A Twist in fate

Chapter Eight:

That morning Sakura was the first one to wake up. She looked around at all the people sprawled around her living room floor. She smiled a little at Gaara and Kakashi on opposite ends of the couch when she was lying. She walked up stairs to take a shower and get ready for the day to start. She stepped into the shower and trip over something sending her falling backwards, just when her head was about to hit the tiled floor strong hands grabbed ahold of her, saving her. She turned around to see Gaara looking away with a faint blush on his face.

Gaara helps her stand back up and wraps a towel around her and softly says to her, "Sorry, I was just coming in to get something. Are you okay?"

She nodes unable to speak and hugs the towel to her. Gaara walks back out after getting a spare towel so he can take a shower in the other bathroom.

She watches him walk out of the bathroom and shuts and this time locks the door behind him. She walks back into the shower and washes up quickly and then walks back out to her bedroom to see Kakashi relaxing on her bed. She smiles at him shyly and gets her cloths and walks back into the bathroom to change.

He gives her a confused look but doesn't try to stop her, she quickly gets dressed and walks back out to a bedroom filled with people. She sits beside Kakashi and sighs. Gaara walks in with dripping wet hair and everyone walks back down stairs into the living room.

Gaara smiles shyly at Sakura, she gives him a reassuring smile and tells him, "It's okay." He still can't look Kakashi in the eyes.

Then Sakura looked at Kakashi and he asked her, "How was your shower?" Instinctively Gaara and Sakura look at one another then immediately look away.

She tells him, "I trip on something and slipped and fell and almost hit my head on the tiled floor."

Gaara gave Sakura a knowing glance and then looked back at Kakashi. Kakashi asks her, "Are you okay?"

Sakura smiled at Gaara and told them both, "Yes, I am fine. I didn't get hurt…I'm still in one piece."

Kakashi smiles and pulls her closer to him. He tells her, "Well I'm glad you're okay. Besides that how was your shower."

She simply tells him, "It was fine, rather short though." She leaned into Kakashi and rested her head on his chest as Gaara walked out of the room.

Gaara walked down stairs with the others and sighed, he walked out the front door despite the rain that was still falling down all around him. Kankuro ran outside after his little brother.

But before he could catch him Gaara disappeared. He hesitates before walking back to the house. Before walking inside he whispers mostly to himself, "Gaara, be careful my little brother."

Gaara takes off from the house running as fast as he can. Not really paying any attention to his surrounding to realize that someone was now following him. He takes off into the forest, and hid in the trees to find it was his sisters Temari.

He jumps down in front of her and asks her, "What are you doing here? I thought you were busy back at home."

She smiles and tries to give her baby brother a hug but he moves away. She sighs and tells him, "I got some time off to spend with my little brothers…Father sent me."

Gaara looked down to the ground at the term father, he doesn't have a father the only family he has ever known is his brother and sister. He shakes off the feeling and looks up and does his best to smile at his sister. He tells her, "Temari, I think I want to go back home."

She looks at him in confusion, "I thought you wanted to move here to be closer to Sakura Chan. Did something happen?"

He avoids her eyes and tells her, "No, not really…I just don't think that she needs me anymore and being around her is a constant reminder of that."

Temari looks pained to see her brother like this. She takes another step towards her little brother. She tells him, "I still think you should stay here."

He looks back up at his sister only to see she is serious. He asks her, "Why? Why do you think that I should stay here?"

She puts her hand on his shoulder and tells him, "Sakura is still your best friend. Are you willing to ruin your friendship with her? Are you willing to go the rest of your life not seeing her just because she maybe doesn't feel the same about you? She is the only true friend you have ever loved…I just don't think that it would be right to throw all those years together away as if they never happened!"

He sighed in defeat and his sister smiled and they walked in silence back to Sakuras apartment.

When they opened the door Sakura ran up and Glomped Gaara. Everyone was looking worriedly at Gaara and Temari just glared at her little brother Kankuro.

Gaara stood back up but Sakura was still wrapped around him whispering to him, "Gaara don't you ever scare me like that again! If you ever run away without telling me where you were you're going I will hunt you down and I will kill you!"

Gaara wrapped her in his arms tighter just repeatedly saying, "I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. I promise."

Temari grabbed her other brother by the ear and dragged him out the door after saying her goodbyes to her baby brother.

Kakashi watched Sakura and Gaara from the other side of the room. He still has no intentions of sharing Sakura but he is willing to trust them together.