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Harada Risa

Jemiul

Shadow Vixen

Koruyuu

Kakashi Idiot

Silver soulless

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Sakura stirred and groggily opened her eyes. They met with blaring red numbers that showed 3:45. "Urng…" 'How did I get back in my bed?' was her last thought before she fell asleep again.

The next morning she woke to the sunlight shining onto her face. After she had brushed her teeth and her body had started to adjust to being awake the kunoichi went through her schedule.

First she'd have to go to the hospital, then in the afternoon she'd go train and work on some taijutsu and her chakra control. She decided to look for Naruto to spar. It'd been a week since she last saw him and frankly she missed him.

With that in mind she bound her chest and put on a form-fitting dark blue long-sleeved shirt with her black spandex shorts.

At 1:00 the cherry blossom stepped out of the hospital and stretched her back out. Today was a relatively easy work day not seeing too many injured ninja as of late. It hadn't been quite as busy since the defeat of Orochimaru two years ago.

Orochimaru had finally invaded Konoha and Tsunade had taken him down. She had been there. It had broke her heart to see Naruto fighting Sasuke but in the end Sasuke had come to his senses. The crazed look in his eyes when they had been fighting still haunted her sometimes but he seemed content and that gave her peace.

During the fight she had been with Ino and Hinata. They were fighting against sound nin and it was uncomfortably close. As a matter of fact if Lee and neji hadn't showed up things might've made a turn for the worse. This was one of the things that made her work harder and got her where she was today.

When she arrived at Naruto's apartment she knocked once then twice. After 5 minutes of waiting she decided to go check and see if he was at the ramen shop.

She was disappointed when she found the table empty and decided to eat lunch there anyways. No point in starving herself looking for him. Satisfied after eating her miso, pork ramen she paid the cook and decided to just go to the forest and hope someone would be there.

To her chagrin she found no one and sighed in exasperation. "Argh! You'd think someone would be here!" She yelped in surprise when she heard a deep voice behind her.

"Yo" the silver-haired jounin said smirking down at her from behind his book.

Sakura jumped back and turned around frantically. "Kakashi sensei you hentai! Don't do that, you almost gave me a heart attack!" exclaimed sakura clutching her chest.

He laughed sheepishly. "Sorry, habit.

Sakura snorted then smiled. "That's ok. You just surprised me. I didn't know anyone else was here.. "

Kakashi cast a curious look at her. "What brings you here?"

"Well, I was looking for Naruto to spar with and I couldn't find him. So I finally decided to come by myself. I wasted a whole hour looking for him too." She grumbled.

Kakashi was silent for a moment looking thoughtful. Then closed his book. "Do you still want to spar?"

"Yea, that'd be great!" exclaimed Sakura. "Are you sure you don't have anything to do though?"

"Hmm.. well I was enjoying my time alone but I get the feeling I wouldn't be able to read in peace anyhow.

Sakura giggled and nodded her head. "You got that right. We can't have you slacking off now."

Kakashi smirked. "I don't know Sakura-chan. How is fighting a little girl like you going to keep me in shape?"

Inner Sakura spouted flames in the backround. 'Are we just going to take that from him! Let's show him what this little girl can do.' "Alright copy ninja Kakashi. I'm going to make you swallow those words!"

With that Sakura charged at him head on with a kunai in her hands.

'What is she doing? She should know better than to take him straight on.' Kakashi easily dodged her attack and did a sweep kick at her feet. She pushed off the ground with her hand and threw her kunai at him. He vanished and reappeared behind her holding her arms behind her back.

"Is that all you got?." He teased.

Sakura smirked and vanished in a puff of smoke.

'A shadow clone.' Suddenly he felt a hand drag him underground. He jumped free and looked up just in time to see Sakura making a downwards kick at his head.

They continued to block, hit and dodge. 'Crap if we continue to go on like this I'm going to lose.

Sakura sent a kick to his side then aimed a punch at his face. As he grabbed her hand she used the momentum to propel herself over his head and used her kunai to cut the swire above them that triggered a trap.

Kakashi quickly let her go and performed a substitution jutsu and in place of him was a log with 6 throwing stars imbedded in it.

Sakura quickly performed a couple of complicated seals and in an instant the air was surrounded in a shroud of thick mist. She knew this would only last a while so she hid in a row of thick bushes to catch her breath.

A moment later the mist disappeared and she saw Kakashi standing in the open looking around. 'This looks too easy' she thought suspiciously. She sent a clone out to distract him while she performed another set of seals.

She sped out of her hiding spot just in time to dodge Kakashi's attack. 'She looked to see that the other Kakashi had disappeared along with her clone. As he was about to hit her she jumped up out of the way.

"Fire bird jutsu!" His eyes widened as he attempted to block the

Inner Sakura pumped her fist into the air. 'Yea take that you old man!' Sakura frowned when she realized something was wrong. Why wasn't he moving? He couldn't be dead…. Could he?

'Oh my god, oh my god… she could see the headlines now. Copy ninja Kakashi killed by ex-student. "Noo!" She was so busy panicking she didn't register when the body disappeared and she was tackled from behind.

"I win." He whispered in her ear. He was impressed by her skill. He'd like to think it was partly because of him. There were a few times that she'd caught him off guard. That last attack was especially close. He was proud of her.

"Wait, what? Sensei you're alive!" as if she'd just noticed he was there.

The masked ninja watched her in amusement. "You thought you killed me?"

The cherry blossom blushed in embarrassment. "Well I.. that is to say.. no?"

"Really?" he drawled.

"Yes really. Now let me up, you're hurting my arm." She demanded as she squirmed in his grasp.

She gasped when she found herself face to face with her former sensei. "better?" he smirked.

It then dawned on her just how awkward their position was. She was trying to fight down the blush she felt coming on. "Kakashi-sensei…" He had a strange look on his face and his eyes were clouded over.

Being so close to him she couldn't help but notice how handsome he was. The blush she was fighting came full force turning her face a bright cherry red. 'What am I thinking! He's my sensei!' 'not anymore he's not' smirked inner Sakura. 'doesn't he look hot? The way his sweat had plastered his shirt to the planes of his chest she liked what she saw.

Kakashi found himself staring at the cherry blossom. She was so adorable when she got flustered. He looked down at her parted lips and wondered how soft they would be. His eyes were drawn to her emerald green eyes and found himself unable to look away. She smelled like cherries.

He suddenly had the urge to touch her when she called his name. He quickly snapped out of his trance and shook his head. 'She's too young for you Kakashi, besides she doesn't even think of you like that' He sighed.

Slowly her got up and immediately missed her soft warmth. The sun was already almost out of site sinking beneath the trees. He offered her a hand and pulled her up. Both of them felt a spark at the contact and quickly let go.

'What was that' she wondered looking at her hand. 'I wonder if Kakashi-sensei felt that…'

The older jounin took out his Icha Icha Paradise and tried to look nonchalant. He knew what that was and didn't like it one bit. 'What's wrong with me.' He internally growled. '

I have to get away from her and soon. How is it that this girl could affect him so much.' Sure she was beautiful, intelligent, kind, loyal… what was point again?' Argh! He felt like pulling his hair out.

Sakura wondered what he was thinking about. Not that this was any different than normal but she swore that his eyes were burning a hole in that one specific spot. 'Must be a good part or something.' She shivered at that thought. 'Stupid pervert, ignore me will he?'

Deciding that she'd had enough she walked up to him and attempted to snatch his book away. Whether he saw it coming or out of pure reflex he ducked under her arm and walked in front of her.

"Coming?" He asked. Leaving a fuming kunoichi in his wake. If looks could kill Kakashi would've been struck down on the spot.

The walk back to town was relatively peaceful. Besides the occasional muttering of idiot and hentai from Sakura.

Kakashi turned back to look when he didn't feel her walking behind him. He had been so engrossed in his thoughts he hadn't noticed that he had passed her house.

Looking up at him she smiled. "I guess I'll see you soon."

"Tomorrow." He said.

Her brow scrunched in confusion. "Tomorrow… oh! Our mission" she slapped her head.

"Don't tell me you forgot." His tone concerned. Sakura was usually the one who reminded him, Sasuke and Naruto of their missions together. It wasn't like her to forget.

"Sorry sensei. I've just been kind of busy lately with training and working." She grinned. "Nothing I can't handle."

"Alright. Just don't overwork yourself. We can't have one of our best medic nins not taking care of herself. That'd be a little hypocritical ne?"

She blushed at his compliment. I'm really not that good" she said. 'That's right I am!' inner Sakura boasted. "Well I should get going if we have a mission tomorrow." She scrunched up her nose. "I still need to shower. I stink…"

Kakashi chuckled involuntarily sending a shiver down her back. "I'll see you tomorrow morning at 8:00."

Smirking she said "I'll be there by 10:00 then." For the six years she'd known him not once had he been on time and she highly doubted that tomorrow would be any different. "Will Sasuke and Naruto be there?" She hadn't seen them around lately and wasn't sure if they were on a mission or something. They hadn't said anything though.

He shrugged. "Aren't they always?" That was true. They've never let her down before so she didn't prod the subject further. Kakashi's eyes widened when Sakura ran up and hugged him and he had to admit it felt good. Not that he would.

A moment later she let go and ran back to her door laughing happily and said goodnight. Before she could close the door Kakashi was in front of her and embraced her tightly.

"Oh and Sakura.." "Hmm?" she looked up. "This time try not to fall asleep outside. You never know what might happen." That said the copy nin disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Leaving her in a daze.

In the next chapter Kakashi gets wounded! I'm so excited I've been thinking about this all day. I hope I can write it out though…