The Desert's Flower
Chap.4
Happyfish: I Do not own Naruto
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Singing"
(Author's Notes)
Sakura woke up and sighed sadly as her mother entered the room and said "Come on my dear, you need to pack, we are going to leave later in a few days."
"Yes mommy." Said Sakura.
'Panda chan will not be happy that I am leaving, I wonder what he will do when he finds out we do not have a lot of time left to play with each other.' Thought Sakura.
She packed up her things and Gaara appeared and asked "Why are you so sad? I can smell your tears."
"I am leaving Suna and I am going back to Kahona in a few days, my mom just told me." Replied Sakura.
'They lied to me!' Thought Gaara angrily. 'Oh, they WILL pay.'
Gaara and Sakura played for the few days they had left and Gaara was very reluctant to leave Sakura.
He even walked her or as he put it, escorted her out of the village and waved good by as he watched her leave his sight line.
His anger boiling in his blood as sand whipped around him and people started to scream in agony as he punished them, he felt as if they were the reason HIS Sakura had left him.
He knew in his heart he would meet HIS friend again, and when he did no one would stand in his way of keeping her with him, no matter who it was.
Sakura told her parents that she wanted to go out and play with the other children; surely she hoped they would allow her to play with them.
She grabbed her soccer ball and went outside and she went to a long blonde haired girl and timidly asked. "C-can I play with you?"
Ino looked down haughtily at Sakura and said rudely "Why should I lower myself to play with a pink haired freak!"
Sakura blinked back the burning sensation in her eyes and tried to ask a couple of the other kids if she could play with them and they teased her about her forehead and called her ugly.
'It's just as I feared, no body wants to play with me, I am lonely again.' Thought Sakura sadly.
She spotted a blonde haired boy that was sitting on the swings alone; he gave off the same feeling that Gaara gave her.
Sakura went up to him and asked, "Do you want to play with me?"
The blonde boy looked up at her and she saw large, bright eyes and he blinked up at her in shock, oddly reminiscent of her friend Gaara.
"M-my name is Haruno Sakura." Said Sakura a touch shyly now. "What is your name? Will you please play soccer with me?"
"M-my name is Uzumaki Naruto a-and ar-are you asking to play with me?" Said Naruto.
"Yes, I am." Said Sakura giving him a bright, happy smile, but it drooped slightly. "No one will play with me, they say that I am a freak and I am to ugly to play with them."
"You are NOT a freak!" Said Naruto. "I will play soccer with you, and you should not believe the mean things that other people say."
"Really?" Said Sakura perking up and smiling a dazzling smile at him.
They played together until it started to get dark and Sakura said "Come on over to my house for dinner Naruto kun!"
"Ar-are you su-sure that you want me to do that?" Asked Narturo nervously.
Sakura nodded her head vigorously and said "Yes, you are my friend, so I wish to have you over for dinner!"
"I-I am you friend Sakura chan?" Asked Naruto incredulously as he hardly daring to believe her words.
"Y-you do not want to be my friends?" Said Sakura sadly as her shoulder drooped and she looked down trying to hold back tears.
"N-no! I want to be your friend!" Said Naruto in his usual loud way. "I was just surprised that you think of me as your friend is all."
"Why would I think other wise?" Asked Sakura confused.
"No reason." Replied Naruto.
The pair of them walked to her house and talked about everything and nothing all at once, Sakura mainly listened to her loud friend.
Both of them were unaware of the onyx black eyes that had been watching them the entire time that they had played and talked together.
Her parents had been more than a little shocked that she had befriended yet another demon container.
The next day Sakura and Naruto started to play soccer together, the soccer ball went flying over towards a cherry tree and Sakura went over to pick it up and spotted a black haired boy with sad eyes.
He also reminded her of both of her friends, Gaara and Naruto, so she decided to go over and talk to him.
"Hello! My name is Sakura, what is yours?" Asked Sakura cheerfully as she smiled at him, she did not recognize the infamous red and white fan of the Uchiha clan.
"M-my name is Sasuke, nice to meet you." Said Sasuke shyly.
Sakura called Naruto over and the three of them started to play together and their friendship grew steadfast and strong.
Several years later Sakura was helping both of her guy friends how to control their chakra because, all three of them knew that she knew how to control her chakra better than any one.
She helped both of them with studying for both parts of the genin test; they knew that she would pass with flying colors and that they would as well, but they figured that a little extra studying never hurt any one.
Sakura and Sasuke had to convince Naruto of that and through the years they had gotten into trouble because of the misadventures that Naruto would rope Sakura and Sasuke into.
The day of the biggest test that they had ever faced in their lives was coming up tomorrow morning.
"Guys, I think we have practiced all we can, after all we do not want to pass out during the exam because we did not have enough sleep tonight." Said Sakura.
The other two nodded and they said their goodbyes, Sakura sighed, her parents were on a mission and the house felt lonely and empty now that she was by herself.
She went to sleep after tossing and turning a couple of times and the last thought she had before she fell asleep was this; 'I wonder what will happen tomorrow, I hope I and my two friends pass.'
Happyfish: And that is all for chapter four folks!
Kakashi: *Is reading one of his pervy books* I show up next chapter if any of you readers care to know.
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