Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or its characters.

A/N: Hey, I know that Shiranui Genma is 16 years older than Sakura in the anime and manga. But that's too old for my fic. So, I'm deciding that he's only 6 years older. If you have a problem with that, don't read this.

And, I've only read the manga up to chapter 283 (but I'm reading as much as I can). For the past two years, I've been busy with work and school. So, the plot will differ from the manga and anime. But, Sai is in the team Kakashi.

Oh, btw, this will be dirrrty fic. Rated for M for a reason.

Pairing: [GenmaSaku][KakaSaku] but hints of other pairings such as (ShikaIno)

Sakura/Sasuke/Naruto: 23

Kakashi: 35

Genma: 29

Sai: 27

thoughts

"dialogue"

Bed. Wrinkled sheets and she was tangled in them. Warmth had vanished long ago. It was just her and the sheets. Had it ever been real? she thought hazily and looked to her right. Alone.

She got up from the bed and picked up her clothes from the floor. The bathroom was still a mess. There was a small window that made the room drown in the yellow sunlight illuminating the mess. She didn't care. She took her toothbrush, rinsed with cold water and added some paste on it.

FLASHBACK

"I need you", he whispered into her hear and nibbled it. She believed him. Warm. Soft.

He kissed her neck lightly and bit it, gently. Seventh heaven. Could life get any better? Slowly, he took her shirt off. The air was cold but his hands kept her warm.

He caressed her back and sides with slow and long movements making her shiver. She smiled a little and pulled his shirt off of him. She let the shirt fall on the floor and kissed him lightly, teasing him.

THE END OF THE FLASHBACK

She blinked the flashback away and continued brushing her teeth. She felt used. But that wasn't the case. She knew it was all in her head. Their thing was casual and that was sex and occasional dinner or drink at the bar. Nothing more. Wrong.

She put the toothbrush back into a mug at the sink. She washed her face with the coldest water she could get from the tap. Even after drying up her face, she could still feel the cold.

FLASHBACK

"You might be the most interesting female ninja that I've ever met so far", he said and grinned. He was holding his wineglass close to his lips and drank a little from it.

Hand. He placed his hand on her thigh and she felt the warmth of it through her pants.

"You aren't so bad yourself", she said smiling. Fire.

His lips were on hers…

THE END OF THE FLASHBACK

She bit her tongue to end the flashback. Pain always brought her mind into the present. Remembering would lead into emotions and that would lead somewhere where Genma wouldn't go.

She quickly combed her hair, sorting out the tangles. She left the apartment soon as she was ready and went to the training grounds in the woods. Training had always been the most effective way to keep thoughts away. But had she done anything else for the past months? She was with him during the nights, usually, and daytime she was always training.

Ino sighed at the sight of her friend wearing herself out by training too much. She had been sitting on a bench there for some time now. The training grounds were in the middle of the woods surrounded by trees but the round area didn't have any trees, only logs.

She saw Sakura doing a series of powerful punches on a log in front of her and shattering the log with a final sidekick. The blonde woman closed her eyes for a moment and tried to think how she could help her friend.

But the more she thought about it, the clearer it was, she couldn't help the pink haired woman. Sakura needed to learn herself anything she was supposed to learn during her lifetime. No learning happens if there's no error, mistake or lecture.

When she opened her eyes again, Sakura was sitting next to her. She was drinking from a worn out water bottle. She was sweaty and breathing heavily.

"Hey you", Ino said and smiled lightly. She tapped her hand a couple of times on the jade eyed woman's thigh.

"Hi", she answered as she had stopped drinking, "stalking me?"

"Far from it", the blonde woman laughed, "I just thought that my little baby would want to know his or hers future godmother better." Ino placed her hands on her stomach and smiled happily. She was expecting, happy and glowing. She was on her third month so the belly was showing a little and the weird thing was that she didn't even care that she was gaining weight and becoming bigger by the minute.

"Hello baby. Your auntie needs to work out some more. But we'll play when you decide to… pop out", Sakura was talking to Ino's stomach.

"Pop out?" the blonde laughed. "Pop out is the first thing that comes in mind? You're a medical ninja for god's sake."

The pink haired woman looked at her friend, eyes flaming. "Should I say when you come out of your mother's womb all bloody and covered in icky stuff—"

"—it might hear! Stop! Pop out was perfect!" the blonde woman laughed.

"Thought so, too", Sakura said smiling and leaned on her friend, "so, how's the daddy?"

"He's… troublesome."

"Figured. But you two are so in love. It's nice."

"Mmm. Sometimes. But so are you", Ino said sighing and looked to the edge of the forest. She thought it was weird how the area was round and surrounded by a forest. Wondered how it had been made.

"I'm trying not to. Should I just move on or continue waiting that he's decided that he can do relationships?"

"Do both", the blonde woman laughed. Memories of her having fun a few years ago, dating everyone at the same time flooded in her mind. It was fun, as long as it lasted…, she thought and smiled.

"I'm not you", Sakura said and elbowed her lightly.

"No, that's true. But you're a woman", Ino said and stared at her. She thought that it was every woman's rightful advantage to toy with men. And, she lived by that… or had lived by that.

"Yeah, you got a point in there."

"Anywho", the blonde said and tapped her friends thigh again, "we should go and eat something. I'm starving."

Sakura's gaze went from Ino to the training ground and back to her friend. "I know you want to train but I want to eat and I don't want to do it alone. And if mommy ain't happy, nobody's happy", the blue eyed woman said matter-of-factly and got up from the wooden bench.

"Sure, I'll just get my stuff."

She stretched out her hands and breathed in deeply, savoring the taste of summer. She waited as her friend took her things from the ground.

Kakashi stuffed his orange book back into his chest pocket and scratched and knocked on the door in front of him. He didn't have to wait for long for an answer. Ino opened the door and for a moment, he thought he had knocked on the wrong door.

"Hi! She's sharpening some… weapons", the blonde woman said and stepped aside from the doorway. He walked in and took his shoes off.

"Hiya!" the pink haired woman yelled from another room.

"Yo!" he said and followed Ino to the living room. The pregnant woman sat on the couch in the middle of the room. She picked up a magazine beside her and started flipping through it. He wondered if it was boring to be pregnant.

Sakura was sitting in front of the sofa on the floor. There were two piles of kunais next to her, one on her left and one on her right. "Wassup?" she asked and shifted her gaze to look at him.

"We're having a mission tomorrow", he said and watched closely as his former student sharpened her weapons. "Why so many kunais? Is it because you throw them like a girl and lose half of them during one mission?" he laughed.

She took quickly a kunai from the sharp pile and threw it at him. He caught it mid air before it could hit his face. "Okay, you throw girlish. Not exactly like a girl."

"Better. So, what's the mission about? Why isn't Tsunade telling me this herself and who's going?" she asked.

"She told me quickly as she passed me by at the streets on her way to a… bar. Apparently a rough week. And… Genma is going with us", he said and stared at her trying to figure out if there would a problem. He saw a slight hesitation in her eyes as they wandered around the room before finding his stare, again.

"It's okay. He's a ninja, I'm a ninja. It's not like we are together. Or were."

"Good. We're just going to eliminate a missing ninja and the company he might have. And we leave as soon as he has woken up in the morning", Kakashi said but realized he had said too much.

"What? Is he partying? With… someone?" she asked quickly.

"I… Yes", he sighed and looked at Ino hoping for some kind of help. The blonde woman just stared at him like he had committed a crime.

He walked to the couch she was next to and helped her on the couch and sat down himself, too. "He's just the commitment kind of a guy", he sighed and put his hand around her shoulders.

"Yeah, I know."

"I should go", he said quietly. As he was about to get up, Sakura's hand was on his thigh preventing him from getting from the couch.

"Nah, stay. I like the company, plus, I've got some daggers that need sharpening", she said and smiled partly at him.

"Sure."

Genma scratched the back of his head and looked at the sky. There were no clouds and sun was up high in the sky. His headache was something not from this world and the brightness didn't help. He inhaled deeply and started walking to the gates.

His night before hadn't been one of the best ones. The woman he had been with the night before, she turned out to be an after-sex-psycho and he found himself wondering what the hell had he been doing. He had had a weird feeling he couldn't place for the past weeks and it bothered him. Sometimes it was stronger and sometimes he didn't feel it.

He had reached the gates and he noticed Kakashi hugging Sakura. He felt weird again but decided to ignore it. He wondered if she was okay because he knew that the Copy ninja wasn't very fond of public affection except when needed.

"Morning, wassup?" he said and they let each other go. She looked up to Kakashi quickly and turned to look at Genma, smiling.

"Hi", she said still smiling and looked away.

"Yo. Let's go? I'll give you two the details on the way, we're in a small hurry. We need to go to a small island next to the Water Country and we have less than three days", the Copy ninja explained and Genma and Sakura nodded in response.

4 days later…

The pink haired woman looked around and tried to catch her breath. She needed help and she had no idea where her companions were. She was almost out of chakra and she couldn't heal herself or the win the fight she was fighting.

There were two pairs of dark eyes staring at her. "Who sent you?" the other one asked. His voice didn't sound kind but she didn't expect it to.

She didn't answer and took the time to breathe as they tried to get information from her. The other man moved quickly behind her and pulled her hair forcefully back. Her throat was exposed to the man who had spoken earlier. She couldn't see him but judging from the rustling sounds she knew he was taking something from his pocket.

"I'd talk if I were you", the man behind her said whispered into her ear. His breath felt moist on the skin around her ear. She hated it, it made her guts twist and she wished she could rip the guts out from his body.

She felt something cold on her throat and realized it was a kunai. She couldn't reach her own kunais because the man behind her was holding her hands with his other hand.

"Baby, talk to me", the man in front of her said.

She said nothing and was happy that her breathing had slowed to an almost normal rhythm she hoped her heart would also slow down. He moved the kunai on her throat a little, drawing blood. Suddenly both of the men were violently ripped away from her.

"Sakura, you alright?" she heard Genma asking.

"Yeah", she said with a crooked voice.

It was dark but she saw 4 shapes moving around the room. One of them collapsed on the ground. "Got the other one", Kakashi said and she saw him hovering over him. He was checking his personal objects. That was the protocol, sometimes the missing ninjas had something that belonged to their old village, something that wasn't supposed to go into daylight.

She heard another body fall on the floor and stood up. Genma walked beside her and put her arm around his shoulders. "You alright?" he asked, again but with a softer voice.

"Yeah. Where were you?" she asked.

"Hey. I found something", the Copy ninja said and walked to them, holding a piece of paper. He had lighted up a lighter and was reading a piece of paper.

"What?" she asked and leaned on the brown haired man next to her a little more. More than she needed to. She was glad to be touching him.

"This is a hit list", he said and her body tensed up, "there are some names from our village on it."

"What?" Genma asked and she felt his body get tense, too.

"We need to get back as soon as possible."

Why would someone write the targets' names on a list? she thought in a pure confusion. She shook her head a little and looked up to see Genma's face. It was too dim to read his emotions but she knew they were as confused as she was.

"This is bad", she said all of their thoughts aloud.

"Yeah", the brown haired man agreed.

A/N: Okay, please tell me what you thought about the first chapter. More coming up later!