Night 1: The Dance

Sakura lay in bed and watched the ceiling. She should probably take a shower, but she was too busy trying to make sense of what happened today. She had made a fool of herself today. He was an elite ninja, it would be foolish to think he wouldn't sooner or later realize what it was that he smelled. But what haunted her most was why she got turned on in the first place. Either way today was probably the most embarrassing thing she ever did in her whole life apart from declaring her love to Sasuke in the middle of the street while he obviously couldn't care less. When thinking about it, this was even worse, because that was embarrassing but somehow cute and understandable, this was just stupid. Maybe she should just try a cold shower, and these weird images that had been flashing her mind for a few hours now would magically disappear.

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She put on a normal bra and tugged the ribbon that kept her hair together. Half long strands of pink damp hair fell on her shoulders. She decided a drink in the pub might be exactly what she needed. It was probably better if she didn't have to think at all for the moment, so no unwanted images could evade her mind.

The pub was only a few minutes away from her apartment. On Friday and Saturday night she had to close her window because she couldn't sleep with all the noises from drunk people that would go on till 6 a.m. But on week nights she liked to go there. Most people were sober and it wasn't even half as crowded as it was during weekend eve's.

Sakura let out a soft groan when she opened the pub door. Why was he always there when she entered the pub? She glanced over to Kakashi's usual working spot. He seemed busy, if she was lucky she would be able to make it to the bar without him noticing her. She wasn't sure if she was quite ready to face him already so she definitely wouldn't initiate the contact herself.

'Yo.' Apparently Sakura had no choice. He decided for her.

'Hey.' She gave him a weak smile. 'I was going to get some drink you want something.'

'I'd like some sake if they still have any..' Kakashi made a gesture to a drunk guy in the other corner of the bar. Several bottle of sake were standing on the table. All seemed to be empty.

'I'll look if they saved some for us.' Sakura giggled and headed towards the bar. He didn't mention anything about this afternoon, he seemed quite his normal self, but she didn't know if that was a good or a bad sign. Maybe she should try and see how much of her aroused state he'd picked up on, just to know how embarrassed exactly she should be.

'You wouldn't believe me if I said it was the last one right?' She placed the bottle of sake on the table and sat down on the chair opposite of Kakashi before placing the cups in front of them. 'Look I'm not sure what happened this afternoon, I'm sorry. It's just that..' She didn't really know what she should say, or whether this was even a solid plan to begin with.

Kakashi looked up from his work and could almost feel her embarrassment as much as he could see her. 'There's no need for you to be sorry Sakura. I should be apologizing. Later on I realized how insulting I must have been.' He gave her a smile.

Sakura frowned. Insulting? What was he talking about? ' I don't think you understand. I'm usually very prudish. But.. Ehh.. You know..' this was going nowhere and the worst thing was, she didn't know what he was talking about either.

'I know.. I know.. And that's why I wanted to apologize. I didn't mean to embarrass you by doing the whole shadow clone thing, as you said you're already of the.. ehh… female species and I guess it was a bit insulting maybe.' Kakashi awkwardly scratched the back of his neck.

So that was what he was talking about. Sakura's insides relaxed in relief. So he didn't notice her real problem, that was only good if she played along she was save. 'Well yeah, it is not very nice to tell a woman, her natural appearance isn't attractive enough to distract a male attacker.'

'If you put it that way, it does kind off harsh doesn't it?' If she'd looked up she'd seen his eyes had an amused smile in them that would've told her he knew her little secret. But she was too busy avoiding his gaze while she played a long with his interpretation of the conversation

Kakashi suppressed a giggle and tried how far he could push her discomfort without revealing what he knew. 'I never had the attention to hurt you, nor did I mean you're not sexy enough. It's just that a naked woman is very distractive for a male attacker and I wouldn't be pleased if you stripped in front of our enemy to show of your own natural blessings. Forgive me?'

Sakura blushed like a cherry. 'Sure, we can go over the technique some other time if you put it that way.'

Kakashi smirked. ' Now shall we drink, before your eyes dried out the cup?'

Sakura was glad he greeted her and that they had this conversation. Even though Kakashi had probably less to do with her discomfort than he thought right now, at least he didn't smell anything funny on her. Or at least he didn't identify the scent. And he talked about her 'natural blessing' which meant he thought she looked good right?

Kakashi reached for his mask and made sure no people were unnecessarily watching him. She watched his hand closely as it slid down the mask to take sip of his sake. She knew he didn't mind her seeing it, as medic and part of team 7 she'd seen his face millions of times. This time was slightly different though. Those lips were about to kiss her if everything went well.

Sakura's eyes wandered over his lips as he gently touched the edge of his cup. Ino definitely didn't pick the most ugly nin she could have picked. When thinking about it, Kakashi was definitely the most handsome man she knew. And his lips looked soft and kissable. No, there had to be a better word for it. Desirable? Yes that was it. His lips looked desirable.

'Still not used to it?' His voice brought her back to reality.

'Sorry I was just lost in thought, I always stare at some random place when I'm lost in thoughts.'

'Yeah right. You don't even believe that yourself.' He pulled is mask back up and leaned backwards.

'Even if I stared, I can stare wherever I like. I mean you're a handsome man and you know it, I'm sure lots of other women were staring to.'

Kakashi smirked. 'Even if they did it would probably be because they wondered what in the world would deserve so much of your attention.'

'Ughh.. ' Sakura looked away from him and watched some dancing couples. The girls looked so elegant with their swaying hips and the dresses that swung freely from their waist down. It looked much more romantic than the kind of dancing that took place during the weekends when the club was filled with more modern music.

Sakura had been dancing for a long time and reached quite a high level, but her dance partner seemed to want more than just dancing and couldn't keep his hands to himself. And so, since there were no partners available of her level - apart from a rather short boy who didn't reach her chin when she wore dancing shoes - she stopped.

It had been a long time since a guy treated her with so much elegance. Her last boyfriends were mostly after only one thing and showed that in every action. Which was mostly the reason Sakura dumped them. Sex was nice, but she wanted something else too.

'You can dance right, Kakashi-sensei?'

He looked up from the orange book he must have grabbed when Sakura was lost in thoughts. 'Yeah why?'

'Shall we dance?' She asked sweetly, putting an innocent smile on her lips.

Kakashi frowned and watched her with suspicion. Sakura giggled. 'I promise I won't try anything on you. It's just been a really long time since I danced and you being male and the proper length and all just seem like a perfect partner.'

'Can't you dance with that guy?' Kakashi pointed out a single guy who was standing at the bar. 'He's about my length and probably a better dancer.'

'You don't wanna dance with me?' Sakura pouted and pointed her finger at it to show him her disappointment although her eyes glanced playfully.

'I'm tired Sakura I told you earlier today. And then we trained for several hours, so now I am exhausted.' He sunk further into his chair to prove his point.

'Oh come on, I won't bite. How dare you turn me down, first you were insulting me this afternoon you admitted that yourself, and now you don't want to do me the pleasure of a single dance.' Sakura acted to be hurt, but she doubted he really fell for it.

'You're not playing fair, besides you said you forgave me.'

Sakura stood up and hold out her hand. 'Would you please take this dance from me?'

Kakashi's eyes wandered from her lips all the way down to her feet an back up before her looked her in the eyes en took her hand. 'Okay but just one dance and only because I feel guilty.'

'Sure.' Sakura whisper more to herself than to him when he guided her to the dance floor.

Sakura shivered lightly when Kakashi pressed her tightly against his chest and started to move to the music.

Sakura didn't quite understand why he didn't want to dance at first. If he was this good, he must have done it a lot. Which means he must like it. He didn't seem disgusted by the fact they were so close either, because he didn't seem to keep her distant. Sakura had danced with many partners and some of them weren't too keen on the body contact that dancing involved and they tried to keep their partner as distant as possible, which made them horrible leaders. But Kakashi didn't dance like that, in fact she was almost crushed against his chest as he moved her around the dance floor, even though he handled her ever so gently.

Sakura would be lying as she said she didn't like the fact it was Kakashi who was her dance partner. He was quite sexy, though she couldn't currently see that with his mask on, and had a body to die for. Of course most ninja's were in good shape, but there was something about him that made him stand out amongst all other ninja's.

Sakura gasped as Kakashi dropped her backwards to make her bend her back at an angle of almost 90 degrees with her one leg still standing on the ground. He smirked.

'Lost in thoughts again?'

Sakura blushed. She could feel his breath touch her face as he spoke and felt a light tingle in her lower belly. Was this how her last dance partner felt as they were dancing? But this was wrong! She was supposed to seduce him, not the other way around.

Sakura knew the song they were dancing on. It was a very common song for dancers. So she knew it was almost ending and she wished for Kakashi forget he was just dancing one song.

The new song started and Kakashi was still holding her. The song was much slower than the one they'd been dancing on and al around her couples pressed each other closer. Sakura blushed. Would Kakashi do the same?

He slowly swung her around and pressed her back against his chest. Sakura trembled when she felt the soft fabric of his mask touch the side of her face.

'You've had what you asked for, now I'm going home.' He whispered as though he was saying something very sensual.

'What? Oh come on Kakashi don't tell me you don't like to dance. Can't you stay a little longer?' He was still holding her, but was already dancing his way to the side of the dance floor.

'You've had your dance, now I'm off to bed.' He broke contact and walked back to the table where they'd sat before to grab his paperwork. He turned around to face her once more as her reached the doorway and gave her a short two fingered wave before disappearing into the darkness of the night.

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