Note: Here we are, chapter five; and just to be on the honest side, I'm not good with chapter names to bare with me . Also, I do not own Naruto or any of the characters in this fanfic, they belong to Masashi Kishimoto : )
Kakashi: hey Yan, do you ever think your readers get bored of this?
Me: I don't know, I don't know what they think when they read, but if they had something to say, I'm sure they would've said it by now
Sakura: what's with the random question all of a sudden?
Kakashi: what...I was just asking...nothing wrong with being curious to know things
Me: besides, I love the readers, they've stuck with me this far already and I hope it continues
Sakura: yeah, that's the spirit XD
Me: well, anyway, here we have it, chapter five, hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it
CHAPTER FIVE: THE FIRST VILLAGE
Kakashi leans against the tree, not too far from Sakura, and not really caring if he was noticed. Kakashi couldn't help but stare at Sakura, before his gaze was fixed upon the medic's butt, making him shiver inwardly and blush uncontrollably. The Jounin had enough of the eavesdropping and came out of the shadows with Kuro racing ahead of him.
"Having fun?" Kakashi started with a grin, rubbing his masked face to rid himself from the redness.
Sakura looks over her shoulder and smiles lightly, "I guess you could say that, yeah," Sakura replied as she turned over on her back and sits up. Kakashi puts his drink bottle away and picks up his backpack. Sakura gets up as well, returning a warming smile at Kitsune and swinging her bag over her shoulder and was ready to go.
Kakashi was surprised that Sakura was able to smile, or was that a forced smile that Sakura pulled? "Okay, ready to carry on?" Kakashi insisted, slowly making his way to the dirt road.
"Coming," Sakura replied, picking up Kitsune and running after the other Jounin.
Kuro races after Kakashi and climbs up his back again, making the man cringe with a twitching eye, "Kuro," he groaned, glaring at the black fox as it sat on his shoulder before balancing on the back of Kakashi's neck and clinging onto his silver hair. Kakashi grunts irritably and looks up at what he couldn't see, "Kuro, stop being so annoying," Kakashi warned.
Kuro just meows, purring wildly and having a painful attempt to climb up the man's neck to sit on his head, "ow, of all the…" Kakashi reaches back to grab Kuro but the black fox was too quick for him. Kuro scurries onto Kakashi's head and stayed perfectly still whilst Kakashi groaned loudly and crossed his arms childishly.
Sakura giggles at the annoyance towards Kakashi as she held Kitsune in her arms, Kakashi sighs lazily as Kuro purred on the man's head, "Sakura-chan, how is it that you get the gentle and controllable animals and I'm stuck with this little pain in the ass?" Kakashi mildly asked, reaching up to pat Kuro.
Sakura shrugs her shoulders, wondering the same thing, "I don't know, but I guess we'll find out eventually," she replied, grinning lightly. Sakura's thundercloud was getting darker again and Kitsune could feel it. She squirms around in the medic's arms so she'd be in a more comfortable position, until she was in a resting pose. Sakura glances down at the brown fox, noting that Kitsune was falling asleep.
"How long until we reach the first village?" Sakura wondered.
Kakashi gazes up and the clear blue sky and says, "umm, about another half hour and we should be there," Sakura nods, knowing she got the message.
The walk was measureless, Sakura felt her legs fall asleep right under her and she was getting tired, knowing that Kitsune had the right idea of falling asleep in her arms. Kakashi too was getting sleepy, but it was hard to tell because of that lazy expression Kakashi had in his eyes, always lazy and tired looking. He was reading his dirty orange book as usual and the silence was getting irritating; Sakura appreciated the silence but this silence was too long for her liking.
Sakura was about to go sleep walking until Kakashi snap shut his book, startling Sakura and keeping her awake. Sakura jumped, "did I surprise you?" Kakashi enquired calmly. Sakura looks down in her arms to find her brown fox sound asleep. She nods, "yeah, a little," she muttered, staring at the road in front of her.
"Well, we're here," Kakashi started, quite happily. Sakura didn't even realise that all that walking made Sakura lose track of her timing. She was glad though, "finally," Sakura sighed.
Kakashi and Sakura make their way through the busy streets of the village until they reached their first destination of the mission, "we'll rest here for the night," Kakashi stated firmly. Sakura nudges Kitsune so she'd wake up, "hey Kitsune, we're at a rest stop, you can wake up now," Sakura whispered gently.
Kitsune flickered her eyes open and yawned tiredly. Sakura smiled softly and put the fox on the ground. She walks over to the entrance of a massive hotel building and read the sign at the door:
In this building, there is:
No smoking,
No food or drink,
And no animals allowed in the premises
Sakura stared wide eyed at the door, "aww man," Sakura sighed. She makes her way down the steps and gives Kakashi a disappointed stare, "no animals allowed," she grumbled sadly. Kakashi stood there in sigh before a great thought came to mind, "hang on, I've got an idea," he started with a thoughtful grin.
Sakura smiled at Kitsune, "this will only be for a little while, and I'll let you know when it's safe to come out," Sakura said, nuzzling Kitsune's foxy face and closing her bag. Kakashi glared annoyingly at Kuro and pointed a finger at him, "okay kiddo, please stay quiet in here until I let you out, because if you blow our cover, we're out of here, you got that?" he warned firmly, patting Kuro and closing up his backpack.
The two Jounins gently put on their bags without startling the foxes and made their way inside the hotel building, with Kakashi being the modest one and letting Sakura in first; such a gentleman he is. The building was quiet, but at the end of the hallway was a young blonde haired woman, leaned back on her chair, listening to music and filing her nails; Sakura smelt trouble from where she stood.
Both Sakura and Kakashi took steady paces to the counter to stop Kitsune and Kuro from moving around in the backpacks, "uhh, hi," Kakashi started with a brief wave, trying not to move too much. At an instant, the blonde haired lady sits up on her chair, throws her filer away and rips the earplugs from her ears, paying full attention to the tall and hansom man standing before her with a cheesy smile.
"Hi there, welcome to the village hotel," said the woman in a gleeful attempt to check out the silver haired Jounin.
Sakura glared evilly at the blonde, who didn't even bother to look at the medic standing behind Kakashi. The blonde rests her head on her hand as she stared in compulsion at the tall Jounin, "yeah, we'd like to stay here for the night," Kakashi clarified, trying not to look suspicious.
The blonde smiled and leaned to the side and glanced at the pink haired medic looking oh so annoyed, "so it will be you and your uhh…daughter?" wondered the blonde with a raised eyebrow, fleeting looks from Kakashi to Sakura, trying to compare how Kakashi could be the father of Sakura, some mistake she made.
Sakura was sickened by what the blonde's first impressions were towards the medic and if she went on with her humourless jokes, Sakura would most certainly sock a punch in the woman's eye.
"Uhh hehe, no, she's just a friend of mine," Kakashi corrected the lady's silly mistake and ogled strangely at her, while Sakura had her arms crossed and was ready to explode, 'oh yeah, what you gonna do now?' Inner Sakura shrieked angrily whilst punching the air repeatedly.
What Kakashi said gave the blonde a disappointed vibe swimming around in her gut, what a big mistake she made. The blonde haired woman felt the embarrassment sink in before gulping it down, "okay, lets just see if we have a room available," she muttered, swinging around on her wheelie chair and hitting the keys on the computer.
Sakura glared impatiently at the blonde as she scrolled down the screen for any open rooms. This was in fact not the only problem at hand. Kuro was getting restless and wanted to do something and was moving around constantly in Kakashi's bag. In attempt to hush the black fox, Kakashi elbows his backpack to make Kuro shut up, which so he did eventually.
"Yes, there is a room available, let me just show you the way," the woman behind the counter grabs one of many keys from the wall and exits the reservation room and escorts Kakashi and Sakura up two flights of stairs. On their way up to the room, the blonde stares at Kakashi and received constant glares of immorality from Sakura as they reached the room.
Once there, the woman unlocks the apartment room and allows Kakashi and Sakura to enter. Although Sakura hated the blonde woman, she didn't mind what the room looked like, it seemed liveable and decent, "two separate beds if you don't mind with kitchen and bathroom to your left," announced the lady, ogling Kakashi once again for the nth time.
"Thanks," Kakashi replied, staring at the view from where he stood.
The blonde haired lady handed Kakashi the keys to the apartment and was polite enough to mention one last thing, "just to warn you, there is a couple in the room next-door who are quite noisy," after that, she left without a word. Kakashi shuts the door behind him and sits on one of the beds, "finally, a place to rest properly," he sighs in relief. Sakura just stared at the other Jounin with disgust, "what?" Kakashi asked, playing innocent.
Sakura folds her arms with irritation and finally says, "Didn't you see that girl checking you out before?" she awaited the Jounin's reply with a sour face before Kakashi finally got the chance to answer back, "really?" he witted in surprise.
Sakura rolls her eyes with a sigh, "yeah, the second you started the discussion, she was completely under your service, as if she was cast under a spell and would obey your every command," she exclaimed. Kakashi smirks and laughs briefly before saying, "I like that service, but what made you care?" Kakashi raised an eyebrow at the pink haired medic.
"Uhh, well…umm…uh…I umm…that it-" Sakura drabbled on with words she couldn't spit out; Kakashi was losing his patience.
"That it, what?" Kakashi tried encouraging Sakura to answer his question.
Sakura finally collected the right words from within and says, "That it was very rood that that girl was seeing you in a totally different way," Sakura sighs, ready to wipe the sweat from her forehead.
Kakashi raises an eyebrow, "you're jealous," he said childishly, smirking widely whilst Sakura was taken aback from what he just spat out.
"What?" Sakura snapped.
Kakashi chuckles sheepishly before saying, "well I don't mean to brag but, I'm irresistible to women," though it was masked away, Kakashi was still grinning like an idiot and Sakura's mouth dropped. Sakura took what Kakashi said and pictured it in her head, 'wow, Kakashi-sensei being chased by obsessing fan girls and the neighbours next-door,' Sakura shuddered at the thought before something finally clicked in her brain.
"Oh shit, Kitsune," Sakura wailed.
Kakashi's face suddenly changed from his sleazy and perverted grin to shock and a sorrowful, wide-eyed glare, "crap," he muttered. Sakura unclipped her backpack and out leapt a rather annoyed Kitsune.
Kakashi opens his bag and Kuro lunges out from the confined bag and straight onto the bed, groaning irritably. Kakashi stares regretfully at the black fox, "I'm sorry Kuro, just be glad that I let you out eventually," he pleaded for Kuro to accept his apology and move on, but Kuro wasn't going to accept it that easily.
"Please Kuro, I'm sorry," Kakashi tries again and reaches out for the fox to only receive a scratch on his hand, "ow," Kakashi winced, staring blankly at his hand that was slowly starting to bleed from the scratch on his knuckles.
"I guess I probably deserved that," Kakashi scratches the back of his head with an awkward frown.
Sakura just picks up Kitsune and pats her gently, "I'm so sorry Kitsune, I totally forgot about you," she said, frowning sadly at the brown fox before she received a lick on the cheek. Kitsune wasn't angry or upset, she was just happy to see Sakura actually giving her a cuddle. She squirms around in the medic's hands and jumps on the bed, purring loudly with her adorable face.
"Kitsune is so naïve," Kakashi chuckled.
Sakura nodded with a giggle before saying, "yeah, but the 'mission' has only just started so lets just wait and see what becomes of these cute foxes," Kakashi sat in thought as he nodded with agreement before laying back on his bed with a long relieving sigh.
The rest of the afternoon was spent in the hotel apartment; Kakashi occupied himself with Icha Icha Paradise, while Sakura played around with both Kitsune and Kuro. Kakashi often glanced from his perverted reading material to what Sakura was up to and chuckled silently from time to time. Sakura was throwing a paper ball around and watched Kuro beat up Kitsune to get the piece of parchment; Sakura just laughed.
The sun had long set at this point, and both Jounins were getting tired from their journey here. Kuro and Kitsune were already sleeping and Sakura was staring at the ceiling, waiting for reality to hit her in the face, "well, I'm going to take a shower," Kakashi broke the long silence and headed for the bathroom.
"Okay…" Sakura replied the second Kakashi was out of earshot and disappeared behind the bathroom door.
Sakura sighs heavily at her day, 'man, I know Kakashi-sensei like the back of my hand, but he didn't need to tell me that information; I guess it was just to let me know where he was going so I wouldn't ask questions later,' she thought, raising an eyebrow.
As the minutes flew, Sakura's eyelids were feeling heavier by the second and decided to rest her head until Kakashi emerged from the bathroom. Her mind fell dark and empty until sleep had totally consumed her, where her dreams would begin to take place.
"Naruto!" Sakura shouted from the distance.
Naruto faces Sakura with blood seeping from his mouth and forehead, "this world is filled with hatred and pain," Naruto's voice sounded so familiar to Sakura.
"You have lived as a Shinobi for seven years yet you still cry at the sight of grievance," there, Sakura knew whose voice it belonged to.
"You still have this care towards Uzumaki Naruto," Sakura couldn't believe it until he was standing right behind the dying blonde.
"Sasuke-kun…" Sakura murmured…
Sakura was practically thrown awake by her will. Her heartbeat ran fast as she ran through her dream over and over, "Sasuke-kun," she mumbled, staring at Kitsune, sleeping like an angel on the end of her bed.
"I wonder if Kakashi-sensei has these kinds of dreams," Sakura wondered, before there was a sudden clicking sound at the bathroom door.
The door opened to let out the stream of fog from the hot water and out stepped a near half-naked Kakashi with a towel wrapped around his neck, wearing nothing but a pair of boxers and his mask. Sakura's jaw dropped and didn't know she even did that. Kakashi sighs as he walks to his bed while holding the clothes he wore before.
"What?" Kakashi enquired, raising an eyebrow at the stunned medic.
Sakura's face turned beet red from the sight, 'shit, Kakashi-sensei is hot…wait, did I just say that about Kakashi?' she thought, staring at basically every detail of Kakashi's body; from his wet and silver hair to his well worked abs. Sakura even caught the glimpse of the man's ass.
Sakura was ready to have a nosebleed, but instead, she reverted to harmless insults, "oh god, put a shirt on would you," she spat. Kakashi raised an eyebrow, noticing very well that Sakura was changing to a darker shade of red with every minute he stood there.
"Why? Do you like what you see?" he teased, arching his eyes up to a smile.
Sakura's face turned sour as her eye twitched in embarrassment, but said nothing and looked away. Kakashi just grinned with a light chuckle as he sat down on the bed. Sakura couldn't help but glance at the Jounin on the other bed and stared at the man's bare back. Once Sakura had her attention on Kakashi, she immediately caught the sight of the man's backside again and instantly averted her eyes by looking the other way. Not all this helped Sakura gain anything because of the clear reflection on the window where Sakura could still see what Kakashi was doing. Instead of making her life worse by spying on her former teacher, she stares aimlessly at the ceiling until sleep would once again take over.
During the last few minutes of the evening, Sakura did nothing whilst Kakashi was reading Icha Icha Paradise again, just so he'd keep himself entertained for the meantime. The silence was long and irksome but that didn't help much when Sakura began hearing absurd noises behind the wall where Sakura was leaning against. She hears a loud moan next-door.
"Oh don't tell me…" Sakura hoped she was wrong.
Once again, the pleasurable moans got louder from both people next-door. Sakura was getting very uncomfortable with the noises she was hearing and her face reddened with every sound she heard. Both Sakura and Kakashi stare awkwardly at one another, "well what a night this is, huh?" Kakashi started, trying to get back to his reading in peace.
"Yeah, this couple is sure having fun," Sakura added with a red face.
Suddenly, bonking sounds were heard against the walls that separated Kakashi and Sakura and the loving couple next-door. Kakashi sighs exasperatingly as he tried so hard to read his novel but the noises and moans were getting out of hand and too much for the Jounin, "I think what I'm hearing from the other room is enough for me," he closed his book and tucked it away in his bag.
Kakashi turns off the light and it was completely dark in the room other than the twilight shimmering outside the apartment building, "oh well, goodnight," Kakashi mumbled as he crashed under his sheets and rest his head on the pillow.
Sakura stared at the ceiling for a moment more before finally tucking herself in the bed and snugging into the pillow, "g'night," she slurred under her breath before drifting off to sleep.
Author's note: Okay people, so far so good? I am slowly going to move to Kakashi's POV, in hopes of a different perspective on the mission, which will happen eventually, so don't worry . I'd once again like to thank everyone for sticking with me and reviewing on the chapters, I love it a lot. I am working my spare time and holiday off to complete the story (I'm up to chapter ten now : D), but I still have a long way to go though.
Me: There, another chapter down
Kakashi: I can't wait until the climax jumps in, it's going to be awesome...I hope
Me: me too...I have everything in little bits and I'm just throwing everything in when it feels right
Sakura: what are you two on about man, you'll do fine in the coming chapters
Me: yeah, I just hope that I haven't lost my spunk
Kakashi: hey... we don't want to keep the readers waiting any longer
Me: oh yea, gomen. So yea, I hope you liked this chapter, and now for the reviews XD