I woke up startled by something wet covering my face. I jolted up seeing gaara on the otherside of the cage sketching in my book. I wipped my face and felt the cold water drip off my nose.
"Sorry sakura.-" I got up to see my group and everyone outside. "We had to wake you up because something is going on and I think it has to do with you too. I don't think he wants-" She nodded toward gaara "him alive."
"And im caught right in the middle of it huh?" I asked and they nodded looking sad for me. "maybe they will let me go and keep him"
"Seems-" Hai was speaking now and my friends backed away from the cage and walked over with everyone else. "that no one really cares about you two" Hai said coming toward the cage where I can see and hear him well. "The cage was meant to weaken you too and instead someone brought you food and water. Now that's not a very good punishment is it?" He asked no one in particular. I had gaara standing beside me now.
"This isn't going to go well for us is it?" I whispered to him and he nodded no.
"No one owned up to giving you two water or food so we have to do round two in the cage." Hai said and now I was scared. I can't blame my friends for not wanting to own up to it. This is just torcher.
They opened the cage and we could hear rumbling through the football field. When the teacher yanked me out I fell on my face and looked over seeing a huge crane stopping in the middle of the football field.
"You okay?" Gaara had a hand outstretched toward me. I nodded my head and stood up with his help. I looked up and two teachers had stripped off the floor of the cage and one of the sides and now had straps going from the top of the crane and attaching them around the crane.
"Oh no" I nodded my head.
"This will teach you all a leason to try and go around me." Hai nodded and they put me and gaara back in but this time we had to walk on bars, no flooring. The bars weren't far apart from each other but it was far enough apart that someone could get there foot caught in it.. They closed the door and me and gaara looked at each other.
"Hold on to something" Gaara said and he was right. In the instant the crane lifted us up and of course my foot went through the hole and I fell most of my leg fit through there as well and I knew id be stuck.
I looked down at my friends who looked frightened for me and hai who was just smiling and yelling at everyone to go back inside because they all started retreating, even him. When the crane stopped us we were high in the sky that we could see over the whole prison and a bunch more.
"Sakura, hold on" Gaara came over to me and sat down carefully. I tried to pull my leg out and I couldn't do it. He grabbed my thigh which felt weird and pulled freeing my leg. My leg was scratched up on both sides but wasn't bleeding.
"You okay?" He asked sitting down beside me using the bars to put his legs on. I just nodded my head.
"Is he trying to kill us?" I murmured not thinking that he heard that.
"Yes." I looked at him and frowned.
"In about another thirty minutes we wont be able to sit on these bars because they will be too hot. Then the bars will start giving away because they weren't meant to with stand heat and our pressure on them." He explained and I just looked out feeling the wind on my face through the opening the teacher did.
"I did however save this" He said reaching in his pocket getting out my notebook then the other pocket getting out a bottle of water.
"Great, we wont die of dehydration but from falling instead" I frowned.
"Sakura" He said cupping my cheek making me look at him. There it was butterflys in my stomach all because of this one guy. "Were going to live, you hear me" He said and I nodded doubting it but if he said it then we could always try. "Just look at me, whatever happens just look at me. Ill help you live no matter what" I was looking at him. His green eyes and his lovely lips and-
"Sakura-" I snapped back and he was smirking at me. I nodded and looked the other way a little embarrassed that I just got caught. He cupped my cheek making me look at him and leaned in kissing me. I was surprised and started kissing back.
"What was that for?" I asked when he pulled back.
"For not letting me die by drowing" He said and I smiled.
"Yeah cause that's a quality you want in a women. One who's stupid enough to be killed with you instead" I said and laughed a little and he smiled..Actual smile. No smirk.
"You know these bars and already starting to get hot" I told him moving my legs.
"Come on, I have an idea" He said getting up and I got up with him. "Don't stand on one bar. Distribute your weight into another bar but not the one beside it. That way if u fall u have the one middle bar that will catch u or fall with you" He said not giving me much hope here.
"What exactly is your idea?" I asked him. He just leaned over and kissed me.
"to get you out" He said. He jumped up grabbing the bars above him.
"What are you doing?" I asked him knowing he was burning his hands doing that.
"If I can get these top bars off before the bottom drops then I can get you on the cranes rope and you will be safe there" He said speaking as if he wanted didn't care if he lived or died. He never said we, he always just said me.
He wiggled the bars he was holding on to and one of them popped.
"Hand on!" He dropped the bar and went to grab hold of another bar but the one his other hand was on snapped and he fell on his back. The bar beneath him snapped and one fell.
"Gaara, move!" I yelled and he rolled toward me. Every bar he was laying on went crashing down.
"Are you okay?" I asked him and he just smiled and looked at me.
"Two down. Only need two more top ones to fit you through" He said and looked at his hands.
I didn't care about anything but surviving right now. I took my shirt off just leaving my cami on and started to stread it. I had my hands wrapped from when I hurt them yesterday but I went ahead and wrapped them again. Then streaded some more.
"Sakura, what are you doing?" He asked getting back to his feet carefully.
"Here tie these around your hands so you don't burn yourself anymore" I threw the messed up shirt to him and surprisingly he did what I said.
Then I heard something clink. It just happened to be right under my feet. I was standing on the same bar and didn't even notice it.
"Sakura, jump up now" He said and I nodded jumping up just as the bar below me fell. I looked down seeing the ground and the clips from the crane that were attached to each side. Then it hit me.
"Gaara, kick this one" I told gaara and it was the one right infront of me. The side one. When he kicked that one the whole cage shook and piece by piece was falling even without our weight. We made it weak and it was falling apart.
"This whole thing is coming down" Gaara said and kicked the other side one. Making it four of them down meaning it was big enough for us to get through.
"Come on gaara" I told him He jumped just as the rest of the bottom fell out. The other side went with it but it was still trying to pull the top with it. And if the top fell it would still be hooked onto this side and it would come and hit us crushing us.
"Sakura move to the otherside now" Gaara said sliding down to the hole we made in this side. I slid down with him grabbing the hard tin boards making them fly off. Then I swung myself around to the otherside and gaara came beside me.
"Gaara when the top goes down-
"I know" He said franticly looking around for anything and seen the rope of the crane dangling.
"Were going to have to jump" He told me and I looked at him then the rope. I nodded my head giving the okay. I didn't want to but I heard noises coming from way down below. I looked down to see we had an audience now. The whole prison was watching us. "Sakura, look at me not down" He said and I looked back at him. He jumped grabbing the rope and we started swinging. "Sakura, its not going to hold much longer, jump" He told me.
I moved over to where he was at moments before feeling the bars I was holding onto wasn't going to hold me much longer. I jumped.