Everyone, thank RAWRximmaxDiN00 for the fifth review! –claps- I am so screwed up right now with school but I DID promise. So, let me thank my five reviewers first!

.

..

…

….

…..

Ok, I'm too lazy. But DeadBlossom I consider a friend and so, I thank you.

Now then.

I don't own.

You don't sue.

Or I'll bash your skull in.

If you do.

Sakura woke with a start. She looked around alarmed, thinking somebody was going to laugh from a shadow or throw a kunai at her or even put a curse mark on her. Her pink hair was so messy, it got in her way. She blew a strand away and realized something. This was her own home…that she shared, but it was still a welcomed sight. She smiles and laid back down, then immediately wished she never did. Instead of her warm, cozy, fluffy bed, she felt sand on her bare shoulders…

"You're awake." A gruff voice stated. It reminded her of the Fake Itachi and she remembered everything.

"W-Who are you? Is this even my house? Why is there dessert sand everywhere?" the questions came out before she could stop them. She heard what she thought was a chuckle. Was the person mocking her?

"In order, Gaara, yes, and we came here in sand so it would naturally be everywhere." She squinted at a shadowy figure in one of her favorite chairs she would read in. Her room wasn't pink, or black, or blue. It was grey. She shuddered. Just like the hospital walls in Kabuto's prison…

Gaara, having no idea why she was shaking, took off one of his robes and draped it around her shoulders. He looked away quickly and summoned the sand into the gourd. He walked to the door and opened it slightly, as if asking if she needed anything else. Before she could speak a word, a flash of orange raced into the room, followed by some green.

"SAKURA!" Lee and Naruto shouted at once. She closed her eyes and braced herself for a few hugs, but they never came. She opened one and found herself in a sphere of sand. Small pieces crumbled off and fell on her pinkish blanket and white pillow. She giggled when she saw both her friends' faces imprinted on the sandy dome.

The sand released Naruto and Lee and Gaara left the room. Naruto stopped acting silly and got stern.

"What happened?" Lee got the same look on his face as well.

She rubbed her now numb neck, where it looked like she had scares. Then she relized why her top was gone, Kakashi sealed the mark like he did to Sasuke's. She had on white bandages to cover herself, so she didn't yell at Lee for blushing.

"I don't know." She closed her eyes and laid back and turned on her side, signaling she needed rest.

"Why did they take you?" Lee asked.

"I don't know." She said with her eyes still shut.

"When did it happen?" Naruto.



"When I went missing I guess. I don't know."

"Who gave you the mark?" Lee.

"I don't know."

"Where do you last remember being?" Naruto.

"Let me rest, I do not know." She growled. Who, what, when, where, why, and how? Lee opened his mouth once more, but somebody silenced him. Naruto sounded startled.

"Neji? What are-" Naruto's neck met Neji's hand. He took a seat in the chair Gaara sat and looked at her.

"Speak." It was not a question.

"Later." It was not a promise.

Neji moved to a seat closer to her and leaned over her face. His breath tickled her ear and she drew Gaara's robe closer. She was so cold…

"Haruno, I cannot help if I do not know what's wrong." His warm breath smelled of pocky, but she pulled the robe over her head. She was so very tired and so very cold… Neji sat back down, wondering if it was something he said. Her steady breathing told him she was really tired.

"What were you trying to do?" Gaara stood behind Neji.

"Seeing if there was something I could help her with." Neji knew Gaara had been standing there since he moved seats. Both watched Sakura sleep soundly, occasionally shivering and rubbing her neck. A bit of frost came out of her mouth and froze on her pillow. Neji and Gaara stared. That's not good.

Review! Next time...



Gaara didn't want too. Really, but Sakura really wanted a spar…ands that's why he was pinning the shivering girl to a tree. His knee between her knees so she could not run, but his arms at his side. He leaned over her left shoulder and breathed into her ear, his hot breath on her cold skin made it seem like she was melting.

"G-Gaara?" her voice sounded scared, frightened really. He noticed how she shook when he did that. It…pleased him?