Note: Hey Ladies and Gents... This is my first Sakura/Gaara fanfic so please be nice to me. But I love honesty so give it to me, please. This is not the normal Sakura/Gaara fanfic and it won't end the way you think it will.

Bad Habits(If Time Was My Friend)

by CickCycleCarosel

Chapter One: The Comeback Kids and Suna's Dilemma

Sakura smiled as she sat up on her bed. She looked out the window and sighed contently. Everything seemed to be going her way now-a-days. She stood and walked over to her bathroom, ready to complete her morning routine.

After her long shower, she dressed in her usual outfit and headed out for the day. She really had nothing to do but she wanted to wander around for a while. She hadn't gotten a chance to just take in the beauty of her great village for quiet sometime.

She smiled and stepped down the steps in front of her apartment building and smiled softly. She just had a feeling that today was going to be a good day.

Looking around her, she took in the sites as she walked. "Maybe I'll get some ramen," she murmured to herself and then frowned. No, she couldn't do that until Naruto came back from his current mission. She had a promise to keep and so did he.

"Sakura-chan! Sakura-chan!" someone screamed her name and she turned around with a smile that fell when she saw the Hyuga heiress running her way with a worried expression written over her pretty face.

"What? Has something happened? Hinata-chan, calm down and tell me what's going on," Sakura said, as calmly as she could muster. She grabbed the other girl by her shoulders as she began to hyperventilate. "Breath, Hinata-chan. Just calm down and breath," she murmured and pressed her fingers to the other girls chest before using one of the jutsus she had created to relieve the tightness in Hinata's chest.

Hinata coughed and heaved before her breathing came back to normal. She looked up at Sakura with a soft smile and tears in her eyes. "They're back, Sakura-chan. Naruto-kun and Neji-nii-san. They're back from their mission and they need you at the hospital. They need you to heal them," Hinata finally got out with a soft smile.

Sakura smiled as well and nodded her head. "You get the ramen and the tea. I'll get to them and I'll have them up and ready in no time," she said before she ran in the direction of the hospital.

As soon as she arrived there she was directed to the room both ninjas were currently in, both knocked out and covered with buries and cuts. She didn't utter a word as she began to pore her chakra into Naruto and then Neji. She smiled when she was finally done; the cuts were gone, internal bleeding had been stopped, and most of the bruises were gone. But they would still be extremely sore when they woke up.

Just as she was about to take a seat a nurse entered the room and quickly pulled Sakura out of the room and towards another that seemed to be the center of everyone's attention. Sakura raised a brow but shrugged it off. She was needed here and so here was were she would be.

She passed the seven AnBu standing outside the room and entered before stopping and gasping. There laying in the bed lay her old teammate and unrequited love interest, Sasuke Uchiha.

Gaara sighed heavily and continued to listen to the conversation that was going on between two of the elders, Nakuro and Danshi. They were debating whether or not they should except the peace treaty sent to them by one of the lesser lords in the Wind Country. One that had been especially resistant to excepting Gaara's leadership. Finally, one of his bother Kankuro, who was now considered an 'elder' spoke up.

"Listen, whether we agree with how he's handled himself before now doesn't matter, he does provide us with some of the materials we deem necessary in life and so we should take this opportunity and use the peace treaty for our advantage. We'll make out demands and if he values his dear son, then he'll agree to whatever we put on the table," Kankuro finished. Everyone nodded their head and took in what he had said. Gaara, himself had to admit that Kankuro was making sense.

They all looked to Gaara for his approval and when he nodded everyone in the room clapped at both his wise decision and at Kankuro's wise suggestion.

Temari smiled at both her brothers and then moved to the next topic. "Now, about our hospital. It seems that we've been losing more and more pacients," She said with a grimace.

Gaara raised a nonexistant brow. "When you say 'losing' you mean more people are dying?" He asked. She nodded her head.

"Yes, but this chart here says that most of the time the pacitent doesn't have anything serious wrong with them. Just last week a man died of an infection because the nurses and doctors didn't know exactly how to close his wounds. It seems as if our medical staff in insufficient. They're mostly civilians who don't have good chakra control but no formal training. The war with Lord Toshio has taken most of our trained medics and put them in the field," Temari finished.

"Are there any suggestions on what we should do?" Baki asked, looking around. This was a serious matter but he was at a lose for what they should do about it.

"We could ask Konoha for their help, they have Sakura Haruno who is known for having surpassed the Godaime with her skills as a medic. I also here that she's been offered the position as head of the hospital and medical ninja ," Temari said.

Gaara nodded his head and looked around after having taken in the information. "Yes, then. If no one has any other suggestions or reasons to disagree, we'll send a letter to the Hokage later on to day. Now, if we could continue, what's next on our agenda?" he asked and leaned back in his chair. He remember the pink haired girl and smirked. This was going to be interesting.

"Anyway, about the Lord Toshio's son, Tadashi...."

So how'd you like it? I know what you're thinking, 'why is she even bothering to bring Sasuke back when this story revolves around Sakura and Gaara?' Well my lovelies all will be explained in due time.