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Kakashi Hatake was sleeping in with his boyfriend, Iruka sensei. His snoring was cute at times, but Hatake was trying to slumber, damn it!

And yet...

He felt Obito's eye tingle into his eyelid. His teammate's Sharingan flared red and as he looked up at the moon, he gasped. The moon was blood red, and was shaped into the Mangekyou Sharingan. That was enough for Kakashi to lose his $h!t.

'What the hell,' he thinks, squinting his eyes as if not believing what he's seeing. He stands up with his pink, bunny slippers on and hurries off to the Uchiha Estate with his bedrobe. Before he leaves, he plants a quick kiss on Iruka's forehead and hurries out the door. He has a library to head over to.


As Kakashi walks along the streets of Konoha (He doesn't want to alert any shinobi for running past curfew), he hears someone awake beside him. Turning around, he's face to face with his studious cherry blossom student.

"S - sensei?" Sakura asked sleepily, opening the door of her house. There are bags under her eyes, and she seems to still be half-asleep. "I sensed you," she says, stifling a yawn. "Um, whatever you're doing, come on in inside." She says in a hushed voice. Kakashi sighs; torn between letting his student know or just going on ahead to the Uchiha Library. He decides the latter of the two, but before he can even get a word in edgewise; he's already inside of the house. It was large, if not a bit spacey. There was a fireplace crackling, and it illuminated the room slightly.

She leads him to a table and he sits down, as she stalks off to the kitchen.

"Do you want any tea?" She asks in a civil tone, like a housewife greeting a guest. He shakes his head, and she hurries to stir the tea bag into the hot water. Once it cools, she walks over to set it down in front of him and then takes her own set opposite her teacher.

"So, sensei. What're you doing here so late at night?" She asks, sipping her own cup. He rests his head on his palm, and his other hand drumming his fingers on the coffee table between them. Would it hurt to tell her the truth? He hoped not

"Alright, alright. You caught me. I suppose there's no hiding it any longer," Kakashi relents after a long-suffering sigh, admitting defeat, "For starters, have you seen the full moon, yet? I think that would answer your question."

She huffed and looked past his shoulder and out the window at the night sky. The cup dropped to the floor, unnoticed.

"Sensei?" She breathed; disbelieving. "N - No way. How...?" She looks between the red moon and her teacher; her green eyes wide.

He sighed, hating how he had to elaborate on everything. Seriously, couldn't his students read a book or two about what it means to become a ninja? It would make his life a little less difficult to deal with. "Well," he says levelly, "this is why I'm walking out in the middle of the night. To see for myself if Sasuke has anything noteworthy about...well...whatever this is." He waves wildly at the moon above them and the cherry blossom nods.

Once she caught his words, however...

Her eyes turned into hearts in a matter of seconds. Her face became red like a tomato. "Oh, Sasuke..." She squeaks in a lust-filled voice. Suddenly, she stands up and she drags her sensei like a ragdoll to the door. "OK! I'm going with you! No buts, and no ifs! Capiche?" She declares boldly; saving brave face. Kakashi rolls his eyes from behind his mask.

"Yeah, what you said." Kakashi lamented, as they leave the Haruno household together in search of the Uchiha Estate. Or, rather, her forcing him to come along with her, regardless of how he felt.


"Almost...there..." Sakura panted, sweat pouring down her forehead as her scrawny little body lifted up the larger male, who was biding his time by reading one of Jiraiya's books. Who could blame him? A simple mission had just became

She hadn't walked so far in such a long time. But, it was all worth it! If she got to see Sasuke herself, hell, she'd do anything for him!

And if word got out that she saw Sasuke sleeping, then oooo Ino would be so jealous of her! She couldn't wait to get her hands on him, and she giggled internally at all the things she could do. 'SHANNARO! Wait for me, my love!' She snickered at the very thought of winning Sasuke over, and she'd prove to their faces that she was THE princess; not them. And Kakashi frankly had had enough of his lovesick student. It was gradually growing by the second the more he spent time with her. Excessive much?

"So, you know where he is?" He asked, looking around on alert. He couldn't let his guard down, not even for a minute. That's what Obito's death had taught him all those years ago. And even if he's dead, now...

No.

The time to think about the past was nigh. He's living in the present, now, and the future wasn't important at the moment.

"Mmhmm! I've got a whole map made just for us. See, this is the interior of his house." She pointed to the crudely drawn picture that was apparently Sasuke's house. The inside had all of these rooms, and Kakashi couldn't help but think how'd she know every single detail of a house she's never been in. How she managed to pull this off, even Kakashi didn't know.

"Isn't that borderline stalking?" Kakashi questioned quietly. Sakura shushed him as they crept closer and closer to Sasuke's front entrance. They jumped bush to bush as quickly as they could and they were now at his door.

'I wonder how Naruto's doing...wherever Minato's son is.' The Sharingan-user thinks, as he carefully opened it with a creak. Sakura squealed in excitement from beside him, not even trying to contain her excitement. 'Damn you, fangirls...' He thinks, and cautiously enters inside the blasted darkness.

"DUH! What rock have YOU been living under? I've known him ever since we were children! Of course I know what his house looks like, inside and out." She chides confidently, hands on her hips. "I'd bet my life on it!"

He humphs, and shuts the door from behind them.

"Wow, it's so dark in here." Sakura says, stating the obvious. Kakashi slouched his shoulders; this was really getting out of hand. "There'd better not be any ghosts in here!

"SASUKE!" Sakura lit a match from her pouch onto wax as she called out his name. And held out a candle as their only light source. The duo are in the living room, where it leads to a kitchen and other side rooms. There's also a staircase that leads upstairs. The two are careful not to step on anything, so they carefully evade anything that's in their way, since they can't see a thing.

The duo continue walking around throughout halls and halls. It's like a maze that never seems to end. How DID Sasuke live like this every single day? It must be a living reminder of his dead family. A feeling Kakashi simply couldn't fathom to feel every day for the rest of his life. He thought dead friends and family were enough? But then live with it everyday, a constant memorial of their death, looming over his shoulders. Not to mention living in his dead parent's house, where they died exactly thirteen years ago. No wonder why he wanted to kill the perpetrator so badly; making it his one goal in life.

Kakashi couldn't even imagine doing this daily; especially with all of these twists and turns. "SASUKE!" Sakura calls out again, hands clasped over her mouth. "Where are yooooou?"

"SHH!" Kakashi shushed her. "Can't you see? He's sleeping!" He scolded, exasperated that the girl just can't take a hint.

"Gomen. Oh, um, sorry, Sensei." She forced a smile, and the walk was eerie for awhile; neither of them knowing exactly what to say. The silent treatment continued on like this, until they sought a peculiar door at the very end of the hallway. The copy-nin faintly sensed two chakra signatures in there, and twisted the knob slowly. To Sakura, he put a finger to his lips. She nodded, and the two walked inside the dark room; the only source of light was from their faint candle.

Sakura almost screamed.

"Ah, there they are," Kakashi says, over the two bodies that are currently wrapped around the futon in the middle of the room. The two were like Yin and Yang; one the sun and the other the moon. It was beautiful, in an idealogical way. Kakashi lamented this, as his eye looked at them with pride only a father would have. The two had finally done it. Just as he had suspected.

"Aww, aren't they the cutest?" Hatake cooes, watching the two sleep together. Sakura jolted as if shocked by lightning and backed away to the door ; shaking her head repeatedly. The Haruno covered her mouth with both hands. Her pink bangs shadowed her eyes, and she looked away; ashamed of herself. 'N - Naruto...and Sasuke?' She thinks, blinking tears out of her eyes, 'It...it can't be true, can it? Isn't Sasuke supposed to be sleeping with me? He's always saved Naruto, not me. So..why?' Against the door, she slides down. Burying her head in her hands; her legs are against her chest. Heartbroken, she's sobs, and the candle is tossed aside. The last light flickers.

And then, falls.