11 chapters! Yet again, I am proud of myself.

Also, I don't know what gardenia smells like.

I just know that it is flowery.

11. gardenia

Sakura smells like gardenia and hairspray that didn't do its job as well as it should; Kakashi smells like something she cannot identify, something she thinks might be like books.

Icha Icha books. Ah well.

They leave the restaurant; she yanks her skirt down over her legs again and totters a little. He catches her.

"You smell good," he says, face in her hair.

"Mmm," she acknowledges him with a slight hum, not caring at that moment if anyone sees them. She feels his smile against her scalp.

"Let's go now," he mutters.

"Sounds good to me." Sakura grins hugely.