Sakura woke up it was still dark and she felt really thirsty. She walked to the kitchen to get something to drink. It was 6 o'clock all ready and it wouldn't take long before dawn. Sakura thought of Kakashi.
Would he be sleeping? Does he sleep with his mask on? I can take a look to know that for sure.
She walked to his bedroom but when she looked at Kakashi he was sleeping and he didn't wear his mask. Sakura couldn't get a good look of his face because it was half covert by Kakashi's duvet. She could remove it bud when she moved one step closerKakashi moved and she was afraid to wake him up. She walked back to her room and tried to sleep again.
When Sakura opened her eyes again she thought that she didn't sleep at all but it was all ready half past 10 so she must have. She heard someone in the kitchen.
Kakashi had been awake for almost 2 hours by now and he was preparing breakfast.
Sakura walked to the kitchen.
"Morning, slept well? Kakashi sounded cheerful.
"Yeah, I woke up once but fell asleep again." She sounded still sleepy.
"Good cause we need to be fresh today, cause the wether is beautiful."
Sakura groaned disapproving. Kakashi laughed. He gave her some bread and 2 soft boiled eggs.
After breakfast Sakura felt a lot better and got to the shower to clean her face. She was surprised when she saw her dress. It was cleaned and repaired. She got herself dressed and walked to the living room. Kakashi was reading a paper and looked a little bored.
"I think I have to go. I mean my mother is waiting for me and I promised my sister that we would go on a picnic today."
"Okay, will I see you again today?"
"Maybe but that depends on how my mothers temper is. Bye"
"Bye."
While walking home Sakura thought of everything what happened yesterday and her mother would ask her an explanation. She could impossible tell her the truth. She wouldn't believe it anyway.
The streets were empty that would mean that the schools had started. There were a couple of young children playing in the streets but most of the people were at work, on a mission or at school.
Sakura wondered what Naruto would be doing, probably training again as always.
Sakura was almost at home when she heard the bell witch announced the lunch break.
Suddenly students ran out of school to have a lunch in the forest or just on a bench near school.
Sakura smiled and went home.
Sakura's mother was sitting in the living room. She jumped out of her chair when she saw Sakura. She looked relieved to see Sakura again.
"I'm so happy to see you. Where were you? Are you hurt? Do you want something to drink?"
"I was looking for my necklace in the forest and I must have fallen a sleep when I took a seat against a tree, no I'm not hurt, and yes I'd love something to drink."
Sakura knew it was a lame excuse but her mother believed it so she didn't need to think of something better.
Sakura's mother walked to the kitchen to get something to drink for her daughter, while Sakura took a seat on the couch. Sakura's mother came back with a 2 glasses of milk and took a seat on the couch next to Sakura.
Almost at the same time Kaori burst into the room. She looked exited to see her sister again.
"Can we have a picnic now? Can we mama?" Sakura and her mother laughed.
"Well… if you promise to bring Sakura back I'll make something for you. Okay?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
Sakura's mother walked to the kitchen and retuned with a picnic basked.
"Here you go and don't forget to go to school again."
"No, mom I won't forget."
And Sakura and Kaori went out.
The sun was shining and the park was filled with students. But even with all the people it wasn't hard to find a nice spot to eat. Sakura spread out a blanket to sit on and wanted to get the food, but her sister was already eating as if she hadn't eaten in days. When all the food she was holding was eaten, she dived into the basked. Sakura laughed. All she could see were the tiny legs of her little sister, looking for the tastiest food her mother had given them.
"Heey! I wanna eat something too. That of course if there is anything left.''
Kaori got out of the picnic basket and looked at her sister with her mouth full of fruit. Her whole face was filthy by food and juice. Sakura couldn't help it, but her sister looked so adorable and funny she couldn't suppress her laugh. Sakura could grab some sandwiches before her sister ate everything. After finishing the meal it was time for Kaori to go back to school again and Sakura brought the picnic basked and the blanked back home.
When she got home she changed her clothes in something more comfortable and fetched a torch and a lighter. She told her mother she would stay at her friends place and wouldn't be back before tomorrow morning. She left her house humming a song she heard in the park and walked to the forest.
She was determined to see Toboe again and walked to the cave. When she got there she lightened the torch so she could see where to walk and she entered the cave. She walked to the hollow where she had been yesterday but Toboe wasn't there. She looked around and she catches sight of another tunnel. She walked towards it and decided to enter. The air was pleasantly warm and she saw light at the end of the tunnel. When she got closer she saw that it was another hollow but this one was green like spring and summer. There where flowers everywhere and there was a lake in the middle. When she got closer she saw that here where lots of women with a tail and cat ears with skins in unnatural colours like pink bleu and yellow. There were also little girls with tails but she couldn't find any male-looking creatures.
When she was almost at the end of the tunnel one of the woman saw her and suddenly everybody disappeared.
"Toboe! Toboe are you here!" after a while she finally got a reaction of Toboe. She walked into the hollow where Toboe was standing. As soon as the others saw that Sakura wouldn't harm them, they came out of their hiding place and continued what they were doing before.
Toboe looked happy to see Sakura again and showed her everything in the hollow. This one should at least be 14 km2 and it looked like the perfectliving place for the strange women. Sakura noticed that a little bleu girl was following her from the moment she entered the hollow. She couldn't be much older then 4 years old and every time Sakura wanted to look at her, the girl hide behind a tree or some bushes. There were lots op trees and flowers Sakura had never seen before and the water seemed clearer than every where else on the world and every plant seemed healthy. Weird birds and other animals of kinds she had never seen before were running in the bushes, flying in the air or swimming in the lake. Everything looked good, everybody seemed happy and there was no danger anywhere near. Sakura heard a soft thud behind her and when she turned around to see what it was the little girl was fallen in a shrub. The girl fished some little twigs and some leaves out of her hair and smiled shy.
Toboe called the girl by making a weird noicebut she was to shy and she tried to hide behind a tree. Sakura saw the bleu tail of the girl and after a while 2 curios little eyes.
Sakura laughed and followed Toboe again. Toboe brought her to an elderly woman with a skin as red as blood but her hair was grey and so was her tail. Toboe left her there. The woman was holing a pencil and in front of her stood a table made of a stump with some paper on it. The woman started to write:
"Welcome stranger my name is Shumi.
I'm the oldest and I'd love you to feel welcome anytime you want to visit us if you promise to tell no one of our existence.
Feel free to ask anything if you want to know. "
Sakura read it and asked. "What are you called? I mean your kind."
The woman started writing again; "We're sarique"
"Why has everybody such a weird colour?"
"I'm sorry but we don't know it's quite normal in our opinion. Don't you like it?"
"Well yeah but im not used to it. Can everybody write?"
"No, just a few of us can."
"Why do you live here?"
"Nobody out there would accept us like this. We would have to cut our ears and tails and we like them."
Sakura was getting really curios and wanted to know more and more about them.
Would it be impolite to ask so many questions? I mean would it be weird to ask where the men are?
"I'm sorry to ask but are there any men or boys here?"
"Man?"
"You don't know what a man is?"
"No, maybe you could explain."
"I can show u one if you'd like that. I promise he won't tell anyone of your existence."
"Okay, if you're really sure that she won't tell it."
"Would you have something like a torch I lost mine."
"Ask Toboe. I'll inform the others about the 'man' who's coming."
Sakura saw that Toboe was enjoying the girl with her tail. Sakura asked her for a torch and she seemed to understand it but she didn't give her any. She grabbed Sakura's arm and walked her to the exit.
"Good bye I'll be back soon."
Toboe wrote in the sand: "I wait you."
Sakura laughed and ran away.
She knocked exhausted on Kakashi's door. It took a while before Kakashi opened the door and Sakura already caught her breath when she finally heard some movement. When Kakashi opened the door Sakura jumped in his arm and gave him a kiss on his cheek in a reflex Kakashi kissed her but he regretted it almost immediately. Sakura tried to hide her blush by putting her head on Kakashi's shoulder. Because it looked like Sakura wasn't letting him go Kakashi decided to carry her in.
He tried to get her on the couch but Sakura wouldn't let him go so he took a seat on the couch and Sakura took a seat in his lap.
"You need to come with me cause Shumi want you to and all the other girls want to see a man as well and I already promised them you would come and you can't tell anyone of their exist-"
"Wow, wow, wow Sakura let's try to talk slowly so everybody can understand ok?"
"Oh sorry, I mean you need o come with me. Remember the girl I told you about yesterday?"
"Yeah."
"Well I wanted to see her again so I went back to the cave. when I was at the same hollow as yesterday is saw another tunnel so I decided to look what it leaded to. Well it ended in another hollow but this one was bigger and green like it was a summer day but not only that, there were hundreds of girls with tails and ears in every colour you can imagine. I called for Toboe and she showed me the way to an elderly lady named Shumi who could write well. She told me that they were called sarique and there are only a few of them who can write. I asked why there were no men but she didn't know what a man is so I told her that I would bring one if I promised her that you wouldn't tell anyone about their existence."
"Okay, that was a lot easier to understand but I still don't get why you want to show her a man."
"Well she asked me to explain what a man is and I said that it would be easier to bring one."
"Okay I'll go there if you stay at my place tonight.
"Okay I'll stay with you."
"But first I'm going to get you something to drink."
"Oh, Kakashi one thing we need to bring a torch; it's pretty dark there.
When the finished their drinks they went off. They walked in twilight and Sakura knew that it would be in the middle of the night when they would get back. She suddenly felt really happy that she told her mother that she would sleep elsewhere. It was almost dark when they entered the first tunnel and Kakashi lightened the torch. Kakashi was dumbfounded when they approached the first hollow. Sakura grabbed his arm and pressed her body against his. She showed him the way and when she could see the next hollow she stopped.
"You do know that their naked don't you? Please don't stare at them."
"You told me they're naked and the only woman I would look at is standing next to me."
Sakura blushed and resumed walking. When the sariques noticed their company they hid again until Shumi came forwards. She looked at Kakashi and looked at Sakura again. She beckoned them to follow her. They walked to her table again while Kakashi was still amazed by everything. Shumi started writing again.
"Is she a man?"
"Yes but a man is he not she."
"Doesn't he have breasts?"
"No, men don't have breasts they have other things."
"Like what?"
"Kakashi could you get undressed?"
"what?"
"Get undressed I don't think she'll understand it if you don't."
"You just want to see me naked and what about my mask?"
"Don't worry I'll hold it for you."
"I only get undressed if you get undressed first."
Sakura blushed but she was determined to learn this woman about men so she agreed and she started to get undressed. Kakashi was staring at her and he almost forgot that now it was his turn. Desponded he started to take of his clothes.
Shumi screamed when he took of his boxer shorts and suddenly al the woman came to look what happened and every single one of them was staring at Kakashi. It looked like they were obsessed by the unknown thing.
"Sakura I think they saw it can I get dressed now I don't feel comfortable with so many attention."
But Sakura was obsessed by his face and his body and the only thing she could possibly do right now was staring at him.
"Sakura… stop that! Don't stare at me like that."
Sakura seemed to wake up from her pinnacle and gave him his clothes back accept for his mask she kept that one. She started to get dressed as well and the girls lost their interest in Kakashi. Everything looked to be the same again and Shumi started writing.
"I see what you mean with 'they have other things'."
"Well that's a man."
"What do you need them for?"
"Sexual reproduction."
"We don't need a man for that but I won't ask what your sexual behaviour is like."
Suddenly the light went out and everything turned dark. Kakashi lightened the torch again.
"What happened?"
"When it's time to sleep the light goes off and when it's time to wake up it goes on again. Now if you would excuse us we need to go to sleep and maybe it's better when you 2 go home and come back some other time."
"Ok, goodnight.'
"Goodnight."
Sakura grabbed Kakashi's arm again and they started their journey home.