PROLOGUE:
She was a beautiful and gentle flower who was always judged to be a fragile unprotected rose, but no one took the chance to see her thorns hurt more than they look. She doesn't need protecting.
He was a demon who was always judged to be a handsome monster, but no one took the chance to see behind his cold eyes was a kind soul who only ever wanted to help. He is a protector.
When the two cross paths they were immediately bonded by destiny. Both trying to prove the other wrong. The respect they have and understanding of each other is what keeps them connected. Will they be pulled together by love or force away by the past conflicts.
Chapter One: Meeting
Sakura's POV
It had been a long day. Naruto and I had just gotten back from one of our missions. The village had been noisy with a ruckus as Naruto made his way to greet everyone in our path. The mission had been a month long without any real break, so all I really want to do is go home and take a bath. But that's not going to happen because of course before I left Tsunade had to ask for me to see her once I get back for some secret information.
"Hey Naruto I have to go I'll talk to you later. Maybe we can even train if you don't do anything to stupid before then." I tell him before turning to walk away.
"See ya Sakura, and I promise not to do anything stupid. Believe it." Naruto shouts back giving me a good chuckle as I walk down the path to the hokage's tower.
As I reach hokage's tower I felt a strange yet familiar chakra coming from the tower that I knew could not be Tsunade's.I entered the building with caution, and was already sending chakra to my fist in case I needed it for an attack. I look around the room to see that everything seemed in place, and nothing out of the ordinary. As I make my way to the hokage's office door I heard Tsunade talking to someone who talked quiet enough that I could not hear. I knocked on the door and waited for a Tsunade to respond.
"Come in." Said Tsunade's voice as loud as ever. With the response I open the door to see Tsunade with sitting across from her desk Gaara from Suna.
'What is he doing here.' I thought while walking through her door making my return to the village known. She looked up at me and flashed a big happy smile towards me.
"Sakura what a pleasant surprise your back from your mission a day early, and I haven't had any complaints about you destroying anything." I sweat dropped at her last remark. I chuckled nervously.
'Guess she hadn't heard about destroying two building by hitting Naruto through them for him calling me weak.' I shuttered at the thought of the angry townspeople who were in the building.
"Yeah, so Gaara nice to see you again." I say trying to change the topic quickly by turning the attention to the red headed ninja from our allied village the village hidden in the sand. Gaara had only looked up and nodded towards me making a small "Hn" as a response.
"Funny you should mention Gaara. Do you remember the attacks from the village hidden in the mist towards the younger shinobi's to stop the making of ninjas in the village hidden in the leaves especially to the girl to stop the reproduction." She says speaking so fast I thought she was going to run out of air.
"Yes they are in violation of the treaty that was signed between the two villages, but I do not not understand what this has to do with Gaara." I say a little confused on what this could possible have to do with the sand ninja.
"Well you know that Ino has her Mind Transfer Jutsu to stop her opponents in their track without a second thought." She said pondering at what to say next.
"Yeah." I say hoping she will continue. A few minutes had passed of a tense silence before Tsunade started talking again.
"Also Hinata has her Bakugan in her eye to detect an attack before sent at her, and being able to see chakra points to stop any chakra flow from the body. Well and we all know the boys can protect themselves and the ones that can't are under the care of their Sensei." I had figured out where she was going with this and put my hand over my mouth to stop any indecent words coming out towards the hokage.
"No don't you say it." I warn her, but Tsunade still continues trying to keep a gentle and steady voice to hide her nerves.
" Kakashi is busy on a 3 month mission and I am more then overloaded with work to keep an eye on you, and yes I know you think you can handle yourself but other then your chakra control you have nothing to protect you. And that is why Gaara is here. The leaf village boys are either with their Sensei or are already protecting someone else, and Gaara is the most skilled in his village so he was obliviously the best choice." Tsunade and I look at Gaara as we almost forgotten his presence. I decided to look towards Gaara for his help.
"I can protect myself, and Gaara probably has some kind of mission or something to do." I say almost pleading to Tsunade not to make this official.
"I am not to let anything happen to you. I am here strictly to make sure nothing hurts or even touches you. That is what I am to do. That is my mission." Gaara says looking at the floor with a look of boredom on his face. His comment had caught me off guard. The fact that he didn't mind this what really got me so I just stayed silent and glared at the floor.
"This is a A-Ranked mission for only the best of shinobi so I am sure he can handle this, but there is one problem. He has to be able to have eyes on you 22/7 the other two hours is for showering, but my point is that you guys need to live together until this problem is solved with the mist village. You guys can share my house since it is bigger, has 3 bedrooms enough to share, and plenty of food in the fridge. I will have food brought to the house every week to stock up. Oh and Sakura give me your keys I will be staying at your house. I reach in my pocket and pull out my keys and hand them over to Tsunade.
"What if I refuse to cooperate with this arrangement." I ask with some resistance before looking at the window and getting an idea. In the corner of my eye I see Gaara sitting up as if an alarm was going off.
"You better not." She didn't get a chance to finish because I jump out the window landing on a tree branch.
I start jumping from tree to tree before landing on the branch next to Naruto's window seal. I knock a few times before Naruto finally answered.
"Hey Sakura what are you doing here?" He asked looking at me with a strange face.
"Did you do anything stupid while I was gone?" I question him with a hint of challenge in my voice.
"Well I guess if you don't count knocking myself out by running into a tree." He states. All I do is shake my head.
"I'll let it slide once because I really don't wanna be caught by Gaara." I say forgetting to explain the situation to Naruto.
"Woah wait Gaara's in town let's go see him I wanna challenge him to another fight to prove I am the best and meant to be hokage." Naruto rambled on.
"We will talk about this later. We can fight so if you win I'll tell you every detail if I win you buy me ramen." I tell him.
"Deal. Let's go." He says jumping out his window and onto my branch. And with that we were off to fight.