Chapter 7- Uncovered information

For the past few weeks, Sakura had barely spoken to anybody. She spent most of her time closed off in her room. Even Hinata couldn't get through to her. It was like Sakura had built a giant stone wall between her and everybody else.

She'd lost the will to paint. It didn't seem to help her feel joyful like it used to. Instead Sakura spent most of her time lying on her bed staring up at the ceiling or looking out of the window.

The only time anyone saw her anymore was when she had breakfast, lunch and dinner. She refused to go to classes and even had Tsunade banging on her door, when she skipped group therapy.

Hinata, Temari, Naruto, Tenten, Ino, Lee, Kiba, Kankuro and even Shikamaru, were worried about her. They needed to get her to come out of hiding and interact more.

Temari held a meeting for everyone in the wing. She even made sure Gaara would take part, since she thought it was at least partly his fault for Sakura's breakdown. "Ok guys. Sakura's not coming out of her room for barely anything. We need to get her smiling again. Any ideas on how?" she asked.

"Maybe we should have a party?" suggested Kankuro.

"Nah, we only do that when it's someone's birthday," responded Temari.

"How about we have a games night?" proposed Kiba. He really did love playing games, almost as much as Naruto loved ramen.

Tenten groaned, "Ugh not more stupid board games. Kiba try doing something else for once." Kiba gave Tenten a dirty look and they started arguing with eachother.

Gaara leaned back against the wall watching his sister failing at controlling them. In end he got fed up of all the noise that he stepped forward. "Will you all stop being so annoying," he growled.

Everyone immediately went quiet and looked at him, fear in everyones' eyes. Gaara then leaned back against the wall and motioned for Temari to go on. "Thank you... Gaara," she said looking a little confused as to why he'd helped her. "Ok so anymore ideas and I don't want another argument about it," she stated.

To everyone's surprise Shikamaru spoke up, "Well I have an idea and it will be fun, but there is a risk if we get caught." Everyone leaned in to listen to his risky idea. "We could all break out of the wing at night and play my favourite game, throughout the entire institution. We could play 'Lost and Found'. A game where someone takes an item of everyone elses possesions and hides them somewhere in the building. I will be the one to take something and hide it, since I can go through unlocking the doors. Then you will split into pairs for this game, so no one gets lost and I will tell you which floor your items are on. Does everybody get it?" Most people nodded and others said yes. "Right, good," responded Shikamaru. He turned to go to his room and then remembered something. "Oh there is one troublesome catch," he stated earning most peoples' attention. "Someone will need to break into Tsunade's office and steal the keys from her desk, otherwise there will be no way we can get out of our wing."

"So..." Temari intterupted. She looked at everyone and said simply, "Who wants to steal the keys?" Everyone turned there shook there heads and some people looked away.

Seeing how nobody else seemed brave enough to perform such a task, Gaara spoke out in his cold voice, "I'll do it." Everyone turned there heads to him and looked at him completely astonished. This annoyed Gaara to no end, but he kept his blank expression.

"Ok, so it's settled," informed Temari. "Gaara will get the keys for us this dinner time and... wait! How are we going to get Sakura out of her room?" They all thought for a little while and then Naruto spoke out.

"I know, Gaara should apoligize to her, since he's at least partly the reason she had a panic attack." Gaara glared at Naruto, but Temari was agreeing with him.

"That's a good idea Naruto. Hinata couldn't get her to come out so maybe if Gaara apoligized Sakura would forgive him and come out of her room," Temari summed up. She then looked at Gaara, along with all the girls and most of the boys. "Gaara we don't want to hurt you-"

"So don't," stated Gaara simply.

"But you hurt Sakura badly and now you're going to have to make up for it. Even if we have to force you, you will apoligize to her," Temari growled.

Just then everyone started to close in on Gaara. He huffed and snapped at them, "You think you can take on me? If any of you touch me I'll kill you." He eyes showed that same muderous intent he had given Sakura, that day in Sasori's class.

No one seemed to be effected by it, they all thought since there was a lot of them, they could overpower him. They were wrong. Temari had completely forgotten about the sand Gaara controlled, since he hadn't used it in over three years.

Fortunately though Gaara didn't kill them, but instead attacked them and threw them off of himself.

Meanwhile Sakura was lying on her bed thinking about stuff, when she heard a lot of commotion come from outside her door. She wondered what was happening and for the first time in over three weeks, her curiosity got the better of her. She rolled off her bed and wandered over to the door.

When she opened the door, she found Gaara standing there with a creepy look on his face. There was sand attacking Temari, Kankuro, Naruto, Kiba, Ino, Tenten, Hinata and Lee. Shikamaru was leaning against his door watching it, so was Sasuke. They didn't want to get involved with the fight, that was occuring.

Sakura however couldn't stand there and watch the people, she had grown to call her friends, being thrown around and severly injured by sand. She looked around franctically, looking for the source of the sand. Then she noticed it pouring out from Gaara's hands. She understood now, why he had a crazed look on his face, he was concerntrating.

Seeing that no one had noticed her yet, she took her advantage and ran up to Gaara and shoved him to the floor.

Gaara immediately broke out of his concerntration and was enraged to find the pink haired girl running up to his sister and brother and helping them out. He hadn't noticed her come out of her room and push him to the floor. He sat on the floor scowling at Sakura.

Temari, Kankuro and the others were amazed that Sakura was out of her room and they were even more astounded by what they just saw her do to Gaara. No one had ever pushed Gaara before. They couldn't even touch him, let alone push him.

"Sakura, you're out of your room," Sakura nodded as she tended to the cuts and bruises on Temari's leg. "Y-Y-You just pushed Gaara!" Sakura just shrugged she didn't see what the big deal was about it.

Once everyone was bandaged up and seen to Sakura collasped on the sofa out of exhaustion, she'd never seen so many injuries and on top of that, she had to use all her strength to push Gaara to the floor.

By this time Gaara had walked into his room and slammed the door shut. Temari and the rest were quite terrified at Gaara's anger, but Sakura didn't seem to care about it. 'Wow someone's sure got a temper, hasn't he,' stated Inner Sakura sarcastically.

Naruto came and sat next to Sakura on the couch, but she edged away a bit, she still didn't want to get too close to them in case they ended up a pile of ash. "What's wrong Sakura?" asked Naruto sounding a little concerned. Sakura just shook her head.

"Oh Sakura!" said Kankuro. "We're gonna have another fun night. It was Shikamaru's idea. We're gonna break out of the wing and play 'Lost and Found' throughout the entire institution. Do you wanna play, come on it will be awsome."

Sakura thought for a few minutes and then decided there would be no harm in joining in. Afterall she was sort of wanting to have some fun and get her mind away from her past. She nodded her head and everyones' faces lit up with joy.

While Sakura was sitting with the rest of the wing, Gaara thought it would be a good time to try and find something out, about her.

He opened his door and closed it quietly. No one seemed to notice him as he crept across the room to Sakura's door. He then silently slipped inside.

Her room was bright and covered in paintings, most of them were of scenery and colourful sunsets.

He wandered over to her desk and started rummaging through the drawers, he found nothing though. Then he picked up a photo that was face down on the desk. It was a picture of three people. A woman with bright pink hair and blues eyes, a man with brown hair and green eyes and finally a young girl, about the age of 5 or 6, with pink glossy hair and sparkling green eyes. Gaara immediately recognised the young girl as Sakura.

She had the same colour hair and eyes, but the young girl's eyes seemed to gleam with happiness and she was smiling. Gaara couldn't help, but be curious as to what happened to stop Sakura smiling, like in the picture.

Suddenly out of the corner of his eye. Gaara noticed a dark painting sitting by the window. He walked over and picked it up.

He was surprised when he saw a painting of a burning building. He then found another painting lying on her desk. It was still slightly wet. The painting was the same as the other one. Except it was inside the building and not outside. He then noticed something at the very back of the painting, behind the flames. There was a dark figure standing there. He wondered why Sakura had painted this, she seemed to love to paint bright and colourful paintings, so why did she paint such a dark and disturbing picture?

"What are you doing in here?" asked an annoyed female voice. Gaara turned around and came face to face with those green eyes. Sakura looked down at his hand and at what he was holding. She immediately snatched it from him, earning her an angry growl from Gaara. "Leave those alone, there private."

"I don't care," Gaara growled. Sakura tried to push him out of her room, but he didn't want to budge.

"Get out!" she yelled at him, with inner Sakura starting to take over. He just stood there with his arms folded and smirked at her.

"Make me," said Gaara simply. Sakura shoved him again and managed to get him to the doorway, but from there on he refused to move. Sakura was getting tired of his little games, she just wished he'd leave her alone, like the rest of the world had before she came here. She sighed, knowing she wasn't going to get him out, so instead she refused to play his little game and sat down on her bed.

Gaara was still smirking at her, he wasn't going to let her win. she wanted him out and he wanted answers from her. He wasn't going to make sure he got what he'd came in for. "Will you just stop, please," she spoke quietly. She hung her head low, she didn't want to look at him.

"Tell me about your past," Gaara demanded. His cold voice sliced through the air and hit her ears. His voice reminded her of something. She started to feel warm again and then those dark eyes flashed in her mind.

Gaara noticed something was wrong with her, her eyes showed the same fear from the Chemistry. She started to shake and then she leaned over her bed and pulled something out from under her pillow. It was an ipod.

Sakura put the ear phones in and sat there listening to the music that played.

Gaara watched as Sakura's eyes went from full of fear to peaceful and calm. He had no idea what was with this girl, she was so unpredictable. She didn't even seem to notice him still standing there, when she got up and put her painting back on the window sill and sat there looking out of the window, still listening to her music. Gaara knew he wasn't going to get anything out of her, at least not today. He left room and went back to his own. He had other ways of gaining information about her.

At dinner time, there was no sign of Gaara, people thought he was still in his room cooling off his mood. They hadn't seen him like that for a while. Kankuro wondered what it was that made him act like it all of a sudden. He stared at Sakura and she noticed him looking. He half expected a glare or a frown like Gaara would give him, but Sakura instead gave him a small smile. Kankuro was relieved and smiled back. It was the probably the first time he'd seen her smile a little.

Meanwhile Gaara was excuting the plan he had made. He was still going to get the keys for his wing, but he also had alternative motive. He knew that Tsunade kept the files for the 'Wolf' wing, inside her office somewhere and since he was stealing her keys he might as well take the files with him. afterall they did have more than one copy of the files, so no one would notice he'd taken a set.

He picked the lock to Tsunade's office and crept inside. He then proceeded to search for the keys and files. He found the keys with ease, however the files were hidden in one of the many cabinets within Tsunade's office. It took him 15 minutes to locate them and then gather them all up, leaving him less than 5 minutes to get back to the wing, before anyone could notice him.

He stacked up the files, snatched up the keys and then made his way back to his room.

When he got there undetected, he shut the door and locked it. Then he spread the files out all over his desk. There were 12 in total, including his own. he wanted to see what the doctors said about him.

His eyes flicked over them all until he caught sight of Sakura's file. One of the reasons he stole the files, was because he wanted to find out what Sakura's past was and why she never mentioned it. He also wanted to find out what she was terrified of. Maybe he could unlock the secret behind her reaction during the Chemistry lesson. He knew what his glare did to people and that was definately not a reaction from his glare, so what really did cause Sakura's panick attack.

He picked up the file and shoved the others into the very bottom of his drawers. He took his bottom drawer out and hid the files underneath the drawer, which he then put back into place. His eyes skimmed Sakura's file and he felt the weight of it. The file was surprising light and thin compared to the others.

Gaara sat down on his bed. The bed lining had a black background with red squares covering it. His entire room was more or less black and red. His carpet was a dark red and his walls were black with a red boarder at the top and bottom. He had a very small window, which he hid with red curtains. His room looked as dark and threatening as he did.

His eyes looked at the photo of Sakura. She had the same green eyes and pink hair as she did in the photo in her room, however her eyes were dull and full of sadness. What had she done to get her in this place and why had she lost the sparkle in her eyes? Gaara had to know, he hadn't been this interested in anyone before, but he had to know.

He looked over at her information. Sakura Haruno, age 15, both parents deceased. He looked at her birthday and realised that it was only over a month ago, since she had turned 15.

Gaara then looked at the paragraph under her name and age. He read it to himself, 'Sakura Haruno, parents died in a fire when she was 6 years old. Found outside the burning building, collasped on the drive. Was submitted to an Orphanage, where she lived for 4 years. At the age of 10 she survived another fire, that broke out in the orphanage, she was the only survivor. There was suspicion that Sakura caused the fire, but that was soon over looked. Sakura was then fostered for over 4 years. No one wanted her for more than a year. Reports show that some of the families hated her and others were scared of her. A few days before she turned 15, she was caught in yet another fire. Again she was the only survivor, now blamed for arson at least twice, Sakura is thought to be a dangerous patient. Must keep away from flames at all times.'

After that Gaara remembered her reaction to when Sasori said fire. The fear in her eyes, but that still didn't explain about the other two times. The fear in her eyes earlier on, there was no fire near and no one mentioned anything about flames. He knew there was more to her past than what was written in her file. The only way he would find out would be to confront her and make her tell him, but for now at least, he knew how to get the reaction he wanted out of her.