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"This mission is of utmost importance. Failing is not an option. Do I make myself clear?"

This old geezer keeps saying the same thing, and always ends his each sentence with 'Do I make myself clear?' I notice his face is turning red, no, now it's turning a light shade of purple. I can't stand these elders. Or the Kazekage. It disrespectful, but why should I care?

My best friend, my only friend, Sabuko Gaara is standing beside me to my right. He has his eyes closed, most likely ignoring the incompetent fools that stand before us. One of those fools his is father. Even he has talked bad about his father.

To my right is Gaara's older brother, Sabuko Kankuro, and he is trying to look dignified but he is failing miserbly. He, like Gaara's older sister Temari, repects their father the Kazekage.

Anyway, back to the boring old geezer that's now turning a darker purple. Great, he's yelling. At me. How wonderful.

"You dare stand before me and act disprespectful?" his loud and annoying yelling directed at me.

Eww, he just spit.

"Are you even listening to me?" he yelled again slamming his sickly pale fists onto a dark mohogany table.

"I try not to." I replied gaining even more attention to myself. "Beside's I didn't choose to stand her before you, I was forced. Plus, I'm not being disrespectful. I'm listening to everything your saying. Now carry on." I said waving my hand in a 'shooing' motion.

He cleared his throat to say something to me, but the Kazekage started talking more about the mission. All I'm hearing is the exact same thing the geezer said. Well, one of the many geezers said.

Gaara next to me still had his eyes closed but he shifted a little, moving in a position so if anyone tried to hurt me or himself, he could defend easily. He's really protective over me, seeing as that I'm his only friend. I don't mind, really.

Oh, crap. Everyone's looking at me again. What did I do this time?

"Do you have anything to say, Ms. Haruno?" the Kazekage has stopped his speech (well it's not really his) and started to speak to me.

"No." I replied batting my eye-lashed.

Gaara shifted again and apparently his father noticed because he continued with 'his' speech.

After the two and a half hour long mission briefing, Gaara and I went to my apartment to discuss the mission. Out definition of 'discuss' is us putting two and two together because in each mission briefing, both of us ignore everyone who is speaking so we besically miss out on what the mission is about.

Now, my apartment is nothing special. A dark-green couch in the middle of my overly-small living room, an overly-small kitchen with the basic necessities a kitchen has, a small metal table for eating, two bed rooms, and one bathroom. Your basic apartment. Mine is only meant for two but Gaara usually stays in the 'guess room.' The 'guest room' is basically his room because he never goes to his house.

But anyway.

Our mission is to attend the Chuunin exams with a three man team. My team is Gaara, Kankuro and of course me. Gaara's sister, Temari, is already a Chuunin so she can't attend to this mission. During the second or third part of the exams, Gaara is going to release Shukaku and Suna is going to take over Konohagakure.

I have nothing against Konoha or any of the other hidden villages, I just have everything against Suna. Sure, I met my best and only friend here, but my life here is nothing good. I don't have a tailed-demon sealed inside of me, or so I'm told, but I have a life like Gaara.

Mother dying during birth, father ignoring you, in my case my father abused me. Abused. Past tense. I haven't seen my father in several years and I'm just fine with that.

Gaara saved me from literally killing myself. I was going way over the edge because I felt no one cared for me and I just wanted to die. So Gaara convinced me to stay alive and just ignore the people. That was when we were seven. We are now twelve. Now, we are genin.

Twelve year old genin's are going to destroy one of the most powerful hidden villages.

My part in this mission is to make sure Gaara doesn't lose control. They also told me if Gaara can't control Shukaku, that I'm supposed to read this scroll when all these weird words on it and release something.

I think this mission is going to fail. Mission like these always have a traitor within the allies. Our allies with this mission is Sound. I don't like or trust them.

"Sakura?" Gaara was now staring at me from across the room. "You're making faces again." he stated as he pulled out a water bottle from my fridge.

That snapped me out of my musings.

"That's my water Sabaku." I said walking over to snatch it away from him.

He put his hands behind his back. Great, the water bottle is back there.

"Give it back!" I started to complain like I was five or six.

He just stared at me with those forest green eyes. I stared back with my emerald green ones.

Wait, what am I doing? I'm about to fight with him over a water bottle.

DING!

One of those little light bulbs just flashed over my head.

"Gaara-kun?" I asked him in my 'little girl' voice.

I saw how pathetic I looked when I saw myself in a mirror out of the corner of my eye. My pink hair was in need of combing, my green ninja capris were ripped in several places, I looked like crap.

"I'm taking a shower." I said as I noticed he put the water bottle on the counter top.

I walked over to him and reach over his shoulder to grab a glass from the cabnet.

I love messing with him.

As I got the glass I also got the water bottle. Before he could respond, I was sprinting down the short hallway and locked myself in the bathroom. Which was pretty much useless when he could just transport into the bathroom.

"Sakura." I heard him right outside the door.

My bestfriend scared me, a lot.

I unlocked the door, opending the door, and threw the water bottle at him. Then I closed the door, locked the door, shed my clothes, turned the shower on, and got in the shower.

The night before the mission was b-o-r-i-n-g. Maybe because I was slightly hyper and Gaara was being Gaara and not entertaining my hyper self.

I always wondered how we, of all people, became best friends.

I plopped on the couch next to him, well actually I missed the couch and landed on him. He didn't push my off, and he was comfortable so I didn't move.

Now I was really bored.

My TV was broken so no movies or anything like that, Gaara was boring, and we had a mission tomarrow. Plus it was quiet, I hated quiet.

"Gaar?" I asked sliding off of him and landing softly on the wooden floor.

"Hm?" he 'hmed' acknowledging me.

"Do you ever get scared?" I asked a question I've been dying to answer him.

He takes along time to answer my questions. But this answer really suprised me.

About the story because I'm probably confusing some of you people.

Sakura has lived in Suna all her life and is best friends with Gaara. She's not cold like Gaara but not crazy hyper either. Yes she was hyper but she wasen't bouncing off the walls. I explained the mission, it's just like in the anime except Sakura is with Suna. She dosen't have a demon like Gaara does, but the people are making her think that she does.

My spell checker is still messed up so please ignore the mispelled words and my horrible grammer.

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