A/N: Here's chapter five! I need a cookie for imagination ;O And I am SOOO sorry for not updating faster, but I don't have time nor imagination! So if you want me to update faster you have to review and give me ideas on things that could happend in the next chapter :D

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Recap:

When he had reached Itachi Deidara turned her attention to the still uncounsios Sakura on the floor. She sighted and walked over to her. "Don't you have anything else to do, perverts?" she asked and looked at the crew who was still looking at Sakura. They mumled diffrent things and started to walk away.

End of recap.

"Gaara, where are you?"

Everybody – Ino, Kiba, Tente and so on – had been looking for Gaara for about ten minutes now. Sure, port Sound was really fun and stuff, but when something like this happend, it ain't so fun anymore.

Naruto was running like a maniac all over port Sound, trying to find Gaara. Right behind him was Hinata who didn't want to be alone at a place like this. What if she got lost and found herself in a dark corner with lots of pirates around her who wanted to do.. Things to her? She didn't want to lose her virginity to pirates! Never, never, never! She wouldn't be able to stand up for herself, she knew it. It was allways like that. As long as she could remember, she had been the shy one that allways needed someone to protect her from everyone and everything. She didn't quite like it, but accepted it. She was happy she had met Naruto, he was so nice to her and didn't even seem to care that she stutterd. Everybody else did, except Sakura who had known her since they were kids.

"N-Naruto-kun, do y-you thing that w-we'll find Gaara-sama any t-time soon?" she asked and looked at Naruto's neck, since she couldn't see his face.

"Yeah, I'm sure we will, Hinata-Chan! Let's r-" Naruto interrupted himself and stopped, Hinata stopped right beside him and looked at his face with a worried look on her face.

"Naruto-kun?"

"I think I found him, Hinata-Chan", Naruto mumled and starred at the redheaded figure on the ground. People didn't really seem to care that he was lying there. But, when Naruto thought about it a little, people got drunk a lot here, so they probably thought he was so drunk he had fallen asleep.

Naruto walked over to Gaara to see if he was alive, which he was. Hinata walked after him and looked down at the uncounsios Gaara with a very worried look on her face. She took out a bottle of water from.. Somewher – nobody knows from where – and gave it to Naruto who smiled at her as a thank you, which of course made her blush madly. But Naruto didn't notice this becase he was emtying the bottles of water on Gaara's face. Which made Gaara wake up, quite irritated and.. Wet. When he had understood where he was, he noticed Naruto with the emty bottel in his hand, smiling.

"Naruto", he almost whispered, angrily. The smile that had been on Naruto's face just a few second ago disapeared and was replaced by a scared look all over his face.

Soon, he was on his feets with an angy Gaara after him. But neighter of them got so far, since Hinata stopped them, saying thing that made Gaara remember what he had been doing before he fainted. Sakura!

He ran to the edge of the harbour, looking after a ship that could be Itachi's. And there, far away, he saw the black flag with the red cloud on. He felt rage coming to him. But he tried to control himself. He was going to wait until them catched up with Itaci to let his anger out. He gathered all his crew, when he had found them, and told them what they were going to do. They were going to rescue Sakura from Itachi and his crew and there weren't going to be any further questions on that. But, of course, as stupid as Naruto was he asked how they were going to catch up with Itachi's ship, earing a punsh on the head from Gaara.

Everybody stared moving towards the ship to make it ready to sail after Itachi's ship. Gaara stood looking after it a few more seconds before he too started to move towards the ship. He wasn't going to hesitate when they had catched up with Itachi's ship. He was going to take Sakura back! And he was going to kill Itachi, no matter what.

"Naruto, you should really stop doing that", Ino said and glared at him lightly.

Naruto looked at her with a confused look, apperantly not understanding what she ment. Ino sighted and turned around, pushing someone so hard that the person fell to the ground. Ino herself stumbled back a few steps and looked at the person on the ground with a confused look.

"I'm so sor-.. Kiba?" she interrupted herself when she noticed who it was that she had just pushed, a light blush appeared on her cheeks.

"Yamanaka, watch where you're going next time!" he said with an irritated voice.

Ino looked down on the ground and looked sad. Sure, he was a real idiot but she couldn't stop thinking of him and herself, together.. On a white beach with blue ocean and.. Gosh. She could be up hours at night just thinking of him. But she still didn't want to accept the fact that she actually liked him in that way. She was to good for him! Or, was he infact to good for her? She allways looked down on people that didn't know how to behave at a nice dinner where burping, swearing and all thouse thing were just not allowed! Kiba sure that kind of person, he didn't care what kind of people that were in the near of him during a dinner, he still acted like a dogboy without rules. He was just so.. Wonderfully perfect for her!

Kiba didn't want to admitt it, at all, but he liked her in a way he had never liked any girl. All the girls that he had been with had been.. Thouse kind of girl that you only spend one night with, pay them and then their gone forever. Maybe you meet them when you're making a quick stop at some port, but their allways with another man.

He looked at her when she turned her face down towards the ground. He gave her a confused look.

"Are you.. Okey, Yamanaka?" he asked, she looked up at him with a smile on her face, saying that she was. Kiba saw that the smile was fake, but accepted it. He nodded quickly before he started to walk towards the ship.

Ino looked at his neck. He allways called her Yamanaka! Why? She had started to call him by his real name nowadays, at first he seemed a little startled by the change but soon seemed to accept it. But he didn't do the same for her. Still the same, Yamanaka. She sighted and started to walk towards the ship herself.

"Gaara-sama, we're ready do go!" Lee yelled when he say Gaara comming out from his cabin with a sword in his hand.

Gaara looked at Lee and nodded. Soon they were on their way, sailing away from port Sound without any suplice. But Gaara didn't think of the suplice at all, the only thing that was on his mind was that he was going to kille Itachi again and again and again when they caught up with his ship. Itachi took his Cherry Blossom from him and he wanted her back! No! I just want her back because she'll give me a lot of money! I do NOT like that pink haired, green eyed, oh-I'm-such-a-nice-persone princess that can't stop talking! I don't care if he hurts her, it's her problem since she got of the damn ship in the first place.. Oh god, I can't lie to myself, I would rather kiss Itachi's ass then have her getting hurt in any way.. And I hate it, it makes me feel weak! He thought while looking out on the open sea. Sure, he barely said anything but in his mind he could talk as much as Sakura or Ino together. People would be surprice if they knew..

"Gaara, I can see their ship! We've almost catched up with them!" Lee shouted, making Gaara wake up from his agrue with himself.

Gaara looked to his right and saw the ship with the black flag with the red cloud on it. He glared at it and if looked could kill, the ship would be on fire right now. After a few minutes they had catched up with the ship and everybody were ready to get into a fight. Everyone except Hinata of course. Well, it wouldn't matter if she would have wanted to get into the fight, Neji and Naruto wouldn't even let her touch a sword since they were afraid she would hurt herself. Naruto haf grown really protective over her from the first time they talk and he had – actually – really strong feelings for her. Neji wasn't so happy about this and wanted to kill the dumb blond every time he even looked at his cousine. Hinata herself was really happy that Naruto payed attantion to her more then anyone on the ship, since she liked him a lot. But she was to shy to even tell him.

"Hinata, stay here, okey? We'll be right back after we've rescued Sakura-Chan and kicked Itachi's ass!" Naruto said and gave her his foxy grine.

Hinata blushed and nodded before going into her and Sakura's cabin to stay safe under the whole time the fight was going on. She didn't want to be in the way and she didn't want to see any blood because she would faint if she did. She hated blood!

She could soon hear screaming and metal meating metal. The fight was on. Please, Naruto-kun.. R-Rescue Sakura-Chan a-and come back to t-the s-ship without getting hurt! I-I don't want y-you to get hurt! She thought and closed her eyes, just listening. She could hear Naruto scream diffrent things to diffrent people. Apparently he discovered Sakura, because he shouted to Gaara to get her. This made Hinata smile. But the smile soon disapeared becuase soon she heared Naruto scream again, of pain. She held her breath. N-Naruto-kun!

Meanwhile

The ship was almost beside Itachi's ship. Gaara held his swords tight in his hand, he wasn't going to let it go before Itachi was dead and Sakura was back on his ship, alive and without any bruises. If she had any she was going to kill Itachi even slower so he could really feel the pain. Yes, Gaara was a cruel man and many people knew it.

When the ships were side by side Gaara and his crew jumped over to the other ship, screaming, shouting and just being noicy. Itachi and his crew stood ready with swords in their hand and smirks on their lips. They really thought they were going to win, weren't they? Gaara glared at Itachi who just gave him a smirk as an answer.

"Uchiha, where is she?" Gaara demanded an answer and he was not going to leave before he got one. Itachi just laughted and smirked even wider.

"You know, it's a shame we had to get rid of her, but she was talking to much!" Itachi said and smirked even wider when he for one second saw shock in Gaaras eyes.

"I don't belive you!" Gaara yelled , this made Itachi laugh even more.

"Sure you don't, Sabaku.. Sure you don't"

Gaara raised his swords and ran towards Itachi, after that the fight had started. The ship was filled with people with swords. But Gaara couldn't see Sakura anywhere, had they really gotten rid of her? They couldn't have. Itachi was a smart man, he knew that she was a princess, he knew he could get a lot of money for her so why would he get rid of her?

After some minutes he heared Naruto call his name, when he turned his head to look at Naruto he saw that the blond was pointing at some random direction. When Gaara turned his head that way he say the pink haired princess, with bruises all over her face, tide up to a pole with tears in her eyes. She looked at him and tried to tell him to save her, even thougth he couldn't hear her.

Gaara turned back his head just in time to duge one of Itachi's attacks. He swung his swords and was about to cut Itachi's head when he heared a scream of pain that came from Naruto. He looked back at Naruto and saw the blond woman – Deidara – sticking her sword into his stomach. Gaara glared at her and ignored Itachi and ran towards her, ready to kill.

When he was about to cut her throut, there was someone shouting. "NO! Don't you even touch her, Sabaku!" and instead of cutting Deidaras throut, the readhead Sasori jumed infront of her and got the sword in his left arm.

"Sasori!" Deidara bellowed and got down on her knees to see if he was okey, "if you want to kill me, Sabaku, do it now", she sobbed, it came out almost as a whisper.

Gaara looked at her with a confused look. She.. Like him? Like, loved him? Gaara lowerd his sword and looked down at Naruto who was in huge pain. Then he saw Itachi coming towards him with his sword in a tight grip, angrier then ever. Gaara quickly orderd Kiba and Ino to take Sakura over to their ship and Neji and Tenten to take Naruto over to their ship. They nodded and did as he said.

"Itachi, why don't you just give up? Your best man is hurt anyway", Gaara said glaring at Itachi who glared back.

"I won't give up, Sabaku, I-", he was interrupted by Gaaras swod agains his throut.

"If you try anything, if you order you crew to kill anyone in mine, I'll cut you throut, got it?" Gaara said quietly, so quietly that only himself and Itachi could hear it. Itachi glared at him but soon gave up and dropped his sword, "good, and if you follow us I will also cut your oh so precious throut.."

Gaara started backing towards his ship then he knew that his crew was on it. He then turned around and jumped onto it. Soon enought they were moving away from Itachi's ship. Well, I guess that went well? I know that Itachi ain't giving up, but at least I won this time! Sakura is safe on my ship now, so it's all good! He looked at Sakura who was sitting on a box, rubbing her wrists. He walked over to her, he was about to speak but she flue up from the box when she saw him and hugged him tightly. He was a little startled and had to take two or three steps back before he founf his balace again. He looked at her and then he hugged her back and laid his head on her head, taking in her smell. He smiled an invislbe smile.

"Thank you, Gaara-kun!" Sakura whisperd and felt the tears rolling down her cheeks, onto Gaaras shoulder.

"Hn", was Gaara's intellegent answer which made Sakura laught lightly.

Gaara hugged her even tighter and wasn't about to let go any time soon, he was afraid that if he let her go she would disapear again and that this time he might not be able to save her. He closed his eyes and sighted, tried not to think about that. At least she was not hurt really badly..

"Naruto-kun!" was heared over the entire ship, it came from Hinata who was just discovered Naruto, being treated by Temari, who tride not to hurt him even more. But it didn't go so well since she was shaking. "T-Temari-sama, please let me make him better", Hinata bowed to Temari who looked at her, then at Naruto before nodding and getting up and walking away.

Hinata sat on her knees beside Naruto who layed on the floor. She took out a small little box – like thing from one of her pockets and opend it. She took some of its contet on her fingers and slowly, with shaking hands, approached the wound on Naruto's smotach without looking. She soon felt a hand gently gripping her wrist and helped her finding the wound. Hinata looked at Naruto with a surpirced look. He looked back at her and smiled, not his ordenary smile though.. It was specal, it made Hinata's whole body go limb for a second.

"T-Thank you, N-Naruto-kun", she mumled and looked away while blushing. He smiled and closed his eyes again, but soon opend then when he felt something on his stomach. When he looked at it he saw the blood disapearing and the skin healing itself. In no time the wound was gone. Naruto looked at Hinata who was still looking away, blushing. He smiled.

After a while he desided to get up, so he did so. Then he walked over to Hinata, offering her his hand so she could get up. She accepted it after putting the box – like thing away. When she was up, Naruto pulled her into a hug, starteling her a lot.

"Thank you, Hinata-Chan.. I don't know what I should do without you", he whispered into her ear, making her whole body go limb yet again.

"Uzumaki, get away from my cousine if you don't want that wound to appear again!" Neji halfly shouted, making both Naruto and Hinata jump. Naruto let go of Hinata and looked down on the ground, mumbling something about that he needed to talk to Gaara. Hinata looked after him and then turned to Neji and gave him a sad look before walking towards her cabin.

Two days had gone since Sakura was kidnapped and rescued. They had stopped to get suplice at a small port since they hadn't gotten any at port Sound. Sakura felt kinda guily that they had to do that, if she hadn't gotten of the ship in the first place at port Sound, they would be on their way to somewhere else. She told Temari and Ino this, but they told her not to worry. Temari said that not so much fun happend anyway, so when Sakura had gotten kidnapped she had something to do, something that was fun.

Kiba had to stay on the ship to make sure Sakura didn't get of the ship again, much to his delight. Sakura was a beautiful princess and he was still kind of a teenager with hormones. Perfect match, but he knew Gaara would kill him if he even touched Sakura.. So he didn't.

They had sat and talked the whole time the others were away getting suplice and didn't stop until Gaara orderd Kiba to go and help Lee. When he was gone, Ino came up to Sakura.

"Sakura, what were you and.. Kiba talking about?" she asked a little nervously. Sakura looked at her with a confused look on her face.

"A lot ot stuff, you know.. He's actually a really nice guy when you take you time to really talk to him", she answered with a smile on her face, wonderinf why Ino asked her.

"Oh, okey.. I know this might sound.. Odd, but.. Did he say s-something about.. Me?" she asked and looked even more nervous. Sakura looked at her with her eyebrowns raised.

"Well, yeah", Ino looked happy, "he said that he thought you were really hot, even though you were.. The biggest bitch alive"

Ino's smile faded and she looked at Kiba who was helping Lee with the suplice. The she turned back to Sakura and thanked her for telling her. Then she turned away and walked over to Temari and Tenten. She said something to them and both of them hurried to hug her. Sakura watched the three of then with her eyebrownes raised. But soon she seemed to understand what was going on and a smile appeared on her face. She stood up from the box she had been sitting on and walked over to Kiba who had just finnished helping Lee.

"Kiba, can I talk to you for a bit?" he nodded and followed her when she walked away a little bit, then she turned to face him and opend her mouth, "I think Ino likes you.. And I know that you like her back because even thought you said that you think she's a total bitch you said it in a I'm-actually-in-love-with-her voice, and don't you try to say anything else because I know it's true!"

Kiba looked at her with his mouth open. He didn't seem to understand what Sakura had just said, but when he did he shaked his head and looked over to Ino who actually had tears in her eyes. "She got really hurt when she heard what you said about her, so it's no doubt that she likes you too", Sakura said with a smile on her face. Then she said that he should go over to her and tell her how he feels, of course Kiba just looked at her with his eyebrowns raised and shaked his head, saying that he would never do that. It didn't matter how much he liked her, it was impossible for him to say that to her. Sakura sighted and walked over to Hinata instead.

Kiba looked at Sakura when she walked away, then he turned his head to Ino and bit his lip. Should he go over and tell her? No, why would he? But.. If Sakura said that Ino felt the same, maybe he should tell her? Wait! When did he actually get these feelings for the Yamanaka girl? It was just Sakura who made the whole thing up, right? Kiba couldn't have feeling for the blond haired, blue eyed.. Godess who was just so beautiful and.. Perfect. Okey, maybe I do have feelings for her? Damn.. I hate myself right now!

He took a deep breath and started to make his way over to Ino, who had been left alone by Temari and Tenten since they had to help Lee with the suplice, since the poor little boy had been left all by himself to carry everything since everyone had such a pain in the arm or leg och back. Not so youthful, is it?

When Kiba was only a few meters away from Ino he stopped and thought for a second. Why would he tell her what he felt? He would just screw it up anyways! And what if she really didn't feel the same, what if Sakura was just tricking him into humilitaing himself infron of Ino? No, he was not going to admitt his true feeling until he knew for sure that she felt the same.

He turned around and walked over to Lee, Temari and Tenten instead asking if there was anything he could do to help. He looked back at Ino, she was looking at him but when she noticed that he was looking at her she turned her head away, blushing. This made Kiba confused. Didn't people who had a crush do that? He shaked his head, forgetting about everything that had with love to do. Not that it was that easy, since Naruto and Hinata seemed to almost be a couple, much to Neji's disagree and Gaara had a thing for Sakura and Sakura had a think for Gaara. Even thought none of them were going to admitt it to anyone, at least not yet. He was not going to get away from love, it was everywhere.

One day later Gaara anounced that they were going to go somewhere, where a treasure lay on the bottom of the sea, in an area that almost no one knew about, but he did. Everybody cheered at this and got even more happy then when he told them that they were going to port Sound.

Sakura actually got kinda happy, even though when he said that it was on the bottom of the ocean. Naruto had started to learn her how to swim and she was actually getting kind of good at it.

When Gaara was finnished talking Sakura ran over to her and asked him – with a smile on her face the whole time – if she could come to. She told him that she was getting a lot better on swimming and that she probably would be able to hold her breath long enought. At first Gaaras answer was no, no, no and no. But when he saw the sad look on her face he sighted and said that she could come, this made Sakura really happy. She hugged him and then halfly ran away to tell Temari and everyone else that she was going to come.

Gaara watched her the whole time, kind of wishing that he hand't agreed that she could come, since she could get hurt or die.. Maybe drown if she couldn't swim good enough, but he was still happy that he had agreed, because then her clothes were going to get wet and- Woah! What the hell and I thinking? I can't think like that about her! He thought, irritated at himself for not being able to control the pervert inside him. He wasn't a pervert! Kiba and Naruto could take all the credit they wanted for being perverts, but Gaara wasn't going to take any. Sure, he was a guy with hormones that haunted him day in and day out when ever there was a beautilful girl near him, but he mostly ignored them. He didn't want to be seen as a perverts so..

He shaked his head and turned his head to the open water instead. You could see the bottom, even though the water was really deep. It was kind of calming actually, in some way. But the calm was over quickly when a oh so familiar scream was heard. Gaara snapped his head in the direction, ready to see the worse. But what he saw just made him sight and shake his head.

"I'm sooo sorry, Sakura-Chan!" Naruto tired, but it didn't work.

He had dropped a bucket of soapwater on the floor and most of it had found its way to Sakura, so she was now very wet and soapy. Everyone was laughing, except Sakura, Naruto and Hinata who was afraid that Sakura was going to hurt Naruto badly. And she was right, becuase five seconds after Sakura had gotten wet..

"Uzumaki Naruto, get over here you little punk!" and so the hunt began. Naruto was actually really fast, but Sakura still stayed right behind him until she manedged to catched up with him, hit him and just get her revenge. Revenge this time means throughing soapwater at him too.

After she had gotten her revenge she told everyone that she had to go and change, so she walk to her and Hinata's cabin and took out a new shirt from the clauset. She had gotten some from Temari, Tenten and Ino. When she had unbottoned most of the botton on the wet shirt she heared the door being opend and closed. She suposed that it was Hinata so she kept unbottoning the rest of the buttoms, but when she turned around to ask Hinata something, Hinata wasn't there. It was Gaara, who was smirking at her in a way he hadn't smirked at her before. She could also see lust in his eyes, this made her a little nervouse. She looked down on her wet shirt and then and Gaara who suddenly started to walk towards her. As he did that, she herself started walking backwards and soon felt the cold wall behind her. She looked at Gaara with an even more nervouse look. When he had reached her where she stood against the wall, he raised one of his hands and caressed her cheek. Sakura looked at him, wondering what he was doing.

"G-Gaara, what are y-you doing in here?" she asked, as loud as she could. But it still came out as a whisper.

He didn't answer, he just looked her in the eyes before leaning forwards, about to kiss her. He was only centimeters away when..

Oh, a little cliffy xD Okey, first of all: I am SO sorry for not updating in.. What is it? Two months? But I'd just like to say that I had absolulty no imagination or time, so.. And secondly; R&R please :D And when you're about to review, please give me ideas of what I could write in the next chapter, because if you don't it could take another two or three months until I make another chapter!