After they got the award and sang once more, Temari said she was treating everyone to supper, something big for her to do. They chose to eat at a pizza place, not wanting to eat all of Temari's money. Though, Kankuro said it was fine, Sakura hit him for Temari. After they ate, Kiba was having a sleep over at his house, everyone invited. Temari took Sakura and the others girls shopping while the guys went somewhere else, they needed to get Sakura some clothes of her own. Going into that house to get her old ones wasn't an option. Neather Temari or Gaara, even Kankuro would alow it. But they didn't tell anyone why. They knew Sakura wouldn't want everyone knowing just yet.
Shopping was fun, they found the guys and had them carry everything back to the cars.
"Tonight was fun." Sakura said happily as she and Gaara walked to the car ahead of everyone else. They were just slow, also, Temari had to stop somewhere, and Sakura and Gaara were carring the heavy stuff.
"Hn." Gaara gave her a side glance, and attempted to reach in his pocket to get Temari's keys.
"Here, let me help." Sakura set down the bags and put her hand in his pocket grabbing the keys. She dismissed her blush, pretending it wasn't there. But she missed the blush that spred across Gaara's face for a split second. Sakura unlocked the car and tossed the bags in, and helped Gaara with the ones he was carring. "Well, that's it." Sakura sighed and leaned on her hands against the car.
"Are you alright?" Gaara asked, reaching to grab her incase she fell.
"Yeah, just a little tired." Sakura rubbed her forhead and turned to face him with a small smile. "Thanks."
"For what?"
"For... For everything." She pushed off the car and closed the gap between them, hugging him around his waist. She felt him tense, but just burried her face in his chest. His body started to relax, and his arms wound around her, hugging her back.
Sakura sighed content and looked up at him. He was looking down at her with curious eyes. All thoughts flew out her head when he started leaning closer to her face. And, without knowing it, she stood on her tippy toes and reached up. Their lips met, and didn't stop. All of a sudden, it was just them, there was no cars, no mall, nothing. Just them. Just him, just her. Sakura's arms moved around his neck, and Gaara's hands slid down her back, over her butt, and down to her legs, lifting her up on the back of the car. Sakura gasped and backed her face away to look at him. His lips were at her throat. Everything was gone again. Sakura pulled his face back up to hers.
XX
"What took you guys so long?" Kiba called from the store they were just leaving.
"You guys left like, a half hour ago!" Temari whined. "My feet hurt, can we go home now?"
Neji shook his head. By the blush that Sakura wore, he could tell. Hinata had the same guess, and was hoping, for Sakura's sake, that Temari didn't find out. Gaara's her brother for goodness sake! You don't make-out with your friends brother, it just isn't cool.
Kankuro knew the second they walked in the mall. He knew before they left what would happen. He gave Gaara a knowing smirk, and wiggled his eyebrows when he met Sakura's eyes. Sakura blushed and smacked him upside the head when no one was looking.
"We'll meet you at your house, Kiba. Got to go home first." Temari called over her shoulder as she grabbed Sakura's arm and dragged her out, Kankuro and Gaara slowly following.
Temari didn't slow her pace, and Sakura was begining to think she wanted to seperate her from the guys. Temari wheeled around to glare at her. Yup. Sakura was right.
"What did you and my little brother do?" She hissed.
"A-a-a-a.... We, ummm... I love you?" Sakura shrugged with a impish smile, the one a kid gave when they knew they did something wrong.
Temari crossed her arms and glared down at Sakura, using her hight to tower over the pinkette.
"Look, Temari..." Sakura sighed and let her shoulders drop.
"Sakura," A big smile stretched on Temari's face. "I love you, too. That's why I don't care. I just felt that I'd do this before Kankuro could. It would have been a lot wrose if he would have got to you before me." She let out a small chuckle.
"... Huh?"
Temari laughed and linked her arm with Sakura's. "Don't worry. I love you, you wont get hurt." Sakura looked at her oddly, but got in the back seat of the car, still confused.
Gaara and Kankuro got in, Gaara sitting next to Sakura. He seemed to look her over, as if inspecting for damage.
"Don't worry, Gaara. I didn't hurt your girlfriend." Temari chuckled, watching them in the mirror. Sakura blushed and looked out the window, Gaara watched her with a small smirk.
Gaara helped Sakura take all of her things to the spare room down the hall from his. It was rarely ever used, she being the first guest over sence... sence they moved there. Temari had cleaned it all up for her, so Sakura could put her things away. Gaara watched from the bed in silence, his mind wandering to what happened at the car as he watched her hang things up in the small closet.
Sakura tried to keep her hands and mind buisy, in fear that her mind you wonder to things that she didn't want to think about. She carefully hung up all the (shiver) dresses that Temari made her buy. She liked a few, but let have Temari have fun playing dress up with a life size doll. She then put all her new shirts on the left over hangers and put her jeans and other pants, socks in the dresser. She could feel Gaara's eyes on her, but never looked at him. She left the room, getting the duffle bag that Temari was letting her use for tonight. She came back in, still not looking at Gaara, and got some clothes and other things for the sleep over tonight. She grabbed a pair of sweatpants that didn't look half bad, and a sports bra for P.J.'s. and packed a few pairs of jeans and t-shirts. She knew they were only staying for one night, but she'd dicide what to wear in the morning.
Sakura sighed and looked down at her packed duffle bag. There was nothing left to do. Nothing. At all. Her mind started to wonder. The feel of his lips, his hands runnning down her back, was all to fresh to be thinking about with him in the same room. Sakura sighed and shook her head, finally turning to him. He was a lot closer then she thought. He was right in front of her, her nose almost touching his chest as she turned. She gasped and tried to back away, but his hands were on her back, stopping her excape. She slowly looked up into his eyes, he was looking down at her with a blank face.
"G-Gaara..." She whispered, once again trying to push away from him. He held her closer then before. "I-I-I can't!" She whispered and pushed harder.
"Why?" He whispered, leaning closer to her face. Eyes intence.
"B-because it wont work." She whispered, her push weak. She didn't want to push him away, but couldn't let him get any closer, he was already far to close.
"Why?" His voice sounded hurt; his grip loosened.
"B-b-because it wont..." Her attemps to get away from him were feeble, she was bearly trying now. The smell radiating off his skin was toxic to her, pulling her in. He was getting past her wall, far to much. She needed to push him out for he knew to much. He wasn't supossed to know about Kio. He wasn't supossed to try and save her, though she wanted him to. She wanted him to be there for her, to help her up when she fell. She wanted her prince in shinning armor never to go away, but it had to be done.
"I'm not leaving." He whispered, as if he had read her mind. "Try as you may, I will not leave you alone." He said it slowly, regaining his strength, holding her tighter to his body. "Sakura, I want to help you, I have to."
"N-no, you don't." She whispered, tears pouring over. "You'll just get hurt."
"Sakura," His finger was under her chin, forcing her to look up in his eyes. It looked like he was struggling with what he was about to say. "I wont leave you... I-I... I love you. I will not stand by and see you get hurt." He whispered, looking down into my eyes. "I will not leave you, even if you do leave me. I will still be watching to make sure you're safe." His whisper was full of pain, but he let go of her and back away. "I'll meet you down stairs." He turned and left the room.
The tears flowed from Sakura's eyes like water gushing out of a broken damn. She slowly walked over to the bed and laid down, shoving her face in the pillow to muffle her crys. It wasn't till an hour later until she heard a knock on the door. She mumbled something, but they came in anyway. Temari sat in the bed and looked at her with curious eyes.
"Sakura? What happened?" She whispered, rubbing Sakura's back. "Gaara wouldn't say, he told me to come make sure you're ok. He looked like someone had just kicked his dog... Though I think he'd laugh if that really happened... But not to Jaspar, of course!" She said quickly.
Sakura didn't move.
"Sakura!" Temari groaned. "Tell me!"
Sakura mumbled something that sounded like 'No, go to hell.'
"... If you said, 'go to hell' to me, I'm gunna kick your ass." Temari whispered threateningly.
Sakura sat up and put her back against the wall, her head on her knees that were pulled up to her chest, she was hiding her red eyes. "I'm fine. Nothing happened." She whispered, her voice betraying her and cracking.
"Uh-huh." Temari looked at her suspisously. "Tell me."
"No."
"1."
"Nope."
"2."
"..."
"You only have till 3, ya know." Temari sighed.
"..."
"2 1/2."
"....(sigh)"
"2 3/4"
"..."
"..3-"
"FINE!" Sakrua screamed, looking up at Temari. Temari gasped at seeing her eyes all red. "I don't want to be close to him! I don't want him getting hurt! I don't want to have to worry if I'm the right one for him! He deserves more them me! I'm not right for him! I don't want to be responible for that mistake..." The tears had returned, Sakura's voice got quieter as she spoke. Sakura looked at Temari helplessly. "I don't want to be the one that ruins his life." The helplessness in Sakura's eyes made Temari's water.
"Don't talk like that." She whispered. "I've never seen Gaara act like he does when hes around you. It's obvious that he really loves you. Sakura, you can't do this to him."
Sakura's head fell back to her knees. "That's why I'm doing it now. It will just be harder if I wait."
Temari sat on the end of the bed looking just as helpless as Sakura. "Well..." She sighed. "I'll call Kiba and tell him we're not going. Think this over."
"Wait." Sakrua reached out and grabbed Temari's wrist. "We're still going. I'm not going to let you not go because of me. And, if it makes you happy, I'll go to." Sakura hand fell, and so did her eyes. "I've already thought it through, I don't need anymore time."
"Sakura...." Temari tried, but Sakura shook her head and got up, grabbing the bag.
"Let's go." She put on a bright fake smile and walked out of the room, not looking back to make sure Temari followed.
XX
It was a little awkward being so close to Gaara. Temari sat in back of the car with her and let Kankuro drive, but Sakura could still feel Gaara's eyes on her as she stared out the window, refusing to meet his eyes. It would be easier to pretend to be just friends, but the others wouldn't know that they weren't together if Sakura did that, so she dicided to just ignor him. Temari didn't like it, and kept sighing, looking back and forth between the two.
Kiba was confused, as was Naruto, in the begining, everyone else seemed to get what was going on. Hinata looked at Sakura's face with her sad pale eyes, trying to catch her gaze, but Sakrua refused to look into the sad eyes. They gave up after awhile, not wanting to ruin the party. Sakura talked to everyone a little, but mostly kept to herself, the feeling of Gaara's eyes never left her.
Hey guys! I hope you liked this chap! I've got a small problem... I can't think of anything to write for this story so I'm going to take a small break on it and finish my other storys. I've been having a major writers cramp with a few of them, and this is one. I so many things going on right now, its also hard to find time. I don't think there will be another chap up on this story until after new years, maybe later.
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sorry about the whole taking a break thing!!
-Amyc103