I'll Take You...

(Full chapter name - I'll Take You Away From Here, With me You'll Never Look Back)

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Gaara had awoken the next morning in udder bliss. A peaceful sleep, wonderful memories from the night before, and of course, the activator of those memories was still sleeping next to him, naked. Oh yeah, it was indeed blissful. Due to his awakening Sakura had also stirred from her sleep and they spent the little remaining time of their morning before Gaara had to head to work just cuddling and kissing. A little gushy for him yes, but she wouldn't dare tell anyone what it was like with him on his softer side he only showed to his sibling, at times, and now his Sakura. And if she did, well then the other men in his village would stay away from her. It seemed to him that both options came with a plus side. And when he left for work she walked to the door with him and gave him a kiss before shooing him out the door so not to be late. If he had it his way he would rather have stayed and come back to work to catch up on the day when she was sleeping soundly later that night. But she wouldn't have him skipping his duties on her account. Although she made it very hard for him to listen to her argument when she stepped out of her room wearing his loose fitting shirt from the night before that she had picked up from the floor, a pair of underwear and –because they were alone in the house – nothing else. It sent his mind into a frenzy of want and admiration. With every passing moment he spent looking over the exposed skin of her legs and the generous curves of her chest he was finding it increasingly harder to keep his hands to himself. It was simply the best torture he had ever been forced to endure.

But alas she had forced him to work and as he sat and fumed in his office he couldn't help but laugh at himself. The almighty Kazekage was being an upset little teenager because his girl had decided to be tauntingly tantalizing knowing that he would have to leave. She wasn't playing fair, at all. With a sigh he decided it was better to get over himself and continue with his work. After all, there would be plenty of time to admire her looks later at home, alone, just the two of them. He smirked at his thought. What was she doing to him? He sighed at himself and went back to his work, very aware from the moment he stepped from his home of the looming presence of danger outside his village walls. He had closely monitored this energy while his people went about their daily lives all morning. Nothing was harming his people or getting closer to them, so for now, he decided he could leave it alone until further investigation was necessary. But nonetheless, after running a village for a couple years now, and having died once to protect it, the impending and possible danger of his people wouldn't allow his mind to focus on other thing that needed tending to. He tried to continue writing his reports, signing documents, and other various things that really were a waste of his skills, but the woman at his home, and the presence outside kept his mind distracted from his work.

Sakura had too awoken in the same blissful state. Opening her eyes she found the redhead from her dreams the night before staring calmly at her. Playing with her hair and sending pleasant shivers down her spine. They spent the morning like that and she inwardly laughed at his openness with her. It was quite refreshing indeed to see how much he had trusted her, and how more comfortable she got around him as their short week together had progressed. When getting up and out of bed she flushed royally at the realization that she was indeed still naked. Quickly throwing on a shirt to cover up, the shirt just so happening to be Gaara's, she strode to the bathroom to pick up her underwear from the night before. The morning was something else to say the least.

But now she was alone. Yet again. She sighed to herself and decided that she was much more useful out of the house. Getting dressed in a decent amount of clothing she headed for the door and opened it to be greeted by the warm glow of the afternoon sun in the dessert. The village was still littered with people enjoying the day life of the festivities, mostly small children and families just starting out. She smiled with mild jealousy as mothers walked through the streets holding hands with their husbands and listening intently to their child's cries of happy delight. The colors and sights fed the children's imagination to no end and they went on and on about a fantasy world they had thought about not two minutes before and how everything in this present reality would go perfectly with the village in a far off and magical place. Some of the couples didn't even have kids, but were pregnant, and were walking the child friendly streets as if preparing for their upcoming years as devoted parents.

Sakura, surprisingly enough, felt a tiny pin prick in her lower stomach and stopped to glance down. She was empty, unlike the other expecting mothers. Not that she wanted kids just yet, or even in a year or so. Compared to how old her mother and father were, she was still very young. But one day, she knew, one day she would have a family. But she didn't know Gaara enough in the family department. Sure his advisors and council wanted him to just find some random house wife to pop out his heir, but did he say no to the child, or no to the circumstance they suggested? Did he say no to just rolling into bed with some girl just to get her pregnant to shut up his council, or did he say no to having the child all together. Sakura felt the natural maternal instinct department of her heart sink at the thought of being in love with a man who didn't want children. Sakura was a healer by nature, someone who sought out and help people in need, and the best way to prove that was to be a mother. Sakura then realized that she had fallen in love with someone who might not share the same future outlook as she did.

She shook the thought from her head and continued on, holding her head high and forcing a positive outlook on her relationship with Gaara. But her mind busied with things that she rather not think of and they distracted her from her path she was going to take to get to the hospital, but found herself near the wall of the village, far away from the festivities. She mentally smacked herself. She really needed to pay more attention.

"You want it, don't you?" the voice from behind her was low, and raspy. She felt a chill crawl up her spine and wiped around to face the dark man who stood behind her. He was tall, with power emitting from his form.

"S-Sasuke?" she breathed in disbelief. He stepped closer out more into the open light and looked at her with his dark eyes. She stared at him, his words finally resonating within her as she answered in a shaky voice. "What do you mean?" she asked.

"Children," he answered simply. She felt her body grow sick at the thought of what his words might mean for her. "You want them Sakura."

Since when did the way he said her name sound so repulsive? The voice itself was nothing, but it was the feeling and need behind it that made her stomach lurch.

"I saw the way you look at those other woman Sakura, and I know more then anyone what it's like to want to start a family," he said softly as he stepped closer.

"You don't want a family you want to rebuild, those are two different things," she said as the words rushed from her mouth. A glint of anger shown in his dark eyes and she swallowed, regretting her insulting choice of words.

"You listen here woman, I know what you, and I know what I want! And as of now, I can give you everything you want." He said with an uneasy calmness.

"And what exactly do you think I want from you?" she shouted, somewhat hoping that someone would hear her voice and come to see the commotion, she didn't want to battle her former teammate, but she didn't want to stay here either.

He was suddenly in from of her, his hand grasping the side of her face in a sharp manner. She gasped and tried her best to tear herself away, bet he grasped her tighter and forced her to look at him. "Children, Sakura, you want children," he said with a devious smirk.

Sakura looked deep into his eyes and saw glimpses of his wicked intent with her. She smacked his hand away from her and staggered back until she bumped into a wall. "Why would I want such a thing from a person like you?" she yelled once again. "Why you when I have Gaara?" she didn't even realize the words that flew from her mouth as she mentioned her implied wishes to start a family with the man she had come to love. But she no longer cared.

"Because that thing that you ran too when I left doesn't want what we do! He wants nothing but your body and your mind, to possess and covet!" the way he said what he assumed Gaara wanted almost made life with him sound even more appealing. The need someone else would have for her coupled with that love made her heart swell at the thought of that person being Gaara.

She was brought back to reality by the way his words formed a hypercritical meaning for her to corner him in. "You say he just wants me for my body? Well I guess that's fine with you seeing as how you left me all those years ago and the only reason you're here now is because you want to me to spread my legs and be a baby factory! At least he stopped last night when he knew I wasn't ready for that!"

Realization dawned on his face as anger slowly fallowed. She just spilled the beans about her almost having 'relations' with Gaara just the night before. As she thought back, she almost wished she would have.

The next thing she knew, she was face against the wall, Sasuke's fist in her hair, and little streaks of white and blue illuminated the area around her. The crackling of his chidori echoed in her ears. Her heart sank as he pressed his lips next to her ear in a harsh whisper. "I know what you really want Sakura, and I will give it to you. And if it's not for you, then it will be for me."

Sakura sucked in a large, quick breath and screamed as loud as she could before Sasuke's hand could cover her mouth.

"GAARA!"

Gaara was on his was home for a quick late lunch-a very late lunch. She had stopped by the hospital and found that Sakura was not there, and had never showed up that day at all. Feeling slightly uneasy she headed toward his home. She had to be there. Temari was out working so she wouldn't be with her at all. He found the house vacant, and cold. An uneasy feeling crept over him at that very moment. Where was she?

He closed the door of his house and scanned the streets as quickly and calmly as he could. His heart sank as he couldn't locate her familiar chakra signature in the immediate area. But then there wa something else. The feeling from earlier, it was back and stronger then ever as he looked to the far side of the village, a tiny streak of blue white quickly vanished beneath a building, and the one thing he hoped he would never hear in his life greeted his ears; Sakura's screaming and afraid voice, calling for him in the direction of the intruder, in the direction of the Uchiha.

His blood boiled with rage as his animalistic and possessive side took over as his sand swirled around him, evaporating him into thin air before quickly taking him to his love and her problem. His sand swirled in the air and he grabbed Sakura and held her close before kicking the Uchiha off of her. She clung to him and shook in his chest.

Sasuke staggered to a stand and glared at the red head before him holding the woman he presumed to be his.

"Don't you ever come near her again or I will kill you," Gaara spoke in a low, dangerous voice that just dripped with the want for him to challenge him. He wanted him to try and touch her again, give him an ever better reason to rid the world of that clan crazed ass forever.

"She was my property since we were young, I can decide what to do with her!" he spat back.

"She isn't a piece of meat, she's human being. And if anyone she's mine!" he roared as his anger flared at the choice of words the man in front of him made. Talking about her like a thing and not a person, not an equal, although women, in his mind, were far superior when it came to life outside of war and missions then men were. Women were more patient and caring, loving and motherly, even to those they did not know. And to speak of a woman, Sakura no less, like she was and underling was unacceptable. "If anything she should belong to a person like me, a person to love her and respect her outlook and limits! Not someone like you who wants nothing but his own selfish self satisfaction!"

"She belongs to someone who will want her to have children, not someone like you who can't even stand the thought!" he spat.

Gaara froze; the reason why he sought her out was not for a lost love for her, but for her to help reestablish his clan. As someone to get knocked up only to give birth and then get knocked up again. No love, no feelings, just fucking and birthing, fucking and birthing. Her former teammate wanted such a horrible fate for her? Once again the anger in him rose and the sand responded to it's commanders emotions. Gaara stood in place and glared dangerously at the raven haired man in front of his as the sand whipped through the air in a storm. A thread of sand mound its way to Sasuke's ankle and without giving him time to untangle himself, Gaara forced the sand to crush his ankle, sending him limping to the ground in a cry of pain. Sakura tried to ignore her teammate's cries and held onto Gaara tighter. She felt helpless and she hated herself for it. But what was she to do? Go against her love and plant seeds of hope in Sasuke's head? That just wasn't an option.

Gaara's words were low, and dangerous. "I am going to be generous Sasuke, very generous. You will turn around and limp your sorry ass out of my village and never return. If you so much as harm Sakura or any of my people again, I will hunt you down, and wipe you off the face of the earth," he said slowly, making his point impossibly clear.

Sasuke looked up at him and backed away into an alleyway. He stood awkwardly and stared at his ankle in disbeliefe. "How could you have injured me?" he said in a quiet voice.

"You are in my territory, my element, and here, I decide everything that happens. You are in my place of rule and I can do anything I want here, here, I am king."

Sakura trembled in a twisted sort of anticipation from the intensity of his words.

"You will never defeat me! You never have and never will!"

"I would be thanking Sakura if I were you. If it weren't for her I would have killed you years ago."

"Mark my words I'll be back!" he said and he limped back on his broken and bloody ankle.

"Get out of my country," he said slowly, hate and detest dripping from his voce.

And he did. Sasuke took his chance and fled, deciding not to get into a brawl with the Kazekage in his element with an already broken ankle. When he was out of sight Gaara started to settle, and with him so did the sand that still whirled in the air. Sakura fell to the ground and covered her face as her body pushed out a long contained sob.

Gaara was at her side at once. He put an arm around her and let her cry on his shoulder. He swarmed then in his familiar sand and transported them back into his house, in his bedroom. They sat on the floor and she let herself go. She cried and cried, for what she didn't really know. It's not like Sasuke really did anything, and she wasn't hurt or anything. She was just crying, and being held by those strong and loving arms she had come to love so much.

"You okay Sakura?" he asked softly. She nodded and looked up at him with her eyes red and watery.

She didn't know what to say, what to think or anything. But she had a pretty good idea of what she wanted to do. She wanted to take her mind off of what just had happened, of what her former teammate thought and expected she do for him. Even though just last night she felt uneasy, nervous, and unready, she was ready now. She wanted him, wanted him to want her. She leaned forward and pressed her lips against hers in a manner he quickly responded to. She drew her arms around his neck and held him close while he leaned over her and pinned her gently to the hard floor. He made a mental note of not staying here that long. The floor was much to uncomfortable for a thing such as this. She moved away for air and he continued his way down her throat and along her jaw. He sent little pin pricks of pleasure through her body and heat began to gently creep it's way under her skin. He stopped at her ear and whispered softly, "Are you sure?"

Without a word she nodded and held him tighter. She felt him smirk against her skin and a shiver of anticipation ran down her spine to coil around her lower stomach as his hands glided over her hips to hook around her leg and pull it gently over his hips.

His lips moved back to hers and he mumbled his love for her against them before he started his work of fulfilling his goal of giving her a reason to never leave him, to give her a need that only he could satisfy. To start her life of warm night with him, and blissful mornings, to start a relationships in which she will never look back.

Even if only for this one night, he was going to take her away from the darkness that sought after her, with him, she would never look back.

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Words can not express how utterly sorry I am for how long it took me to write this. Like almost four months, that just inexcusable. Like really. So I hope this chapter was good enough. The next one will either be the morning after, or the lemon, you decide.

But oh my god I think this is one of my worst chapters! And to any Sasuke fan out there, I am truly sorry for the way I depicted him in this one. I made him seem like a crazed pig. But alas, it had to be done in my eyes. So yeah. I will defiantly have this next chapter and the second chapter to Seeing Double finished and up by the end of the year. I have to two holiday breaks to wok on them so there should be no excuse other then laziness, and I don't want that!

But once again I am so sorry, like so much so you couldn't believe. I was thinking abut his for so long and it was just eating away at me like no tomorrow!

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AND NOW MORE THEN EVER I ABSOLUTLY LOVE ALL MY READER!