This is the prologue to my story, 'Cross My Heart'. If you have already read 'Traded Away', you may remember the part where Sakura is thinking about Gaara. This is about them. Pretty much the prequel of 'Traded Away'. So enjoy.

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'Sasuke, this one is for the day you left me.' thought Sakura, as she downed a shot of sake. 'This is for when you hurt Naruto and the others trying to bring you back' Another glass.

For the list of things that Sasuke had done to Sakura, she drank a total of 16 shots, before she passed out on the floor of the Suna Village bar. Before she was totally out of it, she noticed somebody beside her.

"Yashamaru, this one is for the day you tried to kill me" muttered Gaara, as he downed his sake in the same manner Sakura had.

'Hey, it's Gaara! What is he doing here, what sorrow is he drowning?' Recently,she and Gaara had been on closer terms. They considered each other very good friends, and Gaara had even slept at Sakura's house during a visit to Konoha.

"Gaara..." she whispered, and he turned to look at her.

"Sakura? What are you doing in Suna? And in a bar?"

Sakura didn't answer, the alcohol had taken it's toll.

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If you haven't read 'Tradaed Away', then please read this story first. 'Traded Away' is meant to be it's sequel. This story might go a little slowly, seeing as I'm writing 5 other stories right now, not all of them are on .

Ja ne!