A Twist in fate

Chapter Seven: Ended at the Valley

Later that night Sakura went for a walk with Gaara silently following her. She ended up at the Valley of the end, she walks over and sits on Hashirama's head and stares at the rushing water fall. She's too lost in her own thoughts to concern herself with Gaara following her, she knows he means well but she doesn't want Kakashi getting even angrier with her.

Gaara rushes off after Kakashi and finds him at his dear friend Iruka's home. He doesn't bother to knock and just burst into Iruka's room and glares coldly at Kakashi.

Iruka asks him in confusion, "Uh…Hello Gaara, can I help you with something? What seems to be the matter, did something happen?"

Gaara completely ignores his existence, he takes a few steps into the room towards Kakashi and with all his strength he punches him in the jaw.

Kakashi already in a pretty sour mood retaliates but his anger clouds him judgment so Gaara evades his deadly blows easily.

Iruka stands up unsure what to do about the two men fighting in his room. He tries to stop them without getting involved. He tells them, "What's going on here? Why are the two of you fighting…and why in my room of all places? Please if you must fight, can you at least take it outside?"

It seems as if Iruka is the invisible man at this point. Kakashi lashes out at Gaara, "What the hell are you doing here? Why are you attacking me? You got what you wanted, you got Sakura!"

Before Kakashi could continue Gaara lashes out, "She ran away…I followed her all the way to the Valley of the end! You honestly thing I got Sakura? You are you fool! I love her, which means I don't make her cry!"

Kakashi urgently asks him, "What? Why did she go to the Valley of the end…Made her cry?" Kakashi shakes off the confusion and runs outside as it starts raining.

Gaara and Kakashi both rush off to the Valley to protect Sakura. As they were running Gaara says under his breath, "Why the hell am I helping the bastard who made Sakura cry?"

Kakashi was hurting as well and didn't mean to cry, he glares at Gaara and tells him, "She didn't make much effort to stop me from leaving!"

Before Gaara could argue back they were both standing behind Sakura who was sitting and hugging her knees and looked like she was crying. After a few minutes Gaara walked over to her and put his coat around her bare arms and whispered into her ear, "Kakashi is standing behind you."

Sakura jerked her body around to see Kakashi standing there staring at her in confusion, he didn't know what to do. She slowly got up off the cold wet ground and walked closer and closer to him, she wrapped her arms around his now cold and wet body.

He still didn't move, till she whispered to him through her sobs, "Kakashi…I am so sorry…I love you…please…please forgive me!"

Then she felt his warm arms wrap around her waist, as the warmth returned to his body. He brushed the wet hair from out of her face and kissed her passionately, despite being in the pouring rain.

Gaara was nowhere to be seen, though he was still watching over his Sakura. Seeing them like that almost broke his heart so he forced himself to leave.

Kakashi broke their kiss to tell her, "I love you to! I will never let you cry because of me again…I promise. I am so sorry Sakura…I'm so sorry." Then he fell to his knees hard and the rain hid the tears now falling from his eyes. Sakura had to help him back up and they both walked back home together.

Sakura brought him back to his apartment but he shook his head in protest. He almost pouted when he told her, "I don't wanna go back home."

She sighs and brings him into her living room and he suddenly regains all his strength. She tries to push him away remembering last night at his place. He lets her push him and falls back onto her couch but he brings her down on top of him.

She tries to protest in saying, "Kakashi…we should dry off before we get sick…I will go get some towels, I promise I will be right back."

Before she could get up to leave he wraps his arms around her waist and pulls her down on top of him again, bringing her as close to him as he can. Sakura leans in and sweetly kisses his lips and he bites her lower lip softly. She gently pulls away from him. Before getting up she leans back down and whispers in his ear, "Sensei…you should really take a shower…wouldn't want you getting sick now would we."

Right before she pulled away again he licked her on the neck and says, "Yes Mother." She glares at him playfully and walked off down the hallway with him following her all the way to the bathroom. While she was getting some towels he starts to take off his shirt. He walks over to her with the towels and asks her, "Care to join?" She hands him a towel and tells him, "Tempting…But I have a very small shower." She gestures for him to take a shower and like a good little sensei he did as she told him to.

She also took a shower in her bathroom. The warm water felt so good running down her cold and already wet body. The smell of her shampoo filled the room with the scent of strawberries that also filled her bedroom with the sweet aroma.

She steps out into her room with just a towel on. She didn't count on the possibility of the two boys standing in her room talking. Then she noticed they were talking civilly and for once this week they didn't seem like they wanted to kill one another.

When they noticed her presence she kindly but sternly told them, "Please go into the living room so I could get dressed!"

To her surprise they both listened and continued their discussion on the Akatsuki. Sakura heard Gaara explaining on the fact that he and Sasori may look alike but are not related after Kakashi commented on them being twins. Sakura couldn't help but chuckle a little at that, remembering how he hated being compared to Sasori.

When she was fully dressed in her usual pink uniform she walked out into the living room, the room was full of awkward silence and tension between the two boys. Be hard not to realize when someone had just finished talking about you.

She looks at the two of them and asks, "So what were the two of you talking about? I didn't think you guys would ever get along, so I was kind of shocked to see you two talking civilly."

Kakashi glares at Gaara as he tells her, "We weren't really talking about much of anything…anything important that is, so how was your shower?"

She smiled, "Better than being in the cold wet rain, also I can't stand the feel of wearing wet cloths. They stick to you and make any movements strained."

When she sat in between the two of them, they both melted. The aroma of her strawberry scented hair made their mouths water and made them want her all that much more.

Kakashi shook off the sudden thoughts, as did Gaara. Sakura paid them no mind and just went on about her night and asked them, "What should I make for dinner?"

After a few minutes of silence Gaara chimed in, "How about we have Breakfast? Biscuits and Gravy…Sausage and pancakes…eggs…grits…"

Kakashi surprisingly agreed to it and was the first one off the couch and into the kitchen to start on the pancakes and sausage. Gaara was in charge of the grits and eggs which left the biscuits and gravy to Sakura.

When Ino came home with Kankuro their mouths instantly start to water and they head straight into the kitchen to see them slaving over the stove.

Gaara took one look and was confused. He asks his brother Kankuro, "What are you doing here? Where's Temari?"

Kankuro gave him one look from him back to Ino. Gaara nodded in understanding. Though he didn't know what he saw in that trashy dumb blond. Gaara thought, 'I guess maybe even she has a good side…'

In no time at all, breakfast/Dinner was served and on the table. Everyone ate in complete silence. It was a nice peaceful dinner.

After dinner they all piled into the living room to watch a movie. But no one could decide on one so Sakura put a few movie titles in a bowl and made everyone draw a movie title. They would watch them all according to the alphabet.