For the one I love 11.

So the days went. We travelled everyday from dawn to dusk, at ridiculous speeds. Kakashi-sensei, Shikamaru and Sasuke-kun barely seemed to be breaking a sweat, while the rest of us looked like shit.

The most annoying thing was that Naruto was constantly whining that we were moving too slowly. Some really dense jounin he was. Didn't he realise not all of us had his stamina because we didn't have tailed beasts sealed inside us?! Seriously.......

Why the fuck was Water country so bloody far?!

And our tent partners remained the same. I always slept in Kakashi-sensei's arms, and I enjoyed it immensely. We didn't have another make out session like the one we had in our first night, but I always remembered it. I also had the privilege of seeing his face every day. And as was expected, he looked so absolutely handsome. I could never get bored of seeing his face. I could just sit there and stare at it all day, every day for the rest of my life.

I also made a habit of rubbing it into the rest of the squad's faces. It reached a point where the very smug look on my face every morning as I walked out of our tent told them that yet again, I had been blessed with the most heavenly sight of all.

And there was absolutely nothing they could do about it, since they knew their smart-ass retorts would lead to me beating them to a bloody pulp.

"It's all that almost perfect chakra control's fault," I heard Sasuke-kun grumble one morning as we were packing.

Finally after five torturous, relatively interesting days, we got to the border of water country. The difference was so striking; even Naruto had to have figured it out. There were rivers, lakes, streams, springs.....every single water source you could think of. It was also quite ridiculously humid. No wonder it was called Water country. Everything you saw or felt reminded you of, well, water.

"Ne, ne, Kakashi-sensei, why is there water all over?" Naruto asked, blinking many times, extremely confused.

I really, honestly loved Naruto with all my heart, but there was no way that you could just be this idiotic.

"Because, dobe," Sasuke-kun said, irritated beyond description, "we are in Water country. That ring a bell?"

I vaguely wondered how Hinata was patient enough to survive with him. Anyway, as they said, love was blind.

Another reason to explain why I'd fallen hook, line and sinker in love with my ex-sensei who was fourteen years my senior.

I sighed.

"Sakura?" came the lazy drawl of said ex-sensei. His baritone always seemed to do wonders to my body. Hi voice was like a caress, so sexy. It made me go weak at the knees. It almost washed over me, like a warm bath in the bathtub when you're from an intensely crazy training session and you just wanna get lost in-

"You okay? You're kinda zoned out." He continued.

I snapped back to attention. Everyone gave me weird looks. I laughed sheepishly and rubbed the back of my neck awkwardly.

"He he.....sorry. I was kinda lost in thought. So what's up?"

"There's a town below us. It's mostly a civilian town, so it would be excellent for us and the nature of our mission. The village that was destroyed by those shits is about ten minutes walk from here. We'll start our investigations tomorrow." Kakashi-sensei said slowly.

"But as you all realise," Shikamaru begun in his lazy drawl, throwing a glance at Naruto, "is that these civilians are obviously absolutely terrified by what happened to said destroyed town. They'll be wary of anything that looks, smells and resembles a shinobi. That's why Kakashi-sensei and I brought everyone civilian clothes to wear. We're all gonna change here and look like normal travellers. If anyone asks, we're students working in the field and Kakashi-sensei is our sensei. Got it?"

Everyone nodded.

Kakashi-sensei continued. "When we leave for investigations, we'll get out in our civilian clothes, then when we get to a reasonable distance, we'll change and keep our packs somewhere safe. We'll go do the investigations and get back. As you remember, Godaime said that this should take a while. I don't know how long it will take, but we are supposed an absolutely thorough job. No slacking. We also have to be really careful. Keep your guard up all the time. These are the kinda missions that even ANBU captains die."

Everyone flinched uncomfortably at that. The tension was so high, you could cut through it with a kunai.

The team leaders handed everyone their clothes and we went to different directions to change. It took about ten minutes, and everyone came out.

Shikamaru was dressed in jeans and a t-shirt. He had very, very dirty, filthy sports shoes. His clothes were slightly creased, and he just looked like he could care less. He was every inch the indifferent geek. He even had spectacles to complete the look.

Chouji had three quarter shorts and sandals. He also had a t-shirt on, but underneath it he had a full sleeved shirt. To complete his look he had a bag of chips. The hog of the group.

Naruto was dressed in jeans as well and a long sleeved shirt. He looked totally amused and confused, with his big goofy smile and oblivious nature. He was playing the idiot of the group.

Shino only slightly changed. He had on a crisp, grey pin-stripped suit. Even his shoes were leather, and a black bow tie. To complete his look, he had the traditional box leather suitcase. The dead serious one, who valued his education like he valued his life, probably more.

Kiba has a dress shirt and gruffy looking jeans. He had an exercise book and a pen in his hand. He was looking around thoughtfully. Your average everyday teenager. He was playing the normal kid.

Sasuke-kun had on jeans and a wife beater. He looked absolutely bored, and as far he was concerned, this was all a waste of his time. He had much better things to do, like go look for some fan girl to screw. He was playing the sexy chic magnet. And I had to admit, he did look his part.

Hinata had on a long flowy skirt and a cute looking top. She had a huge book in her arms and she was looking down, a slight blush on her cheeks. She was playing the part of the shy timid girl.

Ino, on the other hand, had on a short rugged jeans mini-skirt and a very, very revealing halter top. On her face was a cocky confident smirk. The popular girl.

I just had a normal pair of jeans and a tank top. On my feet were chucks. I had a look of boredom on my face, but you could tell that I was extremely smart. I, like Kiba would also be a normal, everyday teenage girl.

Then Kakashi-sensei walked out, and it every single inch of self control I had not to let my jaw fall smack on the ground or blatantly ogle. He had a black semi-formal shirt, the first two buttons open. You could slightly see his very well developed chest. He had jeans, very faded yet very attractive. They were riding kind of low on his narrow, masculine hips (as my inner had the nerve to wickedly point out.) On his feet were Nike sport shoes, and the laces were undone. On his head was a blue bandana, to cover his sharingan, but it also held his messy spikes up. His hands were shoved deep in his pockets, and he looked extremely bored. The brilliant master leading his students.

The utterly gorgeous, masculine, sexy, fuckable sex god of a brilliant master leading his students.

Ino, playing her part, very blatantly ogled. Lucky bitch.

Hinata blushed slightly more, but being a shinobi, I knew she was ogling from the corner of her eye.

I slightly looked, slightly blushed, and went on with my life. No wonder he was always the topic of discussion in the kunoichi bath houses. His sex appeal was legendary.

And so, in our various disguises, we walked toward the little village, totally hiding our chakra and walking with a little less grace than normal to look as normally civilian as possible.