w00t! I finally decided to type up chapter three. I'm out of the rut of writer's block! GaaSaku for all! Sorry, really hyperactive at the moment! Had lotsa sugar before bed! MUAHAHAHA!!!

Soundtrack:

From Yesterday by 30 Seconds to Mars

A Beautiful Lie by 30 Seconds to Mars

Disclaimer: OH FOR THE LOVE OF...I DON'T OWN IT, OKAY!?

"Kakashi-sensei, where's Sakura-chan?"

Kakashi looked up from his book, suprised. "Huh? She should have been here by now. That's not good."

Sasuke didn't say anything, but he was thinking that perhaps Sakura's absence wasn't just lateness on her part.

Sakura, meanwhile, was in a world of trouble. Here she was, cornered by the same Sand-nin from yesterday. His green eyes narrowed in distaste. How pathetic. Shaking like the weakling she is.

"What are you going to do to me?" Kill you, of course.

"I'll kill you...pure and simple..."

"K-kill...m-me...? Why?"

Gaara started, and stared at her like she was insane. Why? Why did he need a reason to? He would kill her because of how she made him feel. He felt happy around her, safe from harm, weak. For making him weak, she'd pay with her life.

"Because you're annoying."

Wait, what?

Sakura was now officially pissed. How dare he! No one called her that but...

"Sakura?"

"Yes, Sasuke-kun?"

"You're annoying."

"That bastard..." Sakura whispered. Gaara looked at her in shock.

"What did you.."

"SASUKE! YOU BASTARD!!!"

Sasuke stopped probing and let out a sharp gasp. Kakashi and Naruto looked at him just in time to see him run off from the bridge.

She felt me, Sasuke thought. She felt me probing Konoha with my Sharingan, looking for her. But what was that burst of energy I felt earlier?

Sasuke swept through Konoha, searching everywhere, and seeing fellow shinobi, but no Sakura.

Hyuuga...ramen stand...Inuzuka...Aburame...Akimichi...Nara...ew, Ino...that quiet Hyuuga...another Nara...another Akimichi...ew, Ino's dad...wait, what's THAT?!

Sakura stalked up to the mysterious Sand-nin, and leaned foward, almost nose-to-nose, except he was shorter than her.

Ha! I'm the taller one! Take that!

"What did you call me," she snarled in a dangerously low voice.

Gaara smirked, only further pissing Sakura off.

"I called you annoying."

It was Sakura's turn to smirk.

"Wrong answer."

She sent a left-hook toward his temple, but missed, and used the momentum to swing the right fist at him. She was suprised to see sand come from nowhere to stop her fist and after discovering this, she spun and stealthily attached a wire on one of the buckles holding his gourd in place. Unnoticing, he began preparing to trap her in sand. Sakura pulled the steel wire, sending him spinning right into her arms, causing her to crash into him and send them into what could only be discribed as an embrace.

"Sakura?"

Sasuke blinked. Then he wanted to die.

Sakura was in the arms of the odd Sand-nin from yesterday, and if he wasn't mistaken, he saw no intention of pulling away on Sakura's part.

"Sakura?"

He watched her turn, eyes scared and yet they seemed suprised to see him standing there, while the Sand-nin was just as suprised, if not more so, than Sakura.

"Sakura, what's going on here?"

Almost done with the next chapter of The Devil's Child. ALL HAIL THE ALMIGHTY UPDATE!!!