Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Nor Gaara, althought I could make him very very close to death. Of course, I'm not gonna kill him...3

Thank you to my helpful reviewers, Echo Uchiha and Melody Cadenza. This chapter is dedicated to Melody, since she apperently loves Sazuko. So...read on to find out what happens. :)

Sazuko POV

Sazuko turned her head as she heard a screech near the open field of the school. She had been under a tree, near the grassy field.

She gasped. It was Gaara, the new transfer student in her art class! And Sasuke's gang of "cool kids". And...was that Suigetsu? With a knife?

She sighed. It wasn't her business, but she couldn't help running towards them. She didn't hate Gaara, but she wouldn't like to see him dead either, despite that fact that he technically called her mute. Well, I'll show you that I can and will talk when I have to save your butt.

"Heh..." Suigetsu dropped Gaara on the field. Sazuko saw that Gaara was panting for breath, and there was a deep cut on his neck.

Dammit! She thought. Why would Gaara go and talk with people like those? They're nothing but trouble...

Sneaking up behind them, Sazuko whacked Sasuke's head.

"What the-" Sasuke stopped as he turned around and saw Sazuko.

"You, again! You're nothing but trouble at this school...and at your previous schools, so I heard," Sasuke sneered.

"At least I didn't go around bullying people," Sazuko replied cooly. She then walked past them and stood next to Gaara. "Especially new students."

She bent down and examined the cut on Gaara's neck. The bleeding was subsiding, although a lot of blood seemed to have trickled away. Sazuko took out a tissue from her pocket and gently cleaned off the blood, seeing him blush as she did so. Stupid, she thought.

"Heh...we'll leave you guys alone, considering that we don't need a weakling in our group," Suigetsu laughed. "Catch you guys later." Sasuke's group left the field, laughing as they went.

"Damn idiots..." Sazuko muttered. "Thinks that hurting people is fun..." She turned towards Gaara. "You okay?"

Gaara POV

What was she doing here? Gaara thought. I thought she hated me!

"Hey, look. I asked you a question. I expect you to answer it," Sazuko kneeled in front of Gaara. "If you have listening problems, I'll use sign language..."

"That won't be necessary," Gaara replied coldly. "I was just suprised to see you, that's all."

"Oh, sure you were, you were suprised enough to blush," Sazuko said, the sarcasm obvious in her voice. She rolled her eyes.

"I was not," Gaara protested.

"Yes you were."

"No I wasn't."

Sazuko sighed. "Ya know what? I think I'll just clean up that cut and I'll go away." She stood up and prepared to leave, but not beforing telling Gaara to stay where he was.

Gaara sighed. Where were Temari and Kankuro? At least they would've been nice to him when he got hurt...most of the time. Dealing with Sazuko was like dealing with a pain in the neck. Slowly, he sat up.

In a couple of minutes, Sazuko returned with a lot of paper towels and some water. Gaara stared as she opened the bottle and poured water all over the towel.

"You're getting water on your pants," Gaara noted.

"Shut up!" Sazuko replied angrily. (She tends to be very careless.)

Gently, Sazuko used the wet towel to wash away the blood on Gaara's neck, then used a dry towel to clean it. During the whole time, Gaara felt himself burning in the face. (LOVE)

"There," Sazuko said as the blood seemed to stop. "That should do it."

Gaara touched the scar on his neck, then looked at his hand. There was no blood on it.

"Umm...thanks?"

"Yeah, you should thank me," Sazuko said as she left the field, leaving Gaara alone with a couple of paper towels.

Yay, longest chapter yet. :) Please review, people! And give me some ideas for the next chapters...I'm running out of ideas...