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.

AN: Yay! Another surprise, aka the true surprise; I have done two chapters in one day! Be excited!

Masked Affections

A Naruto FanFiction

Chapter 8: Truth or Dare

"What?" You can almost see his other eyebrow shoot up from under that headband of his.

"It's rather obvious she likes you." Naruto states, seeming guarded about the topic.

"Well…yah." You can see the red rise in his cheeks.

"So what are you going to do about it?" Naruto questions, and Kakashi, even though mildly surprised that he isn't either being grossed out or trying to kill him, is still lost for words.

"I…I…I don't know." He sputters out, sounding like Hinata, and red crosses his cheeks as he looks down, "We're different ranks…and I'm so…so…old." He sighs.

"You're not that old, you're only like twenty something. And I know she doesn't really care about ranks, but if you are that worried about it, I'm sure she'll be a Jounin eventually. She reminds me a lot of Grandma Tsunade." Naruto reasons with Kakashi.

He chuckles, "Yah she does. But as I told you, I have as much of an idea of what to tell you for Hinata."

"Really? You are supposed to be a genius. You know…well, a lot of things." Naruto argues back, frustrated.

"Sakura's… special okay?" He gets more defensive and Kakashi realizes what it is. Naruto, even though having like Sakura, has accepted she likes someone else, and he's found someone else that he has feelings for; but all the same Naruto will protect his friend's heart.

"So if you like her, why don't you tell her," He pauses, "You could always ask for a blessing thing from Grandma, after all she was Sakura's sensei."

"A blessing…I didn't think about that. It'd get Tsunade-sama on my side, hopefully, and I can get closer to Sakura. That just might help, at least a little…and yes, I do…like her."

"Yes it could help, I'm sure Grandma would give advice." Naruto looks over towards where Sakura and Hinata headed to clean up.

"You're not always knuckle headed, huh?" Kakashi follows his gaze with a small crinkle of his eyes.

"Hey!" He shouts, defensive, and Kakashi just chuckles, "Well we better check on the twins to make sure they aren't up to something." Kakashi just nods, and heads into their room. The twins stand, studying a scroll, practicing a Jutsu.

"What are you up to?" Kakashi asks and they both jump, and look towards the door where he stands.

The girl quickly hides the scroll behind her, "Nothing." They both say.

"I'm not blind…" Kakashi looks stern.

"Just don't tell our parents."They say.

"Alright." Kakashi sighs.

The girl takes the scroll from behind her back, and they move slightly, revealing a box full of scrolls, "We found this one day when we were playing in the attic." The boy begins.

"And Gabriel tripped and landed on the box." The girl adds.

"I didn't trip you pushed me Lexi." Gabriel argues.

"Did not." Lexi counters.

"Did too." Gabriel glares.

"Anyways we found the box, and inside were the scrolls. At first we didn't know what they were, but we figured out they were scrolls that taught people Jutsus." Lexi explains.

"So we have been trying to teach ourselves." Gabriel finishes.

"You have to be careful; some are very, very dangerous." Kakashi warns.

They look up at him, "Really? We didn't know that." The girl looks at Gabriel, "Maybe he is talking about the scrolls with the dark stuff around them, the ones we couldn't open."

"Well don't use those ones okay? Be very careful with any others too."

"Okay…though I do wonder what they are for…" The girl ponders, curiosity lacing her small voice. She looks towards the box, and even Kakashi knows they will look, despite his warning.

"I won't touch them, will you Lexi." Gabriel's words on lost, Lexi's gaze still on the box.

"Hand them to me, in case you get any ideas." Kakashi orders them.

"But…" She sighs, but hands him over the box, so that Kakashi can pick them out himself. There are only four, there is indeed a dark aura around them and they are even sealed with powerful seals.

"Thank you." He hands the box back, and she places it back where it was.

Naruto leans over, "So what are you going to do with them Kakashi-sensei." He whispered.

"I'll check them out later." He replies in a hushed tone.

"Do you think that maybe you could teach us a little from the other scrolls?" Gabriel asks.

"Sure." Kakashi answers and both Gabriel and Lexi smile.

"So what are you going to teach us? There are so many scrolls, and some of them are super hard."

"I'm going to go check on Sakura and Hinata." Naruto speaks up, meandering off.

"I'll teach you this." He pulls out a simple jutsu, basically helping with chakra control, and they catch on quickly, Gabriel faster than Lexi, but she was never too far behind.

Naruto finds them, and somehow Hinata has rid Sakura of her blue, and dinner has been cooked, "Alright dinner!"

"Aw do we have to…" Lexi complains.

"Yes, you do. Now clean up and go to the table when you're done." Sakura says from the doorway, and both twins sigh, and leave to clean up.

"So what were you doing?" Sakura questions, hands on her hips.

"I was teaching them something from these scrolls." He motions to the box.

"Where did they get that? It looks like it cost a load of money."

"It was in their attic…" He explains.

"In their attic? I suppose it could have been handed down…well anyways, you need to clean up too." Sakura chastises, before heading to the dining room. Kakashi cleans up, and follows the twins in to the dining room. They eat, and as soon as they finish the twins yawn, and they head to bed.

"So what do we do now?" Naruto asks, as it's still early to them.

"We can do whatever you guys would like, and eventually then bed for us as well." Kakashi answers.

"So what does everyone want to do?" Naruto looks around at everyone.

"How about truth or dare?" Kakashi offers.

"Awesome!" Naruto agrees.

"Okay…I suppose just nothing too crazy." Sakura adds.

"We won't." Kakashi assures.

"Very well, so who starts?" Sakura wonders.

"No idea…" Kakashi shrugs.

"Well we could have Kakashi-sensei start the questions, since it was his idea, and go to his right from there." Naruto suggests.

"Sounds good…hmmm…" Kakashi thinks, "So Sakura, truth or dare?"

"Um…truth."

"What are your plans for the future?" Kakashi questions.

"Well I plan to serve the village any way I can, and maybe find someone to be with, and have kids someday." She answers.

Sakura turns to Naruto, "Truth or dare?"

"Dare."

"Very well…hmmm…I dare you to hug Hinata." She says, and Naruto gets up, quickly hugs Hinata, then sits back down, leaving Hinata blushing.

Naruto turns to Hinata, who is next, "Truth or dare?"

"T…Truth." She stammers.

"Um…do you have any favorite animals?"

"F…foxes." She replies.

"That's nice." He answers, and Hinata turns to Kakashi.

"T…truth or dare." She stutters.

"Dare." He answers simply.

"I d…d…dare you to h…hug Sakura."

His eyebrows shoot up, but he does give her a quick hug, and now it's Sakura's turn to get some rose color into her cheeks. "It's your turn again, ask away Kakashi-sensei."

"Truth or dare?"

"I guess dare."

"I dare you to…give a kiss, just on the cheek to anyone you choose."

She blushes, leans over, quickly pecks Kakashi's cheek, and then yawns, "I think I'm going to bed." As soon as it's said, she's run off.

"Well that was weird." Naruto states.

Kakashi chuckles, "I t…think she's embarrassed." Hinata rationalizing.

"Do we keep playing, or do we go to bed too?" Naruto wonders.

"Well I might as well head to bed; you two can do what you want." With that Kakashi wanders off, trying to see where Sakura ran off to, considering they're all staying in the same room, in sleeping bags.

"What would you like to do Hinata?" Naruto questions.

"It…It doesn't matter to me N…Naruto-kun." She stammers out.

"We should probably head to bed. We don't want the kids getting up early on us and end up dragging us around tired and all." Naruto suggests.

"O…Okay." Hinata nods, and slips into her sleeping bag and Naruto gets into his.

After a little searching Kakashi manages to find Sakura on the roof, looking at stars, "You okay?" He asks, from behind her, as ninja-like as ever.

"I'm fine." She says, looking up at him, "What brings you up here?"

"Making sure you're alright, you ran out in a heck of a hurry."

"I'm sorry, I'm just tired, and it's been an exciting day." She explains.

"It's alright, I understand." He sits beside her, "Though I didn't know you slept on rooftops." She can almost feel his boyish grin radiate from him.

"Sometimes." She blushes, and looks back at the stars.

"Well that can't be comfortable.

"It's not that bad; it's actually quite nice with a breeze." She reasons.

He chuckles, "I imagine it's not that bad."

She looks over at him, "Have you ever tried to sleep on a roof?"

"Nope, can't say I have."

"Do you want to try?" She asks.

"I don't see why not; as long as you don't mind."

"It's fine." She relaxes and actually looks quite calm.

"Thank you." He just lies down, hands behind his head, looking up at the stars. Sakura quickly falls asleep, but Kakashi notices the breeze tonight is a bit cooler than normal, and sure enough Sakura begins to shiver. He reaches over, and pulls her close without a second thought, wrapping an arm around her, pulling her into his chest. She only snuggles closer, stopping her shivering, still sleeping and unaware of anything that happened.

Morning comes, and Hinata's up making breakfast, but everyone else is asleep or at least acting it. Kakashi still lies, cuddling Sakura, very much awake, but not about to move.

Sakura stirs, "Am I still sleeping?" she quietly murmured, almost to herself.

"No." Kakashi answers and Sakura at this very moment can hear his heart thud in his chest, loud and extremely real.

AN: Yah I know my titles aren't that good, and it's a ton of fluff, but it's romantic fluff, which is how it's meant to be. It's a romance FanFiction after all.

AN: Will Sakura freak out and run away again? Will she stay instead? Will Kakashi make a move if she doesn't? What's happening with Gaara? And is Tsunade matchmaking, because it seems a bit too planned? And most important of all, what is for breakfast? What will happen next? Stay tuned for the next installment of Masked Affections!