Hey everyone! I just got a couple of things to say then its back to the story. Thanks Kallou and XCrazyKindOvWeirdx for helping me with the editing of my story from now on! Thanks! And I've been asked if I really will do a sequel to this story and yes I will but you have to wait till I'm done with this story to know what the sequel will be about! Enjoy the story and please leave a review! Love you all!

--Yuuki! ^_~

Chapter 15

SPOV

Once I got inside, I guess I closed the door to loud or something because all eyed were on me. I tried to ignore it as I made my way to Gaara, Temari, Kankuro, and a now wake and angry Neenah. She was yelling in Temari's face and Temari was ignoring her while taking a long sip from her drink before spitting it in Neenah's face. I couldn't help but laugh. That was Temari for you and I loved it.

As I approached, Gaara noticed me and did a double take. His eyes widened and his jaw fell. What was wrong with him? I looked over to see Neenah still yelling at Temari but now Temari and Kankuro both were looking at me the same way Gaara, and everyone else for that matter, were looking at me.

Bowing in front of Gaara and whispered so only the four of them would hear me, "The situation has been dealt with but now we have to do a few other things. I am here to tell you I am leaving now." It wasn't until he hadn't said anything for a full minute that I actually looked up at him. He was still looking at me the same way. "Uh, Kazekage-sama, Is something wrong?" I asked. Still he didn't answer me. Instead his face twisted from shock to worry to anger. I looked down at myself and saw exactly why he looked so angry. I looked a hot mess.

My skirt was torn so you could see my weapons pouch, one of my vest straps were ripped open, my hair had fallen all over my face, and I was covered in blood with a few bruises. Gaara was staring down at the four finger bruises right under my shoulder where Nekio had pushed me away. I was probably embarrassing Gaara so much right now, even more then Neenah had earlier. I represented him and I looked like a bloody tomboy with no manners.

I tried to straighten myself up but it was no use. Neenah had finally stopped yelling long enough at Temari to actually look my way and start laughing. "What the hell happened to you?" Neenah basically yelled out, "What did that stupid guy you were with earlier beat the shit out of you for that stupid look on your face?" It took everything I had not to punch her throw the wall. I had already embarrassed Gaara as it is, putting Neenah in a coma wouldn't help much.

A guard came up to me then and whispered something about the intruder losing too much blood to make it all the way back to the hospital. He'd die in the back seat if we didn't do something right away. I told him to go up stairs and find the hand I had cut off and I'd be there in a minute to stop the bleeding.

Neenah hadn't stopped her insults yet but I wasn't paying attention. I looked back at Temari to catch her mouthing 'Are you ok?' I nodded and tried to smile before looking back at Gaara.

"Get out of here and clean up. Go home and rest," Gaara whispered in my ear. I knew he was angry, even though he was trying to sound concerned.

I nodded, bowed my head and left to help the intruder situation. Once outside, I saw Nekio had passed out in the carriage meant to take me and him to the hospital. I told the driver to go on ahead without me.

Healing the intruder and stopping his bleeding before he went to the hospital didn't take all that long, but the party was over by the time I was done. And the walk home would be a long one. The guards at offered me a carriage ride home but I turned them down. I midnight stroll would help me clear my mind.

How had I gotten into all this? I came here to get information on that stupid flower, only to find it was a fake. Then I am kept here to be a personal body guard to the Kazekage himself. And now I'm in love with him, and he hates me and is probably going to marry that stupid woman. And yet I can't help but feel this is my fault. I'm probably just another piece of ass to him.

I felt the tears start to sting in my eyes as I reached the front door. It was well past midnight and no doubt everyone was asleep. The walk home had taken longer than I thought, or maybe it was that I was walking so slowly and I took the long way home. I sighed heavily as I locked the door behind me and tried not to stomp up to my room. I had to get a shower and change before I went to the hospital to visit Nekio. By the time I was done with that, I would have to go straight to work, and start at the new post Gaara had assigned me.

With another long sigh, I discarded all my blood clothes, put them in a plastic bag, and took a hot shower. Everything seemed to be sore. My head was killing me and my body was crying out in pain. I fingered after the hot water soaked in, it would get better, but after fifteen minutes, I gave up and got out. I dressed in my usual red vest and medic skirt before grabbing my bad of bloody cloths and heading out the door once more to the hospital.

Once I finally got there and checked in on Nekio, who was still sleeping, and threw away my bloody clothes, I went looking around for something to do. I still had an hour till I had to get to work. Gaara would just be arriving and Temari and Kankuro would barely be waking up.

As I passed through the halls of the hospital, I looked into some of the open doors. This hospital was so ill equipped. Not enough nurses on staff, and the ones that were, weren't doing their job well or not at all. The doctors were doing their best but they were so few of them, that whatever they did was the best they could do. The clinic wasn't a clinic. It was more like a waiting room full of sick people, with no one to help them.

I rounded the corner and found a pay phone. Quickly, I dialed up the number to Gaara's office and waited for him to answer. He finally picked up the phone on the fourth ring. "Hello," Gaara answer with a sigh. "Kazekage-sama, its Sakura, I'm at the hospital and I would like to ask for a favor." I waited for him to say something but after about thirty seconds I continued, "I feel that there is a lot I could do to help this hospital out. Including, teaching more nurses and doctors. I feel that if I were to stay in the position I am in, as your body guard, I would be wasted. Please, sir, let me work here. I can start right tomorrow and find a replacement for myself for you today."

I sighed and I heard a rumble of papers before he answered me, "Fine. Do as you please. I expect a full report on what you intend to do for the hospital by the end of the day as well as I replacement for you. I will personally supply anything, money or supplies that you need. Good luck," then the line went dead.

That was the last time Gaara and I really talked.

Six Months Later

GPOV

As I stand here looking out onto the village I loved so much and worked so hard to protect, I can't help but feel so lost. How did things get so bad? I hadn't seen my Sakura in over four months. My sister wasn't talking to me. My brother was disappointed in me. I sighed heavily and thought about everything that had happened in these last few months.

Sakura had started working at the hospital and was doing such a good job. She had hired almost a whole new staff of works and volunteers, and started training them herself as either doctors, or nurses. She even made a deal with the jail to allow some of the inmates (the ones not in for murder, rape or anything of the sort) to work at the hospital as janitors for six months in return for six months off their sentence. I visited every two weeks to check in on things and I had to admit, the hospital was not only functioning better but it looked better and cleaner, like a hospital should. But it was always a disappointment to visit because every time I went I never saw her. She was either busy, in the middle of surgery or some other excuse she told her assistant to tell me.

A month after the ball Neenah moved in with me. We had been 'dating' for a month and she was always over anyway so I figured she might as well live with me. We didn't sleep together at all, even though she begged me, and I made sure she had her own room, even though she tries to sleep in my room every night. But once Neenah had moved in Temari got fed up. She told me that I was an idiot making a moron's mistake and she wasn't going to stand by and watch me do it. So she moved out and took Sakura with her. The day Temari left with Sakura's arm in her strong grasp was the last day I saw or talked to Sakura in person and the last day Temari ever came to the house.

That same day, Kankuro stopped hanging around the house so much. Now he was only there at dinner and to eat. Other than that he was either out doing something important, or helping Sakura out at the hospital, which he wouldn't go into detail about what he was doing or give any information about Sakura, or going on a date, which he never said who with.

The only time I saw Temari was when she came into the office for a mission or at a meet that she was required to attend to, and even then she never looked at me and only talked when spoken too.

And worst of all, Neenah was always around me. I resent the day I hired her as my assistant. I resent the day I let her into my house. I really resent the day I had sex with her in the office and got caught by Temari and she threw a chair at me. I still have a bruise on my forehead.

Speaking of bruises only made me think back to the night of the ball. When I saw Sakura all covered in blood and a mess, I couldn't find my voice. I would kill that idiot of a partner of hers that let her get in the state she was in. She looked so fragile and yet so strong. I wanted to scoop her up into my arms and kiss any pain she had away. But Neenah, with her stupidity, just had to go out and start ranting on my Sakura. I didn't even have the balls to say anything to stop her. I stood there and let Neenah hurt the one thing I cared about the most. I told Sakura to go home and clean up so she wouldn't have to deal with Neenah anymore but I knew whatever I said, it wouldn't take away the pained look on her face as she left. Neenah had been so mean to Sakura. Even after she left, Neenah continued to go on and on with insults on Sakura until Temari finally stepped in and stopped her like I should have a long time ago.

"Hello!!!" Speak of the devil, and his hoe of a wife shall appear. Neenah came behind me and wrapped her freshly painted nails around my waist. She was like a talking Barbie doll that won't shut up! She always looked so nice and fresh but never did any work. All the time she has been here, I've been doing her job. The one time I did actually yell at her to do the filing, she broke a nail and stormed out of the office calling me a few choice words on her way. She didn't come home that night, which worried the hell out of me, and later the next day she came into the office saying she forgave me and that she accepted my apology, even though I didn't offer it.

I sighed heavily, unwrapping Neenah's arms from around me, and went back into the office. My desk was filled corner to corner with paper work that I either hadn't finished going over, or paper work I did finish and someone just didn't file them or deliver them to the right place. I honestly wondered how I got into this mess again.

'Oh that's right,' I thought sourly, 'because I'm as asshole who didn't step up to the plate when I had a chance and let the best girl that will ever landed in my lap, go off and instead tried to replace with a stupid bitch that cared more about herself then the village and its people.'

'Yeah, you really did mess up dude,' Shukaku spoke up then. He also didn't talk to me much ever since Sakura had left. 'I knew she was our mate the second day we had her here. But I thought you would have figured that out way before now though. By the way, if you don't figure out a way to get this woman out of our life, I'll kill her and I mean that.'

'Trust me, if you don't do it, I will. And I know fifteen different ways to make it look like an accident, or a very good looking suicide,' I thought with a grin. I really would do anything to get her out of my house, my office, and my life! Now, Temari would seriously beat me till I saw stars if I ever disrespected Neenah as a lady but I really am in a bind her.

Even if Neenah left, how would I get my Sakura back? I had messed up so bad. I not only pushed her away and completely ignored her but I was now basically grabbing her by the neck and rubbing her face in the fact I had Neenah.

Sakura was so much different than Neenah. Sakura was actually trying to make a difference in the village I loved so much. Neenah couldn't care less if it all burned down, so long as she had her beauty and sex. Sakura didn't care what she looked like as long as she was doing something useful, especially for children. Neenah would burn her hair off then have a child in her arms, let alone actually give birth to one.

Neenah had been talking the whole time I had let my mind wonder and I didn't know what the hell she said, let alone did I care. I checked the time and walked out the room without as much as a goodbye to Neenah. I wanted to go to the hospital. I wanted to see her. I wanted to see my Sakura.

I would do whatever it took to have her in my arms with the smile I loved so much. But I couldn't just march up to the hospital, sweep her off her feet, take her home and kiss her endlessly until she understood that I loved her. Or could I?

'No you idiot! You can't do that! You have no idea about wooing women do you? Geez, you have to be romantic about this kind of stuff,' Shukaku piped in as I walked down the hall and out the door towards the hospital.

'Then what should I do, oh great master of Love?' I asked sarcastically.

'Well if you really want to know, you should first get the back on good terms with your sister and brother. Once you got them on your side, it'll make it that much easier to get the bitch out of our house, and make everything ready for Sakura,' Shukaku commented matter-of-factly.

I groaned again, thinking of Neenah. But Shukaku was right; I had to get my sibling on my side, especially Temari. She would really be a big help with me considering she is not only living with Sakura, but she was also a girl and most girls knew how to handle other girls….right?

As I arrived over at the hospital and stepped through the siding doors, I could help but smile. If anyone had seen this place three months ago, they would have turned around and gone back home, that's how bad the place looked. Everything else was worse. But now everything was brighter, happier, and over all better.

And it was all thanks to Sakura.

I went up to the front desk, and saw the people stationed there were all either busy with a patient or on the phone with someone in need. I didn't mind, not at all. I would rather be standing here waiting then to have been noticed and had someone die.

After about a minute or so, the young woman in front of my hung up the phone and looked down at something in her lap. "Welcome to Suna Medical Institute and Hospital. How may I help you, sir?" She asked without looking up.

I cleared my throat and spoke softly, "Hello, I'm the Kazekage." Before I could even start my next sentence, the young woman looked up with me and started squealing and going on about not expecting me until another two weeks, which was true. I was only here one day out of two weeks and today was not that day. Oh well, I shrugged it off and raised a hand to silence her attics. She had gone from professional to fan girl in a matter of second and it annoyed the hell out of me.

"Sorry, I was looking for Dr. Haruno. Do you know where I could find her?" I asked looking down at my hands. She growled something under her breath and checked the time, "Well, it's a little past noon, sir. Usually around this time, if Dr. Haruno doesn't have any emergencies and if the clinic isn't in need of any help, she goes and plays in the children's wing. She should be doing her paper work or something useful but no. She would rather play with the kids."

I was seething by the time she was done talking, and when the woman looked up at me, I guess she could tell. I slowly sank into her seat as I continued to glare at her. "Now listen here," I all but sneered through my clenched teeth, "Sakura Haruno has done more for this hospital then you will ever know. She cares for everyone and no matter how they treat her she is always there to help in any way, shape or form. Now if she chooses to go help out our young ones and save them then fill out a stupid couple of papers then that's where she is most needed. So next time think before you talk. Without her, you most likely wouldn't have this job. Now," I said straightening myself up and taking a deep breath, "Please, would you point the way to the children's wing?"

She was looking at me with wide eyes and obviously shaking as she pointed down the hall to my left. I nodded a thank you and started off.

As I went down the hallway, I couldn't help but look in through the open doors. It made me smile inside to see that, even though the patients were in the hospital and sick and might even be on their death bed, everyone was smiling, and happy.

I continued to walk down until I came to the end of the hall which had to big arrows painted on the wall. One arrow said Children's or other said Delivery. I looked down the hall that had the Delivery arrow pointing down it and cringed away. There are many things in this life that I would not want to see, and seeing a woman give birth to a human being, while cussing like a sailor and blood and stuff coming out of her, was on the top ten of that list.

'But what if one day, the screaming woman is Sakura? And the human baby coming out of her with blood and stuff was yours?' Shukaku asked. I didn't know what to say to that. Of course I wanted a family. It was one of my desires in life that I thought I would never get, but maybe Sakura, if she was willing, could change that.

I was so deep in thought that I hadn't noticed that I had walked into the Children's wing and was now walking down a hall with different rooms with glass windows looking in on them. I stopped in front of a window that had pink that caught my eye. I leaned against the wall and actually smiled. Sakura was there, right in front of me. She looked happy as she played with the kids. She was tickling one little girl while racing a car with her foot with another young boy and blowing bubbles for two little twin girls.

'She loves them so much,' I thought with a sigh. 'She's going to make a great mother one day.'

'Uh-huh' was all Shukaku said. I must have been there for awhile because an older woman joined me. Sakura hadn't even noticed us there, let alone the kids. "She's very beautiful," the woman commented. I looked down at her with shock as I tried to cover a blush from coming to my cheeks. I nodded and sighed again. "The two twins are my grand-daughters, Kandi and Nandi. Dr. Haruno helped them when they and their father were brought in. They had survived a fire. My son was ok but the girls weren't doing so well. Dr. Haruno spent two whole days, without rest or eating or anything, healing and tending to my grand-daughters. I don't even think she left the room or went to restroom. I own Dr. Haruno, she saved my family," the old woman smiled and sighed as her eyes filled with tears.

I offered her my handkerchief, but she shook her head and cleaned her face with her sleeve. "So, when are you planning on telling her that you love her young Kazekage?" she asked suddenly. I started to stutter trying to tell her she was wrong, but she held up a hand to silence me. "Young Kazekage, I maybe old and my sight may not be good, but I know when I see love, and you are in love. You've been standing here for over an hour, and you haven't even shifted your eyes once from Dr. Haruno. Even when I stepped beside you, it took you a few minutes to even realize I was here."

I huffed and wiped the sweat from my face with my hand. Even a stranger could tell after only a few minutes, and it took me this long to figure it out. On top of that, I had been here in the same spot for an hour and it only felt like minutes, and Sakura hadn't even noticed me. "Don't worry," the old woman said patting my shoulder, "You'll figure it out and when you do, I'm sure you'll get the answer you desire." With that she walked away. I sighed again, I seemed to be doing that a lot lately, and looked back into the room still filled with children, and my Sakura.

I loved her. I needed her. I would do anything to get her back, but I had to wait. I had to do this right. Suddenly, I young woman came running down the hall and into the room Sakura was in. She started to say something but a blue light along with a siren yelling 'Code Blue' over the loud speaker interrupted her. I slid back into the shadows as Sakura, and the woman took off running down the hall and disappeared from sight.

Looked back into the room filled with now confused children one last time, letting my mind think about the possibilities of one of them with red or pink hair with the last name Sabuku, and left with my sand. I had to go see Temari. It was time I did for things to change.

ALRIGHT! Well that's it for now but i promise to update soon. Thanks to my editors this chapter came out great (in my opinion) Please leave a review and love you all! ^_~

--Yuuki!