Hello my wonderful reading friends! This Is what I belive to be the last chapter of this story, I know I'm so evil ending "The end" so sad, but hey I've been stuck at home for the past 2 days because we got like 3 feet of freaking snow! So I'm not in the best mood. Please R&R, and Flamers are welcome, I need the tough critizesm and Ideas for a new story! I own nothing!

Taking place about 10 years later…

"Kakekage-san, are you even listening to me?" the brown haired woman pouted.

"Hn?" he replyed groggily.

"I said that we found some old files that we need you to just look through, or skim or something because they where overlooked." She repeated, obviously annoyed by his lack of attention.

"How old are they..?" he asked warily. He really didn't care, but maybe it would put her in a better mood, and maybe she'd do the other work on his desk.

"Just about eleven years sir." She said with a sigh.

At least he's trying to show intrest today.

"Fine just leave them here, and I'll do them now." He stated.

"Thank you sir." She replyed beginning to walk away from he desk.

"Wait." She stopped and turned back to face him.

"I can only do it now if you do all of this… stuff." He looked at her with his puppy dog eyes.

She sighed very deeply.

"Fine." She said with a groan, scooping up the mismatched papers on his desk.

"Thank you." He smiled, but only slightly.

Being the kazekage is starting to become really tiring.

He thought as he opened up the file and started absent-mindedly looking through the records.

Hn death records.

As he flipped through the pages one by one, he began to let himself float around in his memories of that time. Then suddenly, it all came back to him, like a bunch of old mixed up and forgotten slides flashing in his minds eye all at once.

"Hello."

His head quickly jerked up at the sudden and unexpected sound, only to see a little girl, who looked about his age, perhaps younger by a few months. She had bright green eyes, pale skin, and … pink hair. She was wearing a cute black dress, and a large red bow that kept her hair out of her face.

"Umm… may I come in?" she quietly asked, breaking his trance. He hadn't yet relized he had spaced out. Well she was already standing in his sandbox. What she was referring to was the large, neat circle he had drawn around himself, making it as large as he could fit.

"I-I guess.." was the only reply he could think of, not wanting her to leave him. She carefully stepped over the barrier, looked up at him, and smiled.

He froze.

Shes smiling at me… shes smiling at me? Why?

"You wanna play a game with me?" she suddenly asked. He nodded enthusiasticly. + 1 smile from her.

"Do you have any brusies or scratches or anything?" she asked.

"Um, no I never .. really uh.. get hurt." Gaara stated hesitantly.

The girls eyes went really big.

Here it comes…

"Really? Never? At all?" she questioned, looking him over. This was really not what he expected to happen, but what was important to him was that she was still there.

"No, … just sadness I guess."

"Oh… , well I know how to cure that!"

He suddenly felt a pair of cold arms around him, but they still made him feel really warm inside.

He pushed he off with ease. She sat down in front of him, looking confused, and hurt.

"Don't you know who I am?" He strongly questioned in his most scary sounding voice he could make.

She shook her head no.

"I am Gaara! The kazekage's son!" He burst, seething with the anger of telling her. Any second she'd be off running.

But that isn't at all what she did.

She smiled.

"Cool! I'm Sakura Haruno!" she said with her widest smile yet, her white teeth glistening.

"You're not scared?" Gaara asked, puzzled.

"Nope!"

"That's my uncle, I have to go now." He said regretfully as the pinkettes face fell.

"But you'll come back tomorrow, right?" she asked, almost pleading.

"Umm, yeah!" Her face lit back up.

"Promise? We're friends now, so you have to keep your promises." She said, staring at him intently, extending one of her delecate hands towards him. He had seen his uncle do this on various occations, it was a sign of partnership, comradeship, friendship. With that he lifted his own hand to shake hers.

Nature's first green is gold
her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

" I think it means that when you're a kid, you're pure and without sin, but as you get older that fact changes. Like you right now Gaara, you're gold." She said with a warm smile.

"Gaara, do you believe in ghosts?"

Sakura asked as casually as she could. This question caught Gaara off guard.

"No, my uncle says that ghosts are just made up, and don't really exist, and I don't think they do either."

Sakura let out a heavy sigh. Gaara looked up at her, her eyes seemed to be darker then normal.

"Is that so?" she said emotionlessly as she kept her eyes locked on the sand. "I see" Then she abruptly stood up.

"Gaara, I need you to make me another promise." She stated, locking her eye's with his as he stood up as well.

"What is it?" he asked, trying to sound normal. Sakura had never acted like this before, as far as he knew anyways.

"You have to promise me that you'll be my friend no matter what happens, and that you will stay gold." She was being unnormally forward.

"Uh... sure, but what does stay gold mean?" he really had no idea.

"It doesn't matter, so do you promise?" she asked with an urging tone, outstretching her hand to him like the first night. "Okay." She said shaking her hand.

"Okay then I has to go now, bye!" and without giving him a chance to respond she was gone.

End flashbacks

It was then, ten years later, that he finally remembered all those happy memories, that where locked away.

What a coincidence, it all happened right after these files where made. I guess I have them to thank. I wonder what ever happened too her…

He froze stiff, the air was caught in his throat. His eyes wide, staring down at the last page in the file.

Name: Sakura Haruno

Age:5

Casualty:Died of heart attack

Location of casualty: Suna playground, sandbox.

No way…

He carefully read every word over and over again. Sweat was rolling down his face. He suddenly had a strange feeling that someone was watching him, so he span around, but to see nothing. He quickly reverted back to the page.

"kazekage-san!" the brunett walked in unannounced, her eyes going wide. She blinked, looked around then room then let out a deep sigh.

"Uhh…Never mind." She said, eyeing her commissioner. Gaara regained his status quickly.

"What is it?" he asked, trying to sound normal.

"Well uh… I was sure I heard giggling coming from up here, so I was coming to tell whoever else was in here that you were to busy and… well maybe I should go home.." she staggered. (cue anime sweatdrop)

"You are dismissed, its been a long day." He announced, trying to get her out of his office as soon as he could.

"Hai." She quickly left.

As soon as his door shut his eyes wanderd down the paper over and over again, trying to make sence of what he was reading. Finally he looked at the attached photo and gasped.

The picture was of a little girl, who looked about his age at the time, perhaps younger by a few months. She had bright green eyes, pale skin, and… pink hair. She wore a cute black dress, and a large red bow that kept her hair out of her face.

Assistant's POV(yeah she's not important enough for a name):

Walking down the long stairs she sighed. "I really need a break." She murmerd to herself.

I wonder why he was so freaked out looking. She thought, but she quickly shoved the question to the side, there was something else bugging her.

I know I heard that giggling, and I could've sworn when I first walked in there I saw a little girl standing behind the Kazekage!

She let out another long sigh.

"I REALLY need a break."

Sakura's POV:

She stood there behind his desk next to him. She loved watching him work. Suddenly she noticed him spacing out, and started giggling, which turned into an uncontrollable laughter once he started freaking out.

Whats Gaara-kun getting all exited over? She wondered as she peered at the paper he was staring at intently.

Name: Sakura Haruno

Age:5

Casualty:Died of heart attack

Location of casualty: Suna playground, sandbox.

She started giggleing again as she read the large print.

Its about time someone properly checked that! It's just to bad Gaara is having a heart attack like I did! Hey maybe afterwards we can go play in the sandbox together!

She as a ghost really craked herself up, but only because she was truly lonely, since Gaara-kun couldn't see her anymore, she had nothing to do. But she didn't regret this, because now he was happy, and stayed gold.

Suddenly the assistant lady rushed in, and stared at sakura, with wide eyes. Unfortuantly for her after the woman blinked she was no longer looking at her.

"Well uh… I was sure I heard giggling coming from up here, so I was coming to tell whoever else was in here that you were to busy and… well maybe I should go home.." she stuttered.

Poor lady, you really do need a break!

Later…

Sakura was walking down from Gaara's office when she noticed someone at the playground, by himself. She smiled to herself as she quietly skipped over to where the boy was sitting in the sandbox. He didn't seem to notice her however.

"Hello. May I come in?"

Yay its finally finished! This is what I belive to be the last chapter, unless I'm snowed in tomorrow too, then I may feel like adding to it. I would like it if everyone who really either enjoyed this story or hated it to write a review, so I know what to change next time. Flamers loved!(as long as you tell me why)

Just to clear something up, like the poem. That was called Nothing gold can stay, and I think It was written by Robert Frost. I got the idea that I put in "the end" chapter from a book I read called the outsiders, (which I recommend)

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