m …” He tried to grind out between clenched teeth.

His back arched off the ground as he came his world shrinking to only the existence of that one moment. He stayed there in his world of bliss panting and heaving for air while he tried to collect himself. Slowly Gaara’s world expanded back to where it should be and he cracked open his closed eyes to look at the other man.

The redhead couldn’t stop the unbecoming whimper that escaped his throat at the sight of Sai licking his fingers. Granted the man had an odd look on his face, but it was still sexy to watch those fingers disappear into a mouth that had been on his dick just moments before.

“What are you doing?” Gaara asked trying to take his mind off it.

“Tasting, it is not what I thought it would be but,” He paused taking another taste and Gaara bit his lip and looked away. “It isn’t horrible either.”

Gaara swallowed around the sudden lump in his throat, he would be damned if he was going to get turned on all over again right away. His body tensed when Sai laid his own over the top of him. Sea green turned to look into Obsidian and found the man to be smiling softly.

“I like the way you sound…” Sai informed him.

Gaara resisted the urge to blush, he hadn’t meant to be loud, but now that the man had brought it to his attention he remembered in vivid clarity how vocal he had been. One finger tip slid from the corner of his left eye back towards his ear pushing sweaty locks off his flushed face. For some reason his heart tightened at the soft gesture and he closed his eyes to block the feeling out.

“I didn’t want to be that loud.” Gaara rumbled.

“Which is half the reason why I liked it.” Sai answered, something in the man’s voice told Gaara he hadn’t known that either until the words came out.

“What about you?” Gaara asked him changing subject from his embarrassing loss of composure to Sai.

“I came listening to you.” Sai responded then added, “I also touched myself.”

The thought of Sai getting off listening to him was not going to help him from getting all turned on again, or the embarrassment of be being reminded that he had been loud to begin with. He hated yet enjoyed this strange duality that Sai brought out in him. The times he had done things with Naruto had never been like this, this was different, more…

“We should probably get going before someone worries where the Kazekage went.” Sai announced sounding displeased.

The feeling was of course mutual.

Sai sat back and walked to his clothes before sliding the pants on, Gaara couldn’t help but watch for a moment before he too sat up and began the task of dressing. Once the two were fully dressed they made their way back towards the village stopping shot of the edge of trees so as not to be seen together.

“I will miss you.” Sai told him again.

Gaara nodded if he spoke now he would come off sounding like a girl. Then Sai jumped up into the canopy of trees and disappeared. The redhead sighed and walked on alone until his brother landed beside him a few moments later.

“They have been looking for you.” He informed him.

“Yes well I am found now.”

“Where did you go?”

“A walk.”

“Sure,” Kankurou replied sounding sly as he stuffed his hands in his pockets.

If he wasn’t the Kazekage with people watching him now, he would have decked his brother for teasing him so. The puppet master was one lucky person at that moment of time. He sighed inwardly and walked on thinking about how in a few hours time he was to be leaving towards home. The reason why he had come in the first place having been done two days prior, he had stayed extra to be sure that the plans for the chunnin exams were well on their way.

Naruto had complained, but had complied all the same. Gaara suspected that a certain duo had more to do with that than Naruto actually doing it himself, but he wouldn’t be complaining.

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It had been a long three days travel but finally they were standing at a seeing distance of Suna’s outer wall. Four ANBU had escorted him back, a two birds with one stone tactic that Naruto often used as the three had some other mission to fulfill. He sighed, one of them were Sai he could feel the man’s chakra but he would never glean which one.

“I thank you for traveling with me.” He stated his arms crossed over his chest.

“Your are welcome Kazekage-sama.” One of them spoke the one with a hawk mask.

He couldn’t even tell which one was the girl, even if he knew that there was one, the long robe like clothing covering any part of the body that would be distinctive, a hood to match. He gritted his teeth, he should not be getting all pissed off because he couldn’t tell Sai directly what he wanted to.

“Safe travels, any loss to a shunobi village is a hard one.”

The three nodded, and Gaara felt his chest tighten as they all turned in unison. All he could do was mentally tell Sai to be safe. It was becoming increasingly more and more difficult to let the man go.

Sai could tell that his lover was tense, a different kind of tense and he ached to rectify it. Yet what he wanted to do was breaking the code of conduct, removing his ANBU gear would cost him dearly. He turned and walked three steps before sighing, he could not leave without a proper good bye. It had said in plenty of books to always let the one you were with know they were thought of with a proper good bye.

Pivoting on his heal he faced the Kazekage, who’s eyes widened a fraction as he got close, and pulled his mask away. He heard the other three behind him gasp at his actions, but he knew he needn’t worry about being found out. Ino, Kakashi, and Shikamaru would keep his secret. His lips met Gaara’s an instant later the two pairs tangling together, his mask just out of the way and hiding one side of their kissing from view.

His free hand came up to hook in the leather strap of the gourd and pulled the man forward a moment. Gaara’s breath hitched and then returned to normal as they moved their lips together. Carefully he pulled back from the man.

“I am to say good bye at this moment, so good bye.”

Gaara nodded still a little surprised, “be safe…”

“Of course.” Sai told him and placed the mask back on to turn to face three masks with surprised looked behind them.

As they got further away Ino pulled up close to him, “I can’t believe you just did that.”

“Eh, they’ve been together for awhile now.” Shikamaru commented from behind.

“Really?” Ino asked back.

Shikamaru nodded.

“Interesting.” Kakashi commented.

Sai had no doubt the man was referring to the day he had found him in the library and then had taken him back to his apartment. For some reason it grated on his nerves, Kakashi knew to much.

Gaara stared after them for a moment his fingers unconsciously rising to touch his lips. Sai had risked… he should be mad at him for such a thing, but he couldn’t bring himself to it. His brother shifted beside him and he caught the smirk on his face. Straightening himself up and placing his indifferent look back on he pivoted on his foot and continued to walk.

“We have things that we need to get ready, best get back.”

“Hai, Kazekage-sama.”

Gaara decided that ignoring his brother’s teasing voice was best, the village would think he’d gone crazy again if he showed up with a mangled Kankurou. Not to mention Li would upset at him. The redhead would just have to come up with another way to get back him. While he thought of that he would continue his work and try not to think about a certain someone who had just stole a kiss before leaving.

~TBC~

Author Note:

Yosh another chapter down. *waves flag in triumph.* Soo.... *looks away* somehow this is devoloving into some sort of porn... slowly... *wince* Hadn't meant that to happen but it has anyway. Ho hum... next chapter is gonna have them apart from one another. Then chapter after that... is uh... exams... and stuff... *cough* Hope you guys liked this! PLease let me know I miss hearing from everyone!

Man... I'm having fun writing this and I've been updating a little more frequently. whoo!