Hi everyone, sorry that this chapter took so long to post but my beta Laura was away in China and i didn't want to post it in fear of embarassment of my horrible spelling and grammer. (Laura: Dam straight)

Hope you all like this chapter, cause it's got some fluff and u all know i love my fluff hehehe :D

A sneaky smirk carried on her lips as she made her way home. She had decided to walk home tonight instead of getting a lift by Temari, Kankuro and Gaara. Thinking about her little plan that she and her friends had decided on. Oh was this going to be a good plan. Step one was already complete and now step two was coming up.

Walking up her drive way she unlocked her door and walked in quietly making sure that if Hisashi was home he wouldn't hear her. Luckily as she walked into the kitchen she found a note on the bench.

Sakura,

I am going tonight for a business meeting.

I will be home at around 11 and I expect dinner to be ready and I don't want to see you, because they might be coming round. I want everything ready and if it isn't well you know the consequences.

Hisashi

The note sent shivers up her spine. She knew what would happen if she didn't do what she was told. Quickly going upstairs she chucked her bag down on her bed and stripped of and went into the shower. Once again letting the cool water run over her sore muscles and malty coloured bruises.

After scrubbing herself off, getting out of the shower and putting on some old clothes she started to cook dinner. Luckily she was a good cook and could normally please Hisashi. Sighing as she finished she turned around when she heard her phone ring and smiled as she looked at the name 'Gaara'.

"Hello" she said happily.

"You have to come round for dinner" Gaara said cutting straight to the point.

"Wow and here I was wondering

"Are you coming or not?" he asked slight annoyance in his voice If you would ever ask, or was that a demand?" she joked.

"Yeah ok. What time?"

"5:30." Sakura looked over to the clock it was already 5. "Ok. I'll see you than" Sakura said and Gaara hned before hanging up.

'Damn it where is everyone?' Naruto thought as he finished eating his second bowl of ramen. Slouching back into his chair he noticed a small figure walking towards him. Smiling a big smile partly at the fact that there was someone here to talk to and partly because of the fact he could have yet another bowl of ramen, but his smile turned even bigger (if possible) when he realized it was Hinata.

"HINATA CHAN!" Naruto yelled waving at the girl turning a dark shade of red. "Hi Naruto" Hinata replied looking at the ground and twiddling her fingers a little. "It's about time someone showed up, I was starting to think that it was cancelled and no one told me" Naruto added and Hinata nodded.

"I'm s-sorry I'm late I was at a meet-ting with my father" Hinata said shyly.

"Its ok at least someone is here so I can eat my ramen!" Naruto exclaimed and punched a fist in the air and to his surprise Hinata let out a small giggle. Naruto smiled and raised his eye brows "What's so funny?" he asked and Hinata bit her lip nervously "Nothing." 'This is going to be an interesting night' Naruto.

'Damn why is picking an outfit so hard?' Sakura inwardly groaned.

'Because even though you won't admit it you're dressing up' Inner Sakura replied.

'Of course I am! I'm going to Temari's house for dinner!'

"Yeah and also because of the fact that Gaara is going to be there' Inner Sakura teased.

'I have no idea what you are talking about' Sakura said.

'Liar!'

'I am NOT lying!'

'And here I thought you were smart because you are obviously not if you don't remember that I am a part of you' Inner Sakura smirked as Sakura twitched.

'I hate you' Sakura stated.

'Love you too' Inner Sakura smiled and then started yelling colorful words as Sakura shoved her in a box and chained it up.'Stupid damn Inner!' Sakura thought.

15 minutes later she had final decided what to wear. It consisted of a black spaghetti strap dress that ended at mid-thigh and had chains that hung down from her waist to her bottom of her dress. One that Temari had insisted she buy even though it was $50. She had combat boots and two simple silver bracelets. She pulled out her phone and set an alarm for 10:30 so she would arrive home before Hisashi. Looking at the time is was 5:20.

She ran over and got her bag before she left the house.

Knock, knock. Sakura stood at the door only to hear the rants of the members that live there.

"Kankuro answer the damn door" Temari yelled.

"You do it! I'm in the middle of a level" Kankuro argued back.

"AND I'M COOKING DINNER!"

"You can't even cook."

"What did you say?" Temari angrily asked.

"I said that you can't cook" Kankuro repeated.

"ALRIGHT THAT'S IT!" Temari shouted followed by a yelp and the sounds of metal clashing. Suddenly the door opened and Sakura stared at the person holding it.

"Come in" Gaara said and Sakura walked in only to see Kankuro being chased by Temari with a frying pan. "Sorry about them" Gaara said sending Kankuro and Temari a death glare causing them to freeze in their tracks.

"Oh hi Sakura" Temari greeted. "Love the out fit! Wonder who came up with the idea to buy you that dress" she joked and Sakura noticed she was slightly moving towards Kankuro with every word she spoke.

"Yeah Sakura- OW!" Kankuro yelped as Temari hit him over the head. "HA! That's for being an asshole about my cooking" she exclaimed and then hit him over the head again. "And that's for not answering the door!" Kankuro muttered something under his breath that sounded a lot like 'Stupid Pmsing sister' and then was wacked on the head again.

"Your no better doll man" Temari teased and Kankuro's eye twitched "They are NOT dolls they are puppets!" he growled.

"Yeah, yeah what ever you say make-up boy" she said before Kankuro pounced knocking her over the couch and then falling over himself. They two began wrestling on the floor and Sakura couldn't help but giggle. Gaara on the other hand mentally shook his head. "You both look like a married couple, when they stop fight will realize that Kankuro is on top of Temari and started kissing each other." Sakura couldn't help but say followed by a burst of laughter that even caused Gaara to get a smirk on his face.

Temari and Kankuro froze only to realize that Sakura was right and the position they were in looked really bad. They both look at each other and were immediately on opposite sides of the room.

Sakura on the other hand had fallen over in the laughing fit she was having. "Never speak of this again, or your dead" Temari threatened and Sakura nodded standing up and wiping a tear that fell down from her eyes. "Yeah like your cooking won't kill us in the mean time" Kankuro muttered and Temari gave him a death but chose to ignore him because she really did want a reply of what just happened.

Sakura sniffed and swear she could smell smoke, and she was right. The next second the smoke alarm went off and Temari cursed running towards the kitchen followed shortly by everyone else. Temari quickly turned off the oven and pulled out something that now was burnt to a crisp. "Fuck" Temari cursed "Not again!"

"And she wanted us to eat that" Kankuro said in disgust. "Looks like were having take out…again" he sighed.

"Great Pizza it is" Sakura piped in. "I've been wanting some for some time now" she said trying to make Temari feel a little better.

Dinner consisted of Kankuro saying how much better this was then her cooking which ended up with a slice of Pizza in Kankuro's face, shortly followed by a full on food fight between Kankuro and Temari. That was until a piece found its way onto Gaara's face, and dinner ended really quickly after that.

"Hey Sakura can you please go and get Gaara? I made a cake for desert" Temari asked as she and Sakura finished washing the dishes. "Yeah sure, um where is Gaara?" Sakura asked.

"In his room" Temari replied while pulling out the desert.

"Temari what is that?" Sakura asked suddenly not really feeling like desert. "Chocolate cake" she replied and Sakura blinked at the brown goo before almost running towards Gaara's room.

"Gaara" Sakura said and waited for a reply, but there was none. "Gaara desert is ready" still no reply. Biting her lip and debating weather or not to open the door she finally decided she should. She turned the knob and opened the door, but there was no one there. She walked further into the room and noticed an open window. 'Still likes the outside huh' Sakura thought as she went though the window and landed on the roof. Looking on the roof top and shivers went up her spine as she herd Gaara's voice, "What are you doing here?"

"Er desert is ready" she said turning around suddenly realizing she was very, very close to Gaara's face. (Cus Gaara is kinda short) The breath was knocked out of her as she looked into his eyes. But as quickly as he was close to her he stepped away followed by a Hn. To bad she suddenly looked down because she missed his blush.

'OMG SO CLOSE!!" Sakura's Inner screamed

'Shut up! I thought I locked you in that damn box of yours!' Sakura exclaimed

'You can't escape me…sooo in the mean time KISS HIM!'

'No'

'Party pooper' Inner replied before disappearing.

Gaara sat down on the roof looking into the night sky. It was only then Sakura realized how beautiful it was outside. "Wow" Sakura said out loud. "It's so pretty, you can see all the stars" she said in a daze.

"Yeah, I come out here a lot. It gives my space to think" Gaara confessed. 'Why the hell did I just say that?!?!' Gaara thought.

"Really? Well I can see why. I never got to see stars in Kohona, to many trees" Sakura said still staring at the night sky. "What do you think about?" she asked when Gaara didn't reply.

"I dunno, life" Gaara said and cursed in his mind as he did it again. Damn it how does she make him say things like this. She made it so easy…but how? Was it because he was her friend? "How do you do that?" He questioned.

"Do what?" She asked back.

"What you're doing now"

Sakura just gave him a puzzled look. "What? Talking?" she said sitting next to him and Gaara just nodded. Sakura let out a giggle. "Its really easy all you have to do is open your mouth."

"No I mean talk like you do to me. How do you get me to say things? I never say this like this to anyone" Gaara admitted and tensed a little when her hand moved onto his, but soon relaxed.

"I don't know. I like to listen to what you think, its good to have someone listen to you. I like it when you tell me how you feel. Because if I can do anything about it I will. That's what friends are for" She said letting a smile plaster her lips.

"But why?"

"Because you are important to me Gaara"

Gaara couldn't understand this girl. Why was he so important to her? How come she cared so much?

"But why do you care about me?" he inquired still not understanding.

"Gaara because you are my friend and friends care about each other." She said and sighed "I want to care for you because friends are a special thing. They are meant to look out for each other and help when they can. You become friends when you understand how much the other person matters to you, and that you will help and look after them no matter what. They mean a lot to each other like you do to me, and I hope that I mean a lot to you."

"You do" Gaara said quietly and looked into her eyes but they soon fell to her lips. He was holding on to everything those porcelain lips said, like they were his life line, he felt drawn to them. He didn't know what was wrong with him but at that moment he wanted to kiss her. Feel how soft her lips were.

His hand seemed to have a mind of its own as it lifted itself to her cheek, gently caressing it. His hand moved from her cheek to touch her eyes, forehead, nose and finally her lips. He looked up to her eyes only to find them closed and his attention quickly turned to her lips as the licked them. Looking back in to her eyes which she had reopened he asked a silent question which she answered with a nod. He took a breath in as he made his way to her lips.

Sakura could feel his warm breath on her lips and she closed her eyes once more in anticipation only to jump back when she heard her mobile go off. Sakura cursed violently "I have to go" she said as she ran back over to the window and jumped through the window. Gaara watched from his spot on the roof as she ran out the front door as she ran into her house.

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