Chapter Two: A Game?

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Speaking "Blah blah"

Thinking 'Blah blah'

Inner 'Blah blah'

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The girls walked away, leaving all the guys surprised at what had just happened. They all looked at Gaara, wondering what he was going to do. If they knew anything, it was that Gaara would not under any circumstances, let her get away with that. Gaara had a look of anger on his face, they seemed to be getting along just great.

"You're not going to let her get away with that, are ya?" asked Kiba, already knowing that Gaara wasn't going to.

"There's no way in hell," answered Gaara darkly, clenching his fists.

The guys decided to stay away from him for a bit, Gaara had his fists balled, ready to hurt someone. Of course he wouldn't hurt Sakura, she was a girl and he didn't hurt girls. He may be an asshole at times but, he would never hit a girl.

"We have to go over to Gai-sensei," said Shikamaru looking at all of the guys.

Without a word, they all made their way towards their teacher. All the girls were with Anko sensei. After gym, it was lunch time and that is where they all went next.

Everyone had already left to lunch, everyone except Hinata and Sakura. They were taking their time on getting there. They were too busy becoming great friends.

"So, you don't have a boyfriend?" asked Hinata.

"Na, I did have a boyfriend in my old school," answered Sakura. "But, he was too much of a jackass so, I had to break up with him. I couldn't take his crap anymore."

"Oh, sorry to hear that," responded Hinata as she gave Sakura an apologetic look. Sakura smiled softly.

"Ha, it's okay," said Sakura. "You apologize for things that you shouldn't. Haha"

Hinata turned pink of embarrassment.

"I know, sorry if it bugs you," said Hinata.

Sakura giggled.

"There you go again with the apologizing," laughed Sakura. "Don't worry about it, it's okay with me. I just think you're being too nice. I don't get mad at anyone, unless their being an ass like your little friend Gaara."

Hinata smiled and continued walking down the hall with Sakura towards the cafeteria.

"He's okay," said Hinata. "You just need to try to stay on his good side."

Sakura nearly rolled her eyes.

"I don't care about staying on his good side, or staying on his bad side," scoffed Sakura. "If he wants to be an ass and not treat me with respect, then I will do the same. No one walks over me, and no one tells me what to do. Well, if they know what's good for them."

"Wow, Sakura-chan, I admire your confidence and determination," said Hinata. "Although, I really do think you should try to get along with him. After all, you will have to be around him a lot if you're going to hang out with me and the others."

Sakura shook her head. "I wont say anything, as long as he doesn't start."

They walked into the huge cafeteria. The walls were a light shade of blue, there were a few windows near the back, and there were doors at the back of the cafeteria, that led to the fields. The cafeteria was already full, many people laughing and talking all around the lunch room. There were round, dark blue colored, tables nearly everywhere around the room.

'I never knew a cafeteria could look so clean....'thought Sakura as she got on line right after Hinata, to get her lunch. The line went by quickly, and Sakura got a hamburger with fries on the side and Iced Tea. Hinata got a salad and apple juice.

"You don't each much do ya?" asked Sakura. Hinata shook her head and they made their way to the lunch table, where the others were already sitting and eating at.

When Hinata arrived at the table with Sakura, Gaara quickly looked up at Sakura and gave her a glare.

"What is shedoing here?" asked Gaara, as his glare got harder and more intense. Sakura set her tray of food down on the table and sat down on a chair. She faced his glare, with a glare of her own.

"What does it look like?" asked Sakura as she rolled her eyes and went on with eating her hamburger. "I'm eating,"

"I'm not stupid," said Gaara.

"Well then why would you ask?" asked Sakura as she continued eating her hamburger.

"Eh, so how do you like the school so far?" Naruto cut in, wanting to avoid a huge fight between Gaara and Sakura.

"Meh, it's okay," answered Sakura. "Far more better than my old school, I'll give ya that much. Cleaner, bigger, just one slight problem."

"That would be....?" asked Tenten, her brown chocolate eyes showing confusion.

"All of the sluts, and a certain asshole in this school," said Sakura, looking at Gaara when she said a certain asshole. Gaara's hard jade eyes met with Sakura's Emerald Orbs.

'You got nice eyes but, I still don't like you,' was the thought going through both of their minds.

"Well, you're not like all the sluts at this school," said Gaara. Sakura was about to thank him for that one compliment but, he continued. "Cuz unlike them, you're not on a diet. Your eating hamburgers, what are you trying to do? Blow up into a fat balloon?"

Sakura glared at him and threw the hamburger at his face. With ketchup and everything on it. The hamburger slid down to his shirt. This girl kept amusing him, and of course, getting him angrier by the second.

"Just cuz you're a girl and you eat hamburgers, it doesn't instantly mean you're fat, or that you're going to get fat. Ugh, jerks like you really piss me off." said Sakura.

Gaara took Naruto's can of Raspberry Snapple and threw the liquid all over Sakura, from across the table, wetting Hinata a bit in the process.

Sakura pushed back on her chair and got up from the table.

"Ah!" screeched Sakura as she looked down at her shirt. "You ruined my shirt!"

"You made ketchup go all over my shirt, you don't see me complaining," said Gaara.

"Dammit, I hate you! I hate you! I hate you! I hope you freakin die!" said Sakura as she walked out of the cafeteria angrily.

'I guess I'm going to have some fun this year,'thought Gaara. He also got up and left the cafeteria, he had to clean his shirt too.

There was an awkward Silence, and Naruto being Naruto decided to break that silence.

"I think they really hate each other," said Naruto. They all turned to look at him.

"No shit," said Tenten. "Ya think?"

Naruto shrugged, "I never knew there was someone that would actually go against Gaara like that. Ha, this is going to be an interesting year. Two stubborn teenagers, arguing everyday for the rest of their life. I wonder how far they can keep this up."

They all just shrugged and went back to eating.

With Gaara & Sakura

On his way to the bathroom, Gaara saw Sakura storming through the halls, looking lost. When she saw him, she went up to him, still looking at him with a look of hatred.

"Someone looks lost," taunted Gaara.

"Ugh, shut the hell up!" snapped Sakura."I hate having to ask you but, you're the only one around at the moment. Where's the girls' bathroom?"

"Hn, find it on your own," said Gaara as he walked away.

Sakura's mouth widened in surprise. 'I didn't think he was this much of a bastard!'

Sakura went after Gaara and grabbed his wrist to turn him around.

"Tell me where it is!" demanded Sakura.

"Don't touch me," said Gaara.

"Then tell me where the damn bathroom is!" repeated Sakura frustrated.

Gaara didn't want to shove her hand of his wrist, because he didn't like doing anything to hurt girls. 'Oh well, this girl is asking for it!'

He pushed Sakura against the wall, not so hard as to hurt her but, just enough to surprise her and make her loosen her grip. He held her two wrists in each of his hands, with a grip hard enough so that she wouldn't escape. Sakura was surprised and confused at what he was doing. He looked her in the eye, their faces were only centimeters away. If someone saw them at that moment, they would think that Gaara was about to kiss her.

"Don't demand me to do anything," hissed Gaara.

"I can demand you all I fucking want!" said Sakura in response. While trying to get loose from his tight grip, and away from his handsome face, cuz their closeness was making her nervous.

"You're new to this school, you don't know anything about anyone around here, especially not me," said Gaara. "I warned you about messing with me but, you think you actually have a chance against me."

"You act as if you know a little something about me too," said Sakura annoyed. She was fed up with talking to him, all she wanted was to know where the damn bathroom was, and already she was caught up in a weird situation.

"Just stay out of my way Haruno," warned Gaara, his tone still caused Sakura to melt, yet she still stayed looking defiant.

"As long as you stay out of mine," said Sakura. "I just thought of something. You say I have no chance against you but, clearly it's you who has no chance against me, let's make this a bit more fun and interesting."

"What do you have in mind?" asked Gaara suspiciously. He had already released her, making it so that she was free to move and go wherever she wanted.

"Um, I guess we can call it a gamesince I don't feel like making bets this year. We will see who wins first, whoever wins, is the better one, the stronger one, the more fearful one. You see how neither of us let the other get away with something without a fight? Well, whoever is the first one to give up, throughout this whole school year, is obviously the loser, and the winner is the better one. Got it?" asked Sakura.

"How will you know if the other gives up? You're not going to say I give up, it sounds a bit retarded," said Gaara, now interested in what Sakura had to say.

"Well, the first one who finally gives up on arguing with the other. The one who admits, that the other has surpassed them somehow, and they realize the other truly is better and has done something someone else has never been able to do to them. When you feel weak and know that you can't continue arguing with me and I'm so special cuz no one ever beat you before, is when you give up. Which is going to be you, by the way" said Sakura.

"Yeah, you wish," said Gaara. "It's a deal, the game is on."

Sakura stuck her hand out, Gaara shook it. It was official, the game has begun.

Gaara's hand was surprisingly warm, Sakura noticed how her small hand fit perfectly in his. She quickly pulled away, not wanting to blush or anything.

"Yeah so, can you tell me where it is?" asked Sakura. "Now that you have wasted about ten minutes of my time, just so that I could go clean my shirt, that you spilled juice all over."

Gaara smirked and shook his head. He point down the hall, and there was a door, it had a picture of a girl in front.

"Oh, haha, thanks" muttered Sakura as she walked over to the door.

'There's something about her....'thought Gaara as he walked over to the Boys' Bathroom.

Time Skip: End Of School Day

"Have you guys cleared up your differences?" Kiba asked Sakura and Gaara.

"No," said Gaara.

"Not at all," answered Sakura. Gaara and Sakura turned to look at each other, both giving each other a murderous glare.

Kiba and Naruto both sighed and slapped their foreheads.

"Oh great," muttered Kiba.

"Here we go again," muttered Naruto.

Sakura rolled her eyes as Gaara and Sakura started arguing.

"We would probably have cleared things up if you didn't spill the juice all over me!" said Sakura.

"I wouldn't have thrown the juice at you, if you hadn't thrown your hamburger at me" fought back Gaara.

They were both standing right in front of each other now. Sakura had her hands on her hips, and she was arguing with Gaara, again. They have been all day, in every class that they had together.

"I wouldn't even have thrown the damn hamburger at you if you didn't bug me about diets! Gosh, I am not fat!" said Sakura tapping her stomach. 'I'm not fat, am I? Ah!'

"I wouldn't have said that if you didn't call me an asshole," said Gaara.

"Why wouldn't I call you an asshole though? It's the damn truth, we started fighting all because of you. You know your an asshole, why get mad about it?" asked Sakura doing motions with her hands, saying it as if it were obvious that he's an asshole.

"She is actually right ya know..." said Kiba.

'Whoa, Gaara hasn't talked this much since....ever!' thought Naruto as he looked over at Sakura. 'He must be really into arguing with her!'

"Shut up," snapped Gaara, still keeping his eyes on Sakura.

"Great, now we have more fighting to deal with," muttered Shikamaru. "First it was just Kiba and Naruto, now there's Gaara and Sakura too!"

"Your always sleeping so, it shouldn't matter to you!" said Ino, rolling her eyes at her boyfriend's complaints.

"Yeah but, their arguing prevents me from sleeping," said Shikamaru.

"Oh of course," said Ino.

"I don't expect you to understand, you're just as troublesome as them," muttered Shikamaru.

"Say what?!" asked Ino as she punched Shikamaru on the arm lightly.

"Ugh, all of you really need to learn when to shut up!" said Tenten irritated. Then she looked over at Sakura. "Are you allowed to hang out with us? Or do you have to go home first to your parents or something?"

"No, I don't live with my parents," answered Sakura. "I live alone."

"Oh, so you wanna hang out with us today?" offered Ino, smiling brightly at her.

"Sure," said Sakura.

"Great.."muttered Gaara.

"Shut up you ass," said Sakura.

"Why don't you try and make me?" asked Gaara.

"Ugh, do you people ever quit?!" asked Ino.

"Seriously, you guys just met and already you wanna kill each other!" said Tenten. Neji had his arms wrapped around her, with his head in the crook of her neck, trying to block out everyone's voice.

"Let's just go already," said Neji as he brought his head up from Tenten's neck.

"Where are we going?" asked Sakura, forgetting all about her argument with Gaara. Her attention was now fully focused on everyone else as she turned to talk to them.

Gaara didn't even know why he agreed to this little game of hers. Maybe it was because of his ego and pride. It was also probably because, it would make his life a bit more interesting.

"Let's just go to Sunava Park," insisted Tenten. "I just feel like relaxing today."

"Finally, someone feels the same way," muttered Shikamaru.

Tenten looked at him and rolled her eyes.

"Please, you feel that way every damn day, your so lazy! Ino, your boyfriend has problems!" said Tenten as she looked over at Ino.

Ino sighed and looked at the ground. "I know,"

"That's great Ino, thanks for defending me," Shikamaru muttered sarcastically.

Ino went over to Shikamaru and gave him a hug and a smile.

"She's right, what am I suppose to say to that?" asked Ino half-heartedly.

Sakura looked over at Shikamaru, he didn't really seem to care about her not defending him.

'He might not have any problems but, he sure is lazy' thought Sakura, looking at his face of boredom.

At The Park

Everyone except Gaara was playing football out on the field. They needed and extra player so that the teams could be even since Kiba left, he had plans. Neji and Naruto started throwing the football at each other, playing catch on the field.

The parkt hat they were in was beautiful, at the very middle of the park, there was a huge white fountain, with water spraying out. There were benches around it, so you can just sit there and enjoy the view. There were beautiful flowers everywhere, and there were many trees. Then there was a little playground are for all the little kids. They only had a field though, it's okay considering the fact that not all parks have one. The field was quite huge anyway, the clean fresh grass just made you wanna roll on it.

"That's not fair, we want to play to ya know!" Tenten complained to her boyfriend.

"Well then go find Gaara and convince him to play," butted in Naruto.

"Why don't you go find him?" asked Ino harshly while glaring at him.

Naruto looked at her as if she were stupid. He made motions with his hand, gesturing from Neji to himself.

"Don't you see I'm kinda busy here?" said Naruto.

"Ugh" said Ino annoyed, about to pummel him.

"Calm down, I'll go look for him," insisted Sakura.

"You won't convince him, if anything you'll give him more of a reason for not wanting to play," said Naruto.

"Yeah...." agreed Hinata. "You guys argue a lot, and it's the first day. I can't imagine what's going to happen during the next few weeks."

Sakura shook her head.

"I can convince him, if he won't come, then I'm going to force him to come," said Sakura. "Simple as that."

"Well, seh can actually force him to," said Tenten. "Well the only one out of all of us."

"Go look for him, hurry up cuz I'm tired of waiting!" said Ino.

Sakura ran off the field in search for Gaara. She really couldn't find him anywhere, so she walked over to the side of the park that only had flowers and trees. There, she saw Gaara, resting on a hammock. A hammock is like a hanging bed made of canvas, or netted cords with straps at the end. The straps go round the trees and then you tie your hammock on to the loops. He looked peaceful, resting there.

'I wonder why he's resting right now. He doesn't seem like a lazy guy like Shikamaru'thought Sakura. Once Sakura stepped closer to him, his eyes shot open. 'I guess he's a light sleeper,'

"What are you doing here?" asked Gaara.

"Calm down, the others sent me to look for you cuz we need another player to make the teams even," said Sakura. "By the way, why were you sleeping, napping, or resting, whatever you want to call it."

"I have Insomnia, so I'm a bit tired every morning, and evening," answered Gaara, not getting up from the hammock, he just stayed laying there, with his arms crossed behind his head. "As for going to play with you guys, no, I don't want to."

'Whoa, he has Insomnia? I wonder why.....could it be stress?'wondered Sakura. 'Any incident, nightmares, something? Eh, I'll ask him once I'm in good terms with him, although that must really suck.'

"Sorry about the whole sleeping disorder thing but," paused Sakura, giving him a hard look. "You're going to play with us, like it or not. We, well not we, the guys need you to be on their team and you're going to come! Don't you like playing football?"

"You're a girl, you shouldn't like playing football," said Gaara.

Sakura rolled her eyes, "As if being a girl has anything to do with it, get your ass up!"

She walked over to him, and then ended up tripping on a root of the tree, and ended up falling onto of Gaara. A lot of weight on one side, instantly turned over the hammock, making Gaara and Sakura fall of. Sakura's back hit the hard ground.

"Ow, that hurt," muttered Sakura, she was going to get up to ease the pain on her back but, she couldn't. Gaara had fallen on top of her, and their position..........well, it didn't look so good.

Gaara was laying on top of Sakura, his legs were at either side of Sakura's legs. He had his elbows on the ground, keeping his face a few centimeters away from Sakura. Again, it looked like they were about to kiss.

'Ah, not this situation again!'Sakura screamed in her mind. 'Get off! Get off! Get off!'

Sakura was blushing, and it was oh so very noticeable to Gaara, this made him smirk. He thought, that maybe he should have a little fun before getting off of her.

He leaned his head down, making his lips go right near her ear, every time he spoke, his lips practically nibbled her earlobe, causing her to get nervous.

"I bet you did this on purpose," Gaara whispered huskily into her ear. "You purposely tripped, just so I can be on top of you. If you wanted me, you should have just told me,"

Sakura's eyes widened, "What the hell are you talking about? I did not do this on purpose, and I do not want you, at all!"

Sakura was getting really nervous, and Gaara could tell, his plan was working.

'I think I found out the way to win, though it might take a while' smirked Gaara.

Sakura looked at him, wondering why he was smirking.

"Can you, get off of me already?" asked Sakura, trying not to stammer.

'Eh, hot boy on top of me, whispering in my ear with a hot, deep, husky voice? Ah, that is SO not comfortable for me!'thought Sakura.

"You don't really want me to do that, SaKuRa," continued to tease Gaara.

Well, he was right about that, she didn't really want him to stop but, she was currently in a war with him, and she could not start liking the enemy. Not now, not ever.

She tried pushing him off, but hell is was way too strong.

'This is the first say I met him, and already I've been caught up in the most unimaginable situations!'thought Sakura.

Her eyes went wide whens he felt a pair of lips on hers. Gaara had kissed her!

'What the fuck?!'screamed Sakura's mind. 'Why did he just kiss me? Why are his lips still over mine? Why are his lips so soft? And.......WHY THE HELL AM I KISSING BACK?!'

Sakura had no idea of what just happened but, her body took control, and she was fervently kissing Gaara back, her hands were ruffling through his hair as they continued to kiss. Gaara had not expected her to kiss back but, it felt good so he just went along with it. He bit her lower lip gently so she could open her mouth a bit, giving his tongue access to explore all it wanted to. Their tongues intertwined and the two teens were having a hot make-out session.

"Whoa!" said Naruto as he saw the two teens make-out. "First day, first you fight and now you make-out, yeah that makes a lot of sense to me."

It was like they didn't hear a single word Naruto had just said, because they didn't stop. They continued making out, as if it was their last time together.

"Holy crap, this is getting way too intense for me! Don't worry I won't tell anyone your dirty little secret!" said Naruto as he ran away.

After a while, Gaara and Sakura finally pulled apart, because of their lack of oxygen. He took in her irresistible sight, her lips parted slightly, trying to regain her breath.

"What the hell just happened?" asked Sakura a bit frightened, as Gaara finally got off of her, and she got up on her own.

Gaara smirked and shook his head.

'This may be cuz I wanna win but, damn, she sure can kiss,'thought Gaara as he licked his lips. Making Sakura's eyes go wider, her blush to spread faster, and her mind to go crazy.

"I- We, holy crap, we did not just-"

"Let's go and play already," muttered Gaara as he walked away, heading towards the field. Sakura had her hand placed over her heart, wish was pounding against her chest rapidly.

'I can't believe.....I just made out with the enemy,'thought Sakura. 'Holy crap, why did he do it? What's he up to? Ah, though I must admit, BEST Make Out, ever! Eh hopefully we can just forget about this, because I wasn't even in control of my actions at that time!'

When Sakura was calm, and her blush had calmed down a bit, she walked towards the field to. Everyone was sitting there, looking bored. Except for Naruto, he looked so happy for some reason, and his face read, trouble.

"Ah, how did you convince him to come?!" asked Tenten as her eyes sparked up happily, they have been waiting nearly twenty minutes to play!

"Oh, it didn't take much for her to convince them. She was able to convince him the old fashion way, right Sakura?" smirked Naruto.

'Holy crap, he saw! I'm sure he did! Ah!'thought Sakura.

She decided to just glare at him and make him shut his mouth.

"I didn't do any of the convincing, he convinced himself!" said Sakura.

Naruto just laughed and shook his head.

Everyone else just looked confused. Gaara cracked his knuckles, making Naruto quit his laughter and shut up immediatley. He did not want to get killed by Gaara.

Sakura couldn't even look at Gaara, she was looking everywhere, but she always avoided him, and avoided making any sort of eye contact. Gaara noticed this, and this made him smirk and shake his head.

'What an interesting one you are Haruno,'thought Gaara. 'This is actually fun, I haven't made out with much girls but, I'm pretty sure you beat the rest. Now you will be all nervous around me, ha, seems like I'm already winning. I know you're confused but, you're smart, you will find out eventually. Well you are the one who made this game so, let the games begin.'

A/N: You guys are getting lucky! =] Since, I'm still on vacation ((which ends tomorrow ='[)) I have been able to update rapidly for you people. Which is why you had me update three days in a row! =] Well, if you include the other story, then yeah!

I hope you enjoyed the chapter! =] It was actually quite fun to write. But, the other story is up to a really good part to!((which I need to start writing right now before I get killed since it was a cliffy! ;X))

Haha, well REVIEW, and I will update once I can! Thanks!