Hey guys sorry for the late update, I was very busy. BUT ITS HERE NOW! And its alot longer. Sadly for my fingers… But anyway I DON'T OWN NARUTO. Just this AWESOME PLOT! N thx again ShurikenGrl ur wicked N this chap is JUST 4 YOU!!!
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"Ok lets get you home before you're sick Naruto" Sakura scolded as she and Gaara got Naruto out of the restaurant.
"Aww but I could still eat more!" Whinged Naruto. Gaara just starred at Naruto. They walked back to Naruto's house in the darkness. A beautiful full moon was up but you couldn't quite see it against the clouds. Big, dark, clouds. Thunder clouds.
Sakura shivered. She had always hated thunder storms. She loved lighting, it was awesome! But it was the thunder she hated. And the hard pelting of rain, the almost demonic winds… She found it truly fighting. Sakura decided to ignore that and focus on the moon instead.
"isn't the moon beautiful tonight guys?" Sakura asked as she tucked in a pick lock behind her ear.
"Yes, it is." Answered Gaara as he walked next to Naruto. Naruto however didn't really care.
"Hnnn yeah I guess, not that you can really see it though." He stated rather bored.
The streets of Konoha were almost empty, only one or two others roomed the streets at this dark hour. The apartment building was in their view now. Suddenly they were hit by a gust of chilling wind and Sakura shivered.
"Heh cold Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked as he winked and put an arm around her shoulders. Sakura rolled her eyes at Naruto's attics.
"we're almost there so stop bugging me will ya?" Sakura and said and moved between Gaara and Naruto. She yawned and put her hand in front of her mouth.
Gaara watched her and thought how cute she looked.
"We're almost there Saku, you can sleep soon." He said to her and put his hand on her shoulder as they walked on the 3rd floor towards Naruto's apartment door.
"That's if you can sleep though thunder storms" added Naruto as he eyed the two of them. Saku? Nicknames? And he pushed the door open. They walked inside.
"OK, Gaara, Sakura, you Guys can take a sofa each and I'll get the two of you some blankets." Naruto order about.
Sakura turned on the light and her and Gaara unfolded the sofas. Naruto came back in and gave a big warm blanket and few pillows to Sakura and the same to Gaara.
Gaara made his if-i-had-any-eyebrows-i-would-be-rasing-one face and turned to Naruto.
"You do know I don't sleep don't you?"
Naruto answered "Of course! I mean I was with you at The sand village for ages, besides you cant hang around on the rooftops tonight because it's gonna rain so you might as well be comfortable laying here." And with that Naruto walked off to his room.
Gaara sat on the sofa-bed, leaned on his pillows and watched Sakura spread out with her blanket. She turned around and smiled at her friend. "Good night Panda-kun"
He smiled back softly "Good night Saku-chan."
Sakura reached over to the lamp besides her bed and turned it off. She got under her covers and snuggled down. Gaara's jade eyes never leaving his best friends relaxed form. Sakura was just drifting off to sleep when… BOOM CRACK lighting flashed and lit up the room thunder following the next instance.
"WAHH!" Sakura yelped in alarm and jumped under her covers. Gaara looked at her, startled by her sudden reaction. Sakura shook under the covers, Gaara looked at her curiously. Lighting struck again and Sakura almost jumped out her skin. As she did the blanket fell off. She sat there shaken and a little jumpy. Gaara got up and walked over to her. Sakura looked away, ashamed of being scared of something as little as a thunder storm. Gaara sat down next to her and placed his hand on her shoulder.
"hey…" He started "are you ok Sakura?"
"Yeah.. I'm just.. AARR!" she jumped in shock as lighting flashed once again.
"if you're scared of thunder you should of just told me." He said and put an arm around her trying to calm her down.
"I'm not scare… I'm" BOOOM. She jumped and clung onto Gaara in fear. "I-I'm sorry, I was just… ashamed…I mean I'm a ninja who's scared of a little thunder." She sighed "I'm pathetic."
Gaara sat listening to her. "No Sakura, you're not. Everyone's scared of something. Don't be ashamed."
In spite of her fear Sakura looked up and smiled. "Thank you Gaara."
Thunder and lighting stuck again but Sakura only jumped a little. She let out a whimper and whispered to Gaara "stay with me." And she cuddled closer to his chest as he held her. Gaara stoked her hair. "Sure Sakura."
Gaara opened his gourd and hand got his sand to move the other sofa against the one they were on making one very large bed. Sakura got under the covers and Gaara laid right beside her. "Go to sleep now Saku, I'm right here and nothings going to hurt you, not anymore." Gaara whispered to her.
He put his arm over her and Sakura relaxed. No longer scared, she fell asleep.
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The sun leaked though the window into Naruto's small living room where Gaara lay stroking Sakura's hair, calming her, keeping her asleep. When a knuckle-headed ninja came into the room and yelled "GOOOOOOOD MORNING WORLD! And good morning Sakura and Gaara! May I ask how was your sleep-" His eyes bulged when he saw Sakura asleep next to Gaara.
Gaara looked up and said "good morning... mind turning it down? Sakura was trying to sleep."
"WHATS GOING ON HERE?!" screeched Naruto.
"do you have to be so loud Naruto?" Sakura asked getting up. She sat up and looked around to Gaara laying next to her and the speeches Naruto.
"Ohhh." She said realising what Naruto was thinking. That Gaara was a perv and crawled into her bed or something, silly Naruto.
"Have a good sleep Sakura?" asked Gaara.
"Yeah thanks for staying with me and helping me get to sleep though that storm." Sakura thanked him at the same time asked Naruto's question. Naruto made an 'oh' face.
Sakura stretched and yawned. "Ok, so who's up for breakfast?!" She asked happily.
"Meeeeee!" Naruto said.
Sakura got up and walked to the kitchen to make breakfast. While Gaara walked off to take a shower.
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10 Minutes Later
Sakura toasted waffles, flipped pancakes, fried eggs and bacon, made coffee and hot chocolate, made about everything you can for breakfast…
Naruto chatted to her all the while. She got him to set out the table and she went into his cupboard and reached for the sugar.
She stained on her tippee-toes but was still too short. As she was reaching someone reached past her and placed the sugar in her hands. She took it from their hand and look up to see Gaara. He walked away to the kitchen counter, picked up the plate piled with bacon and eggs and set it no the table. He glanced back at her as he helped Naruto lay all the food out.
Sakura walked to the table and sat down, placing the sugar on the table.
"Wow Sakura you made heaps!! I didn't even know I had this stuff in my cupboard!" Naruto said amazed.
"You didn't. While you were away me and Kakashi stocked up your cupboard! And this is a thank you to the both of you for taking care of me." Said Sakura sweetly.
"Man this looks good! Lets dig in!" shouted Naruto.
"So what are you guys going to do today?" Sakura asked helping herself to a mug and filling it with hot chocolate.
"well I think an AMBU is coming over to give us some one-on-one training today to help us on important mission skills." Responded Gaara.
"MMmmmmm!! MM!" Naruto agreed stuffing his face in with food.
Sakura chocked "A-AMBU?! An AMBU black opps member?!
"Yeah! Believe it!!" Said Naruto. Just then the phone rang. Naruto quickly swallowed whatever was just in his mouth and picked it up.
"Hello? This is Naruto Uzumaki! Future Hokage! Oh hey old lady Tsunade! You want Sakura? Ok, yeah sure, and by the way you're pretty lucky to have Sakura as a daughter, coz she just made us this huge breakfast and she's an AWESOME cook!! Ok here she is" Naruto told Tsunade and handed over the phone.
"Lady Tsunade? Oh and good morning to you to! Yup. Ahuh. Ahmmm. Yes sure ok, and thanks again Tsunade, ok. Yeah BYE!" Sakura hung up the phone.
"Whats up?" Asked Naruto.
"Well I'm moving in with Tsunade today and she says everything's sighed and I should meet her after breakfast at about 9.00pm" Sakura informed them
"Well its only 7.58 now so we still have time to kill." Said Gaara.
"Well I'm going to have a shower and get dressed." Said Sakura excusing herself from the table.
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Sakura came out in her usual Haruno top, but with black pants and her hair up in a pony-tail and she had her ninja heals. She looked around the room and saw Naruto, Gaara and a male AMBU with a dog mask on.
"Hey I'm Sakura, Sakura Haruno." And held out her hand.
The AMBU took off his mask and Sakura remembered him as, Yuki Ouha.
"Hahaha its good to see you too Sakura!" Yuki said.
"Ok well take care of the boys ok Yuki-kun?" Sakura told him.
"But of course." And he smiled.
"Well I'll see you in a few days probably." Sakura said to Naruto and Gaara with sad eyes.
Naruto hugged her "See you, take care." "Thank you so much Naruto." She turned to face Gaara.
"You too Gaara, thank you." She embraced him tightly. She let him go and he and Naruto followed Yuki out the door.
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'Hmm I've still got time to kill…' Sakura thought as she gazed at the clock reading 8.05.
'I think I'll go and pack the stuff at my house…'
She walked into Naruto's bathroom grabbed her bag of clothes and walked out. She left Naruto's apartment.
Tsunade would give all her things back to Sakura seeing as it went to the hokage once she lost it… all but the house itself. She didn't want it anyway. So she could go back to the house and collect all the undamaged items.
She realised she was alreadly in front the building, it started to rain on her. Slowly she started to walk towards her last home.
"Come on Sakura get it together." She said to herself and took in a shaky breath. She stood infront of the double doors and pushed them open. She walked in and turned on the lights. Her parents house had been cleaned up. No glass, no burned furnisher, everything that had been damaged was gone but the photos. The things that hadn't been destroyed had white covers over them.
In the middle of the room were packed boxes filled with things from around the home. Photos, statues, the candles that were around, letters, everything from that room that was laying around.
She picked up a photo of her mother, she had white-blond long locks of hair and green eyes. She was Hanna Haruno.
Sakura's Father, stood next to her. He had blood red hair and orange-red eyes. His name was Chicomaru.
And in the middle they were holding a five year old Sakura. Her big brother was behind them. They were all in Suna and that day was his last ever mission.
His name was Sassaimaru. He had white-blond hair and orange-red eyes.
He was Sakura's Hero.
And then… he was killed.
Sakura opened her bag and placed the photos inside. She stood up and walked into her room. It was completely packed. There was about 7 boxes on the floor other than that her room was bare.
Her cupboard was packed, her bed too. Sakura opened the box with all her smaller things, her favourite belongings.
At the bottom was a small purple box.
It was purple, velvet and had a beautiful ribbon on it. Sakura couldn't remember where it was from. She opened it up and inside was a large golden locket.
She gasped. Now she remembered.
FLASH BACK
A 6 year old Sakura ran though the gates of Suna alongside her parents.
"Mummy were do we go?" She asked.
"Just follow me Sakura!" her mother said angry and seriously.
Sakura knew something was wrong. She was only like this when something was wrong. She only was called 'Sakura' when was something was bad.
Her parents and her went into a dark place with lots of hallways. They turned left and right and left and right. Then Sakura noticed the nurse in front of them leading them. Then they came to a room and passed things with white sheets over them. Corpses, Sakura was sure. Then they came to a door at the end of the room.
In the middle on the table, was Sakura's hero. Her brother.
Dead…
Sakura froze then screamed "NOO!! SASSAIMARU!! Wake up! PLEASE!"
Then the memory swerved and changed.
Now she was on a swing in Suna. Just sitting. Her eyes blank. Then she heard a familiar voice say "Saku-chan? Are you ok?"
Sakura turned around and there stood a lightly taller 6 year old Gaara Of The Sand. Her eyes widened.
"Gaara?!" She asked and stood off the swing. He smiled shyly. Sakura hugged him happily.
"It's good to see you again!!" She said.
"You too Sakura-chan." He sat on the other swing and talked to her happily.
He knew why she was back and she had to go soon, so her wanted her to remember him.
"Sakura-chan?" he cut in as she was babbling on about something.
"Yes Gaa-kun?"
"I-I heard of what happened to your brother. I'm sorry for your loss." He said sadly.
Sakura looked down.
"I'm sorry too… I wish I said more to him when he left."
Gaara got of his swing and stood in front of her. "But Sakura, I don't want you to be sad and I know your brother wouldn't either so…" Gaara for some reason had his hands behind his back. "Saku-chan close your eyes."
Sakura looked up curiously. "Why panda-kun?"
He smiled "It's a surprise." Sakura closed her eyes and Gaara put something around her head, down onto her neck and something rested on her chest. She opened her eyes and there lay on her chest was a big beautiful golden locket.
She gasped "Gaara! This is so beautiful! Thank you!" She beamed at him and he smiled back. In his hand was the purple box. He handed it to her.
"That's so if you don't want to wear it you can keep it safe." He said. Gaara looked at her a little sadly. "I know you know you cant stay long so this is so you can remember me."
Sakura teared up and jumped off the swing and into Gaara's arms. "I promise to never forget Panda-kun."
END OF FLASHBACK
Sakura gasped and broke out of her trance. She at the locket in amazement. How could she have forgotten that? How many more things had she forgotten?
She put on the locket and swore never to be parted with.
She picked up the 5 big boxes of personal stuff and went to the hokages tower.
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