A/N: Well. I got a number of reviews- I won't say a lot, because let's face it, I'm not exactly a popular writer- requesting a sequel. So obviously I got down to business and wrote one. I'm actually curious to know what happens next… thought I'm not sure if it is up to par. You know, as good as the last one. So basically, it's your job to tell me how I've done.

Oooh. Her head hurt.

Sakura prised her eyes open. The whole world had gone blurry, like a watercolor painting someone had spilled water on. Probably Naruto.

Her head gave another throb as she tried to focus. Hmm… blotchy reds and pale colors. Green? Yeah, green… eyes? A face? Familiar face. Very familiar. Very familiar indeed.

Ok, wait. She knew this face. She knew it.

Starts…with a G. Ah. Gah. Gaa-

Oh shit.

The most powerful sand-nin of the land, Sabaku no Gaara, stared back at her.

Sakura choked back a scream. After all, no girl wants to wake up with the promise of a very sandy and painful death staring right back in her face.

Better play dead.

She squeezed her eyes shut.

Okay, I'm asleep. I'm still asleep. I've close my eyes. I can't see you, you can't see me, right? Basic logical thinking. Even ostriches knew it. So Sabaku no Gaara, please, for once in your son-of-a-politican life, don't kill me… Just go away and leave me alone and I will be ever grateful... Just please, please go away…

"I know you're awake."

Fuck. Well, at least she tried.

Sakura's eyes flew open, grinning nervously and trying to act as innocently as she could, all the while frantically searching for what to say next. Ha? You got me? How do you do? I'm Haruno Sakura? Don't kill me? I've seen the light? Do you like mushrooms? Let's face it, what could you say in a situation like this?

She said the fi- okay, ninth thing that came to mind.

"Your hair is nice."

She instantly regretted opening her mouth.

Oh. Fuck. Where did that come from?

Great, Haruno, just great. You wake up face to face with the Kazekage of Suna, and the first thing you do is to comment on how you like his hair? What ever happened to professional etiquette?

If Gaara had eyebrows, he would be raising them now. Instead, he opted for staring at her, taking the viewpoint that she could not have said it, because she was Tsunade's apprentice. So he could not have heard it, since she did not say it. And since he did not hear it, it never happened.

Sakura blushed bright red, and tried opening her mouth again. Her thoughts were a jumble.

"Ha, ittsbrlkjat."

And apparently, so was her mouth.

Gaara blinked slowly, and waited.

Sakura swallowed. God, her mouth felt like it was on fire! And her head hurted. And there was that strage, queasy feeling in her stomach that signaled to her that if she did not find a toilet soon, very bad things would happen…

"Uhh, what happened?"

Finally. She got something right.

Gaara said unblinkingly, "You got drunk and demolished a bar."

Sakura stared at him.

"Did you just say what I think you said?" she asked. "Because if you did, that can't really be possible, because I don't drin-"

Gaara sighed inaudibly, and flicked his eyes to the direction where, when she turned to look, the ruins lay. She uttered a little scream.

"Oh my god! That can't be- I couldn't have- it couldn't be- no, I didn't… did I?"

She turned her fearful eyes and looked at him.

Gaara stared back at her.

"Oh God! What am I going to do? I am sooo dead! I just demolished a pub! I destroyed it! This can't be happening! Tsunade will kill me! It was her favourite pub!!"

Gaara continued to stare.

"How could this happen to me? To me? I was Tsunade's best apprentice! The obedient one! I always always always abide by the law! I turn my back on temptation- well, okay, I eat the occasionally chocolate bar- but I generally am very controlled! This isn't happening!!"

Gaara didn't move.

"I mean, I woke up just inches away from Sabaku no Gaara's face and then I found out that I destroyed a bar! Could my day get any worse?!"

Gaara's frown deepened subtly. There was something in the way she said "I woke up inches from Sabaku no Gaara's face" that he didn't particularly like.

"Okay, relax. I gotta relax. The last thing I remember was… was, well, I was shopping with Ino, and we saw Sai, and I asked Ino if- if…"

Gaara looked at her carefully. Her eyes were widening in horror, and her face had turned so red that he wondered if she was going to blow.

"THAT SON OF A BITCH!!"

Gaara blinked. Well. That was unexpected.

"FLAT? ME?! FLAT?! I'LL SHOW HIM FLAT! WHEN I'M THROUGH WITH HIM, HE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DISTINGUISH HIMSELF FROM A PANCAKE! YARGH!"

Sakura was on the verge of marching off the blow Sai into kingdom come when Gaara said, "Haruno-san. Please calm down."

She stopped in her tracks, full of righteous anger. Wait. Something happened after that… something momentous. What was it?

Gaara's voice… it sounded familiar. It reminded her of- of… come on, think…

The full force of the truth hit her, and she stilled.

Oh. My. God.

She… she'd asked him, Sabaku no Gaara, Kazekage of Suna, the renowned Wind Shadow, if he thought her boobs were big! He must think she was such a tart!

And then… and then, he said he disagreed! He said she was lacking in the cleavage region!!

Sakura reeled on the spot the way people tend to do when they are struggling to choose between two compulsive urges- to drop dead due to embarrassment, or to punch Gaara, who was staring at her in a rather worried way that only Gaara could do.

Turning on her heel, she pointed her finger at a nonplussed Gaara, spluttering, "Y-you…"

Pride won over dignity, and she picked the latter.

"DICKHEAD!!"

And launched herself at him.

Which, reflected Gaara as he defended himself from her pummeling blows for the second time that day, wasn't really a bad way to bond with a girl.

Sakura suddenly froze in midstep, her face a delicate shade of green.

Gaara paused and watched her concernedly.

"I don't feel so good," she said, and proceeded to throw up over his shoulder.

Well. He'd take back what he said. Women are all strange, difficult creatures.

kaname's harisen: Well, I did wonder too, when I was writing it. I admit I considered Naruto, but- well, I dunno, Sai seemed like the better choice. :)

Overlordofnobodies: Sorry, I didn't use your idea here. XD Admittedly it was kinda violent and M-rated, and I'm not really ready for it yet. Still, one of these days, I might give it a try.

A/N: Well? Was it okay? Admittedly Sakura did quite a lot of shouting here, and I worried for a while if she'd damaged her throat or something, but apparently not. As usual, possible sequel, if I get any ideas.