Sakura choked on her noodles and fell off her chair.
"sakura-chan!" said naruto as she fell off.
just before she hit the ground a net of sand caught her. She swallowed her noodles as she sat back up on her chair.
"Sakura-chan are you ok?" Naruto asked as he helped her back up.
"yeah.." she said as she slowly turned her head to look at Gaara. Gaara stared straight back.
Naruto feeling a little left out shouted again "HEY GUYS ARE YOU THERE?!?! I ASKED U IF YOUR OK?!!!" allmost blowing away them and the whole stand.
"we're FINE Naruto." Gaara answerd for himself and Sakura, with a glare.
"hey Sakura? how many bowls of Raman have you had?" Naruto asked sarcasticly as if Raman could make you drunk.
"only one." she shot back with a glare.
"i think you should go home and get some rest and we can talk tomorrow at training OK Sakura-chan?" Naruto said kindly
"OK Naruto, but Tsunade let me have two days off and then we're having a month of hrad training." Sakura said the last bit proudly.
"OH cool!" Naruto said with joy, much like the way Lee would of. "well if you have nothing to do if you want you can come and watch me train with Gaara."
"Great! then i'll see you two tomorrow, Bye Gaara Bye Naruto!" Said Sakura as she left the Raman store. To go Home...
When she got Home her parents were asleep so she had to had to tip-toe up the stairs to her room. Once she was in her room she got changed and went to sleep.
In the morning when she woke up she smelt porrige cooking in the kitchen. She went down stairs and she her mother making porrige, but it wasn't her house... its looked like the house she stayed in at Suna. She asked her mother
"where are we?"
"we're in in Suna Saku-chan!" her mother said with her grin.
"oh yeah..." said Sakura hesitantly.
Sakura ran up the stairs to her room and looked in the mirror. She was small again! SHE WAS FRINKIN 5!
Once she had calmed down Sakura desided to go for a walk to clear her mind.She got dresses and had breakfast then went outside. After awhile she came she came across a sad looking boy. Thats when she remember, Gaara. She stood there motionless, too deep in thought to move.
"could this little boy be Gaara? The Gaara cursed with the Shukaku?" she looked at the little broken face of the boy... It WAS Gaara of the sand.
Suddenly everything went back.
Sakura woke with a start. She was back in her own room in her own house. She wasnt 5 anymore... She got out of bed and stood there thinking about her dream. So the little boy she met when she was 5, her friends, her first friend was the boy who tryed to kill her in the chunning exams... they were one person. Gaara.
Sakura went down stairs and made herself some breakfast. Her parents were gone to work. they never got to spend time together like went she was 5. she allmost forgot they were like a 'family' until she got that reminding dream. It made her sad to think of how far they've drifted apart. Sakura shook her head to rid herself of those thoughts.
She desided to ask Gaara if he had ever met a younge girl when he was a little boy playing the sandbox.
Once she had finnished her breakfast she went up stairs, got dressed, and went to met Gaara and Naruto at the training ground.
She was walking thought the village she passed a sushi stand.
"Cultcher." she read aloud
'so that must be the Sushi bar that pig (Ino) was telling me about.' sakura thought to herself 'more like begged me to cheak out with her' Inner sakura reminded her.
Seeing as she was allready late she might aswell bring some ... brunch. for the 3 of them Sakura desided to get 3 sushi lunch boxes.
Sakura walked on to the bridge. She had put the lunches in her pink bag on top of her medic books. Heh yeah, she knows, But studing isnt training! Besides Watching Naruto and Gaara fight could be boring. no. it WILL be.
Sakura entered the training grounds, greeted with the sight of Naruto and Gaara fighting full on.
Shirtless...
They were sparing, as she thought. throwing weponds, kicks, punches...most being blocked by sand and narutos Kage Bunshin (how do u spell that again?) screaming in attemps of Rasengan-ing at Gaara. both coverd in verious cuts and bruises, panting and sweating. As Naruto sent a round-house kick to Gaaras head he saw Sakura...but he eyes happend to be glued to Gaaras shirtless, well toned chest.
"Hey Sakura-chan!!" yelled Naruto said the number one loud mouth we all know and love."About time too! Where WERE you?" asked the blond as he and Gaara walk up to her.
' DAMN Gaara-KUN has gotten HOT latey!!!' Inner Sakura screamed, drooling slightly.
'heh...' was all sakura could say not really wanting to comment on Gaaras body..eyes..hair..sexy additude..Just incase it got thrown back at her.
' wait... SEXY?! no. i. do. NOT. like. GAARA! NO NO NOOOOO!' Sakura screamed to her innerself.
Snaping back into reality as Gaaras hand waved infront of her eyes. He smirked as she jumped.
"what? has training made you a zobie or do you just love stairing at my face? sakura-chan?" Gaara said cockily. She new he was kidding but, what he said remind her so much..of Sasuke.
She blushed lightly "pfft, no, besides please dont talk to me like that. It reminds me of that...basterd." She said the last part serously.
Gaaras smirk dropped when he heard that.
"Sorry Sakura." he said as he and Naruto passed her silently. Naruto was silent the whole time. He and Gaara walked into a clearing and Sakura followed and sat under a tree.
Sakura got out her books and studied. She was reading about interal bleeding and inside wounds. And of course how to HEAL them. there was some pretty grusom pictures. Every now and then she stole glances at Gaara fighting.
' The way his hair moves in the wind... the wa-' Inner Sakura started to tease "SHUT. UP!" Sakura screamed... out loud. Gaara and Naruto were Kunai to kunai but stopped and looked at Sakura like she had gone insane.
"errr..." Sakura started emmbarsed."Hey! your wounded Naruto!!" Sakura smartly changed subjects. She ran over to Narutos and put her hands over his shoulder. Her blue chakra washed over Narutos arm and the wound was gone without a trace.
"Sakura chan your amazing!!"
Gaara just stared in awe. Naruto had tears in his eyes and gave Sakura a bone crushing hug and said "i'm so proud of you Sakura-chan!!"
Gaara felt uncofterable and Naruto saw that.
"Hey i'm hungry!! lets go get Raman!" Naruto screamed in Sakuras ears.
"Naa i'm gonna stay here and keep reading..on internal bleeding and stuff." Sakura said with a smile and sat under a tree, opened her book and studied.
Naruto stood there gaping at Sakura. "she turned me now...FOR A BOOK?!" Naruto yelled at Gaara. "she turn free raman down! For a book no less!" Gaara sighed and said "i'm gonna do some target pracits." With that he turned and started throwing kunai at a log.
"FINE BE LIKE THAT THEN" Naruto yelled. Gaara and Sakura watched naruto walk off in amusment.
Sakura went back to her book.
Gaara went back to the log.
Silence...
"Damn" Sakura said as she closed her book with a 'snap' finding she couldn't conserntrate with Gaara throwing kunai, hitting the log with a 'thud'. Gaara stop[ed and just looked at Sakura. Sakura looked back at him. turquoise met emerald, lost in each others eyes.
Sakura just couldn't take the silence anymore.
"Gaara.." She started as she remember Gaaras question she left unanswered and her dream. Gaara was also thinking of his question and why she reacted the way she did.
Sakura tryed again. "Gaara when i was about five, my big brother had a misson in Suna...me, my mother and father stayed there because his mission was going to take about two months. We traveld all around Suna then after 6 weeks we stayed in The Suna Village." She stopped and looked up at Gaara who seemed emotionless but was listening intently. Gaara took steph towards Sakura and looked down on her. (remember shes under a tree?)
He walked up to her and sat down next to her. His eyes never leaving hers. "go on Sakura.." He said.
She blushed under his gase.
"when i was there i came by a little boy wtih red hair and green eyes, his name...was Gaara. Gaara, did you meet a girl with pink hair and green eyes when you were younger, about 5 or 6? can you remember?" Sakura asked Gaara hopefully. Gaaras eyes widend when he took his all in.
'so that WAS Sakura!!' Shukaku said running around in joying inside Gaaras head. Gaara noticed Sakura waiting for an answer.
"Yeah i-" Gaara STARTED to say with the tinyest of smiles, when rudely interrupted. By Sakura.
"OH MY GOD! i forgot the sushi lunches!!" she said running over to her bag. Gaara watched with his if-i-had-any-eyebrows-i-would-be-raising-one face.
Sakura pulled out 3 beautifuly wrapped sushi lunch boxes that she had picked up from 'Cultcher'.
She ran back to Gaara with them and said "heh sorry to interrupt you Panda-kun but these are the lunches i got for you, me and naruto." she said as she unwrapped one and gave it to Gaara. She sat back down and unwrapped hers.
She opened the lid and put Narutos aside and said as she picked up a sushi with her chop sticks, "Now, what were you going to say until i so rudely butted in?" she asked and ate a sushi.
"i was going to say" Gaara started as he picked up one of his own sushi smirking "that i remember, when i was younger, a girl with pink hair and green eyes come into my sandbox and ask to play with me" Gaara looked at the wide eyed cherry blossom.
"I remember you, Saku-chan."