Entry for DateMe (September)
Title: Temptation
Disclaimer: Characters still don't belong to me. I can only dream.
Rating: K+
Warning: …nothing, haha. Maybe suggestive comments, but that's it.
Word Count: 1924
Summary: Smiling, he said, "It's the end of the week…There's nothing left to do, and we're all alone. Besides, there's better things to do in a room than grade papers…"
"I can resist everything except temptation." –Oscar Wilde
Hinata had always had a gift for healing. Not like Sakura, the prodigy girl who was studying under Tsunade-sama, but still enough to have an aptitude for it. Still, it was never enough for her dad, who had always demanded perfection and the best. So Hinata had struggled and worked and learned as much as she could in order to make her father proud of her, and eventually wound up studying with Sakura at the hospital and being a nurse at the Ninja Academy in her spare time.
As a result, she became closer to the kunoichi as well as the teachers and students in the school. She was often the only one on duty when a young child came in, looking very pained and trying not to cry at the cuts that they had received during an impromptu sparring session. She always smiled inwardly at their cute expressions of I'm-trying-to-be-a-ninja-so-I-can't-cry-from-something-as-little-as-this, but it wasn't often that a teacher came in. So she was surprised when Kakashi-san came in carrying Mitsuki-chan with a bleeding knee. She had known Kakashi, mostly from stories by Sakura, and was interested in learning more about the enigmatic man.
Hinata hurriedly rose from her seat at the desk where she had been examining files and walked over to they crying child. "Kakashi-san, what happened? Mitsuki-chan?"
Kakashi looked sheepish as he awkwardly patted the young girl's back, "I was supposed to be looking after the kids for Iruka-san this week, and I turned my back for one second…"
She hurriedly stifled her laughter at Kakashi, taking Mitsuki-chan and placing her carefully on the small bed in the office. She gave her a candy and gently dabbed disinfectant on the wound, asking "So where'd you go Mitsuki-chan? How'd you get hurt?"
Mitsuki sniffled before answering in a teary voice, "I was trying to climb the gate…"
"Gate? To where?"
"To the forest… I thought I saw a really cool looking -hic- mushroom!"
"… Kakashi-san, why was she so close to the Forest?"
"Er, there was a training field nearby…?" Kakashi said, rubbing his head.
Turning away from Kakashi, Hinata told Mitsuki in a stern voice, "Mitsuki-chan, listen to me. That forest is a very dangerous place. Ninjas have gotten hurt in there, and there are creatures that live in there that are bigger than even Kakashi-san. You have to promise me that you will not go back into the forest until a teacher says that you are ready to, okay?"
Looking at her substitute teacher, Mitsuki asked him, "Even bigger than sensei?", her eyes growing huge when he nodded. Turning back to Hinata, she nodded and said in a solemn voice, "I won't go back in unless a teacher says that I can."
Hinata patted her head, put on a bandage, and gave her a candy. "Now be a good girl, try not to get hurt, and when you use your kunai, make sure you're using it correctly, kay?"
Kakashi, still looking bored (albeit a little sheepish), turned and threw a mission scroll at Hinata and left before she could reprimand him for letting the children wander away.
Hinata frowned, and opened up the scroll, scanning its contents quickly. Luckily, it was just an order from Hokage-sama to continue working as the nurse at school for the whole week instead of the planned three days. 'Not that it really matters how long I work here…' she thought with a sigh, thinking of all the cute little kids, and a possibly interesting teacher.
As the next few days were fairly routine without any major accidents to break the mundane hours, Hinata found time to practice one of the more complicated techniques that Sakura had taught her – stitching a deep wound. She had to concentrate in order to feel the cartilage and skin of the dummy sliding together in the right layers without messing up their orders, or else the wound would heal wrong or become infected. After two hours of practicing, she was surprised to see that the she wasn't as tired as she normally was (a good sign that meant she was improving) and was relieved that no one had needed her attention while she was practicing. Getting up to wash her hands, she nearly jumped when she turned and saw Kakashi standing by the doorway. Peering around him to see if there was yet another injured kid, she was surprised that he was alone.
Her face must have shown a sign of surprise and confusion as he told her, "It's lunch time. You've been working for several hours without a break and you should eat."
Bemused, Hinata followed Kakashi out of the school until they had finally reached a small teahouse that served dango, soup, and onigiri.
They ate in relative silence, Kakashi seeming to enjoy the quiet peace, while Hinata peeked at him from under her eyelashes in between bites. He seemed to be content, so Hinata just shrugged and ate the rest of her dango. At the end of the hour, they walked back to the Academy where she politely thanked him for the meal and went towards her office. Right before she walked in, he asked her, "Same time and place tomorrow?"
She debated for a few seconds, then shook her head and walked inside. He squashed the feeling of disappointment in his chest, logically thinking that really, it was their first time eating lunch together and bound to be awkward, but evidently it was going to be a one-time thing, and maybe it was just him but he had enjoyed the silence, since all of the times he ate with his team were really quite noisy with Naruto's yelling and Sakura's moments of violence towards Naruto's head and Sasuke's moody silences, and oops was that one of the little kids that just left? So he hurried over to the classroom, grabbing the boy before he got out the window and hauling him in.
The next day, Kakashi debated whether he should go buy lunch somewhere else or hang around the school in the hopes of finding out what Hinata was doing for lunch. The question was soon solved as he literally bumped into Hinata, almost spilling the ebony bento boxes that she was carrying.
"Ah! Gomen, Kakashi-san! Oh, I'm glad that I found you. This one is for you… It's thanks for you treating me yesterday, and I heard that you always ate out for lunch, but I hope you're not allergic to anything…"
Smiling, Kakashi resisted the urge to kiss off the worried frown tugging on the younger girl's face, instead settling for ruffling her hair and earning a quiet squeak from Hinata. He turned and beckoned for her to follow him, jumping onto the nearest roof.
Dazed, Hinata blinked and then hurried to catch up with him, eventually following him on top of the Hokage monument. By the time she got to the top of the stone monument, Kakashi was already sitting down in a cross-legged position and opening the lid of the bento box and began to eat with chopsticks.
Hinata followed his example, sitting next to him and just eating as they watched the civilians and various shinobi jumping across the roofs or leaving for a mission.
They continued in this pattern for the next few days, alternating between home-made bento boxes (filled with sushi, rice, octopus, sometimes even pickled vegetables) and trying out the different tea houses around town to find who had the best dango or onigiri. Villagers who saw them thought that they seemed to enjoy themselves, but seemed to have a more platonic relationship of two teachers and friends having lunch together.
Although that was the case at first…Kakashi was having more and more trouble resisting the urges to kiss Hinata. Every time she blushed, or laughed, even the way her eyes lit up when he came near, each time was a reason for him to just corner her and –but no, he had to stop that thought. It wasn't appropriate for him to be thinking these things about a friend! So each time, he just ran his hand through his hair and tried not to look too closely at her lips. (Unfortunately he seemed to break it about thirty seconds after each resolution to not obsess too much about her…)
Unbeknownst to Kakashi, Hinata was having just as many problems as he was (although she showed considerably more restraint). Each time he ran his hand through his hair like that, she thought about what it felt like if she tried doing that. Each time he stretched, she would follow the line from his torso to his well-toned arms. And oh gods, that one time when they decided to do an impromptu spar session and by the time they were over and their clothes stuck to their bodies and he had taken his shirt off?! She was so surprised she didn't die from blood loss…
It was finally a Friday and the end of their shifts before Kakashi was able to go to Hinata's office which was thankfully empty. He leaned against her doorframe that would have let her eyes roam over his body if she was prone to thinking such things (which of course she wasn't), and if he stretched, then his shirt would start to ride up –with a jolt she realized he was talking to her and had to ask him to repeat what he said.
Bemusedly he asked her wasn't she hot in that jacket? She had never taken it off during the time that he had known her, but she was starting to seem to sweat and get red an awful lot… Flustered, Hinata began to stammer and try to come up with a reasonable excuse of wearing a jacket in above 100 degrees Celcius, and began to back away nervously when Kakashi came closer.
"Come on…it's not that hard…" he drawled as he stepped up to her and looked at her in a way that made her want to faint. "You just take the zipper, and pull like this," and demonstrated with her jacket (and wow she was pretty sure she was burning by now).
Despite the pleasant sensation of his feelings traveling down over her stomach, she feebly protested, "Kakashi-san, don't you have…papers to grade? Or um, st-students to look after?"
Smiling at her (with that predatory grin of his) he reminded her "It's the end of the week, Hinata… there's nothing left to do, and we're all alone. Besides, there's better things to do in a room than grade papers…"
Trying not to pass out entirely from his suggestive meanings, she weakly tried one more time, "A-ano, isn't a relationship between t-two teachers discouraged?"
Winking at her and pulling off her jacket (earning an eep from her, and an appreciative glance at what her jacket had hidden), "Ah, but you forget…I was only a substitute teacher, and now my time's over… and you were only going to be a nurse for a week, hm?"
"K-Kakashi-san… b-but, what if a student comes in? I-if – oh!" Kakashi had picked her up and placed her on the bed, turning back to the door and turning over the 'open' sign so that they wouldn't be discovered.
"I think we'll be busy for a while. There… Now we won't be bothered… and unless I was mistaken," he continued, daring her to protest again, "You seem to be overdue for a check-up…"
And for the rest of the day, neither Kakashi or Hinata were anywhere to be found.