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Chapter Seven - Copycat

" Hello, puppet..." a raucous voice said behind Sakura, who froze to the spot when she felt a kunai at her back. "So we meets again... You didn't have enough with us the last time..?"

Sakura turned her head slowly to the man behind her. It was that greasy raven-black haired man with a stitched rigth eye, who was behind her. She remembered him to be one of those criminals in that gang, one of those who had held her down to the ground and watch how she was raped by that handsome looking man.

She could hear how that man breathed in her smell, she was disgusted by that.

" I can feel fear..." he whispered in her ear from behind.

" Screw you..." she snapped at him and spat in his face.

The man took his free hand to grab her hair and forced her to bent down to her knees.

" You little bitch!" he growled and pushed his kunai harder to her back and she closed her eyes and waited for the man to free her from this world.

But all she could feel was that the man released his grip from her hair and heard him thud down to the ground.

" Are you okay, Sakura?" a calm voice asked her and she looked up to see the silver haired man behind her.

He had knocked the other man in to unconsciousness and was now reaching out a helping hand to Sakura. But she didn't took it.

" I'm alright..." she told him with a bit shaky voice, before she took herself up from the ground.

***

The sun was now straight above the tree tops and the two shinobis from Konoha was waiting for that unconscious man to wake up.

" Why are we waithing for him to wake? We should just have kill him and take our flight..." the pink haired woman said to the silver haired man beside her.

" And lost some important source of information? I don't think so." the silver haired man told her.

" Tsk... You nerver change, Kakashi..." she mumbled and looked away from the silver haired man.

" Should I take that like a compliment?" he asked her with a boy's grin under his mask.

" Do as you please..." she muttred. "I don't care..."

Kakashi smiled at her and turned his head to the prisoner.

" It looks like our catch has finally come around..." kakashi suddenly said and Sakura looked up.

The prisoner looked a bit disorientated, before he locked his eye on the pink haired woman in front of him and he sneered at her.

" Hallo, puppet..." he said to her.

" Don't you dare call me that!" she yelled and tried to walk up and smack his head hard, but Kakashi stoped her.

" Don't..." he said in a low voice to her and she shaked of his hand from her shoulder and placed herself beside the tree again.

" That's a good girl... Listen to your daddy..." the raven-black haired man said to her.

But before she could speak up for herself, the silver haired man start to talk.

" You are quit a bold one, aren't you? Sneaking up behind a lady like that..."

The man didn't answer Kakashi.

" You know, if you don't talk your death will only come sooner..." Kakashi said to the man. "What's was your mission?"

" As I would tell you, pussy..." he said to Kakashi.

" Well then..." Kakashi said and took out a kunia from his waist pouch. "If you aren't telling, then we don't need you..."

Kakashi pushed himself up from the ground, the kunia still in his hand.

` Wasn't he the one who said that we needed him?´

Sakura looked at Kakashi who had raised the kunia at the man.

" Okay, Okay! I will tell you! I will tell!" the raven-haired man yelled in panic.

The silver haired Jounin stoped and looked pleased down to the shaking man on the ground, but he didn't go back to the woman beside the tree.

" ...I-I was supposed to watch out for intruders, but I found something more interesting..." he said and looked at Sakura. "I found that little whore..."

" I appreciated that you don't talk to my team mate like that..." Kakashi said with a warning in his voice. "If you don't want do die an instant death..."

The raven-haired man looked at Kakashi, before he said;

" If you are referring to that little girl... She didn't show much of her strength when we overpowered her... But she did put up a fight... before he raped her..."

Sakura looked at the man with the stitched rigth eye.

` This was not like how I wanted Kakashi to find out about that night...´

Kakashi watched the raven-haired man in front of him. Something made Kakashi lost all his self control and all he wanted to do was to tear that man in to pices and ditch him somewhere he couldn't be found.

Sakura looked up at he silver haired Jounin in front of her. His hands was trembling and his eye was burning with a flame she never had seen before, not in this Copycat.

Her thoughts drifted away to a black haired boy, who had a crazy look in his face.

" Sakura... Who did that to you...?"

Sakura had this same feeling over this silver haired man. A feeling she didn't know if she could stop. She was terrified.

Kakashis hands stoped to trembling and it looked like he was trying hard to suppress a foreign power, who had possessed him.

"... Ka...Kakashi... Stop this..." she mumbled and she could see a smirk under this silver haired mans mask, that made her shiver.

Kakashi suddenly grabed the raven-black haired mans collar and pushed him up to his face.

" People like you shouldn't live..." he growled in a low and deep voice to the man, not sounding like himself. "When are your next report!"

" A-About one hour from now..." the raven-black haired man whined.

" Then tell your friends that you haven't seen a thing worthy their concerns..." Kakashi more or less commanded the man in front of him and the man nodded.

` It this really Kakashi? I have never seen him like this before...´

Sakura watched how Kakashi turned his face to her. His face looked more like it always had and his eye was softer when he met Sakuras eyes.

" You don't need to worry..." he told her. "Not from him at least..."

Sakura didn't know if she would be glad or screm her dislike to the silver haired Jounin in front of her. So she did something between.

" Nothing to worry, you say..!?" she yelled, not in a very angry tone but still in a harsh tone and she walked up to him. "If you ever take my place again, I will punish you!"

She slapped his over arm pretty hard making him whimper.

" Oww... I get it, I get it..." he said to her with a soft smile that could smelt icebergs, but his smile didn't affect her.

" Geez... I guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks..." she mumbled. "And what about that thing on the ground..?"

Sakura pointed towards the man with the raven-hair and Kakashi looked back to the man.

" Oh... Well, I guess we don't need him after he have send that note to his friends..." Kakashi said in a cold voice that didn't suited him.

" No! Don't kill me, please! Don't kill me!" the man begged them.

" You should have thought about that before you joined the criminal side..." Sakura told him.

" And before you attacked her, pussy..." Kakashi ended with. "I will take care of him, after he have send that note to them..."

Sakura nodded and walked to stand beside the tree.

She wanted to cry because of what that man had said to Kakashi. But crying in front of Kakashi would damage her pride even more.

` Well, Kakashi obviously, already knew about this. But in the way that man said it on, I almost sounded like a whore...´

" Sakura..? Are you alright?" Kakashid calm voice asked her.

" Aaa... I'm okay..." she lied to him. "And what did I tell you about my name..."

Kakashi rolled his eye.

" I'm so sorry, Taichou..." he mumbled to her and start to walk towards her. "You know, we need to discuss something..."

" Like what?" she asked him bored.

" Like how we are going to smuggle us in to the village..." Kakashi looked at her and she looked stunned at him. "You didn't just think you could walk right in to the village?"

" No-No I didn't!" she told him. The truth was she had no plan and she just hoped that no one would notise them enter the village.

` Why do I act as a lost child when he is near me? I have never ever act stupid before he become my team mate... I feel so weak in his present, I need to end this mission quick or dump him in the nearest bar in Chimachima...´

" ... I mean, your head is marked in that village and besides that we both come from Konoha. I will most likely be target by them too, not because I'm the one I'm... It's because of you..." Kakashi said to her and she looked away.

" I get your point..." she grunted. "And what do you have for plan?"

" Right now? Well we could hengen ourself, but that wouldn't work for a longer time... It request to much chakra as well... " Kakashi said to her. He knew that he lack both stamina and chakra to hengen himself for a longer time.

" True, but you are the minor problem... They know how I look and that is thanks to my pink hair..." she sighed. "I could probably dye it or something..."

" That will do... You will dye your hair and we will enter the village like man and his wife..." Kakashi got smacked on his arm again by Sakura.

" No way in hell somebody would belive that!" she growled to him. "I will dye my hair, but we will not enter the village like man and wife! Is that clear?!"

Kakashi looked at her.

" I said is that clear?!" she asked him again.

" Hai, Hai... Then I will act as your older brother then..." Kakashi said to her and she nodded to him.

****

While Kakashi was busy with the prisoner, Sakura took her opportunity to visit a little market place they had walked past the other day and she hoped that she would find everything she needed. She looked at some special herbs that would help her turn her hair to a soft red colour and then she stroll down to find some other clothes as well.

When she left the market place she passed by a little river and she decided that this place would be a good spot to change her appearance just a little bit.

" I'm back..." she called to the silver haired man sitting by the end of the tree trunk and reading his adult novel.

" I see.. that... And I hope for your sake that your real hair colour will turn back..." he said and glanced at her. His heart had stoped for a short time, not because he had been shocked to see her. It was more like he had love the way the simple, half short cream-pink kimono had suited her so well on her body.

" What? Don't you like it?" she asked him. "I do think red is the best colour to match my eyes and don't worry it will come of. Why do you care anyway?"

" Eh... Naruto will probably hat it..." Kakashi told her.

` That's not true. But I can't tell her that she looks way better in her real hair colour.´

" Tsk... I do what ever I want... Even if Naruto will hate it. By the way, were is that man?"

" That man...? Oh, well he sended that note to the gang leader..." Kakashi told her.

" And after that? Did you kill him?" Sakura asked.

" Kill him? No, even if I thought he deserved it..." Kakashi said and turned a page of his book.

" So if you didn't kill him... What did you do?" Sakura looked at him.

" Well, right now he is having a nightmare..." he told her.

" A nightmare...?"

" Hai. He is trapped in a Genjutsu and Pakkun is keeping an eye on him, until someone is coming to get him and take him to Konoha... And yes, I did..." he answered her before she could say anything about he sending a note to Konoha.

He put away his book to watch how Sakura looked astonished at him.

` That is what it's a expected from him, I guess...´

" Now he can't rape or watch any innocent girl get raped, not anymore..." Kakashi said more to himself then to Sakura, who just watched him.

" Are you comparing me to a girl..?" she asked him in a cold voice and she could see that glint in his eye.

" You have always been a girl for me..." he said softly, but he had that playful tone in it and Sakura was quite unsure of it.

She didn't know if he was mocking her or if he just had that voice because he wanted her to remember her time as a genin. Anyway, she decided that his playful tone was annoying and she didn't want to hear it ever again.

" Stop mocking me..." she growled and throw something at him. It hit his face. "Get dressed and then we will leave..."

Kakashi looked down at what Sakura had thrown to him. It was some clothes; a black jacket with a high collar, a navy blue polo-neck sweater (long enough to drag the polo-neck over half of his face), black cargo pants and an eyepatch.

` Quite simple... Nothing that I would choose myself, but it will do...´

After a while Kakashi met Sakura not far from the place they had set up a camp and she looked down on the scroll Naruto had given her.

" Are you ready to leave?" she asked him and started to put the scroll in her backpack, after she had hengen it to something that wouldn't stand out to much.

" Hai... I have inform Pakkun about our leave and he will stay with that man until ANBU comes..." Kakashi told her and she nodded.

" That's good... Anyway, we will arrive to the village about tomorrow morning I think... If we are lucky maybe today at midnight..." she told him and he nodded this time. " By the way. You look like a homeless guy..."

" Well, thank you... Should I remind you, who bought this to me...?" Kakashi said in a sharp voice to her and she smiled soft to him.

" I thoughted that would suite you, I guess I was wrong...." she said to him and started to walk. "Are you coming?"

He shoke his head. She was right now, really a pain in the ass. But somehow he find it quite amusing, no one had never tried to dominate him before.

` This could be fun... But I can't let her go to far with this...´

He followed her and fell in a stroll beside her.

" If you don't want to end up like a road kill, I suggest you back off..." she growled to him.

" What...? Did you say something, Taichou...?" he said to her with a grin in his face.

He was mocking her.

" I said...! Urg... Never mind it..." she looked at him and walked faster before she start to dashed through the forest.

" You shouln't run so fast with that kimono on you... You can fall or show your..."

" Shut your pervert mouth! I don't want to hear it!" Sakura yelled to him.

" Okay... Then I will not say it..." he said and smiled at her back. He had a good view, but he only could see her kimono tighten on her butt while she was running. That was enough to turn him on.

` Stop that, Kakashi! You can't watch her like that! Not in this mission, you need to stay focus...´

Sakura glanced at him, unknown what was on his mind right now.

" You know... Somethings has bother me for a while...." she said to him.

" Huh...? Your butt...?" Kakashi answered her and she turned red in her face and so did he.

" No-No... Not my butt, perv... Why the hell did you just say butt anyway?"

" Eh... Most girls of your age, are worry for some of their body parts..." he gawky explained to her.

" If you are talking about this kind of things, you are like 10 years to late... And I'm not a girl anymore..." she told him still red in her face.

" I-I know that you are not a girl anymore..." he said. "But sometimes I just forget..."

` Why can't I even lie properly? She will see through it all...´

" Oh... Well, time has just flow past us all, I guess..." she mumbled a bit sad and Kakashi looked at her back. "And I'm only saying this once... Stop look at my butt... Copycat..."

` She must have eyes in her neck as well, or I have screw it up pretty well for myself...´

Author note:

Yet again Sakura is facing one of the mans who attacked her. Kakashi is in his state of protect the one he love and that makes Sakura a bit nervous and make her think of Sasuke even more. Even if Sakura hate Kakashi more then anything els, she still want to be acknowledged by him in away she doesn't know herself. And Kakashi, well he is just making it worse for himself by making Sakura angry at him ( even if Kakashi enjoys it in a way ). What will happen when they are soon in the little village? Will Kakashi dare to tell her or will Sakura dump him somewhere in Chimachima?

Sorry if it's some spelling errors. ( and I'm sorry again for this chapter was short, I will make it up )

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