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A small giggle came from my lips, and thats all it took to make Tsunade snap.

Chapter 12!

I screamed and dove for the desk as she jumped over it, the chair flying through the window behind her with the force she jumped with. Tsunade spun on her heals and with a loud yell she attacked again, bringing her fist back. I still had on my grin as I put my arms in front of my face, I was on the floor close to the broken window. I felt the blow hit me, but no where near as strong as I would have thought. I opened my eyes and realized I was now falling out the window, watching Gaara stare down at me with wide eyes, Tsunade's head under his arm. I laughed loudly as I fell, bending backwards so that I was going head first into the ground. The sand below me started churning, and it suddenly jumped up at me, grabbing me with a hand like thing and bringing me back up to the window, still upside down.

"SWEET!! LETS DO IT AGAIN!" I laughed, being put back on the floor in Tsunade's office. I love how tall this school is. Tsunade growled at me, I swear shes more wolf then bat... This gets me thinking... are they like bats at all? I put my finger to my chin as I looked at her thoughtfully, squinting my eyes.

"You will be the death of me, Sakura." Gaara whispered with a small sigh, letting go of his enraged mother figure. I just smiled at him, letting him help me up. "I saw the painting. Ino was unhappy about it." I giggled a little, and heard a thud, Konan must have fallen over again. Why she didn't help me.. I don't know.

"UNHAPPY?!?!" A scream came, then Ino burst threw the door, a turtle neck over her white shirt and a pair of sweatpants over her jeans. "UNHAPPY?!?!" She screamed at Gaara, fire in her eyes. "I'm not unhappy!"She growled. "I'm PISSED!!!!"

"But I did a good job, right?" I asked, holding my hands up in a defensive manner. "I mean, I got your hair down perfect! The same shade and everything! I even put the one little wisp that all ways sticks up on you head on it!" I moved my finger in a circular motion over my head, showing where hers was.

"AHHH!!!!" Ino screamed loud and high pitch, covering her head as she left the room, probably in search for a hat. "I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS!" She screamed from down the hall. I could hear laughter coming from the door she had left open, everyone was laughing at her.

"Sakura..." I turned to look at Tsunade with a small grin, putting my arm around Gaara's waist. "You have detention for the rest of the year." She growled out, leaving the room. My jaw hit the floor.

"You're lucky that's all you get." Gaara whispered in my ear, putting his arm over my shoulders as we followed the busty blond out. "Konan is the one that has to clean it all up and then she's suspended for a week, and has detention for the year, same as you."

"This is your fault." I grumbled, kicking Konan as we walked past her, she was rolling on the floor with laughter, I really don't see it as funny anymore.

People all around were staring at me and Gaara as we walked down the hall for lunch. It seems that word gets around fast, faster then I had thought. Everyone was congratulating me for what I did, but the thing is, I don't even feel good about it anymore. Ino looked really, really hurt when she had stormed into the room, yelling her head off. I could see that she was just hiding her hurt and embarrassment behind the anger. I've always been good at seeing that stuff, because I do it myself.

My arm that was hung around Gaara's waist was drooping and I was leaning against him. I really feel bad now. Gaara kissed my temple and gave my shoulders a small squeeze.

Werewolf or not, she doesn't deserve this.

When we got to the lunch room, I sat on Gaara's knee because there was only one seat left. I leaned my elbow on the table with my chin rested on my hand. Guilt has never hit me like this before. Maybe its because I kind of like Ino. In a weird way, at least. I enjoy fighting with her, and it gives me something to smile about later on. She may piss me off beyond reason sometimes, like with the whole knocking into me thing earlier, but I still shouldn't have done something like that to her. I should have thought it through before hand, and now Naruto's not talking to me. He's sitting in the seat across the table from me, but hes been ignoring me since we sat down, either to caught up in his lunch, or talking with Kisame. The man looked more like a fish then a dog, if you ask me.

I could feel Kankuro's eyes on me as I thought all of this over, finally deciding that I'll call him "Fish Man" from now on. He let out a small chuckle. I smiled at Kankuro as I rolled my eyes.

The sound of laughter filled the room and Naruto looked towards the door with sad eyes. I slowly followed his gaze to see Ino walking over to get some food with a sweater on that went up past her neck and a pair of pants, her hair was covered with a black sock hat that she probably stole from Kiba.

"I'll be back." I stood up and started walking away from Gaara, hearing Kankuro tell Naruto to stay when I started going towards Ino. He knew what I was about to do, and I think Gaara has a pretty good idea. "Hey, Ino?" I said in a small voice.

"What the hell do you want?" Ino growled, glaring at me. Her eyes were rimmed in red, she had been crying? The guilt felt like a ton of bricks sitting in the pit of my stomach. I watched sadly as she pulled her hat down farther, trying to escape from the laughing people as they walked by her.

"I'm really sorry." I whispered. "I know I shouldn't have done that, and if theres any way possible I would take it back. All of it. I'm really sorry, Ino." I looked down to the floor, hoping that it would be okay, and that she wouldn't hate me to much.

"Yeah, well that doesn't stop the laughing, now does it?" She growled, turning away from me to pay for her sandwich and soda.

I just stood there unmoving for a few seconds. Ino walked past me towards the doors to leave the room. Something came to mind that I could do, I hope the others don't hate me for doing this...

"HEY! LISTEN UP!" I jumped up on a table and cupped my hands around my mouth, shouting at the whole lunch room. Ino stopped on her way out the door and looked at me with big eyes. Gaara stood from his table, it looked like he was about to pounce on me for doing something so stupid. But it has to be done. "IF I HEAR ANY OF YOU LAUGHING AT INO AGAIN I, AND ALL OF MY FRIENDS OVER THERE WILL RIP YOUR HEADS OFF AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS, SO THE ONLY THING YOU CAN LAUGH AT IS YOUR SHIT!!"

"But you were the one who painted it!!" A random boy yelled back at me.

"Yeah, and I was wrong for doing it!" I shouted, holding my arms up. "If you have to laugh at anyone, laugh at me! I dance around my room singing to Selene Dion in my underwear! Laugh at that, not Ino!" People started chuckling lowly. "Or, like I said before, you'll only be laughing at your shit." I growled the last part, then jumped down from the table. I started walking to the doors, as I passed Ino she just stared at me with big eyes. "Tell me who laughs at you again." Then I left the room, running down the hall.

– –

I'm in Tsunade's office once again, this time she was talking calmly to me about my little act in the lunch room. I just stood there looking at the floor waiting for her to get on with my punishment. I will take what ever she gives and happily do my time, I do not regret what I did then, not even when people pass me in the hall laughing and doing small odd moves to make fun of me.

Gaara hasn't tried talking to me about it yet, neither has anyone else. When I ran from the lunch room, I went straight to the art room so I could draw and be by myself for a little while. Then, Tsunade-sama had sent her assistant Shizune to come and get me, I've been in here ever since. I didn't even notice when Tsunade stopped talking, I was a little dazed out.

"T-Tsunade-sama?" A small whisper came from the door. I still didn't move, just kept looking at the floor in front of me.

"Yes? What is it, Ino?"

Ino?

This time I turned to look at the blond as she came in, taking off the sock hat. She looked at me briefly, then looked down at the floor, too. "I, uh, heard that Sakura was in here, and, um..." She took a deep breath and looked back up at the vampire. It must be hard for a werewolf to go to a school where the principle is a vampire. "Don't give Sakura any form of punishment for what she did in the lunch room. She did nothing wrong, she helped me. Not one person has laughed at me since then, and I am truly grateful for what she did." Then she quickly added, "please, Tsunade-sama."

Tsunade rubbed her temples as she closed her eyes. "You two girls give me head aches, you know that right? And that's hard to do to someone like me." I looked away from the blond girl and down to the floor.

"Ino..." I said slowly. I saw her look at me from the corner of my eye. "what I did was way over the limit, and I will accept anything that I get for doing that. You don't have to worry, I'm well prepared for it." I gave her a small smile. "And, it wont happen again, I promise you that."

She smiled back at me. "Thanks forehead." Her smile turned into a smirk.

"No problem Pig." I smirked back at her. We both started laughing.

Tsunade sighed.

– –

"Thanks, Ino. Really." I smiled at her as we walked down the hall together.

"It was nothing. I'm just really happy that you did that for me." She smiled back at me.

"I really am sorry for that picture. I really didn't mean anything by it."

She looked down for a few seconds then looked back up, a small amount of amusement in her eyes. "It's fine. You made my boobs look really good." She pushed her chest out as we walked, both of us laughing.

When we got back to the class we were sharing, gym. Everyone in the class was already changed up and Gai-sensei was giving them a pep talk about the game we were going to start. Everyone stopped talking when we entered, even Gai-sensei seemed stunned to see us laughing together, with our arms linked. I could feel Gaara's eyes on me as we went to change quickly.

"Out to run the track, my youthful students!" Gai cheered when we came out of the locker room. Ino and I nodded, jogging our way down to meet the others.

We split up when we reached the track, Ino going over to her cheerleader friends, while I went over to see my vampire boyfriend and his family. I ran over to Gaara at a fast sprint, jumping at his back when I got close. He stepped out of the way just as I was about to grab him. His hands grabbed my hips, pulling me backwards, my back flush against his chest. I gasped and smiled back at him.

"You're late." He whispered in my ear.

"Sorry."

"START YOUR YOUTHFUL MILE MY WONDERFULLY YOUTHFUL STUDENTS!" Gai called, sounding a buzzer that was going to time us. Gaara let go of me and we all started running.

I ran between Kankuro and Gaara, Kankuro staring at me, probably reading my mind as I thought about what happened in Tsunade-sama's office. Temari was running behind us, along with Shikamaru, who had become rather close to the family lately. Kankuro groaned and covered his face with one of his hands as I thought about why he was always over. I laughed and sprinted ahead, Gaara matching my pace perfectly.

"So, what happened between you two?" Gaara asked, not looking over at me. He had to put on some kind of show for the others.

"We're all good." I breathed out. "I think we understand each other better now." I jumped over a hurtle that was randomly in the middle of the track, I could see people trying to hurry and take them off. One girl called out a sorry to me. I just smiled at her and ran on.

"That was nice... what you did at lunch." Gaara said, now looking at me. "Why did you do that?"

I looked at the track in front of me as I ran, trying to zone out a little bit. "I know what it feels like to be laughed at. To have people staring at you in a way that makes you feel like you're not wearing anything." I stopped talking for a few seconds as I tried to catch my breath, not slowing. "No one deserves something like that."

"But it's all good." Ino was running by my other side out of no where. "Oh, but Sakura, I am going to get you back for that!" she grinned. "Just you wait! It wont be that bad, but you'll hate it!" Then she sprinted off. I growled and matched her pace, she glared at me as she sped up a little.

We had passed the finish line four laps ago, and still Ino and I raced on. I don't know where I got so much energy from, but I was still getting faster and faster, and Ino was tiering. It got to the point where we were trying to crawl past the finish line, Gaara, Naruto, Hinata, and Kankuro standing there looking at us with odd expressions, Gaara's face was blank of course! We both reached out a hand in one final attempt to beat the other, but it seemed we were a tie. I collapsed to the track not able to move anymore. Cold arms wrapped around me and lifted me up into Gaara's chest, which I openly welcomed to get rid of this heat. I pressed my head against his neck, breathing hard as I tried to catch my breath, it felt like my lungs had come out of my body and were laying on the track somewhere.

I looked over at Ino with a grin, Naruto and Kankuro were helping her sit up, she was grinning at me. "You (pant) almost beat (pant pant) me, (pant) forehead. (pant)"

"Same (pant pant pant) here (pant pant), Pig." We both grinned, then fell backwards in a deep sleep. Gaara's ice arms never left my roasting skin.

– –

"You guys really, really, really, really suck!" I sighed into my cellular devise. I could hear all of my friends from back home sigh. They had just got done telling me about how they were doing, and about this awesome school dance I had missed out on. "Why do you tell me these things? It makes me sad that I can't be there!"

"We're sorry!" Danielle said, adding a small giggle afterwards. "It's not our fault you're mental and need special attention!"

"HA! Funny!" I rolled over on my bed, so that I was face down. I groaned into my pillow. They could be such jerks at times...

"OMG!" Harley practically screamed into the phone. "Tyler just got her ass dumped by Brittany at the movies and her boyfriend totally screwed her over during lunch! He dumped her in front of everyone!"

"Why did Brittany dump her at the movies, and who the hell would want to date that whore?!"

It was Katelyn who spoke this time. "She saw us there and asked if she could join us. We're all good with her now, and she asked us if we would tell you that she's really sorry for her. Ah, you remember that really stupid Matt kid? The one who's uglier then hell? It was him who dated her. I guess he was getting paid big bucks everyday that he was with her. He's a rich man now!" She laughed. I couldn't hold it back any longer.

I burst out laughing.

Tyler is such a stupid whore! To think that someone would actually want to date her! The whole thing that went down with Ino the other day flashed through my mind, still very fresh. The Tyler thing was way different then my fighting with Ino. Tyler and I used to be like sisters. She's the reason why I don't always trust people easily. We used to do everything together, and I had told her everything about my life. Everything. And she went behind my back and started telling people everything that I had told her, even though she had promised not to tell anyone. She had stabbed me in the back, and I'm still wounded by it. Kristen had helped me heal a little, but friends can only do so much. Since I started dating Gaara, I have noticed that I've been a lot more open with other people, and it scares me to think about it.

I talked with my four friends for awhile longer, not having anything better to do. I wasn't about to do my homework, and Gaara was out for the night with Temari and a few others. So I sit in Sachio's place, eating up all of the BBQ potato chips while I talked with a few of my best friends. The TV flickered in the dark room, going unwatched.

Taya sent me up to bed around 1 in the morning, saying that we all (my friends and me) need our sleep. I don't think she knows that its a weekend. Having a baby and a lazy husband is getting to her I think. Pretty soon it'll be her birthday, and I'll take Asa to Gaara's place with me for the night. She deserves a night alone with my cousin, I shiver, not wanting to know what they will do. I don't think Tsunade-sama will mind, since I got a good reason and all.

Thanks to Ino, I'm only in detention for the rest of the month, two more weeks of staying after school. Sachio didn't like what I did, so I'm now grounded, not able to go anywhere, and not able to see Gaara outside of school until I'm out of my detentions. He doesn't know that every night Gaara comes over and watches me sleep. What he doesn't know, he never needs to know! It probably will hurt him if he does find out, so I can't say that. But, he never needs to know that Gaara jumps up through my window from the ground using his Vampire skills to do so. Or that Gaara's a Vampire and his whole family are to. Or the fact that I have Werewolf friends, along with a Vampire for a boyfriend. Yeah... he

definitely doesn't need to know.

I roll over in my bed thinking about all of this. Many things in my life revolve around Gaara now. And, truthfully, that scares me just a little. What if he leaves and never comes back? What will I do then? Or, what if Temari really does kill him? Or if Naruto loses control while they are fighting and rips him apart? What will happen to me? I have only a few friends that don't involve Vampires or Werewolves, and more then half of them don't even live here. Hinata and TenTen are the only ones that I can lean on. The only ones that love me for me. And I've been ignoring them! What kind of friend am I?!

"What's troubling you?" A soft whisper came from my right. I gasped loudly and bolted upright, glaring down at the redheaded vampire that was laying on the bed next to me, smirking. I rolled my eyes and fell back to the bed with a huff.

"I miss my friends from back home. And I miss TenTen and Hinata." I grumbled. "And I want to kick Tyler's sorry ass..."

I could tell that Gaara was looking at me questioningly, but he said nothing. He knows very little, if anything, about that fat whore, but he does know that I really do miss my friends very much. I turned away from Gaara as a small tear rolled down my cheek. I never would have thought that I would miss them this much. Gaara's arms wrapped around me, pulling me backwards until my back was flush against his chest, his cool lips at my ear.

"Everything is alright, Sakura." He whispered, brushing his stone lips against my skin. "Go to sleep." He placed a small kiss to my neck before he nuzzled it, holding me tighter.

– –

Sunday.

One of my favorite days.

Its the day that Sachio leaves early for work, and doesn't get home until late. It's the day that Taya does all of her shopping, taking baby Asa with her. The day that I can stay in bed and not have to get up for anything. The one day that I usually spend in my bed with Gaara laying next to me.

But today isn't like all of the other Sundays that I love so much. Gaara left before Sachio did, saying that he wouldn't be back until the afternoon, it made me a little mad, but I would still get to spend all day in bed, which I planned on doing anyway.

So, here I am, laying in bed, bored out of my mind, and staring at my window. I want Gaara to come back. I want to see him, for him to hold me. I've had another bad dream, but this time it was really scary. I sighed and rolled over so that my face was buried in my pillow and let out a long sigh. This day was really sucking.

"YOU WHO!!" A loud voice rang through the household. My head lifted at hearing the sound of running feet coming up the stairs, and, out of nowhere, my door flew open. "HUNNY! I'M HOME!" Sang Katelyn.

I screamed and jumped up, falling backwards off my bed with a loud thud. I peeked over my bed to see if it was real, then closed my eyes and counted to ten, my four best friends, and my smirking vampire, were still standing near my bedroom door. "OH GOD!! MY DREAMS REAL!! THEY'RE REALLY HERE! GOD HELP ME!!" I screamed dramatically, falling backwards in a pretend faint.

"She hasn't changed a bit." Danielle sighed.

"Nope." Harley smirked, shaking her head.

Gaara just blinked, then took a step back when the four girls screamed and attacked me, not even bothering to help me... that bastard...

GAARA'S A BAAAAD BOY!! LOLZ!!!