A/N: HI all! I wanted to get out another chapter before the start of school. So here I am. I'm about to write another chapter. That and… My muse is becoming rather annoying. You try her rattling your brain around randomly every five minutes you aren't writing.
Gaara: What about having to live with Shukaku?
Hoshi: Well I am a demon –cackles-
Gaara: You are?
Hoshi: more or less –chews cheerfully on her tiger striped tail-
Faith: Riiighhhttt Now onto the story….!
To Kill the sandman's flowers
Chapter: Oo I forgot what chapter I was on ;
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"Someone will be sent to bring you flowers" He said walking out the door just as Naruto busted in upon the scene.
Sakura blushed at the sand nin's back. "Gaara…" She murmured his name with a bright smile as she turned her attention to Naruto.
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There was a knock on Sakura's bedroom door. The room might as well be a prison as far as she was concerned. It was large. But at night it was cold enough to see her breathe.
Without warning three sand anbu's rushed into the room each with armfuls of flowers. They deposited then on desks. The floor. And anywhere else they could find room. They left and came back with more. The room was full except for a small pathway they'd provided down the center of her room to get to the door and to the bathroom that was hidden in her wall by a curtain.
Sakura leaned off the edge of her large burgundy canopy bed. Her face was blushed pleasantly. Picking a rose from a bouquet set on her night stand she lifted it to her nose and inhaled.
She fell back onto her bed giggling softly to herself.
"I think I could fall in love with someone like you Gaara" she murmured in a quiet whisper to herself.
Two blue eyes peered curiously in her window. Someone tapped on it impatiently. Not seeing her coming to the window fast enough it burst open and Naruto pounced through it landing on the cold floor in a crouched position.
"Sakura-chan…" he looked at the flowers and tilted his head to one side cutely.
She paused from her dreamy state to look up at her old teammate and best friend.
"Do you have a secret admirer?" He asked innocently pawing through the different flowers here or there.
"No" she muttered blushing.
"Can I give these to Hinata?" He asked holding up a simple white and lavender bouquet.
Sakura beamed over at him and pulled a few more bouquets from random piles and vases. "You should give her one for every day of the week" she said giving them to him.
Naruto snatched the flowers from her with a large grin. "Thank you Sakura!" he cried tackling the girl to her bed and clinging to her.
Sakura's face flushed happily. "I can't breath" she wheezed pushing him onto the floor. The blonde twitched his whiskers at her smiled brightly. "I'm going to take them to her right now!" He cheered brushing himself off.
"She's in Konoha" Sakura muttered sweat dropping at her friend.
"Nope… Hearing you were hurt the whole group came from Konoha to here!" Naruto folded his hands behind his head and turned to look around the room. He dropped a vase and grinned sheepishly. "Sorry"
"Same old Naruto" She muttered shrugging indifferently.
He prodded next at the bookcase next to the doorway. The books were ancient and the labels were no longer readable. With a cute pout on his face he kicked the ground.
"Geez. Go see Hinata already!" she grumbled crossing her arms and leaning back against her headboard.
He threw his arms up in the air and rushed to the door. "Visit us soon Sakura-chan!" The door slammed after him and his footsteps were heard pounding down the hallway. Along with the shouts of the sand siblings telling him to slow down and pick up what he dropped and or had broken.
Sakura dove into a bushel of flowers. Skipping among them she did a few twirls. Her pink locks were twisted rather painfully now in a group of white roses. With wide eyes still filled with wonder she yanked the roses free. The petals scattered messily, but rather prettily across the still freezing floor.
"Its so pretty" she murmured looking at the floor. Her cheeks flushed slightly as she beamed.
Grabbing more of the flowers she began to throw them about. Few on the pillows. Some in the bathroom. Shoved under the door. Wherever it seemed conveinant the girl had thrown the bright colored objects.
"Amused?" The was wide open.
Gaara stood in the doorframe. Behind him a foxtail flickered from side to side in irritation, or was it mischief. She didn't bother to figure it out.
Ignoring his question she stumbled to the door and kneeled at his side. Her curious hands clamped onto his tail. It was soft as she imagined a normal fox's tail to be. Looking up at Gaara she tugged on it lightly. As expected he let out a growl, trying to shove her away.
"Y…You have a tail?" She stammered, her face turned an interesting shade of red.
"It appears that way" He snarled sending her a quick kick to make her release his tail.
The girl didn't seem perturbed at all by his kicking her away. In fact she was all smiles. "Gaara-sama… Your not a fox demon" she mused quietly while giving him a large grin as though to say. 'I know your secret'
"Dinner is ready" He muttered without looking back at her to see if she would follow.
Sakura didn't bother to change out of her pj's. Instead she left on the pink cloud soft cotton pants and the long t-shirt that belonged to Naruto.
Temari looked at the oddly clad girl and shrugged. It was only Sakura. She would still see her as the same girl she saw at the chuunin exam. The girl was strong and determined. The two girls began to talk among themselves ignoring the two males at the table. Kankuro and Gaara were giving each other dark glares. One sat on one side of Sakura the other on her other side. It was rather annoying to have to glare around her.
"I need to see the Godaime" Gaara excused himself from the table.
He went about casually as though it were official business. As he had been sitting at the table he found a rather annoying instinctual force trying to pull him into doing different things. What Itachi had given him surely worked. Unless of course he'd done something wrong. Perhaps a counter force was pushing the potion out of his system.
'You don't have to turn back' Sneered Shukaku.
'Yes I do' Gaara picked up his gourd and placed it on his back.
'But she was awful sweet about the scratches behind the ear''Don't be stupid'
'We'd be with Sakura''We'd be a stupid animal'
Shukaku went silent. He didn't bother retorting to Gaara's stubbornness.
"Gaara?" Sakura peered up at him from the bottom of the stairs.
"What?" He looked down at her annoyed she yet again interrupted something.
"I want to see Tsunade" She put her hands together and gave him a small pout.
"No" There was no room for discussion for the master of sand had walked away leaving her alone on the darkened staircase.
"Your not my Kage" she muttered heading off to her own room. The girl padded into her room. Finding that she'd brought nothing was a problem. No supplies. No extra clothes. No sleeping accessories.
Sakura made her way to the gate. She couldn't get around it. The thing was much much much out of her reach even if she leapt using a high amount of chakra.
"Haruno!" A rough voice bellowed.
"Oh god no!" she dug her heals into the ground. She sprung off at a rapid rate. Knocking the guards the ground and sprinting past. Without much thought she kept going.
"You won't make it" The voice was to her left. At her side. The footsteps were in step with hers. Both of their feet hitting the sand and springing off at the same time. It seemed she was being toyed with. If they could catch that fast up to her then it would be just as easy to knock her to the ground and drag her back to Sunagakure.
Looking up sharply from the sand she halted to stare at Gaara. "I need to see Tsunade-sama" she whispered looking to him desperately.
"No. I have business with her. When you've healed fully. You may return to your own village" he growled pushing her shoulder in the direction of the hidden village.
"I want to see her" Sakura howled angrily.
"Your stupidity is going to break the foundation of the hidden villages alliance you little fool" he grasped her arm with a bruising force.
Cringing at the pain she bit her lip painfully between her teeth. "Let go" Her voice was firm but mildly shrill.
"Please" He looked almost desperate. The tail behind him brushed the ground. It laid unmoving.
Since when did the great Gaara say please? She slowly nodded her head. It was the least he could do. He'd saved her. Well… kind of. He slowly released her arm.
"Ja matta" He said quietly adding a small nod of his head politely at her.
"Bye" she answered. "You better return soon" She threatened at his turned back.
The pieces began to fall together. The tail. How he acted. The small dreams she viewed upon waking. Her brows drew together. What a silly notion, Gaara was no fox. She rubbed her arm tenderly. The flesh was already bruising. He was an assassin with no patience and a horribly vicious glare.
"Sakura-san!" Temari latched onto the girl. She clung to her desperately gazing her over. "Gaara said you left"
"Hai, he caught me" she said shrugging her shoulders.
"That's all he did to you" Temari prodded at her arm with a bright smile. "If I didn't know any better I would say that he likes you."
"Baka!" Sakura screamed pointing in her friends face. "Gaara doesn't like me!"
Gaara pounded on Tsunade's door.
She answered looking at him with half lidded eyes. Seeing it was the kazekage she instantly sobered up and looked him in the eye.
"How may I help you Kazekage-sama?" She asked bowing slightly.
He bowed as well.
"You see … I have a slight problem." As he spoke the fox's tail unraveled from where it was stashed inside his robe and flicked slightly in her direction.
"Yes.. it appears we have quite the problem on our hands" she muttered darkly.
"I was given something to make it go away. Returning me to the state I'm in. Unfortunately it seems that whatever it was I was given was only temporary." He growled unhappily.
"Gaara-san… I need to do some research. Please make yourself comfortable in Konoha in the meantime"
"When should I check back in to see the progress?"
"Two days." She nodded her head slowly as though to agree with herself.
"…It seems a bit long. Suna needs me" He muttered in the closest thing the killer would get to a whine.
"One day for research One day to create an antidote or jutsu to help you" she ground out looking annoyed at the other kage. "Besides! What do you have to rush off to so fast foxy? My medic doesn't appear to be going anywhere that fast" She rolled her eyes irritably and crossed her arms.
"…I didn't say anything about your leaf medic" He muttered waving a hand dismissively at her.
"You followed her enough" She answered back smirking.
Gaara vanished in a swirl of sand before he could lose his temper and ruin the alliance between Konoha and the hidden sand village.
One day had passed. Gaara found nothing amusing about the Kage tower. He'd been down every hall and into every room. It was quite blank. Once and awhile a medic would zoom out of Tsunade's office with an object flying after them. It was amusing at first but it had grown annoying to hear the woman's temper flare out of control. Her temper had to be worse than Temari's. He mentally cringed thinking about how horrible her cooking would be. Something worse than Temari's as well perhaps?
Bored he settle on the file room. He slipped in without being noticed. Grabbing a few of the names he knew… Oh hell Sakura's file and Naruto's he left the room. Staring at Naruto's for a moment he dropped it on the floor and kicked it under the door. Naruto was easier to read than a book. He knew all that he needed about the boy already.
Sakura on the other hand was a mystery. He knew her personality but nothing more. She was graceful. Fast, but not fast enough to escape his sand.
He opened the folder. The first thing his attention was drawn to was a list of abilities she'd gained. Her strength rivaled that of a number of trained ANBU soldiers. Other than that there were a few techniques he'd never heard of.
Delving further into the file he came upon something Tsunade had hand written about her apprentice. She had MPD (Multiple personality disorder) More likely than not. She could wake up any day and be someone else, ready to blow away someone's head. The kage didn't say whether or not the personalities had acknowledged one another or not. Gaara smirked. What a juicy little tidbit he'd just come across. No one else would know except for him and perhaps the Godaime. Maybe Sakura even. But no one else. It would be his secret to keep… Until the time was right and they were arguing.
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A/N: another chapter is up. This one wasn't so great. ; But I wanted to get it up so I could start the next one. In the next one Gaara finds that the cure may not be so great. Sakura is off in Suna still running around. And more flowers! Geez… Where do you get flowers in the desert anyway?