Sakura raced happily through Kahona's streets as she remembered her talk with Tsunade-sama
"Excuse me, Sensei?"
"Yes."
"I was wondering if I could hold a banquet here, in the ballroom."
"May I ask why?"
"Well." Sakura explained her ordeal with Gaara and what Hinita told her to do. At the end of her story, Sakura was blushing furiously as Tsunade stared in amusement
"I think that's a great plan, so I'll come around six. Make it in tonight, well, see ya." She got up and walked out. Sakura was dumbfounded as she left.
Back at her house, Sakura started making invitations for the event.
They read:
I, Haruno Sakura, would like to
invite you to a costume ball.
It will start at six in tonight
At the ball room in the Hokage's
mansion.
After getting Naruto to deliver them, Sakura headed out to find a costume, but to her surprise, everyone had all ready received their invitation and went shopping as well. 'Naruto really is fast.' Sakura thought
As she walked through the cloths, she thought about how to test Gaara, 'Luckily it's a costume party and most girls will where skimpy outfits, I'm sure of it.' Sakura picked out five different outfits and headed to the fitting rooms, on the way she bumped into a blonde-haired person and they fell backwards. "Ouch, are you okay?" she asked
"Yeah, oh hey Sakura, I can't wait for the party." It was Ino, "I just bought a costume. It's a bunny one, but you have to wait and see at the party." With that, she left and headed out. Sakura sighed and put back the costume Ino was talking about.
When the one of the fitting rooms was finally free she walked in and from the other side heard Temari's voice. "Hey, Gaara, what do you think of this one?" Sakura poked her head out and saw her wearing a short net dress, fortunately, a non-see through fabric covered her front and back parts, and a small jacket was around her perfect breasts. Sakura, as much as she hated to admit it, was jealous. Temari had a great body, not that Sakura didn't, but she was still a little envious. The best part though was when Gaara did not look at her body or anything, just straight in the face.
"It's fine." He said in a bored tone, "Can we go now."
"Fine." She pouted, and they left. Sakura finished trying on what she picked out and decided on an angel one. It was a white mid drift top with long flared sleeves, and a short skirt. Small white wings were attached to the back. Satisfied with her choice, she bought it and left to get ready for her banquet.
Gaara sat in his room waiting for Kankuro and Temari to come with the outfits they said they bought. He knew it was just a fun costume party, but to him it seemed like a way for girls to act sluttish. Gaara waited for a while and they finally knocked on his door and came in.
"Well, we only found two but here." Temari said excitedly and handed him a bag. Inside he pulled out the first one, the pants were spandex so he just through them away and glared at his siblings. Temari tried not to laugh and pointed accusingly at Kankuro. The next was a black, ripped shirt with chains and dark blue pants. He tore of the long sleeves and finally said, "I like it." With that, the two left and Gaara started getting ready.
He put on the costume and spiked his hair. To add a nice touch he wore a spiked dog collar around his neck. Without even thinking, Gaara started to want to impress Sakura so much. Now that he was done getting ready, he waited until it was time to leave.
Meanwhile, Sakura was also preparing herself, her costume was on, and she was fixing up her hair and makeup. She wore silver glitter swirls on her stomach that traveled up her back, around her neck and to her face. Now that her hair had grown longer after the sound ninja incident, it was curled down to her shoulders and one braid clipped back behind her ear. "Now I'm ready." She smiled at herself and walked out.
On her way to the Hokage's mansion, Sakura met up with Hinita, "Good evening, Sakura-san, you look great, but I wanted to see if you liked my outfit." She was wearing a leather devil outfit; it showed her stomach and the top of her breasts, the sides and back were connected with straps. Hinita also had a tail and horns to complete the look. Even though she was a small girl, her breasts were bigger than Anko's.
"It's great, but did you pick that out?"
"No Kiba did." They laughed softly and kept walking for a while until Hinita spoke up again. "Well, when I told you to test him, I really didn't mean for you to through a ball. I was thinking more getting some girls to help, but this will be fun."
Before she could answer, they reached the mansion and lost each other in the crowd at the front doors. Someone bumped into her and she fell, "Oh sorry." It was Gaara, "Sakura?" he reached out his hand and pulled her up.
"Hey Gaara."
"You look beautiful." He sounded desperate
"Thank you." She turned away and walked inside. He followed her
"I was wondering if I did anything to make you mad."
"Nothing's the matter. HEY INO, OVER HERE!" She called and Ino came over. Then the two girls left as Gaara stood there in confusion.
"Looks like you have girl issues." It was Temari
"So troublesome." Shikamaru sighed and looped his arm through Temari's.
"Do you know what the matter with Sakura is?" he asked
"Nope, but it would help if you tried to talk with Hinita, they've been spending a lot of time together." Said Shikamaru before Temari dragged him of to dance
Gaara did just that, he spotted her standing by the punch bowl and headed toward her. "Hello Hinita-san."
"Hello Gaara-san." She bowed politely, not looking anywhere near his eyes. With her Byakugen, she saw Sakura give her thumbs up to continue with the plan. Still embarrassed about what she was going to do. Hinita looked up and stuck out her chest. "Are you looking for Sakura?"
"Yes. Have you seen her?"
"I think she headed over to the other side of the room where there playing spin the bottle, wanna play?" She asked seductively, but still could not believe what she was doing.
"No thank you." He had not looked at her breasts once and was totally distracted by looking for Sakura. In the mean time, Sakura was watching the whole thing instead. She was impressed with Gaara's devotion to her.
"Okay, ladies and Gentlemen, it is time to start the costume contest!" said a booming voice. A hole parted in the crowd where all the girls were lined up, Hinita walked over to join them. Gaara push his way to the front and finally saw what Sakura's coat had been hiding. His eyes scanned her body and rested on her gorgeous green eyes. Sakura smiled, thinking of how he was only looking at her. Now my fellow men, go line up in front of who you think should win this contest. Of course, Gaara was first, he never broke eye contact.
"Your so beautiful Sakura, but why are you mad at me?"
"I'll explain later."
"No, do you know how much it hurts that you are ignoring me." She looked away but he grabbed her face and pulled it close to his. His voice was louder. "Damn it, I love you to much to let you go, just tell me what's wrong and I'll fix it! I don't want anyone else other than you!" By now, all eyes were on them. When she did not say anything, he pulled her face to his and kissed her. Slowly, her hands wrapped around his waist. Everyone started clapping for no apparent reason, but the noise made them break up. "Gaara." She whispered, "I'm sorry, I never meant to hurt you, I was just afraid of how fast everything was going, but now I realize that I don't care." Sakura hugged him and the voice spoke again, "Well the winners are Gaara and Sakura!" Apparently, everyone had lined up behind them. Sakura giggled and they enjoyed the rest of the night together.
"Hey, Sakura, Gaara, are you guys coming to the after party at my place?" Asked Ino as people started to leave, it is only a small group. Please."
Sakura looked at Gaara, he nodded, and she said yes.
Okay, it took me a while to right that chapter because I have been busy. However, the next chapter is the after party and it will be a short little one. But there the questions have been answered about Hinita's advice. People probably expected something bigger but…oh well. Please give me ideas for couples for a different story.
