"Sakura, we need to talk."

Gaara straitened upright somewhat and walked over to the bed that all of the others were sitting on and pulled Sakura off by her hand so that she was standing and facing him.

He then led her to the other bed and sat her down so that she was still facing him.

"Gaara, I am really confused by all of this. I just want to know what's going on." She looked straight into his eyes to show him how sincere she was. All of this talk about her being in danger, Gaara making her leave him? It was all just too confusing and she needed to know the truth.

"Sakura," Gaara started while taking both her hands in his "the time has finally come to tell you the truth, wether I want to or not."

He tried to look her in the eyes but couldn't. This was going to be extremely hard for him to say. Especially after so many years have passed over.

He looked over to the others, who all gave him a reassuring nod.

This was really starting to scare Sakura. "Guys? What's going on?"

"Sakura," Gaara said again, this time staring into her eyes successfully "all those years ago when I first got into the World Championships, you got to understand that I had no choice but to make it seem like a big deal. If I didn't, then you would've stayed. And that would've…..it would've ended terribly."

He hesitated for a moment about going on.

"Gaara, of course you made a big deal over it. Because it was something to make a big deal over! I left so that you could continue with that dream. The only bad thing that would've happened if I stayed was that you wouldn't be able to reach those goals." She looked at him with concern in her voice and on her face.

"No, Sakura! You don't understand!" he shouted as he got off of the bed and started pacing with his face in his hands.

He finally looked at her "You were in danger!" he shouted at her again.

"Danger?"

"Yes. You were being hunted down." Gaara continued.

"What!?"

"Gaara, I think it's time to just tell her the whole story instead of just beating around the bush." Temari said with the most serious tone anyone had ever heard her use.

"Temari?" Sakura looked at her blonde friend. "What exactly is going on here!" she demanded.

Gaara sighed then closed his eyes and opened them again. "Sakura, do you remember the one huge match I had to compete in in order to even get into the world champianships?"

"Yes, of course."

"Well," he came back to sit beside her on the bed once more. "Do you remember the last guy that I fought?"

"I remember him. He was larger than you at the time, it made us really nervous when you went up to fight against him." She replied.

"The truth is, is that he was a drug dealer by the name of Obito Uchiha. He mainly sold meth. And how he got his extra money to keep his business going was by winning matches. Especially that match that night. That match was worth a lot of money and since he lost against me, well, let's just say he wasn't too happy. He was the number one best fighter in the ring of that era and didn't go down easily at all." Gaara was trying his hardest to explain everything to her so that she wouldn't freak out so much.

But he decided that that wasn't possible.

After all, it was Sakura Haruno we are talking about here.

"So, he was mad because he lost the match….which means that he was mad at you? And in order to get back at you…." Sakura trailed off for a moment.

"He was going to kill you Sakura." Gaara finally managed to confess. "He knew that that would've been the ultimate payback."

"It wasn't just the drugs either. For years he had been tracking Gaara in hopes of getting rid of the competition." Kankuro added.

"It was originally his intention to get rid of Gaara. But he apparently didn't feel like that would satisfy him enough. He wanted Gaara to suffer." Temari continued.

"He found out what Gaara held most precious to him. And it wasn't the world championships." Naruto added as well.

"It was you Sakura." Gaara finished their speech off.

Sakura was speechless both from all the information that was just shot at her, and also because of the fact that this was all going on behind her back, and apparently all of her friends knew about it. She wondered exactly how many of her friends knew about this from the beginning.

"Wait, so your telling me that all of this time, my life was in jeopardy, and everyone except for me knew about it?" Sakura looked at each of them, and then back at Gaara. He only nodded to her.

"Even Ino knew….which is shocking as to how she hasn't spilled the beans already." Naruto said in wonder.

Sakura thought about the statement and how true it was. Then something else crossed her mind.

"Then wait, then does that mean that you actually found me on purpose after all? It wasn't just a coincidence?" Sakura asked Gaara.

"Well actually, it was a little bit half and half. Just recently, Obito had been caught for murder and thrown in one of the most guarded and safest prisons in the world. That's why I came to find you. I thought that if I fought my way through different city's competitions, that I would eventually find you. Since it was now safe, I decided to find you once more and explain everything to you and hopefully you would take me back. But I never expected that you would actually end up having a fiancé. So that kind of made things difficult." Gaara said with a little bit of annoyance in his voice.

Sakura looked at the ground. She couldn't believe that any of this was happening. All of this time she thought that Gaara wanted her to leave so that he could focus on the Championships…..wait….

"So then that's the reason you made me leave? All that time you were just putting on an act so that I would leave the danger zone?" Sakura shook her head. It was all making sense now.

"Yes. I knew that if you didn't leave…..I couldn't stand the thought of it. It was either lose you the way I did, or lose you permanently. And if that would've been the solution, I wouldn't have been able to live anymore. I honestly would've killed myself." Gaara finished truthfully. He wouldn't of been able to handle that pain.

Sakura's eyes started to water. Gaara risked his own life staying behind and facing that man himself, just so that Sakura wouldn't get hurt. All this time he actually loved her so much…and she ended up treating him like crap when they met again.

She couldn't take it anymore.

She all but threw herself at Gaara and embraced him as tight as she could.

It took him a couple seconds to figure out what was happening, but he finally returned the hug.

"Gaara, I am so so sorry for how I treated you." She whispered into his ear. By now there were steady streams of tears rolling down her face.

"No Sakura, it wasn't your fault." He replied and pulled away just enough so that he could rub the tears away from her eyes with his thumb.

Even after the tears were gone he still continued to gently caress her face with his hand. A smile crept up on his face as he looked at her. But eventually that smile faded.

"But there is something we need to talk about. All of us." He looked over to the others that were watching the two of them with looks of relief….and the look that Temari usually makes when she is watching one of her soap operas.

"What do you mean Gaara?" Naruto asked coming out of the romantic trans.

"I have recently gotten word from an old friend that Obito is somehow still dealing. I also have word that he is still searching for me and/or Sakura." Gaara explained.

"But how is that possible? He is still in jail….isn't he?" Temari questioned.

"Yes he is, that I am certain." Gaara replied and got up again from the bed and stood facing the mirror in the hotel room.

"Then how?" Sakura also asked.

"Obito….he has hired a hit man." Gaara finished. And placed his hand on the desk in front of him. He hated to talk about this, but it needed to be done.

"A hit man?!"

Gaara turned around again to meet everyone's gaze.

"This guy goes by the name of Yukaruma."

Sasori ran outside the apartment and onto the sidewalk in search of his fiancé.

How could he have let this happen. He had let the girl that he loved be captured once more by that man.

How he hated Gaara.

Sasori ran down the street a little bit more, hoping that he saw some sort of some sort of pink and/or red hair.

But much to his dismay, he saw neither.

But his luck changes when he caught a glimpse of a brown haired dog boy.

"Kiba!" he yelled as he ran up to him.

"Oh hey Sasori. What's up?" he greeted his friend.

"Have you seen Sakura?" Sasori said in a hurry. He wasn't expecting him to have, but it was worth a shot right?

"Ya, I actually have. About 5 minutes ago. She ran somewhere that way with Naruto." He finished and pointed somewhere further downtown.

"Alright, thanks." Sasori patted Kiba's shoulder, then took off into the direction the dog boy pointed out, leaving said boy behind in confusion.

"Why is everyone running today? It's way too warm to be active." Kiba said to himself then shook his head and walked back to the park with Akamaru.

The door slammed open once more.

Everyone turned their attention once more to the door to see a fuming red head. That would make a total of two in the same room once more.

"There you are. I looked everywhere for you!" Sasori said out of breath.

"Sasori? How did you even find this place?" Sakura questioned him.

"I ran into Kiba, Ino and Tenten. Then I got directed to this hotel and asked the person at the desk for the room number. But that's not important. What's important is that you actually are here with him." he nodded towards Gaara who was standing beside Sakura still.

"Me? And what's exactly wrong with me?" Gaara asked threatenly as he stalked his way over to stand in front of Sasori.

"Nothing, except that I can see what you're doing. You're trying to steal my girl back. You had your chance friend. And you blew it." Sasori was now in his face once more.

"First of all, I'm not your friend. Second of all, It's not stealing if she comes back willingly." Gaara shot back.

"Well you're forgetting one thing. She's still my fiancé."

"Things could still change."

"I don't see that happening."

"You apparently don't see a lot of stuff."

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"That you're never going to be able to love her like I did. You're never going to be me." Gaara finished.

"Guys! Enough! You two need to just shut up for 5 minutes!" Sakura cut in making them look at her with shock once again. That was the second time today that she had yelled at them. She barely ever yells/yelled at either of them.

"This is exactly what happened earlier." Naruto whispered to Temari and Kankuro.

"Really? She yelled at Gaara twice in one day?!" Temari asked in complete shock.

"Guys we can hear you." Sakura said without turning around to face them.

"Right…" Naruto said.

"Anyways. You two need to save this for the ring. You can't keep on fighting like this." Sakura stated.

"Then Sakura, you got to pick one of us." Sasori was now dead serious.

"What? What are you talking about?"

"You got to pick which one of us you love more." Sasori replied.

"Sasori…. I can't believe you are even saying this. You are my fiancé….why…."

"Because it's obvious that you still are in love with him!" Sasori was starting to lose his cool now.

"What?!"

"I've seen it Sakura. There's no use in even trying to convince yourself any different anymore. I know that you haven't gotten over him, even after all of these years."

"Sasori…"

"Why are you putting her on spot like this?" Gaara stepped in front of her.

"I'm just trying to find out the truth." Sasori replied.

"And what if the truth doesn't turn out to be in your favor?" Gaara shot back.

Sasori turned to Sakura once more.

"Then Sakura. Who's it gonna be?"