~Tsunade recognizes the lack of Moral between the ninjas of Konoha, and decides to set a 'mission' of a personal nature to improve it, but will this 'mission' improve it too much?~

Hey Everyone!

So uhhh... first fan-fic on here, lil bit nervous about it. Please... be gentle. Will try my best to keep it updated, am hoping for this to be my first ever finished story.

Also I am Australian, so you may find I will jump between Australian and US spelling for some words, although I will attempt to keep it US.

If you notice any grammatical errors that I have not picked up on or places where there seems to be too much repetition please let me know, I do my best but there are times where I don't notice.

So SakuraXKakashi FTW

Please note I do not hold any rights to the Naruto anime or manga or its characters. This is purely fan made, and may contain spoilers. Based from the anime so may want to be up to at least Episode 55 of Naruto Shippuden.

Chapter 1 - Mission START!

Sakura's face scrunched up as the loud rapping on the door disturbed her good dream. Last night she had been at the hospital on the late shift, and today was her day off.

Knock, knock, knock.

Louder this time and more urgent, it forced her to open her eyes into little cracks and mumble, "Go away," angrily into her pillow.

"Sakura if you don't get out of bed and come to the door I'm going to come in through your bedroom window."

That voice.

Sakura's eyes snapped open and she shot out of bed and ran from the room. Last time she had failed to heed that warning, he had come in through her bedroom window while she was sleeping in the nude. That had been awkward for them both and he had regretted it immediately when she sent him sailing back out through the window with a very well placed punch.

"GEEZE!" she grumped as she wrenched open the front door, "Didn't you learn you lesson last time Kakashi-Sensei," she glared up at him through the wide open door.

The moment he saw her he averted his eyes and the pink flushed his cheeks mainly hidden under the mask. The pink haired, and very angry kunoichi stood before him in very tiny underwear and a singlet that wasn't exactly covering. Her odd coloured hair stuck out at awkward angles, and her bright green eyes, still full of sleep glared up at him.

"Yo," he said laughing awkwardly with his hands up in front of him. This was a pathetic attempt at protecting himself from Sakura's morning fury. Sakura knowing this, narrowed her eyes even more, "I was asked to come fetch you, apparently we have a mission."

Her eyes widened at this and she sighed, "Ok, message received, I'll be up there in a few minutes."

"Hopefully wearing pants?"

That comment earned Kakashi the honor of having the door slammed in his face, for which he was oddly grateful.

As promised, Sakura had gotten dressed quickly and was at the Hokage's Tower in a matter of minutes. She had expected to find Kakashi, Naruto and maybe Sai and Yammato too. Instead she found a large crowd of Hidden Leaf Ninja standing around all looking thoroughly confused. A thick line appeared between her eyebrows as her forehead creased in a deep frown.

"SAKURA!" Through the crowd a bright, yellow, spiky ball bobbed toward her.

"Naruto? What's going on? I thought we were supposed to be receiving a mission?"

Naruto looked over his shoulder at the overwhelmingly large group of ninja, "I thought so too. Kakashi-Sensei even came to get me for it."

"Listen up!" The voice tore them away from their conversation, and their vision traveled to the Fifth Hokage who stood above the gathering, "I'm giving each and every one of you the same mission. Moral has been low, and severe depression has been clawing its way through our ranks. As such you will forward to the front in an orderly fashion and draw out a name. You must go on at least two dates with the person whose name you draw out."

A wave of confused mumbles and whispers worked their way though the crowd and Lady Tsunade glared down at them all, "I will hear NO ARGUMENTS and there will be NO SWAPPING. Understood?!"

The harsh tone her voice carried made the entire sea of people flinch, which in appearance caused an interesting ripple. The chorus of "Yes Lady Hokage!" rang out loud and clear, and Tsunade turned on her heel and marched back inside, leaving Izumo and Kotetsu to deal with the grumbling ninja.

Slowly the wave of people surged lazily towards the buckets at the front containing the names of their soon to be dates, and as it thinned Naruto and Sakura both made their way towards the buckets labeled 'Male' and 'Female'. Izumo stood to the side of them and pointed at Sakura and then to the male bucket, Kotetsu pointed from Naruto to the female bucket.

"Oh boy..." Sakura grumbled as she dipped her hand into the sea of paper. She grasped a slip of paper withdrew her hand and...

"WHAT!?" Naturo was staring in horror at the slip in his hand. It had seemed he had been very excited to draw out a name, but had been shocked and terrified at the name he drew.

"What? What's wrong?"

Naruto handed her the slip of paper looking like he was about to cry. Sakura looked down at the paper, and almost dropped to the floor in a fit of hysterical laughter.

Three letters were written in a delicate flowing script that Sakura recognized as Shizune's. The word read - 'Sai'

Izumo and Kotetsu both leaned over and looked at the paper too, and snickered which turned into full blown hilarity. Naruto simply stood there, frozen in horror as both of them doubled over, tears streaming down their faces.

When Izumo finally stopped laughing, he puts Sai's slip of paper in the back in the bucket labeled 'male' and asked Naruto to pull out another name. This time the name Naruto drew out was 'Hyuga Katsuya'. Satisfied that it was at least a girl even if it wasn't the one he wanted, he moved back and out of the crowd.

Now it was Sakura's turn to look at her paper.

'Hatake...'

Oh no.

'... Kakashi'

"Izumo... please?" Sakura begged.

He simply smiled and said "No swapping. Hokage's order.

"But Naruto just..."

"That was our mistake," Kotetsu cut in, finality in his voice.

Sakura wasn't going to be able to swap it out... she would just have to avoid it; or so she thought before she saw Kotetsu writing down the name next to hers on a clip board.

Damn it all, she really was going to have to go through with it.

Damn it all, he was really going to have to go through with it.

Kakashi ferociously rubbed his one uncovered eye, attempting to rid himself of the headache this mornings events had caused him. He hadn't expected to see her half naked this-morning, let alone draw HER NAME out of those damn buckets. He practically punched himself when his thoughts then began to travel back to when he had accidentally saw her nude.

A small part of him was very excited about this opportunity that had presented itself, a small part located southern of his brain and there for a part that really shouldn't be considered in all this at all.

He slapped himself with a considerable amount of force, which caused a clap even though his gloved face and hand.

Gai looked at his friend with concern. He had been lucky in drawing out Anko's name rather then his young student, Tenten's. Seemed Lee had picked out her name instead and Neji had drawn out the young Hinata Hyuga's name.

"I just need to get this over with!" Kakashi said suddenly jumping to his feet.

Gai for once stayed quiet, which made Kakashi turn around to question him, "You're not going to stop me? Question my logic?"

"Kakashi, when have I ever questioned your logic. You must forge forward with your POWER OF YOUTH!"

"Why do I bother," he sighed, and walked out of the room.

This was going to get complicated. He had a feeling it was going to be, unfortunately that feeling arose as not only a gut feeling but the feeling that wiggled its way to the surface every time his mind traveled back to when he saw Sakura that morning. The one that originated in his pants.