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Disclaimer: I do NOT own the Naruto Universe (If it wasn't obvious) as all rights belong to Kishi-sempai. However, I take solace in saying that I DO own Jin, but I will make a plan to steal the super-elusive and super-sexy Itachi yet **Plan X**

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The next morning, Subaku Gaara woke up to the blaring of his alarm clock. He glared at said alarm clock, hoping that it would hopefully burst into flames if he glowered at it long enough. However, it did not, and the redhead got up with a sigh and trudged to the bathroom to relieve the pressure that he had woken up with in his pants.

He had been in the middle of a very erotic and vivid dream involving Uzumaki Naruto and himself and he had almost gotten the blonde completely naked—that was before the alarm clock had ripped him from his wonderful dream. And not he was stuck, trying to will his erection away as he washed himself in the shower.

After getting out of the shower, he found a Polo tee and black skinny jeans. He turned to walk out the door when his eye caught the glint of something gold and look over. A small and rare smile graced his lips as his teal eyes landed on the gold fox charm necklace that he planned to give Naruto on their date that weekend, and he stole one last glance at the necklace before hurrying down the stairs to the kitchen to get in some breakfast before he headed out. He usually skipped breakfast when he didn't want to put up with his elder sibling, and for a minute when he entered the kitchen, he contemplated just turning around getting his book bag and car keys and walking out the door. His treacherous stomach however decided to give a rather loud rumbled, that probably could have woken the entire neighborhood up, before he could put that plan into effect.

Hearing the noise, his older sister, Temari, looked up in surprise from the refrigerator.

"Hey, emo brat," she teased, crossing over to her little brother and ruffled his hair.

"Hey get off!" the redhead squirmed out of the blonde's grasp, just as his older brother, Kankuro came into the kitchen.

"Oh, is the drama starting this early in the morning?" the elder redhead inquired. He wasn't used to seeing his little brother in the kitchen, as he would already be out the door before they could get downstairs.

"I was just wondering why our little emo brother is up so early. He usually doesn't come downstairs or anywhere near the kitchen until he's sure that we're out of the room because he's so antisocial," the blonde said, turning to her younger brother, as he bit into an apple.

"I think it has something to do with that blonde of Sasuke's that I saw him hanging out with yesterday. Am I right?" Kankuro said, in between bites of his apple.

Up until then, Gaara had had been ignoring them, pouring himself a glass of orange juice. He had just taken a sip when Kankuro had uttered those words, causing the younger to promptly choke on liquid that he was swallowing and turn a shade of red that matched his hair.

Deciding that he no longer wanted the orange juice, Gaara dumped the rest of the liquid into the sink followed by the glass. He would wash it when he got home later, but he thought that he should leave now before things got any worse, which it did.

"I knew it! Gaara's got a crush on Sasuke's boyfriend!" the elder boy bit out between fits of laughter. He stopped however, when Temari whacked him on the head with her open hand. She couldn't believe it.

"That's not funny, Kankuro!" she bit out, annoyed at her brother's antics. Then looking at her youngest brother she said calmly, "Gaara, you can't mess with their relationship! That's not fair to Sasuke or to his boyfriend! If Sasuke-"

However, the redhead cut off her with such venom in his voice that Temari immediately silenced herself. Neither sibling had seen that colouring to his voice before, not even when he got in one of his maddest moods.

"I'm not messing up anything!" the redhead roared and they both sweatdropped; they knew that the redhead had a very temper and did not want to be on the receiving end of it this early in the morning.

In a effort to soothe the irate redhead, Temari put her hands up in surrender. "Okay, we're sorry Gaara. Why were you with Sasuke's boyfriend? What's his name, for one?"

They wanted to know more about why their baby brother was hanging around with his ex-boyfriend's new flame without setting the redhead off.

"His name is Naruto and he isn't that bastard's boyfriend anymore!" Gaara growled, making sure to emphasize the isn't part, "he broke Naruto's heart when he humiliated and dumped him in front of the whole fucking cafeteria! I can't believe I actually thought that someone like him could actually change and do right! I should have warned Naruto when that filthy bastard tried to hit on me again the day before he broke up with Naruto! But I found out something yesterday: Naruto has had a crush on me for a while, but because he thought that being with me was an unobtainable goal, he settled for that Uchiha bastard, who took advantage of him!"

When the redhead was finished, he was panting slightly with the hatred that was coursing through his veins as a thick silence fell over the kitchen.

"Wow… Well, what are you going to do? He obviously likes you," Temari teased, causing the Subaku to blush again.

"I already know what I'm going to do. I've never-" he started to say something, but stopped when his eyes caught sight of the time.

"Shit! I've gotta go! I promised Naruto I'd walk him to class! I'll see you bitches later," the redhead called over his shoulder as he put on his sneakers and grabbed his book bag and keys, walking out the door, to his car, without a backwards glance.

As the engine roared to life, its' inhabitant finished the thought that he almost admitted to his siblings, by mistake, "I've never felt anything so powerful as what Naruto makes me feel." As he sat there, the redhead wondered when they had crossed, but he knew the answer to that question immediately: he wanted to know the blonde and make him happy.

Make him happy.

As that single thought ran through his head, a ripple of rage ran through him as his mind wandered back to one particular time he saw the blonde alone and crying. That one time just before winter break is where he thought it had all begun.

-Flashback-

The redhead has slipped into the silent and empty gymnasium, appreciating the silence, as he waiting for his next class to start.

As he made his way to sit on one of the bleachers, a sniffling sound made the Subaku stop in his tracks, as panic took over. No one was ever in this place during lunch, a fact which appealed to the redhead, as he hated the chatter of the lunchroom most days.

As he quickly yet silently approached the bleachers, where the sound was coming from out under, he froze at the sight: a tan boy with blonde hair that rivaled the sun and a pair of bottomless turquoise eyes that were now staring horror-struck at him. However, the redhead's sea green eyes were more interested at the blonde's bare arms, which were littered with what the red-haired boy instantly recognized as slash mark made by some sort of blade. The blonde was a cutter.

Said blonde noticed where the redhead's eyes were and hastily put his jacket back on, cutting off the redhead's view of aforementioned cuts, a blush blossoming over his tan cheeks.

"What are you doing here?" the blonde demanded, angrily.

"What's he so angry about? It's no big deal," the redhead thought as he shrugged and answered the blonde's question, "I have gym for my next class and I didn't exactly want to sit in the cafeteria; those people give me a headache, so I usually end up in here. What are you doing in here?"

"I come in here to think and to get away from those kids and because Sasu-"

The redhead frowned when the blonde cut himself off. Gaara somehow knew that the raven probably had something to do with the blonde's tears and that made his blood boil.

Before he could open his mouth to say anything, the blonde dashed from his position under the bleachers, mumbling something that sounded something similar to "I have to go" before the redhead was alone in the gym.

-Flashback End-

He had wanted to say so much about what was wrong and was he crying because of his asshole of a boyfriend.

He wanted just to comfort the blonde and wipe his tears away. Because he knew what it was to be on the receiving end of the raven's verbal abuse.

As he thought about that and drove to school, he cursed under his breath as a reality sunk into his head; he had told the blonde to meet him by the gates, in between the school and the football field, which Gaara had forgotten up until now was way too close for his comfort to the spot where the popular kids tended to mill before homeroom started. He just hoped the popular kids wouldn't bother Naruto too much

Shit.

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Naruto leaned against the gate that separated the school from the street, form tense as he his aqua eyes flitted from the parking lot to the place where the popular kids had started to gather and back to the parking lot. God, he hoped Gaara would hurry up and that that Sasuke wouldn't get there until they were safely inside the building.

As he stood there, waiting for the Subaku, he pulled out his cell phone and texted his best friend as he tried to ignore the fact that all the popular kids gave him dirty looks and some were even making snide comments.

Sakura, I'm meeting with Gaara this morning. I'll see you in homeroom.

Just as he hit the send button and put his cell back into his p, the voice he had been dreading, was coming close, as the raven came into view, along with his bestie, Hozuki Suigetsu, by his side.

Whatever the raven was about to say to the albino was caught in his throat, in shock, as his eyes widened when its raven orbs clashed with azure ones. When his surprise subsided, a knowing smirk came across his face.

"Why are you here? Is it because you finally want to come back or because Gaara dumped you too, dobe?" he said, his eyes turn into ones of mocking.

Naruto sighed warily. He had knew that the raven would think that and that was the last thing that he needed in his life right now because he didn't want to be reminded how Sasuke had broken his heart. After a moment, he said softly, "no, I'm not here because of either."

This pissed the Uchiha and he bit out through clenched teeth, "Then why the fuck are you here, then?"

Either way, this wasn't going to end very well. With this in mind, the kitsune took a deep breath before saying calmly, "I'm waiting on Gaara."

As soon as the blonde uttered those words, there was an instant silence from the others as they heard the Uchiha snarl in an animalistic way.

"WHAT!" the raven roared, as his eyes flashed a dangerous scarlet, as he lunged for the smaller teen, slamming his fist into the smaller teen's stomach, making him double over in pain as he tried to catch his breath.

Not wanting to give Naruto time to catch his breath, Sasuke prepared to strike the blonde again; however, a growl sounded from behind the crowd, making everyone freeze, as the Subaku emerged.

"Touch him again, Uchiha, and I'll kill you!" the redhead snarled through clenched teeth, as he pushed the Uchiha away from the blonde and offered him his hand, which the smaller teen gratefully took, causing uproar.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing, Subaku?" the raven roared, his face flushing red with rage.

At this, the redhead smirked and said each word slowly to make sure Sasuke would understand how much he had royally fucked up. "Doing what you couldn't, Uchiha and actually loving him. You had your chance and you blew it. Well actually, you just didn't blow it; you shredded it into tiny pieces and pounded it into dust. He doesn't want you back. Actually, I'll let you in on a little secret: he didn't want you in the first place; he wanted me from the very beginning. The only reason that he went out with your ass is because he wanted my attention and probably thought that he could get it if he hung around with you. But I bet that once he saw what I saw, he decided that it wasn't worth it. Come to think of it, you probably wouldn't have caught my attention that you were doing him wrong if you hadn't let your ego get the best of you and decided to publicly humiliate him. If you had just dumped him in private, you wouldn't be in this mess."

It was silent for a minute, as Sasuke processed that information.

That couldn't be true. There's no fucking way that he played me like that! I could've told if that was true!

"You're a fucking liar! He never wanted you, Subaku!"

This response made the Subaku chuckle as he couldn't believe that the Uchiha was so full of himself that he couldn't see the truth. "Okay, since you're so convinced that I'm wrong, let's hear what Naruto thinks."

Turning to the blonde, the Subaku said softly, "Naru, tell this bastard what you told me yesterday, when I drove you home."

The small teen took a deep breath and said, "It's true, I had some feelings for you, but you weren't the one that I wanted. I did it because I knew that it would get me closer to the man that I truly loved, but seemed impossible to have. I love Gaara and I've always had a crush on him, from the first day I came to this school. I'm sorry, Sasuke. I didn't mean to play you like I did, but I didn't know how else to get his attention."

When he heard those words, something inside him snapped and the Uchiha lunged for the smaller boy, wanting to hurt him in every meaning of the world. However, he was yanked back from the blonde by Gaara, whose eyes had a murderous glint to them. "I'm warning you, Uchiha. Touch him and you're dead!"

Sasuke spat in the redhead's face as he screamed, "Fuck you! This is your entire fault! I've seen the way you've made passes at him when he was still with me, Subaku! Well you know what, you can have that whore because you two belong together!"

That's when Gaara snapped, losing all control as all the hate and contempt that he held for the Uchiha came bubbling up to the surface with a vengeance, and he sent a punch crashing into the raven's stomach, knocking the wind out of him. Gaara sent another bone shattering punch to the raven's face, before he could recover.

Picking the teen up by his hair, he snarled, "Don't you ever call Naru a whore, you asshole! Especially when the reason that we broke up is because you let a senior that you didn't even know fuck your ass! I was faithful to you and you not only verbally abused me, but you cheated on me! So, don't even let that bullshit pass through your mouth!"

With one final punch, the redhead turned to the frightened blonde, and groaned inwardly.

Great, now that he's seen this side of me, he's probably afraid of me.

He slowly walked over to the trembling teen and said as softly as he could, "I'm sorry you had to see that. Are you ready to go, Naru?"

He found that his voice all of a sudden didn't work so he just nodded and with one final look at the bleeding Uchiha, took the Subaku's hand and went into the building.

Although it frightened him to see that side of Gaara, he was also elated that Gaara had stood up for him and he hoped with all his heart that they would be together forever.

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Well, there you have it! A great way to end this story if I do say so myself! I thought of ending it here due to a review that was posted on the original Love Blossoms Fanfic. The sequel to this story will focus more on Naruto's hidden past, if you remember the original story. However, I will change some elements and hopefully get that out to you guys soon.

The title will be Eien no Ai.

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