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DISCLAMER: IF I OWNED NARUTO I WOULD NAME MY FIRST KID EITHER SAKURA OR GAARA.
Did you miss me?
Chapter 10: the rose.:
Sakura gulped down her pop tart and ran through the door. She could not believe she was going to be late…again! The first time she had overslept and it was an accident but this morning it wasn't one! 'I should have known I didn't have time for a shower' Sakura thought angrily, not noticing the jade eyes watching her frantic run.
Gaara had watched her sleep all night. After she had fainted (on him), Gaara had desperately tucked her into her bed and even put ice on her forehead, afraid she got a headache. 'She was so beautiful while she slept…' Gaara thought, picturing Sakura's sleeping form.
Gaara was lucky that Sakura had changed into her nightgown before she fell asleep and saved Gaara the embarrassing task. Though Gaara probably would not do that and simply have let her sleep in her training uniform. Gaara was sure Sakura would appreciate him not changing her if she heard. 'If she heard…' Gaara thought.
He still could not believe it was his Sakura! His heart beat wildly at the thought of last night. She said his name, his nickname even! 'Gaa-chan…' Gaara could feel his body tingle with a strange warmness and knew his love for her had not diminished at all. And her love for you hasn't diminished either, kid. Gaara grinned.
Her mumble last night didn't come unheard and worthless. She loved him too! She loved him again! Gaara suddenly heard his teammate's callings. It was time for their training. Gaara's face went blank again. His teammates did not deserve a smile. It was only for the person who cared. Who ever cared. Sakura
Sakura rushed into the training field. "I'm so sorry I'm late!" She panted.
Kakashi raised his eyebrows. "I'm surprised Sakura, you're usually the earliest one here." He said, taking out his Pocket watch and checking the time.
"I'm surprised too!" Naruto piped in. "Even Kakashi-sensei made it here before you and he's always three hours late!" Sakura groaned. 'Thanks for rubbing it in Naruto!'
Kakashi cleared his throat. "Now that you are all here," he said glancing at Sakura, who wished she could just become the ground. "I would like to remind you that the chunnin exams are tomorrow."
Sakura's heart sank. That was only one day from now! It didn't leave much time left for practice. "And now…" Kakashi continued. Sakura knew what was coming. He was going to say "And now I would like to say how proud I am of all of you!" and all that other crappy, emotional stuff.
"I would like to say how utterly disappointed I am of you guys." Kakashi finished. Well…I didn't see that coming!
Naruto sputtered. "W-What?" Kakashi nodded. "You have got to be the worst team that is entering the chunnin exams." Even Sasuke popped an eye open at this, ruining his 'cool' look.
"But Kakashi-sensei…You're our teacher…doesn't that make you just as bad?" Sakura pointed out, confused that her prediction didn't work. "Nope, because I'm 'bad' enough." Kakashi said, leaning against a tree like Sasuke was, pretending to be cool.
Sakura smiled. She realized Kakashi was kidding and he was proud of them. Unfortunately, Naruto didn't catch on to this and yelled. "Hey! Do you want to fight old man?" Kakashi walked away from the tree and shrugged. "Do I have too?" he asked.
"Why you little-" Naruto started but was interrupted by Kakashi saying "Aren't I bigger then you?" Naruto paused confused. It took him a second to figure out what Kakashi meant.
When he looked back up he realized Kakashi was gone. "He just! Did he? Ugh!" Naruto groaned realizing his teacher confused him on purpose so he could get away from him. When Naruto looked back at his teammates, they were gone too.
"Grr! Why do they always leave me behind?"
Gaara strolled down the pathway toward the hotel. He had just finished training for the exams tomorrow. His teammates were still in the practice fields, since they generally took longer then Gaara.
Gaara usually trained alone, his teammates, afraid of Gaara killing them, always made up an excuse for needing to train with the each other. Such as: "Kankuro knows a new technique he's going to show me" or "Temari told me of a way to disarm chakra ropes".
Sometimes they didn't even give them an excuse and simply walked together away from him to train. They had started doing that more often since they had arrived in Konoha. Gaara didn't care though. He was used to it by now.
The pain wears off after the 200th or something insult. Actually, the insults were fine. The worst part was when people ignored him all together. When people don't even acknowledge your existence, one begins to think you don't exist as well. You walk in a shell of your former self, not noticing anything around you. That was much harder to brush off then a simple insult.
His teammates at any rate feared him. If they had at least that much common sense to stay out of his way, Gaara wasn't going to punish them for it.
It was those idiots who didn't think before they talked that annoyed Gaara.
Suddenly Gaara looked up. There was a blue butterfly, fluttering in a slight breeze. The butterfly did a dance in the air. Its wings was its dress and the air her partner. The butterfly twirled delicately then softly landed on a red rose on the side of the path.
The path was made of tiny bricks all placed in a crisscross pattern. On both sides of the path were flowerbeds, all fully in bloom. On the right side, the flowers consisted mainly of marigolds and tulips and on the left side a most beautiful rose garden.
The butterfly happened to land on the most beautiful red rose among the garden and Gaara found himself walking up towards it. 'What looks so familiar about this rose?' Gaara thought coldly, not caring for the serene beauty of the flowerbeds.
He already had his own beauty… 'Sakura!' Gaara thought suddenly. 'Sakura's glass rose…I broke it and couldn't fix it. She had looked so sad when I had broken it as well…' Gaara smiled slowly as an idea popped into his head. "I can make Sakura-chan another rose!"
Sakura sighed as she entered her doorway of her room. Naruto could be just so annoying sometimes. Naruto was still jabbering when Sakura and Sasuke had noiselessly sneaked
off of the training field. Also, with all Naruto's chatter they hardly got to train at all today! Sakura moaned remembering.
Naruto had caught up to Sakura and sasuke and yelled at them for nearly a half an hour on the importance of "Staying together". Then Kakashi showed up and Naruto had to give him a piece of his mind as well.
Naruto challenged Kakashi to a quick fight and Naruto had ended up with a bruised arm and a black eye. Ha well it showed him alright, now he's going to get his but kicked at the chunnin exams because he is already injured. 'Oh…ugh' Sakura groaned in her head
The chunnin exams were tomorrow! 'Naruto had better not make Sasuke and I lose' Sakura thought, angrily. Then Sakura sighed. 'I'm not one to talk' Sakura was not even sure if she was ready for the chunnin exams. Sakura had heard people from all over the land came to compete, and that some were vampires!
But of course Sakura also shouldn't believe what she heard from rumors. We also had heard that Naruto was a demon container. Tehehe yeah right! , 'Hehehe right.' Sakura plopped down on her bed and glanced at the clock. "7:58" Sakura mumbled. 'When did it get so late?' Sakura sighed and stood up from her bed.
Sakura walked over to her bathroom on the right side of her room and closed the door. Sakura finished brushing her teeth and walked back into her room when she saw something glimmer in the corner of her eye. Sakura turned around surprised.
There on Sakuras dresser was a beautifully sculpted sand rose.
And Sakura was sure that it wasn't there before.
The bases are full and your up to bat! Here comes the pitch...You hit it!...Its not going very far! Hit :"go" to make the ball go over the fence and win!!
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