Thank you to happy everyday life, Yoohyuk, and generaltay for reviewing! Also to anyone who favorited/followed.

A few notes...

1. Thank you happy everyday life, his name is Asuma, not Asuna. I watched SAO recently, so I have Asuna on the brain!

2. Generaltay was wondering what made Ino leave so fast from the bar that night. You'll find out in the next chapter!

3. I would die from embarrassment from flirting with my boss too, happy everyday life! We'll have to see how Sakura handles it. ;)

Chapter 5

Ino was sleeping soundly in her best friend's living room, still wearing her dress from the night before. They left the bar around midnight and crashed at Sakura's house. Sakura slept on the couch with Ino on the floor. Sweet dreams filled the blonde's head, not a worry in the world.

Until she heard her best friend screaming.

"What's going on?" Ino asked hurriedly, sitting up. Luckily she hadn't drank much, or her head would have been killing her.

"Ino, Ino, Ino," Sakura chanted. She picked up her phone and passed it to Ino, her hands shaking wildly.

Ino quickly read the email and gasped. "Doesn't Hatake Corporations own the coffee shop? Why is the owner emailing you?" she asked.

"I don't know!" Sakura stood up and started pacing the room, too anxious to notice her own pounding head. "I've never opened the coffee shop before. Why is he asking me?"

"Why is he asking anyone?" Ino asked. "Isn't that Gai's job? Shouldn't he be emailing you, not the freaking owner?"

"Did something happen to Gai?" Sakura asked. "He's never missed a day of work. Ever."

"He's probably hungover," Ino joked.

"Why me?"

Ino got up and grabbed Sakura by the shoulders. "Get it together, Sakura. Kakashi Hatake himself is asking you to open the coffee shop. Don't blow this."

"You're right," Sakura agreed. "This could be my chance to prove myself. Maybe I'll even get a raise."

"Right, now get dressed! You have half an hour to get there, and you really need a shower."

Sakura got to work on herself. She had to shower, wash off the pound of makeup Ino put on her the night before, and take pain killers. Lots of pain killers for her pounding head.

X

At lunchtime, Sakura was still frazzled. The morning she got inside the coffee shop with the code sent in the email, but she didn't know what to do from there. She grabbed the spare key to unlock the back office to get the drawer for the cash register, but she didn't know what else needed done office-wise.

Then Moegi was late for her shift. Apparently Sakura wasn't the only one that got away with coming to work late, because Moegi had made it a habit. She was shocked when Sakura was the acting manager instead of Gai, and she apologized seven times in the first hour.

Then she ran out of almond milk.

"Will you be okay for a minute?" Sakura asked Moegi. They were going through their lunch rush, and Moegi wasn't as capable as Sakura. Moegi was a high school student and had only worked about a month. "I'm going to run to the back office for more milk."

The fridge with extra supplies was kept in Gai's office. Normally no one was allowed in his office, but if Sakura was allowed to open the store she was sure she was allowed to grab a spare jug of almond milk.

The office was unlocked, to Sakura's surprise. She thought she had locked it back up after getting the cash registers. She stepped inside and gasped when she saw him.

"What are you doing?" she asked. "I know you're friends with Gai, but you really shouldn't-"

"How has your morning been?" he asked, surprising Sakura.

"Pretty awful," she admitted. Though she didn't like complaining about work with customers, she felt like she knew him enough to release her pent-up stress. He was sitting in Gai's chair, so she slumped into the chair in front of the desk. "I had to open the store today, which I've never done. Can you believe the CEO himself asked me to? Then Moegi showed up late for work, and we've been busy every since."

He tilted his head as his eye crinkled, and his scarf slipped down a little so she saw the tip of his nose. She thought she saw a scar beside it, but he moved the fabric back before she got a good look.

"It sounds like you handled the pressure well, even if the CEO is a dick," he said. Sakura flushed, and before she could speak again he added, "It's a good thing he has a soft spot for you, or you'd be in trouble for calling him a dick."

"Wait, no, I didn't…" Her eyebrows scrunched together. "I've never met the CEO." How does he have a soft spot for me?

"Then whose coffee have you been making for the past year?"

Sakura felt a knot growing in her stomach. She looked at him with wide eyes, trying to process what he was saying. He didn't mean he was the CEO, did he? There was no way. Or was there? He was always working on his laptop, which a CEO might do. And he was in Gai's office one time "saving the coffee shop."

He reached his hand out to her, and she dumbly shook it. "My name is Kakashi Hatake. It's lovely to meet you, Miss Haruno."

She had been making coffee for Kakashi Hatake, CEO of the Leaf Division of the Hatake Corporation, owner of the coffee shop. She had rolled her eyes at him, joked with him, and danced with him. Ino couldn't have known, but Gai sure did. Why hadn't he ever said anything?

Maybe he was asked not to. At the bar the night before, Asuma almost said Kakashi's name and he was stopped. Kakashi must have asked them to keep his name a secret. Was that a general rule, or just for her and Ino? Is it possible it was just for her? Was she special to him, or was it the opposite? He might not have trusted her enough to know.

"You might want to stop thinking before your head pops," Kakashi said, snapping her out of her thoughts. He stood up and got in the fridge, pulling out a jug of almond milk. "I believe you need this, right? Poor Moegi is by herself out there."

"Oh no!"

Sakura jumped up and grabbed the jug from him. She opened her mouth as if to speak, then turned around and ran back out to help Moegi with the lunch rush.

Sakura now knows that Kakashi is her boss! How do you think she'll handle it? Drop a review letting me know!