Sakura
Sakura sat staring at the phone. She had been sitting there for at least the last twenty minutes. She had picked up the phone at least fifteen times only to put it back down again. She had actually dialed the number before slamming the handset back down again.
What the hell am I going to say to him?
She sighed and picked up the phone and dialed the number.
"Hello?"
The voice at the other end of the line sounded suspicious, and with due cause. The Hokage's private line was after all private.
"Hi Temari it's Sakura."
"Sakura! Is everything all right back home?"
"Temari I need to speak to Gaara as quickly as possible."
"What's wrong?"
"Just let me talk to him."
"Well I'm on the other side of town and if I'm going to run all the way over to his office I need to know why."
She sighed. Temari was stubborn but also very trustworthy.
"I'll tell you as long as you assure me that you are on your way as I tell you."
"Sure just tell me already!"
"Well its about why Tsunade called for me …"
Gaara
Gaara sat at his desk deliberately ignoring the stack of papers that were waiting for his attention. An emotion that still felt foreign to him was making him feel very uneasy. He sat manipulating a small amount of his sand that lay in a small dish to move in an ebb and flow like a great body of water. Sakura had made the dish and suggested the technique to help, as she so eloquently put it in one fit of rage "calm the fuck down".
What is going on in Konoha? Why hasn't she …?
"Gaara!"
"Temari you know one day you're going to barge in here and I'm going to kill you by mistake."
He looked up to find his sister panting in the doorway.
What the hell is she panting for?
"Gaara, it's Sakura on the phone … here."
She handed him her cell phone. He grabbed it and practically shoved her out the door before answering the call.
"Sakura, what's wrong?"
"Gaara, there is something I need to tell you."
"What's wrong?"
"Is there anyone in the room with you?"
"Sakura you're beginning to worry me, what's wrong?
"I need you to sit down."
"Sakura! Tell me what is wrong right at this instant or so help me …!"
"He's back"
Despite his rant and the almost whisper she had said it in, he heard the words. His mind however refused to process the information. He waited for the heat of his rage to envelop him and to his surprise it never came. Instead what he got was a mental picture of everything Uchiha, Sasuke had ever done in his presence. The last picture was not of Sasuke but of Naruto and just how bad he had looked after the fight to bring the traitor back. That picture brought with it a realization. If he was not there, there was very little to stop that same thing from happening to Sakura.
I have to be there.
The decision let a false calm settle over him. He was going to Konoha to protect her. It had nothing to do with the tiny voice in the back of his mind that was telling him all the reasons that she might consider trading a new love for an old one.
Sakura
She waited patiently for him to say something. She had not heard anything break yet and that was a good sign. But after what she heard next she would much rather of heard the satisfying crash if splintering wood.
"I'll be there in two days"
Click
And just like that he was gone. She looked at the phone like it had suddenly grown a rather disturbing head.
"What the hell am I going to do now?"
She sighed leaving the room to tell her sensei that they would be receiving a guest,the Kazekage of the Sand.
AN: Sorry for the really short chapter the next one will be much longer I promise
AN: Thanks zoebabii, who spotted a grammatical error in the last line. Its taken me a while but I finally decided what to do with the next chapter and its already under way. So hopefully it will be up soon.