Hello! this is scatcat and ninjapenguintime! ummmm... we decided that Kakashi and Sakura are really cute together...so we decided to write this fic... we hope that you all enjoy!
Chapter 1: Magenta haired, Hyperactive...Kakashi?
Naruto was tired…. Actually, exhausted was perhaps the more correct term…. He looked down at his desk, and then thought how nice it would be if he could actually see the wood of the desk.
The only things visible were enormous stacks of paper, mission reports, mission requests, various alliances and treaties, and the all important…pen…. And that was buried somewhere under the ever-growing stack of paper.
With a frustrated sigh, Naruto leaned back in his rather comfortable chair and let his head rest against the back. Jiraiya looked up, from his position on Naruto's couch next to the bookshelf of his office, and raised an eyebrow at his former pupil
The blond was tuning out the look his perverted ex-teacher was giving him as he heard a slight rap on the window next to his head. Turning his spiky blond head slightly, he was met by a familiar pink haired kunoichi's face. She was crouching on the sill, holding her balance with her left arm and resting her chin in her right hand, which was propped up on her knee.
The sun was just setting in the village of Konohagakure, and this caused Sakura's already bubblegum pink hair to turn a very, very, bright shade of magenta.
The Kyuubi vessel stifled a laugh, fearing for his health, noticing that his long time friend was wearing a not so nice facial expression
"How did the mission go?" Naruto asked after a long pause.
Sakura looked at him for a moment, searching for words tiredly, "it was successful, Hokage-sama." She replied in a monotone.
Naruto looked taken aback for a second, but recovered quickly.
"Ummm, Sakura-chan… you've known me since we were in the academy… don't call me 'sama', please?"
Sakura blinked and then nodded slowly, "sorry, Naruto… I'm just a little out of it right now… that's all. If there's nothing else you want to talk to me about, I'll just hand in my mission report tomorrow morning, and go home now…." She trailed off, her voice getting quiet.
Her blond friend looked concerned as he studied her for several long moments, "that's fine Sakura…. I'll see you tomorrow morning, then…."
Sakura nodded, thankful that her friend had decided not to push any issue with her when she was this tired.
"I think I'm gonna take the stairs…." Sakura said softly after a second, jumping into the office fully through the open window, and then making her way to the door, next to Jiraiya lounging backside on the couch.
She opened the door with a decisive snap, and then, without looking back at Naruto or even acknowledging Jiraiya's existence, left the office, closing the door sharply behind herself.
Naruto slumped back in his seat once more; resuming the position he had taken earlier, and then looked at Jiraiya.
The Sannin looked at the once-idiot ex-student and shrugged his shoulders; he was at a loss about Sakura's behavior too….
Naruto sat there, musing for Kami knew how long, before there was a lazy knock on the wooden office door.
"Enter." Naruto called, a hint of his exhaustion creeping into his normally alert voice.
A familiar silver haired Jounin opened the door, and was followed in by a loud, angry shriek from who could only be Sakura.
"Yo." Kakashi greeted his one time Genin-student.
"Hey." Naruto replied staring at Kakashi's left arm….
Kakashi followed the blonds' gaze and found himself staring at his cast and sling ridden arm. He rubbed the back of his unruly silver head with his good right arm and gave a half hearted eye crinkle to Naruto.
"It's nothing much, just a busted arm…. Tsunade-hime said it was nothing a few ummm…. Months couldn't fix."
Naruto squinted at Kakashi, "You have been taken off of ANBU's active duty roster. I'm reposting you until this," he said motioning to Kakashi's incapacitated limb, " is fully healed and cleared by Baa-chan, Shizune-san, or Sakura-chan. I don't care what you think of this decision."
Kakashi had been ready to open his mouth in his defense, but then closed it again when the blue eyed blond gave him the 'I am being completely serious right now,' look.
"Right…." Kakashi replied trailing off, "what do I do 'til then?" he asked in his prototypical way.
Naruto leaned forward in his chair and propped his elbows up on the paper in front of him on his desk. Then, he rested his chin in his hands, letting out, not the last, of many long sighs that day.
"Now, Kakashi." Jiraiya started, "we didn't want to put you in charge of a Genin team…because you haven't wanted one since… well, team seven…." Jiraiya looked at Kakashi's masked face and saw the falsely-crinkled eye droop.
"I have decided that since you cannot function as an ANBU at the moment, you will switch with Ebisu, who has volunteered to be your team's replacement for the time being." Naruto finished, allowing the significance of his statement weigh on Kakashi.
Kakashi's only visible eye widened after a moment and he raised his good arm in the beginnings of protest, " ne, Naruto-" he was cut off.
The door to the Rokudaime-Hokage's office was thrown open with such pressure, that it hit the wall hard enough to make some of the paint flake off, and the ceiling to shake hard enough to make a few random debris fall on Jiraiya's head.
Sarutobi Konohamaru, and his team mates stood in the door way and then charged straight up to Naruto's desk.
"Hey Boss! You said we would have a new sensei by now! Who is the guy anyway?!" Konohamaru demanded, hand motioning wildly; causing Naruto to wonder if he could ever have been anything like the hyperactive teen in front of him….
"Kakashi, meet your new Chuunin team." Naruto said.
If Kakashi had not been wearing his mask (as though he would go out without it…) the whole room would have seen his jaw drop.
The ground is very solid, Sakura thought, annoyed. Why did the ground have to seem like it was shifting in different directions when she was tired. Why did everything just scream 'chakra exhaustion!' to her right now?... Oh, wait… could it possibly be because she was suffering from, chakra exhaustion?
Inner Sakura made an appearance for the first time in a long time, 'being sarcastic to yourself isn't helping, Sakura.'
'Shut up, inner.' Sakura groaned mentally holding her balance as best she could.
It would simply not do for her to fall over in the middle of the street this close to home. After all, she had been trained by the former Hokage, the Godaime-Hokage, Tsunade. The slug Sannin… also the worst gambler in the world, but hey, Tsunade couldn't be amazing at everything….
Sakura rolled her eyes half heartedly and continued her trudge toward her apartment. When she finally reached her building she waved unenthusiastically to her very cranky landlady, who always on a face that said, ' I just sucked on a lemon'.
Sakura then half-staggered over to the flight of stairs that would take her up to the second story apartments.
She grimaced when she laid her eyes on them… there were sixteen steps…. Sixteen agonizing steps for her to climb….
'Think about something else, then.' Inner Sakura countered.
'Like what?' Sakura fussed back.
'Like that ex-sensei of yours!' inner Sakura shot back, irritated. ' Have you even had a proper conversation with him lately?'
" No. and I don't intend to!" Sakura barked, out loud. Causing her lemon sucking landlady to give a weird look….
"Gomen nesai." Sakura said, just loud enough for the strange woman to turn away with a slight nod of the head…. Back to her gardening of…lemons….
'See what you made me do!' Sakura yelled to her inner, in her head.
' Yeah, you acted like even more of an idiot….' Inner Sakura grumbled, crossing her arms over her chest.
' Shut up.' Sakura replied forcefully, tuning out inner Sakura as she climbed the stairs, and thought of a certain silver haired ex-sensei….
Thinking back to three years ago….
Sakura sat on the bloodied ground next to Uchiha sasuke's cooling corpse; too shocked to move or think.
Kakashi stood on the other side of sasuke's body, next to Naruto's unconscious one….
He said nothing, both of his eyes were visible, and they were glazed over with pain.
She could not comprehend what was happening around her, all she saw were the sightless sharingan eyes staring up at her….
Sakura blinked and shook her head, ridding herself of the memory. It had been three years since that day. She had held only two and a half conversations with the Hatake since then…. That half was today.
'If he paid more attention, and actually came around once in a while, I wouldn't be so mad at him.' Sakura thought, reaching the top of the stairwell.
She turned to her left and walked down to apartment B7, hers.
She came up to her door and proceeded to search her numerous pouches for her key. She bumped her shuriken pouch, her black marked tiger ANBU mask, and her katana, before locating the keys.
She shoved them in the lock, with a bit of unnecessary force….
She then entered the little flat and dropped her keys on the coffee table in her living room with a drawn-out sigh.
As the bubblegum pink haired kunoichi did this, she thought, 'how the hell did my life get so screwed up?'
Naruto let out yet another irritated sigh. This time, Jiraiya rolled his eyes at his young friend and said nothing. Knowing whatever he would say wouldn't help anything.
Kakashi had just left the office mournfully trailing behind the rowdy group of Chuunins Naruto had assigned him to….
A soft rap on the door alerted him to his secretary's presence.
"Come in." Naruto called.
Hinata opened the door, while balancing a rather precarious stack of paperwork in one arm as she did. Jiraiya gave her an extremely arched eyebrow.
Naruto frowned as he saw the old pervert eye his girlfriend's backside….he would pound the old fart later…when there were no witnesses….
" Good afternoon, boys." Hinata said sweetly, putting even more paper, on top of the paper on Naruto's stack of paper on his paper covered desk….
Naruto's scowl deepened as he watched this.
"What's the matter you two?" Hinata asked in her usual soft voice. This snapped Naruto out of his scowl and made him look up at his sweet lilac eyed girlfriend.
Giving a lopsided grin Naruto replied, " Typical stuff, Hina-chan."
"Was that Kakashi I just saw leave, Naruto-kun?" she asked, pushing some of the papers away from a spot on the desk and sitting gingerly on it.
Naruto nodded, still looking up at her pretty face. Gently fingering a piece of her long ebony hair he replied. " Yeah, he was reassigned to Konohamaru's team. The only person who volunteered to take his spot in ANBU was Ebisu…. And honestly, I can see why. That group is like me when I was thirteen times ten…."
Hinata's lilac eyes widened in horror at the prospect. " Poor Kakashi-san, why was he taken off of ANBU active duty?" she inquired mildly studying Naruto's face as he played with her hair.
" He trashed his arm on his last mission." Naruto explained, still not taking his eyes off of her. " He messed it up so badly that baa-chan didn't want to do a whole bunch of her healing jutsu on it, or she'd mess up his chakra passageways permanently…. He has to wear a sling and cast for the next six months, and not use his arm at all if he wants it back to its original strength."
Jiraiya looked up from the scroll he had taken off of the bookshelf next to his claimed couch. " How the hell did he manage that, gaki?" he questioned.
Naruto winced at the thought, turning his attention to the pervert, " he used chidori one too many times I suppose…."
It was Jiraiya's turn to wince, the thought of overusing such a powerful lightning jutsu did not appeal to him in the slightest….he nodded and went back to reading however.
"Six months?" Hinata asked shocked, " there isn't anything Tsunade-sama can do for him to speed it up?"
Naruto shrugged, " she said if he had a personal medic-nin to heal it gradually over the course of four months he would be able to use it two months sooner than expected… but I am at a loss of who to ask to do it!" Naruto exclaimed tiredly.
Hinata looked pensive for a long moment and then voiced aloud, " why not get someone familiar to him to do it?"
Naruto looked up at her once more, " like whom?"
" Shizune-san?"
" Its out of the question, she's assigned to an ANBU team right now, as a medic for the next couple of months…." Naruto replied.
Hinata frowned and then perked back up, " why not Sakura-san?"
Naruto was about to say no, and then he stopped himself. Why not Sakura –chan? He wondered. She could use the time with Kakashi to get over her anger with the silver haired ANBU captain.
Naruto knew that she still blamed Kakashi for sasuke's death…or at least as much as she blamed herself. He also knew that she held a grudge against him for not being as social as she would like….
Well, Kakashi did have a tendency to only speak to her when he had no other choice…but, he was afraid of her wrath… who wasn't?
Naruto smirked at his ever sweet girlfriend and nodded, " why not Sakura-chan indeed."
It was decided, Sakura would be stuck with Hatake Kakashi for the next four months if Uzumaki Naruto had his way. And he always did nowadays, after all…
He was the Hokage.