-Author's Greeting-

Hello loves! I very recently finished a Naruhina fanfiction and I thought 'Why not keep going with the Naruto Fanfic?'. I've had this idea rattling around in my head for quite a while and what better couple to write it for than my favorite Crack!Ship? I've been trying to work out logistically the ages and things, and from what I've seen many folks place Kakashi at around the age 25-26 in pre-shippuden and around 28-29 in Shippuden itself so I will be basing the ages around that. In the fic itself Sakura is twenty years old and Kakashi is thirty-two to thirty-four years old. If you have any questions or are confused about something feel free to inbox me or leave a review and I will get back to you to the best of my ability!

Thank you and enjoy the fic!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of it's changes.

"Sakura are you about ready?" Kakashi leaned against the doorway of her office with his hands planted firmly in his pockets.

Sakura looked up from her paperwork and smiled warmly "Yeah just about," she replied pushing back the chair and standing "I just have to do one last check on my patients then—"

"Uh-huh," Kakashi said cutting her off "and then you're stuck here for another two hours. I've talked to the nurses and they told me that they are more than capable of holding down the fort while you leave and take a much needed rest." Kakashi held out a hand to her and she chewed on the inside of her cheek, she had just worked a fourteen hour shift…

She took the hand and he drew her from her office "Have you eaten recently?" he asked and she blushed "Thought not, come on I'll feed you."

He walked ahead of her as they exited the hospital, Sakura watched the cloth on his broad back shift as he walked and she found herself blushing a deeper shade of crimson before looking away. Sakura still had trouble figuring out how to act around her former teacher. Memories of hot breath and shaking fingers pulling at clasps filled her mind.

Steeling her courage she reached out and linked her fingers through his and frowned when he quickly pulled away. "Sakura, we can't." he admonished gently.

"We already have Kakashi." Sakura retorted letting her temper get the best of her.

Kakashi changed the subject "How are Sasuke and Naruto doing? I haven't spoken with them since before I left."

That's because you left on a mission so quickly, Sakura thoughts dryly raising her eyebrows at his attempt at a low-blow.

"They're fine, actually Naruto is great right now—he and Hinata are expecting a baby." Sakura smiled brightly, her prior thoughts momentarily left behind. It was something that had cheered her up over the last few weeks when she'd been confused beyond belief.

"And Sasuke?" Kakashi asked turning to look at her but not meeting her eyes, he was trying to make her feel guilty too Sakura realized with a jolt.

"Sasuke is doing great—on a mission right now. But as soon as he gets back he's got a date with Mai, Ino's cute flower shop assistant. We've been trying to set them up for months." Mai had come to the village only a year earlier to start over after her village had been slaughtered by rogues, Sasuke had quickly connected with the shy and quiet girl and they'd become good friends. They could relate to one another's pain in a way that Sakura couldn't even begin to—and Ino thought they looked adorable together.

"Oh?" Kakashi asked slyly "And you're alright with that?"

Sakura stopped walking "Kakashi stop that! Stop acting like what happened didn't and stop acting like I'm still sixteen years old with an undying crush on an old friend!" she looked down at her feet with her face flaming angrily.

"I'm doing this because it shouldn't have happened Sakura." Kakashi intoned whilst still not looking at her "I'm your teacher for gods sake and I'm over a decade older than you." He ran a hand roughly through his feathery white hair.

"Not anymore you're not. I'm an adult Kakashi, have been for a while, I make my own decisions. You didn't coerce me into your bed, I was there of my own free will and I actually enjoyed myself. Is that such a crime?" there she'd said it.

Kakashi still wouldn't look at her, angrily stomping forwards she tilted his head with her hands until his eyes met hers and the look of utter guilt she found there made her chest hurt. Beneath it she could see the soft tenderness, the lines around his eyes slackened as one of his hands came up to cup her own.

"Kakashi…" she began but the sound of a blade whistling through the air towards them cut her off, she took her hands off of his face and placed them flat on his chest and then pushed him roughly away from her just as a kunai whizzed between them and embedded itself in a nearby wall.

The pair was immediately on the defensive, Sakura's back hit Kakashi's as darkly dressed ninjas began to appear. They were all darkly cloaked with flat cone shaped hates shading their features. They immediately engaged the pair and soon Kakashi and Sakura were no longer back to back but fending off multiple attackers as best as they could.

Sakura did her best to keep up with her attackers but was having trouble landing any hits what so ever due to their speed and the fact that her reaction times were off because she'd just worked a fourteen hour shift. They were as silent as they were fast, she could hear her harsh ragged breathing and that of Kakashi's but these ninjas made little to no sound except for the occasional sound of metal meeting metal or their sandals making grinding noises on the gravel beneath them.

"Sakura! Get out of here!" Kakashi bellowed over his shoulder as he blocked one of the ninja's blades with his own.

"Like hell!" Sakura yelled back as she finally landed a punch on one of the nearby ninjas, the man immediately crumpled to the ground. She patted her hands together as if clapping off invisible dust before turning to Kakashi, but out of the corner her eye she saw something hiding in the shadows of a nearby alley. A trio of ninja's stood around another kneeling in front of them. The kneeling ninja was performing lightening fast seals with his hands all the while muttering under his breath in a sort of chant.

All of a sudden a glowing circle appeared underneath Kakashi's feet and Sakura's legs moved on their own. She leapt for Kakashi and pushed him out of the circle just as it flashed with a white light, enveloping her within it and then she was gone. Away from Kakashi and into the unknown.

Kakashi stared at the spot that Sakura had just been; her shocked and worried face before the light had taken her had been burned into his memory. People milled around him, investigating and writing reports.

After Sakura had disappeared the ninjas around him had disappeared in black puffs of smoke—he'd grabbed one but the man had apparently had a false tooth filled with poison because he quickly ended his own life before Kakashi could get any information from him.

"Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto's voice brought him from his private misery; he turned to look at his former student who was dressed in a flowing orange coat that had black flames licking at the hems. "What is it Naruto?" the man asked tiredly as he finally turned away from the burnt circle in the ground.

"Shikamaru might know what happened to Sakura—what kind of jutsu they used and…" Kakashi strode past Naruto towards a young man who was reading one of the reports of the scribes "You need to be more detailed you idiot," Shikamaru groaned "I guess I'll just have to do this myself, what a pain. Temari'll be pissed. Get out of her." He growled at the scribe before lifting his clipboard as if he was going to hit the smaller man and the scribe scurried off.

"Damn it Naruto you need to hire better scribes, d'you see this chicken scratch?" Shikamaru held the paper out to Naruto who ignored it "Okay you told me to grab Kakashi, what've you got Nara?"

"The jutsu they used is actually pretty recognizable to be honest—it should be impossible to use—but recognizable nonetheless." Shikamaru turned around to the table that he was leaning on and plucked a slender black volume from the top of the stack and leafed through it for a moment before finding the page that he was looking for he held the book out to Naruto but Kakashi snatched it from him and read it lightening fast before growling and thrusting the book at Naruto and turning to look at the burnt circle in the ground, his mind cranking at a thousand miles an hour as things began to make sense.

After a moment he heard Naruto exclaim from behind him: "Sakura's been sent back in time?!"

Author's Note:

Wow what an action packed first chapter! It felt good to finally write out what's been rattling around in my head since before I even started my other fanfiction 'My Place In The Sun'. Starting out there was already tension between Sakura and Kakashi which will be fleshed out as the chapters go along. I am warning you now that there will be smut sometime in this fanfiction so if that makes you uncomfortable this probably isn't the best fanfiction for you to read...

Anyways!

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-LittleMoonLover-