I Would Die For You
I Would Kill For You
I Will Steal For You
I'd Do Time For You
I Will Wait For You
I'd Make Room For You
I'd Sink Ships For You,
Take The Cross For You
Make Me A Part Of You

-- #1 Crush, Garbage

Author's Note: sorry it took so long for an update. Went into my own world for a bit.

The chopper shook slightly when we landed. Everyone had been silent for the flight except for Lee who seemed to try to fill the awkward silence. He just made it worse rather than better. Neji slid the door open and hopped out. I stood and hobbled to the door but as I was about to step out someone grabbed my wrist. I turned surprised and found it was Gaara. He opened his mouth like he was going to say something but then shut with an audible snap and he dropped his hand. He turned away from me then and I jumped out of the helicopter.

Sasuke pulled back from the kiss. His breath was ragged, so was mine. He swallowed and dropped his forehead onto my shoulder. "We can't," he said into my shoulder.

"I know," I whispered back.

Slowly he dropped his arms from my around me. We stood like that for awhile just staring into each other's faces not touching.

I walked through the dark garage and headed back into the locker room.

"You should go back first," he finally said breaking the silence.

"Okay," I said softly. I turned and started to make my way through the trees. I snuck but one look back at him; he was staring back watching me leave with a painful scowl on his beautiful face. I hated seeing that look on it. I turned and quickened my steps.

I opened the locker and grabbed my clothes then headed to the woman's changing area.

Gaara smiled at my return, I smiled weakly back. "Did the walk help?" he asked.

"Yeah," I lied. I walked to his side within the large chamber. He picked up my hand, turned, and began addressing the advisor again still holding my hand captive.

I walked back into the locker room and tossed my suit into the bucket marked 'dirty'. Naruto came in behind me and tossed his over my head. It fell right into the basket. We stared at each other wordlessly neither knowing what to say.

Weeks pasted at my father's place. Gaara and my father were planning some mode of attack as the enemy had been steadily advancing into our territories. Defense first though, offense second. At night everyone would gather in the giant hall for dinner. Sasuke always made sure to sit as far away as possible which was easy to do with the vast number of tables.

"Sleep?" Gaara asked quietly when I yawned.

I nodded, "A bit."

"We'll go then," Gaara said and stood. Raising his voice he added, "Thank you again for the wonderful meal, Haruno." Garra took my head and pulled me up from where I sat. "Until tomorrow," he called as he steered me across the room.

"Ah, goodnight. Goodnight," my father bellowed to us with a wave of his hand.

I saw Sasuke out of the corner of my eye hunch and quickly leave the room. He was headed in a different direction of course.

I turned my face away from the crowd and frowned. I numbly allowed Gaara to pull me to our room.

I turned from Naruto and headed for the door. I was standing under the door frame when he called out, "Is there anything you want to tell me?"

"No," I said not even bothering to turn around. I walked out of the room.

He followed after me, "Nothing? You have NOTHING to tell me."

"Oh I'm sorry, did I owe you something?" I said stopping my stride and turning back to face him.

His eyes widened when he saw the defiance on my face. His lips parted slowly. "Oh I'm sorry your highness someone as lowly as I shouldn't bother you." he said with an acid sneer.

I didn't even blink, "Now you do." He had meant it as a joke, what he hadn't realize was how accurate it was. I turned and started walking away the anger showing in my every step.

"Wait what?" he asked after me.

I ignored him.

Gaara was by the bed getting dressed, I was under the covers. The sun hadn't risen yet. "We leave tomorrow," he said as he slid his pants on.

My eyes opened wide with horror, my stomach twisted in nots, "So soon?"

Pants on, chest bare, he leaned over and put his hand on my face, "It'll be okay."

"Yeah, I know," I said. Though I wasn't exactly worried about him. He would be farther away from the action than Sasuke. I sat up in the bed.

Gaara leaned down and kissed my bare shoulder, "It'll be fine." His green cat-like eyes locked with mine. I smiled and nodded weakly. He turned and finished getting dressed.

I took the stairs down to the second floor.

Quietly I snuck through the empty halls. Gaara had left for he had some work, final plans, to take care of. I slipped into the familiar room. I walked to the bedside.

I walked down the now familiar halls.

A knife was against my neck. "Sasuke," I whispered into the dark.

"Sakura? What the hell are you doing here?" he asked as he lowered the knife.

"He said you were leaving tomorrow," I said. Sasuke lit a candle near his bed. He didn't switch the light on for fear of someone seeing it.

"Sakura you shouldn't be here."

"I had to see you," I said the struggle not to cry apparent in my voice.

He let out a large huff of breath, "You should go."

"No," I said shaking my head.

"Sakura," he chided.

"You don't have to go. There are so many other soldiers, you don't need to go," my voice broke at the last.

He wrapped his arms around me as I cried softly. "Please don't leave me," I whispered.

"I have to go," he answered.

I clutched him a little tighter and he let me, in fact his arms seemed to wrap me a little tighter as well. I slid my hand up his back and to his neck. I rose on tiptoes to kiss him slowly. When I pulled back I saw his long black eye lids flutter open.

"I thought we agreed not to do that again," he said his voice slightly husky.

"Things change," I whispered back against his lips, my eyes lowered as I stared at them.

His hands moved down my sides, caressing me until he came to my hips. He gripped my hips and tugged me closer. I eagerly let him pull me in for I wanted every inch of my body to be touching him. He lowered his mouth back onto mine.

We didn't break the kiss as we stepped back. He penned me against the wall as he eagerly attacked my mouth. I wrapped my arms behind his head and pushed off the wall to get closer. He shoved me back against the wall and leaned closer. He pulled back from my lips ad started working his way down my jaw. The fire from his touch was almost scalding. I slipped my underwear off and wrapped my legs around his waist as he lifted me up against the wall.

I was brought back to reality when the chopper started to tilt as it landed. Garra was still staring and Naruto still seemed at a loss for what to say. I looked away from them both and stared out the window instead. I wasn't really looking at one thing just avoiding dealing with the awkward tension. After what seemed like hours we finally landed and everyone started to shuffle out. I slid into the mix and hurried out. Anything to get away. I felt like running and never looking back. Unfortunately there was no where I could go. I sighed and quickly changed out of the jumper.

I quickly hurried out of the locker area and ran up the stairs unnoticed like the coward that I was. I simple just didn't want to deal with anything. Maybe there was a reason I forgot everything; it was my brain's way of dealing with my life. And as I was beginning to learn I had one hell of a messed up life. I sighed as I pushed the door and exited into the hallway. I had made it away without anyone seeing or bothering me from the flight crew. I scuttled down the hall saying hello and hi to people as they passed and did the same.

It was dinner time so I made my way to the cafeteria. As I rounded the corner however the wind was knocked out of me and I was sent flying. I slide down a table knocking trays every which way. A couple people screamed. Everything was happening in slow shutter mode. One second I was turning the corner and the next I was sliding down the table food and tray's flying and falling as I hit them. Then I was rolling, two knifes clutched in both hands, off the table and landing on my feet facing the direction of assault; I vaguely wondered how I got them but quickly realized I must have snatched them from two trays.

Gaara stood before me in the door-frame a scowl on his face, his vein on his forehead very apparent. Sand floated all around him as he huffed and gave me eyes of death. I was frozen where I stood holding up my pathetic butter knifes in a stance of defense. "How long?" he finally said through gritted teeth.

"Excuse me?" I said tilting my head to the side as I had no idea what he was asking or talking about.

"How LONG had you been sleeping with him?" he snapped and spit out harshly.

"Oh," I said. It was all that came out. I looked down ashamed. That's when I remembered where we were at. People had backed away from the table. In fact there was a clear set of empty tables around us. Eight tables had been vacated and they all stood back staring at the scene. I didn't really care what these people thought but nonetheless I felt as if I wanted to turn and explain why I did what I did, that I wasn't the type of person to cheat. I wasn't that person. But I had and to many that would be all that mattered.

Annoyed at the silence he continued, "So tell me was it right away?..." he seemed to think about that a second, "He didn't come when your father visited, so it had to be after two years? Was it the first day you came back?" I was stunned and remained silent. I wanted to say something but it was as if my throat had closed in. He strode over and grabbed my wrist, I didn't even try to fight him off. "How long until you forgot about the ring that's suppose to be on this hand? How long until you tossed the ring altogether?" He threw my left hand back towards me and the force almost made me hit myself in the face.

The sand was thick around us and it was getting harder to breathe. "It wasn't right away," I said mutely, my eyes gravitated to the floor. He glared at me to continue.

Gaara was choking Sasuke. He had him penned up against the wall. Sasuke's hands were up near his throat trying to fight off the attack. He turned and elbowed out of the choke hold. The two were rolling on the floor as they fought. I grabbed something and smacked Gaara in the head. He went limp in Sasuke's arms.

I snapped my head back up at Gaara, "You tried to kill him." I sounded surprised. It shouldn't have been too out of the realm of notion, at least not for this man with the deadly eyes but then my memories only contained the loving husband.

He frowned at my words, "Why are you surprised? You were there."

"I.. I lost my memories when I came here. Or rather I lost them before I came here," I said with a slight frown. "You don't sound remorseful for your actions," I said miffed by how casually he could say he tried to kill Sasuke.

"If he was in front of me now I would kill him. He touched my wife."

"He touched me before I was EVER your wife," I said my anger rising at how possessively he treated me and at how easily he talked of murder.

At my words Gaara flinched. Apparently this was new news to him. "When?"

"When what Gaara?" I asked annoyed. I was tired of this. "When did I first fall in love with him? When did I first kiss him? When did I first sleep with him? OR... When did I first cheat on you with him? Go ahead and ask away. I should warn you though each of those questions were in the sequence of how they happened. Which means I loved him before I ever even knew you. Before the engagement. Before everything."

Gaara was quiet. Thinking, I assumed. He was no longer glaring at me at least.

"I think we should talk," he finally said, his eyes returning to mine. This time there was not a look of death held within them.

"We are talking," I said without pause, my anger still there.

He glanced around and I followed his eyes. People were all staring, forks and spoons frozen midway to mouth for some. "... without the audience," he answered.

"Fine."

I've been getting a lot of reviews to ask if Sasuke will come back in more than a memory. Unfortunately you'll just have too read and find out because answering gives too much away. Soon all will be revealed so far as the past is concerned and then you, the reader, will be like "oooh... so THATS what happened." and it will be right as rain.

Anyways... I plan to update sooner than I did this last time. And as always please COMMENT.