A small smile of amusement formed over his lips at the two's enthusiastic answers; so this was how it felt to have close companions and relax when one wasn't too occupied with other important duties. Gaara took his responsibilities with the utmost serious intentions, and he was completely devoted to his position, but on the other hand, he was only sixteen and still young enough to enjoy life, a concept that he wasn't all too familiar with at this current point.

"I don't know how to ice-skate." He admitted to his friends without inhibition - there was, after all, no chance of getting snow in the desert, so how was he even able to go skating? Unless he traveled over to one of the villages with that kind of suitable environment... but he didn't have a whole lot of leisure time to do things in Suna, let alone wander over to another place.

Dancing was another area that Gaara had no knowledge about, although he did see other people his own age parttaking in that activity before, and idly wondered if perhaps Matsuri liked to dance... would she be willing to teach him? Hmm...