Chapter 2: The Return Mission!
"Unbelievable!" Maseru yelled when Sakura told her how far they had to walk, "Oh sorry I didn't mean to make u mad."She backed away slowly so she wouldn't hear her yell again. "Maseru don't freak out. Remember you always walked there on missions before." The Sokage put a hand on her shoulder and tried to make her relax, "But…but Kina you don't understand. I haven't been to Konoha in 12, count them, 12 years!" The group looked at the Sokage in shock when they heard her name for the first time. "Hn? What's wrong? Why are you guys giving her that look?" Maseru was puzzled by their looks, "You never introduced us to her so we were surprised she even had a name other than Sokage or milady!!!" Naruto pointed at Kina. "Oops, I guess I forgot." Maseru chuckled and scratched her head, while Kina smiled and caused everyone to blush yet again.
They had left Otaku early the next morning since the Sokage said it was best to be rested and prepared for any attack that could possibly come the next day. They all couldn't help but agree with her since her smile caused nearly everyone, even the hotel workers, to become weak and calm at the sight of it. "So your Naruto, and your Sai, and your Sakura…did I get that right?" Maseru pointed to each of them as she their names, "Yes, you got it correct this time." Sakura sighed. "Bravo Maseru-san! And it only took you 8 tries this time." Kina clapped for her accomplishment, "Everyone be on guard we're about to enter the forest." Kakashi turned to everyone, and they nodded as they went to their position to protect the Sokage.
They walked cautiously through the forest, prepared for any battle to come. Just then a kunai knife grazed Sai's arm and landed next to the Sokage's foot. "Hahahaha! Sorry kid didn't mean to miss ya." A voice echoed and everyone searched their surroundings, "Well would you look at that. Kakashi Hatake and Maseru Hani, the top two in the bingo books to kill." The voice came again, but this time Sokage saw the man move toward them through the trees. She signed something with her hands and held them out in front of her, "Tiger wind no jutsu!" She said calmly and a gust of wind that sounded like a tiger paved down the trees that were directly in front of her. This caused the man to jump out of the way, making himself visible to them.
He charged for the Sokage but was blocked by Naruto and Sai; he jumped back and to the side toward Sakura with a kunai in hand. Sakura smiled a wicked smile and met the man half way, punching him full force in the gut. He flew back, but caught his balance and stopped in time before hitting a tree. He signed for a jutsu and bellowed "Fire bomb no jutsu!!" Maseru saw a giant ball of fire aimed at the Sokage and dashed to save her. She jumped in front of the fire bomb and took the heavy blade off her back and swung it from one side to the other, this caused some wind to pick up and pushed the bomb back toward the ninja who conjured it. He tried to leap out of the way but the bomb nailed him in the side causing it to explode and burn some of his clothes.
Kakashi went in for the kill; he threw several weapons at the man and hitting him directly in his chest. "Your time is up." Kakashi began to walk forward, when all of a sudden the ninja pulled out a smoke bomb and threw it to the ground. This made smoke appear and the man was able to get away. "Damnit!" Kakashi cursed under his breath, "He will surely bring more of his kind. We better leave and get to the village as fast as we can before they get back." This time there was no smile on Kina's face and Maseru looked serious and nodded. They all began to run through the trees, leaping from one branch to another.
2 hours later they were at the front gate of Konoha, tired and hungry. They didn't stop to eat lunch because Kina wouldn't let them and Maseru helped to back up her words with a threatening look that even creeped out Kakashi a little. "Oh…uh…um, Welcome to Konoha, the village hidden in the leaves!" Kakashi and Sakura opened the gate showing the view of the city in the early evening, Kina and Maseru lightened their expressions and smiled too show their gratitude for escorting them. "May I give you the tour?" Kakashi asked putting both hands behind his head. "Maybe later for me because I must speak with the Godamie, but Maseru may go with you since I will not be needing her for the meeting." Kina pushed Maseru forward, but she was fighting back by keeping her heels firmly in the ground, "But milady I believe I should stay with you just in case." She was wide eyed as the Sokage kept pushing her toward Kakashi, "Nonsense you need the break." The Sokage stopped pushing her and walked past her and Kakashi, she was smiling as she headed toward the tower where Lady Tsunade was working.
Kakashi and Maseru were walking through town together after they waved good night to Naruto and his friends, and after they stopped staring wide eyed at each other. A growling noise came from both of their stomachs, "Uh, is that ramen shop still around here?" Maseru turned her head to look at Kakashi, "Yeah its right over there." He pointed to his left and a big sign saying Ramen was on top of a little shop. "Thank god! FOOD!" She charged toward the shop and began ordering several bowls of ramen soup. Kakashi sat next to her and he was handed a bowl, "Here you go Kakashi, this young lady already ordered for you." The owner, an old guy dressed as a chef, handed him a bowl and pointed to Maseru, who was now chugging her 10th bowl of ramen. Kakashi looked down and saw it was his favorite soup and smiled.
Kakashi gave the grand tour of the village and ended it at the rock where his parents, and many others, names were inscripted. Maseru saw the twinkle of his eye fade a little. She knew he came here often, because she found him here every night when they were little. He chuckled and her eyes went up to his face, "Remember when you tried to cheer me up when you came here with me for the first time?" he returned a gaze in her direction, she looked at him and thought back, "Yeah I remember. I bought you a cookie but you wouldn't take it so I ran away and came back an hour later with a puppy." She laughed and flashed back to when she handed him the dog, his expression made her laugh so badly that he couldn't help but laugh too.
They left the stone and were almost to the house where Maseru and the Sokage were going to stay, when they saw Tsunade, Kina, and Jiraiya leaving a bar and heading toward the house, "Shit, now I won't ever sleep because Kina is a party animal." Maseru rolled her eyes and stopped to watch them enter the house with bottles of alcohol in hand. "If you want, you can stay at my place." Kakashi looked at her and saw the blank expression on her face, she was stunned. "I promise I won't bite." He laughed, but she glared at him, "I'm afraid you're going to do more than that." "That is, unless, you want me too." He gave her a look that made her knee weaken a bit, "Um, uh…" She couldn't say anything.
He walked her back to his place, she still didn't talk. He stopped to unlock the door, but after he unlocked it he didn't go in. Instead he turned around with his mask down, apparently he took it off before he turned to her, and leaned in to kiss her. She backed away but he grabbed her face and their lips touched. She closed her eyes and allowed him to kiss her with no disagreement, he opened his mouth and so did she, allowing their tongues to touch one another.
He stopped to look at her, "You never did answer my question earlier…" he whispered to her, "Kakashi…I don't think we should tonight. Hell I don't even know if we're even dating." She said looking at him. The look made Kakashi's heart pound, he couldn't help himself so he kissed her again, but this time he opened the door and led her into his house and toward his bed, "We are dating and this is our second date." He said falling with her onto the bed. "Are you serious?" Those were the only words she could say at the moment because he began to kiss her again, "Yes I'm serious." By this time he had taken off his shirt and his vest and was trying to remove her anbu vest and shirt. She didn't know what to do when he started kissing her down her neck to her belly button, "Kakashi are we going a little too fast for this relationship then?"
He stopped and sat up staring at the floor, "I'm sorry I don't know what came over me." She gazed at him, which made him look up at her after a few minutes, "What?" He asked as she began to lean toward him, "You looked cute when you said that." She chuckled. "Oh really? Well maybe I should tickle you so I can see your cute smile." He began to tickle her and she couldn't stop laughing, "No…s-stop…Kakashi..please stop it!" he didn't stop until she reached up and pulled his face toward hers for another kiss. "Heh-heh I think you should get some sleep you look tired." He said as he cuddled her into his arms, "I'll sleep on the floor so your porno urges don't come back during the night." She snickered as she got out of the bed and pulled out some blankets to put on the floor. "Porno?" he looked confused, "Yep don't think I didn't see your Make Out Paradise series." She pointed at his head board. "Oh those." He looked at them and turned back to see her laying down on the floor, "Yeah but don't worry I read them too."
He stared at her in shock as she drifted to sleep smiling.
A/N:Another chapter completed and its getting interesting thank you for reading so far! Plz R&R
