A/N: Chapter three is here! I think I'm being a good girl now, since I'm updating so fast :'D But I dunno if I'll be able to update this fast from today, since we started school in Sweden today ' But I'll try, promies! And to all the people who rewieved so far, THANK YOU! ♥♥♥
Now, one thing that I've noticed when I read the second chapter is that I write both 'boat' and 'ship' xD I'm sorry for that, it won't happend again.. Trust me on that one!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto! Never have, never will.. And if I would own Naruto it wouldn't be the same, maybe not even the same characters ;O Scarry thought..
Recap:
"I do, Sabaku, and that day is not going to repeat itself", he said and Gaara laughed, wich made Sasuke even more mad then he was before. He held his sword tight and ran towards Gaara, ready to kill. Gaara looked at him with an amused expression on his face. Uchiha really thought he could win, how sweet. To bad it was allways going to be a dream for him.
End of recap
As Sasuke swung his sword, hoping it would cut Gaara's throut, Gaara took a step to the right just in time. Sasuke hit the side of the ship and fell over, hitting the water. Everything went quiet when a splash was heared. Every single person that was in the navy looked at the spot where Sasuke had just disapeared, horrified. It was not going to be fun for them when they got back on their ship, it was never fun to be near Sasuke when he had lost agains Gaara. It was especially not fun for Shino, since he was Sasuke's closest man. God, he hated his life right now.
"I think it's best for you to leave, now", Gaara said and all the navy – persons looked at him for a while, then they started making their way back to their ship. Another los for Sasuke, how many was it now? They had lost count.
Even thought all eyes had been turned away from the spot where Sasuke had fallen, Sakura's eyes where still fixed on it. He had actually lost? But he had allways said to her that he was the best swordfighter around, so how could he lose to a pirate? He had even demonstraited to her how he had done one time when he won over a pirate on ten seconds. What was so speciall with Gaara? He was just another one of thous pirate captains around the area, right?
"I will get you next time, Sabaku! You have my word on that and I will get Sakura and Hinata back to Konoha while your worthless head lies on a silverplate!" Sasuke shouted, socking wet. Gaara just smirked. Sakura looked at Sasuke with a sad expression on her face. She really hoped he would save her and Hinata soon, she didn't want to stay on this ship for too long.
"You keep dreaming, Uchiha", he shouted back. Then he turned around and his eyes fell on Sakura and Hinata, how had they gotten out? But he didn't care enough to get to know why. He walked over to Naruto and Chouji who congratulated him for yet another victory.
Even thought Sakura didn't really know any of the pirates on the ship, she still hated them. But she couldn't help herself from smile at how happy they were. They were singing, dansing, talking and just acting so.. Like the persons she knew when it was some kind of party at the palace. Just not as sofisticated as the perons she knew. But still..
"Since we're not going to get off this ship anytime soon, let's congratulate them for their victory", Sakura said to Hinata, who looked at her with an odd look on her face, "what?"
"They are p-pirates, Sakura-Chan.. W-We should try t-to stay a-away from them, even if t-their on the same ship a-as us..", Hinata said and looked at her with a seriouse face. Sakura sighted, maybe she was right?
She started walking against Gaara, she was not going to congratulate him for the victory! She was going to say to him that if he didn't let her and Hinata off the ship in Konoha, she was going to kick his ass. She knew that he was going to laugh right up her face, but she could allways try. Maybe he was so happy now, he didn't care if they were on the ship or not?
When she was allmost there, she felt weird. She got that feeling she allways got before she fainted. What? She hadn't done anything.. Stessfull, so why did it feel like she was going to faint? She allways fainted when she had to run to long or just do stressfull things. Damn corsett! She stopped and put a hand on her stomach. "Don't do this to me, you hear me?" She wispered to her stomach and looked around, everyone were still dancing and singing and just having a great time. She sighted and closed her eyes. Do not think of it.. She repeated in her head. Like hell she was going to faint!
Suddenly you could hear a scream and then a splash and everything got quiet yet again. Maybe she shouldn't have closed her eyes? If she hadn't, she would have seen Naruto coming right at her, with his back turned to her while he was dancing. When she fell over the side of the ship, she panicked. She hated water, her father had refused to learn her how to swim. He allways said that she should have no use of the knowledge of how to swim. He said that it was not glamorouse enough to see a princess swim, she had never understood that but.. Hadn't cared untill now. Why in the name of god hadn't he learned her how to swim?
When she hit the water she could feel that she was sinking, while she tried with all her strength to get air. Since her dress was so heavy it was no use trying to get to the water surface. Soon her world got black, but before that she could hear yet another splash and a flash of red, huh? Then she fainted.
Under the time Sakura fell into the water and rememberd that her father hadn't learned her how to swim, everyone looked at the spot where Sakura had just stood, confused. What had just happend? When they saw Hinata looked over the side of the ship, she had a almost helpless expression on her face. Then they could see her mime 'Sakura' and they understood what had happend, but nobody did anything, they just looked at her. But when she was on her way to jump over the side of the ship, after her, Naruto ran to her and dragged her from the side and they both fell to the floor. Gaara took off his shoes and every shirt – like clothing he had on except one white shirt. He then jumped in the water after Sakura.
"Sakura", Hinata wispered and you could see traces of tears in her eyes. Naruto looked at her from his place on the floor, a sad expression on his face.
"She'll be alright, Gaara'll save her.. I promies", he mumbled and looked at her, she looked back at him and you could see a small blush on both their faces.
Naruto knew that it was too soon to tell for.. Well, almost anyone, but he knew that he was starting to fall in love with the girl on the floor next to him. Hinata didn't know it at all, but she was also starting to get feelings for the blond, blueyed boy next to her. As their eyes met they smiled at each other, but their little moment where interupted by Gaara who was up from the water. He had Sakura on her shoulder and her dress was.. Gone, it was just the corsett and her underwear. (A/N: Think Elisabeth Swan when she was saved by Jack in PotC 1 and you'll know how it looked, sorry for interupting!) Both were socking wet, wich wasn't so strange. Sakura was till unconscious.
"Stay back", Gaara said as he took out a knife from his pocket.
"Why?" Naruto asked and everybody sweatdropped, "what?!"
"Well, if you want to get wet.. Then stay where you are!" Gaara said, annoyed. He cut a band, or whatever it was, on the corset and then kinda.. Opend the corsett (A/N PotC 1!). This made Sakura just wake up and cough up water, since Naruto hadn't moved his shoes got a little wet.
Sakura looked up and the first thing she was was Gaara looking back at her, his hair was haning down his face and the white shirt he had on was so wet you could see his abs. Oh god. She thought, then she looked up at him. Why was he wet? And why was she wet? Then she rememberd that she had fallen into the water and she chouldn't get to the water surface. And just before she had fainted, she had heared a splash and then seen a flash of red. He saved her?
"You saved me?" She asked, it came more like a wisper but you could still hear it. Gaara nodded then looked around at everybody, who understood what he meened (sp?) and started mumbeling excused that they had to do things.
"Why did you save me? Even if we haven't really talked or anything like that, you didn't seem to like me that much", she said to him and didn't take her eyes of his gorgouse face. Yes, she had do admitt, he was gorgouse. Even though he was a pirate, he was the most gorgouse man alive. There you have it, Haruno Sakura is starting to fall in love with a pirate!
"I couldn't just let you.. Die in the water you know", he answered her question and then streched out his hand so she could be helped up if she wanted to. She took it and smiled at him. When she was up on her feets she almost fell again since it was slippery on the floor, but Gaara caught her by the waist and helped her up again. She mumbled a short thank you and then felt her cheeks get warm.
"Do you want to change, Gaara? You look cold", Sakura then said and looked at him, he looked back at her and shrugged.
"I'm fine, but you should change before you get sick.." Sakura couldn't belive it, why was he being so nice to her? He was a pirate, they weren't nice.. Right? Gaara couldn't belive it himself that he was being nice to her, but he just couldn't help it!
".. And then he just looked at her.. Like she was crazy and it was just so fun to watch!" Sakura was telling Gaara about what Sasuke had done one time to a girl when they were kids. She had gotten dry clothes on, since there was three girls on the ship – except Sakura and Hinata – they had clothes that fittes her perfectly. Now she looked kinda like a pirate. Hinata had also gotten other clothes, since she had started to feel uncomfortable in her dress. Why couldn't girls like Sakura and Hinata just be allowed to weare clothes like pirates did, or like boys did! Sakura thought that they were so much comfortable.
"She actually bit him?" Gaara asked with a smirk on his face, Sakura nodded and smirked too. They had been sitting on a box out on the deck for some hours and just talked, they hadn't really noticed that it had gone that long. They just thought it was nice to talk to each other, even thought they didn't say it.
Sakura had learned that Gaara wasn't that poor at all, actually. He was the prince of Suna, but he had run away when he was around 10 yeares old and his siblings came with him. Sakura learned that Gaara, Temari and Kankuro were siblings and that Neji and Hinata were cousines, but they hadn't really seen each other that well untill later that day. Gaara told her that he, Temari and Kankuro had run away in a little boat that they stole but it stared sinking and they cried for help. Then a ship came and saved them, there they met Itachi and his crew and soon got to join it. But five yeares later Itachi did something horrible to Gaara, Temari and Kankuro – even though Gaara didn't tell her what – and they left and one year later Gaara had become captain of his own ship and he and his siblings had found a crew. Then he told her about the first time he and Sasuke met, somehow Sakura laughed.. She didn't know why though.
Sakura told Gaara about her life, she didn't think it was that interessting, but Gaara just couldn't stop listening. That made her blush many times. She actually thought that it was strange that he talked so much, he hadn't seemed like the kind of person who liked talking to people. Maybe she was diffrent? Oh well..
"Have you ever been in love?" He asked after a while, this made her.. Surpriced and she laughed nervously. Had she ever been in love? Yes, but only once and that love was not there anymore, right?
"W-Well.. Once", she admitted and smiled shily at him, he told her to go on and she nodded, "In.. Sasuke-kun, I had a huge crush on him when we were kids.. I guess you could say that I was in love with him"
"And you're not anymore?" He asked and Sakura shook her head no. This made Gaara feel.. Relived, he thought she was really beautiful and nice company. It would have been awful if she was still in love with that Uchiha
"How do you know that you're.. In love?" He suddenly asked and looked at her with a seriouse face. She looked at him, shocked. Had he never been in love? He hadn't even had a small little crush on someone?
"You've never been in love, Gaara?" She asked and he shook his, looking down in his lap. This made her feel sad for him, it was wonderful to know that you could think of someone when you were bored or when you just wanted to get away from reality. Of couse it was a lot better if the person thought of you to, but if he or she didn't that was something you had to accept, people could not controll their feelings, "Well.. For me it's like.. I get really nervouse around the person at first, but if I get to talk to him and get to know him.. It's not that bad anymore.. And my stomach feels, well, weird around the person and he just makes me happy when I see him.."
Gaara nodded and looked away from her. He didn't want to tell her that she made him feel that way. So did that meen he was in love with her already? She was his first crush ever? He had never liked a girl before, they seemed scarred for him when they saw him and the girls in his crew he would never fall in love with. One of them was even his own sister so..
"We better get to bed, it's getting dark really soon", he said after a while. She nodded and stood up, but then sat down again and just looked at him.
"Where am I going to sleep? I don't know where Hinata is and I am not going back to that filthy cell!"
Gaara sighted, then thought for a bit, "you could sleep in my cabin.."
Sakura looked at him, shocked. He asked her to sleep in the same cabin as him? But she had never slept in the same room or cabin as any boy except her father in her life, he was to scarred something would happend to her.
"There's two beds in there, so you don't have to be worried to sleep in the same bed as me", he said and smirked at her.
"I'm not worried", she said with a try of self-conscious in her voice, but it failed and Gaara just smirked even wider. God, why did he have to smirk so much? "Fine, I'll sleep in you cabin!"
When Sakura woke up that morning she felt really calm, the bed she was laying in was so soft she just wanted to go back to sleep. But the light that came in to the room didn't let her. She hated light when she was about to sleep, she couldn't sleep if it wasn't really dark in the room, it had allways been like that.
Someone opend the door as quiet as the person could, but Sakura heard it and sat up, looked around to find the sorce of the sound and saw Temari and that Ino – girl standing by the door with big smiles on their faces. Why were they looking at her like that?
"Aaw, how cute! My baby brother is growing up!" Temari said and giggled and Ino did the same, Sakura looked at them with a questioning look on her face untill a pillow hit Temari's head. It came from the same bed Sakura was laying in. She looked to her left and saw Gaara, half asleep and totally burrid under the pillows and the cover. He looked like a little kid and that made Sakura smile. He looked so cute! Wait, what was he doing in the same bed as her? He hadn't been in the same bed as her when she fell asleep the night before. Maybe he didn't want to sleep in the other bed? It didn't look so comfy. Even thought it was a pirate ship the captains cabin was really nice looking. It could be one of Sakura's father's workrooms, just not that nice as they were.
"Gaara?" Sakura lay down again and looked at him, Temari and Ino walked out from the cabin with smiles on their faces that went to their ears. Gaara opend his eyes, they had been closed so.. And he looked back at her. Green eyes met green eyes. "Why are you in the same bed as me? You weren't in the same bed as me last night.."
Gaara looked at her for a while, the he closed his eyes again and said; "I felt lonley". This made Sakura's eyes go whined, he felt lonley? Then she smiled and looked at his hand that were laying infront of her, opend. She put her small hand in his and closed her eyes as well, then she wisperd; "You're not lonley now"
"Naruto, how long is it going to take for you to get that floor clean?" Gaara practacly yelled at Naruto who sat on his knees, trying to get the floors wet. It was his punichment from Gaara for not getting up in time.
"I'm working as fast as I can!" Naruto yelled back and you could soon after that hear him mutter something about Gaara, sooner then you think a bucket of soapwater had made Naruto wet. Gaara looked at him with a smirk on his face and put the bucket down on the floor again.
"That's what you get for not working faster, you lasyass", he said and walked away. Naruto kept muttering things while he cleaned the floor. Sakura thought it was really amusing to watch the two of them.
She stood up from the box she had been sitting on and started walking after Gaara, but didn't get so far since Temari blocked her way. "Excuse me, Temari-sama, could you move a little please?" She asked but Temari didn't move, she just looked at her for a while and then she opend her mouth to speak.
"You know, my brother have never liked anyone before.. And you're the first one ever he's even not killed for sleeping in his cabin", she said and smiled.
"Well, that could be because he asked me if I wanted to sleep in there since I said I didn't know where to sleep and..", she stopped talking when she saw Temari's confused face and she expained that she and Gaara had been talking all day about their lifes. Temari nodded occasonly when Sakura made a stop to breath. ".. So I guess he didn't want to sleep alone?"
When she finally stopped talking Temari looked away from the ocean that she had been looking at the whole time, she looked at Sakura and a smile appeared on her face.
"You must be very speciall, Sakura.. If my brother seems to like you and all!" They both smiled at each other.
Okey, I think this was a sucky chapter, but you be the juge! I didn't really know what to write in the end so.. I hope you think it's good anyway!
R&R or Gaara'll kill you 8'D
