OMG! I'm SO HAPPY! I finally got my first GAANARU fic up! YAY!

I would like to thank my beta Mae! WOOT!

Don't own.

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I sit and watch his sleeping form.

So vulnerable.

So… (Though I hate to admit…) 'Cute.'

Many people are after him. After the monster that dwells with him.

Like the monster that dwells within me.

He stirs slightly, brow furrowing in his dream.

I carefully move one of his sunflower yellow locks of hair out of his face, thumb brushing against the whisker markings across his cheeks. Their so soft…

I smile has he unconsciously leans into my touch. "Mmmm….Gaaa….ra…"

My hear swells. Though he shows and says it, (quite loudly), it's weird to think that this is a strange emotion-love- is being shown towards me.

He smiles as I lightly stroke his hair.

"Naruto…" my voice barely audible.

These are emotions I would never show.

Only while the other dreams.

While he cannot differentiate between the waking world and dreamland.

I use to dread the nights. Fearing that in the loneliness of the darkness, I would be enveloped, be suffocated. Leaving me with only my memories.

Such painful memories that have left my heart and soul like a fierce sandstorm.

Now I have someone to share my nights with. Though he dreams till dawn, I know that it's me that fills his dreams. And if I could dream, perhaps he would fill my dreams.

As I watch him sleep, I smile.

It's the only time I smile.

He's the only person I'll smile for.

The boy in the bed beside the chair I reside in stirs slightly, turning on his side, facing me. I study his face diligently. My hand begins to shake. Naruto…my savior…the one that calms the storm within me…

My chest hurts. Like when I was little, when no one dared to come near me. But this…this is different. I know how to make the pain cease.

The kanji on my forehead means love.

Until I met the loud, annoying and outspoken boy with brilliant blue eyes, I never knew.

To be, "love" was just a word.

It had no meaning.

It was just like "House," or "Sand," or even "Potato."

When said to me, it had no meaning.

Though the word had never been said to me, I feel it. The swelling in my chest when he's here.

The urge to smile when I see him.

And God…when I see his eyes light with excitement, my spirits soar and I want to engulf him, kiss him senseless.

Well…maybe not to that extreme…I do have a reputation to uphold.

Maybe engulf him in sand and take him to a secluded place and molest him or something.

Yes…That seems to suffice…

The sun is rising. Soon, you will wake up, seeing me, and start to worrying over me. I will find you're nagging and annoying and ridiculous. But, inside, I'll smile at your concern.

My hand jerks back as you being to waken. I cross my arms, placing my emotionless mask back in place, staring hard at nothing in particular.

My heart skips a beat as your eyes flutter open, gaze immediately falling onto me. "Gaara…Did you…did you stay with me? All night?"

I stared hard, not saying anything.

He smiled, sitting up, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. "Gaara, thank-you…" He practically flung himself at me, enveloping me in a warm embrace.

I put my arms around him in a comforting and awkward embrace, and knowing that he couldn't see, I smiled.

No Naruto…Thank-you.

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