A Win-Win Situation

By Topaz Talyn

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any related characters

Chapter Nine: Sakura

Naruto was settled into the spy room. It had been a few days since there had been any activity from the sand trio. He had dismissed most of his team and was alone in the room eating instant ramen. He had nothing better to do so he decided to listen in on Kankurou and Temari.

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"So who is the next lucky girl?" asked Kankurou.

"Let me check the list." Temari replied. "The Next girl is Haruno Sakura."

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"WHAT!" screamed Naruto spraying Ramen all over the computer (Don't worry, the Hokage had made sure that there was nothing easily destroyed in the room before she let Naruto use it.) "How can Sakura be going out with Gaara when she has me? I have to stop this date, but the how do I do it." After about five minutes of deep thought Naruto decided that there was one person who could help him. He didn't want to but he had to ask Tsunade for help.

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Tsunade leaned back in her chair (She does that a lot, eh?) as she listened to Naruto spew out the details. She smiled discreetly, what better way to ruin a date then to have Naruto barge in in the middle of it. Sure Gaara might kill Naruto, but hey 500 bucks is 500 bucks.

"Naruto," she began "you have to defend Sakura's honor. You must confront Gaara and stop this date."

"Of course it's all so obvious. Thank you." Tsunade smiled evilly.

"My pleasure."

And of course back in the hotel Kankurou sensed impending doom.

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Unlike the previous two, this date was going quite poorly. Gaara was becoming frustrated with Sakura who seemed to have only one thing on her mind.

"So, you fought Sasuke-kun in the chuunin exams right?"

"Yeah"

"Isn't he so cool?"

"Didn't he betray your village and go to Orochimaru?"

"Well, what does that have to do with anything?"

"I was just pointing out the obvious."

"Don't worry, He'll come back soon. How can he possibly stay away if I love him so much?"

He could stay away very easily," thought Gaara, "I've only known been with you for about twenty minutes and I already want to flee. If she doesn't stop talking within the next five minutes, I'm going to have to kill her."

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Four minutes and fifty five seconds later

"Well when we were assigned to our three man team together, I knew we were destined to be together."

"Five" thought Gaara

"He seems so cold but I know I can melt his icy heart."

"Four"

"And he's such a great ninja too."

"Three"

"Don't you just love his hair?"

"Two"

"I can't think of anyone else I'd rather be with

"One" thought Gaara as he reached out his hand and began to speak, "Desert cof-"

"SAKURA-CHAN" Distracted, Gaara lowered his hand and watched as Naruto rushed into the café.

"Sakura-chan, you shouldn't go out with him. You should go out with me. And as for you Gaara, I'm willing to fight you for Sakura."

"You can have her."

"I expected that you'd say that you- What?"

"You can have her, I don't ever want to see her again," spoke Gaara. Then adopting a more menacing tone he added, "And you had better make sure that I don't see her again." With this Gaara walked out, leaving Sakura to beat up Naruto.

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Temari and Kankurou were waiting eagerly for Gaara. After the incidents at the last two dates they had decided to stay home. They both looked up as they heard the door open.

"Well how was it?" asked Temari.

"Temari."

"Yes"

"If anymore of the women you set me up with are like that…" Gaara paused dramatically, "I WILL kill you." With that Gaara retreated to his room in the hotel leaving two petrified siblings behind.

"Well," said Kankurou regaining his composure, "I guess that's a no."