Naruto looks on as the demonic sand monster lets out another mighty roar. "He has totally lost control of himself." The blonde ninja then grabs at his own stomach and memories of the instances he lost control come flooding back.
Gaara then begins to randomly send sand blasts around the forest, destroying trees and boulders around the area. "I must stop him before he wrecks this whole area and heads to the village…but how?" Naruto then remembers back to a few years ago.
"Well maybe if I knock him out, the demon will be repressed. Here goes nothing…" Naruto puts his two fingers on each hand into a cross shape. MULTI-SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!! Instantly over 100 clones surround Gaara.
Naruto and his clones move in to confront Gaara. The demonic sand Gaara sees them coming and easily destroys all the clones with a barrage of sand bullets and punches without a single one of them making a scratch on the monster.
Gaara now sees Naruto in the air with a rasengan in his hand. However, before Naruto can get close enough to make a strike, Gaara fires a flurry of sand bullets that nail the blonde ninja causing him to lose the rasengan in his hand and crash to the ground.
Naruto's slowly gets up, his own rage building up inside of him. His normal deep blue eyes are now flashing red and his fangs begin to show. "No, I can't let this happen," Naruto says to himself. "That is still Gaara… must not loose control either."
As Naruto controls his emotion and goes back to normal, the sand beast now stands before the blonde ninja, face to face. Gaara lets out a snarl and low growl before he grabs Naruto by the head and throws him across the forest and into a tree.
The blond ninja is cut in several places and he is holding his right arm, which appears to be broken. Gaara turns to face him and then extends his right arm to send a blast of sand at Naruto. "I – I can't move in time… am I going to die at the hands of my friend?"
Suddenly, a female voice is heard. "Gaara-kun!! Stop this now!" Naruto looks ahead to see Sakura, finally freed from the paralysis, standing between Naruto and the incoming sand blast. Sakura has her arms up to block the sand. "Sakura!! DON'T!!"
But before Naruto can even do anything the sand is too close to both of them. Naruto and Sakura close their eyes and lower their heads to prepare for the impact as the sand flows over them and Gaara's possessed body lets out another howl…
A few seconds pass and Naruto opens his eyes to realize that he has not been hit by the blast of sand. Naruto quick looks forward to see what has happened and his eyes grow wide in amazement to what he is seeing….
Sakura opens her own eyes to see a wall of sand a mere six inches away from her face. But for some reason the sand had split in two directions, like the parting of Red Sea and didn't harm Sakura or Naruto behind her. "Gaara-kun, you are still there aren't you?"
The sand retracts back into of the body of the demonic Gaara. The sand beast just stands still staring at the strawberry blonde and gives a low growl. A growl that almost in its tone is presenting a question like, "Do I know her for some reason?"
Sakura's eyes become focused and she looks back at Naruto. "Thanks for buying me time, Naruto. I can handle this now." The medical ninja begins to slowly walk towards the sand demon, placing her hands over the necklace on her chest.
"Gaara-kun," she says in a soft voice, "I know you are in there. It is me – Sakura. I know you are in there somewhere. Please remember…. Remember who you are… what we are… what we have together…please Gaara-kun, fight this…"
As Sakura walks closer, the rage in the sand beast is slowly diminishing. The body is still that of the sand demon, but the eyes begin to flash from the black and gold to the light blue eyes of the true Gaara and back to the demon eyes.
Sakura now stands a few feet away from the beast and releases her grip from the crystal in her necklace. "Do you remember this necklace Gaara-kun? You gave it to me back when we first started dating." The demon looks at it and gives a little whimper.
"You said that this way I will always have a piece of you with me. You were the person that helped me find that which was lost…the ability to love again. Right now I don't want just a piece of you, I want to have the whole Gaara back."
Tears begin to stroll down the cheeks of the strawberry blonde. "I know you can fight this…we can fight this, Gaara-kun. I-I love you too much to let you go. I want to be with you forever!! Gaara-kun, PLEASE COME BACK TO ME!!"
Sakura lunges forward and wraps her arms around the waist of the sand demon in front of her. The monster is frozen for a second and then lets out a loud howl and places his hands on Sakura's arms and squeezes firmly. "Ahh, ouch..." Sakura mutters.
Sakura then looks up at the face of the demon, which is still howling. As the demon's face finally looks down, she lifts herself up on her tip-toes and whispers "Gaara-kun…let's go home…I love you…" and then presses her lips to the sand demon's.
As their lips touch, the crystal in her necklace begins to glow a bright red color and suddenly the two are engulfed in another ball of sand. Naruto looks on and yells, "Sakura!" and runs towards the sphere with a kunai drawn.
Naruto gets within a few feet and stops as the ball of sand begins to dissipate and inside the sand he can see two figures. They are Sakura and Gaara, back to his original state, locked in a very passionate embrace, deep in a kiss.
Gaara finally releases the kiss and looks deep into Sakura's eyes. "So did you mean it when you said you want to be with me forever?" Sakura gives a little smile as she rests her head on his chest. "But of course, baka. You are my everything."
Gaara gives a smile and places a hand on Sakura's head. "Thank you, Sakura-chan…for saving me. I promise I will always be there for you." Gaara and Sakura hear a cough coming from Naruto's direction. The release their embrace and give a little blush.
"Well, now that everything is back to normal," Naruto says rubbing the back of his head, "let's go back to the village and celebrate." Gaara and Sakura nod in agreement and head back to the village, arm in arm……
Three years later…
The sun rises on another beautiful day in the Hidden Leaf Village as the Kazekage opens his eyes and looks out the window of the hotel. "Man, what a morning. Hey honey, time to get up," Gaara says as he rubs the shoulder of his wife.
Sakura moans a little, "Come on Gaara-kun, just five more minutes…please." Gaara gives a little smile, "I wish I could but we have that breakfast meeting with the Hokage and his family." Sakura rolls over and gives Gaara a warm embrace.
"Breakfast meeting? Don't you mean morning play date for our children?" Sakura says while giving Gaara a kiss on the cheek. "Ha ha, ok you got me…. This is more for the children than for ourselves. Now get dressed, we will be late."
The future of the Sand Village never looked so bright has it?? ^_^ Thanks for reading the GaaSaku fanfic. I hope you enjoyed it.