Naruto Primer Lost Chapter: Sakura/Kakashi

Love Life

Kakashi had gotten back from his little adventure with Sasuke. After he had gone through the whole mess, he finally decided to fess up and explain the whole problem he had been in with Sakura. You know, how he promised to set her up on a date with Sasuke if she left him alone.

So Sasuke was a little peeved and declared right then and there that he would never date Sakura… ESPECIALLY now.

Now Kakashi had to tell Sakura.

Sakura, on the other hand, was happy HAPPY HAPPY!! She had annoyed Kakashi to the point in which he announced he would set her up with Sasuke. She figured she'd have to annoy people more often.

She spent extra long that morning brushing her hair and making herself look ever so pretty. She could hardly keep herself from frolicking out the door and down to the meeting spot where Kakashi promised to have Sasuke waiting in his best outfit.

When she got there, Sasuke was standing there with a bouquet of flowers.

"Sasuke!" she exclaimed, skipping over.

"Hi Sakura." Said Sasuke.

"I'm so glad Kakashi talked you into coming." Said Sakura.

"Yeah." Said Sasuke, handing Sakura the flowers.

Sakura took the flowers and was just about to declare how happy she was when she eyed him suspiciously. "Wait a second…" she said.

"What?" said Sasuke.

"You're not Sasuke." Said Sakura, dropping the flowers. Sasuke poofed and suddenly, Kakashi was standing there. "EWWW!! YOU TRIED TO TRICK ME INTO GOING ON A DATE WITH YOU!! YOU'RE SUCH A PERVERT!!"

"Shh…" said Kakashi, looking around hoping no one had heard that. "That's not what I was doing."

"Oh yeah?" said Sakura. "It sure LOOKED that way."

"I know it looked that way." Said Kakashi. "But I was going to endure a few hours of torture and pretend to be Sasuke so that you wouldn't find out that I messed everything up."

"What do you mean?" said Sakura as her eyes welded up with tears. "Did Sasuke say no?"

Kakashi sighed. "Did you actually expect him to say yes?" he said truthfully.

"YES!" wailed Sakura as she pulled out her hanky and blew her nose loudly and unrealistically. "Now what can I do?!"

"The same thing you ALWAYS do when Sasuke rejects you?" Kakashi suggested, trying to tiptoe away.

"NO!!" yelled Sakura. "I've played matchmaker and got nothing in return for long enough! I tried setting up Ino and Lee but they were unappreciative! I tried setting up Naruto and Hinata but everyone else tried to ruin that! When will I get what I want?!" She buried her face in her hands and cried.

Kakashi only stared at her.

Sakura peeked one eye out and looked at Kakashi.

The two of them stood there in slight silence.

"Well?" Sakura said.

"Well what?" said Kakashi.

"When will I get what I want?" Sakura repeated.

"I don't know." Kakashi said with a shrug.

"What kind of teacher are you if you can't help me answer my questions?!" Sakura demanded.

"I'm supposed to answer questions about being a ninja and train you, not worry about your love life." Kakashi reminded her. "So I would have to say that I'm a pretty good teacher."

"All the OTHER teachers concern themselves with their students' love lives!" Sakura said.

"Do they?" Kakashi said with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah!" said Sakura. "Gai worries about Lee all day long!"

"Gai is a special case." Said Kakashi. "And Gai worrying about Lee is hardly ALL the teachers concerning themselves with their students' love lives."

"Well…er…" Sakura said slowly.

"Why do you want me to get so involved anyway?" Kakashi asked. "If you're so convinced that Sasuke's in love with you and ONLY you then shouldn't you just let nature run its course and stop trying to get other people to feel bad for you so they set you up with him?"

Sakura considered this.

"No." she said finally.

"Oh." Said Kakashi with a sarcastic nod.

"Come on!" said Sakura. "Use your jounin authority to force Sasuke to go on a date with me!"

"I already tried that." Kakashi said.

"What?" said Sakura.

"First, I asked him." Kakashi explained. "Then I commanded him. Then I challenged him to a fight and the victor got to decide whether or not he had to go on a date with you."

"AND?" said Sakura.

"And…" Kakashi started but trailed off.

"You…LOST?!" gasped Sakura.

"No." Kakashi said, looking slightly offended. "I won. But Sasuke convinced himself that he won and there's really no reasoning with him after he's already convinced himself that he's won."

"Yeah, you can say that again." Sakura agreed.

"So I gave it my best shot." Kakashi said.

"Well, OUR agreement was that I would leave you alone if you made Sasuke go on a date with me!" Sakura reminded him. "And Sasuke is NOT going on a date with me!"

"So…what?" Kakashi said. "You plan on annoying me some more just for the sake of annoying me?"

"Yes!" said Sakura.

"If you used half of your energy from annoying me, and half of your energy from attempting to get Sasuke to go out with you and channeled all that towards becoming a ninja, you'd be unstoppable." Kakashi said.

Sakura's eyes lit up. "You really think so?" she said.

"Yes." Said Kakashi.

"Then I will!" Sakura said.

"Okay, good." Said Kakashi. "And I'm going home."

With that, Kakashi was gone.

Sakura stood there for a moment.

"Hey!" she whined. "I'm no better off than I was before!!"