Disclaimer: Again…I don't own Naruto…
Author's Note: Sorry if again it took me a long time to do this chapter… It's just that…my grandfather died…and I'm sad…
Anyway thank you for all the reviews you gave me…I'm so grateful that you gave time to read my works. Thank you…
This chapter's mainly about KakaSaku pairing…. and the ideacame from Sakura-chan since she's a loyal fan of this pairing.
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"Break's over! Let's resume our practice. Go into your respective places!" Kakashi shouted again. The hell? He is starting to act a little like Sakura. He was used to being stoic, cool, quiet until she came into his life. He was used to being happy just by reading his Icha Icha paradise… But when she came, he suddenly thought that he is willing to give anything, even his perverted books collection, if it means having her permanently in his life… That's how he loves Sakura…he loves her more than anyone can ever know…
He wouldn't mind to lower his pride and ego if it's for her… He wouldn't mind being embarrassed if it will made her happy… For Kakashi… Haruno Sakura… is everything…
He looked around and saw Naruto stood before Hinata… That boy he used to teach… is now a man who's feeling complete because of the woman standing beside him…
Kakashi knows… because the girl he used to teach… is now the woman that making him complete… He looked passionately at Sakura standing beside him and kissed her. She looked surprise as he muttered…
"I love you…my Sakura… More than you think you know…"
"I love you too Kakashi… No words can tell how much I do…" she replied with a hint of moist in her eyes. As if on cue, Kakashi leaned down and kissed her until they heard a large applause and cheers for them.
"Oi Kakashi! That's PDA! Can't you wait until you two are alone!" Naruto teased him. Hinata on the other hand was blushing for the nth time.
"PDA?" Sakura asked sweatdropping but have a hint of red in her cheeks.
"My, you didn't know! You really shouldn't spend a lot of your time with Kakashi! It means, Public Display of Affection Sakura-chan!" Naruto teased again.
"Naruto…" Sakura muttered as a vein in her forehead twitched.
"Naruto, you're just envious because I can kiss my love anytime I want. Unlike you who's secretly loving her from afar. Nyahahaha!" Kakashi teased as he let out a comical laugh. Sakura's green eyes seemed to tell him he's a genius as she saw Naruto's jaw dropped while blushing madly. Hinata obviously feigned a sweet smile. The couple almost laughed at their expression.
What's the matter with that two?
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'Naruto have a secret love…?' Hinata thought as she felt a sudden pain in her chest (She can be pretty dense too, you know) She looked at Naruto at the corner of her eyes and saw him blushing with his jaw dropped. She suddenly thought it was better when she was with Lee…at least she didn't have to feel the pain. She winked to stop a tear from falling as she forced herself to smile.
"Gah!Kakashi-sensei, will you stop embarrassing me! You'll see, I'll tell her soon! nyahahahaha!" Naruto let out a nervous comical laugh while blushing madly. Hinata winced again that she didn't notice the look they gave her. When she opened her eyes, she saw Sakura and Kakashi smiling at her with a…teasing look?
"So, you finally admitted it Naruto! See, I told you! I'm glad you're not that dumb anymore!"
"Eh? What the hell was that Sakura-chan! I'm not dumb!"
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Naruto was wondering why she suddenly got quiet. He also noticed a hint of moist in her eyes as if tears were trying to escape from her pale white orbs. Hinata acted like she's avoiding him. He asked her what went wrong and she just said she's dead tired and she wanted to go home. When he asked her if he could walk her home, she said Sasuke asked her for dinner and she couldn't say no.
All he could do was clenched his teeth saying, "I thought you wanted to go home?", then refused to talk again while thinking something in mind.
Hinata, on the other hand, wasn't really invited by Sasuke for dinner. It was just her alibi to get away from him even for a little while… Enough time to regain her courage that he unknowingly crushed in a minute. It was just lucky of her that Sasuke ran into her and asked if he could walk her home.
"Hina-chan…?" the Uchiha asked snapping her trail of thoughts. She saw him looking at her perplexedly.
"Are you listening Hina-chan?" he asked again when she didn't reply. She nodded and told him, "You were talking about this shy kunoichi you teamed up with your last mission right?"
"A-a. The first time I saw her I thought she's really like you a lot. Then, it seemed that she's more like Sakura when provoked. She killed the enemy in a blink and she's kind too. I really like her Hina-chan..." Sasuke said smiling. She smiled back thinking that he finally found someone who can make him happy.
"I'm happy for you Sasuke-kun… I wish I can be happy as well, but maybe I'll feel contented if at least I told him that I really love him… Maybe that's more than enough… Right, Sasuke-kun?"
"I know you will be happy forever Hina-chan. He must really be a dumb person if he didn't appreciate the love you gave him. Don't lose hope Hinata… Just wait and see…" Sasuke said mysteriously as he smiled happily.
"Hai… I will… Arigatou…" Hinata said smiling back.
'Naruto-kun…even though you love someone else…I wish to tell you that, I love you… Maybe if I saw you happy with her…I could be happy too…and the pain won't be that much…I don't want to live my life with regrets that I didn't let you know my true feelings… I'll tell you Naruto-kun… I'll tell you… No matter what…I will'
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At last… the day of Hatake-Haruno nuptials…
"Will you stop spinning around nervously Naruto? I'm the groom, not you." Kakashi said chuckling. He didn't really sleep well last night thinking about this particular day. He felt like he waited for this day forever and now that it came, he felt so happy and excited, he couldn't eat nor sleep. It didn't help that they rehearsed yesterday and Naruto talked to him about his plan of declaring his love for Hinata. It was a plan that even Sakura didn't know.
"Kakashi…I'm nervous…. I wish it will workout fine…" Naruto said nearly shaking that Kakashi almost laugh aloud. It was a rare opportunity to saw his ex-student like that that he wished he took his picture just then.
"Relax Naruto... Just tell what you have in heart. Everything will workout fine." He said assuring the tense boy in front of him.
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"You nervous,forehead girl?" Ino teased her while she dressed her hair. It had been their habit to call each other names, though they had already rebuilt their friendship.
"A-a. Not that much, Ino pig" Sakura teased back grinning widely that her eyes formed two arcs.
"Heh, isn't that Kakashi's expression Sakura? You're really starting to sound like him!" Ino remarked. Sakura chuckled then remembered how their love story started…
Flashback
"Ms. Haruno, you can now go home" the head medical ninja of the Konoha Medical Hospital told her. It had been eight hours straight that she worked that day, she didn't noticed that it's already 4 pm.
She walked along the hall thinking about her friend's condition. Hyuuga Hinata had been critical during her last mission. It took them almost two days and two nights to assured the Hyuuga clan that she's now out of danger. The pink-haired kunoichi decided to pay her a visit before she go home, but got surprised when she saw a familiar man sitting in one side of the bed, looking at the sleeping woman lovingly as he stroked her hair softly. She took a step back that elicited a small sound.
Uchiha Sasuke turned around and she saw the trail of dry tears from his onyx eyes down to his pale cheeks. Her glance turned into the side of the blanket and noticed that it is wet.
Sasuke… Sasuke was crying for the sleeping woman beside him… It seemed to Sakura that he had been crying for hours and she felt her heart shattered.
"S-sakura…" she heard him whispered.
"Sasuke-kun…I'm going home…"
"Wait!" he called her and she looked back. "Can we talk? Maybe at the park?" he continued.
'For Pete's sake, Sakura! Say no! Say you'll go home! Say you have something important to do! Please, say no!' her inner self screamed but she found herself nodding saying, "S-sure".
She had an idea of what they were suppose to talk about…and she wanted so much to escape the reality that she knew it and then she has to hear it from him. He was her only dream since childhood… but her dreams were about to turn into ashes…
"We're here…" she head him said. Sakura forgot that the park is just beside the hospital. She thought it would take longer before her heart turn totally broken. Sasuke sat on a bench for two and she followed.
"Is s-she okay…? I mean…Hinata… Is she okay?" the Uchiha asked worriedly that Sakura wanted to close her eyes and cry, yet all she could do in front of him was winked and stopped her tears from falling. How pathetic she was…
"H-hai. She's out of danger now. Don't worry that much, it's not like you…" she said attempting to tell a joke, but she miserably failed knowing that the words sounded bitter even into her ears. She was surprised when Sasuke smiled…genuinely… It was rare for him to smile like that, and thinking that it is her friend who can make him happy was enough to break her.
'This is too much for me… Hang on a little bit more Sakura…You're strong right?'
"Hinata is very kind isn't she? She always sees what others have in their heart… If it's happiness then she'll be happy too… If it's sadness…she'll comfort you… If it's something bad…she'll try her very best to change your heart… She's someone with beautiful glow coming from her heart…"
"H-hai… She is…" was all she could reply. She felt her mouth instantly went dried. She felt there's this huge lump in her throat… choking her…
"I…I really like her Sakura…" Sasuke said that she tried so hard not to cry. She was broken completely that very moment and all she could do was to smile when he smiled at her. How she pitied herself that time…
"I-I s..see…." she said as she feigned a sweet smile.
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Kakashi stood in one of the trees and watched his beloved get shattered. He wanted to be with her that time, to comfort her, to let her cry into his shoulders…But he knew he couldn't… It was her own fight and he couldn't just barge between them and take that fight from her… He isn't the one who loves Sasuke anyway…how could he possibly know how she felt? He doesn't love Sasuke…He…Kakashi… is in love with her…
As he watched her as she tried so hard to feign a smile, his jaws tightened. That pain…the pain he always feel whenever he see her wounded, broken, sad... He was feeling that pain again… More throbbing the pain was because all he could do is watched her suffer…
"Sakura…" he murmured as he saw her burst in tears as soon as the figure of Sasuke disappeared from her sight. He approached her feigning a lop-sided smile saying, "YO!"
"Kakashi-sensei…" he heard her muttered. Her voice cracked as she said his name, a sign that she was so wounded. He watched her as she tried so hard to give him a crook smile, as she closed her eyes for him not to see her sorrow, as a teardrop escaped from her eyes as she did so. Sakura maybe strong but she's also weak… Sakura maybe loud but the pain inside her she always kept quiet… Sakura maybe useless to others…but she's important to him in ways no one would imagine…
"Kakashi-sensei…W-why a-are y-you h-?" she asked but cut off when he pulled her close to him. So close that she could felt his heartbeat thumping so loud as if saying, "Please hear me…"
"You're strong Sakura... But please be brave enough to cry…" he whispered to her ears. The warmth of his breath that touches her cheeks. The warmth of his words… The warmth that showed her someone cares… she wouldn't forget…. Because those words, opened her heart for him to see. It was amazing how such simple words become the key for her eye to gush out so much tears.
That day she cried on his shoulders, clinging into him desperately believing that the dying feeling would leave… that day when he showed her one part of him, and she showed her a part of her… It was the key for the next days of showing each other every part of their soul, their heart… everything…
She wouldn't forget…He wouldn't forget…
That day is unforgettable…the day you showed your heart to your special person… That could be one of the most memorable days of your life…
END OF FLASHBACK
Sakura nodded as she thought that it happened to them…Maybe they encountered so much pain, so much fear… Maybe they fought almost all people for their love. But what's important to her is that he was there, he'll always be there…
"Oi, forehead girl? Are you crying! Don't dare do so! Your make-up will be ruined!" Ino shouted at her, smiling as she saw her tears…tears of joy…that's what it is…
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A/N: Okay, that's all. I wish for reviews again! It makes me happy! Bye-bye…I'm already hungry…sigh…