He shouldn't have done it, he'd found her by the river, she'd looked so sad, he couldn't just leave her sitting like that.
She was from Suna, a diplomatic mission that lasted a year, she was sad because she misssed her team and her family, it was his bleeding heart that caused him to become her friend.
He dreamed of her now, sometimes in the night as well as in the day, Genma refuses to call it love.
Rai tells him to get off his ass and confess to her, Anko tells him to just get up and fuck her already, Hatake the bastard straight up laughed when he heard. (Genma selectively forgets the time he laughed at the one eyed bastard for his crush on Iruka)
Kurea, was her name, she never gave him a family name, she was terrifingly smart, with just a dash of crazy that even stumped Anko once. He will always remember the time when she smiled at Kakashi during training, full teeth and her special brand of intoxicating crazy and danger, the look on his face was priceless.
He wants to be with her, but both of their hearts belonged to the heat and to the forest. She wouldn't want him anyway, his hands are unclean, his dreams are haunting, she would be better off with a whole man than a broken one.
OoOoOO
Adjusting to life in Konha was hard, for one thing, there was rain, and the actual want of a hot shower, but the food and the peole are different too, sometimes it was all too much and it was all she could do not to huddle in her too different bed.
Genma, Genma made it easier, there was no way to describe him, funny maybe, and kind, his friends only need one word and that's crazy.
It wasn't until she was back home, under the burning sun with cold showers, that she realised how much she missed them, it had been a semi lie, when she told him she was missing friends back home, she did miss them, because they're dead. It had been the reason why she was sent on the mission, because she was alone, for a time, she'd had that bond again, now, it was gone.
And she wasn't going to get it back.