Memories Are Precious, But Love Is Priceless

"I'm sorry sir but Sakura is not going to wake up," said the assistant as her whole body shake with fear from the demon in front of her.

But the medical team knew she could wake up, its just… they had very little hope of her awakening, it was almost as if they felt she was to die.

The world seemed to turn, Gaara's world started to crash, the walls seemed to disappear into the sea of darkness and the people evaporated like a snowflake hitting a flame. He was alone now he was forever alone… all alone. Rage filled the demon, hatred boiled up, how could he let this happen?

The assistant had come out to tell Gaara who stood in the waiting room far away from anyone else in the room that had all moved to the other side of the room to avoid his deadly gaze.

"You're lying," hissed Gaara. "Take me to her."

The assistant gulped, she knew that any mistake with this demon could cost her, her life.

"We can not do that, sir," gulped the assistant as sweat dripped from her face.

"Do I need to repeat myself? Take me to Sakura," growled Gaara as the assistant nodded her head in fear.

The assistant turned around and led Gaara down the hallway to a silver elevator that reeked of dis-infectant.

"Go to floor 4, turn right, then the first door on your left," said the assistant as she shook with fear of the man who stood fully above her at 6'4".

Gaara went into the silver elevator and followed all the instructions he was told, in mere minutes he was in extensive care. The air was so disturbingly clean, the white walls and white and black magnoliam was ugly.

Gaara opened a door and found Sakura's body attached to a ventilator that seemed to be what was allowing her to breath. Continuous beeping noises was made from her heart rate monitor, the continues wires that lay astray on the floor that hooked onto miniature circles that held their place on Sakura's chest and arms. An IV was hooked up to her arm and drained fluid into her body.

'Why is all of this necessary?' thought Gaara, as he looked puzzled by the amount of equipment.

"I assure you all of this is necessary, your presence is not," said a disturbing voice almost as if they had read Gaara's mind.

Gaara abruptly turned around to find a woman standing behind him.

"Hello Hokage," sneered Gaara as he showed very little respect to this woman.

"So unkind Gaara," replied the woman harshly.

"She's going to wake up," Gaara narrowed his eyes on Sakura.

"Or so they say, the staff has lied to you, there is a chance she will wake up, but no one is for certain…" sighed the Hokage as she walked over to Sakura only earning a deadly glare from Gaara. "Jealous much?"

"I just want everyone to know whom she belongs to," argued Gaara as he walked past the Hokage to hold onto Sakura's hand.

"She's not a thing," shot back the Hokage.

"But she's mine," replied Gaara harshly.

"If you think that then you've got something coming," replied the Hokage as she walked to the door and opened it with its fake gold tinted handle. "I hope she wakes up, for the village sake, and for yours."

With that the Hokage left the room leaving Gaara alone with his Sakura, his… right?

"Wake up Sakura," pleaded Gaara as he starred his sea-green eyes onto where her eyes were but now were closed.

"She's waking up! Sakura is waking up! Doctor Yurameshi!" yelled the nurse as she tried to find the doctor.

The woman in her long lab coat barged into the room to find a happy Gaara actually holding the semi-awake Sakura. The tubes were still all attached onto Sakura with her full body up to her waist was supported by Gaara's knees and the rest was supported by Gaara's sand.

"How's her status?" asked the doctor to the assistant.

"She's got a regular heart rate and she's just started waking up! She can breathe on her own, the only problem is that Gaara wont let go of her!" replied the doctor.

Sakura's eyes continuously went in and out of focus, she'd blink and everything would be blurry. She could just make out shapes but for some reason this feeling on her legs was familiar, it reminded her of something… but she just couldn't make it come to mind. She had forgotten everything, as she opened her eyes fully she final got some focus and latterly panicked at whom she saw holding her.

"Who are you!" she shouted out as she tried to pry herself off of the being holding her.

Gaara had a confused look on his face, how could she, his one true love, forget whom he was? What was going on?

So Gaara said the most reasonable thing he could think of.

"What?" asked Gaara.

"Let go of me you freak!" Sakura's muffled shouts in absolute fear as she tried to pry herself from Gaara were deformed from the mask on her face.

Sakura got out of Gaara's grasp and ran towards the furthest corner with the doctor and nurse running towards her trying to calm her down. Sakura's pink hair cascaded down her face with her bangs lay astray across her eyes even though they naturally went to the sides. Her turquoise eyes flashed from each corner of the rooms then at the man who had once held her safely, she couldn't remember who he was… all she knew was she was not safe in this… hospital…

Words floated into Sakura's head, she could start to remember everything before… except for this man. Who was he? With his sea-green eyes… who was he? Why was he here? And more importantly why was he holding her?

All these thoughts flowing through her head started to give her headache, each pound of her mind made her body shake. She couldn't breathe… something in her chest raced; she placed her hand over where she could feel something racing…

"My heart…" she whispered to herself. "Why is it beating so fast?"

"Sakura?" said the man in front of her.

She automatically shot her head up, she remembered her name… it was an automatic reaction like she knew it her whole life, is that what her name was? It must have been… after all why else could she remember it. She then said the first thing that came to her mind.

"I don't know who you are. Please leave me alone," Sakura exclaimed in absolute confusion. "I don't know you."

Sakura pulled out her IV on her own and winced slightly as she gently pulled it out, she didn't remember how much pain she had gone through but the random cuts and bruises on her body told her a different story. She couldn't even remember the incident just a few nights before. She knew she was forgetting something… she knew it.

"Sakura, what are you talking about?" asked Gaara as he walked forward and gently grabbed onto her hand.

"I don't know who you are, sir," answered Sakura as she quickly retracted her hand earning a slight glare from Gaara.

"Fine," replied Gaara, as he felt so hurt on the inside. "But you must know that you live with me."

'What! I live with this monster?' thought Sakura as she had a strange expression of fear and anger mixed on her face.

Gaara then was extracted from the room and led to the almighty head doctor.

Sakura starred at the strange man, his face so cold and his hair a deep red that reminded her of fire, 'love' painted on his face and dark shades around his eyes. He seemed to care about her so much and it hurt her not to remember who he was, it was like a long lost memory… never to be remembered… what could save this memory? No one could, could they?

But if she waited to long and tried to figure this puzzle out, could it be the end of it? Could or would she ever remember? Did she even want to?

All these thoughts rattling in her brain, like the fine sands in Gaara's gourd. Oh how she longed to remember what had happened those few days ago when she had been comforted in Gaara's arms, but she couldn't… those thoughts had drifted from her mind like a piece of wood going down stream.

Frustration and pain filled Sakura's mind as she tried to remember who this man was, she felt like fainting and quickly decided not to think about it right now… later when she felt better she would go back to this thought and think.

But for now… he was just the mysterious man, with dark shades around his eyes, whom caries a gourd, has hair the color of blood, his touch as soft as grains of sand, and is a monster… her monster…

Well I'm sorry but I'm listening to my favorite song and I've been listening to this for most of this chapter… So love it! I liked how I ended this chapter… well I'll update after I get 6 more reviews… So yeah, love my story.

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