A/N: Chapter two is here (:
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
Recap:
"Could you at least not show that ugly smile around me?"
"And you're the one to talk about ugly, forehead-girl?"
"And their on it again", Kiba said to himself and sighted. He grabbed his jacket and put it on, gave Sakura quick hug and kiss on the cheek before he grabbed Ino's hand and started dragging her down the stairs. This had happened a few times, so he knew what to do, "Bye, Sakura! See you later.. And good luck with that new movie!"
End of recap
Some days later
06.54 a.m, Saturday, the phone is ringing.
Sakura groaned and, while still being half asleep, got up from her very comfortable bed and walked out of the bedroom and into the living room where the phone was located. Why would someone call her at this time, on a Saturday?
"Hello?" she answered, still not fully awake.
"Hey, pinky", the voice at the other end said and Sakura could almost swear that she heard this person smirk. Seriously. She muttered something before answering.
"What do you want.. At this time, Kakashi?"
"You know that new movie I have been thinking of making? Well, I want you to be the female lead", he said, this made her wake up, totally.
"Really?" she asked eagerly. She'd wanted to be in that movie from the first second she'd heard about it. Of course, she had to talk to her agent and so on first but, who cares?It was a romantic action film – or more like an action film with a little romance in it – and they would be going to London, New York, Sydney and more places. She loved it. She started to talk none stop about what she might want to see when they were at those places, she always told him that. It was like a tradition, kind of. In the middle of a sentence, she could clearly hear Kakashi say something about 'the male lead' and 'played by Sabaku no Gaara'. After that, she got quiet, just what he had expected. A small laugh escaped from his lips. He could only guess what kind of look she had on her face at the moment. Probably priceless.
"S-Sabaku no Gaara?" she asked quietly after a while.
"Yes.. So are you doing it or not? I've already talked to your agent and he agreed on it", Kakashi said, suddenly very to the point. Sakura could hear a female voice whisper something about 'are you done yet, sexy?' and she knew exactly why he wanted an answer so fast suddenly. So that's why he was up so early? Pervert.
"Sure, talk to you later.. Tell Lily I said hi!" she said before they said goodbye and hung up at the same time. Okay, there it was again, but she couldn't resist to think about it. The question she asked herself everyday nowadays; Why, oh why, didn't she have a boyfriend? Even Kakashi, the bachelor for eternity was married! What? Sakura being paranoid? Of course not.
After a second or two, she though about going back to bed but she knew that she wouldn't be able to go back to sleep. She was thinking about too many things at the moment, no way was she going to be able to go back to sleep. So, she did the only think you could do on an early Saturday morning. TV with a cup of coffee, now that's something she likes to do when she wakes up way too early on a Saturday or Sunday, when she doesn't have to go up even earlier than she did today to go to the US or something like that.
The only bad thing about waking up too early on a Saturday is that there is nothing that she wants to actually watch on TV.
"Hm.. Sabaku no Gaara, eh?" she mumbled to no one but herself. Yeah, she liked the sound of that. The last time she saw him in person was one and a half years ago, on a charity event at some rich and old mans house. They hadn't really talked, just said a few words to each other before they parted and got busy with other things and people.
After an hour or so, she just gave up hope on finding something interesting to watch, so she sighed and turned the TV off. After that she walked into her bedroom again and changed from the pink tank top and the pair of black short shorts to a pair of dark jeans and a black top. She let her long hair down and after applying a small layer of make-up she went into the living room again, picking the phone up and then walking into the kitchen and started to make breakfast. Should she call? The person was probably asleep.. Heck, why shouldn't she call?
She smirked and dialed the number. After three signals, someone answered and a tired voice could be heard.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Ino-pig", Sakura said happily while she took out the milk from the refrigerator. She could hear how the girl at the other end sighed, irritated.
"What do you want, forehead-girl?"
"Oh, nothing special.. Just wanted to call and say hi, since we are such good friends, right?" she said, still happy.
They were not friends, not at all. They were rivals and the whole world knew it. They had been friends in high school, the best of friends. But when both of them started to become famous actresses they just.. Ended the friendship since both of them wanted to be the best and so on. Sakura didn't remember why they even became friends in the first place, Ino was the biggest bitch in the whole world, with her long blond hair and those blue eyes. Ugh! She looked like a slut too. God, Sakura hated her! And if it wasn't bad enough, the bitch was dating Sakura's cousin Kiba! Could it get any worse?
"What do you want, bitch?" Ino asked, annoyed.
"Have you heard about the new Hatake Kakashi movie? That romantic action film with more action in it than romance?"
"Yeah..?"
"Guess who's going to play the female lead?"
She could hear Ino gasp, which made Sakura smirk. Aha, who's the best?
"Aaand.. Guess who's going to play the male lead?"
"Who?" Ino asked. Oh, why was Sakura going to be the female lead in Kakashis new movie? Ino wanted to be the female lead and she had told Kakashi that for ages. Why didn't he listen to her?
"Sabaku no Gaara", Sakura said while still smirking widely, "Okay, bye now sweetie!"
She hung up and put the phone down on the kitchen table and finished the making of the breakfast. Do you think she was a little too mean? No? Good. Because she loved to piss Ino off. Back when they had been friends, they had both enjoyed just teasing each other, like friends did. But now it was the real deal. May the best woman win.
Sakura could easily figure out that Ino was probably sitting at home right now, shocked and just utterly pissed off. Every actress who knew who Gaara was and liked the movies he'd done so far were just dying to be in a movie with him, especially when there was romance involved. Yes, Sakura was the luckiest girl on earth at the moment. Now the only question was: Was she going to handle the pressure when they met on the first day of shooting? She knew that she just had to be perfect so that she could impress him, no doubt about that. He was a really good actor and when she saw him act, she just didn't think that she was that good. That's why she had to be so perfect. Oh god.
At said actors house
It was his day off and he usually sleeps until noon then, but he too had been woken up by a phone that was ringing. And guess who it was? No, not the Easter bunny, Hatake Kakashi. At the moment, said actor – also known as Gaara – was in the middle of a conversation with this Kakashi, no shirt in sight. Six pack.. (A/N: -insert drooling fan girls-)
"So, I have a female lead now", Kakashi said.
"Oh yeah?" Gaara said.
"Does the name Haruno Sakura wake any memories?"
"Hn", the 'hn' showed interest in his voice and it came with a smirk. Oh, he remembered her. When they were in high school, he'd had some weird crush on her. Even though he hadn't understood that since he'd been a human ice cube at that time, didn't love anyone but himself. But when they got older, graduated from high school and started to become famous, he understood – after having some girlfriends – that he had been in love with the pink haired girl. Too bad that they hadn't been able to meet so much during the past few years. If they met, there were always some other people with either him or her, so he couldn't tell her how he'd felt for her back then. But.. How the hell was he supposed to tell her that? Just walk right up to her and say; 'Hey, Sakura.. You know in high school, I had a crush on you'. Yeah, right. That would be the most un-Gaaraish thing ever. And he did not want to be un-Gaaraish. Never.
"I'm guessing that's a yes", Kakashi said and smirked, "how's it going with your brothers wedding plans by the way? The last thing I heard about it was that he and his bride-to-be – Sakura big sister, right? – wanted you all to help them plan it because they were so stressed.. I'm guessing Sakura will be there too, am I right?"
Gaara chuckled lightly when Kakashi mentioned the wedding plans. Oh, it was going to be a living hell. Sakura's sister was almost as annoying as the pinkette herself when she got to be the boss over something. And since it was going to be her own wedding, it was going to be like hell froze twice and then blew the whole world up. Or something like that? Gaara got a headache just thinking about it. The Haruno sisters didn't look so much like each other when he thought about it, well.. At least not if you just looked at the color of their hair and eyes. Otherwise they did look kind of like each other. And their temper was.. Identical.
"Don't mention it, please", Gaara muttered after some seconds. Kakashi was the one to chuckle this time.
They talked for a few more minutes, well.. Kakashi did most of the talking since Gaara was not the most talkative person. After they had hung up, Gaara knew that he wasn't going to fall asleep even though he wanted to, so he took a quick shower and then changed into an average look which was a pair of dark jeans and a red t-shirt with a black, random print on it. His red hair was left naturally messy as always. Some breakfast, his phone, keys and a pair of shoes and then he was out of his apartment, that was even bigger than Sakura's. So it was really big, not as big as a medium-sized house maybe, but it was still big for being a apartment.
He was going to meet his brother and Naruto around one p.m, so he thought that he could drive over to Kankuro and bother him for some hours, Gaara style. Kankuro was really against the whole 'going up too early' – thing, so he was not going to be happy having Gaara at his house. It was not even eight thirty in the morning yet. Kankuro never got out of bed before eleven if he really didn't have to. Lazy ass.
After Gaara had gotten into his car, he drove over to the youngest of his older brothers.
Once he'd made it to Kankuro's huge mansion-like house, he got out of the car, while getting photographed a little by the paparazzi and then let himself into the house that was very quiet and.. Very big. And it looked like there had been a nice little party the day and night before, because there were empty bottles of various kinds of alcohol in the kitchen, the living room was a total mess and.. Oh, and there was clothes hanging on the sofa and so on, cards spread out all over the table in the living room, along with money. A little less sober round of strip-poker? Kankuro never got enough, did he?
Gaara shook his head lightly before he went upstairs, trying to remember where Kankuro's bedroom was located, since there was at least ten doors to choose between on the second floor.
When he found the right room, he felt like he was going to vomit. Yet another image he would never forget, sadly. Kankuro, asleep in his bed and with him in it, three females that were probably naked.. Oh, wait! Maybe there was four of them? Well, Gaara really didn't want to think of what they had done last night, but it was kind of hard not to, sadly.
"Kankuro.."
"Huh? Noo.. Not THAT! Wait till later.. Mmmm.. Ophra, you dirty girl.. Do it againnnh..", Kankuro was.. Obviously asleep?
Gaara starred at his older brother with a quite shocked expression, actually. Ophra?
He looked around the room for something to throw at his older brother, his weapon: A shoe. It hit Gaara's target in the head, causing the target to wake up. The target was Kankuro, of course. He sat up, causing the girls to wake up too.. Oh, look.. There were four of them! Nasty little Christmas elf.. Kankuro that is. When they were younger, Kankuro had made Gaara believe that he – Kankuro – was a little Christmas elf sent by Santa himself, spying on Gaara to see if he was naughty or nice. Stupid brother.
"What was that for?" Kankuro yelled, still half asleep.
"'Cause you're a perv..", Gaara said and looked at him with a small smirk on his face.
"Just because you haven't gotten any action for the last two months!" Kankuro said and smirked widely when Gaara glared at him. He wasn't afraid of his little brothers glares anymore.
"AAHH, Gaara-kun!" one of the girls suddenly screamed, jumping of the bed with nothing on her body, "I love you soooooo much!"
"I thought you said that you loved me, Daphne?" Kankuro cried out with tears in his eyes.
"My name is Vicky, stupid.. And I did.. Before I met your brother in person", Vicky turned back to Gaara with a big smile on her face, "marry me?"
"Riiight.. I have to.. Go, bye Kankuro!" Gaara said and turned around, opening the door and then he almost ran towards the front door. Crazy fans with hormones the size of Russia. She did have a great body though. But, no.
"But.. BABY?" could be heard before Gaara slammed the door behind him and walked towards his car. Where should he go now? Naruto was probably home.. And the baka slept until twelve o'clock, even on the days when he had to be up by seven o'clock.
"Sakura, take a look at this", Temari said when she walked into the room, she threw a couple of magazines on the table and all of them seemed to have pictures of Sakura and Gaara together.
"'GaaSaku, the Japanese answer to a younger Brangelina?'" Sakura stood up from her seat and starred at one of the magazines. She then opened it on the page where the article was and read out loud, "It has now become famous for every Internet-freak and magazine that Haruno Sakura and Sabaku no Gaara are going to star against each other in the new Hatake Kakashi movie, 'Unconvered'. The two have never been in a movie together and all their fans are now dying to see if love will blossom, even when the cameras are off. The pinkette has some time ago said herself that the red head is; 'drop dead gorgouse'. Is love in the air already? We'll just have to find out as the movie-.. Oh, I can't read it anymore! All this love-crap makes me depressed.. Even when it's about me!"
"Oh.. Sakura-Chan, don't be like that..", Hinata said and hugged her friend.
"Yeah and..", Tenten looked at the photoshoped picture of the 'couple', "you look really good together!"
"Wow, thanks", Sakura said with a sarcastic voice and sighed. She needed to get laid, period.
Sakura had been so bored around noon, so she had called the girls and asked if they wanted to do something. Didn't matter what, as long as they did something. So, they were now at Temari's and Shikamaru's house. Shikamaru was out with the band, just having an early drink and talking about how they thought the tour was. It had become somewhat of a tradition for them. The girlfriends didn't mind, as long as they got their boyfriends home before twelve a.m the same day.
"Perk up, Sakura!" Temari said.
"Yeah, it's no fun when you're all down and stuff..", Tenten said and sighed a little, "what would it take to make you happy?"
"Oh, I don't know.. Maybe a boyfriend? Or.. Sex", when she said the last thing, the three other girls in the room started to laugh. They thought she said the last word in a funny way, so why shouldn't they laugh? Sakura, however, did not find it amusing. She was completely serious. She needed sex, dammit!
"Will yah stop laug-"
She was interrupted by the front door being slammed shut. Whoever that had just entered the house was following the sound of the laughing girls, that had just stopped laughing, but still. All four girls were silent, just waiting to see who it was that was walking towards them. Three seconds later they got their answer, because into the room walked a very familiar and tall figure. It was him. And he had.. Can you guess it? Flaming red hair and jade eyes. Gaara, if you like it that way.
Sakura's heart probably skipped a beat or two by the sight of him. He hadn't changed that much since the last time she saw her, maybe a tad more muscular? Not that she minded, she loved muscles on males, it was sexy. Well, maybe not too much muscles, but.. You get the point. And his hair.. Oh my lord! She had always had a thing for redheads, even when she was just a kid she always thought that the redheads in her school were the cutest. Her sister was the same, since she was going to marry a redhead soon it wasn't that hard to figure out that she liked redheads the most, right?
"Hey, baby brother!" Temari said happily, earning a glare from Gaara, "oh, don't be like that.. Wait, why are you here by the way? I thought you had plans with Kankuro and Naruto today?"
"Naruto's with the band and.. I.. Kankuro's.. Well.. Busy", Gaara mumbled something after that and looked at his sister with a look that only she understood. She made a face of disgust and sighed. Kankuro would never change.
Gaara looked around in the room to see what people his sister had invited today, not any new faces really. Nor any interesting once. Except.. His eyes stopped when they met emerald green. He had to blink a few times to make sure that he wasn't dreaming or something like that. Could it really be Sakura? Wow.. She was actually sexier than he remembered.
"Hi, Gaara", she said and smiled at him with that sweet and oh so innocent smile that belonged to no one but her. He loved that smile and-.. No, he wasn't going to get all sentimental. It wasn't his thing and it would never be, period!
"Hey.."
A few days later
Sakura had actually been really surprised to see Gaara, even though she had been with the girls at his sisters house. She just thought that he was way to busy to visit people, even his siblings. She kind of felt like that was the case for her most of the time. She was always afraid that her friends would stop being her friends if she got too busy with work, that had happened before.. Maybe not because she had to work all the time, but because she had to move.
She and her – then – best friend, Rei, had made a promise to each other when they first became really good friend; if one of them had to move, they would still stay best friends. They were four at that time. Three years later, Sakura moved to Konoha, where she was originally born. Her family had moved away from there two years after Sakura was born but when her dad got a job there they moved back. Well, Rei felt like Sakura had let her down, like it was Sakura's fault that they were moving. So Rei ended their friendship.. With surprisingly harsh words for a seven year old. Sakura hasn't talked to her since.
Sakura shook the thought out of her head and looked at the person that was sitting in front of her, on the other side of the table in her kitchen. Her cousin, Kiba. He had just gotten back from a vacation in Australia and had brought her some gifts from there. They were at the moment just talking and drinking some coffee, tee for Sakura.
"You're having sex with my biggest enemy, Kiba! How do you think that makes me feel?" Sakura glared at him and put the cup of tee on the table in front of her.
"So what if I'm having sex with her? We're together, it's natural! And stop calling her 'your biggest enemy', because she has a name; Ino", Kiba sighed, "I really love her, so could you be so kind to at least try not to trash talk her.. While I'm around at least!"
"Fine.. But don't say the l-word in the same sentence as her name, because then I'll vomit all over you!" she said and looked at him with a very serious expression on her face. He sighed yet again and nodded.
They stayed quiet for a few seconds before the door bell suddenly rang. Sakura got up from her seat and walked over to the door. When she opened it, she was surprised to see who was standing in front of her.
"What are you doing here?" she asked, still kind of shocked, "Ino-Pig!"
"Shut up, forehead-girl! My boyfriend is here and I want him back!"
"He's my cousin, bitch, and he will leave when he feels like it, understood?"
"Woh, girls! Please don't start to fight over me! Seriously, please don't!" Kiba interrupted the two. They both looked at him before looking at each other and at the same time crossing their arms, like saying; 'fine'.
"Can we go home now, baby? You promised to make dinner today, remember?" Ino said after a while and smiled at her boyfriend, making Sakura nauseous.
"Could you at least not show that ugly smile around me?"
"And you're the one to talk about ugly, forehead-girl?"
"And their on it again", Kiba said to himself and sighed. He grabbed his jacket and put it on, gave Sakura quick hug and kiss on the cheek before he grabbed Ino's hand and started dragging her down the stairs. This had happened a few times, so he knew what to do, "Bye, Sakura! See you later.. And good luck with that new movie!"
R&R, people! :D