AN: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters, only my OC's…wait I don't have any OC's, they're all my co-authors *sigh*. Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.
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Masked Affections
A Naruto FanFiction
Chapter 7: Traps and Twins
Hinata's eyes widen, and her cheeks are now so red she could almost rival a tomato, and Naruto has joined her, but he doesn't bother to move.
Outside, Kakashi, too focused on helping Sakura, sets his foot straight into the trap beside Sakura.
"Well now what?" Sakura sighs.
Kakashi's eyes crinkle, "No idea." He chuckles.
Naruto finally moves, "Sorry." He apologizes quickly, and helps Hinata up.
"It…it…its okay N…Naruto-kun." She manages to stutter out, still blushing furiously, but managing not to just keel over where she stands. Neji told her to be stronger; and if it was for Naruto, she'd try her hardest.
"We should probably try to find the others." Naruto suggests, with a small nervous smile. Hinata nods, and eventually they find the other two outside. At this sight Naruto bursts into a fit of laughter, and Hinata even can't help but smile.
"Don't you laugh at us Naruto, help get us down already!" Sakura shouts, wiggling around in her own wires, almost as if she could get out and hit him if she tried hard enough.
Hinata goes over and helps Sakura down, "Paying you back." She softly says, still blushing from earlier.
"Naruto, if you please." Kakashi says, still tangled in his trap.
Naruto sighs, "Fine." He wonders over manages to get Kakashi down, and quickly retreats before he's seemingly crushed by his sensei.
"Thank you." Kakashi brushes himself off as he stands upright again.
"This is supposed to be hide and seek, not trap the other people while you hide game!" Sakura grumbles, looking angry enough that Naruto backs away, and Kakashi steps forward between the two, before any punches go flying.
"I saw them set some more up. I think they have fun doing this." Kakashi explains, though he hides his embarrassment from being trapped earlier, while Sakura glares at him for not saying anything about them.
"So that's why the parents looked worried…the kids are scaring everyone off," Sakura becomes lost in thought, "but…maybe we can beat them at their own game…"
"That sounds f…fun." Hinata manages a small smile.
"What do we do though, considering we don't want to hurt them?" Sakura questions, turning to Kakashi, "Can you think of anything?"
Naruto grins where he stands, and Kakashi raises his eyebrow in response, slightly worried, "Yes Naruto?"
"We could set up water traps. That way they won't get hurt and we can have fun with it." He replies.
"Good idea." Kakashi's eyes crinkle in a unseen smile, but most likely a mischievous one. They all begin to work together, setting up harmless water traps on their own, and managing to avoid what traps are near them.
"So how are we going to get them to come out from where their hiding?" Naruto wonders.
"I…I could find them with my Byakugan, then Kakashi-sensei can flush them out, since he knows where the t…traps are." Hinata offers.
"That could work. Come on Naruto, you go over there, and I'm going to go over there. We can hide and watch." Sakura shouts over her shoulder, already off to hide as Naruto hides not too far from the trap itself, but not too close that he'd get soaked himself.
Hinata manages to find the twins in the kitchen, and Kakashi flushes them out, with a bit of work, and as predicted they run right into the water trap. They both end up soaked, but now the girl has begun to cry. Sakura has come out, trying to comfort the crying girl, helping her to go get changed out of her wet clothes.
The boy looks up at Kakashi, eyes narrowed, "This means war, you know that right?" He points after his sister, "You made my sister cry, and I will make sure you pay for that."
Naruto scoffs, "And how do you plan to do that?"
"I'm sure the pink haired lady is already experiencing the trap I set out earlier in our room."
"I'll get her." Kakashi sighs, heading after Sakura as both Naruto and the boy just stare at each other in contempt.
The minute Kakashi walks into the room he sees the girl, changed into dry clothes, lightly giggling in the corner, as Sakura stands in the middle covered in blue dust. No matter how much she fidgets around none of it seems to come off.
"I don't think struggling will help." Kakashi chuckles at the sight.
She glares at him, "It's not like you're covered in blue. Blue does not go good with pink."
"It looks good on you." He shrugs, "Very well then, let's get you cleaned up."
"I can't get it off. How do you plan on getting off if I can't, Mister Genius?"
"Water?" He states bluntly, as if it was obvious the whole time.
She blinks at him, "Ugh…fine." She heads off to the bathroom, Kakashi following behind, attempting to help.
She fights with the blue dust, and the water, and manages to get it all over the bathroom floor. She slips up on it, but Kakashi reaches out to catch her, only to slip on the water himself. She falls on top of him, but not facing him, unlike Hinata and Naruto earlier.
Strangely enough Kakashi just laughs, and she just blushes, "Sorry." She mutters, attempting to get up.
"It's…okay." He says between laughs.
"Ugh." She gets up, dumping water on him as she wrings her hair out, and places it into towel, attempting to dry it.
"Hey you didn't have to do that, that's not nice." He grumbles, "I wasn't laughing at you." He scoops up water from a puddle and splashes her with it.
She glares, but playfully, "I would make you pay for that, but since I'd have to clean it up, I won't bother."
Kakashi's eyes narrow playfully, and he splashes her again, "I bet you won't make me pay for it."
She just tilts her head down, challenging him, "You don't think I will huh?" She splashes him, right in the face.
"Oh so threatening." He teases, splashing her with a bigger handful then last time.
She grins, and then picks up the shower nozzle, turning the handle to full blast, soaking Kakashi with it. He just tries to tackle her over and take it from her, but is unsuccessful.
He just laughs, his shirt clinging to his skin, "Cheater!" He accuses.
"I'm not." She halfheartedly retorts, too busy trying not to stare, but beginning to blush.
He launches forward and trying to wrestle the shower nozzle from her again. His hair, mainly flat, sticks to his face a little, and even his mask is clinging to his face he's so soaked. He manages to win this time, but Sakura is blushing all the worse, defeated on the floor.
He just turns off the nozzle, and lies on the floor beside Sakura. "You win." He sighs, managing to contain his laughter.
"Well of course." Her voice, still normal, though her blush still remains on her face, she eventually gets up, attempting to clean up, blue dust still in her hair.
Kakashi manages to get up, wringing out what he can over the bathtub, "Thanks, now I'm soaked…again."
"You're welcome." She smiles, getting the soaked floor dry, but with some help from Kakashi and a towel. They wonder out, Kakashi still mildly damp, only to find Naruto and the boy playing Shogi, but Naruto is obviously already losing, and doomed.
"Ugh…I can't believe I lost." He complains.
"How about four out of five?" The boy asks, hopeful, his anger from earlier gone. Hinata sits, having watched them play, lightly cheering Naruto on. Naruto just gets up, annoyed, and Kakashi steps forward.
"I will play you." He offers up.
"Very well." He states, and they play. He ends up being good, but Kakashi still wins, though it was a challenge for him to do so.
"You are very good; you will make a good shinobi one day, if you choose to be."
The boy's eyes shine, "You really think so? I did want to go to the academy, but my mom says it's too dangerous, and wanted me to be a merchant or a scholar."
"Though we have practiced a few things." The girl adds on.
"It is a dangerous life." Kakashi confirms.
"I know, but it's our dream." The boy replies.
"Well I hope you find happiness and joy in whatever you do." Kakashi crinkles his eyes in a friendly smile.
"Thank you." The twins say together.
"You're welcome."
The girl tugs on Sakura's dress, "I'm hungry."
"I will go make something." Sakura wonders off into the kitchen.
The boy looks up at Kakashi, "Do you think you could talk to our mom? We really want to go to the academy." They both widen their eyes, almost like a puppy begging for food.
"I can surely tell her of you skills as young shinobi."
"Thank you." The girl hugs Kakashi's leg, and even though he is surprised at first, he leans down and gives her a small hug in return. Sakura returns with food, which the girl quickly devours.
"Come on sis, our dad won't be happy if we don't do our studies." The boy motions for her to follow.
"Fine…" She sighs, and they wonder off to their room.
"Need help g…getting the bl…blue out of your hair?" Hinata asks Sakura, who just nods with an amused smile, and they head to go attempt to get the blue out of Sakura's hair.
"Um…Kakashi sensei…can I ask you something?" Naruto shuffles his feet nervously.
"Sure Naruto, what is it?" He looks up from his Makeout Paradise book he had already pulled out as soon as the children left.
He scratches his head, "Um…well…you see earlier I got caught in a trap, and Hinata helped me down…and well actually I fell on top of her…and…" He looks away, a blush catching his cheeks.
"Yes…" Kakashi raises his one visible eyebrow.
"Our lips touched…but I didn't want to move, I wanted to stay sensei…what does that mean?"
Kakashi chuckles, "You like her Naruto." He leans over and ruffles the number one knucklehead ninja's hair.
"She is a great friend."
"Then maybe you should do something about it, though not too much, she is shy. Just show you like her. I'm sure she likes you, considering her constant blushing around you, and instead of Naruto-san, it's Naruto-kun."
"How am I supposed to do that?" He looks befuddled.
Kakashi laughs heartily, "That you'll have to figure out on your own."
"You're not very helpful." He grumbles, "Well what about you?"
Kakashi cocks his eyebrow again, "What do you mean?"
"Well about Sakura?"
AN: Yah…tons of romance. But I love those best. And sorry Madara fans, it'll still be a long while before he's introduced. But I would like to note we are not even halfway through this story yet. So be excited, as there's more of this to come! YAY!
AN: Will Naruto actually try for Hinata? Has Naruto figured out who Kakashi likes? Or is he just asking him to back off his girl? Will Sakura ever not be blue? What will happen next? Stay tuned for the next installment of Masked Affections!