Title: Sand Cherry
Chapter: 1
Sub-title: An Unexpected Meeting
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Sakura P.O.V.
I walked to the Academy as per usual; only today I was practically shaking with excitement for it was almost time for us to graduate. This meant that we would become real ninja's and finally protect the village and finally be respected.
I suppressed my need to grin stupidly as I passed the Yamanaka Flower shop which, as if on cue, produced the youngest member of said family.
"Morning, Forehead Girl." The blonde spat at me with practiced spite.
"Morning to you too, Ino-pig." I shot back instinctively teasing my partial friend.
We both smiled, knowing very well where to draw the line to their bordering sisterly friendship. So without any fanfare or forewarning we started our race towards the school, side by side, like we always did.
We broke into a full out run, each having our moments in the lead until we came upon a corner to the narrow street we took to the Academy, in other words, the perfect place to keep the lead and win the race.
Outside P.O.V.
They tore towards their turn, each well aware of the victory they would accomplish if they got their first. Unfortunately for Ino, her pink-haired companion was in the lead as they neared the corner, thus allowing her to cut right to the front as she turned first. The only problem was that someone happened to be walking around the same corner, causing a collision in which they young Academy student's lips were forced onto those of the person she ran into.
Ino, thinking that it was no more than a simply figured that this was her perfect chance to win their unstated challenge, ran past the two unsuspected, entangled people with not even a look back at them. The blonde smirked as her winning infected mind pushed her to run faster towards the school to claim her victory and soon she was out of sight.
Sakura broke away from the person she had accidentally kissed a very red blush adorning her pale skin and her eyes finding interest in her sandal coated feet. "OH GOD IM SO SORRY!" she exclaimed, embarrassed and slightly petrified about her unintended actions. She looked up to see the view the person she had run into. It just so happened to be a fiery red head who seemed to be in just as much shock as the female in front of him.
Her eyes widened; both she and Gaara still standing parallel to each other in an awkward silence, unsure about what to do about their present situation. In a moment of fear of what this slightly scary looking man might do to her, Sakura backed up a few paces seriously ready to run to her house just in case. She obviously did not care if she was late for school anymore, as long as she made it through this encounter alive.
'Oh wow! He is hot!' inner Sakura deadpanned, showing up at the most inappropriate time she probably could.
'What the hell? Do you not sense his aura? He could kill us and your telling me that he's how!?'
'Well obviously! Besides, I know you think so too. Not a bad person to lose your first kiss with.'
'Oh shut the hell up.' Sakura quipped back.
The inner conflict between the soon-to-be-ninja and her soul distracted her so completely that she had stopped inching backwards and allowed her opposition to advance on her. The red hear lifted his hand, moving it slowly across his now cornered adversary and rested the appendage upon its parallel on the female before him. This jerked the girl out of her inner argument and into a sense of panic once more.
Before the newly grounded girl could do anything she was wrenched towards the red head so that his mouth was by her ear. "Quite forward aren't we?" He growled, causing her breath to hitch.
A shiver ran down her spine, making her aware of the cold sweat that was dancing down her face. Sakura tried to swallow, trying to force down her fear and the lump in her throat with the pooling saliva in her mouth. Her head was wrenched to the side and teas swarmed to the edge of her eyes, from the pain or the fear she didn't know, but all uncertainty and coherency was forced out of her mind as lips covered her own once more, only this time it was intentional and this time it was different.
In her hazy mind Sakura thought she heard an angry yell and when the man before her moved so he too could see the person who was disturbing them, he unknowingly allowed the pink haired girl to see the male seething with what appeared to be anger.
"Get the fuck off of her you bastard!" Sasuke yelled, facing the narrow street that many passed with a lack of interest.
Gaara smirked as the raven glared at him full out, paying no mind to the brightly coloured girl now behind him or the fact that the Uchiha seemed about ready to kill him on the spot. "That's all I wanted." Was all he said before leaving in a flourish of sand leaving nothing but an infuriated Sasuke and a thoroughly embarrassed Sakura in his wake.
A/N: Revised Chapter of The Sand Cherry, hope you don't mind. Hope it improved and hope it didn't change too much especially since I'm bringing the story to a close soon. I appologize for doing this instead of updateing but I feel this is just as important.
Any good? Thank you for reading this unbetad piece…
-WAC