It was 4 o'clock when they finally reached Kakashi's house. Sakura's legs were tiered so Kakashi carried her the last km.
Kakashi laid Sakura on his bed.
"I'm sorry Sakura but I'm too tired to make a bed for you so you'll have to sleep with me tonight." Sakura smiled.
"That's ok but you should know that I sleep naked."
"Yeah I thought so."
Sakura started to take off her clothes and after she was finished she helped Kakashi with his because he was to slow in her opinion.
She pressed her body against his and tried to kiss him but he avoided it. Sakura laid her head on his shoulder and Kakashi knew that she was disappointed. Kakashi laid his arm on her shoulder and held her for a while. Sakura started playing with his hair and suddenly kissed him. Kakashi couldn't avoid it and after a while he gave in and kissed her back. Sakura laid her head on his shoulder again and cried softly not because she was sad or hurt but it was everything, she just couldn't handle it at this moment. Kakashi tried to give her comfort but he was so tired that he fell asleep with Sakura in his arms and soon Sakura fell asleep too.
The next morning Kakashi wasn't home and Sakura found a short note on the nightstand. It said:
"I'm going out for an early training (7:00 am). I made breakfast, it's in the refrigerator."
Sakura got dressed and walked to the kitchen for breakfast. Kakashi had made some disgusting soup. At least that was what Sakura thought it should have been.
Would he mind if I throw it away? I hope not because I'm not going to eat this.
Sakura looked if she could find something else to eat and the only thing she could find was yoghurt. She ate some of it and went to the bedroom again. She stole one of his favourite shirts and sneaked home.
She was almost at home when she felt a hand on her shoulder. It was Kakashi.
"Hi, Sakura how nice of you bringing me a new shirt mine is all dirty."
Sakura was disappointed.
How does he know that I have his shirt and how did he find me?"
Kakashi changed his dirty shirt for the clean one and gave Sakura his shirt.
"Here it's not clean but you can keep it." Sakura smiled.
"Thank you! Thank you so much!"
And she ran home to hide the shirt some place no one would look so no one could know that she had Kakashi's shirt.
Not much later she went out again hoping to see Kakashi but he was gone with the wind and she didn't see him the rest of the morning. She decided to help her mother at home because she couldn't remember having a conversation with her mother for the past 2 weeks. Sakura's mother was delighted when she heard of her sudden help.
"Hi Sakura, it's been so long! I'm so happy to see you again!"
"I'm happy to see you to mum but I've been so busy with friends and stuff, but now I'm here and I'm free for the rest of the day."
Meanwhile they started to wash the dishes.
"Would you like me to cook dinner for the three of you tonight? It's been a while since I did that right?"
"Oh sweety I'd love you to but tonight I promised your father to go away for a long weekend with him and Kaori is staying at a friends place so maybe you could invite some friends too. The entire house is yours for 5 days."
"Oh ok I'll see if I'll invite some one over." Her voice sounded clearly disappointed.
"Any way I got to go pack my bags when we've finished this."
They finished not much later. Sakura went to the bathroom to take a shower while her mother was packing her bags. Sakura opened her zipper and the red dress fell on the bathroom floor. It was almost half past twelve when Sakura heard her mother knocking on the door.
"I'm going sweetheart I'll leave the door open ok?"
"Ok ma, have fun, don't forget to write me."
And her mother left. Sakura finally turned on the shower and felt the warm water touch her skin. She squatted on the shower floor and stared at the small window almost at the ceiling. In a split second something flew past the window. Sakura was shocked and fell down backwards. Still in shock she looked at the window just in case it would come back. Suddenly the bathroom door opened but Sakura didn't dare to look who was standing behind her. She heard footsteps and not much later she felt a warm soft hand on her wet shoulder. The person kneeled behind her and it was only than that she finally recognized the low breathing of Kakashi. He wrapped his warm arms around her end laid his chin on her shoulder. He tried to see what Sakura was looking at but the only thing he saw was small window and the tip of a tree next to the house.
Sakura who finally realized that nothing was happening relaxed in Kakashi's arms. She felt his shirt get wet but he didn't let go. In fact his hands almost crushed her shoulders.
"Kakashi why are you holding me like this it hurts."
But Kakashi didn't react. Sakura tried to get away from him but without success and now it really started to hurt. She tried to scream but her breath caught. She started crying without making any sound and tried even harder to get away but Kakashi didn't even move. Sakura heard something crack in her shoulder and she felt a stab of pain. Not until Sakura tried to bite in his hands Kakashi stopped and started to cry. Something in Sakura pitied him but the other part of her really wanted to get away from him because of what he just did.
What's wrong with him? Why would he do that? Doesn't he like me? Why is he so mean? He was so nice these last few days.
Sakura turned around and looked at his face filled with tears. She wanted to go away from him but something in her said that she should stay. Kakashi didn't move and his clothes were soaked trough. Sakura just watched him not moving and not talking. They jus sat there, the only sound you could hear was water falling on the bathroom floor and a little on Sakura's back. It looked like hours past by before Kakashi made his first movement. He gave Sakura a soft kiss on her hurting shoulder and he went away without saying anything.
Sakura still didn't move, she was lost in thought. It was a singing bird in the tree in her garden that woke her up again. Her neck was stiff and she really wanted a massage. Slowly and clumsily she stood up, turned off the shower and walked to he bedroom to get dressed.
She found a short note on lying on her bed which said:
"I'm really sorry but I think it's better if we don't see each other for a while."
Sakura was shocked. She didn't want to stay away from him for a while. She knew that what he did was wrong but that didn't mean that she hated him.
She looked in her wardrobe and chose one of her favourite dresses: a black and dark-blue short dress tight around her upper body and wide around her legs. It was till halfway her upper legs and it was a very low-necked dress. It looked quite good on her but she barely wore it. She didn't like the male-attention but if she wanted to seduce Kakashi she didn't even minded all the attention. Sakura was determined to find Kakashi at any cost.
She left with the intention to find him and nothing was going to stop her. She looked at every place where they had been the last 5 days and finally Sakura decided to go see Toboe to ask if she had any idea.
When she stopped at the entrance of the cave she saw Kakashi's torch and lightened it. It wasn't very hard to find Toboe; she was searching for yellow leaves in the first hollow.
She was surprised but happy as always, proudly she showed the leaves to Sakura and showed her some paintings made of leaves and dead flowers. It looked quite funny.
Toboe showed her some other art and Sakura noticed that everything was made of plants and other natural materials. Some of the paintings were so good that even a small detail could be seen, with things like human beings and other animals. Some even better than she had ever seen and that without pencils. Sakura was amazed of what they could do with the few materials they had.
Toboe stopped for a portrait of a girl with red hair, and she tried to make clear that the girl on the picture was Sakura. The hair was probably red because Toboe couldn't find any pink leaves not that she had ever seen any pink leaves. The portrait was pretty good and Toboe was hopefully looking at Sakura hoping for a compliment. Sakura smiled shyly.
"Wow, I don't know what to say… It's beautiful."
It seemed to be the compliment Toboe was hoping for. And Toboe looked really happy. Sakura almost forgot what she was here for. She was thinking of to ask Toboe for help.
When Toboe realized that Sakura wasn't paying attention to her anymore, she stroke with her tail over Sakura's cheek and almost put it in her nose.
Sakura sneezed and noticed that Toboe wanted attention.
"Sorry, I was thinking of something else."
Toboe wanting attention suddenly changed in an adorable curiosity. Sakura knew by looking at Toboe that she wanted to know what she was thinking about.
"Well… I just thought…"
She waited and saw that Toboe was breathlessly listening.
"Well… I was hoping that you…"
Sakura stopped again when she noticed that Toboe was already nodding, while she didn't even heard the question yet. She waited till Toboe stopped nodding and was listening again.
"Well, I hoped that you could help me find Kakashi…"
Sakura looked doubtfully at Toboe but she was cheerfully nodding again.
Would she really understand the question or would she just be nodding?
Toboe smiled and gestured her to follow. Toboe was humming a song and walked into the tunnel but before they could see the next hollow Toboe pushed Sakura into another tunnel. It was a long tunnel and as they got in farther it got colder as well. She saw a shimmering light but when they got closer it didn't get any brighter. There was a thick fog in the next small hollow. It was almost 4 m2 and there was a fountain in the middle of it. Toboe pointed at the fountain and she walked into the hollow….