Gaara POV

I left Sakura to her cupcake eating and went to my friends. They weren't really doing much. Just Naruto trying to convince Neji to go dance. As if that would ever happen.

"Gaara! Do you think if I ask Sakura-chan to dance, she'll say yes?" Naruto asks.

"How would I know," I say impassively. But I feel a little possessive. I know it's because of my feelings. I've been trying to ignore them, but it's only making things worse.

It doesn't help she lives in the same house as me.

"Gaara," a dark voice says.

I turn in the direction it came from, and see that red-head Sasori, from the nurse's office.

"What do you want?" I ask in boredom. Honestly, I'm like a robot around everyone except Sakura.

"I want you to stay away from Sakura. She's my doll," he says giving me a glare.

"What if I don't want to," I ask giving back my own glare.

"So your saying your interested in her to?" He asks, and almost looks surprised, but it's barely recognizable on his emotionless face.

"Yes, I am," I say, not willing to let this pathetic guy get Sakura.

"Then I guess we'll be fighting for her from now on," he says, walking away and strolling towards the rest of his friends.

Too bad this guy doesn't know I have the upper hand. She fricking lives with me. So he can just go fuck himself.

Sakura POV

Hinata and I walked towards Naruto, me in front of her.

"Hey Naruto!" I yell over the blaring music.

"Sakura-chan!! Come dance with me!" He yells back, running towards us.

I see Hinata looking at her feet. What do I say? I need an excuse.....

"Sorry, I...um, promised Gaara this dance ok," I stammer. Gaara gave me a look, but seemed to understand what I was attempting to do.

"Why don't you dance with Hinata."

"Who's Hinata?" He asks scratching his head. I smack my palm against my forehead, since I distinctly remember telling him who Hinata was.

"She's a very good friend of mine," I say emphasizing the very. Hopefully he'll take the hint that if he breaks her, I'll break his face.

I pull her towards him and she blushes a pretty pink color.

"H-Hello, I-I'm H-Hinata H-Hyuga," she stutters out nervously.

Naruto gives me a look and I scowl at him.

"Oh, um, cool, my name is Naruto Uzumaki," he says back to her.

He turns back to me and whispers in my ear.

"I'll dance with Hinata, but afterwards you have to promise to dance with me," he says persistently.

"But-" I start, but get interrupted.

"If you don't dance with me, than I don't dance with her," he says sticking his tongue out at me.

"You little brat...fine, but you better be nice to her, or I'll kill you," I say smiling.

"Aye ma'am! I like living too much to ever disobey you!" He says, slightly amused.

I whisper in Hinata's ear what happened. I didn't want her to think ill of me when I have to dance with Naruto. Even though she was a little upset that he didn't want to dance with her of his own free will, it was out shined by her happiness that her crush was going to dance with her.

"Well, go have fun," I say winking.

"You too," she says with a pointed look  in Gaara's direction. And she smirked. Wow, I'm a bad influence aren't I?

I walk over to the DJ and request a slow song. I can't wait till Naruto and Hinata dance to this. It didn't even cross my mind that I'd have to dance too.

After the DJ told me that he was putting the song in, Sasori came and dragged me onto the dance floor. I was surprised at his boldness, but didn't question it.

Wait...Gaara! I said I'd dance with him... Where did he go. I look around the room and see him leaning against the wall sulking, staring at Sasori and I. He looked like he had been betrayed. Betrayed by me?

I tugged my hand gently from Sasori' grasp.

"I'm sorry, I already promised Gaara this dance. How about the next one?" I say as politely and gently as I can. I don't want to piss him off. He could probably kill me with a snap of his fingers.

"Ok doll, I understand. And I will dance with you next ok," he says and walks up to Deidara and Kisame, who are throwing cupcakes at each other. Damnit, that looks like fun....no! Focus! Gaara!

I run over to him and drag him to the dance floor.

"Sorry about that, he wanted to dance, but I told him I already promised you," I explain.

His scowl disappears and a relieved look takes it's place.

"Whew, I thought you ditched me for a second there."

"I would never leave you like that. That would be wrong," I say smiling.

The slow song starts, and I put my arms on his shoulders. And he puts his gently on my waist.

"Are you having fun?" He asks.

"Yeah, but I wish I knew where Temari was," I say slightly sad I couldn't find my friend.

"She's over there dancing with Shikamaru," he says nodding in their direction. I see them in the corner of the dance floor, slow dancing, and looking utterly adorable.

"It's been an amazing night, I never knew I could have this much fun," I say dreamily.

"Thank you," I say, so softly it's almost a whisper. But he still hears it, considering how close he is to me.

"For what?" He asks.

"You saved me. I thought I'd never escape my dad. And you ended all the pain. I haven't been this happy since before my mom died," I say quietly.

"Well I've always been an emotionless person, with a violent streak nobody could control. You changed that. You  saved me too," Gaara says back.

"Yeah, I guess we're both each others heroes," I say giving him a sweet smile. He smiled back with just as much happiness

To be continued.....