Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Hot Sand ❯ Stay ( Chapter 10 )

Chapter 11: Stay

 

Warning: There are spoilers and references to things that happen in the 250-current manga chapters in this chapter of Hot Sand. If you haven't read that far I apologize and hope that you will still read the story. I try not to say too much, but there is a part with Kankuro and Sakura that references the “Save Gaara” arc of the Naruto manga.

 

 

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BEGIN CHAPTER

 

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Kakashi waited for two hours in the training area before Sasuke showed up. When the younger man arrived he looked completely devoid of emotion and only motioned at Kakashi to begin their training. The silver-haired jonin sighed, thinking that Sasuke had ignored his advice, until the copy-nin noticed how distracted the Uchiha was while they fought. Kakashi actually connected three punches and caught him twice when Sasuke retreated to regroup. It had been years since Sasuke had allowed Kakashi to win so easily, and the young heir didn't even break out the Sharingan.

 

Kakashi stopped battling and waited in the middle of the training field. Sasuke came to attack, but Kakashi easily blocked two punches and growled at the raven-haired man to sit. Sasuke gave his ex-sensei a confused look and then backed off and plopped down on the ground.

 

“I shouldn't have told you before your tests, it's obvious that you took my advice to heart and it's really messing with your head,” Kakashi told the secretly seething man on the ground.

 

Sasuke didn't say anything right away, only gazed off into the distance with a disinterested look on his face. Kakashi was about to continue lecturing Sasuke when the young man finally spoke.

 

“I really hate you,” Sasuke muttered under his breath.

 

“Me? What did I do?” Kakashi asked with a lazy lifted brow.

 

“I don't like men,” Sasuke grumbled.

 

“But you like Naruto,” Kakashi told his friend with a grin.

 

“NO…I…” Sasuke didn't finish his statement, only let the anger drip away as he shoved his hands into his pockets and averted his gaze from the silver-haired man that was taunting him.

 

“Okay…well, if you don't like men, then you obviously like women. I don't believe even the great Uchiha Sasuke can be asexual. What woman has caught your eye lately?” Kakashi prodded, preparing to catch Sasuke in his little lie.

 

“I don't need anyone.”

 

“Well, Tsunade and the rest of the Konoha Elders Council would have to object to that…because you need to revive your clan, don't you?” Kakashi watched as Sasuke's eyes seemed to bore holes into the ground. “Somehow I think that you need a woman for that, and I don't believe the council would look favorably on you not being involved with raising and training your own family.”

 

“What if I don't want to revive my clan?” Sasuke whispered. “Maybe it should just die out with me.”

 

“Why do you say that?”

 

“Perhaps my clan is just irrevocably screwed up…so far my family has been filled with uncaring, disloyal psychopaths. Who wants more of that running around Konoha?”

 

“I wouldn't mind a few more of you bratty Uchihas. I don't find you all that terrible…a bit too haughty and self-important for your own good, but not that annoying. And besides, it would be nice to have some more worthy students. I don't see a lot of the up and comers having the talent for me to bother with, but if you had kids…I'd train them, no matter how unbalanced and screwed up they might be.” Kakashi watched as Sasuke absorbed his back-handed compliment with a snarl. “Besides, you came back. I don't think that you are that unstable. Well…not anymore, so I doubt your children would be either.”

 

Sasuke remained completely silent, unable to think of anything to say. He watched the older man that was standing over him, and noted the slight worried expression on Kakashi's face. What was so disconcerting about Sasuke hating the idea of rebuilding his clan…it was one duty that he wasn't sure he wanted to fulfill, couldn't Kakashi leave it at that?

 

“You know I'm in the same boat,” Kakashi grumbled. “Even when I was with Iruka I was pressured into reviving the Hatake clan, it was something that was inevitable. Hell, it still is. Iruka and I had planned on having a surrogate mother birth my child and then raising it as our own. That appeased the elders, but honestly you aren't in the same situation I was in.”

 

“What do you mean by that?” A quizzical look crossed Sasuke's face as he pondered what Kakashi had meant by his own situation.

 

“I mean that you aren't with anyone, and even though you are still fairly young, you will probably be matched with someone soon if you don't pick a lover of your own. So why not have it be someone you like? What woman floats your little Uchiha boat?” Kakashi grinned maniacally as he pointed at Sasuke's crotch. The copy-nin was being anything but subtle at this point and it actually caused Sasuke to blush just a bit.

 

“I don't know,” Sasuke hissed, repositioning his hands to a place in his lap that kept the area away from Kakashi's peeping eyes.

 

“See…if you don't even have a clue that means…”

 

“DON'T say it, because you are wrong, I don't like men,” Sasuke shouted at his old teacher.

 

“Just Naruto.”

 

“Yes, just…” Sasuke stopped his sentence. He loathed that fact that Kakashi had actually goaded him into admitting that he liked Naruto aloud. “Like I said earlier, I hate you.”

 

“Hmm, sure you do,” Kakashi brought his hand to hair, scratching his head with quite a bit of amusement. “It's too bad that Naruto is already taken, isn't it?”

 

Sasuke's shoulders slumped slightly and Kakashi noted that he bit his lower lip very faintly. “What am I supposed to do about that?”

 

“Nothing. If you really do care about Naruto you'll let him be happy.”

 

“Then why did you bring it up in the first place?” Sasuke asked his teacher, voice brimming with annoyance at Kakashi.

 

“Because you needed to realize who you really are. Some of us like it both ways…and even though you messed around with a few girls, I don't think you do,” Kakashi stated matter-of-factly.

 

“Just because I'm not a huge pervert like you, doesn't mean that I don't like women too. I do get plenty of action in that department,” Sasuke muttered under his breath. He knew better than to criticize his teacher too harshly, Kakashi was very sneaky with his payback.

 

“So you admit that you like men.”

 

Sasuke glared at Kakashi, the man could be infuriating at times. “I like Naruto, not men.”

 

“Well, Naruto is a man, and you like him, therefore you like men. I think that is the way it works, but I could be wrong. Maybe I should inquire about Naruto to Gaara…maybe there is something that our little friend never told us. Sai did nickname him the dickless wonder. Maybe he can bear your Uchiha brats,” Kakashi teased, chuckling to himself at the thought.

 

“That's not funny,” Sasuke growled.

 

“Oh, so you want him to have a cock…because you like that kind of thing?” Kakashi continued, not at all holding back the lewdness for the sake of a now very embarrassed Sasuke. “Or did you just plan on ignoring that part of Naruto's anatomy?”

 

Sasuke remained silent, trying to breathe calmly and not think about the things that Kakashi was saying.

 

“I hear that Naruto shares bottom with Gaara, so I don't think you would be able to ignore the fact that he has one for very long. I doubt he would have played the happy little uke all the time, even for you, Sasuke. You'd have to take it eventually, but my money is on you liking that kind of thing.”

 

“I'm not a bottom,” Sasuke growled.

 

“Sure you aren't,” Kakashi said in a very sarcastic tone. “Who was in control that one time you fooled around with Naruto?”

 

Sasuke was stunned, and he made a mental note to kill Naruto for spilling that information to Kakashi. “How do you know about that? Naruto didn't…”

 

“No, he didn't say anything. Obviously you don't know all the tricks of your Sharingan yet…maybe I do still have things to teach you.” Kakashi informed Sasuke, finally taking a seat on the ground close to the Uchiha, making the other man fidget at the closeness of his teacher who was interrogating him in an odd way. “Who was in control?”

 

Sasuke didn't say anything…just because he had been writhing underneath Naruto during their prior encounter didn't mean that he was going to take bottom, did it? Sasuke glanced up and shot Kakashi a confused look, trying to figure out what really would have happened.

 

“So?” Kakashi prodded.

 

“He was,” Sasuke exasperatedly admitted.

 

“You know that means that you were going to take it in the ass, right?”

 

Sasuke was done with this conversation. He had put up with Kakashi's questions for too long, and in an unusually angry display he stood and kicked at a wet pile of leaves that had been stuck to the ground. “I'm leaving,” Sasuke muttered and headed off toward Konoha.

 

“Okay, have a good day,” Kakashi waved away his student. “I'll see you bright and early tomorrow morning. We still have some training to do.”

 

“Yeah, whatever,” Sasuke grumbled.

 

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Sakura waited nervously by her door, pacing back and forth. A clock that was hung on the nearby wall showed the time as 7:58, almost eight…Kankuro would be at her door soon. The kunoichi's hands twittered and shook, forcing Sakura to shake them in an attempt to rid herself of the nerves that plagued her. What if Gaara had been wrong, what if Kankuro wasn't actually interested in something more than a sexual relationship with her? Naruto had assured her that Kankuro would have nothing but pure intentions after talking with Gaara, because even now the Kazekage's brother feared the wrath of his younger sibling.

 

Someone knocked at the door and Sakura whimpered, it was eight on the nose, so the person had to be Kankuro. Trying to steady herself and calm her rapidly beating heart, Sakura took a deep breath and opened the door to find the puppet-nin smiling at her and holding two flowers.

 

“Here, these are for you,” Kankuro exclaimed with an excited grin. “I'm sorry that I didn't get you more, but it isn't the right season and flowers are pretty rare in Suna. This is the equivalent of two dozen flowers in Konoha.”

 

“Th-Thank you,” Sakura stuttered, taking the flowers from Kankuro and walking them over to a vase that was in the corner of the room. There weren't any flowers in it, so Sakura poured some water into the vessel and placed the two flowers inside. They seemed a bit sparse in the vase by themselves, but also nice. Sakura grinned as she touched one of the flower's leaves. As she stared at the gift she could feel the last of her doubts about Kankuro starting to dissipate. The man was as charming as they came.

 

Kankuro crept up behind the kunoichi and hugged her from behind, “Are you hungry?” he asked while wrapping his arms around her waist. “I have a great restaurant that we can go to, best food in town. Breakfast is never busy there either, so it'll be nice and quiet.”

 

“Mmm, yeah, that sounds good,” Sakura hummed, realizing that Kankuro's warmth was very inviting.

 

“I missed you a lot. I tried visiting, but you were busy,” Kankuro whispered in her ear. “And you haven't been back down here, so you must have been swamped. Are you always so preoccupied with your work?”

 

“It was a busy summer,” Sakura lied. She didn't want to tell Kankuro that she had been avoiding him, not when he was being so sweet, and furthermore, she was done avoiding him. “My schedule has cleared up.”

 

“Hmm, well…” Kankuro sounded sad and didn't finish his statement. There was definitely something wrong, and it had Sakura worried. “I think that my schedule has just been booked for the winter.”

 

“What do you mean?” Sakura queried.

 

“Gaara told me last night that I'm going on diplomatic mission to the surrounding areas of Sand and Leaf, I'll be gone for a good four to six months,” he mumbled, obviously not wanting the new mission.

 

“Gaara? He told you this last night?” Sakura was angry, Gaara had said that he was going to talk to Kankuro about his intentions toward her, not force his brother to take a mission that would separate the two.

 

“Yeah, right after he told me that you came to Naruto's room crying.”

 

Sakura turned beat red…of course Gaara wouldn't censor anything that she'd said. He was always far too honest for his own damn good. “How much did he tell you?” she asked through gritted teeth. This wasn't good, because she already knew the answer.

 

Kankuro chuckled before replying. “Everything. That idiotic little brother of mine told me every detail he knew, and what he didn't know Temari filled me in on.”

 

“Temari?” Sakura squeaked. Temari actually hung around her and Ino quite a bit, so she knew that between his two siblings Kankuro probably did know everything. Sakura wanted to crawl into a hole and die. The embarrassment of the whole situation was too much for her to handle. The kunoichi tried to slink away, but Kankuro's arms held her firmly to him, molded perfectly to his body.

 

“I'm not Kakashi. I just haven't had someone that was worth pursing before,” Kankuro murmured quietly and then paused for a moment, reflecting on something in his mind. “Do you remember that one time when you were sixteen?”

 

Kankuro's question was very vague. “Kankuro, a lot of things happened when I was sixteen…it was a pretty eventful year,” Sakura informed the puppet-nin, and it was true. That year was the one that Naruto returned to Konoha from his training with Jiraiya and the year that they found Sasuke and rescued him from Ochimaru. Honestly, it passed in a big blur of events that seemed to slip one into another, and she wasn't sure what exactly Kankuro was referring to.

 

“I hated you back then,” he whispered. “You bruised my pride pretty bad.”

 

“Huh?” Sakura asked confused as Kankuro lipped the ridge of her ear.

 

“You were the one that killed Sasori, something that I couldn't do. Not only that you were the one that saved my life by neutralizing that puppet-bastard's poison. I owed you everything, but honestly I was young and quite bitter at the girl who had bested me. I thought that being saved by you made me weak,” Kankuro told Sakura.

 

Sakura had completely forgotten that it had been her that saved Kankuro and defeated the first of the Akatsuki members with Chiyo's help. She sighed a little at the thought of the elderly woman that had used her as a puppet to destroy Sasori, who was Chiyo's own grandson. Not only that, but older woman had also given the last of the antidote for Sasori's poison to Sakura and then sacrificed herself using a jutsu that brought Gaara back to life after he had been killed during the removal of Shukaku. Sakura's eyes watered even thinking about the strong Suna woman that had given Sand such hope and shown such determination.

 

Forcing away the grief Sakura returned to thoughts of saving Kankuro. “How do you feel about the whole thing now?” she asked with a smirk.

 

Kankuro squeezed her tightly, “I'll have to admit that I'm still a bit miffed about it all, I'm stubborn like that.”

 

“I think that runs in your family,” Sakura giggled and placed her hands on top of Kankuro's which were still woven around her waist, squeezing them reassuringly as Kankuro kissed her neck.

 

“Yeah, it does. I'm also finally able to see that it is the reason I'm so attracted to you,” the puppet-nin murmured between kisses.

 

“I think that makes you a masochist,” Sakura told him with another smirk.

 

“No, not really, at least not most of the time,” Kankuro replied, grinning like a fool. “I mean I think that your strength is admirable. I don't think I could handle someone that I could walk all over…too boring.”

 

“I'm anything but boring,” Sakura mused.

 

“Exactly,” Kankuro stated as he spun Sakura around so that she was now facing him. “And I like that.”

 

Kankuro kissed Sakura gingerly, not getting too deep with the kiss. The one thing that Gaara had made very clear was that he was not to hurt Sakura…and going too fast might push her away. Kankuro didn't want that at all, he desired the woman that stood before him, more so than any person that Kankuro had ever been with.

 

Kankuro pulled away from the kiss and asked if Sakura was ready to leave for breakfast and the pink-haired woman nodded. Kankuro sighed, just when things were going well his brother had to send him off on one of his stupid diplomatic missions that was most definitely the brain-child of that idiot Naruto. Damn that Hokage, it wasn't fair, not when Sakura was here with him and there was possibility of something happening between them.

 

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Gaara grinned at the sleeping blonde in the bed next to him. He wondered if Naruto ever was as hypnotized watching him sleep as Gaara was whenever observing his lover dream. Naruto didn't even wake up when Gaara had returned from talking with Kankuro in the middle of the night, and he couldn't wait to tell Naruto the devious little plan that had been devised for Sakura and his brother. To Gaara, it was completely ingenious.

 

“What are you smirking about?” a sleepy voice inquired of the devilish red-head.

 

“You're awake,” Gaara stated, verbalizing the obvious.

 

“Mmm-hmm, now what were you smiling about? You only smile like that when you are up to something,” Naruto told his lover through a yawn as he rubbed the dried bits of sleep from the corners of his eyes.

 

“I am sending Kankuro on a mission,” Gaara began.

 

“Huh? Why's that? Wasn't he serious about Sakura?” Naruto asked with a confused expression.

 

“Very serious, and that is why he is going on a mission. I ordered him to,” Gaara told Naruto as he crept closer to the naked man beside him. One of the red-head's hands snuck under the sheets and found a stiff arousal waiting for him. Gaara gave it a couple of hard tugs.

 

“Ripping my clothes and sex in the morning…those are your two biggest faults,” Naruto mumbled. Not being the most well-adapted to the early morning hours, the blonde preferred getting laid after he'd had breakfast at the very least, but Gaara was always jumping him at the crack of dawn. It was amazing that Gaara hadn't already woken him for a morning session.

 

“It is a very long mission, one that will take a good fraction of a year. I want you to order Sakura on the same mission,” Gaara informed Naruto.

 

“Both of them…together? Is that a wise idea?” Naruto sniggered.

 

“Very wise,” Gaara told Naruto firmly. He really did believe in his plan to set up his brother with Naruto's friend. It would force the two to spend time with one another, but it would also have the guise of being a working assignment. “It is important to both of our villages, a peacekeeping envoy of sorts,” the Kazekage continued and then returned his attention to the hand job he was giving Naruto. The Hokage considered Gaara's proposition for a moment and then nodded, it actually sounded fine for Kankuro, Sakura and the two ninja villages…good things for everyone.

 

 

Pushing away Gaara's eager hand Naruto sighed as it only spurred Gaara to pull the sheet away from his waist and the Hokage watched as a mass of messy red hair moved down his body and hovered right above Naruto's erection. “Geez Gaara, really…I hate morning sex.”

 

“Then I suppose that you don't want me to do this?” Gaara hissed, locking eyes with Naruto. Slowly Gaara's tongue slipped out seductively between his lips and traced Naruto's weeping slit that was already leaking pre-cum. Swallowing the milky liquid Gaara purred and watched as Naruto's head snapped back and a loud moan filled the room.

 

“Damn it, Gaara,” Naruto said as his body shuddered in anticipation. Naruto lifted his hips, offering the length to Gaara, who didn't take it right away. “You are such a fucking tease,” Naruto grumbled at his lover.

 

Gaara's lips wrapped around the head of Naruto's cock and suckled on the overly sensitized area. Pulling off of it with an audible pop, Gaara asked, “Who's a tease?”

 

“If you are going to suck me off, suck me off!” Naruto growled. The Kazekage's penchant for making him into a quivering pile of desire before they screwed in the morning always made the Hokage antsy. Gaara only grinned and traced Naruto's inner thigh with his tongue, and the blonde watched as one of Gaara's hands moved to his own rear, preparing himself for Naruto.

 

“You are too close, be patient,” Gaara commanded.

 

Naruto reached over to the nightstand and grabbed the lube that was still sitting out from the previous night, tossing it at Gaara. “Turn around,” Naruto ordered his lover. “I want to see you finger yourself.”

 

Gaara complied with a smile, and absolutely loved the groans that came from his lover's throat as he watched the little performance. Gaara was on all fours, but his chest was resting against the mattress while his ass was placed high in the air, a compromising position that was tempting his lover. Naruto watched carefully as Gaara's fingers moved slowly in and out of the tight heat that the Hokage desperately wanted to sheath himself in.

 

“I want it slow,” Gaara murmured through strained moans.

 

“You aren't getting it slow,” Naruto growled, sitting up and taking over the preparations with his own fingers. Gaara's hands simply moved to his own arousal, stroking himself as Naruto's fingers skillfully filled him.

 

“Can't handle it? I thought you had better control than that,” Gaara teased, hoping that it would goad Naruto into giving him the sex that he desired.

 

“You're too much in the morning,” Naruto murmured into the skin of Gaara's lower back as he kissed the Kazekage with fleeting touches of his lips. “I couldn't if I tried.”

 

A sharp nip to one of Gaara's cheeks punctuated the blonde's neediness. Naruto rose to his knees and positioned himself at Gaara's entrance. As much as Naruto didn't think that he'd be able to comply with the Kazekage's request, he moved into his lover's cavern as slowly as possible before leaning forward and pulling Gaara up as well. The two men were upright except for the fact that they were both settled on their knees, and Naruto was still fully sheathed inside the red-head. This wasn't a position that Naruto could pound into the heat that called out to him, so Gaara let out a satisfied moan as Naruto swiveled his hips slowly and kissed the back of Gaara's neck.

 

“I can't kiss you back like this,” Gaara murmured and strained his neck to try and tempt Naruto's lips to his own.

 

“Now who's impatient,” the blonde man hissed, gripping his fingers into Gaara's hips hard as he nearly came early. Gaara really was too much to make love to in the morning…like a very alluring horny cat, one that Naruto could never refuse.

 

Gaara noted that Naruto had stopped moving inside him and waited for the blonde to regain his composure. A grin spread onto the Kazekage's lips, he loved making Naruto squirm and flexed muscles that caused the tight ring of flesh that held Naruto to clamp down hard on the blonde.

 

“Stop that,” Naruto cried, “Or I'm just going to fuck you silly instead of slow like you want.”

 

Naruto's death grip on Gaara's hips loosened and the blonde's spry fingers traced the hard curvature of the Kazekage's abdomen, caressing each subtle dip and curve of their cambers before moving lower to stroke the twitching hardness that Gaara's hands had abandoned. Gaara arched his back and sighed as Naruto firmly fisted him, and then moaning when Naruto gave the hanging sack that was underneath his cock a tender squeeze.

 

“You feel good,” Gaara said swallowing the excess amount of drool in his mouth, trying to keep the cries that his voice randomly expelled down to a dull roar. Naruto didn't reply, only grunted and thrusted into Gaara and barely hit a spot that made the Kazekage nearly scream. In this position it was really hard to angle in and reach it, but Naruto was trying. The blonde's head found the dip between Gaara's shoulders and neck and rested there, the out of control panting warming Gaara's skin as Naruto grimaced, trying to keep his composure. The warmth was so intense that Naruto could barely register anything else…damn Gaara and his thing for sex at sun-up.

 

“Harder,” Gaara growled. He realized that Naruto wasn't managing well, and decided that letting his lover have control of the pace would be better for them both in the long run.

 

The blonde smirked and pushed Gaara down into the bed on all fours and grabbed his hips with a needy kind of desperation, pulling out quickly and thrusting in hard. The force that propelled the hardness into Gaara was startling, and the Kazekage lowered his head to the bed yelping as Naruto hit that spot again. Gaara moved his fingers to his own arousal and stroked furiously as the Hokage brutally pounded away behind him. They were both close, so when Naruto saw Gaara's back arch a bit and felt the muscles around him compress and hold him tightly Naruto finally allowed the release that his body was begging for. Warm liquid streamed into Gaara, filling him completely. Slumping forward Naruto kissed the spot between Gaara's shoulder blades before pulling out and bonelessly crumpling into a pile of mush at Gaara's side.

 

After catching his breath Gaara cleaned himself and Naruto up before curling into the blonde's arms. Naruto could tell him how much he hated sex in the morning all he wanted, because Gaara knew better. Naruto was very good in the mornings, and always left him satisfied. As tired as they both were Gaara cupped Naruto's cheek with one hand and kissed his lover lightly.

 

“Can you stay?” Gaara asked.

 

“A few days,” Naruto whispered, his eyes closed and sleep quickly returning to take him to dream once again.

 

“No, I mean I want you to stay,” Gaara reiterated.

 

“For how long?” Naruto's tired voice asked with a bit of confusion.

 

Gaara was silent, he didn't really know why saying this was so difficult, but it was. “I want you to stay,” was what his mind finally settled on.

 

“You mean stay here…with you? Live here?” Naruto's sapphire eyes were now surprisingly alert and watching Gaara intensely.

 

“Yes, that is what I meant.”

 

“You know that I can't,” Naruto replied sadly, which made Gaara's face crinkle in disappointment. Naruto kissed Gaara's forehead right on top of the tattoo and added, “That doesn't mean that I don't want to. If I weren't Hokage I would be here in an instant, but you know why I can't. We both have obligations to our people, and unfortunately those obligations take priority over the fact that I'm madly in love with a certain leader of Suna.”

 

Gaara grinned at Naruto's words. The one thing that the Hokage was very good at was telling him time and time again how much he was loved. After the life that Gaara had led it was something that he appreciated greatly. “I love you, too,” he told Naruto.

 

This made the blonde pull Gaara into another fevered kiss, it was only the second time that Gaara had admitted this and it made the Hokage's heart ache. It wasn't fair that the two couldn't be together all of the time, but what they had wasn't bad by any means…it was just very lonely at times. This was the life that Naruto chose, to be with Gaara. It didn't matter that there were great distances between them, he loved the Kazekage fiercely and would do just about anything to make their relationship work.