AN: Hey people. This is my second attempt at a fanfiction (A fanfiction? Is that how you say it? Should it be fanfiction? What?) so I hope it goes well. This is sort of a tangent story that takes place before Sasuke and Naruto meet in Orochimaru's hideout but still in the Shippuden story. Hope you like it! (This is half of the prologue)
Kakashi walked slowly in the street. With one eye on his copy of Icha Icha Awesome (the latest book, hot of the Pervy Sage's desk) and one eye concealed behind his mask, as usual, he paid no attention to his surroundings and soon found himself knocking directly into some poor pedestrian and falling directly onto him. "Oh," he said as he fumbled on the floor for his book, "Yeah, sorry about that." "Kakashi-sensei, watch were you're going!" Said a familiar, angry voice.
"Oh," he now found his book and flipped to his page furiously, "Hey Sakura." The angry pink-haired girl was now picking a pile of books off the floor. "Mou," she began. "You need to pay more attention to the world Kakashi-sensei." She re-acquired her books and stared menacingly at Kakashi for he had completely ignored her order and found himself within the book again. Sakura sighed in defeat, "What are you even doing out with that new book? Shouldn't you be at home surrounded by loads of used tissues?" Sakura thought she saw a sweat break on his face that would indicate that her lewd suggestion would be true. "Don't be foolish, Sakura," he started, still engulfed in his pornography."That part hasn't come up yet"
"You're despicable..." She said plainly.
"I'm obviously joking, Sakura." The street was suddenly filled with an abundance of people who were in earshot of their conversation. The two shinobi didn't care much but chatter of their lewd conversation had already circled around, and with it, came a new rumour that the teacher and student were suddenly friends with benefits. This made Kakashi uncomfortable. "C'mon Sakura," he said while putting his book in his pocket. "I kinda you as well for this."
"Huh?!" Sakura was flustered. Was Kakashi trying to make the rumours…NON-FICTION!?
"Get that out of your head." He retorted, sensing the situation. "We're going to see Naruto."
"Eh!?" Was this some weird kind of threesome!?
"No no, you're making things up now. Stop with all this dirty stuff." By now the whole street had turned their heads at this juicy bit of information. "Seriously, we're going to Naruto's house" Sakura blushed at her pervy imagination and agreed to go with her sensei to get out of the spotlight of Konoha's rumour circuit.
The two were on the south side of Konoha so it would take them a little while to get to the centre where Naruto resided. The sun was just beginning to fall asleep, and with it, so did the general public. The population decreased until it was just Kakashi and Sakura walking by themselves. It was a little while later before they arrived at the block of apartments where the only Uzumaki resided. The sky was a dark blue and the street lights turned on to illuminate the empty street. After half an hour of awkward silence, Sakura asked: "So why the sudden urge to visit Naruto? It must be important if it interrupts your porn."
"It's not porn," Kakashi corrected "It's an erotic novel."
"Same thing."
"Anyway, we're visiting Naruto to tell him about the plans for tomorrow." Kakashi explained.
"Tomorrow?" As a member of the original Team 7, and the only student who was a shinobi, she was entitled to know about all the outings and missions that any member of the team was doing. Just another one of the many perks of being a shinobi that she can boast to Naruto about (she often thought about writing a book on the subject). "What's he doing?"
"Not just him. Us. That was sort of the reason for calling you out here. But I'll explain when Naruto around." He climbed up the steps to the row of houses which contained Naruto's.
"Oh Kakashi-sensei, and Sakura! Why're you here?" The blonde stood in the doorway. He was always as cheerful as the sun itself, even in the night. "Hey Naruto," Kakashi greeted. Naruto was dressed in his usual nightwear: a white shirt and blue shorts. The view behind him was a mess as usual, complete with ramen packets that missed the rubbish bin. "We need to talk about the mission tomorrow."
"Mission? Um..."
"Is there a problem Naruto?"
"Uh, no I just had something to do. I guess I'll just have to cancel. Anyway what is the mission?"
"Well," Kakashi rested on the railing behind him, "We're going to survey Orochimaru's hideout."