Authors note: Hello there! Another attempt at a Kakashi and Sakura fic. For those who may be reading 'Everyone's talking about it', it is on hold for the moment as I'm going to focus on this story. I will hopefully come back round to it sorry!

Anyway on to this story. Basically it's about Kakashi and Sakura going on a mission and having a little mishap, which leaves them swapping bodies and walking a mile in the others shoes. Trust me its better than it sounds, it's an idea that I've had for a while and I thought it would be fun to finally write it down. Don't worry there will be plenty KakaSaku goodness! Anyway read on and review! Also I will hopefully be making these chapters of a decent length, unlike my other stories and this first chapter. Thanks!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Sakura shifted her weight restlessly in her seat, whilst glancing at the clock for the 5th time in 30 seconds. He was late. Sakura glared at the door, willing her perpetually late sensei to come strolling through it. Why was she stuck with a sensei that was incapable of being on time? Another 5 minutes ticked by before Kakashi made his appearance. Sakura scowled at him, but Kakashi either didn't notice or choose to ignore her.

'Finally, this is getting ridiculous even for you.' Tsunade sighed, putting down her pen before leaning back to observe the two ninja in front of her.

'Well let's get to the point. I'm sending you two on a mission, to escort a lord and his family back to their home country. It shouldn't be too much trouble that's why it only requires the two of you. It should only take a couple of weeks; I expect a full report when you get back. Got it? Good.'

Tsunade gave neither of the people in the room chance to argue, as she dismissed them and resumed working through the mountain of paperwork on her desk. Sakura dazedly followed her sensei out the door.

'What's your excuse this time then?' Sakura asked looking up at the taller man. Kakashi tilted his head towards her slightly.

'Excuse me? I'm not sure what you're on about.'

Sakura raised a knowing eyebrow in response.

'You always have some lame excuse for being late, what was it this time?' Kakashi lifted his head thoughtfully before replying.

'I was helping my elderly neighbor plant some flowers.' Sakura scoffed and swatted Kakashi arm playfully, of course playfully for Sakura was full force for most people. Kakashi staggered slightly before rubbing his arm, and throwing Sakura a hurt look.

'What, you don't believe me?'

'Sensei I've never believed those dumb excuses.' Sakura replied with a matter of fact tone. She heard Kakashi give a soft sigh beside her, and a mumble that sounded suspiciously like, 'Bully.' Sakura allowed her grin to widen, before she ground to a halt.

'So we'll meet at the bridge at 8 tomorrow, and you better not be late.' She emphasized the last part of the sentence, hoping it might finally sink in.

'Why Sakura, I'm renowned for my impeccable time keeping.' And before Sakura could argue he had disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

'Impeccable time keeping my ass.' She ground out before make her own way home.

8'o clock rolled around far too quickly for Sakura's liking. She yawned still bleary eyed from sleep, whilst stretching out her arms lazily. After her cat like stretch, she focused her eyes on the road leading to the bridge. He was late. Sakura didn't know why this little factor still bothered her so much. She should know by now that Kakashi was always horribly late. And yet she still crossed her arms angrily, and kicked at the stones under her feet in annoyance. Half an hour after their agreed meeting time, Sakura was still waiting.

'Oh for the love of god, why couldn't he be on time just this once? Why do I always get stuck with the weird ass eccentric teammates? Ino gets a genius strategist and a fairly fat but fairly normal boy. TenTen gets an overachiever and destiny obsessed guy, but at least somewhat socially normal. I get the last Uchia psycho, dead set on killing his brother. The extremely hyperactive demon carrying Hokage obsessed boy and a sensei that can never be on time, and never shows his face!'

Sakura kicked at another stone while finishing her rant.

'You know, I do show my face quite often. You've just never been perceptive enough.'

Sakura froze at the familiar voice of her sensei, before becoming even more infuriated.

'You're late! What's wrong with you, do you have some sort or problem that unables you to be places on time?!'

Kakashi shifted a little on the branch he was on to regard Sakura more closely.

'Speaking of being late, we better get a move on. Honestly Sakura if we hadn't wasted so much time on your ranting and raving, we would nearly be there by now.'

Kakashi jumped down from the tree, his eyebrow raised in amusement at Sakura's outraged face.

Did he honestly just blame her for their lateness? Kakashi chuckled as a fuming Sakura stomped after him, hissing as many insults as she could think of. This was going to be a long journey.

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'You're late.'

Lord Hoshi, as Sakura and Kakashi discovered, was not a patient man. In fact although they were only 5 minuets late, (Sakura had deliberately told Kakashi and earlier time, knowing his annoying habit of never being anywhere on time) he was extremely unimpressed.

'I expect punctuality from all those who work for me, it's a sign of good character.' Hoshi said whilst looking down at Sakura and Kakashi from his carriage.

Sakura sniggered at this; Kakashi obviously had an awful character. This however did not go unnoticed by Kakashi.

'Sorry sir, my teammate here, well you see she has this awful habit of never being on time. It's quite the problem really, I've told her to sort it out, but you know the young these days, no respect.' Kakashi replied cheerfully, before reaching over and ruffling a flabbergasted Sakura's hair.

Lord Hoshi settled his distasteful glare on Sakura.

'As I said, I expect punctuality from all those who work for me. See that it doesn't happen again.' Before Sakura knew it the lord had slammed the carriage door shut, and the procession began rolling away.

'You, You, I can't believe you just did that.' Kakashi turned around to see Sakura glaring at him.

'Did what?' He replied innocently, looking confused. Sakura clenched her fists and stomped toward him. Kakashi winced a little in preparation for the beating he was sure to follow.

'You better sleep with you're eyes open.' Sakura hissed before punching him in the arm, and heatedly walking past him. As soon as she fully passed him Kakashi clutched at his arm.

'Ouch,' He mumbled under his breath, rubbing his abused arm. He lifted his head thoughtfully in Sakura's direction. Kakashi rather quickly decided that the situation must be salvaged, before she really tired to hurt him.

'Sakura'

Sakura refused to look to her side where Kakashi was jogging to catch up.

'Hey slow down, you're like power walking.' Nope. Sakura still refused to look at him.

'Seriously, you should enter a power walking competition, you'd win hands down. You could be "Sakura legs of steel, power walking champion of the world". You could be on the front of cereal boxes.'

Sakura's eye twitched, but she still refused to look at him.

'You know, there's and old lady on my street who power walks, maybe you could power walk with her? And when I say old I mean old, she's like prehistoric, like all old and wrinkly and…'

'Will you just shut up?! I am not a power walker, I will never be a power walker, and I don't care how wrinkly your neighbors are!' Sakura finally snapped, fixing him with one of her best glares. Kakashi looked a bit stunned, and blinked at her a few times before she whirled around to walk again.

After about 5 minuets of silence Sakura could sense that her sensei was going to do something to annoy her. What, she didn't know quite yet.

'So that's a no to the power walking with my neighbor?' Sakura stopped dead in her tracks to stare at Kakashi. Was he stupid?

'What is wrong with you? Why can't you go 10 minuets without finding some way to annoy me? Do you enjoy winding me up?'

Kakashi was just about to respond when Sakura interrupted.

'Wait, don't answer that. Just be quiet and maybe I won't smother you in your sleep.'

Kakashi smiled as he watched her stalk away, he really would have to sleep with his eyes open for the next few days.

'Alright, we are setting up camp for the night here, is that alright?' The servant asked politely, but Kakashi got the impression it wasn't debatable.

'I don't see why not.' The servant flashed a civil smile before hurrying away. Kakashi slipped the tent of his back pack, and let it land on the ground with a dull thud. He stole a quick glance and the gloomy girl sitting on a log, still looking mildly angry about something.

'Sakura, why don't you go see what food they have for us?'

Sakura sighed as she slid off the rock, before trudging toward the expanse of tents and carriages. It didn't take long for her to find the food tent; chefs were bustling about busy trying to prepare dinner for the lord and his family. Sakura barely had time to look at the delicious looking food, before she had two pots of instant noodles thrust in her direction.

'Hot water is back in the direction you came from.'

Sakura regarded the stout man who had just shoved tremendously bland looking noodles at her.

'Erm thanks.'

Giving one last despairing glance at the mouthwatering food, she shuffled back towards the hot water. Of course luck wasn't on her side; a small queue had already formed at the hot water station. She joined the back and glanced unimpressed around the campsite. Her eyes snapped into focus when she saw a young girl staring up at the sky.

Sakura guessed she was around the same age as her, 16 maybe a little older, 17 perhaps. She had long, straight brunette hair that tumbled to just under her shoulder blades. She was well dressed, and standing at the back of a carriage, from this Sakura decided she must be lord Hoshi's daughter. Suddenly Lord Hoshi himself appeared from the carriage, and began to yell at her. Sakura watched as the girl was ordered back into the carriage being followed by a rather red faced Hoshi.

'Excuse me? Are you planning on using the hot water or just staring off into space?'

Sakura snapped out of her reverie, and turned to see about ten irritated faces looking back at her.

'Oh right, sorry,' she replied sheepishly before filling the two noodle pots.

'There you are, my poor stomach was beginning to eat itself.' Kakashi patted his stomach as if to emphasis his point.

'Poor you, be glad I didn't drop yours on purpose after what you did to me.'

Kakashi smiled in response as he grabbed the noodles from Sakura's outstretched arm. He pushed his chopsticks around a bit, carefully scrutinizing his suspiciously gray meal before wrinkling his nose.

'On second thoughts, maybe I'm not as hungry as I thought.'

Sakura had a similar reaction to her food.

'Blurgh, this isn't food, I sure it's alive.' She moaned stirring the gray, limp noodles.

'I'm convinced mine just winked at me.'

'Maybe you're hallucinating because you're so hungry?' Sakura replied in a feeble attempt to make Kakashi, eat the food she had trekked over the camp for.

'I suppose it's better than nothing.' Kakashi grumbled, reaching for his mask before sharply tugging it down. At this point Sakura chocked. Kakashi looked over at the spluttering girl with mild confusion.

'Surely it's not that bad is it?' Kakashi questioned whilst cautiously testing his food.

'You, you've taken your mask off!' Sakura squeaked still in visible shock. At that moment a baffled expression spread on Kakashi's now bare face.

'For all these years I've known you, I've never seen you're face. And now just like that, you take off your mask like it's nothing!'

Then Sakura saw something highly intriguing, so very novel and just astonishing. Kakashi's smile. It made her forget her words, and her heart to leap just that little bit.

'Well like I said before I do show my face quite often, you were just never in the right places at the right time.' Kakashi replied smoothly, still smiling that seemingly perfect smile.

Sakura was captivated. She had never seen a smile like Kakashi's. It was carefree, unrestrained and totally unique. She suddenly felt particularly important, like she had just been told some great secret. She was the only one on her team to see this rare glimpse of unadulterated emotion, and it made her feel special. A soft smile played at Sakura's lips as she thought of this.

'Erm, hello? I'm getting kind of nervous, having you just staring at me.'

Sakura snapped back to reality with a jolt.

'Oh right. Sorry.' Sakura gushed trying to, and failing to conceal her embarrassment. Kakashi's smile grew into a grin, and Sakura dipped her head trying to seem interested in her noodles, to hide her rapidly reddening face.

After dinner, there didn't appear to be much else to do. Kakashi and Sakura played a few rounds of I spy, which quickly dissolved into a fight after Sakura accused Kakashi of cheating.

'It's getting late. We should turn in.'

'Not it's not.'

'True, but I'm bored and it's getting cold. Plus I don't want you complaining about you're lack of beauty sleep.'

Sakura sighed in response, as she watched Kakashi walk towards their tent. The breeze rustled passed her, and she shivered at the bitter change in temperature.

'Fine, sleep has got to be more interesting than this.' She muttered before making her own way to the tent.

When Sakura was just starting on her journey to become a ninja, she discovered very quickly that she had rather irritable teammates when it came to settling down to sleep. Naruto would shuffle about as much as humanly possible and snore like a wild pig. Saskue wouldn't snore, but instead breathe heavily which was equally as annoying. Sakura would always find herself desperately trying to fall asleep before them, to avoid the constant noise they made. Kakashi however was always silent. Even this irrationally annoyed Sakura, she could never work out if he was still asleep or actually awake.

'Kakashi, why do you wear a mask?'

Kakashi's eyes slid open as he thought over her question.

'Habit' He replied evenly. Both were quiet for another few minuets before Sakura piped up again.

'Ok, why did you start wearing a mask?'

'Ah, I don't really know.' Kakashi replied noncommittally.

'Yes you do.' Sakura answered half way through a yawn. Both were very quite for a long time, and just as Sakura felt herself drifting she heard Kakashi sleepy reply.

'I guess it will jus have to remain one of life's great mysteries.'

Sakura agreed with him in her head before slipping into a comfortable sleep. Kakashi sighed next to her, a slight smile tugging at his lips as he too let himself succumb to sleep. Yes this was definitely going to be a long journey.

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