A/N: NYAAAAAHHHHH! DO NOT OWN NARUTO! This Habit-chan has had too much sugar...


Chapter 8: A Little More Time

Gaara opened his bleary eyes and looked around. He was in a white room, not his grey-stone prison. There were no guards, no 'doctors' and no stench. It smelled clean and sterile. She groaned and tried to shift, but found he couldn't. He looked down and noticed he had an I.V. in his arm and could feel an oxygen mask over his nose and mouth. He tried to stay awake, but he was just too tired. He feel back asleep, wondering if what he'd seen was real.

Several hours after he woke up the first time, he woke up again. This time, it was because someone was in the room with him. He opened his eyes and found Kakashi, who was sitting beside his bed. Gaara felt much better than he did and sat up, taking the mask off and rubbing his head. "Where am I?" he asked, dazed. Kakashi smirked and put his chin in his hand.

"Isn't it obvious, Gaara? You're back at HQ." Gaara grunted and sighed. There were so many questions he wanted answered.

"How'd I get here?" Kakashi smirked and leaned back, enjoying their little chat.

"Sakura. We found your location, but she pinpointed you." Gaara nodded. Perhaps he hadn't been seeing things when he'd opened his eyes and seen Sakura standing above him. He shook his head and crossed his arms over his chest. He noticed most of his wounds were healed.

"How long have I been here?" Kakashi knew what that really meant. 'How long have I been out' was really what the red head was asking. Kakashi looked at his watched and sighed.

"An agonizing six weeks. Sakura was adamant you recover completely before we were allowed to 'pester' you." Gaara's eyes were wide and he rubbed his head.

"Where's Sakura?" he noticed how Kakashi's eyes suddenly became guarded and he shrugged.

"Probably in the cafeteria with her mother. Her mother really tore into her for leaving without a word to rescue you. And the fact that she hunted down the ones that captured you and kept you there. I hear that she has a higher body count than you do now." this pulled Gaara's attention away from Kakashi's strange behavior.

"By how many?" Kakashi smirked and looked at his nails.

"Oh, around six hundred or so. She didn't come back with the rest of you. She stayed for a few days. I had to send Naruto back out there to bring her in. Come to find out, the brave wench was using a sniper on far away targets and that Desert Eagle you gave her on people that got too close. Quite a vengeful little thing she is." Kakashi laughed and sat his newspaper down and looked at Gaara. "You're going to have to talk to her, and soon. She'd been worried sick about you." Gaara nodded and glanced at the newspaper. Something caught his eye, but he said nothing, just waited for Kakashi to leave.

When the older man was gone, Gaara picked up the news paper and read the article on the back. In big black letters it stated 'Uchiha Sasuke Found Guilty of Trying to Kill Wife'. A picture of Sakura was on the opposite side of the article from the man. Gaara just stared, unable to believe his Sakura had married another man. This was going to take some time for him to process.