Ages of Love.

Chapter 1. +~A single Day of Memory~+

Playfully I sat down and rolled my fingers over the dry, soft yet shimmering sand. The waters of the sea leaned a soothing sound to my ear, as I could feel my toes of my left foot becoming wet. I turned my head because of the tingeling. My pink, long wavy hair got caught by the wind, flowing gracefully.

The trees were dancing quite shyly in some way. In this time of summer they seemed to match my green eyes very precisely.

Suddenly steps were coming closer from behind. I didn't really bother, so I just continued to shape something in the sand. Then a voice was heard. Someone wanted to speak to me.

"hey, little girl," a man said, standing behind me. His voice sounded quite dark and a bit fading. I recognized it and turned my head halfway to look at him. He had a black mask over his mouth and left eye. He smiled under that mask towards me. "I see you're alone. Where are your parents?"

Typical adults, I thought to myself and looked down at the sand again. They never let me be. I was tired of my parents always pushing me around all the time and telling me what to do, and now this guy? Wouldn't surprise me if they sent him to look after me. I've heard rumours of this one after all.

"home…" I mumbled.

The man then walked over to me and sat down in the sand in front of me. "If you want it to look like a castle then do it this way" he started drawing in the sand with his fingers. He was fast, and the picture became stunning. In the meanwhile he was humming in such a sweet melody that it made my eyes look up at him. It sounded sad, yet just too beautiful to be true. But didn't I know this melody? It felt so familiar.

Suddenly, he stopped… and I had found myself paralyzed for a moment because of the abrupt ending of the song.

"there," he said. I looked down and saw such a fantastic royal castle of mystics. Wow, I thought so happily I almost screamed it out loud.

"how did you do that?"

"hm? I just showed you."

A silence occurred, and I felt a bit stupid for a moment. Oh yeah, his humming made me completely distracted. And now he was laughing.

"You will have to work on your concentration if you're gonna be my student."

"student?" I said, a bit surprised. Then I knew. "so you're kakashi?"

He nodded. "I'll be your teacher soon. How old are you?"

"eleven."

"ah, then just one more year to go."

"you must be sooo old, I mean just look at your hair it's white!"

~animefall~ Kakashi just fell to the ground because of a horrible comment. I just stared at him, and was wondering what was wrong.

"you don't look so old in your skin though." I continued carefully. He let out a big sigh, but smiled. "that's because I'm 22."

"oh…"

Kakashi laid there, and closed his eyes, enjoying the warmth of the sun in the sand. I thought he looked kind of funny with that mask.

"why do you have so much cloth in your face?"

He didn't seem to wanna answer me so I was close to ask again, but then he just replied shortly. "Even someone like me has secrets."

"I wanna know." I crept closer and was going to touch the mask when a deadly and fast move went invisible before my eyes as I felt a strong grip around my wrist. Kakashi was sitting up, and his eyes were serious, staring into mine. Startled I didn't know what to say.

Then he turned normal again with a smile.

"Careful, Sakura. Don't ever do that unless I give you my permission." It took awhile before he let go of my wrist. Then he innocently put his arm behind his head, scratching it with a small grin. I thought it was really scary how his mood could change in such an instant. I stood up.

"I think I should go now... thanks for helping with the castle... bye." I started running.

Kakashi looked up at the blue sky. Then he let his eyes watch me run until I wasn't in a range of sight anymore. Even though it was too late, he waved his hand ridiculously…

On my way home through the forests the wind catched up so the leaves were falling. My hair got in my face so I had to stop running and put the hair backwards again. When I could see clearly again a soft pink flower, a bit rose-like was laying in the green grass a step away from me. Huh? There are no sakura trees around here…

At home I got scolded by mother for being out too long. She told me father would have to make a serious conversation with me again. I just sighed and had to excuse myself.

Meanwhile mother was making dinner I took the sakura flower and put it in a wase of water. I put it on the table. It was beautiful when the late and red sunlight was shining through the window against it. Out of the blue my lips were humming on a sweet melody.

My mother turned around surprised.

"so you've heard your song?"

I stopped and looked at her, pretty confused. "what do you mean "my song"?".

"that song is very well known. It's name is Sakura. Your name."

In deep silence I stared at her, very surprised.

Kakashi was singing that song…

Hopeful I ran with the flower in my hands. The white dress I was dressed by was flowing wildly like my pink hair. Desperately I found a teacher named Iruka. I knew him well and asked him about Kakashi, where he is. Iruka pointed with his thumb. "the meadow," he answered.

I continued running, while really trying to catch my breath and hold on so I wouldn't stop running until I reached my destination. The sun was on it's way down, but I knew I'd make it in time.

I spotted a figure with spiky white-silvery hair dressed in dark clothes. The wind was blowing so the meadow was flowing soothingly in gold. I stood still and kakashi could hear my strong breathing. He turned around, looking at me who was completely devastated because of my effort of coming here.

Soon, I straightend up, looking at him with my green eyes who were shimmering by the light. There was not a sound from Kakashi. He didn't say anything at all. He was only waiting to see what my reason could be.

"I… I wanted you to have this!" I said fast and held up the Sakura flower. Kakashi let his eyes watch upon it. I don't why, but his silence made me quite nervous. I took a deep breath. "Thank you for singing my song." A smile was shown on my lips. Kakashi studied my face, and very soon he was smiling too with all of his heart. He let his hand touch the flower, still holding it there, we were both touching each others fingers. His skin was warm… I thought they'd be cold because of his cold colour in his eyes.

Instead mine were cold like ice.

And he continued smiling…