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General: Mild Language and Sexual innuendos.

Chapter 3

Reunited

Konoha High School 7:30Am.

Sakura looked up at her new school. It had been a few days since her birthday she was now 16 and it has been close to seven months since the incident. She whole heartedly wished to herself that she could forget all that happened to her. It was a permanent thing left lingering in her mind; much like the dream she had seven months before. Her mind just wanders to that crimson eye; it's so captivating. Since that time she didn't have another dream like that, although she deep down wished she did. She wanted to know more about that man. Ah well, if she really had the chance she would settle with someone like that in the real world. Like that would ever happen… right? Then it hit her, Hatake Kakashi was most defiantly like the guy from my dream, although his eye was a blue color not red. There was a strong possibility that dreams lead to reality... But thoughts like that would quickly be subdued by her rational side; there is no chance like that could be reasonably possible… no, it just can't be possible.

Her train of thought totally ended when she was nearly run over by a rather loud boy "Oi! Late super late, shit!" He tore off towards the auditorium. He's not late, looking down at her watch, 7:45AM nearly time for the opening ceremony - speaking of which I need to head that way myself. She made her way to the Auditorium. When she went inside, one of the teachers motioned for her to sit with the new students, which made her all kinds of nervous... front row center... Oh god. Her stomach dropped, as smart as she was, she hated the lime light. She hated being pointed out and most defiantly she hated sitting in the front row. That's just great; I'm so going to be able to see up the Dean's nose... she shuddered.

The person sitting next to her was clearly nervous too, his leg kept shaking like a jackrabbit in heat. She looked over to see the same boy that nearly ran her over not 5 minutes ago. His bright blond hair was sticking straight up, his eyes were a swirling blue color and he had a big shit-eating grin on his face. Never mind… he's excited to be here. Sakura sighed; the boy next to her looked down, "Oi you ok? I'm Uzumaki Naruto," He shamelessly smiled at her. She pressed a fake smiled back at him.

"Haruno Sakura, it is very nice to meet you Naruto-kun."

"Na… no need for formalities with me Sakura-chan, just Naruto is fine." She puzzled over what he said.

"Why is that?"

"Well, I want us to be friends!" He shouted, throwing his hands up into the air with gusto, she covered her ears and looked at him in surprise... Oh lord I'm going to kill him.

"Dobe, shut it." There was a cool voice next to her; she looked over to see Uchiha Sasuke.

"Sasuke-kun it's been awhile, how have you been?"

"Good."

"Do you know Naruto? You seem to know him."

"Ya!" Naruto chimed in, "I transferred here at the end of Middle school; we were in the same class." He puffed up a little.

"I'm not sure how a moron like you got into this school though, Dobe."

"Sasuke…" He pouted, "No need to be cruel to me."

"Sit down, you are going to embarrass yourself and me, so quit it." Sasuke looked away. Naruto looked over his mouth was open like he was going to say something but quickly changed his mind when he spied Sakura looking up at him. He laughed in a manner that Sakura could have contrived as embarrassment.

"Ah-ha-ha-ha…" Sakura wondered if he had some brain damage as a child to make him act this way. In fact no one she has ever met has acted this way. He sat down abruptly when he saw the teachers coming this way; he whispered "I had a run in with that one…" He casually pointed at a slender man with a tiny scar across his nose. "So I need to uh… act cool."

"You mean put on a cool act?" Sakura questioned

"Yeah, that's it! I'm here on a scallop-ship."

Her eye twitched, "You mean Scholarship?"

He looked over at her. "Hm... yeah sorry I get words mixed up sometimes," He laughed again. She shook her head; do I really want to be friends with a Baka? Sasuke leaned over to her and whispered.

"He's not so bad, if you ignore him." He half chuckled at his own comment. She nodded.

"I see. Thanks for the warning."

"Sure," He said looking away. Moments later the assembly started up. A really ancient looking fellow came up to the microphone and began to speak. Sakura felt that it might be a really long speech by his mannerisms. He was short, wearing formal robes. His white beard trailed down his chin and over his chest to a fine point. She did note the pipe in his left hand; he wore a kind smile like a grandfather would wear for his grandchildren. His eyes sparkled with delight as he spoke; she could tell from the first few words that ushered from his lips that he really loved his job.

"Welcome, young students to Konoha High School. Today you embark on a vast journey to higher education. We have a few new faces this year, as once a year students from different middle schools enroll in our fine school." He paused, "Not only do we have new students but we have some new staff members as well." He began to introduce them one by one. Sakura noted that one of them was pretty darn scary. He had on green spandex, black hair worn in a bowl cut that clung to his head. He had intense black eyes. His nose was sharp with an tiny hook at the tip, muscular build flamboyantly so, his big full lips smiled as he was introduced as the new gym teacher, was that a glinting shine off his teeth? Sakura questioned shuddering slightly. This guy was scary looking. Then the old man came to the last one, he looked around, "Apparently he's not even here… Ah well," He sighed. "I am glad to inform you that we now have a head doctor for the medical clinic on the west wing. Please visit there for any minor to major trauma. Also let me introduce myself, I am the Dean of Konoha High School you may call me Sarutobi-Sensei. Please enjoy your stay at this fine establishment and gain all the knowledge you need to brighten your futures!" The teachers in the background started to clap; eventually the entire audience was clapping while the ancient man moved himself off the platform and to a nice fluffy looking chair.

One by one the new teachers introduced themselves, leading to the one that Sakura feared the most. She knew she was going to be ill when he opened his mouth. "HELLO students! I am Maito Gai, I'm going to be the gym teacher from here on out! I want to tell you that we will celebrate the 'springtime of youth' with running, and bouts of healthy exorcise! I would also like to make note that my eternal rival is cool enough not to show up for today's assembly…" Sakura could see tears streaming down his face; he continued to speak over the murmurs in the audience. Sakura could hear them all to well, 'what's wrong with this guy?' 'Geez, remind me to skip P.E.' 'Oh lord that spandex is too clingy.' It was shortly followed by a few frightened screams of girls as he made wide flamboyant gestures with his body and hands showing how excited he was to be working at this school. Oh yeah this guy definitely didn't have a girlfriend. Sakura thought to herself… There's no way anyone would want him... Naruto sitting next to her was laughing hysterically; he couldn't believe there was someone so incredibly strange. Takes one to know one I guess.

After the assembly Sakura left the building. She was followed in close pursuit by Naruto, as she headed to where they were to get their class room assignment. She prayed deep down that she'd be in the same class with Sasuke but not with Naruto. Speaking of Naruto he was still laughing about the new Gym teacher. "Did you see his hair cut?! It was like a horrible accident, like someone put a bowl on his head and shaved it... I didn't think people still did that…" He kept rambling on and on about how strange their new gym teacher was mimicking the horrible flamboyant gestures that Gai had made. Frankly, Sakura didn't care, although she had to admit what he was saying and doing was pretty funny.

After standing in line for a good hour she finally got her room assignment: 1A. Naruto came up behind her and peaked over her shoulder, "Sakura-chan we're in the same class!" He shouted with glee. Sakura sighed heavily... great.

"Sasuke-kun, what class are you in?"

"1A," He replied before stalking off to the where they served food. His hands where in his pockets, shoulders slightly slouched in an 'I don't care' manner, His dark eyes diverted to the ground. Sasuke's hair was a beautiful black, mid-length in the front and shorter in the back. All around he was a sulky, broody, pretty boy. Most girls liked him. It was clear why; his stand-offish personality drew the crowds, even the wrong kind. More then once he's been accused of liking men. Sakura knew differently, he'd always gave her a small smile on Valentines day when she gave him chocolate, a pure indication that he wasn't well… gay at least that's what she hopped. She watched him casually walk down the hallway, he really didn't talk about his likes and dislikes, although Sakura knew he had an older brother but he didn't speak often about him. Itachi was his name, she recalled to herself. I bet Sasuke looks just like him, she smiled but her small glimmer of happiness was quickly dissolved by Naruto's loudness.

"Yes! " Naruto exclaimed, "Both of my friends are in the same class with me!" He seemed really happy.

"Uh yeah that's great, Naruto-kun."

"Naruto"

"Huh?"

"Just Naruto, not really a fan of the san, kun or chan thing... but your name has a really nice ring with chan; maybe I could call you Sakura-chii?"

"No, Sakura-chan is fine."

"Ok Sakura-chan," He beamed saying her name again.

"Yeah… Naruto, I'm going to go look around."

"Can I go too?" She sighed, she knew that it would be harder to get rid of him then she thought. How did Sasuke do it?

"Yes fine, but for once just shut up."

"OK," He replied quietly, as they walked down the hall to take a small self tour of the school.

There came a sharp knock on the door of the teacher's common room followed by "Yes come in," Kakashi let himself into the room sheepishly smiling. "You… you are 3 hours late, do you know that? What do you have to say for yourself Kakashi-Sensei?!" The face he was looking at was a younger slim man with a tiny scar across the bridge of his nose, Kakashi assumed this was Iruka.

He started rubbing the back of his head, "Well you see, I was on my way here and my contact fell out while I was driving…" His voice trailed off, Iruka's face was bright red.

"Why don't I believe you?"

"It's true actually," Replying quickly, putting his hands in his pockets. His lazy now full grey eyes looking to the side, but he wasn't really looking at anything. He knew how to irritate people; he was really adept at it. In fact you could almost say he enjoyed making people squirm in discomfort, maybe a little too much. "I spent a good 2 hours trying to find it. I was told I can't work with out it so I was in a quandary to what I should do, so I looked for it instead of coming here and risking getting yelled at. But seeing as I'm being yelled at now, that point is pretty much moot." Iruka was stunned in the logic that Kakashi presented, either that was one hell of a fib or he really was telling the truth.

"Sorry, please come in. Sensei will want to speak with you about this matter. Please wait over here." He pointed at some rather hard looking chairs.

"Alright, I'll just be sitting over here then." Kakashi sat down, knowing damn well that he couldn't bring out that little orange book. Last thing he needed was being accused of something he's not. The books are entertaining enough as is, but probably not the best in this place seeing as there are minors about. He sat there for a good 10 minutes waiting to be called. Granted he was over three hours late to start his new job, he found himself wondering if he'd be crawling to Tenzou begging for his spot back.

Eventually Iruka motioned for him to go into the Dean's office, getting up he put his hands in his pockets. It was rather bad habit from when he was called into see the head teacher when he was a student. He wondered at that moment if he was going to be lectured like that, it seemed like only yesterday… He had been pulled into the office by the collar of his shirt to face punishment for setting fire to one of the trash cans outside the girl's locker room, granted he didn't actually do it but got the flack for it anyways. His friend at the time smiled shyly at him after it was said and done but he knew that she really liked playing those types of jokes even if it was on the same gender 'they deserved it, stupid cheerleaders' Rin chimed. He smiled to himself but before he knew it he was already in the office looking at an older man who just smiled up at him. "A little late are we?" he simply said in a gentle voice.

"Ah... yes about that, I am really sorry. I'm just not use to contacts in general, you see."

"Yes that's fine; please, though, make it a point to show up no more then one hour late. If it becomes a problem you'll never hear the end of it from Iruka." Kakashi was a bit surprised from the answer that he got.

"Alright, I'll do my best."

"Good, now that we have that problem out of the way. You did miss the entrance ceremonies; this is something we pride ourselves on. But do not worry Gai made mention of you in his speech to the students." Kakashi groaned inwards "I see you are not too thrilled about that, maybe next time you will show up somewhat on time." There was an ancient smile on his face.

"You are very good with words, sir."

"I should be. I haven't been here for so long for my health you know." He chuckled. "Let me show you to the clinic," He began to get up from his rather large leather chair; it looked comfortable and very well used.

"You will be showing me, sir?" Sarutobi stroked his long white beard.

"Well yes, it is good for me to get out and walk now and again. Don't you think so? Also if you don't mind Sarutobi will be fine, Kakashi-sensei."

"Sorry" He quietly said "It is a bad habit from my last job."

"Quite alright, I assure you." Kakashi noted that Sarutobi was wearing a formal robe instead of a suit; it seemed very natural on him. Sarutobi lead him out of the main door and down the hall way. "School starts at 8AM, I expect you to be in your office around 9:30 no later then 10. Also on Wednesdays we have staff meetings which I would like you to be there for, usually depending on the weather it is either held in the morning or afternoon. You shall be notified the day before which it will be. Please check your in-box before and after school." He pointed at some boxes along the wall as they passed by, Kakashi noted that he already had a box and it was crammed to the gills with crap already. He quietly sighed. "Yes that happens, you may want to get it now and take it with you." Sarutobi pointed out.

"Seems like a good idea." He pulled out the mail from the box; he'll go over this later. The two of them swiftly went up a flight of stairs, out and across an overhang. It was very nicely built, Kakashi noticed not too fancy and it keeps the students dry going to and from areas between the main building and the wings.

"This is the way to the clinic, the West wing. There is also an East wing and a North wing those are primarily regular classrooms, years one and two in the East wing and year three in the smaller North wing. The south is the main building and cafeteria. Also you will find the student counter where they sell drinks, breads and an assortment of supplies minimal things like paper and pencils. Out and to the South West is the gym, pool, track fields, tennis courts and the like out that way, and to the North east is the auditorium where they hold plays and well assemblies." Kakashi nodded "The west wing is also where they house home economics and other classes such as Chemistry. You will probably get a few students from those classes frequently."

"Hazardous?"

"Hm… now and again there are problems. I do believe last semester Izumo and Kotetsu Sensei's nearly blew up the chemistry lab. Granted neither of them are science teachers." There was an audible sigh from the old man. "They are both homeroom teachers; one specializes in English the other in Cultural."

"Might I ask who the science teacher is?"

"Aburame Shibi, his son will be starting here this year as well. Brilliant man, he was absolutely furious that his lab was on fire."

"Understandable."

"Hmm… yes he did take it well though, we replaced everything. As a result we also had to refurbish this wing, so to your delight the medical clinic is up to date with modern technology." Rounding the corner and coming to the end of a very long hallway Sarutobi slid open the door. It was a nice room, Kakashi thought at first. Smells too much like a hospital for his taste, but he was sure he'd get over it. "This is your desk" He pointed at a rather empty space "This is your assistant's desk; she will take care of cleaning and sorting medical files. Sharp lady, but she didn't want the head doctor spot when we offered it to her. She said she wanted to just stay a nurse." The old man lost track of what he was saying and started pointing out beds, places for medication and where the student's medical charts were.

"Sarutobi-sensei, what are you doing?" Questioned a rather young looking woman probably in her early twenties, she stood about shoulder height to Kakashi. Her dark brown hair done up in two buns, under her lab coat she had on a white traditional china doll shirt and matching black pants her sandals were chocolate brown which surprisingly enough matched the color of her eyes.

"Ah Tenten, I was just showing Kakashi-sensei to the lab." He smiled. "This is Tenten; she's your medical assistant." Tenten took notice of the man standing next to her, her cheeks turned a rosy red.

"Hello, it is nice to meet you Kakashi-sensei."

"Like wise, Tenten-chan," He shook her hand; her face went a little redder. However her blushing went unseen by Kakashi, as he was being poked by Sarutobi to look around the old man prattled on about what things were; Kakashi knew what the objects in question were but didn't have the heart to tell the man. He simply smiled and nodded in response.

"If you have any questions, feel free to ask. However, Tenten would probably be a better choice to ask for things concerning the office." He chortled. "I shall take my leave now. I need to get back before they think I've made an escape."

"Oh Sarutobi-sensei, no one thinks that." Tenten said and instantly turned on her words when she heard Iruka shouting looking for the old man. "Never mind, Sarutobi-Sensei, Iruka is looking for you." He laughed.

"See, never a moments rest. I bet it is something silly, like panda's riding bikes though the court yard… again."

"Again…?" Kakashi questioned raising a lightly silver-colored eyebrow.

"It is best not to ask about it, Kaka-sensei." Tenten whispered.Kaka-sensei… Now that's an odd nickname Kakashi noted to himself. He silently nodded as the older man went off into the direction his wayward teacher went; laughing quietly apparently it was a good joke.

"I take it things like that happen often?"

"Not often but, frequently. Even if this is a 'rich and studious' school it has its flaws, there is a fine line of loonies here. I just hope you aren't one of them." He laughed at her words making a comment of his own.

"What qualifies as a loony around here?"

"Borderline Tensai, you get an idea, fixate on it, and then blow up the chem. Lab."

"I see. Honestly, I don't see myself that way. But I bet you might classify me that way."

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"I'm 25 with a PHD and have had it since I was 16." Her eyes were really wide looking at him in almost disbelief.

"Wow... no that's not loony Kaka-sensei, that's amazing. What is a guy like you doing working as a school doctor?"

"Bored of my last job, and I don't want to work in a hospital." Half of what he said was a lie; he really wasn't bored of the special unit. In fact he missed it; he just needed a change of pace. He also felt that it wasn't any of her business.

"That's too bad; it seems a waste to have you here." She smiled.

"Personally I like being out of the humdrum standards of being a doctor, but who knows I might quit this job and go back to my last."

"Which was?"

"Can't say, somewhat classified."

"I see, one of those... 'if I tell you I'd have to kill you', dealings?"

"Not quite, but I'd rather not talk about it."

"Alright, forget I asked. Sorry I'm going to cut this short, I need to sort and file the new student's charts before tomorrow. New school year, new Students." She smiled.

"If you need help let me know."

"I won't but thanks for offering; you should get a look at the school while there are barely any students on campus."

"I should probably do that." He smiled as he walked out the door. Tenten sighed.

"God, good job Tenten, way mess that up." She whispered to herself.

Striding down the hallway making his way over the campus, he realized this place has so much history to it. He found himself lingering taking note and following the structure with his eyes. It was beautiful in every way. Graceful and meaningful, each arch had a purpose. Each line drew the eye to the carefully sculpted walls and over the ceilings, pushing further to make the eye travel to the windows that appeared almost etched. Glancing closer, he found they really were etched, small images in the glass depicting leaves. God how wonderful, he thought to himself. This place is like a work of art, unfortunately his gaze and affinity to art cost him greatly. If he had been paying attention he could have avoided…

"Ah, my eternal rival you have finally chosen to show yourself this fine day."

That.

"Hm… Gai did you say something?"

"Kakashi, how hip of you to say something like that!" Drifting his eyes lazily towards Gai's direction, it was clear and painful that Gai was now weeping loudly. God I hate him, yet he amuses me… how could you not tease such a nincompoop?

"What do you want, Gai?" He wished he had some kind of magic move to make himself vanish right now…

"I wanted to inform you that I, Maito Gai, will be heading the gym classes this year, and our rival ship shall continue! There is a pool!" yes vanish right now… How he never manages to embarrass himself was really beyond Kakashi. He was a first class idiot when it came to tact.

"And why should I really give a damn about a pool, Gai?" He half expected Gai to say something about students in swimsuits, but his ignorance would lead him to say…

"So we can test our endurance, Kakashi! You know the greatest pleasure is to swim laps around an Olympic size pool!" Intuition strikes again, damn it.

"Not now Gai, I'm looking around the school. Now unless you have something of vital importance to my mission of discovery of this artistic school, I would have you leave before I'm seen with you."

Making shooing motions with his hands, Kakashi began to back up … slowly, god forbid Gai glom on to him. To late, Gai swung his large arm around Kakashi's neck, "Don't be like that, I have to tell you something." Wide gestures with his fingers told Kakashi he was in for trouble.

"What?"

"You see, Genma called me on my cell phone. He's instructed me to tell you that you are required at the bar tonight." Pushing Gai's arm off him, he continued to back up until he was well out of arms reach.

"I see. I'll call Genma then to ask what bar. Seeing as he probably didn't tell you."

"Observant as always my rival, he didn't." Sighing, he knew Genma hated being around Gai and he knew why… poor bastard was pushing 30 and didn't have a hope in hell with finding a girlfriend. "Kakashi,"

"Hm..?" He mused taking out his phone and turning it on to call Genma. He wasn't really paying attention to Gai; he did notice that the crazy man was franticly trying to get his attention. "Did you say something?"

"Once again very hip, I was saying that I hope I can find some good training partners here." Kakashi nodded and started to walk away from him with his phone to his ear. He could hear Gai chanting he wanted to make the students realize the springtime of youth... God damn, He needs to find some relief in a bad way... thinking to himself as the phone picked up.

"Genma's Candy emporium, we have an assortment of Lollipops and honeyed coated treats. What can I get you?"

"Hey darling, I hear you're looking for a good time?"

"Oh hey, love. I was thinking about you." Kakashi could hear Genma laughing lightly.

"Gai tells me bar hopping tonight?" Genma could hear the invisible smirk on Kakashi's lips.

"Have I told you lately how much I love you?"

"Hm... Everyday you get the chance. Which bar are we going to?"

"I'll tell you if you don't tell Gai, swear to god I can't take that man anymore."

"Since when have you and Gai been a couple?" There was a snort on the other end of the line.

"Oh shit, I ran myself into that one didn't I?"

"Yes. Yes, you did. I won't tell anyone."

"Solace, it's a new bar that opened on the other end of town. I've heard good things about it."

"Hm, coming from you I'm not too sure. I'm really not in the mood for a strip bar." Looking around he wanted to make absolutely sure that no one heard him say that.

"Nope, I hear they have pool tables, classy really. You'd like the art structure of the place."

"Classy and pool tables don't belong together in the same sentence, but since it was you're choice for a bar I can't refuse to come."

"Oh baby, I like when you talk dirty. How's the teacher thing working out for you anyways?"

"Not teacher. Doctor. Three hours late, but Chief seemed ok with it. I think he knew I have a problem being late. God, Gai embarrassed me before I even got here." He sighed into the phone, looking around lazily.

"Hm… made mention of you in his speech did he?"

"Yes. Regardless, I can't be seen around that buffoon here at work. He makes me look bad."

"Actually, he makes everyone look good but that's another story." Genma got Kakashi to laugh over the phone which was rare, "Sexy, your laugh is really sexy. Not that you need me to tell you or anything. So we'll see you later tonight then?"

"Yes, later then."

"Alright, sugar later. Kisses," Genma started making kissing noises over the phone; Kakashi snapped the phone shut putting it back in his pocket.

"Idiot," He whispered as he cruised down the hall looking in the rooms and down the corridors. He really could get used to this place; it was so relaxing and beautiful. Granted it was probably nothing like this packed full of students. He slightly shuddered to think about it. Probably for the best he's taking a tour now before all of them are here. Lazily looking outside, he noticed something. Outside the window, coming this way, a small girl with pink hair was being closely followed by a boy with bright blond hair. Now it didn't strike him as odd until they came a little closer, Sakura… what is she doing here? Well obviously this is a school, and she's about the right age… but she's really attending this school? That's fairly odd coincidence, he hummed to himself. And who was this boy following her? Not that I care... but he seems really familiar with her, and he doesn't seem like the rich boy type either. Milling it over in his head as he watched them walk into one of the buildings, maybe he should introduce himself? Without really thinking about it he started walking in their direction. Maybe running into them wouldn't be a bad thing.

Half running up the stairs, Sakura and Naruto had made their way though the buildings one by one. Sakura was surprised how beautiful this school was and it was so the right choice coming here. Each arc seemed to have a streamlined purpose; it wasn't just haphazardly put together. She did take note of the windows, beautiful etched leaves they seemed like snowflakes against the clear glass. She wondered if it had some important meaning, maybe she was thinking too much about it. It seemed to her that leafs represented the students and student life through the school. She wondered if Sasuke might have noticed it too, but that would be too much to ask. She found that they were laughing, how long has it been since she laughed? He made her worries go away, it was an odd feeling. How was it that a dumb clumsy fool like him could make all her worries wash away? However, she did remind herself not to get too close to him. God forbid he finds out about her scars; they raise too many questions – questions she wasn't willing to answer, yet. While in the middle of reminding herself she barely heard Naruto shout, "Sakura-chan watch out…" She collided head on with someone while coming around the corner that met with the last step on the stairs.

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry" She stammered, looking up to see... "Hatake-san?" she whispered.

"Yo, you two should be careful. I hear they don't take too kindly to running in the halls."

"Sorry Sensei." It seemed insincere as Naruto said this, like he's said it a thousand times before.

"Ma, No worries after all I'm just the doctor. I warn you so I don't see you in the clinic with an injury."

"You!" Naruto shouted, "You're the one that was SUPER late!" He laughed, his bright blue eyes shinning as he seemed to catch on to something, like he had caught something in his mouth like a fish would. "Sakura-chan how do you know him?" She blushed.

"Uh…" she began "You see…" Kakashi could tell that this wasn't going to end well.

"I didn't catch your name?" gesturing at Naruto, who immediately lost all thoughts in his head for a split second, great he's not the brightest kid in the world, Kakashi smiled to himself.

"Uzumaki Naruto."

"Naruto-kun, what do you think about this school?"

"It's pretty special; they let someone like me in on a …" He thought about his word, "Scholarship."

"Hm, indeed this is a beautiful and special place. Personally, I like the décor. Each pane of glass in every window holds leafs symbolizing the growth that takes place here." Musing at his words, Sakura quickly commented with her large knowledge base of tactful words and hidden meanings.

"Look underneath the underneath? You like the structure of the building that makes it so that we the students might learn better." Pointing to and making note of leafs in the etched glass.

"Very good, you could be really good at literature. What is your subject of study, miss?" He didn't say her name, she eyed him carefully. Something was odd about him today, something was off.

"Medical," She quietly said.

"Really, that takes some talent." Looking at his watch he was already late, Genma was going to kill him. "I'm sorry I have to be going, it was nice to meet you Naruto... and" He looked at Sakura "Your name?" He smiled gently; she knew at that instant that he was making up for her calling his name out.

"Sakura."

"Sakura-chii, pleasure is all mine I'm sure," Before the two of them knew what happened he was already gone, down the stairs and to the parking lot. Naruto stammered.

"He's something, isn't he?" He breathed soundly; even this young man was taken aback by the beautiful Hatake Kakashi. Shaking his head he turned to Sakura who was still in a daze, "Sakura-chii?" He questioned.

"Hmm…" She looked at him with a longing gaze to her jade eyes, snapping instantly back to him "Oh! Naruto yes, he is something isn't he?"

Naruto pouted. "I just said that." She didn't hear him, what is he doing here? Is he working here? I know he's a doctor and everything, but why this school? Was he not happy with his last job? Her questions plagued her, and she knew she wouldn't get a real answer unless she asked him. The problem was getting him alone to do so.

TBC Chapter 4: The Twisted Hand Destiny Dealt Us
Notes:

Dobe: Dead last

Chii – (Sakura-Chii) it's an adaptation of Chan, much like Tan or Chin. It's supposed to be super cute and apparently Sakura doesn't mind when Kakashi calls her that but minds when Naruto does. Go figure.