Okay everyone! I am going to warn you that you guys are in for a couple surprises in this chapter and the next few. I have some killer plot twists that Im putting into effect THIS chapter. So, you've been warned...

CHAPTER SEVEN: Sacrifices

Rayne practically growled into the mirror at the image of herself. She was having one of the crappiest days of her life. For starters she had to put on another dress. This was the fifth day in a row she's had to wear a dress and put on make up and look pretty for a man she loathed. The only man she should have to dress up for is the one she loves and even then she never had to. He accepted her as she was and that was part of the reason she was so head over heels for him. Oh great, now she's thinking of Kakashi. That train of thought can lead to no where good.

"Damn dress," she muttered angrily while she finished up her make up and slipped on her heels to go meet Yoro for dinner and set her plan further in motion. She had just kicked out Kotetsu and Kakashi when she knew he was listening and the note had been planted last night. So far everything was going as she'd exected. Well, the plan reguarding Yoro anyway. Now she just had to hope that she was convincing enough to make Yoro believe she loved him.

"Damn Kotetsu." She was really not in a good mood. The second and more important reason she was in such a mood? She had just argued with Kotetsu twenty minutes ago about his doubts of her plan. And then he had told her he loved her. Yup, thats right.

Kotetsu told her he loved her and had since he had first moved in.

She had stared at him in shock for a good minute before very politely telling him that if he was kidding she was going to skin him. He said it wasnt a joke. She slapped him. Her anger wasnt so much that he loved her, just that he had picked the worst time possible to tell her. And, to top it off, Kakashi had heard. So, now Kakashi was planning Kotetsu's death, Rayne was about to pull the best acting she would ever have to do while still confused and upset about the whole best friend in love with her thing and Kotetsu was thinking of ways to get Rayne to love him.

Great, Just frickin great.

"Damn all men!" That was her problem. Men. Why do they have to go and make everything complicated? Why cant they just be good and do as their mothers told them and stick with one girl, obey all the rules they were taught about how to treat a woman?

Because they were men. Thats right. And for some strange reason they seemed to be all to able to take her breath away, capture her heart on a choke hold and all too easily occupy her mind.

With a frustrated sigh and one last look in the mirror she walked out the door and made her way to Yoro's room.

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"You little...I knew you had a thing for her! I just never thought you'd actually tell her. She's mine, Im going to marry her. NOT YOU," Kakashi growled, holding Kotesu by the front of his shirt and pinning the other shinobi to a tree, his feet dangling a foot off the ground.

Kakashi was pissed.

"Well it wasnt like you two were ever getting back together and she trusts me!" Kotetsu shot back. He was scared shit of Kakashi right now but his pride wouldnt let him show it. Plus, he had to stand up to Kakashi eventually if he was ever going to have a chance with Rayne.

This was the wrong thing to do because his words had struck home on Kakashi and when Kakashi was hurting he trained and fought. He was angry enough with himself for hurting her and loosing her trust in the first place. He didnt need to hear about it from some paper-pushing-realninja wannabe who was in loove with his woman. Kakashi was just aboiut as mad as he'd been in a couple years. Usually he would ask Tsunade for a mission that would let him beat the crap outta several other shinobi but since Kotetsu was the only one around...

"Rayne and I are going to get back together. She knows I wont give up aon her that easily and she admitted she still loved me. So you keep your dirty little hands away from her. Understood?" Kakashi snarled darkly. But Kotetsu shook his head.

"No. I love her and I am going to be with her." It was true. He did love her. What wasnt there to love about a woman as strong and beautiful as her?

That did it. Kakashi dropped him and took several steps back, lifting the bandages that had replaced his forehead protector as part of his disguise off his sharingan eye as he did so. "Fight me," he growled. Kotetsu knew that he had stepped too far and that he wasnt likely to win in a fight against Kakashi but once again his belief that Rayne would finally love him if Kakashi would just back off made him do the stupid thing.

He pulled out a kunai and tried to rush Kakashi but the sharingan user just brushed him to the side, having already seen his movements. "Damnit!" Kotetsu growled as he got up and began throwing punches. This went one for about five minutes, Kotetsu threw the punch, Kakashi parried it. Kotetsu leapt into a tree and Kakashi followed, their fight became even more intense and they actually started drawing blood. Kotetsu managed a nasty little cut on Kakashi's left harm and went for another one. But then Kakashi's anger came to a boil and he planted a well aimed punch to Kotetsu's temple and the other man crumpled in and unconscious heap. Kotetsu fell from the green of the trees down to the brown of the hard earth.

"Baka," Kakashi muttered and after two minutes bent down and lifted Kotetsu up and onto his back. With an angry sigh he headed to Hige's to drop the unconscious dobe on his back off and then...

Then he was going back to Rayne.

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"Yoro, I love you and there's something you need to know," Rayne stated, sounding bold and fragile at the same time. 'Aw crap. Here goes nothing.'

"You love me?" Yoro asked with a raised eyebrow at her little statement. He could tell something was different about her. There was no longer that soft innocence in her voice that she had kept the entire time she was with him and pretending to be Kira Tomohiro.This worried him and interested him at the same time. He knew of her skill as the kunoichi Rayne but he also wanted to find out what had changed and what her news was.

"Im not really Kira Tomohiro. My name is Rayne and Im a ninja from the village of Konoha. I was sent here to find out about your trading with the Akatsuki. But I havent reported back to my Hokage because I love you and I cant lie to you anymore." Her voice was strong but she made sure to tint it with self-doubt so he believed what she was saying.

Yoro just stared at her. Of course he knew all of this already but never in his wildest dreams did he think she'd come out and tell him the truth. No less, claim to be in love with him. He knew that she had been engaged to that shinobi Hatake Kakashi not to long ago but he also knew about Tsume and this made him doubt her. He knew from fher files that she had a problem trusting people and thats the reason she requested most missions solo. So why would she fall in love with him in just four days when she had to trust him first. Besides, she knew about his trading buisness. So, what was she planning?

"I knew all of this already. I just dont know why you're telling me about your mission. You do realize that you have just failed, dont you?" he demanded. But she looked shocked that he knew and she winced when he reminded her of the fact that she had failed the mission.

"Im telling you this because I'm in love with you. I dont trust you completely yet because of your...occupation but...I want to. In the past four days you have done nothing but be kind to me and just...it was nice not to have someone going after me for a while and you make me feel...safe." Her voice was soft and she looked him in the eye, imagining he was someone else she was saying this too. She was uncomfortable with him having read her personal file which contained her pyscological and mental evaluations.

"I make you feel safe even though I trade with such an organization as the Akatsuki?" He was starting to believe her even if only because of the self-conscious look on her beautiful face.

"You havent hurt me and you are strong enough to protect me if i couldnt protect myself."

"What about Hatake Kakashi?"

She flinched. She didnt like the sound of Kakashi's name coming out of the mouth of such a man. "Kakashi kissed another woman while I was busy trying to remember my life with him and cope with the truth about Tsume. He hurt me. I cant trust him at all. He couldnt protect me from Tsume either."

"And what about your children?"

"They would come stay with me when I leave the village. I have to leave now if you take me or not because I deliberately compromised and failed the mission. I have everything to lose and you to gain."

"And you are willing to give everything up just to be with me?" he demanded softly. He was liking the idea of having her as Rayne to himself.

She stared him in the eye, "Yes." 'Yes Kakashi, I would...' she thought as she spoke.

He was silent for a moment before nodding slowly and then smiling. "Well, it seems that I find myself believing you, Rayne." he spoke at last.

Rayne smiled and walked over to him, wrapping her arms around his neck and meeting his lips in a kiss. The whole time imagining that it was Kakshi's lips on her and Kakashi's hands on her hips. Not Yoro's. But it wasnt Kakashi, even in the part of her mind she was pretending it was the silver haired jounin she was kissing she realized it wasnt Kakashi because Yoro kissed differently. This kiss was hungry and devoid of love or passion. It was just pure lust.His hands were rough and hard on her small frame. The kiss became much more aggressive and Rayne knew that his mind suddenly revolved around the idea of her and him in bed. She actually had to focus her chakra in her stomach to prevent herself from gagging and vomiting.

Her concentration was on not flunching and she ignored her want her need to recoil from his gropes and violent kisses. He seemed completely unaware of her emotional distress and his touches became even hungrier.

'Im so sorry Kakashi ' was her only thought as she felt him move their bodies to the bed.

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"Rayne?" Kakashi called as he jumped in through her window. He frowned when he looked around and noticed that her room was empty and the lights were off. It was past two in the morning and her bed hadnt even been slept in.

She didnt come back to her room last night.

His stomach and heart both dropped as the thought struck him. That means she was either kidnapped or she was spending the night in Yoro's room. He actually found himself praying she was kidnapped. At least then he could save her and she wouldnt have slept with Yoro.

And if she did sleep with Yoro it was because Kakashi hadnt been there in time to give her an alternative. He hadt been there to give her a chance to think of some other way becasue he had carried Kotetsu back to Hige's and then fell asleep on the couch. He had forgoteen how drowsy tea made him and he had accepted Higes offer. He was sure he'd only take a small cat nap but by the time he woke up it was already half past midnight.

He quickly closed the window behind him and bolted out of Rayne's empty room. 'Please dont let me be too late...' he thought as he ran through the dark spa, past all the doors of the sleeping guests and to Yoro's door.

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I know you guys are hoping that Rayne did not sleep with Yoro. I wont say if she did or didnt but I will give you something to consider:

--If she did sleep with him, she would have done it for the sake of the mission and for the village. She wouldnt like it, she would definately HATE it, but she might've done it.

ON THE OTHER HAND:

--Do you think that she would make that BIG of a sacrifice for the sake of one mission? Or if she could sleep with another man while still being in love with Kakashi? Do you really think Rayne has it in her to do it?

TELL ME WHAT YOU GUYS THINK WILL HAPPEN IN YOUR REVIEWS! I really want to know how you guys see Rayne and what you think about the whole thing.

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