Chaper 4! "Love Remains the Same"

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Sakura was walking down the stairs to head back to her room. But she didn't see what she expected at the bottom of the stairs.

A raven-haired man, with cold eyes, leaning against the wall near the bottom step. Sasuke. Uchiha Sasuke.

Sakura screamed. "What the hell is Sasuke doing here!?" Her inner self screamed right along with her.

Sasuke turned to her, boredom covering his features.

"Oh, hey Sakura." Sasuke said. Sakura abruptly stopped screaming to glare at the Uchiha-teme. "Why are you here?!" she said.

Now she was getting confused. Sasuke was dressed as a Jonin. Could it be he had returned to Kohona?…

"To give you the joyous news, obviously. I'm back." he said. Inner Sakura: "Holy Shitttt… Ake mushrooms!"

"Oh, weeellll! Isn't that FABULOUS!? Uchiha-teme has returned home! I am so overjoyed I can barely contain it!" Sakura said, sarcasm dripping from her tone. She then walked right past him.

"That's it? No 'I love you'? No actual happiness?" Sasuke chided, annoyed with the pink-haired kunoichi.

"Yeah, ok. Welcome back! Have a good future with Ino-pig, I hear she's still available. She'll say she loves you," Sakura said, "because I'm sure as hell ain't sayin' it!"

Gaara, who was listing with his siblings at the top of the stairs, smirked. Take that, teme.

"Come ON, Sakura. Admit you still love me." Sasuke said, suddenly backing her up against a wall.

Gaara's eyebrow (1) twitched. Don't even think about it, Uchiha.

Sakura crossed her arms over her chest. "I wont, cuz I don't. I moved on from you and I'm happily in love with someone else!"

Sasuke looked dumbfounded for a second then burst out laughing. "YOU'RE in LOVE with someone else! HAHAHA! AS IF!"

"I AM!!" Sakura said, scowling and putting her hands on her hips. "Prove it, or I'm going to do something racy to you." Sasuke said, leaning his face toward hers.

Sakura pushed him away and stomped back up the stairs, Sasuke following close behind.

The sand sibs pretended they hadn't heard anything, standing around nonchalantly.

Sakura walked right up to Gaara. He looked at her for a second as if to say, "What?"

But she didn't respond. Instead she went on her tippy-toes, wrapped her arms around his neck, and crushed her lips to his.

Aquamarine eyes widened for a second, then closed and his arms circled her waist and he really got into it.

Sakura's malice toward the Uchiha melted away and she kissed him passionately.

Temari and Kankuro's jaws nearly hit the floor, their eyes wide. "Woo! Go little brother!" Temari yelled out suddenly.

Kankuro cried anime tears. "He gooottt kissseed beeeffooorree meee! And I'M his BIG BROOTTTHHHER!!!"

Sasuke just scowled. "She's in love with the no-eyebrows emo kid?"

"That's our BROTHER you're taking about!"

"And MY friend of the funk!"

"Uncle Expendable? What are you doing here? Aren't you dead?"

"Well, um… yes… actually I think I am…"

"For the love of God, shut up already!"

"Gaara! Sakura! You can stop kissing now! I believe you've made your point."

"…. 3 "

"Um… guys?"

"…"

-Awkward silence…-

"Soo… how bout' them Chargers?" (2)

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A little later, Sakura was walking around Suna at nightfall. She couldn't believe Sasuke was actually back. Then again, it was

When she was just about to start walking back toward the Kazekage building when she heard a familiar voice.

"Sakura. I'm sorry…" she turned to see Sasuke standing there. She crossed her arms over her chest. "Sasuke, I know you, you weren't telling the full truth earlier. Besides the fact that you're back, what happened?"

Sasuke bowed his head, his face having a strange look on it. A single tear ran down his cheek.

"It's… about Naruto."

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Gaara was awakened by a gentle knock on the door of his room. He went to open the door, surprised to see Sakura there, looking down at her feet. "Saku…ra?" he whispered, gently placing a hand on her arm.

She suddenly turned her head up. She was biting her lip as tears ran down her pale cheeks. "Seiren?! What happened…" he said, taking her in his arms as she sobbed.

He brought her inside ad lay on his couch, placing her on top of him. "There, there, love. It's okay, I'm here." he said, stroking the back of her head as she lay her face on his chest, her petite frame still shaking as she clung to him.

"Sakura… can you tell me what happened?" She shook her head, still not brining her head up. "Talking about it might make you feel better." She shook her head again, clutching his shirt tighter.

"Ok, you don't have to it you don't want to, but I'm here and I always will be when you need someone to talk to." She nodded slowly. Her shaking had ceased.

"Good -- you stopped crying." he said, offering her a small smile as she peeked up at his face. She rested her chin on her folded arms on is chest.

Gaara used his thumb to begin wiping away the smeared eyeliner that had streaked down her face. "Everything will work out." he reassured her.

She felt tears form in the corners of her eyes again, and quickly pressed her lips to his. He kept his aquamarine eyes open for a moment, then closed them slowly and kissed her gently. Hesitantly.

Sakura kissed him back fiercely, like she did not want him to ever leave her side. Gaara smirked within the kiss and flipped their positions so he was on top.

"Tell me what's wrong." he whispered.

Sakura clenched her teeth and closed her eyes, tears running down her face.

"It's-it's Naruto…." Sakura said. Gaara cocked his head to the side.

"What about Naruto?"

Sakura burst into tears again.

"He DIED, Gaara! He frickin' DIED!"

Gaara's aquamarine eyes widened.

"What?!"

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A/N's:

(1) He doesn't have eyebrows does he?

(2) THEY'RE SUCKING RIGHT NOW!

A little shorter than usual. Sorry for the cliffy ending, but I really needed to post another chapter.

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