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What the hell is taking him so damn long? When I agreed to give him time, I didn't expect it to take so long! Inner Sakura was fuming. It had been over a week since their confrontation and things had still not been cleared up. On the surface, their relationship was exactly as it had always been. Sakura did not pressure him into giving her his final answer, and he had not taken the initiative to inform her of his thoughts. He was still ridiculously late for everything and they still met every day to train with Naruto and Sasuke. So does that mean he's just forgotten about it? Maybe he wants to pretend it never happened and ignore it into oblivion? Sakura pondered the non answer with a wrinkled brow. Of course, that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. After all, ignoring it into oblivion would mean that she was free from the humiliation that would come from his pending rejection. If he was willing to let it go, so would she. Then they could just carry on as before and nothing would change. She was mature enough to handle that. There! Sakura came to this conclusion with a certain amount of pride and entered a nearby dango shop to celebrate the ending of her infatuation with Kakashi. Which lasted exactly, thirty seconds until she realized she had inadvertently seated herself next to him.

"You look happy." Kakashi commented as he looked up from his dirty book.

"Ah." Sakura could not think of any sort of intelligent response giving the screaming Inner Sakura was doing. "Grab him and kiss him!" "No! I am OVER him!" Sakura insisted in her head, "Grab him and kiss him to make sure!" Sakura smacked herself in the head.

Kakashi watched the totally spaced out kuniochi repeatedly smacking her forehead with not a small degree of amusement. "Ano Sakura, is something bothering you?" He asked as he grabbed her wrist and stopped her in mid-smack.

"Something bothering me?" Sakura's voice came out as a squeak. "Of course not, what would be bothering me? I mean, it's not like I've been waiting for your answer for over a week and nothing's happening and so I'm totally over it but Ino and the voices in my head are telling me I should kiss you so...oh my God! I just said that aloud! Dammit!" Sakura would've slapped herself on the forehead again had Kakashi released his hold on her wrist. Which he hadn't. And which he looked unlikely to do so anytime in the immediate future.

"So that's what's been bothering you? Well, you know something?" Using his hold on her wrist, Kakashi pulled her closer to him just as he moved closer to her ear and whispered. "I do love you Sakura. I just need a few more days to be sure that things will work between us. Just a few more days ok? And then maybe you can kiss me all you like. In fact, I would probably be willing to perhaps, try different types and places of kissing. And of course, there are many other things we could do after kissing…" He leaned back with the satisfied grin of a Cheshire cat as he let go of her and watched her face turn tomato red.

"Kakashi!" Sakura screamed as she slapped the back of his head. Inner Sakura had already passed out from the sheer sexiness of the situation. Her heart was still pounding from the way his hand touched her wrist and his breath on her ear.

"Oh look at the time! Gotta go!" Kakashi made a hasty escape and disappeared with a poof.

"Liar! You don't even OWN a watch!" Sakura shook her fist and yelled at his fast dissipating smoke. Letting out a last irritated "hmph!", she turned back to her dango, but unfortunately, not quickly enough to miss the shocked and curious stares of all the other customers in the store. Oh, and the stares of the people who had momentarily frozen in front of the store's entrance. "DAMMIT!" Inner Sakura yelled in her head. Wearily, Sakura lifted her hand and asked for the bill from the terrified looking waitress. "Ano, I'm terribly sorry, but the man that just left, he, ah, he's well, taken care of the bill already." The waitress dashed away as quickly as possible as Sakura pushed her plate and tea aside and started banging her head on the wooden table.

"Whew! That was close!" Kakashi had actually not gone very far. In fact, to be precise, he was standing by the door of the dango shop, just hidden from view and had therefore had the pleasure of witnessing Sakura's outbursts. Though maybe he should really stop her from smacking the table with her (now perfectly sized) forehead.

"SAKURA!" Ino came hurtling into the dango shop and stopped Sakura's head from connecting with the table yet again. "What the hell are you DOING? I could hear you from the end of the street!" Sakura looked up blankly at Ino. Ino let go of Sakura's shoulder as she carefully examined her pink-haired best friend's face. "Is it Kakashi?" Ino winced as said pink-haired best friend's head slumped to connect with the table again.

Kakashi sighed and walked towards the forest. Why was it just so difficult? She had already confessed her feelings to him, and obviously he was in love with her. They weren't in a student-teacher relationship anymore, in fact, they had been equal team mates for quite some time. He knew her better than anyone else, just as she was closer to his heart than any other woman had ever been. So, what was the problem? You're just scared Kakashi. Little mini angel Kakashi had appeared again. You know you believe that she just might be the one you've waited your whole life for and that scares you. Because you don't ever want to lose her just like you lost everyone else. Kakashi was interrupted from his thoughts by two voices in the clearing.

"So you're going to ask her tonight?"

"Yes. Tonight will be perfect." The deep calm voice of Hyuuga Neji sounded suspiciously happy.

"It''s so wonderful! Who would've thought my genin team mates would wind up married! It's beautiful! Gai-sensei will be so proud! Can I be the best man? What are you planning on naming the children?" As usual, Rock Lee was unable to curb his enthusiasm. However this time, Neji made no sarcastic attempt to shut Lee up.

"Yes you can be best man, and the names depend on what Tenten wants. And I think I knew all along that she would be the one."

"It's so perfect! You are my worthy rival and best friend! I couldn't suggest anyone better to be your wife! She's strong! You won't be able to push her around. And you won't have to worry about her when you're away, or she's away on missions either!"

"I think I'll always worry about her. I know she's strong, possibly the strongest kunoichi I know, but I never want her to be away from me. I feel safer when she's on missions with me, and I don't worry about her if I can be by her side."

"Who knew you could be such a romantic! I promise that when I fall in love, I will be twice the romantic that you are! Or else I will walk on one hand around the entire village 1000 times to proclaim my love to her! Ow!"

"Shut up." The snobby exterior had returned.

I could lose her even if things stay just as they are. Do I want to have the regret of depriving both of us of openly sharing the feelings between us? Kakashi pondered as he walked away. I need my book.