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Chapter 4:

The door clicked softly closed behind her and that sound finally pulled Kakashi out of his gaze. He shook his head, trying to will the drowsiness away. Man; that was not at all what he'd expected how Sakura would look. She was…well he didn't know how the describe her. If he would be in his normal human form he certainly would have gotten a nosebleed. His heart beat quickened when her lips came in touch with his forehead, and unwillingly he had leaned in closer to get more of the warmth she radiated off.

He could even smell the slight scent of the perfume she was wearing, mingled with the scent of her own. It smelled well, definitely a treat for his nose. Not that she didn't smell good without perfume, she did. How lucky that guy was whom was set up with Sakura tonight. To have such a lovely sight in front of him the whole time and her attention completely devoted to him. To hear her lovely laugh, her green eyes twinkling with amusement when you said something funny, and her well formed lips curling into a smile and revealing her beautiful set of teeth. He slapped his paw in his face. He really needed to stop fussing over her. It was just a crush anyway. But he couldn't deny the itching he felt in his paws, how he would love to sink them into the skin of the man who was now with his Sakura.

He turned his head slightly to the window, glaring at the lock that kept him inside. There was no way to get out and shadow Sakura's little date. The only thing he could do was sit and wait until she got home while she was getting hit upon by another man. He groaned inwardly, why was life always so cruel on him? Making him fall in love with his own student. 'Former student.'He corrected himself immediately. He growled, why would that even matter? Like Sakura would ever look at him other than a friend, team leader and teacher. She would never see him as a love interest. Sighing defeated he let himself fall flat on his stomach on the comfortable seat, his eyes watching the door and waiting for Sakura to come home.

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The street was still a bit crowded when they made their way towards their dates. Ino blabbered the whole time while Sakura simply nodded, acting as if she was listening. But in reality she was thinking back at Kashi. He seemed so angry when Ino told her she was set up on a date. Kashi wasn't hostile towards her or any others she had seen or know of, so why did he hissed and tried to attack Ino? Was it because she was ordering to come to a date? But that was impossible since cats can't understand such things. She sighed; maybe she should have stayed home. He was after all, all alone and he deserved some attention after being locked up in her apartment all day.

She was pulled out of her thoughts when Ino yanked at her arm, her blue eyes searching her green ones as she looked at her with slight worry.

"Are you wanted to come? You're not listening to anything I say and-,"

"Of course I wanted to come, don't be an idiot," Sakura waved her off, forcing her thoughts away. She linked her arm with Ino's and put on a bright smile. "So where is the date anyway?"

Ino sighed annoyed. "See?! You didn't listen! I told you just a second ago. It's in the Underground."

Sakura stumbled, staring wide eyed at her friend. "You've got to be kiddin' me! You need a reservation for that to go inside that club," she said in awe.

Ino shrugged, smiling all the way. "I know." She turned her head back towards the street, inwardly laughing at the stunned reaction of her friend. They kept silent the rest of the way, simply enjoying the warmth of a summer evening and each others presence as long as it lasted. When they finally arrived at the club, Sakura noticed two men standing in front of the entrance next to the guards. One she'd recognized as Ino's current boyfriend, Shin Hanozu. He was a son of a well known merchant, he's was tall, broad and definitely well mannered. He had short brown hair and thrown up in messy spikes. His chocolate colored eyes sparkled in the moon light that shown into them. Next to him was probably her date, Sakura guessed. Well he didn't look that bad. He was at least a head taller than her, broad shoulders, baby blue eyes and blond hair pulled back, only two bangs hanging at either side of his face. He had a straight nose, well formed lips, strong jaw line; simply put he wasn't that unattractive.

Shin noticed the two woman's approach and straightened his stand immediately, a smile playing on his lips as his brown eyes locked with the blue ones of his girlfriend. He quickly strode over to them, grabbed Ino's free arm and placed a light kiss on her hand, making Ino giggle. "You look absolutely gorgeous my dear," He smiled at her.

Ino smiled back, released Sakura of their hold and hugged Shin briefly, planting a chase kiss on his lips. Sakura looked at the two with a smile. It wasn't the usual time her best friend would go for, but she decided the two really fit well together. Not everyone could handle Ino's temper and most guys were chased away by that. But not Shin, he even went so far to riddle her up just for fun. In a way he remembered her how Kakashi always would try to ruffle her feathers to get a rise out of her. A picture of her and Kakashi holding hands while enjoying and evening moonwalk stride flashed into her mind. A blush appeared on her cheeks and quickly forced the image out of her head.

What the hell was she thinking? Her and Kakashi being lovers? ´Nah, like that's ever going to happen,' she snorted in herself. Although she couldn't deny that Kakashi was rather attractive. As a genin she really couldn't understand what woman liked about her sensei. He was always late and had lame excuses and he always was reading his porn. But when the years passed Sakura finally understood why Kakashi was so in their high standards. From the talks she'd heard in the hot springs how he knew his way in bed, made the blush only worse. He was strong, and thanks to all the shinobi training he'd been through he had a fine build body. When being assigned his personal medic, she'd seen a lot of him and she had to agree with the other woman population when they say Kakashi had a hot body. Not to mention a cute ass. Sakura gasped, slapping her hand for her mouth as her eyes widened in shock. She did just not think that her sensei's ass was cute.

She groaned inwardly when her inner self answered her back. She was thinking about her sensei, even more than she was supposed to do. The man always seemed to creep into her thoughts unwillingly. She looked up when a hand touched her shoulder and looked up to meet with the worried glance that Ino gave her. "Are you sure you're alright?"

Sakura nodded, lowering her hand from her mouth and moving it towards the back of her neck as she scratched in nervously. "Ye, I'm fine honest. I just forgot to lock the door."

She inwardly hoped that Ino would fall for her little lie. For a moment it seemed she didn't but when she wanted to call her upon it, Shin interrupted her. "Sakura I'd like you to meet my friend," he waved to the man standing awkwardly behind him. "This is Taichi Honaji, Tai this is Sakura I was telling you about."

Taichi stood up next to his friend and gave her a friendly shake with the hand. "Nice to meet you Sakura-san, I've heard a lot about you."

Sakura smiled back. "Likewise although I can't say I've heard a lot about you."

He grinned, telling her that tonight held enough opportunity to get to know him and held out and arm as an invitation to escort her in. Linking her arm with his, the couples made their way towards the entrance. Much to Sakura's surprise the guards let them in without even checking if they were on the guest list. It seemed that Taichi noticed her surprise as he leaned in to whisper into her ear.

"My uncle runs this place."

"You lucky bird," Sakura replied back.

Taichi shrugged his shoulders and smiled. "It's useful sometimes, only if I have a date as beautiful as you."

Sakura blushed at his comment, quickly averting her eyes away from his and let it sweep through the place. There was a DJ standing behind the tables on stage in the middle. In the corner seemed to be booths where you could take a drink and simply talk. There were waiters all over the place serving the drinks and a bar on her left, not far from where she was standing.

"Care to dance?" Taichi asked; his voice barely audible above the loud music. Sakura nodded and let her date guide her towards the dance floor, not knowing to expect what the night would bring her.

He was a very good dancer, Sakura could give him that. After dancing a few songs they sat down in one of the booths. She found out that he was studying to be a civilian doctor. Sakura was surprised how easily she could talk with him about almost everything; they shared the same interest in the medical field, same taste in songs and did not also enjoy very large crowds. He also seemed to have humour; he really made her laugh through the night, his baby blue eyes twinkling in delight when he heard her little laugh.

She had almost wanted to thank Ino to drag her with her tonight. Sakura was sitting in one of the booths, waiting for the drink Taichi was getting for her. Her eyes swept over the dance floor, smiling when she spotted Ino and her boyfriend dancing in the middle. Ino seemed to have felt her gaze as her eyes went from her lover to her. Sakura waved to her with a small smile on her lips. Ino smirked back, suggesting with her hands and pointed then towards Taichi who was still standing by the bar.

Seeing what Ino meant, Sakura flushed bright red from embarrassment. She barely knew the guy! She wasn't going to have sex with him only because they seemed to get along together just fine. She signalled back that she was a pig, earning a laugh from her best friend. Shin seemed to catch on, his head shaking slightly as he chuckled at Ino's attempts to hook Sakura up with Taichi.

After the drinks and some songs Sakura was rather tired and wanted to go home. It was after all already two in the morning and she needed to teach later that day. Taichi understood and offered to walk her home. Hugging her friend goodbye and smiling at Shin the couples parted. Sakura shivered a little from the little breeze that came up and Tachi being the gentlemen he is gave her his jacket.

Finally reaching Sakura's apartment building, he followed her up, leaning against the wall as she joggled with her keys to open the door.

"I had a great time, thank you Taichi," Sakura smiled softly as she opened the door and flipped on the lights. She pulled off the jacket that still rested upon her shoulders and gave it back, their hands brushing against each other.

Taichi smiled back; locking his blue eyes with her green ones. "It was my pleasure to have such a beautiful girl as you at my side tonight. I look forward to see you again, say Saturday night?"

Sakura blushed as he leaned a bit in, not knowing what to say and started to stammer. "I uhm.. I-," He leaned in even closer making the blush even deeper. For a moment he seemed he wanted to kiss her when a possessive hiss sounded from below. He drew back and started down to see a silver cat glaring back up at him.

"Kashi," Sakura gasped out surprised. She threw her purse on the table and quickly leaned down to pick up the cat. He tensed as her arms sneaked around him, pulling him off from the ground and was settled in her arms. He relaxed immediately and pushed his little nose against just below her jaw, letting out a small meow as a greeting before her turned his head and glared at the intruder.

Taichi seemed a bit taken back and quickly made the distance between him and Sakura bigger. He studied the cat suspiciously before he turned his gaze back to the pink haired beauty. "So what do you say?"

"I… maybe, but-," yet again she was cut off from her sentence but not from the cat in her arms this time.

"Great," Taichi smiled. "I'll pick you up at seven." He leaned in to give her a kiss on the cheek but the threatening hiss coming from her arms he quickly averted his moves to a low bow instead before walking away.

"Bye," Sakura said confused at his sudden departure and closed the door behind her. She scratched Kashi behind his ear as she carried him back to the bedroom and let him down on her bed. He hopped out of her arms and twirled around to sit down on his hind legs, his tail curling up to his side.

Sighing she sat down beside him, pulled off her necklace and lay it down carefully on the low closet before her. "Well Ino got what she hoped for," Sakura sighed softly as she let herself fall back on her bed, staring up at her ceiling. Her eyes got a clouded look in them as she became lost in her own thoughts. Taichi was a good guy so far, but something inside her told her that she needed to stay away from him. But if Ino trusted Taichi so much, maybe she should give him a chance. She hadn't dated for a good long time thanks to her team mates, so maybe her senses were just freaking out because it wasn't how her team mates treated her.

The bond she had with Sasuke and Naruto were like brother and sister. Yes, they loved each other very much, but not in a romantic way and they didn't act that way towards her, unlike Taichi who was hitting on her all night. And Kakashi, well she didn't know what to think what she had with him. When Naruto left the village for three years he went back to ANBU claiming he had no students left to teach. It really had hurt her that he simply left her alone. But on the other side she was very grateful he had done that to her. Otherwise she wouldn't be the kunoichi she was now. She didn't blossom under his care at all; he didn't see her potential with her abnormal chakra control. But Tsunade did, and thanks so her she became what she was. When they crossed each other on the streets there was only a simply hello before they continued their way. But what she didn't see was the back glancing from Kakashi, his eye full of shame and hurt as he watched her walking away. And when Naruto came back they still were a bit distant, but soon they turned into friends, which turned into close friends. But something was different from the bond she shared with him then what she shared with other close friends. But what that was she couldn't quite but her finger on it.

She sighed deeply, her hand moving up to cover her eyes. "You don't know what you're doing to me." It sounded like a mere whisper, but the cat ears picked it up all the same.

To be continued…