Chapter 5

Bright light shown threw Sakura's window as she yawned and stretched in her bed. Her arms reached for her pillow and she snuggled up against it, still half asleep. She suddenly remembered something.

"Ugh," She whimpered has she fluttered her eyes opened and looked at the window. The curtains were shut, but the light was still brightly shining through. She sighed and released her grip from the pillow and brought herself up to a sitting position.

She didn't want to get up, she wanted to lay in her bed for awhile longer. She then realized who she was going to meet. Had she forgotten? Kakashi's always late. She gave a little chuckle as she began to think of the reasons he would be late.

Finally, she got out of her bed and walked to her closet to put some cloths on. Her bright smile shown all the way through putting on her usual red zipper tank with her family symbol on the back. She then put on a pair of black short and her white apron type skirt on over her shorts. The elbow guards came last. She put on her ninja shoe's and then slipped her gloves on. She was at last ready.

She grabbed a few coins and stuck them in her apron before opening the door and leaving. She made sure she locked the door before walking towards the training area.

Walking through the town, she smiled and waved at everyone she saw. She was unusually cheerful this morning. She couldn't seem to stop herself from smiling. The only thing Sakura thought it could be was that she was finally training to become an ANBU with a former ANBU captain, or that she was getting to train with Kakashi, or that she was just going to see Kakashi.

When she got to the training area, her jade eyes widened at the sight. How could this be? The very person she thought would be so late was there before her. Her heart unexpectedly dropped. She felt horrible for making him wait, and she admitted, she was a little upset she wouldn't get to hear one of his infamous excuses.

Kakashi slowly closed his book and put it up in his pouch. His arms crossed and his eye lazily looked up at Sakura. His mask folded as he smiled at her expression, "Surprise?" He scratched the back of his head. "Well, it's about three hours after the time we said to meet, so I figured I might as well make it down here. To my surprise, the kunouchi who's always early… took the place of the jounin who is always late." He gave a little uncharacteristic chuckle.

Sakura closed her mouth and starred at the jounin for a moment or two. She finally blinked and crossed her arms. "Well, I was really tired." She sighed, "Sorry, I honestly didn't think you would be here yet."

Kakashi gave her an odd look and raised an eyebrow. "It doesn't matter anyway." He took out a red ribbon, attached to the ribbon was a silver bell. Kakashi took pleasure in the look Sakura gave him. That are-you-an-idiot look she gave.

Sakura looked angrily at Kakashi and spoke with malice, "Are you stupid? We've already trained with those bells. I thought we were through with them now." She sighed, "Do you not think I'm strong enough?" Her fists clenched, how come everyone thought she was weak. Because you are. She felt her inner voice say. Her eyes drooped as she knew she was right.

Kakashi shook his head, "You always start at the basics when you are training. I have to train you to become and ANBU. At the moment, you are trained to be a medic nin. I must now teach you all new moves." He held the bells in one hand and jingled them, pulling kunai out of his holster with the other. "Besides, the first time, I went easy. This time, I'm going full force."

Sakura narrowed her eyes, her fists clenching even harder, not in anger, but to get ready for a long fight. She nodded her head, a bright smile appearing on her face. "Then get ready. And don't underestimate me."

The silver haired jounin smiled and nodded, "I know better then to underestimate any opponent." He smirked and squatted just a bit as he disappeared, using one hand to perform seals. While vanishing, he fastened the bells to his pants so he could use both hands. He knew he would need them.

Sakura on the other hand, didn't even flinch when he vanished. Instead a smirk appeared on her face too. The usual. She quickly grabbed a kunai and held it in front of her with both hands. She took on a fighting stance and closed her eyes. She had learned how to sense Chakra, barely, but just enough to know where someone was.

She found Kakashi's chakra and smiled brightly. This will all end soon. She thought. With her freehand she gathered as much chakra as she could muster into her hand and punched the ground hard, causing all the land beside her to erupt. With a quick fluid movement she gathered more chakra into her other hand and threw the kunai at Kakashi. She knew he would have to jump to avoid the eruption. Even if he didn't, the kunai would hit him anyway. This is why she was a tactical planner for most missions, along with Shikamaru.

Kakashi looked just in time to see a kunai flying at him. Sakura was right, he had leapt to avoid the erupting land, and the kunai was headed directly for his arm. Damn. He thought, after finding now way to avoid it. The kunai stuck him in the top of his shoulder. He wanted to scream in pain, but he had felt worse, and held in his agony. He took the hand with the kunai already in it and grabbed Sakura's kunai. He tried to move his arm, and found it was very slow. Probably still in shock from the pain, he thought.

Sakura looked behind her to see Kakashi pulling out the kunai. Her eyes widened as she realized she had wounded her friend. But she couldn't think that for too long, here he comes! Sakura pulled out the remaining shurinken and held them in her hands, ready to throw them.

He had started to run at her, both kunai in one hand. The other hand make a weak tiger sign near his lips. With a quick stop he backed up a bit and precisely threw the kunai at Sakura. One grazed her cheek while the other cut her side, cutting her red tank. In shock, Sakura went to grab the cloth to close the gapped hole she now had.

She didn't have time enough to cover her nearly exposed bosom. She quickly threw her shurinken at the bell, in hopes to cut the ribbon so that she could grab the bell. She was happy to know that her plan at the beginning had worked. Though she still felt horrible that he couldn't use his left arm.

Kakashi couldn't dodge the shurinken in time and he felt one graze his pant leg and he watched as the red ribbon was cut. He tried to grab it with his left hand, but soon realized it still wasn't quick enough. He looked up just in time to see Sakura grab the bell and dangle it in front of him.

To his shock, she seemed angry, "You went easy on me!" She crossed her arms and threw the bell at his feet. "We're doing it again," she demanded.

The man's exposed eye looked at her oddly as he tried to stand up without falling. "No." He said simply, gripping his left arm. It was bleeding badly. At this rate, he would probably pass out.

Sakura was being too stubborn to notice, and continued to think he was just 'going easy' on her because she was his former student. She walked a bit closer to him and kneeled down, since he had fallen to the ground. "Why not?"

Kakashi glared at her and saw the way her shirt was torn. For a split second he forgot about any memories of her being a past student and would stop at nothing to embrace her. He shook his head, suddenly realizing what he was thinking about. Why the hell did I even think of that? He was ashamed that a glimpse of Sakura's bare skin like that made him loose all his senses like that.

"I said why not?" Sakura was still pouting beside him.

"Because I'm about to… pas…" he didn't even finish his statement before his whole body went limp and he slumped forward.

Sakura looked a bit confused as he fell onto her knees and she finally realized what happened. He passed out from the blood loss. Quickly, she let him fall off her knees and she turned him over, so he was laying with his back on the ground. She grabbed his left arm and started to perform some healing jutsu.

"Damn!" Sakura shouted, she was nearly out of chakra and had barely healed the wound. She suddenly remembered about the things she had put in her apron before leaving her house. She reached into her white apron and grabbed an antistatic and rubbed it quickly on his skin. Then she looked around for a bandage of some sort and found nothing.

She slumped when she realized she had nothing to bandage his wound with. She looked down at his face, his mask unprotected. With a hand she slowly reached out to touch it, then decided to retract it. Her hand grazed her ripped clothing and she sighed.

"No…" She would have to nearly rip her shirt completely off to bandage his huge arm, but at the moment, she had no choice. She slowly zipped her shirt off and ripped it into strips, then slowly wrapped it around his arm. "There." She sighed.

Knowing she couldn't go back to the village in just a bra, she looked at Kakashi once more before chuckling. It was more of an embarrassed chuckle. "It's the only way." Trying not to wake him up, mostly because she's rather not have her ex-sensei looking at her breasts, she unzipped his jounin jacket and slowly took it off of hit.

As she put it on, she realized just how much bigger Kakashi was compared to her. The jounin jacket almost touched her knees and the arm holes went halfway past her shoulders. She laughed, what a sight she must make.

She looked at Kakashi again. "What now? I don't know where you live…." She sighed and looked around the clearing, trying to figure out what to do. Finally, she had no choice. She couldn't leave him here and she wasn't about to take him to the hospital so she would just have to take him back to her house since she had no idea where he lived.

Sakura gave Kakashi a long and hard look. "You better thank me for this later…" Though… I am the one who did this to you. She felt bad, but at the same time proud. He still didn't go all out. I guess I'm not worthy of the Sharingan. She shrugged, now wasn't the time.

She grabbed the good arm, his right out, and hoisted it over her shoulder. "This is going to be a bit tough." She stood, her legs about to give, "Good thing I don't live too far away."

Slowly she started making her way to her house, Kakashi's legs dragging along the ground, until finally she put his whole body on her back so she could move easier, and he looked more comfortable.

She watched as people gave her odd looks, but at the moment she didn't care, she just wanted to get back home and eat something.

She readjusted him a few more times before getting to her house, "How are you still asleep?" She almost knocked down her door trying to get it opened. After getting inside, she laid Kakashi on her bed, only because she felt bad for him, and the couch isn't very comfortable.

Sakura sighed and headed for the kitchen to get something to eat. "He'll wake up soon…. I hope."

Author's Note: Thanks everyone for such the kind reviews. I hope to get the story out quicker now. Hopefully once a week… but no promises. Don't worry, there will be some Kakashi X Sakura stuff soon, maybe not in the next chapter, but definitely chapter 7 or 8 at least. ; I have a lot of pictures I want to draw for this… because I thought this was such a cute chapter… even if Kakashi wasn't there for most of it. XD Looks like Sakura's a bit stronger then he though. Happy reviewing!