II

So yeah.

I tried. To confess, I mean. Didn't go very well. I never got to the confessing part.

But my timing was horrible, so... And I chickened out. I'm a coward. And I'm proving INO right? Blasphemy!

Erm... Yeah... I guess you want to know what happened.

Well, we were training. The whole team, I mean. Yeah, talk about bad timing.

Either way, Sai and Naruto were going at each other like the idiots they are and didn't pay any attention to Kaka-sensei and I. (I seriously have to stop calling him that. It pisses him off and I can't afford my astronomically small chances getting even smaller by annoying him.)

Anyway.

So we were sparring.

Well, I was trying to hit him and he skipped across the grounds while gleefully flinging kunai and shuriken at me.

He was soooo rubbing in the fact that I'm far too slow to catch him. Grrr.

You'd think that by thirty-something a man would be at least halfway mature, but not Hatake Kakashi. He loves ticking me off too much to grow up, I guess.

So yeah, he made me angry. But that was to be expected, what with my super short fuse and everything.

I lost it. Big way.

And by doing so, I basically left everything up to Inner Sakura. Always helpful in sticky situations. (Everyone should have a strong-headed, slightly homicidal inner persona. Seriously.)

Now HER logic is NOT what normal people would put under the same definition. (What ninja is normal anyway? We're all screwed up big way. Some more than others.) But she's sneaky and damn clever.

She simulated pulling a muscle during a jump and collapsed to the ground, clutching our leg and groaning in pseudo pain. (She's a damn good actor. I almost believed her, but yeah. The same body and all.)

Kakashi, always putting his teammates' well-being over anything, became concerned and dropped out of the trees coming closer. (He's also much more protective of me than the boys. But that's to be had, I'm a girl. Never mind that I could kill all three with a single finger if I felt inclined. But shishou always said that a kunoichi's best weapon is underestimation. And as it is, no one who made that mistake lived to tell about it. Aside from the three stooges, that is.)

Anyway, his concern backfired when Inner Sakura swiftly punched the ground apart and caught him unawares. He ended up trapped in a ten feet long crater. He still falls for the same old trick. Talk about an oxymoron. He's the stupidest genius I've ever encountered. (Well there's Sasuke, but he's not really a genius. That was Itachi. Genin at five, ANBU at twelve and all. Like Kakashi. Sasuke was just driven and a fast learner. I am too. Now I'm considered a medical genius, but shishou knows that I AM, because it takes a long time to master medical ninjutsu, and I learned it all within a year and am now a master. But whatever. Not that I'm boasting or anything. I'm just stating facts. Seriously.)

Well I got over my anger watching him try to free himself and fail. So Inner Sakura went back to the dark recesses of my mind and I helped Kakashi out of the hole. I also kind of apologized for my dirty trick (more like I said, and I quote, "I'm sorry you still haven't learned to read me and that you're stupid enough to fall for the same trick every time.") and tried to muster up the courage to just blurt out my feelings when Sai came flying and crashed right into me.

The moment was ruined, my courage only a memory and I on the brink of killing someone. Preferably Naruto. And Sai.

Realizing that I was about to explode, Kakashi disappeared as suddenly as he'd appeared that afternoon behind me, three hours late, and scaring me half to death. (I really should learn to anticipate him popping out of nowhere behind me, he does that pretty often. Gets kicks out of seeing me jump, I guess. Ass.)

I was left with the two morons to get some revenge.

And I did. Oh, how I did.

I bet them both bloody and left them twitching and bleeding behind while I returned home to introduce my forehead to the living room wall.

Shizune and Genma found the idiots some time later and she healed them, before coming to scold me for breaking bones.

Tch. They had it coming. They ruined the most awkward confession in the ninja history. (Erm, now that I think about it, maybe I should thank them... NO! They're still morons, so there!)

And shishou said I did a good job. She should know, she beats Jiraiya-sama all the time, as well.

... I still haven't confessed, have I?

'Scuse me while I go re-introduce my forehead to that wall... I have a feeling they'll be seeing more of each other in the future.

A/N: Second Part, please R&R