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Chapter 1 - Unexpected Partners

...beep...beep...BEEP...BEEP...BEEP...BE-!

The alarm clock crashed into the wall in the little bed room and the silver haired Shinobi turned in his bed.

He looked up to the ceiling, feeling a bit moody and began to wonder if he should take his lazy ass out of the bed, to yet again be faced with an eventless day.

He sighed deeply and glanced to the smashed alarm clock on the wooden floor, not really feeling like he like he didn't really want to get up immediately. The day would (as it always had) begin with a boring breakfast (old hard bread with nothing on it), spending at least two hours beside the K.I.A stone, then reading his Icha Icha Violence while walking around in Konoha and then showing up at least four hours late.

But on this day, he suddenly remembered that he couldn't show up four hours late. If he did that today, Tsunade had threatening him with that he would spend every single mission of his life with Gai as his partner.

Just that though scared him more then Tsunade kicking him to death.

"... I guess I should get out of the bed then..."

~oOo~

The silver haired Shinobi knocked on a dark wooden door and someone called him inside.

"Yo, Tsunade-sama..." he said and walked inside of the circle room.

"Remarkable... You are actually in time, Kakashi..." the busty blond woman said to him and looked up from her paperwork.

"I assume that you have a mission for me, Tsunade-sama..." Kakashi said and looked down to the woman Tsunade.

"Aaa, I do... And this time I would have to ask you to go to Tsume no Kuni*..." Tsunade said and putted away her paperwork. "Apparently it's some kind of big event going on between two clans..."

"Events...? What kind of events...?" Kakashi asked.

"I don't really know, but they had paid a lot to get our help..." Tsunade laughed slightly to herself. "So I couldn't say no..."

She was indeed infatuated with money.

Kakashi frowned. He had been through a lot because of this woman since Sasuke had run away to Orochimaru and Naruto later on had left with Jiraiya to train. And Kakashi knew that if it was much money on the stake, Tsunade had given him all those missions and he had always ended up with more scares then he could count.

"Because of this mission, I will send with you an Iryou-nin*..." Tsunade said and Kakashi looked a bit relieved.

Finally she had begun to notice that he had been severely hurt during most of his missions.

"You never know if our client will get hurt..." Tsunade ended her narration and the air in his lungs disappeared slightly. He had hoped for too much.

"R-Right..." Kakashi mumbled.

"Don't worry too much about the Iryou-nin... She is very good on what she is doing..." Tsunade told him.

`She...? Maybe my luck has return...ยด

"...And she is also independent, fearless, clever and really strong..." Tsunade looked up to Kakashi. "Her name is-..."

A knock on the door could be heard and Tsunade looked up to the door.

"Enter!"

~oOo~

The young Kunoichi brushed her short pink hair and then she tied the red forehead protector as a diadem around her head and looked at herself in the mirror.

Emerald eyes met the reflection of a fifteen year old young woman and she flipped her fingers through her soft hair.

She felt really excited about today. This was her first mission since she had become a Chuunin and spending all her time as a nurse, hadn't done any good to her.

She was feeling even grumpier then before and all she had just wanted was just to escape Konoha for sometime. And yesterday, Shizune had passed by the hospital to tell her to come to Tsunade's office after her shift was over and it was then Tsunade had asked if she was interested in a B-ranked mission. And of course, she couldn't refuse such an offer.

The pink haired Kunoichi walked out of her bed room, said farewell to her mother and walked out of the apartment.

The sun was shining down on her from the clear blue spring sky and the birds flew pass her to land on a nearby tree. This day couldn't be more perfect then it was. Nice weather and soon a B-ranked mission in her hands.

She walked up the many stairs to the manor of the Hokage and walked down the hall to stop at her Shishou Tsunade's office. She knocked.

"Enter!" she could hear Tsunade call from inside of the office.

"I'm here now, Tsunade-sama!" the pink haired Kunoichi said while opening the door and took a step inside to look at the busty blond in the chair by the desk, but the Kunoichi froze when she saw someone more stand inside of the room.

The silver haired quite younger man (compared to the busty blond), looked to the pink haired Kunoichi in the door way with curiosity before he gave her a smile under his mask, but he still looked a bit thoughtful to her.

"Ah, good that you on time..." the busty Tsunade said with a smile to the pink haired Kunoichi in front of her, whom seemed to have unfroze to the degree that she could close the door behind her.

"Um... Kakashi-Sensei...?" the pink haired Kunoichi said to the still thoughtful looking silver haired man in front of her.

"Don't tell me that you don't recognize your own student, Kakashi..." Tsunade said and hide a smirk.

"... Sakura...?" Kakashi said and the pink haired Kunoichi smiled up to him and the silver haired Kakashi suddenly felt stupid not recognizing her.

"You have a mission for me...?" Sakura then asked Tsunade who nodded.

"I have... I have assigned you as the medic to assist Kakashi on his mission." Tsunade said and looked to them.

"NANI*?" both Kakashi and Sakura burst out shocked.

"I said that you two is going on a mission together..." Tsunade told them with a frown and held out the scroll to Kakashi, who took it with hesitation. "I can't tell you more about the mission, because I don't really know more then you do..."

"Shishou..." Sakura growled annoyed and looked to her Sensei that was obviously as annoyed as Sakura herself was.

"There there, Sakura... I will not allow faces like that during this mission. Because this mission it's important to us, so don't mess it up. Leave as fast as you have packed. You are dismissed..." Tsunade said and both of them knew it was end of discussion.

Kakashi pulled his hands in his pockets and turned around to the door, while Sakura bowed to Tsunade and then both of them was out of the office.

~oOo~

Sakura walked besides her reading Sensei while they walked down the street of Konoha and neither of them said a word.

And Sakura wasn't sure if Kakashi was looking a bit annoyed or if he was just hiding his blushing.

"So... Sensei..." Sakura finally ended the silence and her Sensei acknowledged her with an expressionless face. "Um... It has been a long time since last..."

"It certainly has..." he told her and went back to read his little dirty novel. "And you have really...um... grown some..."

Sakura couldn't help to blush slightly and looked down to the ground.

"I can't say the same about you..." Sakura mumbled and Kakashi looked down to her with a raised eyebrow.

"Well... probably not... Anyway... it's nice to see you again..." Kakashi said and frowned to himself.

It had certain not came out the way it should have.

"Um... It's nice to see you too... Sensei..." Sakura said and looked up to the man, who was still engrossed in his book.

"Ah, Right... We should pack and about one hour we should meet each other at the gate. Is that okay...?" Kakashi asked.

"Hai..." Sakura said and Kakashi nodded at her and they went separates ways.

Authors note:

Sakura and Kakashi are heading to a more or less unknown mission together and neither of them is very fond of Tsunade at the moment.

Mini Japanese dictionary and little more;

Iryou-nin* = Medic-nin

Nani* = What

Tsume no Kuni* = Claw Country

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