About a week later, Xavyn, and Gaara were walking around the village, the younger was looking around to get ideas for things to bring into his home in Suna. It seemed like most Leaf citizens were at least tolerant of the couple, but every now, and then, they would get the occasional homophobe. Xavyn always took care of them, keeping violence out of it unless absolutely necessary, and Gaara could see the self-consciousness ooze away. They were sharing some sort of bittersweet drink that could please both of their tastebuds, when they ran into Shino. He was leaning against a tree, in the shade, Xavyn saw him, and waved. Shino waved back, it was hesitant, and short lived, but he stepped up to them. "What are you two doing? Shouldn't you be preparing for the finals?" Xavyn took a sip, and let Gaara answer. "I am prepared, he wanted to look around." "Yeah, whatever this drink is, is nummy. A little too sweet for him, and a little too sour for me, it's just perfect." Xavyn kissed Gaara's cheek, and watched him fight a smile. "If you don't mind me asking, what do people think of your relationship?" Xavyn sighed quietly, and took a few little sips, struggling to find the right words.

He finally settled. "Some can tolerate it, others can't. Those who can't can stay away from us or risk ending up on life support." "You seem eager to hurt anyone who disagrees with you." Gaara swiped the drink from his partner's hand, and found a place to sit down, and drink it. "Not really, I actually don't think violence is necessary, but I make exceptions when people try to hurt the only thing I have that's worth protecting." "I understand. I hold my teammates in high regard, and care for their safety, but it seems like they don't exactly feel the same. I feel ignored." Xavyn frowned. "Well whenever we come here, if we ever come back, I'll do stuff with you, if you're ok with it. You know, as long as I'm not in the middle of something." "I'll keep that in mind, is he ok?" Xavyn turned to look at whatever caught Shino's gaze, and he saw Gaara twitching, digging his nails in his shirt. "Um kind of. Please excuse me, it was nice to see you again without you taking my stuff." Xavyn rushed to Gaara's side, holding his free hand, setting the drink on the ground.

"I got you, I've got you." He pressed soft, and gentle kisses along Gaara's temple, and gently rubbed, massaging, his scalp. Gaara had a hard time stifling his noises, and Xavyn pressed his boyfriend's face into his shoulder, grateful he was wearing a shirt. "Bite. It's ok, baby. Bite me, Gaara." At the next wave of pain, Gaara didn't think, his teeth latched onto Xavyn's cloth covered shoulder, causing the younger to hiss quietly, and continue to rub Gaara's back, run his hand through his hair, anything he could touch, he did. He forced himself to stay quiet as he was bit harder, he willed away the start of an erection when it got him excited. Gaara whined into the soft material, and he didn't move until the pain was gone. He finally let go, and rubbed at his jaw; it hurt from keeping his mouth clenched for so long. Xavyn dipped his head, and kissed both sides of his partner's jaw, unaware that Shino had watched the whole scene take place. "Are you ok? Is it gone?" Gaara nodded, panting quietly. Tears were in the corner of his eyes from the unbearable pain. Xavyn pulled him into a hug, ignoring the pain for the other's sake.

"What on Earth was that about?" The insect user asked. "Gaara gets these...headaches." "That looked like a painful bite, Xavyn." Gaara nuzzled at Xavyn's shoulder, his silent way of apologizing. "I can take the pain if it helps him." "Shirt off. Show me the bite." Gaara demanded, pulling back. Before he could protest, Xavyn's shirt was pulled up, and off, Gaara wincing when he saw the damage he caused. "It's not that bad, I've taken worse. You know that." "Not from me...you're not supposed to be hurt by me." Xavyn cut his sentence with a kiss, and interlocking their fingers. There was a nearly perfect circle in the shape of the bite, and it was already purple, a few points had blood bubbling up to the surface, which Gaara quickly licked away. "Must be some headache." Xavyn tilted his head back to look at the Genin. "They can get real bad. Skull-splitting, even. But I'll do what I can to ease it, even if I have to get hurt in the process." Shino remembered the conversation he had with Xavyn, about getting beat for being Gaara's friend.

He cautiously walked up to them. "Xavyn I...I'm sorry for my behavior before. It was uncalled for." Xavyn chuckled. "Don't worry about it, if I was anyone else, and someone told me they were Gaara's partner...I probably wouldn't believe them either. He's too damn pretty to be with anyone but me." Gaara looked up at Xavyn's face, a light blush on his cheeks at the compliment. "Too pretty?" Xavyn nodded, and kissed his nose. "Absolutely. Nobody else can have you, now that you've been with me, anyone else would be too boring for you." "I guess you're right. Come on, let's do something about that bruise." Gaara hauled him up, and grabbed the somewhat warm drink off the ground. Xavyn turned, and went over to Shino, holding his hand up. "High five?" "What for?" "If you want the honest answer, I think a hug would be too weird for you, considering I'm a stranger." "Fair enough, but I still don't understand." He high fived the youngest anyway, and got a wave goodbye. Shino stayed until they were out of sight before he went on with his day. "I'm sorry for biting you." Xavyn took a sip of the drink, and kissed Gaara, pushing the drink into his mouth.

His boyfriend swallowed it, and he pulled back. "Don't ever apologize for something I tell you to do." They made it back, and Xavyn's shoulder was so sore, it was getting hard to move his arm. "You have a hell of a bite, it uh, ahem, it actually turned me on." "Yeah?" "Yeah, I know I'm gonna ask you to do that again at some point." Gaara tucked the useful information into the back of his mind. "Well I'm glad I could make you feel good, that puts my mind at ease a little bit." Xavyn chuckled, and kissed Gaara's head. "Love you." "Love you too." It was the next day when Xavyn was woke up by a low growling/wheezing sound, and he looked all over, blinking in confusion until Baki ran into the room, saying Temari, and Kankuro were supposed to watch Gaara, and that he was gone. He must have just missed him. Xavyn immediately ran all over the village, searching high, and low for his bloodthirsty boyfriend. He finally found him atop the hospital, and he dropped down beside him. "Fuck you scared me. What's going on, Baby?"

"Kill...kill him-agh!" He clawed at his head where pain ricocheted on the inside of his skull. Xavyn kissed his cheek, and followed him into the hospital as he searched for someone to kill. They ended up in the room of a badly injured boy with a bowl cut, and Gaara was simply suffocating the area with his bloodlust. Xavyn leaned against the wall closest to the door, knowing it was smartest to let him get it out of his system. Sand crawled on the bed when two Ninja were suddenly in front of Xavyn, and Gaara froze. "Gaara!" He stood next to his boyfriend, but kept himself turned to the side so he could between them if he needed to. Xavyn recognized the blonde as Naruto, but didn't know the other boy who had black, spiky hair in a ponytail. As he looked down, he could see a shadow connecting Gaara to the kid. "What the hell did you do to him?" He asked the kid. "Shadow Posession Jutsu." Xavyn whimpered, and forced himself to stay calm, not knowing the others' abilities, and attacking them could possibly hurt Gaara, or even kill him. Gaara explained himself, and Xavyn could see it in Naruto's eyes, the same pain he, and Gaara felt their entire lives. He then told the kids that killing was his only purpose, and they nearly pissed themselves.

Naruto was scared, that much was obvious, but it looked like he was stuck in the past. "And what do you have to say about him killing people?" The blonde asked Xavyn, who slipped his hand into his boyfriend's, even though he couldn't physically respond, and rubbed Gaara's shoulder, kissing around his mouth. "He needs to let it out or it will kill him. I'm gonna warn you to keep your nose out of our buisness, because I won't hesitate to protect Gaara, no matter the cost." His eyes lit up with the desire to protect that which he cared most for, and Naruto was in a state of shock. Shikamaru let go of Gaara, he undid the jutsu, and Gaara immediately squeezed Xavyn's hand before moving the sand back towards the unconscious boy. They were interrupted again, a man who looked almost exactly like the bed-ridden boy burst through the door, and told Gaara to save it for the exams. "I will kill you. I will kill all of you." Gaara dragged his boyfriend out of the building. "I'm sorry. We'll find someone else to sate you." "I don't understand why they won't let me serve my purpose." "You have to understand...that it's not exactly normal to have an urge to end the life of one of your own species." If they were younger, Gaara would have asked, 'So I'm not normal? I'm a monster?' But he's learned that his partner's feelings about him were genuine, and he would never treat him like the others had. In fact, sometimes he watched Gaara kill to sate his own lust.

Instead, he interlocked their fingers, and dug his nails in the back of Xavyn's hand, hearing the sweet little whine in the back of his throat was almost enough to want to skip murder altogether. "I want to find Sasuke Uchiha." "Then find him, we shall. But uh...how do we do that?" "He will be training I would imagine, somewhere secluded." They found Sasuke with a silver haired man that Gaara recognized as the man Naruto called 'Kakashi Sensei', and they were high up on a platform that had been formed of rocks over thousands of years. Gaara used their sand to get to the top faster, they hid behind a pillar, and Xavyn felt his partner's bloodlust return nearly tenfold, he could kind of smell it on his skin. The man called attention to them, saying he could smell a faint whiff of bloodlust. Gaara stepped forward, Xavyn stayed hidden. "You too, whoever else is there." Xavyn stood beside the sand Ninja with his arms crossed, glaring at Sasuke. He still wasn't over what happened when they first met, and Gaara told him they were the same; himself, and Sasuke. They were angry, and murderous, out for revenge.

Xavyn clung onto Gaara's arm, they both fought to keep their cool. "Sasuke I'll warn you once. Hurt my family one more time, and I'll kill you myself." "What the hell did I ever do to you? I don't even know who you are." "You hurt my brother when we met, you act like you're so strong, and better than all of us. Whatever your petty feelings are that Gaara says you have, keep them to your damn self." "Calm down, it won't help you if you kill him now." Gaara told his partner, feeling his nails through his shirt. Kakashi narrowed his eyes, wondering how many other people would try to kill his student. "What do you have to do with this?" Kakashi asked. "I go where he goes." "Let's go, you don'tneed to answer his questions." Gaara brought them back down, and Xavyn whined. "I'm sorry. Maybe Baki Sensei was right, and I shouldn't be here for this mission." "Don't think that. It's...sweet that you are so protective. And I'm glad you're here, I don't know what I would do if you weren't." Xavyn nuzzled Gaara's cheek, and pecked it. "I know you still need to kill something. What do you wanna do about that?" "Can I make you bleed?" Gaara had never requested blood of him, but would lick it up if he ever got hurt, and Xavyn would give it any time Gaara would have asked for it. "Yes, of course. Take what you need, Sweetie." Gaara made a shallow cut on Xavyn's cheek, not missing the hiss or the minute crossing of his legs, and he moved to lap up the red liquid, moaning softly at the taste. He closed his lips over the wound, and sucked more out, Xavyn gripped his shoulders, and whined, trying to stay still until Gaara was satisfied, but he couldn't hide his boner for very long.