Title: Forbidden
Author: Winter Ashby (rosweldrmr)
Disclaimer: Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto & Challenge © kakasakudrabble at LiveJournal
Rating: T (You're allowed to say the F word once in PG13 movies... so I get to say it once and keep it a T, okay???)
Word Count: 500 - exactly!
Summary: Tsunade said the one thing that Kakashi just couldn't stand to hear. (Kakashi & Sakura)
Authors Notes: Week 8 Theme: Forbidden. Ummmm, the itallics is flashback... hopefully that will make sense.

It wasn't fair. Kakashi mused as he walked home from his visit with the Godaime.

She'd sent a bird while he was sparring with Sakura to request a meeting. He begrudgingly tore his eyes from Sakura's sweat-gleaming body and followed orders.

He rumpled his face under the mask and followed the winding path from the Hokage Tower to his apartment.

Tsunade was hunched over her desk, inspecting a stack of papers. But she couldn't fool him; he could smell the sake hidden in one of the desk drawers and leaking from her lips.

"You wanted to talk to me?"

He wished he could just pretend it never happened… that she'd never asked to see him, and that he'd never heard her say the one thing that made him foam at the mouth for a chance at Sakura.

"Have a seat Kakashi." She gestured at the single chair in the room and waited for him to sit. "There's something that I need to discuss with you."

He squirmed under her honey eyes and nodded.

"It's Sakura." He swallowed hard against the lump in his throat.

Kakashi rounded the corner of his apartment building and froze in his place. There, standing next to the stairs was a pink-haired girl who grew up and filled out as well as the legendary Sannin.

"I was hoping we would never have to have this conversation. But it's recently come to my attention that I can no longer ignore this situation." She crossed her arms and looked past him to the wooden door.

He tethered the clawing fear that pulled like a string at his heart.

Sakura turned as he approached and smiled in a way that made his guts tie into knots. She was dangerous, and he knew instinctually that if he didn't escape her now, surely he'd do something he'd end up being punished for.

"Several of your collages have come to me in the past few months about the situation with Sakura." She sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose.

"What situation?"

"Your situation." She pinned him under her gaze. "You know what I'm talking about."

He tried to get past her, but she caught his arm in her tiny hand and demanded to know what the Hokage wanted to talk to him about. He struggled to lie, but her eyes rounded at the edges and he was helpless against her.

"I had hoped that you would be smart enough to know better." She sighed dejectedly and frowned.

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, Hokage-sama."

He looked down into her eyes, and the way her cheeks flushed and tried to remember why he was fighting so hard against pressing her against the railing and pressing his body against hers.

"I'm only going to say this once, so pay attention."

His resolve wavered as she licked her lips.

"Stay away from her Kakashi."

"Fuck it."

"Sakura is forbidden."

The next morning he smiled because no matter what the consequences were, she was worth it.

GOO!!!

Was that... FLUFF!!!???

::falls over::

Oh Lord, I'm turning into a softie. Fogive me. There will be more angst coming real soon... I swear.