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:I Can't Love:
The night air was cool against his skin, and the wind ruffled his hair as a mother would to a child. He liked nights like this. Being alone and staring up at the night sky, knowing he was the most powerful being, besides Naruto of course, it was nights like this that made him want to...
Kill.
"Its been awhile since I've seen blood." Gaara said to himself as he disapeared into the darkness by gracefully jumping off the high rooftop he stood upon.
Sakura sighed. She tried sleeping but she couldn't, something made her feel edgy.
Trying to rid this feeling, she snuck out of her house through her window and decieded to take a little midnight stroll. It was pretty cold outside, and this made Sakura shivver and wonder why she didn't think ahead and bring a sweater.
She walked around the city and everything felt so...haunting...
'I have nothing else better to do, so I'll walk outside the city.' Sakura thought to herself as she stepped outside the city gates. The music the crickets and other insects were making was very relaxing. She liked nights like this. Being alone and staring up at the night sky, knowing she had this moment all to herself. It was nights like this that made her wish she had a...
Boyfriend.
Sakura sweatdroped at her current train of thought. Boyfriend? Hmm...
A noise behind her made her gasp. It sounded like a tree branch or twig breaking...and soon after, were footsteps.
Readying a Kunai, she casually kept walking. She didn't want to alert them she knew of their presence so she didn't pick up her pace or slow it down. But they did. It sounded like six guys, for their footsteps were in seperate beats. She mentally cursed, wondering how the hell is she going to get out of this one? If its just robbers she'll be okay, but if their ninja shes screwed.
Finally she just stoped.
There was rustling in the trees, and then the trees around her started to shake. Sakuras eyes went wide. The ground beneath her started to move and she looked down to see sand moving in all directions.
Sand and blood went splurting from the trees and the screams of pain and agony of men could be heard from just a little ways from where she was.
A few specks landed on her face.
"OOoh...this is a bad time to be walking around by yourself at night little girl." The leader of the gang of robbers snickered. They made sure to terrify the girl by making her think there was people behind her, then give her sudden relief of being alone.
"Boss, I can't wait to---"
"Quiet!" He hissed to one of them. "we will attack her soon, just give it a little more suspence."
"Uh...boss..." One of the other members of the group started to say, with fear evident in his voice.
"I said shut up!" The leader turned around and saw what looked to be a kid standing in the middle of the group. He was around five seven, short flame colored hair, and piercing eyes. He narrowed his eyes. "Boy what the fuck do you think your..."
The boy was gone.
'Heh. Typical.'
He looked at his men and he saw them stare at him in horror, then fall on their faces trying to run away. In a swift motion, sand started to wrap around his neck and choke him slowly.
"Behind you."
The man tried to scream but he couldn't even breathe. Sand started to spew from all directions heading towards his men. From a distance he could see his men from the other side of the forest become covered in sand and suffocated as he was at the moment.
"Sorry. This ones mine."
Soon he couldn't see and he felt his body become compressed with sand, a deathly tightness consumed him.
"Desert Funeral."
"I know your there." She said a bit to herself.
And turned around.
"What do you want?" She yelled with venom in her voice, but her last word died in her throat when she looked around and no one was there. 'Was I just imagining things?...' Sakura said to herself. She felt her face and looked at her fingers seeing fresh dark blood. 'Guess not...'
He gently blew air into her ear from behind to alert her of his presence.
She slowly turned around once more and was greeted with cold jade eyes. Suddenly she was overwhelmed with fear and began to tremble. She was all by herself, alone in this forest, alone with...Gaara.
'I want to run...I can't...I can't move...' She looked him deep in his eyes and she saw something in them...it looked like to her...interest maybe? Did he like how he was making her feel right now? Was he some kind of sadist?
"I wanted blood." He started saying, looking down at his hands covered in them. "I killed them." He steped a bit closer to her and she looked up at him in complete and utter terror.
"Are...are you going to kill me?" Maybe he killed them so he could have the sick pleasure of killing her? She was horrified from the thought.
He got a bit closer to her, and suddenly she found enough strength to move.
"NO! stay BACK!" She clenched her eyes shut and she aimed, stabbing him with the kunai. She felt something smooth creep up her hand and she opened her eyes to see it covered in sand. A part of his body where she tried to stab was covered in sand.
He grabed her wrist suddenly and squeezed it tightly tossing it to the side. He got just a bit closer to her, close enough so that their noses were almost touching. The way she was looking at him was filled with pain, fear, terror, horror. She whimpered against his touch.
"Are you really that afraid of me?"
She gasped and looked into his eyes. He felt nothing. His face was completely emotionless.
"y...yes..." She whispered weakly.
He droped his hand from her wrist and turned to walk away.
"Thank you...for saving my life..." She said quietly.
He stoped and turned to look at her once more, then he disappeared.
She couldn't get him out of her mind.
It had been over a week since she last saw the red headed sand nin.
It was a really strange and new feeling. Everything reminded her of him, she just couldn't stop thinking about that night. After he left her there she stood exactly where she had been when he disappeared, for a long while.
Was this love? Lust maybe? She didn't know. The only time she ever felt this way was with Sasuke. But Sasuke felt nothing, he showed no emotion towards her excpet disgust, hatred, and annoyance.
She found herself daydreaming about him while she was eating with her family. Her mother asked her what was bothering her but she said she was just deep in thought. Her parents never really cared about her personal life, so it was left at that.
Naruto was the first to notice the change in the usually cheerful Sakura. They were on their way to a mission, Naruto, Sakua, and Sasuke. Kakashi, late as usual, told them ahead of time to just go on without him and he'd show when he was done helping a little kid with his homework.
'That Kakashi...' Sakura mentally sighed. 'Whenever hes gone something bad happands, and then he appears when you least expect it. Kinda like...'
"HEY! SAKURA-CHAN!" Naruto yelled and jumped her.
"Naruto! What is it?" She groaned with a annoyance at her friends usual hyperness and ever lasting enthusiasim.
"Ano...Sakura-chan...you've seemed a bit distant today. Are you okay?" Naruto asked in a slight pout. Sakura smiled to herself. 'At least someone cares...'
"Yeah, I dunno whats wrong with me. Just one of those days I guess." Sakura tried to smile for Naruto. I guess it was a success because he smiled back and ran off ahead of her and Sasuke.
"Oi." Sakura turned around wide eyed at Sasuke. He actually SAID SOMETHING!
"Yes, Sasuke-kun?" Sakura tried to smile at him too, but she found this to be more difficult then the smile she faked for Naruto.
"Whats wrong with you?" Sasuke said in a cool tone. It didn't sound like he was concerned, more like curious. Sakura looked away from him for a minute. She started to walk again and she turned her head slightly to reply.
"Since when do you care about whats wrong with me, Sasuke-kun." Sakura said half to him, half to herself. He looked just slightly taken aback at the coldness of her tone when she said 'Sasuke-kun'. There was something more to her words. Sasuke didn't actually care, he just said it because he was bored and really had nothing else to do. He wanted to get this mission done as soon as possible so he could go back to train some more. These missions were getting annoying. Just a waste of time.
Nothing else was said as they finished there mission of taking a scroll from the Hokage and giving it to someone important to another village. They returned shortly after completing the mission and went there seperate ways for that day.
The sun was warm and a slight breeze was felt against her skin. There was a beautiful sunset. The sky was painted orange, yellow, pink and a bit of purple.
"Mmm...you know what would be a good place to be at right now?" Sakura asked herself. "On top of my favorite building." Konoha hospital. It had an overview of the entire village and it would give her a excellent view of the sunset. Sakura made her way there and climbed the stairs to the top of the building.
Opening up the door to the roof, she let another breeze brush against her face, and she inhaled deeply closing her eyes.
She opened them again and found another figure on top of the roof.
He turned to look at her with his cold trademark jade eyes.
"G...Gaara..." She managed to choke out.
He turned to look at the sunset again. With his back in her direction he sat on the edge of the roof, legs dangling off the side. Sakura felt a chill run through her body, and got a slight rush of adreniline. Slowly, she walked towards him and sat down just a ways from him, maybe a foot or two.
She looked at him from the corner of her eye, and then she turned slightly to look at him better. He stared at the sunset, his face a bit blank, or straight if you will. She had no way to tell what he was thinking.
He looked at her from the corner of his crystal clear jade eyes. Quickly she looked away, a slight blush creeping up her cheeks. Taking a deep breath, she broke the silence and began to talk to him.
"I've been thinking of you..." She said softly.
He looked at her again, a curious look upon his face.
"Gaara...for some reason...I can't stop thinking about..." She looked at him, a tenderness in her eyes. "you..."
He looked a bit suprised, and he looked away from her, staring at the sunset once again. There was a strange and awkward silence among them the two of them. Another wind began blowing from the east, and rustled their hair gently.
"I don't know why, but for some reason I just couldn't get you out of my mind. All I did was think about you. You were everywhere to me, I wanted to see you again after that night...for some reason...after that night, the way you looked at me changed how I felt about you completely. Your eyes...they did something to me...after thinking about it some more...I realized...I had fallen in love with you." Sakura by now was completely red. She couldn't believe she had said those things to him.
Shyly she turned to look at him again and he was looking at her as if she was naked or something. Their eyes locked at they stared at one another for what seemed like eternity. Sakura for a moment couldn't breathe, but found slight relief when he looked her up and down then looked away from her again.
A silence was upon them again, and the air was so heavy she felt she could cut it clean with a butter knife. Soon the sun went down again, and the sky was a shade of purple and blue. It was a long while since anything was spoken. Sakura felt maybe she should go until he suprised her by talking.
"I can't love." He said with a bit of...sadness?
"...What?" Sakura replyed. 'Thats a dumb response' she thought to herself.
"I don't feel anything except pleasure from killing people. And pain. Those are the only feelings I have." Sakura felt her face form a frown. "Love someone who can return your feelings."
"Please...don't say that." Sakura felt herself tremble. "Don't push me away so easily. Gaara...I will be willing to wait for you, and be with you, you don't have to love me. I've done it before...I'm faithful and loyal. Let me stay with you."
Gaara knew something went on between Sasuke and Sakura, but he really didn't care. Most likely the cold Uchiha had shown no emotions towards Sakura except negative ones. Their love was one - sided.
"Why are you willing to do that?" Gaara replyed, after awhile of thinking.
"Be...Because I love you."
That certainly wasn't an answer he was expecting. Especially such a simple one.
"I doubt you would do such a thing for someone like me." Gaara said with what looked like a small smirk on his face.
"You think so lowly of me." She said with a whisper.
Gaara glanced at her and noticed her eyes were filling up with tears. He suddenly felt something he had never felt before. He was sad? Because of the way she reacted to his words? No. Impossible. But he had to admitt he felt just a bit something for her. Or else he would of killed her when he thirst for blood on that night.
He uncrossed his arms and gave a mental sigh.
"I don't care if you stay with me. Do as you wish." That was the most posititve answer she would ever get from Gaara. She looked up into his eyes a bit shocked at his words. Sakura smiled warmly at Gaara and looked into the sky with him. The moon was now visable, and stars litered the sky.
Without a second thought of what she was doing, she moved closer to him, close enough so that their shoulders were almost touching. In a gentle motion, she moved her hand so it was on top of his and she rested her fingers inbetween his own.
Gaara tensed for a moment, but then he relaxed, and stared at the head that was now resting slightly on his shoulder.
He could get used to this...
A/N: Awww...Isn't that sweet? I hope y'all enjoyed it. I'll make more later. JA NE! REVIEW REVIEW!