Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or its characters.

This chapter and the next will be about what happened to Sakura those months that Gaara didn't see her, leading up to where she was outside his window.

Chapter 4

Sakura was walking home from the Lotus Mart, where faeries often went to get their own custom design outfits. Most girl Faeries wore dresses that were covered in different color flower petals, while very few girls wore jeans of any color. Sakura was part of the group that chose dresses over pants. The new dress she was getting was filled with dark forest leaves with a few bright pink flowers along the waist line. Her current dress consisted of berries with dark leaves, making it dark green and purple, which made a good contrast with her fair skin. As she was walking home she passed by a few friends who she waved to. While she was walking into the forest she felt as if someone was watching her. She kept turning back but there was no one there.

Her house was deep in the Faery forest, since she was a part of the forest faeries, she needed to be close to where she had originated from. In the beginning she had been given a choice to live with the other faeries or just choose a place in the forest, and since she was a forest faery she had chosen the 2nd option.

When she had gotten home, the feeling of someone watching her never went away, but she ignored it though. She thought that it might have been the meeting with that human boy that had affected her, making her feel different.

She was in her kitchen thinking of what she was going to eat. Sometimes she went to Ino's house if she was too lazy to make food, but today she wanted to stay at home. She didn't want Ino to notice how much the human boy had affected her.

Suddenly she heard the front door open, and she heard footsteps. Normally this kind of act wouldn't have frightened her since Ino sometimes came in without asking Sakura. But this time, for some reason she was afraid that it wasn't Ino.

Her thoughts were proven right when she saw the person walk into the kitchen.

"It's a good evening, isn't it Sakura?"

It was Sasuke. Sakura suddenly got filled with anger at how he hadn't even knocked and just strode into her house as if it was his. "What are you doing here?! You didn't even knock!" Her anger was evident.

"Calm down Sakura, I just came to fetch you so we could go to Shikamaru's birthday party. He said he had invited you and Ino" Sakura suddenly remembered about the party that was going on that night, but the recent events had made her forget.

"I know we've never really talked before, but I met Ino while walking and she told me that you wouldn't mind going to the party with me, and she also told me to just come into your house. She said you were used to it."

'That Ino!' Sakura thought while thinking of a good enough reason she could tell him so he could go away.

While most of the girl population had a crush on the dark faerie, Sakura was one of the few who didn't really like him. He was among the strongest faeries that lived among them and for that, Sakura respected him. She just didn't like the fact that he bragged about his good looks and his charm. While Sakura had never really had a conversation with him, everyone would always be talking about him so that was how she knew how he was, and she just didn't like him.

Sakura just stood there still thinking of an excuse. It was an awkward silence as they stood in her kitchen. Until Sakura looked at Sasuke and said "well.. I'm not really in a good mood today so.. I don't think I'll be going."

"Alright, I guess I'll just go alone to the party." Sasuke said as he gave Sakura a sad look, but Sakura already knew that he was just looking at her like that so she would end up going with him. If she was any other faery she might have fallen for that trick, but she wasn't.

"Yea.. sorry" she managed to say as he was leaving the kitchen. "I'll see you around Sakura." She watched through the window as he disappeared into the night.

She locked all her doors and windows, in case he was planning to come back. She really wasn't in the mood to deal with Sasuke. They didn't even have a normal conversation and she disliked him even more.

She resumed doing what she was doing before the awkward meeting.

A few weeks passed since Sakura had gone to the human realm. She stayed at her house most of the time and she sometimes went to Ino's just to hang out. She decided to take some time off from seeing her human boy, so she could get her feeling together. She reminded herself that a relationship between a human and a faery could never be, so she wanted to try and stop seeing him. She also didn't want him to see her following him around since now he could see her, ever since she had made contact with him that first meeting.

It hurt her to not see him everyday since she had gotten so used to always seeing him, but she had to stop. In hopes that the feelings she felt for him would wither away in time. She sometimes wished that she was born human so she would be close to him, and she always ended up getting depressed over that matter. That's why she kept herself busy with tending the forest and just chatting with Ino who always gossiped about many things.

The day after Sasuke had gone to her house, Sakura went to Ino's to ask why she had told him to go pick up Sakura. Ino had just replied with a 'well I thought you guys should at least talk'. Sakura had to remind her friend that she was never going to be interested in the raven faerie. But recently Sasuke was popping out everywhere Sakura went. One time she thought that he might be stalking her, and she told Ino about it. But Ino just laughed and told Sakura that it was probably because Sasuke liked Sakura.

Sakura didn't really believe that Sasuke liked her. They never talked, he would just always say hi to her and give her looks that would probably make any other girl almost melt, but not Sakura. She would just ignore the looks he would give her and keep going her way.

After a while, every time Sakura went out, the other faeries would always ask her why she wasn't together with Sasuke and she would have to explain to them that it was because she didn't like him in a romantic kind of way. Apparently every one wanted them to be together, claiming that they would be the most perfect couple.

It had been almost three months since Sakura had gone to the human realm, and everyday she had to restrain herself from going to meet her human boy. She wanted to at least just see him from afar but she couldn't.

One day Ino had suddenly knocked harshly on Sakura's door. When she opened the door Ino was exclaiming why she hadn't told her about it. Sakura was confused "What had I not told you about?" Ino then answered "Well about you and Sasuke of course! Hes telling the others about it and when I heard, I came running here"

Sakura was even more confused, "What is he telling people?" "Oh my gosh Sakura! He told us that you guys are finally dating!"

Sakura didn't even know what to think. How could he be telling people such a lie!? If she didn't like talking, or even looking at him, how could she be dating him? So she decided to go confront him about the lie he was telling everyone.

Ino was trailing behind Sakura, confused as to why Sakura was so mad. If it was her that was going out with the most popular faerie she would probably just stay with him forever. She didn't understand why Sakura didn't like Sasuke, when he had everything that any girl would desire.

Sakura was almost running while she looked for that damn Sasuke. She wanted to just hit him with all her might, because she would never date anyone she didn't like. There was only one boy who she would choose over anyone, but she had already come to terms with herself that it was impossible for her to be with her human boy. That did not mean that she would let some other guy decide things for her, especially dating.

She saw Sasuke from a distance and she ran towards him. There were other faeries around him but she didn't really care at that moment. When she came up to him everyone around thought that she was going to hug him, but instead she made her hand into a fist and hit him with all the strength she could use. He fell backwards onto the floor, and took his hands to his face where she had hit him.

There was silence as the faeries that were around them just stood there shocked.

Ino came behind and got a hold of Sakura's arm, "Why did you do that?!"

Sakura looked at her friend and at the rest of the faeries "Me and Sasuke are NOT dating, that is just a lie that he made up"

"But that doesn't mean that you could just go and punch him Sakura!" Ino yelled.

As Sakura looked around the crowd that had formed, she noticed that almost all of them were looking at her as if she was crazy. Some girls had helped Sasuke up from the ground and even Ino was with them.

"You really went overboard" Ino said as she walked away with Sasuke and the other girls that had helped him up. The girl faeries and even some of the guys were giving Sakura glares as they all walked away, and Sakura was just left there with a mix of emotions.

Sakura really didn't get why the other faeries were acting as if SHE was the villain when it was Sasuke that was spreading rumors about their supposed relationship. She felt a sense of sadness as she remembered the look on most of the faeries faces, she wondered why none of them were seeing things from her point of view instead of just believing Sasuke. She also wondered how Sasuke could affect all those people so much as to make them look at her with what looked almost like hate.

When she got to her house she went straight to her bed. She wanted to rest after her little episode with Sasuke, hoping tomorrow would be a better day.

She was wrong.

She did all the things that had become routine the past months after she decided to stop visiting her human boy. She went through the forest for her walk, then went out to eat at the shops that were in the village. She went shopping for the food she was going to use to make dinner, but everywhere she went and all the faeries that she passed by, glared looks as she passed by them. At first Sakura thought it was just a few of the faeries but as the day progressed she noticed that it was most of them. Even Ino had given her a dirty look as Sakura passed by her on the street. Sakura felt hurt as her own friend had taken Sasuke's side in the matter.

She ignored all of them, thinking that they were over reacting. It was just a punch in the face, and everyone was acting as if she had killed someone.

When she was headed home she passed by a park that was right next to the forest where her house was, and she saw Sasuke walking towards her.

"Hey there feisty one" Sasuke said as he looked at her with amusement. He pointed to his face where he had a black eye "This actually hurt pretty bad you know. I didn't know you were that strong"

Sakura was about to walk past him when he grabbed her by the arm and pulled her towards him "low-rank faeries should be punished for hurting someone of a higher rank"

"Yea and liars should be punished as well don't you think? And by the way I'm not a low ranking faerie for your information" Sakura said as she tried to get out of his grasp, but he just strengthened his grip more.

"Your not a low ranking faerie? I thought you were since forest faeries aren't that important you know." "Forest faeries are as important as any other faerie!" Sakura replied having been angered by what he had said about her. "And why don't you just let go of my arm already?"

"You know you should feel honored to have been chosen to be my girlfriend, your just a plain forest faerie and if you and I got together then you could become more powerful through the connection we would make"

"I don't even like you, so why would I even want to date you?"

"Well why wouldn't you want to date me? I have good looks, I'm strong, and I'm desired by everyone"

Sakura just stayed quiet. This was why she didn't like him, he was very cocky and thought that everyone would just simply like him just because he said so.

"You should just say your fine with us dating, if you did then people would start treating you like they used to. Now they're going to treat you how I want them to treat you. I will make everyone hate you until you come to me."

"I'll never go with you, and you can't possibly make everyone do as you wish" Sakura said as she was still struggling to get away from him.

"Actually I can. I can tell any faerie to do something and they'll do it. They're like ants that crowd around me and do anything I ask of them. So if I tell them not to talk to you, they would listen. Haven't you noticed by how people have been acting today?. It's because I told them to act like that towards you."

That was when he let go of her arm and started walking towards the village. Sakura couldn't believe that the others would just listen to Sasuke as if he were a God. She wasn't going to go running to him no matter what he did to her, or what he made others do to her. She would stand her ground.

She was about to walk away when she heard Sasuke calling to her, She turned back to where he was "You should think well about this Sakura, I'll be waiting" and with that he turned around and left.

She didn't need to think about it, he could wait all he wanted cause she would not go to him.

The only person she would gladly give herself to was of another world.