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"Sakura!" Kakashi yelled harshly, sounding as if his patience was wearing low, as he pressed the dull side of a kunai into the smooth skin of the kunoichi's neck.

"Sorry..." She mumbled ashamedly.

"You're distracted... A shinobi, or kunoichi," he added, " must never let anything on their minds surface as they are in battle." He sighed, letting her free. "Let's quit for today..."

"Okay." She mumbled thankfully. "Hey, do you know what time it is?" She asked.

"It's time for us to quit." He responded sarcastically.

"Argh! I should have known..." She sighed, glaring at him. "Where is that pocketwatch I gave you for Christmas?"

Kakashi shrugged.

"That's what I thought." She growled. She'd bought that pocketwatch for him last Christmas, because he was always so late. It was a nice one too. "They're supposed to be here around noon." Sakura sighed impatiently.

"Well, it looks like it's around twelve fourty-five..." Kakashi mumbled, looking into the sun.

"I don't trust your sense of time." Sakura snorted, crossed her arms, and started to walk towards town. Then, she stopped and without even turning around, she said, "Well, are you coming or not?"

"Drinks?"

"Only if you don't get as drunk as last time."

"I was not drunk." Kakashi said.

"You were too." She grinned, but maintained keeping her voice serious sounding.

"Okay, maybe a little but you were hammered." Kakashi said, laughing a bit under his mask.

"It was my birthday!" Sakura stomped her foot indignantly as she turned around, her pink tresses swirling around as she turned. It had been the first year she could drink, she'd had a right.

They walked in silence, until they could see the familiar pub.

And then it happened.

There was the sound of high pitched, feminine screams, and then the two kunoichi were running towards each other, hugging and crying.

"Why didn't you go get a seat?" Kakashi asked his friend as he came up to his side.

"Well, I thought I'd like to watch this." Asuma said. If he had said 'Ino asked me to wait.' Then it would have given away their secret. He had every intention of telling him, just in his own way. If his suspisions were correct, then Kakashi wouldn't mind. Besides, he had to put it in a way that Kakashi would not think about it much, for there was a possibility that it would influence the shinobi to act on his feelings, if there were any, towards his younger student.

"OMIGOSH! I MISSED YOU SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!"

"ME TOO!"

As the two women wept and such, Asuma decided on a plan, and acted on it while they were still out of ear-shot.

"Hey Kakashi, Ino and I are..."

"An item? Yes, I've noticed." Kakashi finished his friend's sentance with a smirk.

"How? Forget it, I'm not even going to ask. Basically, my point is, I have a favor to ask."

"Well, there is a long story behind this, but I was hoping that you'd agree to going to the border with Sakura. Ino's really worried about her going down there... Tsunade's already said it was okay, if you agreed."

"Why?"

"Well... she overhe-" He stopped abruptly as the two women began coming towards them. "I'll explain later."

"C'mon! Let's get a seat while we still can!" Ino ordered, roughly pulling Sakura inside.

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After they were finally situated at a table towards the back of the room, Ino soon realized that she could speak freely, because everyone knew her little secret. Ino had always had a big mouth, and it was harder for her to not let anything slip because of this.

So Ino was relieved to be able to lean into Asuma, without them giving her strange looks.

"So, did anything else exciting happen at the border, other than you two?" Sakura asked, obviously overjoyed that her best friend was finally home.

Ino and Asuma exchanged looks.

"Nothing else really..." Ino lied, her cheeks shading a bit pink. "It's actually pretty boring...Nothing ever happens... Except every once in a while, we'll catch someone trying to sneak over the border. But really... it's bo-ring."

Sakura nodded, taking a drink of sake as she did so.

"Sakura? Come to the bathroom with me?"

Sakura eyed her questioningly. Ino wasn't the kind of person who asked those kinds of questions. Then, seeing a look that she'd never seen before in her friend's indigo eyes, she stood.

"Ummm... Okay."

As soon as she was standing, Ino grabbed her wrist and pulled her into the small bathroom. Ino was refusing to meet her eyes.

And that... was what freaked Sakura out the most. Ino was the kid of person that when she spoke to you, she demanded your attention, and held eye contact as long as possible.

"What's wrong?" Sakura asked, as panic rose in her chest.

Something is going on, she decided as her friend surveyed the stalls to make sure that they were, indeed, alone. Then as she walked over to the door, she locked it and looked directly at Sakura.

"You can't tell anyone what I'm about to tell you." Ino said in a deadly serious tone.

"What's wrong?" Sakura repeated, seriously beginning to worry. Well, at least she'd established eye contact...

"No one knows, not even Asuma."

"Ino, if you don't tell me right now I'll-"

"Sakura, nothings wrong..." Ino said, placing a hand on her shoulder, "It's a good thing... I think."

"Then how come you're stalling so much?"

"I'm pregnant."


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