Title: The In Between

Rating: T

Pairing: Gaara x Sakura

Summary: The world isn't coloured in just black and white. Amongst it all if you look hard enough you will find the grey along with the people in it. This place is known as the in between.

Disclaimer:I don't own Naruto or any of its characters.

Chap 1 ~ She no longer had a home

'Another new town, another new house and another new school'

These were the words that flew through the mind of a seventeen year olds mind as she watched the scenery fly by her car window. Her name was Sakura Haruno and this place reminded her of all the other places they had been to, nothing at all stood out to her as she watched the rows and rows of almost identical immaculately kept houses and front yards pass by her very eyes.

It was like someone had once again thrown her into one of the suburbs that you think only exist in magazine pictures where everything around you is perfect! And ever single bit about it made her want to set herself on fire.

Tearing her gaze away from the window Sakura caught her reflection in the mirror that was located on the passenger seat sun visor. Her hair had grown a great deal over the years from its once short length at her shoulders to where it now fell to the bottom of her elbows unforchantly that was one of the very few things she liked about her hair. The other few things she liked about it was the fact that her heavy side fringe hid her slightly large forehead and the fact that it was naturally dead straight.

But the one thing she hated the most about her hair was the fact that is was such a unrealistic colour and it all came naturally. Dark bubble gum pink hair was not exactly… normal and it was something that had resulted in a lot of teasing directed towards her.

Blinking Sakura moved her thoughts away from her hair and onto her many other features. Her eyes were a bright emerald green contrasting horribly with her hair but never the less beautiful all the same. Her skin held a perfectly even soft golden tanned tone and not one blemish or scar marked her skin, the one thing that did however mark her skin was the semi-large tattoo that covered the right side and some of the left side of her back.

The ink was drawn flawlessly in shades of black and greys by a hand that had obviously had many years experience. A single branch that started just below the middle of her back on her right side stretching up and curving in places before branching off into two sections, one section coming slightly across onto her left side. In total there were three fully blossomed cherry blossom flowers drawn into her skin and three closed flower bud, along with the flowers a few carefully placed cherry blossom petals were drawn creating the look that they were being blown around in the nonexistent wind.

Once again tearing her eyes away from what she had been focusing on she forced herself to stop thinking about the tattoo that graced her back and what it meant, she had promised herself a long time ago that even though it was there was a reminder she would not think about its meaning unless it was truly necessary for it only brought her pain.

However Sakura was snapped out of her thoughts when the familiar sound of her Aunties kind and loving but yet stern voice reached her ears.

"We're here Sakura" Tsunade said causing her to realise that they had indeed reached their destination.

Stepping out of the car she looked up at the extravagant house that stood before her much to big for just two people but Tsunade had never cared much for things like that.

The house was just like all the other houses that stood proud all around her. The front lawn was greener than her own eyes were and immaculately kept and the flowerbeds plus the trees and buses were no exception to this. The house itself was two story and very large making her realise there were going to be rooms in there that would barely be used if ever used.

The house itself was rendered in a light grey almost white colour the roof itself being a cedar shake roof sporting the colour of more distinguishable medium grey, the doors and windows all having this same colour except for the fact that the were wood.

The drive way was made out of brick perfectly laid so the smoothness could rival that of concrete and the colour of the bricks matching the rendering of the house colour to its exact shade.

"Welcome home Sakura… welcome home" Was the only other thing Tsunade had to say before she locked the car and made her way towards their new house.

But all Sakura could was stand there like she always did upon arriving at their next home, but she knew it wouldn't last long for the pure fact that within a few months Tsunade would get another transfer and they would have to pack up and move all over again.

It was always like this and that was why as she stood there looking up at this new house she promised herself that she would not get attracted nor emotionally involved with anything in this town. Because if she did it would only hurt more when she had to leave… she knew this from experience.

Because this was not her home… she no longer had a home.

Ok, so I cant exactly remember if I have ever uploaded a Naruto fanfic before and I'm to lazy to check. So if I haven't here is my first one :D Please if there is any spelling mistakes or grammar mistakes just bare with me for now because it was like two in the morning when I randomly started writing this so yeah. If the spelling is bad trust me that will get better the grammar on the other hand you will just have to deal with cause that was the one thing I like totally failed with in school so I'm sure you will all get over it.

This is the first story I have wrote in a while and trust me when I say I have not uploaded nor found the time to continue any of my other stories sorry guys but TAFE comes first :D SORRY IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE READERS AND YOU ARE READING THIS PLEASE DO NOT BE ANGRY AT ME! I KNOW I PROMISED TO START WRITING AGAIN LIKE MONTHS AGO BUT I JUST HAVEN'T FOUND THE TIME :( AND I KNOW I GAVE YOU ALL A DATE AND EVERYTHING TO WHEN I WOULD START AND I AM SO SO SO SORRY I HAVEN'T :(

I'm sure you understand and if not I cant do much about that now can I. I wrote a total of six chaps the other night so they will all be posted but don't be surprised if in a little while the chaps just stop coming or it takes months at a time to write and upload them if I find the time to actually write that is because I simply got bored the other night my internet would NOT work so I was bored and just decided to write to pass the time until the internet started working again and quiet frankly I don't even know if I'll finish this story cause guess what not one of my other stories have been finished and I'm the kind of writer who just writes and wings it doesn't really have the faintest idea where she is taking things just kinda writes and babbles and babbles away but hey some of you must like it cause I have gotten some good reviews before.

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