Handful of Trouble, Naruto fanfiction by Korusea-hime

Summary: After being conned into a mission by her former sensei, Sakura finds herself captive to a very hands on interrogator. Will she be able to keep her secrets, or will the pressure be to HANDle?

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or its characters, and make no profit from this fic. I do however reserve the right to make characters do naughty-naughty things to each other. Dattebayo!

Chapter One:

Sakura looked around her cell and thought back on how she had accomplished this amazing feat of stupidity. Regret and guilt made her chest heavy, followed by anger at her helplessness. In the back of her mind she feared what had happened to her team, and what would happen to her. She would jump into a pit of vipers before she would ever agree to another mission with Hatake Kakashi. Sighing in frustration, she let her head fall back against the wall and closed her eyes.

-Flashback-

Sunlight filtered into the room, bathing Sakura in its rays. Feeling its warmth, she rolled onto her back and stretched. The sheet stretched taunt across her ample breasts and slipped up her thigh, letting the breeze cool her. Her brain, still a little fuzzy from sleep, took a moment to register what her senses had alerted her to. Her eyes snapped open in alarm, sensing an intruder at her window. She whipped her head towards the open window but when she saw her old sensei lounging on the sill reading his Icha Icha book, Sakura's heart stopped its frantic beating and returned to a normal pace. A second later, she realized that her perverted teacher was gawking at her sheet clad self. Sakura blindly groped and flung the nearest object at hand.

Not bothering to dodge the fluffy mass aimed at his head, Kakashi just smiled under his mask as the pillow hit him in the face. He caught the pillow before it fell to the floor and he casually propped himself against the sill with it.

Placing his sacred book on the nearby dresser, he cleared his throat. "Sakura-chan, my favorite student, the light of my life, the reason I continue on with my existence," He paused. "Would you happen to have plans later tonight?"

That bastard. How dare he wake me up on my day off, scaring me half to death. Stupid pervert! Sakura's inner self yelled. Holding the sheet to her chest, face red with anger, Sakura opened her mouth to reply when another familiar face popped into the window, startling both the copy-nin and Sakura.

"Kakashi," Kotetsu said, interrupting whatever Sakura was about to say, "Tsunade has found the other members to accompany you on the mission, has Haruno agreed to join?"

Sakura sat up in annoyance when a second person had suddenly invaded her bedroom. As she shifted to an upright position, the sheet inadvertently exposed Sakura's upper thigh. Before she could readjust the sheet, she heard a crash from in front of her and looked up in time to see Kakashi sitting up and rubbing the back of his head from his new position on the floor of her room.

Kotetsu glanced away from Kakashi who had fallen on the floor, to the bed where a naked Sakura was barely covered by a sheet. A blush started to spread beneath his bandage and he stared dumbfounded at Sakura.

"Haruno-san, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..." Kotetsu was too flustered to finish his aborted apology. Instead, he turned around, trying to keep a moderate sense of decorum. He cleared his throat before he spoke again. "Hatake was sent to ask you to join him on an escort mission. Has he briefed you yet?" He asked shifting from foot to foot.

Why couldn't Kakashi be like that. Like a real gentleman… Inner Sakura thought, and for once, Sakura agreed.

Taking a deep calming breath, Sakura once again tried to reply.

Kakashi beat her to it. "No, I haven't." Kakashi said coolly as he picked himself off the floor. He rubbed his ass as if the fall actually hurt. "I was just asking if she was available for that mission when you so rudely interrupted." Turning towards Sakura he finished his debriefing. "Tsunade has chosen me for an escort mission to the northern part of the Wind Country, and from there, the person we're escorting will be transferred into the care of sand-nin for the remaining part of their journey. This mission would require going through Rain Country and is a fairly simple mission. The Hokage has asked for a team of four and seeing as how I got roped into this, I thought you may wish to join me on this nice vacation." Kakashi finished, his eye closing in a way that Sakura recognized as his version of a smile.

"Hatake this is not a joking manner." Kotetsu scolded Kakashi. "You must take this mission seriously. If you fail to deliver the Kusa dignitary to the sand-nins, you risk ruining the tentative truce the Kazekage is trying to establish with Kusagakura." Kotetsu insisted.

At this point in time, Sakura was fuming with anger for being interrupted yet again. Not to mention the fact that two men were keeping her from her morning shower and from getting dressed. Stupid men! Kick their asses! Throw them out so we can have a shower! Inner Sakura yelled. Sakura pushed away the momentary thought of violence and focused on the task on hand.

"Who's coming with us? If I don't go, who will?" Sakura asked.

"Shikamaru is coming and will accompany the dignitary and sand-nins back to Sunagakure to visit Temari. Shino will be joining us as well. If you do not join us then Ino, as a passable medic, would take your place." Kakashi said knowing Sakura wouldn't like the idea that Ino would replace her.

INO! Replace me, NEVER! Inner Sakura screamed in fury.

"I'll take the mission," she responded frostily. "Now get the hell out of my room!" she yelled, throwing another pillow.

Kotetsu nodded in acknowledgement, and started for the Hokage's tower. Kakashi took one more look at Sakura, smiled under his mask, and teleported to god knows where, leaving a scroll where his Icha Icha book had been.

Sakura blew a stray hair out of her face and let the sheets drop. She got out her bed and headed towards the open bathroom door. Taking a quick shower, Sakura packed and read the mission scroll. As Kakashi had explained, this was a simple escort mission for a Kusa official who was making his way through all the aligned villages. They would pass through part of Ame and into Ishi, due to sightings of Akatsuki on the border between Kohona and Tani, the River country that was between Kohona and Suna. By taking this northern path they lessened their chances of encountering Akatsuki, but because of the potential of running into them, the mission was raised to a higher level, requiring shinobi of at least Jounin level.

Grabbing the scroll and her pack, Sakura headed out to the assigned meeting place. She found Shino and Shikamaru waiting with the dignitary at the town entrance, obviously waiting for her and Kakashi to show up. However, long familiarity with Kakashi's version of punctuality, Sakura had brought a book.

Kakashi arrived two hours later. He looked at the others, rubbed the back of his head, and shrugged. "Sorry I'm late, there was this old lady who needed me to carry groceries across the street and rescue her granddaughter's kitten out of a tree." He smiled.

"Liar!" Sakura growled and whacked Kakashi upside the head with her book, annoyed that he made her wait for so long after he'd been the one to wake her up this morning.

As the group started heading out the gates, Sakura thought that this would be a nice week long vacation.