Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I've been kinda busy with assignments and school and stuff. Anyway, here goes. And I'm still asking for reviews, before I resort to demanding, then if ya'll don't review, I'll strike and stop writing. :-p For a while anyway.

Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, I'd be Mrs Uchiha Itachi by now.

For the one I love 14.

I didn't even look at Kakashi-sensei when we got into our room. I headed straight to the bathroom, changed and promptly got into bed.

I'm sure he was wondering what the hell had gotten into me. If I were him, I'd definitely be wondering.

It didn't take him long to get into bed himself. I felt his body heat on my back, then he moved closer. I felt his arm go around my waist and he pulled me against himself. My back was flush against his chest. As usual, I could feel his abs on me, meaning he was sleeping without a shirt on. Don't get me wrong, I so was not complaining.

He gently nuzzled his nose in my neck, and I couldn't help the small smile on my lips. I giggled a little.

"So you're still awake, huh?" he whispered softly into my skin.

"I was just drifting off, actually," I said honestly, yawning.

"Ah. Tired?"

"Yeah."

"Goodnight, Sakura."

"Goodnight, Kakashi-sensei." That was the last I remembered, before drifting off into a heavy, dreamless, happy sleep.

The next day, I woke up to a not so bright morning. The sky was grey with heavy clouds, and it was either just from raining heavily, or it had just rained heavily. Either way, things didn't look too good in this kind of situation.

I heard Kakashi-sensei's even breathing behind me. It seemed he was still asleep, but being him, I'm sure even in his sleep he could sense chakra signatures from about a mile away or something. The man was just too good a ninja. Even in our genin days, he always seemed to know what was going on in his immediate vicinity, no matter how deeply he seemed to be sleeping. Sometimes it amused me, other times it impressed me, and it even just downright pissed me off occasionally. You just couldn't be this perfect.

I tried getting up from the bed, but Kakashi-sensei's muscular arm pulled me right back. I gently yelped as I landed back in the bed with quite a bit of force. When I finally settled down, his grip around my waist tightened much more and I found that I couldn't even move. "Mine." He mumbled softly. I smiled slightly. He was quite possessive, and let's be honest, I liked my men possessive.

Wait, what was that I just thought?

You were saying-

Before my inner finished her sentence, (why couldn't she just sod off for a lifetime or two?!) she was rudely interrupted by Kakashi-sensei, who turned himself so that his back was on the mattress and he was facing the ceiling. Since he was holding me so tight, I ended up lying on his stomach, facing the ceiling as well. He wrapped his other arm around me as well, and literally pulled me into his body. Even with my super-human strength, I. Could. Not. Move.

He grunted a couple of times before going back to his steady breathing.

"Well," I murmured softly. "This is quite interesting."

Silence.

I sighed.

"Kakashi-sensei?" I asked gently. "I think it's time we got up."

More silence.

"Kakashi-sensei?" I asked again, still gently, though slightly louder.

"Wha-wha-whazit?" he asked groggily, opening his eyes slowly.

I sighed gently. "You can let go of me now." I said. I felt his arms loosen around my waist, and I slowly got off him. He sat up and watched me gather my clothes so that I could go into the bath and prepare myself.

"Sorry about that." He muttered, smiling sheepishly.

It took about a minute for me to understand what the hell he was talking about. I smiled.

"No biggie, Kakashi-sensei. Let's just get ready. We've got a long day ahead of us."

In about an hour or so, we were both ready and were heading downstairs to eat breakfast. Everyone was there except Shikamaru and Chouji. I smirked. I don't know why, though. It just happened. We went and got our breakfast.

"Hey guys. Where are Shikamaru and Chouji?" I asked.

Clearly, everyone (with the exception of Sasuke-kun) was in a grumpy mood. I wasn't too sure about Sasuke-kun, since if he wasn't smirking, he was brooding. Suddenly, our subjects of discussion appeared. Shikamaru looked worse than shit, and was probably in a worse mood than everyone else.

"Whatsa matter, Nara? These not your waking times?" Sasuke-kun asked, smirking like hell. This seemed to remove everyone from their dark mood.

"Shut up, Uchiha. This is just so troublesome. We aren't even going far, yet we have to get up so freaking early." He grumbled, rummaging around his pockets. He finally seemed to find what he was looking for, (his geek specs) and put them on.

Kakashi-sensei suddenly stood up. "Let's go guys. Stop slacking." He begun moving out, and we followed him in our respective disguises, the students following the teacher. We got to the gate and the guard who had bullied us the previous day was there. This time, he didn't even bother, of course none of us complained.

We briskly walked (except Ino, who cat walked. I had no idea how she managed to walk so fast in her God-knows-how-many-inch heels) until we got to an area where we could see both the village we were living in and the village we were supposed to investigate, or rather, what was left of it.

"What the hell.....?" Naruto asked, blue eyes wide with shock. We were all shocked, except Kakashi-sensei, who was slowly getting pissed. Even Sasuke-kun had let go of his usual stoic face and his eyes were almost as wide as Naruto's.

There was nothing left of the village. In fact the only reason we realised it was there before was because of the black, charred remains. There was absolutely nothing, just an area of black in the otherwise healthy greenery that consisted Water country.

"Oh my Kami..." Hinata breathed.

How could people be this cruel? How could one human do this to another?

"L-l-le-let's ch-change." Shikamaru stuttered, the shock getting to him.

"Listen up," Kakashi-sensei growled. "We're gonna do this in groups of two. This way it'll be faster and we'll also be able to cover a lot more ground. Ino, you're with Shino. Shikamaru, go with Sakura. Chouji and me, Sasuke and Hinata, Naruto, I'll pair you up with Kiba."

He then got out a kunai and slightly slit his thumb. He did the required seals in a blur and summoned Pakkun and about three other nin dogs.

"What d'you want now, Kaka.....Holy....what the hell happened here?"

"Pakkun, you guys are gonna team up with Akamaru and search the perimeter, see if there's anything of importance we need." Kakashi-sensei continued, totally ignoring Pakkun's question.

"Everyone, move." And he disappeared. Chouji looked momentarily confused before following him.

I sighed.

"Let's go, Shikamaru." I said, and left.

In a few minutes, we were in a secluded part of the, well, charred former village. It was so destroyed, we couldn't even tell if it was in the city centre or a residential area.

Akatsuki really fucked up this place bad. I vaguely wondered if the Daimyo was sleeping well at night.

We worked through the day, slowly, methodically going through the burned village. We dug up and looked under burned wood. This was obviously no normal fire. It had to be a fire jutsu.

But I wondered who in the Akatsuki was so proficient with fire jutsus. They had Itachi before, which was understandable, since he was from Konoha and was an Uchiha, but he was dead.

It finally got to evening. We were still searching, before I heard a loud, disturbing screech that could only be Ino. And that screech wasn't presenting good news. Without thinking twice, I immediately disappeared to where she was and the look on her face was that of utter pure terror.

If our current situation wasn't this serious, I'd have laughed at the look on her face.

But when I looked at the direction her trembling finger was pointing, I was numbed by the shock, then terror.

I knew those clouds this morning signalled a bad day.

Cliffy. *evil laughter.* I'm terrible, ain't I? I left you all literally hanging.

Anyway, you know what I'm gonna ask for, so I won't even bother asking.

(For the sake of the slow ones, I'm talking about reviews. :-p)

Or else, I'm gonna leave ya'll hanging for a looooooooong time. *evil Uchiha-like smirk.*

So do review, ne?