I know it isnt Christmas, but I just finished reading a Kaka-Saku Christmas fic called "Listen to the rain" by Arcane Desires , and was listening to "Baby it's cold outside" and got some inspiration. :) Hope you enjoy. It looks like it will be a chapter story, but only a short one.

A Christmas Eve gone wrong

Chapter 1

Baby it's cold outside

It was a very cold Christmas Eve in Konoha. Sakura was finishing her last duty before her 3 day Christmas vacation started. She was just leaving the Hokage's building. Lady Tsunade had given her a scroll to give Kakashi containing updated information about an upcoming mission.

Snow flurries danced in the crisp air. The cold air nipping at her nose, turning it a bright shade of red. Her breath hung in the air in puffs as she quickly walked towards the bar. Most of the ninja who had no family to spend Christmas Eve with, spent it at the bar with the rest of their family-less comrades. It was sort of their own self made family.

Sakura had chosen to spend Christmas Eve alone this year. She planned on visiting her parents tomorrow. Tonight she just wanted to get Kakashi's scroll to him and get home and warm up before the snow got bad. She had worked the past month with only two days off. She was very tired and just wanted to relax the first night of her vacation. The sun had set only about an hour ago and it was getting colder by the minute.

She finally reached the bar, about frozen solid. She stepped in and shook the snow off of her. The bar was toasty and warm, laughter filled the air and the scent of strong alcohol and smoke lingered. Normally it would be the usual stuffy old bar, but tonight was different. Something about the surroundings was cheerful and warm. She stood for a moment scanning the bar for a glimpse of the stand out silver hair.

Genma came up and leaned up against the wall next to her.

"Hey honey, need a drink?" senbon bouncing with every syllable.

Sakura smiled. Genma was a flirt, but was nonetheless harmless. He knew Sakura would never give in to his advances and if he ever crossed a line, he would know as he stood up to dust the rubble off, that is IF he could stand.

"No, I cant stay, I have something for Kakashi from the Hokage and I was hoping to catch him here before I went home."

"You got bad timing honey, he left about an hour ago"

Sakura sighed. Kakashi's house was in the opposite direction of her place. She stood there for a moment, debating whether to just go home an deliver the scroll on Christmas day, or just get it done tonight. She decided on the latter. Get it done and over with. She wrapped her coat up against her tightly as she prepared to head out into the growing storm again. She waved a bye to everyone in the bar as Genma opened the door for her. A gust of heavy cold wind hit her hard.

"Sure you dont want to stay here with us?" Genma asked with concern.

"No, I really gotta get home. Thanks though. You guys enjoy"

"Genma watched as she began to fade into the white dusty air, lit only by a nearby street lamp.

Sakura finally reached Kakashi's street. She began to run towards his house. It was getting downright freezing now. She would have to make this quick so she could get home before the storm rendered her a stranded icicle on some street she couldn't identify. She wasn't far now. The only reason she recognized this to be his street, was the street lamp was slightly dimmer than the streets surrounding the area.

She knocked on his door, waited a few seconds and rang the doorbell. The wind was howling hard now, she wouldn't be able to hear if he was coming to door or not. Her body began to shiver from the shock of standing perfectly still in the freezing air. Come on Kakashi! she inwardly said, starting to get rather annoyed.

Suddenly the door opened. Kakashi looked down at a shivering pink haired woman, lips beginning to turn blue.

"Kami, Sakura, get in here!" Kakashi said as he grabbed her arm and started to pull her inside. Sakura was too cold at this point to move easily on her own accord. She stumbled in with his help and he hastily shut the door, denying the cold any more opportunity to chill her further. He gently pulled her to the couch sitting a few feet from the fireplace.

He sat her down and rushed to his room to grab a blanket. He stood in front of her and draped the blanket over her shoulders, pulling it towards her chest. Once satisfied that it would stay, he went to the kitchen. He made two cups of hot cocoa. Sakura felt the warmth of the fire beginning to melt the freeze away, and looked up as Kakashi walked back in with two steaming mugs.

"Thanks Kakashi..."

"Sure, but what are you doing out in this?"

"Lady Tsunade gave me a scroll for your upcoming mission with new information, and I didnt want to wait til tomorrow to bring it. I stopped by the bar, but they said you had gone home, so I came here."

Sakura reached into her bag, pulled out the scroll and handed it to him. He opened and began to read. Sakura drained the rest of her cup of cocoa and began to stand.

"Woah, and just where do you think you are going?"

"Home, I want to beat the storm."

"First off, you almost froze coming from the bar and the distance from here to there is shorter than here to your place, and secondly, the storm is already here." he nodded towards the window behind her.

She turned around to see snow whipping at the window at beyond dizzying speed. She groaned as she listened to the wind howling against the house. She knew once the storm hit Konoha, it would be clear into the wee morning hours before it let up. She was stuck. She inwardly laughed as she though to herself that she enjoyed the company she was currently stranded with compared to being stranded at the bar with a bunch of drunks and Genma's increasingly aggravating flirting.

Kakashi put a record on the player that filled the toasty home with warm Christmas-y jazz tunes. He sat back on the couch and watched the flames dance around the fireplace. Sakura was sitting with her knees up to her chest and facing towards him. She took the opportunity to thoroughly look him over. She had known she was attracted to him for quite some time, but had never really thought more about it. He looked gorgeous tonight. He was wearing a black turtleneck sweater and dark denim jeans.

She marveled at how this man could look sexy in just about anything. Suddenly, Kakashi bolted up and headed towards his Christmas tree. He leaned down and grabbed one of the few presents that were under the tree. He walked towards her as guilt hit her. She had a gift for him, but it was at home.

"I hope you like it" He backed up a little and leaned against the door frame of the kitchen.

she smiled up at him and began to tear the paper away. There lay a white silk kimono with pink and red flowers all over. On top of it was a necklace with a beautiful pink gem and a Sakura flower somehow encased within it. Tears filled her eyes as she looked up to him.

"Kakashi, I dont know what to say! Thank you, but thank you just doesnt seem enough!"

He smiled at her. "I was at one of the small villages on my last mission, so I decided to do some of the shopping for the team there. Naruto's was the only one I got here, a free month of Ramen from Ichiraku. I got Sai an art set, Sasuke a dragon sword and Yamato a book hes been wanting to read for ages. I saw those two and had to get them for you."

Sakura hugged him tightly. Kakashi had kept his feelings for her buried deep for at least a year, but he was losing the battle as her warmth and intoxicating scent of strawberries and vanilla surrounded his very being. His arms acted on their own accord as he brought her in tighter to their embrace. His chin rested on her head.

After a moment, Sakura pulled back a little and looked up at him with eyes glittering with tears. "I dont have yours with me, I have nothing to give back"

Kakashi smiled warmly and pointed his finger straight up. Sakura followed it's path and her eyes came to rest upon mistletoe that was hung from the door frame. She smiled at him and giggled for a moment as she looked down and bit her lip. She looked back up at him and stood on the tips of her toes as they both moved in closer to each other. She closed her eyes and brought her hand to the neckline of his turtleneck that hid his face.

Keeping her eyes closed, she pulled it down to pool around his neck. She felt his breath along her lips and knew she was within inches to fulfilling a fantasy she had hidden deep down. His hand moved to her lower back and gently pushed her toward him. Her lips touched warm, soft flesh. Kakashi looked at her closed eyes and while thanking her for respecting his desire to keep his face hidden, He wanted her to see what he was seeing.

The kiss was sweet and innocent. Her lips were silky soft. He wanted more, but decided against it. She slowly began to pull back, eyes still closed, she brought her hands to his neckline and pulled the fabric back up over his face. She slowly opened her eyes to look at his now covered face. She wanted to see, but respected him too much.

A slightly upbeat jazz song came flowing from the record player, and Kakashi kept his hand on her lower back and brought his other hand to hers as he began to slowly move to the music. Sakura followed his lead and brought her other hand to curl around his neck. They stood there dancing in front of the fire as beautiful music filled the air and the angry unrelenting storm howled and raced throughout the village outside. She gently laid her head against his chest as she sighed happily.

Kakashi felt warm all over, his heart steadily thumping as if in tune with the beat. Until tonight, he had only dreamed about a moment like this. He looked at the window at the raging storm and silently thanked Kami for it and Sakura's decision to come to him despite the storm.

END CHAPTER

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