AN: warning may require brain use. I love messing with his head. He's so used to doing it to everyone else; it's about time he got a taste of his own medicine. Don't worry if it doesn't all make sense. It's mostly for the benefit of later chapters. I put a little bit of research into this one, but if any of it is wrong, please do tell me. Disclaimer still applies.
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Missing in Action
Chapter seven- Is the fridge full?
Sakura stood in the black for a while before deciding to walk forward. If I can only find a wall, I can follow it around. Keep feeling for a door, some furniture, any clue to my location.
The lack of a breeze let her know that she was inside a building somewhere. She took her sandals off quickly and placed her feet back down onto a soft, thick carpet. Her first reaction was to feel out with her chakra to test the environment, but immediately felt it blocked off. Suddenly remembering that she couldn't use her ninja abilities in here, she gave up trying and regained her wall finding objective.
A few steps later she met resistance across her legs. Reaching to feel forward she found nothing at torso height so she came to the conclusion that whatever it was, it was not a wall, merely a piece of furniture.
Before she could check to see what it was she had bumped into, she heard a quiet Poof from behind her. She slowly turned in the direction of the noise, not that it made any difference as it was still as dark as it was before.
"Shit!" Kakashi's voice came out from in front of her. After a second of rustling sounds a small light lit up from his hand, enabling Sakura to see the outline of his torso, his arms, and the little orange book he held on to. He sighed, opening the book. "That's better"
"Sensei?" Sakura ventured, stepping closer.
"Hmm?" He replied, not paying her much attention.
"Give me that" she demanded, putting her hand out for the match he held as she walked right up to him
"I don't think you'd like it Sakura-chan. It's more of a guy's book"
"Not the book you pervert, the match. I need to check out the room. You know, to find a door, a light switch?"
He reached back into his pocket and carelessly threw the box of matches in her direction. "Knock yourself out"
She grunted and looked inside the box, staying just inside the small ring of light that Kakashi created. She quickly took one out and lit it, holding it up so that she could see around the room.
She found a wall quite quickly and put her left hand against it, following it along while searching along it with the match.
"Go left" Kakashi told her
"What?" She turned to face him to find him looking up over the top of his book at her. "Why?"
"Your instinct made you go right. Sod's law says that it would be on the left, just to make you go further"
She frowned at him and continued going right, only to find the light switch about two feet later. She switched it on to illuminate the room and blew out the match she held. She turned back to Kakashi with a smirk. "I always trust my instinct"
To her frustration, he didn't even look at her as he calmly walked over to the small seating booth in the corner of the room and sat down, blowing out his own match.
"Thank you Sakura" she grumbled to herself as she looked around the room herself.
It was a small apartment, with a tiny kitchen next to the booth that Kakashi was now reading in, opposite a double bed and a sliding door. She rushed forward to the door and pushed it over to find only a small bathroom. There were no other rooms or doors from the apartment. No escape. We're alone now.
She went over and sat down on the edge of the bed, putting down her bag and letting out a sigh. Come one Sakura. You know what you're dealing with now. Come up with a plan. How do you seduce Kakashi?
"Ughh that sounds weird. You should have dropped this when you had the choice." Inner Sakura fumed.
Shut up. It's too late now. She glanced over to him. Well at least you don't have to worry about skin to skin contact. There's practically none of it left uncovered. Maybe that's it, the reason for the mask. Maybe he doesn't feel comfortable with others touching his skin.
So that's the first point. Don't force him into anything intimate. If he feels uncomfortable with it, then the direct approach won't do anything but force him away. So no huge skin displays or "accidental" brushes. He must be attracted to others though, other women, otherwise he wouldn't read those books so much.
Ok, second point. Get him to make the first move. He'll be expecting me to try something direct, because that's how I usually handle things, so I need to be more subtle. Not too slutty, but intriguing. He's intelligent, he'll respond to that. That means that he also won't respond to my current childish attitude. I'm treating him like my sensei still and that will just make us both uncomfortable.
Third point. Treat him like an equal. Yes he's still my superior in age and rank but if I don't, he'll never take me seriously. If I keep acting like the Sakura he knew, it will be much too easy for him to ruffle my hair and laugh me off. Drop the suffix. Act intelligent.
She looked around the room again and said "Gen-jutsu"
Kakashi looked up in surprise and dropped his book. It's working! He actually put the book down. "What?"
"This place" she replied, as if he'd done nothing unusual "It's a Gen-jutsu. Probably based in an already locked room but basically used to make the space large enough. It's set to return to its normal state once a certain word is said, like a key."
"How could you figure that out Sakura?" He asked, trying to keep the shock from his voice. Obviously this was a detail Tsunade had told him in advance as part of the mission.
"Just common sense Kakashi" she shrugged, turning to face him properly, watching for a reaction to this use of his name. To her joy, he flinched. " There are no exit doors, so there would be no way that all of this furniture could get in here on it's own, considering that there is a chakra blocking field around this entire area, which would block transportation jutsu. You could say that it was put in here and then the doorway was sealed up, but the room is fully decorated, with no gap in the wallpaper. Also…" she stood up and wiped a finger across the kitchen counter surface "no dust. This is defiantly Gen-jutsu, being sustained from an outside source." She shot him a quick smile. "It also strikes me as strange that Tsunade-sama would tell us to pack for days, but not ask us to tell our families and team mates, which makes me think that it is also some form of time-illusion technique. Your Sharingan could tell you that but you can't use it so I'm pretty much sure that your expression right now means that you already got told, am I right?"
He simply glared back at her. She calmly walked across the room and picked up her sandals, moving them to a spot by the wall.
"Of course" she sighed "you've been told not to say anything. Well, I'm sure we have plenty of time in here. About a week before lunch time?"
"Sakura-chan" he breathed, slightly confused.
"Yes Kakashi?" she turned to him again.
Another flinch "Is the fridge full?" he asked stoically, returning to his book.