Hey Guys,
This chapter is quite longer than I've intended to, but I've written it long ago and supplemented it gradually over time. So, I hope you like the result!
Have fun!
SquaMata
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PS: As my beloved came home from work yesterday he stated he wouldn't talk to me anymore, because I've made Gaara gay XD
But then he said he wouldn't stop reading, because he needed to know if I've realized his idea XD I love our playful banter.
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52. White Flag
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Sometimes defeat is the only way out of a severe situation.
Sometimes you have to be honest to yourself and risk everything for a good end.
Sometimes you are wrong and need to admit defeat.
Sometimes you need to accept that you can't run away any longer.
Sometimes acknowledging defeat will turn you into a winner.
Sometimes distance and time won't change things the way you want them to.
Sometimes defeat can be the win underneath.
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That's exactly what is rushing through the great copy-nin's mind now, even if something similar has never happened to him before in his whole life, anyhow not concerning a woman. His eyes roam the delicate contours of the beauty in his sheets pressed flat to his body. A content smile forms underneath his mask while she is still in deep slumber. By the dim light falling through the window he can tell it must be about an hour before dawn. Kakashi should get up if he wants to practise his training routine before work.
But as he stirs, she clings to him and their eyes met, hers barely open.
"Don't go." The sleep drunken kunoichi manages to utter before she drifts off again.
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The current hokage kisses her forehead and let her rest on his chest.
Just this one time I could skip training.
The feeling of her near is too pleasant and so he decides to take a nap.
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By dawn someone knocked on his bedroom door. "Hokage-sama?"
In an instant Sakura stiffens up to experience something similar to a heart attack as she tries to hide herself under his sheets.
Kakashi grins widely, though barely visible under his mask, but his eye-crinkle is enough to show his huge amusement.
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"Hokage-sama?" The man on the other side of the door repeats his actions.
"What is it?" Kakashi answers in his stern and calm business tone.
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"I'm sensing you're not alone in there. " The young male voice sounds agitated.
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Oh god! Earth, would you please open up for me to hide?
Kakashi is capable of that you know?
Stop kidding! That's not funny at all!
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The silverhead can't hold back his laughter anymore as he tries to pull off her cover. Again she is sitting there as a cute ghostly figure, fighting for the sheets like she had done back at their trip to the spa hotel.
"Is everything alright? Do you need any help?"
Kakashi chuckled. "No, Hoshi, I'm fine. There is no danger."
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Hoshi? Isn't that mainly a girl's name?
Must be some kind of codename in ANBU.
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"Then why is Miss Haru…"
The young man took a pause. "Oh! I understand."
"I'll be out in a few, Hoshi."
"Affirmative." The footsteps indicate the young man is leaving.
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Finally Sakura gives up the fight and the silverhead laughed full-heartedly at her dishevelled look. Caressing her cheeks the copy-nin whispers: "As much as I'd love to spend the day in bed with you, I have to go. There's a council meeting this morning."
"What about Hoshi?" The pinkette asks still uncomfortable with them getting caught.
"Relax. He's one of my night guards, absolutely reliable and very discreet. They had sworn a special oath to keep what they would witness strictly to themselves. Don't look at me like that! He's thoroughly an ANBU. I don't need to tell you what the penalty for revealing village secrets is, right?"
She shakes her head still with a little doubt left, but his eye-crinkle gives her a reassuring feeling.
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"Sakura, everything that happens here inside the hokage mansion is treated like a state secret, unless we want to make it official someday with all consequences."
"Consequences?" Her raised brow underlines her confusion.
"We will talk about that later. First we need to figure out what this is." He gestures between them from one to another as he speaks. Then strong veiny arms pull her gently into a close hug. Sakura's breath tickles his neck and he moves his head a little to look at her.
Their eyes meet, both reflecting their honest feelings for each other and they get lost in the intensity of the moment. Their bodies move on their own and drew their lips together in a sweet kiss.
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Who would have known he has such soft and kissable lips! All the time they were right in front of us! Disguised only by illusion! Nothing than a simple damn illusion!
Yeah, we should have done that a lot sooner!
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Eagerly they deepen the kiss, she lies back down and pulls him with her. Kakashi complies with a guttural moan, the most erotic sound she has ever heard leaving his lips.
His well-trained shinobi body presses her down into the matrass, one of his hands caresses her hair as he kisses her senseless. Then one of his hands turns her head to the side to expose her neck. With the same erotic groan from before he nibbles at her delicate neck which earns him moans of pure pleasure from the woman he has desired for years now.
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"Hokage-sama, I'm sorry to disturb you, but the meeting will start in an hour."
Damn you, Hoshi…
Inner-Sakura sends death glares from over the shoulder of the hokage right into the direction of the closed door.
Grunting in annoyance of the bad timing Kakashi ends the sensuous dance of their tongues with a sweet peck murmuring against her wanting lips: "I'm afraid I have to go to work. If you don't mind we'll continue that later."
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He searches for consent in her beautiful green eyes and her smile confirms his hope.
"Let's meet here at 9 p.m., if that's okay for you?"
The smiling pinkette nods. "I'll bring something to eat."
"How considerate from you!" The silverhead steals a quick kiss before he finally gets up.
In his teacher voice he continues with an index finger held up. "Be careful, Sakura! Pampering may get people attached." Chuckling he takes his official kage robes to disappear into the bathroom.
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Sakura stretches contentedly on his big bed and closes her eyes.
Suddenly she springs up from the bed as if stung by an adder. "Kakashi! How do I get out of here?"
Due to the tiles inside of the bathroom his response resounds through the room. "You know, there are very new things in the world named doors. These are the wooden rectangles on the walls which normal people use to enter or exit a room. They can be difficult to handle, but you just need to go to the so called door, press the knob down and walk outside. Then you close the door behind you."
"What? Stop joking. I'm serious. What about the people who see me, Kakashi?" The kunoichi begins to dress into her own clothes.
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He comes out of the bathroom clad in a towel only hanging low on his waist. Though as hokage he wouldn't be engaged in combat operations often, especially in time of peace, he keeps his rough workout routine to maintain the strength and stamina of a shinobi. For Sakura it doesn't matter at the moment, all she is seeing now is the gorgeous body of a young Greek god. He lets her stare for a moment as she eagerly drinks in the view in front of her.
The huge eye-crinkle reminds her how obvious her staring has to be and she utters some apologies.
"You've just healed my bad headache. That's all." He shrugs and with a wink he continues. "It's nothing unusual for me to get headaches before long meetings. But I think it's less suspicious if we're not leaving together, though the hokage mansion is quite big. At that time of the day there are not only ANBU around."
"Okay." She tries hard to focus and not to jump at the ridiculously appealing body. Before something could happen she forces her eyes shut and jogs into the direction of the door.
As it turns out it wasn't a wise idea, she stumbles and hits her foot on the doorframe. Cursing she went out into the hall of the apartment, the hokage still leaning against the bathroom doorframe watches her in amusement.
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How did she even get in there? There are ANBU everywhere.
One of the guards must have let her in, but who would… sure.
That's why he insisted to take that shift.
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Shaking his head and chuckling he throws the towel on the counter and steps into the shower.
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Sakura is lucky, Hoshi seems to be gone as she left the apartment. Leaning at the entry door from outside she takes a deep breath before she would go to the stairs to walk home.
"Good morning, Sakura!"
The pinkette stops dead in her tracks. Slowly she turns into the direction of the voice.
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Of course he's still there.
Dammit!
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"Sai?"
The figure sitting on the roof right above the apartment entry jumps down and takes off the white porcelain mask. He nods in affirmation.
"Good morning, Sai!"
Is that a smirk on his face? Sai? SMIRKING?
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"I was just healing the hokage's headache."
"Sure."
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Yup, that's definitely a smirk.
A well-knowing one by the way…
That's not helping at all!
But amusing!
No, it's not!
For me it is!
Oh, shut up!
The laughter from her inner-self is getting on her nerves, so she tries to tune it out and to save the sinking ship.
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Sakura sighs, there is no escape now. "You won't tell anyone, right?"
The ANBU shakes his head with a very trustful expression. She can be sure he wouldn't, this was Sai, her former teammate who has always put his duty above everything else.
Suddenly they hear other people ascending the stairs and Sakura shifts her stance in obvious discomfort.
"Come on, I'll walk you down." Sai smiles at her and Sakura takes a deep breath to calm her nerves. He is acting like nothing is out of the ordinary, like he hasn't just realised that his former teammate has spent a full night with their former sensei, who has no other position than hokage now.
In complete silence they pass the two ANBU who nod politely as a greeting. The two men seem to not suspect anything because she is escorted by one of them.
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"You're alright?" Sai has noticed her tension.
"Yeah, I'm just tired. It was a long night." The moment she says it, the moment she regrets it.
Bad choice of words!
"No, I mean… dammit." The colour of her beautiful face has already reached a new level of redness as he looks at her with a calm smile.
"Nevermind. The night was long indeed." He has either not understood the possible double meaning or he is politely ignoring it, Sakura isn't sure which one is true, but it doesn't really matter.
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The pinkette takes another deep breath. "How are you, Sai?"
"I'm fine. My shift is almost over and I can finally return to my lovely girlfriend."
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"That sounds nice." Sakura starts to ease up.
"It is. I have never imagined how it feels to be so close to someone, but it feels… good."
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"I'm happy for you two." She smiles at him and he returns it. It isn't one of his creepy fake smiles, but a real one with all of his heart shown.
"What do you think she would want for breakfast today?"
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Who would have guessed the ever stiff, antisocial boy turned into a loving and caring boyfriend?
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"Do you want to surprise her with breakfast? Oh, that's too cute!"
"Yes. It's her day off and she had been upset I had to take the nightshift, so I wanted to make up for it."
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It's my fault… He switched his shift because of me.
Sweets. She needs sweets when she's upset! Tell him what you two have always ordered at the bakery in such a state!
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"Cinnamon rolls, nougat chocolate croissants and fresh milk would be perfect. She loves sweets when she's moody, but I think you know that by now."
"Yeah." He rubs the back of his head and gives her a sheepish smile, which makes them both laugh.
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As they have reached the exit downstairs and he opens the door for her.
She smiles at her nice former teammate. "Thank you."
He answers with a sympathetic nod "Anytime."
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From his window above the hokage watches her leaving the mansion, which doesn't go unnoticed by Sai.
Sakura has the same radiant smile plastered over her face as he has.
Happiness...