The Startling Holiday

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'Sensei, you look tired...maybe it's better if I drive next?' Naruto pulled an extremely fake worried face.

'Naha, I don't think so, you can't drive.' Kakashi shook his head while taking another sip of his coffee.

After driving 5 hours the team wanted to stretch their legs and get a drink. So they had parked (or rather hided, because Sai was scared it might get stolen, Kakashi really couldn't care less.) and walked to the next village and right into the local pub.

'That's really unfair. You couldn't either.' Naruto pouted.

'Well, you said it right, 'couldn't' instead of 'can't' Kakashi chuckled lightly.

'All because mr. perfect has a copy machine. It's not fair' He sighed.

'Naruto, don't act so childish and that's mean!, be glad Kakashi-sensei can otherwise we would be walking right now!' Sakura poked his arm.

'Au! That's hurts, stop it Sakura!

'Not until you say sorry!'

'sorry, sorry Sakura!'

'not to me baka!'

'Sorry sensei sorry!'

Sakura finally stopped her assault and Naruto was rubbing his arm.

Kakashi had been watching this all with quite the suprisement. It wasn't that Naruto's comment had hurt him but he would be lying if he said it didn't matter to him. First off, it was never his copy machine to begin with. And secondly, since when was he mr. perfect?
Then his other student had taken it up for him, because she thought it was mean...In past years it was true the team had gotten closer, but Kakashi had never mentioned anything about his past...What exactly did they know about him?

'Ahum' Yamato coffed lightly in his fist. 'Can we continue?'

'Where were we again...?' Naruto asked.

'Were we are going to spend the night'

'Can't we just drive to the harbour during night time?, I don't feel like passing the night just for another 7 hours...' Naruto lay his head on the table

'Well, you may have an infinite amount of stamina but I don't and I would like to have a comfy bed.' Kakashi stretched himself out as he signed the waiter.

'Okay, so that means we'll stop in the next town since they don't have a hotel here?'

'Okay' Sakura nodded, also feeling quite tired. Sai didn't say anything and Kakashi gave a small nod. Naruto groaned something but nobody could perfectly hear him.

It was actually quite weird that doing nothing was making people tired, and especially people like Sakura, who were always busy, easily got tired by doing absolutely nothing.

'Can I get you another drink sir?' The waiter politely asked the copy-nin.

'I would like another cup of coffee, do you guys want anything?' He turned to his team.

'No thanks' were the answers of Naruto and Sai, already knowing their wallet would go emtpy way to soon.

'For me also a cup of coffee please' Sakura responded.

'For me a 'Snow white' please' Yamato answered politely.

After the waiter had took their orders on paper and had walked away Kakashi let his eye fall on Yamato.

'Since when do you drink that?'

'You mean alcohol?, I do drink senpai, just not in bad company'

Kakashi knew exactly what he meant. It was indeed not very smart to drink when you were in the pub around Anko and Genma, especially if you can't hold your liquir well.

'You can't call that 'alcohol' senpai...if you think you have good company you should just do it right and down a few bottles of whisky.' Kakashi replied dryly, his students looking in shock at their former sensei. Yamato chuckled and rubbed the back of his nek, apparently he got that trait from his senpai.

'We're still on a mission senpai, I really can't do that.' Yamato answered timidly.

'Guess your right' Kakashi signed.

'do you...do you really 'down a few bottles of whisky' Kakashi-sensei?' Naruto was looking at him in quite the bewilderment.

Kakashi chuckled as he responded 'Of course not, even though I'm good at holding my liquor I really don't think I can take a few bottles.'

'Pfew..okay' Naruto nodded happily, apparently quite happy about the fact that he wasn't left behind in this department, Naruto may not have the strongest but he definitely had not the weakest liquor of the team. If Kakashi counted the members of which he did know the liquor-status, which left two people out.

A quiet sound fell as they were waiting on their drinks when suddenly a small voice asked,
'What's a Snow white?'

Naruto leaned in and whispered in Sai's ear, 'It's beer for pussy's', Yamato who was focusing on something completely different, didn't seem to hear a single thing.

'I don't really think you can call it beer' Sakura leaned in on his other side, 'it's about 75 % 7up and 25% beer. With other words, Yamato doesn't have a liqour' Sakura said , winking Sai.
His only reply was 'Oh.'

While Naruto, Sakura and Sai went on with gossiping, Kakashi was rethinking the conversation. 'Since when do you drink that?' He had really not meant the alcohol, to be honest. More the drink.
Drinking snow white had the same reputation as single man drinking whine. It dripped innuendo.

'Here you go' The waiter had come back with their drinks, being awfully quick for normalcy.

Kakashi handed Sakura her coffee and let Yamato grab his own drink who turned his head back to his company. Until their was a little tap on the brown hairs shoulder. It was the waiter.

He leaned in a little 'You look a little stiff, you know sir, besides being a waiter, I can give you a fabulous massage, I can give you my number if you want'

Yamat's head turned beat red. 'Uh.h.'s...that's really no...not..-'

But the waiter had already grabbed one of his business card and pushed it into Yamato's hand. He quickly winked at him and disappeared.

Yamato turned his head back to his friends, who were all but Kakashi, laughing on the ground. Kakashi just chuckled.
'You know, senpai, if you really want that I'm sure we can give you a little time' Kakashi grinned.

If it was able for Yamato's head to get any redder, he might suffer from to much blood in the brains.

'I'm not …..'

'Relax, senpai, we know that, it's ok if you go both ways!' Naruto laughed.

Yamato tried to pick up his shattered pride as he stood up 'Maybe we should go.'

Kakashi, deciding to safe his friend from this emberrassing moment, 'Yamato's right, if we go now, we could find a place to stay in a little hour. Than we even maybe able to get dinner.'

'Hosh! Let's go!' Naruto jumped at of his seat and made his way to the door.

He is so easy.Sakura thought and she was probably not the only one.

Kakashi hold the door for his team to walk out, as he reached for the car keys in his pocket.

Sakura walked beside Yamato and Kakashi and she couldn't seem to keep her eyes of the car keys. Or maybe it was the way Kakashi was lightly throwing them in air. It looked cool.

'You know, if you want to drive the car so badly, I can teach it to you' Kakashi eyed Sakura, grinning.

'Oh please, you and teaching me?' Sakura replied sarcastically.

'Ah, that's mean, you hurt my feelings' Kakashi replied, of course not meaning it.

'But you know it's the truth.' Sakura replied and walked to Sai and Naruto who were already sitting in the back of their Spider.

Kakashi grinned inwardly, even though he did know it was true, that didn't mean he liked it. Between teachers their was always this sort of unspoken battle of passing the most intelligence into their precious students. He absolutely failed the three of them. Naruto learned far more from Jiraiya, Sasuke more from Orochimaru and Sakura had gained her strength from Tsunade's teachings.

Of course he was happy for them to achieve this level, the three of them were all exceptional ninja's. Too bad Sasuke couldn't use that anymore for the positivegoals of life.

But he felt a little sad as Sakura told him that. It made him feel like he hadn't taken any part at all in their education. The only thing there was left to do for him was to be a good team leader and a friend.

He clicked the door open, sat down and fastened his seatbelt.

'Sensei, can Sai's mp3 go on speaker again?' Sakura asked, bitterly sweet.

'Sure'

Sakura leaned over the chair and fastened the mp3 on the place were it's charger was in the dashboard. The boxes of the Spider gave a way better sound than just the mere speaker function of Sai's mp3.

Kakashi turned the key around and the motor started as he pushed his foot on the accelerator. Which he immediately released when he heard the first words of the song.

~Lady and gentlemen, this is Mambo nr. 5~

Kakashi smacked his hand on his face and groaned, 'Sai, were did you say you got this from?'

~One, two , three four, five
everybody in the car so come on let's ride~

Sai, still with a wooden face while Sakura and Yamato were also groaning and Naruto was happily clapping, said 'I got the mp3 from a shop in sand.'

~To the liqueur-store around the corner,
the boys say they want some gin and juice
but I really don't wanna~

'What about the music?' Sakura asked suspiciously.

~beerbust like I had last week
I must stay deep cause talk is a cheap~

'Oh, I just ran into some people who already had this device and they gave me their playlists.'

~I like Angela, Pamela, Sandra and Rita
and as I continue you know they're getting sweeter...~

'Let me guess, Jiraiya was one of them?' Sakura snorted.

'Uh yeah..'
They continued to drive for a while, listening to Jiraiya's music taste. The bigger part agreed it sucked, Sai hold no opinion and Naruto, well let's say he really did take in some similarities with his former mentor.

'This seems like a decent place.' Kakashi said while he looked out of the car, at a building which, to Sakura's view, could crack in a puddle if you lay a finger on it. But, to be honest, it was the best they had seen so far.

'Looks nice.' Sakura replied dryly.

'I know it, but we've already crossed down the other 4 on our list so it or this, or the forest. Your choice.'

That was easy. Nothing was worser than sleeping on tree roots while you could sleep on a matres.

'I guess you already knew my answer' Sakura stated when Kakashi had already droven the car to a parking spot.

'Women are all the same.' Kakashi chuckled lightly.

'Hmpf' was the only sound that came out of Sakura.

Kakashi let everybody out of the car and then locked it. He would be lying if he said he didn't like to drive. At first it was kind of weird because he had no clue what to do, but thanks to his sharingan which had apparently at some point in his life copied someone driving, he had learned it fast.

'Is it really safe to let the car out in the open like this?' Sai asked nervously.

'Do you see anywhere else I can park it?'

'Well, no...'

'Than that's your answer.'

Sai was probably right, but at this moment Kakashi didn't care, he was hungry and tired. Let the stupid car be damned.

'How can I help you?' The blond haired receptionist asked.

'One room for 5 persons please' Kakashi asked, already drawing his wallet.

'I'm sorry sir, but at this moment we only have one 2 person room left.'

Kakashi sighed inwardly.

'Then we'll take that one.'

'But you'll have to pay for 5 persons, sir'

Kakashi already guessed this and nodded in understanding.

He only noticed now that receptionist was looking at weirdly. He could understand though. It was almost half past nine and there they stood. Three 19 year old, and 2 much older looking men. One kid with whiskers and a man with silver hair, scarfed, and a scar through his eye. Then you had this pink-haired strong looking woman and an expressive-less kid. If you thought about it, only Yamato seemed to be a normal guy.

'We're friends.' Kakashi replied when the receptionist kept looking at them dumbfolded.

'Oh.' She eyed him suspiciously, then turned around to grab the key.

'Here you go, it's on the first floor, second of your left.'

'Thank you'

'I take the bed!' Naruto shouted as he made his way to the single room.

'Me too!' Sakura claimed.

'Oh...' Naruto looked in the room and smirked, 'Really Sakura? You really want a bed?'

'Yeah of course!, she shouted when she dropped her bag in the so called living room and also made her way to the bedroom.

'...Because I won't mind' Naruto grinned as he looked at Sakura,

'Baka! Sai, do want a bed?' Sakura asked sweetly to the black haired boy who was still standing in the front door opening.
'Uh..sure' He said, not really knowing why Sakura was crawling back.

'Ah Sakura!' Naruto shouted.

'Have fun tonight Naruto!' She patted the top of his head, as she made her way back to her bag.

Apparently the receptionist had left out that not only the room was 2 persons, but also the bed. And of all the people in Sakura's companionship right now, Naruto would be the last to get in one bed with, and she didn't mean it like THAT.

A while later Sakura had stationed herself on one of the couches, Yamato on the other. Kakashi had offered it, saying he would sleep on the floor. He always did that, as a team leader you have to provide your team mates of good health. A nice rest included.

'So, do you guys want to get some dinner?' Yamato asked.

'Yeah!, I'm starving!' Naruto answered enthusiastically.

'Is there something open right now?, this is quite a small village you know...' Sakura asked, sincerely worried.

'There was a cafeteria at the end of this street if I remember correctly' Kakashi said, already heading for the door.

'Cafeteria...oh! wait, was that were we had dinner on our last mission to cresent?' Naruto beamed.

'Yeez...that you can remember that...' Sakura replied dryly.

'It's food Sakura, of course I can.'

Sakura slapped her hand on her face, she could have expected that answer.

'We indeed did.'

'Oh, than I'm taking what I had last time! French fries with a bread roll of kroket!'

Now everbody stared at him flabbergasted. To know where you've eaten, that's one thing. But to seriously remember what you've eaten in a snackbar 6 years ago, that's sick.

'What a strange dishes they've got here.' Sai stated as he let his eyes roam of the menu chart.

They had seated themselves in a corner with a fourpersons table but Naruto had snatched a chair away from their neighbour table, so it was now a 5 persons table. Not that anyone would mind, the place was completely empty, except the owner which was behind the counter.

'Well, it's really close with the eastern borders, I believe this 'snackbar' thing is an import of the east.' Kakashi replied wisely.

'Were is the waiter?' Sai asked, when he looked around.

'That's not how it works here, you just need to order it, just like Ichiraku's.'

'Oh.' Then he stood up and walked to the counter.

'Sai, could you also order a medium fries and a watercycle?' Yamato didn't even look away from his chart when he asked this.

'and a large, very large portion of french fries with a bread roll of korket for me please!' Naruto responded, he didn't even take a look at the chart.

'Well, now your busy anyway, for me a small portion fries and a frikadel.' Came from Sakura's mouth.

Kakashi shrugged when Sai also expected him to order. He admitted he actually didn't really like french fries, but since it was eatable place on this moment, he had no choice.

'For me a berenklauw please' Kakashi closed the menu and put it back on the table.

Sai made his way over to the man behind the counter.

'What can I get you kiddo?' The man asked while rubbing his hands together, knowing that his cash desk would be filled tonight.

'Uh...'

Well, it could have been worse.

Yamato ended up with a large portion instead of a medium. Sakura got a medium and two frikadellen. Naruto's bread roll of kroket had become two bread rolls of kroketten, and Kakashi ended up with an unordered portion of large fries. At least Sai got his own order right, which was a portion a chickenwings with medium fries.

'So, when are we going to discuss the mission?' Sakura asked while she put a french frie in her mouth.

'If we leave tomorrow morning, we can take the night-boat to the island. We have enough time to discuss it then.' Kakashi replied, not eating.

'You're not gonna eat anything here, Kakashi-sensei?' Naruto mumbled between his teeth as he tried to keep his overly full mouth of french fries from spilling out.

'Nope.' A berenklauw was very hard to eat with a mask on, even if he was quick. So he decided he would take it back to the motel and eat it later when his team was asleep. (In snackbars you get your meals on a kind of plastic plate, which you can take with you anywhere.)

'Ah man, don't you think it's about time you show us your face sensei?'

'Nope.'

'Why not?' Sakura asked, while eating her frikadel.

'I just don't feel like it.'

God, typical Kakashi-comment. When does he feel like it? Inner Sakura screamed.

After that, the had little chats about the situation in the country, how they all had been for the last few weeks and that sort of stuff. It had been a while since their last mission, which was 5 weeks ago.

Sakura noticed at a certain point that some eyes were fixed on her, but she brushed it off because it was probably the way she was eating , which wasn't very charming.

Kakasi grinned while he watched Naruto's and Sai's faces focused on Sakura. Sakura was eating her frikadel, which could be easily, in your mind, be displaced with something else with the way she was putting it in her mouth. She hadn't even cut it in parts with a knife, she just ate it in whole. He noticed Yamato's eyes also went to her,as Kakashi's gaze also went directing to Sakura's face, he quickly shook his head and went to watching his, meanwhile cold, food.

Woman should be forbidden to eat something like that, that way, in the company of men.

'I'm going to bed.' Naruto stated, as he walked towards the bedroom. The double-bed was now divided in two by their pillows.

'Yeah, me too' Sakura yawned.
'I guess it's better if we all went to sleep.' Yamato replied.

After half an hour everbody except for Kakashi was in their beds, or on the couch for that matter. The door to the boys room closed and Yamato already snoring.

Sakura wondered how he could do that so easily, especially on these couches. They were hard and just a little to small for her feet to lay stretched. Probably even Kakashi-sensei was having a better sleeping spot. Where was the man actually? Sakura leaned on he elbows and looked up, seeing her sensei on sitting by the kitchen table, reading his new novel, Icha Icha Summers.

'Sensei?' Sakura asked, seeing that his head turned towards her. 'Why are you reading, you should take a rest.'

'Well,' He pointed his finger at his still cold meal, 'If you want me to sleep, you should go to sleep so I can eat.'

'Do you trust me that much?' Sakura snorted letting her head fall back on her pillow.

'I trust you, Sakura, just not in this matter.' He stated as he stood up and shove his chair back, than he walked to the bathroom and closed the door.

She almost pitied him. Here he was, at midnight, not wanting to eat because she was still awake and able to see him. He must be really ugly underneath that mask.
Even though she thought this, there were hints it wasn't true. For example, she sometimes heard other medics, older ones, talk about him. They had gotten the gift of doing his physical check of the year. She always heard words like 'perfect', 'manly' and one time see even heard the word 'godly' fall from one of their lips. It was also not possible that there was a certain deform in his face, because his mask outlined that and it didn't show.

Of course this had peeked her interest, but she was just his former student and now equal. She still had no right to ask something that personal of him.

'My, didn't I tell you to go to sleep?' Kakashi replied as he walked out of the bedroom in his pyjama's.

Sakura couldn't help it but to let her eyes roam over his body. He was wearing grey shorts with the shirt that clung to his body and revealed his anbu tattoo, and of course the mask that was attached to it. His hair was still dripping from the shower and he had a towel around his neck. It was not really the first time that Sakura had seen him like this...but it still seemed different when in the dark with only a few rays of moonlight.

~Your body is a wonderland~

'IEEEEEE!' SAI!' Shouts were coming from the room. Kakashi turned his eyes on the door as Sakura felt a small blush spreading over her cheeks. Trying not to think of how well the lyrics fitted the situation.

~Something 'bout the way your hair falls in you face.~

Sakura's blush grew as Kakashi made his way to the door.

'WHAT WERE YOU LISTENING!' Naruto's face was that of a mad man.

'Huh?'said a ratter sleepily Sai when he put his head up.

~I love the shape you take when crawling towards the pillowcase~

Sai hastily look around, apparently he had fallen asleep with his mp3 on, but while sleeping he had ripped his earphones out of his plug, which automatically went to speaker.

~You tell me where to go and though I might leave to find it ~

'What's going on?' Kakashi replied when he opened the door where Naruto was standing beside the bed, holding a pillow in front of him.

~I'll never let your head hit the bed without my hand behind it~

'I DONT WANT TO SLEEP WITH HIM IN ONE BED!, LISTEN TO THAT MUSIC, SAI ARE YOU GAY?' Naruto overreacted.

'Calm down Naruto. It's just a song.' Kakashi said dryly, not really knowing what he was supposed to do in these situations.

~You want love? we'll make it-

Sai, who had finally turned the music off, stated 'I'm not gay' when he put the mp3 on his night table. Then he snuggled further in his pillow and said 'And now shut up please, I want to sleep.'

'Arghh!' Naruto put his pillow on the floor and lay down.

'Naruto, don't you think you're a little overreacti-' His sensei asked carefully.

'No!'

'Okay..., well, uhm... sleep well.' Kakashi closed the door and turned around. That had been kind of weird.
Then he saw the bubblegum haired girl laughing in her pillow and he couldn't help but smile a little bit too.

'I don't believe Sai got that song from Jiraiya, it's more something for girls..' Sakura replied when she turned around and looked at her sensei who was making his way to the kitchen.

'I can believe that.' Then he sat down and picked up his book again.

Sakura now felt really sorry for him.

'Kakashi-sensei, I promise I won't take a look, please.. just eat, you must be starving by now.'

Kakashi turned around and saw her sincere look, he nodded slightly in reply and stood up to put his awaiting food in the microwave.

'Auch...' Sakura found herself on the cold floor. Apparently she had fallen from the couch. She stood up and made stretched herself. she didn't have a clue about what time it was. It was still dark, so it couldn't be time to get up yet. In her opinion, that was great, because she didn't feel like getting up anytime soon.

Before she went back to sleep she wanted to refresh herself a little, she was a little sweaty from the hot weather.

As she quickly stepped over her former sensei, who had positioned himself between the door and the couches, she silently opened the door and stepped in.

After a refreshment in bathroom she pushed the door open again. She wanted to step over her sensei again, but just at that moment, he moved and let his back hit the floor. Sakura now could see how peaceful he was sleeping, although there were a few sweat-drops on the visible part of his face. She tattled herself on eyeing her sensei when asleep, so she quickly made her way back to the couch.

Although she had to admit she had never seen anyone looking so cute when asleep.

Haha second chappie done! :D

Reviews please :)

ps. first song: Lou Bega - Mambo nr. 5

second song: John Mayer - Your body is a wonderland

pps. Still don't own these.

ppps. Okay, so the cafeteria stuff may have been very weird, but I suggest you to google some pictures of the dishes, they are very popular. Although I'm not a big fan of them...