Hello all! I haven't posted in some time so I figured I would. The temperature dropped where I live once again and the cold night gave me this idea. Simple, cute little KakaSaku one-shot. No smut this time around, so this is totally work safe.
Thanks to everyone that has read, reviewed, added me and lurked. You are all much appreciated. This hasn't been beta read (since this is just a drabble) so any mistakes are mine alone. I hope you enjoy it ^_^ ja ne!

Title: Figure 8
Pairing: Kakashi and Sakura
Rating: PG

"Say that again."

"You heard me the first time. I don't like to repeat myself."

Sakura was in shock and while such a trivial thing was pretty humorous, there was no time to laugh or poke fun. There was a mission at stake.

"We're in Snow and as many times as you've been here you've never taken it upon yourself to learn how to ice skate?"

Kakashi stood with his arms crossed, his feet firmly rooted tot he floor, and his face expressionless. He seemed so different, so … normal, in this situation, in civilian clothes no less. Seeing the famed Copy Nin dressed in such a fashion was a rarity in itself, but the fact that she was having this conversation at all with him was a little surreal.

Sakura glanced over at the clock on the night stand in the hotel room, fidgeting with the zipper at the top of her sweater in contemplation. "Okay, come with me."

His brow lifted. "Where?"

"Just come on, I'm saving your ass and the mission."

She pulled him from the hotel room and down to the lobby where they received strange looks from the other people coming inside. Kakashi openly scowled but Sakura pressed on, hooking her arm through his.

"Just ignore them."

"Easy for you to say, you don't look bad in civilian clothing like I do."

Sakura paused to glance down at her awkward fitting jeans and thick black sweater. She felt so uncomfortable and he obviously didn't see himself very clearly. "You look fine."

"I don't see how people dress like this."

"Will you stop complaining? You're about as bad as Ino."

He snapped his mouth shut and allowed himself to be dragged through the streets. It was relatively quiet considering ti was close to the holidays and not too many people were braving the cold. Whatever Sakura had planned, he was sure he'd be able to save some of his dignity.

The crisp breeze kept blowing his hair into his eyes and after a few minutes of continuously sweeping it to the side he gave up. He narrowed his eyes as he caught Sakura biting back a laugh.

She straightened and pressed her lips into a thin line as she caught his hard glare. "Sorry."

"Yeah, you sound real remorseful."

She giggled. "Sorry, you have to admit it's kind of funny... And besides, you just look so cute."

"Cute?"

She ignored him and kept walking on. Kakashi had been called many things in his life, but cute wasn't a word he had heard since he was a boy in the Academy. He readjusted the scarf around his neck, causally admiring the small shops that were adorned with little twinkling lights. There was a stand near by selling a hot cocoa drink that he was sure would make his insides tingle with warmth. Then Sakura was opening a door, ushering him inside.

A petite woman on the other side of the counter looked up as they entered. Closing her magazine she spoke up, "I'm sorry Miss, we're about to close."

"I know but I was wondering if you could stay open just a little longer, for us."

The woman darted her amber eyes to Kakashi and then back to Sakura. "I'm sorry but-"

Good. Whatever Sakura had planned wasn't going to work. But he grew suspicious as she leaned over the counter. He couldn't quite make out what she was saying but he clearly heard, "I'll make it worth your while."

He caught a glimpse of a stack of ryou as she passed it across the counter. Since when did Sakura carry around that kind of money? The woman pocketed it without a second thought.

Sakura turned around with a smile. "Why don't you go ahead and go over there?" She pointed to a single door on the right side. "I'll be there in a minute."

Kakashi felt a little apprehensive but he nodded and walked away, hands deep in his pockets. He side stepped, walking past rows of chairs and benches and a locker room. He peered out the window and stopped dead in his tracks. An ice skating rink. Damn it.

Kakashi was all for learning how to ice skate. He would do whatever was necessary for a mission, he just wasn't too teen on the idea of looking like an unbalanced idiot in front of his former student. It seemed as though he didn't have much of a choice as she approached him.

"Come on, lace up." Sakura beamed, holding out a pair of ice skates,

The bladed boot looked more deadly than it should. He took them with a heavy sigh, eying them suspiciously. He looked over to Sakura who was already slipping a foot inside. She tugged back on the laces and began crossing them. He sat beside her and grudgingly followed suit.

Sakura tucked the laces inside the boot and stood, watching as Kakashi seemed to be struggling with some internal war. He finished tying the laces and looked up at her, his visible eye conveying how much he disliked the idea and unknown to him she saw some of his unease as well.

"Are you that insecure about the teacher-student role being reversed?"

His brow knitted and he obviously took some offense to the question. She shook her head. "We're supposed to be equals, aren't we? People learn from each other all the time so don't make this so difficult."

She shut her eyes, took a deep breath and let a smile spread across her face. "Besides, I'm sure you're a fast learner. It'll be fun."

He nodded, defeated. "Yeah."

She reached down taking his hand in hers. "Come on."

Her vivid jade eyes met his and he found himself pushing off of the bench.

His first couple steps were wobbly but he quickly adjusted to walking. The frigid air clashed against his face as they stepped back outside, the ominous frozen surface taunting him. She let go of his hand and the warmth left with her. She put one foot onto the ice and glanced back at him before pushing off with her other foot. He watched as she glided out to the center of the rink and turned around.

"Come on," she called out, beckoning him with a wave her hand. "It's easy."

"Says you," he grumbled.

Holding onto the wall he tentatively placed a skate on the ice.

"It's like walking, all you need to remember is to put one foot in front of the other and don't lock your knees!"

She skated around in small circles while waiting for him to come into the rink. She eyed his progress, smiling when he finally stood without holding onto the wall.

"Come on! Your balance is impeccable, you should be able to do this easily."

"Just because it looks easy doesn't mean it is."

"Hey! Don't lock your knees, keep them slightly bent," she instructed as he attempted to move ahead. As he went to bring his other foot forward he started to slip. Sakura watched on wide eyed as his arms flailed and his feet cam out from under him. He let out an 'oomph' as he landed on his butt. Sakura clamped a hand over her mouth, her brow knitting in worry.

"Are you alright?"

Besides the sting to his arse and his pride, yes he was. He waved her off. "Go ahead and laugh."

She glided gracefully over to him. "Now what kind of person do you take me for?"

"One that'll let me get out of these skates and go back to our room?"

"Nope." She smiled.

"Well, it was worth a try," he stated dryly.

"Up and at 'em." She extended her hand to him.

He peered up at her through his fallen grey locks and then took her offered hand. She helped him to his feet, never once letting go while he regained his balance. She smiled and let go of one of his arms to readjust the scarf around the bottom half of his face. He tensed thinking she meant to take advantage of the situation to get a look at his face, but she merely draped one end back over his shoulder.

"How about you follow me?"

He nodded and she took hold of his hand again. She pulled and after an unbalanced start he was gliding smoothly across the surface. He looked down watching her feet as they moved, as the blades left delicate lines in the ice. They circled the rink twice and then Sakura grinned.

"Now, try to skate. Lightly push off with your right foot and remember to keep your knees bent. I won't let go."

He attempted to do as she said but found he was still pretty unsteady.

"Don't look at your feet."

"I don't want to run into your skates."

"You won't. Just look at me."

He lifted his gaze to meet hers and his heart thumped heavily. The tender pink of her lips were stretched in a soft smile and her cheeks and tip of her nose were rosy, a product of the cold no doubt. A sharp wind blew and she shivered, but though she may have been uncomfortable her eyes, they never stopped shining. He felt himself being absorbed by the depths of her sparkling stare until everything else disappeared and all he could see was her.

Her smile continued to grow and then she laughed and the spell was broken.

"What?" he asked lifting a brow.

"You're doing it!" she exclaimed happily.

Kakashi glanced down and grinned to himself and then a flash of green light caught his attention. They slowly came to a stop as a multitude of colors danced along the ice. Sakura followed Kakashi's gaze to the door where the woman from behind the counter was watching them. She waved to them and then turned and walked away.

"So, feeling more confident in your new shoes?" she asked.

"Yes, why?"

"Cause now it's time to go on your own." She winked at him.

"Wait-"

But she had already let go of his hands and was skating backwards. "Come on Kakashi, skate to me."

He let out an irritated huff but after watching her for a moment he decided it was about time to get a move on. The sooner he got the activity down, the sooner they could get out of the cold.

Sakura watched with a critical eye as he pushed off, bringing one foot forward and then the other, listening to the soothing scratch of the blade against the ice. As he neared her she skated away putting more distance between them. She smiled as she heard his exasperated sigh.

"Oh stop, this isn't nearly as hard as something like chakra manipulation. You're doing really well."

Feeling a little more determined he set off again and the game began. Every time he advanced she moved just as quickly to reclaim distance. Before Kakashi knew it, he was circling and criss-crossing the rink completely at ease. He had been caught up to her for some time now but he found that he was honestly having fun. But now there was a different air settling over the town, the wind had picked up and it had quite a bite to it.

Kakashi reached out and grabbed her hand. She jumped at his cold touch but grinned back at him as the glided toward the wall. Once they stopped, Sakura rubbed her hands together and then placed them against her cheeks.

"I think it's time to call it a night, sensei," Kakashi said amused.

"Very funny." She shook her head catching a glimpse of his trembling fingers. With a sigh she snatched his hand.

"You're freezing. Why didn't you say anything sooner?"

"Well you seemed just fine and-"

"Idiot! It's because I was using a little of my chakra to help keep myself warm."

Oh. Well that made sense, didn't it? He stiffly scratched the back of his head and gave her a patented eye crease. She took his other hand to join his first and while her hands were smaller than his she tried her best to cup them around his. She applied just the smallest amount of chakra and sure enough he could feel the beginnings of heat spreading across his skin.

He had been trying to ignore it, the magnetic tugging feeling when he was around her, but her touch seemed to have given him that extra little something that he needed.

"Thank you, Sakura."

Her eyes snapped up. "You're welcome."

They stood there silently watching each other as she warmed his hands. A breeze swept through the frigid night causing the two Konoha nin to shiver. He removed his hands from her and pushed her windblown hair back behind her eras, allowing his fingers to trail and linger on her cheek.

Sakura could feel the sudden change, her body sense it and responded – her heart beat sped and her stomach twisted in anticipation. But then a little white speck caught her eye. She gasped in awe and tilted her head back.

"It's snowing."

She had no idea what her touches and her smiles did to him. Seeing her happy like this, with him in the moment, it tortured him sweetly. Kakashi couldn't take it anymore.

The striped black and grey fleece material of his scarf intruded her line of sight as it was brought over her head and around her neck. She looked back at him, caught off guard by the sight of his bare face. He pulled on the scarf, bringing her closer as he leaned in. Her lips were cold but he didn't mind in the least. Kissing was a good way to warm them after all.

Sakura parted her lips to grant his tongue access and while the exchange was short, it was still enough to daze her. He slowly pulled away from her, not offering any explanation for his actions when she finally opened her eyes to look at him. Sakura was okay with that.

She smiled. "How about we get out of these skates, see if that vendor is still there selling hot cocoa and get back to our nice, warm hotel room.?"

"Best idea yet."