So this is THE LONGEST CHAPTER YET! Isn't it amazing? I hope everyone likes this!

ALSO I WOULD'VE UPDATED SOONER, HOWEVER, FANFICTION WAS SCREWED UP AND IT WOULDN'T UP LOAD THIS! GRRR…

WARNING: LEMON! SOME CONTENT NOT SUITABLE FOR ANYONE UNDER 18!

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Her hands were always being bandaged, it seemed as though they'd never return to normal and from what she heard…they were important for her line of work. But if she was so great of a doctor, how come she didn't have this chakra they were talking about, how come she couldn't magically heal like she's seen Temari do to her minor cuts? Was she truly that great or just that gullible? And who knows, they could be the enemy trying to brainwash her?!

But then Ajax would show up and she'd feel serene and fall into the normal routine of just talking and laughing while in the recovery room. It had been four days she's been conscious and a whole week since she arrived. But it seemed like more, and tries as she might; her gut was telling her something was amiss.

But what?


The harsh desert wind ruffled his ruby hair and spat sand in his face as though it were disgusted with him. The little sand particles stung his skin. Sure he could easily control the sand but he was deep in meditation and it seemed to be more important than what was going on currently in this world.

Somewhere in his foggy mind he kept track of the days he spent out there without food and drink, but due to Shukaku's abilities, he could go without such commodities for weeks on end without feeling fatigued.

So why was his gut wrenching with every breath he took? Why did he feel so ill at mind that not even extensive meditation could cure?

Was Sakura alright? She had to be, she is after all, Sakura.

I say we head back runt.

All you want to do is get into her pants

Hey don't make me come out of this as the only one who thinks she's a hot piece of ass! It takes two to cooperate in this body!

She's not worth it.

The pain? The pleasure? Have you not noticed her for more than her physical assets?

It's hard to see more when I have you in my head talking about the many ways you want to take her.

Well I have noticed more than just that! Shukaku gave a small grin, she's smart and very sly a good quality to have in a mate so things wont get boring. Plus, she's not afraid to speak her mind and that temper is sexily challenging. Also, she can handle herself-

No she can't! Did you see her when we arrived? She nearly died and it was because of me!

She's also forgiving. He pointed out, seemingly unfazed by Gaara's little pity-party. If there's one quality I admire most is that she doesn't look at everything face-value, but gets to know the inner workings of everything before making her diagnosis of whether or not she likes the person. Listen runt! He snarled in irritation to quiet Gaara from interrupting, what he thought, was an inspirational go-get-her speech.

If she didn't like us, would she have panted before us, telling us to take her? She is a damn smart kuniochi who knows the repercussions of having a relationship with you, a Kazekage. Don't undermine her capabilities of discernment runt. Rather you need to evaluate yourself, not her. Because you don't see that she has her head in many bingo books as well.

Once she wakes up, she'll blame me.

No, the only thing she'll blame you is for not being the first sight she sees.

You're, perhaps, right on this.

Perhaps?! Runt, I'm always right.

hn. Gaara stood from his spot on top of a sand dune and turned his head eastwards where Suna lay hidden behind the horizon. Sakura, here I come.


Sakura laughed joyously at the punch line of Ajax's joke.

"That was quite humorous Ajax-kun."

He smiled as he caressed her slim fingers, "thank you Sakura-chan" she rested her head on his shoulder while gazing over the horizon. The setting sun was a fabulous clash of red, pink and purple hues.

"Temari wants to run a dialysis of me and what is inhibiting me from gaining my memories."

"Why do you sound hesitant blossom?"

She shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know. I guess to some degree I'm terrified, I mean what if I regain my memories and don't love you anymore?"

Ajax frowned, "that's what I want to talk to you about, Sakura-"

A huge blast of sand pelted Ajax away from Sakura, her scream of terror deafened by the roar of sand assaulting her lover.

"Ajax!"

Ajax jumped to the side and immediately formed a jutsu to manipulate boulders from the ground, and deftly threw them at the attacker. "SAKURA RUN!" Ajax yelled over the thunderous roar of smashing rocks. He snapped his head towards the direction of the attacker, deftly pulling out an array of senbon readying them with ease as he patiently waited for his attacker to show himself. He did not have to wait long when familiar red hair, followed by the seething gaze of pale jade orbs revealed themselves and for a moment he faltered,

"Sir?"

A predatory growl so deafening left the Kazekage's throat and tore through Ajax's very core. Eyes widening as the red head charged with blinding speed created little room to avoid a deadly attack, but he did so as swiftly as he could before pushing off the ground and landing on a rooftop of a nearby building, "Kazekage-sama if you'll listen-"

He was interrupted by a storm of sand swirling about him, knowing his lord's attack as the ever famous sand-coffin technique; he rapidly formed seals to counter it with his own earthly attacks and encased himself in rock to prevent the deadly attack from laying its blow upon him.

"Sir!" He yelled once again, "I do not wish to fight you!"

"No ONE TOUCHES HER BUT ME!" He yelled in blind fury and kept attacking Ajax with his sand.

Ajax kept dodging and parrying attack after attack with his own techniques; summoning rocks, boulders, and clay to help him.

"IF YOU REALLY CARED ABOUT HER" he began, "THEN YOU WOULD'VE BEEN THERE AT THE HOSPITAL THE DAY SHE AWOKE! YOU, INSTEAD OF I, WOULD'VE HELPED HER REGAIN HER MEMORIES!" His throat began to burn from the yelling but he kept going, "I DO NOT LOVE HER LIKE A LOVER SHOULD GAARA-SAN! BUT MERELY AS A SISTER!"

"A coward's way out through lies!" He yelled back, finally catching Ajax in his sand's pressing grip, soon following the slow process of bones breaking.

"STOP!" A female's voice screamed. Both men stopped all that they were doing to see the crying pink-haired woman on her knees crying, "please…just stop." She shook from terror and Gaara's heart wrenched tightly against his chest as her watery gaze met his emotionally ridden eyes,

"Gaara?" she meekly questioned before gripping onto her head. "UGH!"

"Sakura!" Gaara's gaze turned to Ajax who crawled his way over towards her, both his legs broken in several places. Ajax looked up at Gaara and offered a small smile, "she's regaining her memories."

He stiffly nodded before asking a question lined with venom towards his adversary, "you had no other intentions than that of a friend towards her?"

"No, I had intentions of that as a brother. She's dear to me, but I don't believe in taking advantage of a girl in such a delicate stage." His face contorted to that of displeasure, "after that accidental kiss, I figured I was…well…gay. I didn't mean to make her think otherwise."

Gaara pulled him by the scruff of his neck and growled, "you better not be lying."

"Ask your brother." Ajax blushed, "he and I are…together."


Gaara sat in the corner, covered by shadows as he watched Sakura peacefully sleeping. Each fall and rise of her chest enticed him to do many things to her body, but refrained from doing so, not sure when she'd wake up and if she really regained her lost memories. He hoped to kami she did, because the mating season was at its peak and he found himself aroused at every female he encountered and nearly jumped Kori, his sister's secretary, who was wearing a very revealing tank top.

A groan alerted him of Sakura's slow ascension into the waking world and he tensed, unsure of what he should be doing at the moment or if he should just sit there and wait for her to acknowledge his presence. He shook his head and stood up in stealthy silence and showed up by her side within an instant.

"Gaara" she whispered with hurt lining her voice, "where were you?"

"…Hn." His response gripped her heart in an unrelenting hold of untold pain. She formed her own theory on why he didn't show up the day she came out of her coma, but it was too painful to acknowledge. She turned her back towards him and whispered,

"Please, I'm tired Gaara. Can you just leave me alone so I can sleep peacefully?"

"Hn" he stood up, not even glancing towards her as he left the room. Even when he heard a small sob escape from her, he didn't go back in. He had too much to figure out, and even if his heart felt as though it were being suffocated, he continued walking down the hall.

"I can't Sakura…not yet."


It's now two days later. Gaara had locked himself in his office refusing to see anyone unless they were of male gender. Thinking of his behavior as odd Temari and Kankurou discussed the situation in hushed voices outside his door,

"who the hell stuck a condom up his ass?" Kankurou hissed.

"He's just confused over these feelings."

"I say he's done fucking up his only chance of getting one hell of a girl! Instead he should concentrate on fucking her!"

"Your ever vulgar vocabulary never ceases to astound me" she rolled her eyes, rubbing the bridge of her nose in agitation. "We need to do something."

"Like what? Get him jealous? I've tried that and that nearly killed my boyfriend!"

"I nearly killed him myself" Temari sent a glare towards her younger brother, "we need a simple plan."

"Yeah well that's what you said when you decided to get rid of over half our medical staff, noooo that's not too complicated especially when it placed Suna in a dire situation" he mocked.

"Shut up!"

"Make me!"

"I don't have the recipe!" she stuck her tongue out.

"Okay let's refocus shall we dear sister? What we need is a simple plan-"

"That's what I-" Temari was shushed by her brother and growled in irritation.

"How about we tell Sakura to meet us in room number 304?"

"The secluded room on the top floor? But that's reserved for VIP's."

"Exactly!" Kankurou exclaimed with childish glee shinning in his eyes, "it's a cozy room with a sofa-bed. Also the room is chakra proof and is on a time lock. Once set, it won't open from either side until the time is done!"

"Kankurou, I must admit this is surprising-"

"I know"

"-Especially when you're usually a brain-dead twit. Seems as though it's still functioning every once in a while."

"Hey I take offence to that!"

"Shut up and get Gaara, I'll get Sakura into the room."

"Alright, break!" Kankurou pushed himself off the desk he was sitting on and twisted the door knob, "let operation Fuck the Fucker begin!" and with that he barged in Gaara's office.

Temari only shook her head and disappeared in a puff of smoke.


"Temari I don't see anyone here in need of a life-or-death heart reconstruction?"

"Oh well. Have fun!" With that she slammed the door and turned the time lock set to 24 hours. She then turned to her smirking brother and smiled herself while she brushed her hands together, "I left food in there to sustain them and took out any and all potential murder weapons including the table."

"And Gaara should awake in a few moments" he slung an arm over her shoulder, "a job well-done Tem."

"You weren't so bad yourself" she smiled as they walked down the hallway together.


Gaara awoke to the sound of pounding followed along with a string of curse words from Sakura's mouth,

"Damn it Temari let me the hell out of here or so help me I will rip out your intestines and strum them on a guitar!"

"Why haven't you used your chakra?" Gaara stood up, his cold voice turned Sakura around and she glared at him while sharply waving her hand at the door,

"Do you think I haven't tried?! I've tried everything to get out of here!"

"Away from me?"

Her eyes softened a moment before hardening, "If I remember correctly it was you running from me."

Gaara felt a stabbing sting in his chest but other than that, nothing he did betrayed the calm and cold exterior Sakura was seeing, "So now the great Haruno Sakura is running?"

She snorted in distain. She long since abandoned all hope of escaping and slid down the wall opposite of Gaara, "I never run." Her icy glare froze Gaara to the spot as she continued, "what I do is know when there's no hope in a relationship, there's no use in pursuing it."

"hn."

"That's all you do now?" she laughed in a mocking manner, "we went too fast and I fell too fast for someone who wont even be by my side in my sickest hour. How could I be so foolish?"

"Hn."

Again she spoke in a sarcastic manner, "shock me, say something intelligent!"

"I WAS AFRAID!" Gaara roared, "WHAT COULD I DO? EMOTIONS WERE NOT ANY TROUBLE FOR ME BEFORE YOU CAME ALONG! DAMNIT SAKURA, I WAS FINE! I WAS-"

"You were a broken vase." She quietly answered, "yet so was I. You don't think I was terrified of a relationship with you? Do you not know the pain I went through with Sasuke affected my outlook on dating in general? I didn't want that same aching heartbreak I had back then! But the way you made me feel…made it worth everything because I felt loved and wanted. I thought I found my knight in shining armor, one who would be there when the sleeping princess awoke from a horrific spell." Her vacuous laughter echoed the room, "how stupid? You, Shukaku no Gaara, are not capable of loving anyone…especially me."

Before she could react, Gaara shoved her against the wall with his hands holding her arms parallel to her shoulders. His face was mere inches from hers, his breathing was short and forced while hers where long and heartbroken,

"listen to me Sakura. I never meant to hurt you, but I needed to sort these feelings out because unlike you, I am not used to this intimate of a relationship-let alone any relationship at all. And I'm sorry for leaving you in the hospital." His voice faded into a husky whisper, "but I'm here now and I'll be damned if I allow another man to touch you ever again…I love you far too much to see you with anyone else."

"Gaara-" her voice was cut off by a delicate kiss. Tantalizingly slow, Gaara moved his moist lips over Sakura's petal-soft ones in an elegant waltz filled with a loving passion that seemed to burn deep in their souls. Sakura threaded her fingers through Gaara's hair as he gently caressed her hips. A soft moan resounded from the depths of her throat and Gaara's tongue licked her bottom lip for consent but didn't wait for a response as he sucked on her lower lip as though he were a parched man in need of her rich honey. Sakura parted her lips for air allowing Gaara's tongue to slither in and caress her own with unmatched tenderness and shoved her hips into his pelvis,

"G-aara" she gasped while pulling away from him. His only response was an animalistic grunt as he took to nipping her neck affectionately. "Bed" she moaned out as he licked a sweet spot at the junction of her neck and shoulders.

"To…Far" he growled out between kisses, "floor…is…good" Her hips grinded into his and he nearly lost control as a burst of animalistic instincts assaulted him.

Slowly-lovingly he lowered the both of them onto the floor and began to take her top off while focusing attention on her neck where he'll soon mark her as his. Soon her top flew off leaving her upper torso clad in wrappings on her chest and he growled in irritation as he pulled out a kunai and ripped the bindings off. Her breasts bounced free of their constrictions and he immediately began to kneed them in slow movements trying to memorize the silky texture and his male ego increased as her moans escalated in pleasure.

Sakura arched her back wanting more of his magical hands. "Gaara" her hands traversed on their own accord and soon she felt the hard texture of his pectorals and abdomen, relishing in the feel of them rippling under her tender touch. She was transfixed with her administrations that she failed to notice that she was fully de-clothed until Gaara's calloused hand stroked her abdomen and a satisfied purr came from him as she called his name once again in drunken ecstasy. Slowly he bypassed her trimmed curls and traced her entrance with a lazy finger,

"Gaara-!"

He hushed her with a delicate kiss and continued with his earlier administrations and slowly entered her with one finger.

As if on instinct, Sakura spread her legs wide, wanting more of his touch and he complied by adding two more fingers while thrusting hard as her hips rose to match his pace.

Her pants became feverish as the coil in her abdomen began constricting almost painfully until he hit her spot and all cohesive thought left her as she exploded with unmatched fervor and Gaara growled approvingly as he smelt her wet opening and eagerly licked it free of the juices before returning a fevered kiss to her lips, his member poking at her toned abdomen told her he needed release as well and so her hands made there way to it. She looked at him wearing a devilish grin as she gripped onto it and his head tossed back in pleasure,

"S-sakura" he rasped out thrusting into her hand. He needed release, but not like this. He pulled out of her hand and positioned near her entrance and looked at her, "we can't go back" his husky voice broke through her pants,

"do it" she cried in impatience and soon she gripped his sweat slicked shoulders as untold pain ripped through her body with his single thrust. She could feel her walls constrict around him and after a moment she found it to be a pleasing feeling and thrust up into his hips.

His mouth bit down on her neck a he roughly began to thrust into her opening. He needed to release…he needed to fulfill his duty as mate…he needed her.

Both of their breathing became erratic while they both sought for their climatic releases and soon found it with another thrust, and they both came together in a bliss-filled haze.

"Sakura!"

"Gaara!"

Minutes later, Gaara pulled out of Sakura and rolled her onto his chest, his breathing stabilizing while hers was still erratic and he smirked in satisfaction at his mate's contended demeanor. He kissed the top of her head as she snuggled into him,

"I love you Gaara" she whispered.

"I love you too Sakura."


So what do you think? Hmm I'm thinking of ending this series here, should I?? And if not, then what else would you like to see out of this pair? Of course if you want me to continue I will only do (at the max) 2-3 more chapters. Perhaps more if anyone wanted a sequel..?

Also I rather like Ajax, despite everyone detesting him, but he's gay! I thought it was a funny twist to this story because he reminds me of my friend! Hahaha, okay I'm done…

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