A/N – Third chappy up and ready for action! YAY! Sasukes feels SERIOUSLY guilty about hurting Gaara –weeps- and trys to bargain with himself give a little take a little etc. However…he takes it a little too far XD..read on to find out more. Thank you to the following reviewers:

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The Five Stages of Grief

Bargaining

I couldn't sleep all night. Every time I started to doze off I started thinking of Gaara, and his poor, bewildered face. I knew I was angry but I shouldn't have targeted him. Technically it wasn't his fault. It was all mine. I allowed myself to be attracted to him. I guess there's no point trying to deny the fact that I'm in love with him. What a great piece of news that will be for Itachi. Oh God…Itachi. What the hell is he gonna say when he finds out? I will be in serious shit then. But I can't help the way I feel. It must just be destiny.

Right. That's it. I'm gonna go out and find Gaara, and try to apologize. I set off down one of Konoha busy streets. It's actually a nice day for a change so I smile and stretch out to the sun. I feel much better now. I guess I might as well just admit that I like Gaara. I start prancing around, doing an imitation 'sun dance'. I must look like a complete jerk but I don't really care.

"Sasuke?" Aww crap. Gaara.

I stop my idiotic dancing and look down at him. The minute my face meets his he turns away, like he's scared of looking at me. Now is quite clearly the time for my grand apology…

"Uh…Gaara" Great start. Not.

"Yes, Sasuke?" He still won't look at me. I must've really shook him. God I suck so bad.

"Look, about yesterday. I'm really sorry about what happened. I was just really stressed and I lashed out." Gaara finally turned to face me. His face was still pretty dismal.

"It is fine, Sasuke. I must go now." Well, I couldn't really just let him go. I still didn't feel like I had apologised properly. As Gaara turned to walk away, I latched onto his arm.

"Wait! Look, let me make it up to you properly. How 'bout we go get some ramen tomorrow?" Holy crap! Did I just ask Gaara out on a date? Whoops.

"Uh...very well then. I shall meet you here at 2:00 tomorrow, yes?" Oh. My. God. He actually agreed. I practically passed out with shock. But I still had to reply. He was looking at me expectantly, and I was stood there looking like a fish with bladder problems.

"Great! See you there!" Oh no! That sounded so needy. Then again, maybe I'm just bargaining with my feeling here. Allow myself a bit of Gaara time, and then maybe I won't think about him so much. Yeah, that was it.

We both turned opposite ways and walked off. I felt a lot better than I had for several days, and I was going on a date with Gaara! Things couldn't get any better!

-The Next Day-

Well. It's fifteen minutes until I have to meet with Gaara. And I'm stark naked. No, I'm not a nudist. I can't find anything to wear! How sad. I sound like one of those stupid girls that follow me around, trying to plan what to wear. After an agonising five minutes I eventually decide to wear what I did yesterday. Wow. Such a huge decision. I set off out of the door, and head down the street.

I arrive before Gaara. Shit, now he's gonna think I'm all, desperate. Ahh well…maybe I am.

Gaara's walking down the street! He's wearing all black. It looks so cool, a stark contrast to his white skin. I look at his face. He seems nervous, so cute! He's wearing his usual eyeliner. It makes his eyes seem so beautiful. I've always wondered what I'd look like with eyeliner, but I've never been brave enough to try. Maybe Gaara could show me? No. God I sound like we're already going out. We're just meeting for ramen, and for me to apologise. Gaara reaches me. He just stares up at me so I guess I have to make the first move again.

"Hey. Shall we go in?" Gaara merely nods in agreement. We go inside and sit down. I end up ordering a bowl of ramen between us, as Gaara didn't know what to pick. The bowl arrives and we both tuck in. Neither of us says anything. Gaara face is solely concentrated on eating his food. So instead I choose to enjoy the silence. We're both eating, when suddenly somehow, we both seem to grab hold of the same strand. Neither of us notices because we're to busy staying quiet, so we don't realize until we're almost kissing. (A/N – think Lady and the Tramp mmkay?) I drop the strand like it's mad hot, and Gaara blushes furiously. How buggered up was that? We finish the meal, and for some reason I offer to walk Gaara home.

"Sasuke?"

"Yes Gaara?"

"How come you are doing this?" Ooh…bad question. Quick! Improvise!

"Uh…I said yesterday…I wanted to apologise for shouting at you." We've both stopped walking now, Gaara is just staring up at me, searching my face.

"I don't just mean that. Why are you being so nice. You've barely said two words to me before this week" Oh dear. But it's true. I guess it was because I was too scared of admitting my feelings. But I can't say that! Just as I'm about to reply, Gaara answers for himself.

"Is it because you like me, Sasuke?" Oh shit. Maybe I could just pretend not. Or shout again. But I don't think either of those would work. I guess the only answer is the real one. Perhaps if I just allow myself one kiss-

Before I can think it out properly, Gaara has pushed me against the wall. He stands up on his tip-toes, brushes a stray strand of hair away from my face, and kisses me. I feel his lips brush against mine, and my spine tingles with excitement. Gaara is kissing me. ME! At that very moment I know that I'm in love with Gaara. He stops abruptly, and steps back, embarrassed.

"I…I'm sorry Sasuke. Please forgive me."

"No Gaara, I won't forgive you" He seems to panic at this pint so I lightly cup my hand around his chin.

" I won't forgive you because you haven't done anything wrong" I notice a look of shock pass Gaara's face, before I capture his lips with mine once more. It feels so good, so right. We seem to have been stood there for an eternity before Gaara drew back, and said.

"I'm sorry Sasuke-kun. I must go now. But…I love you." And with that he scampered away. Loves me? Gaara loves me! I stand for a moment in blissful happiness, before something catches my eye. I whip my head around and see Sakura stood next to the wall. She has a mixed look of loathing and shock on her face. Oh shit. She saw us…

A/N – And that's a wrap! YAY! Uh…Oh… Sakura has caught Sasuke and Gaara in the act! –cue dramatic music- whatever will happen? Read the next chapter to find out XD. I can't be bothered putting a number of reviews I want before the next chappy is posted so I shall just write it and update ASAP ppl