Updated: 10/5/05 Which means there's a lot of new stuff. So read it again if you were confused before and even if you weren't you'll missing out on new stuff if you don't read it again. Language and adultish situations ahead. This one has a little of everything, Kakasaku, Sasusaku, Narusaku. Yep, insanity has been let loose.

Note: Flashbacks are in italics and sectioned off appropriately.

Disclaimer: Naruto doesn't belong to me. Naruto belongs to some bastard(s) who won't make a spin off of with just the older jounin. Okay I don't mean that, whats-his-face isn't a bastard. (mumbles) bastard...

The Kuchijuke
A strong wind blew over the rooftops as Sakura made her way to the usual clearing where her team held their training sessions. For once she wondered if she'd be the last one to arrive. A smile played across her lips as she pictured Naruto yelling at her and telling her she was late. It made her laugh a little as she skipped across a clothes line.

But it wasn't as funny as her experience eating with the three older jounin earlier that day. She bit her lip trying not to laugh out loud as she passed some other nins crossing the roofs. Shifting the bag across her shoulder she just shook her head and gave into laughter.

Sakura ignored the waitress as she made her way to the darkest corner booth in the restaurant. Kakashi immediately took a seat in the shadows along side Sakura while Genma and Raidou sat down somewhat across from them.

The waitress trying to take Kakashi by the arm to lead him to a table had immediately pissed Sakura off. She also didn't like her hair-do.

"Are you sure you wouldn't like something by the window? This lamp is broken…" The waitress asked while twirling a bit of her plain brown hair.

"No. This is perfect." Sakura cut her off quickly much to the amusement of Genma. Kakashi just put his hands behind his head and leaned back even further seemingly disinterested in the two women glaring at each other.

"Alright, what can I get you guys then?" When the waitress said this she left out Sakura in her gaze and flashed brilliantly white teeth at first Raidou then Genma and finally Kakashi. Sakura practically smashed herself into Kakashi's side as the waitress gave him another appraising look.

"I-would like raspberry iced tea." Sakura said immediately. The waitress didn't even turn her attention away from Genma's flirtatious grin.

The rest of their ordering went smoothly after that. But much to Sakura's disappointment Kakashi didn't order anything except a drink which he had yet to take a sip of.

Damn! I thought he would take off his mask to eat maybe. Bastard…Oh wait, maybe he's going to take a drink, nope just stretching.

When they finally got their food, Sakura was served last, the three men were having a conversation about some long ago mission. The things they did along the way and back made Sakura's jaw drop.

"You took practically a week off, just to visit some village?" Sakura asked amazed.

"Hey, we were still on the mission. So really we were doing some research…it was Anbu. We didn't have a specific time table for this you know." Genma said giving her his full attention.

Sakura just rolled her eyes; she couldn't really picture a young Kakashi goofing off that much with Genma or Raidou for that matter. She declined to ask exactly what they did with their stolen time and concentrated on her meal.

I can't believe Genma's nerve…

They had almost finished eating and Genma was now adamantly trying to pin her down for a date. She thought she was declining him skillfully but when he told her to come out drinking with them it was harder to say no. One, she was interested in that since Kakashi would be there and two, it was hard to say no to Genma.

On the other hand Kakashi was giving Genma weirder and weirder looks. She wondered if the constant flirting was finally bothering him.

"Shiranui, quit trying to touch Sakura's leg with your foot." Kakashi said calmly as he leaned his arms on the table.

Raidou raised his eyebrow at Genma at exactly the same time Sakura did.

"Oi, how did you know?" Genma asked already grinning.

"Because you keep touching my leg instead." Kakashi said.

Raidou knocked over his glass of water and Sakura almost inhaled a huge glob of rice she was shoving into her mouth.

"How do you know I wasn't trying to get your attention Hatake?" Genma asked sweetly leaning towards Kakashi.

Sakura thought she was going to die as she slapped her hand over her mouth to stop rice from flying everywhere as she laughed and coughed.

"Hmm…" Kakashi rolled his eyes up in thought. "Well I have to train my group later…We might have enough time. I don't want Raidou to feel left out either." He said with what looked like a straight face to Sakura.

"Trust me. I won't feel left out." Raidou mopped up his spilled water while glaring at Kakashi and Genma.

"You're impossible to tease Hatake." Genma said disgustedly as he sat back.

Kakashi just shrugged while slipping his mask down to his chin and stealing some food off Sakura's plate. Sakura's mouth was hanging open as she watched Kakashi shove some food into his mouth with his fingers.

Oh my god he's eating. OH MY GOD! He just propositioned Genma!

Sakura just stared at him dumbfounded as he wiped his hand with his napkin and slipped the mask back over his face.

"Now you know why Kakashi's always late Sakura-chan. He just can't say no to me." Genma said; his usual grin returning to his face.

"Ah huh. Well that would explain a lot. I mean, you guys do hang out quite a bit…" Sakura said with mock seriousness .

She had to take a rest at the line of trees to catch her breath, unsuccessfully trying to control her laughter at the same time. When she caught her breath she continued on her way.

Sailing through the trees she made it to the field where Naruto and Sasuke were standing quite close together.

"I reeeeally don't think this is a good idea Sasuke."

"Shut up, I didn't mean now, today. Later, when I figure out how this will work best. It's unlikely we'll be able to-"

"Hey! Why so serious? Glad I'm not the last to show up." Sakura said stopping near them and plopping her huge bag down on the ground.

"Sakura-chaaan! What took you so long? We've already been here for an hour and a half! Where've you been?" Sasuke jabbed his elbow into Naruto's side while giving him a warning glare.

Urg! Don't give him that look Sasuke! I wasn't with Kakashi! Damnit, they're still acting funny. This is going to suck…

Sakura's earlier hopes of everything being fine and dandy were quickly giving away to harsh reality.

"I was busy at the hospital Naruto. Not everyone can heal life threatening wounds in a day like someone blonde and annoying I know."

"Aaaaa, Sakura-chan, you're so cruel…" He was grinning again as he gave Sasuke a 'Haha see? I was right you were wrong!' look.

Kakashi chose that moment to show up next to them completing their little circle. No one accused him of being late and he didn't try to give a stupid excuse.

Going to suck…

Sakura was the only one to say hi. The boys wouldn't look him in the eye. Sakura thought she was going to have trouble breathing soon if she didn't get away from the tension they were all exuding. Sakura sighed and picked up her bag.

"I'm going to go do some kunai training…" She pulled out one of the disk shaped targets and waited for some kind of response from either Naruto or Sasuke. Neither would look at her as she sighed one last time before heading towards the nearest tree line.

As Sakura reached the tree line both Sasuke and Naruto stared straight at Kakashi. He didn't seem to be affected by the tension and merely stared back.

"It's hard to win a woman over when all you do is ignore her." With that said Kakashi turned and was at Sakura's side in a moment taking some of the targets from her.

Sasuke and Naruto watched as she turned to smile at him and say thank you. They made it to her side in record time and each grabbed half of what was left in the bag.

"We'll help you too." Sasuke said as he took the few targets she had from her hands.

"Um, okay…Thanks." Sakura never felt like putting her fist through a tree as strongly as in that moment. The fact that she could actually do it satisfied her enough that she resisted the urge.

Kakashi left with his few targets and put them in interesting places in the trees, behind boulders and on the ground. Sasuke put them all in plain view without any obstacles around them. Naruto was just haphazardly putting them everywhere.

Sakura shook her head in annoyance. She would definitely not be able to hit a fifth of Kakashi's targets but at least they were more interesting than the boys. Sasuke's were all hung in plain view and it pissed her off to think that maybe he thought she needed such easy practice. While some of Naruto's had already fallen off their branches and trunks to be lost in the brush.

Sweat beaded on Sakura's brow as she fetched her kunai from the surrounding targets. It was starting to get dark and so far things hadn't gotten any worse. But Sakura continued to plead to no one in general in her mind anyways.

Please, just a little longer! Just don't draw attention to anything. Things are going well…things are just fine…no ones talking…Sasuke and Naruto are beating the crap out of each other as usual…everything's fine…

Sakura kept up her mental mantra as she tried and failed yet again to hit one of Kakashi's targets where it was hidden behind a tree trunk from her position. Grumbling she tried to hit one kunai in the air with another to make it change direction. It hit a target, but one about a 4 yards away.

"Here Sakura-chan, this is how I do it." Naruto and Sasuke took a break to come and watch her. But Naruto couldn't seem to resist and grabbed a few kunai from her.

He tried a similar technique and missed as well. Sakura raised her eyebrow at him. Naruto scratched the back of his head and looked a little confused. He tried again and this time the kunai stuck right at the edge of the target.

Sakura tried to mimic his technique only to get about the same accuracy as him.

"Don't teach her such a clumsy move baka." Sasuke said while swiping a few kunai from Sakura. "Here do it like this." His movements were so fast she completely missed what he did because she hadn't realized that she needed to watch him. Although when she hopped a branch over she saw Sasuke's kunai sticking straight out from the middle.

"Ermm…" Sakura just looked at him. Sasuke did it again but a little slower and was somehow still able to knock his first kunai out of the way. He acted like Sakura was slow and it earned him a glare. Sasuke quickly handed the kunai back to her.

Kakashi, who had looked deeply asleep a few minutes before in a branch a few trees away and above them, was watching the little display. Sakura tried a few more times with limited success before Kakashi came down to them and stood behind her.

Without a word he took her wrists in his hands. She had a kunai ready in each hand as he started to move her.

This sucks…really really bad. He smells good…no, concentrate!

Sakura squirmed inwardly and dared not look at Sasuke or Naruto. When Kakashi yelled to let go of the kunai as he swung her arms she did. A satisfying plunk was heard and she leapt away to get a good look. The kunai was stuck next to Sasuke's. She went back to her original branch to try it for herself.

She performed the exact same movements and this time she heard the ping of two kunai clashing. Her kunai had displaced Sasuke's. Sakura turned with a smile on her face towards the other three who had moved to a near by branch to give her room.

Kakashi had his arms crossed; his exposed eye was looking to the side at both Naruto and Sasuke. Sakura's heart dropped as she looked between them.

"I think that's enough training for today…" Naruto and Sasuke were gone before Kakashi could tell them their next session.

He looked back to Sakura but she avoided his gaze as she quickly retrieved every visible kunai and target; shoving them hurriedly into her bag. Kakashi jumped down to the ground beside her as she picked up the last kunai.

"I have to go back to the hospital." She said without looking at him and disappeared.

Kakashi hesitated for a second. He held onto a kunai he found before putting into his pouch along with his other ones. He had two of her kunais to give back now. He only waited a moment longer before disappearing as well.

Ino had a firm grip on Sakura's arm as she pulled the struggling pink haired kunoichi out of the hospital.

"No refusing! It's been more than a week since I've seen you! You're acting so weird lately…" Ino said yanking Sakura next to her side. "We are going out drinking! Besides Asuma-sensei said he'd buy me a drink."

"Only because he wants to watch your intake. Remember last time…"

"Oh shut up! We had fun didn't we? Why are you acting so weird anyways?" Her friend asked with a concerned look.

Oh it's only the little matter of my two best friends at their sensei's throat…

"I've been skipping training to practice with Tsunade-sama and do some more rounds instead. If Kakashi-sensei sees me out drinking…"

"It's nine o'clock! Like he'd expect you to be still be there. Besides I'm sure he's not going to drag you off as soon as he sees you to do some training..." Ino lead them through a series of streets and alleys before coming down the one where none of the shops seemed to have names.

I wish he would drag me off, I haven't seen him in days…

As they neared the lit doorway of the bar Sakura had to spill a little bit of what she was feeling and what had happened to her over the past week.

"Ino, um, can I ask you to do something for me?" Her tone made Ino turn and stop.

"Like…?"

"If for some strange-"

And horrible…

"-reason you see Naruto and/or Sasuke, could you tell me so that I can hide?" Sakura bit her lip at the look on Ino's face.

"What?"

"I just, you know…don't really want to talk to them right now is all. They're acting kinda funny and uuh…" She trailed off not really knowing how much to say about the topic.

Their first training session after having seen Sakura and Kakashi hadn't been all that bad in Sakura's opinion. Although extremely uncomfortable, she hadn't expected it to escalate so quickly.

Their next training session a day later had not been pleasant. Naruto practically forced Kakashi into a match. Sakura's punch to Naruto's face practically slammed him through the ground but had quickly stopped any further thoughts of challenges against Kakashi.

But it also clearly marked her standing on the matter. And neither the boys nor Kakashi seemed happy with her after that. Sasuke hauled Naruto to his feet before disappearing, not wanting to be under Sakura's glare, or fist for that matter.

Kakashi hadn't said a word about it, just looked at her for a long moment before disappearing as well. Thinking about it all made Sakura squirm inside. She regretted hitting Naruto in true anger but hated the fact that she felt the need to protect Kakashi.

Which is ridiculous, like Naruto would have been able to lay a finger on him…

Still, she had stopped a fight that she was sure wouldn't have been pretty. But it hadn't really helped anything either. But she didn't think throwing herself in front of Kakashi would work more than a few times. If that.

Sakura drew her thoughts away from the previous day's events to find Ino contemplating her.

"I have to ask again…What? Usually you guys are always together when they're home." Ino was looking at her quizzically now.

Crap I'm gonna spill it all, I know it. Better keep at least the fighting thing to myself though…here we go. Er, and the whole wanting to be with my Sensei thing as well…

"Well okay. Naruto kissed me. And I mean really kissed me, like, tongue halfway down my throat…" Ino screwed up her face in a look of disgust. Sakura ignored this and plowed ahead. "Then Sasuke offered to um…be with me." Sakura raised her eyebrow at 'be' so that Ino would get her meaning.

Ino blink a few times before squealing loud enough to make Sakura want to slap her.

"Holy shit! Sakura! I'm so happy! Now tell me all the dirty little details. No wonder I haven't seen you for a while…"

From the horrified look on Sakura's face Ino got the impression she didn't take him up on his offer.

"You refused Uchiha Sasuke's bed. What the fuck were thinking? Sakura how many times have you asked him-"

"Ino! You're not getting it. I don't want him, either of them! I'm not interested anymore. So-" She continued quickly as Ino opened her mouth again. "-if you see them. Just tell me and I'll run away like the big coward I am. Okay?"

"Yeah, like the big-stupid-girl-who-refused-The-Uchiha's-bed-insane-coward-"

"INO!"

"Fine! I'll tell you. But you owe me a drink now." Ino said smiling and giving Sakura a reassuring hug.

Sakura sighed with the relief of telling another person and that her friend was helping her.

"But you also have to tell me your secret for getting him to ask you into his bed…" Sakura shoved Ino away and marched into the bar.

Sakura walked back toward her apartment at a crawl. She walked the streets like a civilian and cursed Tsunade for keeping her at the hospital so late. At the same time she blessed and thanked her profusely in her head because she refused to see her team mates or go to training with them.

Not that it had been a problem seeing as no one had come to find her. Not that she could blame them either. Sakura thought she'd truly fucked things up this time and still couldn't see a way to make it better or at least stop what had been happening. If for only a moment so that she could catch her circling thoughts and tie them down.

Sighing she turned down another street and groaned as she realized there was still at least a block between herself and her bed.

Big, warm, soft, bed…Maybe I should use just a little chakra to clear the distance faster…

She almost missed the presence coming behind as she contemplated draining herself further just to get to her bed a few seconds sooner.

She turned to find Naruto hopping down from a roof looking extremely well without a mark on his face from her punch not a few days previous.

Bastard…At least he came to see me…I should probably apologize. For what? He shouldn't be doing this anyways. Why can't they just leave us alone?

The 'us' made Sakura completely stop thinking. An awful feeling crept over her body as she realized it had come to that. Them and us. Two different groups in opposition.

"Sakura-chan, can we talk for a second? If you're up to it…" Naruto trailed off as he reached her. She just nodded and continued to walk toward her apartment.

Naruto was unnaturally quiet and still, even though he was moving. None of his movements had their usual extravagant gestures to convey his hyper personality.

"Sorry I punched you so hard Naruto, it probably wasn't necessary…" Sakura began wondering how she could either make him leave as quickly as possible or tell him to knock off whatever he and Sasuke thought they were up to.

"Yeah, you did hit me really hard. I think you cracked my cheekbone but…" Then he hesitated as they stopped at the stairs leading to her apartment.

She turned to him waiting for him to continue. His facial expression was extremely strange as he looked down at her. It made her frown slightly; for once she couldn't tell exactly what was on his mind.

Then her eyes opened wide in shock as he grabbed her behind the back and yanked her forward until their bodies bumped.

"Naruto what the hell do you-" His mouth on hers stopped any question or threat that might have been issued.

She shoved her hands against his chest as his tongue slipped into her surprised mouth. She gave a squeak as he almost growled into her mouth. Then a very strange sensation ran up and down the front of her body. It was worse where her palms lay flat against his chest.

She could feel is chakra almost dripping off him as he tried to engage her tongue. It would have been an interesting sensation to dwell upon if the circumstances had been different.

His arms stayed around her shoulders and low back but he didn't try to touch her in any other way. He just gripped her as his head and mouth forced her neck to bend back.

As she squeezed her eyes shut he let his tongue work at her mouth. This lasted a few moments before she finally gathered enough of her wits to push back with equal force to kiss him. This seemed to surprise him because his incredible gripped loosened. Sakura took the chance to draw her mouth back and at least push her upper body away from him.

"Naruto…" She said shakily not believing what he was doing. "You should let go of me now." This was hardly said in a firm voice but as she stared him in the eyes he looked away.

"Sakura please…"

"No! Naruto, it's just… no." The last part was said with a sad sigh as he released her. He stared at her as she panted a little with fear, excitement, and anxiety but still with the sadness. Then he turned and left without another word.

Her encounter with Sasuke two days later had been even worse. She had definitely been avoiding all of them with extreme concentration after the incident with Naruto but she wasn't impossible to track down either. If anyone really wanted to find her they could either wait outside her apartment or the hospital and have a pretty good chance of at least catching sight of her.

"Sakura." Sakura spun around her heart hammering in her chest at being snuck up on.

"Sasuke!" He stood almost directly behind her looking more dark and broody than normal. She noticed a sizable bruise forming on his bare forearm but failed to question him outright.

I wonder what he wants. I wonder if he got that bruise during training…usually Naruto isn't able to hurt him that much. They try not to hurt each other if I'm not around as well. I can tell he has bruises in other places by the way he's holding his body. His breathing his funny too…

It wasn't yet sun down, but still, Sakura hadn't used that much chakra today at the hospital and she didn't like the fact that he felt the need to sneak up on her like that.

"I have to talk to you." Everyone seemed to want to have a word with her lately. "But not here. Come with me for a while. That is, if you're leaving the hospital now." He fixed her with his dark gaze and she felt something crawl over her skin again.

But she couldn't think of a reason to tell him to get lost. He hadn't done anything outright in front of her like Naruto had. Plus he was hurt and she hated seeing any of them in pain, so she followed behind him as he turned without waiting for an answer.

They walked for a few minutes before Sasuke started to lead them across the roof tops towards the direction of the Uchiha household.

Sakura failed to notice this since she couldn't help but gage his injuries from his awkward and lurching jumps.

When they did reach his street and landed in front of the wall that marked his household she stopped.

"Sasuke, what do you want?" She kept her voice flat because she didn't know what to do anymore.

"I have wounds. I was wondering if you'd look at them."

"I could have looked at them in the hospital, we were right there…"

"I know. I don't like I tin there, you know that. I have supplies inside. I just wanted you to look. You never had to heal me in the hospital before-" He said this as if she couldn't perform her skill for some reason now.

"Fine. Inside." She walked past him into the yard and then waited for him to lead her through the front door and entry way.

They made their way down the hall and into the kitchen where Sasuke took a seat at the table; hardly giving away that it was uncomfortable to bend in that way. He quickly stripped off his shirt and waited for her to come closer.

Her breath caught in her throat. His chest and back were heavily bruised and it looked like he might have received a cracked rib or two along his sides.

She knelt down on the floor to rest on her knees while she pressed her hands to his side. His eyes closed reflexively as she mended his rib and eased the pain in his healing tissues.

She sought out the last rib by leaning over to his right side. As the bone slid back to it's normal shape and position he grabbed her by the upper arms and hauled her into his lap.

Not good!

She held her body stiff and immobile as he tried to seat her across his lap. She didn't comply but glared him full in the face.

"Feeling better now?" It came out more hiss-like than anything. His face didn't show any emotion as he nodded in affirmation.

She waited for him to say something as her thigh and hip were painfully pressed up against his knees.

"Come to bed with me Sakura." She blinked slowly as her body seemed to relax against her will. Taking this as a good sign Sasuke yanked her again. Bringing her legs over his so she straddled his thighs on the chair.

Sasuke was offering to be with her. It didn't, in the least, sound like a forever together, but this was the boy she'd been in love with for most of her young adulthood. It was shocking, almost appealing and frightening.

When she didn't refuse or make any move to raise a hand against him he pushed her more.

"Sakura, you want this, experience it with me. I will make it pleasurable for you, something that most women don't get a chance at. I can do this, you know I can…"He searched her eyes for rejection.

She was frowning but again she didn't refuse him so he kept going. His sharingan bleeding his eyes to red began to swirl as he stared at her. Her heart leapt into her throat because she knew what was coming. She'd only experienced it briefly once before but the expectation of it was killing her will.

Then an enormous feeling began to swirl like the sharingan was but in her stomach and then reached lower.

She felt the pull of his eyes, but she felt another pull as well. Another sharingan looked into her eyes and then closed in a half moon as he smiled.

Jerking herself away from him she stood and then let her arm fly swiftly into his healing side. A crack resounded through his kitchen as he curled up around himself. But he made no move to block or retaliate.

"Sasuke, I told you the last time…don't ever use that on me again without my permission." His jaw clenched as he straightened up.

"Sakura…I was wrong in rejecting you for so long. Don't be with-"

"Enough!"

Kakashi hadn't turned up at the bar yet. But both Ino and Sakura had found seats with Raidou, Genma, and Asuma.

"Sakuraaaaa, can you get me that drink now?" Ino said leaning into her.

"Ino, the drink I owed you was the first one you had. And it was only a half an hour ago!" Ino pouted but Sakura wasn't going to give in. "No! Plus you're not doing your job very well…"

It was true. Ino had been deliberately hitting on Genma the whole time while Asuma glared at Genma warningly.

"He's here! Where?" Ino stood up and looked around quickly for Sasuke.

"NO! Just forget about it." Sakura hauled her back down into her seat.

"Who are you on the look out for Ino-chan?" Genma asked noticing Sakura's urgency.

"Oh, um, none of your business." Ino said but gave her full attention back to him. Sakura gave herself a mental slap to the head.

"Will you tell me if I buy you drinks for the rest of the night?" Genma said eagerly.

"I'm watching out for Sasuke and Naruto because Sakura doesn't want to see them." Ino breathed out in an excited rush. Sakura laid her face in her hands before both Genma and Raidou gave each other a look.

"What for?" Asuma asked.

"Well they've both been making moves on her and she's been turning them down. Can you believe it? She turned down Sasuke's bed! What will power, I'm actually quite impressed…You know I heard he does this thing with his sharinga-"

An ominous crack was heard as Sakura's fist clenched on the table. Ino gulped and looked at her friend.

"But, free drinks Sakura…" Another crack as she put her other fist on the table top. "I'm going to the bathroom." Ino said standing up hurriedly once more.

"I can just follow you in there." Sakura said quietly. She was contemplating on how much of a scene she would make if she took Ino outside and beat the crap out of her.

"I'm going to the boy's bathroom." She left quickly without looking back. No one said anything.

"Look, uh, Hatake is here." Asuma said trying to break the complete silence at the table.

Sakura turned her humiliated face towards the back of the bar. He must have come in through the alleyway since she hadn't seen him come in through the front. He caught her eye but had to stop as another nin pulled him over to chat.

"I'm leaving."

Kakashi turned back in time to see her getting up from the table and heading out the door. He thought about following her but decided to see what was happening first.

"Yo." He said in greeting. Neither Genma nor Raidou looked at him. Instead they gave each other another glance. "What?" When neither of them offered an explanation of Sakura's quick absence he turned to Asuma. "Tell me."

"Ino was at it again. She let slip that your other two students have been coming on to Sakura a lot or something…" But he trailed off at the look on Genma's face.

"What else?" This time he directed his question only at Genma. He knew Genma and Raidou were aware of the situation he was in.

"Not much, Sakura just threatened Ino and then when she saw you come in she said she was leaving. She wasn't really that upset or anything, just embarrassed." Genma said evenly.

"Actually Ino's exact words were 'She turned down Sasuke's bed'." Raidou added helpfully.

"And you always accuse me of saying stupid things…" Genma mumbled.

Sakura was hopping quickly across a rooftop two blocks away before Kakashi caught up with her.

"Sakura wait." She didn't. "Stop." She didn't do that either. "I said stop." He cut in front of her and put his hands on her shoulders.

"What?" She said staring up at him. It was hard to ignore him when he was touching her and standing close enough for her to smell him.

"I told you to wait for me." She clenched her jaw but refused to say anything on the basis that it wasn't a question. "Are you all right?" He said taking that half step closer so their bodies almost touched.

Damn him, now I have to answer, just don't touch him too much, maybe take a step back…yeah that's a good idea.

Her hands came up on their own and gripped his forearms. She swore at herself in her head.

"I'm fine. Ino's just being her stupid drunk self…" She didn't look at his face but stared at his vest and shirt instead. It didn't really help her think.

"I heard. Sasuke and Naruto are trying to get you to go out with them?" She blinked in surprise that he would actually ask. Before he didn't seem to care who was coming on to her.

"Not exactly, Sasuke asked me to come to his bed-" His hands gripped her shoulders. "-but I didn't! Ow." He loosened his grip. "Don't worry, it's nothing I can't handle. He's persistent but…" She trailed off regretting saying anything and wishing she had just kept this all bottled up like she usually did.

Kakashi let his hands drop from her shoulders as he turned his head a little to right like he was thinking. He seemed to make up his mind as he turned away from whatever had been holding his attention.

"I want to kiss you." He said pulling his mask down to his chin.

"What! Right now? Here?" He gave a quick nod and grabbed the back of her neck. Pulling her up a little to meet him as he pressed his lips against hers.

Sakura thought her head might explode but as her clenched fists un-tightened and his soft lips grazed over hers she couldn't help but give in. Although it wasn't a hard choice since it was what she'd been wanting.

He licked her bottom lip, asking for entrance. It made her moan and grab the front of his vest while opening her mouth. His tongue met hers quickly and teased it into his own mouth. Her legs felt weak as he sucked on her tongue. He wrapped his other arm across her low back to keep her standing.

He tasted wonderful. She'd never experienced that kissing anyone else. Not even Sasuke who she had thought tasted pretty good with sake strong in his mouth when they had kissed when she was younger.

She had the urge to gulp him down as his tongue pushed hers roughly back into her own mouth. Her body was screaming at her for one thing while her mind screamed for her stop and think about what was happening.

She broke the kiss and pushed him back. His face was well illuminated by the street lamps and she so desperately wanted to see what she was kissing. His face was smooth and without any scarring below his mask line that she could see. His jaw line was just strong enough to be masculine while his lips were just full enough without looking feminine.

Sakura thought he could quite possibly be the best looking man she had ever seen. It hadn't exactly hit her when she had seen him in the restaurant, maybe because he had been shoving food into his face.

His hands fell back to his sides as he waited for her to say something. Sakura wasn't sure what to do.

WHY DID YOU MAKE HIM STOP? Ask him to come home with you! NO! That would be a bad idea…or maybe a really good one.

"I have to be at the hospital early tomorrow to release a patient." It was the truth but she hadn't meant to say exactly that.

"Alright. Kiss goodnight then?" The way his mouth moved as he talked fascinated her to no end. She wanted to kiss him while he talked to her.

"Yes. But just a small one." She pressed her palms to his cheeks as she stepped back into him. Their lips met chastely but then opened quickly.

Kakashi pulled back a little as she pulled down his mask further to get a look at his upper neck.

"This isn't really a quick kiss…" She made him grunt as she bit his bottom lip before soothing it with a quick swipe of her tongue. He pulled up her shirt a little as he pressed his fingers into the soft skin of her waist.

This brought a noise from her mouth that made him grip her tighter and work their tongues harder. This time he pushed her back and yanked his head up to stop the kiss.

"You should get some sleep if you have to wake up early." His breathing was hard and he gulped.

You mean try to get some sleep…

Sakura just nodded and took another step away from him. Kakashi dragged his mask back into place and ran his hand through his hair.

" 'Night Kakashi."

"Goodnight Sakura." She turned and left with a huge smile spread across her face.

He gulped again as he lingered on the sweet taste of her mouth and the drink she'd had earlier. He waited a minute, checking to see if whoever else had been near by was still there. They weren't so he left before the urge to go after her overwhelmed him.

Updated: 10/5/05 Because I've gotten a few e-mails and at least one review of people saying they don't understand what the hell is going on. See LJ link on my bio for more info.

Also I think I should rename this LONGEST F'ING CHAPTER EVER. With that said…please review and let me know if this is better.

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