Chapter 2

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It was near lunch time, Sakura had been out with Ino. She had a lot bottled up in her mind ever since catching Kakashi with weed. It'd been two weeks since that incident but Sakura couldn't stop thinking about it. The two were at a small cafe for drinks.

"So, forehead. Why the sudden plans? I've tried making them with you at least a dozen times, but someone's always busy with their boyfriend." Ino took a sip from the glass she was holding.

Sakura just rolled her eyes and looked the other way. "Well that's what I wanted to talk to you about."

Ino put her glass down, "What do you mean?"

"Well, the reason I wanted to talk to you was about... Kakashi." Sakura's voice turned weak.

"Why? What happened? What'd he do? Did he hurt you? I swear, I'll sock the crap out of him, Sakura!" Ino pushed her stool back as she tried to get up but Sakura's arm stopped her.

"No, Ino. Nothing like that, it's just I've been worried about him lately."

"Well, how come?"

"You see, he.." Sakura tried to come up with the right words. "One day, I walked in and well, uh. Look I don't really know how to say it... come here." Sakura reached in to grab Ino's ear closer to her and whispered the incident Sakura walked in on.

"HE WHAT? ASUMA, AND HE, AND HOW?" Ino freaked out. "ARE YOU SERIOUS HE WAS SMO- " Ino's voice only grew louder, until Sakura's hand cupped her mouth from saying anything else.

"Shhh! Pipe down, pig. The whole world doesn't need to know."

"S- sorry. I mean I always knew Asuma smoked cigarettes and stuff, but I never knew in a million years he'd do that. Let alone, get Kakashi to..." Ino whispered.

"Well he did. And I'm really worried about him. I mean I haven't caught him since then and well, he did say it was a one time thing but I don't know." Sakura sighed.

"How long has it been since you caught him with it?" Ino asked in all seriousness.

"Two weeks ago, it was the first time seeing him with it." Sakura explained.

Ino let out a soft laugh. "Then there's nothing to worry about, Sakura. I'm pretty sure it was just a one time thing." She smiled at Sakura before continuing on. "Look I gotta go meet Shikamaru and Chouji, alright?" Ino smiled, paid for her drink and left the cafe.

Sakura watched her friend leave. ' I hope so, Ino. I really hope so. '

While Sakura had been out with Ino, Kakashi had been at Asuma's house. The two have continued to smoke weed together ever since Sakura had found Kakashi with the pipe that day. Silence filled the air as the two sat there.

"So uh, Kakashi..." Asuma began.

Kakashi gave a lazy gaze. "...Yo."

"Seem a bit hungry, here." Asuma handed him a seaweed wrapped Sashimi.

"Eh, Asuma what the hell is that?" Kakashi gave an unappealing look towards the food.

"Heh, I don't know. Fish?"

"It looks pretty gruesome. No thanks."

"Kakashi, even you should know..." Asuma started to laugh. "Everything tastes better when you're high."

"N- nawhh man. I'm ok. I'm just gonna go to the fridge and uh, yeah. I'll figure something out." Kakashi got up from his seat and took a few steps towards the hallway. Before making his way to the door he ended up collapsing. "...ergh, shit."

"Kakashi. Where'd you go..?" Asuma looked around.

"...Oh, yeah. I fell."

Asuma just broke out in laughter. "Aw, dude. Dude, dude. I love you man. You're too awesome." Asuma attempted to help his friend out only to find himself fall back to the ground as well.

"So what now?" Kakashi asked still on the floor, relaxed.

"Nothing. Nothing... at... all." Asuma closed his eyes and fell asleep. Kakashi got a hold of a chair to keep him up. He looked around to find a door so he could head back home.

Going through Konoha, everyone began to look at Kakashi. Which was no surprise to him since he was having such a hard time keeping his balance while he was walking and his exposed eye was bloodshot red. Kakashi finally made it home, opening his door he found Sakura sitting on the couch. She looked up at him and and he looked back. Trying his best to ignore her and go straight to the bedroom, she beat him there.

Sakura had gotten a hold of Kakashi's arm, and brought him closer to her. "And where do you think you're going?" She asked as she smiled at him.

"Erm, you know. The bedroom. So I can, um. Heh, sleep?" He tried to make his "under the influence attitude" unnoticeable.

"But, I haven't seen you all day... Where have you been?" She wondered sadly.

"I've... been, around." Kakashi finally opened his exposed eye.

She gasped. "Your eye is very red, Kakashi. Um, are you ok?"

"Y- yeah. I'm good. I just need some sleep. That's all." He rubbed the back of his neck.

"Well... go get some sleep. I kind of need a nap as well, so I guess this will be a perfect time for us to cuddle." Sakura made a cute face as her eyes got bigger.

Kakashi gave in, "Alright, I'll be right there." She kissed his masked cheek and made her way to the bedroom. Kakashi entered the bathroom and locked the door. He pulled out a strange substance wrapped in a small paper. He placed the tiny paper onto the counter of the sink, and hung up his vest. Kakashi pulled down his mask and then took another look at the substance before picking it up. "I know Asuma said not to, but... it wouldn't hurt to try it, right?" Kakashi asked himself. He then took the paper and brought it up to his nose and snorted up the white powder. As Kakashi finished up with the paper, he threw it in the trash and started to rub his nose repeatedly.

With only a grey t-shirt and sweat pants on now, he went to his bedroom and got into his bed with Sakura.

"Well someone took their time." She chuckled as she snuggled closer to him.

"Sorry, I was cleaning up a bit. There was this mess, and um. It sort of bothered me.." He lied.

"Mmm, it's fine." She smiled, and continued to stare at her boyfriend before falling asleep. Almost ten minutes passed by and neither had fallen sleep. Kakashi wanted to, but he couldn't manage to sleep. Sakura sensed his troubles, and broke the silence upon them. "K- Kakashi?"

"Yeah?" He finally spoke out.

"Oh, ok. You're awake." She turned to face him. "I forgot to mention earlier, but um, tomorrow night my parents want the both of us to join them for dinner."

"Oh. Tomorrow... night?" He frowned slightly at the idea.

"Yeah, is there something wrong?"

"N- no. Not at all. Just surprised. So are we going out or...?

"Yeah, they want to eat out. Just to catch up and stuff you know?"

"Heh, alright." Kakashi turned his face the opposite way and closed his eyes.

"Erm, Kakashi...?"

He let out a long sigh and turned towards Sakura once again. "Yes?"

"I- I love you." She hesitated.

Kakashi stared at her, speechless for a moment and returned a smile. "...I love you too." He then pulled her closer to him and they both drifted asleep.