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Sakura stared at the boy in front of her. What would he want to walk about? She watched at the soaking-wet boy looked up to meet her eyes. "I-I really need to talk to someone. I can't keep it to myself anymore."
"Yeah, sure, come in."
Gaara nodded as he entered her house and closing the door behind him. "You're soaking wet. Here, let me get some dry clothes you can change into." Sakura said as she ran to get some different clothes.
Gaara ran a hand through his drenched hair as he waited for Sakura to come back. When she did, Sakura handed him a pair of black sweatpants and a plain white t-shirt. "There's a bathroom right around the corner if you'd like to change in there."
Nodding slightly, Gaara walked into the other room and into the bathroom. Once he was done getting dressed, he walked back out into the kitchen. "Would you like to have something to eat? I can heat up some pasta." Sakura asked.
"Sure." He mumbled.
Sakura smiled as she walked over to her counter and scooped some food onto two plates and then put them into the microwave. Once the food was ready, Sakura carried the bowls into the living room, where Gaara was sitting on the couch. She handed him a bowl and both of them started to eat. "So, what did you need to talk about?"
"Basically, everything."
"Well, does it have to do with the nightmare before?"
"The dream was something that happened a few years back." Gaara responded.
"Why don't you start by telling me what happened."
Gaara sighed. "I've been having them for awhile. Ever since that night I can barely sleep. My uncle tried to kill me, but I pushed him back to get away from him, and he fell down the stairs. It turned out that I . . . killed him."
Sakura sat there and listened. She placed her hand over his to try and comfort him. "My father has hated me since then. More than he did before. He blamed me for my mother's death."
"What happened to your mom?" Sakura asked.
Gaara shrugged. "I really don't know. She disappeared one night and about a week later, police had found her at the bottom of a river. My father said that I killed her and then threw her body in the water to get rid of it."
Gaara took a bite of the food. "But ever since my uncle had died, my father only blamed me. And that's when all this started to happen." He told as he gestured to his broke wrist.
"After that, things were never the same. It's gotten bad enough to where I can't even sleep at night. Temari and Kankuro started to worry because it actually gotten to the point where I couldn't even get out of bed from exhaustion."
"So, did they bring you to a doctor to see if they could do anything?" Sakura wondered.
Gaara nodded. "They suggested this certain type of sleeping pill, but after the first week that I've tried it, it wasn't doing anything. I thought it was from not taking the right amount of pills. And, well, one night I took more than I was supposed to, hoping I would get at least two hours of sleep, but instead I woke up in the hospital with an OD."
Sakura looked at him and could feel the tears starting to form in her eyes. "I haven't touched a sleeping pill since, but it got to the point where I was once again desperate for sleep. And that's when I got into the habit I have now."
"What is that?"
Gaara stared at the floor. "I only eat food once a week. Sundays I'll eat and then hope one day I'll collapse from exhaustion just so I can sleep. But when it happens, my dreams turn into nightmares from what caused all of this to happen."
Sakura quickly engulfed him in a hug. At first, Gaara started to shake from the contact, but he soon calmed down and returned the hug. He sighed as he started to finish his story. "I know that I'm slowly killing myself, and I've been trying to stop for months. But I-it's hard."
"Well, Naruto and I are if you ever need help. I know I'll help whenever you want me to. And I'm sure Naruto would too."
Gaara smirked. "I'd like that."
Sakura smiled as she started to eat her pasta. Gaara was about to ask her something when suddenly a food-filled fork was shoved in his mouth. He grabbed it and swallowed the food before asking, "What was that for?"
"You said you wanted help. And I am going to help you even if it means feeding you myself!"
Gaara sighed. What did I get myself into?
Sakura quickly got dressed the next day. She was excited to go back for school for a reason even she didn't know.
When she left she decided to surprise Gaara at his house. She hurried down the sidewalk a few blocks until she reached his house. Sakura was about to knock on the door, but it opened before she could touch it. Gaara stood in the doorway with a shocked expression in his eyes. "What are you doing here?"
"Can't I stop by and see how you're doing?"
"You would've seen me in five minutes." He stated.
Sakura smiled. "So, did you have breakfast?"
Gaara nodded. "I took a bag of goldfish from Kankuro when he wasn't looking."
Sakura laughed as they started to walk to school. They walked in silence until they were about half way. "I want to thank you for listening the other day." He said.
"It's no problem. I'm glad we had a little chat alone. Usually Naruto's with us so we can never talk in private. Speaking of Naruto, where is he?"
"I think he mentioned something about a morning detention."
Sakura sighed. That Naruto. What did he do this time?
Sorry for the long wait again. And the shortness. I didn't know how to do things in this chapter. And as for the next chapter, let's just say Sasgay makes an appearance again :B
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