Sorry, never made my disclaimer for the past eleven chapters. I forgot. I was so absorbed in the story. ^_^
Here goes then.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. If I did, the Uchiha clan would still be alive and kicking and Itachi, Kakashi and Sasuke would be walking around with no shirts on, ALL THE TIME. :-D
For the one I love 12.
We took our time walking toward the gate of the village. One of the guards stepped up. Definitely a shinobi. His chakra was all over the place.
"What d'you want?" he snarled, shoving his spear about two centimetres near Kakashi-sensei's (masked) nose. I couldn't believe even dressed as a civilian he had to have that damned bloody mask on.
Kakashi-sensei didn't even try looking intimidated. "My students and I are here on an educational trip." He said indifferently, almost bored.
The guard eyed him almost suspiciously. "Are you here legally?"
Kakashi-sensei removed some documents from his pocket and shoved it right into the guard's nose. The rest of us were working really hard to hold our snorts in. Sasuke-kun and Shikamaru only just refrained from smirking.
"Village and country?"
I could literally hear Kakashi-sensei smirk. "Leaf, Fire." He said, with that touch of arrogance all geniuses had.
The guard's hand trembled slightly, before deciding to let us in. "Don't cause any trouble." He said as he opened for us the gate. We walked into the busy little market.
It was so peaceful, almost carefree. This really was the life. I even doubted if their head was a shinobi. These were the kind of villages that relied solely on their daimyos for protection. Sometimes I wished I could live this kind of life.
We walked on, and it was an interesting journey. Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke-kun were getting the admiring looks from the females. Sasuke-kun seemed to respond, with the occasional smirk or wink here or there. One of them even had the nerve to walk up to Kakashi-sensei and 'offer him a warm bed for the duration of his stay.' My hand was twitching in my pocket. Chakra subconsciously flowed to my hand and I formed a fist. The frown on my face was so dark, the rest of the team were raising their eyebrows at me. Suddenly, low, menacing growl tore from my throat.
Who the hell did that stupid bitch think she was, walking up to Kakashi-sensei and throwing herself all over him like that?!
I was actually ready to throw a punch to her perfect little jaw and break it in about ten places. I leaked a little of my chakra deliberately. Kakashi-sensei's head snapped in my direction. He looked at my pocket, and saw my hand twitching.
He looked back to the whore in front of him. He knew her jaw was about to be broken. He glared at me, as if to tell me to stop it. I glared right back. He smirked.
I gulped. My hand immediately steadied and the chakra disappeared from my hand. I looked down and my face turned the colour of my hair.
How the hell did he do that? All he needed to do was just smirk, or smile at me and my head immediately jumbled up and I could barely think straight. Correction, I could barely think at all.
Damn him and his utterly, masculine sex appeal.
The rest of the team looked at our quiet communication very amusedly. Ino, Naruto, Sasuke-kun and Shikamaru in particular were quite amused. This was just about the best entertainment they had in a while.
"Jealous much?" Shikamaru whispered in my ear, smirking. My face turned redder, and I couldn't come up with a reply, so I stuck my tongue out at him.
How dare she? My inner snarled. Look at her, thinks she's the most gorgeous thing in water country. She was seething.
Actually, I informed my inner, though rather irritated, she is quite stunning.
Just whose side exactly are you- hey, hey, what the fuck?! She's reaching for his hand. She seethed frantically.
Sure enough, she was reaching for his hand. My rage was almost exploding at that time.
"No thanks." Kakashi-sensei kept on saying to the bloody woman, subtly keeping his hand away from her prying claws. "My students and I are actually gonna go stay in an inn."
"Can't you just leave your students there? I mean, I know th-"
"Don't you understand English, bitch?" I hissed like an angry cat. "He said we are going to an inn. He doesn't wanna stay with you. Now why don't you do us all a favour and just fuck off, so that we can go on with our lives peacefully?" I growled.
Everybody was suddenly looking at me. I could almost feel their smirks in my face, but I didn't care. No one was allowed to hit on Kakashi-sensei. Absolutely no one.
No one, except me, of course.
Kakashi-sensei's smirk in particular, was the one I was seeing in my mind's eye. It was particularly vivid because I knew exactly what he looked at behind that mask.
And it was seriously messing up with my mind.
The woman looked at me and frowned slightly.
"Just what's your problem, kid?" she asked mockingly.
Naruto had to hold onto me to stop me from going there and clobbering her to a bloody, unrecognisable pulp.
"Let me go, Naruto. I swear, I'll pummel her six feet under," I said, struggling from his grip. It was tight.
She snorted. "Didn't your mother teach you that it's very un-lady like to throw tantrums all over the place?"
I stopped struggling and eyed her disapprovingly. I raised an eyebrow before a very unladylike snort left me.
"So says this lady who's mother never taught her that whoring around was beyond inappropriate." I said mockingly.
She seethed, raising her hand to slap me. I caught her wrist, and used slightly more force than I should have. She winced slightly.
"Don't. Touch. Me. Bitch. Know. Your. Place." I snarled, squeezing a bit more. I heard a small sickening crunch. Smirking, I let her slightly damaged wrist fall. She wouldn't use that hand for a few weeks, though it wasn't all that badly damaged. It would eventually heal on its own.
She looked at me, shocked. She couldn't believe it. Naruto's smirk was the most devious of all.
"Sorry, forgot to inform you that she's stronger than most adults." He said, sniggering rudely.
I could see the tears in her eyes. Clutching her wrist, utterly humiliated, she ran into the crowds.
"Don't forget to tell mummy who injured your wrist." I yelled after her. Ino actually burst laughing.
I turned around to ask her what the hell she was laughing at. When I saw the looks on everyone's faces, my smirk dropped.
This was, no doubt, going to be the most embarrassing moment of shinobi history.
And I, Haruno Sakura, protégé of the Godaime Hokage of Konoha would have the privilege of experiencing it for the rest of the shinobi and kunoichi in existence, past, present and future.
Yep, Kami-sama got me. He got me real good. Had to hand it to him.
"Wow, Sakura," Sasuke-kun said, very wide smirk on his face and extremely amused, "that was very...hmmm....how to put it, thoughtful of you. Didn't know you had it in ya. You really can become the jealous, possessive over-protective bitch when you want."
"Shove it, Sasuke-kun, before I decide to do it for you." I replied through gritted teeth, extremely embarrassed. I had honestly never been that embarrassed in my life.
"Let's go." Kakashi-sensei smirked a smirk so devious, even the Cheshire cat would be jealous. I gulped, very audibly. This was NOT going to end well, for me, at least.
We got to the inn. "Room for five please. For doubles and one single." Kakashi-sensei said, still smirking. Naruto and Shikamaru were sniggering. This was his way of stating that tent partnerships would remain the way they always were. The singles were obviously going to be for Shikamaru and Chouji, which meant...
Oh, shit.
Kakashi-sensei handed everyone their room keys and grabbed my wrist. He pulled me into my-our-room. I turned around and looked at him. He was still smirking.
"Make yourself at home." He drawled.
I turned away, my face a new, bright 25 shades of red.
This was gonna be one hell of a long mission.
