The red haired boy gazed at the bubble gum locks of the pink haired teen that just passed him by on the street, she was absolutely stunning. Her face was that of true beauty, her shining emerald orbs gave a feeling of warmth that Gaara had never experienced before. Gaara proceeded to follow her in the hopes of accidently bumping into her, he doubted that she would notice him following her after all she had her I-pod plugged in the music was so loud you could hear it just by being near her. This pinkette teen danced to the music like nobody else was around and it enticed Gaara that she had this sense of not caring what other people think. The girl had turned her I-pod off and was taking out the ear plugs and Gaara saw this as the chance to introduce himself but was being pulled back by some mysterious stranger, Gaara turned his head around to see who was pulling him back and punched them in the head the person let go but Gaara got a better look at them and realised it was his older brother Kankuro. The red laughed and helped his brother up. He looked back to where she was and saw that she wasn't there any more so now he was pretty pissed off at Kankuro for ruining his chance to talk to the mysterious pink haired girl.
Gaara and his siblings had recently moved from a little town called Suna that was very well known for its constant sand storms and strict Christian belief, so when his father got an offer in a big city town he didn't waste any time on accepting. Gaara, his older brother Kankuro and his older sister Temari had spent all day yesterday getting to know this big town called Konoha.
Gaara was watching the scenery change through the window of his father's car, trying to block out his sister and his father arguing about which way to go while Kankuro was trying to get him to play with his puppets. They stopped outside of a huge old brick building, this obviously was the illustrious Konoha private boarding school, the place was usually only rich kids and people who got in on scholarships. As they got out of the car they saw heard a big group of people yelling and looked over to a large oval stadium and realised that was where it was coming from. The halls inside the building we're of small size which was surprising considering how big the building looked from the outside. They waited outside the principal's office for her to be available.
"You don't think that the kids here will be massive twilight fans do you?" pondered Temari.
"I sincerely hope not I don't want to have to commit suicide within a week of moving here" quipped Kankuro.
"Well you don't have to talk to them if you don't want to" said Gaara.
"Easy for you to say you pride yourself on being invisible and don't have people hounding you even though you give them all the signs that you're not interested" roared Temari.
At that moment a tall black haired boy passed by carrying a shogi board and a bottle of orange juice, Temari's heart nearly stopped on the spot and her face turned pink like a piece of hard candy. The black haired boy looked away from the path ahead of him and saw Temari and his face turned all goofy looking and of course not looking where he was going he walked into the wall then quickly got up grabbed his stuff and ran down the hall as fast as he could.
"Dad can we stay in this town forever?" asked Temari.
"Temari's got a dork for a boyfriend" teased Kankuro.
Which in return Temari slapped him on the back of the head. Gaara laughed and their father sighed then they heard the door open and a tall grey haired man came out of the room with a short brunette haired woman. The man walked off and the woman signalled for them to come inside, the office was prestigious and a busty old woman was sitting behind a desk and motioned for them to sit down.
"Hello I'm principal Tsunade you must be the people who just moved here from Suna" said Tsunade.
"Yes we are" said their father.
"Okay then I just need you as their legal guardian to sign these forms then they can start straight away" boomed Tsunade.
Their father signed the forms and handed them back to Tsunade, she smiled then he said good bye to them and left. The old woman got her assistant to call someone and then she turned back to the Suna siblings.
"Alright Jiraiya will be here in a few minutes to guide you around the building then after that he'll show you to your class, so any questions?" asked Tsunade.
"Yes I have one do you have any shogi clubs at this school?" inquired Temari.
"Yes we do the leader of this club is one Shikamaru Nara I'll call for him and you at lunch you can talk to him about joining then" answered Tsunade.
Temari was doing a victory cheer in her head and Kankuro just smiled a mischievous smile, they waited another five minutes before the one called Jiraiya come. He was an old man with long white hair. They followed him around the school's large campus until he finished their tour and dropped them off in their classes, once Gaara got to his class he couldn't believe his luck the pink haired teen he saw on the street yesterday was sitting at one of the desks and the only desk with an empty chair next to it. He rushed over to it and sat down; the teacher stared at him with anger.
"Where's your late pass?" asked the teacher.
Obviously a temp since she was asking for a late pass.
"This is my first day at this school and I was just being shown around by Jiraiya sensei" answered Gaara.
"Really so if I made a call to the office they would confirm this?" inquired the teacher.
"Yes they would and my name is Gaara" replied Gaara.
A smile broke out across his face and the teacher went out to make the call and the other students started goofing off. Gaara saw a flicker of bubble gum locks and turned his head to his left we're the pink haired teen was smiling at him.
"That was pretty brave of you facing down Anko sensei" said the girl.
"Well it truly is my first day here and I thought she was a temp since she asked for a pass" whispered Gaara.
"Well she is a regular teacher here she just doesn't teach this class so she is a temp for this class, my name is Sakura by the way" chirped Sakura.
"Well Sakura it is nice to meet you" chimed Gaara.
"It's nice to meet you to Gaara" said Sakura.
Sakura giggled and Gaara extended his hand, she shook it and then someone hit her on the back of the head with a pencil. She turned her head around to poke her tongue out at a blonde girl who was making faces at Sakura and flirting with a raven haired teen at the same time. Then the blonde girl and Sakura laughed at the same time and Sakura gave her a thumbs up then turned back to look at Gaara.
"She's my best friend Ino I'll introduce you to her when the bell rings which should be lunch time" said Sakura.
"Okay but who is the guy she is flirting with?" questioned Gaara.
"Oh he's Sasuke her boy toy also known as the school's bisexual slut" chirped Sakura.
They laughed then heard the door open and saw the teacher come back in; she apologized to Gaara and then went back to teaching the class. The time went by fast and the bell sounded off and to Gaara it was like a heavenly chime telling him to be with this pink haired girl named after the cherry blossom. Gaara got up from his chair and Sakura did too and then she looped her arm through his and guided him to the cafeteria to get their lunch then sit down at a table. It was fifteen minutes into lunch when the blonde haired girl named Ino came into the cafeteria and got her food then sat at their table. Gaara noticed she was one of those people with a bubbly personality which made people gravitate towards her usually the type of people he avoided but then again not all of those people are the same plus if he made good with the best friend he had better chances of getting a date with Sakura. Gaara jumped a little when he heard Ino's bracelets clink against the table.
"Ino this is Gaara" said Sakura.
"Hey I'm Ino and I basically know everyone in this town" boomed Ino.
"Hello I'm Gaara and I'm new here obviously" whispered Gaara.
Ino smiled and got up from the other side of the table which made her purple sun dress sway in a way that made all the boys in the cafeteria look and sat down between Gaara and Sakura then hugged them tight, Gaara actually didn't mind this he kind of liked it in fact he really saw himself being friends with these two girls.
Temari was being escorted by principal Tsunade to a room in the centre of the building, she was then lead to a table in the far back we're the boy she saw in the morning was. Temari was glad her white dress went down to her knees otherwise he would see her shaking legs; she noticed he lifted his head and smiled when he saw her.
"Temari this young man here is Shikamaru he's the one you want to talk to join the shogi club" boomed Tsunade.
"I'd be happy to discuss this with you" chimed Shikamaru.
Tsunade left the table and went to the door to leave. Shikamaru whispered to the brunette boy next to him then he got up and stood next to Temari.
"Well I suggest a walk around the school while having this conversation" said Shikamaru.
"Sure that sounds great" quivered Temari.
As they walked Shikamaru talked about the history of his family but Temari wasn't listening she was admiring the fishnet top that clung to his well toned body and the jeans that showed off his totally hot butt. She only heard half his sentences; she noticed that he was staring at her weirdly.
"Did you hear what I just said?" asked Shikamaru.
"Sorry no I didn't" answered Temari.
"What a drag, I asked you if you'd like to come over to my place tonight" blurted Shikamaru.
Shikamaru's face turned red and Temari realised that he knew all along that she wasn't listening and meant to say something else. She snickered and then turned to face him and placed her hands on her elbows.
"Well I guess I have the time but if this is going to be a date I expect your undivided attention" teased Temari.
"It will be great we can even watch twilight and new moon, you seem like a girl that would love that" taunted Shikamaru.
"Shikamaru that was going too far" said Temari.
"Yeah I sort of realised that after I said it" admitted Shikamaru.
Gaara was sitting between Sakura and Ino during fifth period marine science. Marine science had a pretty laid back teacher who seemed to wear enough green spandex to blind people. So basically marine science was like extended lunch, the girls each vied for his attention but Ino was only being friendly like his brother and his sister but Sakura was different he hoped it was because she liked him the way he liked her. The girls talked about the best hang outs in town and other such things but it was kind of pointless since he would never go to these places unless they asked him to come with them or his siblings forced him to come with them.
Shikamaru's room was huge and Temari plonked herself down on the bed and Shikamaru plonked himself next to her. Shikamaru laughed when he saw her underpants with teddy bears on them and didn't have any problems telling her how stupid he thought they we're. Which led her to lunge herself at him and kiss him softly on the lips, he kissed her back and started stroking the back of her head. She let go of the kiss and smirked at him then placed her hands on her lap.
"That was much better than what I had planned" chirped Shikamaru.
"Of course I don't beat around the bush" teased Temari.
No one from Kankuro's class was home yet because the teacher was a sadist named Ibiki Morino who made the class stay until everyone got every single question right. It was extremely mind numbing and Kankuro was a walking zombie by the time everyone was allowed to go home. Kankuro was stopped by some by a girl he had the same maths class with, he considered her a nerd but she wasn't bad looking in fact she was beautiful. Her brunette hair was an absolute mess and barely holding in the buns she had, she wore a one shoulder top that was coloured gold and white shorts that we're the length of half her upper thigh and of course black gladiator sandals to complete the outfit.
"H-hey I'm TenTen I'm in your m-math class" stuttered TenTen.
"Yeah I saw you being a total brainiac in there" chimed Kankuro.
TenTen blushed and her legs started to shake a little, she couldn't believe how casual he was about everything.
"Well I was thinking that maybe we could catch up after school sometime?" pondered TenTen.
"Yeah sure I'll just type my number into your phone" said Kankuro.
"Okay" boomed TenTen.
TenTen handed Kankuro her phone and he typed his number he handed her the phone and then walked off towards home and waved her a good bye. TenTen jumped up and down when he turned his head forward. She was giggling with delight and her friend another brunette with long hair hugged her than they walked off in the other direction.
Gaara moved the food on his plate in an attempt to make it look like he had eaten some of it, he wasn't very hungry at the moment all he could think about was the rosette. His father as usual was eating dinner at the office while working another late night, Temari and Kankuro we're arguing over who gets control of the TV while Gaara stared out the window. He knew what the outcome of the fight was going to be Temari would always get the remote when dad wasn't home, Gaara admired her brain of a tactician it also made him proud that she was his sister. Gaara looked over to the lounge room and as always Temari had won the fight for the remote, the phone rang and Temari jumped up from the couch like there was no tomorrow to answer it. She looked disappointed and walked over to the dining where Gaara was sitting then handed him the phone he took it out of her hand and held it up to his ear.
"Hello who is this?" asked Gaara.
"It's Sakura, are you in a private area?" replied Sakura.
"No, why?" inquired Gaara.
"Because I don't think you'll want anyone to hear our conversation" answered Sakura.
"You know you've got a point" said Gaara.
Gaara put the cutlery on his plate and took them to his room where he could eat and talk without any one bothering him, he banged his hand on the door to make sure no one was listening in then sat down on the floor and let his back rest against his bed.
"Alright I can talk now"
"Good any way I'm having a party next week want to come?"
"Sure but that was your private conversation"
"Well I didn't know how strict and nosy your dad and siblings we're but I haven't finished"
"Nosy they definitely are so go on"
"Well you'll have to come prepared because there is going to be sluts galore at this party not my idea but I can't say no to Ino and there will definitely be alcohol and drugs to boot so you'll definitely not want your family to know"
"My brother and sister are pretty lax about that sort of stuff but yes I would like for them not to know and for them to not come to the party"
"Okay I won't invite them then"
There was a long pause and Gaara was about to ask her a question that would impact his friendship with the rosette but decided to wait until the party.
"I have to go now see you tomorrow Gaara"
"Bye then Sakura"
The sound of the end call tone blared through Gaara's mind, her voice started to become a distant memory and he pined to hear it again to see her again. Gaara went back to that first day where he saw her on the street her bubble gum locks in a curly un-brushed mess, her pink and black singlet like tops clinging to her breasts and stomach her pink plaid skirt nearly coming up to her navel and red converse made Gaara go crazy with desire, he started to remember the way she danced as if the music was guiding her. Gaara came back into the real world when his brother came in the room and kicked his leg, Gaara ignored this knowing it would drive Kankuro crazy then got off the bed and walked over to the living room bringing his dinner with him. Temari had put on some program that made fun of twilight and other such things like it, Gaara laughed as Kankuro came into the room with his face scrunched up in anger. They all went to bed around one am but Gaara couldn't sleep, the tension of waiting to see the rosette was over whelming and it was also an adrenalin rush.
Gaara raced Kankuro to the bathroom like every morning, Gaara always slept in and Kankuro was just lazy and they both didn't shower till the last minute. Thankfully for Gaara today he won the war against who got the bathroom. Once he had his shower then got dressed he made sure that he was wearing clothes that matched for once, Gaara was used to not having any friends and never really wore anything remotely acceptable because he didn't care what anyone else thought but for the rosette he wanted to look his best.
The halls we're filled with students all running to their classes since someone had messed with the bell to make it ten minutes late which meant everyone was late for class and if you we're lucky your teacher wasn't at class yet being pissed off that you we're late. Gaara rushed to drama class as fast as he could unfortunately for him the drama building was on the other side of the school. Once he got there he realised he was lucky and saw that Jiraiya was the teacher for this class. Gaara went over to the class and then over to Sakura and they both danced, they both knew they we're extremely lucky to have Jiraiya as a teacher. Sakura clasped her hands together and held them to her chest then she spun around in a circle smiling and laughing, Gaara could tell she had shifted to her own little world. Gaara noticed unlike yesterday and the day he saw her on the street her hair was brushed and put in a French plait and she wore a pale blue button up top, a black knee length shirt and a black button up jacket.
"What's with being dressed like a lawyer?" inquired Gaara.
"Oh I have an interview for a college application at recess and another one during fifth period" answered Sakura.
"How did you get permission for that?" asked Gaara.
"Oh Tsunade the principal is my grandma, not by blood but yeah she loves me like family" replied Sakura.
Gaara nodded and Sakura went back to her own little world. Once the whole class had arrived Jiraiya led them inside the drama building and told everyone to sit down on the floor. Sakura sat against the wall at the back and signalled Gaara to follow; Gaara was walking over to her but was knocked over by the raven haired boy known as Sasuke. Sasuke sat next to Sakura and placed his arm around her shoulders, Gaara's face flashed red with envy and he walked over to Sakura as fast as he could and sat down on the other side of her. Sakura turned to Gaara and gave him an apologetic look, Gaara realised that she was sincere and stopped being jealous. Sasuke looked at Gaara for one second but one second was all it took for Gaara to see the smirk on his face, he grabbed his phone and fidgeted with it to make Sasuke think he was unfazed. Sakura hated this she didn't like it when Sasuke got this close to her because she always thought of him as Ino's boyfriend even though they weren't the type of people to stick to one person and for some reason she couldn't explain she felt guilty about Gaara seeing this. Sakura caught a glimpse of his jade orbs and saw the beauty and emotion of Gaara, she saw his heart. Gaara listened as Jiraiya gave instructions which we're basically don't bother him and the principal is walking around the area so don't make enough noise for her to hear and they could do whatever they want. Sasuke finally realised this was a pointless endeavour and walked over to a raven haired girl. Sakura and Gaara both let out a deep breath and looked at each other, as they gazed at each other it turned into a sea of expanding green.
"Sorry he gets to be a bit of a handful at times" said Sakura.
"I've noticed that" chirped Gaara.
Gaara was about to open his mouth when the bell went for second period, he got up slowly and had a sort of dizzying feeling. Sakura walked out of the class room as fast as she could, Gaara started walking and his steps we're wobbly. His vision began to blur and his body got more wobbly as he walked more of the huge drama room, finally his body gave up on him and he passed out.