'Knock knock' "Come in!" called a cheerful voice. Sakura opened the door and walked in.
"So everything ready?" She asked Tsunade.
"Yes, now all you have to do is sign under where I have." Tsunade gave Sakura the adoption papers. Sakura picked up a pen and signed them, then past them back to her sensei.
The blossom haired girl asked "do I get to keep my last name or do I change to yours?"
Tsunade smiled. "No Sakura you will always be a Haruno." Sakura smiled back.
"So daughter, you would you like to go see your new home?" Tsunade asked slinging an arm over her shoulder, leading her out.
Haruno Sakura beamed at her new mother and walked out the door.
-------------------A new Friend, Saku-chan------------------------------------------------------
They arrived at the edge of the leaf village on a small cliff overlooking a valley. It was amazing, beyond beautiful. The sun was setting in shades of pink, orange and yellow. Birds were flying around going into their nests.
"Tsunade this is beautiful!" Sakura said in amazement.
"Come this way Sakura, to the house." Said Tsunade, amused.
They walked though a grove of Sakura trees and purple Jacarandas. It took Sakura's breath away. Purple and pink blossoms flowed all around them.
Then they came to a tall Japanese style house. It was like a mini palace. The 5th Hokage and her daughter walked inside then up a long hallway and then turned left.
Tsunade opened a door at the end of the hallway to reveal a beautiful red, pink and gold bedroom.
There were silk hangings everywhere and a large queen-size bed was in the middle. It had a red silk doona on it, with beautiful Japanese gold stitching all over it. It was piled with red and gold pillows and in the middle was a large pink teddy.
The floor had soft pink carpet. Near the bed two gold curtains were tide back and red lace hung over the view of outside.
Sakura lifted it up and stepped past it and onto the balcony. From there she could see the whole village, the valley filled with light, the sun going down and touching everything with its beautiful light. Even from up there the purple and pink petals flowed in the wind.
Tsunade came out and stood behind her.
"Like it Sakura?" Tsunade asked.
"It's amazing!!" Sakura said in delight. She hugged her mum.
"I'll get those boxes you left at my office and bring them up here." Then Tsunade poofed away Kakashi style leaving Sakura alone on the balcony.
Sakura turned back into her beautiful room and decided to look around. Then she noticed the table on the left of her bed. It was glass, round and small.
She kept walking though the large room. She past a few pink and red hangings and on the other side was a table; a large table made from wood and had gold pillows around it. There where no curtains in this room. Just huge glass doors and windows showing the awesome view.
No walls, just hangings made from silk. On the table, square, white china plates were on bamboo place mats with chopsticks next to them.
Sakura went thought the silk 'wall' on her left.
She found herself in a beautiful bathroom with large mirrors, three sinks, and a bath tub full of hot water with red and pink rose petals on the top. Metallic pink and gold candles lay all around the room filling it with light and a huge candle chandler hung from the roof.
"Oh my god… Is this place even a house? It's just like a 6 star hotel!" Sakura whispered to herself in utter joy. She smiled in excitement.
"Hmm I think I'll go for a walk in the gardens now…" Sakura walked back into the dinning room, though her room and down the sloped hallway.
She slowly glided out into the gardens and was overwhelmed by a sudden loneliness. She starred out to the sunset as she thought of her parents, her brother and…
Of Sasuke.
She always, always was there for him. She tried so many times, to tell him. To show him that he wasn't alone. She was there.
She cared, she loved, she adored and cherished her precious, beloved Sasuke. Forever…
Through happiness, pain, laughter and tears. Through Joy and through sadness.
She loved him. Through life, through death.
And then, he left her, never to return.
But still she prayed for him, to be safe, to be ok, to be strong and most of all, to come back home.
Even after her almost killed Naruto and then left him for dead. At this point she felt guilty for loving him. She still loved him with her heart and soul.
And now. Her parents. He killed them. Murdered them. Ripped the people that mattered to her most away, to a place were, if she were to still live, could never reach.
And still
Her heart yearned for him.
How dare she?! She hated herself for it deeply. She loathed it. The fact that her broken, shattered heart still beat for him.
The Murder,
The betrayer,
Sasuke.
Suddenly her love for him turned into a twisted hatred. She hated him for betraying her, for hurting Naruto, for killing her parents and hated him because her heart was still in his hands.
How dare he? Do this to her? Play with her already broken heart?
Not anymore. Never again. Hatred is all she would feel for Uchiha Sasuke now.
And then one day she would take his wretched life…
And then heart would be hers once more.
The fury in her died down as she thought of her parents.
Suddenly violins started to play, unheard and unseen by anyone else and Sakura started to sing. (Memories by within temptation)
"In this world you tried"
She sung to the heavens and to those who couldn't hear.
"Not leaving me alone behind"
"There's no other way"
"I'll pray to the gods let him stay"
She prayed so her brother's soul could fly free in the heavens
"The memories ease the pain inside,"
"Now I know why"
She sung and tired not to cry.
"All of
my memories keep you near
in silent moments
Imagine you'd be
here."
"All of
my memories keep you near,
Your silent whispers, silent tears"
She sang to the heavens, to her love ones above.
"Made me
promise I'd try
to find my way back in this life"
She sang about her and Naruto recovering and somehow finding Sasuke.
"I hope
there is a way
to give me a sign you're okay"
She sang to Sasuke and her parents
"Reminds
me again it's worth it all
so I can go home"
"All of
my memories keep you near
in silent moments
Imagine you'd be
here."
"All of
my memories keep you near,
your silent whispers, silent tears"
She stopped walking and watched the sun go down with her song.
"Together
in all these memories
I see your smile"
She smiled as she remembered the last bit of happiness that still lived in Sasuke when they were still team 7.
"All
of the memories I hold dear
Darling, you know I'll love you
till
the end of time"
Sakura sang to Sasuke words of twisted love that he and the world would never know…
-------------------A new Friend, Saku-chan------------------------------------------------------
The violins stopped and the sky had turned dark. Sakura headed back for the house. She walked back to her room. She found that her boxes were now there on the floor.
She opened one of them and found all her photos. Sakura moved the box near the table and placed the photo of her family and herself on it so that every morning she would wake up with them by her side.
She spotted the photo of team seven. Sakura sighed and looked away. But even so, she couldn't help but look back.
Kakashi-sensei had both hands on either Naruto or Sasuke's head. His eye crinkled in a smile, as always. That same smile, that comforted Naruto and herself though their time without Sasuke.
Naruto on her right was glaring at Sasuke like there was no tomorrow, Sasuke was just looking plain bored, like he had something SO much better to do with his time
Sakura laughed at the thought. Of course he had something better to do, he was Sasuke.
And she was in the middle, smiling in joy, surrounded by the people she loved the most. But days of team seven were over, days of happiness over.
But… were they?
She placed that too on the table.
Those two were the only ones in frames.
She picked up the box and lifted it over to her cupboard. She opened the cupboard doors and decided she would stick all of these photos on the inside of the doors. So that when she opened them each day she could see them and think 'are our days of happiness truly over?'
In the box were pictures of her at all ages, her brother, her mother and her father. Naruto and herself at festivals and at the ramen stand. Photos of Kakashi, Tsunade, Ino and all her friends.
When she had finished sticking them all up she was about to throw away the box when she saw something wedged on the cardboard of the bottom. It was two photos.
One of them was Naruto and Gaara, casually hanging in Suna and the other was Sakura at the age of 5 with Gaara in Suna.
Sakura gasped. She didn't even know she had these photos!
"So you found the photos I put in for you…" a smooth, familiar voice said. Sakura whipped around and saw Gaara leaning against a solid wall.
"Gaara!" She exclaimed.
"Hey" he said coolly. He walked over and crouched next to her.
"When did you-?" she asked slowly pointing to the box.
"Well, when I got your clothes, people were already starting to clean and pack your house. So, I stuck around for awhile and said to pack all your important and personal stuff in boxes and leave it for you and the unneeded things go to the hokage. I showed them what not to pack and what they should, what they should leave and what they shouldn't and I helped." He paused and took a breath.
"When I was packing photos, I thought you would like a copy of these two…" He confessed and pointed to the photos.
"And after Yuki did some training with us I bumped into Hokage-sama and she asked of I could move these for you." He finished.
Sakura's eyes lit up in gratitude. "You did this all for me?" She asked slightly in awe.
He gave her one of his small smiles he reserved only for her. "Of course Saku-chan"
Then something caught his eye. A gold chain with a beautiful locket on the end had appeared and lay on her shirt. It must have jumped out from under her shirt when he smiled because she jumped slightly in surprise.
"I-Is that the locket I gave you?!" Gaara asked curious and amazed at the thought that she still had it, let alone still wore it. Sakura beamed.
"Of course it is! And it's been waiting for the right picture." She picked up the photo of herself and Gaara and said "But I think at last we found it."
She took off the locket and opened it. Her eyes widened. Engraved inside, was a message! It read
'Dearest Sakura-chan, don't forget.
Love, Gaara of the sand'
"What haven't you ever opened it?" Gaara asked in amusement at her shock.
"Of course I have! I was playing with it today on the way to the hokages tower today! How could I have missed that?!" Sakura asked herself smacking her forehead.
"Oh well." Said Gaara "you know it's there now"
"Yeah" Sakura agreed smiling picking up the photo of them. She picked up some scissors and cut out herself and Gaara, putting herself on one side and Gaara on the other side of the locket.
Sakura smiled and looked up into Gaara's beautiful turquoise eyes. She was suddenly over whelmed by the same warm feeling she had as on the day she kissed Gaara. She was captivated again by his eyes, his hair, his voice and most of all his talent of understanding and saying the things she needed to hear the most when she was alone, in pain or just down.
He starred down at her in the same trance. Gaara brought his hand to her cheek and could see she was still broken inside and he stroked her face.
Sakura put her arms around Gaara in a hug and rested her head on his chest. She breathed in his scent. It was of lavender, cinnamon and sand, an odd mix but a strangely nice one. Gaara hugged her back and rested his chin on her head.
Sakura moved her head and looked Gaara straight in the eye. "It was nice spending some time with you and Naruto, Gaara. But tomorrow it back to training in the hokages tower and hospital" She said in a sad tone.
Gaara gazed down at her in an understanding way but a little sad. "That's a shame. I don't think that was much of a break for you."
"Yeah, I know." She said letting go of him and getting up. Gaara picked up the locket and stood. He gently put the locket around Sakura's neck.
"Thanks Panda-kun" said Sakura and gave him a peck on his cheek.
Gaara just blinked dumbstruck for a few seconds. He sure as hell didn't expect that.
"Well it's getting late I had better get back to Naruto's house." Gaara said excusing himself once he had snapped back into reality.
"Bye Panda-kun"
"See you, Saku-chan"
Gaara turned and disappeared in a swirl of sand.
Sakura smiled to herself. "Gaara has SO got to teach me that." Sakura said as she walked into her new bath room, deciding to light the candles and have a long bath.
-------------------A new Friend, Saku-chan------------------------------------------------------
Heh, sorry again for making u guys wait! OMG what a rollercoaster of emotions Sakura's got going on! I can relate. Someone in my life as just died too… like 3 days ago.
BUT ANYWAY onto GOOD news! Ok well the reason I take so long to update is I'm borrowing a laptop from the place my dad works and I use it to write my stories coz my annoying as hell sister hogs the 3 computers we have at my house. Not 2 mention their slow as because of all the crap she downloads. BUTTT my dad N me went to an auction and brought FIVE Toshiba laptops!!! And that means one for me, one for Madz (my sister) and one for dad so I don't have to wait to used the borrowed laptop when he's using it! And the other two are for a present to our friends…! Soooo once me N dad set them up I should be able to do more writing!
But… I still have homework…
Oh and Datkidkris! I didn't mean to make Sakura's bros name like that BUT UR A FRICKNG GENIUS FOR SEEING IT THAT WAY[Sasuke+Sai+MaruSassaimaru I was like OMG WHY DIDN'T I SEE THAT?! I mean me N u r pretty damn smart for coming up with that! Keep it up genius! P
Gaara ish my sexeh beast! Thank you for your advice and its ok I get a lot of people committing on my awful spelling! But thanks for the help!
And to all my other reviewers! Yeah Gaara is being so sweet now that he's realised that Sakura was his first friend, the first person who accepted him for who he was, not what he has inside of him! And I know, I'm making Sakura suffer and its awful of me but, it's a stage of life and once she gets over it, it will only make her stronger.
Dewa mata (see you)next time, Love LacarinoXTiegegun