Chapter one: I want to die

(Disclaimers: I don't own Naruto or any of the characters! I do however own the poems they are MINE! This is the only time I am putting this up!)

Sakura and Gaara are on an A rank mission. The mission is to stop Orochimaru and his men from making it anywhere near the leaf village. Orochimaru men have been planning an attack on that village for three months. Sakura and Gaara may be out numbered, but they have faith that they can win. They are on a deserted road on the path of the enemy when Sakura says the worst possible thing.

"Hey, it's quite. A bit too quiet." Right as she said that, she almost stepped on one of the hundred traps but Gaara pulled her back into his arms just in time. He tells her,

"Sakura be careful!"

And the two start running but Gaara is being a bit more cautious for her safety. He noticed she had been acting wired ever since that mission briefing.

Finally they catch up to the enemy and see that it's just Sasuke's group. His men attack before Sasuke can call them off! They all aimed for Sakura and she dodged them as best she could. Sasuke stops his men from attacking her and so he greets her with a smile.

"Hello Sakura, hi Gaara, How are you? I want to help you take down Orochimaru, I know you can't do it all alone, and I am worried for Sakura's well being…I don't want to see her or you get hurt."

While he was going on and on, Gaara took that chance and buried all his men including him up to their ankles in his sand.

Sakura grips tight on her arm. Sasuke glared at his men. "Sakura, your arm is hurt!" She tells him, "Nothing too bad. Just a cut"

Sasuke is still worried thinking.

'Sakura I hope you weren't hit by his poison If you were then you won't make it out alive I know that much'

Then she got out five kunai and threw them at all Sasuke's men and they all fell to the ground dead. She threw one for Sasuke too, but could not bring herself to kill him. He still means so much to her and he does not wish to fight her or to see her in pain.

So they set out to find the rest of Orochimaru men. Sasuke comes along too, though Gaara still does not like him.

Gaara says,

"I really don't trust this guy." Sasuke questions him,

"Is it that you don't like me or is it that you really do not trust me or is it the one I think is funny that you're jealous of me…why would you have any reason to not trust me? I've done nothing to you."

Sakura stops walking and leans against a tree for the pain in unbearable. She tells them.

"You two please, stop…Gaara you have no reason to be jealous! He is just a good friend from my past…and Sasuke LEAVE GAARA ALONE!!! This is so tiring having to listen to you guys go at each other back and forth like this when are you guys going to shut up and just grow up act your age and stop bickering like little children!!!"

The rest of the walk was fairly quiet. Sakura never loosened her grip on her arm but she tightened her grip even so the blood still flowing down her arm out Gaara gets worried. Thinking in his head.

'Why won't she just heal it shes a medic ninja right'

The walk was kind of depressing. So to lessen the tension Sakura said. "Hey guys im sorry im was just stressed out one of those guys cut my arm with a needle and I can't heal, it for some reason"

Sasuke stopped walking and got this worried look on his face then his face went back to his game face like when they were kids. "Sakura that mans weapon was cursed with deadly poison…we have to move fast and get you help we need Tsunade she is the only one who can help you please trust me…hurry and get there please don't die"

After he said all that she refused she kind of knew she was going to die on this mission but she had to see her old friend again the enemy is going to the leaf cause they think Sakura is still there so it was just a matter of time before she dies.

So she refuses claiming that. "Sasuke I need to finish the mission"

Gaara cut her off before she could say anything else. "Sakuras you can't die I need you I love you too much to let you die so you can't die please seek out Tsunade I will come with you"

Then she smiled and tried to giggle with the pain. "I love you Gaara but we need to complete the mission and plus Tsunade is at our destination she can tell you the reason she came all this way."

They sped up there speed as fast as they could to reach Tsunade in time. But half way there they were ambushed they all targeted Sakuras.

Sasuke tried to get in the way and take the hits for her but failed she was slowly fading so Gaara picked up her body from the ground and started to run he made it to Tsunade and laid her on the table and yelled for Tsunade she came in a hurry.

With a sad look in her eyes she already knew that sakura was hurt and that she would most likely end up dead but she still did all she could to try to help her.

"Gaara I need you to wait in the waiting room while I work on her okay"

He walks out and sits down but then gets back up and starts pacing around.

A few hours went by and before Gaara knew it Tsunade came walking out into the room with a grim look of sorrow etched on her face. He glared at her knowing what she was about to say. It wasn't a look of hatred it was a glare of pain.

She asked Gaara softly even though she already knew the answer.

"Gaara. What happened to her?" he stares down at his feet as he tells her. Anger filled his voice as he remembered the men who have killed his only friend his only love.

"We were ambushed! For some reason they all targeted on Sakura!" then she told him.

"This is why we didn't want her to go on this mission. But she said no. she said she would not leave you. Gaara she truly did love you!"

As he heard those words tears filled his face. She told him concerned.

"Im so sorry! Gaara. She didn't make it, I did everything I could but it was too late."

He walked into the room and sat by her side on the bed. He held her pale cold hand as the tears continued to fall down. Tsunade just watched from afar wishing she could have saved her! After a few minutes of silently watching Gaara she heard him reciting a poem. One that Sakura had written on a rainy day at work with Tsunade.

"back in time we grew I threw, laughed we cried and in the end, you still died, though I use to deny, run and hide, but I won't deny I still cry!"

As Tsunade heard him she wrote it down on her clip bored so she could have it engraved in Sakuras tomb stone!

Gaara saw her writing and so he asks her.

"Lady Tsunade, what are you doing?"

Her reply was.

"Nothing just getting her tomb stone ready!"

He nodded and said.

"Thank you I will bury some of my sand with her!"

She smiled sadly and said.

"That would be nice"

Then she walked away and after a few more minutes Gaara left so that her body could be buried!

At the ceremony he droped flowers off and he saw the poem on the cold stone. He smiled at the sky as rain started to pour down on him and everyone around him.

He stands there in front of her grave just starring at the sky with crimsoned tears are forever falling down his face.

Sasuke's looking around and sees Gaara crying and he over hears him reciting a poem in a monotone and morbid voice.

"Kill me gently though I wake, I wait for piercing, thou dose not then take the knife from my back, and take in poison of my pain, my pain is temper and you will see your prison is not made for me!"

Then Sasuke saw Gaara take in poison and was still standing and alive. He stares at Gaara in complete shock.

Then he hears another poem from Gaara.

"poems racing through my head thoughts of being dead, suicide songs stuck today, oh the pain from yesterday, the past haunts me over again, the pain im hiding still denying, I am staying and laying near my death bed. Head strong may not be enough this time, denying im dyeing deep inside, denying im lying to all my friends, losing my mind wish they would not tell me im fine nothing is fine when im cursed, im not yet at my last resort, but im getting there im getting here!"

As soon as Gaara was again silent Sasuke saw that he was going to try to kill himself with his own sand. Sasuke ran after Gaara to try and stop him but he failed, getting knocked out in the process.

Gaara trapped himself in his sand. Gaaras sand released him and laid him in Sakuras grave next to her.

Tsunade sighed as they closed the grave with the two lovers in the tomb.

She got up in front of everyone. She started by saying.

"This is why it's bad for Ninjas to fall in love. Kakashi doing great on his own!"

And that was all that was said at GaaraXSakura's ceremony by Lady Tsunade.