Author's Note: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO! If I did Gaara and Sakura would be married with two beautiful kids… XD

Chapter One: I like you.

Kankuro and Temari peered cautiously into their younger brother's room. Kankuro gave the blond a small nudge, "Go wake him up, Tem." He whispered quickly.

Temari took a step backwards, "Why me? He likes you more." She said quickly, giving Kankuro a push into the redhead's room.

Kankuro glared at his older sister, "You're older," he replied as he inched quietly into Gaara's room.

"Hey, um, Gaara, it's almost time for school." Temari whispered from her spot in the doorway as Kankuro was tiptoeing towards the queen size bed. Kankuro brought down a cold hand onto Gaara's shoulder. Within milliseconds, Kankuro was thrown against the far wall and fell to the ground with a 'thud'. Temari rushed into the room to help him up when Gaara sat up in his bed, sending both of the intruders a nasty glare.

Gaara stood up and pointed to the door, "Out," he growled menacingly, slamming the door as the two teens scrambled into the hallway.

The redheaded boy stripped off his boxers, replacing them with a fresh pair and some black skinny jeans with chains already hooked up to the belt loops. Gaara listened to his brother and sister's footsteps fading away while he pulled on his shirt and converses. He traced his jade eyes with black eyeliner and ran his hands threw his always-messy hair. He didn't really feel like going to school, he rather just stay home and scare the hell out of his siblings for being so annoying when they woke him up.

'Let's kill them!' a deep voice suggested strongly in his head.

Gaara sighed, packing his backpack with seven blank spiral notebooks and tons of pencils, 'We can't do that quite yet.' He thought, annoyed, to the voice that constantly interrupted his train of thoughts.

'They're useless to us, just kill them!' Shukaku yelled in his head, pounding on the walls of his skull.

"No!" Gaara snarled aloud, he gripped his head in pain and quickly checked to see if his siblings were near his door then continued his sentence in his head, 'If we kill them, then my dad will have the cops after us, or he'll just kill me himself. We have to wait till I'm twenty- one.'

Gaara could feel Shukakku getting agitated inside, 'Why so long, pup?'

'I can just get them killed while im half drunk or something.' He thought simply, 'Now go away until I get back home. I don't want you fucking with me while I'm at school.' The pounding in his skull immediately died to Gaara's surprise.

Just then he heard a loud honk coming from the driveway, "Gimmie a fucking minute!" he yelled out the open window to his sister in her lavender colored Lamborghini. Gaara grabbed his bag and an apple then ran down the stairs while Kankuro was jumping into the front passenger seat of Temari's car. "Don't go to slow." Gaara told them before slipping a black helmet onto his head and getting onto his sleek red motorcycle. He just knew it was going to be a long day.

At Konoha High, Sauske Uchiha was definitely the most popular student. He had the perfect grades, the most expensive clothes, and he was the best quarterback the school had found in eight years. He seemed to be the typical teenage heartthrob, but there was one small detail that confused everyone- he had been dating a pink haired teenager for over six months.

Sakura Haruno wasn't the most beautiful girl in the school, but she wasn't ugly. She wouldn't paint her face with all of the cosmetics like Sasuke wanted her to but she would wear eyeliner and occasionally some eye shadow or lip gloss. She had a unique way of dressing, she didn't like to doll herself off like some busty blond bimbo, but she didn't go out looking like her grandma had dressed her. She liked to play it safe, always wearing pants and a nice tee-shirt. Nobody could understand why someone like the amazing Sasuke would date some freak who wouldn't even put out.

"Sauske," Sakura called, running up to wear the raven-haired boy was talking to some blond and setting down her backpack, "I can't come watch your practice today. My mom has something for me to do." She told him with a smile, hugging him.

Sauske and the blond, Ino, exchanged looks over Sakura's shoulder. "Alright babe, see you in first." He told the pinklette, giving her a quick kiss before turning his attention back to Ino.

Sakura's mom, Principal Tsnade, had told her to be in her office at least thirty minute before school starts so that she could be a guide for one of three sand shinobi. She took off in a rush to get to the office in time.

Kankuro led Temari and Gaara threw the large school, "It's this way," he muttered, "I just know it." Temari and Gaara sighed; Kankuro had been leading them around in circles for fifteen minutes, refusing to ask anyone for help.

Gaara closed his eyes and kept walking; Shukaku had been pounding inside his head for the past five minutes, giving his a massive headache. 'Kill him!' he had been screaming the whole time, Gaara almost growled but instead took a deep breath and started to walk faster.

He kept walking, passing both his brother and sister within seconds. All of a sudden, Gaara felt himself falling forward. He opened his eyes to see a girl with pink hair falling under him. He shoved her to the side as to not land on top of her. Temari and Kankuro both stood a couple feet away, eyes wide in fear. Gaara was violent towards anyone who got in his way. Neither of them could begin to imagine how mad he would be at this woman.

Gaara growled at the pinklette, "Watch where you're going, girl." He stood up and glared down at the girl.

Sakura glared at him, "So sorry that you couldn't see me with your eyes closed." she apoligized sarcastically. He gave her a sadistic look. She held at her hand, only to receive a confused look from the redhead. "We'll, you knocked me down, you help me up." she said confidently.

'Damn! This girl has spunk, Pup. I like her, what do you think?' the Shukakku questioned, grinning like the Cheshire cat (A/N-the cat from Alice in wonderland!).

Kankuro and Temari rushed forward, expecting Gaara to snap at her, but he just continued glaring and took her hand slowly, "I like you." he told her flat out, a smirk apearing on his face, helping her to her feet and keeping her hand, "I'm Sabaku no Gaara. You are?"

"I'm taken." She informed him smirking, a blush danced across her cheeks.

Gaara's smirk disappeared, "I didn't mean it like that, I meant I like your attitude." He could feel something boiling inside of him.

'Jealous much?'

'Fuck you.' Gaara thought to Shukaku. 'Leave me alone!'

Sakura smiled, "Good, then I'm Haruno Sakura. It's nice to meet you."

"Well," Temari said as she stepped next to Gaara, "I'm Temari and this is my brother Kankuro, the three of us transferred from Suna High, can you point us towards the front office?" Gaara glared at his sister for interupting his conversation.

Sakura smiled at her, "You three must be the sand shinobi that Tsnade was telling me about, I'm going to be one of the guides. I'll take you to the principal's office if you'd like." She told them grabbing for her bag. "Shit! I forgot my bag at the football field. Hold on for a few seconds, I'll get my friend Hinata to take you there."

"Okay, thanks." Temari said. When Sakura walked into the classroom a few feet away Temari turned to her youngest brother, "She better be alive by the end of the day; this is our last chance going to a public high school."

Gaara just glared at her. "I'll take care of her, Tem." Kankuro told his siblings, wiggling his eyebrows. Gaara switched his glare to his brother and sat down on the floor. "I call Pinky as my guide" Kankuro said loudly earning a loud growl from the redhead.

The classroom door opened, revealing the pinklette and a small girl with short hair. "This is Hinata, one of my best friends. She'll take you up to the office." She told them, "I'm going to get my stuff and I'll meet you guys back at the office."

Sakura started to walk away, "Wait," Gaara called out, earning a shocked look from both his brother and his sister, "mind if I came too? I want to see the soccer field." Sakura turned around and smiled again, "Sure, I'll show you around a little on the way. Do you mind telling my mom that Gaara-san is with me?" She asked. Hinata nodded, looking at her fingers as she tapped them together. Temari and Kankuro followed her hesitantly, glancing at Gaara and Sakura's distant figures with fear and worry.

"So," Sakura started, walking slowly in her black skinny jeans and purple tank top, "you really weren't flirting with me back there?"

Gaara shurgged, walking next to her, "I was just pointing out that you weren't a pansy."

"Then why didn't you say that?" She asked laughing.

Gaara rolled his eyes, "Because you knocking me down rattled my brain." Sakura laughed again, walking out the double doors. She walked over to the field and picked up her bag, noticing that Sasuke wasn't practicing and frowned.

"What's wrong?" Gaara asked, not really caring.

Sakura glanced at the field once more before turning around, "My boyfriend should be practicing but I don't see him"

Hearing the picklette's voice, Sasuke's ears perked up and he pushed Ino off of him, glancing causiously from the side of the building. He felt anger bubbling inside of him at the sight of his girlfriend with anothing guy.

"Sakura?" he asked after walking away from the building. Gaara and Sakura turned around to see the black haired quarterback walking up with a blond next to him. Gaara noticed the girl had smugged lipstick and her face was flushed. "I thought you had to go to the principal's office." He said, eyes narrowed. Gaara could hear the anger in his voice. Gaara noticed smugged lipstick on the boys neck. "Who's this freak?" Sasuke asked rudely, glaring at him.

Gaara growled and stepped forward, "Sabaku no Gaara, who the fuck are you." Sakura pulled the redhead back toward her and stepped in front of him. Sauske grabbed Sakura's arm and tried to pull her toward him. She pulled her arm free, sending her falling back into Gaara's chest, which made them both fall to the ground. "Really? Again?" Gaara asked, half aggervated and half amused.

Sakura started to smile, but it quickly faded when she was yanked off the ground by Sauske, "Don't fucking touch my girlfriend, you murderer!" Sasuke yelled. Sakura pulled herself out of her boyfriend's arms to help up Gaara. "Don't touch him! He'll kill you and eat your skin like he did to his last principal! That's right freak, I remember you from the news now."

Sakura looked at both boys, noticing Ino had walked off a long time ago. "I'm not a fucking cannibal!" Gaara yelled, advancing on the quarterback. Sakura grabbed Gaara's hand, pulling him towards her to calm him down a little. "I never ate her!" he yelled, "And don't you ever fucking yank her like that again you bastard!" Gaara seemed hysterical now, like he was going to blow at any second.

'Calm down, Pup. You'll scare off our cherry blossom.'

"Shut up!" Gaara yelled at Shukaku, luckily Sakura thought he was yelling at Sasuke.

Sakura pulled Gaara back inside building three, "Don't follow us, Sauske, I can handle myself." She told her boyfriend as she dragged the redhead threw the doors.

"Fuck you!" The raven-haired boy yelled to his girlfriend, going off to find Ino.

Sakura held Gaara's wrist as they walked down the hallway, that way he couldn't disappear all of a sudden without her knowing. "Can I ask you something?" she asked him.

"No, not unless you want me to blow the fuck up," he said callously, pulling his wrist from her hand, "and don't touch me."

Sakura felt her heart sink, "Oh, okay then."

Gaara sighed, "Look, I don't like being touched, it's noting against you, and that ass hole has me on edge. I don't want to start yelling at you for no reason. Ask one question if you must."

Sakura peered at him from under her bangs, "Are you sure?"

He thought about it for a minute, "Yes," he said finally.

"Okay... why did you move to Kohna?" She asked giving him a sideways look.

Gaara stared at her, shocked. "What the fuck? I thought you wanted to know about what that bastard was talking about!" he almost yelled.

"You'll tell me that when you want to," she said softly, looking at her feet.

Gaara wanted to smile, "I got kicked out of my old high school," he told her, brushing her hair from her face.

"Why?"

"It's a long story" he told her, she looked disappointed, "I'll tell you another time." Her face lit up a little as they rounded a corner "So, are we almost to the office?" he asked worried.

Sakura heard a hint of worry in Gaara's voice, "Yeah, just around the corner. Don't tell Tsnade about what happened, okay?" Gaara's face softened a little and he nodded thankfully.

"You know, you'd be a great new friend, I hope I'm your guide so that we'll see each other more."

"Me too." Gaara felt himself smile for the first time in years.

-end chapter one-