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Last Chapter: As Sakura walked down the stairs from the office, she tried to relax again. Hey, she had the whole day tomorrow right? She could focus on her book for now. As she tried to clear her head again, she heard a very quiet, but very distinct foot step behind her. She got her fist ready, pumped some chakra into it, and got ready to throw it. She turned around.

How it All Started...For Us

Sakura was ready to throw her punch when she realized it was Konoha, so there could be a little kid there. She turned to see who it was, and when she did she immediately put her hand down.

"Gaara-san? What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in Suna?" Sakura asked, puzzled.

"Shouldn't you look before you get all ready to kill someone?" Gaara said, smirking in the direction of her fist, still powered up with chakra.

"Ano, sorry, Gaara-san. I didn't know who it was. But really, what are you doing he-"

"SAKURA-SAN! SAKURA-SAN!" Yelled Shizune running quite quickly in her direction. She quickly reached her and bowed. "Ah, Kazekage-sama, I didn't see you. Well, I guess this is useless then." Shizune sighed as she held up a piece of paper that stated they would be escorted by the Kazekage himself. "Well, not completely I guess." Shizune said as she grabbed another scroll from her dress. "Sakura, could you give these to Naruto and Hinata? I already had Temari-san come by and she said she was visiting Shikamaru already and would do it." Gaara smirked at that comment, probably at some hidden joke of his. Sakura nodded with a grin. Shizune bowed to them both and disappeared down a well-crowded street.

"Gaara-san, do you want to join me? I'm sure you want to say hi to Naruto." Sakura said with a smile.

"As long as you don't try to attack a kid, that's fine." Gaara said in monotone.

Sakura kept smiling. "As long as you don't sneak up on any little girls and scare them out of their wits, it's fine." Gaara smiled. He had to admit, she was quite good at a lot of things. He had requested her and Naruto on this mission after all. After the Akatsuki mission, him and Naruto had become much closer with more trips between Suna and Konoha. And Sakura was never far behind. They had since began a teasing kind of friendship.

Sakura showed Gaara around his kind of second home, but he didn't mind. He didn't know all of the locals here, so it was always nice to see new people. They reached Naruto's apartment and Sakura knocked on the door. "Naruto?" she said in a tad louder-than-normal voice. She was greeted at the door by Naruto, dressed, holding a bowl of ramen, but still very tired looking. "Naruto, you really need to adjust your sleeping schedule." Sakura said with a sigh.

"But it's my day off, Sakura-chan!" Naruto whined. Sakura smiled at him. He was still the Naruto she loved. Her best friend. Naruto gave her a big fox grin in return.

"Can we come in Naruto?" she asked.

"We?" Naruto asked. Then he spotted Gaara. "GAARA!!" Naruto pounced. "Hey, what are you doing here? Oi, are you staying here on a mission or something?" Naruto said putting Gaara in a chokehold. Gaara laughed as he pulled Naruto off of him. Sakura giggled. These two were almost as good of friends as... Well, Naruto and someone else.

"Hey Naruto, do you want to come with me and Gaara to drop off this letter to Hinata?" Sakura asked, holding up the scroll.

"Um, well, actually Sakura, I could just take it. Me and Hinata are meeting up at Ichiraku Ramen this afternoon." Naruto said, making a manly pose.

"That's fine." Sakura said with a grin. 'Naruto's finally getting it.' she thought. "I'll just show Gaara-san around some more." Sakura smiled. Gaara and Sakura said their goodbyes and gave Naruto Hinatas scroll.

Sakura and Gaara silently strode through the town. "Hey Gaara-san? Do you th-"

"Sakura-san, don't you think it's kind of rude to be calling me -san after how well we know each other?" Gaara said, eyes never leaving the road. Sakura looked up at him. He had grown quite a bit in two and a half years. She knew that he was asking her to be as comfortable with him as she was with Naruto. She smiled.

"Gaara-kun," she restarted. Gaara gave a very rare, very sweet smile to himself. She blushed a bit. He noticed, but said nothing of it. "Isn't it odd that all of our friends are getting together?"

Gaara side-glanced her and smirked. "I haven't noticed." he said.

Sakura stuck her tongue out a bit. "Oh come on, Gaara-kun, haven't you noticed your own sister with Shikamaru-kun?" At this Gaara stopped. He would definitely have to talk to this Shikamaru. This was his only sister. "Ah, I see I've struck a nerve here. Then I guess you also haven't noticed Kankuro-san and Ino-pig?" Gaara felt a wave of dumb fly over him. "Or Naruto and Hinata? What about TenTen and Neji? Or Jiriaya and Tsunade? And you couldn't have missed...Gaara-kun?" Sakura stopped her speech and looked around. Gaara had sunk to the floor in a wave of humiliation.

"Thanks for buying me ice cream Gaara!" Sakura said outside the shop.

"Ah well, thanks for saving me from going into a freakout." Gaara said and smiled. She thought it was quite odd for him to be smiling so much. Well, at least these genuine smiles, not the ones he has to give to his fangirls.

"Gaara-kun..." Sakura started between her ice cream bites. He looked towards her. "Will you come with me tomorrow for a walk in the park? It doesn't have to be a 'date-'" Gaara moaned. He had spilled ice cream all over his Kazekage robe. Sakura and Gaara made their way over to a park bench and she commenced to cleaning off his robe with a napkin. "I can get this cleaned before tomorrow if you let me wash them, I doubt you want Naruto doing it." He flinched.

"Sakura..." She stopped at her task.

"Yes."

She smiled.

That's the end for now I'll have more of the story in the story in the next one. Later for now! Please comment!!