After the bubbly blonde finally talked to herself to exhaustion, they went to bed. Sakura was feeling all kinds of emotions running wild through her, she wasn't sure how to address any of the newfound feelings and old feelings that were tearing through her. She just wanted to hug a pillow and cry into, but on the other hand she wanted to punch him in the face and pretend like she doesn't care. But she'd be lying… she does care… she cares too much. As the pinkette turned off the lights in the room she'd be staying in she knew she'd let the thoughts put her to sleep, most of them just being that of the redhead. More specifically when she left, because of what she saw… The flashback of what happened soon flooded her mind as she laid down and a single hot tear ran down her cheek, sliding down slowly…

A slight chill in the air let the pinkette know that Summer was at its end and Fall would be among the people of Konoha soon. This made her smile all the more. Fall was her favorite time of the year; it's when her schedule got busier, new fun events came into town, and she could spend more time at home cuddling her boyfriend. She almost rolled her eyes at the thought, biting down on her lip. He was usually on her mind since the day they started dating.

At first, she was skeptically seeing as he didn't like people around him, but she changed his mind when her once annoying presence to him became welcomed and he let his walls down for her. They've been dating for 2 years now. Today was the exact day that marked 2 years. It was hard for her to grasp how fast time has passed. It felt like just yesterday he asked her out. She knew she would want to stop at their favorite small shop and pick up a present for him.

By sundown she was walking back with a bag in her hands and a goofy smile plastered along her face. She decided to go to the small shop and bought that small waterfall display people usually bought to keep in their yards, except this waterfall didn't use water, it used sand. Red and black sand would pour over the small rocks and through the cracks. Gaara and her were quite fascinated with the small piece at the store. She thought it'd be the perfect gift. As if on cue, she heard her phone's notification noise, telling her that she had a text. Once she managed to pull her pink phone out of her pocket, she noticed it was from Gaara.

I have to show you something, can u get back soon?

– Gaara

Sakura kind of lifted her eyebrow at the text but made her way home regardless, wondering what it was that he was going to show her. Maybe he was going to take her out on a evening walk like they usually do or treat her to dinner. It was a special night for them after all. Luckily they both had the evening off. But all those assumptions were thrown aside when she opened the door to their small apartment. What she saw caused her to drop his gift and gasp out loud.

Standing in the doorway of the apartment front door, she had a perfect view of their bedroom from there and the door was wide open, revealing a half-naked Gaara and Matsuri, who only had her bra and panties on. Sakura's legs suddenly felt like jelly as she took in what probably happened between the two. Tears began to blur her vision as she couldn't hear what Gaara said, as he approached her she instantly turned on her heel and ran down the stairs, eager to get away from the apartment. Eager to get away from him. She wanted to be anywhere but here. He followed her down the steps, but failed at catching up to her as she grabbed her keys and got into her car.

Looking up as the engine came to life, she saw that he stopped at the stairs and merely stared at her from there. He wasn't even approaching the car or looked like he was saying anything; just staring at her. Taking that as a silent confession to what happened, she bit her lip and left.

'Matsuri? He told me he only loved me. That he only saw me in a romantic manner. Why was he in bed with her?' Sakura's thoughts only made her sob louder as she ended up parking in a parking lot to a store. She knew people were staring at her but she didn't care. Her heart was breaking. She swore he said he wouldn't love anybody else. She must've been horribly wrong about him, how long has he been cheating on her anyways? They dated for 2 years, was he cheating the whole time? Oh what'd it matter now?

'Pull yourself together, Sakura! That loser was never good for you, the mysterious type always do end up breaking you.' Inner Sakura scowled the pinkette.

'B-But I love him.' Sakura sobbed some more.

'Well he didn't love you. Now let's go crash with a friend and get it together.' Inner mentally slapped her and got her back into her right set of mind, for now. Nodding Sakura dialed up Hinata and was thankful the dark haired friend said she could come over. She'd explain when she got there.

Gaara's POV

The redhead finally managed to unlock the door to his house as he placed his laptop bag on his couch and sulked his way up the stairs to his bedroom. He had a pretty big house for someone who lived alone, but he didn't mind the darkness and loneliness. He didn't want anybody else in his house other than the love that left him broken two years ago. The pink haired doctor herself.

Gaara suddenly grew very tired as he changed into pajama pants and sat down at the edge of his bed, he could feel the memories of what happened between Sakura and him suddenly fill his head but mostly the memory of what tore them apart. To be more exact, who tore them apart. He ran his hands down his face once more before just leaving them cover his face. He remembered it like it was yesterday…

He sighed with relief as he entered their apartment, glad the day was finally over and he could end the night with the love of his life and celebrating their two years of being together. It was intended to be a special night indeed, he planned out what exactly would happen from the moment she got home to the moment they fell asleep, in each other's arms. He took his lunch break today to go to the jeweler's and buy a ring. He was planning on proposing to her tonight, to finally tie the knot and call her his for as long as they lived. He knew he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her, having her in his arms, kissing those pink lips he's grown to love, and hopefully one day raising a family. Sure it took a while for him to warm up to her, but who could blame him? He lost his mother a while ago and his father just left him and his siblings. Everyone would stay away from him and call him a freak at school. Then she came around freshman year in college and they became friends. Before he knew it they were dating. He knew he could never look at other women the way he looks at her, he felt she's the only one that needed his attention because she's the only one who cared enough to get to know him.

'I should take a nap before she gets home so I'm more energized for tonight's events.' Gaara concluded to himself as he stripped his clothes and got into the bed to nap for a bit. He fell asleep after laying there for 20 mins, slowly drifting off into sleep. But his sleeping was short lived before his eyes parted a little when he noticed that someone was climbing into bed with him, with a small smirk he rolled over in the dark room to embrace who he thought to be his soon-to-be fiancée. "Someone's home early." He purred, leaving a small kiss on her neck. Sakura felt different though, her body wasn't as slender as he thought and her hair was rougher than usual against his face when he went to kiss her neck… she didn't even smell the same. The redhead furrowed his eyebrows in confusion before he turned on the light and got up to see who was really next to him.

Much to his surprise, the light revealed that it wasn't Sakura in bed next to him, it was Matsuri. Gaara jumped back a little, "Matsu-" before he could finish the front door opened to reveal Sakura staring at them with a sheer look of hurt and horror on her face.

'She thinks I've slept with her.' Gaara's eyes widened with realizing what could be running through his love's mind at the moment. "No, Sakura. It's not what you're thinking!" he nearly tripped over the bed as he ran to her. She only whimpered and started crying a little as she turned around and ran outside. 'No! She needs to hear what happened!' Gaara's thoughts were racing as he ran down the stairs and tried to stop her from fleeing, but he couldn't catch her. He stopped at the stairs as he knew he was half-naked and there was no way to catch up to her. She got in her car and started it up, looking up to stare at him before she pulled away and left.

'She's… gone…' Gaara stood there for an hour before he sat down at the bottom of the stairs and stared at where her car used to be. 'I lost her…' He felt a hot drop hit his leg as he looked down to see what it was; he was crying. He couldn't help but let the hot tears run down his face. Tonight was supposed to be their night, the night he was going to change their lives and enter a more exclusive relationship.

"Oh, she left? That's too bad." Came a voice from behind him as she was now dressed and sat down next to him, she ran a hand over his shoulder and drew invisible circles into it with her finger before she leaned on him and whispered in his ear "you can have me."

Gaara stood up and looked down at the girl who was still sitting down on the step, what was she thinking? He just lost what was precious to him and she was trying to seduce him? The nerve. "Leave."

"Leave? But, you need me." Matsuri blushed and pretended to act innocent.

"I said leave." He hissed out as he leaned down and glared at her with a death stare that would kill anyone 10x fold. Matsuri tried to mumble something out, but fell short at his stare and shakingly got up to leave.

She turned around to say something, but Gaara clenched his fists and glared at her still, she was then gone and he was once again left alone. After a while Gaara walked back into the apartment and looked around for his phone so that he could call her, but the red phone was nowhere to be seen. This only made his eyebrows furrow even more. 'Where's my phone?... I haven't even seen it all day. Probably left it in her car...' Gaara sighed in defeat.

'What will I do?...'

xoxoxoxo

A/N::: (( Hey everyone. I've been in such a good mood/writing mood lately. So I ended up rewriting 3 chapters from an old story and turned them into something new. So I hope you like the story so far, i'll try to update whenever I can. :) I intend to make this story a pretty long story, so it's not a short one.

Also, I wonder if anyone noticed the hint dropped in this chapter. Suspicious~ Hope you enjoy reading!~ ))