Naruto and Sakura: 1

Kiba and Sakura: 2

Neji and Sakura: 1

Gaara and Sakura: 2

Sasuke and Sakura: 2

DO NOT OWN NARUUUTOOO!

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Chapter 8: His Presence

"Whatever you're going to say, he did it. Period"

"No, he started it"

"Yeah, but you're the one making threats"

"Well, if you haven't spread that embarrassing rumour around, you wouldn't have been threatened, nor even be here!"

"First of all, it's not a rumour. And second of all, guess who threw that eraser-"

"Quiet"

Sakura and Kiba immediately shut up, looking at the principle. Sakura never met a principle. Well, she has, but for good reasons. Not for being a bad ass. She had no idea what they did at detention, she had no idea what the principle did to naughty children.

"Okay, tell me how all of this happened"

Kiba was about to speak, but Sakura raised her hand. She always did this when she wanted attention. The principle looked at Sakumo weirdly, so did Kiba. But he picked the girl to talk, "Yes, well, it all started with my friend, Neji, talking to me. Then he mentioned me doing great with my previous class presentation, my Oiroke no Jutsu. Okay, so then I was wondering where-"

"Wait, YOU'RE the one who did that Oiroke no Jutsu that everyone is talking about?" The older man pointed his finger towards Sakumo, shocked.

'It's not nice to point, old man' Inner Sakura grunted.

Sakura rolled her eyes and monotoned a 'yes'.

The man thought for a while, putting his finger to his chin, "We can forget this whole thing if you just show me your jutsu" the man winked, and Kiba turned to see Sakumo disgusted.

"UGH! MEN!"

'Calm it, this is our chance to not get a bad score on our college records' Inner Sakura mentioned.

"Bu-but! A girl needs to keep her secrets too, you know!"

'Yeah, a secret of getting away with detention!'

"NOOOOOO!"

'Oh geez, you are such a wimp! Here, let me do it! I always wanted to try for myself!' Sakura slowly nodded as Inner Sakura took over. Inner Sakura got up from her seat, and clapped her hands together, her eyes opening with confidence, "Heheh, ready old man?"

"OIROKE NO JUTSU!"

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"I'm hoooommee…" Sakura opened the door, her shoulders slumped, and her face paler than usual.

"SAKUMO! KIBA! YOU'RE HOME! YAY!" Naruto jumped up from Sasuke and pounced on Sakumo, "How did you guys do? What kind of punishment did you get?" Naruto let go of Sakumo and looked him in the eye. Sakumo only looked down.

"He had to show the old man his Oiroke no Jutsu" Kiba announced, putting his stuff down on the chair near by.

"…………Un… fortunately……………"

"W-well, that's not bad! At least you're not a girl and had to… expose your nudyness!"

"You don't know anything…" Sakura glared up at Naruto, giving him a shiver down his spine.

"Naruto… 'nudyness' isn't a word" Neji pointed out.

"IT IS NOW!" He retorted back. The blond concentrated back to his room mate, who was now lying on his bed, "H-hey, w-wanna play a game?"

All the boys looked in the direction of the grinning face, "What kind?" Neji asked.

"Uhhh… how about Truth or Dare?" The room fell silent.

"Is that the only game you know?" Sasuke sighed.

"W-well! It's the only kind of game that's interes-"

"No" Sakumo mumbled through her pillow. She dug her nails into the soft pillow, making it almost rip, "I-I don't want to play that"

"W-why? It's really fun, Sakumo!" Naruto tried to convince her to play, but he just got a glare instead.

"I said no!" The thoughts of the day before started to appear before Sakura. The questions, the yelling, the man… Gaara watched Sakumo cringe with anger.

Naruto tried to persuade Sakumo again, but Kiba stopped him. He grabbed his ear and whispered into it, "Idiot! Remember what happened yesterday with his sister!" Naruto suddenly grasped what was happening. He remembered what had happened. Naruto nodded, and he stopped with his whining. Sakura exhaled deeply and got up to head out for the door, "S-Sakumo! Where are you going!"

"I need fresh air" She responded coldly.

"N-no! You can't!" Sakura kept going through the door, ignoring Naruto's words. Then she felt a hand grip on her wrist, she turned to see Gaara behind her.

"I'll come along with you" He said emotionlessly. Sakura rolled her eyes and pulled her hand away from his and went out the door with Gaara following her.

The door slammed behind them. The boys in the room stood in place, "Naruto… you just… you don't know how to use your brain…" Kiba slapped the blond on the head.

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"…"

"………"

Sakura sat on the edge of the school. Watching the night sky was beautiful from top of the school. There weren't many stars, but the moon made Sakura forget about them. She tipped her head back, to let out a long sigh. Then she noticed Gaara standing near by. Her relief broke and anger rose.

"What are you doing here? Go back. I need time, just me"

"…"

His silence never annoyed her, except for that first day, but now, it was frustrating. She brought back her head down to gaze over the village, "I don't like you" she mumbled.

"What makes you think I do?" Finally, a word.

"I never even thought about you liking me back. I was just saying what's true"

"…I don't like you… but you… interest me,"

Sakura turned her head around to face his, "What? What's that suppose to mean?"

"You are a girl," Four words. Just four simple words made Sakura's world explode, "Your features are different from any man, your movements are different. You are a girl"

'HE KNOWS! HE TOTALLY KNOWS!' Inner Sakura screamed, clenching her hair with her tightly gripped hands.

Sakura stared at the red headed boy for another second or two, "…Yeah? So?" Sakura used her normal girl voice, no use of using her manly toned voice right now. She turned her head back to the village. She didn't want to run away from the fact at this moment. She just wanted eternal rest, "What are you going to do about it?"

"Tell"

"Really?"

"Yeah"

"…So this is how it all ends, huh? You figuring it all out in just… 1 week and a half, and I don't protect against it… and then you tell," The girl took her hat off, letting it slip out of her hand and the air catching it. She let a tear escape from her beautiful emerald orbs, "This is how it ends…"

"Tsunade Sensei… I'm sorry for failing you… I'm sorry…"

"What's your name?" Gaara asked, still no sign of emotions.

"Sakura. Haruno Sakura"

"So… you're that girl. You're the one who got-"

"Shut up," No, not now. She doesn't want to remember that awful day right now… Sakura dug her face into her open hands, "Don't… mention that day in front of me again"

"…" The gourd on Gaara's back released sand and it swayed against the current of the wind. He controlled it to take back the hat that was still lingering in the air. He lightly put back on the blue hat on the pink hair's head with his sand. He felt her twitch a little. She was a bit scared.

"Don't tell, okay? Please don't tell," Sakura muttered into her hands, "I want another chance. I want to kill that man. So please… don't tell?" Her tears started to pour out of her cupped hands and onto her dry clothes.

Gaara let out a sigh into the cold air and stepped forward, "…You need to pay the price if I don't. Deal?"

She let out a few more tears until she spoke.

"………Deal………"

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"What do you think they're doing up there?" Naruto asked his friends.

"Nothing" Sasuke replied, "Gaara doesn't talk unless it's needed. He won't waste his breath for Haruno, I don't think"

"How can you say that Aho-Sasuke? Sakumo just went through a freaking bad experience! His sister was 'technically' raped, and now he's pissed off!"

"…I doubt that they're making out, that's for sure…" Sasuke said, making Naruto confused.

"WHY THE HELL DO YOU SAY THAT? T-THEY CAN'T BE MAKING OUT! THAT MEANS SAKUMO MAY HAVE SOME… SECRET LOVE FOR ME OR SOMETHING!"

"Ahaha, I very much doubt that" Neji chuckled.

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Gaara pressed Sakura against the wall, planting hard kisses to her lips, leading down to her neck. He held her closer to the waist, making her moan.

'…Okaaaay, and how did we go from sitting on the top of the school to here?' Inner Sakura sarcastically asked. Although she may have wanted this from a man for some time, she didn't expect it to find it this way. 'He asked us if we paid the price, then he wouldn't tell… And we said, yeah, sure, why not. Then it somehow came into this? Is this part of the price? IS IT? Cause, you know, if it is, then this isn't such a bad punishment…' Inner Sakura giggled, making a quick notice that her other self was completely ignoring her. Inner Sakura puffed her cheeks and merged with Sakura to enjoy the 'punishment'.

Gaara was in full control, he had her pinned against a wall, he had his lips all over her, and on top of it all: she wasn't trying to push him back; because this was part of the 'deal'. He crawled his hands up into her shirt; his cold hands against her hot body made her shiver. Unfotunately for Gaara, he couldn't go anywhere else with his envious hands since Sakura's half of the chest was covered with layers of bandages. He made a low growl, scratching lightly at the bandages.

He had no chance against the bandages, so he went down. Sakura felt his cold hands go down there. Then she froze, her eyes wide with fear.

"Wh-who the hell are you?"

"Me? Don't worry about me, I think you should be more worried about yourself…" The man's hand slowly started to creep up behind Sakura's back, and into her shirt. This made Sakura shiver up her spine.

"H-hey! Get your grubby hands off me!" She wiggled around to break free, but his strength was too much for her, "Ugh! You… you must be that serial killer!"

The man twitched, "So you know me, huh?" He kept continuing massaging her back, "Good to know I'm popular"

The day seemed to repeat in front of her. She saw herself being used by that man! She then grabbed her head, crouching to the ground with dread. Her whole body trembled and Gaara quickly knelt down in front of her, not knowing what was happening.

"Yeah I know you, and I'm going to stop you forever!" Sakura tried to kick him on his groin, but he stopped it by stepping on her foot. Sakura yelped in pain as the man put one of his legs between hers, "Y-you can't do this! I-I won't let you!"

"Try to stop me, girl" The hand that was on her back went into her skirt and started playing around. Sakura moaned.

Tears streamed down her face fast, and her heart started to sink into darkness. "Let me out, let me out! I don't want to be in the darkness!" Sakura bit her lower lip. Then that most frightening feeling came upon her.

The man with the kitsune mask.

She sensed him somewhere near by, shifting her eyes uncontrollably from right to left. His eyes piercing her soul, making it welt in front of him. The girl breathed heavily, shaking her head non-stop.

Gaara looked around at the surroundings, he felt it too. The presence of somebody. He can feel a small amount of chakra emerging somewhere, growing larger slowly. Taking note of this, he grabbed Sakura and carried her back inside the school.

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The door flew open, and the boys inside felt their skin leave their body for a split second. Gaara stood on the other side of the door, panting deeply, carrying Sakumo in his hands.

"The man, he's here. He's near," Gaara spoke, putting Sakumo down on the bed.

"Who's here? Who's near?" Naruto asked, his respiratory system getting thicker to control.

"That man you mentioned about from yesterday, he's here" The red went up to the window and pulled the curtains together.

"That guy who hurt Sakura-chan? HE'S HERE?" Naruto's blue eyes started to show a tint of red. He felt a hand on his shoulder. Kiba was behind him, staring at him with mad eyes.

"Naruto. Control." The blond's eyes stared back, the tint of red slowly fading. Kiba pulled his hand back, making his way to Sakumo, "What happened to Sakumo?"

"Felt his presence and started to act weird" Gaara replied, checking through the window from time to time.

"Well, I guess we have to keep out guard's up. We don't know when he'll attack," Sasuke noted, and everyone nodded.

"Well, you guys can sleep over if you want! I mean… you have to sleep on the ground… but…" Naruto babbled on, his voice eventually fading away into a murmur.

"Yeah, let's do that" Neji agreed.

"Yeah! SLEEP OVER PARTY!" Naruto yelled, shooting his arms up.

"DON'T CALL IT THAT!" The boys shot a glare at Naruto.

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A/N: GaaSaku has shown! I told you! I TOLD YOU! Gaara would have an impotant role in here! HE'S KEEPING SAKURA'S SECRET! AHHH! Now, let's have a sleep over. ;)