Me:Well I still felt bad about not posting in a while so I whipped this up for you!

Naruto: Yes!

Me: I hope you like it and thanks to all my reviewers, I'm glad people like my story that much that they can wait.

Naruto: She doesn't own me, to the story!

Recap:

"A-after, I t-te-tell you…cough…I-I love you." Sakura got out, and right after she said his tears came flowing down his face.

"I-I love you too, Sakura; I love you too."

"Gaara-sama." A voice sounded, making him turn his head to the voice. "You have to let go of Sakura for me. I am going to help her and I can't do that with your arms around her." Emiko stated with a firm demanding voice,getting in proffesional mode. Gaara looked at her and complied getting Sakura on her back and standing up. Gaara turned to the rest of the group.

"Kyo from your search party went to get Emiko before the fight started." Naruto stated, his cheeks wet from tears. Gaara nodded turning back to Sakura.

"You better make it Sakura." Gaara stated.

End Recap.

Gaara had been in the waiting room for hours. He refused to leave when he didn't know if Sakura was going to make. Whatever happened in that room was going to be a major event in his life. Either he was going to lose the love of his life, or not. If he did, he didn't know if he would be able to live. Gaara was so wrapped up in his thoughts he didn't know Naruto had come up to him.

"Ya know, when I first heard about you I wanted to protect Sakura from you. I thought you were dangerous and I judged you before I even met you." Naruto began, getting his attention. "But when Sakura stood up for you like that, I wanted to know you, I wanted to become your friend. Do you remember that?"

"I do." Gaara stated, thinking about the first time he came to Konoha.

Flashback (its big so I didn't use italics)

"Yeah I know I saw you two and I um asked about him too" A concerned look took over his face, "He didn't hurt you did he?"

"No! of course not!" Sakura scowled "How could you even think that when you don't even know him" She shouted. They were close to the complex the sand nin were staying at so they came out Sasuke showed up too. But the look on the Sand nins face was of complete shock.

"Sakura you act like you know him but you don't." The smart remark made by none other than Sasuke Uchiha.

"I know more than you!" she defended herself. The sand nin finally made themselves known.

"Look umm—

"Names Sakura" She said frustration evident in her facial features and voice.

"Right Sakura, your teamate is right you don't know who the actual Gaara is." Said Kankuro. Meanwhile in the shadows looking at the whole scene unfold. 'is she defending me or herself?'

'not to sure kid lets hope shes defending us because I want another kiss from her!' Gaara agreed to the first comment but ignored the second one and just watched silently hoping Sakura was different. Sakura's anger just grew with that comment. She snorted.

"Oh really? I bet I know more about him than you! You're his own sibling and you are scared of him! You. Can't. Talk." More venom leaking out of her voice with each new word. She would be damned if these people will tell her what she doesn't know about her best friend!

"Listen here girl! You may think you know Gaara but you don't there is a reason that he has his own room okay?! Yes we are his siblings and we may not know a lot about him but that doesn't mean we don't care! I will not have some little pink haired girl tell me about my baby brother! I want to be close to him but he won't let anybody near him! He won't let people in his life and even when he threatens us I still want to help him you got that! Don't tell me about my family that you barely know!" retorted a now angered and sobbing Temari. 'I want to be there for him I really do its just that he pushes me away' But Temari hit the spot with that one. Gaara contemplated her words and he felt kinda bad. Kinda. She did approach him a lot but he always threatened her not wanting to trust anyone and get hurt again. 'maybe I'll try and let her in next time' Kankuro surprised by his sisters speech but agreed nonetheless. He nodded in approval.

"Look Sakura they didn't mean anything just saying that Gaara can be unstable and—

"I know he kills people and I don't care okay! I know what he has done in his past and that still doesn't matter to me. People make mistakes and it wasn't his fault he turned out like he did."

"What are you talking about? How do you know this stuff about him?" Asked a now very confused Temari.

"He told me for one. What I am talking about is exactly what I said it wasn't his fault."

"Hn as stupid as ever Sakura, the guy is a freak"

"That's it!" Sakura had enough. She pounched Sasuke right in his pretty little face and sent him flying across the street. The rest of the party and bystandards were shocked from the outburst. Sakura walked right to the fallen Uchiha and picked him up by his collar. She looked him straight in the eye and said "Say what you want about me Uchiha but as soon as you go so far to insult my friend whom you know nothing about that's where I draw the line!" Sakura dropped him on the ground and walked towards the group.

"Pfft you really think you matter to him. Only you would befriend a monster who killed innocent people" Sakura froze and turned towards him. She was surprisingly calm.

"That is only one way to look at it." Everyone gave her a puzzled look and she sighed, "who do you think made him that way? Who do you think shunned him as a child? Who do you think sent him hateful glares and made their children hate him as well? Who was it that tried to go as far as to KILL a little kid? Do you think he would ask for something like that? No! no one would. He was born with the Shukaku spirit in him, meaning he didn't have a choice! Frankly the way I see it it was the peoples fault. They claimed he was a moster when he did nothing but so much blink in their direction. They claimed he was a cold blooded killer when all he wanted was someone to see him as a human being; someone who would see underneath the underneath, someone to love him. Look what they got, the little boy who never hurt someone on purpose grew up to be what they claimed. He became what they saw him as. Like they always say be careful what you wish for because you just might get it." To say they were shocked would be an understatement. The speech she gave was incredible. Naruto thought to his past and remembered the hateful stares and words. 'would I have become like him if my friends didn't save me?' Sasuke was speechless not that he actual spoke much but his comrade had beat him in this verbal battle not that he would admit it. He had a reputation that he was the best. Kankuro and Temari saw the truth in her words and this just got them wanting to know what Gaara could actually be like. Apparently this konoichi had gotten to him and they wanted to know how. Gaara was by far the most surprised. He never had anyone stick up for him. Hell when he came to topic everyone agreed he was a monster there was nothing left to discuss. But of course Sakura just had to be different than the rest. He was happy that he met well re-met Sakura. Gaara looked at her and smiled, it was small but still there. 'Good thing she can't see me she did say she was going to make me smile and she did' 'I told you she was different kid' 'well excuse me for ignoring the monster that got me into this trouble and I can't believe you like her' 'what can I say she likes blood!' 'stupid raccoon'

End Flashback

"I used to like Sakura a lot. I always would ask her to go out with me, and I still did like her like that when you showed up." Naruto said, "But after she said that, I realized I only liked her because she did the same thing for me. Later did I realize that there were others out there that wanted to help me from the beginning like Hinata. I still love Sakura, but as a brother would a sister, and I-I don't k-know what I'd do w-without her." Naruto finished his tears resurfacing.

Gaara didn't know what to make of the scene before him. He was devastated that Sakura was in this condition, but he was not the person to be emotional. Sakura was the one who brought out all the emotions he has now. His eyes were as dry as the desert, and his earlier tears were the first ones since he was a child. Gaara heard a door open and snapped his head in that direction, to see Emiko coming out.

"Whats her condition?" Gaara demanded.

"Well, shes alive, but shes stuck in a comatose state. We've done all we can Gaara-sama." Emiko explained sadly, tears coming down her face. "You can see her though." She said trying to stay professional. Upon hearing those words Gaara and Naruto rushed into the room.

The sight Gaara saw broke his heart again. There she was, the girl who was everyones rock, the emotionally strong one in their little group, lying on the bed pale, weak, fragile. Those words, he thought, should never be used to describe Sakura, and yet at the moment they fit her perfectly.

"I've never seen her like this, I can't believe this happened to her." Naruto said more tears streaming down his face. Gaara nodded in agreement, unable to get his voice to work. Shikamaru and the Akatsuki walked in the room, Sasori and Shikamaru looked much like Naruto right now, even Deidara was crying but not as bad. Itachi and Kisame weren't crying but you could feel the sadness iminating off of them, and the look of despair on their face.

"Its not supposed to be like this!" Naruto shouted, "She's not supposed to be here, she should be up and walking, she doesn't deserve this!"

"Naruto calm down, it's a hospital." Shikamaru scolded, but only halfheartedly it was clear he felt the same way. Their mourning was stopped as the door burst open revealing Temari, Kankuro, Tsunade, Kakashi, Hinata, Tenten, Neji, and Ino.

"what happened here!" Tsunade demanded, surprisingly not drunk, but looking more distressed than ever. None of them looked in good shape. Kisame explained the whole story to her, after a broken laugh sounded the room.

"Forehead, you can't take the easy way out, its not the Sakura Haruno way." Ino stated in a depressed manner. She attempted a laugh again. "I'm just waiting for you to tell us to cheer up and that things will get better, but I don't know this time, Sakura…" Ino finished trailing off. Right then Emiko entered the room.

"I'm sorry you guys but visiting hours are over, you have to leave." Everyone nodded and headed out of the hospital, walking toward the Sabaku mansion.

"How did you guys know?" Naruto asked trying to get his mind off his friend.

"I won the lottery." Tsunade said her voice broken.

A week later…

Not much changed in her condition, and everyone visited every time they had a chance. They didn't know what to do, she didn't seem like she was getting any better. They didn't want her to go, she was a vital part of their lives and when she needed them most they couldn't help her. Little did they know was that while Sakura was unmoving on the outside, inside a lot was going on.

"Mom, dad I-I can't believe its you!" Sakura exclaimed. "I-I missed you soo much." She stated tears coming out.

"We missed you too sweetie." Her mother said.

"but how?" Sakura asked confused.

"Your dying sweetie." Her mother said sadly, Sakura grew wide eyed and looked herself over.

"But I'm fine." Sakura said motioning to her unscathed body.

"That's because we are in your mind." Her father responded.

"So, I-I'm dying?" Sakura asked, only to get grim nods from her parents or images of her parents. "W-what can I do?"

"That you will have to figure out on your own." Her mother said.

"So your guys have to leave again?" They nodded. "But I can be with you if I stay?"

"Yes you can, but is it what you really want?" Her mother asked.

"I-I don't know."

"Know that whatever you do, we support you and are always watching over you." Then they disappeared, leaving her alone in the recess of her mind.

"What do I do?"

"Well how do you want to be spending the rest of your life, dead or not?" Her inner stated.

"Pirates of the Caribbean much?" Sakura said

"So what it's a good movie!" Her inner defended

"I want to stay with my parents but…" Sakura trailed off, images of her friends passing by and then an image of the one she loves most. "Gaara."

"I can't stay, so much is waiting for me in the real world, outside of my mind." Sakura said making her decision. Her inner nodded agreeing with her decision but adding in—

"You do realize how much time you've waisted though right?"

"Actually no, considering this is my mind, and I didn't know it had a certain time frame."

"Well lets see, you were unconscious for a long time, then the time you used to talk to your parents, and now all the time your spending talking to me, I'd say its been about a week in the real world." Her inner said using her fingers to count.

"A week?!" Sakura exclaimed, only to get a nod from her inner. "I've got to get out of here, I am not going to die, especially not by the Uchiha!" Her inner smiled triumphantly, proud that the persons mind she resides in doesn't know when to give up. But she is based off the same personality so of course she would like it.

"So, how do I get out of here?"

"like I asked before, do you want to die or not?"

"Of course I don't want to die!"

"Well then follow me." Her inner stated.

"Where exactly are we going?" Sakura asked.

"Well if you want to get out of here than you got to trust me alright?"

"Well your me so of course I trust you."

"Good, here we are."

"A door? I didn't know I had a door in my mind."

"How do you think I get out magic?" Inner said sarcastically.

"Point taken, so I open the door and I'm back in my body?" Inner nodded opening the door for her. Sakura walked through the door, a bright light flashing before her. Then suddenly it felt like she was being buried, like she couldn't breath.

Back in the hospital…

Everyone was in Sakura's room at the moment. Her room was filled with Cherry Blossoms, and other decorations. But everyones attention was not on Sakura herself, but on the life monitor that was slowly showing her pulse go down. Emiko and some of the other doctors rushed past them to Sakura, trying to stablize her. But a resounding

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

Signaled with a straight line on the monitor signaled that she was indeed dead. Some couldn't take it and left the room bawling, others stared at her unbelieving of the what just happened, others comforted some, and Gaara was crying, holding Sakura in his embrace. Death was something that wasn't supposed to faze him. He killed many and none of them mattered, but that's because none of them were Sakura Haruno.

Gaara don't know how long he sat there, 5-10 minutes, and hour, however long it was too long already, that he knew Sakura was never going to be there with him. Gaara got up and began walking towards the door. Everyone else had left to grieve about a tragic loss of their friend Sakura. Just as he put his hand on the door he heard a noise that made him freeze in his spot.

BEEP

BEEP BEEP

Gaara turned around and saw the monitor had a pulse again. Unbelieving of it he stepped closer to Sakura. He grabbed her wrist and checked her pulse and sure enough and to his great pleasure, a pulse was there! He let go of her hand staring at her, color beginning to return to her beautiful face, and her chest going up and down as she breathed.

She was alive! He couldn't believe it, she was really alive! Naruto entered the room and put a hand on Gaara's shoulder.

"I know this must be the hardest for you, but you have to move on." Naruto said.

"I don't have to move on Naruto." Gaara said getting off his knees to stand up, taking Naruto's hand off his shoulder. "She's alive." Naruto looked at him like he was insane.

"No she's not." Naruto said like it was obvious, they all saw her die.

"Look." Gaara said pointing to Sakura, breathing looking like she was just asleep and not dead. Naruto's breath left him. She wasn't gone, she didn't leave them. He was so happy he couldn't speak. He ran up to Sakura's bed and hugged her, not wanting to ever let her go. She was too important to a lot of people. But he was broken out of his thoughts and happiness by a punch to his head.

"Oww!" He said letting go and rubbing his head. "Gaara you didn't have to punch me."

"He didn't you baka!" Sakura shouted, this caused both Naruto and Gaara to look at her.

"S-Sakura?" Naruto said.

"No stupid, its Johnny Depp." Sakura said sarcastically, "Of course its me! And I don't appreciate you trying to hug me to death." Sakura finished with a smile.

"Not funny Sakura." Naruto said seriously.

"Well hey, you're the one whose all depressed." Sakura said, and right after she did everyone walked in the room, including Emiko. The mood in the room dramatically dropped from happiness to despair.

"Well geez, and here I thought I would be welcomed back. Thanks a lot guys your enthusiaism is incredible." Sakura stated. Everyone looked at her and in a wave of people Sakura ended up at the bottom of a dog pile. Giggling, Sakura said,

"I missed you guys too."

Me:That's it for now! Yay Sakura's alive!

Sakura: I didn't think I was going to make it for a second there.

Me: Well I couldn't kill you, but I'm glad I killed Sasu-gay!

Gaara: you mean I did.

Me: Same difference, I wrote it.

Gaara: Touche

Sakura: REVIEW!