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Chapter 4 Duty Day Two Moves

Opening his eyes, the light from the rising sun glared at him with unending anger. For what, he could not tell, but the sun always seemed angry at him. It had been another night without sleep, only meditation. Old habits die hard, as they say. Gaara sighed.

'Ever since the 'incident' with Naruto, I still haven't been able to sleep. And you and your dirty dreams don't help either. Unlike you, I don't have time to fantasize about women. I have problems I need to concentrate on!' Gaara scold Shukaku, another morning argument.

'Hey don't blame me! I keep my dreams to myself its YOU with the bad dreams.' Shukaku retorted, clearly offended.

'But you're the one that say all those dirty comments that stay in my head! So don't play innocent with me!' Gaara fussed back. These no-sleep nights and early morning arguments were really starting to tick him off.

'I can't help it. We are a powerful man! You can have any woman you want! And you know they want you.' Shukaku joked knowing his serious comment that was soon too come.

'I can but I don't want them. They only want me for the power. I don't need someone like that,' Gaara said in a serious, no-fun tone. Rolling his eyes, Shukaku shook his head.

'Your such a moron, you know that! You may be powerful but obviously you have no sense in anything else. There is a beautiful woman across the hall that doesn't want what any of the other girls want. All she wants is you. That's why she did what she did last night' Shukaku pointed out.

Remembering what happened last night before he meditated, the memories of her voice, her curves, and the feel of her soft, luscious lips on his cheek came flooding back. Smiling absentmindedly, he stiffly got up and walked into the sun, who was now smiling sweetly down on him with a bright, comforting glow. He couldn't help himself but wondered, too, as to why she had kissed him. Then he remembered his intensions before they got interrupted and felt heat rise to his cheeks.

'It is odd though that I, for one, acted like that and two, I'm surprised she made a move on me.' Gaara thought unbelievably.

'Well that's a duh, one, you acted like that cause you like her, and two, since you couldn't, she did. Simple really.' Shukaku shrugged.

'But how do you know she likes me?' Gaara wondered sadly.

'Don't worry. You'll know when the time is right. Besides don't you have some meeting with you counselors today about those stupid whores?' Shukaku questioned.

'OH SHIT!'

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As the alarm clock beeped, Sakura groaned and turned over in her sheets and shoved the alarm to the floor before turning back over and covering her face.

'Ugh…I hate early mornings.' Sakura thought.

'Yeah well nothing we can do about it now. The sun is up and the birds are going along on their merry was. We should be heading to the Kazekage's study to tell those counselors about your idea.' Inner Sakura said, anxiously to get out of bed. Sakura raised an eyebrow.

'Who are you and what have you done with my mind?' Sakura thought, untangling herself from the covers and slowly pressing her feet on the ground. Walking over to her balcony, she looked out into the desert, watching as the sun's warm glow soon spread over the mighty sand dunes and onto her face.

'Did I over sleep today? Or is it just me?' Sakura thought still half asleep.

'No, the sun is just up before us. Of course we overslept! Now can we please get going, we still have patients we have to heal.' Inner Sakura fussed hitting the inside of her head.

'Yeah, yeah, yeah will you knock that off?' Sakura thought as she walked over to her dresser, pulled out some clothes and headed straight for the shower. Once she got out of her quick shower (ten minutes) she quickly got dressed and headed out her room and back to where she first met the Kazekage himself. As she ran to the study, she panicked inside her head about how they were going to take her idea or how he was going to take it…mostly him.

When she finally reached the door to the study without stopping, she swung the door open and yelled "I have a suggestion!" Sakura looked around for some sign of Gaara. As every head in the room turned to her, Gaara left no trace of ever being in that room at all today. Nerves took over, and she began to tremble slightly. Not enough to be noticed, but she was trembling all the same.

'DAMN!'

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A new day began just as the start of a new mission crept to the surface. A familiar silver haired man turned over grunting underneath his covers. Opening his eyes slowly, he pulled his arm across his face and sighed. The day before he had stayed up all night thinking about what Tsunade had said.

'Even at the cost of killing him?' Kakashi thought. He sighed. As a shinobi, attachments were not good to make and he just happened to do so in so many ways. But at the risk of another teammate, he couldn't let his emotions get in the way. Not this time… After all even though he treasured the son of his best friend Obito, he still cared for the health of Naruto and the sweet pink haired Kunoichi, Sakura. As he pulled the covers off him, he covered his face with his hands and just sat there.

'Even at the cost of killing Sasuke? Well what will come of things if Gaara gets involved? What is she planning for my team?' He thought, pounding it against his mind. "I've got to go talk to her….There are many things to be discussed." Kakashi said out loud, then he stood and walked into the bathroom and later coming out drying his hair and steam flowed out of the bathroom. Draping the towel around his naked waist, he walked back into his bedroom, put on some clothes, his mask and his ninja headband then walked out the door without another thought. He ran straight through the Hokage Tower only to stop to look at Shizure.

"Oh Kakashi-san, do you wish to see Tsunade-domo?" Shizure asked sweetly smiling at him. Smiling at her, he nodded.

"Yes, it seems Tsunade-domo is not notifying me of some things about my team that I should be informed of." Kakashi said firmly, agitation seeping through his voice. Nodding slowly, Kakashi walked by her looking straight not knowing what was yet to come. As Shizure watched Kakashi, she shook her head knowingly.

'Hes going to have a FIT when he finds out whats she keeping from him and also the reason for Gaara being her perfect choice for Sakura-chan's protector.' She thought sadly and returning to her paperwork. Closing the door behind him, he looked at the blond Nin in front of him.

"Yes Kakashi, what do you need?" Tsunade asked not even lifting her head.

"What are you hiding from me about whats going on! I'm entitled to know! I am their sensei!" Kakashi asked getting straight to the point. She looked up at him and smiled.

"Whatever do you mean?" Tsunade asked sweetly. Rolling his eyes he walked closer to her desk.

"Why do you want Sakura to be guarded by Gaara instead of letting us protect her? What you do you think Sasuke and Itachi will do when they get their hands on her? What exactly is she doing in Suna? What are you not telling me?" Kakashi thundered complete with concern and fierceness. She chuckled and leaned back in her chair.

"You want to know? Do you really want to know?" Tsunade said calmly.

Calming down, he spoke firmly, "Yes, I want to know." Sighing she folded her hands and her smile slowly faded.

"Sakura is in Suna doing a mission. It seems that a disease has spread throughout Suna, as I've told you before, and their medics have no clue what is causing it and they have no idea what it could be. Sakura has read many medical books inside and out her classes, so I think, no, I'm confident that she'll find the cause of this disease." Tsunade began closing her eyes. She paused and Kakashi nodded silently.

"But," Tsunade continued, "theres also another problem…a political problem."

"Problem? What kind of problem?" Kakashi asked nervous about the answer.

"It seems that before Gaara's father died, he set up a counsel to advise and to help with the lucky job as Kazekage. Well it seems, also, that this counsel are lining up a list of ladies for him to choose and marry by the end of the month, starting today, which I have also told you before. And I was given a…request by Temari to bring in someone who I thought would put them in their place. And if I know her as well as I think, I'll bet she already thought it was all unfair and has come up with some bright idea of free choice." Tsunade explained. Opening her eyes, she winked and smiled. Kakashi nodded.

"Now don't get me wrong, we trust you men, but I feel Temari wants Sakura for more than just to get rid of a disease. Can you think of a brilliant reason why?" Tsunade said smugly.

"Yes, I can think of a couple of reasons why…but….wait Temari wants to hook the Kazekage, Gaara, with Sakura?" Kakashi yelled stupefied. Nodding her head, she continued.

"Yes thats exactly what she plans to do without Sakura noticing. Hard right? Well yes, that would be if it wasn't for the current situation. And who better to ask to protect her than the one shes protecting. What better way for them to get closer (a/n Gosh Tsunade, your so devious!) than by making both of them protect the other." Tsunade stopped and frowned.

"Now what does Sasuke and Itachi want with her you ask? Well its quite simple. Sasuke wants to create his own clan and you know brother rivalry and well heres the prize: Sakura. Whoever gets Sakura first can say that they're better than the other. Horrible actually. And I worry for her safety, just as you do, just as Naruto, just as Shizure, just as all the other ninjas of her class. We're all worried about her. We just now have to be patent with the outcome." Tsunade finished.

Nodding, Kakashi cleared his throat. "So with that clear, have you written to him yet?"

She smiled. "The letter should have already arrived."

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Every head in the room looked and stared at the pink haired Kunoichi. A blush rose to her cheeks. Finally coming to her senses, she straightened up and stood proudly.

'Go dumb nuts! Tell them about your idea!' Inner Sakura said shoving the side of her mind.

"Um….yes Dr. Haruno? You have an idea? About what please share." Said one of the oldest counselors.

'I'll have to heal the others as soon as possible.' She thought.

"Uh well… yesterday on my way to work, I was consulting with Temari-chan about what was going on in Suna," she spoke professionally with unending confidence. "And I said 'Well why can't they give Gaara a whole month, this month, to choose a wife for himself out of anyone here in Suna.'" Sakura paused showing motion as she talked.

"But heres where you guys come in. If he doesn't choose a wife by the end of this month, YOU can choose a wife for him, that way he can have a freedom to choose what wife he wants of out his own choice but there a chance that you guys can still choose for him if he doesn't use his time to choose." Sakura finished look at the members seriously. Muttering amongst themselves, she watched them in silence, hoping that they would approve her plan.

'I hope they approve….I'm going to feel so stupid if they don't approve…' Sakura stressed.

'Why should you feel stupid? If they don't approve then they're just being a bunch of assholes. Cause if they don't say yes to this plan, then they obviously don't know what a good plan is even if it turned around and slapped them in the face!' Inner Sakura commented.

'Well we don't know what they think till they tell us. So don't get so offensive just because of what happened yesterday.' Sakura retorted, lowering her hands and looking side to side at all the counsel members.

"So have you decided?" Sakura asked gently. All eyes were on her. All the counsel members looked at one another and smiled. Then as the oldest member stood, she felt her stomach drop to the floor. A smile creased his wrinkled face.

"Miss we humbly accept your idea. We shall put it into effect today, in fact. We are suppose to have a meeting with Kazekage-sama, so we shall be sure to tell him." The man's smile was kindly to her, like a grandfather to a granddaughter. She smiled happily and gave him a hug. Shocked he hugged back and she let go as soon as she had begun.

"Oh thank you so much! I thought you were going to hate it! I'm so glad you approve!" Sakura said while jumping up and down for joy. Just then, the door flew open and standing there was a panting Gaara. Turning around, she smiled brightly making all the young males hearts (including Gaara's much to his confusion as to why) flutter. Sweat rolled down his face and his hair, matted and messy, fell across his face.

"Oh! Gaara! I'm so glad that you made it! They have something to tell you." She said cheerfully, helping him to his chair. Starring at her as she spoke, his mind raced with the possibilities of what they would want to tell him.

'We got the girl! Just think about it! Wouldn't it be great if they said that we had to marry her? I mean shes not a whore. Shes perfect!' Shukaku cheered.

'And how do you know that she hasn't been taken yet?' Gaara asked slowly looking away from Sakura to the counsel before him.

'Well thats a duh!' Shukaku rolled his eyes. 'Why don't you make a move on her and you'll find out how I know.' Shukaku dared Gaara. Shutting him out, Gaara cleared his throat.

"What is it that you need to tell me?" Gaara questioned curiously think about what Shukaku had said. The counsel member that at on minute stood beside Sakura, smile at the straight-faced Gaara without a flinch in his eye from Gaara's hard stare.

"You should be thanking this young lady sire. She came to us with a brilliant idea that we've willing accepted. With this in mind, we have decided to let you choose your own wife before the end of this month." He said, looking from Sakura then back to Gaara. Gaara's heart was doing flips

"But if you forget to choose or do not choose one at all, we choose for you." Gaara's heart sunk.

'I have only one month to choose?' Gaara thought.

"Now sire, we have another thing you must know of. This is none of our business, so we shall leave if you wish." He finished walking away.

"But…what about our meeting?" Gaara asked. The man turned and looked at him and smiled. Everyone's eyes were on him questioning his authority. He looked from Gaara to Sakura then back to Gaara and winked unnoticeable.

'See! Even an OLD MAN sees it and you don't. Your pathetic.'

"Some meetings are sometimes meant for another day. Now a couple of hours ago we received a letter from Hokage-domo. This may be a very important letter to be sent by her fastest messenger bird. Now while you read and consult with that letter, we shall leave and discontinue our meeting till tomorrow." He said pulling out a scroll out of his jacket pocket, handed it to Gaara and then motioned for everyone to leave the room. As Gaara and Sakura watched every man leave the room, they looked at each other when they final one closed the door.

"I wonder…what Tsunade-domo could possible want…my report isn't due to her for another three days…" Sakura told him a blush slowly rising across her face. Confused by her actions, he looked at the scroll in his hand slowly tearing the seal and reading the scroll slowly. His heart flipped several times.

"So what doe it say?" Sakura asked curiously. Speechless, Gaara handed Sakura the scroll while he raced through in his head.

'No…this can't be good…' Gaara pleaded in his head.

'Hey just think of it this way, what a great excuse to be near her 24/7.' Shukaku reasoned.

"Guard me? From Sasuke? This isn't good…" Sakura said out loud.

Looking at her, he glared without meaning to. "And why is that not good?" Gaara questioned, sounding harsher than intended. She looked up at him with hurt in her eyes.

"Sasuke….thats whats bad. It had nothing to do with you!" She yelled as she shoved the letter back at him and running out the room with tears falling down her cheeks.

'Oh bright idea smart guy. Be an asshole that might make her like us more. Your such a moron.' Shukaku fussed sarcastically.

'What am I suppose to do? I don't know how to deal with emotions.' Gaara whined.

'Well its 'bout time you started to learn.' Shukaku retorted.

'And this coming from a demon that only thinks about sex and killing. Like I need advice from someone like you.' Gaara yelled.

'Well you aren't acting like you don't need advice. Now get your ass going! We've got to go apologize. And I swear if we lose her, I'll tear your insides inside out! Now get going! We've got a flower to save!' Shukaku yelled. Rolling his eyes, Gaara folded the letter and ran out the door to find where Sakura had gone.

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As she ran to her room, heart-pounding sobs tore at her lungs, begging to be let out, and built a lump in her throat. The sobs tore more and more the faster she went till finally she slammed open the door to her room and jumped on her bed, keeping her face inside her pillows. As soon as she had her face in her pillows, the flood gated flew open and the heart pounding sobs were let free. As each cry she let out got worse and worse all she could think of was how Sasuke hurt numerous times and seems to want her back.

'Well I don't want him back! I don't want to be his object of wanting! I don't need him!' Sakura cried out inside her head. All the while Inner Sakura remained silent.

As Gaara ran, he looked to each side of him, trying to find some sound of her voice. Till he heard the cries, the pain racking cries of someone wanting love and comfort. As he followed the sounds of those sad cries, his heart pounded in his chest and his heart raced.

'Our poor flower…our sweet nectar of beauty. The poor thing kept all this in…What a sweet girl…' Shukaku commented lovingly.

'I just hope shes alright…' Gaara thought concerned for the pink haired Kunoichi.

'Falling for her eh, old boy?' Shukaku joked. Blushing, he shook his head.

'Shut up you stupid demon…You know nothing about how I feel about her.' Gaara snapped.

'Fine but you don't have to snap at me. I'm just telling you what your ignoring.' Shukaku retorted, curling up inside his head. As the cried grew louder, he finally found where his flower had gone. When he looked inside her room, the scene broke his heart. She was lying on her bed with her face pressed against the pillows, her cries were softly muffled. Sadden at this weeping, broken flower, he looked away for a moment then walked into her room, and closed the door. He walked over to her bed and sat down lightly next to her. She felt something heavy press itself on her bed beside her but she didn't care. The pain was just too much to hold in any longer. That was when she felt those hands.

On her back, a warm, gentle hand was slowly gliding along her back and forth in a comforting motion. He leaned in towards her ears.

"I'm sorry… I didn't mean to offend you or…hurt you in any way…Please…tell me what made you so upset…" he whispered, his hot breath sent shivers up and down her spine. He sat up straight, waiting for her answer, looking at her with soft eyes.

'Did he just apologize! To me?' Sakura thought surprised by his actions. Sniffing, she looked up into his soft jaded eyes. Concern was clearly written across his face, she wiped her face.

"Don't worry about it…it was nothing except emotion from a little girl…" Sakura mumbled softly, turning away from him. She couldn't bear to let him find out what no body knew. She couldn't bear to be hurt again.

"You far from being a 'little girl,' Sakura. And I know its something more than just some emotion. You can't hide that from me. You're not some little girl having a temper-tamp thrum. You're a grown woman, wonderful in all your odd ways, that is going through pain that you don't know how to share." Gaara said, the words rolling off his tongue.

She looked back at him. Her eyes were puffy and red, tears slowly formed in them. She sat up and looked at him her eyes staring at his chest. Then all of a sudden he felt a sudden push of a body on top him and felt cold tears fall on his shirt. Shocked by this action, it took him a moment to fully awaken from shock and put his arms around her warm petite body.

"Shhh….its alright…say anything that on your mind…say anything that needs to get off your chest." Gaara said soothingly while rubbing her back with a gentle hand.

"I hate being weak! I hate him! I hate what he did! I was always there for him! I was always willing to listen! Then he turns around and slaps it all in my face! I've waited and waited for him to take me, to be mine, to show that he cared too but NO! All the wants me for is to continue his stupid clan and to prove to his brother that he can get a girl! I hate being used!" Sakura yelled her voice vibrating in his chest. She held on to him like was the only one who cared in the entire world about her.

"Shhh….its ok….Everything will be alright. Your not going to be used." Gaara said tenderly. She looked up at him. He smiled. "Don't worry. I'll be there for you. After all, I'm now your own personal bodyguard." He brought her closer to him, "I'll protect you." He whispered in her ear. She looked up into his jade eyes and smiled, more tears formed.

"You…you mean it? But I thought I was a nuisance to you…I thought….I thought you hated me…." She said blushing.

'Oh smart. Your splotchy and red and you decide to blush. Gosh your such a dunce.' Inner Sakura commented.

'Shut up!' Sakura yelled.

"How could anyone hate a sweet flower like you? You, with your smile so full of sunshine." Gaara said patting himself mentally on the back for making such a brilliant comeback and making such bold moves.

"Gosh Gaara…I never thought of you to say something like that…" Sakura looked away still blushing.

He smiled. "Well theres lots things that you don't know about me that I can surprise you with." Gaara turned her face towards his.

Blushing she darted his gaze. It was so intense! "Uh…like what…Gaara?" Sakura sputtered.

Pulling her back into his gaze, she saw something flicker in his eyes but she couldn't exactly tell what it was. As she looked into his eyes, she was released from her thought when felt a sudden warmth on her lips. He gently met her lips with his, her eyes wide in sudden shock, his eyes closed in pure bliss.

'Hes…kissing me? Hes actually kissing me!' Sakura stuttered in her head.

'Oh yeah! We're kissing Gaara, We're kissing Gaara! Oh yeah! Uh huh! Its our birthday! We show them!' Inner Sakura pepped cheerfully in glee in her head.

'But hes kissing me!' Sakura yelled confused.

'Hey you best enjoy it. It may be the only kiss you get!' Inner Sakura pointed out. Letting herself go, she tilted her head to one side and moved closer to him. Closing her eyes, Gaara waited for her permission to let him in. Letting him in, Gaara explored her mouth deeper, his tongue glided everywhere from top to bottom. When they were finally losing breath, he broke the kiss and opened his eyes, to see her, glassy and full of bliss and shock. Thinking about what just happened, they both blushed and smiled. Sakura was the first one to speak.

"I think I have to go….I still have patients I need to…take care of…" Sakura said, her voice coming out horse, her blush deepening with each word.

"Yeah…wouldn't want to…let this uh….disease get any worse…" Gaara said his voice was soft and light in her ears. It seemed like heaven to her.

"Well I'll see you later…" Sakura said nearing her door.

"Yeah. I'll see you tonight. I'll come and get you if you want?" Gaara asked.

"No uh…I think I'll be fine. Uh…good bye…" She said stumbling out the door and running all the way to the hospital with nothing but the same thing going through her mind.

'Why did he kiss me?'

Gaara sighed as he watched her leave the room. He looked around and finally stopped when he got to the bed. Then he realized something. All that time, she didn't move up so she could give him better access….she was...

'She was enjoying it?' Gaara thought.

'Yeah you better believe it kid. She likes you. And she liked what you did. Theres no doubt about it.' Shukaku said triumphantly. Smiling, he laid back on her bed and placed his face in her pillows. They smelt just like her, it was almost intoxicating.

'Maybe I'll just take a nap right here... and get up before she gets back.' Gaara thought sleep almost fully taking him.

'Yeah you do that kid. I guess I'll leave you alone...just this once. Maybe again if you keep where this just might be going.' Shukaku whispered smiling. By this time, Gaara was already sound asleep, his hair falling on his face.

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Hey there! Hope you like it! I was kind of having problems with the ending. Now I know at the beginning I might have some wrong information so please tell me if I'm wrong I'll greatly appreciate it.

I would also like to thank all of my alert people and favs people and all those who just read and to all my reviewers for being patient with this latest update. I know its kind of late but I was kind of having problems with people spreading lies behind my back and making people that I care for hate me.

It really is stressful. But hopefully it'll be alright in the end. But anyways, PLZ R&R!

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