SO THIS IS MY FIRST FANFICTION EVER. I HOPE THAT EVRYONE LIKES IT. ANY FEEDBACK WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. THANKS.
I DO NOT OWN NARUTO NOR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS WITHIN.
[CHAPTER ONE]
"BeepBeepBeepBeep…"
Sakura slowly reached her arm out from the comfort of her warm blanket to stop the noise that was invading her ears.
"Ugh….stupid alarm." she mumbled under her breath. She was still so tired.
She wanted to stay wrapped up in her warm and comfy bed, but she knew she couldn't. She glanced over to her window. The sun was just barely beginning to rise. She let out a frustrated sigh before turning over on her side towards her alarm clock.
There was a reason she was up at 6am. She had a mission today and was supposed to meet her team at the main gates of Konoha by 7.
Sakura kicked her blanket off, slowly lifting herself from her bed. With a small yawn followed by a long sigh when she stretched her arms up to the ceiling, she began thinking about what she should take along with her on this mission.
From what she had learned yesterday, the mission was a simple escorting mission. Sakura walked over to a shelf by her desk after scooping up her empty med pack, looking at the various medical supplies she had. She thought back to yesterdays mission briefing.
[flashback]
Sakura stood in front of her Shishou noting the irritable look gracing her features. Naruto stood to her right, fidgeting with the hem of his jacket. Sai stood to her far left straight as a board looking directly ahead.
A rough sigh was heard from the hokage. Sakura glanced back forward. 'Kakashi-sensei is going to get killed if he doesn't get here soon.' Sakura thought.
Everyone cringed as a heavy hand came down hard on Tsunade's desk. "Shizune!" Within seconds Shizune was at the hokage's side, a look of worry taking over her features.
"Yes, Tsunade-sama?" she asked as she watched Tsunade carefully for any signs that she should be ducking for cover from one of her masters signature rages.
"You did send a messenger to Kakashi this morning as well, didn't you?" Tsunade narrowed her eyes at her assistant. "Yes, Tsunade-sama!" Shizune looked pale. "and did that messenger explain to him that this briefing was to be held at 4 o'clock?" Shizune opened her mouth to speak, when a whirling of wind and leaves was seen and heard to Sakura's immediate left.
Everyone looked over to the masked ninja that had just teleported into the office.
"Yo." Kakashi said, his one visible eye creasing as he looked towards Sakura and Naruto happily.
"Kakashi! Have you any idea how long we have waited for you? Almost 2 hours!" Tsunade screamed, a rather large vein popping out on the side of her forehead.
Sakura looked as Kakashi raised his arm, scratching the back of his head. She had learned from experience that that particular movement was a nervous habit of his whenever he was about to lie through his teeth. He eye creased again, nervously.
"Well you see, Hokage-sama, while I was on my way to this very briefing, on time I might add, a black cat walked in front of my path, so I had to go the long way to get here."
Tsunade stared at the man in disbelief. Did he really consider her an idiot? She had no idea how his team had been able to stand his poor excuses or his regular lateness. Tsunade was trembling with anger her hands in tight fists. Any other time she would have lost it, but Kakashi had wasted enough of her time. She needed to get down to business.
Sakura watched with relief as Tsunade's tight fists began to loosen, before letting out an exaggerated breath. She shot a death glare at Kakashi before composing her face once again.
"Your punishment will have to be postponed. We have much to discuss."
Sakura saw the look of relief quickly pass in her sensei's eye. Her head shot back around as Tsunade started again.
"I have a fairly simple escorting mission for you all.
As you know we are trying to form alliances with as many hidden villages as we can before the impending battle with the Akatsuki. The village hidden in moss has been run for 30 years by a man named Hirohito Hisao. In the last year he has taken ill. There is no cure for the sickness he has. His doctors have told him he doesn't have much longer, and so he chose his only child, his daughter, to reign as the village leader when he is gone. His daughter's name is Hirohito Masami. She is to be the one you will escort here." She grabbed an envelope from the side of her desk, holding it towards Kakashi's direction. "Here is more info on the daughter. Kakashi can go over it with you all before you arrive in their village." Kakashi nodded and reached for the envelope, sticking it in the inner pocket of his jonin vest. "She wishes to establish a friendship with the hidden leaf village before she is set to rule and I have invited her here as a respected guest."
Naruto frowned. "Man, why do we always get the low rank missions. Ne, Tsunade baa-chan, can't you give us something better?" Tsunade's eye twitched at the usual nickname.
"You will take the mission I have assigned you, or be grounded to the village for a month with no missions!" Naruto cringed at that. "Oh, and this mission is actually an A rank mission solely because of the status of their family. So you will be getting paid for an A rank mission that would otherwise be considered a D rank. Be grateful."
Naruto smiled sheepishly. "ehehehe…your right baa-chan."
Sakura saw another twitch from her Shishou's eye.
"You will leave tomorrow at 7 am…" She paused to glare at Kakashi stressing the time to him. Kakashi had a sweat drop falling from his temple. "It should take 2 days to get there, a day or so to help Hirohito get ready and another 2 days to get back. I am giving you six days to return. Report to me as soon as you get back."
"Hai!" came their answer in unison.
Tsunade looked over to her enormous pile of paper work. It was going to be a crappy day. She looked back up to see everyone still in her office.
"Why are you still here?" Kakashi let out a nervous laugh, while Naruto gulped.
"Dismissed!"
And with that everyone made a run for the door, …well except for Sai. He just walked.
[end flashback]
Sakura settled on only taking the regular amount of first aid supplies as there would more than likely be no trouble during this mission.
She grabbed each item, one by one filling her med pack. She walked over to her bedside table grabbing her ninja tools and placed them along with her pack on her bed.
She then walked over to her closet. She reached for her regular mission clothes, taking them with her towards the door leading to her bathroom.
Before she entered she glanced over at her clock. '6:20am…she still had plenty of time for a shower.' she thought thankfully.
Another ten minutes in the shower and she was returning to her room, dressed. She reached down on the floor near her bed for her boots, placing them on her feet. She then went to work hooking up her med pack and weapons pouches.
Once she was finished with her preparations, she grabbed her pre-filled backpack from the night before. When she was satisfied that she was fully prepared she walked out of her room, yelling a goodbye to her sleeping parents, before running down stairs and out the front door.
Sakura quickly made her way through the village. When she could start to see the main gate in her vision, she scanned the surrounding are for her team mates.
Over by a tall tree sat a reposeful Sai. Pacing around in circles towards the exit was a very restless Naruto. Sakura looked around a little longer before realizing that her sensei was nowhere to be found. With a frustrated sigh, Sakura made her way to the gate.
"Sakura-chan!" Naruto yelled, causing the ever calm Sai to look up. "Good morning Sakura." Sai stated before resuming whatever sketch he was currently working on.
"Good morning Sai, Naruto." Sakura said with a warm smile directed towards them. "I would have thought Kaka-sensei would have been on time this morning after what happened yesterday." Sakura said skeptically. Naruto shook his head, smiling. " You know him Sakura-chan. He'll never be on time, even if baa-chan threatens to kill him."
Sakura laughed lightly remembering how pissed Tsunade had been at her sensei yesterday. :Your probably right."
They waited there for another 45 minutes before they sensed the a;; to familiar chakra approaching. Sakura whirled around coming face-to-face with an extremely late, extremely placid looking Kakashi.
Kakashi shot up his right hand briefly. "Yo." Placing his hands in his pockets he walked over to his team giving them his trademark eye crease.
Sakura gave him a stern look. "You're late again, as usual." Kakashi glanced at his angry student apologetically. "Well you see, as I was headed here, I stumble upon a…"
"Liar." Sakura interrupted him before the lame excuse even finished coming out of his mouth. She turned around heading outside of the gate Naruto following behind her. "We need to make up some of that time you've made us loose sensei." She stated, glancing over her shoulder at Kakashi.
"Yosh. Lets get going then." Kakashi gave the order lazily. Everyone gathered together before leaping up into the trees of the forest and began traveling at a faster than normal speed.
After traveling silently through the forest, with the occasional idiotic statement from there yellow haired teammate, for a good 8 hours at their constant high speed, Kakashi spoke up. "Let's stop in the clearing up ahead. After a brief rest and some food, we'll discuss the details from that envelope Tsunade-sama gave me and then we can set up camp for the night." "Yes sir." they all chided.
Sakura on the ground with her legs laying out in front of her. She began rubbing her thighs and then her calves. Her legs burned and ached from the constant speed of their traveling. She was happy they had stopped. Sai and Naruto had went off to catch some fish. She hoped that they would return soon, because she was famished.
Sakura bent her knees up to her chest, resting her arms on them. She looked a short distance across from where she sat at Kakashi laying against a tree, one of his favorite books in his hand. He looked so very fascinated by whatever he was reading. She didn't understand how he could be, when she knew that he had probably already read that same volume over twenty times, hell, probably way more than that. She wondered for a brief moment if the book was really just that good to make you want to read it again and again.
"Is that book really so fascinating?" She asked, curious. Kakashi didn't look up from his book when he answered. "I like it." She looked down at the books cover then back up at her sensei.
"What is it about?" Sakura continued. Kakashi marked his place and closed his book, looking over to his inquisitive teammate. "Why are you interested in the contents of my book?" he said with a slightly bothered face. Sakura looked back down to the book in his hand. "Well, you are always reading it, so I thought that whatever it is about must be pretty interesting for you to have re-read it so many times.
Kakashi gave her a one last look before opening his book up and beginning to read again. "There's no point in you knowing what it's about." He said and Sakura could feel that masked smirk that he gave her. "Why not?" Sakura grumbled. Kakashi looked up towards her with his creased eye. "You're way to young to know what's in this book."
Sakura pouted. "No I'm not! I'm 17 years old." Kakashi chuckled. "Maybe so, but you're still to young for the things in this book." He went back to reading.
Sakura lifted herself from her spot and slowly made her way over to sit by Kakashi. He glanced over at her abrupt closeness. He shrugged and started his reading again.
"Let me read it." she said seriously. She hated when people treated her like a kid. She was seventeen, and on top of that very mature for her age. Kakashi wished that she would just drop it. The whole village knew his books were dirty, but exactly how dirty, he would rather keep to himself. He looked over at her determined face. If he didn't give in, she would just keep pestering him and then he would never get to read. Besides maybe after the shock of what she see's inside the book, she will be very much obliged to leave him be from then on whenever he wanted to read.
"Okay. If you really want to read it that bad, you can. But only one page." He smirked inwardly. She wouldn't get past the first couple of sentences because he was going to find her one of the dirtiest pages in the whole book. He skimmed through until he found the page he was looking for. With a knowing smile he held the book out for her to take.
"Really?" She asked stunned. She never thought he would have agreed. She took the book from his hand.
"Page 184. That's it." He reminded her. "I know." She looked down at the page. 184, okay. She looked to the top and began reading….
Fubuki looked into the eyes of his best friends daughter, shocked. "Fubuki-san, please, take me!" Kyomi said pressing herself into him. "Kyomi…I..cant. You're only 16 and I am an adult." He said looking down at her, trying to steady his breathing. "I don't care about our age difference, or the fact that father is your friend. I just want to be yours fully. Please! I need you."
With that Fubuki could not hold back as he spun her around pressing her body against the wall. He pressed his arousal against her as she moaned his name. He brought their lips together kissing her passionately while his hands roamed her young supple body…
Sakura couldn't stop the blush that now covered her entire face. How could he read something like that right out in the open, and in front of his students. Well ex-students, but still. And what was with the main characters? Did her sensei like the idea of having a way younger woman? At that thought her blush turned a brighter shade of red.
Kakashi looked at Sakura's face. She had a bright blush on her face and he could tell she didn't want anything more to do with that book. "So, how do you like it? I happen to like this particular part a lot, so I thought that as another fully mature adult, that you would too." Sakura looked up at him and scoffed. She knew now that he was just trying to prove that she was still to young, so she lied. "Actually, I like it a lot. I think that the way Fubuki is accepting that Kyomi is old enough to make up her own mind about them is very noble and sweet and I am glad that he decided to act on his feelings despite the fact that he was clearly older" Sakura felt satisfied with her comeback until she looked at his face. He was giving her a perplexed look.
Kakashi was a little shocked to say the least. He knew that she had been uncomfortable reading those adult scenes, but she had apparently liked it as well. Was she really okay with the relationship of the two characters in the book? She even said she was glad Fubuki had made a move on a sixteen year old girl. He looked down to the book she was gripping in her hands. It was a bad idea to let her read the book. What was he thinking. He needed to take it back.
Sakura's eyes went wide as she saw a determined look in her sensei's eye as he reached his hand out to her. What was he doing and why did the heat return to her cheeks? Maybe he was trying to make a move on her like what happened with the couple in the book. She did tell him that she liked the couple being together. He must have gotten the wrong idea. "Ka..kashi…sensei.." she stuttered out nervously her blushing now at an uncontrollable state.
When Kakashi heard her say his name like that he looked to her face. She was so flustered. She looked as though she was nervous that he was near her. 'shit.' he thought to himself. She had the wrong idea. She thought he was reaching out to…well make a move on her. It was his fault. He had told her that the part in his book that he liked most involved a grown man screwing a 16 year old. That wasn't even true. He had just been trying to get her to give up on reading his book. He needed to set things straight.
"Sakura, you got the wrong idea. I was trying to reach for my book." Sakura blinked a couple of times realization showing on her face. "Yeah! I know that sensei. What else would you have been doing?" Sakura said trying to blow it off. Kakashi reached for his book again. She realized what he was doing and quickly handed it back to him. She looked down at her feet as he laid back against the tree and resumed reading. She felt so self-conscious sitting there next to him. She couldn't believe that she had thought Kakashi-sensei would ever do anything like that to her. Her thoughts slowly left her as she looked up to see Naruto and Sai walking back to camp with their food.