Blood Stained Love

'Why does he always do that?' thought Sakura as she threw her apartment keys on the counter and shut her door. 'Its like he doesn't care…'

The crummy apartment was abused and beaten to a pulp, dents in the blue walls, stains and crumbs on the carpet. The pink haired woman, with the age of 18, walked into the kitchen to find something to eat. The occasional splatter of blood was present on the walls of this room where the occasional cut was placed when you tried to cook under a fury of anger.

"Once again he left for those damn A class missions!" fumed Sakura as she didn't realise she was speaking aloud. "And of course who has to wait here all alone and completely stressed out? ME DAMN IT!"

Sakura shot a look to the wall, her victim in her anger. Once again she was compelled to beat the wall until she was satisfied that her knuckles would be so soar she couldn't make anymore dents on the small canvas.

Sakura woke up from her fantasizing as she felt a hand on her shoulder; she almost jumped out of her skin for she had not even heard the man come in.

"Gaara?" asked Sakura in surprise.

"Hello Sakura," replied Gaara as his voice was over comforting to Sakura as he turned her around and placed his lips on her soft ones.

Sakura let out a muffled moan as their lips pressed against each other's.

"You're late," exclaimed Sakura.

"Yes but… I do have a reason," replied Gaara as he pressed her body against the wall and placed his lips once more on her lips.

Sakura starred into Gaara's cold eyes as she felt the heat building up between them, she wasn't in the mood for love right now… she was in the mood for destruction.

Sakura placed her hand on Gaara's chest and she sort of pushed him slightly off her. When Gaara broke the kiss he was confused and didn't understand why she had done this.

"What was that about?" asked Gaara as he placed his hands on either side of Sakura's head.

"Your never here…" replied Sakura. "Its so lonely having no one to come home to… the guys at work think I'm single and have been flirting with me… I almost went out with one the other night."

Sakura loved to tease with Gaara and Gaara hated it.

Couldn't Sakura understand what he's tried to do for her? He's gone through so much just to be with her! If she ever left him he'd kill any man that came into contact with her, couldn't she just for one second realise what he's protecting her from? She's heard of people like that, the perverts and mongrel characters that would love to abuse and hurt her! Why couldn't she see just how much he was truly protecting her?

Gaara let out a dangerously loud growl of jealousy and hatred, if she was going to act like this then he needed to remind her that she was his, and ONLY his.

"You've been out flirting with them?" growled Gaara as he pressed Sakura's body against his and onto the wall as hard as he could almost choking off her air way.

"No Gaara!" replied Sakura, as she was stricken with a sense of pain and then wonder as to what he might do to her.

"You reek of other men," replied Gaara in a suttle and dangerous tone that was hard to forget what it meant.

'Oh shit!' thought Sakura as she could feel Gaara's chakra pulse in his body.

"Well I do work with male patients," replied Sakura with her quick thinking.

"Heh, and do they get close enough to you that you can feel them pressed against you?" asked Gaara as his chakra suddenly became very angry and rapidly flowing through his whole body.

"Gaara… I'd never do that to you," said Sakura gently.

"How could I be certain Sakura!" yelled Gaara as he pressed her against the wall even harder.

Sakura gave a slight gasp and then winced.

"How can I be certain you wont try to kill me?" asked Sakura, this time she was serious.

Gaara hated it when she used his demon against him, for she was the only one who understood him and understood his demon side. He still couldn't believe he even got to go out with her… after all he had never had a girlfriend in his life until now… and probably he'd never get one after her.

Then a thought sparked Gaara's usually clever mind, what if she left him? What would that be like? Would he ever be able to let her leave? Would he kill her? What if he harmed her?

Gaara couldn't help but let his body shake at the idea of prosecuting his woman… his demonic mate… even though he knew that Sakura did not understand completely the idea of being his 'mate' or 'bride' for the rest of her human life and his demonic one.

"Gaara… you're shaking!" exclaimed Sakura with so much concern…

"Hm? Oh…" sighed Gaara, he didn't want to fight anymore.

"Gaara what's wrong?" asked Sakura.

"Nothing is wrong," replied Gaara as he turned his head in shame of the idea at the beginning that he was actually going to beat Sakura.

"Gaara…" said Sakura as she tried to reach out to touch Gaara's arm in comfort.

Gaara didn't want to tell Sakura how much he wanted to be alone… because to tell you the truth… all he wanted was Sakura. Suddenly Gaara got mad his chakra began to flare.

'Why can't she just fucking get it!' thought Gaara in absolute rage. 'Why can't she just realise how much I love and need her!'

"Gaara… stop!" demanded Sakura, as she was scared of the sudden outburst in chakra. "Stop it!"

Tears started to stream down Sakura's pale face as she felt the rage in Gaara… she was scared and she knew it.

"Sakura…" whispered Gaara as he fought to keep his demon under control… he felt weak and worthless when she cried. "Please stop crying."

Sakura couldn't she just needed to cry; Gaara started to calm down and decided to comfort the pink-haired woman. Gaara wrapped his strong masculine arms around the woman he loved and felt her hair brush against his chest as the sand in his gourd in the kitchen swished slightly making a soothing sound.

In the beginning he had never in his wildest dreams, would have ever thought that he could be falling for the female in his arms. But to him it was like a drug… every time he talked to her it was like a new experience… every time they'd argue it hurt just like the first one… but it always felt the best when they were just together… like right now. They had no worries and never would if they could just stay like this…

"Gaara, I'm tired, I'm going to sleep okay?" smiles Sakura as her tears on her face seemed to have evaporated in the hug she was just given.

Gaara released Sakura and let her walk over to the bedroom. He watched her with careful eyes as she walked into her room and Gaara walked over to the window ledge where he stood starring at the stupid stars like they were going to make a show for him… but alas they did not. They just stayed there in the sky and waited for the sun to rise so they could sleep once more…

"How did this all happen?" thought Gaara once more aloud as he tilted his head back. "How did we fall in love like this?"

Gaara's eyes closed and for the first time in so long the wonder of the heart over powered the smarts of the mind, his dreams invaded his sudden slumber and this time… they would not go unnoticed.

Amber crisp eyes invaded the privacy of the apartment and swept across the sheets of the windows until it hit the bedroom…

Ha! I have finished the first chapter that packed enough punch to be considered the most confusing and psycho one of all! But it was pretty sweet and I had to cram a lot of this pre-log shit. So… errs… review for me I guess?

Ja ne,

Ookami out