It was embarrassing. Full-out embarrassing. And he would pay dearly for what he was making her do. Green eyes turned to glare at unfazed obsidian. How DARE he do this to me! Oh, when I get my teeth on his book...She could see the bulge in one pocket where said object currently rested. A round of high-pitched yapping had her crouching down and trying to press her paws over her ears. Why won't it shut up?! My ears are going to start bleeding soon!
"So you see rival, my dog has made yours cower in fear!" Gai laughed, proudly holding the silver leash attached to the yapping monstrosity of a pomeranian.
Kakashi opened his eye to look at the eccentric man, face screwed up in a painful wince at the high-pitched volume of the little dog who had yet to cease its yapping attack. "Did you say something?"
The Green Beast of Konoha twitched before clenching a fist. "Damn you are your hip new ways, Kakashi!"
She had finally had enough of the pesky little thing. Removing her paws from her ears, she moved to tower over the smaller dog and bared her fangs, growling deeply. Expelling her breath in a thunderous bark, the fluffy little dog yelped and ran behind Gai's legs. Finally, silence. "Good girl." Kakashi praised, patting her on the head and ignoring her growl directed at him. Oh, he was gonna get it though when she finally got her human form back. With its super-human strength and supreme chakra control too no less. His smile wouldn't be so pretty when a few of his teeth were shattered out of it. Or maybe she'd just sink her fangs into his hand. That idea had an appealing ring to it.
Gai blinked before scowling, reaching down to pick up and cradle the shivering little bundle of fuzz. "You may have won this round my eternal rival, but it will be your last!"
The sight of the eccentric jounin leaving at any time was a sign of celebration, except to Lee of course; but this time brought more relief to Sakura then any other before it. Who knew a dog could get migraines? She fell into step with Kakashi as he continued his strolling along the streets of Konoha, going back to her thoughts before being rudely interrupted with shrill yapping. She was starting to get exasperated, her boys were so much denser then she expected. Several attempts had been made by the girl to get them to realize just who she was. Initially, she had tried to scratch a message in the dirt, but the roads were too hard-packed and her claws weren't designed for writing. Plus, when she tried, all four claws dug into the earth so she made four lines instead of one. This had the unfortunate result of just tearing up the ground beyond comprehension of what she was doing. Experiments with writing had proven worthless. Her jaws were too powerful and usually snapped the pen in half, or pencil, and even when it didn't break, she could only make jagged up and down movements with the thing. A dog's jaws just weren't designed to make the movements needed to write an intelligable letter. Kakashi had finally hidden all writing utensils out of her reach, complaining about her 'teething'. She tried bringing them a sprig of cherry blossoms, but Naruto had only gone to lay it at the memorial that now bore her name. Hell, she had even tried barking in morse code.
It was always the same thing. All she recieved for her efforts was the occassional pat on the head and "Clever girl." It was down-right depressing at times. She was just about ready to resign herself to her fate as a furry companion to Konoha's number one lecher. Whom was surprisingly not as lecherous as she thought. He hadn't brought home one woman in all the time she'd been spending with him. Although, he had begun to stare at her more and more, with a look that was completely unreadable to her. Her eyes were on the ground and glazed over as she stumbled into her ex-sensei's legs, rebounding to the side a couple of steps before continueing to walk forward. She didn't even notice Kakashi had stopped, a quizzical look in his one eye.
No longer following, her feet switched to autodrive and led her to Ino's flowershop, the silver-haired jounin following her the entire way. It wasn't until her nose bumped into the cool glass of the front door of the shop that she finally stopped, looking up in surprise to where she was. When it connected as to just which building it was she was standing in front of, she vaguely tried to shoulder her way in, if only to see her best friend/rival, but the door was locked. It appeared Ino was either out or on a mission. She heaved a sigh, head hanging.
"Sakura." She ignored her male companion in favor of leaning her head against the glass. Today just keeps getting worse and worse. It would have been nice to see Ino, maybe she would have the brains to figure things out. Men are really worthless in that area. She thought morbidly. "Sakura!" Again he was ignored, as glaring at her paws appeared to be a much better thing to do then listen to the Copy-Nin. "Haruno!!"
"What?!" She snapped, though it came out more as a threatening bark, as she whirled to face him. Again, that whisper of chakra that had unknowingly returned to her, flared up in a brief moment of irritated anger. Why couldn't the man just leave her be?! Cracks arced out from where her claws dug into the earth as she growled at him with bared fangs.
But his dark eye had gone wide, the shock so wide-spread that he had even moved to lift the headband off his Sharingen to look at her through both eyes. Slowly, the blood-red eye began to spin, triggering her to automatically shut her eyes. She had seen him use it before, had seen Sasuke use his to deadly effect, and there was no way this little pup was gonna relive her worst nightmares. She started to back away, only to bump tail-first into the glass of Ino's shop. Whirling around, Sakura opened her eyes and took off, running away from the silver-haired man as fast as her four legs could carry her. Which was suprisingly fast indeed she discovered, much faster than her human form at any rate.
"Sakura!" Kakashi swore, slidding his headband back down to cover the Sharingan. He had been unable to see anything through it, other then a medium-sized black dog. But there had been a residual trace of blue shimmering in the animal, very closely resembling chakra. The man sprinted after the dog as its tail disappeared around a corner. Its not possible, the Sharingan just confirmed it. But why, why did it react like that? Why did it go to Ino's place? Its too coincidental. Too many things are begining to add up. "Sakura, come!"
His eyebrows drew together in concentration, the damned mutt was fast! For her part, Sakura was putting to effect all the advantages a dog's body had over a human's. Her claws allowed her to dig in and turn on a dime, she was considerably faster on four legs, and her lungs were larger which allowed her to maintain top speed longer. But she could hear the silver-haired man gaining on her every time she flicked her ears back. It would only be a matter of a few minutes before he caught her if she didn't shake him soon. Why am I even running from him? She questioned herself, starting to slow down as that question became predominant in her mind. Oh right, Sharingan.
"Gotcha!" She yelped as the man tackled into her, sending them both rolling several feet. She squirmed and kicked, accidently nipping him instinctively when his arm came to close to her mouth. "Kuso!" The jounin swore, wrapping his arms around the dog and standing up, hauling her bodily from the ground. She went limp instantly, too accustomed to Naruto doing the same thing.
I could bite him, that would make him drop me. Course, that would also get me killed likely. She sighed heavily, hanging her head and watching as her 'owner' started walking back the way they had come. "So, Sakura. Have you enjoyed being a peeping tom on your sensei?" Came the peeved and rather grumpy-sounding voice of the man holding her.
It was followed by a low groan as her head swung up abruptly and cracked into his jaw, causing his teeth to click harshly together. Low mutterings and many swears accompanied her being dropped to the ground. Green eyes stared at him as he rubbed briskly at his sore jaw, returning the wide-eyed stare with a nasty look of his own. Small tremors wracked through her canine body as she shook at the implications of what he had said. And what he had said!
"Holy Shi--!!" He hadn't even been able to register her movement as the large mutt had tackled into him, pinning him down with her forepaws on his shoulders and leaning down to growl in his face, teeth less then an inch from his eye. But the angry chakra that pulsed from her was one he was familiar with.
Then it was gone, just as suddenly as a huge pink, slobbery tongue engulfed his field of vision and Sakura licked him. "HARUNO!!!"
A rough, hiccup-y growl cued him into the fact Sakura was genuinely laughing at him. Her tail whipped back and forth as she looked down at him, bouncing slightly on her front paws in joy. Someone had figured it out at last! She was so happy, she could have licked him again. Speaking of which, he tasted rather good. Lot better than Sasuke at any rate. The man shoved her off himself, propping himself up on his hands to glare at her. Half of his Sharingan could be seen whirling in agitation before Kakashi yanked the headband back down over it. "You know, I could call that sexual harrassment. Really Sakura, you should have just told me when you were still human. I'm sorry to say, but I'm really not into animals. No matter what Genma may say about that goat in Suna."
A gag and a full bodied shudder wracked through the dog at that little information and she gave him a disgusted look. I can't believe I LICKED him!! Ugh, goat germs! She did her best to spit, but a dog's mouth wasn't designed for that particular movement. "You know he was lying right?" Kakashi asked dryly in response to her violent reaction.
"Yeah, suuuure." She woofed out, rolling her eyes. Still, she couldn't stop her tail from wagging again as she remembered that he knew! And now he would help her and everything would be fine again! Well...almost everything anyway. Never had Sakura been more grateful that a canine couldn't blush than in that moment as a flashback image came to her. One of Kakashi sauntering out of his bathroom after a shower with only a towel on.
"Sakura, you're drooling." He said, feigning an air of indifference. But truthfully, the man was having a hard time concealing his emotions. Sakura was ALIVE! He hadn't failed her, not entirely anyway. She was alive and standing right in front of her, and of course now the weird habits of his dog made sense to him. And he was more than a little embarrassed it had taken him this long to figure it out. I mean, it really should have been obvious. Tsunade's going to have a field day with this.
A tug on his vest snapped him back into focus and he looked down into Sakura's eyes. I should have guessed the moment I saw the eyes. No one has eyes that shade of green except her. He ruffled her ears, causing the woman-turned-dog to scrunch up her nose. "I suppose we need to go have a visit with the Hokage then."
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AN: Yeah, rather short and overdue. Sorry about that. Lot of things have been coming up and junk. But I got it done and hopefully everyone will like it. I hope I answered everyone's questions as to why a dog can't write and such. Anywho, this is really just a simple and short story, which is why its going so fast, I do realize the pace is rather rushed feeling at times. I have a different KakaSaku in the making and this is just a fun story I wanted to do. Only going to be maybe 10 chaps long, not one of my marathon 30 chap stories. Anywho, lemme know how you all liked it and any more questions about it that I can incorporate into the story. I'm thinking of writing a story next where reviewers vote on outcome and proceedings of each chapter. Lemme know your thoughts on that too. Love ya! Ja ne! L.G.