AN: Hey everyone! What's up? I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while, I'll try to get the chapters out sooner. I'm already half way through chapter 3! I would like to thank all my reviewers whose comments helped me get this chapter out and ready for the next one!

Disclaimer: See first chap.

Note: Sound Genetics lab is referred to as The Sound or SGL.

Sakura's Bio: Sakura is 18 years old. She was Sasuke's secretary for a short time, but after her parent's death in a car crash. Sakura vowed to become stronger, and went to study under the world famous Doctor Tsunade. She still has a long way to go, but is learning fast.

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Protect Me

Chapter 2

Sasuke woke up slowly, his reactions still sluggish due to the alcohol in his system. "Shit…" The Uchiha cursed, as he realized his car was way beyond making friends with the tree it was against. Luckily most of the damage had gone to the left side of the car, only giving him a few cuts and scrapes. Sasuke scowled at the damage done to the car, but since he could always buy a new one, the anger melted away. Anger was soon replaced with annoyance, because now he had to call Zabuza to come pick him up. Sasuke stepped out of his car, flipping out his cell phone, but stopped just mid-way as he spotted the two Hybrids.

He looked at them closely, one of the boys looked like he was hit by a car… 'his car', realization dawned on him and Sasuke cursed loudly. The noise causing the other boy to focus his attention on him.

"You did this to him!" Gaara said with a murderous look in his eyes. "I'll kill you."

Sasuke took a step back form Gaara, briefly surprised by the look in his eyes. He sighed, he really didn't want another death on Uchiha hands. Itachi had already made sure of that.

"I'll call an ambulance to take him to the hospital" The Uchiha muttered to the boy, that was clutching his friend like a life line.

"No!" Gaara exclaimed quickly "No hospitals or they'll find us."

Sasuke raised an eyebrow at this statement, but not wanting the boy to die on him, he quickly called Zabuza. Then he made another quick call.

"Hello?"

"Sakura?" Sasuke questioned into the phone.

"This is Sakura…whose calling?" Sakura's drowsy voice could be heard through the phone as she yawned.

"Sasuke…"

"Oh Sasuke!" Sakura took a brief glance at the clock that read 2:47 am. "Why are you calling so early?"

"I don't have time to talk" Sasuke cringed at what he was about to say. "I need your help."

Sasuke quickly told Sakura the about the crash, and said for her to meet him at his house as soon as possible. He clicked off his phone just as a sleek black Limo came rolling up. He walked over to Gaara. "If you don't want your friend to die, get into the limo. I know someone who can help him."

Gaara shot Sasuke a look like he was crazy. Naruto got hit by his car, and now he was supposed to trust the same person with Naruto's life? But he didn't really have any options. There was no way they could make it to Gaara's home in Suna, and if they went to the hospital then they would make records, and Orochimaru could find them.

He gingerly picked Naruto up and placed him on the seat of the limo, thankful for the towels Zabuza had passed back to him. Remembering a first aid class from school, Gaara pressed down on the wounds to slow the blood flow. He was careful around the broken bones, Gaara ripped Naruto's shirt to use as bandages, not aware of the pair of eyes focused on Naruto.

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Sasuke slipped into the limo and told Zabuza to drive quickly, but to be careful for bumps in the road. For the first time Sasuke got a good look at them. The boy trying to save his friend had dark red hair and a kanji symbol for love on his forehead. Also he had sea green eyes, with dark rings of black around them. While the boy he had hit had bright blond hair, and whisker like scars on his cheeks. The blood that stained his body looked unnatural on him, as blood did on most people. But on this boy it just seemed wrong, someone as innocent looking as this boy, should never be tainted with blood. He watched Gaara across from him desperately trying to keep his friend alive, and Sasuke felt a little guilty. He cursed himself for getting drunk and falling asleep at the wheel. He should have been in control of the situation, and now he had to deal with this.

As they drove onto the estate, Sasuke noticed Sakura's car was already there. One of the maids stood outside waiting for him. They carefully brought Naruto up to a spare bedroom just as Sakura came in and gasped at the scene.

"Sasuke, you didn't tell me it was this bad!"

"I didn't have the time…"

Sakura looked at him skeptically, but soon started to order the maids around telling them what she needed, before she approached Gaara and Naruto.

Gaara growled menacingly in the back of his throat as Sakura approached, and moved aside but not before issuing a warning. "You better save him or I'll make you want death."

Sakura shuddered at his words, she knew he was serious. But she quickly set to work on helping the battered boy before her.

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Gaara leaned up against the wall staring at every move Sakura made, as she tried to save Naruto. He had lost his trust for doctors long ago. Doctors were the reason his mother died, doctors were the reason why kids called him a murderer, and doctors were the reason why his father hated him….

Flasback

Gaara was 4 years old, sitting in a waiting room in the Suna hospital. Today was the day his mommy came home. He didn't know why she was here in the first place, but Temi had said a bunch of big words he didn't understand, but that didn't matter because she was coming home now. Gaara looked up from his coloring book in his chair to see his mommy coming down the hall in a wheel chair.

"Mommy!" Gaara shouted leaving his coloring book, and running to his mother. Soon after, Temari and Kankaro joined him, just as excited.

"We missed you so much!" The three children coursed hugging their mommy tight, and saying how much they loved her.

The Kazakage smiled down at his children and his wife Sayuri. He told them to wait while Sayuri got ready, so he could check her out, and cheerfully added that they would go out for ice cream.

At the ice cream parlor the five laughed and enjoyed each other company, as Gaara told a story about the class rabbit getting loose. Kankaro then shared a story about how he made a sock puppet in his first grade class. Temari bragged about the clay sculpture she made, and how it was so much better than Kanky's sock puppet.

The Next day Konzen drove Temari and Kankaro to school, before going off to perform his duties as Kazakage. Gaara stayed home since he wasn't feeling well. Probably to much vanilla ice cream.

Sayuri hummed to herself, as she fixed Gaara a bologna sandwich and some ginger ale.

She put it on a tray and brought it up to her son's room.

When Gaara heard Sayuri come up the stairs, he buried himself under the covers hoping to seem really sick. He did some fake coughing and peeked up from under the covers, just as she came in.

"Gaara, I know your not sick anymore, but we'll just keep that our little secret right?" She said putting a finger up to her lips and winking at Gaara.

He nodded and started to eat his sandwich, watching her tidy up the room. She left after that leaving him to watch The Wiggles Movie.

Gaara was jumping up and down on his bed dancing to the Wiggles, when he heard a loud crash downstairs. Quickly he hopped off of his bed and hurried down the stairs, to investigate the noise. "Mommy? What happened?" Gaara called down into the living room, not finding her there he looked into the kitchen. He found her lying on the ground, and a large gash on her head she had received from hitting a chair.

"Mommy?" Gaara ran over to Sayuri, falling onto his knees beside her. "Mommy…wake up!" He said shaking her shoulders till he looked at his hands. They were covered in blood. Gaara slowly backed up into a cabinet door, with tears streaming down his face.

"Gaara?" she rasped in a shaky voice.

Gaara took his head from in between his hands, and looked at Sayuri, her eyes were hazy and unfocused. "Gaara . . . she repeated "I want you to know this is not your fault, and my love will always protect you…" She shook a little as Gaara crawled over to her, hugging her close regardless of the blood.

It wasn't till Temari and Kankaro were dropped off from the bus, that they knew what had happened. Sayuri had had seizures all her life, but the doctors had misdiagnosed the severity of them when she was in the hospital. All of the Kazakages took this hard but it seemed worst for Konzen. He started to slowly slip into depression and then he went to drugs to make him forget. He soon started to blame Gaara for Sayuri's death, regardless of the fact that it wasn't his fault.

He first just ignored Gaara's cries at night but then it got to the point when he couldn't even look at Gaara. Yelling and beating him when he made the littlest mistake. While the only thing Gaara could think was... "It was all my fault…"

Gaara's eyes were hazy with memories when he heard someone calling to him.

"Hey kid! I think your friend is going to be alright!" Sakura said to Gaara.

Gaara carefully looked Naruto over, there was a thick gauze around his chest and his forhead, also his arm was set to keep him from moving it. Gaara nodded in approval to Sakura, he knew Naruto would heal quicker because of the fox blood in his system. She cleaned up and left the room quietly, leaving Gaara to stand there and watch over him.

Sakura left the room and left out a breath of air she didn't know she had been holding in. Helping the boy Sasuke had hit was a challenge. Sakura was still learning under Tsunade and wasn't even close to becoming a real doctor. She sighed, but decided to use this situation to blackmail Sasuke, and we all know there's nothing funner than blackmailing Sasuke!

Walking down the stairs, she searched for him, until she found him in the kitchen. He was taking hangover pills with a large glass of water. "Sasuke…you owe me big time." Sakura said bluntly, as she leaned against the countertop.

"What do you want?" Sasuke said while rubbing his head, in an effort to relieve his headache. He was sure Sakura would ask him on a date, or something like that. She had been infatuated with him since the 4th grade. But her request surprised him a bit.

"I'll ask for the favor... when I need it." Sakura explained quietly to him. "Anyway Naruto..."

"Who?"

"The boy you hit! You mean to tell me, you didn't even know his name?"

"Of course not! When did I have time ask his name? When he was bleeding to death in the back seat? How do you know their names anyway?"

Sakura sighed they were getting nowhere fast. "That's what I wanted to talk to you about. I think that Naruto and Gaara escaped from somewhere."

Sasuke rose and eyebrow at this statement, but let her continue. "Naruto has barcodes on his neck and arm, and also a fox shaped tattoo with weird markings around it. I think Gaara has them to, at least from what I can see under the fishnet."

"Maybe they have some weird fetish for strange tattoos." Sasuke replied tiredly, ha was sick of talking about this. More problems had come to interrupt the solitude, he so desperately wanted.

"I don't think so, maybe you can have Haku look them up?"

"Hn"

"Other than that he seems ok, but Naruto is going to have to stay in bed for a while. If his injuries had been any worse, you would have definitely had to take him to the hospital. I'll come by everyother day to check on him and change his bandages. You know who to call if anything happens." Sakura yawned as the night's event's finally caught up with her, and all the adrenaline was gone. She looked at the clock, it read 5:32. 'There is no way I'm gonna make it to work in a few hours…'

Tiredly she gathered her things and left extra bandages for Naruto. She heard Sasuke's bedroom door shut, before one of the maids showed her out.

Sound Genetics Lab:

"Orochimaru sama, the signal from the Tanuki and Kyuubi Hybrid are coming from Sasuke Uchiha and Neji Hyuuga's estate. Do you want me to send a retrieval team?" Kabuto said standing in front of Orochimaru's desk, like the loyal lapdog he was.

"That is not needed Kabuto kun, I believe this escape might be to our advantage." Orochimaru hissed, as he turned away from Kabuto to stare at the sky view window of the Sound Genetics lab.

"What do you mean sir?" Kabuto asked slowly, the Kyuubi hybrids life signs had been lower than normal. If they didn't get him back to the lab soon, they could loose one of their prized subjects.

"I have been looking at the Uchiha and Hyuuga for a long time now. They would make great additions for our collection. I want them to be Neo Hybrids."

"But sir, we just started testing! It could take three more years to make it perfect! Also, how do we know the Tanuki and Kyuubi will be kept at the estate?"

"You said your self that the Kyuubi was hurt he will have to stay to recover, and I heard that the Uchiha has a soft spot for blonds. The three year wait is also to our advantage…" Orochimaru said standing up, preparing to leave. "Three years will give the hybrids enough time to befriend them both and gain their trust. Then when a time is up we will activate the 4H-Chips. Imagine the pain they will go through, because the ones they trusted betrayed them."

Kabuto stood in awe at his bosses' cleverness. The 4H-chip was planted into every hybrid created at the Sound. It controlled them against their will, and they would have to follow every order they were given. It was originally made to keep rebellious Hybrids in order, but they had just recently found a better use for it. Kabuto immediately left the room, to inform the others.

"So it begins…"

Yay! I finished! Man alive! Awww Gaara was so cute, I could so imagine him dancing to the wiggles, I started laughing in the middle of class while I was writing that, and everyone looked at me like I was crazy. (Look up wiggles if you don't know what they are, cause I'm to lazy to write about them.) To all you Sakura haters she's gonna be pretty cool in this fic, she won't really be big until the end though, so sorry if you hate her…you'll have to deal with it.

Please review and also if I make and spelling or grammar mistakes please tell me. It takes me forever to spell check my stories, I have to print them out about seven times and read them out loud….so it would really help me out a lot!

Chapter three preview:

"Gaara, I'll make you a deal. You become Neji's personal secretary, in exchange for yours and Naruto's safety." Sasuke stated to Gaara, he was sure he would take the deal. This way Gaara wouldn't be around Naruto 24/7 and he could get closer the boy. Neji needed a new secretary anyway, so this would work out perfectly.

Gaara was taken aback by this offer. How did he know they were in danger? He was sure the Uchiha was up to something, but he couldn't resist the deal. He could be Neji's secretary for a while, at least till he could get Naruto and himself out of the country.

"I'll take it."

"Perfect…"