Gaara and Sakura: A Love story
Chapter 3- Sleeping In and Gaara's Training
"Well, you'll learn quicker than the idiots I have to teach how to do this." Sakura chuckled. Gaara looks at her in acknowledgement. He was washing his hands from the dirty work and blood on his hands.
"Disgusting." Gaara glared at his hands.
"Aw! You used to like blood."
"No. I still do. What's disgusting is the smell of whatever is inside your eyes..." Gaara said, looking at the squished eyeball on the table next to the fake human body with a new fake eye.
"It's a fake eye, get over it." Sakura said flatly in a mocking way sort of. Gaara turns off the faucet. He turns to Sakura. GLARE.
"... I should just kill you right now. You know I could too." Gaara smirked at her and looked at her discouraged face. Soon it lights up. She grins.
"I don't think you wanna kill me though."
"Why is that?" Gaara meant it as a question only said it flatly.
"Because...you need some one to teach you how to use medical skills. I'm a pro at it so you picked me. Besides, how could you kill such an adorable face?"
"Shut up." Gaara ended that conversation. Then they began to walk outside to complete darkness, well save for the crescent moon. No one was out. It was past midnight. "Well, that's funny, so I guess you can train me tomorrow-"
"That's not necessary." Gaara told her. Sakura's head titled to an angle.
"What? It's too late to train, I can barely see!" She replied.
"Exactly, night time is perfect. You only need the moon light and you'll be fine." Gaara said. Sakura could barely see him and he was in front of her. She could only see his figure, and his eyes. He blended in so much with all the black he was wearing. All the sudden Sakura found herself walking alone. She hadn't noticed Gaara's disappearance. She looked around and saw nothing.
"Gaara-san? What the he-" She gets knocked of her feet and pulled up by her neck. She has no know idea who it was.
She took out a kunai and hid it behind her.
"Too obvious." the figure disappeared.
"No, you're late." Sakura disappeared and had the person in an armlock. They melted in with the sand and then grabbed her by her feet. She figured out that only Gaara could do that.
"That was slick Gaara! Ah! Get off my leg!" She kicks him into the sand and his sand blocks him. Gaara reaches out of the ground and stands up.
"I'm invincible at the night, Shukaku loves night and darkness. You should know I have the advantage since we're outside. Let's go. That's good for now."
"What do you mean 'that's good' I didn't do anything!"
"You did fine for your first try, you realized who your opponent was, most would've been dead before coming to such a conclusion." Gaara complimented her.
"Pay attention more to who you are with, know your enemy. Don't trust anyone, I might just slit your throat one day, and you'd break. Never get close to anyone. If at any means, you have to kill them, you should be able to." Gaara tells Sakura this and she just stands there in the night thinking about it. Gaara stares at her then begins to walk again.
"Wait up!" Sakura sprints to him and then keeps walking back to the building they both stayed at. They make it to the hall they both sleep in. Gaara is about to open his door to his room, Sakura already did. She turns to him.
"Thanks for today, it was nice and relaxing to teach you, the training in the night thing, I'll work on it. Good night."
"... G'night. And wake up on your own or you'll have to deal with a pissed off KazeKage." He shuts his door. And Sakura smiled at his last comment. She goes into her room and shuts the door. She decided to take a long bath and go to bed. It was 2 in the morning but she didn't care, she'll drink some coffee while she was on her way to work.
"Oh God, not again." Gaara says out loud and stands up from his morning meditations. He hears the ringing again. He walks out into the hall, goes and walks across the hallway to her room and walks in. 'She must've been too tired to lock it. Foolish.' Gaara sees her sleeping again, but this time it wasn't reckless. She looked at peace. Gaara turns off the alarm and makes sure it wouldn't go off. He leaves the room. He gets fully dressed when he gets back in his room. And goes down to the main office, where Keitaro greets him.
"Good morning, KazeKage-sama I have some more mission files for you-"
"Hold onto them. I'll do them later." Gaara tells him and walks out.
"What? Where are you going?" Gaara had already left before Keitaro could get an answer. Keitaro just keeps wondering while doing his work.
Gaara walks all the way to the same place he and Sakura trained at. He opens the door and sees 7 wannabe medic-nins. The children turn to him and they smile brightly.
"Hello KazeKage-sama! Are you going to watch Sakura-sensei teach us!" One of the kids said. As the others greeted him too, Gaara sets down his gourd.
"No. I'll be teaching you." They all were shocked and then screamed in joy. One kid asked.
"How? You aren't a medic-nin?" Then the other kids stopped rejoicing and nodded.
"I'm being taught by Sakura as well. I'm a quicker learner and so I can teach you. What is it that you are supposed to do today?" He asked without questioning in his voice.
"We have to learn how to regenerate chakra for ourselves. Can you teach us?" A tall boy said.
'They haven't even learned that yet? I knew that before Sakura came along' Gaara thought to himself. "Yes. I can. Let's begin"
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Back in Sakura's room, she finally wakes up. She looks up at the clock. "12 O'CLOCK! OH MY GOSH! I'M SO LATE, THE CLASS IS ALMOST OVER! " She panicked and got up to dress. She runs to the class but then begins to walk like a normal nin would. She sees Temari there.
"Hey, Sakura long time no see!" She greeted her politely. They didn't know each other well enough.
"Hi, um, hey, you've seen Gaara-san?"
"You mean Gaara-sama."
"No, Gaara-san, he lets me call him that." Temari looks at her like she's crazy.
"No one is allowed to call him that, not even me. Wow, that's nice. You must be close to him then. So um, yeah he's teaching the kids down the hall. The class is over in 2 minutes so you could wait."
"Yeah, that's true, I overslept and I never seem to wake up from an alarm. Yesterday, Gaara had to put sand down my shirt-"
"My little brother was in your room yesterday morning? What was he doing in there?"
"He was agitated by the beeping from my alarm and turned it off. He said he could hear it all the way to his room."
"You live in the KazeKage's house!" Temari was freaking out.
"No, I was sent to teach the kids Gaara's teaching right now, and I had no place to stay and Gaara said he had a guest room and let me use it since it was originally for Tsunade.
"Where is Tsunade-sama any ways?"
"She gave me the mission to teach since she's so busy and thinks I am ready. I'm a medic-nin you know."
"So you're finally good at something?" Temari asked, not trying to be impolite.
"Yeah, I finally am." Gaara walked in and looked at Temari then Sakura as in a greeting.
"Hi Gaara-sama, well, I gotta go. Nice seeing you again I guess, Sakura-san." Temari waved and left the room. Gaara turns to Sakura.
"Your welcome." He says and begins to leave the building. Sakura follows next to him.
"Yeah, thanks for filling in for me. You never woke me up since I slept in so late from last night. I went to bed at 2:30 last night, well I didn't fall asleep till then that is."
"Right. Now, we eat." Gaara turns the street to a sushi bar and restaurant.
"Gaara-san, um... do you like, drink?" Sakura asked walking into the bar.
"No. I don't drink, never have, never will…. But I come here all the time. "
"What? You've never drank either? I thought I was the only one. You are old enough you know? I'm still only 14."
"No I'm not. I'm only 1 year older than you." Gaara says sitting at a table.
"What? You're only 15? How are you KazeKage? I always thought you were shorter in the Chuunin exams, but much older!" Sakura says surprised as she sat down at the table with him. They sat across from each other. A waiter comes and smiles at them.
"Hello again, KazeKage-sama, and hello to you miss. Is this a date?" He asks Gaara.
"No." Gaara and Sakura say. "Only discussing our past. We went to the same Chuunin exam." Gaara said to the man.
"Oh, how nice, would you like the usual?" Gaara nods. "And so will she." Gaara says turning to Sakura. The waiter nods and walks away to the kitchen.
"Hey! Don't order for me you, Baka, I don't even know what you get for 'the usual'!" Sakura says in a low tone, not raising her voice in public for once.
"You need to go on a diet. And then you can work out." He says.
"I can't diet! I don't have any weight to lose!"
"Your bone structure is pretty normal for a female but you have hips and an as-
"Don't even finish that sentence." Sakura says glaring and blushing at the same time.
"Get rid of it and you'll be fine." he finished, skipping over talking about the rest of her body, knowing she didn't like it.
"Fine. But I can't help it if my butt is big!" Sakura says.
"Yeah, you can't help it if your chest is too big either..."
"What! I can't believe you actually look!" Sakura's face was red with childish anger and blush. ' I can't help it if I'm D-sized...'
" You can take it away you know, your a medic-nin. you should know how."
"I do, but I never thought they'd get in my way. Plus, it makes guys fall for me and i can attack."
"if you weren't so predictable you mean. if you pass my training lessons, you can keep it then, if not, I'll make sure you get rid of them.
"Wait, what if I don't want to perform surgery on myself?" Sakura says crossing her arms.
"Then I'll remove them personally," Gaara said. Sakura smacked him in the face and hid her face in her hands.
"Oh god! You perverted KazeKage!" Sakura says. Gaara smirks and lies back in his seat. The smack on his left cheek didn't hurt him since his sand armor was put up on his skin like usual. Everyone there was looking at him when they heard Sakura say he was perverted.
"What are you all looking at! There ain't nothin' to see here!" Sakura yells at them. Gaara laughs inwardly. 'She's easily angered. Even more pissy then I can get.'
The waiter comes back and serves them there food and a cup of water. It was a plate of Gomokumeshi (a rice dish with vegetables) and a piece of fish. Gaara begins to eat and so does Sakura. They ate in silence and then when they finished Sakura opened her mouth.
"This is what you eat every time you come here? Dang, I'm not even full!"
"Oh, well, get used to it. You'll begin eating this everyday for lunch when you're around in the Sand village with me." Gaara tells her.
"WHAT! No fair! A girl's gotta eat! I'm getting some sushi." Sakura raises her hand up for a waiter.
"No, your not. His sand from his gourd he had placed next to him was open and pulled her hand back down. She pouts and glares at Gaara.
"Stop glaring, it's unhealthy."
"You're one to talk…"
"I'm allowed to glare, I'm the one with the Shukaku in me, and it talks to me in my head. I can glare all i want. I was born insane, remember that."
"I have an Inner 'Sakura' inside me and we talk all the time! And I can glare all I want!"
"No, the Inner Sakura you have means that you can talk to yourself, that's no excuse to glare, that's just an excuse to get into the mental institute(no offense to mentals from MisatoNoyume, Gaara is insulting her is all)"
"Mental, you used to kill anyone that inhaled the air you breathed!"
"Shukaku makes me odd, you're odd because you are. But anyways, stop glaring, it's my thing, not yours. Hyuuga and Uchiha took it from me, but they didn't do it right. You glare just like I do, so stop it."
"How do I glare like you?" Sakura laughs at this glaring based conversation.
"I don't have eye brows and so i don't need them to add to the glare, you glare without even moving your eyes brows and it adds to the effect."
"Oh, and you do realize this is a stupid conversation." Sakura finally says.
"I was wondering when you'd figure that out. Let's go." Gaara gets up and puts his gourd on his back, and he puts down the bill and a tip. Sakura gets up and follows him out.
"So what's next?" Sakura asked him as they crossed a street.
"We go to my personal gym." He says as they reach a corner and turn right.
"Oh, got it. then are you gonna disappear again? And we play hide and seek?"
"If that's what you wanna call it, no. We retire for the night after you eat."
"What? I'm not going to bed five hours early! I mean, I'm sorry I slept in but that's a harsh punishment!"
"Who says I'm punishing you? And who says you're going to bed early? You're not working out just for an hour. We work out for the rest of the day, eat and then sleep. Well, at least you'll sleep, I have a whole days worth of work to do." Gaara replies. Sakura whines but eventually stops when Gaara glares at her. They come back to the KazeKage's main building and Keitaro rushes to Gaara.
"Where have you been! not to yell or anything but, YOU'VE MISSED ALL YOUR MEETINGS AND HAVEN'T DONE YOUR PAPER WORK OR ANYTHING, AND YOU HAVE 16 CALLS ON THE LINE RIGHT NOW!" Keitaro tells Gaara with his voice raised.
"Shut up. I'm busy. I'll do my work later." Sakura watched Gaara talk back to Keitaro and follows Gaara out the main office area. Keitaro shakes his head when they leave. 'Gaara is a little too close to Sakura-san if you ask me... he needs to get himself straight, I'll just take her for myself...' He thinks evilly to himself.
Gaara uses his sand to lift the weights as Sakura uses her hands. She is doing well with the weights, Gaara watches her in amazement-but doesn't let her see it of course.
"Good. You aren't as weak as I thought. Now, try this." Gaara hands her the weights he was wearing and then the one she was pulling up and down. She collapsed completely.
"Ouch. I'm really sweaty, and this is heavy." Sakura gets up and tries again.
"Take off your tank top then, Baka; women usually wear shorts and a sports bra, you know, I usually get rid off my shirt but I'm fine for now."
"What!" Sakura freaked out.
"I'm not like that, Baka. I don't care about your modesty; it's just a sports bra, big deal. Calm down." Gaara rolls his eyes. Sakura goes into the shower room and sees a bunch of sports bras. Why? She had no idea. She grabs one and puts it on.
"How come you have a supply of them? You wear them yourself?"
"No, I planned on dragging you here to get stronger. Better strength you have, the better your chakra control and endurance is for fighting. How else do you think I've been able to hold so much sand on my back?" he asked.
"Oh yeah, true." And they continue to train.
It was 9 pm, and Sakura got out of the shower room and put on her normal outfit again. She sees Gaara come our and he was shirtless and still wet. He looked really sexy. 'Whoa, Put a shirt on, I can't take it! See, now you're making me blush and you don't even do a thing about it! But God, you're sexy.' Inner Sakura said. Sakura turned away when Gaara looked at her. He dried off and put his usual black attire on. He left his Gourd in his room.
"Let's go."
"Where to?"
"Out."
"Why"?
"To eat."
"A date?"
"No way."
"Good."
And then they left to eat.
When they finished eating, it was late and breezy. A chill was coming up as the night went by. They were walking back and Sakura was cold. Gaara, in his completely black attire, and adapted body, felt nothing of the sort.
"My God, it's so hot during the day; tonight it's freezing unlike yesterday!" Sakura whines. Gaara hands her his jacket, and you see a whole another layer of black clothing.
'How does he do it?' Sakura thought putting on the jacket.
"Ari-Arigatou." Sakura stuttered blushing lightly. Gaara didn't even turn to see her blush.
"Yeah." that meant 'your welcome' in Gaara talk.
When Sakura was about to go into her room, She hands Gaara his jacket and opens her mouth.
"Thank you so much for today! and you still have paper work and everything, I wish I could help! But anyways, thanks for the jacket, here you go." She hands him his jacket.
And they stand there in an awkward silence.
"They were having a staring contest and Sakura searched for anything in his eyes. What was she looking for? She didn't know herself. Gaara still showed no emotion. They were slowly inching closer, until Gaara spoke.
"I have work to do, later." he says with his non-emotional voice. He walks away as Sakura waves.
Sakura walks into her room and sits on her bed. She lays her head on the pillow and sighs. 'Sakura! What was that? Did you see that! You were trying to kiss him!' "I wasn't trying to, it just almost happened is all!" She spoke out loud to inner self. 'Yeah right, he doesn't care for you, remember, he told you not to become close to anyone!'
"You're right. And i was even beginning to like him..." 'We always thought he was attractive, so it's probably true!' Inner Sakura pondered about it while Sakura stripped of her clothing and went to sleep.
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Well? That was long and different, right? My gosh, they almost kissed, well Sakura thought so, Gaara's too cold and dense to realize how close they were! And Keitaro! What'll he do to try to take Sakura!
'Hint Hint'
"Gaara-kun. What just happened?" Sakura said looking at Gaara's hand.
"Nothing." he looks at her.
"Yes, I think it was something." She says looking back at him
"I don't. And just forget about it. It meant nothing. Gaara said taking his hand off her lower back.