Naruto 1. Chapter 1

A girl sat on her bed flipping through medical books with a very curious look on her face. This girls name was Sakura she had pink hair, a slightly big forehead and pale-ish skin. She was wearing a small red tank top and small white shorts. She had long legs and was skinny but at the same time fit. The bed was scattered with different medical books and a desk in the corner of her room had a small light lit at it, which seemed to be the only light source in her room. Except the moon that shone through her window on the left side of her room a couple feet from her bed.

Sakura was seventeen and as a seventeen-year-old girl you would expect her room to be cheery and bright just like her pink hair. Her room however was not very cheery maybe it would be if she cleaned it every once in a while. The room had books and scrolls of different medical techniques sprawled out everywhere on the floor trailing from her desk to her bed. Dust covered the uninhabited corners of her room and her closet seemed to be like a death trap. If you got tangled in the clothes and different things that were shoved in it, it would be as if you were lost forever.

Sakura scanned through medical book to scroll and then stopped and looked up as she smelt an awful odor coming from her room.

"Yuck, what's that smell?" she said as she set the scroll down and got up from her bed. As she did this she stepped on a pile of books and as she stepped on it one of the book from the bottom slipped out and made her fall on her face. "_Good job Sakura I can't believe you let your room get this messy." _ She said to herself as she picked herself up off the floor and then started cleaning her room.

After picking up and stacking all her book in her bookcase and throwing away a few unfinished bento boxes from a month ago. She dusted and then finally she was done cleaning and her room looked better then ever. She put her hands on her hips and did a slight nod with her head as to congratulate herself for making her room so clean. As she stood there taking one last look to see if anything else was out of place she heard a ringing noise coming from her bed. She glanced at her cell phone ringing on her bed and picked it up. Sakura looked at the caller ID and her eyes widened "_Kakashi-sensei?"_

"Why is he calling me at this time of night?" Sakura looked at her clock that read **10:21**. She shook off the question and picked up the phone and to her surprise as he talked to her she thought, is he drunk? The reason she thought that was probably because he was talking like an idiot saying "pec e uop bar sience de quer." Which translated to "come pick me up, bar at sine dr." The last part was gibberish to her.

She tried to talk to him but when she asked where he was and why he called her he did not answer. She waited a couple minutes and some voice she was sure was not Kakashi's picked up the phone. The man that picked up the phone had a very deep voice and he seemed to be annoyed about something.

"I'm sorry about that but Kakashi has passed out and he needs someone to pick him up and also someone to pay for his very many drinks." Sakura sighed and then asked,"where is he?" the man responded "he is at a bar called keloy on sine drive." The man explained.

"_That far away really kakashi, and why did you have to call me?"_ The bar Kakashi was passed out in was on the other side of town as Sakura's house. She sighed in annoyance once again and then finally said,

"Alright I am coming to get him please watch him till I get there I should be there in about thirty minutes." She exclaimed and then hung up the phone and started getting dressed into more appropriate attire. She dressed in blue jeans and a simple shirt because she knew if she wore a dress it would just get ruined.

She would probably have to carry Kakashi to his house after all. Before she left she looked at the clock and saw that it was **11:00**! "_Oh shit that conversation lasted longer than I thought it will take me about thirty minutes to find the bar and then about twenty to wake him up enough for him to tell me were his house is and the who knows how long to get there, then there's the possibility of other things going wrong. It would be about 1:00 when I would finally get back, maybe I should just pack a toothbrush in my purse incase I have to stay at his house for the night"_

She quickly grabbed her purse and packed her tooth purse and a comb in it then slung it over her shoulder opened her window and deciding it would be faster started jumping from roof to roof with incredible speed. When she arrived at the bar she was right it did take her about thirty minutes to get there or maybe a little less. She jumped off of a roof and walked to the door, she was about to enter but was stopped by a tall strong looking man with a black suit on.

"I'm afraid I'll need to see your ID ma'am."

She looked up at him and was about to argue when the man that she talked to earlier appeared from the crowd and saw Sakura. He walked over to her at the door.

"You are Sakura right?" she looked at him and nodded then the man looked surprised and looked her up and down. She finally got tired and asked

"What is it?" he snapped out of his surprised gaze.

"Well its just that you look like your." He paused

"I look like I'm what?" Sakura asked slightly annoyed.

"Sorry you like your only fifteen." He said trying not to make Sakura even more annoyed than she already was.

"I am actually seventeen and I am a seventeen year old girl in a hurry, so tell me where Kakashi is already so I can get his lazy drunken ass back to his house." Sakura demanded.

Both men by the door looked slightly shocked then brushed it away and the bartender showed her through the crowd to where Kakashi was. She sighed a long sigh and then mumbled under her breath."Kakashi why do you have to be so much trouble." The bartender turned toward her.

"What was that?" he asked softly. Sakura wiped the look annoyance off of her face and forced a smile onto her face.

"Oh nothing, just thinking out loud," She said to the man and then continued to talk "Now to wake him up so he can tell me where he lives." Sakura started to walk over to Kakashi ready to wake him up with a hard fist to his head. She was stopped as the bartender spoke and handed her a piece of paper.

"That wont be necessary, he wrote everything down on this piece of paper and told me to give it to who ever picked him up." The man explained, then he continued to talk "It's like he knew he was going to pass out."

Sakura took the piece of paper and read it, it said "I am sorry for the poor soul who has to drag my probably unconscious body back to my house. If I just called a random person who doesn't know where my house is the info is on the back." There was a small arrow pointing to the edge of the small card. Sakura turned it over and there was the info (Chelby lane, 7390.) "_About a mile away from the bar the opposite direction of her house." _She sighed then read on. "If I have not paid for my drinks my wallet is in my pocket, it should have enough money in it plus the key to my house. Thank you for taking me home and helping me I will pay you back for doing this." That was then end of the little letter except for the very bottom, which read simply "Kakashi"

Sakura stuffed the piece of paper in her pocket then went to Kakashi who was passed out at the bar. She hadn't noticed and when she did she looked at him in surprise. Instead of wearing what she was so used to seeing on him during training or going to eat ramen with Naruto and Sasuke. Practically everywhere she saw him he was wearing his green vest and black pants. He still had his mask and headband over his one eye, but other then that everything he was wearing was different. He had a white tank top on that was slightly tight on his body and exposed his muscular body.

She never noticed it before, he was actually quite attractive, well except for he was now drunk and sprawled halfway on top of a bar table. Still there was this cuteness to him being drunk and not many men were cute when they were drunk. She felt her cheeks grow a little red and then realized what she was thinking, "_What am I thinking he's my former sensei I am not supposed to think he is cute." _ She yelled at herself and brushed the thoughts aside as she walked over to him. She searched his pocket and in his front pocket she found his wallet "_couldn't he have put his wallet in a different place, like his shirt pocket maybe." _She thought to herself. She pulled out the amount of money that was on the bill the bartender handed her and paid the man for his drinks. Sakura looked through the wallet and made sure the key was there before shoving the wallet in her pocket. With a huff she lifted her sensei and put him on her back holding the bottom of his legs and putting in a piggyback position. She turned toward the shocked bartender and with a facial expression that seem more annoyed than the last and asked "Can we use the back door so not everyone in the village sees the "great copy ninja" drunk as hell being carried by his student."

The bartender snapped back to earth and pointed to the door behind him. Sakura nodded a quick thanks then left through the door and into the night. She thought of were Chelby lane was and when she found the direction where she needed to go she hopped onto a tree and started jumping from tree to buildings what ever got her there faster.

**Earlier Kakashi's POV-**

He had been gone for a mission for almost a month and now returned from the successful mission. He had a couple of minor wounds but nothing that could not be healed by just bandaging them and waiting for the wounds to close up. Nothing he needed to go to the hospital for, actually even if they were major wounds or if he were on the verge of death he still would not go to the hospital. He hated the hospital; he hated the white walls that you woke up to the fake smiles of the nurses and doctors that walked in telling you everything was alright. But most of all he hated the smell of it, that strong disgusting smell. It was the smell of death, pain and suffering. Kakashi swung open the door of his apartment and set his bag down shutting the door as he walked into his living room. He did not bother turning on his light and just walked over to the furniture that was set before him. He plopped down on his couch and slightly winced as a surge of pain went through his body. Kakashi looked down to his left side and saw a dark liquid soak through his shirt the dark liquid was obviously blood. Kakashi ripped off his green vest and took off his shirt leaving his muscular body exposed. Numerous scratches and scars covered his body and the newly formed gash on his left side was spilling out blood.

He walked to his bathroom and on small shelving behind his mirror he grabbed a thing of bandages and a sort of ointment for cleaning wounds. He started cleaning the wound and then began wrapping it around his stomach and side were the gash was on his body. He was rapping it quickly like he had done it a million times before and the truth was he had done this a million times after returning from a mission. Since he hated the hospital he never went and therefore had to dress his own wounds. Tsunade and Sakura had scolded him many times before for not going to the hospital after a mission that he almost died from.

He laughed a bit at the thought of Tsunade yelling at him and Sakura hitting him on the top of the head for worrying her. He thought of Sakura and the thought that she had not yet punched him through a wall for all the trouble he gave her. "_That girl Is something else I can't believe she puts up with me."_ He smiled and then his smile faded "_she is seventeen now and has already past the Jounin exams with a perfect score. She is no longer my student, she is my equal." _He stated in his mind_. "And she has no need to put up with me anymore." _

That thought crossed his mind and for some reason he could not explain, it made him sad. He then brushed the thought of sadness aside "_what am I thinking, she passed the jounin exams she went from being the weakest in team seven to the strongest. I should be happy for her shouldn't I? After all she is my student I trained her. But why do I feel almost sad?" _He asked himself and thought about the past years in team seven. How she would yell at him for being late to team meetings and he would make an excuse saying "I got lost on the path of life."

How when she saw Sasuke every morning she would fall over herself like a love struck little girl, and how when the team went and ate (usually ramen because Naruto would suggest it and then whine when no one else wanted to eat it. But he usually won those battles of picking where to eat.) How all of them would stare at him and wait for him to take off his mask and eat but finally Naruto struck up a conversation and they would all be to distracted with the conversation that it would give him enough time to take off his mask, eat and then put it back on in time for everyone to turn around and see nothing on his plate.

He then thought more about when after she discovered her true strength that outmatched almost everyone in the team. That she really found a newly woken confidence and took charge. She stopped falling over Sasuke and really became a team leader I guess you would say she was the only mature one in the group. "_She is quite a talented kid."_ He thought then realizing what he said he corrected himself "_no she is no longer a kid she is a woman a leader and hell of a doctor." _One thought slipped through his mind "_her looks aren't bad either."_ He slapped his palm to his forehead and said out loud "what am I thinking she is my former student dammit Kakashi you're so stupid."

He finished wrapping his injury and ripped the remaining cloth off then tied the cloth that was on his wound. He put his things back on the shelving and closed the mirror. The thought of Sakura passed through his mind again and finally he decided he needed to go out and get a drink. Not to socialize he did not do that very much but to drown that thought of her out of his mind. He walked to his room all of the lights in his house still on. He grabbed a white tank top and dark blue jeans and dressed into them, made his way out his front door closed and locked it behind him then walked to a random bar.

**And a couple hours later of drinking and being a dumbass Kakashi found himself calling a random person and the last thing he remember was mumbling "come pick me up, bar at sine dr." and then he passed out dropping his phone and leaving what ever poor soul he called to pick him up.**

**This is prologue and where the real story begins**


	2. Waking up

Sakura bounded across rooftops feeling slightly relieved when she saw a wooden sign that said Chelby lane. She jumped off of a small building and started to walk; the passed out Kakashi still in a piggyback position on her back. The moon was almost full and a billion stars shone on her while she walked through Chelby lane looking for Kakashi's apartment. She tried to find his house number and for about 10 minutes she still couldn't find it then her eyes wandered on a small apartment building. The room on the very left top corner read 7390 by the door.

"Ok there it is." Sakura walked over to the apartment building and climbed up the steps to his apartment. She set Kakashi on a small bench in front of his apartment door. His body fell into a laying position on the bench and she felt a slight smile go to her face. She turned away from him and dug the key out of her pocket, putting the key in and twisting it until she heard a click.

"Thank god, if this wasn't the right key I would have killed him," She said as she opened the door she looked back at Kakashi. Sakura stuck the key in her pocket and once again began to lift the heavy man.

She decided that instead of putting him completely over her back she would just put his chest over the front of her shoulder. But that was a big mistake. As she dragged him in walking backwards slowly she managed to get in past the front door. With her foot she tried to close the door she succeeded but in the process she lost her balance and both of the ninja fell to the ground. She made a slight scream and shut her eyes and then she felt something on top of her.

Her eyes snapped open and she saw her former sensei on top of her still passed out from being drunk. Even though she knew he was not awake she could hear his breathing and feel his warm breath against her neck. Their faces were almost touching and his muscular body was pressed against her slender figure. Sakura's face shaded over beet red and she quickly pushed Kakashi off of her. She looked at him asleep on the floor and before she darted out of his house she thought it might be a good idea to put him in his bed. She stood up and searched for a light switch her hand felt something.

"Ah the light switch" she flipped it on. Sakura looked at his living room, it was small had and no television. A small coffee table sat in the middle in front of the tv and had two chairs on either side of it. To the left of the living room, down a step was a small kitchen and beside the kitchen was the dining room it only had a table and two chairs in it. To the right of the living room were three doors one she was guessing was the bathroom one his room and maybe an office or a guest room. She walked over to Kakashi and grabbed his hands and started dragging him on the floor. She saw two stairs in front of the three doors and decided that she would still drag him "_if he has back pain when he wakes up he'll just have to deal with it because I am not picking him up and have the possibility of going through that again."_ She said to herself.

She dragged his back up the two steps and heard him mumble something and move his head then he stopped and all she could hear was his breathing "_he must be having a dream, how cute."_ She thought as a smile went across her face. Then again catching what she said she mentally slapped herself. "_Why do I keep thinking he's cute, Sakura get it in your head he is you former sensei, your friend." _She then looked at him with a soft gaze. "_But he is also a man, and I am a woman." _ She said to herself trying to reassure herself that when she thought of it that way it was only natural that she thought he was attractive. He was after all a very attractive man. After searching each room to find out that the last room she decided to look in was his bedroom. She finally set him on top of the bed and decided it would be a good idea for him to not get mud and dirt on his bed from his shoes so she took them off and threw them to the corner of his room. She grabbed a blanket that was folded on the end of his bed and laid it over him. After she was done making it so he would sleep comfortably she looked around the room and realized that it was really clean. Now that she looked back his whole house was very clean also, it was like no one had ever stepped in it before.

She looked at Kakashi and then looked at his clean room. From him being so laid back and well, lazy she thought his house would be a complete mess. An idea came to mind that he paid someone to clean his house but she knew he would never do that. He would either never clean and live in a pigsty or wait until it got really dirty and finally get off his lazy ass and clean it little by little. She giggled at the thought of him actually doing something productive other than fighting. In her opinion fighting was not a very good way to be productive. She looked at him once more before exiting his room quickly because the urge of taking off his mask almost took her. She giggled as she closed the door and began to walk to the front door when her eyes wandered over a clock.

"WHAT!? 1:30!" she yelled as she stared dumbfounded at the clock. "Dammit, I can't believe it's already that late." Sakura sat down and leaned against the wall. "Well I obviously can't go home now after all I did sneak out and my parents probably already came in my room and saw the note I left."

If her parents already saw the note then she defiantly could not go home. The note Sakura left said "Mom, dad if you are reading this then I am not home yet and if I don't come home by twelve then I am probably staying the night at my office or over at Ino's place. But don't worry I will be back tomorrow call me if you need anything." On the bottom of the paper she signed her name. Sakura let out a long sigh and then remembered that she brought her toothbrush with her in her purse. Sakura got her toothbrush and rummaged through Kakashi's bathroom for toothpaste. After she got ready for bed and found sheets and blankets in the room across from Kakashi's. The room turned out to be sort of a storage room/office and had piles of stuff all organized. She was sad it was not a guest room but she decided that it was for the best that she slept on the couch. She put the sheets on the couch and then a pillow and saying that she would wake up before Kakashi. It being too uncomfortable to sleep in long blue jeans she decided to take them off and sleep in her panties. After she folded her pants and got under the blankets she laid out she slowly drifted to sleep.

The next morning Kakashi woke up with the biggest hangover he had ever had in his life. He sat up slowly in his bed holding his head with his other hand supporting his back. He tried to recollect what had happened to him last night "ok I got drunk called a random person to come pick me up and then passed out." He said still holding his hand to his head. "_Oh crap I was passed out that means who ever brought me home had to carry me, man I'm such an idiot. Ill have to repay whoever brought me home last night."_

He decided and then got off of his bed and walked very slowly into his living room. Almost tripping over the two steps in front of him, his head hurt like hell, he could barely see and he was about ready to stab himself in the throat because of his burning lungs. He staggered upright and looked on the couch, the first thing he saw was pink hair. Thinking he was imaging the color of the person's hair that was sleeping on his couch he walked over to look at their face. When he did he sort of jumped, rubbed his eyes to make sure he was not imagining, looked again and realized he wasn't. He face palmed and yelled at himself "Kakashi you idiot you called your former student and made her carry you all the way to your house! Idiot, idiot, idiot." He repeated over and over in his head "_I am such and idiot."_

He paused and then thought of an idea "_I know I'll make her breakfast it's the least I could do after she lugged my damn heavy body all the way back to my apartment." _ He walked over to his kitchen, which had a wall that separated it to the living room and started pulling out ingredients to make food. As he was making food Sakura started to wake up, she opened her eyes and immediately looked at the clock "_oh no its already nine in the morning." _She panicked and through her struggling to get out of bed did not hear Kakashi in the kitchen. She was about to leave but then decided that she would make Kakashi breakfast. She set down her purse and walked into the kitchen to see the stove on and eggs frying in a pan. Sakura heard something drop to the right side of her she looked over to see Kakashi. His lone eye was wide with surprise as he stared at her paying no mind to the spatula he had just dropped. He stared at Sakura for a moment more then blushed and turned away.

Sakura was thoroughly confused on why he had blushed at her, she checked herself and made sure everything was fine and then screamed and pulled down the bottom of her shirt. "_Oh shit I forgot to put my pants on! Ugh you're so stupid Sakura." _She ran into the living room quickly grabbing her pants and swung open the bathroom door slamming it shut behind her.

**Kakashi's POV on this situation**

Kakashi decided he would make some eggs and French toast for Sakura he thought he should break the cycle and do something other than ramen. As he was getting the ingredients for the food and then the pan and the spatula he kept wondering if she would like what he was making for her. His eyes crinkled and a giant smile went over his face as he thought of a scene in one of his books that started an awful lot like this. He was so consumed in making the breakfast he did not here Sakura wake up and shuffle around his apartment. As the breakfast was almost ready he got two plates out and set them on the counter and when he turned around their Sakura was.

He was about to smile at her when he realized that she had no pants on. She was looking at what was being made in nothing but a tank top and pink and white panties on. He stood there shocked for a moment and lost grip of the spatula and it fell to the ground making a clicking sound. He saw Sakura turn toward him and with a confused look on her face looked right back at him.

"_What, what do I do she's standing in my kitchen with no pants on."_ He thought back to that same scene in one of his books and quickly shook his head in his mind. "_No I definitely can't do that." _He thought and all Kakashi could do as he felt his face to red was turn away and say nothing. There was a pause and then he heard Sakura scream and run into the other room. He hit himself in he head with his palm and again called himself an idiot a couple more times in his head. Then remembering the eggs he grabbed a plate and the spatula off of the ground and walked over to the pan and put the egg on the plate. He began to cook again and tried to get the image of Sakura with no pants on out of his mind.

**End of his POV**

Sakura sat on the floor in Kakashi's bathroom and began scolding herself "_Sakura you are such an idiot what if you decided not to go and make Kakashi breakfast and just walked out of his house with no pants." _She lectured to herself "_you're such a dumbass, a huge and giant fool." _she sighed and stood up and put her pants on. "Well I guess I can't just leave, he was making breakfast for me I can't just say bye without seeing him and leaving him alone with too much food." She said as she sighed again and opened the bathroom door. She walked down the two stairs and across the living room to the kitchen where Kakashi was still preparing breakfast.

He heard her step into the kitchen

"do you need help with anything?" Sakura asked trying not to bring up the incident from earlier.

"As long as you keep your pants on," Kakashi said in a joking voice trying to get past what happened earlier and make it a joke. He turned to face Sakura and her face was a dark shade of crimson and when he looked at her she turned her head and walked over to the dining room table.

"Never mind you can do it all yourself," She said as she stomped and then plopped herself on one of the wooden chairs.

Kakashi looked over at her and smiled a bit before going back to cooking. Once he was finished cooking he set an even amount of food on each of their plates. Walking over to the table he set one plate down in front of Sakura and one in front of his seat and sat down. It was silent and both of them started eating their meals, Kakashi took off his mask and ate his meal and put his mask back on. Sakura was eating slowly and when she looked up from her plate to see if she could get a peek at his face his mask was already up and his food was gone.

Kakashi saw the look of disappointment on her face and laughed a little bit and when he did Sakura looked up and glared at him.

"Why are you laughing?" She asked him with an annoyed voice. He looked at her for a moment and said taking a slight chance.

"Are you sure you want to know?" he asked her with a devious smile under his mask. She thought for a moment and then said,

"Yes of course I want to know."

Kakashi got up from his chair and walked over Sakura and pushed her chair up to the wall behind her. Her heart raced and her face went beet red as he did this, then in his usual low smooth voice he said,

"I was just thinking about how cute you looked in those panties." After he said this his face being only inches from Sakura's, he simply stood back up and walked out of the dining room and kitchen with a slight wave as he did. Sakura sat there in her seat with her face still red, she let out a giant breath as if she had been holding it the entire time.

"Idiot" Sakura mumbled as she clenched her fist to her fast beating heart. As Kakashi walked into his room he laughed a bit to himself "_what a stupid idea to do that but, it was worth it to see her face as red as a beet." _He then started chuckling a little bit. He went over to his closet and got some clean clothes and got changed. He saw his shoes on the ground in his room and wondered "_did she take off my shoes for me?"_ He thought as he walked to his desk next to his bed and got one of his famous orange colored books and started reading it.

He walked out of his room, book in one hand and saw Sakura getting ready to leave. She put the two plates in the sink, found his laundry basket and was now putting the sheets and blankets she used in it. As she stuffed the sheet in the laundry basket she closed the top and was about to pick it up. She looked over in Kakashi's direction and gave him a mad look as Kakashi watched her with his grey eye. She turned around and Kakashi walked up to her and put his book in his back pocket. As she grabbed the laundry basket she turned around and walked a step forward bumping into Kakashi.

She jumped a little bit then gave him a get out of my way glare. Kakashi rolled his eyes and grabbed the laundry basket out of her hands and started walking toward the laundry room/office/storage room. She stood there surprised that he was being nice to her and did not make a joke or smart remark. He set the laundry basket in the laundry room and then walked back into the living room and said goodbye to Sakura as she left for her house. He was about to sit down on his chair when Sakura burst through the door. He turned to her and was knocked off his feet and fell on the ground with Sakura on top of him hugging him. He was very surprised and did not know how to react then finally Sakura broke the silence,

"Thank you for breakfast." She said as she kissed him on the cheek and stood up to walk out the door. Leaving the speechless copy ninja halfway sitting up on the ground looking at the already shut door."_Man, she really is something else." He thought with a smile._


	3. Stay with me

Sakura shut the door and leaned against it her face still bright red and a small smile gracing it. Her heart was beating so fast and her head was spinning with so many thoughts. Her first clenched near her heart and her legs were ready to give out. She exhaled a large breath "_why did I do that my heart is beating even faster right now. I had no time to react my body just moved, and then I saw him and the first thing I could do was run toward him. Why am I feeling this way, he's my former sensei. I shouldn't have these feelings, but no matter how hard I try I can't get him out of my mind." _Sakura thought as she started to walk away from Kakashi's front door and down the stairs of his apartment building. "_I should have never picked him up." _She said to her self, clenching her fist to her heart.

It took about half an hour jumping across rooftops and tree branches for Sakura to get back to her house. She dropped down off of a tree beside her house and started walking toward her front door. Slowly she made it to her door took a deep breath and took out her key. She put it in the lock and turned the key after hearing a clicking noise she took the key out and put it back in her pocket. She opened the door slowly and quietly as to not wake her parents up if they were still sleeping.

"Sakura-chan!" she heard someone yell as she opened her eyes she saw a flash of yellow and she was picked up. Someone hugged her and spun her around, she looked at the person and it was Naruto. He was still spinning her around and Sakura felt like she was going to puke.

"Put me down Naruto!" she yelled as she punched Naruto in the top of the head. The blonde haired ninja dropped Sakura and started rubbing the top of his head looking up at Sakura and giving her a giant grin. Sakura crossed her arms over her chest and glared at Naruto as he grinned at her. As Naruto grinned at her, her face softened up and she gave him a slight smile as well. Naruto laughed and hugged Sakura again. Sasuke was sitting on Sakura's couch rolling his eyes at his hyperactive friend.

"Naruto, Sasuke what are you doing in my house?" Sakura asked, as she got free of Naruto's hug.

"We were worried about you Sakura-chan," Naruto said with his big grin on his face like always.

"Worried about me, what do you mean?" Sakura asked with a confused look on her face.

"I called you a million times and then I came here and your parents said that you went to Ino's. So we checked there but you weren't there so then we checked the hospital and you weren't there either. So we ended up back here and just decided to wait for you when you got home." Naruto explained. Sakura looked at Sasuke.

"You were really worried about me?" Sakura looked at both of the boys.

"I'm only here because this idiot dragged me with him." Sasuke pointed at Naruto.

"He acts all cool now but he was actually more worried than I was." Naruto told Sakura as he chuckled. Sakura couldn't help but laugh and smile with him as she looked at Naruto.

"I was not worried, you were the one worried saying what happened to Sakura what if she's hurt or dead!" Sasuke yelled at Naruto.

"So any way Sakura-chan, where were you?" Sakura thought for a moment before speaking.

"uh you see, Naruto I… uh I was out by the graveyard taking a walk and I went to rest on a tree branch." Sakura said nervously trying to find an excuse "_If I told them I was at Kakashi's what would they think? There is no way that would end well." _Sakura thought.

"Oh really?" Naruto asked with a confused expression.

"Yeah I guess I just lost track of time while sleeping, haha." Sakura laughed nervously and scratched the back of her neck trying to convince them. Sasuke looked at her for a minute not convinced at all. "_I'm not buying it, I wonder where she really was?" _Sasuke thought as he looked at Sakura. "_Wait, why do I even care?" _Sasuke thought questioning himself.

"Ok, that makes sense." Naruto nodded his head and gave Sakura a big smile.

"_It seems Naruto believes me but that should be expected he has never really been the sharpest of ninjas. Sasuke defiantly doesn't believe me I mean just look how he's glaring at me." _Sakura thought as she looked back at Sasuke who was glaring at her with a questioning look.

"Anyway I think I am going to go up to my room and get a proper rest, after all I slept on a tree branch last night." Sakura said as she started to walk up her stairs waving goodbye as she did.

Sakura walked into her room and closed her door breathing a sigh of relief. "_That was a little to close, it completely obvious that Sasuke didn't believe a word I said." _Sakura thought wiping sweat off of her forehead. "_I really hate to lie to them but desperate times calls for desperate measures. Oh well now to go brush my teeth and get some rest I barely got any sleep last night." _Sakura said as she got her purse and went to pull out her toothbrush. She reached in her bag but all she found was some money and make up.

"_Oh shit did I leave my toothbrush at Kakashi's." _she thought as she dumped everything out of her purse and looked for her toothbrush in a panic. "_Oh crap, Sakura you're so stupid I cant believe this ugh." _Sakura thought as she bonked herself on the head in frustration. "_Today is just not my day." _Sakura thought as she went to get out her phone to call Kakashi. She got her phone out of her pocket turned it on a look of frustration went across her face. "What seriously, out of battery!" she yelled and threw her phone on her bed plopping down right next to it.

"_No toothbrush, my phones dead and I think I left my charger at Kakashi's too." _Sakura said as she laid on her bed a bit to exhausted to get up drifting slowly to sleep each second. "_Yep as I thought, today is not my day."_ The next thing Sakura new it she was laying on her bed in a deep sleep.

**Kakashi's POV**

Kakashi got up off the ground still dazed at what just happened. "_She just ran and hugged me, then she kissed me on the cheek." _Kakashi thought as he felt the place on his face were Sakura kissed him. His eyes softened and he smiled a little thinking about Sakura. He snapped back to reality as one thought went through his mind "_Kakashi you idiot, she's your former student stop thinking like this." _He thought as he lightly hit him self on the cheek.

Kakashi rolled his eyes at himself then started walking to his bathroom to get ready for the day. As he walked into the bathroom he went to grab his toothbrush and saw a pink toothbrush right next to his. He looked at it with a puzzled look "_did Sakura accidently leave her toothbrush here." _Kakashi thought as he picked it up. "_Well I guess I should bring this back to her sometime today. After I'm done getting changed and stuff anyway." _Kakashi got his teeth brushed and got changed into his vest and put his headband on.

"Alright now I should head to Sakura's and give her toothbrush to her." A thought accord in Kakashi's mind "_wait a minute, I can't just go up to her front door with her toothbrush in my hand." _Kakashi thought. "What would I even say? Hey Mr. and Mrs. Haruno, your daughter left her toothbrush at my house when she came and picked up my drunken ass at a bar that she was to young to get into." Kakashi said acting like they were there in front of him.

He sighed and shook his head "no that would be a really stupid idea." He grabbed her toothbrush and walked into his living room. Kakashi sat down on one of his chairs and leaned his head backwards sighing. He turned his head to his left and saw a phone charger plugged into the wall. The copy-nin looked at it and stood up and walked over to examine it. "Well this isn't mine, I guess she left this here to. Ugh Sakura, now I have to return things to you," He said as he unplugged the charger and put both the things in a small bag and put them in his vest pocket. "The question is when do I return them to her, its only eleven if I return it now her parents and any other people are sure to be suspicious about what happened and I am not really in the mood to answer a bunch of questions."

**End of Kakashi's POV**

**Sakura's house 9pm that night**

Sakura woke up to a quiet knocking at her window; she slowly opened her eyes and got out of her bed. She turned to see who was at her window and her eyes widened in surprise. She ran over to the window and slid it open "Kakashi-sensei, what are you doing here?" Kakashi was sitting perched on her balcony rail with his usual ninja uniform on and one of his books sticking out of his pocket. He crinkled his eye to let her know he was smiling. "You left some stuff at my house when you left." He said taking out the small bag containing her toothbrush and phone charger.

Sakura's eyes widened with excitement and she quickly tried to snatch the bag from him. Kakashi pulled his hand back pulling the bag away from Sakura's reach. Sakura glared at him for a second "aren't you going to invite me in?" Kakashi asked innocently. Sakura smiled mischievously "hey you already saw me without my pants on so why not." Kakashi was about to get off his perch and come in when he was stopped by Sakura's hand. She shook her finger from side to side four times "I'm not letting you in till you give me my stuff." She said as she held out her hand to Kakashi.

He jumped off the railing and landed right in front of Sakura "as you wish." Kakashi said as he leaned down close to Sakura's face. Her heart started racing and her face started turning a dark crimson color. She shut her eyes as Kakashi's face came closer to hers. She felt something drop into her hands and she opened her eyes as Kakashi passed her and patted her head with his hand. He walked into her room and looked around then sat on her bed.

Sakura was still standing on her balcony with the small bag of her things in her hand. "_I can't believe he just did that!" _Sakura thought as she clenched the bag of stuff in her hands. "Nice room although I would expect more pink or purple from a girl." Kakashi said as he sat on her bed looking around her room. He saw her desk in the corner of her room and walked to it. "I wonder what's in here?" he mumbled. He started to look through Sakura's stuff that was piled on her desk. Sakura heard him and turned around and stomped over to Kakashi. Kakashi looked over at her and when he did her fist was hitting his face. He flew and hit his back on her closet door making a banging sound.

"DON'T GO LOOKING THROUGH PEOPLES STUFF WITHOUT ASKING FIRST!" she yelled at him. Sakura heard her parent's footsteps going toward her room; she looked at Kakashi who already figured out what to do. She ran toward her bed turning off the lights in the process and got under her cover as Kakashi got into her closet and shut the closet door. Her bedroom door flung open and both her parents looked in her room to find Sakura "asleep" in her bed with the lights off. Her parents looked at each other with confused expressions on their faces. They glanced in her room and then shrugged their shoulders and walked out of her room closing the door silently.

Sakura waited for a minute and then got up out of her bed finding her way to her closet in her dark room. She felt the closet door and made her way to the handle. She turned the handle to the door and opened it, still not able to see. Kakashi however could see perfectly in the dark, he saw Sakura as she opened the door and knew she could not see. He saw this as a perfect time to take revenge on her for punching him. He watched her as she struggled around defenselessly in the dark and he couldn't hold himself back. Sakura suddenly went from trying to find the switch to the closet light to being grabbed by the hand. She got pulled down and as she reached her knees she felt something on her lips. It was smooth and warm; she suddenly realized "_oh my god I'm being kissed, by…. Kakashi!" _She thought of pushing away but could not bring herself to do it. "_Why do I feel this way?" _Sakura thought as she kissed Kakashi back. She felt his tongue move into her mouth and his hot breath on her face. The kiss turned more passionate as Kakashi and Sakura's tongues intertwined. Sakura stood up and pulled Kakashi with her pulling him toward her bed, never once breaking their kiss. The back of Sakura's legs hit the side of her bed and she fell backwards pulling Kakashi down with her. They pulled away from the kiss for air and Sakura looked into Kakashi's lone eye.

"Stay with me?" Sakura asked.

"I wouldn't have it any other way." He smiled kissing her nose.

**~Next morning~**

Sakura was lying in bed with two blankets covering her and her pajamas on. It was 5:31am and Kakashi was beside her struggling to get his boot on. Sakura's eye flickered open and her eyes immediately went to the figure beside her bed. She started to silently get out of bed to help him put on his shoe. Before she spoke to him an idea came to mind, she jumped on his back causing him to lose his balance and fall to the floor with a thump. Sakura was on top of him laughing at his clumsiness. Kakashi sighed and looked up at her.

"Sakura get off of me I need to leave before your parents wake up." Sakura shook her head with a smile still on her face,

"No, besides its not like we did anything," She said rolling her eyes.

"Sakura you kissed you former teacher and offered him to stay the night with you, so I need to go before we get caught." Kakashi tried getting up.

"Not until you say please." Sakura demanded. Kakashi sighed and in one movement flipped her over on her back and pinned her arms down with his hands. "Hey no fair, get off of me." Sakura pouted. Kakashi leaned down and gave her a kiss saying,

"Not until you say please." In that alluring voice of his, he then gave her another kiss and put the boot he had been struggling with on. He smiled at his girlfriend and grabbed his headband opening the window and jumping out with a wave. "_Girlfriend haha my former student is my girlfriend, who would have thought that would happen." _Kakashi thought smiling under his mask as he ran across rooftops to get to his house.

"This will turn out rather interesting I think." Kakashi said to himself even though it was outloud. The small smile on his face never wavering, well until he heard a glass shattering scream.


	4. Deal

****Sorry for the wait I hop you all enjoy, It took me forever... but I should have enough to upload another chapter soon. ****

**~To Sakura ~ **

Sakura looked at herself in her mirror with a horror stricken face, she then examined her neck again. She examined the small ovalish bruise looking thing on her neck, that hurt like hell if she touched it.

"Im going to kill him, he gave me a fucking hickey." Sakura ground out under her breath while she tried to heal the 'bruise'. To her dismay... it. wasnt. healing. at. all. Sakura face palmed herself then continued to try and heal it. She then heard frantic steps coming toward her room from downstairs. "Shit, my parents." She mumbled and then started thinking up an excuse for the little 'bruise'.

"This is going to be interesting." She grimaced as she quickly dug through her closet to find a shirt that hid the hickey. After the second or third time of her parents banging on her door she decided to go with an oversized coat. She zipped it all the way up so it was practically a turtleneck. Sakura then opened the door to her room and her parents rushed inside seeing if anything was the matter.

After Kakashi was done with dinner he kept the stuff that needed to be hot in the pans so that they would not go cold. Kakashi pulled out his cell phone from his pocket and checked the time. "_Its still only 4:32 she said she might be a little late and we decided to meet at seven." _He shrugged his shoulders and put his phone back in his pocket. "I guess I will watch some TV then." Kakashi walked into his living room and sat on the couch and started to watch One Piece. Time passed pretty fast while watching TV when Kakashi looked at the clock again it was 6:42. He got out his cell and decided to text Sakura **:When are you getting off? I have everything set for dinner: **After he sent the text he walked over to the kitchen to get the plates and chopsticks. When he put the plate on the table he got a text from Sakura that read,

**:I got off like 30 minutes ago so when I get everything and close up the hospital I will come over: **He smiled as he read the text and quickly began to set the chopsticks and napkins.

**Now back to Sakura**

After Sakura got everything straightened out at her desk she grabbed her bag and started heading for the stairs. She quickened her pace for the stairs as she realized that she was literally the only one in the dark creepy hospital. That thought pretty much scared her, as she walked down the first flight of stairs she started to hear someone else's steps in the hospital. Her body tensed as she kept on hearing the steps, she started running down the hall of the second floor to the other flight of stairs. "_I seriously hate whoever designed this hospital why couldn't they make the stairs close to each other instead of on the opposite end of the hall." _This was the only thought that went through her mind as she ran for the stairs. She ran faster as she heard the steps getting closer to her. She looked in front of her and saw the stairs she quickly walked down them and into the hallway on the first floor. Relief hit her as she saw the door and she began to run for it. She smiled as she pushed the doors opened but her smile faded when she collided with someone that was on the other side of the door.

"Oof." Sakura and the person went tumbling to the ground, Sakura landing on top of them.

After a moment Sakura opened her eyes and screamed getting up immediately. "Gaara!" Sakura yelled in surprise.

"Its good to see you to Sakura." Gaara said as he got up and wiped some dirt off of his clothes. Sakura let a big smile go to her face and she tackled him again, though they didn't fall this time. Sakura hugged him as hard as she could **(AN:Well not really cuz that would kill anyone.)** Laughing and smiling as she did.

"Its so good to see you Gaara." Sakura said with a big goofy smile on her face.

"Well, well sorry to interrupt the love fest but we have to go see the Hokage." Sakura looked over and smiled even more breaking the hug with Gaara.

"Tem-chan, Cat-san." Sakura said hugging both Temari and Kankuro.

"Sakura I told you before to stop calling me that." Kankuro whined.

"Its good to see you Sakura." Temari said interrupting Kankuro. Sakura's phoned buzzed and she looked at the time on it.

"Shit, sorry guys I'll talk to you later I have to go." Sakura said putting her phone in her bag.

"Where are you going this late at night, oh do you have a date." Temari asked excitedly and Kankuro and Gaara looked at each other with a look that said I-will-kill-whoever-she-is-going-out-with-Sakura-is-mine. Sakura flashed Temari a smile,

"Yes," Sakura said and the aura around Gaara and Kankuro got sinister.

"Oh who with?" Temari asked impatiently.

"Wouldn't you like to know." Sakura said as she turned around "Bye, Tem-chan I'm off tomorrow we will talk then." Sakura said waving a quick good bye and looking over her shoulder to see Temari smiling and nodding her head once.

"See you tomorrow Saku-chan." Temari said waving and then started walking toward the Hokage's office. Sakura disappeared in a whirl of cherry blossoms and appeared at her house, she went up to her room and set her stuff on her bed. She let out a sigh as she tried to find something to wear for her date with Kakashi. When she was in the middle of choosing she heard a knock on her door.

"Come in." Sakura said and her mother entered her room.

"Darling where are you going?" Her mother asked as she looked at the clothes on her bed.

"Oh I'm going to stay the night at Ino's since it's my day off tomorrow." Sakura lied.

"Oh well darling your father and I were thinking that we could all go on a trip for a couple weeks, we were going to leave tonight." Her mother said in a delicate sweet voice.

"Mom, Im not leaving for a couple weeks, I am still a ninja which means I have to go on missions, and I am also the head of the hospital I can't afford to just abandon my job." Sakura said as she put some close into a bag.

"Darling your father and I barely see you anymore because of your missions and you used to never talk back to us, you used to be such a sweet little girl, then you became friends with that wretched fox and the Uchiha Trai..." Sakura looked up and the next thing she knew she had her mother held up by the neck and up against the wall. Though she was surprised she had done that, she didn't stop what she was doing.

"Dont you EVER talk about my teammates like that again, you understand me, the whole reason you have your pathetic life is because of Naruto. He saved you and this godforsaken village in ways I am not even allowed to discuss. Sasuke and Naruto are my brothers and I will not tolerate anyone talking down on them or berating them not even you!" Sakura yelled. This caused her father to run up stairs and slam open the door. Sakura let her mother drop to her knees and gasp for air. Sakura performed a quick Jutsu and all of her things were sealed into various scrolls. Sakura grabbed the scrolls and put them into her pack, putting it on her shoulder and heading toward the window.

"Where do you think you are going young lady?" Sakura's father asked as he walked forward and grabbed her arm. Sakura glanced behind her and sent a glare to her father.

"I'm moving out." Was all Sakura said before she disappeared in a whirl of cherry blossoms and appeared on the street outside of her house.

Sakura stood there for a moment then scratched the back of her head, She felt like Naruto. She had no idea what to do, she didn't really think a head of what to do, she just kind of... snapped. Now that she did she had no plan on what to do, she didn't have a place to stay either. She supposed she could go stay at Ino's or Hinata's, the only problem was that they lived together to save money. But they were both on a mission right now with Shikamaru and Choji to some place, she didn't really know. "_guess there is only one other place to stay, I'm sure that pervert will be happy about this." _Sakura thought with a small smile. Sakura walked toward the other side of Konoha to Kakashi's house. A little while later she arrived and braced herself to explain the situation to Kakashi. She took a couple breaths and then knocked on the door, then looked at her phone to see it was now 7:00. Sakura sighed at how annoying her situation was, but at least she could stay with her boyfriend, if he would allow it that is. Kakashi opened the door and creased his eyes because he still had his mask on. Then looked at Sakura's pack on her back with a questioning look.

"Do you have a mission?" He asked with a raised eyebrow. Sakura looked at him and he motioned for her to come in which she did and she sat on his couch.

"Kakashi, I sort of snapped on my mother a couple minutes ago," She said and looked at Kakashi and he motioned for her to continue. "And well, She said a couple things about Naruto and Sasuke and then I lost it and yelled at her and kind of, sort of moved out," Sakura said looking down a bit.

"So let me guess you need a place to stay then?" Kakashi asked with a small smile. Before Sakura could reply Kakashi was in front of her with his mask pulled down. "And of course my girlfriend will always be able to stay here, as long as she wants." He said with a smirk.

"Oh please you're just happy because I am finally asking for your help with something," Sakura said with a blush. Kakashi leaned in more and closed the distance between their lips. Kakashi pulled back with a smile.

"Oh and by the way, dinner is ready if you would like to eat, I'll take your stuff into my room." Kakashi said with a wink.

"Y-your room." Sakura stuttered out.

"Well of course, its just a small apartment, the only other bedroom I have is used for storage, and it's not like we haven't slept in the same bed before." He smiled.

"Whatever," Sakura said with a blush. Kakashi picked up her bag and carried it to his room setting it down softly. He went back into the kitchen to see Sakura already sitting down and waiting for him. She turned her head and smiled up at him then started putting food on her plate.

"So how was work dear?" Kakashi asked with a little bit of sarcasm on the 'dear'. Sakura let out a laugh and rolled her eyes.

"What are we a married couple?" She smiled at him with a little bit of mischief flashing in her emerald eyes. "And it was perfectly fine, I ran into Gaara, Kankuro and Temari on my way home though."

"Really, sounds interesting." Kakashi picked up his fork and ate a bite of his food.

"Yeah, so how is being an ANBU again like, anything exciting happen." Sakura asked with a slight mouth full of food.

"It's fine, just doing the same thing I have been since I was young I suppose," Kakashi said with a small smile. "Though you do realize you could take the ANBU exams next week." Kakashi looked at Sakura seriously.

"Kakashi, you know I only work at the hospital, it's the only thing I'm good at." Sakura looked down sadly. Kakashi narrowed his eyes and put his fork down.

"Sakura, you know that's not true," He said with a serious tone.

"Oh come on Kakashi, I am not as strong as you or Naruto and definitely not Sasuke."

"Have you tried fighting them." Sakura's eyes widened and she spit out a bite of food.

"What, you're kidding me right?" Sakura asked incredulously.

"I am very serious, how about we make a wager?" Kakashi asked with a smile.

"Go on." Sakura said curiously.

"You fight Sasuke and Naruto in two, one on one fights that will take up about two days, you won't hold back and neither will they and if you win both of them then you have to take the ANBU exams next week." Kakashi stated. Sakura looked at him like he had just grown two heads, how could he be so confident that she would win against the two strongest shinobi in Konoha.

"Alright Kakashi but if I lose, you will not speak about this again for the rest of your life alright." Sakura held up her hand and Kakashi shook it with a smile.

"Then it's a deal."

**~The Next Day~ **

Sakura woke up with a sigh as the alarm blared in her ears she sat up and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. She slipped out of the covers quietly trying not to wake Kakashi from his slumber. Before she could push herself off the bed two strong arms wrapped around her waist and pulled her into a muscular chest. Sakura rolled her eyes and got out of his grip to get up and go get dressed. She had work to go to then after that she would train to at least try and win the duels against Naruto and Sasuke. She let out an exhausted sigh, she was going to dread today, she just knew it.

"_oh well the more I train the faster I get to the duels and the faster I lose and get back to my old life." _Sakura thought letting out yet another sigh. She grabbed a towel from Kakashi's cabinet near the bathroom and grabbed some shampoo and conditioner from her bag. Once she got into the bathroom and locked the door she stripped and turned on the shower. Once it was he desired temperature she stepped in and let the water run down her bare body. She then lathered the shampoo into her hair and washed it out repeating the process with the conditioner. After that she washed her body and then turned the water off. Stepping out of the shower she wrapped herself in a towel and began to dry herself off. Once done she dressed in black training shorts a fishnet shirt with a black mesh shirt over it and dark blue ninja sandals. She wrapped the towel around her hair and stepped out of the bathroom with her pajamas in a bundle in her hands. Spotting a hamper inside of Kakashi's bedroom she brought her clothes to it and carelessly tossed them in.

She looked over to the bed to see Kakashi getting up and slowly walking to the shower. She let a smirk go to her face as she rolled her eyes.

"_He has always been so lazy." _Sakura thought as she walked out the door and into the kitchen to fix Kakashi and herself something to eat. She decided to just fix them some eggs and grabbed some bento from the cupboard. After she fixed the eggs she put Kakashi's on his counter and quickly ate hers. It was only five in the morning she did not have to be at work till six thirty but she thought she could get some training in before hand. So she finished her food and put on a belt that held several scrolls and kunai. She strapped on her favorite Katana and then put her kunai pouch on her hip. She did last minute checks to make sure she had everything before leaving the house and walking down the street towards her favorite training ground. She walked toward training ground twenty as she called it, which technically did not exist. The training ground is what others call the forest of death, Sakura had been training secretly there since after the chunin exams. She set up a place for her to train and put it under a genjutsu so no one but her would be able to find it. Not even Kakashi had known about her special training ground, and she did not plan on telling him about it any time soon. A smile spread to her face, she planned on doing her best in the duels even though she knew she would lose.

She shunshinned into the forest and into her training ground, setting her pack down near a small camp she had set up a while ago. Her training ground had a small camp, up in the trees was a treehouse for emergencies, a few steel dummies stood near a boulder on the edge of her training ground. Next to those were a few straw dummies, she used the steel to strengthen her punches and the straw to practice her aim. She also used the boulders to practice her chakra control by making it so she could split the boulder in half and not completely destroy it. She looked around and sighed, she couldn't train alone she had been doing that for years, now she needed to strengthen herself, she needed to train with someone. A smirk went to her face as she thought of the perfect person, but she would have to convince him first. She shunshinned away with all of her things and made her way to where she knew the sand siblings would be staying. She stopped in front of a large house and knocked on the door, no one answered. A frown went to her face, she then started walking up the wall to a tall window on the second story. Peeking through she saw a sleeping Garra, she had never before seen him sleep. Even when she went on missions with him before he became the Kazekage, but she had figured it out that the reason for him not sleeping was because of the one tails. Now that it had been extracted he was able to sleep again, she let a small smile go to her face, he looked adorable when he slept. She closed her eyes and tilted her head thinking just how cute he looked. When she opened her eyes she almost lost her chakra grip on the wall and fell. Putting a hand to the wall to balance her out again she smiled at Gaara. Who was currently standing in front of the window with a very amused look on his face. He opened the window and stepped aside so Sakura could come in.

"Morning Gaara, I just had a favor to ask of you Kankuro and Temari if you guys are up to it." Gaara let a soft smile grace his face as he looked at her.

"What is it?" He asked rather curious as to what would have brought her to his temporary home so early in the morning.

"I was wondering if you would spar with me?" Sakura asked nervously tapping her two fingers together much like Hinata's old habit. Gaara looked a bit surprised but nodded his head nonetheless and went to go get changed in the bathroom. Sakura quickly shunshinned to the Hokage's office to see if she could take the time off that Tsunade desperately wanted her to take. What she saw when she got there had her jaw dropping to the floor. There Tsunade was with no clothes on... with Jiraiya in a very compromising position.

"Sakura I've told you a thousand time to knock!" Tsunade screamed with wide eyes as she tried to cover herself up. Sakura's eyes grew wide and then she did something that neither of the Sannin expected. She threw her head back and started laughing. The two Sannin quickly got dressed while Sakura laughed seemingly unable to stop. Once Jiraiya was dressed he shunshinned away. Sakura closed her mouth as she tried to hold in her laughter but ultimately failed in the end. Tsunade glared at Sakura as she put on her shirt and sat behind her desk.

"I'm sorry Tsunade-sama but," Sakura's words were drowned out by her own laughter as she clutched her stomach.

"What the hell do you want Sakura?" Tsunade questioned her patients slowly slipping. Her laughter died down as Sakura got a hold of herself.

"My apologies for interrupting something I most certainly did not need to see, but I was just wondering if I could take two weeks off to train."

"For your Duels with the boys?" Tsunade questioned. Sakura's eyes widened "_Since when did she know about mine and Kakashi's deal?" _As if reading her mind Tsunade waved her hand as to say, thats not important.

"Yes for the duels."

"Alright, but they still don't count as your vacation days Sakura, you need to take those on your own time and not to prepare for a few duels." Sakura nodded and turned around to leave but was stopped by Tsunade sharp voice. "Oh and Sakura, next time you want to come into my office, knock." By Tsunade's tone of voice she knew that it wasn't a request more of a threatening demand. Sakura gulped nervously and said something that she really probably shouldn't have.

"Whatever you say Shishou, but maybe you should tell me next time that you're going to have sex with Jiraiya-san." Sakura smiled at a fuming Tsunade and disappeared in a whirl of cherry blossoms. Sakura immediately fell to the ground in Kakashi's apartment laughing her ass off. She so knew they had a thing but come on, that was just hilarious. Kakashi, who had just gotten dressed was staring at her with a look of confusion on his face. Sakura looked up and waved her hand in a gesture that said 'you wouldn't believe me if I told you'.


	5. Determined

**Welp here you go, have an 8,000 word chapter. Just because you guys are cool and I'm a bitch for not updating. **

Kakashi shrugged and started to walk to the door to go to work. He leaned over and kissed the top of Sakura's head before he grabbed his pouch off of his couch and walked out the door bidding her a short goodbye with a small wave.

"Alright, now to get ready to train."

To say Gaara was surprised at what he was facing would be a bit of an understatement. He had started his spar with Sakura not to long ago and now was practically running away from the women. It didn't help him at all with the fact that Temari and Kankuro were off on the side lines laughing so hard he swore their stomachs would burst from the way they were holding them. He sighed as he yet again had a little bit of trouble dodging a strike from a fist aimed toward his face. This was turning out to be more of a pain than he imagined. Only twenty minutes into this fight and he was already pretty tired. She was wearing him thin with the fact that she just would not let him gain any distance from her that would allow him to use his attacks effectively. She was just too fast, as soon as he would gain a little distance she would slam her hand into the ground causing him to stop moving. She would then use her remarkable speed to hop carelessly over the rubble she had left with a single punch to the ground, without an ounce of chakra used. Then they would simply be in the same position as before, her throwing punches and him only nearly dodging them. He thought it might just be easier to let her punch him, then he remembered what the ground had suffered through by a punch from her and decided to just try his best not to get hit. He spoke too soon, while he was lost in thought he had given her enough time to hit him with her fist directly on his gut.

Gaara flew back and knocked over a few trees as he did. He groaned in pain as he sat sprawled gracelessly over a pile of rubble. Sakura seemingly appeared in front of him, a smirk placed on her face.

"Did I just beat the Kazekage in a spar?" She questioned him with a slightly smug voice. Now Sakura was never one to be smug and gloat about victory, however she felt absolutely fantastic. She had just beat someone stronger than Sasuke in a spar, which meant she might have a chance in her duels with Naruto and Sasuke. She fist pumped the air and quealed in excitement as she walked in a circle doing a little victory dance. Gaara rolled his eyes at her than noticed something under the bandages on her arms and legs. His eyes widened and he looked at her in disbelief. There was just no way that could be possible, he must have been seeing things, he tried reassuring himself. Gaara cleared his throat getting Sakura's attention,

"Sakura, are you wearing weights?" She looked down at herself in realization then shrugged her shoulders as if it was nothing.

"I guess, I have them on all the time I guess I just forgot, why?" Gaara groaned and put a hand over his eyes. If she had taken off those weights, which he assumed because Sakura was Sakura that they were most likely very heavy weights, that she would have beaten him in this spar in a matter of seconds. Which if that didn't worry him, it sure did crush his dignity into non existent. Sakura felt a hand on her shoulder and turned to see Temari looking at her with a fox like grin on her face.

"Good job Saku, I knew you could do it." Temari grinned at her as she hit her shoulder playfully.

"Really, because my confidence about this fight was little more than the size of my pinky," Sakura said honestly.

"Well have more confidence in yourself pinky," Sakura turned to Kankuro to see him giving her a small smile of encouragement.

"You sound like my boyfriend." Sakura mumbled which caught everyone's attention.

"You have a boyfriend, why didnt you tell me?" Temari asked in a fake hurt voice as she put a hand over her heart.

"Who says I have a boyfriend?" Sakura questioned honestly. At the looks the three were giving her she cursed under her breath and put a hand over her face. "I said that outloud didn't I?"

"Afraid so," Temari said with a chuckle. "So who's the lucky guy."

"Since I am pretty sure you will not stop pestering me about it until I tell you, and since I trust you enough to keep it a secret I will tell you tonight, Meet me at this address, the boys can come if they want I trust all of you. Plus Im pretty sure Naruto and Sasuke already found out..." Sakura trailed off as she pulled out her phone and texted Temari the address.

"Well if Naruto and Sasuke know about him and he's still alive, than I am sure he's cool."

After a while of hanging out with the Sand siblings she started walking back to the apartment she now shared with Kakashi. As she walked a while finally making it to the apartment she reached for the knob but jumped back quickly as the door was thrown open. She looked up with horror in her eyes at seeing who was at the door.

"Hey Sakura-chan!" Naruto waved at her with the fox like grin he always wore.

"Oh uh hi Naruto I was just here to discuss the duels with Kakashi." Sakura rambled nervously as Naruto stared at her. She could have been wrong but she swore she saw a bit of amusement in his eyes. Before he could say anything else Sasuke walked out of Kakashi's apartment and grabbed Naruto's arm.

"Let's go Dobe."

"Hey Teme, let go!" At seeing no way out of Sasuke's grip as he pulled Naruto forcefully away Naruto waved goodbye to Sakura. Sakura waved goodbye with a confused look on her face as random things flew through her brain. She was brought out of her thoughts as she heard a sigh behind her.

"I thought they were going to kill me." Sakura heard an exhausted voice say from behind her. She turned around to see Kakashi leaning against the doorframe for support. She let bursts of laughter exit her lips as she pieced together what just happened.

"They just gave you the best friend speech didn't they?" Sakura managed to ask through fits of laughter. At the sigh Kakashi let exit his mouth she started laughing even harder.

**Kakashi's POV **

He had been minding his own business as he got back from work only an hour ago. It wasn't an exhausting day, Tsunade was actually to busy with whatever noisy thing she was doing inside her locked office to give anyone missions today so he had just ended up organizing his office. A habit he had picked up from Sakura. Then he got back to his now shared apartment at five and was content in sitting on his couch and reading. Though the world seemed to hate him because just as he started to settle down on his couch he had heard a rather loud knocking at his door. Sighing he set down his book and walked over to the door. Once he barely had it open an orange blur made it's way into his house and sat on his spot on the couch. A slightly ticked Uchiha following his best friend and taking a seat on the other end of the couch. Kakashi quirked an eyebrow and closed his door walking over to the boys and sitting in a seat he pulled up.

"Can I help you?" Kakashi asked as he sat in front of the tv facing the two slightly angry men.

"One thing Kakashi." Naruto began which surprised Kakashi at the fact that he left out sensei or any form of formality. " I am a bit angry that she's dating an old pervert." Kakashi flinched slightly at this, he wasn't old... "But we have known you since we were genin.."

"What the dobe means is that if you hurt her.." Sasuke needn't say more as his Sharingan spun dangerously telling Kakashi exactly what would happen if he somehow hurt Sakura. Kakashi tried to hold back a gulp as Naruto's eyes practically turned red warning him of the same thing. The thing that came out of Naruto's uncharacteristically intimidating and slightly sophisticated mouth almost made him want to run and hide. Naruto looked at Kakashi creasing his eyes at him and smiling.

"So in other words, hurt her and we will make sure your life is turned into a living hell, sensei or not." Naruto stated with venom in each word despite the smile that was plastered onto his face. Kakashi gulped and nodded signifying that he would make sure that never happened. "Glad we are on the same page, sensei." Naruto got up from the couch and walked toward the door swinging it open.

**Everyone's POV**

"Aww who knew Sasuke had a caring bone in his body." Sakura cooed as Kakashi ended his short recap of what he had been through.

"I swear, Naruto was the scariest out of the two, which worries me greatly." Kakashi buried his head in his arms which he had resting on the kitchen table he was sitting at. "I think he might have inherited it from you and Sasuke." Kakashi mumbled in his arms.

"Aww is the great copy cat ninja hurt." Kakashi looked up at her with a teary eye and nodded cutely. Sakura sat on the table beside him. "Where does it hurt hmm?" She questioned in a sweet voice as she leaned closer to him slightly. Kakashi pointed to his lips under his mask with a pleading eye. Sakura let a small smile grace her face as she leaned closer to him. One hand pulling his headband off and the other gently pulling down his mask. She put her hand on his cheek as he put his on the back of her neck slightly urging her forward until they crushed the distance between each other with a soft kiss. They both simultaneously groaned as they were forced to break apart by the sound of a doorbell.

"I just can't get a break today." Kakashi groaned as he put a hand over his face.

"Why dont you wait till tonight to say something like that." He looked up at Sakura raising a brow. Was it just him or has she become just a tad bit more confident? Kakashi quickly put his headband back on and lifted up his mask as Sakura walked over to the door.

"Oh hey Temari, you came a bit earlier than I expected."

"Oh sorry was I interrupting something?" Temari asked with a wink as she stepped through the door.

"Where's Gaara and Kankuro?" Sakura asked ignoring Temari's question.

"They aren't coming till later." Temari looked around the apartment and walked into the kitchen turning toward the dining room, she practically dislocated her jaw at how much it dropped. "You, you're the one Sakura's dating?!" Temari questioned/shouted.

"You told her?" Kakashi asked frantically.

"No, not directly anyway, I said I would tell her to meet me at my boyfriend's apartment later and I gave her the address, and here we are." Sakura shrugged as she walked to the dining room table and sat down next to Kakashi.

"Sakura, really this old pervert?" Kakashi looked offended as he turned to the table again burying his face in his arms while mumbling something about not being old. "He's like what sixteen years older than you?" Kakashi groaned in protest again but did nothing else.

"Actually only nine years older than me, besides it's my choice." Sakura said bluntly with a bit of anger in her tone. With someone like Temari you didnt have sugar coat anything, she wouldn't get offended like Ino would. Temari smirked and leaned against the wall as she looked at Sakura.

"Guess you're right, but if he gives you any problems come to me." Temari pointed at herself with her thumb as a fox like grin placed itself on her face.

"Oh dont worry Sasuke and Naruto already threatened him not to long ago."

"I love how you're talking about me like I'm not here." Kakashi mumbled, which the girls ignored. They spent an hour in the living room talking to each other as they watched a movie. Sakura was halfway sitting on Kakashi's lap on the couch and Temari was sitting beside Sakura. Kakashi had to admit, Temari tended to bring out the sarcasm in everyone. During the entire horror movie Sakura and Temari had made fun of everything. Ranging from the ridiculous screams of the actors to the fake blood when someone was killed. Though it was more entertaining this way Kakashi just wished to have one night alone with Sakura without having to do something in the morning, tonight just happened to be a night where both her and Kakashi were free the next day. The doorbell rang and Kakashi being seriously bored of this movie pushed Sakura off of him slightly and got up to get the door. He opened the door to see Gaara and Kankuro practically glaring at him.

"Hey, Temari said you guys would be coming," Kakashi moved to let them in and they both walked passed him wearing identical expressions of surprise. (Well however surprised Gaara can look...) Kankuro looked at Temari with an 'Are-you-serious.' expression, which Temari nodded at. "Does anyone want to change the movie since we have newcomers and this movie was really boring?" Kakashi suggested and Sakura stood up to go get a movie from his surprisingly extensive shelf of movies. She rummaged through them for a minute then pulled out a movie.

"What about this one it's called "Road To Ninja." looks interesting.." Sakura pondered.

"Nah, I'm pretty sure all of us no what the road to being a ninja is like," Temari noted with a bored look as she twisted around on the couch to put her feet up on Kakashi's lap so she could lay down. Kakashi's eye twitched at the feet now residing on his lap but other than that he chose to ignore it.

"Okay I think I found a good one." Sakura walked over to the DVD player and took out the previous disk and put the one she was holding in. Temari held out her hand for the case to look at the movie she chose. She looked at the case with raised brows the looked at Kakashi.

"You have the new Poltergeist... Thats not even out of theaters yet." Kakashi shrugged as Sakura moved Temari feet so she could sit down next to Kakashi, then dropped them again as she sat. As the movie went on they all got slightly bored and began to do other things while they watched the horror movie. Temari ended up going to the store and coming back with Sake toward the beginning of the movie. She had the great Idea to buy a ton of Sake so that whenever something relatively scary happened in the movie, they would all have to take a drink. Needless to say Kankuro was the first one to go down, he ended up sleeping on the floor. Then went down Kakashi toward the end of the movie. Then when it was just Gaara, Sakura and Temari left and not really anymore scary parts of the movie during the last twenty minutes. They decided to drink every time the secondary character was mentioned or came on screen. That ended up happening quite a lot, toward the credits it was only Sakura and Temari left. The decided to not end in a tie so every time the director was mentioned in the credits they decided to drink. Sadly that only happened a few time so when the movie ended they just counted drinks as the kept drinking and whatever one was standing by the end of it was the winner. Surprisingly by the time Sakura passed out making Temari the winner there was only one bottle of Sake out of the sixteen they had bought. Temari ended up trying to do a victory dance but ended up falling to the ground and passing out like the rest of them. Needless to say they all woke up with killer hangovers and an agreement to never talk about the night they all drank themselves to sleep.

A week later and Sakura was officially pumped up for her spar with the boys. However that was until Tsunade decided that she could make a bit of money off of it as well as get a little revenge from Sakura. So here was Sakura in Tsunade's office with all of Konoha's twelve staring at a poster that she wanted to shred with her teeth. Tsunade had called all of them there to tell them (not ask them) that they were going to be 'performing' in duels that would serve to promote the next chunnin exams as well as the leafs strength.

"So here is how it works, each team is going to fight each other one-on-one, First will be Team Gai starting with:

Neji vs. Tenten

Winner vs. Lee

This will be the first cell,

Second cell is Team Asuma:

Ino vs. Choji

Winner vs. Shikamaru

Third cell Team Kurenai:

Shino vs Hinata

Winner vs. Kiba

Fourth cell Team Kakashi: Since you once had another member we will bring him back because he was still technically a part of your team" Sakura Brightened at this, she would finally see Sai after two years of only sending letters back and forth.

"Sasuke vs. Sai

Sakura vs. Winner

Winner vs. Naruto

The winner of each cell will then have a two days to rest up from injuries and such Then after the two days they will fight with the other opponents in a free for all battle." Tsunade stopped talking and let her words sink in.

"Tsunade, are you crazy if any of us fight in an arena, especially Naruto and Sasuke, it will be destroyed."

"I have already taken the necessary precautions to make sure none of the audience is hurt. Also since all of you have made quite the names for your selves in these past years we will be sure to have quite the audience I have already announced the tournament and have gotten agreement from most of the villages saying that their people will attend, we will be using the arena we use for the jounin exams since it is much bigger and more sturdy than the one we used for your chunin exam, does anyone have any problems with this?" If their Hokage was any other person they would have rebuked but seeing as none of them had death wishes they decided to stay quiet. Once everyone except Sakura and tsunade left the office Sakura finally snapped, and though Tsunade's temper wasn't one to be trifled with neither was Sakura's. Sakura took a deep breath and in the calmest voice she was able to muster she let her words fall where they may.

"You're kidding me right, because if this is some ridiculous way to get revenge then I will make sure no one comes to the fights."

"Sakura its not just for revenge, it is a good way to promote the chunin exams as well as our villages strength. With the Akatsuki being resurrected there's no telling what they will do, if all of you do well enough in the fights rumors of the villages strength will get around and with enough luck we will have the Akatsuki on the run." Sakura and Tsunade had a staring contest for about five minutes before Sakura broke it off with a sigh.

"Fine... as long as this plan of yours might actually work." Tsunade let a small smile go to her face as Sakura turned around to leave her office. Sakura walked out of her office and decided to go train a bit before the matches in three days.

"_I really hope she knows what she's doing." _Sakura thought with a sigh as she headed off to her personal training grounds. Those three days for Sakura were a bit hard, she stuck completely to training. She would get up at four am and go through her daily routine of taking a shower, brushing her teeth, getting dressed and eating. Then heading to the training ground and grabbing whatever poor soul she could to train with her. They did however seem to go by rather fast despite the many things she was doing. The training however seemed to pay off, not only did she feel physically ready for the fights but she felt confident enough as well. Sakura, Naruto, Sai and Sasuke were going to meet an hour before the matches and have a team lunch.

Sakura rummaged around in her still packed bags which were scattered on the floor in Kakashi's room. She was sitting on the ground in his room ripping one thing after another out of her bags looking for a certain scroll. She was about to give up when she saw a sliver of what looked like paper under a pile of weapons in her traveling pack. Sakura dumped the bag out and inspected the scroll making sure it was the right one. Once she found it was she let a smile go to her lips. Sakura strapped the scroll to her waist where a she had her pouch and three other scrolls. Her pouch was on her right hip and she now had four scrolls strapped vertically on a small black belt. She wore a red mesh shirt with a fishnet undershirt and tight black training shorts. She donned on a pair of crimson colored boots and strapped two twin daggers near her lower back. The daggers were in their sheaths crisscrossing each other making it easier to take them out.

Sakura tied her Hitai-ate on her forehead and tilted it toward her left eye a little bit as a joke. After clearing some of the mess she made on the ground she walked over to the mirror in Kakashi's room. The smile on her face widened as she looked at her appearance. She looked like a Shinobi. '_I remember when I was still a genin all I thought about was looking cute for Sasuke, I never really had the drive to become a Shinobi until I realized I was being left behind. Even then I never had the confidence to try and achieve higher things than I already had. Until Kakashi convinced me to dream bigger, to believe in myself. Kakashi made this happen, he gave me this opportunity. I wont let you down Kakashi, I'll prove to everyone I am not the weak little girl I used to be." _Sakura looked at her reflection with determination. She nodded and rechecked to make sure she had everything she needed before heading out the door to meet her old team. Sakura walked through town with confidence and fire blazing in her eyes. She was ready to prove herself, she was ready to try and win. She knew her team was probably stronger than her but she at least had to try.

She let a large grin grace her face as the thought of winning entered her mind. She walked passed the training grounds toward Ichiraku to meet up with everyone when something near the forest of Team sevens training ground caught her eye. Any other ninja would have missed the head of blonde hair but after so many missions with him Sakura had learned to spot it anywhere. So Sakura being the curious little Kunoichi she was walked silently towards the edge of the forest. Though what she saw when she got there she definitely wasn't prepared for. She wasn't sure if she wanted to laugh or squeal. Though she ended up doing a mix of both and it just came out sounding like a high pitched girly scream. Which in turn ended up breaking the two people at the edge of the forest out of their concentration of sucking each others faces. They both quickly separated from each other as Sakura sat on the ground clutching her stomach from laughing so hard. They both looked slightly panicked but really mostly annoyed at getting interrupted. Though they stood waiting for Sakura to get her breath back so they could talk to her. So after about five more minutes of being on the ground not being able to breath Sakura stood up and tried regaining her voice.

She looked between the two people, one looking panicked and sheepish and the other looking slightly embarrassed and annoyed. Then finally she let a large smile form on her face and set her hands on her hips.

"I knew it, after the first time you just couldn't get enough of each other could you?" One rolled their eyes and the other groaned.

"Sakura-chan please don't tell anyone, we wanted to keep it a secret until we were ready."

"Don't worry, I wont tell anyone but you might want to find a better place to suck face, maybe Sasuke's house for instance." Sakura suggested.

"Thats what I said but he never lets me come to his house." Naruto pouted.

"If you came to my house all the time people would suspect something, Dobe." Sasuke sighed as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"Why don't you guys just come out with it then?" Sakura questioned with a small smile.

"We will come out with it when you come out to everyone in the village about Kakashi." Sakura's smile faltered for a second but came back ten fold.

"It's a deal then, when I come out about Kakashi and I to the whole village, you and Naruto will have to do the same." Sasuke scowled but nonetheless shook Sakura's outstretched hand.

"Fine, it's a deal." That is the start of how all hell broke loose in the village, but that's beside the point. Sakura again smiled at Sasuke then took both her boys by their arms and started leading the way to the meeting place. After walking past the rest of the training grounds they made it into town and walked toward Ichiraku. Sakura was practically skipping, not only did her two best friends get into a relationship but she got to see another one of her best friends who she hadn't seen in two years. Once she saw Ichiraku she let go of Sasuke and Naruto and ran toward the stand. She pushed aside the curtain and her smile widened at the pale boy sitting on one of the stools. Sai looked up from the book he had in his hand with his fake smile present on his face. Before he knew it he had a Pinkette tackling him and making him almost fall out of his chair.

"I missed you so much Sai!" Sakura said, her arms wrapped around his neck.

"Hello Sakura." Sai's smiled warmed but still looked a bit fake.

"How have you been Sai." Sakura let go of him and pulled up a chair next to him as Sasuke and Naruto sat in the two stools next to her.

"Busy, how are you and scarecrow." Sai waved slightly at Naruto and Sasuke as he turned toward Sakura.

"Good, we sort of moved in together." Sakura smiled sheepishly at the memory.

"Wait a minute, you told Sai before you told us?" Sakura turned around and looked at Naruto's hurt face.

"Well I figured because Sasuke is Sasuke he would just kind of figure it out and then tell you, I didn't think I had to." Naruto slumped in his seat as a sigh exited his lips.

"Don't worry dickless, Sakura just trusts me more than she trusts you." Before Naruto could lunge at Sai Sakura pushed him back in his seat.

"Never mind that, Sai you told me in your last letter that when you stayed in Suna for a week you met a girl, you never did tell me what her name was."

"Her name was Matsuri." Sai looked down slightly with a blush on his cheeks.

"Oh I know her, she's a Jounin that used to be a student of Gaara's, she's cute too, I'm so happy for you Sai." Sai smiled at her with red stained cheeks.

"Sorry for the wait guys, I had to run to the store to get a few more ingredients so I let Sai here watch the stall." Naruto Brightened as Ayame walked in through the back door and started to prepare everything to cook.

"Where's the old man?" Naruto asked as he propped his head up on his hands.

"He's currently in Suna buying a few things for a new Item we are making for the menu, anyway what will you four be having?"

"One Miso ramen and a tomato ramen." Sakura smiled at the realization that Naruto just ordered for Sasuke.

"I'll take a Miso ramen as well, what do you want Sai?" Sakura asked with a warm smile.

"Kurume Ramen please," Sai said politely as he went back to his reading.

"Alright then I'll get those done for you." Ayame rolled up her sleeves and began cooking. Once they started eating Kakashi showed up and grabbed the stool next to Sai and placed it in between her and Naruto. Sakura blushed a little when he scooted in between them so he had enough room for his own order at the table. Kakashi was pretty much shoulder to shoulder with her and Naruto. Kakashi order some Sake and a thing of Miso ramen. Once the Sake came he took six small cups and poured Sake into each.

"Where's Yamato, Kakashi?" Sakura asked noticing that he took out six cups instead of five.

"Coming." Kakashi said creasing his eyes a little. Kakashi grabbed her hand under the table and intertwined their fingers making Sakura blush and slightly panic and the thought of someone seeing them. Kakashi usually wouldn't take such risks but then she realized that Kakashi knew Naruto, Sai and Sasuke already knew they were dating and she assumed that since Yamato was Kakashi's friend he would have probably already found out. Sakura heard footsteps coming toward Ichiraku and her and Kakashi reluctantly let go of each other's hand at recognizing the chakra signatures.

"Sasuke!" They heard a squeal but Sasuke was too late to dodge the girl that latched to his arm. Sasuke tried to pry her off of him as Naruto had a hard time holding himself back of yelling at the girl.

"Pig, why don't you take a hint already he doesn't like you." Sakura said a bit amused at the look on Sasuke's face.

"Whatever forehead you probably just want him all to yourself." Ino stuck her tongue out at Sakura as she clinged even more to Sasuke.

"Actually I was just trying to protect a boy who's like a brother to me from you pig, and I already have a boyfriend the thought of dating Sasuke kind of makes me want to puke actually, no offence." Sakura said as she sipped her Sake with a small smile. Then realizing that she just told Ino, her best friend that she had a boyfriend she almost choked on her drink. She looked at Ino to see her frozen in place with killing intent practically pouring out of her.

"You have a boyfriend, and you didn't tell me?" Ino asked with a sickly sweet voice that sent shivers down everyone's spine. Sakura set her drink down and gulped as Ino walked toward her.

"What who said I had a boyfriend, you must be hearing things Pig." Sakura said with a nervous laugh as she tried to back up a little. Kakashi let a sigh escape his lips, he took a quick look around to make sure no one else outside of the stall was paying attention. He then got off of his stool and put his hand on the back of Sakura's neck and pulled her in for a kiss. Ino's previous rage died as she stared in shock at the two people kissing in front of her. Then Kakashi broke the kiss pulled up his mask so no one could see his face and sat back down on his stool and began drinking his sake like nothing just happened. Sakura was beet red as she realized what just happened and turned a little toward Ino to see if what just happened actually happened. When she turned toward Ino she almost cringed, there were hearts in the girl's eyes.

"Oh my kami, Sakura why didn't you tell me that was so cute." Ino squealed as she hugged Sakura tightly and jumped up and down in excitement.

"So you're not mad?" Sakura questioned hoping the answer was no.

"Oh don't get me wrong forehead, I'm still going to torture you for not telling me right away but other than that I'm really happy for you, though I need to talk to Kakashi-san real quick." Ino said with an evil glint in her eye as Kakashi sighed.

"Don't worry Ino... Naruto and Sasuke already did." Ino looked at the boys then back to Kakashi.

"Then I'll make this quick, hurt her Hatake and I will find you and SKIN you." All of the boys looked at Ino with surprise as she pointed her finger at Kakashi. Sakura burst out laughing and Ino smirked.

"Did you just quote Sherlock to threaten my boyfriend?" Sakura asked after she was done laughing.

"Technically it was Moriarty but yes I did." Ino smiled at Sakura confidently.

"Ah now I remember why we are friends," Sakura said with a smile as she put her arm on Ino's shoulder. Ino jabbed her in the side with her elbow.

"If that's the only reason then something must be wrong with us." Ino laughed and put her arm around Sakura's shoulders as well.

"Did I miss something?" They all turned around as Yamato entered the stand.

"Hey Yamato-sensei it's great to see you." Sakura smiled and got up to hug Yamato. Yamato smiled and hugged her back. Sakura let go of him and motioned toward the last stool in the place as she let Ino take her's. "Not much really just catching up with the team, how has everything back in ANBU been?" Sakura asked as she stood near Kakashi and leaned against the bar.

"Good, though it's been a bit crazy with the Akatsuki incident that I'm sure you all have heard about." They all acknowledged his statement in their own ways. Sasuke giving his signature 'hn.', Kakashi seemingly completely ignoring him, Naruto looking at him with a clenched jaw at the mention of the akatsuki, sai faltering a bit with his fake smile and Sakura and Ino nodding grimly.

"Enough of this talk you guys are supposed to be having a reunion not having a pity party." Ayame set down Yamato's bowl without him having to order and then set out a small bottle of sake next to each bowl. Sakura and Naruto smiled and began talking and eating and drinking. Their conversation had the others joining in when it changed to something else and soon enough the others were having a good time as well. This lasted for an hour or so until Yamato told everyone that the competition would be starting soon. though it had been an hour of drinking for Naruto and Sakura so they were both a bit tipsy, Naruto more than Sakura because she was used to it.

They both stumbled and laughed as they walked toward the arena, Kakashi standing close to Sakura just in case she tripped and fell. Once they made it to the Jounin arena and heard many people talking from up in the crowd the silly mood went away. Ino said goodbye as she went to get ready for her match and team seven went to get ready for their own. Even though they were last they still had to make an appearance in the beginning to show the crowd who would be participating. Sakura went into the dressing room and straightened herself out as she proudly adjusted her headband to show off her village's symbol. She walked out and walked up to Naruto and placed her hand on his head pushing chakra through to take away the tipsiness.

"Thanks Sakura-chan." Naruto beamed at her and gave her a hug. Sakura smiled warmly and patted his head after she hugged him back.

"What happened to the short blonde dope that I used to know?" She asked with a grin as she reached up and ruffled his hair. "You are way taller than me now, you're even a bit taller than Sasuke." A huge grin went to Naruto's face as those words left Sakura's mouth.

"See I told you Teme." Naruto exclaimed as he leaned his elbow on Sakura's shoulder. Sasuke ignored him as he slipped on a more comfortable shirt for sparing.

"Tch, Dobe." Then the argument started -.-.

**(Time skip, purely because you guys wanted more KakaSaku.)**

Team sevens match was next and Sakura sat in her seat anxiously awaiting the announcement. The first team's fight was so evenly matched that each of them only won by and Inch. Nej beat Ten-Ten and Lee ended up beating Neji but each of them were a bit worse for wears because of it. The next match was close as well but Shikamaru ended up winning with Ino beating Choji in the first round. Then the third team to compete was Kurenai's team with Hinata coming out on top in the end. Now it was Team seven's turn to face each other, Sasuke and Sai would fight and Naruto and Sakura would watch from the stands until it was their turn. Once the two boys entered the arena going on different sides the air seemed to thicken. It was definitely no secret that Sai and Sasuke did not like each other. They looked like they really wanted to kill each other this round Sasuke more so than Sai.

Sakura sighed and looked at the watch on her wrist. She had no idea how long this fight was going to take and she was slightly bouncing in her seat. She was nervous as all hell, though who wouldn't be when you're going to have to fight people who are such monsters on the battlefield. As soon as the match was called to start the arena was chaos. Sai immediately went for his paints and ran his brush across paper at incredible speeds summoning all kinds of beasts. Sasuke ran toward him cutting down the beasts as he went with his katana. He jumped into the air and used a fire jutsu to decimate the battlefield. Sakura had seen this fight too many times to be surprised by who would win. Even though both of them had gotten stronger since their spars together Sakura could see their moves enough and calculate who would come out on top. She was often able to do that, the only person she couldn't do that to was Naruto. Sakura glanced at him from the corner of her eye to see him practically jumping in his seat with excitement. "_He always seemed to defy the odds." _

Sakura looked back at the fight that seemed to stretch on for a while. Though it appeared that the audience was never getting tired of it. Sasuke would lunge forward with speed almost impossible to see for the untrained eye and Sai's ink creations would take the blow before Sasuke could touch him. It was a straight back and forth but looking at the speed Sasuke cut through Sai's creations it was obvious to her who would win. Though neither of them would come out unscathed. There would be an hour break with the best healers working on the winner and bringing him back like he never even fought the first fight. Seems like they did stick to the saying of saving the best for last. After so many years of Naruto going on missions and completing them brilliantly many people had come to respect him. Not only as a fighter but a person, though they did realize he was probably the best fighter in Konoha along with Sasuke and of course Kakashi.

He protected the village so many times that even though many people know about the Akatsuki being resurrected none of the civilians seemed frightened. Most of them seemed rather at ease and looked up to Naruto to protect them. Sakura remembered the first time a child came up to him and thanked him and he was afraid their parents would get mad at the kid for speaking to him. Then the parents came up and thanked him with tears in their eyes after the first attack on Konoha. She remembered Naruto coming up to her with tears in his eyes and crying while telling her about it. He was so overjoyed that he could make a difference in someone's life, that he could save someone.

Sakura smiled at the memories that were surfacing, she couldn't believe how much her best friends had grown through the years. It seemed like yesterday that they were twelve year old's with so many dreams and ambitions. Naruto wanting to be Hokage, Sasuke wanting revenge on his brother, Sakura wanting to marry Sasuke. Looking at where they were now almost made Sakura laugh. Even though Naruto still wanted to become Hokage and was very close to that dream. Sasuke no longer sought revenge for his clans death's not against his brother at least. He seemed to not want to restore his clan in the traditional sense either since he was currently dating a guy. Sakura no longer went after Sasuke with every waking breath. She was now in a relationship with her past sensei and she loved him from the bottom of her heart.

Sakura was brought out of her musings by Naruto yelling and cheering and the crowd yelling even louder than before. She looked down into the stadium to see chunks of earth out of the ground and dust covering half of the arena. She must have been lost in thought a lot longer than she thought because the fight was now over. Sasuke was standing victoriously with a smirk on his face while a beat up Sai laid on the ground with his eyes closed as he tried to get his bearings back. Sakura and Naruto both looked at each other when they saw Sasuke falter while standing and they both shunshinned to the Arena. Naruto catching Sasuke before he could fall and putting his arm around his waist to keep him up and Sakura helping Sai to his feet. Naruto and Sakura both started dragging the two boys toward the medical area so they could be healed while the crowd cheered or discussed the fight.

"Yo, good fight." Kakashi appeared next to Sakura and Sai once they were inside the medical area.

"Yeah but they were both idiots about it." Sakura sighed while setting Sai on the bed. "Honestly don't you two learn anything from your fights?" She asked and after seeing the two boys lost looks she sighed again. "Sai you're close contact fighting needs more work and you should try using your katana more and maybe get used to one handed painting and doing it on your body so you can fight while painting giving you a better advantage and Sasuke you need a different weapon, something that will go for offensive and defensive as well as give you length if you want to gain more ground quicker during your fights, try a chain sickle, it gives you the length and you can apply more strength on it then you could a katana and let's be honest your a beast when you apply all your muscle to something." Sakura finished her speech and began to heal Sai while the boys began contemplating her words. Taking her words into account would be a good thing, Sakura was after one of the best strategists in Konoha almost rivaling Shikamaru. Though if Shikamaru and her were to be honest, in a fight against each other, he would win.

In a matter of minutes Sakura had healed all of Sai's wounds and moved over to Sasuke. She was told that the best healers would be working on the winners and seeing no one else moving to help she decided that when Tsunade had explained that she really meant her. She was a little winded after she had healed both of them back to normal and her chakra supply was a little above half now because of their extensive set of wounds that she decided to sit down and rest. She had a little bit under an hour until she fought Sasuke and she knew that she needed all of her strength for that. Kakashi sat down next to her on the spare bed she had taken to relax on. Out of instinct Sakura leaned into Kakashi and rested her head on his shoulder and slightly skimmed the page of the book he was reading. They would sometimes do that for hours at his house. They would sit on the couch and he would read as she rested against him as they sat in their comfortable silence.

Sakura only looked up when she heard Sasuke clear his throat. She almost sweat dropped at what she saw when she looked at Naruto. He was looking at them with stars in his eyes as he tried to control his grin, and as was Ino as she walked through the door.

"Oh you two look so cute~" Ino squealed and started fangirling to Naruto about it. Sakura locked eyes with Shikamaru as he and Choji walked in and he glanced at Kakashi but continued walking over to the boys. Sakura had always had the sneaking suspicion that Shikamaru knew from the moment that Kakashi and he had gotten together. He just gave her these bored looks every time she was caught next to a puff of smoke or if she jumped slightly while walking somewhere and Kakashi had walked by. Sakura however was too tired of hiding the fact that they were in a relationship to actually move her head off of Kakashi's shoulder when Choji gave her a questioning look.

The hour went by much slower than Sakura would have liked with Ino fawning over Sasuke and how cute her and Kakashi were. Though the last ten minutes were certainly interesting. Especially when the other teams came in and the only one to not question why her and Kakashi were holding hands and leaning against each other was Genma. Who interestingly enough had already known and for once had not been the big gossiper he always was. Sometimes Genma could be worse than Ino, and that was saying something. Kurenai was actually really excited when she found out though Kiba was slightly weirded out by it. He almost gagged when right before they all left Kakashi kissed Sakura on the cheek. Sakura smiled warmly at everyone's acceptance of their relationship and stayed with Kakashi for a few more moments until there was about one minutes until her fight.

She certainly felt a lot more rejuvenated and excited then she did before. Before she could leave however Kakashi stopped her and started digging in his pouch for something. He took out a pair of nice leather black gloves and handed them to her.

"Good luck Sakura." He leaned in and kissed her making warmth go through her entire body as she kissed him back.

"Thank you Kakashi." Sakura switched her gloves and put the leather ones on to get a feel of how they fit before her fight. "Hopefully I won't lose by too much." She said with a smile and flinched and pouted as she was flicked on the forehead.

"I'm getting a little tired of you speaking like that about yourself, you'll do fine." He said kissing the spot on her forehead that he flicked. "Though your fight should start soon so you should go, I'll be watching from the stands." Kakashi pointed up and disappeared leaving Sakura to her thoughts. Sakura stood up and took a few breaths before she walked toward the exit of the medical center which lead right into the arena. Taking one last breath she adjusted her gloves and walked forward out of the concrete hallway and into the brightness of the arena. She could do this, she knew she could. With Kakashi to back her and believe in her so much, there was nothing that could stop her.


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