Long time no update, huh? Sorry, I got involved in the other fic I'm writing for Naruto. And of course it involves everyone's favorite Pervert Ninja, Kakashi. Yes it is posted, but I don't think it's as good as this one, but I love the plot anyway. Oh well, onward to the shout outs! I have another for silverprincess0001 and to a new reviewer, Princess Shadowcat. Do you two know each other? Anyway many thanks for the reviews, very much appreciated. Now that's over with, snuggle with your Kakashi dolls and read about some more history between Kakashi and Lain.

Special note- I know everyone has their different ideas on how Kakashi acts and possible how he interacts with women, hence all the fics with him. So I would like to say to remember this when reading this chapter. You have to realize that Kakashi and Lian have a very playful romantic relationship, so please don't send in reviews yelling at me for how I had written this chapter. If you really didn't like it or found it offensive, then please personally e-mail me of your complaints. Thanks in advance.

Chapter Twelve

Naruto yawned as he rubbed his eyes, trying to wake up from his long night sleep. Squinting to survey the land, he noticed that Sasuke and Sakura were still asleep next to him. With another big yawn, he looked to see if Kakashi and Lian were up yet. Two folded up blankets laid were they slept and Lian's swords were nowhere to be seen. Naruto scanned the meadow; either Lian or Kakashi could be heard or seen.

Crash... bang... whoosh... the sounds of fighting rang through the air, it grew so loud that even Sakura and Sasuke were awaken.

"What's going on... are we being attacked?" Sakura ask half asleep, half frighten.

"No, but Kakashi Sensei and Lian might be," Naruto pointed to where the noise were coming from.

"Then we should go," Sasuke trailed off as he vanished into the woods.

"HEY! Don't you dare hog all the action Sasuke," Naruto yelled in frustration.

Angrily, he jumped from underneath his blankets, right after Sasuke.

"Hey, what about me!?" Sakura hurried into the woods.

Naruto jumped and weave through the heavy foliage of trees, growing ever closer to the sounds of struggling. The trees opened up to a small grassland area that was covered with waist high brown grass and a few large boulders projecting out in random places.

"I don't see anyone... not even Sensei or Lain are visible," Naruto put his hand above his eyes.

Even the sounds had stopped.

"AGG!" Two voices cut through the silence and made the three ninjas jump in surprise.

Two figures came running from opposite sides of the field towards one another.

"Is... is that Kakashi Sensei and Lian?" Sakura asked in confusion.

The two met in the middle of the field, their hands locked together, both pushing as hard as they could.

"Oh no! Lian still must mad about yesterday," Sakura started to run out to the figures.

"No, let them sort it out," Sasuke said coldly.

"But..." Sakura looked on as Kakashi was being pushed back by Lian.

Man, she's a lot stronger than I remember, Kakashi thought as he tried to keep his balance.

Lian's delicate lips curled into a smug smile, "you had enough yet?"

"No... Not really," Kakashi happily answered.

Gripping tighter, he pulled Lian towards him; she was caught off guard and fell right into his chest. He flipped her around in his arms so that her back was to his chest and her arms were crisscrossed across her chest.

"You had enough," Kakashi taunted.

Lian merely turned her head back to him, "no... not really."

She pulled her right arm from his grip and the next thing Kakashi knew was that he was flying into in the air. He was able to right himself before he hit the ground; he looked up to find Lian coming through the air, her hands formed a solid fist above her head. Dodging to the left, Kakashi just missed being crushed under Lian's heavy blow. Dirt, grass and small bits of rock flung into air as Lian's fist made contact with the earth.

"Jeez," Kakashi could only gasp out.

Quickly, Lian grabbed Kakashi and lifted him above her head.

"Stop Lian! I know your angry, but please don't hurt Kakashi Sensei," Sakura came running up.

Hurt him? "What are you talking about," I asked in confusion.

Sakura and Naruto came running up to me, Sasuke slowly following them.

"You nearly crushed him with that last blow and now you have him over your head as if you're going to throw him," Sakura explained hysterically.

Naruto was trying to hold back his laughter, "wow Kakashi Sensei, your being beaten up by a girl."

"You want to be next," I said as I let Kakashi go.

He fell behind me and onto the ground, "ouch," he released in a flat tone.

"Sorry," I said over my shoulder.

"Me too," he said as he pulled my feet from underneath me.

I landed with a hard thud and he got right on top of me, his chin resting on my bosom.

"Do you mind, there are children here," I said as I tried to push him off.

He merely laid his head on my chest, "no, I can't help but fall asleep to the soft rhythm of your heart."

He began to falsely snore as if he had really fallen asleep.

"Umm... guys... you all might want to leave," I warned.

Sakura looked completely dumbfounded, Naruto was red from trying not to laughing and Sasuke was already sneaking away and was red in the face. Sliding my hand under Kakashi's chest, I was trying to pry him off.

"Whoa! Cold hands," he pushed off me.

"Cold hands... warm heart," I retorted. With a sigh, I pushed off the ground, "you want breakfast," I put out my hand.

He grabbed it, "ya that sounds good." Kakashi pulled himself up and wrapped his arm around my waist, "excellent bout my dear Lady Lian."

I giggle, "Yes an excellent way to start the day." We both laughed as we walked back to camp.

It was an hour after breakfast and our group had just started out on the path. Kakashi was walking ahead of the group while Sakura and I brought up the rear, Naruto and Sasuke walked behind Kakashi. The three young ninjas were oddly quiet this morning; expect for Sasuke he was always quiet.

Maybe it was the fight this morning?

I glanced over at Sakura; she seemed to be in deep thought.

"Hey Sakura, you three aren't mad that Kakashi and I were fighting?"

She jerked her head up in surprise, "no! Of course not, whatever happens between you and Kakashi is your own business. If you two want to beat the snot out of each other because you're mad about him..."

I couldn't hold back my laughter, "What? I'm not mad at Kakashi. We were play fighting, just testing to see how each has grown and developed over five years."

"Ya and you still can beat my butt," Kakashi laughed.

"You were holding back, I could tell. Then again you held back five years ago."

He turned around and just stared at me with his one exposed eye. "You held back too from what I recall," his eye soften.

We just stared at one another, not saying a word, but we each knew what each was saying. "HEY! What's going on between you two! What aren't you telling us," Naruto piped in with his usually rudeness.

"Something for when you get older and more mature," Kakashi turned around and started to walk off.

"Like that will ever happen," I heard Sasuke mutter under his breath.

He has a point, I thought as I passed a stunned Naruto.

"So what happed five years? We know how you met, but did you two have a fight or something," Sakura asked as she blushed. I smile with the memory of the little bout between me and Kakashi.

"It wasn't like a real fight per say, it was about..." I started to blush really badly, remembering what Kakashi said that night made me tremble.

"What please tell me," Sakura asked excitedly. I took notice that Naruto and Sasuke had drawn closer to me and Sakura. "You see, two weeks before I had found Kakashi and his companion, I had turned of marriageable age in my clan. Since I was the heir to be leader, my father had died the previous year in a battle, I had to have get a husband right away, much to my dismay. The night of my birthday I proclaimed that if any man wanted me, he would have to fight and conqueror me. You see I had just quote-unquote graduated from the clan's dojo and I was the top student of my class, so I knew how to fight. Well the next day all the high members of the clan brought forth their sons to fight me." I began to laugh as I thought of that day; all those apparently well trained boys couldn't even hold a sword right.

"What does this have to do with Kakashi Sensei," Naruto sounded bored.

"I'm getting there, have patience young grasshopper," I giggled. "Anyway, all the boys lost that day and the next day and so forth. It wasn't long before all the young men in the village were defeated by me. After about a week, I proclaimed to the clan that no man of the village could defeat me and become my husband or leader so I became the leader of the Lotus Blade Clan."

'Young and inexperience, but more powerful then her ancestors before her', that's what the elders said about me.

I looked up into the cloudless sky, my thoughts were entangled with the past that I so long for again.

"So what does this have to do with Kakashi?" Naruto was getting bored.

I sighed and roughly rubbed his head, "patience is a virtue." I brought my hand down and placed it on the hilt of Big Sister. "Well it wasn't a week later when I found Kakashi. You know the basic story, but the part that Kakashi left out was one night before the festival. I don't know how he found out about my decree, but he did. He was still very injured when he challenged me, but he wanted to fight me anyway." I was blushing again, the look of determination and longing, he was as love struck as I was at the time.

"Wait, are you tell us that Kakashi Sensei actually fought for your hand in marriage," Sakura's eyes were glittering.

"You would have to ask him," I nodded in Kakashi's direction.

He stopped and turned around; faint hints of red could be seen on the exposed portion of his face. "It's one of those fights that I really wish that I hadn't lost," he smiled.

Me too... I whispered to myself.

Kakashi looked down to his feet; he could feel his cheeks turning red.

"Oh Kakashi Sensei that's so romantic," Sakura said dreamily.

"So I guess Kakashi lost since you two aren't... umm..." Naruto started.

"Not exactly, it was stopped because his injuries started to bleed badly. The elders said that it was an unfair fight because he was injured so. My honor and his would have been tarnished if the fight was allowed to continue. But to tell you the truth, I was having a hard time keeping up with him." Lian blushed; her cheeks were like little blooming roses. "Every blow, he had an advantage with male strength and years of experience."

"What are you talking about? Your blow weren't easy to block you know and I wasn't much older than you. What, maybe a year or two?" Kakashi scratched his head.

"Kakashi how old are you now? Twenty-three," she asked slyly.

"Ahh... twenty-four... why?"

An evil smirk began to form on her face, "so you were about nineteen, right?"

Kakashi gulped, don't tell you're older than me.

"I was only thirteen when we met. No older than your students are now," she laughed.

Kakashi's eye began to twitch, "thir... thir... thirteen?"

The look on Kakashi's face was priceless as he fall backwards to the ground. I burst out laughing as he hit the ground.

"What? Didn't know you would have been robbing the cradle?"

"Kakashi Sensei? Are you alright?" Sakura finally came enough to her senses to tend to the fallen ninja.

"I'll... be... ok..." he grumbled from his odd position.

One leg was up in the air and I swear his foot was twitching. I wiped the tears away from my eyes, Naruto was dumbfounded and I'm not exactly sure what Sasuke was thinking. Kakashi slowly picked himself up and brushed out some dust and dirt.

"So you really didn't know," I giggled while holding my sides, my injuries were hurting so badly from laughing but I didn't really care.

"...no..." he whimpered.

I walked up to him, "don't worry in Samurai society you would have been marrying me at an appropriate age." I hugged him around the waist.

"It's not that exactly," he looked down to me, "you were thirteen and beating my butt pulp and you were extremely sexy doing it."

I felt a hand move up my butt, didn't think he would be one to do that.

BANG... Kakashi went flying as my sandal made contact with his already red face.

"Pervert..." I angrily whispered as I passed the unmoving body of Kakashi.