Blackmail

When Sakura woke up, it was still dark out. She sat up and glanced at Naruto and Sasuke, they were still asleep. A soft sigh escaped from her lips and she and lied back down. However, no matter how hard she tried, sleep didn't come to her and she remained wide awake. Sakura sat back up and glanced around hoping to find something to occupy herself with. She smiled to herself and silently unzipped the tent, climbed outside and slowly tiptoed to the other tent that stood not too far from theirs. Being as quiet as she could, she pulled open the zipper and slipped inside. She warmly smiled as she looked down at Kakashi. 'Damn he looks so sexy while he's sleeping!' She crept closer to Kakashi and knelt down beside him. 'Fuck! He still has that stupid mask on. Why the hell would anyone wear a mask to sleep! Well… at least I get to see him without his head protector up close..."

Thoughts of pulling the covers away and ripping all of Kakashi's close off screamed in her mind. Sakura knew she would never do something like that but it was fun to thing about anyway. She looked intently at his face. She could at least pull down his mask. Sakura extended her arm out toward Kakashi's face reaching for his mask. Then Kakashi's eyes flew open and Sakura pulled her hand back like a bolt of lightning.

"Sakura…? What are you doing here?" he looked at her with his Sharingan eye closed. She could sense a small trace of drowsiness in his voice.

"Well I…I…" her checks burned a vivid red "Naruto was snoring and I couldn't sleep…" she lied.

"O'…" Kakashi sat up letting the covers fall from his bare muscular torso. That made Sakura's face burn even brighter.

"I... I… just wanted to know if I could stay here for tonight…" Sakura tried to make herself look as sleep deprived as possible.

Kakashi couldn't help but feel sorry for Sakura, she's been acting so odd lately, and he didn't want to contribute to it by making Sakura go back to her tent and not get any sleep. "Well, if you really want to… I guess I don't mind."

Sakura's heart almost leaped out of her chest 'Hell yeah! He fell for it'

Kakashi slid his pillow to the other side of the bed and pulled up the corner of the covers for Sakura. Sakura slipped under them and rested her head on the pillow. She tried her hardest not to start grinning and make herself look suspicious. Kakashi pulled the covers back over himself and turned so his back was facing Sakura. Sleep soon took both of them.


"Sasuke! Sakura's gone I can't find her anywhere!" Naruto shouted in a panic to his sleeping friend from the doorway of the tent.

Sasuke shot up into a sitting position. "What!"

"Sakura's gone, I looked every where for her, she's nowhere near camp." Naruto knelt down trying to catch his breath. "What if she was kidnapped or ran away!"

"Does Kakashi know?" Sasuke was starting to get worried.

"Well, uhh… no…" Naruto had gotten so worked up about Sakura he forgot to tell Kakashi.

Sasuke slipped his shirt on and hopped around trying to quickly put on his pants. "You idiot! Go tell him now, I'll be out in a minute!"

Naruto dashed toward Kakashi's tent and hastily unzipped the zipper almost ripping the tent in half. "Kakashi-sensei Sakura's gone we can't find her any whe-r-r-r-e-e-e…" Naruto's mouth dropped open "O' my fucking god!" he staggered backward and fell to the ground.

"Naruto! What happened?" Sasuke ran to Naruto's aid.

"Lo…loo…look" he pointed inside the tent.

Sasuke walked toward the tent and peeked inside to see Kakashi and Sakura, who were now wide awake. A mixed look of fear and confusion spread across his face as he slowly backed away from the tent and pulled Naruto to his feet.

Sakura's face was a bright red now. She slowly pulled herself out from under the covers and stepped outside her head hung low and arms wrapped around herself for warmth, since the only thing she was wearing was a pair of pink shorts and a tight black sleeveless shirt.

"Sakura-chan...? Why... why... did you..." Naruto was very confused and heart broken.

Kakashi slipped on his shirt and stepped out side. "Nothing happened Naruto, she said you were snoring and she couldn't sleep so I let her stay in my tent for the night."

"What! I don't snore!"

"Actually you do. I heard you last night, I was almost going to go sleep outside." Sasuke said crossing his arms. He turned toward Sakura and smiled. Sakura knew he was covering up for her.

"I do...?" Naruto's face was covered with a expression of pure confusion and stupidity.

Kakashi smiled "So, since this ordeal is all taken care of lets go have breakfast. Sakura why don't you go get some firewood. Once you put on something a little... warmer."

"Okay" Sakura smiled. She then ran off to her tent to change.

When she was finished she found Naruto standing outside of the tent waiting for her.

"Mind if I help you collect fire wood" he smiled weakly.

"No, not at all" she smiled back hoping to get a happier expression from her friend but he still looked quite glum.

Together they walked away form the camp, none of them spoke a word until the silence was broken by Naruto.

"Sakura... I'm sorry, I shouldn't have acted like such a jerk earlier. I should have known you would never do something like that."

"It's okay, I don't blame you. If I saw you and Kakashi together in the same bed I would have been a little suspicious too." She put her hand on Naruto's shoulder and smiled in a comforting sort of way.

"You like Kakashi-sensei don't you." Naruto childishly grinned and snickered to himself.

"What! No!" Sakura put her hands on her hips "You idiot, what gave you that idea?"

"Well its kind of obvious, the way you act around him, and stuff." he paused "So-o-o-o... do you like him?" Naruto leaned closer to her and raised an eyebrow.

"Well... I," Sakura looked down at the ground and blushed "Yeah..."

"hehehe thought so! Wait till I tell Iruka-sensei and Sasuke about this!" Naruto grinned and clenched his first together exitedly.

She slid over behind Naruto and cupped her hand onto his mouth. "Please don't tell anyone..." she release her grip and a sad look crossed her face.

"Aww... why not?" Naruto wined

"Because I don't want anyone to know."

"So... maybe Kakashi likes you back, he did let you sleep with him."

"He was just being nice, anyway remember that woman at the ramen diner. You even said it yourself, that she was his girlfriend."

"Well... I guess... your screwed then." he smiled.

A brilliant thought ran through Sakura's mind "Not if you help me..."

"What? Why would I do that, I don't medal in peoples love lives." he crossed his arms and shook his head.

"Aww come on, it will be fu-u-u-n"

"Nope"

Sakura put her arm around Naruto's shoulder, she had been saving this for a last resort. "If you don't help me, then I'll tell Kakashi-sensei that you were the one who tore his book in half. You remember how upset he got and how he swore to kill the person who destroyed his book..."

Naruto backed away from Sakura "You wouldn't... would you...?"

"Yes I would!" she smirked. "I guess when we get back to camp I could go tell him... and we can all watch as he strangles you to death. or maybe he'll do it quickly and slit your throat. Hmm..." she started to look around for some fire wood leaving Naruto to contemplate her offer.

"Fine! I'll help you get Kakashi, but... you have to buy me ramen for dinner every day until you don't need my help anymore."

"Deal!" the two shook on it and went back to scavenging for more fire wood.

Blackmail and ramen was a small price for love...