KakaSaku: Chapter 2

Kakashi woke up to the sound of birds chirping outside his window. He turned over and looked at his clock – 5:15 A.M.

"God damned birds..." he said to himself. Then, he shifted his thoughts to what had happened the other night. He hoped Sakura was ok...Maybe he should try to do something nice for her today.

Kakashi, realizing he wasn't much of a 'do-something-nice-for-someone-out-of-the-blue' kind of person, so he had his hands tied.

"Hmm..." he thought aloud, "maybe I'll go ask her if she wants any help with training. Perhaps it'll take her mind off things." The lean 28 year old pulled the covers off, revealing his only clothing – blue and navy pajama pants.

After taking up his daily morning routine, he put on his Jounin vest and was on his way to find Sakura.

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Sakura groaned at the frantic buzzing of her alarm clock, and slapped it to shut up.

"What? I did NOT set my alarm for 5:30! Ugh!" she said to herself. She wiped the dried tears under her eyes – she had cried herself to sleep again. Sakura desperately wished she could beat the crap out of Sasuke; but a part of her still had feelings for him.

The kunoichi picked herself up of the bed, and hopped into the shower and went through her regular morning regiment –but slower than usual. By quarter after six, she went out the doors of her cramped apartment and off to find something to do.

While she was walking down the street, she decided she would go get some ramen – maybe Naruto would be there, and maybe she could talk to him. If she felt up to it that is. As she turned the corner, Sakura heard someone frantically screaming her name. Oh god, no, PLEASE no! She screamed in her head. The pink haired beauty could've run; but she just stood on the spot and squinted waiting for the worst to come.

"SAKURA-SAN!" Lee screamed, shoving his way through the crowd of people in the market. "Sakura," he started, panting heavily, "I was...wondering...if you would like to go out on another-"

"Yo! Sakura!" she heard another familiar voice; this one MUCH more comforting. She whipped her short pink hair around and saw him.

"Sensei!" she shouted, along with a sigh of relief. "Sensei, what are you doing here?"

"Yeah, what are you doing here..." Lee snapped at him. Kakashi was a bit taken aback by Lee's behaviour, but he thought nothing of it.

"Well," the silver haired man started, "I came to ask Sakura if she wanted to go train for a bit." He turned to look at her. "How 'bout it Sakura?"

She couldn't see it, but she could tell that he was smiling under his mask – which usually meant they weren't going to do any training. They were probably just going to lounge around all day, doing absolutely nothing – which was a hell of a lot better than doing absolutely something with Lee.

"But, I was just about to ask Sakura-" Lee got cut off again.

"Yeah, yeah! Let's go Kaka-sensei!" she almost screamed.

"Bye, Lee!" she said, not even turning back to look at him as she walked away with her teacher.

"Later!" Kakashi said, but he at least had the courtesy to wave to Lee.

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"So..." Kakashi said, trying to start up a conversation. "What were you and Lee talking about?"

"Oh," Sakura started, "well I think he was going to ask me out on another date. I am so glad you came though! You're like a knight in shining armour!" she squealed.

Kakashi blushed, and he was grateful for the mask covering his face.

"Another date?" he asked, pretending to be clueless.

"Yeah, another one. Last night Ino invited me to go to a club with her, Shikamaru-" she stopped. "Oops..."

"Tsk tsk Sakura," he said jokingly, "your only seventeen! You shouldn't be going to clubs!"

Sakura looked up at him, with an apologetic look on her face.

"Sakura, I'm kidding." He laughed.

"Oh, haha, I knew that!" she giggled, elbowing him in the stomach.

"Anyways, with her, Shikamaru, Naruto, and Hinata. But I didn't have a date, and Lee walked in. What do you think Ino did?"

"Oh, well, that sucks."

"Yeah."

They walked in silence for a while. Sakura peeked a look up at her teacher; she could see a grin on his face. She wondered why he was grinning, when they got to the training ground.

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"Alright Sakura, what do you want to work on? Tai jutsu? Nin jutsu? Gen jutsu?"

"Hmm...How about Tai jutsu?"

"Sounds good."

Kakashi threw a punch at Sakura that she was not expected, and held it right before it hit her nose. He leaned in and whispered:

"Stay on your toes! That was a close one!"

He jumped back, while Sakura blinked and took everything in. Before she knew it, he was lunging at her again, this time with a kunai in his hand.

She just barely dodged it, and he flew past her. She spun around and before he had time to turn, she was on his back, with a kunai at his throat. She leaned her head over his shoulder, and said:

"Stay on your toes sensei! That was a close one!"

She giggled and leapt back, waiting for his next move.

"Well, your improving a considerable amount since the last time we trained," he reached his hand up and pulled back his headband; revealing his mangeko Sharigan.

"Let's see how you match up to this." He said, smirking underneath his mask.

"No fair!" she yelled, as he ran around her backside, and had a kunai up to her throat again.

"Oh, quit your whining. You could be dead right now."

"You'd never hurt me! I know you wouldn't."

"Is that so?"

"Yep!"

"Alright then," he pressed the kunai into her throat, just enough to draw a single drop of blood.

"Ouch! What the hell!"

"Well, you seemed to be so confident that I would never hurt you – I had to prove you wrong." He stepped back and let her turned around. She put a hand up to her throat, and healed the cut.

Sakura just stared at him.

"If your right all the time, it'll just go to your head." He said. They stared at each other for a while, before they burst out laughing.

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"Well, break time." Kakashi said. He pulled out his favourite book, and sat down against a tree and started reading.

Well, what am I supposed to do? Sakura thought to herself. I know...

She quietly snuck around to the tree where her sensei was reading. He was completely absorbed in his book; making it all easier. Sakura climbed up the tree, and focused her chakra so she could walk down the tree. She ever so carefully reached her hands down...she was going to do it! She was finally going to see under Kakashi's mask! She had her hands right by his mask, and grabbed the sides and yanked down. Or so she thought.

Kakashi dropped his book, and grabbed both of her hands and flipped her over; so she was sitting in between his legs, facing him. His mask hadn't even moved.

"But how did you-"

"Sakura, you really think I didn't notice?"

"You have a valid point."

He laughed, "well, since you seem to be trying to scheme to get my mask off, how about some ramen?"

She grinned. "Yeah! That sounds like fun"

They both got up, and started walking towards town. Lee burst out of the tree's, obviously looking for Sakura. She hid behind her sensei.

"Uhm, Kaka-sensei I'm so sorry, but can we do ramen another time?" her voice a bit shaky.

"Haha, sure Sakura. Meet me by the ramen shop tomorrow, at lunch?"

"You got it!" with that, Sakura poof-ed into nothing.

"Sakura!" Lee yelled. He stopped when he saw Kakashi walking across the field.

"So, did you and Sakura have fun?" he said, a bit ruder than intended.

"Fun? Lee, we were training. Think about that." Kakashi chuckled.

"Think about this!" Lee flew at Kakashi, flailing his hands all over the place, screaming.

W-what the?