If I owned Naruto, do you think I would be writing Fan Fiction?

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It had been a month since that incident with Gaara, if you can call it that. This morning I went to train with my team, just like any other day. Kakashi-sensei was late again, but that didn't bother me. I was siting under a tree near the bridge, meditating.

Naruto was sitting on the railing and Sasuke was leaning against it opposite that of Naruto. At the moment they were both in the middle of an important, intelligent, and fascinating conversation. It went along the lines of something like this...

"What did you call me, you bastard?"

"Are you deaf as well as dumb, dope?"

"Are you ugly as well as emotionless, you prick?"

"Well, at least I'm not blind."

"Why you sonofabit- "

Yeah, it pretty much went on like that until Kakashi-sensei poof-ed up, scaring Naruto so bad he actually flipped over the rail and face planted into the water. Kakashi just rubbed the back of his neck nervously and glanced in the water. "Sorry Naruto." I tried really hard not to laugh, but failed. I think Sasuke even smirked.

"Kakashi-senseiiiiiiii!" Naruto growled as he jumped back onto the bridge. Kakashi just chuckled shakily and cleared his throat. "For today, you guys will spare. Naruto with Sakura, and Sasuke with me."

It figures. Kakashi-sensei always liked Sasuke best out of all of us. Maybe is was because he had the Sharingon as well, or he just had more potential then Naruto and I. But whatever the case, we were always left behind.

After about thirty minutes of arguing with Kakashi, Naruto finally settled down and followed me to a training ground FAR from where our teacher was. No use having him ragging on us for no reason, right?

(Warning! Really sucky fight scene ahead!)

I got into a defensive stance as Naruto got down onto all fours and shook as much water off him as possible. Now, when fighting Naruto the only thing you have to remember is, never underestimate him. Most people would think, "It's just Naruto! This will be easy!" Ha! They haven't seen him training recently. But I was excited. I hadn't fought him in a long time. This would be interesting.

"Are you ready, Sakura-chan?" He asked while giving me a huge smile. "Oh, I'm so going to wipe that smile off his face!" Giving back a smile of my own, I replied.

"Ready when you are, Naruto-kun." His eyes widened at my use of that suffix. Moving quickly while he was still under shock, I pulled several kunai from my pouch at my thigh and threw them in his direction.

He snapped out of his little fantasy world that he had drawn himself into, just in time to pull his own kunai and deflect a few of mine. But not before he got a small cut on his shoulder. Hurtling his kunai into the ground, he quickly formed a few hand seals and called out, "Bunshin no Jutsu!"(1)

Seven 'poofs' later and I was surrounded by Narutos. Pushing chakra into my fist, I pummeled the ground. Dust, dirt and rocks where thrown into the air hitting everything around me. When everything settled, I was in the middle of a medium-sized crater. I smirked at my work. I didn't train with Tsunade for nothing.

Naruto and his clones had vanished. I figured that the raining debris would have taken care of the clones, so where did Naruto go?

I leapt into a nearby tree, leaving a clone behind me in the clearing. Naruto wouldn't take long before he got impatient, I just had to wait for him to jump out.

'So predictable.' I smirked as four Narutos rushed toward me. One ducked low, kicked past my defenses hitting my square in the jaw, forcing me into the air. The other clones held me still as the real Naruto jumped and shouted, "Uzumaki Naruto Rendan!"(2) and delivered a nasty blow to my stomach.

But, by now I had poofed into a log, and Naruto was just standing there with question marks around his head. He was only acting confused. He knew all along that wasn't me, otherwise he wouldn't have kick the clone that hard.

Forming familiar hand seals, I muttered to myself, "Kokuangyo no Jutsu!"(3) Naruto immediately fell to his knees with his hands in front of him, searching out blindly.

"Sakura-chan!" He called panicked. "Sakura-chan! Please stop!" I jumped down into the clearing. Naruto basically in hysteria, eyes wide open and darting about frantically. I chuckled.

"Naruto, I'm stupid," I gave a victorious smirk. "Say you give up."

'Sakura... ' A faint voice whispered my name. I darted my head about, but no one was there. 'Oh no! Not again!' This couldn't be happening! I thought that I had stopped having these... daydream things. That's all they seemed like to me.

'Sakura...' It was louder this time... and... whimpering?

"SAKURA!" Opps.

"Sorry, Naruto. I thought I heard something." I said shakily while I canceled out the jutsu. 'I'm going insane.

"I'm the one who should be sorry." Naruto said as he flew up from the ground, giving a punch that threw me to the ground. "I never did say I gave up." He said proudly while I wiped away blood from my nose.

'Cheeky bastard.' I thought, but I gave him a smile. "Well, that was fun." I said.

"Wanna do it again?" Naruto said with a foxy grin.

"Do you even need to ask?"

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'Who ever thinks that taking time to relax is a stupid idea, is seriously mental.' After short, but intense, training with Naruto, going on a mission with Naruto, and eating with Naruto, a hot shower and a hot cup of tea was sounded like the best thing in the world.

For the moment, I was picturing myself curled up with a warm blanket in my favorite chair, reading a book Kakashi-sensei had recommended to me. It wasn't Icha Icha Paradise! It was a miracle. Although, it had been hard to get out of him...

---Flashback... boring I know---

"Hey, Kakashi-sensei? What do you know about hallucinations?"

"Why do you need to know?"

"Well, I seem to be suffering from somethi-"

"What's your temperature?"

"98.6, but what-"

"Have you been sleeping lately?"

"Well, I've been sleeping as well as can be-"

"Have you had any stressful situations recently?"

"I think I'm having one right-"

"Do you think black is an actually color, or just a mixture of all the others?"

"Um-"

"How many fingers am I holding up?"

"Four, but how is this-"

"Why do you think that Lee takes after Gai-sensei?"

"Now wait a second-"

"What is the most hours that you would recommend a kid playing X-box a day!"

"What's an X-box-?"

"Have you now, or ever been, a bird!"

"Kakashi-sensei-"

"WHAT'S 12X12!"

"KAKASHI-SENSEI!"

"Shit! We have to take you to the hospital now!"

"Sigh."

---end flash back... boring sigh---

Poor Kakashi-sensei. When he got me to the hospital, it took the nurses two hours to convince him nothing was wrong with me. After he had taken me home, he told me about this book... and thus, here I am! Ready for a stress-free night of relaxing!

But of course, when you try to relax, something always happens to mess it up right? Yup.

So I just returned from the library and was ready to try to find out why my life was so... what's the word I'm looking for? Oh right, psychotic.

After about thirty minutes of skimming through pages and finding barely anything that could help, I decided that a small snack was in order! After all, it had been a few hours since I had eaten.

"Let's see, milk, lettuces tomatoes, cheese, bread... in the fridge? Okay... um, yogurt! That's good!" Smiling to myself, I pulled some cheery yogurt from the shelf and closed the door. Turning to my left, I pulled open a nearby drawer and grabbed a spoon.

Turning back toward the door heading toward the living while digging into my treat, I ran into something hard, yet soft. Stepping back, and looking up, I gasped and fell back on my butt.

"Gaara?" Ah yes, the red-haired 'illusion' smirked at me down on the floor. Of course he would think falling would be funny. Ass.

'Get a hold of yourself, Sakura! He isn't real!'

Gaara offered me a hand, which I took, and pulled off the floor. Gathering my thoughts, and remember something I had just read, I grabbed a pen off the counter, as well as posits, and wrote this.

"All non-trivial zeros of the zeta function have real part one-half." (4)

I closed my eyes and waited.

And waited.

And waited some more.

Peaking one eye open, I found that Gaara was still there.

I must have said every curse word known to humanity while I banged my fist into the counter.

"Why did you let him hit you?"

I turn a heavy glare to Gaara, who was not fazed by it, and so intelligently replied, "Huh?"

"I don't like to repeat myself."

I rolled my eyes. 'Why is it that all hot guys are such complete bastards?' I held back a smirk.

"I seriously don't know what you are talking about."

Gaara just stared at me with slightly angry jade orbs.

I sighed. "It was just training, I didn't want to hurt him."

"No one hits you." Gaara grabbed my wrist and pulled me toward him.

'What the hell is he doing!'

With his other hand he lightly touched my cheek, then trail down to my neck, then over to my shoulder, all the while staring intently into my eyes.

"You're mine." He crashed his lips against mine. I struggled briefly before relaxing slightly.

After a moment, Gaara let go of me and stepped back, leaving me a bit breathless.

"Gaara?" I was so confused!

He just pointed to the junction where my neck met my shoulder. 'No fucking way.' I lifted my hand and felt two small scars.

"How did you hide that?" I asked, wide-eyed.

"A fairly simple jutsu." He explained while giving me a smile. " I shall see you tomorrow, Sakura." With that, he disappeared in a whirl of sand.

I sank to the floor and leaned against the cabinets. "Why me?"

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(1) Body Clone Skill: Shadow clones are images of the creator.

(2) Uzumaki Naruto Combo: Self explainitory.

(3) Bringer of Darkness: The user uses chakra to create a complete pitch black area to disorient the battlefield.

(4) I borrowed this from Jimmy Neutron. Which I do not own. Come on! You know it's funny!

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Author Notes: Sorry for the long wait. I was grounded, I'm really sick, I really suck at battle scenes and it took me forever just to write it so I wouldn't hurl when I read it it's still pretty bad, AND I couldn't upload anything! Was it just me? This chapter didn't turn out like I wanted. Damn.

Now, I know what you're thinking. "It's summer! Yay! No school! Now she'll update more!" Wrongo. For a home schooled kid who is going to college this semester, free time is a joke. If you want to blame someone, blame my grandma. Seriously. And, yes I know I misspelled Gaara's demon in the last chapter. I'm sorry.

And now, since I haven't slept in two days, (maybe that's why the chapter sucked?) and I'm as sick as no tomorrow, I'm going to bed. Lots of love to you all!

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