Mkay! New story for ya, on request! And before you yell at me for not updating a second chance, im sorry I haven't updated in about half a year, but you can be expecting a new chapter within the next week and a half, depending on how school goes. Anyway! If you want my excuses why I haven't been writing, I don't have any excuses besides school was tough, and I was kinda lazy. I was planning to update in December, but my grandma died, so I had funeral stuff, and I just didn't feel like writing… ANYWAY!!!! Im back. ^_^
And a special thanks to Deidara's Wolf for requesting the story and getting me back into writing. THANK HER EVERYONE!!!! This story idea comes from her!!! ^_^ And im sooooooooooo sorry its so late!!!!!! TT_TT
Thoughts
Demons
AN(authors note)
Ages:
Rookie 9: 13
Team Gai: 14
Gaara: 14
Temari: 16
Kankuro: 15
…...//***\\......
"GOOD MORNING SAKURA CHAN!!!!" Uzumaki Naruto, the blond hyperactive-ninja shouted as he ran down the street towards his teammates. They barely glanced at him, bored no doubt, in waiting for Kakashi to come.
He skidded to a stop in front of them and locked eyes with Uchiha Sasuke, glaring. They both 'hmmf'ed and turned away from each other.
Haruno Sakura just sighed and shook her head.
Ever since we got back from the mission in Wave, those two have been acting weirder and weirder!......Then again, I haven't been too normal myself the past few days…
She was referring to the strange feeling she had been experiencing the past three days. It was almost a sense of… forbearing? Maybe it was more like anticipation. She had barely been able to sit still since she got the feeling. It was if something was steadily getting closer, and the closer it got, the more intense the feeling became. The last few hours had been the worst. The feeling was almost turning to a physical ache. Physical in the way you can't put it out of your mind no matter how you tried.
Not that she had told anyone. Especially not her teammates. I would only make her seem weaker then she already was in their eyes. She didn't want to be a burden. Not anymore.
Can you be a bit more dramatic? A voice in her head asked sarcastically.
Sakura froze in shock. What the….? Who the hell are you?! She was used to hearing voices in her head, but not this one. This wasn't the heated voice of inner Sakura. No, this voice was… colder almost? No not colder. Superior.
Before she got a chance to receive a reply, her sensei appeared with a poof and a lame excuse for being late. Sakura turned her attention outwards and pushed all thoughts of the voice away. Time to focus on the mission.
…...//***\\.......
Team 7 was walking down the bustling streets of Konoha, Sakura helping Naruto hobble along.
"Ughh, I'm beat!" Naruto stated as they stopped, the crowds still moving around them.
"Hn. Dobe. I'm going home." Sasuke stated as he turned to walk away. Sakura ran after him her fangirl side kicking in. AN(ughhh. )
"Hey Sasuke! I was wondering if we could…. Train together?" she asked hopefully. He didn't even look at her when he replied.
"Your worse than Naruto. Why don't you actually practice instead of flirting? Kami, even his skills are better than yours." He stated coldly and walked away.
"Oh… ok…." She replied quietly, even though he was long gone.
He's right!!! I'm always the weakest no matter what the situation!!!!
Then change yourself!! Prove him wrong!! Find someone to train you!!!
She decided then, she would find someone. She wouldn't be weak anymore.
……//***\\......
"Come back here kid!!!" Sakura shouted as she ran after Naruto, Konohamaru, Udon and Moegi. Their chase was cut short however, when Konohamaru slammed into a guy wearing…. Was that facepaint?
" Hey brat! That hurt!" he yelled, picking the kid up but his enormous scarf.
Sakura looked at the two newcomers, from Suna according to their hiate-ate. One, the girl, with four spiky pigtails had a fan strapped to her back. The other, the boy with the war paint, had a big bandaged-thing on his back. Oh, and he had cat ears.
"Knock it off Kankuro! You're going to get it as it is." The spiky haired girl reprimanded the boy, Kankuro. She glanced around wearily, as if she was looking to see if anyone was watching the scene they were making.
The feeling of anticipation within Sakura was getting worse, and she found herself speaking out in Konohamaru's defense.
"It was an accident! We were just playing around!" she yelled and stepped forward a bit. No one replied, but that was fine with her. She wouldn't have been paying attention anyway.
The sensation that had been plaguing her the past few days had finally reached its peak. She knew then, that whatever it was that was coming, was just about here.
So wrapped up in her emotions, she barely noticed Naruto yelling at the foreigners, only to be pushed back by a kick. So distracted she was, that she only came to when she heard Kankuro cry out in pain and drop Konohamaru. She briefly glanced up at Sasuke in the tree, he was the one who threw the rock.
Surprisingly, his presence didn't even faze her. Her attention was everywhere and nowhere all at the same time. It was a strange feeling, but it allowed her to sense the approaching chakra presence just seconds before it disappeared and reappeared in Sasuke's tree.
Sakura looked as though she was in a trance. Eyes staring at the tree, but not really seeing it. As if she was viewing a world that only she could see. Not that anyone noticed. The events continued around her as if nothing had happened.
……//***\\......
"Get lost." Sasuke stated coldly.
"Oh look, another brat." Kankuro smirked as he started unwrapping his puppet.
"Tell me you're not going to use the crow?" Temari asked him in disbelief. He didn't answer, but he was interrupted by another voice.
……//***\\......
Sakura was awoken from her stupor by and almost emotionless voice.
"Kankuro! Don't." the gravelly, yet smooth voice said from above.
The feelings and sensations that Sakura had been experiencing vanished and were replaced by a calm, a sense of rightness.
Where the hell did THAT come from?(referring to the feeling, not Gaara)
All eyes were on the boy hanging upside down from the tree. Jade, sleep-ridden eyes glared at the boy in the war paint. Sakura was broke out of her observations when he spoke again.
"You're a disgrace to our entire village." He stated coldly, his glare enough to make anyone shiver.
"G-Gaara…" Kankuro stuttered, fear lacing his voice as terror crept up his spine. He knew what his little brother was capable of.
……//***\\......
Sakura caught herself, and looked away from the redhead. She had been staring, no memorizing his features, with no explanation within herself as to why. His blood red hair, the dark circles around his bright eyes. She was subconsciously imprinting his profile into her mind. Every single buckle on the straps of his gourd was carefully noted and stored in the back of her mind….
Kami! What am I doing?! Sakura thought in a panic, only dedicated self control keeping the blush off of her face.
Her mental turmoil was interrupted as the scratchy voice spoke again.
"It annoys me that you would lose control in a quarrel with children. Have you forgotten why we came here?"
"But Gaara!" Sakura felt a tingling at his name. " They started it! The little one slammed into me…!" Sakura felt a flare of anger at Kankuro's words, and felt herself instinctively speaking out.
"I told you already! It was an accident!" she shouted, suprising herself and her teammates with her outburst. Kankuro glared at her
"Be quiet you bi-" Kankuro started.
"Shut up." Gaara said coldly towards his brother. "Or I'll kill you." He finished.
Kankuro shivered, and Temari stepped in.
"Okay. We're sorry Gaara."
"Yeah!" Kankuro piped up, following his sister's lead. "I was out of line. You were right."
Gaara just stared. "Che," he grunted " Im sorry about my friends" he said, still emotionless, and Sakura couldn't tell if he was being sarcastic or sincere. His eyes flickered to Sakura briefly before he disappeared in a whirl of sand, only to reappear in between his siblings.
"I know we're a bit early… But we didn't come to play."
He turned to leave, and with a final glance back started walking, his siblings following.
"Lets go."
……//***\\......
Call him back!!! The unknown voice shouted.
"Wait!" Sakura yelled after the trio, surprising herself and everyone else.
Including the Sand Gennin.
"Yes?" Gaara asked once he turned to face her a few yards away, pinning Sakura with a leveled stare that raised goosebumps on her arms.
"Umm…" Sakura stumbeled for something to say that would sound like a legitimate reason to call back a complete stranger who seemed rather dangerous. It wasn't like she could say a voice in her head told her to.
'Cuz that doesn't sound crazy at all….
Luckily, Sasuke stepped in and saved the day.
Yay!..... Not.
He went into a lengthy interrogation, asking them who they were and what they were doing in Konoha, to which the pigtailed fan wielder steadily replied.
All the while, though, Gaara kept Sakura's stare, not looking away once.
Was he even blinking?
When Temari finished her explanation about the Chunin Selection Exams, Sasuke spoke up again. He directed his glare towards Gaara who was still looking at Sakura.
"Hey, you! With the gourd. What's your name?" he asked, rather rudely in Sakura's opinion.
Gaara's eyes released hers as he glanced towards Sasuke's direction for a second. His gaze then returned to Sakura's.
"Sabaku no Gaara."
His gaze flickered down her form briefly before looking at her eyes again. Sakura could have sworn she saw a smirk flash across his features, but it was gone just as fast as it had come, so she couldn't be sure. IT was probably just her imagination.
"At your service." He finished, as he turned away from the blushing pinkette and faced Sasuke.
"And you are?" he asked, thought his voice barely betrayed his curiosity. Sasuke's face turned to an overconfident smirk as he answered:
"Uchiha Sasuke."
They shared a glare, but the moment was broken by the loud mouth blonde in the orange jumpsuit.
"Hey! Hey! Don't you want to know my name?!" Naruto shouted.
"No." Gaara answered simply. "Let's go." He muttered to his siblings and without so much as a backwards glance, walked off down the street and around the corner.
……//***\\......
"Gah! What's going on?!" Sakura yelled to no one as she punched a tree at the edge of the clearing in which she was practicing. Feeling a sharp tingling in her knuckles, she looked down, only to be met with the sight of blood dripping down her fingers.
Damn…
"Answer me god dam it!" she yelled again, gripping her head in her hands and leaning against the aforementioned tree.
Geeze, quiet down. People are going to think you're going crazy.
Finally! Thank kami! Now will you please give me some answers???
Sure, but you might want to deal with sand boy over there first, because apparently you're screaming did draw some attention.
……//***\\......
Sakura froze and lifted her head slowly, like a deer caught in the headlights. Sure enough, a pair of piercing jade eyes was watching her from his perch in a tree across the clearing from her, still as a statue.
"Uhh… Hi?" she blurted out, then mentally cursed herself for her stupidity. 'Uhh… Hi?'!!!! Couldn't she be a bit more articulate?! Wait, why should she even care? He's just some random guy. A stranger even. Besides, she had Sasuke right? Wait, wait, why was she comparing him to Sasuke? It wasn't as if she liked him or anything! She just met him yesterday!
He doesn't even know my name….. Abruptly, his voice interrupted his thoughts.
"Who were you talking to?" he asked, his face a perfect emotionless mask.
"Oh! Um… About that… You see…" she stumbled over what to say, He gave her a semi incredulous look that said 'yes…?'
"….. I was talking to… Myself. Yup. Just myself." She said, rather unconvincingly, hoping he didn't press the matter further.
He didn't.
He just gave her a contemplative stare before turning around, about to jump back to wherever it was he had come from.
Wait!
"Wait!" Sakura yelled automatically. Gaara looked over his shoulder at her.
"Yes?" he questioned simply.
Sakura scrambled for something to say, all the while cursing the mysterious voice in her head.
"Why… Why were you out here?"
Okay. Good. Simple. Easy. Not stupid.
He gave her a look and replied:
"Training."
Idiot! Why ELSE would he be in the middle of a forest?
Seeing that she wasn't responding, he turned once again to leave.
Wait… Training!
"Wait!" she yelled AGAIN.
Gaara turned and jumped to the forest floor. He walked in her direction, stopping a few feet away from her, a light glare dusting his features as his eyes narrowed infinitesimally.
"What?" he probed, irritation slowly seeping into his voice along with annoyance.
"Can you… Can you train me?" she asked, trying to put up a brave front while her insides were quivering in anticipation.
"No…" he answered incredulously. What was she thinking? Him train her???
Impulsively, she stepped forward and closed the gap between them. She made to grab his hand, and, surprising both of them both of them, Gaara's sand shield didn't block Sakura. As soon as her fingers brushed his wrist, a spark, almost like an electric current ran up both of their arms.
Shukaku…?
…Nanaki?
The two jerked apart.
Say yes.
What?
SAY IT!
" I'll train you…. But only until the exams are over." Gaara ground out, breaking the silence. And disappeared in a flurry of sand.
Sakura, completely dazed, had only one coherent thought.
……//***\\......
He still doesn't know my name…
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