Hey, I'm back! Sry it took so long to update, I've been uber busy with a TON of stuff for school and such.

Disclaimer: The master Masashi Kishimoto-sama created Naruto, although if we could make a deal......., I wonder....


Chapter 2- Hanging Out

I went home and grabbed a pair of flannel pants, and a black tank top, along with some music I promised to bring over.

When I walked back over to the house and opened the door.......to find a place that looked heavenly. It was a REALLY nice house, even on the inside. In the entrance, there was beautiful tile that looked like sand, but was incredibly smooth and glossy. Past that, there was a living room that had a 52'' plasma screen TV with …… diamonds?!?!

'WOW, you certainly know how to pick your friends.' Inner Sakura muttered. 'They must be loaded to afford that…'

The rest of the room was really nice too. It was carpeted and had HUGE couches and a few lounge chairs. I heard some music coming from a little further in the house and downstairs.

I scaled down the spiral staircase that was carpeted, to find another room where everyone was hanging out in. This room looked a lot like the one upstairs, except it was a little bit smaller. It had a goldish creamy carpet, with red furniture strewn about. The TV looked a tad more pliable down here, but still as expensive. Naruto and Kiba were playing Call of Duty 4 on the X-box, and I could hear Naruto muttering about 'damn dogs', and 'Kiba is such a cheater'.

Kankuro had his hood down, and was watching the TV, probably waiting for a turn to play. Shikamaru was supposedly watching them play, but was really snoring his head off on the couch.

Temari was over by the island with Hinata and TenTen and started motioning excitedly to come over there when I had walked in. I started to go over there when I noticed Gaara wasn't there.

"Hey guys! Where's Gaara?" "Oh, He's just upstairs getting some stuff for us" Temari replied.

TenTen pulled me over to where a sheet of paper was laid out on the island. "This is our plan of attack."

"You really shouldn't have said yes to going shopping with them." Gaara said as he walked down the steps.


TenTen and Temari just started giggling nervously to what he said. "No, it's ok. I need some new clothes." Sakura put in, to make them stop sounding like maniacs.

The girls then spent the next hour devising their 'plan of attack' on the mall.

"Alright everyone," Temari shouted while jumping up the table. "Were going to get up 7 o' clock sharp to get ready, and we're leaving at 0800 for the mall, you got that, you maggots?" She said, going into complete commando mode.

Everyone nervously nodded their heads, a cheese puff dropped out of Naruto's mouth, and Gaara just sat on the couch, completely unaffected.

"Now, LET'S PAR-TAY!" screamed Temari as she jumped off the table and music started blasting out of some surround sound speakers.

'Let's Start a Riot' by Three Day's Grace started to play and everyone started jumping up and down to the music.

A couple hours later, they were all jumped out and hyped up on soda, so they decided to watch a movie. TenTen and Hinata told Sakura that it was the guys turn to pick out a dvd, since last time they made them sit through Mama Mia.

So the girls went upstairs to get changed while the guys set everything up. After about 10 minutes, the girls walked back down with some sleeping bags in their hands.

TenTen had on a dark green tank top that had a little kunai in the corner, with a pair of army green colored sweatpants.

Hinata had a light purple T-shirt that had a little butterfly in the corner, with light blue pajama shorts on.

Temari had on a burnt red tank top with a fishnet shirt on top, with purplish blue pajama pants on with a little fan on the thigh.

Sakura had on a black tank top on that had a little cherry on the corner, and had red pajama pants on.

They all came down the stairs and threw the sleeping bags on the floor. There were plenty of rooms upstairs, but they all wanted to spend time together. They saw the guys smirking in the couch, and all slowly walked towards them to sit down.

'Their up to something…' Sakura thought. 'Yea, probably thinking about our smoking hot bodies' Inner Sakura retorted.' Sakura repressed that thought, grimacing at how stupid her inner self could be sometimes.

They all sat down in the extra spots, where they all fit in somewhere. Gaara was on the end with Sakura right next to him, then Temari and Shikamaru, then TenTen, then Naruto and Hinata, with Kiba and Kankuro on the other 2 chairs near the couch.

The girls were still weary of what the boys picked when Kiba hit play and the title screen popped up, as 'The Strangers'.

The majority of the movie was dark and at the parts where things jumped out, all the girls jumped. Through most of the movie the girls closed their eyes. Shikamaru was holding Temari almost the whole movie and Hinata was glued to Naruto's arm. Sakura wasn't very fond of scary movies, and at times, she grabbed onto Gaara unknowingly.

At the end, the girls shot up and went upstairs into the kitchen.

"Ttthat was ssssomettthing I'm nevvver sitting through agggain." Hinata stuttered out.

"I agree with you on that." Temari said.

"Soooo, what's with you and Shikamaru and you and Naruto?" Sakura wondered.

Both Temari and Hinata blushed at that, but TenTen saved them. "They're both going out with them, guess I forgot to tell you that before, oops, my bad." She said embarrassed.

"Ahh, I see now, when's the wedding?" Sakura joked around as TenTen and her laughed while Temari and Hinata blushed while grabbing some sodas. With that, they walked back into the room with the snacks and drinks where they all sat around it in a circle.

Hinata then shouted out during the silence of munchings, "How bout we play spin the bottle truth or dare style?" and she got a chorus of yea and sure.

Sakura went first and the bottle landed on Temari. "Truth or Dare?" "Truth." To that Sakura sighed because she had such a great dare in place for her to. "OK, what else do you guys do except hang out like this then."

"Well, we have a band so that's how we all started hanging out, Kiba drums, Kankuro and Shika do the soundboard and are our managers of sorts, TenTen choreographs, and tells us where to stand, and helps set up the equipment with me, Naruto is on the base guitar, and Gaara is the lead guitarist and singer, although we're looking for another singer."

Hinata got a bright idea and added in, "Hey Sakura, do you know how to sing?" "Umm, well I do write my own songs and play a little guitar, and I sing in my spare time too." "Do you want to be our singer then?" All the girls shouted at once. "Sure that would be great" Sakura replied 'at least now I can spend more time with my friends and not even have to spend all my spare time in that house.' She thought.

After they all agreed to let Sakura into the band, and told her they practice after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays, they played a little more of their game.

Shika got Naruto to go to one of their neighbor's house in only his boxers and give them a hug when they opened the door. Temari had to make out with Shika. Hinata stuck to truths, Kiba had to go drink toilet water, TenTen had to do a handstand and get a bulls eye on a target with a kunai before she could get down.

At the end, TenTen dared Sakura to kiss Gaara, when everyone wasn't paying attention to the game. Sakura wanted to, just to see if he felt the same attraction and pull she did for him.

'Come on girl, get your move on already, or I'll do it for you.' Inner Sakura threatened. Sakura could feel her legs starting to move, but not on her own accord. 'Alright, alright, I'll do it.'

So she got up and went around the circle and gave him a light peck on the mouth, after some Inner Sakura motivation.


This took Gaara by surprise and he was stunned for a second, then, before Sakura could fully pull away out of his reach, grabbed the back of her head and brought her in for a longer kiss, both closing their eyes as they enjoyed their moment.

A soft clearing of a throat in the background made them break apart, when Temari said with a smirk, "Damn girl, I didn't know you had that in you."

It was about 1 o' clock now, and they all decided to hit the hay if they had to, and believe me, they had to, stick to Temari's schedule for tomorrow. The girls all had their sleeping bags next to each other, so they could gossip a little while longer and trash some people, while the guys all took to the furniture.

After a few minutes, everyone was deep asleep except for Gaara, who at the best, was a very light sleeper.

He sat there watching Sakura sleep and wondering how someone as good as her could have feelings for him.


While Gaara had sat there thinking of Sakura, she was having a flashback in her dream of her childhood.

"Mommy, Mommy, look at this!" A young Sakura in a pink dress that was flowing in the wind ran up to her mother. "Yes my dear Sakura?" Her mother said lovingly in response as her daughter showed her a beautiful and rare pink flower. "Mommy, what is it?" "It is a Tan Hwa flower, almost as precious as you are."

Sakura dreamed about her mother, but as this peaceful memory occurred, it slowly faded into another dark and painful memory.

"I'm telling you, she needs help" a slightly older Sakura heard her father shout to her mother. "I heard her talking to herself again, and have you noticed how she has no friends?" Her father muttered again. "I'm trying my best, we've spent almost all our money on a therapist, but they all say she'll grow out of it sweety, just be patient." Her mother responded.

'SMACK' "I'm not a patient man, you should know that. I told you when we got married that if we didn't have a bright child, I would leave you, and it looks like Sakura is just going to be a freak, not a brilliant child like I want."

Sakura's father left the room, not even noticing Sakura standing just off of the doorway as he walked away cussing. "Okaasan, are you alright?" Sakura tested as she walked towards her mother that was lying on the floor.

Her mother looked up with a glare and said, "I'll be damned if you make the man I love walk away from me, I WILL fix you." Sakura, still being quiet young, was still smart enough to know that the mother she once loved was gone, and replaced by the person before her.

As Sakura dreamed about the past she always tried to repress, she remembered how all of a sudden, one day her mother just hated her and let her father's ideas get to her.

She was often told by her dad these days that she was a worthless piece of trash, but she realized her mom never really thought that until he got to her.

Sakura could remember the days she spent outside with her mother, in the crisp grass with the sun shining on them, just playing for hours. She knew she shouldn't but she blamed herself for her mom's death. As Sakura thought of these things, another memory rose into the picture.

Sakura was alone in a dark room. She could hear her mother and father shouting below, and she was slightly older than she was in her other memory. It was true how she had no friends, for they would all make fun of her pink hair, or her large forehead.

All of a sudden, she heard the front door slam shut and her mother alone crying. If it was anytime before all the therapy, she would have gone down to comfort her mother, but recently, her mother looked at her like trash, and she didn't want to be a hindrance on her by making her cry more.

Sakura had even thought about ending her life a few times, even at such a young age, for her mother's sake. Even though her parents thought of her as stupid and slow, she was one of the most intelligent kids her age and still loved her mother, because her father was a cold man, and never wanted her mother to suffer because of her.

Her mother's crying had stopped so she wandered downstairs to see her mother hanging there, lifeless from the rafters, and looked with a blank expression. She looked at the calendar and noticed that today was her birthday, her 9th in fact, and quickly ran upstairs to…

"Rise and shine sleepy head!" Temari shouted in her ear. "It's time to shop!"


There's the next chapter for ya! Hope you guys enjoyed it. It was getting kind of dark at the end, but you'll have to wait to find out what little Sakura will do, and it was her 9th b-day, not her 6th. READ + REVIEW please. Also I haven't seen The Strangers, but my friend said it was scary, so I took his word for it. I put in some flashbacks from her childhood and some IS for ya too. But please review, they make me update faster ;)

C ya next time

-CB