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Kakashi picked up the little girl and set her on his lap. Chuckling merrily, he asked the child, "And what would you like for Christmas little one?"
He was playing santa yet again in the mall. Why was he always given this job? He was a former ANBU damnit! He should be shoving mistletoe down enemy ninja's throats. Not letting little brats sit on his lap and babble on lists upon lists of toys.
Why couldn't Asuma or Kurenai or even Gai be Santa for once? Well Asuma would have practically given all the kids asthma attacks with his cigarettes. And Kurenai was a woman with a higher pitched voice. And gai...
He shivered at the thought. Those poor kids would have been crying all throughout Christmas.
After thinking a little longer about it, he realized that maybe he was best for the job after all. He already had the grey hair, he acted happy and silly almost all the time, and all he had to do to hide his eye was pull his Christmas hat down a little on the left side.
As for the rest of his face, that was no problem. The huge, curly beard and mustache took care of that.
Sighing, he stretched his legs as the little girl hopped off and ran to her mother. Maybe this job wasn't too bad. All he really had to do was dress in a big red suit, have kids sit on his lap, and give them false hopes. Easy.
Looking at the time, he realized that his shift was over and the mall was closing. He was about to close up shop when he suddenly heard a young woman's voice.
"Excuse me...Santa?"
Turning around, he was surprised to see his former female student standing before him. Surely she could tell it was him with his obvious chakra signature.
Smiling brightly, he said, "Why hello there young lady. Would you like to come sit on santa's lap and make a wish of your own?"
Smiling back, she answered, "If you don't mind."
Kakashi sat back down in his chair and patted his right knee, indicating for her to take a seat.
Sakura walked over and sat sideways on her teacher's lap. She giggled and thought, This should be interesting...
Kakashi heard her giggle and asked, "What's so funny?"
Shaking her head, she replied, "Nothing...Nothing at all..."
The man rolled his eyes and asked the question he had asked a million times that day. "And what would you like for Christmas?"
He was surprised to see his student blush and look away before answering.
"Well, actually, my wish is a little complicated."
Kakashi raised a brow and said, "I'm all ears."
Taking a deep breath, she looked up into the man's eyes (well...eye...) before saying, "I want something that I've always had, but could never quite call mine. I'd always watch as other people got to own it and put it to their own use, not really taking care of it. They would just use it and throw it away, basically making me have to fix it all up usually makes me mad and at times, sad. But many people would look down on me owning it, ya know?"
Sighing, she closed her eyes and finished up, "All I want, is to be able to call this thing mine and mine alone. I would take extra good care of it and never abuse it. I'd treasure it forever. Until the day I die...No matter what anyone says..."
Kakashi listened to her long wish with wide eyes. She wasn't kidding when she said that it was complicated. But whatever this "thing" was, she REALLY wanted it.
Blinking, his eyes began to turn to their normal size as he answered, "U-um...wow. That sure is one heck of a wish. But with how you describe that you'd care for it, it sounds like you deserve it. Forget what everyone says. But it seems to me like it doesn't deserve you as much as you deserve it. With how much abuse you say it's gone through, it sounds like it looks and works like shit. Do you really want it that bad? Can't you just get another, better one?"
Sakura got an offended look as she glared at her teacher. "No! I want THIS one! I don't want any other. None of the others are like it. It's unique and nothing else could replace it. I want this one!"
Kakashi leaned back and put his hands up defensively. "Alright alright! I'll see what I can do! Sheesh!"
Sakura blushed and looked down, realizing how childish she sounded.
"S...sorry Sensei...I guess I suddenly felt like a five year old again. I want, I want, I want. That's all I would ever say..." She looked up and smiled sheepishly. "Sorry."
Kakashi chuckled and waved it off, "It's fine. It's Christmas. You're supposed to act like a brat." Then he mumbled. "Although that's how you usually act anyways..."
Sakura's jaw dropped as she slapped him playfully on the shoulder, making him laugh.
They both jumped when they suddenly heard the clock tower begin to ring. Looking up, they saw that it was 8:00. Sighing, Sakura got off of his lap and held out a hand to help him up, which he gladly took.
"I guess I've kept you from cleaning up. Let me help you."
She began picking up the spread out toys while Kakashi began putting the walls of the fake workshop in the storage room of the mall.
After half an hour of cleaning, they were finally finished. Kakashi made a few quick hand seals before his Santa suit disappeared and he was left in his jonin outfit. Sighing, the two slumped, back to back, to the ground, against a small poll that went from the floor to the ceiling.
After Kakashi caught his breath from lifting the heavy walls, he turned to his student and asked, "Well it's Christmas eve. Why aren't you spending it with your family?"
Sakura shrugged and said, "They went to visit relatives in Suna for the holidays. I decided to stay back and spend it with friends." She then turned and smiled at him, "And teachers..."
Kakashi grinned back at her. "I bet Iruka really appreciates that then." He then laughed when she slapped him lightly on the head before closing his eyes, facing forward, and leaning against the pole once more.
The two sat in content silence for a couple more minutes until the entire mall lights went out.
Sakura stood and stretched before saying, "I guess that's our cue to leave, huh?"
The older man stood as well and nodded. Then an idea came to him and he smiled.
Although it was dark, Sakura somehow got the feeling that her teacher was getting ideas. Maybe now would be the best time to leave...
She was about to make hand seals to transport home, but was surprised when she was suddenly transported before making the final seal.
Looking around, she realized that she was in an apartment. Sighing, she turned to her teacher and asked, "Why am I at your place?"
Kakashi was still smiling, as Sakura could tell seeing as his cheekbones were higher then usual. "Well, I didn't want you to be all alone in your house for Christmas Eve." He then leaned down to whisper in her ear, "Besides, I could tell that you were practically dying to spend time with your sexy sensei..."
Sakura rolled her eyes and punched him in the stomach, making him cringe in pain and bend over to hold his now aching tummy.
She crossed her arms and turned away with a cocky attitude, but though he couldn't see, she was blushing like crazy.
Of course she wanted to spend time with her sexy sensei. But he didn't need to know that. And it just made it worse when he would tease her like that, because in all honesty, she liked her sensei. He was smart, hot, a skillful ninja, hot, funny, hot, and caring.
Did she mention hot?
Sighing, she turned to look at her still pained teacher. She giggled as he laid on the ground groaning in agony.
Maybe she hit him a little to hard...She was still working on how to control her chakra when emotions took over.
Bending down she held out a hand to him to heal the aching, but laughed when he cringed and began scooting away.
"It's ok sensei...I'm just going to heal it. See?" She then showed him her now green hand, full of healing chakra.
Kakashi was hesitant at first as he looked between the woman and her hand. But then he moved slightly closer to her as he let go of his stomach.
She lifted his shirt and frowned when she saw a bruise forming. Oh well, he used to be an ANBU. He's obviously been through way worse. They both knew that he was simply overreacting, seeing as she's done way worse to him in training.
After healing the bruised area, he expected her to put his shirt back down and say some smart remark about him being a big baby. But he was shocked when she simply sat there, staring at his torso. He smirked. Sure she had seen him shirtless many times before, but she had never stared at his abs for so long.
He was about to say something like, "Like what you see?" or "Take a picture. It'll last longer."
But instead, he kept his mouth shut, wanting to keep all of his body parts in check. She'd realize what she was doing soon enough. As a matter of fact it would be in about 3...2...1...
Sakura suddenly jumped as she realized what she was doing.
Blushing, she quickly stood and turned her back to him. "S...sorry Sensei...I was just um...You know, making sure everything was healed properly...Yeah..."
Kakashi's smirk grew. She was so cute when she got flustered.
Keeping his thoughts to himself, he stood and stretched, happy that the pain was finally gone. "It's fine, it's fine."
He turned the opposite way and began walking towards the kitchen, "Besides, what sane woman wouldn't lust over this body?"
Knowing what to expect next, he quickly ducked so that the kunai she threw embedded into the wall next to him instead of his skull.
Laughing, he made his quick get-away to the kitchen before she could throw anything else.
Although she tried to be annoyed, Sakura couldn't help but smile at his antics. No matter how much he got on her nerves, she still loved him.
Sighing, she walked over to her kunai and put it back in her pouch. After walking to the kicthen, she leaned against the doorway as she watched him attempt to make ramen.
Right now, he was cutting the onions and not doing too well. He hadn't even been cutting for a minute and he'd already gotten four cuts on his pointer finger.
If he continued, she was sure that his entire finger would be gone in no time.
Kakashi heard a giggle come from behind him and turned to smile sheepishly at her before asking, "Um...Are you hungry?"
Sakura shook her head in shame before walking over to him and taking the knife. "Yeah, but if you're chopping the vegetables, we won't be eating for another century. I'll do this while you boil the noodles." She gave him a look. "You can boil noodles right?"
Kakashi pouted as he went about preparing the noodles. Sakura rolled her eyes as she chopped the onions and peppers.
Since he didn't have any sort of meat prepared, they simply used a beef broth for the flavor. Kakashi watched from his island counter as Sakura continued to cut the vegetables and dump them into the pot. He continued to stare as she went to wash her hands once she was finished. He watched the way her hips moved with each step she made, and how her hair swayed from left to right as she walked.
Kakashi had always found her to be very attractive, and of course he held some deeper feelings for the girl then just teacher-student.
Correction. For the woman.
She was no longer his little 12 year old genin student. She wasn't even his 15 year old chunin teammate anymore. She was now an 18 year old jonin that was leagal of marriage. And surprisingly, that thought scared him and made him mad at the same time.
He had practically taught her everything she knew. He was with her through all of her teenage years. HE had to deal with her puberty stages for Kami-sama's sake. There was no way in hell he was gonig to let some little boy come along and simply take her from him without giving them a hard time.
With how much he wanted to be able to have her as his own, he knew that the village would look down upon it. There was a pretty big age difference. And the fact that he once taught the girl didn't quite help.
Kakashi continued to watch as she began stirring the ramen as it finished cooking. With how she was working in his kitchen, it almost seemed as though she belonged there. As if she was meant to cook all of their meals in his kitchen. In his home.
But, he sort of wished he could call it their kitchen and their home.
He quickly shook that thought from his head. No way. Even if the village did somehow miraculously accept us, there's not a 100% guarantee she would want to get with her ex-sensei. I'm already 32. Almost twice her age. I should just continue being close to her until she can find a man her age to take care of her.
As jealous as that made him, he had to suck it up and think logically. He was a grown man! He should start acting and thinking like one.
He was suddenly broken out of his thoughts when he saw a bowl of ramen being set in front of him. Looking up, he saw her smiling at him.
"Seeing as I ended up doing most of the cooking, the least you could do is eat it. You're too skinny anyways."
Kakashi smiled back. "Yes, but if I got too fat, you wouldn't think I was sexy anymore now would you?"
Sakura blushed and threw a pair of chopsticks at him, mumbling something along the lines of, Cocky bastard...
Kakashi chuckled before breaking his eating utensils apart and saying "Itadakimasu".
While he ate, he watched his former student go about at cleaning the counter and dishes.
Of course it hurt him to watch her do all of this and not be able to think of it as permanent. But what could you do for a hurting heart?
Maybe a tums would work...
Sighing, he finished up his ramen before taking the bowl over to her and setting it in the sink. She continued to wash the dishes with her back to him, giving him an idea.
Kakashi wrapped his arms around her, makng her gasp. He then nuzzled his head into her neck and mumbled, "That was delicious, but I think I'm still pretty hungry."
Sakura turned beet red, but kept her composure as she retorted, "Well like you said, if you ate too much, you'd get too fat. You're head's big enough already."
Kakashi pouted as she went back to cleaning the dishes. He always teased her like this, but he wished that she knew his teasing was only half joking around. The other half of him was completely serious, making him slightly upset whenever he was turned down. He wondered what her reaction or response would have been if she knew that he was completely serious.
Knowing he could never do that to her, he simply continued to hold her as she finished cleaning the last dish.
As much as she loved being held by him, Sakura was slightly upset knowing that it was just a joke. He always acted like he loved her, but she wasn't stupid. There was no way that a grown man could be in love with his teenage student. Well technically "former student", but a student at one point none-the-less.
After turning off the faucet, she dried her hands on a nearby towel and turned in his arms to face him."I'm guessing this means I'll be staying here for the night?"
Kakashi smiled and nodded, making her sigh and smile slightly. "Fine. Go get me some clothes to sleep in."
His smile quickly turned into a frown as he tightened his grip on her. Sakura rolled her eyes and said, "You have to let go of me eventually..."
Kakashi shook his head stubbornly as he lifted her over his shoulder and began carrying him back to his room, whistling a happy tune.
Sakura began struggling to get free and pounding her fists on his back, but seeing as they weren't chakra enforced, they had no affect. Blowing a piece of hair out of her face in exasperation, she simply let him carry her the rest of the way to his bedroom.
Once there, he threw her on is bed and went over to his wardrobe before looking through it for a button up flanel shirt and boxers. He always gave her that outfit on purpose, because he thought she looked sexiest in it.
But that wasn't always a good thing. It made his hormones go crazy, almost to the point where he couldn't control himself. But he hated that feeling! He was always afraid that he might hurt her unintentionally. She didn't deserves that.
Why was he such a sadist...?
He quickly threw her the clothes, and leaned against the wall, waiting for her to change.
She simply sat on his bed, holding the clothes, waiting for him to leave.
Two totally opposite mindsets...
Sighing, Sakura stood and began to leave the room to go to the bathroom, but was surprised when the door suddenly closed and locked from the outside. Frowning, she turned to look at the man that had just performed his newly aquired jutsu. Who knew it would actually be useful?
Sakura let out a defeated sigh as she began taking of her shirt.
Of course they had changed in front of each other before. All ninjas were taught to change in front of both genders since it would be most helpful and quicker on missions. But that didn't mean that she was used to it!
At least she always had bindings on underneath, so nobody could get a glimpse of anything.
Especially him.
She continued to change into his clothes, much to his pleasure. He always loved putting her in awkward positions. Her reactions were always so cute. What, with her pink-tinted cheeks, and her stuttering when she spoke. Not to mention the way she nibbled her bottom lip slightly, as if urging him to do the same thing to said lip.
He looked her up and down as she played with the hem of his shirt and shifted uncomfortably under his intense gaze.
He smirked as he walked over to her and leaned down to whisper sensually in her ear, "You look sexy in my clothes..."
Sakura blushed at the compliment, but didn't hit him or retort or...anything!
Hmm. That was strange. Usually she would react visciously...unless she wanted something.
Sighing, he asked, "What do you want...?"
Sakura smiled. He knew her too well.
"Well I was just wondering what you were doing for Christmas. I was planning on going on my rounds tomorrow to give everyone their gifts. Maybe you could tag along. I'll say that they're from both of us, seeing as you're a scrooge that doesn't believe in Christmas and the gift of giving."
Kakashi pouted and said, "Hey! I'm giving you a place to stay for Christmas aren't I?" He then smirked slightly. "And who's to say that I didn't get anyone a present. As a matter of fact, I bought one person a present this year. But since she thinks I'm a scrooge, maybe I should get my money back."
Sakura's eyes widened. "W-wait! I was just kidding! Please don't do that1 She'd be really upset and guilty if you did that!"
He chuckled and walked towards his wardrobe to get some clothes, before changing. Once he was finished, he removed his mask and put it on his nightstand before getting in bed.
Sakura smiled. She always loved when he removed the dreadful thing. She was the only one that had ever seen him without it. Besides Tsunade of course.
How else was she supposed to heal all of the smack marks from hands of women. Although, the pervert sometimes did deserve them...
Shaking her head, she turned the lights off before walking over to the bed and getting settled.
She felt an arm wrap around her waist and pull her to a warm body, making her smile contently. As much as she didn't want to ruin the moment, it just wouldn't be like her if she didn't protest.
She closed her eyes and snuggled into his chest, although her words betrayed her actions. "Do you simply have to hold me everytime I sleep in your bed?"
She felt him nod his head, and giggled when he nuzzled her neck and held her tighter.
The two eventually let sleep overcome them, dreams filled with the other. But as much as it pained them, they both knew that their dreams could never be revealed to each other.
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