Title: What Makes the Head Cloudy Makes the Heart Very Clear
Fandom/Community: Naruto / kakasakudrabble
Characters: Kakashi, Sakura, Tsunade, Shizune, Konoha Elders
Pairing: KakaSaku, DanTsu
Rating: PG-13
Word of the Week: Time

Author Notes: (gasp) I just realized that I forgot to do prompt #17! (sobs) That's okay though. I caught it and, well, they actually don't have to be in order, I'd just wanted them to be. But yea. So you'll get two today.

How many people are getting sad that this is Chapter 20, and we only have 25 Chapters? Yes, I know, I'm sad to see I finally finished it as well. However, don't worry about me and my drabble writing. I signed up the KakaSaku pairing on LJ to participate in 30romances and 50scenes, which I've been put on the list. I signed up for 100situations, but nobody has gotten back to my post about that. So, you'll definitely have more KakaSaku—besides Picture Trends—coming your way from me.

Oh yes, I took liberties on Dan's age.


"Sakura, you need to eat."

She glanced at the dark-haired woman out of the corner of her eye. Her head turned slightly on her fist, pressed against her temple. "I'm not hungry." Her head turned back to her food, using her chopsticks to push the soba around her plate.

Shizune bit her lip. "Sakura," she began, tugging on the fringe of her yukata, "he's been gone for five days and you haven't eaten once. It's 2 AM, you need to eat. I know this is hard for you—"

"You have no fucking idea how hard this is for me." Unable to hold back her sudden anger, the woman tossed her chopsticks onto the table in front of her. Shizune was glad they were only in the hospital mess. "The man I love is currently out, somewhere, probably injured knowing him. I was not told that he was going on a mission, and then I had to wait four hours before anybody even told me that this was an ANBU assassination mission, and that he'd be going without any sort of back up. I was not told because everyone knew that if I was told, the Hokage Monument would no longer be in existence, because I would have smashed it to the ground—he still hadn't recovered from his injuries!"

She pounded her fist against the table and shoved her plate away.

"I didn't even get to see him for three weeks before the mission," Sakura continued, tears leaking from her beryl eyes. "Because some old bone-bags, who already have one foot in the grave, decided that our relationship wasimmoral and unethical because he was my teacher for oh. . . about a year and a half ending over ten years ago, and we have a fourteen-year age difference."

"Sakura, come here."

The pink-haired kunoichi turned and allowed the older woman to wrap her arms around her.

Shizune smoothed the young woman's hair back, rocking slightly and making soft, shushing noises. "I'm so sorry, Sakura," she whispered, holding the woman gently against the wracking sobs. "You're right, I don't know how hard this is for you—I only understand that it is. Tsunade-sama is trying to do something about it. . ."

"Shizune-san!"

Both women glanced up. "Yes?" The black-haired woman cleared her throat.

A young brown-haired woman stood before them, shifting back and forth on her feet awkwardly. "Hokage-sama wishes both yours and Haruno-san's presence."

"Yes, of course." Shizune tugged the woman from her seat and dragged her along behind her. "Come, Sakura."

Shizune knocked on the door, opening it only when she heard the order to come in. She walked into the room first, pulling Sakura in behind her and then slamming the door shut.

Tsunade sat at her desk, which was strangely scarce of any sake; on her left stood two of Konoha's most prominent Elders. Shizune moved to stand by the woman's right side, leaving Sakura standing in the middle of the room.

"Yo, Sakura-chan."

She spun.

Muddy, tired, and soaking wet, Hatake Kakashi slouched before her, his hands in his pockets. "Kakashi!" She fell against him, throwing her arms around his neck and causing them to crash to the floor. "Okaeri."

One hand around her back and the other braced on the floor, she sat on her knees between his legs and leaned against his chest. Kakashi nuzzled his face into the crook of her shoulder. "Tadaima, koishii." Lifting his arm, he his fingers through her hair, breathing deeply. "You smell so good." Slipping his mask down momentarily, he pressed a hot kiss right below her ear.

When she giggled and shifted against him, he slipped his mask back on, glancing up and grinned. Shizune stood at attention, hands behind her back, smiling. Tsunade smirked and while the Elders were distracted by watching Kakashi's unethical/immoral PDA, shot down a bowl of sake she slipped from an open drawer.

"Hatake-san," the female Elder began, shifting nervously. "We decided on the course of action concerning your student—"

"She's not his student anymore; she's mine." Tsunade smirked. "I'm sorry, but I'm reversing the counsel's orders, Elder."

The aged man turned to glance at her, his beady, watering eyes narrowed suspiciously. "Gomennasai, Tsunade-sama, but I do not under—"

The blonde woman openly took another shot. "Your decision was bullshit and you know it." She placed her sake bowl back down and smiled. "I'll have you know that the Third Hokage personally gave both Dan and I permission to have a relationship. Need I remind you that Dan was almost ten years older than I?" Tsunade waved at Kakashi and Sakura, still on the floor. "I am personally giving them permission. A shinobi's life is a short thing—death, pain, loss; they're always on the other side of the door. If you find somebody to love in this world, you need to hang on tooth and nail."

The Elders grunted, faces flushed angrily.

"Kakashi, Sakura, go home."

The Copy-nin grinned and wrapped his arms tighter around the young woman before him. "Don't have to tell me twice." Kakashi glanced at the two Elders and winked with his visible eye, before disappearing in a puff of smoke.

Sakura smiled and tugged the man's mask down when she felt her back hit the soft bed, enjoying the feel of him hovering over her. "I missed this," she murmured, pressing small kisses to his lips. "I missed you."

She paused when he didn't return them, but found herself suddenly without a shirt. He was working her pants.

"I think this is a record." Her fingernails scratched at the back of his neck. "You could say you missed me."

Kakashi grinned and placed a kiss on her lips. "You wear too many clothes, Sakura-chan." His tongue slid down her neck and across the plains of her collarbone. He butterfly-kissed his way back up, licking the shell of her ear. "And I am saying I missed you. My way is just funner."