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He was here. Right in front of me. In the flesh.
Six years worth of suppressed memories and fears came flooding back into my mind. Everything I tried so hard to forget and leave behind in my past suddenly reappeared with only one single glance at him.
My body began to shake and tremble without me being aware of why.
'Why is he here?' My mind stayed on the subject for a long time.
'Does he remember me…?' I wondered.
While I was deep in my thoughts I didn't realize everybody was already introducing themselves. I decided to tune back into reality and started to listen.
"I'm Temari and this is Kankuro." The blond now known as Temari explained.
"What's your name?" Sasuke asked Gaara, sending him a glare.
"Gaara." I answered without thinking. It had just come out.
Everybody directed their attention towards me, they were all stunned, all but Gaara who just had a smirk showing on his normally emotionless face. I felt myself shiver under his gaze.
"Haruno, how do you know him?" Sasuke asked overwhelmed with curiosity even if it didn't show on his face.
"Yeah! Sakura-Chan!" Naruto exclaimed wanting to know the answer.
"Sakura?" Kankuro and Temari gasped.
"Is that really you?" Temari asked.
"Is there anybody else you know with pick hair, Temari?" Kankuro answered before I could.
"Be quiet! I just wasn't to make sure, puppet boy!" After that outburst Kankuro and Temari got into a pretty heated argument.
I looked over to Gaara. He had a smirk plastered on his emotionless face. Just looking at him and being close to him made me almost want to break down in tears. While everyone's attention was directed towards Temari's and Kankuro's bickering I took it to be my cue to try to escape. I started to take a few steps back and I was almost out of sight before I felt something tug on my leg. I was afraid to look down because I knew what I'd see if I did. I carefully turned my head to look down; hoping what had taken hold of my leg was anything but... Sand! My eyes widened and my face instantly went pale at the sight of it.
I glimpsed over at Gaara who had a hint of amusement in his eyes.
I gave my best effort to escape from his sand's hold on my leg, but it didn't budge, it just got tighter. The situation reminded me of the horrible memory of my last day with Gaara when he held me up in the air with his sand. I could recall the time so well. No matter how hard I aspired to forget it, it always just came back. I was determined to wash out that memory with happy ones, but no matter how great of a memory I tried to create it never went away.
I tried to run away, but the closer I got to freedom, the stronger its hold on me got. I was almost to my breaking point, the longer I was there the more I'd remember. His sand's grip was strong and painful, I just wanted to scream my guts out, but I held it in. I then heard a cracking sound ring from my leg and I felt my entire body burn and ache with the pain. I couldn't hold it in anymore and I let out a blood curdling scream.
Everybody was shocked and confused to why I had screamed, all but me and Gaara.
"Sakura-Chan what's-" Naruto looked down to my leg and saw the blood covered sand constricting my leg.
"SAKURA!" He screamed.
"Are you okay?!? Why are you bleeding!?!?? Why is there sand!?!?? Where'd it come from!?!? And why am I hungry?!??!" Naruto screamed louder than I had before. Temari and Kankuro were frozen with fear knowing where the sand had come from.
"Dope. Try staying on subject!" Naruto then earned a punch on his head.
"Sakura we should get you to a hospital quick." Sasuke said so worried that he even forgot to remember to call me Haruno instead.
I nodded my head and tried to get the sand to lose its grip on me, but with no avail. And then without warning the sand disappeared. I let out a sigh of relief and tried to move my leg, but it didn't move. I then tried to move my arms, but they didn't move either. 'I can't move!' I attempted to scream but nothing came out. I began to panic. 'What the Hell?!? Why can't I move or speak?' I frantically tried to find the answer.
The only answer I could think of though and kept going back to was Gaara. By the time I had reached my answer my leg had stopped bleeding, but my whole body still hurt.
I was lucky enough to be able to move my head around, but that was the only thing I could move. I turned to look at Gaara, hoping to understand why this was happening to me.
"Sakura-Chan! Come on we have to get you to the hospital! We need to get your leg looked at! Why aren't you moving?" Naruto bellowed.
"Because she can't." Gaara explained.
"And why's that?" Sasuke asked giving Gaara a powerful glare.
"Because she's was being a bad girl for trying to escape." Gaara replied.
He started to make his way to me. I tried to command my body to run, but it just stayed in the same place. It didn't even move a bit. If I could have I would have screamed, yelled, kicked, and struggled to get away from his line of vision. He grabbed my chin and forced me to look up at everybody.
"You see this girl belongs to me. The collar around her neck, do you know why she wears it?" Gaara asked.
"She has a thing for dogs?" Naruto guessed.
"Just shut up and listen dope. Now keep going." Sasuke demanded Gaara to go on with his explanation.
"This collar is to keep her obedient to me. If I wanted to I could inflict pain on her as I please. I can command her to do almost anything I desire. I have had no use of this until today. Right now I want her to stay completely still and not leave." Gaara told everyone.
"Sakura why don't you just take it off?" Naruto looked utterly lost, but pretended to understand.
"She can't talk right now. If you really want to know though it's because whenever she tries to discard of this collar she'll feel a painful shock travel through every part of her body. I personally made and designed this collar for this purpose using my own chakra to make it." The Shakaku vessel answered
"Why would you do that?!?" I turned my head and saw Sasuke and Naruto trying to keep calm.
"Because I own her. And she must never forget what she is to me." After that I felt Gaara's and his sibling's chakra signatures disappear and I felt myself fall onto the floor finally regaining the use of my body. I looked over to my teammates; Naruto looked really worried about me, while Sasuke just looked angry.
'I'm going to need to do some explaining.' I thought.