"How can I help you?" the man at the door asked. Sakura looked at him, and a cold chill raced up her spine.

"I'm here as Lord Takanamashi's replacement girl until his son returns." Sakura said. The man nodded and showed her in. Sakura looked over her shoulder she could have sword she was being followed, but by who she didn't know, it was unnerving. The man lead her into the house, and into a very large room where a very handsome man was.

"Lord Takanamashi, this is the replacement for the young miss, while she is with your son." the man said before leaving.

"Come sit." the man said. Sakura nodded and walked over to sit in front of the man. "There are a few rules you need to be aware of." he said. Sakura nodded. "One, you never leave my side, not even in sleep. Two, you will only call me Master. Three, you will wear only what I give you, nothing more, nothing less. Understand?"

"Yes master." Sakura said, the whole thing felt degrading, but the money was too good to pass up.

"Good, now go and put this on, and come back." he ordered. Sakura nodded, and walked over to the corner of the room, where there was a small changing stall. She slipped on the dress, if it could be called that, it was more like a bikini with a see through skirt. She walked back over to Lord Takanamashi, and sat down; there were three other girls in the room. "These are your hairdresser, your painter, and your make up girls, they will see you thee times a day to make sure you look perfect."

"Yes master." Sakura said as the girls got to work. Her hair was pulled up into a bun, she had painted tattoos all along her arms, legs, chest, back, and anything that was showing besides her face, and the ones on her chest, made a ring around her neck. Her make up was gold and teal, and it matched her outfit, the bikini part was teal, and the shimmer skirt was golden.

You look beautiful."

"Thank you master." Sakura said.

"We are having a gathering tonight, and there will be many people, just stay with me and you will be fine." he said. Sakura nodded, she was already hating this mission, but started hating it more when Takanamashi started to touch her, he grabbed her waist, held her close, and started to run his arms up and down her thigh, he kissed her neck, and played with her hair.

Kakashi could have killed the guy six different ways just for touching Sakura. He never wanted to see a man touch her without her permission, or her wanting to. "Tsunade how could you send Sakura?" Kakashi asked himself as he watched though the window. There was no way Kakashi was going back to Konoha and leaving Sakura here on her own, he would stay with her until the end to make sure nothing happened to her. He would protect his blossom. i My blossom? /i he asked himself. i Since when did Sakura become my blossom? /i

b i Since you loved her. /b /i

i Who the hell are you? /i Kakashi asked.

b i I'm your Inner Self, you know how like Sakura has one, only I can't help you with problems like hers can. /i /b

i And just how do you know what her Inner can do? /i Kakashi asked.

b i No reason, but you love her and you know it. /i /b

Kakashi pushed the annoying voice away, and looked back through the window, Takanamashi wasn't touching her anymore, but he was watching her with lustful eyes. This was going to be one long ass week.

"Sakura, you served me perfectly, it is a shame to lose you." Takanamashi said kissing the back of Sakura's tattooed hand. "Please say that you will stay."

"Master you flatter me, but I am afraid my village needs me back." Sakura said taking her hand back, she had her money securely tucked away in her kunai pouch, and now she was leaving. The trip home was not so bad but she still had that feeling that she was being followed. It wasn't bad until she reached the out skirts of Fire country and she was attacked by two rouge ninja.

"My, my, my, what have we here?" one asked he was tall, and a rouge from the Hidden Mist. Sakura was screwed, she couldn't fight a water based fighter, not with her fire techniques that Kakashi had taught her. "Now sweetheart don't you know that it's dangerous for a young lady like you to be walking alone in these woods?" he asked.

"Heh, yeah that may be so if I was a normal girl." Sakura chided. She ducked into the covering and threw kunai at them to try and distract them while a clone came up on the other side, if she could manipulate her chakra just right she could use two fire ball Justus, and hide her kantana in them as they attacked. Her clone was positioned and she nodded from the covering they both attacked and the rouges were hit with the kantana. One in the chest the other in the side.

Kakashi smiled, glad he taught Sakura how to conceal weapons in her nijutsu attacks, and disappeared back to the village, she would have no problems now that she was in Fire country. Kakashi arrived back home and went straight to Tsunade boy was she going to get a mouthful.
"Kakashi glad to know that you're back, how did it go?" Tsunade asked.

"I just have one thing to say." Kakashi said smiling at the blond Hokage. "If you ever send her into something like that again I'm going to not only kill the client, but I'll make sure Shizune removes all of the sake in the whole village." Kakashi said with a growl.

"It was that bad?" Tsunade asked.

"Yes! He wouldn't stop touching her!" Kakashi exploded.

"Kakashi, as long as he did not have sex with her, I'm not concerned, are you sure that there's nothing going on between you and Sakura?" Tsunade asked a sly smile playing on her face.

"Yes I'm sure, or at least I think I am." He said.

"Kakashi you worry too much, go home, get ready for the party, Sakura will be there, you can talk to her, and if I know my student she will have something very special planed for tonight." Tsunade said pushing Kakashi out the door. "Bye now." She said shutting the door. "There is no amount of sake in the world to make me want to worry about those things again, right Jiraiya?" Tsunade asked.

"What?" the perverted sage fell from the roof, and through the window. "Ah, to be young again, yeah glad we don't have to worry about that." He said a coy smile on his face as he tried to make a move on Tsunade.

"Not until I'm drunken lover boy." She said slapping him. Jiraiya only smiled and walked out the door.