Chapter 26 – Pakkun's Chapter (Part 2)

Sakura was not normal. For a week she had been weird. She doesn't smile a lot or play with us that much. She even pushed me away when I tried to lick her. There was something definitely wrong with her. Kakashi noticed too. He told us something was wrong with her but he didn't know what.

"Sakura, are you okay?" Kakashi asked finally asked her while they one night.

"I'm fine, Kakashi-sensei," She was lying. Dogs know when humans are lying.

"You don't seem fine to me, Sakura. You've been acting like a zombie ever since your appendix removal last week. I've seen how you hardly interact with your friends and you uncharacteristically avoid Sasuke. You're not even half as playful as you used to be with the dogs. Something is wrong. You can tell me, Sakura," He reached out and touched her arm, "Tell me, Sakura."

"Kakashi-sensei, someone kissed me."

"I take that it wasn't Sasuke."

She nodded her head and started to cry a little.

"I wanted Sasuke-kun to be my first kiss. I lost that to you but I wanted him to be my second. But it was stolen away and by someone I thought would never do such a thing. I feel so betrayed and violated," She held herself.

"Who kissed you, Sakura? Was it a teacher or an adult?" He seemed very concerned.

"No. It was just a friend of mine," She replied.

"Okay. Did he think that you wanted to be kissed?" He asked her.

"I was supposed to be asleep but I was actually awake. So I didn't do anything to encourage a kiss."

"I see. So he doesn't know that you know about the kiss?"

"Right. But I do know and I am so distraught. I can't believe he did that. I don't want to confront him because it will ruin our relationship and then Sasuke-kun will find out. I've tried to think of what to do but I can't. I didn't feel I could tell anyone, especially Sasuke-kun. What would he say? What would he think? I know I'm not his girlfriend or anything that important to him but guys think differently about girls who've been kissed by a lot of guys. I know some guys don't care but I don't Sasuke-kun is one of those guys. I wanted to be the epitome of purity for him and have him be my first everything. Now I'm two kisses tainted," She was in tears.

"Kissing doesn't taint your purity, Sakura. Purity is a mental state and a technical physical state. Your mindset is exceptionally pure and until you let someone touch your body in a sexual manner your physically pure. So unless there were impure thoughts while you were kissing or touching, you're spotless."

She kind of smiled.

"Also a kiss is only a kiss if you want it to be," He added.

"What?"

"What defines a kiss? Just lips touching? No. If that were the case, you would have lost your first kiss to the first thing your lips ever touched. You'd being kissing the glass you're drinking out of now. A kiss is when two people who care very deeply about each other express their care through lip contact. Since you didn't love me or even know me when I gave you mouth to mouth, we didn't kiss. When your friend put his mouth on yours, it was just the touching of lips. You didn't love him romantically so it didn't count. So really, you still have your first kiss," Kakashi explained. This seemed to please Sakura.

"Thank you, Sensei," She smiled.

"But I do think you need to talk to that nighttime kisser. He needs to know it isn't okay with you for him to do that."

"I don't think I could do that…"

"It'll be hard and awkward but it will be for the best," He patted her arm.

"What should I say?"

"Go up to him and tell him you know that he kissed you and ask him why he did it. Let him explain himself then just tell him how you feel. He should understand."

"I don't want to hurt his feelings," She sighed.

"It will all be fine, Sakura."

They didn't talk much after that but after they did the dishes, Sakura was much more interjected and when we got back from our walk she scratched all of our bellies. I loved it. I didn't understand much of what the problem was but I hoped it worked out for Sakura.