Ok hello there thank you for picking my story, and thank you to all my reviewers!

This one is inspired by angel897, who gave me the base idea for this drabble. Unfortunately I still don't own Naruto but I am trying.

Thank you so much wingedmercury for being my beta! I love you!

Please enjoy!

A rough calloused hand shamelessly groped her as they battled. Looking faintly disgusted and more than a little surprised Haruno Sakura glared and prepared to breat the man into an a bloody pulp. Her actions, however, stopped short as a massive blur crashed full-force into her opponent, a low-level rouge-nin who had less sense than Naruto on a bad day. He was an easily handled opponent, and yet that didn't stop her sensei from jumping in to save her.

Slightly affronted and much more than just offended, Sakura left her sensei to pummel the ninja and opted to heal her team, though her touch was a little less than gentle and her glares and words a little more than unprofessional.

"Asshole... can't let me handle my own fucking fights..." She would mutter furiously.

Of course the worst had yet to be seen, as when Kakashi arrived there an aura of happiness around him which was soon extinguished as Sakura gave him a verbal tongue lashing that was by far the most brutal angered rant they'd ever heard from the pinkette, who finished with storming off alone into the surrounding forest with a sneer, and a few choice words.

"Who the hell do you think you are? I was doing just fine! I'm not a little girl who needs you to hold my fucking hand, I cn

When Sakura did return much later half her team was asleep, and she'd managed not to alert her remaining team mates. Kakashi and Yamato.

"Shit Kakashi, what the hell did you do to her?"

"You've asked me that since she first got out of earshot do you think if you keep asking I will tell you anything?"

"Yes actually I do." Yamato said slightly snarkily, still watching the other man with weary eyes.

"I jumped in her fight."

Yamato blinked.

"That's it?"

"Sakura ….doesn't like to feel like dead weight, I suppose I offended her when I jumped in."

"Was her opponent really that strong?" Yamato asked. "I mean Sakura's not chunin for nothing, hell the kid could even make Jounin, or interrogation if she wanted. Everyone knows she's got both Ibiki and Tsunade wrapped around her little finger." Sakura blushed and smiled feeling proud and flustered at being talked about in such a way, but then forced her smile down and listened carefully for Kakashi's next words.

"No the rouge was no match for Sakura, I think it'd be hard to find anyone that is."

Yamato grunted in agreement then leaned back, "So if that was the case why do it?"

Kakashi sighed and Sakura noted how tired he sounded, "Yamato the bastard felt her up, he put his filthy hands on her, and I just lost it."

"Damn Kakashi you've got it bad, have you considered a re-assigning ?"

"I can't, it's too nerve wrecking to think that I might not be able to protect her if anything happens. If I took a different team and then I lost her…I couldn't…I'd never… I just can't."

Sakura swallowed and peeked at her sensei He looked so down trodden, so aged, everything about him seemed to droop with the weight of his words that even his gravity-defying hair seems a little less perky.

"You know technically, as Sakura has passed both her ninja promotions it's perfectly legal to um… court her."

A raspy mechanical chuckled responded and Kakashi shook his head. "What would a pretty young thing like Sakura want with and old, over-grown pervert like me?"

The hidden pink haired chunin blushed and grit her teeth, angry that he'd given up without even attempting. It was pathetic really that the famous copy-nin would give up on trying to woo a girl who would readily give up her life to save him.

As her eyes hardened and face red in justifiable rage, Sakura didn't know who was more surprised when she said this- Yamato, Kakashi, or herself.

Two weeks later Kakashi was officially switched onto a new team, desperately trying to distance himself from his (now) former student, so that the rift between them might heal and their delicate friendship could be reborn.

It didn't really help when she started to court him

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