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Chapter 3

Ever since the conversation with Mayu, Sakura had been observing her sensei and Mayu, and following Mayu's advice. But so far Sasuke still acted indifferent towards her. 'Mayu's advice may have been cruddy, but at least she tried to help.' thought Sakura. From her observations of her sensei and Mayu, she started to think that they secretly liked each other, but neither one of them had the courage to say anything. So Sakura decided to try to hook them up. Though she didn't know if she could do it herself. So she went to ask Naruto and Sasuke for help.

But both boys thought it was a stupid idea. Sasuke said, "The sensei's personal life is none of our business."

"Yeah, what he said." agreed Naruto. But the only reason Naruto agreed with Sasuke was because he had developed a little crush on Mayu.

He remembered their conversation the night before over ramen. They were just talking to get to know each other a little better. From what he knew of Mayu so far, Naruto was beginning to think that Mayu was the perfect woman for him. But of course being Naruto, he ended up embarrassing himself. At the point of their conversation when Mayu told him that one of her favorite foods was ramen, he found himself suddenly blurting out "Marry me." His face turned bright red when he realized what he said.

Mayu just giggled and said to him, "Sorry kid, but you're too young for me. But you are cute though. If I'm still single when you come of age, I might look you up. Note: the keyword there is "might." I'm not the type of girl who will wait around forever. But don't give up. I'm sure there's a nice girl your age out there for you."

So in Naruto's mind, as long Mayu stayed single, he would have a chance with her. He felt that she was his only hope, because he was beginning to give up of hope of ever winning Sakura's heart.

"Please guys." Sakura begged. "It might make the sensei happy. Have you seen the way he looks at her?"

"Like he wants to ninjutsu her into next week." said Naruto.

"Yeah, that what it looks like to me too." said Sasuke.

"You guys are so dense!" said Sakura irritably. "Fine, if you won't help me, then I'll do it myself."

Then she stomped off. As she did Naruto felt some mixed emotions. Part of him wanted her to fail, but another part of him wanted her to succeed. It appeared that even with his new crush on Mayu, he still had a thing for Sakura.

That night, Sakura made preparations for her plan. The next day when the sensei finally arrived for training, Sakura handed a note to him.

"I found this note addressed to you sensei." she told him.

"Thank you, Sakura."

Then Kakashi opened the note and read it to himself.

Meet me at the hill with the best view of the sunset at sundown. I need to come out and tell you how I feel.

Love,

Your Secret Admirer

'I have a secret admirer!' thought Kakashi. 'Guess I've have to find out who it is tonight. I just hope it's not a trap. But I can take it if it's a prank though.'

"What's the note say Sensei?" asked Naruto.

"Nothing.", responded Kakashi as he put the note in his pocket. "Now on with training."

But Naruto couldn't help but think there was something fishy about the note. So he spent the whole training session trying to figure out how to get the note from Kakashi, and of course he failed miserablely.

After training was complete for the day, Sakura went to visit Mayu at her tent. At the time Mayu was about to leave to meet Kakashi for a sparing session.

"Here Mayu, someone asked me to give you this note."

"Who's it from?"

"I'm not allowed to tell."

Then Sakura took off. Mayu opened the note and read it.

An hour after the sparing session, Mayu waited on the hill for this Secret Admirer to show up. For the past hour, she had been trying to figure who it is. So far the only guys she knew here were Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, and Iruka. (She met Iruka that night at the ramen stand with Naruto. Lucky for Naruto, Iruka didn't show up until after Naruto embarrassed himself.) 'It could be anyone of those 4.' she thought. But whoever it was, he sure was running late. After another 10 minutes of waiting, Mayu was about to give up and go back to her tent when Kakashi arrived.

"Were you the one who sent me the note?" she asked him.

"What are you talking about." he asked.

"This.", said Mayu as she pulled out her note and showed it to him. Then he pulled out his and showed it to her.

"Did you get yours from a certain pink-haired ninja?" Mayu asked.

"Now, I think I know what's going on here." said Kakashi.

"Yeah, me too." said Mayu and they just burst out laughing.

"What was she thinking?" asked Kakashi after they finally stopped laughing.

"I say we get her back for this." said Mayu as she grinned evilly.

"Now Mayu, that would be immature and childish." said Kakashi. "So what's your plan?"

"Well…" said Mayu as she looked around to make sure no one else was around. Once she was sure she whispered the plan to Kakashi.