A new chapter! Yeah! Wow, took me long enough... again... Anyway, enjoy!
It was a late summer evening when Sakura was on her way to the Shiny Shuriken. Today was the ladys night with Ino, Hinata und Tenten. Once in a month they go for a night out together to talk about all the things that happened in the last weeks and to gossip about people. Now that everyone became a Jonin they barely have time to meet because of all these missions. So they promised to meet at least once in a month. But it´s hard to find a day everyone can go out and drink. Hinata dated Naruto for a while now and they do almost everything together. And since she decided to be a Sensei it´s hard to even get some free time for Naruto. She is so kind to her students. She deals with every problem they have, not only the how-to-become-a-good-shinobi problems. EVERY problem. And that´s why her little annoying Genins love her so much. When Ino isn´t on a mission she helps her parents in their flower shop. And when she isn´t in the shop she is on a date or something else. Sakura doesn´t know what Ino exactly is doing in her time off. But to be honest she doesn´t even want to know. And Tenten... She has to deal with Guy and Lee, that´s already enough. Sakura is also very busy. When she isn´t on a mission she is in the hospital. So she doesn´t have that much time to date guys or things like that. And she is glad about that. No drama, no broken hearts and no trouble. But Ino always tries to force her into some of her arranged dates. So Sakura tries to take as much missions and hospital shifts as possible. But somehow Ino still managed to get it the way she planned. Once Ino tried to hook Sakura up with one of her one night stands but that was enough. To make it up to Inos efforts she promised to wear the clothes Ino picked out for their nights out. But she won´t wear them if they are too tight or too short. This night Sakura decided to wear the outfit Ino had picked for her. It was a black plaid skirt, a bit short but still legal, a white tight top with a bow on the back and black high heels. She had to admit it looked kinda sexy but somehow it reminded her of a school uniform. She wondered about Inos plans but it was useless to think about it, she wouldn´t ruin such a nice evening because of her paranoia. When Sakura arrived Ino was already there and had a table reserved for them.
"Hey Ino, where are Hinata and Tenten?" Sakura walked towards the table and smiled.
"They said they´ll be a bit late. Hinatas students again. So, I see you´re wearing the outfit? Perfect!" Ino grinned.
"Yeah, I somehow like it. I´m not looking like a bitch this time." Sakura was still angry when she thought about that incident. Ino has brought her a dress and while she has been in the shower Ino was taking all of her clothes away. So she had no other choice than wearing that slutty dress because there was no way she would have stayed home that night.
"Come on, that dress showed your curves very nicely. Every men in this pub seemed to like it!"
"You mean every drunk, horny asshole." Sakura sat down next to her.
"Yeah, that´s what I said." Ino laughed out loud.
"So, what have you planned for tonight? Any guys spotted you want?"
"Nah, you know... Not this night. I want to spent a nice night with you guys, not other ones."
"You´re serious?" Sakura wasn´t really sure if this was just total crap she was telling her.
"Of course I am! And I don´t want to steal anyone away from you."
"Wow, that´s... Wait a second... First of all, you wouldn´t steal anyone away from me I am interested in or who is interested in me. When someone likes me he is definitely not interested in you, we both are completely different. And secondly, please don´t say you have anything planned for me!"
"Maybe..."
"Ino, no! I want to have a nice and drunk evening with you guys and not with a man."
"Sakura, trust me. I wont force you into anything."
"Okay. But remember this! I am not in the mood for any of your tricks."
"Don´t worry. Maybe a man will bring you home this night and-"
"No, no, no! No one will 'bring me home' or how you call it."
"Let me finish please. Maybe a man will bring you home but listen. I will make sure he won´t try anything. And if there isn´t a man like that I will bring you home if you´re too drunk. Okay?"
"Okay... But you have to promise me!"
"Yeah, I promise... Oh, here they come!" Hinata and Tenten walked through the door and searched the room for them. "Hey, we´re here!"
They spotted them and waved. By now the pub was so full they had problems to get to the table without running into someone. When they arrived at their table they sat down smiling brightly.
"Okay, now that everyone´s here... First round´s on me!" She walked towards the near bar and ordered four cocktails. She came back to the table without spilling a single drop. They had all different colors and it looked like a rainbow.
"You´d make a great waitress. Four drinks on one trip without spilling? Not bad." Tenten laughed.
"Thank you, but no thank you. I´m glad I´m a shinobi. Not only more exciting. But have you looked at some of the male shinobi? So hot!" Ino grinned back.
"And I guess that was the only reason you joined." Sakura said sarcastically.
"O´course!" Ino joked back.
They sat there for quite a while, gossiping and talking about this and that, and bought round after round. Sakura already had this nice warm feeling telling her she was a bit tipsy.
"Okay, next round goes on me ladies!" Right at that exact moment when she stood up Kakashi, Genma and a few of their friends walked in and towards the bar where she was heading. Kakashi was dressed like usual but instead of his vest he wore a very nicely fitting t-shirt that perfectly showed his muscled arms. Sakura waved him as she walked towards them. Normally when she is out with the girls and he is with his friends she just would have greeted him, ordered the drinks and making a little small talk with him. But today she was full of self confidence and she felt great. "Hey, Kakashi! How´s it going? Didn´t thought you would be here today."
"Oh, hey. Yeah, actually i wanted to stay at home today but Genma suddenly appeared in front of my door and pulled me away from my Icha-Icha books."
"Stop complaining you little girl. It was about damn time for you to go drinking with us."
"So no reading pornos today?"
"I told you so often... That´s no porn. These are very aesthetic and brilliant books." he pretended to be offended by what she said.
"Written by the pervert number one."
"That too." he gave her a small smile.
"How about you sit down and drink a beer with us?" Genma called over his shoulder to Sakura.
"Oh, I don´t know... The others are probably waiting for me and their drinks..."
"And if Kakashi buys you one?"
"Then I won´t say no of course. Wont let a chance slip away when he´s paying! I´ll just go over to the others and tell them." Sakura maneuvered herself through the crowd back to the table where the others were. "Hey, I´ll be right back again in a few minutes. Just chatting a little bit with Kakashi and the others over there. He pays a round. Is it okay for you guys?" Sakura asked with hesitation. Ino was the first one to answer.
"Of course honey! Go over to them and have fun!" Ino smiled mischievously but Sakura didn´t noticed it.
"Oh, I wont stay too long..."
"No no, take your time. It´s okay!"
Sakura smiled and jumped back to Kakashis group. She didn´t noticed how fast time was flying by. They talked a lot. They made fun about Kakashi, talked about how much the teams had improved themselves and told funny stories about some missions. Kakashi was telling a story and Sakura wanted to listen to it when her mind suddenly drifted somewhere else. She watched him while he was talking about one time when Naruto needed Kakashi to go with him on a very serious mission he couldn´t tell him about. In the end he discovered Naruto just needed someone to help him get over a fence very silently to spy on naked women, but Naruto blew his own cover and Kakashi recieved a few broken ribs because from a very angry Sakura.
He was so into his story and she could only smile at his barely showing eagerness to tell it. That dind´t happen very often. She took a closer look at him and because of the missing vest she could see his muscles moving with every movement. He was very well toned. 'He´s hot, how could I´ve never seen that? Maybe I should take him right now!'
'What the hell!? Inner me, shut the fuck up!'
'Just sayin´ the truth.'
'Shush it.'
"Sakura? Are you okay? You´ve been staring for a while now..." Kakashi waved his hand in front of her face and she blinked irritated.
"Oh... Uhm... Sorry. I think I´m a bit tired and I should go home now." not very convincing.
"Aw no. You sure? I think Kakashi enjoyed your company." Genma whispered loudly.
"Yeah, I think I should go now..."
"Mind if I walk you home? You should probably not walk home alone." Kakashi stated.
"Nah, it´s okay... You really don´t need to-"
"He´ll walk with you, of course he will!" Genma interrupted her immediately.
"Genma, you-"
"You´ll come back after you brought her home? If not you´ll have to tell me every detail..." he grinned knowingly.
"Shut up. Come on, let´s go..."
"O-okay..." Sakura stuttered.
"Have a great night 'sensei'!" Genma called after them and laughed loudly with the rest of the group.
"Yeah, of course..." Kakashi could only shake his head at that comment. "Sorry, Genma can be such a dick." he told Sakura while they tried to find a way out of the pub. By now the drunk people were stumbling around and you could hear some men singing. Kakashi took her hand and lead her out. Sakura blushed at his sudden action and tried to look somewhere else.
"Nah, it´s okay. I know he´s only joking."
'Yeah, I wouldn´t be so confident...' Kakashi thought by himself. They reached the door and Sakura took a deep breath of fresh air. They stood there in silence for a second when they suddenly both realized that Kakashi was still holding her hand.
"Oh, uhm... Sorry." he said embarrassed. Sakura could only blush and turned away from him as fast as she was able to. "I think we should go now..." Sakura nodded.
They walked for a while without saying a word when Kakashi was the first one to break the silence. "You know, I really enjoyed this evening. Maybe, if you want to, we should do this again sometime."
"Oh, yeah... Sure, why not?" she smiled at him.
They walked in silence again until they reached her apartment. She turned around to face him, unsure what to do now. Why was she so excited? He brought her home often, even carried her sometimes when she was nearly asleep.
"So... I´ll go in now... I´m pretty tired." Sakura said.
"Okay then, good night." His next action made Sakura suck in a sharp breath. He grabbed her chin, leaned down to her and gave her a small kiss on her cheek. She felt hot and cold at the same time wich made her blush so hard that she was afraid he could see it in the dark. He leaned back again, smiled at her and disappeared shortly after. Sakura just stood there, not knowing what to do, until she remembered she was standing in front of her door and hurried in. When she reached her bedroom she changed her clothes into something more comfortable and threw herself on the bed with a bright smile on her face. No way she would tell Ino about the rest of the evening.
"So, Hatake made the first move? Interesting..." One of the elders noted and wrote something on a paper.
"That´s not what I s-" she couldn´t even finish her sentence because the same person interrupted her again.
"The next question is for Hatake. Who made the next move? And you are not allowed to leave out the details."
"Hm... I´m not really sure who it was, but I think it was Sakura..." Kakashi thought about it.
"Hey, what? No, I wasn´t the one. You made the move!"
"Oh no, you did."
"I´m sure it was you!"
"Uh-huh, who wore the dress no man would´ve been able to resist? I don´t think it was me!"
"Maybe it was you!"
"Stop it right now! Hatake, tell us the story."
"Okay... A few days later we had something like a date..."
So, I hope you liked this chapter! And it is much more than the last one! Reviews are always welcome!