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Sakura rolled a stone under her sandal and sighed. He was late again; all the time she had known the copy-nin she could not figer out a way to get him to show up on time. Well maybe a bribe of a new Icha Icha book would work but alas there had not been a new book out for years and there was none coming soon.

The pink haired medic kicked the stone and watched it bounce out though the Konoha gates, late or not she was happy to have a brake from the hospital, and even more so to spend some time with her ex-sensei. After Sasuke left Konoha in search of more power and Naruto left to train with the legendary Sannin, Jiraiya, the two remaining members of Team 7 had become close.

But something had been off for the past week or so; Kakashi had become easily irritated, to the point that he vaulted over a table to nock out a laughing Genma. The other Jounins put it down to too much sake that night and stress from what happened with Sasuke and Naruto, but Sakura knew it was not that. The look that would flash in his visible eye when his anger flared up was new to her.

There was other, smaller stuff that had changed about him that she was sure no others would of picked up, like how he would make sure no one brushed up agents him when in the bar or just out in town, like his skin was tender and the slightest touch would being pain. Or like no matter how irritated he got, she could always calm him just by stepping into his view, the no touching rule did not apply to her either. He had all so become overly protective of her, and openly as well something very unlike the normal stoic and secretive shinobi.

But one thing that had remain constant about him was that…

"You're late." she sighed not turning around.

Kakashi just gave her his happy eye crease "Well you see…"

"Save it Kakashi-sensei!" she huffed.

"Kakashi-kun, Sakura-chan, kun." he smiled at her though his mask, that was also something new, him pushing her to drop the sensei from his name.

"Ok then Kakashi-kun, save your lame excuses we have to get going." she said, crossing her arms over her chest.

With a nod from the silver haired jounin he pulled out his trusty orange book and the two started off on their mission. The mission itself was nothing too hard, delivering a scroll to another group of Konoha ninjas who would meet them in a small town on the edge of the fire country's border, normally it would not call for a jounin like Kakashi, or even a chuunin like Sakura.

But Kakashi had been taking any mission he could get, hoping this sudden short-temped ness would go away. Sakura was asked to join him by Tsunade, who was the only one to note the calming effect the kunoichi had on the copy-nin, was to find out what was wrong with him.

The pink haired medic stretched her arm above her head, enjoying the pleasant weather as she and Kakashi walked side by side. They had been given a good time frame to get there and back. Too good, Kakashi knew something more was going on and he had a pretty good guess as to what.

"So how have you been Kakashi-kun?" Sakura asked breaking the silent that had settled around them.

"Hmmm, Oh I'm good, been keeping busy as of…. Well… you know."

"Ya" she quietly said as they contued to walk on.

Sakura was determined to get some answers out of him, but she knew better then bombard the man with questions. No. This needed a more settle approach, she decided that she would mix in the questions innocently with idle chitchat, and if that did not work then she would go to plan B. Tying him to a tree and holding his Icha Icha book over an open fire.

Sakura grinned to herself as that image played over in her mind.

The day light faded quickly as the night started to roll in over the sky, picking an area not too far from the road they set-up camp for the night. They set up a few traps but did not bother with a fire, as it was a pleasant night.

"Don't you ever get bored of that book? You must of read it about 200 times over the years I have know you." Sakura asked as she sat down next to Kakashi.

"Nope." was his only replay as he turned a page.

"So, Kakashi-sensei-"

"Kun." he intrepid her.

"What ever," she huffed crossing her arms, "So, what brought over this change in you?"

"I wondered when you where going to ask that." he sighed closing his book.

All was quite between them, Kakashi kept his vision focused strait ahead of him, he was trying to think. What had happened to him? It was not normal frustrason, it was something more. A feeling he had not felt before on this scale, it could only be described as…

Rage.

Yes rage, not hate or anger, but rage in its purest form. Free from any taint of bloodlust or murderous intent, it screamed at him from his heart, echoed in his mind at night. And clawed at his body during the day, it wanted release in a way he did not know how, he felt like running faster and faster till his heart exploded, it made him want to get out under the night's sky. It made him want to hunt.

"Kakashi-kun?" Sakura's voice pulled him back to himself.

"I don't know Sakura-chan." he said as he put a arm around her shoulders and pulled her towards him.

It was true he did not know, but what he did know is that he had found a suppressant in her.

"I just don't know." he sighed one last time before closing his eyes and drifting to sleep.