Gaara and Sakura: A Love story

Chapter 1: Long Time No See

"And make sure you don't anger him, he has a nasty way of torture." Keitaro warned Sakura as she opened the door. "KazeKage-

sama, you have a guest here from the Leaf. Eh? KazeKage-sama? " He looked around and he was no where in sight. He walked

further in and saw the KazeKage looking outside on the balcony. "Never get tired of that spot do you, sir?" Keitaro joked. He didn't

bother to turn around; Keitaro knew that he knew he was there. "KazeKage, someone is here to-" then the Kage of the village

disappeared out of his sight. Then Sakura saw a figure shaping in sand that all of a sudden appeared in front of her.

"I heard you Tanaka, you may go." The Kage looked right in Sakura's eyes. Sakura had on a face of utter shock.

"Sabaku No Gaara!" She gasped. He looked into those same green eyes. Reminded him of someone from his long gone past...

"Haruno." He looked at her up and down unabashed and turned around to sit down at his desk. Sakura sat down across from him.

"Haruno, why are you here?"

"I was sent on a mission from Tsunade-sama. " Gaara looked at Sakura's firm expression.

" I was expecting Tsunade herself, was she not able to come?"

"She thought about it and gave me the mission instead."

"You? Are you a medic-nin? And why did she not confirm this information with me?"

" Yes, I am a medic-nin, trained by Tsunade-sama herself. She told me two days ago. It was short notice.

"I see. You'll need a place to stay, and you won't be starting til tomorrow. Now, we may talk. How come you've changed so much,

Haruno?"

"Me? I should ask you the same thing! Why did you become KazeKage." Sakura raised her voice.

"Because I felt like it. You aren't that same frightened girl from the Chunnin exam."

"Gaara, that was a while back, I've become much stronger." Sakura looked at him. "And I'm guessing you have too?"

"Yes. How could you tell." A statement tinged with sarcasm.

"You don't carry your gourd all the time; I'm guessing your chakra flow is much more plentiful, and you have grown much." Gaara smirked.

"Impressive. You've become much more clever. I was almost fooled by your looks; I couldn't tell it was you Haruno, until I saw your

eyes. You have many hidden weapons on you. Your attire is full of them."

" Yes." Sakura smirked. She liked this game. "You are correct. You still don't carry any on you either. Sand is all you need huh?"

"Tell me Haruno, how can you see my Chakra flow so clearly."

"I've invented these glasses, they work just like the Byakugan, I researched on the Hyuuga bloodline ability and decided to make these

for medic- nins for the use on the battlefield and disguise." Gaara got up. Sakura looked confused. "Where are you going?" She asked

as she followed him.

"To spar."

"But you'd kill me!" Sakura panicked as they made their way through the hallway.

"That's not my problem." He replied in a deadpanned voice. 'What a cold heartless freak!' Inner Sakura thought.

"Don't think like that Haruno" He replied to her thought out loud.

"How'd you?" They kept walking since he never answered her. They made their way outside to Gaara's training area, where he would

practice his sand manipulation. A sand-nin, who worked at the KazeKage's main building, ran up to them.

"What are you doing, KazeKage-sama?" the woman asked.

"Training."

"With this helpless teenage girl? She's no match for a ninja." Gaara cringed inwardly when he heard the woman say those words.

"Helpless?" Sakura spoke. Oh no, she did not just say that. "Helpless my foot! And this foot is going right up your as-" Sakura got a

hold of herself before she exploded,"ask me who I am and you'll know." She controlled herself. Gaara sighed in relief. He had Temari

for a sister and guessed that she wouldn't be much different.

"I am Haruno Sakura, one of the best medic-nin from Konoha if you knew anything and I am not a helpless girl! This just proves how

moronic you are since you couldn't tell I was disguising myself! How foolish." Sakura finished.

"I'm sorry, Sakura-san. Excuse Gaara-sama." The woman blushed in embarrassment and walked away.

"Hmph... Serves her right... Okay, ready?" Sakura sighed. Gaara didn't even bring his gourd. "Wait your gou-"

"Don't need it, gets in the way. For this kind of battling, you'll have to fight differently from usual." Sakura nods.

"Ready?" Gaara was already on the move and Sakura hadn't been well prepared. She got a direct hit to the stomach but caught herself

and quickly slipped a kunai from her holster. She did some simple hand seals pouring chakra into the kunai. She launched it at Gaara

hoping to make her first hit. Gaara swiftly blocked it with a wall of sand. She ran directly to the sand wall and punched it with a great

amount of strength. Gaara did not expect a maneuver from her, maybe Naruto, but not her. Her fist made contact with his left cheek.

His lip was bleeding slightly but made no move to wipe it. She indeed had changed! Gaara threw a sand kunai at her and aiming for her

waist. It grazed her left butt cheek and she laughed slightly. "I never thought you'd be the pervert..." She threw another kunai but

noticed that her holster was missing. Gaara was too! She immediately turned around and saw Gaara behind her with her kunai hoister.

He had an evil looking smile, no, smirk.

"I got you now." Was all he said. Sakura switched from using weapons to using hand-to-hand combat. Gaara, incidentally, was

copying her tactic.

"I never knew you knew taijutsu." Gaara tried knocking her legs from beneath her, but she leapt before that could happen.

"I started learning after the Chunnin exams were over." He shot one of her own kunai's into her leg. He grinned as she grimaced in pain

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Sakura howled in pain. Gaara didn't even feel guilty about it.

" Heal it. I'm not done sparring." He demanded. Sakura looked at him and glared. Gaara just turned his head to the side.

"Was that aimed at me? Hn, as KazeKage, I demand that you heal the wound and continue sparring." He kicked her just to get his

message across. Sakura disappeared in a puff of smoke. "That's better." Gaara turned around only to meet Sakura's kick to his face.

He was hit square in the face and went flying all the way into the village (not too far away though, you know). The villagers all became

afraid while he got up, brushing himself off and laughing.

"KazeKage-sama? What's going on? Who's attacking you?" Some of the more curious villagers asked him while at the same time

distancing themselves from him. You really don't want to piss someone with a demon inside of them.

"Gaara-san. You still up for more?" Sakura said in a singsong voice adding insult to injury. They instantly pulled her away from him.

"HEY! GET OFF ME YOU BABOONS! I'M SPARRING HERE!" They all backed off her. "Good." Gaara threw her kunais at her and made a

sand wall so it would block out the audience that was forming. Sakura dodged them all and picked one up in the process. Gaara

molded his chakra into the sand and shaped it into a kunai. Then he and Sakura were slashing at each other. Gaara's kunai

disappeared and he put up a sand wall instead.

"I told you that that won't work!" Sakura smashed it down with one well aimed punch. She peered through and was shocked to find

Gaara missing.

Sakura was tricked. Next thing she felt was sand crawling up to her knees and she saw Gaara. That bastard! He was going to use his

Desert Coffin on her! The sand rose up to her chest and her lower neck; feeling a burning, cutting, stabbing sensation.

"Intense, isn't it? Most people don't know that it hurts this bad since they'd be crushed by now." Gaara said walking to her form and

the sand that was engulfing her.

"I told you you'd kill me." Sakura said in a playful tone. She was very afraid, but tried to hide it.

"No need to hide your fear. I wouldn't kill you in front of my village, that would set a bad example. I'll kill you later." He grinned. He let

the sand collapse along with Sakura to the ground.

"You can heal yourself, so do it."

"Pain makes you stronger...Ah... I can... I can take the p-p-ain..." Sakura said wincing with every word. Gaara rolled his eyes and

knelt down, placing his hands on her lower stomach. He concentrated his chakra healing her body completely, though it still looked

bruised on the outside.

"What? How'd you do that?" The village nodded.

"I'm training in medics. I only decreased the pain, but it'll eventually come back. Come on, we'll head back to my office." Gaara got up

and disappeared in a cloud of sand. Sakura stood up and disappeared with a poof.