Hello all. This is the last part of the flashback series. Please enjoy!
"Ah. Kakashi. Glad you're here. Have you seen the newspaper?" Tsunade held up the Konoha Paper while Kakashi and his team walked into Tsunade's office. The original Team Seven just got done eating lunch after training and it is currently a little after one in the afternoon.
"No. I didn't." Kakashi took it from the hokage's paper and started reading. "HATAKE CALLS OFF WEDDING".
"Wow. Word travels fast." Naruto stated. Sasuke and Sakura nod their heads in agreement.
"On Thursday night, December 15th, Kakashi Hatake, age 31, decided to tell his fiance, Jaciel Tooke, 29, that he doesn't want to marry her and broke off the wedding the day before the big day. Sources say that Kakashi didn't love Jaciel and he was just confused of his feelings for someone else. No one knows who he likes, but he..Oh hell no. Who the hell wrote this?" Kakashi didn't even finish reading the front page story. He is angry.
"I wanna hear the rest of the story!" Naruto whined. Kakashi started crumpling up the paper.
"Too bad." Kakashi groaned and turned to Tsunade. "Why the hell am I in the paper?" Tsunade shrugged.
"I don't know. I guess the journalist thought you're newsworthy." Tsunade didn't know for sure. Kakashi sighed.
"Fucking great. I don't want people knowing my business." Kakashi held his head.
"Ya know, Genma came to me last night before the sleepover and told me I should apologize to you." Sakura turned to Kakashi. Kakashi turned to Sakura confused.
"Why? What did you do?" Kakashi questioned.
"He said I should apologize for making you almost marry Jaciel and everything is my fault." Sakura explained. Kakashi shook his head.
"Genma's fucking stupid. It's not your fault at all." Kakashi sighed.
"That's what I told him!" Sakura exclaimed. Just then, some news reporters barged in Tsunade's office with cameras and microphones.
"Kakashi. Is it true. Did you really break off the wedding?" One person asked.
"Did you even love her at all?" Another one asked. Naruto started fixing his hair, thinking he would be able to say something on tv. The rest of Team Seven just stood there awkwardly, not sure what to do.
"Who is the mystery girl you like?" The first reporter asked.
"Are you gay?" A third reporter questioned.
"What? No, I'm not gay. I'm completely straight." Kakashi told them all, shoving them all out of his way. Naruto tried to get in the way of the camera, but the cameraman kept moving it on him.
"Sakura. Do you still like Kakashi?" A reporter turned to the pinkette.
"How does everyone know I like him? I told five people altogether, with twenty people spying on us. How the hell do you know?" Sakura questioned the reporter.
"Sakura, is it true that you were jealous of Jaciel the whole time she was with Kakashi and that's why you didn't like her?" One man wondered.
"Okay. If you all don't leave now, I'm going to punch every single one of you back to your studios." Sakura threatened.
"Sakura. Why do you love Kakashi?" A reporter ignored her. Sakura sighed. Naruto still tried to get on camera.
"Enough. Every one of you leave or else I'm going to put you in jail!" Tsunade threatened. All the reporters left, leaving Team Seven with Tsunade and Shizune.
"That was fucking ridiculous." Sasuke groaned.
"You're telling me." Kakashi ran his hands down his face. "I hate everyone."
"Oh shit. Sakura. The whole village knows you like Kakashi." Tsunade told Sakura.
"What the fuck ever. I'm just gonna disappear off the face of the Earth because people are stupid. Can I please go on a four year mission to Suna?" Sakura wondered.
"Can I join her?" Kakashi asked hopefully, while raising his hand a little bit.
"Team trip to Suna for a few years?" Naruto asked around.
"I'm down." Sasuke replied.
"No. No one is going to Suna..We need Sakura here." Tsunade broke the news.
"Yeah. She needs to run the hospital and help me with all the paperwork Tsunade-Shishou doesn't do." Shizune added.
"Well, it's awkward here!" Sakura claimed.
"So? You're ninjas. Find a way to make it less awkward. You guys are smart." Tsunade was talking to Kakashi and Sakura. "Besides, this is quite entertaining for me."
"Shishou!" Sakura cried out.
"What? It was getting boring here and I was getting sick of the other stuff people were talking about." Tsunade explained.
"Yeah, 'cause the other gossip was about how you wasted four hundred bucks of the village's money gambling!" Sakura told.
"Hey. It was a mistake. People make mistakes." Tsunade claimed.
"Please. You make that mistake often." Sakura pointed out. Tsunade sighed.
"Why are you still here?" Tsunade hinted wanting them to leave. Sakura shrugged.
"We'll be on our way now. We'll see you around, Shishou." Sakura said as she turned around to leave. All of team seven was out the door and Sakura stopped, back facing Tsunade and said "Oh, and I'll be sure to give you some good gossip to talk about." Sakura left and she could almost feel the smirk that Tsunade made.
"Sakura-Chan. I feel like everyone's looking at us weirdly." Naruto inched closer to Sakura. Yes, Naruto was right. Everyone was making it obvious they are staring at team seven, or more specifically, Kakashi and Sakura. Sakura sighed.
"They're not staring at us, dobe. They're staring at Kakashi-Sensei and Sakura." Sasuke pointed out.
"These people honestly have nothing better to do than to stare at us?" Kakashi asked, a bit upset.
"Guess not." Sakura shrugged.
"Here ya go, Sakura. I bought a cup of iced coffee for you." Kakashi stated as he shoved a coffee in front of Sakura. He decided to walk her home from work Monday evening and Sakura just got off.
"Thanks, Sensei!" Sakura hugged him and took the coffee from him. Some other nurses saw the exchange between the two team mates. "Ya know, people are going to continue thinking we're together if we keep this up." Sakura pointed out. Kakashi shrugged.
"Let them believe what they want. We know the truth." Kakashi told. "Come on. I believe you're gonna wanna talk to the crazy old drunk before we get home and you make me a nice, hot dinner tonight." Kakashi grinned at the nurses' looks as they hear him. Sakura playfully hit him.
"You're terrible." Sakura chuckled softly and started making her way out to hospital with Kakashi in hand.
"Do the rumors bother you?" Sakura asked as her and her ex sensei were walking to the hokage's office. People are openly staring. Kakashi shrugged.
"Eh. Not really. It's quite entertaining to know how ridiculous and pathetic peoples' lives are." Kakashi answered and turned to Sakura. "Why? Does it bother you?" Sakura shook her head.
"Not at all. I'm with you on the whole entertaining thing. This village can get boring and the people here live for some good juicy gossip, even if not everything is correct." Sakura smirked. Kakashi nodded his head.
Sakura and Kakashi made their way to the Hokage's office. They both entered Tsunade's office together, not knowing that there were some reporters there.
"Hi, sorry. Don't mind us." Sakura replied sheepishly as she was drinking her iced coffee. She sat down on a couch near Tsunade's desk and Kakashi sat next to her, closer than necessary.
"Anyway, no. I don't know anything on their relationship." Tsunade finished off. The reporters stopped interviewing the hokage and ran over to Kakashi and Sakura on the couch.
"Kakashi. Sakura. What is your relationship?" The reporter asked as Sakura was taking another sip from her coffee.
"We're team mates, don't you know? I'm her teacher and she's my student. I thought you guys knew this stuff. Get with the program." Kakashi stated as he took the coffee out of Sakura's hand, while she was still drinking it, and started drinking it himself.
"Are you sure there's nothing more than just a teacher-student relationship?" Another reporter questioned. Just then, Kakashi put his arm on the top of the couch so it's around Sakura's neck. Sakura then got the hint and saw what he was doing.
"Nope. Nothing more than just two friendly team mates." Kakashi replied and Sakura leaned her body into Kakashi and left her hands on Kakashi's knees. You can hear Tsunade laugh in the background.
"Um..Are you..sure nothing is going on?" The first reporter questioned. Sakura nodded her head.
"Of course we're sure. We wouldn't lie to the people of Konoha." Sakura smiled wide. Kakashi nodded his head.
"How do your team mates feel about your closeness with each other?" A third reporter wondered.
"Well, we're all super close. I wouldn't be surprised if they were closer than we thought..if you know what I mean." Kakashi smirked. Sakura started laughing out loud and fell back laughing, having her head on Kakashi's lap and she's kicking her legs like a little kid because she's laughing so hard. Shizune just stared at them and Tsunade started quietly laughing.
"Just imagine. I bet all of Tsunade's sake that they're doing something more than what we know." Sakura said between laughs.
"You're out of luck, Sakura-Chan. Tsunade-Sama just found and drank the last bottle we hid." Shizune broke the news. Kakashi started chuckling.
"HEY! You're buying me a bottle, Haruno!" Tsunade told and Sakura got off Kakashi's lap.
"Why? I don't want to." Sakura complained. Tsunade shrugged.
"I told you to. And, I am hokage. What I say goes." Tsunade smirked. Sakura sighed.
"I have a bottle at home. You can have that one." Sakura looked a bit upset. Tsunade smiled.
"Sweet. I might as well just stay for dinner." Tsunade told. Sakura nodded her head.
"But, Sakura was gonna make me a nice, hot dinner tonight." Kakashi continued playing.
"Sakura. How often do you make Kakashi nice, hot dinners?" A reporter shoved a microphone in Sakura's face.
"Well, technically everyday. I make him food all the time." Sakura answered honestly.
"And then I crash at her place." Kakashi smirked.
"Do you guys get upset when your other team mates interrupt your alone time?" A reporter asked.
"With our team, we barely get alone time. For heaven's sake, they're at my house right now playing video games." Sakura stated. Kakashi nodded his head.
"It's true. I was at your place and left them there right before I picked you up from work." Kakashi turned to Sakura.
"Where all four of them there?" Sakura asked, not caring that the cameramen and reporters were still there. Kakashi nodded his head.
"Naruto and Sasuke were playing video games, Yamato was showering, and Sai was napping in your bed." Kakashi explained.
"Kakashi. How do you feel about your team mate sleeping in Sakura's bed?" A reporter asked a stupid questioned.
"Well, I have no problem as long as he is sleeping in the same bed with Sakura while I'm there." Kakashi teased and smirked. "I don't approve of it unless I'm there."
"Alright. That's enough interviewing! GET OUT OF MY OFFICE!" Tsunade threw a stapler and a roll of tape at the reporters and they ran away. "You two are ridiculous, you know that, right?"
"I know. It's fun to mess with people." Kakashi drank Sakura's coffee. Sakura nodded.
"It's our business, not theirs, so if they wanna believe some rumors, let them." Sakura shrugged. Kakashi nodded. "Besides, didn't you say you wanted some juicy gossip?" Tsunade sighed.
"I need a drink..Oh wait..You all like to steal and hide all my sake." Tsunade berated both her apprentices. Sakura got up and put her hand on Tsunade's shoulder.
"You're a drunk. We do it because we love you." Sakura smiled wide. Tsunade swapped Sakura's hand away.
"Go screw your boyfriend." Tsunade muttered. Sakura laughed.
"On that note, I guess you want me to leave. I will see you in about an hour and a half." Sakura chuckled and left with Kakashi.
"Those two are going to eventually get together." Tsunade predicted. Shizune nodded her head.
"Are you okay with that?" Shizune asked carefully. Tsunade sighed.
"Those two are good for each other. I wouldn't want her to date anyone who's not her team mate. And, I wouldn't want him with anyone besides her. No one else is good enough for Kakashi." Tsunade told. Shizune seemed to agree.
"You know, her crush on you will probably go away soon." Tsunade told Kakashi a few weeks later. Kakashi and Tsunade just got done talking about a mission Kakashi and Asuma will be going on. Kakashi sighed.
"I'm surprised she still likes me. I'd be a horrible boyfriend. I was a terrible sensei." Kakashi exclaimed.
"That's for damn sure." Tsunade muttered and Kakashi sighed. "But, by how close your team is, I don't think you were that bad of a sensei if they always want to spend time with you."
"None of them besides Sakura has any family left, so our team is our family." Kakashi shrugged.
"I think there's more to it then that." Tsunade stated. Kakashi sighed.
"I gotta go. Sakura's making an early dinner tonight, which means I can go to sleep earlier and leave early in the morning." Kakashi started walking away.
"Hatake." Tsunade said and Kakashi stopped walking, still facing the door. "Come back alive." Kakashi smiled and left.
"Why did you tell him Sakura's crush on him will probably die? It doesn't seem like it will." Shizune told the hokage. Tsunade smirked.
"I'm trying to get him to stop being so pathetic and ask her out already." Tsunade claimed. "He still doesn't know his feelings and it'll probably take him a few more months to figure it out, at this rate."
"Shouldn't he wait until she's eighteen? I mean, it'll look so much worse if she's still a minor." Shizune pointed out.
"She's one of our best fucking ninjas. I think she could do whatever the hell she wants." Tsunade stated. "Same with Kakashi. They're out there fighting for their lives on a daily basis. I don't think civilians should complain about their love lives." Shizune nodded in agreement.
"Ah. Glad you two finally managed to come back home." Tsunade smirked. Kakashi and Asuma got back after about a week. The mission went faster than originally planned and they're both tired and out of breath.
"W-Where's my team?" Kakashi asked, trying to catch his breath.
"Naruto and Sasuke are playing video games at Sakura's place, Yamato and Sai are training and Sakura's on a date with one of the medics at the hospital.
"What? She's on a date? With who?" Kakashi asked, surprised by his own outburst. Tsunade and Asuma just looked at him. Tsunade smirked.
"A medic name Yisagi. He usually works the night shift, but I put him on the morning shift with Sakura and he got pretty friendly with her." Tsunade explained.
"Did he meet any of the team yet?" Kakashi wondered. Tsunade nodded.
"Yeah. He met all four. Sasuke threatened that if he doesn't have her home by 1:00, Sasuke will chidori him and Naruto will rasengan him. Poor guy must have peed his pants from that threat." Tsunade told. Kakashi sighed.
"What does she think of him?" Kakashi questioned. Tsunade shrugged.
"I don't know. She can at least tolerate him if she's out having lunch with him." Tsunade guessed. Kakashi sighed.
"Come on, man. Let's just go home and rest. You must be so tired and worn out." Asuma suggested. Kakashi sighed again.
"You're right. I'll have Sakura patch me up when she gets back." Kakashi started walking away.
"Hatake." Tsunade called out and Kakashi stopped walking. "I can always fix you, if you want."
"No thank you. Sakura's more gentle. Besides..I like it when she heals me." Kakashi started walking away.
"Hatake." Kakashi stopped walking again. "I don't think she'll end up dating him. I don't think Sasuke really likes him that much. You have nothing to worry about." Tsunade stated. Kakashi nodded and started walking away again.
How was it? Next chapter continues with the original story line.
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