OHMYGOD I haven't updated this in like a year. Thank you so much Narutard Kiba for pulling me out of my horrid writing block. You're a lifesaver.

Warning: I think I was high when I wrote this. It's all…wow. Just wow.

Disclaimer: Naruto is obviously not shounen-ai at the moment…if you don't include Haku's little fling with Zabuza in the very beginning…so I obviously don't own it.

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"Ok we've called you all here tonight because we all share something in common. We all want Gaara and Neji together. Why? Well, because they're destined for each other, of course!" Naruto waved his yard stick and paced like a military leader in front of his troops, his troops being Shino, Sasuke, Itachi, Shisui, Hinata, Choji, and Haku.

Lee and Ten-ten would have been there but Lee had finally mustered up the courage and asked Ten-ten out so they were out watching some horror movie …one with lots of blood, gore, and fighting if Ten-ten had any say in it, and she did.

Sasuke hadn't wanted Hinata to come because he had thought that it might be risky to tell her considering she lived with Neji, but Naruto convinced him that she could be a great spy because of just that. I mean she lived with him!

And Sai didn't come because…Naruto didn't really want to know why so he didn't ask.

"Today we will unveil to you our master plan that we have worked so hard on." Naruto gestured to his boyfriend who nodded solemnly. "You are to follow this plan and carry out your mission. It is to be called the…"GAANEJI PLAN"!!"

Almost everyone in the room did a face palm at the name. That or just stared.

"What? You don't get it? Like SasuNaru? Sasuke and Naruto? No?" Naruto was baffled as everyone shook their heads. "HAVE NONE OF YOU LOSERS EVER BEEN ON FANFICTION!? God, I'm surrounded by freaks."

Itachi blinked. "Wait…like the internet thingy site with all the buttonz and wordz and stuff?"

Naruto nodded. "See! At least someone's sane here!"

Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "Itachi? Sane? I think not."

"Did you say something?!" Shisui glared at his boyfriend's brother.

"N-no…never mind."

"That's what I thought."

Naruto blinked. "Anyway-"

"Wait Naru-chan! 'Tachi has a question." Itachi waved an arm in the air like a grade schooler. He was in a…special mood that day.

"Yes Itachi?" Naruto pointed his yard stick at Itachi, he didn't like being interrupted but Itachi's boyfriend was scary so…

"Um how do you know that Neji is the uke? I mean I thought he was a little more dominant then Gaara. I'd say he's more like Sasuke and Gaara's more like you. Therefore I believe the plan should be called, the "NejiGaa Plan"." Itachi nodded his head and crossed his arms. "Yes, I think that's right."

"Ooookay. So the plan will be called the "NEJIGAA PLAN!!" Naruto continued his pacing. "I shall now unveil this plan to you, in which you all will take par-"

"Ooo oo." Itachi waved an arm in the air. Naruto ignored him.

"Which you all will take part i-"

"Pick me! Oooo OOOOOOO!!" Itachi was practically falling off from his seat on the couch. They were all in the Uchiha brothers' basement and, for some reason, they had a lot of couches.

"Yes Itachi?" Naruto sighed.

"If Neji is the seme and Gaara is the uke, then Gaara needs a cute nickname like…" Itachi seemed to ponder for a moment. "Gaa-chan! So can the plan be called the "NejiGaa-chan Plan"? It even rhymes."

"No. It's the "NEJIGAA PLAN" and that's final."

"But-"

"No, Itachi."

"Fine then." Itachi pouted and gave Shisui a pathetic look, earning some sympathy from the older man. And lets just say that sympathy can come in very…interesting forms with Shisui and Itachi.

"Oh for the love of-GET A ROOM YOU TWO!" Sasuke shouted.

"WOULD YOU ALL STOP YELLING AND BEING INSANE!? THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SERIOUS FIC!" Haku finally had had enough. Everyone froze. He could be quite scary, despite his looks. "Back to business!"

"O-ok. Um…so I am going to reveal my "NEJIGAA-"

"NO YELLING!"

"My "NejiGaa Plan." Naruto whispered.

"Much better."

"The plan is written under this blackboard here." Naruto pointed with his yard stick at a blackboard behind him that Sasuke and Itachi randomly owned. It was covered by a white cloth, concealing what was written beneath. "Sasuke-teme, would you please come and help me unveil it?"

"Of course, dobe."

"Alright. Drum roll please!" Itachi enthusiastically complied.

"Tada!"

Everyone stared.

"Wow. Just wow." Haku said.

"Yeah, I'd expect this of you Naruto, but not of Sasuke." Shisui agreed.

"WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!"

"NO YELLING!"

"Sorry."

"I-I have to agree with Haku. Wow." Hinata shook her head.

Shino and Choji just nodded.

"What's wrong with it?"

"Naruto, the board just says "GAANEJI 4EVA" with a heart around it. How is that a plan?" Haku asked.

At Haku's words Itachi promptly got up and erased the contents of the heart, replacing "GAANEJI 4EVA" with "NejiGaa-chan 4eva". Naruto just sighed and answered Haku's question.

"You see it's simple," Naruto said with a glint in his eyes. "We just have to push them together. They'll do the rest of the work for us."

Sasuke nodded. "All we need to do is make sure they're always in the right place at the right time. Like wherever Neji is Gaara must be. In essence, this is the plan."

"So…LET"S GET TO WORK PEOPLE!"

"NO-"

"No yelling. I get it, I get it."

"And if I ever hear that you've snuck out with this Kevin kid again I swear that I will tell Santa to put coal in your stocking for years to come. And don't even think about calling him. And don't think I didn't notice the makeup you've been wearing lately. There will be no more of that young lady."

Neji could hear his uncle's rant and his cousin's protests even from his room. He was still sick of course, being as Hiashi had come home from work a few hours early to berate Hanabi. He could do that. He owned the company.

Neji sighed and tried to fall asleep. He wanted to be well by tomorrow. Only one day out of school and he already missed it, well he missed one person in particular.

"Gaara." Neji whispered to himself, liking how the name rolled off his tongue.

'If only Gaara could see me now,' Neji thought. 'He would think I was pathetic, lying here, gazing up at the ceiling dreamily, thinking of the same boy whose name I so love.'

Neji's pale eyes traced patterns in the ceiling, finding familiar shapes and patterns is the uneven paint above him.

'It's strange,' he reasoned. 'I have always thought of myself as straight. At least I hadn't thought of it before Sasuke and Naruto were forced to come out to the school. I had simply gone on with my life, unknowingly blind to myself.'

But now he knew, and it was all Gaara's fault.

Neji closed his eyes, hoping against hope that thoughts of the red-head wouldn't be able to follow him into the darkness behind his heavy lids. Unfortunately, his mind deemed this to be impossible.

"Why do you just have to be so damn irresistible?" Neji said as he let sleep take him away. "Gaara…"

Gaara woke with a start. He had slept in. For the first time in his life he was going to be late because he had slept in! Gaara had never in his life thought to buy an alarm clock, he was always naturally up about four hours before he had to leave anyway, and this was if he had gotten a good headway on sleep the night before.

But that night, he had been up until three stewing over his hatred of Shikamaru and his annoyance at his sister. And then when he was finally asleep he had dreamed. Not dreamed dreamed you perverts! But he had dreamed…

Gaara sat in that same stool in that same Claire's in that same mall. He felt that same feeling of warmth around his hand as the same person reassured him. That same person with the same pale eyes stood beside him. It was what he did and what he said that was different.

He leaned down until his lips were barely touching the metal of Gaara's new stud and whispered into his ear.

"Gaara, I love you."

Gaara shivered.

'What a weird dream,' he thought as he reached up and touched the metal of his earring.

He didn't have time to think much about it, though, because he needed to be dressed and ready in the next five minutes. Not to mention that he had to steal and apply Temari's eyeliner because he had run out of his own kohl.

He was sooo going to be late.

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"You're late." Naruto whispered as Gaara slid into the seat next to him. He had been worried that the red-head wouldn't make it at all. Neji was back that day so it would be a tragedy if Gaara had not been there.

"I know." Gaara growled.

"Hey, hey just saying!" Naruto held his hands up in defense.

"Quiet back there you two!"

Naruto scowled and sat back in his seat as Gaara settled down into his and got his books out.

Sasuke was in his next class as well as both Gaara and Neji. Naruto was really looking forward to that.

Class passed like a snail as the teacher went on and on about history that Naruto didn't even particularly care about. Naruto glanced over at Gaara and was startled to see that he had fallen asleep.

'Wow, he must be really tired." Naruto thought.

Finally, though, class ended and Naruto waited impatiently for Gaara to gather his books and follow him to their next class.

"Oi Naruto!" Naruto's dark haired lover ran up to him and wrapped a pale arm around his waist, giving him a quick peck on the lips. Naruto giggled and pulled his boyfriend back for a longer, more intimate kiss. He wanted to continue but Neji's voice interrupted them.

"Hey, quit it you two."

"Neji!" Naruto hadn't seen Sasuke's best friend since he was last at school. It was Sasuke who had told him of Neji's return.

"Hey Naruto," the dark haired boy nodded in Naruto's direction before diverting his attention elsewhere. "Hey Gaara." The pale eyed boy smirked.

Naruto suppressed a knowing smile at Gaara's blush and mumbled greeting. As Gaara turned away from Neji's stare Naruto was pleased to notice that he could see a little hint of…something in Neji eyes. Was that…longing?

Sasuke leaned down to whisper into Naruto's ear. "Someone's got a little crush." Naruto giggled.

"What was that?" Neji inquired.

"Don't be nosey Hyuuga boy. Come on, let's get to class." Sasuke said to his best friend.

Together the four of them bantered their way to their next class, which happened to be chemistry. And, as fate would have it, groups of two were paired off by the teacher, leaving Sasuke and Naruto as one group and Gaara and Neji as another.

"We could not have planned this any better ourselves," Sasuke whispered into Naruto's ear. "ne, Naru-chan?"

"Yeah. I told you it was destiny." Naruto whispered back. Sasuke just rolled his eyes.

"You're starting to sound like Neji used to with this whole "fate" crap."

"Yeah, well in this case, it's true!"

"Sure, sure, whatever you say dobe."

"Teme."

'Why must I be paired up with Neji, Neji of all people?' Gaara thought as he slowly made his way over to where the smirking Hyuuga was sitting. 'I mean dreaming of him is one thing, but now I have to have actual contact with the actual person? Now that's just ridiculous.'

Gaara was especially pissed because in his last class he had actually fallen asleep. To most people, falling asleep in a class like history is not such a hard task, but to Gaara it was something he never did. Ever. Even if he wanted to he couldn't. He was an insomniac, and even in his least captivating of subjects he was always wide awake.

He could only blame it on the dream. That stupid dream.

"Why must you torment me so?"

"What? Torment? Who?" Neji asked curiously.

Gaara felt himself blush at the realization that he had spoken out loud.

"I thought Sasuke told you not to be nosey."

"So he does speak. I thought my ears were deceiving me before." Neji said in a mock-incredulous tone.

"Don't get prissy. We have a pact, right?"

"Yeah, yeah, it's just fun to tease you." Neji smirked again.

"Fun?" Gaara raised a non existent eyebrow.

"Yeah, fun." Neji gave Gaara a knowing smirk and turned his attention towards the teacher who had begun to explain their group project.

"Ok. Now that you all have been paired off I want one of you to get out a Bunsen burner while the other partner gets each of the various chemicals I've put out. You are going to test each one and determine which chemical it is by the color of the flame. The options of chemicals are written on the board. This should be a one class project but the analysis will be tonight's homework. You may work on it if you're finished with your chemicals. Otherwise, if you want to study group it together or just do it separately is not my concern. Now get to work."

Gaara moved to get the Bunsen burner while Neji took his precious time getting out the chemicals. He seemed to be moving deliberately slowly.

Gaara placed his Bunsen burner on the table and waited impatiently for Neji to meander over.

"Hurry up!" Gaara growled through clenched teeth. Finally Neji arrived with the chemicals and started to test the chemicals with the flames. Gaara and Neji took turns testing.

Neji's turn took a lot longer then Gaara's and each time he went down to record what they had done he seemed to take forever.

By the time class was over they had barely finished testing the chemicals and hadn't even started their homework.

"So do you want to come over tonight to do our analysis?" Neji said casually, as if he hadn't been planning that the entire time.

Gaara narrowed his eyes. "If you wanted me to come over so badly why didn't you just ask instead of making me have more homework tonight?"

"Would you come over if I didn't have an excuse?"

"…No."

"I didn't think so. Now are you coming over or not?" Neji crossed his arms and waited for his reply.

"Fine. But you're making me dinner."

Neji looked pleased but, of course, had to push Gaara's buttons further. "So your sister can't cook?"

"Nah. She burned the pasta again last night. Kankuro threw a hissy fit."

"Sounds…fun."

"Oh, yeah, it's always a fuckin field day at my house."

"Hey did you just attempt at humor?" Neji looked earnestly surprised.

"I know. You know how many people I've shocked by doing that? They're usually so surprised that they don't even laugh. It's damn depressing."

Neji's face split up into a grin, starting to chuckle and then starting to laugh. Gaara found himself smiling with him; it was all he could do to suppress his own laugher. Neji was contagious.

"So meet me after school?" Neji finally said after his laugher had died down. He was still smiling and his eyes still had a hint of laughter in them.

"Yeah. I'll see you then." Gaara hid his blush by escaping the classroom, still thinking of tonight.

This probably wasn't a great idea but, what the heck, he was going for it.

Thanks for reading! Any ideas for next chapter would be great…any comments about this chapter would maybe be even better. XD

Until next time!