A/N – Anyone still out there reading? If there is then I send you hugs, and ever lasting thanks! I just couldn't think of what to write in this chapter, but I'm sure you'll agree that it was well worth that wait. XD
Chapter Three: Bras, Panties, And A Wrap
Recap…
"Kakashi sensei!" An eighteen year old, Sakura called, from up the street, "Come on!"
Kakashi shook his head, and went to catch up to Sakura and the others, who were standing with her, "Coming."
Kakashi walked towards his students, staring directly at his former love, thinking only one thought, will I ever see that look again?
"Um? Kakashi sensei?" Sakura asked, staring at him in wonder.
"Hm? What is it, Sakura?" Kakashi asked.
"Well, it's just that…" Sakura's voice trailed off.
"What?" Kakashi asked again.
"It's just that you've been staring at me for the last half an hour," Sakura pointed out, "No offence, but it's kind of creepy."
"Huh?" Kakashi asked, and then he realized that his eyes were glued to her, "Oh, sorry."
Sakura glanced at Kakashi, "Is something wrong, sensei? About me coming on this mission?"
"It's just what I told you before," Kakashi explained quickly, "It's not the best place for a young girl, like yourself."
"Is that really all there is to it?" Sakura asked.
Kakashi looked over at her; does she know I'm lying to her?
"Yes," Kakashi answered, "That's all."
"Sensei! I know I may have been weak in the past," Sakura admitted, stopping in her walking to glare at her teacher, Kakashi had already stopped when she had spoke the word 'weak', "But that was before, I'm a lot stronger now!"
Kakashi stared at Sakura; suddenly her eyes went wide in surprise, "Kakashi sensei? Are you okay?"
"Why do you ask?" Kakashi asked her, not removing his gaze for her face.
"You have such a sad expression on your face," Sakura informed him.
"Oh, sorry," Kakashi apologize, and his one visible eye crinkled into a smile.
"That's better," Sakura, said, smiling back at him, "Now, where's Naruto and Sasuke?"
"Over there," Kakashi said after a moment, and he pointed towards the ramen stand where, indeed, Naruto was standing, and Sasuke was trying to pull him away.
"NARUTO, GET YOU BUTT OVER HERE!" Sakura shouted, "NOW!"
Naruto, and Sasuke, jumped at the tone of Sakura's voice.
"Coming!" Naruto called, and he and Sasuke, dashed to where Sakura stood.
"Sorry about that." Naruto apologized.
"Let's just go," Sakura said, "Come on you guys."
Sakura then lead the way down the street to where they had to separate to go their respective homes.
"Be at the front gates in one hour," Kakashi told his students, "That should be enough time to get everything together."
"Got it!" The students answered in unison.
"Alright," Kakashi said, nodding.
With that, the three students separated down the three separate streets, and Kakashi vanished in a poof of smoke.
Sakura arrived at her home in due time, she unlocked the front door, and walked into her apartment.
"Let's see, what will I need?" Sakura asked herself, looking around.
Sakura's apartment was quite spacious; the living room was a fair size, and it had a TV set on a low wooden table across from which was a dark, navy blue love seat sofa. Beside the sofa, was a wooden end table, on which sat a photograph of team seven. The slick, hard wood floor, though, was what Sakura loved the most about her apartment.
Sakura's eyes rested on the photo, she then walked over to it, picked it up and hugged it to her.
"I think I'll take you with me," Sakura said out loud; she held the picture out in front of her and smiled at it, "What do you think, would you like to come."
Like expected, the photo didn't answer Sakura's question. Sakura laughed, "I'm such an idiot! Asking a photograph if it wants to come on a mission with me…man, I'm beginning to scare myself…although, it would have been scarier if you had actually answer, right?"
Sakura stared at the picture, and laughed yet again.
"Yes, it would have been."
Sakura just about jumped right out of her skin, the photo fell from her hands and hit the floor, breaking the glass.
"Shit!" Sakura swore.
"Sakura, I don't think I've ever heard you swear, before," The voice spoke out.
Sakura swiveled around, ready to beat the snot out of whoever dared come into her home without permission.
"Whoa! Watch it, Sakura!" A surprised Kakashi said; dodging the fist Sakura had sent his way.
"Kakashi sensei?" Sakura asked with wide eyes.
"Did I startle you?" Kakashi asked, smiling at her, with a backpack slung over one shoulder, "I'm sorry, Sakura."
"Like hell your sorry," Sakura accused Kakashi, "You enjoy seeing me jump, don't you?"
"No, I don't enjoy seeing you jump," Kakashi informed her, "I think it's mildly humorous."
Sakura glared at Kakashi, and was then grasped by a fit of giggles. Kakashi looked on as she held her gut, and doubled over with laughter.
"Am I that funny?" Kakashi asked, after about five minutes of Sakura laughing.
Sakura's only answer was more laughing; Kakashi rolled his eyes, "I guess I am."
Hearing Kakashi's remark made Sakura laugh even harder then before, Kakashi laughed lightly at the sight of his student having such a riot.
After about ten more minutes, Sakura's giggles finally calmed down. She stood up, stretched, her back cracked a little from being hunched for so long. Sakura then took a few deep breaths and then looked at Kakashi.
"Done?" Kakashi asked.
"Yup, man that was funny," Sakura, said, beaming.
"I suppose," Kakashi, answered, "Now, are you packed, yet?"
"Oh!" Sakura exclaimed, "No, I'm not! Hold on a minute and I'll go get my things."
"Aww, can't I come, too?" Kakashi said in a childish manner.
Sakura who had already stared to walk towards her bedroom looked over her shoulder at Kakashi, "Um, I guess you can."
Kakashi blinked, he hadn't really been serious with that comment.
"Um, okay." Kakashi replied, and he followed Sakura down the hall of her apartment, to her bedroom door, she walked in, and he cautiously followed.
Kakashi's one visible eye looked around Sakura bedroom, taking in every detail of it. Compare to the living room, it was quite large, the walls were painted a soft blue. To the immediate right of the door was the closet. To the left of the door was a small sitting area, with a small circular dark blue rug in the middle of a mixture of light blue beanbag chairs, and small, blue cushioned, straight back chairs. Up the wall from the sitting area, was a large stereo system, in any other room it probably would of looked out of place, but somehow, it didn't look to bad in this particular room. Up from her closet, were a few dressers and bookcases. Finally across from the door, under the large window, was Sakura's bed, colored with deep blue sheets, and quilt.
"I'll only be a minute," Sakura said, going to her closet and pulling out a backpack.
"Take your time," Kakashi said, and he sat down on one of the straight back chairs. He placed his backpack beside him, and he watched as Sakura ran around packing her things.
"So, Kakashi sensei?" Sakura asked, as she went though her dresser drawers pulling out a pair of shorts and a couple tee shirts.
"Um, yeah?" Kakashi replied, staring at her as she moved over to her bed and neatly packed the shorts and shirts into the backpack.
"Why did you come here, anyway?" Sakura asked, looking over at Kakashi.
"I, um, was just, uh, making sure everyone was on time with their, uh, packing," Kakashi answered.
"Oh, um, okay," Sakura answered, leaving her pack on the bed as she walked back over to her dresser and pulled out a handful of bras and panties, "Kakashi sensei, do think I'll be able to do it?"
Kakashi's one visible eye widen in shock of Sakura's question, "WHAT?"
"The mission, do you like I'll be able to do it alright?" Sakura asked, looking at him curiously, undergarments still in her hand, "What do you think I meant?"
Kakashi didn't know how the hell Sakura wasn't red in the face from the way she had phrased her question, combined with the fact that she a handful of bras and panties that were every color under the sun. Kakashi, himself, could feel his cheeks growing hot, and he silently praised his mask for hiding that particular fact from Sakura.
"Um, sorry, I hadn't really heard you," Kakashi answer lamely.
Sakura looked at Kakashi with a puzzled face, "Alright, well, are you going to answer my question or not?"
"Huh?" Kakashi asked, and then he remembered, "Oh, right, the mission. Uh, yeah, I think you can handle it."
"Really?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah," Kakashi said, nodding.
Kakashi then watched in silence as Sakura packed her bras and panties into her backpack on her bed. She then went to her bookcase and took a shuriken holster, and a kunai holster off the top shelf, and packed that away, too.
"Now, what else am I missing?" Sakura asked one unparticular, "Oh! That's right!"
Sakura walked over to her bookcase once again, and from the top shelf she pulled down some bandages.
"You don't really need to bring bandages, Sakura," Kakashi informed her, "I always bring a medical kit with us on missions."
"What?" Sakura said looking over at Kakashi, "Oh, these aren't for wounds."
"What are they for then?" Kakashi asked, clueless to the fact that he didn't want to know the answer.
"To wrap my breasts," Sakura answered, with not so much as the slightest blush.
Kakashi was astounded that Sakura was able to say that with straight face. He then realized that he was staring at her, and he abruptly looked away.
Kakashi then heard the familiar sound of Sakura's giggles, and then they subsided as Sakura spoke to him, "I take it you didn't know that I wrapped my breast."
"Um, well, it's not something I would question you on, Sakura," Kakashi answered, his voice slightly higher then usual.
"I can't wear a normal bra when I train, and fight, Kakashi sensei," Sakura explained, "Even a sports bra doesn't keep my breasts in place. So, I wrap them."
Before Kakashi realized what he was asking, he blurted out, "So what's with the ones you packed?"
Sakura looked at Kakashi in silence for a moment, and Kakashi actually got flustered, "Um, that is, uh…"
"I understand, don't go making an idiot out of yourself, sensei," Sakura laughed, "I packed some bras because this mission isn't really about 'fighting' it's just about helping to rebuild a town, but I like to wear a wrap coming and going from a mission at least. You never know when you'll be attacked out of the blue. I need to be ready, I can't tell the person attacking to wait until I get out of my bra and into a wrap, now, can I?"
"Oh, um, no, I guess not," Kakashi stumbled over his answer.
"Right, so, yeah, I think I'm all packed, now," Sakura informed Kakashi, slipping the bandages into her pack, and picking it up.
"Oh, yeah, okay," Kakashi said, standing up, and picking up his own backpack, "We should get going, then."
"Yeah," Sakura agreed, smiling, and she then followed Kakashi out of her room, and her apartment to where Sasuke, and Naruto, were waiting for them.
A/N – I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I know I sure enjoyed writing it! Ha ha! Well, until next time, please review!