Chapter 4

The two of them didn't speak for a long time after Mai left, so instead of questioning him when he was in an obviously bad mood, Sakura finished her washing, taking her sweet time to fold the clothes and put them away. When the pinkette walked back into the living room area, she saw that Kakashi had fallen asleep on her sofa. The girl suppressed a giggle and draped a blanket over him.

It was nice to see him looking so peaceful, but she was hesitant to think that this would last long. From the other room, she heard the phone ringing; carefully stepping out of the room she lifted it to her ear;

"Hello?"

"Heyyyy, forehead!"

"Ino! Gosh it's been ages!"

"Yeah, I know but anyway that's what I'm calling about, I'll be around in 5 minutes we're going to have a ladies night in."

"Wait In-"

"No, buts whatever you're doing drop it, I'm far more important!"

Sakura sighed; "Wai-"But before she could continue, the blonde girl hung up the phone. Gathering what was going to happen, the pinkette woke the sleeping man up;

"Kakashi, wake up." She whispered.

He stirred for a moment before half opening his eyes; "I'm sorry did I fall asleep?"

"Yeah, but right now that's not what you should be worrying about..."

"Why?" The man raised an eyebrow. "What should I be worried about?"

"Ino, that's what."

"Ino?"

Frowning, Sakura sat down onto the floor; "Do you remember when you first met her?"

Kakashi nodded.

"Well, when she said that she would make you suffer if you ever hurt me, well she meant it."

"I'm not sure I'm following."

"It doesn't matter that we've reconciled our differences, Ino hasn't seen you since we broke up, you do realise that she still wants to beat the crap out of you, right?"

The silver-haired man sat up; "She wants to beat the crap out of me? Right, okay."

"Kakashi." Sakura paused, taking the man's hand. "She'll be here in five minutes."

With a sudden energy, he jumped from his seat; "So, what should I do?"

"I-I'm not sure, if you leave, she might see you, and if you stay here she's sure to see you but at least I can hold her back!" the girl shrugged. "I don't know, whatever you think will stop you from being punch into hospital."

"Hold her back?"

"I can try."

"Okay, well would she listen if we explained it all?"

"Nope."

"Right..."

"But we can try?" the girl smiled hopefully.

"OK, well over here, and you answer the door."

The tension built in the moments following; they waited for the blonde girl, Sakura standing facing the door and Kakashi half-cowered in the corner of the room. When the enthusiastic knocking came on the door, Sakura hesitated. Taking in a deep breath she opened the door slowly, before being knocked down onto the floor;

"Ino!"

"Hey, forehead, you miss me? Of course you did!"

Quickly picking herself up, Sakura turned to her friend;

"Ino! Um well-"

"What's he doing here?" the blonde asked seriously.

"Well, that's what I wanted to tell you before you got here, but-"

"Sakura, please do not tell me you're back with him?"

"Ino-"

An exaggerated sigh came from her friend; "You idiot!"

"Ino please just hear me out-"

"And you too, do you realise how badly you hurt her?"

"W-well."

"You think you can waltz back into her life without there being any consequences?"

"No but I-"

"Don't interrupt me! Geez, just because Sakura is too nice to say anything, doesn't mean that I'm not!"

"Ino, listen a second." Sakura retorted.

"Nope, I'll listen when I've done rearranging this guy's face."

Kakashi took a step back; he couldn't remember the last time he'd been backed into a corner like this. The blonde girl smiled as she cracked her knuckles;

"You're in for it now Kakashi."

"Hey! Hold up Ino." Sakura grabbed her friends arm, forcing her around to face her;

"This was my choice, you don't need to beat the shit out of him, he's learnt his lesson, and so have I, so would you just calm down?"

"Fine." She sighed, before turning back to the now semi-relaxed Kakashi. "But if you do anything like that again, I'll do more than just hospitalise you."

"Got it." The man breathed heavily. Sakura spared him a sympathetic look before guiding her friend to sit down, while she put the tea on. Ino however didn't lift her gaze from Kakashi once, and however much he tried to avoid her, she kept a very close eye on him the entire time.

"So, Ino, how have you been?"

"Good." She replied, still glaring down at Kakashi. "But Sai is annoying me, so I've decided that until he apologizes for being an irritation jerk, I'm not speaking to him."

"You know he won't know what he's done wrong until you tell him?"

"Yes, but until he asks what's wrong I'm not going to tell him."

The pinkette smiled; "You never take it easy on him."

"Why should I? I treat all my boyfriends like that."

"And you wonder why you've gone through so many..." Sakura mumbled with a laugh.

"What was that forehead?"

"Nothing nothing, just thinking about something..."

The blonde girl stood up from her chair; "Well, whatever. But I suppose I'll go now, I'll come back tomorrow and if you're here Kakashi I'm throwing you out on your ass, me and Sakura are going to have a girly sleepover and there's no boys allowed."

The man smiled hesitantly, he didn't know whether she was joking, or honestly looking for a fight. Either way, he was going to be very cautious around her for a while.

"I'll see you tomorrow Sakura, make sure you have lots and lots of chocolate and facemasks, k?"

"Alright Ino, I'll get some tomorrow."

The blonde girl threw Kakashi a sarcastic smile, before heading out the door. It was then that he let out a large breath, that he didn't know he'd been holding in.

"Are you alright?" Sakura questioned.

"Yes." Kakashi exhaled. "Fine."

"You know, if you left her scare you like that, then she'll know she has something over you."

"Honestly I thought she was going to castrate me or something, I was terrified."

"She has that effect on people, when I first met her; I was scared that if I wasn't her friend she would break my legs so I couldn't run away. But after time she cooled down, she's actually a big softie if you give her the chance to warm up to you."

"I don't want to sound rude but I don't think I want that girl anywhere near me, especially if she wants to 'warm up to me'."

"You're just worried because all of your friends are completely laid back, with no eccentricities."

"Wait, no eccentricities? You've got to be kidding, you haven't met Gai or Obito yet, I mean we had one dinner with Kurenai and Asuma and they were on their best behaviour. So yeah I do have my fair share of crazy, but that was like an insane-overload!"

"Yeah, but why haven't you introduced me to any of your other friends, I mean you spoke about Obito once or twice, but I thought he was a distant friend. Since when did you become Mr. Popular, and why didn't I know about it?"

The silver-haired man sighed; "Well, I thought they would scare you off, but I can tell now that Ino is probably worse than the both of them combined."

"So." Sakura smiled coyly "Do I get to meet them?"

"No."

"What, why?"

"Because. "

"Oh that's a crappy excuse, if you're ashamed of me, then just say so."

"I'm not ashamed of you!" he replied waving his arms frantically in front of him. "I'm ashamed of them!"

"You're ashamed of your friends?"

"Wait, no, I mean...ah for fu-fine you can meet them."

"Alright, how about tonight?"

"Tonight, but I thought we were going to spend the night, you know together?"

Perfectly aware of the indications of what the man just said, the girl frowned and replied with a serious tone "What gave you that idea?"

"I don't know, I suppose it was a continuation of the reconciliation of our relationship."

"You're a massive pervert, you realise this?"

"Yes, it's why I didn't have a proper girlfriend until I was 18."

"You're awful."

"Did I mention you look pretty today?"

"Stop trying to smooth-talk me Kakashi, it won't work."

The man cursed under his breath; "Well what if they're busy?"

"Then you can go home."

"Oh for the love of- you're not going to cut me any slack anytime soon are you?"

"No, now unless you want to go home now, then I suggest you ring your friends and ask them if they want to go out for a drink, then maybe I'll consider letting you stay here tonight."

"And then we can- you know, do things?" Kakashi replied with a hopeful look.

"Only if you behave."

"I promise."

When his ears were occupied with the sound of voices from his phone, the pinkette mumbled 'Perverted old man' under her breath. She knew saying any louder would hurt his feelings, but some things just needed to be said.

"Gai can't go out, there was a break in at his gym and he's spending the time cleaning up, but Obito was up for it. I said we'd meet at the bar we normally go to in half an hour, how does that sound?"

"Brilliant, I'll go make myself look pretty; if you come in the room while I'm changing I'll personally castrate you."

An obvious gulp later and Sakura changed quickly. Taking three attempts to do her makeup without smudging it, she was back standing in the main room, Kakashi taking an eyeful.

"You sure you have enough bosom on show?"

"Sorry for being well-endowed, please send all of your complaints to my mother."

"I'm not complaining, but I just don't want a more attractive man to run away with you."

"I don't know if you've noticed but compared to the rest of this town, you're a male model, now get off your ass, we're leaving."

"But, you look so attractive, cant we just stay here and-"

"No, now get your cute butt outside before I kick it out."

"I have a cute butt?" The man smiled innocently.

"If you don't get outside now, you won't."

"Okay, I'm going I'm going."

With a smile drifting onto her face the girl locked the door and followed Kakashi down the stairs. He was a pervert, but he was her pervert, and if anyone tried to break them up, she would break them up.

1. I don't know, I guess I like the idea of Kakashi calling them bosoms instead of boobs, lol Idk.

2. Reviews and stuff would be greaaaat, but you know everything is great so yeah.

3. And yes, Obito there was a need to add him in, maybe Rin too Idk, we shall see.