"What are you doing?" I confronted Jiraya in the middle of one of his "data gathering" missions.
"The usual," said Jiraya without turning around to me.
"Why-"
"Is the next issue of Icha Icha Paradise late? Blame Naruto for that problem. He constantly wants me to train him with something. It's hard to gather data in a discreet manner with him around."
"Well, you're right about that one." I walked to the wall where Jiraya was and made my own peep hole. I immediately looked through and saw dozens of girls playing around the pool with no clothes on. "I know you enjoy your job."
"That's right!! I enjoy every part about it!!" His face started turning red as he occasionally looked down to write on his notepad.
"Just make it good."
"Kakashi-Sensei!!" Sakura's sweet voice was calling for me. Her voice was a decent change from Naruto's yelling, and Sasuke's insults. "I'm back from the mission." As she walked towards me, I walked to her.
"How did it go?" I really didn't care. I was just glad that she was okay.
"It went smoothly." She tripped on a pothole, and in the blink of an eye, she was in my arms.
"Thank you, Kakashi-Sensei." I looked into her eyes and licked my lips behind my mask.
"You're welcome. You have to be more careful when you walk around here." I noticed that my left hand was resting firmly on her butt. "Where are Naruto and Sasuke?"
"I don't know, but all I heard from them was that they were coming back by nightfall."
"We'll wait at my place for them." I don't know why that came out of my mouth, but it was too late to take that back.
"Okay." Score!! I rule! She got out of my arms and walked ahead of me towards my house. Her shampoo was leading me onwards; the smell hypnotized me for the entire length of time. "We're here." Those words snapped me out of my hypnosis, and thankfully before I ran into her.
"That's my line." I walked to the door and unlocked it for her. We went inside and she sat on the couch. "You want something to drink?" I thought about drugging her then, but I didn't want to do that so early.
"What do you have?"
"Soda, juice, and water." I only wished she was old enough to drink sake.
"I'll have some juice." I went into the kitchen, got a glass out of the cabinet, and filled it up with some mango juice. I walked back and gave it to her. "Thank you Kakashi-sensei."
"You're welcome." I sat down on the other couch and turned on the TV.
"Kakashi-sensei?"
"Yeah?"
"How do you tell someone close to you that you have feelings for them?"
"Well… just confront Sasuke and tell him that you've liked him for a long time, and you want him to know about it. I'm sure he might have the same feelings for you if you tell him."
"It's not him that I want to tell it to." At that moment, I felt my heart tighten, and I bit on my inner mask.
"Don't tell me; you want to tell Naruto, but you're afraid that he'll be too dense with a response." I could feel sweat form on the inside of my mask.
"No. It's not him either."
"Who?"
"Well, it's you." I knew she was talking about me, but I didn't want to jump to the conclusion just yet. "I've had feelings for you for the entire time that we've been working together. I love you, Kakashi-Sensei." She got up from her couch and came to where I was. She took my mask off and kissed me on my lips.
