Pairing: KakashiXSakura

Prompt: Dirty


Sakura raised an eyebrow in question at the boys in front of her. They were covered in mud from head to toe and standing on her freshly cleaned kitchen floor. Knowing that she wasn't going to like the answer but needing to know she asked the question on her mind "How exactly did you get so filthy?"

Her husband grinned his mask hanging around his neck since they were alone "We'll you see there was this squirrel."

"An arrogant squirrel." Pakkun piped in.

"A mean squirrel." Bisuke added.

"Evil." Urushi clarified.

Sakura cleared her throat to get the dogs and Kakashi back on track, and Kakashi's grin solidified as Akeno took the story over, his sunglasses reflecting the annoyance in her eyes. "It started throwing acorns at us, we barked to get him to stop, but then he just became more motivated."

Uhei picked up the story "So of course we had to make him stop, so we climbed the tree."

Sakura felt a headache coming on as Bull took over "He was fast though and we were forced to track him through the woods and well . . . it rained last night."

Defiantly a headache "We chased him for over four miles." Guruko added with a wag of his tail.

Sakura sighed "What did you do when you caught him?" She was met with silence, and she couldn't help but be a bit scared "Please tell me you didn't kill the squirrel."

Pakkun growled "Of course not."

"We didn't catch him." Guruko admitted a little too enthusiastically.

That made Sakura pause and she turned towards Kakashi "They didn't catch the squirrel?"

Kakashi simply stared at her "He was an evil squirrel Sakura, very evil and very cunning."

Sakura felt her rage spike through the roof; she had left home thirty six hours earlier for a ten hour shift at the hospital. Kakashi had been sleeping soundly, having just returned from a tiring mission, with the dogs also spread out and asleep throughout the house. She had been more than happy to have her boys home and had left for the hospital excited for the day. She had had two hours left in her shift and was planning what to make Kakashi for dinner when three critically injured squads had been rushed in, and thoughts about going home flew out of her brain. She had sent word home that she wouldn't be back for a while in-between surgeries.

Twenty something hours later and only four hours of sleep later Sakura had trudged home, more than anxious to see her husband and the dogs until she had walked into the kitchen and found everything covered in mud. They had had enough sense to come in through the window of the kitchen at least, and hadn't tracked it through the house, but still. She had just cleaned that floor, and dirt on white grout was a pain to get out.

Counting backwards from ten Sakura asked "Was it a ninja squirrel?"

The dogs laughed and Pakkun said "Don't be silly Sakura; there are no such things as ninja squirrels."

"Then how could you have not stopped it? You're ninken!"

In unison the dogs and Kakashi answered "It was an evil squirrel Sakura."

Sakura sighed, officially too tired to process anything else until she had gotten at least eight hours of sleep, and pointed towards the bathroom. The dogs had trudged off towards the bathroom, and Sakura had turned towards her mud covered husband. Even his hair was mud covered. He walked towards her holding out his arms for a hug, and she put out a single hand in the universal signal for stop. "Not until you bathe the dogs and then yourself."

Kakashi grinned before blurring out of sight, Sakura squealed a moment later when arms grabbed her in a hug and she was pulled into Kakashi's chest, mud covering her scrubs and skin. She glared up at her husband, but he simply smiled down at her, his eye still creasing even without the mask, and she sighed in acceptance wrapping her arms around his neck and holding him close, happy to simply have him home.

She kissed him before wiping a smudge of dirt off his nose, and said "To think I ever thought you had bucked teeth on that handsome face."

Kakashi raised an eyebrow in question and Sakura just laughed. Kakashi was handsome, and he knew it though he didn't flaunt it or rely on it, he wore a mask after all. Still she hadn't married him for his looks she had married him because she loved him. A moment later she was over his shoulder in a fireman's hold on her way to the bathroom, Kakashi leaving dirty footprints in his wake. Sakura could only smile, she'd clean the floors later, and in the meantime she'd clean up Kakashi.


So as you should all know Kakashi and Sakura together are one of my favorite pairings, so this was a lot of fun to write. So cherryjubilee, I believe, asked for more dialogue and I accepted the challenge, hopefully I delviered. Another challenge came from Geminia, who has challenged me to do Ebisu again, and to this time flesh out his character, which I have also accepted, so you'll probably see another Ebisu chapter in the future, she gave me some awesome ideas for his story. So so far, Kisame, Ibiki, and Yagura have all been requested this week and I'm kind of on the edge about who to do so let me know who you want to see out of them, and if there's someone else you want to see let me, know, you guys decide who I write about after all. Oh Izuna, Indra and Ashura were also requested, what do you think about them? There's also been requests for continuations of Tobirama's chapter, I might do a follow up in this story I might start it as its' own I'm not sure yet. The next chapter of my SakumoXSakura story will be up today, so be on the look out. Whisper in the Wind will also probably be updated this week, next week at the latest. Okay I'm done rambling now.