I do not own Naruto
"What does granny mean 'intruders' ?" A blonde asked rather loudly. I just got done telling him about the mission. I found him at Ichiraku, his favorite ramen shop. Like I even had to look for him, ya right.
"I don't know Naruto." I stated
"Well at least the Sand Siblings are coming! Now Gaara and I can catch up!" Naruto shouted excitedly.
Naruto and Gaara go way back. Since they both contained a monster inside of them, they could both relate and understand each other. Naruto was Gaara's first friend, and was now his best friend.
Although the Akatsuki captured the demon within Gaara a couple of years ago, his friendship with Naruto never even wavered, but because as strong as ever.
"But Sakura….why are we teaming up with the Sand Siblings, other than another team from the leaf village?"
"I have no clue. But I sure am curious!" I exclaimed.
"Ya, me too!" The blonde replied.
"Hey, I'm gonna go for a walk. Wanna come?" I asked.
"Nah…I'm actually going to talk to Hinata!" He said with his signature boyish smile.
"Alright. Well good luck!" I sweetly smiled and waved goodbye once again.
The park sure is beautiful today! I was walking down the path, when I came across my favorite park bench…. The bench I passed out on the night Sasuke left. It still held so many memories. It's the bench I always go to whenever I'm feeling sad or depressed, then Naruto usually finds me and comforts me.
The sun is setting now, and I got to admit, it looks amazing. So I sat down on my bench and watched it slowly sink down beneath the trees. Yes…this is the life.
"Beautiful, isn't it."
I snapped out of my train of thoughts and started to look around. Wait… I know that voice.
"Gaara?" I said looking around.
"Up here." He said from up in a tree across the path. He didn't look at me, but was focusing on the setting sun instead.
I got up from my bench, and walked over to the bottom without looking at him. I leaned against the tree and just stared at the sunset with him. We stayed like that for what seemed like forever.
All of the sudden, there was a small thud behind me. I was startled at first, but then relaxed cause I knew it was just him.
I slowely turned around to face him, and found that he was no more than 2 feet away from me…just staring at me.
"Are you okay, Gaara?" I asked in a concerned voice. "You don't seem like yourself today."
He didn't say anything, just stood there staring at me with those jade eyes of his. But what really caught my attention was that there wasn't the normal cold-hearted expression on his face, but a soft one staring down at me….with what seemed like a hint of sadness and hurt in his eyes.
Without saying anything, he slowly walked over to me until his head was by my ear.
"I'm sorry" He whispered, then disappeared in a whirlwind of sand.
"What?... Sorry for what?" I whispered into the now darkness of the night. With that, I went home.
The next morning, I woke up to a bright ray of sunshine entering my room.
"Today is the day." I said to myself.
I got up and walked over to my dresser and took some clothes out, got dressed, while packing some clothes away for the mission.
We are supposed to meet with Lady Tsunade today befor we head out. She still didn't tell us what she meant by 'intruders'. But it must be very important if it's A-rank. I just can't wait to find out what it is.
After getting ready, i walked out of my apartment building, and was heading to the old bridge to meet up with Naruto so we could head over together.
"Oi! Sakura!" I heard a female voice calling my name.
I turned around to see Temari running towards me.
"Hey Temari." I said with a friendly smile. "Hey, can i walk with you?" She asked.
"Ya, sure...but wait, where is Kankuro and Gaara?"
"Oh, they are already there. I kind of woke up late." She said while rubbing the back of her head.
"Oh, alright." I started "Hey," i started agian. "Has Gaara been feeling okay lately?"
"Ya, as far as i know. Why?" She replied.
"Oh, it's nothing. He just hasn't seemed like, himself, lately. And I'm kind of concerned."
"Oh really? Not himself?...hmmm... We'll just have to get to the bottom of this then. This sounds like a job for, SUPER SISTER!" Temari shouted the last part, while in a super hero pose.
"Don't worry Sakura, well figure this out." She said while giving me a huge smile...that strangely reminded me of Lee.
"Ok Temari. I just hope he is okay."
"You do, do you?" she said while giving a weird and creepy smile.
"You know, cause he's your little brother, and your one of my best friends." I recovered.
"Okay Sakura...whatever you say." She gave a small chuckle as we reached the bridge.
"AH! It's about time! Oh hi Temari." Naruto exclaimed.
"Hey Naruto."
"Okay... off to see what mission granny has for us today." I replied, kind of excited.
"Yep!" the other two replied.
