Disclaimer: Naruto, obviously doesn't belong to me.

Note: What do you call someone who almost died infront of you? I will just call it corpse! Oh yeah, I prefer to use italic "love confession" thing to change the situation although they might not be related.

Fic's Note (s):

Credits Wikipedia!

Oto Hidden Sound Village since I used Konoha and Suna. Otogakure Full name.

Thanks for all the great reviews!

Last Rhapsody

♫

I am sorry for not believing you,

But, I will always be on your side.

♫

"Shosen Jutsu," said Sakura while concentrating chakra to her hand, curing the critical injuries on the drunkard which were damaged by Gaara.

"Why..?" asked Gaara, in a rather calm voice; asking why did Sakura saved the drunkard who annoyed her. Sakura turned her head to Gaara while gritting her teeth.

"Why did you want to kill him? He didn't do anything wrong!" Sakura scolded Gaara.

"Why did you want to save him?" Gaara asked again, demanding for an answer.

"I am a medic nin, it is my job to save people even if that person is your enemy. Somemore, this guy wasn't exactly harming me, you have no right to kill him," Sakura explained.

"Fine," said Gaara, losing interest to listen to more of Sakura's explaination and he walked away to the direction of his house. Sakura felt disappointed by Gaara's reaction and continued to heal the drunkard.

♫

I am sorry for not noticing,

The troubles that you were facing.

♫

"Saku...ra?" Temari greeted when Sakura arrived home, "What had happened to you while I was gone?" She continued, pointing out at the blood that can be found on Sakura's clothes.

Sakura glared at the person who was sitting beside the dining table. Temari was wondering who was Sakura glaring so she turned her head and found out that it was Gaara.

"Gaara..? Those oto's shinobis attacked you!" Temari guessed.

"Ask him, I am going to take bath," said Sakura.

"Er.. forget it then," said Temari when she thought of the what might happen to her if she asked Gaara. "Oh yeah Sakura-chan, I forgot to tell you that you need to go to the hot spring to take your bath in Suna,"

"Ah!" Sakura was surprised, jaw-dropping.

♫

I am sorry for not paying attention,

To the pain you are suffering from.

♫

"Temari-chan..." said Sakura in a rather soft tone. They were both taking a bath in the hot spring.

"Yes?" asked Temari.

"What kind of person is Gaara?"

"Wow, I never knew people would care about him,"

"Well,he always has this lonely feeling around him especially in his eyes," Sakura explained.

"I guess you can say so.. Ever since he was small, people had been treating him as a monster. Our dad, the fourth kazekage ordered one of Suna's elders; Chiyo use a possession jutsu to seal the Ichibi Shukaku into Gaara, in hopes to make Gaara as Suna's ultimate weapon. Because of this, our mother died while giving birth. Before she died, she cursed Suna, hoping Gaara will avenge her death. Gaara was trained by our dad, but raised mainly by our uncle, Yashamaru. For six years, Gaara was feared by everyone so he believed that only Yashamaru loved him. When he was six, our dad asked Yashamaru to assassinate Gaara because he was too much of a threat. When Gaara found this out, he realized that nobody so he used sand to create a tatoo on his forehead, "ai" as a symbol of a "demon loving only himself..." Temari explained with a sad look on her face.

"You don't love him too?" Sakura asked.

"I-I don't know. Compared to loving him as my brother, I fear to be assassinated by him more,"

"No wonder he is so lonely... I pity him for not being in love..."

"Don't tell me you fall in love with him...?" Temari teased.

Sakura's face turned crimson red cause of too much blushing, "N-no way! I am already in love with Sasuke-kun!"

"Uchiha Sasuke? I thought he joined Orochimaru? "

"He did... but I met him with Gaara earlier on,"

"WHAT! how come I didn't know that?"

"Eh? I thought Gaara told you while I was fainting?"

"Gaara? Telling us what had happened? Er.. I don't think so.."

"I guess that's true..." Sakura sweatdropped, thinking of Gaara explaining and talking to Temari about his daily life. 'That will be weird'

♫

I am sorry for asking about your sad past,

But, I promise I will create a happy future for you.

♫

"SaKuRaChan!" A voice called out. Sakura had been awakened by the voice.

"Oh, it's you Naruto-kun..." Sakura rubbed her eyes, looking at the person who called her name and returned to her sleep. Sakura noticed something was wrong and took a quick glance at the blonde-haired ninja who was sitting on her window again.

"NARUTOOOOOOO!" Sakura was surprised by Naruto's existence.

"You are loud, Sakura-chan," Naruto commented while closing his ears with both his hands.

"Anything happened... Sakura-chan?" asked Temari, yawning and stretching her arms, "Huh? What is there a monkey in Suna?"

An angry mark appeared on Naruto's forehead and Naruto was mad about what Temari had called him, "I am not a monkey! I am the greatest Ninja in the whole Konoha, Uzumaki Naruto!"

"What-are-you-doing-here, Naruto..especially in my room?" Sakura asked, gritting her teeth and cracking her knuckles, ready to hit someone with it.

Naruto was afraid and he waved his hand from left to right and right to left continously, not wanting to get punched by Sakura while stapping backwards, "Noooooooo!"

After getting punched by Sakura, Naruto's eyes became panda's eyes with a little bun on his head. He was sitting on the dining table with Kankuro and Gaara while Temari and Sakura were preparing their breakfast. He snickered at Gaara while poking his nose with his little finger.

"Sakura-chan, Why do I need to sit with that and that guy?" asked Naruto while pointing at Kankuro and Gaara.

"Shoosh, can't you stop talking for a sec?" said Sakura, "By the way, what are you doing in Suna?" Sakura continued while placing a plate of Onigiri on the table.

"I've got sick of Tsunade-obaachan's order and also I misssssed you, Sakura-chan" said Naruto happily while hugging Sakura. Sakura with her quick respond used Kawarimi no jutsu and changed into a cactus, "Ahh, that hurts!"

"Don't you dare to simply hug me," Sakura appeared from Naruto's back and warned. Naruto turned his head to Sakura with tears rolling down at Sakura, 'I guess it was too much for him,'

"Ahh.. eeps! Ahhh! nono.. that hurts! Noo Sakura-channn!" Naruto cried out while Sakura was trying to unpluck the Cactus' needle off Naruto.

"I guess that's all," said Sakura after she plucked the last needle, "Any other places that I missed?"

"Here," Naruto showed his butt at Sakura.

"Naruto...!" Sakura kicked Naruto and he flew to the wall after getting kicked.

"You guys seem very close to each other," Temari commented while giggling at Naruto and Sakura.

"Yeah, we are!" said Naruto with a huge smile on his face then with a frown he said, "Except for that Sasuke brat who always disturb me and Sakura-chan..oops, Sorry..."

"Ah, it's okay!" said Sakura.

Sakura took a look at Naruto, thinking how had he been growing up, improving his chakra but remained the same old Uzumaki Naruto, I wish I can return to the time when Kakashi sensei first trained us.

On the other hand in Konoha village:

"Narutooooooooooooo! Where are you?" Tsunade shouted and teared some papers.

In Suna:

"AhhhhChoo!" Naruto sneezed.

End of fourth chapter. I wrote little by little every day since school had recently started . This chapter isn't that long but longer than some of my previous chapters.

I might write less dialogue next time... I noticed ALMOST every paragrahs started with a dialogue .