Disclaimer & Stuff: Hey, if I said that I own Naruto and that I was Masashi Kishimoto, would you believe me? Didn't think so. Anyway, hope that passes as a disclaimer. The last chapter was short, and a lot of them have been, so this one has taken much longer, yeah I know, but I'm hoping to get it a lot longer, I'll fail, but try!
CHAPTER SEVEN
"Kazekage-sama! Kazekage-sama!" An assistant ran out to the training grounds near the cliff in search of the Kazekage.
Seeing two people, he ran as fast as he could, pumping chakra into his legs to get him there faster.
"Kazekage-sama! Kazekage-sama!" The assistant called. He ran looking down, and when he looked up he saw that he had interveined at the wrong time.
Two forms, the Kazekage and a pink-haired beauty, were standing close to one another, the Kazekage holding onto her wrists in the air and staring at her.
"Maybe I'll come back some other time." He said slowly trying to sneak off. That's when Gaara noticed him, we he already noticed him, but became aware of his presence.
Slowly he turned his head and glared at him, and if looks could kill, he'd be dead.
"Gomen, Kazekage-sama, am I interrupting something?" The man said with lowered head and fear in his eyes.
"Oh shit. The Kazekage-sama is gonna murder me!" He thought to himself.
"No." Gaara said and thrust Sakura's hands down, all while stepping back, leaving a very flustered Sakura a couple feet away.
Flashback
Sakura had been teaching Gaara more medical moves. They were training near the cliff so that the up breeze would cool them off.
"Sakura-san, I have often heard of a medical, proceasure, if you will, where the doctor or nurse would drain the chakra level down of the patient, so as to keep them weak, so that they couldn't lash out, for whatever reason." Gaara inquired.
"Oh, yes, I have heard of this technique, in fact I have learned it from Tsunade-sama not too long ago, um, would you like to learn it?"
"Hn."
"Shall I take that as a yes?"
Gaara nodded. For the next few hours Gaara had improved greatly. He was getting to be better and better as the hours passed. Soon it was six, though it was still quite sunny out. They didn't notice.
"Ahh, Gaara-san? You're really good, no, great at this!"
"…" Gaara, who was never complemented unless he was threatening someone, didn't know how to respond.
"Tell me, Sakura-san, is it easy or even possible, to use this in battle." Gaara asked.
"Actually, yes, I was just getting used to that when I was called over here, you have seen it before, remember?"
"…?"
"In the chunin tests, when we were having one on one battles right after the Forest of Death, Sasuke-kun was up against one of Kabuto-baka's teammates, and he used it there."
"Oh, yeah. I do remember that… I had forgotten, that was 5 or so years ago."
"Yeah, back when she was shapeless and pretty, now she's curved out and hott." Shakaku pointed out, without any reply from Gaara.
"Gaara-san…do you wish to, spar? With that technique, and nothing else?" Sakura questioned.
"Yes."
Sakura and Gaara got into battle stances and readied themselves to fight each other. (A/N I'm not good at battle stuff so bear with me here, 'kay?)
Seeing as though Gaara refused to move, Sakura was the first to attack, she went after him, her hands glowing a soft pink color. Gaara's hands glowed as well, but his a blood red color.
Sakura lashed out her hands, aiming for his arm(s), but Gaara easily avoided it and went for her side. Sakura, who had seen this coming ducked under his arm like the limbo and while she was low, aimed for his foot.
Anywhere chakra could be manifested from could be drained from, the chakra that is drained then just evaporates into the air.
"Ha, huh?" Sakura said, but the Gaara's foot then moved and was replaced by a glowing hand. Seeing no time to move, Sakura could only wait for impact.
"Gaah!" Sakura let out a yell of anger at her own stupidity for running right into his hand, but as though she expected contact on her face or arm it was in a different place, a MUCH different place.
"What the hell?!" Both Gaara and Sakura shouted as they both saw that his hand was on her, er, "chest area" (A/N yes I know I know, for all you little perverts out there, this one goes out to you.) Gaara's hand was on Sakura's boob.
Sakura, since she was so low, was going to hit Gaara, but since he was still high he had to bend over to hit her arm, which is what he was aiming for, Sakura's ARM, but she moved to get into a better position, resulting in this.
"Hn…uh…sorry." Gaara said and moved his hand quickly.
"I'm in you, I can fell what you feel on the outside, haha! Yes! I also know you're feelings, you liked that, Gaara!! Hahaha! Whose the pervert now, hmmm?!!!?" Shakaku taunted
Sakura had now gotten up and was back in a fighting stance.
"I'm gonna let you off the hook this time and pretend that didn't happen!" Sakura smiled and shouted at him.
"What? No, yelling 'pervert!' and punching him into tomorrow, well I guess you couldn't with his sand and all, I think you liked it, actually, I know you did!" Inner Sakura taunted Sakura.
"What's this? She…made a joke about it? She joked with…me, a joke. Like friends…you tell jokes to…friends, right? Does she considor me a…friend?"
Sakura and Gaara continued fighting for some time after, both blushing but not admitting it. Finally Sakura let her guard down and Gaara connected his hands with her knees.
"Woah!" Sakura shouted and began to fall.
She went down, only to be held up on her wobbley knees by Gaara, who was holding onto her wrists.
"T-thank you Gaara-kunaaaaassasssn…!?" Sakura drawled out, meaning to say 'san' but almost said Gaara-kun.
Sakura looked up, getting firm on her feet, streanth returning to her. She looked up into Gaara's eyes, he looked down, for once his eyes weren't could and hard, but seemed almost…soft, and caring.
Gaara lowered his head closer to hers and then…
"Kazekage-sama! Kazekage-sama!" was heard.
End Flashback
"Hn, yes, what is it?" Gaara asked annoyed but thankful of his assistant, who had interrupted him, but saved him from doing something that he might regret.
"Um, Kazekage-sama…? It is seven pm, the office has been frantic looking for you. You said that you would be back by five, you're usual time…"
"Seven? Already? No matter, I will be there momentarily. Go on and tell them that I will be there soon. Dismissed." Gaara sent him away.
"I'm really, really, really sorry, Gaara-san." Sakura said and bowed real low to him.
"For what?"
"I kept you in training and distracted you from what you needed to get done." Sakura said.
"It's fine, I was too caught up in training. Anyways, it was fun without Kankuro being obnoxious." Gaara said to her.
Sakura giggled.
"Yeah, it was really fun! We should do it again some time. But Kankuro is gonna be home a day from tomorrow." Sakura stated.
"I'm the Kazekage, I can always assign him more missions." Gaara said.
Sakura giggled and then laughed again.
"That would be really fun, Gaara-san. It's been a fun day today! I'll make dinner for you for whenever you come home, 'kay?"
Gaara smiled, wait, smiled?!?!
"She's become more…comfortable around me…I should say something…" Gaara thought to Shukaku.
Sakura turned back to the village, and as Gaara was about to go off to the office.
"Sakura-san?" He asked.
"Yes?" She said and turned around.
"Don't be afraid to call me Gaara-kun, or even Gaara…Sakura-chan." Gaara gave a smile, expecting to see her reject him and his offer. He started to disappear into a swirl of sand, when he saw her expression before he left, she was blushing red, looking at her feet, and smiling.
"O-okay, Gaara-k-kun." Is the last thing that he heard before he was completely in the swirl and then into his office.
"She, didn't reject me." Gaara stated to no one out loud. Then he caught sight of his desk, piled high with books, papers, scrolls, and many other things.
"SHIT!! WHY IS THERE SO MUCH WORK TO DO?!?" He yelled at no one.
Meanwhile in Konoha
Tsunade was piled up to her neck in work.
"HOLY FRICKIN-" she yelled, "WHY DO I HAVE DO MUCH WORK?!?"
Gaara's house back in Suna
Sakura had walked home very slowly and carefully, thinking over what had happened the day.
"We've known each other for…some time, and we've spent a lot of time with one another. I guess that it's ok to call him Gaara-k-kun after all…" Sakura said out loud in the painfully empty house.
"And the way he called me Sakura-chan…" Sakura squeeled like a little school girl and fell onto the couch, drifting off to sleep for an hour or so.
About an hour later
Sakura woke up and looked around, seeing her surroundings she thought of dinner for Gaara, got up, and started to prepare (A/N I love food, but when I have to think of a kind of food I blank out, once again, just think of something that you like or what you think Gaara would like and insert it into the sentence.)
Two hours later, Sakura had finished and put everything away, leaving out the food for Gaara when he came home.
"Tomorrow is the day I go to the hospital again. I hope I don't forget…"
Hours and hours later
Gaara came in at around midnight, heated up the dinner that Sakura left. Then he sat there and ate the delicious food.
"I should go see if Sakura-chan is asleep." Gaara said.
As he knocked on her room door, it opened only the slightest, for him to see that her bed was empty and that the window was open.
"Sakura-chan?" He asked aloud.
Gaara went into the room and looked out the window, down, left, right, nope she wasn't there. Then he thought of something, Gaara looked up and felt with whatever, he senced her chakra coming from up on the roof.
Gaara carefully climbed onto the roof and sure enough there she was sleeping on the roof in her pajamas.
"Guess she was looking at the moon…like I do sometimes." Gaara whispered to himself.
He got up and saw her semi-curled up, resting her head on her arm. (A/N You know what I mean…) Gaara laid down beside her and just looked up at the stars. His mind blank.
"Muhunmhhmph." Sakura muttered something unrecognizable in her sleep, rolled closer to Gaara. Then she put her head on his chest and lightly held onto his shirt with her hands.
"Hu? What the-?!" Gaara whisper shouted, surprised at what she did in her sleep. But then relaxed, liking it.
They stayed there for some time, until Sakura began to shiver and mover closer to Gaara. Seeing how she was cold, he picked her up and brought her into her room.
"She's still way too light for her own good." He thought to himself.
Gaara placed her on the bed and began to walk away, but he felt a tug on his shirt.
Sakura was still holding onto him. Gaara turned back to undo her hand from her grasp on his shirt but she grabbed him around the waist and pulled him closer to her until he fell onto the bed next to her.
"The fuck?!" Gaara practically shouted.
But he couldn't move, he was next to her in the middle of her bed. After a while of just looking at how the moon was casting a shadow on her he got into a better position. Sakura was still now cuddling and holding onto him in her sleep.
Gaara gave in. he wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her closer to him.
"Goodnight, Sakura-chan." Gaara said. He rested his chin atop her head and felt himself actually fall asleep.
END OF CHAPTER SEVEN
