Learning to Breathe
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO.
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"Sakura," Sasuke told her softly, "I love you," Sakura's eyes glistened with her cheeks turning red. "Oh Sasuke, " she said just as soft, "I've always loved you,"...
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"Today class, I would like you all to welcome a new student, his name is Gaara," Kakashi sensei introduced the weird redhead kid...
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Sasuke slowly leaned forward as did Sakura to steal a kiss under the night sky. They parted, looking into each others eyes, "...and I'll always love you.." Sakura told him kissing him passionately...
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"Hey, Sakura," Naruto whispered poking her forehead, "What do you think of what's his face? Gaara, yeah, that's it,"
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"HEY! DON'T KISS HER!!!" Naruto shouted running towards them. Sakura sighed and Sasuke smirked. When Naruto got just close enough, a cliff appeared and he fell to his doom. Sakura smiled thinking to herself 'I love my dreams,' as they kissed again with Naruto's painful screams in the background.
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"Hey, Sasuke, what'cha think she's dreamin' about this time?" Naruto asked raising his eyebrows. Sasuke smirked, "With that smile probably your death," Naruto sweatdropped.
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Naruto was falling to his ultimate doom, he was falling one hundred feet to and ocean of acid with man eating cow-fish.
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"Hey Sakura," Naruto whispered poking her again. She didn't budge, Naruto was getting irritated. "Sakura," he poked her a little harder, she groaned a little. "SAKURA!!!!!!" he shouted in her ear poking, but felt more like punching her rib cage. Sakura shot up yelling "NOOOOOOOOO!! NARUTO WAS SUPPOSE TO BE EATEN ALIVE BY A COW-FISH! DAMN IT!! WHO WOKE ME!!! C'MON!! I WAS MAKIN' OUT WITH SASUKE FOR GOD SAKES!"
The class stared, wide eyed, at the screaming pink haired girl on top of the desk. Gaara on the other hand, was smirking at her reaction.
"C'MON SHOW YOURSELF!!" she shouted to the class. Naruto slowly inched away from the insane girl. Sakura saw this in the corner of her eye and jumped on top of his desk. She bent down to his level "Naruto,"
Naruto gulped, "Yes?"
"I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!!!!!!" She shouted jumping up and down. Kakashi sensei had seen enough. He grabbed Sakura's waist pulling her down to the floor, trying to keep her from killing his student.
"SAKURA-KUN!!" he shouted. Sakura stopped, "Please refrain from killing any of my students within these forty-five minutes, after class I don't care what you do, you're someone else's problem," He told her calmly letting her go.
"Fifty bucks says Sakura would've kicked his ass," Neji told Lee. "YOU ARE ON, OH YOUTHFUL ONE," Lee shouted proudly. Neji sank in his seat, 'I knew I should've bet with Sasuke instead...' he thought to himself as the kids laughed at monkey boy.
Before class had ended Kakashi told Sakura to show Gaara around. Little did he know that was a mistake.
On their way to Math with Ausma there was a loud silence. Sakura smiled at Gaara frowned back. "Ookkkk..." she muttered. "Hey can I ask you a question?" Sakura finally asked. Gaara didn't reply. "Why do you wear eyeliner?" Gaara sweatdropped, "I'm not,"
"Yes you are," Sakura argued back. "No I'm not," He told her sternly. "Whatever, creepy eyeliner man..."
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Lunch
Sakura was making her way out on the school yard. It was lunch and the girls loved to watch the guys play football...without their shirts. She had lost Gaara a few feet back when the guys stop to talk to him.
"So Gaara," Neji began, "Do you know how play football?" Gaara didn't answer. "I'll take that as a yes," Neji said putting an arm around him, "Hey Sasuke I found another player!" he yelled over to the raven-haired boy. He nodded and continued passing the ball to the blonde knuckle-head.
Neji had soon found out Gaara didn't know a thing about football, he even thought the ball was orange and round. "Hold it like this," Neji showed him the positioning, "And just throw it has hard as you can,"
Sasuke and Naruto were about fifty feet away awaiting the ball. Gaara took a step back and followed Neji's instructions. Unfortunately, Neji hadn't told him to NOT aim at random people, he had just figured that was common sense, one thing, Gaara obviously lacked.
Gaara took aim and threw it as hard as could, just like Neji instructed.
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Sakura was only about ten feet away from her friends waving at them as they waved oddly at her yelling "SAKURA!!" and pointing behind her. She didn't think nothing of it, after all her friends were freaks. Within seconds she found out that they weren't just acting like themselves.
Sakura fell hard to the ground when something, obviously going full force hit her in the head. "WHAT THE HELL!!" She groaned clutching her head. "What the fudge was that!!??"
Ino ran up to her, "Oh my gosh, are you OK?" Sakura gave her a death glare. "Ok, backing off..." Ino said backing away slowly. Then Sakura blacked out.
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Sakura found herself in Shizune's office. She was lying on a cot with an ice pack on her head. She looked up to Gaara waiting impaitently. She pulled herself up, "H-"
Gaara interrupted her, "It's about time you woke up,"
Sakura glared at him, "What happened?" Gaara smirked, "I hit you in the back of the head with a football,"
"YOU WHAT!! YOU LITTLE JERK!!!" She shouted shaking a fist. "You started it," he told her simply. "What!? HOW!?"
"You said I wore eyeliner," He told her. "WELL YOU DO!!! YOU EYE LINER, JERKY, REDHEADED AFRO MAN!!!" Sakura blew a fuse. "Whatever, at least I'm not a pink-haired, billboared browed, hypicritial bitch," Gaara replied clamly. "That's it! C-" she was interupted when Sasuke walked in, "Oh, hi, Sasuke," She giggled. Sasuke nodded and looked at her weirdly. But he had all rigths to, Sakura had her foot three inches away from Gaara's face and her fist five inches from his stomach. She laughed weakly and settled back to the cot.
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After School With The Guys
"Gaara!" Naruto yelled running after Gaara. Gaara turned around uninterested in what the knucklehead wanted. "Hey, C'mon, the guys and I always hide out behind the school and sneak in after everyone's gone and play Truth or Dare in Kakashi sensei's room," He explained turning around. Gaara's eye glistened in fascination and followed the spiky-haired boy.
[Seven Thirty o'Clock
Sasuke tied the boys' socks together to make a long rope and tied one end to a rock. He had thrown it up and broken Kakashi's window. "Naruto!!" Sasuke shouted annoyed. It was always Naruto's job to open the window before he left school, the janitors rarely checked for closed windows. Naruto shuffled his feet, "Sorry guys..."
The boys climbed up the stinky sock rope to the fourth floor where the window was located. One by one they all got in.
"Hey," Kiba said aloud. "Yeah?" Neji asked examining the damage of the window. "Where's Choji?"
Everyone stopped and stepped a little closer to the window. There was a blob of something lying on the ground below the window. "Oh my god," Kankuro said in horror. "Isn't that Choji's jacket?" Shikamaru asked staring at the fat blob covered in Choji's jacket. "Is that..." Naruto asked in disbelief "Let's all bow our heads in silence for the death of Choji Akamichi," Neji said.
[Half a second later
"OK that's long enough, now let's get down to business,"Sasuke said. They all froze when they heard a munch behind them. "Is that..." Naruto asked. "No," Sasuke said. They all turned around and to their horror, Choji was sitting on the floor eating chips. "CHOJI'S GHOST HAS COME TO HAUNT US!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" Naruto shouted running in circles. "Stop it you idiot," Sasuke hissed hitting Naruto over the head. "Choji how'd you get in here!?" Kiba asked. "The front door,"
Everyone sweat dropped. "The front door?" Neji asked getting his dignity back together. "It's a school guys, not a bank," said Choji. "NARUTO!!" Sasuke shouted. "What?!!??" Naruto whined. "You told me they lock up the school at night!!"
"I SAY A LOT OF THINGS!!!" Naruto shouted back. Sasuke rolled his eyes in disbelief of his friend's stupidity. "WHY'D you tell us that the only way in was the window!?" Sasuke tried to calm down. Naruto fiddled with his thumbs, "Cause, I like to pretend we're spies..."
The group sweatdropped. "Troublesome," Shikamaru mumbled.
"OK, Neji, truth or dare?" Lee asked. Neji, trying to look tough replied as, "DARE!"
The group "ooo'd". "I dare you to.."
"MAKE OUT WITH TENTEN AT LUNCH TOMORROW!!" Naruto shouted. Neji blushed and Sasuke nodded in approval. "Fine," Neji muttered. "SAUSKE! Truth or dare?"
"Truth," He said simply. The group all muttered 'chicken'. "Is it true you still sleep with that stuffed lamb, Lamby-pie?" Neji asked raising his eyebrows. Sasuke looked down and didn't reply. The group laughed. "Lee, truth or dare?" Sasuke asked eagerly. "DARE YOUTHFUL ONE!"
"I dare you two..." Sasuke began.
"Go up to my sister and tell her she's pretty," Gaara spoke up. The group stared wide eyed. "Tell Temari she's p-pr-pretty?" Lee asked shaking his head. Everyone knew he had a crush on her and everyone knew she'd kill any guy who even looked at her besides her brothers. "You have to do it," Neji said bringing out the ballerina outfit and a camera. "Fine," Lee mumbled. "OK, Gaara," Lee began. "Truth or dare?" Choji asked. "Dare," Gaara put bluntly. "I dare you too..." Naruto began. "Ask Sakura to the dance this Friday," Sasuke smirked. Neji looked at him funny and whispered, "I thought you said you'd kill anyone who asked her out even though you won't,"
"I know," Sasuke grinned, "but I also know she hates Gaara and will make a big scene," Neji grinned. "Fine," Gaara said grinning as well.
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The Next Day.
Sakura walked to her locker the next morning, her eyes glued on the floor. By now everyone heard about the 'incident' yesterday. When she got to her locker she found a note taped to the door. She ripped it off and threw it on the floor, recognizing the hand writing. 'Gaara,' she thought to herself. She grabbed her books and went off to language arts with Kakashi sensei.
Class hadn't even started and she had already began falling asleep. But this dream wasn't like any other.
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Sakura was walking into the school building to be greeted with a hug and kiss on the cheek by the one and only Gaara. "Hey honey," he said putting an arm around her. "Hey Sugar," She blushed wildly.
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"Hey Gaara, now's your chance," Sasuke whispered to the boy two seats from Sakura. The boy nodded, "After class," he said bringing out a football, smirking.
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Gaara and Sakura held hands as they walked to their first period class. The entire school stopped and stared at the couple.
They walked past Sasuke kissing and Sasuke stood there slowly ripping his Language Arts book to shreds. "I love you," She whispered in his ear.
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Sakura woke up when she heard the door slam indicating that Kakashi sensei had walked in. She sat in class that day thinking about her dream. Do I like him? I mean what was with that dream? No, I hate him and love Sasuke...
Sakura Inner self: THE HELL YOU DON'T!! THAT BOY IS MAD HOT!! SO WHAT IF HE HIT YOU IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD AND WEARS EYELINER!!? HAVE YOU SEEN HIS SIX-PACK (A/N: Did I mention they had gym together and Sakura caught a glimpse of Gaara without his shirt on comin' out of the locker room? Oh course not. --')!? I MEAN HOLY SHIT! HOTTIE!
Shut up inner self!!! I wasn't talking to you!! I was talking to myself!! JEEZ!! YOU PERV!!!
Sakura inner self: I am your self you dipwad!! And you know you were thinkin' it to!! Besides, we're the same person, if you call me a perv then you're callin' yourself one too!!
JUST SHUT UP ALREADYY!!!
Sakura shook away her thoughts and came out of her daydreams. She sighed and looked down at her note book. "Holy shit," she gasped to herself and quickly turned the page. She had been drawing hearts with Gaara's name in them the whole time. I hope Sasuke didn't see that...
Class had ended and she made her way out of the class room slower then usual.
"HEADS UP!!" an all too familiar call yelled as she got hit in the back by yet another football. "GAARA!!!" she shouted throwing her books down and storming up to him and the guys. "Hey Sakura, looks like Gaara can't stop hitting on you," Neji laughed. She gave him a death glare. "Okk...not funny,"
"YOU FUDGEN BASTARD!! WATCH WHERE YOUR FLIPPIN' THROWING THAT THING BEFORE I HIT YOU ACROSS YOUR FACE!!" Sakura shouted her face flushed. "Sakura," Gaara began. "WHAT DO YOU WANT YOU FREAKY BOY!!?" Sakura shouted. "Will you go to the dance with me this Friday?" Gaara asked rather confident. Sakura's gaw dropped. "N-" she stopped herself, "I'd love to," her inner self took control. Sasuke's mouth dropped opened as Gaara grinned.
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Authors Note: I hope you enjoy please R&R or else I'll shave Gaara bald and blow up Sasuke. .
Sasuke: Oh my gosh! She's psycho!
Gaara: NOO!! NOT MY SEXY HAIR!!!