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Chapter 3: No goodbye.
She padded over to the boy, who was sitting on his legs, his head back and his arms open. Like accepting an angel from above, or giving thanks. She touched his face and that handsome face turned on her like she was made of fire. He was up in a flash, standing quite a bit away. He gave her angry eyes, but she saw something else. Astonishment? Maybe. But she needed him out for the count, or at least thankful towards her.
"Gaara?" She hesitated moving anymore when he moved toward her, half of his shirt gone and sand coming off the remains. He stalked like a true predator, but his eyes betrayed him. Sakura was motionless as he dropped to his knees, coming face-to-face with her. Jade met spring green and his face scrunched up.
/How could she do that to me with just her voice? How could a demon fall to her? Was it truly the vibrations coming from her? Would he be in debt to her/ Gaara's head wanted to explode with questions.
I liked it better when there was more blood. Her voice was almost as good as sex or a drug fix, so I can let destroying things go for a while… The demon left his conscience alone, off to curl up like a content cat.
Falling forward again, Gaara's head landed in her hands, which she held up without even thinking. Motherly instincts caught on and she took him to her house. She had to lift him from the middle to get to what use to be her parent's bedroom. The bigger room was now a guest room and for storage. Her parents were long dead from a mission gone wrong.
Going back down and into her kitchen, she noticed the gourd leaning against the wall near the door. Sakura shivered and got something to eat since she'd not had breakfast or lunch. He couldn't stay here, not for long anyway. Knocks came when she'd just finished. Odd.
Opening the door, she put up a fake smile, only to have a real one blossom. Naruto and Kakashi were arguing over that silly little orange book.
"Old pervert! I'm trained by the guy who writes those, I should be able to see what you snicker at by now!" He pouted slightly, his hands balled into fists.
"Be nice Naruto, we wouldn't want to upset any of the neighbors around here." Kakashi wanted so badly to ignore him.
"Yeah, but I'd have to prove what a perv- Oh! Hi Sakura-chan!" He chuckled, scratching the back of his messy blonde hair. Kakashi just let out a 'yo' and went back to reading. The blonde nin puffed out his cheeks and crossed his arms, looking away from their sensei.
"Come on in guys, make yourself at home. Naruto, please keep it down, I've got…a guest upstairs asleep." She cringed at the look Kakashi gave her at the word 'guest'. Naruto gave her an odd look and then fizzled his brain trying to think of who it could be. She led them into the living room, and then remembered the gourd. Sakura peeked back and saw… nothing. It was gone.
She let out a breath she didn't even know she had been holding. Naruto just made himself at home by starting to pest Kakashi and crawling all over him to see the little book. Sakura giggled and watched the episode.
"Kaka-sensei com'on! I really want to see it!" He howled loudly as Kakashi sent him flying into the floor, even while still reading.
"Don't be so loud you stupid idiot." Gaara growled, holding his head. Kakashi and Naruto looked over (though Naruto's face was priceless), Sakura was trying not to look either nervous or embarrassed. Her nerves were just about to give out from earlier that day and stress from her job as a new medical nin.
"I think we should leave now." Kakashi said softly, dragging a whining and kicking blonde out. Sakura let out a huff but moved to sit on her own couch. Sleeping sounded good, but with Suna's beast staring at her, her wish wasn't coming true. She looked up to see jade eyes glaring at her, thoughts passing around behind those orbs.
"Why did your voice halt my demon?" Gaara asked, staring down at her.
"I don't know, don't ask me how any of this worked out." Sakura mumbled, not looking up at him.
"I want to know…" He growled and vanished in a whirl of sand. There was no trace of him left behind.
"Don't we all." Sakura muttered, going up to ready a bath. She'd earned it after all. No one could keep Sabaku no Gaara in Konoha, so it was best not to follow him anymore or make him a true enemy or at least not an enemy to one who could stop his demon. Then she sat up in the hot water, blinking a couple of times.
"He didn't say goodbye…"
A/N: (Hope you liked this one also! More on the way.)