Chapter four – Hím.

A blush appeared onto his cheeks as the man, who was conveniently hovering above him and it resulted into the fact that Kakashi became even more nervous than he already was, continuously stared into Kakashi's own pair of eyes. It was as if he was piercing through Kakashi's soul with those godly and amazing eyes of his and knew, knew deep within that he had a certain, well-hidden affection towards none other than hím.

But when Kakashi regained full conscious again, he quickly noticed that the man, who was still awkwardly hovering above him, was in fact Raido.

'' Kakashi-san, are you all right?'', he asked worriedly, his eyebrows knotted.

Kakashi let out a heavy-hearted sigh of relief. He felt a sudden wave of peace and calmness collide all over him. He was more than happy that it hadn't been hím and grinned rather joyful in response, '' Couldn't be better, Raido''.

Raido sat back and eventually got back onto his feet. He even offered Kakashi one of his hands to help him get up, but Kakashi gently waved it away as he politely thanked him.

Kakashi was now finally able to sit straight up. When he looked up in front of him, he noticed that hé had been watching him - carefully, worriedly, staring intensely at him from a far, as if he had been doing so the whole time – and knowing him, he probably had. He seemed tense, very tense.

Kakashi looked at him from across the room, a blush appearing onto his cheeks as the man kept staring so immensely at him, so… penetrating. Kakashi couldn't help but wonder if something had been wrong. He could see how the man bit hard onto his lower lip. He watched how he had trouble with unlocking their gazes and how he lowered his head to stare at the oh-so intriguing carpet. The sudden change had made Kakashi more than curious. His hands were trembling, though – they still needed to kiss, for the sake of the game, or perhaps, Kakashi hoped cheerfully, all had forgotten about it?

'' Kakashi-sensei!'', someone suddenly shouted loudly into his ear as he received a hard punch onto the upper arm. The man before him and he, himself, immediately looked up at the furious young lady, whom casually and innocently sat beside Kakashi. Kakashi immediately grabbed his arm as he muttered a faint, 'Ouch. '

''What was that for?'', Kakashi all of the sudden blurted out – even though it seemed more calm than someone usually should be so in these kind of situations.

'' I was asking you how you felt, but you were obviously too caught up in your perverted fantasy-dreams to even notice''.

Sakura pouted adoringly, however, Kakashi didn't seem to notice, because he already had turned his head round and had been staring longingly into hís eyes again. The blush increased and started to spread all over his cheeks.

He cleared his throat a few times, noticing how the man before him suddenly had taken an interest – surprisingly in him.

'' They, ehr, aren't perverted'', Kakashi noted, his voice cracking ever so slightly as he changed his head to the side and made sure he was directing it at Sakura. However, he wasn't - not exactly, because he had never left his eyes off of hím.

He kept staring back at hím, feeling how hot his cheeks suddenly became. Quite frankly, aside from the suddenly heat rising within him, he had started to feel quite funny, Goose Bumps had appeared all over, and onto his arms and butterflies were crawling in his stomach.

There was no escaping it, not now, not ever.

He was in love – had fallen in love – with him, out of all people it could've been, it had been hím.

All of the sudden, someone started to yank at Kakashi's ear and pulled him downwards so Sakura could make it all the more clear to him, '' Damn you, Ka'shi-sensei.. how the hell are you feeling?!''

Kakashi eyes immediately widened in response as he felt how his heartbeat started to throb in his ear, '' I'm… f-fine..peachy.. couldn't be better?''

'' Good! Now…,'' Sakura let go of his ear and focused her attention to the rest of the group, '' Shall we get back to the game?''

Kakashi swallowed hard, apparently shé would made sure that no one would forget about it.

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He didn't know how it had happened, really. When Sakura had asked everyone to get back and play the game again, Kakashi had hoped that everyone would be more interested in his health instead of him taking his mask off.

He had been wrong, wrong again for what could've been for the millionth time this evening.

So, there he was, on his knees, practically crawling towards the centre of the circle to meet his destiny and get kissed by hím.

Kakashi swallowed hard, fighting back the enormous lump that started to form in his throat. It wasn't as if he was doing this reluctantly, no, but it seemed to him that this was neither the place nor the time to be doing such an intimate thing with someone you happen to be in love with. And only God knew if he felt the same thing back.

The two men had now reached the circle and Kakashi's crush had been shyly grinning as a reddish-colored blush had started to appear on his cheeks. Hearts were beating in their throats as the crowd started to cheer them on, making it more difficult for the two.

However, his opponent leaned in and soon, Kakashi followed his example, their lips pressing softly against each other's.

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A/N:

Sucky chapter does suck, doesn't it? Gaah, I can't help it.. it's boring and slow as hell D: - I don't like it AT ALL - aside from Sakura's awesome butchering, of course.

I know, I'm a bitch for not telling you who he is.. yet AGAIN. I promise you, it will be revealed in the next chapter... it will be posted after this one [for some reason, I prefer writing the end first, and this one suddenly popped into my head while writing this chapter.. to make up for this sucky one, sorta say?]

Thanks goes out to mah awesome friendz again for randomly mentioning a name I could use [I needed it pronto, lol xD]