Anko woke up feeling dizzy and confused. Yawning she glanced her surroundings and realizing she was inside her tent. She scratched the nape of her head, trying to open her eyes fully. I could use a bath. She stretched her arms and straightened up, her blanket fell on her lap and with a last stretch she began to crawl to the tent's entrance.

-I wouldn't crawl outside the tent if I were you.

Anko blinked twice before turning her head to look at the origin of the voice. Kakashi was seated in Indian style, half covered with other blanket, with his right elbow over his right knee, his left hand on the other and his right palm giving support to his face. He was staring at her, apparently diverted and smiling. Anko didn't understood what he meant with his last statement, she was still dozing and yawning, her mind wasn't fully awake.

-Although I love the view-. Pointing her with his left index.

An electric shock dissipate the tiniest remain of sleepiness in her. She panicked and took her blanket with both hands, trying to cover herself as fast as she could and blushed. Kakashi laughed at the scene, she was simply comical. Anko gave him a deadly glare; he continued laughing almost falling on his back. Anko tried to recall why she was naked and why he was there also naked. She ignored the annoying laughter of her comrade and started to remember what happened the last night.

After the lake incident, both soaked walked to her camping and started a fire. Kakashi recommended that they should take off their clothes and let the fire dry them. Anko got in her tent and undressed herself, using the blanket as a tunic she came outside with her wet clothes on her right hand. Kakashi smiled and asked if she got a spare blanket for him, she nodded and pointed to her backpack. After a few minutes, he got outside with his clothes in one hand, the blanket wrapping his body and leaving his chest exposed. Anko blushed and smiled evilly at him, she took some logs and with some wire she got from her coat's pocket she built a clothesline.

Both put their respective clothes over the wire, avoiding any eye contact and without speaking. After doing this, they sat in front of the fire in opposite directions. They glanced at each other briefly, not sure what to say to break the uncomfortable silence. Anko saw that Kakashi was yawning openly and his eye was closing against his will. Preoccupied she stood up and walked towards him, he looked up and nodded. Without a word both got in her tent, deciding to call it a night they fell asleep. Kakashi stopped laughing; he was analyzing her sudden change of humor. Anko held a serious expression and was avoiding his eyes.

They haven't talked about what was going on between them and Anko was starting to get real worried. Of course she liked the way both of them shared their inner desires, she liked to play and bother him until both got the chance to screw the other until he/she was exhausted. But right now she felt the guilt running through her veins. Anko's conscience was shouting loudly, complaining and demanding an explanation. She wasn't sure how to explain herself about the way she felt over the copy-ninja, obviously she desired him fervently every minute she spent away from him but once this need was satisfied, what was left?

Kakashi saw a glimpse of grief and sorrow reflected on her eyes. Worried he tried harder to make her look at him with his gaze, but she was so deeply inside her mind that it was almost impossible for him to accomplish this from the place he was. He crawled smoothly behind her and with both arms he pulled her to his chest. Anko was brought back from her thoughts by the sudden warmth on her waist and a ticklish breath over her neck.

-Something wrong?

Anko smiled, holding his hands with hers and rubbing her head over his chest she muttered. -Not anymore.

By the time Kakashi jumped to the second floor, he heard that the guys were making a lot of noise next room. Carefully he unlocked the balcony's door and sneaked into his room, feeling like a teenager coming back from a noisy party. Ten seconds passed when Sakura rushed inside his room, making Kakashi jerk in surprise. He was relived he got back in perfect time. Hiding his nervousness, he turned to his right so he could look directly at his pupil.

-Kakashi-sensei! Kakashi-sensei!

-What?-. Replied angered, massaging his scalp and trying to fake his morning face.

-It's Naruto!

Kakashi groaned and turned over the other side of his bed.-What's with him?-. Looking at the wall and pretending he was trying to sleep again.

-He's fighting with Sasuke-kun!

He rolled his eyes and pulled the blanket over his face. All that scandal for nothing.-Let them be, they're boys. Wake me when something relevant happens.

-But Kakashi-sensei…

Kakashi was getting impatient; he knew that Sakura will bother him until the end of times if he doesn't help her. He tried not to look that pissed when he sat in Indian style on the upper bed and with a final scratch on his scalp he jumped from it. Sakura stepped aside and let her sensei walk to the boys' room; Kakashi didn't even bothered to knock and got inside. The room was a complete mess, there were feathers all over the floor, the bunk was unaligned and both mattress on the wall. Naruto and Sasuke were at the middle of the room, glaring at each other with a kunai in their right hand. Naruto was about to charge again when Kakashi stopped him with his left hand, Kakashi glared at Sasuke, he put away his kunai and looked at his former sensei.

-I won't even bother to ask what happened here, just clean the mess and be ready to pay the consequences for your reckless behavior-. He freed Naruto's hand and stepped outside the room. Kakashi glanced at them for the last time before leaving to his own room, he needed a bath.

While washing his hair he heard Lilly opening the main door and closing it behind her, Kakashi was grateful that Lilly wasn't in the house when the fight started. He could tell by the noises and constant cursing of Naruto that they were about to finish cleaning their room, Sakura was obviously helping them and reprehending Naruto for starting the fight. Even though he was clearly angered for the destruction his students made to their room, Kakashi was smiling and letting the water hit his back. He was replaying in his mind the morning events and smirked. Kakashi was more than pleased due to the fact that she was able to keep on in this type of "activities". Still smirking he stepped outside the shower and dried himself while brushing his teeth. His nose picked the smell of scrambled eggs with ham coming from downstairs and his stomach shook in excitement. Kakashi was looking at his face when he noticed a red spot on his neck; he spit the leftovers over the washbasin and leaned closer to the mirror. Chuckling he searched for his mask and closed the faucet. Didn't see that coming. Rubbing his neck with his right hand and putting his mask on.

Naruto and Sasuke were glaring at each other, arms crossed on their respective chest and mumbling. Kakashi took seat next of Naruto, Sakura was looking at her partners worried while Lilly was at the kitchen frying the ham. Kakashi was in a surprisingly good humor and was making sure that none of his students will spoil that. Lilly appeared with a frying pan in her left hand and a spatula in the other. She poured some scrambled eggs in Kakashi's plate, he nodded and with a smiled he started to eat peacefully. The tension between Naruto and Sasuke was broken when Lilly served a big piece of egg and ham over Naruto's plate, blinking and smiling he forgot why was he angry and started to dig his plate. Breakfast time passed smoothly, all of them thanked the old lady for the meal and got upstairs to take their belongings. Lilly was waiting at the main door with something in her hands by the time the whole team gathered in the living room. Lilly approached and gave them a paper bag filled with candy; they thanked her for her hospitality and with a smile drawn on their lips, team number seven was heading back home.

Anko zipped her backpack and checked her surroundings. Everything seemed fine; she already cleaned the mess she did during those three days and their respective nights. She smiled dreamily and with a last look she took her backpack and climbed the nearest tree. Anko was jumping from branch to branch, trying to catch on with the rest of the team. She saw them walking over the same pathway they took two days ago and in silence she followed them. Kakashi was daydreaming when she felt her coming closer to them, he was about to do the same trick he used the first time they walked that pathway when he spotted the front doors of Konoha in the horizon. He cursed his luck and walked towards the city in silence.

Naruto jumped with joy when he spotted the Ichiraku from the position he was, ignoring completely his team he ran towards the ramen restaurant, leaving the rest of the team at the front door. Kakashi excused himself and with a poof smoke he disappeared. Tsunade was daydreaming when a knock brought her back from her dreaming land. She cursed a bit and wondered how she got convinced by a 12 year old kid to be the next Hokage, she gave a light spin on her chair and faced the door.

-Come in!

Kakashi stepped inside, apologizing while rubbing the back of his head and walking towards Tsunade's desk. He cleared his throat and began explaining how the mission went. Tsunade was getting sleepy for the dull explanation when a knock in her door woke her up.

-Come in

Anko showed up, smiling widely while chewing a stick full of dango. Konoha sure has the best dango in the world. She saw that Kakashi was already there; with a nervous gulp she ate the last piece of her sweet and tried to look casual in front of the Godaime. Tsunade noticed this and smiled. Kakashi resumed his explanation, boring once again the fifth Hokage. Tsunade was glad that Anko was there, now she got something to get distracted with. She was enjoying seeing Anko disoriented, glancing at Kakashi once in a while and looking at her fingers with nervousness. Kakashi finally ended his report and was time for Anko to explain. She told Tsunade that the weakness of the team laid in Sasuke, Anko explained that the three of them worked fine but if you split them in couples the result could be a complete disaster. Tsunade nodded and after writing something on a paper, she dismissed them.

She was the first to get out, followed by Kakashi who closed the door behind him. Anko felt uncomfortable by the way he was looking at her, trying to breath normally she stepped closer to him and with a defiant look she gazed at him.

-Listen I-

-Kakashi, my rival, where have you been? Hiding from me again?

-Running from you, more and putting both hands on his pockets.

Gai stepped closer, smiling widely and hitting "friendly" Kakashi's back.-Oh Kakashi… if you wanted to challenge me at running you should just said and giving another hit to Kakashi's back.

Anko blinked in disbelief and shocked from the unusual friendship both held. She looked at Kakashi, who just remained there glancing Gai. If he was able to throw daggers from his eyes, Gai would be the first person in all Konoha to receive 100,000 daggers in one attack and still smiling. Anko was getting impatient; she needed to speak with Kakashi alone, both of them needed to talk about what happened in the farmer's town and what to do now they got intimate.

-Listen Gai, could you lend me Kakashi for a minute?

Gai blinked but smiled even wider, if that was possible. He put Kakashi aside and walked towards Anko.

-Anko, didn't know you were here! Forgive my discourtesy. It is just that you're so petite that it's almost impossible to see you.

He continued talking about her height and how he could help her with some training. Now Anko was officially pissed, her body was shaking and she was biting her lower lip. Kakashi panicked and checked if he had something in his pocket to protect him against her increasing fury. She was about to jump and hit Gai directly on the face when she heard two key words in his speech "free" and "dango".

-Did you say free dango?- blinking at the green gnome.

Gai nodded, smiling with his "nice guy" pose and letting a white sparkle shine on his teeth.

-Of course Anko! To grow up, you need to train and feed yourself properly. But the only thing that can encourage you to continue on this long and rough quest is the sweet. Not only it delights your mouth, it also enlightens and grows your unstoppable spirit, the spirit of youth. Remember you can not be big on the outside if you're not big in the inside.

She's not gonna buy that, is she? Kakashi looked at Anko, who was watching Gai with amazed eyes. He watched closely and saw some sparkles shining from Anko's eyes. She was smiling; with a nod she hugged Gai's right arm and leading the way. Anko dragged a still-talking Gai to the exit, leaving a disturbed and confused Kakashi behind.

Anko was smiling, still hugging his right arm closer to her and ignoring what Gai was saying. She didn't care what he said about the youthful spirit or the ways of feeding it, the only thing that she cared was her free meal. In the way they found some companions that stared at them, shocked by the unusual couple and how odd they looked together. Some of them even whispered at their backs, but Anko just ignored their voices and continue walking as for Gai he just smiled and gave everybody a nice guy pose. They arrived to the Anko's favorite place to shop. Kotetsu and Izumo were inside the store, talking to a couple of ladies while eating calmly when they spotted Anko on Gai's arm. They panicked and even left a shout of horror escape from their lips; the ladies feared this and ran away from both shinobis. Anko dragged by this sudden commotion, got closer to see what was happening and spotted both shinobis still shocked and horrified by the way things were getting around them.

-Ey you two, mind if we join you?

Izumo was the first one to snap out and nodded to them, Anko sat down still holding Gai's arm and looking at Kotetsu who remained emotionless. Izumo elbowed him and with a fishy look he stared at the two Jounins in front of him. Anko glanced at them but ignored their stares, she took the menu and with a signal the waitress approached them.

-I want an order of each flavor and some green tea.

-Yeah! That's the spirit, the spirit of and making his nice guy pose but over the bench.

Kotetsu looked at Izumo, who was just starting at the two special jounins with disbelief. The waitress nodded, with a gesture she indicated Gai to sit and not to stand over the chairs and with a sweat drop in her forehead she left. Anko crossed her legs and with a big yawn she stretched her arms. She sensed the tension and the glares from their companions; picking a toothpick from the table she glanced back to the two shinobis.

-Say Izumo, got something new?

Izumo blinked twice and cleared his troath.

-Nothing especial, Anko-san.

Mumbling she chewed her toothpick, this was getting to frustrating. Anko looked at Kotetsu, hoping for something to happen but he was still shocked by their sudden arrival. The waitress came back with Anko's order and before she could even say Itadakimasu, two balls of sweet dango were dancing along her tongue. Gai compliment her about that eating with that ferocity meant that she was a healthy girl. Izumo and Kotetsu just watched her eating, both knew that she was capable of make sweet things disappear in front of their eyes in less than ten seconds. Anko licked the last stick from her order in her usual but perturbing way and with a rub to her stomach, she grinned evilly.

-Thanks Gai, I really needed this.

-No problem. Anything to keep alive the youth spirit in my comrades.

Gai was already at the cashier paying when Anko stood up and stretched her back; she waved at Kotetsu and Izumo and started walking out of the restaurant. Gai followed and both jounins were walking trough the streets with the loudly voice of Gai telling her about how great it was to feel and be young. She was dozing for all that food in her stomach, Gai noticed this and suggested to sit on a bench near them. Anko sat up immediately, feeling nauseous for the effort and the heat around them. I mustn't have eaten that much. She thanked that they were under a tree and that Gai stopped talking. She felt a sudden urge to puke but restrained herself of doing. Even if she knew that it would help her feel much better, it was too embarrassing and also a sign of weakness and she was no longer a weak woman.

Gai noticed her pale face and her heavy breathing; she was sweating also and was embracing her chest with both hands. -Are you alright Anko?-. Already knowing the answer but when he got no response he panicked. Gai checked with his right hand her forehead and after confirming his suppositions he took Anko in bridal style and disappeared.

Kakashi was walking peacefully in the streets of Konoha, leading to nowhere in particular and with both hands in his pockets. He already wrote the report that Tsunade asked him to fulfill and ate at Ichiraku. The sun was shining brightly, mocking Kakashi and making him curse against the jounin's dark outfit. He pulled his vest a bit, trying to get some fresh air in his chest. Kakashi knew that he was about to die of dehydration if he didn't do something quick enough to avoid it, he glanced to his left and found his momentary salvation. Smiling he approached the counter and placed both elbows on it. He was thinking about what to choose when he felt a something weird on his back. Normally he would just look for a weapon and sketched many possible scenarios in his mind before even turning his head to his attacker, but today he felt worn out for all that physical/mental stress and the weather wasn't helping. Instead he turned his head to his right and gazed at whatever it was trying to bother him. He caught a glimpse of violet hair with his only visible eye and smiled.

-Yo! Thought I wouldn't see you in some time.

Lira W.M: Ok… I know I have no excuses this time for this, also that I broke my promise three times in a row. Well punish me if you want, but some things (like this) just don't work if I force them too much. Anyway I'll try to post on Thursday at the usual hour, it seems that the idea finally came back and well that I finally finished the French level so I have (finally) summer vacations, therefore more spare time to think and write this thing. But the worse part is over (for me I mean) finally I was able to turn this engine on and accomplish what I needed to continue this story, right TwoTails (finally I was able to add them!). Thanks a lot for reading my story and a cookie for all those who left a review and encouraged me to continue with this, arigato!

P.S: TwoTails you're the woman! Go for it!

P.S2: The cookies I'll grant them if you pay a visit to my house XD