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Remember! All things...most ifNOT flashbacks! They are all Gaara's thoughts! Hence the title...
"I didn't catch the name…the name? What was it?" Sakura wracked her brain continuously to try and remember who the other demon was, so she could avoid him…It was two in the morning and she was still wide awake trying to figure out the mystery demon vessel. "Naruto's a demon…it makes sense…" After a few more hours, she fell asleep at five in the morning only to wake up again at seven.
"Damn you…freaking demons…I'm losing my beauty sleep here…" 'I've met him before? …definitely not Sasuke-kun.' She smiled at the thought of him and went to the toilet to freshen up for the new day, forgetting that she only had two hours of sleep that morning.
It was half past seven by the time she got ready and out of the house, she walked to the bridge still wondering who the other demon was and her thoughts flashed to Gaara for a second.
Flashback…
"Hey." Gaara greeted them and beckoned for Sakura to come outside, just so that the stand wouldn't lose its publicity. No one wants Gaara to ruin their reputation or lose their customers.
"I got my visa to leave with you." Gaara spoke as he took out his pass as evidence for her to see. Her face lit up as she jumped onto the red head, taking a step back due to the weight. Not that she was heavy, it was more like he wasn't expecting it. "Yay! I can't believe you're coming with us! That's so cool." Then Naruto came out of his haven.
"Ano sa, ano sa…what's going on?" Naruto spoke as he stuck his head out of the stand. "Gaara's coming to Konoha with us! Isn't that great?" Sakura yelled out as she jumped off the said person to punch Naruto on his head.
"Hey, hey! Don't punch me just because you're so excited." He gingerly rubbed his head and dodged another one of her punches. "I'm not excited! I'm beyond excited! He's coming with us! Come on, let me punch you one more time!" she laughed as she tried again but failed.
"Gaara! I feel sorry for you." The blonde panted as he got away from her, punches turning into kicks. Curiosity killed the cat…more like Naruto actually. "Why?"
"You've got a very aggressive girlfriend!" he shouted out, not managing to dodge this time around. "Why you little! Take that back or I'm gonna kill you!"
"You're already killing me!"
"Shut up!"
"Make me!"
End flashback…
By the time she came out of the memory, she found herself smiling. 'Why the hell am I smiling like an idiot?' she shook her head to make her smile disappear and she continued to walk to the bridge. But the more she walked, the more she remembered.
Flashback…
Pure snow Pure heart futari
Deatta hi mo yuki ga futte-ita
Koi yori mo setsunakute
Ai yori mo uso no nai
Unmei wo kanjita no
"I like your voice." Gaara spoke as he continued to gaze at Sakura.. "Thank you." she smiled at him.
End Flashback…
She found herself smiling again at that memory and shook herself hard to forget it. 'I don't want to remember!' "I'm with Sasuke-kun!" she shouted out so that it will help her forget unaware that Gaara was just a few paces in front of her. He seemed more than a little saddened by this, you could see the hurt in his eyes. She gasped when she saw him. "You…" she sneered at him.
He looked down, not wanting to meet her eyes, "I'm sorry." He turned around and left, leaving her to glare daggers at his back.
'This guy is ruining my perfect life!' she screamed in her head.
"Ano sa, ano sa…are you sure we should go there? I mean…it might bring back some horrible memories for her." Naruto asked Kakashi as they waited at the bridge for her. Sasuke was leaning on the bridge on the far side of them. "It might help her remember, we have to try…"
"I think she's starting to remember but slowly."
"How do you know?" Kakashi asked.
"I asked her the other day about demons then she ended up calling me one. So yeah."
"I see, you didn't say a word about how you told her?"
"No, she just upped and called me a demon. Must be some sort of memory recall thing."
"I suppose so, and there she is." Kakashi spoke as he turned and looked at the girl that was running up to Sasuke.
"Hi Sasuke-kun! Look Kakashi-sensei isn't late today! Must be a miracle!" she laughed as she pointed at him. Kakashi made a little sweat-drop before deciding to speak. "Ahem…today, we shall train in the forest of doom. I've got a pass." Sakura's face paled before stuttering her objective. "B-but sir! That place is like totally of b-bounds!"
"Let me repeat…I've got a pass." He held out a piece of paper approved and signed by the Hokage herself allowing them to enter the forest. "B-but what if we get into t-trouble or something?"
"That's what I'm here for."
"Oh! I get it! It's a joke right? Alright, haha very funny. What's our mission today?" she smiled to worriedly as she placed her hands on her hips. But Kakashi returned it with a serious look. "I'm afraid it's no joke. You need hands on experience with the wild. And what better than the forest of doom?" she shuddered and was about to protest again when they walked off without her, even Sasuke seemed eager to train there. 'Damn…I don't like that place.' She thought to herself before going after them.
"Neh, neh, Kakashi-sensei. Can I spar with Gaara instead?" Naruto asked just before they went into the forest. Kakashi gave it a thought before agreeing. Giving Naruto five minutes to find the red head or they leave without him. Naruto used his Kage Bunshin no Jutsu to find Gaara and they returned a couple of seconds past five minutes.
"Lucky you Naruto, I was about to leave." Kakashi's visible eye curved to a crescent indicating that he was smiling. Gaara looked over at Sakura and looked away almost instantly. Whispering harshly at the blonde, "I thought we were just training with Kakashi." They started to move into the forest, Sakura's eyes darting around at anything and everything that moved her hand just hovering over her pouch.
"I didn't say we weren't going with team seven" Naruto flashed him a cheeky smile before Gaara punched him for being so…uninformative. If he knew that Sakura and Sasuke were coming, he wouldn't have agreed.
"What if Sakura gets in trouble and needs your help?" Naruto whispered back after recovering from the punch. "She can get Sasuke to help her."
"What if Sasuke is busy?"
"What if I'm busy?" Gaara retorted back.
"You wouldn't leave her, I know you." He grinned mischievously at the red head. Gaara scoffed at him and looked away.
When they got to a good enough training ground, Sakura's eyes were still darting around for anything strange, more than once she accidentally over reacted and killed a bug, a bird and a squirrel.
"Sakura! Stop killing things!" Naruto shouted out at the pink-haired girl as she threw a kunai to an unsuspecting rabbit and missed. "Ah! Look! You nearly killed the rabbit! Awww poor rabbit, I'll protect you from Sakura, don't worry." Naruto picked up the rabbit and cooed at it, to stop it from shaking so much while Sakura just glared at the both of them. 'Stupid rabbit…'
While Sasuke was training with Kakashi, he couldn't help but look up at the trees every once in a while. He used his Sharingan to scan the area but found nothing out of the ordinary, partly aware that someone was watching them but decided to ignore it. 'Could be just some stupid animal.'
Sakura watched Sasuke and Kakashi trained together, while holding onto her kunai in case somebody or something came up to her, occasionally looking over at Naruto because he scared the living day-lights out of her twice before.
'Interesting…the Kyuubi…the Shukaku…Sasuke, my foolish little brother…the Copy-cat Kakashi…and the little pink haired girl who's stolen the hearts of two cold men…or boys I should say.'
He smirked to himself as he continued to watch the unsuspecting people from high above, waiting for the right time…
"Yay! Go Sasuke-kun!" Sakura shouted out as she cheered on for him. Gaara got distracted by her voice and got punched by Naruto accidentally, since they were doing Taijutsu instead.
"Yo, Gaara, you ok?" Naruto asked as he offered a hand to the red head. "Fine." He smeared the blood off him and looked at it.
Blood…long has my thirst of blood diminished…I never needed it when I was with her…
Gaara looked up at Naruto, with his arm still out-stretched for him to take but another hand holding onto a tissue was offered to him. Gaara looked up at and saw Sakura. "Here, you're sorta bleeding."
Gaara wasn't sure if he should take it or not, fearing that if he came in contact with her, she might scream. She offered once more. "Take it." She beckoned, and slowly but surely, he raised his hand to take the tissue from her. "Thank…you."
"You're welcome." She smiled before turning around to leave them alone again.
"See, she's not afraid of you anymore." Naruto grinned at the red head who was still in shock. "Come on, don't tell me you're gonna sit on your butt the whole day!" Naruto laughed as Gaara glared at him while he got up. Brushing off the dust with one hand and holding the tissue in the other.
'Soon…soon, I shall come…' he smirked to himself as he looked down at them.
Sasuke looked up at where he felt something but nothing was there, so he shrugged it off.
'Foolish little brother…I'll come for you soon enough…and the Kyuubi and Shukaku, but until then. Continue to be oblivious of me…'
Sakura sat down, finally letting go of the tension, knowing that if she got into any trouble, Kakashi or the others will come help her. She sighed at she looked over at Gaara again, she was giving him more glances then she was to Sasuke and that was bothering her in some way.
'Why…do I keep on looking at you…why do you keep of reminding me of something?' she asked herself before she sighed again. She brought her chin down to her knees and watched them spar. Then she felt something appear behind her, and that strength was scaring beyond belief, it was deathly and familiar. Holding her breath she slowly turned around to see him…
Itachi…
"Hello, my dear sweet Sakura…" lustrous…scary…yet flowing. "SAKURA!" Naruto shouted out as he stopped whatever he was doing to run up to her side. Sasuke stopped as well and glared at Itachi activating his Sharingan and Kakashi raised his forehead protector to reveal his own Sharingan.
"Sakura!" Gaara shouted out and commanded his sand to get the missing-nin away from her.
"Tsk, tsk…this is no way to treat a guest…" Itachi spoke as he jumped away, to a safe distance away from them. "What do you want?" Kakashi asked as he closed the eye that didn't have the Sharingan ability.
"You know what I want…"
"Refresh my memory…" Kakashi glared at the Akatsuki member.
"I want…Kyuubi, Shukaku…and my foolish little brother…Now tell me, do you remember me? Do you remember what I did to you?" he asked as he eyes each of them carefully but more specifically, Sakura.
She trembled, her eyes widened in fear, staring at death, her death. Memories came flooding back to her, everything from that fateful day, to the moment she met Gaara.
"Gaara…" she spoke but nothing came out, her voice was stuck, she lost it.
"I see you've remembered, do you remember what I did to you? How I've wounded you so badly, you were nothing but a bloody mess on the floor." He spoke as he watched the emotions on her face. Fear.
"That's enough!" Kakashi shouted as he charged towards the missing-nin with a kunai in hand. "Tsk, tsks Kakashi…aren't you rushing?"
Itachi closed his eyes, "Mangekyou Sharingan!" then opened them to reveal the last stage of the Sharingan. Kakashi gasped, "Nobody look in his eyes!" but it was too late for Sakura.
"Where…where is everybody!" she looked around searching for her friends. "They were just here a minuet ago!" she got up to her feet although a bit clumsily, above her she could see the red moon. "Akatsuki…"
"Sakura…" she heard somebody say her name and it sounded like Gaara. She turned around with a smile, but it vanished when she saw him, covered in blood, more than fifteen kunais and shurikens were lodged into his body.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHH!" she screamed holding onto her head and falling to her knees. Another image came to her, taking Gaara's place was Naruto, his lifeless eyes, and his lifeless body, she screamed again.
Then she saw Kakashi, leaning on a pole with a katana piercing his chest, a pool of blood gathering around him and blood dripping off the sword, slowly the blood came towards her. She screamed again.
After that, she saw them, brothers of hate, Itachi held onto Sasuke, a kunai to his neck, "Sakura…" and with one swift movement, blood was spilt, his blood. She wanted to scream but her throat was raw, and she couldn't scream anymore. She fell, into a black hole, into a deep sleep. Once again.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
"Sakura!" Gaara ran up to her and held onto her body, trying to shake her out of the genjutsu. She screamed again, and again. The forest was filled with her scream until she lost her voice and fell into a comatose state. "SAKURA!"
'Damn him, I'll kill him!' Gaara thought to himself as he looked up at Itachi but Naruto blocked his way. "Idiot, don't look into his eyes" the blonde warned him. "He hurt Sakura, emotionally, physically, mentally." He growled out. "I know, but at this level, we can't beat him, only a taijutsu expert can really harm him."
Gaara cursed at himself, saying how useless he was in that area, he looked at her and realized that she was crying, even in her dreams in her sleep.
Sakura…
Woah…thanks to my little brother who helped me remember what the last stage of the Sharingan was…THANK YOU!
