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Chapter 2 - The Girl And The Dirty Little Book

The fifteen year old pink haired Kunoichi sat on a wooden bench some meters away from the main gate and the sun was still shining down on her and now she didn't think the day that had began so perfect could get any worse then it had.

One hour had already passed and soon enough the second hour had as well and the young pink haired Kunoichi growled low to herself.

Well she wasn't really surprised, but she had at least hoped that her real first mission as a Chuunin could begin smoothly and also perfect, but it began to look like she had been hoping for too much... again.

A 'poof' could be heard slightly beside her and she turned her head to look at the smoke that began to fade.

"Yo!" a silver haired man greeted her, with a hand slightly raised up in the air, his nose was pressed down in the little red smut novel.

"You are late, Kakashi-sensei!" the pink haired Kunoichi growled and raised from the bench to put her hands of each side of her hips and glared to him, almost like she had hoped that he would begin to apologize for his lateness. But if he hadn't done that as her Genin sensei, why would he do it now.

"Ah... You see... I was just on my way here and then it was this kind of road accident and I was forced to take a different path and-..." Kakashi began, but stopped when he saw the young pink haired Kunoichi scowl at him.

"You never change sensei..." she told him and groaned, quite annoyed.

"I will take that as a compliment..." Kakashi said and turned a page of his Icha Icha Violence and began to walk towards the gate, not even caring to give her a look that told her that she should follow him.

She grabbed her backpack and began to follow the silver haired Jounin out of the gate, while donning the backpack and kicking some smaller stones on the ground in annoyance (one almost hitting her sensei on his back).

The silver haired Jounin Kakashi glanced to the pink haired Kunoichi behind him, who was currently pouting, while kicking smaller stones on the ground. He sighed deeply and wondered what he had done to deserve this; to get his former student as his team mate.

To tell the truth, Kakashi had hoped and wished for a slighter 'older' woman to join him on this mission, after all this mission was nothing more then just crap and he needed something fun to do too not get bored (when he didn't read his Icha Icha). He sighed once again and glanced to Sakura again.

Well, it didn't help him to ignore her to make this mission any better and sooner or later, he would have to talk to her anyway. But he had found it hard to come up with something to talk to her about. After all she was just fifteen, his former student and a girl a top of it.

"Sakura..." he called and looked to her, still holding his Icha Icha in his hand.

She looked up to him and saw that he was waving his free hand to her, in a gesture to make her come closer to him. She walked up to his side and looked curiously up to him.

"So... I heard that you were under Tsunade-sama's training..." Kakashi said while glanced down to her, his nose was pressed down in the Icha Icha once again.

"Hai... I was... She taught me a lot of things... Some probably not as useful..." Sakura said and blushed slightly and Kakashi began to wonder what Tsunade had taught for 'useless' things. "But I would dare to say that I'm no longer the helpless girl I was..."

Kakashi raised an eyebrow to her and smiled slightly.

"Well, we have to see about that..." Kakashi mumbled and patted her head, like he usually had done to her when she had been a Genin and Sakura moved away from his patting hand.

Had her Sensei just underestimated her?

`He will so regret it!´

~oOo~

Four days later they appeared in Tsume no Kuni* with both individuals walking a good length away from each other; as though one of them would get burned if they came into close proximity to each other. The little country wasn't much to look at anyway and the people were pretty much the same.

In the village, the silver haired Jounin suddenly stopped just some miles away from where one of the clans lived.

"Alright, I will tell you the rules for this mission now..." Kakashi said and turned around (still pressing his nose in the book) to face the pink haired Kunoichi, who just glared to him.

"Sensei... I think I knew the rules already... You have after all been my Jounin leader..." the pink haired Sakura told him and crossed her arms over her chest.

"Well, those rules were for you as Genin... But now you are a Chuunin and I think some rules don't exist anymore..." Kakashi told her and she frowned.

"Like what?" she asked bothered.

"Um... Like that rule that said that you have to go to bed before nine..." Kakashi said and Sakura frowned even more.

"We never have that kind of rule!" Sakura barked to him.

"We didn't? Well anyway, that rule is still taken away..." Kakashi told her and turned a page.

"And what about that kind of 'rule' that we shouldn't interfere...? Is it gone too...?" Sakura asked.

"Oh, that rule... No... It's still in use..."

`He is definitely going to pay...´

"You can't be serious...?" Sakura growled. "You know that you aren't made of steel..."

"And neither are you... Am I correct...?" Kakashi looked down to her over the edge of his book and he couldn't help to smile amusing down to her. She looked really pissed.

Obviously it wasn't just medic jutsu that Tsunade had learned this girl. Tsunade's well known temper had obviously been 'transferred' to her youngest apprentice as well.

Well Sakura had always had temper, but she hadn't showed it that frequency towards him and he found it quite cute.

`Wait, did I just think cute? ´

"We should hurry... We are soon there..." Kakashi told her and began to walk again and Sakura followed him close behind.

"Sensei...?"

"Huhum...?" he answered her and she glanced up to him.

"Why are you reading that weird book? What in it do you find so funny...?" Sakura asked him and for the first time he really put down the book to look at her; surprise was flashing in his dark grey eye.

"Why do you ask?" he asked.

"Well... You have always been reading those weird books and I was curious to why you think those books are so funny..." Sakura mumbled and looked down to the ground. "Because I, myself, don't see anything special in those books..."

"How do you know that? Have you been reading them...?" Kakashi asked and looked curious down to her, was it a blush he saw on her cheeks? "Little girls like you shouldn't be reading this kind of book..."

"I-I haven't been reading them!" she said and looked up to him. "Na-Naruto was the one who told me about them... He is after all with Jiraiya-sama..."

"Really..." Kakashi said and he didn't believe a word she had just said. "If you haven't been reading them, then why are you blus-..."

Kakashi suddenly grabbed Sakura's arm and pushed her in front of him and Sakura turned around to look at him with a scowl in her face.

"Sensei! What the-...!" she growled, but her Sensei hushed her and pointed towards the ground Sakura had stood just a second ago.

Sakura swallowed when she saw the kunai boring itself into the ground. If Kakashi hadn't dragged her away, she would have been hit by it.

"There are five of them..." Kakashi mumbled and gave Sakura his dirty little book. "Hold it and guard it with your life..."

"Ha-Hai..." Sakura said a bit surprised, but she held on to the little book like her life depended on it (and probably it did).

Then suddenly two hooded and masked people jumped out of the little forest, katanas hold high up in the air ready to strike its targets.

Kakashi pulled out two kunai out of his waist pouch, waited for them to come closer before he threw the kunai at the two running masked guys and watched how they fell to the ground. Two more then jumped out of the forest and Kakashi snorted and threw two more kunai at them.

To his surprise only one of them was successful to block the kunai and Kakashi began to wonder if it was possibly that this one was at least some kind of Shinobi or at least a skilled fighter.

Kakashi pulled out one more kunai and blocked the katana that had been swung at him and was once again surprised by this person's skill at handling it.

Kakashi looked at the person and it was hard to make anything out of his face, because of the hood and the mask that covered most if it. But if he just could get off the mask, he could maybe see the attacker and maybe see if he was a Nukenin* or some other wanted criminal.

"Sensei!" Sakura suddenly called and Kakashi turned his head to see the fifth person that had appeared behind him, his katana already making its move towards him and Kakashi knew that he wouldn't make it in time to block this katana as well.

"Don't lose your focus..." the person Kakashi was already fighting with, said mockingly and Kakashi glanced towards him and felt a suddenly pain in his left shoulder.

Kakashi growled low and glared to the man in front of him.

The person (Kakashi was fighting with) suddenly looked shocked and withdraw from Kakashi, who turned his head slightly back to see a mass of swirling pink hair behind him. And his eye widened when he saw her stopping the other attacker by grabbing his arm and with that, stopping the katana to penetrate any further into his shoulder.

Kakashi then turned his gaze back to the one in front of him, but he was all of sudden gone.

"Sensei... What should we do about him...?" the pink haired Kunoichi said and Kakashi turned back his gaze to her.

"Interrogate him..." Kakashi said stony and he panted slightly.

"Are you okay...?" she asked him.

"I'm fine... Who are you? And why did you attack us...?" Kakashi asked the hood and mask covered person, who didn't answered. "Who are you?"

Still no answer.

"I asked you a question! Who are-..."

"Kakashi... I don't think you will get any answer from him..." Sakura suddenly said and glanced to her Sensei that looked questioning to her.

"And why is that...?" he asked

"Because-... Because he is already dead..."

Authors note:

They are already in Tsume no Kuni and things are already going bad...

Mini Japanese dictionary and little more;

Nukenin = Missing-nin

Tsume no Kuni = Claw Country

I don't really know about the chapter name was any good, but it was the only thing I could think off. *lol* After all Sakura is a girl and they are talking about Kakashi's little dirty book... ^o^

Hope you liked it. ^-^ Take care!