"UGH! I hate c-ranked missions! Right, Sakura?" Naruto asked Sakura on their way to their 27th c-ranked mission. Sakura was too busy looking at Sasuke. "Oh Sasuke…you look so sexy when you're serious." She thought. "We're going to the sands, right?" Naruto attempted to get Sakura's attention again. "Naruto, will you shut--!" Sakura started but then she stopped dead cold. "Did you say we were going to the sand village?" she slowly questioned. "Datte bayo!" Naruto grinned his famous smile.
Sakura hated nothing more than that Sabaku no Gaara. He was creepy, odd, and always smirked at her with a face that said damn-I-want-to-rape-you-so-badly. It shouldn't matter. Sasuke would be there to protect her, right? "Naruto you fool, I think we're lost." Sasuke spat at the nine-tailed fox boy. "Shut the hell up! I know exactly where we're--!" Naruto started to say but then something cut him off. "Did you hear that?" he asked his team. Sakura listened too. A quiet sound of flowing sand was shifting about. "Gaara…" Sasuke frowned. "That punk's always so damn laid-back!" Naruto yelled.
Suddenly there was a rustle and a dead body fell out from the bushes. "EEEEK!" Sakura screamed. Naruto jumped startled. "Holy shit!" he shouted. Sasuke approached the corpse. "His arms are damaged. Looks like they've been crushed." He observed. Sabaku Taiso. "Of course, Sasuke-kun! You're absolutely right!" Sakura smiled at him. Naruto snorted and Sakura glared at him. Sasuke looked at the shinobi band of the corpse. "This ninja is from the village hidden in the leaves…" Sasuke said surprised when he saw Konoha's famous shinobi headband sign. "What is a konoha shinobi doing here?" Naruto asked. And before Sasuke could reply 'I don't know,' Gaara and his squad came down the path.
Gaara stopped in the middle of the path, face-to-face with Sasuke. "Move it, Uchiha." He scoffed. "Go to hell." Was Sasuke's remark. Kick his ass, Sasuke! You deliver him to the devil! Inner Sakura screamed with a smug face. Kankuro and Temari backed away as Gaara started to scowl. But Gaara looked up at Sakura. His frown disappeared as a smirk replaced it. Gaara walked past Sasuke and Naruto over to the pink-haired girl in the back. He leaned so close to her that his lips were inches away. Sakura breath was scarce. She felt her breasts going up and down as she gasped for air. "Boo." Gaara whispered in her ear. "Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuh! Help me, Sasuke!" Sakura screamed. Gaara's smirk grew more lascivious. He licked his lips and then swooshed past Sakura. Temari and Kankuro obediently followed.
"I wonder where they're going." Naruto thought aloud. "Let's go follow them. They're acting pretty suspicious." Sasuke squinted his eyes. "Nuuuuuuuu! I DON'T WANT TO FOLLOW THE FREAKS!" Inner Sakura screamed. "Should we split up or stay together?" Sasuke asked. "I dunno, let's take a vote." Naruto said. "I'm going to split up." Sasuke concluded. "Me too. What about you, Sakura?" Naruto asked. Sakura really wanted to stay together because she was so frightened, but she didn't want Sasuke and Naruto to think she was a chicken. "Umm---Splitting up is fine." She choked out.
So then they lifted off the ground into the air. Sasuke went in the right direction, Naruto went in the left, and Sakura found herself drifting alone in the center. Her heart beat faster and faster until she thought it would burst.
A couple of hours later, there was no sign of Gaara or his siblings. Sakura decided to rest a bit under a tree. When she got down to the ground, she plopped on the floor and caught her breath. She leaned her head against the tree trunk & then closed her eyes. It was NOT comfortable. The tree trunk was hard and itchy. As Sakura got more relaxed, the bark became softer and smoother. It definitely didn't fell like a tree trunk. Oh hell no.Sakura opened her eyes and fluttered them a bit. She turned her head around and gasped to find out her head was lying on the lap of none other than Gaara! "Iiiiiiiiiiiya!" she screamed as she bolted upward. Gaara chuckled. His pale cyan eyes glimmered in the dark. "What are you doing here!?" she cried. Gaara remained silent, looking at her with a mysterious smirk on his face. "Well?!" she demanded. "My mission is done. When I was walking back, I saw you here." He stated calmly. "Well don't touch me!" Sakura continued to lecture him. "Heh," Gaara got up and walked next to her. Sakura took a few cautious steps back. Gaara started to stoke her hair. Sakura froze. His fingers were ice-cold. A sensation that felt like death. "Stop!" she cried. She raised her kanai knife she had in her pocket and flung it at him. But Gaara was faster. He quickly disappeared and reappeared behind her. He grabbed her neck and held a shuriken to her throat. He had one hand holding her neck and one hand clutching her back. "You better shut up or I'll slit your throat." He said. Sakura became quiet.
He switched his shuriken to his other hand, the hand that was on her back. He took the sharp edge of it and softly rimmed it along Sakura's back bone. It didn't make her bleed like crazy, but it did cause a trickled of blood to scar her body. "What are you doing!?" Sakura screamed. "I'm making my eternal pledge to you." He chuckled again. He dropped the shuriken. He spun Sakura around with both hands. "Sleep well tonight." He smirked. Then he disappeared and Sakura fell to the floor wheezing and coughing. "Sakura-chan! Sakura-chan. What happened? What happened." The faint voice of Naruto echoed in her head before Sakura passed out.
Emergency Room; Lady Tsunade's Medical Headquarters
"How is she?" Kakashi looked at Tsunade. "She seems to be fine. She just fainted from something shocking. But I found a strange mark on her back." Tsunade said. She then took off Sakura's bandages and showed Kakashi the mark. It was a picture of a key that was red with blood and purple with a lack of oxygen. It looked really scary. "That's the--!" Kakashi began to speak but then Tsunade finished his sentence. "—the Shukaku's sign. The one-tailed fox." She frowned. Naruto gulped sitting in the hospital lobby with Sasuke. "I hope she'll be alright," Naruto said. "Who cares, anyways." Sauke coolly replied. "Damn showoff." Naruto murmured. Moments later, Kakashi entered the room with Sakura is his arms. "Naruto, can you take Sakura back home?" Kakashi looked as unexcited as ever. "Sure, Kakashi-sensei." Naruto nodded. Must've been a rough mission for Sakura-chan. I wonder what happened… And with that, Naruto flew into the night with Sakura weakly huddled close.