A/N Ok sorry it took me so long to update again. Well February 4th was my birthday:D yays so I was busy with that. Another reason was I just didn't feel motivated enough to write and I had temporary writers block. I find listening to my Naruto music does help with that. Anyhoo enjoy the chappy.

Discalimer, cos I haven't included it in ages- I don't own Naruto.

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Chapter 4

Kakashi started to set up their tent for the night. Anko glared at Kakashi.

"What?" He said innocently knowing quite well what was up.

"Kakashi, where the fuck is the other tent" Anko demanded. He just gave her a cynical look.

"What other tent?" He replied sending a swift smile in her direction.

"Look Kakashi I like you and you know that but sharing a tent on a mission. I mean for gods sake I thought we agreed that this was a mission and we had to fully concentrate on the mission, not each other." Anko thought that she would cry if he said he had another tent, even after all she had just said.

"I have a very good reason for why I'm only putting up one tent." Kakashi paused, quite happy to just sit there taking in her expression.

"Well carry on with your "very good reason". I'm waiting." Anko demanded impatiently.

"God she is a feisty one. How could I not like her?"

"You forgot yours." Kakashi finished simply.

Anko was pissed off.

"What so you just forgot to tell me I would need a tent?"

"Maybe," Kakashi answered coyly with a smirk.

Anko just stared at him in shock. She was silent for a minute. Then came the outburst of rage.

"What the fuck Hatake? I thought you said we had to keep our full concentration," Anko demanded, sending him a glare that would have any other man scared shitless. Kakashi just smiled and suddenly he was stood behind her, arms wrapped around her waist, his lips at her ear.

"How can I help myself when you are so unbelievably tempting?" He murmured softly, pressing a soft kiss to her neck. Ankos cheeks flushed but she fought against his arms. However he was too strong for her, keeping her pinned to him.

"You and I both know that this is a mission and we must keep our focus but what's a little sharing of a tent," he asked her, a smirk across his face.

Anko was unable to answer, her thoughts going haywire as his warm breath tickled against her ear.

"Anyway what difference will it make? We are taking shifts for lookout so we wont be in the tent at the same time. Now lets finish getting this tent up and having some dinner." Kakashi pulled back swiftly, spinning away from Anko and back to the tent.

Anko was left standing feeling very confused and slightly hurt. She couldn't get her head around all these sudden changes of mood.

"Sure sure. I'll do dinner," she said plastering a smile on her face. Kakashi however heard the hurt in her voice.

"I'm sorry Anko. I just don't know how to do this. I need to make sure I do the best for my village but I love you. I'm just so torn up inside at the moment." Kakashi found himself wondering why he couldn't just say things like that out loud so he could explain himself, explain his behaviour.

Anko busied herself preparing the dinner but couldn't stop a single tear falling down her cheek and Anko didn't cry easily.

"He is torturing me on purpose. He is just like everyone else, a liar and a user. Just for a few minutes I thought someone actually cared enough about me that they could love me and stay with me."

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"I will take the first shift. You should get some sleep, you look exhausted," Kakashi lectured Anko.

"Fine." She stomped into the tent to get ready for the night. Sat out in the darkness Kakashi made a decision.

"Anko. I'm sorry." Those three words were enough for Anko. To her they explained everything. She stood in the tent, a silent smile spreading across her face.

"Did she hear? Did she understand?" The silence was making Kakashi paranoid. He settled up against a tree for his shift. The darkness was quickly closing round, soon he would have to uncover his sharingan.

Suddenly he felt something heavy fall in his lap. He reached to grab a kunai when he made out the face of his attacker. Anko. An unspoken answer to his questions.

They sat there for what felt like ages, just sitting there in comfortable silence.

"Anko. Is this wrong? Us being together. You're still with Genma for fucks sake."

"It doesn't feel wrong. I never loved Genma like I love you." Anko was glad of the darkness so Kakashi couldn't see her blush. She yawned to hide her embarrassment.

Kakashi chuckled to himself at the very obvious yawn. Then Anko yawned again, this time for real.

"Your tired babe. Get some sleep. I can take a bit of an extra sleep, after all I did keep you up. We need to be fully focused." Kakashi bent down, pulled down his mask and gave her a short, sweet goodnight kiss.

With his head bent down so it was level with her ear he took the opportunity it proposed.

"I love you too." He said simply. Shortly after he felt her head fall against his shoulder as she fell into a deep sleep.

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Two shadows hid behind some trees, watching them closely.

"Keep close to them, stick to the plan. I'm going to report back to Master."

"What! But its my fucking turn."

"Jeez learn to keep that mouth of yours under control. You are in no position to complain. I'm in charge of this mission, I get to direct orders."

"That doesn't fucking mean you can give me the shit end of the stick. I'm getting a crap deal here."

"Well its your fault that I was placed with someone as stupid as you in the first place. I used to be trusted enough to do something like this on my own but ever since the incident in the rice country Master has not exactly well erm…trusted me as such."

"Ha sucks to be you."

"Sucks to be you because I'm still in charge and I'm still going to give the report. You know the plan so put it into action," replied the shadow as took off.

"Well fuck you Kabuto!" Yelled the second shadow at the trees.

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"Come on sleepyhead. Oh for gods sake wake up already!"

Anko blinked as she woke from her deep slumber. When her eyes focused the first thing she saw was Kakashi bent over her. Then she realised that she could see him.

"Jeez what time is it?" She demanded, a slight hint of teasing in her voice.

"5 o'clock and don't you dare say that I was supposed to wake you up earlier. Like I hadn't tried." He grumbled at her.

"Oh yeah. I forgot to mention I'm a heavy sleeper." She said sheepishly. "Well you better get some sleep before we set off."

"Sure sure," a habit he had already picked up from her. He headed towards the tent, tugging his headband up to cover his sharingan.

"Where are you going mister?"

"Well to bed seeing as you just ordered that I sleep, I thought bed was the perfect place for that." He said, raising an eyebrow at her.

"But aren't you going to stay with me? I slept in you lap for the night surely I should repay you for that." Anko was baffled. Had she put him off in someway?

"Ok no. It might be socially acceptable for a girl to spend the night in a guys lap but not the other way around. So night….or morning whichever way you want it." Kakashi said wandering towards the tent again.

In the shadows of the trees something made its move.

The instance the flap closed after him Anko felt alone, almost as if everyone and everything bad in the world was suddenly out to get her now Kakashi was gone.

She almost called after him but stopped herself in time.

"Anko pull yourself together. You're an elite shinobi who has been alone in much worse situations and your not even alone right now. Kakashi is just in the tent all of about 5 feet away. Is this really the kind of person I become when I love someone?"

Almost as if he had sensed her distress Kakashi popped up behind her, wrapping his strong, reassuring arms around her.

"God you women don't half stress a lot do you?" He said playful. Anko replied by giving him a smack across the head.

"How does he always know? He is always there when I need him. I don't even have to ask for him, he just comes."

"Come on , we might as well get a head start seeing as you can't seem to survive without me for even a minute." Kakashi continued, a playful tone still there in his voice.

They started to pack up the equipment but the whole time Anko was still worrying.

"Am I holding us back? He needs to sleep to be in top form but my sudden paranoia is stopping him from sleeping. Snap out of it Mitarashi, this is you for gods sake. Deal with it like you have all those times before."

"Come on!" Kakashi was once again towering above Anko, snapping his fingers in front of her eyes this time. "Jeez daydream much?"

"I was thinking about you and that enough to send anyone into a stupor," Anko smiled sweetly at Kakashi before jumping off into the trees. Kakashi took off after her, shaking his head and laughing quietly to himself.

"You know you really are quite interesting to listen to when you sleep," mused Kakashi as they travelled through the trees.

"How so?" Asked Anko suspiciously.

"Well you don't half talk a lot and you're fairly violent. I think I sustained a few bruises last night. Not that either of those are abnormal for you, just normally you are awake when they are occurring," Kakashi said slyly, preparing himself for a punch. However when the punch didn't come he turned round to check Anko was ok.

"What did I talk about?" Anko said in an almost strangled voice.

Kakashi smiled softly at her.

"Mostly about me. You said you loved me."

"But you already knew that."

"Yes but it was still nice to hear it," He said with a small, almost sad smile to himself. Then with sudden speed he turned round and threw a kunai directly at her.

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A/N Well what did you think? Sorry I left it as a cliffy. I just thought that was a great chapter ending. The more reviews I get the quicker I will update. I realised I had loads of mistakes in this chapter so I edited some things.

To come next chapter- More about the shadows, we already know one of them is Kabuto so I guess you can guess who the "Master" is. Bet you can't guess the other shadow though.