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^^; Actually, there are not more GaaNaru hints after the timeskip; I admit that there are some, but not more than SasuNaru (or, technically, NaruSasu). You have to take into account the Sai issue (Naruto actually yelling out that Sasuke is much better looking than Sai), along with Naruto's obsession with Sasuke. He literally freaks out just from hearing Sakura say Sasuke's name when Sasuke shows up. He hears it, runs to where she is, actually tripping in his haste, and he and Sasuke have this long moment of them staring at each other. You get the whole Sasuke getting MUCH closer than he really needs to for the fight, then after it's over, Naruto has spent basically all of the manga since then angsting over Sasuke. ^^; No offense, but Gaara has not crossed his mind once. You also have the scene where Naruto is supposed to be sleeping after a day of training, and he's staring at the stars and thinks about Sasuke. I actually dragged my straight male friend over to my computer just to show him that part and say, "How gay is THAT?" His exact words were, "What? I don't know how many times I've stared at the stars, clutched at my heart, and whispered another man's name. ...Okay, nevermind."

I know I'm forgetting some of the hints, there are a lot more that I've shown to friends. There's also the time when Sakura yells at Kabuto something like, "You know nothing about Naruto's feelings!" when referring to how Naruto feels about Sasuke.

Anyway, I'll proudly admit that I am NOT a Gaara fan, and therefore am not a GaaNaru fan. Sure, I thought the hints in the manga were cute (yes, I do recognize that they're there), because I like pretty much ANY yaoi hints in a manga, but I've just seen more SasuNaru, I'm sorry. And I'm an ItaSasu fangirl, so my dislike for Gaara is really my only bias. I'd much rather see ItaSasu hinting than SasuNaru, but the SasuNaru is what's there.

So, basically, yes there have been lots of GaaNaru hints in the manga since the timeskip, but, I'm sorry, there really have been more SasuNaru. You just have to take into account the fact that Naruto spends a good deal of the time after the timeskip angsting over Sasuke. ^^; He really is obsessed. If you take his angsting as hinting, which most people would (if he was angsting over Gaara, wouldn't you take that as GaaNaru hinting?), then you have to see that basically most of the timeskip IS SasuNaru hints.

::EDIT:: Also, while your argument that you posted a link to is very good, to make your claim that there is more GaaNaru after the timeskip legitimate, you would need to also (honestly) post all the instances of SasuNaru after the timeskip, and compare the two. Otherwise, it's very biased ^^; You're only showing your side, without actually proving it by comparing the amounts of GaaNaru to the amounts of SasuNaru.

*reposts entire post from the thread in the Naruto Yaoi Polls Guild*



And I just HAVE to add in a quote from the latest chapter.

"*sad smile* So I've got the right affinity for Sasuke..." -Naruto
"Right, only wind can beat lightning." -Yamato
"No, I mean... the only thing that can save a fire from dying and give it more power... is wind." -Naruto

xD Well, damn. And here I was hoping I held the title for biggest Gaara hater.