Chapter 7
How could I have been so stupid' Gaara thought has he laid in his bed starting at the crack in the roof 'she doesn't even care.' What was he trying to do? Kiss her? Like she would have really let him. After all he was Sabaku no Gaara, a monster in everyone's eyes, in his own eyes. Friendship his demon ass. No one cared about him no matter what he said. If anyone would come close to caring about him it was Temari and Kankuro but that was only in a brother and sister way. No one loved him and he didn't know how to love. It fitted perfectly, but if it did then why was he so upset? He couldn't understand. No one had been able to hurt him in his life. Never laid a scratch on him. Then why was it that he hurt so bad inside? He just didn't get it. But there was one thing he was sure of. He was going to find out and stop the pain once and for all and it didn't matter how long he took. He wasn't going to see that pink head till he figured out why. He was mad and someone was going to pay.
The night was easy for Sakura as nothing had happened, luckily. The school week seemed to fly by. She had been put in the medical class with some other girls her age. One of them being a girl called Ino. She was one of the top medics in the class, and most defiantly the bitchiest. She and her little group of friends were the preps of the school. According to Kiba she was Sasuke's girlfriend or in Kiba's words his little fuck-buddy. Serves her right too, she was just as much as an asshole as the Uchiha. That little bitch was apparently enemies with Temari. She had said something about getting into a fight because Ino questioned the taste in clothing and even had the nerve to call her an emo, which she definitely was not. It didn't end up well for Ino because she ended up with a black eye and some major bruising.
Sakura wasn't too far behind with all the medical work. She spent the whole lesson learning the basic herbs and medicine used in cleaning and making antidotes for basic poison. Tsunade was impressed with how well she progressed that day, and that had made Ino a little jealous because it had taken her two days to get a poison antidote right. She was really starting to get on Sakura's nerves, all she did was bitch about other people, put on make-up and brag about Sasuke. It was non stop, but Sakura didn't have to listen often because Tsunade was teaching her with out the others so she could catch up.
Though class had been a big thing and she should be studding to catch up, she laid on her bed but couldn't help but get distracted. She hadn't talked to Gaara since what had happened on the roof top, and it seemed he had been avoiding her like the plague. She couldn't help but think about what could have happened. Was he really going to kiss her? Thinking back she didn't think he really knew either. That's why she left when her phone went off, that and the fact Hisashi was going to be home in half an hour. After all Gaara didn't know what would happen if he was home and the meals were not heated up. She would have been in big trouble.
Suddenly Sakura's breath got caught in her throat and her eyes widened in realization. Gaara didn't know…so Gaara DIDN'T understand. Gaara was avoiding her because he was mad at her for leaving. Oh kami what had she done! Gaara thought that she didn't like him. He wasn't one to understand friendship well to begin with. And know she had probably ruined everything! 'Oh shit Gaara' she inwardly cursed and pulled out her phone, looking for his number.
Calling it she hopped that he would answer, but he didn't. She started to panic was walked around her room. What the hell was she going to do?
She froze has she heard her phone vibrated. She knew it was a text message but it was still something. She made her way over to her bed and almost cried when she saw who it was, Kiba. No, no, no! She didn't want to talk to anyone but Gaara, even if in the past week she, Kiba, Shino and Shikamaru had become closer. She had only meet Shino at school on Thursday because of some clan thing that he had, but none the less they had found common ground. They had even gone out to a club on Friday night. Sighing she picked up her phone.
'Hey.
Me n the guys r going 2 the movies.
Do u wanna come wif?'
She read the message with a hopeful look on her face. Maybe Gaara would be there.
'Yeah I do.
Who's going?' She sent back.
'Me, Shikamaru n Shino everyone else was busy.' He replied much to her dismay. Sure she wanted to see the others again, but Gaara was mad at her and she was mad at herself.
'What time?' she asked.
'We can come and pick you up around 12'
'Ok see you then' she replied and put her phone back down. Hopefully Gaara was going to call her back. She had no idea what she would do if Gaara didn't want to be her friend anymore.
Half an hour later there was a call on her phone, and the id said Shikamaru.
"Hello" Sakura greeted.
"Where are you, you troublesome woman" he said.
"Um still getting ready" she said.
"We are outside your house, you were meant to meet us there 15 minuets ago"
"Yeah well I didn't know what to wear"
"Fine where coming in to get you" he said and hung up. 'WHAT!' Sakura screeched inside her head. 'Hisashi is home, I was going to sneak out the back window' she quickly applied her lip gloss and walked down the stairs as the door bell rang.
"Sakura answer the door" Hisashi demanded from the other room.
"Ok" she replied as she walked over to the door and opened it.
"About time" Kiba said.
"Sorry guys" Sakura apologized. "Hisashi I'm going out with friends, I'll be back later" she said as she walked out the door, hoping Hisashi wouldn't kill her when she got home.
Before they had gone to the movies they had decided that lunch at the food court sounded good.
"Sakura what are you having?" the Inuzuka boy asked only to get no reply. "Don't worry about it Kiba she's been out of it all day" Shino interjected.
"Yeah she's even more out of it then Shikamaru, and that's saying something" Kiba said.
"Maybe she is just tired" Shikamaru added sleepily.
"Sakura-Chan" Kiba said snapping his fingers in front of her face.
"What?" Sakura asked after she was snapped out of her thoughts. To be honest she was thinking about Gaara…again. She hated the fact that he wouldn't talk to her and that she hurt him like she had.
"You're not with us. Is there something wrong?" he asked.
"No" Sakura lied.
"Then what where you thinking about?" the lazy ass questioned, interested for once.
"What movie we are going to see" she lied again.
"Well we could see-" Kiba never got to finish because he herd a voice scream Gaara's name so he was more interested in that then finishing the answer.
"Gaara" Sakura's voice said just above a whisper but everyone on the table still heard. Sakura stood up quickly and made her way over to where Temari was yelling followed by three very confused boys.
"Sakura where are you going?" Shino asked. He was never one to pry but he could tell something was wrong. "To see the others" she replied as she approached the then.
"Gaara what the hell is wrong with you today?!?!" Temari asked in a demanding tone.
"Hn" Gaara answered and Temari turned around to see Sakura and the others approaching her. "Sakura talk some sense into him" Temari said.
Sakura looked from Temari to Gaara and then to the others around her. "Gaara" she started but stopped when he turned in the other direction. "Damn it Gaara, your acting like even more of an asshole then normal!" Temari exclaimed and Sakura got a guilty look on her face.
"Whatever" Gaara replied and walked off in the other direction. Sakura wanted to run after him, but she knew that in this mood he wouldn't talk to her. She sighed deeply to herself.
After the movie was over her, Shikamaru and Shino had all gone around to Kiba's house for Pizza and just chilling. Which Sakura was guessing consisted of video games and more movies, not that she was complaining.
"Ready to lose Pinky?" Kiba teased the group had taken it upon themselves to go with the nickname that Kankuro had given her.
"In your dreams" Sakura responded flopping on the Inuzuka family couch. "I'm going to kick your ass!" she smirked.
"I would beat both your asses, but it's too troublesome" Shikamaru said from lying down on the love couch.
"Yeah because everything is too troublesome for you" Sakura pointed out.
"Well being lazy it better then getting all dressed up" he said back.
"Yeah cus I can't even imagine you getting dressed up, it would just look weird" she said sticking her tongue out at him.
"Yeah well if I did…nah its never going to happen" he stated and he closed his eyes. "Sakura what do u wanna play?" Kiba asked as he plugged in the Xbox 360 and Shino turned on the CD player.
"You know losing 3 times is ok but losing 10 times is just sad" Kiba laughed as Sakura threw a pillow at his head. "Shut up! Shikamaru beat your ass as well" Sakura said while hitting Kiba over the head with a pillow. "Hey I only ow got beaten 5 times ow" Kiba stated and caught the pillow before it hit his head again.
"Yeah that's right you guys are paying for my pizza" Shikamaru smiled.
"Damn Kiba you made me lose $20 for betting on you" Shino added. Everyone in the room had made a bet on who would win. Shino on Kiba and everyone else on there selves. The winner didn't have to put in some of the money for pizza, which turned about to be $20 for the people that lost.
"Pepperoni Pizza" Shikamaru said simply.
"I'll be right back" Sakura said as she made her way to the kitchen. Today she had called Gaara 3 times and he still wouldn't answer.
'Maybe I should call him again' Sakura thought as she pulled out her phone and called his number.
"What do you want?" came the agitated voice of Gaara.
"Gaara?" Sakura asked in shock, he had picked up…really picked up.
"Hn" Gaara replied.
"Look Gaara, about last night" she started nervously. "I didn't mean to- You didn't mean to what, cus at the moment I want to kill you" Gaara interrupted. "But for some damn reason I can't!" he exclaimed.
"Gaara I know and I'm sorry" he said trying not to let her tears fall.
"You don't care" Gaara stated "Don't call again; if I want to talk to you then I will call you." He said before he hung the phone up.
'GAARA!" Sakura screamed into the phone. 'Omg what the hell did I do? I'm so stupid, I hurt him so much' she said as the warm salty tears made its way down her face, at that moment the boys ran into the kitchen.
"Sakura what wrong?" Kiba asked as he walked up to her wrapping an arm around her shoulder and Shino and Shikamaru moved to the front of her. Tears flowed faster out of her eyes as she attempted to explain "Gaara-I-top-almost-angry, very big problem." She was now shaking her sobs were so loud. "Sakura you're going to have to say it again but slower ok?" Shino imputed and Sakura nodded slightly. She leaned against Kiba and tried to explain once again. "I did something really bad, I hurt Gaara" Sakura managed to get out and looked up to see the shocked faces of the three boys. "Look I have no idea what you did, but we will help you fix it" Kiba said.
"I don't think we should, that might only make things worse. Gaara isn't one to like people butting into other people's business. I will only make things worse." Shikamaru analyzed and everyone realized he was right. "What am I going to do?" Sakura asked as Kiba whipped her face.
"I'm sure you will fix this" Kiba stated "After all I'm sure your charm would work on him" he laughed and a small smile spread in Sakura's face. "She has charm?" Shikamaru questioned with a smirk. "Nara you ass!" she screamed as her smile got bigger.
"What all I'm saying is that I don't know how anyone could fall for the flat chest of yours." He teased she wasn't really flat chested but he just wanted to tease her and if the top fits…well. "You asshole" she glared, but she wasn't very good at glaring so it turned out looking like she was trying to squint. "Hears a tip, you suck a trying to glare so just don't do it" he added.
"That's it your dead!" She exclaimed as she started to chase him around the house. 'Get back here!" she yelled as the lazy Nara was running for once in his life. The smile on her face was back to normal luckily. It wasn't long until Sakura ended up frozen on the spot and a smile was placed in Shikamaru's lips. "Shikamaru let me go" Sakura demanded who was stuck in his shadow possession. "Let me think…no" he smirked.
"Kiba, Shino get Shikamaru!" she commanded.
"Sorry Pinky but this is just too much fun to ruin" Kiba laughed and even a small chuckle came from Shino.
'I'm going to have to kill these guys' Sakura thought but a smile came to her lips anyway.
At least the boys had succeeded in one thing, she was no longer sad well at least for a little while.
Sorry this chapter took a little longer than normal, but i started another story called When it all falls apart. And that doesn't mean that i'm stopping this story.
So If u wanna read it me new one go ahead and tell we what you think. :)
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