Its Wednesday ….and me and Gai have not talked to each other since that night. -_- since we have not been talking, it has been eating away at me. Every time we look at each other we look away, and we have not been the same room alone. It feels as if I have had knife stuck into my heart and twisted it.

I figure that I should apologize and try to fix this awkwardness. I find Gai in his normal spot for morning training. In practices area #4. I stand at the edge of the practice field. Gathering all my courage to talk to him.

"Gai…..can I talk to you for a moment?" He pauses from his training

"Ok" he stops what he is doing and I walk towards him. So that I am a few feet from him. "What do you what to talk about?"

I take a deep breathe. "Gai I know that after the events from the other day we haven't been talking or well had any association we each other. And since I don't know how you feel about the incident. So if you feel as if I took advantage of you or betrayed your trust…. I'm sorry" I'm looking at the ground the whole time during my little speech. But I made sure that I looked him in the eyes when I said that I was sorry. There is no response. "So just so that you know I am also sorry if you have any of those feelings" I keep trying to read any emotions in his face and body language. But no.

Damn his poker face. "Well that's all I wanted to say" I turn around to walk away.

"Why did you apologize? Most people would have ignored what happened" I stop and turn back around

"Well…someone once told me: apologizing does not me that one person is right and one person is wrong. It means that you value the relationship more than your ego." I take another deep breathe. "so, I value the relationship that we have and if I don't our friendship won't go back to normal" Gai looks stunned, then I realize that he hasn't been looking at me but past me these last few minutes. I turn around to see…..Gai?

I thought that I was already taking to Gai. "What?"

"Kakashi, I'm….I'm here for your challenge" he pauses and then refocuses while doing the mighty Gai pose.

"Well the cats' out of the bag" apparently the Gai I was talking to, pouring my heart out was actually Kakashi….. I. AM. GOING. TO. .

I turn and give him the death stare. He poofs out of the transformation technique and sighs. I grab the nearest rock and chuck it towards his head.

"KAKASHI! What the hell! You knew I wanted to talk and apologize to Gai in private, without you inference. I take off running to my left.

Kakashi's POV

I duck the rock. And Raizo takes off running.

"Kakashi what just happened?" Gai walks closer

"Well… I was being nosy and picking on Raizo at the same time"

"Why"

"Because she doesn't know how to talk about love to the person she likes and she also wants to apologize to you"

"Apologize for what?"

*sigh* "are you really that stupid today? She wants to apologize for the other night"

"What?" he doesn't understand

"The other night, the night after me and Iruka left that night"

"….but why does she need to apologize?"

"She feels that she needs to apologize because she likes you"

"Well she likes you too"

*face palm* Gai she only likes you!" Gai is being so stupid today. I grab him by his flak jacket and pull him in close

"Listen Gai, Raizo likes you. She is in love with you. You stupid idiot!"

"What? Like marriage and babies?"

"Yes! She even likes you so much you thick headed idiot, that she let you take her virginity. Are you that stu-Aaaaahhhhhhh!" A loud scream cuts me off.

"Raizo!" we both shout

Gai immediately takes off towards the scream while I pretend to follow him. I chuckle and walk away.

Well it looks as if everything is going as planned. Now it is up to Raizo to get past her emotions to get through to him.

Raizo's POV

I can't believe Kakashi! He made me believe that he was Gai and I just poured out my heart to him.

Now I am running through the forest of practice area #4. I am such an idiot.

*crunch* crunch? "Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!" I find myself falling into a pit. I try to grab at any vines or roots on the walls of the pit. But no go, my hands just go right through them . *thud* I fall to the ground first landing on my feet then tumble forwards.

"Ouch!" I try to stand up but a pain shoots up my left leg from my ankle. So I crawl to the wall and sit.

Well looks like I'm stuck and this pit is about…..hmm 8ft deep? Yup I'm not getting out of here without some help.

Time seems to go slowly by but I know it can't have been more than ten minutes.

"Raizo! Raizo! Where are you! Raizo!" a faint voice calls out

Gai?

"Gai Gai! I'm over here" I few moments later Gai suddenly pops his head out from over the side of the pit.

Well at least someone came, even if it is Gai.

"Raizo are you alright?"

"Ye-yeah, but I can't get out"

"Hold on I'm coming down" before I can say anything the fool jumps down and lands in front of me. He sticks a hand out to help me up, I start to reach out but then stop.

"Wait, how do I know you are the real Gai?" I fold my arms and lean back

"Huh? Why would you ask that for?"

"Cause I'm starting to bear a strong dislike for ninjas now because of the different transformation techniques"

Confused at first "well…..you have a birthmark in the shape of a triangle on your left hip" he says stone faced

"Ok! Let's go !" I try to stand up but fail. When I stood up my ankle gave out again and I fell back to the ground. Gai picks me up and holds me with one arm around my waist. I wrap my arms around his neck to hold on. As soon as I do so he jumps straight up and gracefully lands several feet outside the pit.

Show off

"Hey what are you doing?" Gai picks me up completely in princess style and starts to walk.

"You are hurt so we are going to the hospital to get you some medical attention"

"No I'm not I'm fine" Gai stops walking and stares at me. After a minute of the staring contest I finally crack.

"Ok ok…I think I sprained my ankle" I look away and he proceeds to walk again.

Damn ninjas and their poker faces.

"So ….what did you want to talk about?" Gai finally broke the silence. I quickly start to feel my face get red and hot from embarrassment.

"I I-I'm sorry" Gai stops again and I look up at him. He looks confused and surprised.

"What?" he blankly states

"I'm sorry"

The only response that I get from Gai is him placing me on the ground against a tree. He walks a few feet away and keeps his back turned. Silence falls. Right as I'm about to speak to break the silence Gai speaks first.

"Why?"

"What?"

"Why…..why did you apologize" since his back is still turned I start to fiddle with my fingers

"Well because for 1. I feel a little guilty and ever since that night there's been …uh what you say 'tension' between us and I want to go back to normal. 2. I, well we both did the whole morning after ditching move. …I like you, and I didn't want you to think that I took advantage of you"

Ugh! I'm so like dad, I can't even express certain feelings right.

After several moments of silence I decide that it might be best if I were to leave and give him some alone time. I start to slowly crawl away.

"Where are you going?" Gai yells and I am suddenly dragged backwards several feet. Then I am flipped onto my back where Gai has pinned me to the ground.

I start to become worried:

Gai has me pinned to the ground

His body language is completely different than normal

He has an angry look in his eyes but doesn't know exactly what to do

"Where are you going?"

"Away"

"Why?"

"Why? Why? Cause you were just standing there not talking. No response what so ever so I thought that I would leave you alone for a little bit, that's why"

Now I am starting to get mad and we have another staring contest. After what feels like hours Gai suddenly starts to passionately kiss me. I'm taken aback, but ….I kiss back anyways. We parts lips and he backs up off of me so that I am no longer pinned to the ground. I slouch back, rolling my lips inward covering my mouth and look at the ground in embarrassment.

"You had no reason to apologize…it should be me apologizing to you"

"You did nothing wrong"

"No… I have took you innocence and corrupted your body"

I roll my eyes and start laughing "Gai it takes two to do the naked tango and what we did wasn't exactly rape either"

"…..ok…sorry for yelling at you" Gai turns back around to face me

"It's ok I have heard worse, now help me up or we are never gonna get to the hospital" I lift my hands out in front of me, motioning him to come here.

As he helps me stand up I ask "so are we ok? Are we on the same page about what happened that night?"

"Yes"

"Ok good" we start walking with his arm around my waist for support.

"Raizo….are nights like that going to become regular?"

I choke on air "what?!" I stop and look at him in the face.

"Is coitus going to become a regular activity between us?" he blankly states, I blink several times

"No"

"What why?"

"Because I don't do one night stands or sex-buddies. It is shown in history that those two ways end well. Besides we are not dating or married so you are not getting any"

"So ….if we were dating then it would happen, right?"

"Yeah maybe but that's if we were"

"Raizo do you want to start dating?"

"What? Are you asking me out?"

"Yes will you be my girl" he does a mini nice Gai pose

"…I don't know. The relationship has to be something more than sex"

"I know. The reason why you said things were tense was because I started to think of you as something more than a friend. Today I was shocked to know that you felt the same way that's why I wasn't responding to you." I stare and start to slowly smile as Gai gets more flustered and red about what he just said. It's cute.

"Ok we can be boyfriend and girlfriend" Gai gets so excited that he tightly squeezes me in a hug and kisses me again. It's like trying to fight him off with a stick, but I manage to push him away a little bit.

"Gai, Gai! If you don't stop and if we don't get to the hospital. You are never getting any from this point on"

"Ok" he stops a little depressed but picks me up princess style again as we finally are able to leave to practice area.

It starts to bug me, something is not sitting right.

"Gai how did you know that I lost my virginity to you?"

"Oh Kakashi told me"

"That fool…I'm not telling him anything ever again"

"What?"

"That dude just played us both, in means of getting us together" I chuckle and lay my head on Gai's chest. I have just realized that Kakashi has played matchmaker on us. Ever since I said that I started to like Gai.