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Last Chapter: "Gaara..." she said, and drifted off to sleep, to a land completely her own and safe, where everything was...Perfect. For tonight, at least. Tomorrows battle was another matter. Now, was her only time.

How it All Started...For Us

Sakura's dream however, was not peaceful. But it wasn't horrible, either. To be honest, it wasn't a dream at all. It was more like an alarm. Something kept telling her to wake up. So, reluctantly, Sakura woke up.

'Guess I'm going to be tired for tomorrow.' she thought with a sigh. As she stretched herself out she looked out the window. The moon was amazing tonight. Maybe a little less sleep would be worth it...

Sakura walked out to the balcony (No less for the Hokage's apprentince.) and easily got onto the flat part of the roof. She sat on the ground and put her head on the concrete slowly, as it was quite cold out, and gazed up at the stars. "Let me see...That one's the...Scorpion...That one is Orion's Belt...And that one's!"

"The Ursa Major!" Sakura cringed. Was he there for everything? Or was he just a crazy stalker?

"Gaara, why do you always do that?"

"Why are you out on a rooftop when it's freezing outside?" he whispered in her ear. She shivered in response. "Sorry about that." he said and sat down beside her.

"What are you doing out here?" Sakura asked, still gazing at the sky.

"Have you been ignoring my status for the past three years?" Gaara looked at her with a very serious look in his eyes.

Sakura put her hand behind her head. "Eh he-he-eh-hehe" she managed.

'Smooth. Real smooth.' said her inner. Sakura blocked that out.

"Hey, wait here for a second." said the voice of Gaara, but of course, he was too fast for Sakura to notice during her blocking of her inner. She cursed herself. "Are you done talking to yourself?" Sakura turned around. Gaara was holding a very large, soft looking blanket. She smiled up at him.

'WOAH!! Did you see that? Tell me right now, did. you. see. it?'

"See what?" she replied to her inner.

'He BLUSHED! I saw it! No lying, it HAPPENED!'

"You sound like a raving fangirl."

'And you're any different...how?'

She pushed aside that conversation for the more interesting one. "Thanks Gaara." he gave her an odd look.

"For what?"

"The blanket!" she said, still smiling.

"This? This isn't for you." And with that, he made himself a burrito and rolled away from Sakura. "Good night."

"Gaara, I'm giving you a REALLY dirty look right now." He rolled back over.

"I'm kidding, jeez." he tried to get himself untangled in the fluffiness of the blanket, but it was hopeless. Sakura on the other hand, was laughing so hard she couldn't breathe. "Sakura, you're going to wake Naruto and Hinata up. And if you don't get me out of this, I'm going to wake someone else up!"

"Was that a threat?" She asked, teasing. He stuck his tongue out at her and crossed his arms. "Fine, fine. I'll get you out of your own mess." They both smiled.

Sakura managed to make it so the zipper came open halfway, but then it got stuck. He had wrapped himself once and then wrapped it again with the zipper, now caught on the blanket. She pulled with all her might, but it was useless. They would either break the zipper off, have to rip open the blanket, or just massacre it. (Which wasn't an option since it was the hotel's.) Sakura tried her best to use just a bit of her chakra to open it but ended up falling on top of Gaara. Luckily, her face had fallen to the right of his. And also luckily, it was too dark for either of them to notice the other blushing. Sakura went back to work on the zipper while Gaara managed to sit up, at least.

'Hey Gaara, notice how her eyes are sparkling from the moonlight?'

'Shut up, Shukaku.'

'I'm serious, look! Even her hair has a bit of sparkle!'

'Shut up.'

'You have to face it soon enough...How's tomorrow for you?'

'I don't know what you're talking about.'

'You know you think she's amazing, just face it.'

'How about you shut the hell up, and never come back.'

'Fiesty as ever, eh Gaara?'

'GO TO HELL!'

"And...GOT IT!" By this time, they had been working on it for a good twenty-five minutes, Gaara was ticked at his innerself, and Sakura was exhausted. "There you go Gaara...I'm just going to go to bed now...Night." she said, stumbling around the roof top.

"Sakura." she turned around. Gaara grabbed her bridal style. She let her eyes close a bit. He was warm. Just like the desert. She got as close as she could in her position. He easily hopped back into the window, and grabbed the door handle.

"Gaara..." He looked down at her. "Thank you..." And fell asleep.

Shorter than the last one, I know. But hey, this is the quickest I've ever posted this many chapters, and I want to make a Fruits Basket one today so I might be a few days, since I'll be at my dad's on the 5th so I'll try to finish this by then. (crosses fingers) Thanks, please review!