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Branches, twigs and leaves fell from the trees in Sakura's garden as Kakashi was playing with the chainsaw. He was clearing up the garden so they'd see what it hid.

"Can I please use the chainsaw now?" she yelled trying to make him hear her.

There was no response, so he didn't hear her or he acted as if he didn't. Though, he was wearing green hearing protectors and the chainsaw made an awfully loud noise. But just in case, he was pretending not to hear her, she decided to yell: "If I can't use the chainsaw, you won't be getting any honey tonight!"

Kakashi stop dead in his tracks for a moment and looked at the bushes and trees in front of him. After a few seconds, he kept on destroying the unwanted flora and scaring the fauna away.

Soon, it started to look like there was more to the garden than she had known. The outgrown part of the garden really did hide something. There were still too many plants and her tall lover blocking her view to see anything but glimpses of the rest of her garden.

The Copy Ninja switched the chainsaw off and turned around to face her. He placed the chainsaw on the ground and took his hearing protectors off.

She was ready to shove him into a shrubbery and go see the rest of the garden. But he placed his hands on her shoulders: "Sakura, wait."

"First, I don't get to use MY chainsaw. And now, you're making me WAIT to see MY garden!" she partly yelled but partly laughed at the same time.

"Yes, wait", he said in a deep tone, "see, I don't want you to have a heart attack the moment you go there. It's not… well, it seems like… well… Go." He moved from her way and she sprinted there.

She was amazed by the view. The ground lowered for a few inch and there were all kinds of flowers with breathtaking colors. There were three apples trees which were blooming with white and light pink flowers. There was one cherry blossom tree but it looked like it wouldn't last the winter. The trees were circling the area with the flowers. The place was like from a fairytale like Snow White would run any moment there with the dwarfs and forest animals to the middle of the garden and sing to them.

There was a certain kind of magic in the hidden garden and she realized she was fiercely in love with it.

She walked to the middle of the garden trying not to step on any flowers but because the ground was blooming, it was impossible. She found a small patch where there weren't that many flowers and she lied down there looking at the sky.

"Kakashi, come here. It's amazing", she sighed and inhaled deeply. And, he came to her and lied next to her down on the ground.

"I knew there was something here but I never imagined… it would be this. It's like… These flowers, they've been growing without any help from humans and it's… I always thought to have a place like this, you'd need a human's touch. But… Wow."

"It's all pure", he said, "Made by Mother Nature."

"Yeah."

Naruto was in his hotel room sitting on the bed. He felt paralyzed but he was far from it. He feared everything he had ever worked for was coming to an end in the name of war. He threw a glass of water he had been holding to a wall, it shattered and all the pieces fell on the small drawer. He watched as the water trickled on the wall.

He closed his eyes and squeezed the edge of the bed with his fingers and with almost all of his strength. He felt as if he had failed the whole village. He knew whatever happened, Konoha would stand tall even if it meant rising from the ashes but he wondered if he still had the people's trust.

He loved his village too much to lose it.

He cellphone started ringing next to him on the bed. He inhaled deeply and picked it up: "Yeah?"

It was Genma, "Naruto, how did it go?"

"Stone Village has gathered up allies, new ninjas and S-ranked criminals. It'll be war", he answered.

"Konoha's allies?"

"Sand and Clouds are on our side", Naruto said and took a moment to inhale, "Mist is on Stone's side… Which means—"

"—we'll be attacked on two sides", the older man finished the sentence.

"And, Tsuchikage told me to expect a war, soon."

"That's polite", Genma snarled.

"I'll be back tomorrow and Gaara will come to Konoha and we'll strategize with some ninjas and tomorrow night, we'll have a grand meeting. Tell the head of ninja academy to start teaching mostly defense, hiding and escaping."

"Yes sir."

Naruto hung up and placed the cellphone back on the bed. Genma was his informal second in charge if anything happened. When he had started as Hokage, Tsunade had made the older man guide him in everything. Since that day, the brown haired man had had Naruto's back in every situation.

He knew the ninjas would fight 'til death for the honor of the village. He'd be among them.

Sasuke was leaping from branch to branch and occasionally on roof tops. He was furious and he needed to see one of his best friends. When he reached Kakashi's house, he just decided to storm in and confront her.

Neither one of them was in the kitchen. But he did feel their presences. He walked through the living room and it was empty from humans. Then he realized they were upstairs. He walked to Kakashi's bedroom.

"Sakura!" he practically yelled and she replied with a scream. He wondered why she was screaming and realized she was half naked (at least) and in bed with Kakashi. "Oh, shit", he said quickly and walked out of the room and all the way outside. He sat on the porch and cursed to himself.

They were or had been having sex and he had interrupted it. The moment would haunt him forever. He really didn't want to know anything about Sakura's sex life and already, he knew more than her lovers. Or lover. But even though he had walked into something terribly awkward, he was still furious at her and maybe angrier than before.

He felt her presence getting nearer.

"Um…" she said from behind him.

He turned to look at her, she was blushing or was she just flushed from…? "Sorry", he said quickly.

"Uh, yea, it's ok. So…" She said and sat next to him. She brought her knees to her chest and looked into the distance. She was wearing a white t shirt and black shorts but he could still see her half naked in his mind.

"You and Neji?" he whispered his eyes were full of anger. She turned to look at him and they stared at each other for very long.

"Um. Yeah, years ago. It was a… one time thing. Never happening again."

"Does he know?!" he practically yelled.

"Yeah, Kakashi knows. And why am I explaining this to you?" she asked and she was yelling.

He fell silent and looked away. "It would be wrong if you were with him and he didn't know", he said finally but still refused to look at her.

And she laughed: "Sasuke, I know you two are close but you don't need to shield him from my past."

He didn't reply to her, he vanished into air with a poof of smoke. She looked at the spot that he had occupied seconds ago. 'What was that?' she thought. She didn't understand her friend at all.

But then she felt Kakashi's hands on her shoulders and she felt so warm again. He sat behind her and wrapped his hands around her and she leaned to his chest.

"That was…" she started saying but didn't find the correct words to describe it.

"Awkward", he finished her sentence.

"Yeah. But Sasuke, he's acting weird", she said after a long pause.

"They way I see it, it's hard for him. Well, hard for any guy to see their female best friend starts a relationship with some guy."

"Huh? Why?"

"Because then you start questioning the guy and you can't tell her that he might not be all that… great."

"Been there?" she asked.

"Yeah. Rin and Obito. I was happy for them but…"

"But you didn't think that Obito was good enough for her or something?" she asked and turned to look at the man sitting behind her.

"Well, I knew he was but. It's hard to explain."

"Oh, okay", she said and turned to look at the small yard she had been facing. "But… he was mad at me", she continued, "about Neji."

"Oh."

"Yeah", she sighed, "it's getting cold. Let's go inside." She stood up and before she had the chance to turn around, he was already carrying her inside. And he locked the door on the way in.

Hungry and tired for having only three hours of sleep, Naruto walked slowly to the gates of his beloved village. He was home, at last. He saw a familiar figure at the gates and walked faster to him.

"Gaara!" he said and went to hug him. The red haired man wasn't really a hugging type of a person but since Naruto was, he never resisted. They saw each other somewhat as brothers.

"Naruto. You look tired", the man said and smiled a little.

"Yeah. Let's go eat something and talk business", the blond man said as they passed the gates.

"How did it go with the Tsuchikage?"

"Well, he told me to go to hell", Naruto sighed as they started walking to Ichiraku's ramen bar. He hated the fact that people though he was incompetent because of his young age. Usually Kages were old and full of knowledge but he was young and full of determination. Sometimes, people failed to understand that a young person could be just as capable as an older person.

"Hmm. He tried to get Suna on his side", Gaara said thoughtfully.

"How did that go?"

"Told him to go hell", the red haired man said grinning. Naruto laughed at that.

After becoming somewhat brothers, the two men had started acting like the other one. Naruto had become less loud and he thought more about the consequences of his actions. And, Gaara had started opening up and talking more than before.

"He said to expect a war within months. Maybe even weeks. We have to start preparing right away", the blue eyed man said as they reached the restaurant. But before Gaara could answer, he continued: "But first, we eat."

***

They were in Naruto's office, there were maps all over the desk and walls and they were in the middle of planning the defense of the two villages.

"We have the Raikage's side on the war", Naruto said thoughtfully, "he's sending me a few of his ninjas to help strategizing this. They'll be here tomorrow at noon."

"We'll be attacked from west and east. That's… bad."

"But we can try block the communication and everything between Mist and Rock", the blue eyed man said and looked at the biggest map on his desk and drew a few blue lines to divide the map in three parts. In the west was Iwa (hidden village in rocks), middle of everything was Konoha, Suna and Kumo (hidden village in the clouds) and in the east there was Kiri (hidden village in mist).

"If Suna attacks first to Mist, we'll have the element of surprise. And you concentrate on defense and be prepared and as Iwa attacks—"

"—did someone say strategize a war?" Shikamaru said from the doorway cutting off Gaara's sentence.

Every ninja from the rank Chuunin and above were at the Jounin HQ. All eyes were on Naruto and Gaara who were standing in front of everybody.

Sakura was holding Kakashi's hand. She was scared of war but who wasn't?

"It's going to be ok", he whispered quietly to her ear. She didn't know if he believed in the words he had said but she tried to.

"Attention!" Naruto said loudly and everyone fell silent, "There'll be a war against Iwagakure and Kirigakure. Kumogakure and Sunakagure are on our side. Tomorrow, we'll start preparing for this. We're adding up the defense. No one is allowed to inside the gates of this village without the new gate pass. You know in which unit you are in and tomorrow, every unit will meet at 10 am. The leader of your unit will have info about the situation."

She looked at her lover. She was afraid and feeling guilty. If she and Hinata hadn't been exposed, they would not be in a right now. The thoughts of losing the man beside her in a war crept into her mind. With every ounce of strength she had, she fought away the need to cry.

She knew him. He loved his country and there was a big possibility he'd try to do some heroic and… die.

'No!' she screamed in her thoughts. Then, she felt him squeeze her hand.

"Don't think ahead of things", he said in a very low voice as if he had read her thoughts.

A/N: Okay, so, Kakashi's and Sakura's first time, I'll write that later in as a flashback. But, please, review and tell me what was good and what wasn't that good about this chapter/story. Thanks for reading this! You have no idea how much it means to me to have someone reading this. The next chapter... well, I'll try to update in a month. I have to update Lost in Emotions and Pink Blossom before this one.

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