Innocence-

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I have to fake it, I'd leave if I could, I'm not in love but the sex is good! ~ The Sex is good by Saving Abel

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Sakura stared in shock as Kakashi came undone in front of her. She felt her heart in her chest, beating like a jackhammer that had no intentions of stopping. She was speechless, completely in shock at his words.

"Y-you what?" she stuttered, feeling light headed as if his confession were all a dream spawned by the romance novel she'd dropped to the floor in her fit of anger.

"I…love you." He said again unsure if he was doing it right. He'd seen it in movies and that's all he had to go on, Ino had given him no instruction what-so-ever.

How the hell had she even talked him into it? He wondered. After he'd let his walls collapse she'd talked to him civilly. Told him Sakura's side of the story, which was a lot like his. She was hurt, confused, and unsure what the hell was going on.

Sakura shook her head, "I thought you said_"

"Yeah, I said it meant nothing to me, that you were nothing more than a fuck-buddy. I lied."

Sakura's eyes shifted from his to her feet. She didn't know what to say to him. What did one say at a time like this? Did she run to him with arms wide open like she was yearning to, or did she take a step back and question his sudden change of heart?

"If this is a joke," She whispered just loud enough for Kakashi to hear. "It better be fucking hilarious in the end because it's not funny yet."

"It's not a joke." He deadpanned watching as she shook her head again and sat back down on the couch. She didn't believe him and it hurt to think that she was denying the affection he offered now rather than the grit he'd offered time and time before. "I'm standing here honestly. It just took this long for me to realize it."

His walls were gone now, knocked down by the blonde bitch the woman in front of him called friend. How in the hell had Asuma put up with it, with her?

"You expect me to believe that?" She breathed. Of all the things he could've said, he'd chosen those three words. Whether it was true or not, she didn't really know; Kakashi was one hell of a liar. He could use the words to keep her around because of the mating and his possessive, testosterone-high ass; or he could be telling the honest truth, that he really did love her and needed time to figure that out.

"I expect you to give it the chance to show this isn't some whim I'm standing out on." His voice was hard; it was a voice she'd used to refer to as his teacher voice, and she shuddered at the words falling from his tongue. "I'm not saying this to keep you with me, or to earn your false trust, I'm saying this from my heart, Sakura."

She blinked. He sounded so damn honest when he said it like that. And he just had to use the 'from my heart' line on her. Damn him!

He was such an arrogant, cocky…charming, talented, wonderfully gifted man. She was delusional she told herself. Yet, even if he was lying, he made her want to believe him. She did believe him.

"What am I going to do if I do give you the chance and you tuck tail and turn the other way?"

He looked down towards his feet thinking about his answer carefully, "I would gladly dig my own brain out with a spoon before I'd let that happen." He shuddered after he said the words, not the most romantic reply he could have given her but in his mind it would get him the reaction he needed to see and to hear.

She raised an eyebrow at his statement, "With a spoon?"

"Spoon, my own hands, kunai, or spatula what ever the hell you want me to use to do it." His hand went to his back pocket, "I have a spoon right now."

"I don't want you digging your brain out…" She said as she stepped forward towards Kakashi. "I believe you."

His gaze caught hers, "I love you." It felt right saying it the third time as he whispered. His hands found her hips and brought her closer closing the gap between them. He tilted his head, his mis-matched eyes still staring into her deep-emerald ones.

"Good." She murmured her fingers under his unmasked chin, "I love you." She smiled closing the gap between their lips.

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Sai swallowed hard before knocking on Moegi's apartment door. He wasn't sure exactly what he was doing, but he was willing to roll with the punches, literally and metaphorically.

He listened as someone behind the door unlatched a deadbolt lock, and few other distance keepers before it eventually opened and he was greeted with a sweet cinnamon smell and the big onyx eyes and fiery red hair of the woman he'd come to confront.

"Sai…" She murmured as she looked him over, his soaking wet tresses stuck to his face and his clothes clung to his body like a second skin. She felt her mouth go dry.

"Can I come in?"

She nodded vigorously and let him in before closing the door behind him, her hands on her hips.

"What are you doing here this late? It's nearly two in the morning." She whispered as she wrapped her arms around her, hiding herself in the baggy sweater she donned. He knew she wore nothing underneath it, she preferred to sleep with only a sweatshirt, nothing else.

Sai shook his head and sighed, "This is going to sound completely crazy, but I was thinking earlier today and…I don't know how to say this."

She placed her hand to his cold, wet cheek and looked him in the eyes; "Take your time."

He mulled over his words for a minute before putting them in order, "I don't want to stop seeing you, but I don't want to tell you a lie about my affections for you. I can't give you the love that you need, but I want to at least try and understand what's going on a little bit better. If that's alright with you?"

Her gaze shifted around, her mind comprehending his words as they were spoken. Moegi looked up at him, and debated going against the crawling feeling she felt at the base of her neck, slithering its way slowly down her back to form a smoldering fire in her belly. Konohamaru could come home at anytime…

"If that's alright with me…" She repeated his words as her eyelids dropped and her pursed lips were replaced with a foxy smirk. The ink user swallowed hard again as her tongue darted out and danced over her bottom lip before disappearing into the cavern of her mouth.

She sauntered forward, her arms wrapping around his neck pulling his face towards his, his lips towards hers. He tilted his head and met her lips with near-shocking force. His hands found her hips and dragged them towards his, his need out-weighing everything else. Konohamaru could walk in at any moment, he thought, but the bolder, newer Sai, as he so kindly named him, suppressed the thought as a certain red-head took his hand in hers and dragged him to her bedroom.

He felt almost giddy with anticipation when she turned the lights off and kissed him thoroughly on the lips.

He could've died happy, he mused as she pushed him into a sitting position on her bed and she moved to take her sweatshirt off in an impromptu strip-tease. He watched as her breasts bounced with each step she took towards him.

He looked over her naked form, from the wavy mess of fire on top of her head, to her breast to the neatly trimmed curls of her fiery-ocean V to her neatly painted green toenails. She was beautiful.

He felt a sinking feeling in his chest and couldn't help but let out a mewl of excitement as Moegi adjusted herself on his lap and her hips rolled against his.

Her lips found his in a quick sloppy kiss. She moved to the crook of his neck, kissing and teasing the tender flesh before tearing his shirt off over his head and pushing him back on the bed.

He felt her devilish tongue moving lower leaving a burning path from his ear to his shoulder, he grunted a soft noise when her teeth raked over his nipple and her tongue slithered lower dipping into his navel, making his jerk with a twitch of pleasure.

"M-Moegi?"

She hummed in response and looked up at Sai but the frown and wide-eyed expression he held told her that he wasn't the one to say her name. She sat up slowly and turned her head towards the bedroom door where a flustered and confused Konohamaru stood. She groaned and hung her head.

"Hey."

"Hey!" The Sarutobi belted out, "All you can say is hey? What the hell are you doing?" His chocolate eyes shifted from Moegi's naked form to Sai's half-naked one, "Sai?"

Sai flopped his head back against the bed and cursed himself. What the fuck was he thinking? She was in a relationship, while not very committed, it was still a relationship.

The red-head moved off of Sai and snatched one of the pillows to hide her aroused body from the eyes of both men. Sai sat up and put a hand to his head, he couldn't even begin to describe the strength of the insetting headache he had.

"Konohamaru-kun, we can explain…" The ginger whimpered as tears welled in her eyes.

"What the hell?" Konohamaru cursed. "Are you guys are sleeping behind my back?"

Moegi hung her head in shame; Sai lolled his to the side casually. He deserved the ass-kicking coming his way. "Sarutobi-san," He said addressing Konohamaru in the politest way he could, "I take full responsibility for this. Don't punish her…" Even though she kind of brought most of this on herself… he added to himself.

"Don't fucking talk to me, you traitor! She's my girlfriend! Where's the bro-code man? You don't sleep with a friend's girl, you asshole!" Konohamaru sighed, "Just get out of my fucking apartment." He should have figured she was sleeping around. The late hours, the occasional bruise or hickey, but he'd given her the benefit of the doubt. Fuck that shit, chivalry wasn't his friend anymore. And neither was the ink user sitting on his bed.

"You aren't going to hit me?" Sai stuttered, dumb enough to ask for his punishment. He felt he deserved something when most people would have taken their ass while they still had it.

"It would hurt more if I didn't, now won't it?" The young Sarutobi hissed, "Get out of my fucking sight before I change my fucking mind." The f-word had never felt so good on his lips as he cursed the man he'd once called friend.

Sai nodded curtly before scrambling from the bed, not even bothering to grab his shirt on his way out. That couldn't have gone worse, he thought to himself. Sai shook his head. He was so fucking stupid sometimes.

"Fuck my life…" He muttered. He needed a drink or two. Or three. Or more. He patted his front pants pocket. He had some money; he'd probably mooch drinks from Ari. He needed something numbing and buzzing and Ari always knew something to fit the description. Hell maybe he'd take another whack at downing a Sokolov.

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Sakura groaned as she strained to get up, the man laying across her back snoring lightly in his sleep. She reached out for the phone, and answered it managing to mutter a strained 'hello'.

"Uh, hey, Sakura I'm so sorry to call you this early, but we have a little situation down here at the Watering Hole."

Sakura yawned and shifted her gaze from Kakashi's naked ass to her alarm clock, "Damn it, Ari, its four-thirty, I normally enjoy our little talks but I need to sleep too." She sighed into the phone. "What do you need?"

"Um, I need someone to fetch Sai for me. He came in wanting a strong drink, he seemed like he'd had a rough night so I gave him one and now he's screaming at people and throwing...Sai put the chair down!...Honey, please send someone to get him, he smashing all of Deni's shit and he's gonna be pissed!"

Sakura looked down at the phone as Ari screamed at her Ivory-skinned comrade. Ah hell. "What the hell did you give him?"

"He wanted a Sokolov, so I gave him one! He wanted something else after that and I gave him a Macarena! He went nuts after that."

"Macarena? Isn't that the fruity blue drink you're always drinking?"

"Yeah."

"I'll be there in a couple minutes. Just keep him under control, shake your keys in front of his face or something…" After returning the phone to its cradle Sakura heaved her lover off of her and rolled out of bed.

She skirted into the bathroom and grabbed a pair of sweatpants from her dryer and pulled a Jounin-issued black long sleeve shirt on over her head. She sighed, what the hell was wrong with Sai? He was the composed one. The nothing ever bothers me one. What the hell was happening to them all?

When Sakura arrived at the Watering Hole she wasn't surprised to find Sai pinned beneath an agitated Ari on the bar. A bottle embedded into the wood next to Sai's head.

Ari looked up, "Well hello Sakura-chan, I think this belongs to you…" The blonde said rolling off of Sai.

Sai stared up at the ceiling, panting and cussing Ari. "Fucker."

"Lets go Sai. Now." Sakura commanded, pulling at the man's arm. He muttered something and hopped down off of the bar following Sakura out the door.

It wasn't like Sai to drop Fuck like that, especially towards someone. Something was really eating at him she concluded.

Sakura waited until they were around the corner, near Sai's apartment before letting loose on him. "What the hell happened back there?"

Sai shrugged, "Dunno."

"Don't give me that dunno shit! What the hell happened to you, then?"

"Don't wanna talk about it." He mumbled in his drunken stupor. He hated being an angry drunk…

He looked like shit. He smelled like booze, and where the hell was his shirt? Sakura wondered. "Well you're gonna have to, buddy. What's wrong?"

"Wass wrong with me? You is sleepin' with Kakashi." Sai hiccupped, surprised by his terrible grammar. This is why, he decided, he didn't get drunk very often.

"Yeah and?" Her thoughts drifted back to the silver haired man sleeping in her bed, waiting for her to get back.

"I slept with Moegi-chan." He blurted out. He mentally smacked himself. Sakura would cut him balls to belly for that. "And Konohamaru knows…he walked in on us. I just…I don't know what happened. I don't love her, but I want to, you know, sleep with her."

Sakura nodded, "That explains a lot." Wanting to get back to what was waiting for her at home. A warm, deliciously sexy man…

"You knew?" He gasped.

"No, but she was always hanging on you, kind of like a cat in heat." She shook her head, "I figured it was only a matter of time. Now go sleep off your hangover and forget about her, okay?"

Sai nodded and started for his apartment. He stopped and turned his head, finding Sakura gone. "What the hell?" She hadn't beaten him, hadn't yelled at him, merely gave him a knock to the knuckles and told him to suck it up.

That was very Un-Sakura-like in his eyes.

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This chapter kind of kicked my ass, (sweat drop) I hope you liked it! :]