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Dare to Love You

Chapter 5-Day 4, 5, 6, end of first week.

Sakura woke up in mid day, in the same room. She was in Gaara's room. Sakura took a glance at the table clock, it was 12.45. She got up from the bed and walked out of room.

The apartment was empty. She searched for Gaara but found no one. So at last, she walked into kitchen. She blinked, 'What a mess…' and noticed a sandwich and a cup of tea on the table, and a note beside it.

Eat up. She read it. Sakura smiled.'This is so un-Gaara…'

It supposed to be breakfast meal, and the tea was already cold, so did the sandwich. Sakura didn't care at all and sipped on her tea. With the cup in her hand, she began to wandering around the kitchen. She took a look in the sink, and found a plate and a cup with a few liquid of coffee in it.

Then Sakura looked aside and found other coffee sachets. 'He sure likes coffee…'

After finishing her meal, Sakura chose to clean all the mess in his kitchen. She washed all the plates and cups, put all the sachets and other foods at their place.

Proud of her work, she walked back to the main room. 'Well… I think this is the time to return a favor…' Like what she did to the kitchen, she cleaned the main room, the papers, and the scrolls which were lying everywhere.

"Phew…" Sakura sighed. 'He may be a kazekage, but he is not any different with the other boys…'

Sakura found her clothes in his bedroom then. It was clean, and neat. Sakura grabbed it and smiled to no one. 'He is so nice…' and blushed unconsciously.

She walked into the bathroom and began to unbuttoned the shirt, and changed into her summer dress. Sakura looked at the mirror and noticed a red spot on her wide forehead.

She grumbled as she touched it. 'It does leave a mark… I wonder how it didn't disappear after a night…'

'It will be a warning for you to not kiss me without permission, ever again…'

Sakura blushed madly.

"Soo…tell me…" Ino said. Sakura focused her eyes to her cup as if it was so entertaining. "You already know, don't you?" Sakura responded.

"Noo… tell me the whole story! The whole story after I left!" Ino stated.

"Nothing happened, okay?!"

"You are lying…" Ino's eyes directed to Sakura's forehead. "What is that, on your forehead?"

"Oh… It's Gaara's mark." Sakura mumbled as she stirred the spoon in the cup.

"WHAT????" Ino slammed the table. Sakura blinked. "What what?!"

"Gaara's mark, you said?" Ino's lips formed an evil smirk. Sakura realized what was she just said. 'Damn…'

"But isn't a mark usually located at here?" Ino pointed her neck. Sakura blushed madly, again. "Hentai! It's notthat kind of mark!"

"So what kind of mark is that?" Ino asked. Sakura took a breath and said. "He flicked me with his fingers. Like this." Sakura flicked her thumb and index finger to Ino's arms.

Ino looked at her hand. That red spot disappeared quickly. "Oh…" Ino nodded and looked at her again. "But yours sure last long, huh?" she grinned.

"Shut up…"

At the night, Sakura looked at Gaara's long sleeved shirt. It already folded neatly.

'Maybe I'll return this shirt tomorrow…'

Day 5…

Sakura couldn't leave the hospital until her work time end. Her senior didn't give her any chance to sneak out after she disappeared in the middle of the day and didn't show up the next day. Sakura could only grumble all the time.

She looked at a paper bag on her table. 'His shirt has to wait…'

As her work time ended, Sakura walked to his temporary apartment. It was located not too far away from the Hokage building, and it was at the upper rate. He is a Kazekage after all; sure Tsunade gave him apartment at the best spot.

Sakura knocked on the door. No respond. Sakura frowned. All the curtains were closed, and there was no light from inside. Sakura looked at her watch. It was already eight p.m… Where was he?

Sakura sighed and left the apartment with the paper bag in her hug.

Day 6…

The next day was just the same. His apartment was still in the same condition like the previous day. She already asked Shizune whether she had seen Gaara or not. But Shizune gave the unwanted answer. She hadn't seen Gaara after those three days. Neither did Tsunade.

Sakura began to worry. Did he already leave? No one knows. But Ino said that he would be stay at Konoha for one month. And that day was the sixth day…

She checked the apartment back. It was still in same condition. Sakura reached the door and tried to open it. It was unlocked. When she was about to step in, someone interrupted her.

"What do you want?" Sakura startled on her spot. She turned around and found an old man.

"Er… I'm looking for the Kazekage…" she stammered.

That old man looked at her before answered, "That redheaded young man? He left already…"

Sakura felt the ground disappearing after she heard him. 'He… left…?'

"Since… when?" Sakura said after found her voice back.

"Um… wait… Oh, he left in the afternoon two days ago. He brought a big bag with him and…"

Sakura didn't pay attention to him anymore. 'In the afternoon… two days ago… That was the day when I left this apartment… and I planned to give this back to him at the night… He had left…' Sakura tightened her hug to the paper bag.

"Hey, young lady. Are you okay?" That old man asked her, with concerned look on his face. Sakura lifted her gaze to him.

"I'm okay. Thank you very much, sir. Good night…" she smiled and left him.

He nodded and went into his apartment.

Day 7…

"Wow… today is the seventh day already!" Ino clapped her hands. "Hmm…" Sakura responded carelessly. Sakura ignored her cake and looked outside with unfocused gaze.

"So, how is the progress?"

"Good…"

"Great! Tell me!" Ino grinned. But that grin soon disappeared when she looked at Sakura's expression. "Sakura?"

Sakura still looked outside with her mind at somewhere else, to someone else, to be exact. Ino looked at her friend worriedly.

A tear rolled down across her cheek. Ino's eyes widened. 'Sakura is crying in public? It isn't like Sakura…'

"Sakura? Why are you… crying?"

Sakura startled and wiped the tear away. "What? I'm not crying!" She said with a fake smile. Ino looked at her with concerned look.

"You are lying…"

Sakura laughed nervously and returned to her gloomy look again.

"He already left Konoha…" She started. Ino blinked at her statement. "Gaara? He already left Konoha?" Sakura nodded.

"But, when?"

"Three days ago, in the afternoon…" Sakura lowered her face. Ino tried to cheer her up. "Ahaha… see? There's no consequence at all. I win. Hehehe…" she faked a laugh, but stopped after she heard a sob.

"Come on, Sakura… Is that hard to you to admit that I win? Hey, we can drop the dare now!" She tried again. Sakura lifted her head. Her eyes were puffy and wet with tears.

"You wrong Ino. There is a consequence in this dare…"

Ino bit her lower lips. "Don't say…" Sakura nodded.

"I think I already fell in love with him. And now he left, just like that. It hurts…" She buried her face in her palms.

Ino gulped. "Let's go to Suna." Sakura looked at her. Ino laughed nervously. "It's my fault. Now, I'll go with you to Suna."

Sakura smiled at her and shook her head. "I think we don't need to go after him. If he left, it means he has no feeling toward me. He went to Konoha for his Kazekage duty, didn't he?"

"But…"

"It's okay… I'll try to forget him. I think it's not that hard. I already have an experience in forgetting Sasuke." She grinned and wiped her tears away. She grabbed her paper bag and stood up.

"Thanks for the cake, Ino. So, the dare ended?" She asked.

Ino looked at Sakura's untouched cake and looked at her. She nodded. "Yeah, I think so."

"Very well. See you later." Sakura smiled and walked toward the door.

"I'm sorry, Sakura!" Ino said again. Without looking back, Sakura lifted a hand and left the shop.

Sakura wiped her tears again as she walked across the main street. She lowered her face so nobody noticed her crying. Unfortunately, the tears seemed unstoppable.

Sakura tightened her grip on the paper bag, which was contained with Gaara's shirt, and kept her face low as she fastened her step.

Maybe that day she was not so lucky. She bumped into an old woman, a middle aged man, a teenager because she kept her gaze to the ground.

And that time, for the fourth time, she bumped into somebody else. Being irritated although she knew that was her fault, she yelled at that victim with gaze focused to her eye level, that people's shoulder. From the shape, Sakura sure that was a guy.

"Watch your step, idiot!" she yelled.

"It is you whom should watch yours…" he muttered.

Sakura froze.

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