Hi everybunny! I won't say alot, so go ahead and enjoy.
CHAPTER 2: There is a Dance to Attend
"SAKURAAAAAAAA WAKE UP HONEY!!!!"
"Oh mom plz let me sleep a little more"
"C'mon pinky, it's 7:15 already, you'll be late"
"Ok fine, fine… happy now?"
"Yeah so much, Ok I'm your mother and I must make your life like hell" her mom said with a big smile and walked out of Sakura's room.
Standing in front of the bathroom mirror I can't believe that a whole month passed since we started the school, after a little more time I'll find myself sitting in my own home and feeding my own baby, oh god time is really running. Sakura was thinking while she brushed her teeth.
Now she's walking down the stairs to join her parents for breakfast.
Finally she's getting into her car to go to school.
AT KONOHA HIGH
Sakura catched up with Tenten and Hinata and looked around "Where's Ino-pig?" "Oh she's over there with Shika-kun" Hinata said and pointed to a corner. "Oh damn" Sakura said.
Ino was standing to the wall and Shikamaru was leaning over and kissing her. Ino's hands were around Shikamaru's neck while his hands were around her waist. They looked so deeply in love.
Back to the girls, "Are you ready for the dance, had you bought the dresses?" Tenten asked. "I thought that we're going to shop together!" Hinata said looking from Tenten to Sakura. "Why should I go? No guy asked me to go with him" Sakura said and sighed while putting her stuff in her locker. "I hadn't been asked too, and I can say that all the hot guys are already got dates" Tenten said. "C'mon it's not necessary to have a date! Just come plz, and let's go shopping after school today, but do you know I have a strong feeling that you gonna have dates" Hinata said pulling her friends to a group hug.
AT THE GYM
"… just one lab to go my dearest youthful kids, go on go on go on, let me see that energy glow!! Don't run like your grandmother Takinouchi, you're away much younger than her, c'mon let your youthful spirit and energy fly free, miss Ryoga let me see the glowing youthful energy you got, now my beautiful young kids go on go on" Gai-sensei was cheering for the students. "I'll make another 5 labs just for you Gai-sensei" Rock Lee shouted and ran faster and faster. "Crap" Takinouchi said.
Finally Sakura and Tenten made it and finished the 10 labs, they threw themselves on the ground and tried to catch some breath. Suddenly Neji appeared over them "You Ten girl can I have a word with you?" he asked with no expression on his face. "What do u want jerk?" Tenten fired back. Neji just looked as emotinonless as before. "I just told ya, I want a word with you, are you deaf?" he asked. "WHAT???" Tenten rose and looked at him. "Hey Ten-chan stop it! Plz listen to what he want to say" Sakura tried to calm Tenten down. "NO WAY, I SWORE TO NEVER TALK TO HIM AGAIN" "ok whatever" Neji said and started to walk away. "You idiot, maybe he wanted to ask you to go to the dance with him" Sakura said shaking Tenten. "Whatever, I don't want to go to that stupid dance with a stupid guy like him". Tenten said and started to run around the gym alone.
After Tenten finished her run she fell on the ground to catch some air. Sakura came over and sat with her.
Sakura: Tenten
Tenten: um?
Sakura: Had you realized that Neji talks to no one but ONLY YOU?
Tenten: I… don't… care…
Sakura: C'mon give him a chance, he seems to be a nice guy.
Tenten: Wha… t… eva…
Sakura: HEY don't be stubborn like Ino, I always thought that you're the one with the logical brain, calm down and think about it, I see that he's a cold jerk as u say, but I know that he's different in the inside.
DIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGG the bell rang.
Tenten stood and walked to the girls' locker room silently and Sakura followed her.
LUNCH TIME
The girls + Naruto, Kiba and Shikamaru sat in their usual table and chatted. Tenten ate in silence, only Sakura knew about what happened.
Ino: Hey Ten-chan, why you're so quite?
Tenten: I had always been a quite person.
Ino: But not this quite, had no one else noticed this? Ino looked at everyone sitting to the table.
Naruto: Yeah you're so quite.
Shikamaru: Everyone is so quite compared to you, bah.
Naruto: WHAT DID YOU SAY??? Dump ass (he said it quietly so Ebisu don't hear him)
Ino: DON'T YOU DARE SAY THAT TO SHIKAMARU. I'LL KILL YOU UZUMAKI NARUTO
Shikamaru: Oh god, they're so troublesome. And he rose, took his empty tray and left the group trying to calm the two ultrasounds. During the process Kiba got knocked to the ground and Tenten's spoon broke and Sakura's hair been pulled.
THE MUSIC CLASS (on Wednesdays they've it after lunch)
"Hello everybunny!!! Hope you worked on the piece I gave you last week" Kurenai-sensai said with unusual rush.
"YEAH" the class answered.
"Ok plz pass the papers to me" and the students did what she said.
They played some classic music, then Kurenai-Sensei talked about the history of the modern music.
"Ok guyz tell me about the kinds of modern music that you like… Ino-chan"
"I love Hard Rock, I just love to shout and scream with them" Ino said Of course, what a troublesome woman Shikamaru thought.
"Very nice, I used to listen to the Rolling Stones when I was as your age" Kurenai-Sensei said.
"I love Rock too, Kurenai-Sensei" Naruto said with a smile, and Kurenai smiled back at him.
"I love the Rap music" Kiba shouted from the back of the class. And the class spent the following 15 minutes discussing and talking about their favorite songs and bands, and before the end of the period by 10 minutes Kurenai said "Ok, it was nice to have this discussion, but I've to leave now 'cuz the teachers got a meeting, and the next period will be free for all the classes, so plz behave yourselves, bye and see ya on Friday". Kurenai walked out of the class room leaving the students cheering and jumping.
Most of the students left the class, but the 4 girls, Sasuke, Neji, Naruto, Kiba, Kankuro, Shikamaru and Gaara stayed behind.
Sasuke, Neji and Kankuro were sitting in the back corner, while Kiba, Shikamaru and Naruto were sitting with the girls, Gaara was sitting alone at the back checking some notes.
A lot of gazes crossed the room.
Sakura looked at Sasuke.
Sasuke looked at sakura.
Sakura looked away.
Ino looked at Sasuke. Then looked at Sakura.
Shikamaru looked at Ino. Then looked outside the window and yawned.
Neji looked at Tenten. Then talked with Sasuke, and looked again at her.
Tenten looked at Neji and no one looked away for some seconds. Then Tenten looked away.
Kankuro was looking at Gaara.
Gaara looked at Mozart's picture on the wall. Then he looked back at the notes he was holding. While he was looking down he took a quick glimpse of Sakura who didn't noticed.
After about 15 minutes Sasuke and his gang left the classroom.
"What's wrong with those guys? Sasuke always wear dark clothes and he never talks, that Hyuuga boy with those eyes he got, he make me feel as if he can look inside me, and Kankuro is strong and weird, aaaaaaah I'll never figure them out" kiba said.
Moments later Naruto and Hinata left the group. Then the rest of them decided to go out and sit on the grass in the back yard. But when they gathered their belongings and got ready to go Sakura said "I can't find my notebook" "Had you looked in your bag carefully?" Tenten asked and Sakura looked inside her bag again "No it's not here, maybe I just forgot it in the locker, I'll go check it and catch up with you, go ahead" Sakura said. "Ok but don't be late" Ino said and they all walked out of the classroom.
"Haruno-san" a quiet deep male voice said from behind Sakura who was looking for her notebook in her locker.
Sakura turned around to see Gaara. "Here" he said handing her the lost notebook.
"Oh thank you, I thought that I won't find it"
"Hn" Gaara replied. He put his hands in his dark blue jeans pockets, looked at the ground and said "Haruno-san" "yes?" Sakura said OMG he knows my name, and he can talk!!!! I never thought that I'll hear his voice one day. "I was wondering if you would like… to go… " Gaara said with difficulty. "to the dance with you?" Sakura asked.
"Hn"
"…"
"…"
"Yeah I would love to" she said and smiled to him.
"good" Gaara said and walked away.
He asked me to go to the dance with him
Yeah I heard that
OMG
is it a good thing or a bad thing?
You're going to the dance with a guy then it sure a good thing
But if Sasuke-kun saw me with Gaara-kun he'll think that…
STOP thinking about Sasuke-kun he don't even care about you
But Ino said that…
"hey Haruno" Temari appeared from nowhere.
"What do you want Temari?"
"Let's sit somewhere I need to talk to you" Temari said and start walking.
What the hell this girl wants to talk to me about?
Follow her and see
I don't like her and I don't want to talk to her.
"Haruno, I don't have all the day so move your ass!"
"And I don't have to go with you or talk to you, bitch" Sakura fired back.
"Plz, it's important" Temari looked so serious.
Now the two girls are sitting in the empty History classroom faceing each other.
They sat in silence for some seconds then…
"Are you going to the dance with Gaara?"
How did she know?!!! She wasn't around!
Then ask her how did she know, idiot.
"Yeah" Sakura said with a surprised face.
I told you to ask her not to answer her, are you deaf?
SHUT UP!!
Temari sighed and rubbed her arm, then looked back at Sakura.
"He had been through a lot, plz try to understand him" Temari said with a voice Sakura had never heard before, it was… … full of love.
"Been through a lot???!!! What do you mean, and how the hell you know? No one knows anything about that guy!!!"
"Ok, he's my cousin, but he's more of a brother to me" Temari answered.
…
…
Temari looked out of the window as she was searching for the right words to start a story.
"Gaara may seem to be a lonely self-centered guy, that live in his own dark world… but if you got to know him well you'll know that he's a nice guy, barely talks but a gentleman"
…
"Gaara's mom died just after his birth…" Temari looked so sad, and Sakura just covered her mouth by her hand and looked at Temari.
"Then my mom who's his mother's sister, took care of him. She raised him with us me and my brother Kankuro, we grew up together as siblings more than as cousins. His father used to visit him at our house and take him sometimes to their home…"
"He was a happy child… on the face but not inside… when he's not with us you can only find him in his room sitting in the corner with no lights on… sitting in the dark… alone" a tear came down from one of Temar's eyes, she rose her head, looked at the ceiling, took a deep breath then continued.
"When we become older we entered the elementary school as any normal kid, but Gaara asked his father to let him study at home, his dad did what Gaara wanted. After three years that happy childish face faded, Gaara became more lonely he even stopped talking to us, till now he just talk to us occasionally, …"
FLASH BACK
12 year old Gaara sat beside his aunt and in front of his father. There were a dead silent you can even hear the movement of the clock's arms in the hall way. Finally Gaara's father sighed and looked at his only son who was sitting politely looking at his hands that were placed on top of his knees.
"Son…"
Gaara rose his head and looked at his Father's kind eyes.
"I fulfilled all your wishes for the past 12 years even they were not so many for a long time like this… and I wanna talk about your last wishes. Before 6 years you asked me to let you study at home, and I let you do what you wanted. Now I want you to do what I want."
Gaara's aunt rose her head and looked at Mr. Kuriyama. While Gaara stared at his hands again.
"Son…"
"um" Gaara replied.
"I want you to study the next 6 years with the other kids"
Gaara looked at his Father with a great shock as if his own father wanted to murder him.
Mr. Kuriyama stood up and walked toward his son, sat on the table in front of him and put his hands over Gaara's shoulders and looked straight at Gaara's eyes and said "Son you had grown up to be a lonely kid, why? I hadn't see you smile for a long time. What are you afraid of?"
…
"When you think about the world outside the door of your two homes what do you feel?"
…
…
"I feel…"
"I feel as if I don't belong there"
Gaara's aunt started to cry in silence.
"You think that you can't find a person that'll understand you in this cruel world right?"
"um"
"You're my son and you've got the name of Kuriyama. Your grandfathers and my father and I NEVER lived in shadows, they all been great men and people still know them. They didn't belong to this world… the world belonged to them. And you're a member of this family, Go face the world son! Go write your destiney under the rays of the sun, go show the world who is Kuriyama Gaara… … make me and your mother a prouder parents , Gaara" And Mr. Kuriyama hugged his son, and Gaara hugged him back.
Some moments later Gaara's aunt took his hand and said "It may take you a hundred years to find a real friend, but a real friend stays with you for the rest of your life" and she gave him a big smile and a kiss on his forehead.
Finally when it was time for his father to leave the whole family (Gaara's aunt and her husband and their two kids) stood in the door way to say bye. Mr. Kuriyama looked at the 3 kids before him put his hands one on Temari's head and the other on Kankuro's and said "Help my boy to face the world" and smiled at them, Temari nod with a smile but Kankuro said "I'm sure he can face it by himself" and looked at Gaara then at Mr. Kuriyama and added "But I can give him some life advices" in the 'god father (Marlon Brando)' way. Everyone laughed and Gaara smiled for the first time in 3 whole years.
A month later Gaara stood under the bright sun and thought It's so bright out here, I can't survive outside the dark. Then felt kankuro's hand slap him gently on his shoulder, he looked back and found a familiar face smiling at him in this new world, Gaara looked at the sky and felt safe mom you can finally see me, he start walking with I'm a Kuriyama crossing his mind.
BACK TO THE PRESENT
"I'm surprised that Gaara decided to talk AND ask a girl to go with him to a dance" Temari smiled at Sakura. And Sakura gave Temari a weak smile.
"He cares about you" Temari said.
"WHAT???"
"He didn't say, but I can understand him"
"HOW???"
"One day we sat to have lunch together, just me and him. Then you walked in the cafeteria, I saw Gaara take a glimpse at you then his lips parted."
"And you knew that he cares for me 'cuz his lips parted?" Sakura asked with surpise.
Temari nod her head and smiled. Sakura blushed and felt her face turn crimson red.
That Temari girl is not as bad as I thought
Yeah she got a heart after all.
"Hey pinky where had you been, we wait so long, and Tenten thought that you had been kidnapped" Ino said.
"Why you're inside I was coming out to you" Sakura said.
"We got only 5 minutes till the next class" Shikamaru said.
"Hey what's with that smile?" Ino said touching Sakura's cheek by her finger.
"What smile?"
"Oh yeah you're smiling, just smiling, and you can't stop smiling!" Tenten said.
"I don't know may be I'm happy"
"And why you're happy???" Kiba asked and smiled in a girly way and batted his eyelashes.
"You look silly, dump ass" Shikamaru said and walked away.
"I'LL KICK YOUR ASS CRY BABY" Kiba said and went after Shikamaru.
" Ah boys!" Tenten said.
"Really really tell me what's make you this happy?" Ino asked Sakura and held her arm.
"Ok, fine I'm going to the dace with a nice guy, piglet" Sakura said. Ino and Tenten sighed in surprise.
"We must find Hinata and tell her, but who is the guy?" Tenten said.
"Sasuke-kun?" Ino asked.
"Nope, forget all about Sasuke-kun" Sakura said and waved by her hand.
"Then… that hot guy from our History class?" Ino asked again.
"Nope, you'll know Saturday night at the dance" Sakura said and walked toward her locket to take her stuff for the next class. Suddenly she looked back at the disappointed girls and said "he's G the Goth as you say Tenny" and wincked. The girls looked at each other in surprise and said "NO WAY, HE NEVER TALKS!!!".
Chapter 2 finished!!! My neck hurts a lot. When I started to write this chapter I never thought that I'll make Gaara ask Sakura to be his date. So what do u think about the whole idea of Gaara x Sakura? Waiting for your reviews BYE!!! C ya soon.