A/n: Hello…yes people have been telling me this is a good story because it is such a different theme which is true I haven read a story near close to the theme it has…Oh well thank you my faithful Reviewers! Much Love is given to you! R&R please! And yes people I did skip most of those fighting parts because I really can't rewrite fights I can only make them up! So be prepared!

Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke walked up to a big caged area, "wow" Naruto gapped, Sakura and Sasuke stared in awe.

They looked around and saw the others along with, 'Gaara' Sakura sighed, there were also a couple other shinobi from grass and fire there.

Gaara looked at Sakura's said face, he held the area where his heart was, 'why does she make me feel this pain when she is sad,' he wondered.

Temari looked at Gaara "is everything alright Gaara?" she asked, her sisterly instincts taking over.

He glared at her, "I'm fine" he said shortly, he looked back at Sakura she was sitting under a tree and Naruto and Sasuke were talking a little ways away from her.

"Ok welcome all who passed the first test," Anko announced, everyone looked at her and listened for further instructions, "alright at the center of this forest is a building you must make it there with both the heaven and earth scrolls in 5 days"

"Each team will get one scroll and a number then you will head for your number gate to be let in, ok will all sign these forms just in case and then you will be given a scroll secretly" Anko finished.

"Also you are not allowed to read the scrolls!"

We all lined up to a secure booth and finally headed out to our gate, I was holding our earth scroll, and I hide it in my kunai pack.

Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro stood at their gate, 'why will she not get out of my mind' Gaara thought angrily, 'no one has ever caused me this before'

'I think you love her' Shukaku taunted, 'I do not' he retorted, 'oh but I think you do, she was nice to you and still is even though you turned her down, she still looks at you with longing' Shukaku smirked.

'Damn it shut up!' Gaara yelled in his mind and Shukaku was silenced, suddenly a whistle was heard and the doors flung open and they all ran in.

It had been a day now no sleep or rest and they couldn't feel anyone's chakra to find the heaven scroll this was beginning to agitate Sakura.

Sakura ran behind her two comrades unable to get Sabaku no Gaara out of her mind, he was just so attracting and they did say opposites attract.

Sakura sighed, then suddenly heard something, "what was that?" she asked, "You heard it too?" Sasuke questioned.

Suddenly a woman from grass came out and threw kunai at them, but they easily dodged them.

Then out of nowhere a giant snake appeared and attacked Naruto knocking him out cold.

Sakura saw Naruto begin to fall, she threw a kunai and it latched in his jacket and stuck him to a tree.

"What an annoying girl you are," she said and suddenly Sakura's vision blurred and went black.

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Sakura woke up and saw Sasuke standing below her, "S…Sasuke!" her eyes went wide with terror as she saw the grass woman's neck grow long and lung at him, digging it's teeth into his neck.

"Sasuke!" Sakura shouted running towards him, he fell down in agony Sakura pulled him in her arms, "what did you do to Sasuke!" Sakura shouted.

The woman laughed and pulled off her face, revealing a very pale snake like looking man, "Sasuke-kun please come to me if you wish for power and with that he disappeared.

Sasuke passed out, Sakura began to cry, 'what happened?' she looked at Naruto who was still unconscious; Sakura carried Sasuke and Naruto to the forest floor.

She placed them in a tree that had a cave like design to it, she sat and watched the two, and Sasuke had a wet cloth on his forehead.

Sakura sighed 'I have to protect them' she said to her self, hours went by and they still did not awake.

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Gaara sat down in the middle of a small clearing, he had just killed three fire shinobi and acquired a heaven scroll, and they would soon head out since they had the two they needed.

Gaara sat and meditated still aware of his surroundings, he drifted into his meditation and had a dream of some sort.

Gaara's dream type thing…

Gaara stood on the hill he first talked to Sakura, he looked at the village and smiled, 'it will be easy to invade this weak village' he thought.

"Gaara-kun!" he heard his name, he looked to where the voice came from and saw Sakura, "Konichuwa Gaara-kun!" she smiled and kissed him on the cheek.

He went wide eyed and looked at her smiling face, she looked at him with her emerald eyes, "you know Gaara-kun I love my village, do you love your village?" she asked.

He stared at her, "no" he replied, "why Gaara-kun don't you have people you love there, you should always be willing to protect your loved ones, even if it cost your life" she smiled.

He looked at her, "I have no loved ones to protect" he stated, she stared at him sadly, "well Gaara-kun you may have no loved ones but I know someone who loves you"

"No one loves me," he said with no emotion, "I do"

Gaara's eyes shot open, he was breathing hard, "What is happening to me" he whispered.

Then he heard it, a scream, he got up and walked over to where he heard it, he saw Sakura all bloodied up and bruised with a kunai in her arm, leg, and side.

He saw a sound ninja on the ground beaten up, covered in blood, then he saw two others, Sakura was breathing hard and had her head down.

Gaara held his heart area again, 'THEY WILL PAY!' he shouted inside, the seemed leader threw kunai at her, but Sakura was too tired to move.

Suddenly a shield of sand formed in front of her, Sakura's went wide eyed, then in a swirl of sand Gaara appeared in front of her.

He turned around and kneeled down, she looked up at him, he reached out and touched her cheek, "are these the people who hurt you?" he asked.

Sakura flung herself on him hugging him, "they came and told me they were trying to kill Sasuke and then I tried to protect them, but I can't I'm just too weak" she cried.

Gaara still shocked she was hugging him, he held her to comfort her, "and here you are saving me" she cried, "I know that I could never have affection from you but thank you! I was so scared"

Gaara held her closer, she was so fragile, it hurt him to see her cry "I'm sorry," she said, "I didn't mean to irritate you, I…I just fell in love with you" she cried into his chest.

His eyes widened, "what did you say?" he asked, but then sound waves were sent his way but he blocked them with his sand.

Soon he started batting them around with his sand, "lets retreat we will get Sasuke later!" the leader ordered.

Then they got the fallen sound Nin and ran off, Gaara looked at her again, "what did you say?" he asked.

Sakura looked up at him then away, "I said…I fell in love with you"

Gaara grabbed her chin and faced her towards him and then kissed her, Sakura was at first shocked but then she fell into the kiss.

Naruto woke up and sat up, he looked over and saw Sakura and that Gaara guy…KISSING! Naruto snickered silently, 'finally she found someone who loves her back'

He lay back down and pretended to go to sleep, Sakura and Gaara broke apart, she leaned on his chest "thank you" she whispered with a smile.

Gaara lightly laughed, "what?" she asked, "and I thought you just liked to annoy me" she smiled, "I do like doing that too though"

He smirked, then looked and saw the three kunai in her he pulled them all out, "now I have someone to protect" he whispered, "what?" Sakura asked.

"Nothing" he said picking her up, "you ok?" he questioned, she nodded and he set her down, "I guess I have to go find Temari and Kankuro" he sighed.

"Here" he handed her a heaven scroll, "but don't you need this?" she asked, "I have another so don't worry" he smirked.

"Thanks" she smiled, he pulled her in and kissed her again, and blushed "I like that" Gaara smirked.

"So do I" she said as they kissed again, Naruto sat up again and smiled, Sasuke woke and sat up holding his head, he looked at Naruto and followed his gaze.

"Sakura!" Sasuke yelled, Sakura and Gaara broke their kiss and looked at Sasuke, "what are you doing!" he shouted, "what do you care and your not the boss of me" Sakura said still in Gaara's arms.

"I have to go" Gaara told Sakura, "be safe" he commanded, she nodded and buried her head in his chest "I will".

Then he disappeared in a swirl of sand, Sasuke and Naruto stood up, "You go Sakura" Naruto cheered, Sakura smiled at Naruto.

"What was that about?" Sasuke demanded, "Sasuke you don't rule her life besides she doesn't like you any more and why do you even care!" Naruto yelled at him.

"Because…" Sakura started, "Sasuke shut the hell up!" Sakura yelled, "I have my own personal life and it doesn't include you it includes Gaara-kun!"

"You don't even know him" Sasuke huffed, "I do to I have talked to him a lot," Sakura replied, "when?" he smirked, "everyday since we first meet them, now end of discussion" Sakura glared.

"Ok guys lets go we need to go get a heaven scroll" Naruto sighed, Sakura smiled "nope we just have to get to the building"

"Sakura-chan you are amazing! Where did you get that!" Naruto cheered, "Gaara-kun gave it to me as a present" she smirked "so lets go"

They all began running to the center when the building was as fast as possible not to run into any other shinobi.

'She kissed him…she betrayed me!-She doesn't like you anymore' Naruto's voice interrupted.

Sasuke glared at nothing as they continued, it took them a day and a half to reach the stupid place.

Finally the saw the big doors leading in, as the entered they saw writing on the wall, Sakura read it.

"It's missing two words, I think we need to open the scrolls to find the missing words," she stated.

They took out both scrolls and Sakura counted to three as they opened them both at the same time.

In a puff of smoke Kakashi appeared, "Oi" he smiled beneath his mask, "you all did very well and Sakura god job with knowing the scrolls contained the two missing words"

"You all pass the second part of the exam" he smiled, Sakura and Naruto jumped up and down cheering, Kakashi saw Sasuke.

"What's wrong Sasuke?" he asked, "well, you see sensei Sakura was…she was kissing that sand shinobi with the red hair" Sasuke whispered.

"So what Sasuke it is not against our laws for anyone to have a foreign relationship," he stated to Sasuke.

"Besides I have never seen you take an interest in Sakura before, so why does it bother you," Kakashi wondered.

"It doesn't" he huffed, Kakashi shrugged, "ok now we must move on to the next part of the test" Kakashi lead them all into the next room.

It was huge and looked like a battle field type arena; they saw Lee, Neji, TenTen, Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Ino, Shikamaru, Choji, and those three sound people that attacked Sakura.

They walked in and got in their line, "Welcome all" the Hokage greeted, "we will now begin the nest part of the exams"

"You will all be matched off randomly by our screen in a one-on-one battle, these are the preliminaries so try your best to win!" the Hokage smiled.

An instructor came up, "I will be the referee and the rules are…there are no rules, so now let us begin"

The screen began shuffling the names, "up first we have," the instructor called "Sasuke Uchiha against Yoroi Akago"

"Now will the rest of the candidates please go to the upper level," he said as they walked towards the stairs.

Sasuke and Yoroi stood facing each other down on the lower level, Sakura walked behind Gaara; he smiled at her cute-ness.

Sakura went up the left stair case while Gaara went up the right, he sighed 'damn teachers'

Soon Sasuke and Yoroi's battle began but Sakura wasn't even paying attention, she stared at Gaara the whole time.

Of course she didn't know the whole time he was watching her as well, suddenly Sakura felt something move her hand it turned it to where it was open facing her.

Then she saw something forming in her hand, she smiled and saw it was a cherry blossom made of sand.

"What's that?" Naruto and Kakashi asked, Sakura yelped and blushed and hid it from their eyes.

"Did Gaara give you that?" Naruto asked loudly, "who's this Gaara, Sakura?" Kakashi persisted.

Sakura turned even redder, Gaara twitched 'that Naruto person is going to make this so hard' Gaara thought.

"Sakura-chan! Did he, did Gaara give you that!" Naruto yelled, now all the attention was on them, 'great' Sakura was a cherry now.

Temari and Kankuro looked over at them, "what is he talking about Gaara?" Temari asked, "Nothing!" he snapped trying with all his power not to blush.

"I'm going to go see what it is" Temari stated and walked over to the other platform.

Once she reached where Naruto and Sakura were, "OH MY GOD!" she shouted, "KANKURO!" she called from over, "what" he sighed.

"It's a sand cherry blos-" Temari couldn't even finish before she was dragged back by sand.

"Not a word" he glared, Temari nodded, everyone's attention went back to the match except for Sakura and Gaara.

Sakura smiled, "Kakashi-sensei I have to use the restroom," turning her head to face him "ok, hurry back"

Sakura began to walk towards the exit and walked through the big door way, she wait along the wall until she saw Gaara come through them too.

She smiled and grabbed his hand and dragged him down the hallway, "come on Gaara-kun" her smile grew.

He stopped, "what's wrong? She asked, he smirked "here is good" he pulled her in and kissed her.

Soon that innocent kiss turned into a hot little make out session, Sakura had her hand wound around his neck and Gaara had his arms around her waist.

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"Kakashi-sensei where is Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked, Kakashi looked over and noticed Gaara was gone too, 'hehehehe my dear little Sakura is so naughty' he thought.

"Look there she is now" Kakashi smiled as Sakura walked up the stairs and Gaara walked back up the other stairs.

She was back beside Kakashi, "so Sakura is Gaara a good kisser?" Kakashi taunted, Sakura turned blood red.

"So he is" Kakashi chuckled, Naruto laughed as well, "where's Sasuke?" she tried to change the subject.

"He is in the infirmary, quite a lot has gone on, Naruto has already faced Kiba and Neji and Hinata have already fought" Kakashi smiled at his student.

"Next up will be Yamanaka Ino against Haruno Sakura" the teacher said, Sakura sighed 'great'

Sakura and Ino stared at each other, Sakura looked up at Gaara who was watching her intently, and she smiled up at him.

"Begin" the examiner said jumping out of the way, immediately Sakura and Ino charged at each other.

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Ino caught Sakura in a trap, she couldn't move, 'damn it' Sakura thought, Ino then made her hand sign for her mind transfer.

Ino fell limp and Sakura had an empty look on her face, "what's going on?" Temari asked, "I don't know" Gaara replied.

'Hahaha…I win Sakura' Ino thought, 'mind transfer complete' Ino smiled, 'INO!' a voice boomed, Ino looked around; she turned around to see…Sakura?

'GET OUT OF MY HEAD!' she yelled, growing 10 times bigger and grabbing Ino in her hand a squeezing her.

'I have to undo the jutsu before she kills me' Ino panicked and formed the hand signs and flew out of Sakura's body.

Ino stood up, her body ached, 'damn this will have to be my last attack' Ino said to herself.

Sakura stood up a smirk on her face, 'this will be my last attack' Sakura thought; she looked up at Gaara and then back down to Ino.

"Oh Ino I forgot to tell you, you can have Sasuke, I found someone much better, some who acknowledges me" Sakura looked at Gaara one last time.

Sakura and Ino ran towards each other once again throwing their best punches, Sakura smacked Ino in the face and Ino hit Sakura hard.

They fell back onto their backs, they tried to get up but fell back down unconscious, Gaara was holding on the railing so hard his knuckles were white.

Temari inwardly chuckled, 'he might just be in love,' her smile turned from a smile to a frown, 'don't get to attached Gaara remember the mission'

Kakashi went and got Sakura as Ino's teacher got Ino, the placed them on the second level.

Gaara walked over to the other platform, he walked up to Sakura and kneeled down inspecting her.

She had a couple of bruises but nothing major, good thing too or Gaara would have killed the blonde girl.

"Next up will be Sabaku no Gaara against Rock Lee" he announced, Sakura opened her eyes hearing the loud ruckus.

She saw Gaara, "w-what happened?" she asked, "you and the blonde tied" he said calmly, a frown etched her face.

"Don't worry" he smirked, "ok I have to go know it is my turn" he whispered, he helped her up and she stood by Kakashi and watched Gaara disappear in a swirl of sand down to the arena.

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Sakura watched as Gaara got up unharmed, it confused her because it looked as if Lee did some real damage, and Gaara even got a little carried away and broke Lee's arm and leg.

They even had to stop Gaara from killing Lee, this worried Sakura a bit, Gaara looked a bit unstable during the battle but she would worry about that later.

Gaara looked up to Sakura who smiled back at him, 'I got to carried away, but I want more' Gaara thought 'then get more, kill more' Shukaku taunted.

Soon all the other matches were over and the finalist's were: Gaara, Sasuke, Neji, Naruto, Temari, Kankuro, Shikamaru, and that sound leader.

"Now the next part of the exam will be in one month" the examiner shouted, Sakura walked up to Gaara "congratulations" she smiled.

"Now can we get out of here?" she asked him, he smirked and grabbed her hand and they were gone in a swirl of sand.

They appeared back in Konoha, Sakura giggled, "that power is so cool" he just looked at her, "so…" he started "you want to do anything?" he asked.