Chapter Eight: I Hate You
(Old) Summary: Sasuke comes back to find that Sakura has married someone else! But who? (Gaara, duh, that's like Chapter Two, come on!) Sasuke tell her he loves her and…. (She got pissed, COME ON!)
(New) Summary: As Sasuke continues to pursue Sakura, he finds out it's going to be a lot harder than he thought. He has to come up with a plan or he'll never have the love of his life back. If only there was a way to get Gaara to… (gasp?)
Disclaimer: I don't own it, said it seven times already, so get off my back! I JUST WANT TO WRITE! DANGIT!………Great now I have writer's block.
"NO! I DON'T BELIEVE IT!" Sakura screamed while throwing all the stuff out of her bag, completely making a mess of the guest room she was staying in. "I CAN'T BELIEVE I LOST IT!" Ino walked by the room and stared at it with disbelief.
"Sakura! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!" she screamed, looking around the room she had just cleaned the previous evening.
"I LOST MY SKETCHBOOK!" Sakura screamed, grabbing Ino by the shirt. She turned her head and looked out the window. I hope I didn't leave it in the cart… Sasuke would definitely have found it. What if… I just hope he didn't look through it, she thought as she continued to look out the window.
"Sakura, maybe you just forgot it at home," Ino said after a moment of silence.
"No, I left it in the cart I was riding in," Sakura said, sighing and dropping her arms to her sides.
"Why didn't you arrive in the cart then?" Ino asked.
"Oh, I didn't want people to think Gaara was overprotective of me, he sent seven guards to watch me. Like I couldn't handle myself if I needed to," Sakura said, starting to pick up her things.
"Dinner's in five if you're hungry," Ino said, backing out the door and continuing with what she was doing.
I don't want Ino worrying about me. I just hope Gaara didn't tell her about Sasuke kidnapping me… Maybe it'd be ok if she knew though. She would know what to do if he came looking for me here.
Gaara sat at his desk, looking out the window, his fingers intertwined with each other under his chin. It was the day Sakura was supposed to come home and there wasn't any sign of Sasuke, there hadn't been all week. She would be back that evening and he didn't want her seeing Sasuke again.
He slowly grabbed a photograph from his desk and looked at it. Sakura was standing in a pale green dress with her hair in two long braids that hung in front of her shoulders. She had her hands overlapping each other in front of her. She wasn't smiling, she looked sad, like someone had died. But he knew why she was sad. That was the day Gaara had officially met Sakura parents and they hadn't liked him at all. They had always wanted her to marry Sasuke and they had made that perfectly clear. Besides, he was from a different village and he hadn't been especially polite to them. He hadn't only mumbled responses to their questions even though every time he only gave one word answers Sakura had given him a subtle mean look and nudged him. Her mother had taken this picture of her after she told her that she didn't approve of Gaara.
He sighed and put the picture back, he had no idea why he kept it there, maybe to remind him how hard he had worked to impress her parents after that day so they would let him propose to Sakura later on. That was the first time he had ever tried to impress anyone and he had been horrible at it at first but slowly got used to sucking up to her father and helping her mother with things around their house. But it had all paid off, he had been able to marry Sakura and he'd been happy ever since.
Gaara became so lost in thought that he dropped his guard and didn't notice the person behind his chair. The person behind him took out a katana and stabbed it through the back of the chair, stabbing through Gaara shoulder. He didn't have his gourd anywhere near him so there was no protection from the hit. He coughed up blood, shocked by the sudden attack and relieved that the figure behind him hadn't hit anything vital.
"I see you're as weak as ever, Gaara," the figure hissed into his ear.
"Sasuke," Gaara said, wincing and gasping for air.
"Bingo," Sasuke said, walking around the chair to stand in front of the Kazekage. He picked up the picture he had seen Gaara looking at a few minutes ago. "She's made you weak. You were thinking of her and I could've killed you just now. But I think Sakura would want to see you die, then she'd seek comfort from me, the first person she would see." He pulled out two kunai and held one in each hand. "How should I injure you though? I wonder…"
"You wouldn't dare…" Gaara said weakly, he was losing blood from his shoulder, but knew it wouldn't be enough to kill him, not till later. Not until Sakura came home.
"Oh, I believe I would. I've killed all your guards and everyone else in this building so there's no chance of anyone finding you until Sakura comes home tonight. She'll be able to watch me prove my love for her, she'll see you die."
"You really think that will work?" Gaara asked. "She would hate you for killing her first true love."
"No! I'm her first love and her only one!" Sasuke yelled as he punched Gaara in the stomach. Gaara gasped and coughed up more blood, adding up to the pool in his lap.
"You'll… never win her back… Sasuke," Gaara said, looking up at him. He had regained his composure and acted as if nothing had happened. As though there wasn't a blade stuck through his shoulder and blood spilling from it.
"I know for a fact that she still thinks of me and remembers me," Sasuke said, smirking. He pulled the sketchbook out from the pack on his back and flipped to a picture of Sakura and him hugging. She was crying but it was barely visible. Gaara glared at the picture and then looked up at Sasuke.
"You bastard, where did you get that?"
"I found it in the cart you had her trapped in. You might want to start hiring better guards, none of then even fought back when I killed them. I wouldn't even call them guards, more like targets for practice."
"What did you do to her!" Gaara said, making a move to get up but then painfully remembering the katana that was still through his shoulder.
"The better question is what did she do to me?" Sasuke said, rubbing his chest where the bruise was still present. "I took a nasty shot from her. The little angel got mad at me when I tried to tell her something," he continued, remembering that he had never been able to tell her. She had exploded before he had gotten up the nerve. He sighed and looked down at Gaara. "Why'd you have to interfere?"
"What? I'm the one interfering! I'm not the one who's trying to take advantage of Sakura!" Gaara said, once again making a move to get up but the sword only cut deeper. He sat back down and grunted slightly.
"I wouldn't try that again if I were you. And I'm not the one taking advantage of Sakura-chan!" Sasuke said, calmly at first, but raised his voice and stabbed the two kunai in his hands through Gaara's sleeves on the chair arms. Gaara merely sat calmly, barely noticing Sasuke's outbreak.
"She doesn't need you anymore, you know that right? She's told you that plenty of times before," Gaara said, looking up at Sasuke who was now leafing through the sketchbook. He was looking thoughtfully at a picture of Gaara and Sakura, wondering how she could fall for an idiot like him.
"How the hell could she love you and not me?" he mumbled.
"Easy, I was there when she needed someone to help her through a depressing part of her life. Remember? You were the whole cause of her depression. You left her behind even when she told you everything she felt, everything she had ever felt for you in all the time she knew you, and you just left her there. She was hurt and you didn't care, you only cared about revenge," Gaara stated calmly. He looked out the window at Suna. The desert reminded him of Sakura. Untouched and innocent, but harsh when someone messed with it or didn't know of it's abilities. But he had been able to touch it, just like he controlled sand he knew all of Sakura weakness, strengths, likes, dislikes, and how to please her even when she was upset and crying. "You know nothing about her," Gaara said after a few minutes of silence. He looked up at Sasuke to see that he wasn't in front of him anymore.
He looked around the room and felt his shoulder, the katana was gone, but he was still bleeding badly. He sat in his chair for a few more minutes until the darkness of unconsciousness finally took him and fell to the floor. But before the blackness closed over his eyes he heard a voice say, "Oh, and Gaara? I do really love her and I'll never give up, she's my whole world and I'm not losing her to a baka like you."
As Sakura walked into the gates of Suna she breathed deeply, glad to be home again. Even though Konoha was her first home, she still loved Suna more somehow. She slowly walked through the market place and looked at all of her favorite foods that Konoha didn't have. She bought a snack from a booth and ate it on her way home. She hurriedly made her way home. She couldn't wait to be wrapped in Gaara-kun's arms again. She blushed at her own thoughts of her first night back home. But those thoughts were quickly dispelled. She knew that wouldn't happen tonight. He would say that she should get her rest because she had traveled for a long time, even though it didn't even take half a day to get from Konoha to Suna or visa-versa.
After she put her stuff in her room she walked to Gaara's office, it was five in the afternoon and she wanted to see him as soon as possible. As she opened the door and looked around she didn't see him, she hadn't seen anyone in the building, come to think of it. She decided to look around his office to see what was up. As she made her way around the desk, she looked down on the ground and found Gaara in a large pool of blood.
"G…G-Gaa…ra…" she said, not wanting to believe what she was looking at. "GAARA-KUN!" she screamed and knelt by him. "Please… wake up, Gaara," she pleaded, turning him on his back and examining his shoulder wound. It went all the way through and still bled a little. "Don't leave me, Gaara!" she screamed, tears were streaming from her eyes and falling all over his face. "I-I…I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU, GAARA! YOU'RE EVERYTHING I HAVE AND EVERYTHING I NEED, Y-YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME LIKE THIS! I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!" she yelled at him, closing her eyes and shaking her head. "I LOV-" she started, but before she could finish she felt a hand on her cheek, wiping her tears away.
"I'm not going anywhere, my little cherry blossom," Gaara said, looking up at her. "I would never do that to you," he stated, looking into her eyes. His voice was soft and he didn't sound anything like the Gaara she knew, but she didn't care about that right now. She was only happen he was alive.
"Gaara," she whispered, starting to cry again. "I was so scared. I thought you were…"
"Shh… You should never be scared. Not while I'm around," he said, comforting her. He moved his hand to her shoulder. "I need you to be brave right now, Sakura-chan. Even when there's no hope or light in this darkness, you need to remember that I'll always be there, holding your hand," he said, holding her hand on his chest, above his heart. "You're the only one who knows I have a heart and the only one who I can give my love to… I love you, Sakura. Never forget that."
"I love you, Gaara. I love you so much," she said, bending down and kissing him deeply.
"Sakura…" Gaara said after they had broken apart.
"Yes?"
"Can you take me to the hospital now?"
"Of course," Sakura said, blushing at her idiocy and smiling sweetly at him.
"Thank you."
Short Ramblings! HUZZAH!
I know this is a short one compared to my previous updates, but this is how the whole framing thing worked out. That's why I'm posting two chapters this time and because the reasonin the shortramblings on chapternine!
This chapter didn't have the exact effect I really wanted. I just couldn't put into words the sadness of thinking you're losing someone. I've known that feeling, but I just couldn't express what I felt at that moment, knowing they were lost in Sakura's screams. Still a very weepy chapter.
It's dedicated to all those people who're reading that actually want Sasuke to get Sakura and see GAARA'S BUTT WHOOPED! But don't worry those who want Sakura to continue to be with Gaara and those who want Gaara to KILL SASUKE! There's more of that to come. If at least one person cried during this chapter, I will be happy! BYE! REVIEW! Pwetty pwease? smiles and winks and blows a smexy kiss
(HA! HAHAHAHAH! OMG, I HAD TO PUT THAT SO BAD! I'VE BEEN WANTING TO DO THAT FOREVER! SORRY TO THE GIRLS OUT THERE IF THAT SCARED YOU THAT WAS MEANT FOR THE BOYS ONLY! if there are any reading this FF, which I kinda sorta doubt a little since this is a mushy love story, sorta. Maybe. A little?)
