To Tame a Beast

A/N: I neglected to mention that this fic was still incomplete when posted. It will probably run about 5-10 chapters depending on how bored I get with this idea. I will do my best to get a new chapter up every week.



--Wulfrik





Part 2:







Sakura was vaguely aware of what was happening in class; thoughts of what she was going to do about her new 'friend' flooded her mind. She glanced over at him, sighing to herself when she noticed him fast asleep in the chair next to her.



Figures. He doesn't give a shit about class. It seems like all he cares about is killing people and getting laid. He belongs in prison, behind bars like the animal he is.



She looked over his sleeping form and couldn't help but notice just how harmless he seemed when he wasn't awake. He was leaning back in his chair with both feet on the desk in front of him. He had both his arms behind his head and his shirt had nearly followed them, leaving his stomach completely exposed. Sakura noted the trail of red hair leading from his belly to the edge of his pants; it was actually kind of sexy. She decided that if it weren't for the bruises and scrapes all over him, his body would have been flawless.



It's just my luck that the hottest guy in school has to be the biggest asshole as well. I'd never hear the end of it if he caught me checking him out...



Sakura was snapped from her thoughts as their teacher's voice boomed through the classroom.



"Gaara! Wake your sorry ass up and pay attention!"



Usually, Iruka-sensei wasn't one to get angered so easily. Sakura began to wonder just how many times he had been trying to get Gaara's attention. She watched Gaara slowly open his eyes in anger, staring at the man who had rudely awakened him.



"Would you quit yelling at me? I've been paying attention this whole fucking time, not that you've had anything important to say anyways."



Iruka was furious.



"Watch your mouth you creep! You know well that I have full permission to physically reprimand you if I need to."



Gaara simply sat and smirked.



"Might be an interesting experience for me. It would mark the first time I've ever had a pussy pound me instead."



Sakura couldn't believe him. Threatened with one of Iruka's beatings and he just took it like a joke. The class was completely silent; the only audible noises seemed to be coming from Iruka's grinding teeth. She turned towards Gaara, who was smiling at how hard their teacher was trying to avoid confronting him.



"What the hell is wrong with you, Gaara? You're begging to get your ass kicked!"



He just shrugged his shoulders.



"You find me one person who can kick my ass. Hell, find me a whole group of people that can kick my ass, I dare them to come at me. Tell 'em they'd better bring their guns too, you know, to make it fair."



She sat back. There was little point in arguing with someone who has already proven that he can kill a group of armed men with his bare hands.



"You really are a beast, you know that? All you care about is bloodshed, and harassing anyone who talks to you. You make me sick."



Gaara just leaned back in his chair and smiled.



"Sweetheart, when I want any lip from you I'll just jiggle my zipper, alright?"



And my point is proven, yet again.



Iruka, who had apparently heard his little comment towards Sakura, decided he wouldn't be able to continue teaching with Gaara in his class.



"Gaara, that's enough! I want you out of my class immediately!"



Gaara sighed. "Relax, I'll leave when I damned well please."



"You will leave NOW! If I have to ask you one more time..."



Iruka was cut short by the sight of a school desk being hurled towards him. It crashed through the window behind him and Iruka's mind finally registered that an incredibly irritated Gaara was the one who threw it.



"Stop rushing me, you impatient fuck, I'm going."



Gaara casually picked up his bag and left the room, leaving a wide-eyed class and a very pale Iruka behind him. After a few moments, Iruka decided to turn the rest of the class into a study period so he could decide what he was going to do about his new student. Sakura listened to the whispers of her classmates, all of them apparently discussing the volatile redhead.



"Did you see that? He just hurled his desk through the window like it was nothing!"



"I heard that he's always got a short fuse like that. He'll get pissed off and tear you apart."



"I heard that he's actually killed people before! Students at his old school, and some of the thugs he was locked up with while he was in prison."



"No way!"



"Yeah. Apparently he killed them all with is bare hands, and all of them had guns! They say he brawls like a beast, he even went so far as to tear one of the guy's throats out with his teeth!"



Sakura wasn't very comforted by that bit of information, considering Gaara had been nipping at her throat earlier. She hoped that no one would notice the bruise he'd left there, she didn't want to have to explain how she got it.



"Sakura-chan!"



She turned to see her friend, Naruto headed her way.



"Hey, Naruto. You're late again, you know? You weren't entertaining yourself by flooding the bathrooms again, were you?"



Naruto laughed. Sakura knew his mischievous nature all too well.



"Maybe. I don't think anybody saw this time. He smiled. "Hey, uh...why is the window gone? It looks like threw a box of bricks through it, the wall is all messed up too."



Sakura pointed to the empty space next to her.



"Remember the desk that used to be there? Gaara got all pissed off when Iruka-sensei told him to leave class, and so he threw it out the window."



"Someone's got a short temper. No wonder they locked him up." Naruto sat down. "So, I hear that Tsunade-sama asked you to watch him during his first day? How's that been going?"



"Horrible." Sakura sighed. "Thirty minutes into class and he already causes a scene. He put Iruka-sensei on edge, broke a window, frightened the entire class, and has been trying like hell to get me to fuck him!"



"Huh, so he likes you? Temper aside, do you like him?"



Sakura frowned. "What kind of question is that? First of all, I don't think he likes me. I think he's seriously just trying to get laid. And second, no, of course I don't like him. He's a walking time bomb. Not to mention he's rude, arrogant, loud, perverted, and thinks he can get whatever he wants. It really is a shame he's such a prick, he's incredibly hot..."



She stopped before finishing her sentence. Mentally slapping herself, she knew Naruto would be teasing her for days.



"Oh, so you think he's hot! I always knew you were into bad boys, Sakura-chan."



Great. I know Naruto won't keep his mouth shut about this.



"Hey, Sakura, don't be upset. I bet you could use this to your advantage. Tell him you'll go out with him if he's a good boy for the rest of the week."



"He's not a dog, Naruto. Although I don't doubt that he was probably raised by wolves, he's just as wild as one."



"Well then, there you go. Any wild animal can be tamed, so why should he be any different?"



You can't tame a beast like Gaara...



"Now that I'm thinking about it, where exactly IS Gaara? I thought you were watching him, Sakura-chan?"



Shit! I completely forgot!



Upon seeing that Gaara wasn't waiting outside the classroom like he was told, Sakura dashed off to find him before he caused anymore trouble.



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Crap! Where is he? If he's breaking anything or threatening somebody Tsunade's going to kill me! Why couldn't he just stay put? He doesn't even know his way around the campus yet, so there's no telling where he might be...



After excusing herself from her next class, Sakura continued her search for Gaara. It had been over an hour and there was still no sign of him, to make things worse, none of the students had seen him either which meant he might not even be on campus at all. Sakura was just about to give up when she finally saw him, oddly enough, he wasn't alone. Across from Gaara, stood Rock Lee. Sakura knew Lee well, he was always challenging the school's toughest brutes to fights and was known to be nearly unbeatable in hand-to-hand combat. He was known as 'Kohona's Beautiful Green Beast', and wanted nothing more than to use his strength defending the kids who were regularly picked on and beaten up for their lunch money. He was a hero amongst them, and he intended to keep it that way. Unfortunately, he also had a huge crush on Sakura, who found it to be more than just a little annoying. Nevertheless, if Lee had picked a fight with Gaara, she had to get in there before they started. Lee might have been the toughest kid in school, but Gaara would be able to kill him in a single hit if he wanted to.



"Gaara! What the Hell do you think you're doing out here?! I've been looking all over for you! Why didn't you just wait outside the classroom until someone came to get you?"



Gaara smiled over at Sakura. "Hn, you found me after all. I figured that when Iruka sent me out of class, I was done for the day. So I came out here and ran into this fuzzy-eyebrow freak, he said I was a danger to the other students and he was gonna "put me in my place". Tell me, did you come here to watch? You know I'll be expecting some action after I tear this guy apart. No need to be anything more than a good old-fashioned pole polishing, what do you say, Sweetheart?"



Lee's eyes lit up with rage.



"How DARE you speak to Sakura-chan that way! Such vulgar words should never be directed at such a beautiful young woman!"



"You talk like she belongs to you. If anything, she belongs to me. See for yourself, I've already left my mark on her." Gaara's grin grew even wider. "Why don't you show him, Babe? You look awful suspicious with your collar up like that."



Sakura cringed. She couldn't believe he had just told Lee about the bruise. Lee would most definitely jump to the conclusion that Gaara had raped her, there would be no stopping him from attacking Gaara after that.



"Sa...Sakura-chan...is this true?"



Lee was furious, she could see his fists clenching through the wraps he had around his hands.



"Lee, it's not what you think. Gaara was just...he was just reacting to something I had said. Nothing else happened, I swear."



"And nothing else WILL happen. Not as long as I'm here."



With that, Lee charged forward…