Chapter Two. I'm actually posting, I feel so proud. Warning, fair bit of cursing and references to alcohol in here. If you're touchy about that sort of thing. Which I don't think most people are. At least not where I live. Anyways. Hope you enjoy, three chapters left, and this one is a bit longer, hurrah, hurrah. Thanks for the reviews, they give me a squishy warmth inside... or maybe that's the result of the ice cream. :)
Enjoy.
Day Two
"Not this again."
"You know that there's three more days of it Kakashi-san."
"That is precisely what depresses me."
"I know. If it makes you feel any better I'm not thrilled about it either."
"At least you don't have a hideous hangover."
"That's because I didn't go to a bar last night and get blind stinking drunk."
"But you did go to the bar."
"And I got soda water, Kakashi-sensei. And fruit juice. There wasn't any alcohol."
"Everyone else got drunk."
"I know. I wonder if Naruto and Hinata are awake yet."
"I think they are."
"Do you think we can see their reaction on waking up together at all?"
"No, probably not."
"Sad. Hearing about it secondhand won't be as amusing"
"Sakura, explain something to me."
"Okay, depending what it is."
"How is it that we get the boring middle of the day surveillance shift andthe early morning one?"
"I don't know. Bad karma, I suppose. Well, either that or Tsunade-shishou likes to torture me. And you. She's annoyed with your reports. They're too short, she says. Also, at least we don't have both shifts in a row."
"That's true."
"And Kakashi-sensei?"
"Yes Sakura?"
"You really didn't have to go so drunk last night. You could have been wise like me."
"Wise and you are not words I'd use in the same sentence at all."
"Okay, shut up. And besides, I only had one glass of vodka."
"So you did drink!"
"Not enough to give me a disgusting, painful, obvious hangover."
"But you had hard vodka. I just had various other drinks."
"Uh-huh. But I only had one glass. That was the least of everyone there. Even Hinata got drunk. And went home with Naruto."
"Heh."
"Kakashi-senpai, you are sick. It's Naruto."
"You were thinking it too."
"So?"
"So you're just as sick as me."
"Excuse me; I at least do not read porn in public!"
"You should. You'd find it's very relaxing."
"Ew."
"Really."
"Besides, I don't want to scare the entire population of Konoha."
"I scare people?"
"Occasionally."
"…oh, I hadn't realized."
"A lot of the Academy students and genin are terrified of you, I think some people that you've worked with also are. And some of the chunin and jonin from my year."
"I wasn't aware that they all hated me."
"It's not hate so much as it's fearful respect."
"That makes me feel so much better Sakura."
"No, no, it should. Put it like this: would you rather have them giggling behind your back or gazing in silent awe?"
"Actually, the gazing in silent awe thing sort of creep me out."
"Aha, I've found your phobia at last."
"No, you haven't."
"Yes, I have."
"No, Sakura, you have not."
"Yes, Kakashi-sensei, I have."
"No, it just creeps me out. I'm not really scared of it per se."
"Damn it."
"Trying to find my weakness?"
"Found it already."
"Oh yes. Now I remember. You and Naruto got the bells."
"Mmm. That was gratifying."
"I would expect it was so."
"Hey Kakashi-sensei?"
"Yes?"
"Let's train again. I bet that I can beat you."
"I bet you can't."
"Can."
"No you can't Sakura."
"You're too smug. Why don't we see who's right?"
"Fine. Fine. I'll meet you on Training Court 3. What time?"
"3:30 is best for me."
"That works for me also."
"Kakashi?"
"What?"
"We can't spar in this room, can we?"
"Sakura, you're sitting in my lap again. That's the only way we fit in this space at all."
"Well, I could still punch you."
"Yes, but you're not going to."
"Why not?"
"You'll destroy the surveillance booth."
"So?"
"So, Sakura, you'll have to pay for it. And the mission would fail. And, boring as it may be, this surveillance is apparently very necessary."
"You sound like you're quoting someone on that last line."
"The Hokage."
"Yes, that does sort of sound like Tsunade-shishou."
"Mmm."
"That blatant disregard."
"Yes."
"Doesn't mean that I still don't want to punch something."
"You should take Anger Management classes Sakura."
"No. Besides, they would tell to me to stop punching things which is integral to my job."
"Oh yeah. It's a bit like someone telling me not to read Icha Icha in public."
"Kakashi, I fail to see any comparison there."
"It's an integral part of my personality-"
"-that makes people scared of you."
"Please tell me that we're not back to this?"
"Fine, fine, fine, we won't get back to it."
"Okay."
"Kakashi."
"Yes?"
"I'm terribly bored. And you were wrong. I didn't get lucky today."
"Please tell me you don't mean what I think you mean."
"Of course not you perverted idiot. No action."
"What?"
"On thejob."
"Oh. Right. Of course."
"Do you just hear everything assuming it is innuendo?"
"No, just most things."
"Kakashi, there's no difference there."
"Yes there is. It's a small percentage but it still exists."
"You're weird. This is so boring."
"We can play I Spy."
"Oooh, yes. I spy a beige wall! I spy a ceiling! I spy a perverted shinobi!"
"Okay, we won't."
"Next time I pull surveillance, I want Naruto with me."
"Too bad, Sakura. After the… incident… that happened last Naruto was put on surveillance he'll never do it again. Tsunade would put a ten year old from the Academy on surveillance before Naruto."
"I hate you when you're right."
"That's okay."
"I'd like you much more if you bought be food when we get out of here."
"I have no money Sakura."
"Yeah, 'cause you spent it all on beer."
"…fine, fine, I'll buy you a round tonight."
"Good. And you'll buy me ramen."
"Are you trying to bankrupt me?"
"No, Kakashi-sensei."
"Than what-"
"I'm trying to make it so that you won't show up hungover tomorrow. You're a bit of an ass."
"…"
"What?"
"Stop looking so cute and innocent."
"Why?"
"It's not healthy."
"Kakashi?"
"What, Sakura?"
"You are really strange."
"Thank you."
"It wasn't a compliment."
"I know."