"Tell me Sakura is this fine too?" He paused and leaned over to lick the tip of her nose.

Her cheeks flared red and she howled. "It burns!" She scraped at her face with her nails. Sakura threw herself down and began to writhe all over the ground letting out earsplitting cries as though she were dying. Finally she sat up.

"Too bad too bad. There could have been possibilities," Gaara said as he began to walk away.

Her face turned red once more. "Hey! What's that suppose to mean!" She cried at his back.

A/N: YAY The story is rather cheerful and upbeat.

A/N: I'm enjoying writing this story. Which is why I'm already working on another chapter. Heh. So get ready. Here it comes!

Hoshi: I don't own Naruto

Gaara: Thank god

Hoshi: Oo You don't believe in god

Gaara: but if I did I would thank him

Hoshi: It could be a her you know!

Gaara: Oo Riiighhhttt next your going to tell me that you're a female.

Hoshi: I am! –snarls-

Gaara: Shit –leaps into the story-

Hoshi: That's what I thought

A/n: Thanks for the reviews everyone. This chapter is for you guys. By the way. You guys should see my myspace. I have one entirely made for my friends (Heh.. They have yet to notice its all Gaara/Sakura) And…. Reviewers and such Heh. Check it out!

http/profile. meant nothing drop it Sakura" Gaara looked heatedly over his shoulder at Sakura.

She'd been pestering him since he'd licked her nose and said those ominous words to her 'Too bad there could have been possibilities'. Since that day at school she bugged him about it every time they talked.

"What did it mean!" She wailed latching onto his pillow and waving it around dramatically.

"I was joking!" Gaara growled at her.

Sakura went deathly quiet. Her face turned into that of a brick walll. Next her eyes narrowed and a her lips twisted into a dark sneer. "You never joke" she sounded serious.

He looked over at her rather startled by the sudden change. He'd never seen this side of her. Looking closer he noted the sweat trailing down her brow vanishing into her hair. Her face was slowly bleeding red. Option 1: Sakura was pissed beyond belief OR Option 2: Sakura was going to die of lack of oxygen.

She did neither. Instead she burst out laughing. Her hands clutched her sides. "Oh my goddess I thought you said you were joking aha ha aha" She gasped wiping tears from her eyes.

"I did" he muttered.

"You don't joke"

"Don't press the matter' He growled looking rather irritated at her laughing at him only moments before.

"If you insist upon being so stubborn." She shrugged dropping his pillow and flopping across it.

"Your messing up my bed" He muttered sorely.

"You don't sleep in it"

"That's because you're always in it!" His voice raised into a shout.

Sakura let out a soft squeak. Her hands clapped over her ears. It was a habit she picked up whenever someone raised his or her voice at her. Though it didn't block out the voices it made her feel better in some small way.

Gaara bit his tongue staring down at the bed. Her face was held in a cringe as though preparing for him to hit her.

"Panda's on the shelf above your head if you want him" He muttered. It was his way of apologizing.

Panda was the present she'd given him while she was a freshman. She'd giggled and told him it looked like him. 'In the cute sort of nose twitching way'.

He'd never let anyone touch it. He'd literally attacked Temari when she'd pulled it from his shelf in one of her cleaning modes.

Sakura's eyes visibly brightened. She tilted her head a bit unsure of what he had said.

"Females like to latch onto soft cuddly things when they insecure don't they?" Gaara questioned looking down at the girl curled under his blankets.

Blushing slightly the pink haired teenager brought the toy to her chest and cooed happily. "It smells like you" she grinned cheerfully as she buried her nose in the faux fur behind its left ear.

"Whatever. I'm not a female. I don't require such things" He answered waving a hand at her dismissively.

"Hai. I suppose not," she answered rolling over and attempting to drift off to sleep.

"Night" He muttered closing the shades and the door.

"Night" she answered back already half asleep.

Gaara settled at the foot of the bed to play video games. He turned on his play station and began to go through his games. Though he had a lot of games. Some, people had never heard of. None of them seemed very appealing. Finally he settled on resident evil.

"Shut that off" Sakura said rousing from her drowsy state.

"I've almost beat it" He muttered waving a hand over his shoulder at her.

Her green eyes were trained on the picture of a zombie getting closer and closer. Twitching violently she threw her hair over her shoulder.

"Its not very realistic anyway." She snapped back.

During the time his face was trained on the screen she'd crawled to the end of the bed and her hand was hovering above the power button.

"Save before I shut it off" Sakura said in an even tone.

"You wouldn't"

The screen flashed to the blue input screen that was normally found upon turning to channel three or four.

"I did" she answered.

Sputtering at the girl he stood up and pointed an accusing finger at her.

"Get off my bed"

"Get out of my life"

"You ruined my window"

"You put my head through it!"

"Sorry"

A silence fell over the two. They'd fought almost everyday of existing. Never had Gaara paused after something to apologize.

She felt horrible. All she'd done since he'd helped her was yell at him. She'd argued. Taken his bed. And been the most horrible best friend. It was his window he had to pay to get fixed. Her head could heal in time.

"Don't worry about it. I'll see you at school tomorrow." The girl stood up and headed out the door not bothering a proper farewell. She slipped out the door grabbing her shoes as she went.

"S-Sakura?" Naruto stared at the pink haired kunoichi stunned.

She was wearing her usual ninja headband. From her wrist to her elbow was black fishnet. Hiding her torso was a red shirt with cookie monster on it. Cookie monster was secretly a weakness of hers. She found him hilarious no matter how sad she was. I mean who couldn't love a monster who eats sweets? For pants she wore baggy pants you might find in Gaara's closet. They were baggy and covered in chains and studs. The pants themselves might be considered weapons.

"Morning Naru Naru" she said. Calling him by the nickname she'd given him as a freshman.

"Morning" Sasuke said giving her a emotionless glance over his shoulder.

The girl looked fabulous even in this outfit. It was true she would stick out. How many cheerful pink haired Goths with toddlers role models did you run into?

The girls in the school had backed off as she'd appeared on the scene with Gaara. Now that she was with her old team she was a likely target. What made it worse was she'd be easy to spot dressed as she was.

Naruto was the nice guy. He wore a blinding orange hoody and matching orange cargo pants with simple black sneakers.

Sasuke's outfit wasn't so simple. He was what you would call emo. In other words socially inept. ((Emo's don't kill me! –flails-)) He wore a pair of black pants. His hoody was black with a picture of a bloody knife on it. On his feet he wore classic converses.

As long as Sasuke had known Sakura he'd been rather cruel to her. But she didn't seem to mind. In fact she merly tilted her head and laughed. Upon a few occasions he'd made her cry. Not that he cared or kept count of how many times he'd made her cry anyway.

"I want to eat Ramen for lunch" Naruto whined.

"Then eat it for lunch" Sasuke stated as though it were obvious in a monotone voice.

"Ramen sounds great!" Sakura said throwing a fist in the air.

"First period hasn't even begun yet" Sasuke said giving the two dry looks.

"Its good to plan ahead. Sakura taught me that" Naruto said puffing his chest out.

"Hai!" She agreed.

"Lunch isn't that important" Sasuke interrupted.

The two stared at Sasuke as though he were stupid. It was the only time they were technically allowed to go off campus. Of course it was the single most important thing to them during the school day.

Gaara watched from the other side of the courtyard cursing at the girl from under his breath. He could already see the girls pointing at Sakura with scrunched up faces as though they'd smelt something foul.

With eyeliner spread thickly around his eyes he shot some of them warning glares. Then slowly he turned and headed off campus. If she didn't want him around then he wouldn't be around. It wasn't like he looked foreword to going to school.

Sakura had been around long enough to show him some sort of companionship. It was only expected she'd take off like everyone else.

He stared one last time at the pink haired beauty. She was laughing and flailing her arms as though she were a bird. Naruto was jumping up and down nodding his head. Where as Sasuke was watching from the corner of his eye acting like he didn't know the two hyperactive teenagers.

As though sensing his stare she looked up and towards him. A warm smile lit her face and she went rushing after him in a blur of crushed autumn leaves.

"Gaa-chan?" She'd used his nickname and looked at him rather confused to why he was leaving school. The place where she, his best friend was at the given moment.

A smile tugged lightly on his lips. Of course she'd never leave him. She would forever be stuck on his side like a rash on a babies butt. Sakura was the one who'd found him and dragged him through everything. Whether it was her quietly chewing on her pencil in the corner of his room. Or her leaping over her desk to maul Ino who'd been calling Gaara names since she'd seen him.

Still she stood before him with her hair blowing in the wind. Her face was flushed and deep in her eyes a look of hurt. Since she'd followed him freshmen year he always had invited her to skip school with him or at least tell her he was going to go.

"Just for a cigarette"

"Doesn't sound like a healthy breakfast to me"

"What do you know? Your only 16" He muttered rolling his eyes.

"More mature than you!"

"Says the girl wearing cookie monster"

"I hope he eats your cookies while your asleep"

"Shut up or he'll eat you in your sleep" Gaara countered childishly.

She let out a giggle. "He only eats cookies"

"Yeah… But no one ever said I don't bite"

"Pervert!" she cried flailing her arms around childishly.

"Only when your around" He answered lighting his stick of rat poison.

The girl turned around to face him. Her hair lightly fluttered around her face.

"Your really pretty when you aren't flailing around" He said brushing her hair out of her eyes and leaning down to brush his lips around hers.

Sakura blushed slightly. Her cheeks felt like they were burning. As he pulled away and straightened back to his full height she beamed up at him. Sometimes it wasn't so bad to have a best friend. If best friends were like him she'd have a million.

"The bell rang" She murmured trying to fill the awkward silence.

"So what?" He grunted putting out the cigarette.

A/N: YAY Best friend of doom!