Hey, I'm moonlight71092! This is my first ever story that I ever made for so please be easy on me. I'm so sorry if the story isn't your liking, but please read it! I'm just apologizing ahead of time! Thank you so much! Heh, as you can well see, I'm a Gaara/Sakura fan too, but also a Naruto/Sakura and Sasuke/Sakura, and even a Lee/Sakura. Basically, I like any pairing with Sakura. lol. Naruto is such an awesome series! Oh man, I gotta stop rambling! lol. And, I'm sorry if the characters are out of character. The story may seem boring in the beginning, but it'll get better! Don't worry. It would have action and stuff! Okie dokie?

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, so please don't sue me!

OH and by the way, the story will be changing from Sakura's P.O.V. to Gaara's P.O.V. Hope you all like it! Also, this is not based on the Naruto series because…sadly, I don't know many facts of Naruto even though I've been watching the show since episode 1 to 189. It's depressing… Anyway, please enjoy! This is Sakura's P.O.V. and…NOW I shut up! lol.

You're Joking!

I WALKED SILENTLY UP THE STAIRS.

I'm only fourteen now and still growing, but nothing changed about me though. I still have my same pink hair and light emerald eyes. Though, my hair grew a little passed my shoulders already, but now there are waves at the ends of my tresses. I grew up to five foot four. My body was slender and pale and my forehead was wide, but I've grown use to it all…

Turning the knob on my door, I slowly walked into my room. It was dark, but the moon shined through my peaked window.

I flopped on my bed and I lay myself back with my head behind my hands.

It's been two years already since my parents died and…it seems that I still haven't grown use to the silence. My parents left me their money and everything they own and including the house, a life long gift that would probably last till I'm forty, if I be careful that is.

Yes, I still miss my parents, but…I have to stay strong and no matter what, I cannot cry 'cause, I know my parents don't want me to cry for them! So I will not ever! I punched my fist into the air and laughed at myself.

Sighing, I tossed and turned, but it was no use at all, I couldn't sleep. Turning my head towards my digital clock, it said 6:51 and school doesn't start till 8:10.

Tomorrow—or today, was going to be a new day and the day when I start to go to Konoha High. I'm going to be a freshman, just like my friends.

I sighed loudly and got up and out of my bed.

I walked to my dresser and pulled out my clothes and placed them on my bed. Slipping out of my silk nightgown, I threw it on my bed as well and walked straight into the bathroom.

I took a quick shower, then brushed my teeth thoroughly.

Drying myself with my towel, I rubbed the lotion all over my body. My eyes were wide awake and my body too.

Slowly, I slipped on my black jean skirt that reached up to the middle of my thigh and my pink tank. I clipped my silver heart-shaped locket around my neck and it fell down to my collar bone.

Grandma had given me this as a birthday gift when I was four, but for some apparent reason, I wasn't ever able to open the locket and even Momma and Papa tried but failed. Although, just before Grandma died, she told me the secret of this locket. The locket will only open when I finally find my true love, but, it seems a bit strange to me…although, it's something that I can't let go. What if it is the truth? Would it really open when I find him? How does it work?

I sighed loudly. I crawled over to the window and started brushing my hair. Today is the day…

I got off the bed and placed my brush down on top of my dresser. Grabbing my book bag, I stuffed in my little journal, my favorite novel and my gym clothes. My school stuff were already in my bag and so with that, I sling my bag over my shoulder and run out of my room.

I slide myself down on the rail and skidded across the kitchen.

I danced myself to the counter. I tossed my bag onto the floor next to me and climbed onto the counter to retrieve my dear sweet Nutella! I jumped off the counter and reached for a two slices of bread. Spreading the delicious chocolate onto my bread, I popped a piece into my mouth. It felt like I was in heaven…

While I was eating, I took a brown paper bag and stuffed in an apple, a frozen water bottle, a napkin and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich! I had sliced the sides of my sandwich and cut it in half, just the way I liked it!

Hastily, I stuffed my lunch into my book bag and ran to the door with my Nutella sandwich in hand. I put on my black platform, wedged shoe. I buckled the strap around my ankles, but when I finished I ran out the door.

During my haste, I dropped my keys, but picked it up and locked the door, stuffing my keys into my side pocket. Walking down and to the sidewalk, my pace quickened and in seconds, I begin to run.

Konoha was a big town, filled with many different people. It can get boring at times, but it's usually a fun place to be. It's my home.

Finally, I arrived at my destination.

I looked in all directions and spotted the gang.

"Hey," I yelled happily. I ran to them. Everyone was there. Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Neji, Tenten, Len, Chouji, Ino, Shikamaru, Temari, Sasuke and—hold on, where's Naruto?

They all, looked at me and smiled.

"Sakura," Tenten yells. She runs up to me, giving me one of her famous hugs.

"T-Tenten, I-I-I c-can't breeeaathe," I choke.

"Oh, heh heh, whoops, sorry Sakura," she sweats and lets go.

"Ts'alright," I gasped. "What happened to Naruto?"

"H-He's not here yet," Hinata says softly. She walks up to me and smiles while the gang follows behind.

"Oh! Hopefully we're all in the same classes," Ino prays while jumping up and down excitedly.

"Yeah," we all say in unison.

"Good morning, Sakura," Lee says brightly, giving me a gleaming grin.

"Eh? Oh, good morning Lee," I laugh.

His grin broadens and he blushes a little. Then, he starts dancing for some weird reason.

"Sooo, Saku, have you thought about it yet," Temari whispers into my ear mischievously.

"Oh," I yell surprised. "Eh? About what?" This was confusing.

"You know! About…S-a-s-u-k-e," she grins slyly.

"Not that again! Look, you know already that I do—"

"Hey Sakura," Sasuke smirks behind me.

I look at him with wide eyes. "Oh, S-Sasuke! You scared me," I laugh nervously. Oh gosh, my heart was beating ten times than its normal rate. He sure gave me the scare!

"Oh," he just plainly says.

Sasuke has a crush on me and even the whole gang knows about it, but…I don't even believe that he knows that they know.

Sasuke's alright, but…he's just not for me. I don't understand why myself though, but I don't feel anything at all. My heart doesn't do any flips, swell or lose a beat, not even making my heart beat faster than its normal rate. I don't even experience any butterflies in my stomach! So…I can't love a guy who doesn't at all make me feel that way. Heh, I read a lot and hear so many of these feeling from the girls.

I explained this over and over to Temari, Tenten and Hinata, but they just ignore it. Oh well. They just believe that Sasuke and I would make a great couple, but I'm truly rooting for Ino and Sasuke.

Even though Ino and I are rivals, we're still best friends. Ino has a HUGE crush on Sasuke and…that's another reason why I just cannot date him.

But if Ino didn't like him that way, then I would give Sasuke a chance and date him, but once a friend knows who he or she likes and that person that your friend's likes ask you out, you must say no. It's one of the rules of friendship. Corny, but all too true.

"EVERYBOOODY," someone yells behind us.

Breaking from my thoughts, I direct my attention from the scream and found Naruto waving his hands in the air, and grinning like a maniac. I laughed. That's Naruto for you!

We all greet him while he runs towards us.

"S-Sorry I'm late guys! Just that…uh, well, heh heh, I over slept," he grins apologetically.

I smiled. "Hey Naruto!"

"Oh, Sakura, hey," he yells happily. Jumping in the air, he lands right next to me and grabs me in a headlock. Sasuke scowls.

"Ah!"

Naruto laughs. "Say, 'I love you Naruto!'"

"Ugh, heck no!" Budging my right arm loose, I ball my hand into a tight fist and direct all my energy into my knock out punch. I spread my legs wide and grit my teeth. I whack his chin and he flies into the air, but soon enough, what comes up must come down. Naruto landed, but painfully he gets up. His eyes spin crazily.

Everyone laughs. Sasuke smirks.

"S-Sakura…you-you're so…hi-hi-hilarious," Tenten chokes between gasps of laughter.

I stuck my tongue out at Naruto, but winked flirtatiously right after. I don't like Naruto that way, but he's like an older brother to me and…he thinks so too!

I giggle, but walked to him, reaching my hand out towards him. When finally he shakes himself from dizziness, he grins widely and takes my hand. I help him out, but when we looked at each other for a moment, we started laughing our guts out.

"Ha! Naruto, you just got punched by a girl," Kiba sneers.

"I still can't understand those too," Tenten smiles joyously.

"Y-Yeah," Hinata nods in agreement. Hinata..she's a shy girl, but has had a crush on Kiba for a while. She use to like Naruto, but Naruto hasn't shown any signs of liking her, so she turns her attention towards Kiba. Kiba has like her ever since the two first met, so…it worked out for the both of them. Akamaru (Kiba's dog), doesn't mind Hinata, in so fact, he adores her. But, Kiba better take care of Hinata, or else he'll have to deal with me! Hinata's one of my best friends and I'll always have her back!

"Well, I guess that's a reason why I love Sakura the most," Temari grins.

Temari is as well one of my best friends. I've known her since pre-k, I was just walking around the play ground, bored, and then I saw her on one of the swings. She looked lonely, so I went to her and started babbling to her until she told me to "shut up". That's basically how it all happened. She was two years older, but that didn't stop us from becoming friends. She's awesome. We would always hang out right after school. We would just walk around, go shopping, hang at my place, but mostly we went to her apartment. I was actually the first friend she ever had.

One time she told me of her two younger siblings. She doesn't talk much about them, just shopping and how she misses her village, but she never told me the reason why she had to stay at Konoha. I even did the lowest thing ever…I started kneeling down on my knees and begged her! Hey, I was just eight!

Her younger brother was Kankuro. He's nice, but sort of creepy because he loves collecting puppets, he even makes them too! He's funny as well, but he's only a year older than us.

Temari doesn't talk much about her family, I'm not sure why though, but it's like she's trying to keep them a secret, like she's ashamed of them… But, how should I know! Although, she tells me the most funniest stories sometimes, they're sometimes about what Kankuro does though…not the youngest one.

Now the youngest brother…uh, he's my age…I believe his name was…Gaara? All she said was that he has a huge temper and is usually always quiet, but that's basically it. I asked her why once, but…she kind of threw a tantrum and also threw a chair across the room…heh heh.

I wiped a tear out of my eye when I finally stopped laughing. "Let's get to class guys, before the teacher starts throwing a tantrum and starts giving us detention."

All of them gasped and ran inside the school building. I laughed quietly and ran along behind them, but only Temari stopped to wait for me.

"Thanks," I said just when I caught up to her.

"No prob," she grins.

We walk into the school together. While walking up the steps, Temari asks if I could meet her at the school gate right after school.

"Sure…but why," I asked questioningly. She looked serious and a bit scared.

"I'll explain it to you then, but now I gotta go. Bye and good luck Sakura," she yells right before running to her classroom

I sighed. There was nothing that I could do about that. Dang, why can't she just tell me!

After that, I stomped all the way to my classroom and took a seat at the back. All the seats were already filled, so this was my only choice. My seat was right next to the window and at the back, but I didn't care. My table was rectangular and there was one empty seat next to me and so I was alone, but…then again, that is sort of a good thing I guess… I could concentrate without anyone bothering.

I sighed loudly. This was going to be a long day, I just feel it…

"Hello class," someone says shakily.

It had been an hour since school started.

"Sensei! You're late AGAIN," Naruto yells uncontrollably.

Everyone starts screaming and yelling some more, along with the ultra loud Naruto.

Looking up—oh! Looks like we have Kakashi-sensei again…oh great, that means that our class would always be delayed! Though…we would have free time still…

"Hehehe…uh…well, you see while I was driving over here. There was this cow on the middle of the road and…uh…she was giving birth, so I had to get out of my car and help her. So…I…uh, had to stick my hands insi—"

The whole was deadly silent.

Silence.

Cough.

Pause.

"EEEEEWW," everyone went.

Oh for heaven's sake! Kakashi-sensei come's up with such gross and lame excuses sometimes!

"Kakashi-sensei, why don't you just admit that you overslept or something," Tenten asks, but still grossed out.

Kakashi-sensei's right eye widens. "Uuuhh…OKAY, let's get started now!"

Well…now I'm sure that today would be a long day.

THANK THE GODS!

Finally, school ends, but…agh…we were all dumped with so much homework! I sighed heavily. This would take the whole damn night!

I stomped on the ground, marching to the school gate.

Everyone had already left and went their separate ways. The first day of school was terrible and frightening, especially seeing Gai-sensei in his ti—AGH! I shivered. It's too disturbing to say. Great…

"Saku!"

Looking up ahead, I could see Temari waving her arms crazily in the air.

I laughed. "Temari!" I ran towards and stopped when I was at her side.

Her smile soon fades and she bites her bottom lip nervously. She stares down at the ground as if it would give her some answer or something…

"What's wrong," I asked worriedly. I frowned when Temari didn't say anything.

Silence.

"Sakura…"

Uh-oh, bad sign, she said my full name. Something's definitely up and I don't think I like it.

"What is it," I asked more urgently.

"…You're gonna have to more with me back to Suna and we leave tonight," she states dully.

My eyes widen. "WHAT! Whatever for? I don't understand…," I shake my head vigorously.

Temari grabs my shoulders and shakes me hard, making my head bob. "Sakura…Tsunade-sama had asked me to tell you that she believes that this is what's best for you and me. Believe me, you're not the only one who's miserable about this damn idea, but Tsunade-sama commands us to do so and she is Hokage. We must obey." She looks at me sadly.

"I-I know…but…this is too sudden. I-I-I just can't leave yet…I have to say goodbye to everyone first! But…what does she mean safe?"

"In all honesty, Sakura, I have no clue…," she says trailing off.

Obviously, she knew why, but she just doesn't wanna tell me! UGH!

"Listen, Sakura, I must go now, both of us have to pack—OH! Which reminds me, Tsunade-sama had told me, to tell you as well to bring only the essentials… Which means that we cannot bring much because our journey to Suna would be on foot."

We both groaned.

"At Suna, there's just too much sandstorms," Temari whines. "They're not many shops too…"

We both groaned.

"Oh yeah!" She slaps her forehead. "Tsunade-sama has also asked for us to not tell anybody about our departure and jeez, you shoulda seen her! Tsunada-sama I mean. She looked absolutely vicious…"

"WHAAAT! First, that and now this! Great, this is so unfair! Everybody would be worried…"

"I know…but these are Tsunada-sama's orders and we must follow them."

I nod.

"Okay, I have to go now Sakura. I'll meet you at the gate of Konoha later at seven. Bye," she waves and runs off towards her home.

I sighed loudly.

How could she do this to me! Tsunade-sama…I don't understand, but you better have good intentions for doing this!

I strode down the sidewalk, thinking.

The guys would be wondering and some would probably worry and some would totally freak… Great…and maybe when they find me, I'm sure that Tenten would wring my neck…

I walked into my house and shut the door.

I leaned myself back onto the door and slowly I sank myself down on the wooden floor. Curling myself into a tight ball, I bent my head to between my knees and with that, unshed tears spring forth. I cried loudly and it echoed back to me.

WHY! Why is everything falling apart when I've just grown use to my life…? Why do I have to suffer? Why do I have to leave my friends without saying goodbye? Why? Why? Why? WHY!

This is just so…hard…

Minutes ticked away.

I lifted my head and wiped my tears with the back of my hand. I can't just sit here and cry. I have to be strong. I have to be brave…

But…what should I do?

I banged the back of my head on the door repeatedly, until my head started to spin. Staggering up, I wobbled up the stairs, waltzing right into my room and I flopped myself onto my bed. I took my shoes off, throwing them off the bed and I laid there for a moment.

My eyes widened, it was already and hour before seven! Holy crap!

Jerking myself up, I placed my feet on the cold floor. I'm gonna have to take a quick shower and then pack…

I GASPED OUT RASPY BREATHS AND STOPPED WHEN I REACHED THE

gate of Konoha.

Temari was sitting on the dirt, leaning herself on the gate. She looks up and spots me. She smiles and stands up, brushing herself in the meanwhile.

"S-Sorry…I-I was…uh…I lo-lost track of t-time," I gasped. I wiped the sweat off my forehead.

She laughs. "Alright girl, let's get going then." She smiles brightly. "And you'll be staying at my place as soon as we get to Suna. It'll be a day trip if our breaks are short and Tsunada-sama said that we must be there right away. Okay?"

I nod tiredly.

"Alrighty, you got you're pass?"

"Y-Yeah…"

"Great! Now…" She looks her arm with mine. "Now…we're off to see the wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz!" She skips out of the gate of Konoha, pulling me along with her.

Goodbye Konoha… Hope to see you soon.

Instead of singing, she screams the words out.

"Agh! Shut up!"