Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
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Sakura woke up and looked at the alarm clock. It was 4:27 p.m.. Today had been a very weird day. She turned around and saw Kakashi sleeping there. He looked so comfortable. With a loving smile on her face she carefully tried to crawl over him to get out of bed. The smile disappeared when she realized this was more difficult than she had thought. She didn't want to wake him. She got on leg over and found enough bed to firmly plant her foot on. Then she was gonna shift her weight onto it. She was doing well until some of her hair, that was tucked behind her ear, fell forward brushing Kakashi's cheek.
He woke up with a startle, sensing that someone was trying to be stealthy. He grabbed the person and looked at who it was. He got a small nose bleed. There was Sakura straddling him topless. Not what you expect when you first wake up. Kakashi immediately let go of her and made sure that he wasn't gonna leave blood on the bed.
"What were you doin' " Kakashi said partially muffled because of his hand. Sakura finished crawling off the bed.
"I was trying to get out, without waking you up. I'm sorry." she said with a worried look "Lemme go and get something to clean that up with." She hurried to the bathroom and got a wet washcloth and some tissues, then went back into the room with them. She handed them to him. He thankfully accepted them.
Sakura couldn't handle it anymore. You know how jeans feel if you sleep in them. She took them off then reached inside of one of Kakashi's drawers and pulled out a big T-shirt. She slipped it over her head and felt better.
She looked around the room and remembered what had only happened the night before. The window was a little different from the one that was in there before. The clean up crew did a good job. She couldn't see glass or blood at all; she was thankful for that. It started to feel like it was an older memory since she took a nap but it didn't quite help make the slightest hint of uneasiness go away.
Kakashi got up and went to deal with the washcloth, now that he was all better. Sakura's feeling of uneasiness grew, since he left the room, even though he was literally on the other side of the wall. She walked out of the room eyeing it, like she almost expected something to pop out. She didn't mind it when Kakashi was near but being alone...
She looked at Kakashi who was rinse the little bit of blood out of the washcloth. She felt better.
"Are you hungry?" Sakura asked. Kakashi looked up.
"Um yeah, a little." he replied.
"I make something then." She said with a smile. Kakashi thought he might have seen something. Her eyes did not seem as bright. But she didn't give him enough time to confirm anything because she walked from the view of the door way and into the kitchen.
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She felt better as she kept her mind occupied. She went to stir something in a pot and her hair fell from behind her ear again. This was getting her frustrated. This was the sixth or seventh time she had put it back there. She was ready to leave the stove and go get a hair tie, when Kakashi's hand was basically in her face. She backed up a bit to have his hand come into focus. He opened up his hand and there was a hair tie.
She smiled and took it out of his hand and tied back her pink hair. She then gave him a kiss as a reward. Kakashi then walked over and grabbed two plates and cups and set them on the small table, as Sakura continued to work on the food. He sat down and watched her work. He was glad that he was seeing things; Sakura seemed perfectly happy. Her eyes had that brightness that he loved.
She turned her head so she could see him from the corner of her eye.
"Sorry it is almost done." She said to him.
"Okay but it is nothing to apologize about. I don't mind waiting." He replied. He stood up behind her and rested his head on her shoulder, and placed his hands across her stomach. She leaned her head on his and closed her eyes. She reopened them after a moment.
"Okay, Kakashi you gotta let go. It's done." she said.
"Mmm-huh" Kakashi mumbled, he didn't want to let go.
"Com'on, you gotta let go." She said.
"Only if you give me a kiss."
"Really that's all?" She asked. This made Kakashi rethink his offer.
"Umm, yeah but with a lil tongue."
"That's horrible price to pay! I can't. I won't." She teased. Kakashi kissed her whether she was ready or not. Kakashi broke off the kiss and acted like he held up an invisible walkie talkie.
"Grh, This is Kakashi. Terms were met. Releasing the hostage. Grh" He said into the invisible walkie talkie. Then with great drama he let go of Sakura.
She scoffed with a smile, then brought the food to the table. Kakashi then brought the needed silverware to the table and they sat down.
They had not got a couple of bites in when they heard the doorbell. They heard a faint voice yelling.
"Kakashi? It's Iruka."
Sakura jumped up. "It's only Iruka-sensei. I'll get it."
"Umm hang on. Come here for a sec" Kakashi said to her.
She came near him to hear what he had to say. He ran his hand up one of her legs. She immediately reacted by grabbing his hand from any further movement.
"I don't think you wanna show these off to him." He said.
"Oh yeah...:P" Was all she said. She gave a silly smile, then quickly ran into the bedroom for a pair of pants or something.
Kakashi got up and headed for the door. He sighed as he descended his stairs. He started to open the door, then paused a moment. His eyes widened then narrowed as he recognized who was with Iruka.
"This is not good." He said softly to himself as he opened the door.
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Sakura slipped on a pair of shorts from her pack and headed to the door. Realizing that clothing was still on the floor of the little living room area, she quickly picked them up and hid them on the side of the couch out of view, until she could deal with it later. She then started down the doorway and down the stairs. She saw Kakashi at the bottom and he did not seem like his laid back self.
"What's wrong Kakashi? What did Iruka-sensei say?" She said. He didn't look up at her. She didn't like this. She moved down the stairs worried for him. She touched his arm. He didn't acknowledge it. He kept staring out the open door. She hesitantly looked too.
She instantly became sick with her spirits dropped. She actually backed a couple steps in fear before she ran up the stairs. A voice called up to her, the unsettling thing was that it was not Kakashi's nor Iruka's. She reached the top of the stairs and fell to the floor. She fought crying. She crawled up against the wall by the doorway and hugged her knees.
Kakashi let the three people into his household without saying a word, not making eye contact with any of them.
He then closed the door and followed behind Iruka.
"Sakura?" called out a man that was all too familiar with Sakura.
"Why did she run away?" Said the woman who stood beside him. Sakura didn't say a word. She didn't want them to know that she was right behind them.
"Iruka-sensei? Wh–..." The woman said as she turned around. She saw Sakura sitting there. She gave a look of pity and went to her knees to give her daughter a hug. Sakura reacted by moving away from her, not wanting her to touch her. Her mother had a confused but not hurt expression and looked at her husband for help.
"What happened to you?" was the first thing he said. bad move
Nobody said anything in return.
"Iruka-sensei?" Her mother asked. Iruka was going to say what he knew but stopped after the look he got from Sakura and Kakashi. Kakashi's was only a warning but Sakura's was pure hatred. Sakura stared at him with such dark green eyes he actually started to feel fear.
"Why are they here?" She asked him, even though her parents were right there. Iruka was confused why she was angry. Since he was not giving a response, her mother answered instead.
"Because we had talked to Ino's father and he said that Kakashi-sensei was back. We had started to get worried about you so we asked where Kakashi-sensei lived and said that he would bring us here." Her mother answered for him.
"God Iruka, you were right. She was living with him." Her father said disgusted, not because of her being with Kakashi, which he knew nothing about, but because she didn't come home right away.
"Why didn't you come home? I know Iruka said it was for your protection but if you were at home you would have been safe too." He also said, this time to her.
She ignored her father, and continue to stare at Iruka. With her mother so uncomfortably close and her father only hearing what he wanted, she started to grow unreasonable, she felt like she had to be listened to. She couldn't control her temper anymore.
"Did you ever THINK that I might have NOT WANTED TO BE HOME!" She yelled at Iruka. "THAT I WAS NOT READY FOR THEM TO SEE ME?!"
He was totally caught off guard. He really didn't mean to make her upset. But it did make more sense that was why she was with Kakashi. But he thought of how the parent might have felt, regretfully not the child. Though it was going to happen sooner or later, he now regretted that he let it happen so readily.
Kakashi just stood there. He did not know what he was going to do. He could not make the situation any better this time.
"Why Sakura?" Her mother asked. Obviously she did not get a good look at Sakura before. She knew her daughter was different but she had no idea. Sakura couldn't stand it anymore. She stood up, she couldn't handle her mother being so close.
"Because if I was at home when Tsubasa came then I might not be here, instead of only having this." She said as she held out her forearm. Her mother was in shock not because her arm but because of how her daughter changed, not acknowledging a thing she just said.
"Kakashi how could you let this happen?!" Her father said, as he examined her arm. Sakura screamed. They didn't hear a word she said to them.
"DON'T TREAT ME LIKE A CHILD!" She screamed. "WHAT I HAVE TO SAY IS IMPORTANT!" Stomping her foot would have seemed like a nice thing to do but it would have defeated all that she was trying to prove. Only if her parents would listen!
"Kakashi explain yourself." Her father continued. They were not even paying attention to her. Sakura took a step so she was in her father's view of Kakashi. She looked at him with cold green eyes.
"He has done all that he could for me." She said now that she had his eye contact. "Unlike you he listens! So leave him out of this."
"Sakura? Why are you protecting him like that, if he let you get hurt like he did." asked her mother who took sides with her husband.
Iruka felt guilty. He never thought her parents were going to be this unreasonable about this happening to her daughter. They were really not listening to a word she said.
"You wanna know why I'm protecting him?" She asked with a growl she said after a few moments to settle her temper down. Her eyebrows raised but her eyes narrowed. She waited until she had both of their attentions.
"Because I would probably be dead if it wasn't for him, but that isn't the biggest reason!" She took a deep breath as she built up her courage despite how it might turn out. She wanted to stay with Kakashi, especially with the way they were reacting. They had pushed her over the edge.
"The biggest, most important reason is because I Wanna Be With Him!" She yelled. Her parents instantly look mortified. Iruka was in shock also.
"God child..." Her father started to say.
"I'M NOT A CHILD ANYMORE!" She screamed. "If you need proof, look at my body, listen to what I'm saying!!"
"That's it! You are coming with us!" Her mother said, who had quite enough. She was hearing what she didn't want to. She grabbed Sakura's arm and started to walk out the doorway, but Sakura pulled her arm out of her tight grip. Her mother's nails left cuts in Sakura's arms.
"No!" she said, ignoring her new pain. She walked over to Kakashi and held his arm tightly. He had an expression of determination to match hers. Her father looked even more disgusted when he saw the spot on her neck that resembled a bruise. He pointed at it, then shook his hand at it angrily. He threw his hand to his side.
"It doesn't matter how much you refuse! You are twelve years old, which makes you a minor, and what you have going on here is pedofile!" Her father yelled back.
"I'm not a minor anymore! I am an adult!" She yelled. Her father saw that this argument was going to go on forever.
"Fine. Lets have Hokage-sama settle this." He said more calmly with his eyes narrowed the same if not more so. She could only agree. If she didn't at least try to defend herself and proved that she had actually grown up then she would most definitely be split up from Kakashi and if that wasn't enough serious consequences would be paid. Knowing Hokage, the odds were against her, but there was still hope.
"Fine." She agreed, raising to the challenge.
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Sakura woke up and looked at the alarm clock. It was 4:27 p.m.. Today had been a very weird day. She turned around and saw Kakashi sleeping there. He looked so comfortable. With a loving smile on her face she carefully tried to crawl over him to get out of bed. The smile disappeared when she realized this was more difficult than she had thought. She didn't want to wake him. She got on leg over and found enough bed to firmly plant her foot on. Then she was gonna shift her weight onto it. She was doing well until some of her hair, that was tucked behind her ear, fell forward brushing Kakashi's cheek.
He woke up with a startle, sensing that someone was trying to be stealthy. He grabbed the person and looked at who it was. He got a small nose bleed. There was Sakura straddling him topless. Not what you expect when you first wake up. Kakashi immediately let go of her and made sure that he wasn't gonna leave blood on the bed.
"What were you doin' " Kakashi said partially muffled because of his hand. Sakura finished crawling off the bed.
"I was trying to get out, without waking you up. I'm sorry." she said with a worried look "Lemme go and get something to clean that up with." She hurried to the bathroom and got a wet washcloth and some tissues, then went back into the room with them. She handed them to him. He thankfully accepted them.
Sakura couldn't handle it anymore. You know how jeans feel if you sleep in them. She took them off then reached inside of one of Kakashi's drawers and pulled out a big T-shirt. She slipped it over her head and felt better.
She looked around the room and remembered what had only happened the night before. The window was a little different from the one that was in there before. The clean up crew did a good job. She couldn't see glass or blood at all; she was thankful for that. It started to feel like it was an older memory since she took a nap but it didn't quite help make the slightest hint of uneasiness go away.
Kakashi got up and went to deal with the washcloth, now that he was all better. Sakura's feeling of uneasiness grew, since he left the room, even though he was literally on the other side of the wall. She walked out of the room eyeing it, like she almost expected something to pop out. She didn't mind it when Kakashi was near but being alone...
She looked at Kakashi who was rinse the little bit of blood out of the washcloth. She felt better.
"Are you hungry?" Sakura asked. Kakashi looked up.
"Um yeah, a little." he replied.
"I make something then." She said with a smile. Kakashi thought he might have seen something. Her eyes did not seem as bright. But she didn't give him enough time to confirm anything because she walked from the view of the door way and into the kitchen.
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She felt better as she kept her mind occupied. She went to stir something in a pot and her hair fell from behind her ear again. This was getting her frustrated. This was the sixth or seventh time she had put it back there. She was ready to leave the stove and go get a hair tie, when Kakashi's hand was basically in her face. She backed up a bit to have his hand come into focus. He opened up his hand and there was a hair tie.
She smiled and took it out of his hand and tied back her pink hair. She then gave him a kiss as a reward. Kakashi then walked over and grabbed two plates and cups and set them on the small table, as Sakura continued to work on the food. He sat down and watched her work. He was glad that he was seeing things; Sakura seemed perfectly happy. Her eyes had that brightness that he loved.
She turned her head so she could see him from the corner of her eye.
"Sorry it is almost done." She said to him.
"Okay but it is nothing to apologize about. I don't mind waiting." He replied. He stood up behind her and rested his head on her shoulder, and placed his hands across her stomach. She leaned her head on his and closed her eyes. She reopened them after a moment.
"Okay, Kakashi you gotta let go. It's done." she said.
"Mmm-huh" Kakashi mumbled, he didn't want to let go.
"Com'on, you gotta let go." She said.
"Only if you give me a kiss."
"Really that's all?" She asked. This made Kakashi rethink his offer.
"Umm, yeah but with a lil tongue."
"That's horrible price to pay! I can't. I won't." She teased. Kakashi kissed her whether she was ready or not. Kakashi broke off the kiss and acted like he held up an invisible walkie talkie.
"Grh, This is Kakashi. Terms were met. Releasing the hostage. Grh" He said into the invisible walkie talkie. Then with great drama he let go of Sakura.
She scoffed with a smile, then brought the food to the table. Kakashi then brought the needed silverware to the table and they sat down.
They had not got a couple of bites in when they heard the doorbell. They heard a faint voice yelling.
"Kakashi? It's Iruka."
Sakura jumped up. "It's only Iruka-sensei. I'll get it."
"Umm hang on. Come here for a sec" Kakashi said to her.
She came near him to hear what he had to say. He ran his hand up one of her legs. She immediately reacted by grabbing his hand from any further movement.
"I don't think you wanna show these off to him." He said.
"Oh yeah...:P" Was all she said. She gave a silly smile, then quickly ran into the bedroom for a pair of pants or something.
Kakashi got up and headed for the door. He sighed as he descended his stairs. He started to open the door, then paused a moment. His eyes widened then narrowed as he recognized who was with Iruka.
"This is not good." He said softly to himself as he opened the door.
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Sakura slipped on a pair of shorts from her pack and headed to the door. Realizing that clothing was still on the floor of the little living room area, she quickly picked them up and hid them on the side of the couch out of view, until she could deal with it later. She then started down the doorway and down the stairs. She saw Kakashi at the bottom and he did not seem like his laid back self.
"What's wrong Kakashi? What did Iruka-sensei say?" She said. He didn't look up at her. She didn't like this. She moved down the stairs worried for him. She touched his arm. He didn't acknowledge it. He kept staring out the open door. She hesitantly looked too.
She instantly became sick with her spirits dropped. She actually backed a couple steps in fear before she ran up the stairs. A voice called up to her, the unsettling thing was that it was not Kakashi's nor Iruka's. She reached the top of the stairs and fell to the floor. She fought crying. She crawled up against the wall by the doorway and hugged her knees.
Kakashi let the three people into his household without saying a word, not making eye contact with any of them.
He then closed the door and followed behind Iruka.
"Sakura?" called out a man that was all too familiar with Sakura.
"Why did she run away?" Said the woman who stood beside him. Sakura didn't say a word. She didn't want them to know that she was right behind them.
"Iruka-sensei? Wh–..." The woman said as she turned around. She saw Sakura sitting there. She gave a look of pity and went to her knees to give her daughter a hug. Sakura reacted by moving away from her, not wanting her to touch her. Her mother had a confused but not hurt expression and looked at her husband for help.
"What happened to you?" was the first thing he said. bad move
Nobody said anything in return.
"Iruka-sensei?" Her mother asked. Iruka was going to say what he knew but stopped after the look he got from Sakura and Kakashi. Kakashi's was only a warning but Sakura's was pure hatred. Sakura stared at him with such dark green eyes he actually started to feel fear.
"Why are they here?" She asked him, even though her parents were right there. Iruka was confused why she was angry. Since he was not giving a response, her mother answered instead.
"Because we had talked to Ino's father and he said that Kakashi-sensei was back. We had started to get worried about you so we asked where Kakashi-sensei lived and said that he would bring us here." Her mother answered for him.
"God Iruka, you were right. She was living with him." Her father said disgusted, not because of her being with Kakashi, which he knew nothing about, but because she didn't come home right away.
"Why didn't you come home? I know Iruka said it was for your protection but if you were at home you would have been safe too." He also said, this time to her.
She ignored her father, and continue to stare at Iruka. With her mother so uncomfortably close and her father only hearing what he wanted, she started to grow unreasonable, she felt like she had to be listened to. She couldn't control her temper anymore.
"Did you ever THINK that I might have NOT WANTED TO BE HOME!" She yelled at Iruka. "THAT I WAS NOT READY FOR THEM TO SEE ME?!"
He was totally caught off guard. He really didn't mean to make her upset. But it did make more sense that was why she was with Kakashi. But he thought of how the parent might have felt, regretfully not the child. Though it was going to happen sooner or later, he now regretted that he let it happen so readily.
Kakashi just stood there. He did not know what he was going to do. He could not make the situation any better this time.
"Why Sakura?" Her mother asked. Obviously she did not get a good look at Sakura before. She knew her daughter was different but she had no idea. Sakura couldn't stand it anymore. She stood up, she couldn't handle her mother being so close.
"Because if I was at home when Tsubasa came then I might not be here, instead of only having this." She said as she held out her forearm. Her mother was in shock not because her arm but because of how her daughter changed, not acknowledging a thing she just said.
"Kakashi how could you let this happen?!" Her father said, as he examined her arm. Sakura screamed. They didn't hear a word she said to them.
"DON'T TREAT ME LIKE A CHILD!" She screamed. "WHAT I HAVE TO SAY IS IMPORTANT!" Stomping her foot would have seemed like a nice thing to do but it would have defeated all that she was trying to prove. Only if her parents would listen!
"Kakashi explain yourself." Her father continued. They were not even paying attention to her. Sakura took a step so she was in her father's view of Kakashi. She looked at him with cold green eyes.
"He has done all that he could for me." She said now that she had his eye contact. "Unlike you he listens! So leave him out of this."
"Sakura? Why are you protecting him like that, if he let you get hurt like he did." asked her mother who took sides with her husband.
Iruka felt guilty. He never thought her parents were going to be this unreasonable about this happening to her daughter. They were really not listening to a word she said.
"You wanna know why I'm protecting him?" She asked with a growl she said after a few moments to settle her temper down. Her eyebrows raised but her eyes narrowed. She waited until she had both of their attentions.
"Because I would probably be dead if it wasn't for him, but that isn't the biggest reason!" She took a deep breath as she built up her courage despite how it might turn out. She wanted to stay with Kakashi, especially with the way they were reacting. They had pushed her over the edge.
"The biggest, most important reason is because I Wanna Be With Him!" She yelled. Her parents instantly look mortified. Iruka was in shock also.
"God child..." Her father started to say.
"I'M NOT A CHILD ANYMORE!" She screamed. "If you need proof, look at my body, listen to what I'm saying!!"
"That's it! You are coming with us!" Her mother said, who had quite enough. She was hearing what she didn't want to. She grabbed Sakura's arm and started to walk out the doorway, but Sakura pulled her arm out of her tight grip. Her mother's nails left cuts in Sakura's arms.
"No!" she said, ignoring her new pain. She walked over to Kakashi and held his arm tightly. He had an expression of determination to match hers. Her father looked even more disgusted when he saw the spot on her neck that resembled a bruise. He pointed at it, then shook his hand at it angrily. He threw his hand to his side.
"It doesn't matter how much you refuse! You are twelve years old, which makes you a minor, and what you have going on here is pedofile!" Her father yelled back.
"I'm not a minor anymore! I am an adult!" She yelled. Her father saw that this argument was going to go on forever.
"Fine. Lets have Hokage-sama settle this." He said more calmly with his eyes narrowed the same if not more so. She could only agree. If she didn't at least try to defend herself and proved that she had actually grown up then she would most definitely be split up from Kakashi and if that wasn't enough serious consequences would be paid. Knowing Hokage, the odds were against her, but there was still hope.
"Fine." She agreed, raising to the challenge.