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Chapter Six - I Will Be There for You

Sakura stod beside the main entrances and waited for her team colleague to come.

" Damn you, Sensei..." she muttred. "Even if I lied about the time, he still is late..."

Sakura looked up to the sky and saw some birds flying cross it. She was really pissed about to have spend her time and mission with the man she hated the most.

" Yo..!" a calm voice said behind her and she turned around to face that person.

" I don't tolerate lateness, Kakashi!" she said with a slightly high voice to the silver haired man, who stoped in front of her.

" Warui, Warui... But you see..."

" I don't care!" she yelled to him. "I don't care if a black cat crossed the street, if the sky felled down on you, or if you accidentally droped your Icha-Icha in a pool and you have to dry every page by hand!"

Kakashi looked at her with a amused smile.

" You know, the last thing you said... That actually happened me once when I..." he said.

" I said, I don't care!" she growled. "Why did I end up with you of all men in Konoha?"

" So I'm a man now..?" he asked.

" Tsk... No, for me you will always be a drunk perv..." she told him. "Let's go, or els we will never reach the village..."

` This is going to be a long trip... He better don't piss me off...´

***

The night was slowly creeping over them and the pink haired kunoichi stoped.

" We will stop here for to night..." she told the man behind her, who nodded.

They both helped to look for some wood to the fireplace and when the fier burned brightly they both started to eat what they had with them.

The kunoichi chew on her Onigiri while looking in to the fier.

" Sakura... Can I ask you something?" a silver haired man asked the kunoichi who glared at him.

" Didn't I tell you to not use my name...Ka ka shi..." she grunted.

"...Never mind..." he mumbled and picked out his little blue-green book from his waist pouch and start to read.

" What's so funny with that book anyway?" she asked him.

Kakashi looked at her over his book.

" Something that you wouldn't think of as funny..." he replied. "Well that's if you think love and sex is a funny thing..."

They both looked at each other. Sakura didn't know if she wanted to blush or to hit him. In the end she had been a bit surprised over what Kakashi had said to her, even if she knew what that book contained. While Kakashi only could smile amused at her without showing any kind of emotions in his face.

` Kuso! He have that glint in his eye again... Maybe I should play along... And make it to my benefit...´

" So... You think love and sex is a funny thing?" Sakura said and Kakashi raised an eyebrow at her.

" No I don't..." he told her. "Beside... Why am I talking to you about this anyway? You are still to young..."

Sakura bit her lip and force herself to not hit him hard.

" So you think I'm to young to talk about this kind of things? Then try me..." she said with a smooth voice.

Kakashi stare at her and he droped his book to his lap. Quite astonished over her smooth voice when she had said those words 'try me'.

" Try you? I don't think that would be such a good idea..." he mumbled.

" Pleace... I'm not a twelve year old little girl anymore..." she told him.

" I-I know that..." he stuttered and glanced down on to his book, who laid safety in his lap.

He wanted to show her what love was and maybe some more, but that would hazard his lifespan even more he guessed.

" Well, love and... sex... can be fun if you..." he began but he felt how a blush was on it's way to his cheeks.

This was so wrong. She had been his student and know she was his equal, a team mate. But it still felt weird to talk to her about this kind of thing, even if she was his team mate he just couldn't say those words; '...if you share it with someone you care for...' . She still was obsess with Sasuke, he knew that and maybe that was why he couldn't say it to her. Afraid of being rejected and afraid of what the consequence would make to their already stormy friendship.

" If you what?" she asked with a soft voice, trying to suppress a smirk from her lips.

" Forget it..." he sighed. "I will take the first watch..."

He looked at her before he pulled himself up from the grass an he could feel Sakura watching him.

" Wait a sec! You are avoiding my question!" she told him and she started to be a bit angry. "You are always doing that! What are you afraid of?!"

Kakashi didn't look at her.

" Just as always, when it comes to you... Didn't you trust us or what?!" she growled at him. "You are hiding yourself behind that stupid mask of yours and then you, more or less forced us to spill out our life storys! And you, what did you tell us about yourself?!"

" You are far from the topic now, Sakura..." he said in a deep voice, giving her time to understand that he wasn't in the mood to talk about this right know. But her anger couldn't detect his vibes he was giving her.

" Don't wriggle out of this!" she yelled and that was then Kakashi lost it.

" Listen, I don't have any intention to tell you my life story! The reason is simple, you wouldn't understand..." he snapped at her. "And back then I was your Sensei, to understand all of you I needed to know alot about you. And as you also know I have been in ANBU, so becouse of old habits of mine I didn't let you know everything about me..!"

Sakura looked at her Sensei with her big emerald eyes, she hadn't been prepared of Kakashis suddenly out burst. And she was a bit shocked over it as well.

Kakashi looked down at Sakura. She looked so scared and almost in a state of crying. He regreted that he had snapped at her like he did, but he couldn't make it undone.

" How... How would we ever trust someone who never told anything about himself!?" she then cried.

" But you did..." Kakashi told her, a bit calmer this time. "You all did... That was all I ever needed know... So I could protect you all..."

Sakura bit her lip before she to, rised up from the grass.

" Those times has passed! You... You don't need to protect us anymore!" Sakura bellowed to him. "Team 7 doesn't exist anymore! And I still want to know why you didn't let me go with Naruto..!"

" I have already told you that... Your love for Sasuke was the biggest reason for me to not let you go with him..." Kakashi told her with almost in a know-it-all voice.

He turned his head away from her again and even if Sakura only could see a bit of his face, she could see that he had told her a lie.

Why did he lay to her every time she had started to talk about Sasuke and why her former Sensei didn't let her go with Naruto? As always, he had something that he didn't want her to know and that exasperated her gravely.

" You aren't telling me the truth..." she growled at him and that made him face her.

" And neither do you..." he said to her with a composed voice and Sakura just stare at him.

" What-What do you mean?" she asked.

" They didn't just attack you, didn't they..?" Kakashi asked her.

Sakura looked confused and Kakashi saw that.

" Sakura..." he began, but Sakura gave him a sharp look out of her confused face expression. "...Sorry... All I meant was that gang, they did something els to you. Your clothes was turned to shreds, it was not just a simple attack..."

`How did he know? That's right, he was the one who find me...´

" I do understand if you feel a bit uncomfortable right now..." he said and gave her a look and she just stare blankly at him. "Sakura?"

He didn't like the way she just stared at him. It was almost like that she had find him in a naughty position and she didn't know what to do or say.

But Kakashis way of overprotect the ones he cared for took over and he find himself hugging the pink haired kunoichi in a comforting way. She then suddenly recovered from her absents and she brutally pushed him away from her.

" What the hell are you doing!?" she asked with a furious tone, while having a surprised look on her face.

Kakashi who had been knocked in to a tree, looked quite surprised himself.

` This is not good. She is going to kill me!´

" I-I thought that you needed a hug... Like the old days..." he explained to her with a faint smile.

" Needed a hug..? Well, don't- don't ever do it again!" she said to him, still furious.

` If he ever touch me again, I will send him straight to hell.´

Kakashi sighed and thanked his lucky star that he was still alive.

" You-You know... I once had a girl in my life..." he suddenly said to her, hoping that this would break the ice between them and Sakura cast a glance at him. "I loved her with all my heart. But as always, I was to late to tell her that..."

" What happened? She dumped you because of your latness?" Sakura said with a hint of sarcasm.

" No she didn't... She...She died..." he said to her with a firm voice and his face didn't even change expression.

Sakura felt stupied to have said such a thing to him with that tone.

" I'm sorry..." she mumbled to him.

" It's okay... It was a long time ago..." he looked at Sakura. "That's why I want to protect all of you. But I guess I failed again, didn't I?"

His still smile faint under his mask made Sakura just feel a little sorry for him.

` Maybe he too is sad about Sasukes death...´

" Yeah... You did..." she told him and turned her back at him. "Are you still willing to have the first watch?"

She could hear him take up the book from the ground.

" I will take that as a Yes..." she mumbled and placed herself on the rug beside the fireplace and put some of the rug around her.

Kakashi looked at her with a sad face.

Why did she always have to provoke him in her childish behavior? He hated when he lost all of his cool, just for a silly argument. She was the only one who ever had made him lost it, making him to act like a fool in front of her. This made him sad, he wanted so badly to tell her his feeling instead of yelling at her. But she was just so impulsive, like Naruto had been when he was younger and telling her had never been a option.

` Oh god... Why am I so afraid of just telling her how I feel for her? I'm a grown up man, I shouldn't be so afraid of this. But I'm...´

Kakashi slide down by the side of the tree trunk and looked at the book in his hand. He opened it and looked down on to the pages, but he couldn't pay any attention to it.

He sighed.

" Good Night, Sakura..." he said to her.

" ...Night... Sensei..." she mumbled sleepy and he looked surprised at her.

He hadn't expect her to answer, but when she did he felt all warm in side.

` I'm must tell her, or I will regret it for the rest of my life...´

***

Sakura yawned and looked at the glowing ashes. The sun was still not up over the tree tops and she turned her head to the silver haired man who had decided to spend half of his night beside the tree trunk.

She felt a little sorry for him, to have spent the night beside that cold tree.

` Well, that's probably my fault...´

Sakuras thought about the night that had been, when Kakashi had woke her up. She had always been a nervous wreck when it comes to sleep out in the open and when people had woke her up.

She had flewn up of the rug and the put a fist to Kakashis face, making him to swear out loud. That had been the first time she had heard him swear like that. If it hadn't been for the situation, then maybe she would have laughed at the whole thing.

Sakura raised herself up from the ground and walked towards the silver haired man, put a foot on his back and started to push.

" Time to wake up, Sleeping Beauty..." Sakura said to him.

" Who is the Sleeping Beauty here..?" he mumbled and looked at her from the corner of his eye. He still had a fist mark on his cheek.

Sakura tried hard to not laught at him.

" You, who els?" she said with a amused voice. "Lucky for you, that you didn't broke the cheekbone."

" And whose fault is that?" he asked her and looked away from her to pick up his forehead protecter beside him. He put it around his head and dragged half of it over his left eye. "Are you ready to go?"

" Hold on! I think I'm the team leader here!" she told him. "I'm the one who say when we will leave!"

" I know that. That's way I ask you if you are ready to go..." the silver haired shinobi said to her. "Don't you feel it?"

" Feel wha..?" she began, but then she too felt it. "Someone is coming..."

Kakashi nodded and was on his feet.

" I will scout and see if there's more of them. You will stay here and dispose the ashes." he told her.

" You are doing it again!" she growled to him.

" I'm sorry... But do you have another plan in mind?" the asked.

" No-No... I don't...." she mumbled.

" Then we will do this..." Kakashi looked at Sakura, who wasn't happy about it. " Don't worry..."

` Because I will be there for you...Sakura.´

He wave his hand and the disappeared with a ' poof ' and Sakura frowned, starting to bite her under lip and drew blood from it.

` He is so arrogant! I can't stand it!´

" Don't worry... Why should I be worry?" she mumbled and began to dispose what was left of the ashes and it was then she felt it.

" Hello, puppet..."

Author note:

Sakura and Kakashi is heading to the little village Chimachima and she is not very fond of her new companion. Even if Kakashi tries his best to be polite to her, he now sees that she does more to him then just giving him butterflys. And Sakura is still trying to get some information out of Kakashi about why he didn't let her go with Naruto, but instead she learn something about him that she never had belive he would have told her.

Will she ever change her mind about that silver haired Copycat, when she is faced with yet another problem and will Kakashi tell her what he really feels about her?? Who knows...

Sorry if it's some spelling errors. And this chapter is quite short, because the next one is a bit longer. :D

And some notes;

When I writes the text `like this´ it means that the person in question is thinking. When I writes like this the person emphasis just that word and when I writes like this that means flashbacks.

Do still feel free to ask me if something is bothering you. I will answer.

Take care!

Next Chapter: Copycat