Expect the Unexpected
Kakashi had to admit, he had a good life. A simple life, just like he preferred…well, besides the little and unnecessary ninja missions Tsunade would send him and the rest of group seven on. But besides that, Kakashi simply spent his lazy days reading his favorite collection of books: Icha Icha Paradise. He had all the volumes of Jiriiya's famous work, in limited edition too. Something all perverted men like him would die for.
Group Seven was back again, and though the grown Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke were already considered equals with him, he still couldn't help but keep the habit of watching out for them and advising them, as if they were his own kids…..kids he could leave the bill with, of course. Everyday, Kakashi would see them arguing with each other over the simplest of stuff. It was amazing how so many things remained the same, despite the years.
Flipping a page in the latest novel release of Icha Icha Paradise, the famous copy-nin sat in a slouched by posed manner against a tree trunk. As his masked lips move and silently whisper out the printed characters in the book, he easily ignored the loud bickering around him. They were at it again...with no sign of stopping anytime soon.
'Will they ever get tired?' Kakashi wondered, his right eye dropping a bit to scan the ground around him. He felt as if he was forgetting something…something important.
"Hey!!! That was my kunai! Why the hell did you block it?! It wasn't aimed for yah!" Naruto yelled from across the training ground field.
"Hn. It was aimed for the tree I'm training on. Go find another tree. This one's mine, dobe," Sasuke responded calmly. Though his tone was neither cold nor bitter, Naruto glared at him across the field with scorn. It was obvious. Pure rivals they would always be. Both him and Naruto were eyelocked and both gripped for their kunai pouch, ready for a little spar.
"…Hey…hey you guys, stop fighting. You guys argue more than you train," Sakura scolded. She deliberately turned and pointed to another tree to Naruto, compromising with him to train with that tree. It was only then did Naruto calm down, released his grip on his kunai a bit, and yelled to Sasuke in a confident tone.
"Hmph! I'm only letting this go easy because Sakura-chan asked me so! Don't think you're off the hook, teme!" Naruto yelled back again to Sasuke. His trademarked whiskers thinned as he gave a friendly smirk to the world.
But from behind, Sakura irritatedly pointed out, "Naruto, I didn't ask you. I'm telling you to lay off the fights just for a bit today. Either that, or I'll send you flying across the training field." She wasn't in the brightest of moods today. Not when she was in deep thought for preparing the party tommorow. In response, Naruto backed up and grinned, telling Sakura to calm down.
As Sasuke shrugged and resumed back to targeting his tree, Sakura looked back to where Kakashi was reading his Icha Icha Paradise book. Shaking her head in defeat, she couldn't help but let a remark pass through as a thought: 'When will our teacher stop reading porn in public?' Sure, Kakashi could care less about his modesty, but still. After a moment of staring at his book, Sakura sighed and told herself to give up. She had scolded him, warned him, and had even tried to reason with him to stop reading those books...at least out of public? But to her dismay, Kakashi would never change.
Her eyes scanned the book he was so engrossed in. It looked to be a new novel in the series. Yet, what was so interesting about them?
'Ugh. Think. Try to think of something. Something other than her neutral and perverted Sensei's book and its wonders.'
Immediately out of pure will, Sakura forced her mind to focus on something less perverted. Like her party. And speaking about tommorow's party...
Sakura spoke up and warned, "…I hope you guys don't act like this tomorrow. The celebration party will be ruined if two of the four people there are arguing the whole time. With that, she shot an accusing glare at Naruto, who was sitting down on the grass and poking the tree Sasuke was "so" protective about, with a kunai. It was apparent Naruto wasn't listening, so Sakura stomped over and whacked him in the head, making him turn in confusion. Naruto was about to object and question until Sakura raised up another fist to show him to be quiet and pay attention.
"Naruto! If you miss this party, let alone argue with Sasuke in it, I will send you flying past the Sand Country to the Mist Country. Got it?," She half hissed, half threatened.
With that, Naruto gulped and replied with a nod. He hid the kunai behind him and nervously looked away from Sakura, hoping to prevent from enraging her a bit more.
Kakashi had heard the whole thing, but he didn't bother paying much attention to something that occured daily. Sakura had turned a bit more moody nowadays, as to why...god knows why.
Kakashi had known Sakura would look to him to stop the fight. But really, Naruto and Sasuke fought 24/7. It would literally kill him to stop every little fight they would go in on. So, to make life easy, he ignored their bickering and continued to flip the pages of the heavenly Icha Icha Paradise.
It was only until Sakura clearly said "party" did Kakashi looked up a bit distracted. And that's when he remembered. Group seven was not only celebrating a get-back-together celebration party, but group seven was also celebrating Sakura's 17th birthday party tomorrow. Amazingly, Sakura had decided that her party would be private, only for group seven, instead of inviting her other close friends of Hinata, Ino, TenTen, and the other guys. Not that Kakashi cared. He felt that being old was nothing to celebrate about, whether you hosted a private party or not, the effort was unnecessary. Aging was something to be despised.
The rest of the day passed slowly, but not quietly. Training was as slow as ever, but that was because Kakashi revealed nothing on how to improve on techniques and chakra storage. He claimed that his new book was always "getting to the good part" whenever they asked for him to get up and spar with them. So they left Kakashi alone and took their energy out on eachother; by eachother, Naruto and Sasuke were the main case. Though Sakura tried to maintain the two stubborn teens, she couldn't really stop them both taunting and glaring at eachother across the training field. A couple of kunais flying here to there and and a couple of insults, but the day finally ended.
As the late evening approached, the three young teens decided to end their training till after the party and departed home. But Kakashi was still reading and thinking back at the tree stump. He tried to remember how excited he felt when he was about to turn seventeen. But all he could remember was that he spent his whole life just hanging out with his old team, not caring about the passage of time and his own birthdays. He tried again. And again. And again, trying to image how Sakura could possibly be so happy over a year of age. With a bunch of failed attempts, Kakashi simply gave up and left the training ground lazily. He headed home soon after the moon rose up and decided to simply get the pointless day over with by sleeping at home.
As he reached his apartments, Kakashi took a hot, relaxing shower and was preparing to do a couple of stretches before he closed in for the night. Nothing was left to do, besides the thrown away bowls of cup noodle stranded and carelessly thrown into the sink and nearby trash can.
He decided to leave that mess until the morning, but there was no doubt of the extention of his procrastination...
...especially when it came to the subject of washing the dishes..or for the matter, cleaning out anything in the sink.
But his thoughts were soon ruined when a considerate thought hit him. Right before Kakashi was about to lay on the comfy couch and go to sleep, he wrapped up Sakura's present with cautious care. Kakashi didn't think hard as to what he got for Sakura as a present; a limited edition of an Icha Icha Paradise book from his cherished collection.
'Hell, she's about old enough,' He simply thought as he pictured her with a surprised and flushed face as she discovered her naughty present. Though he hesitated a bit while wrapping the last bit of the present, as he continued to imagine Sakura red as a tomato, he chuckled softly at that image, finished up the finishing touches, and laid the present down on the near coffee table.
His train of thought had not been broken, and he smiled slightly behind his mask, thinking of his team...his naiive team..and what their reactions would be if he ever pushed a bit more of his perverted actions in front of them.
With 'everything' done, Kakashi closed the lights and laid there, with dirty images flashing on and about from the latest book he had flipped through and read today. As he closed his eyes and slept, Kakashi lightly scratched his head, yawned, and continued with his vivid imagination...
...And he had to admit. Yep, Kakashi had a good life.