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Chapter eleven - Desire

Sakura looked shocked at Ura. Had she heard right?

"You-You are his wifes grandmother...?" Sakura said in a voice that sounded like she wanted to be sure that she have heard right.

"Aaa... As I said, he killed his wife... It was a cruel thing to do..." Ura said and looked up to the two Shinobis in front of her, with misty grey-blue eyes.

"Why did he kill her...?" Sakura asked.

"You all know what war brought up one us less lucky people... Starvation, poverty... People that had lived a good life and did what they was supposed to do, became criminals to still be able to live their good lifes. Shinkou was one of them. He was greedy and selfish, he killed his wife so he could have his good life for himself." Ura told them. "And one day that Uchiha-man came to the village. He promised them wealth and power, things that Shinkou wanted to have too. So he abandon his village and began to help that filthy Uchiha-man..."

"How can some like him, call himself a Ninja?!" Sakura said furious and Kakashi looked at Sakura.

"Some Ninja value power more then others... You should know that by now..." Kakashi said to her and she frowned.

"I know... But still I think those things shouldn't be so important to a Ninja..." Sakura mumbled and he nodded agreeably.

"However, Shinkou got himself caught in Tea Country, after that Uchiha-mans fall and then brought to prison..." Ura said and looked at Kakashi. "I belive you was the one who capture him..."

Sakura looked towards Kakashi who looked like he didn't really wanted to talk about it.

"Well... If I had known at that time, that he would be such a evil man, I would have taking him to Konoha... But he had at that moment just done a simple crime, so it's was up to Tea Country to punish him." Kakashi said. "It was after he had escaped that we got the information that he was classed as a Missing-nin from Kiri... But he whent in to hidding after his escap, this is the firts time we have heard of him in years..."

"Oh, I think Tsunade-Sama said something about a man who was held prision in Tea County, but escaped. Apparently Mizukage wanted to have the man transfered to Kiri..." Sakura said and Kakashi nodded to confirm it.

"Aaa, she wanted, but the Tea Country wanted to have it their way and see what happened..." Kakashi sighed. "What's done can't be undone... The only thing we can do now, is to take him down from his throne."

"I agree with you, kiddo..." Ura said to Kakashi, who still was a bit annoyed by how she called him 'kiddo'. "But I don't like the way you do it on... It's to dangerous and you both should know that your life is more valuable to the Fire Country then anything els..."

Both Sakura and Kakashi looked at the old hag in front of them.

"You are... You are not considering to do this yourself, are you...?" Sakura asked a bit conserned.

"Of course not... Even if I would gladly do it myself, I'm not that kind of person who would risk my life to do something that stupied..." Ura said and Sakura flushed." Or have the power..."

"But we don't have another plan..." Sakura told Ura with a quite desperate voice and Ura sighed.

"I still think that you shouldn't do this plan... It's to many thinks that could go wrong, even with a skilled man like him by your side..." Ura pointed towards Kakashi who frowned. "Even if Neikan shows his interest for you and let you in closer to Shinkou, it doesn't mean you can stroll freely around them... I know Shinkous tast for women, you are his ideal, a woman who he wouldn't let go of in the first place... When you enter his game, you can't back out... You need to know that he will order you to do thinks that you normally wouldn't do and you need to do them, if you want to live..."

Sakura looked unsure towards Kakashi who patted her head.

"Don't worry Sakura... You know that I don't let any of my team mate die..." Kakashi told her and Sakura jerked away from his patting.

"I know... And stop treating me like a little girl!" Sakura growled to Kakashi and after that she looked to Ura. "I'm sorry Ura... But we need to do this, it's our only chance..."

***

The silver haired man eyed the red haired woman in the bed from his position on the sofa and he sighed.

"Can't sleep...?" he asked her and puted his adult novel aside.

"Sort of..." she mumbled and put the quilt closer to her body. "You too, I guess..."

"Well, sort of..." he replyed to her and he saw her shifting in her bed to face him.

"Are you trying to mock me?" she asked him and he looked at her with an innocent eye.

"I don't know what you are talking about..." he said and she gave him a glear that could kill.

"Tsk... I still haven't figure it out how Naruto and even Yamato-Taichou could stand you..." Sakura muttred to him.

"They didn't..." he told her truthfully.

"I thought so... If you are done talking with me, can you let me have some sleep...?" Sakura said and turned away from him, chucked the quilt over her head and pretended to sleep.

"If you want, I can slip in to the bed beside you and comfort you..." Kakashi said to her in a bit of a teasing and Sakuras pillow met his face.

"Just you dare!" Sakura growled dangurosly and Kakashi took the pillow away from his face and looked at her.

"Can't you even take a joke when you hear one?" Kakashi said to her, a bit amused.

"That wasn't funny... And I didn't really see that as a joke, not after what happen some nights ago..." Sakura muttred and Kakashi remembred freshly which night she was referring to. "Just let me sleep..."

"Let you sleep...? Your are obviously pretending anyway... So way even bother?" Kakashi mumbled and toss her pillow back to her. "And stop throwing things at me, if you don't won't me to keep it... I will try to let you sleep now, you will need it..."

"I only have one question..." Sakura then asked him.

"And that is...?"

"Why did you hit that Neikan with such force...? You could have killed him, you know that..." Sakura said and Kakashi glanced at her over his book. "I mean, you could just have let him do what ever he wanted with me, if we are suppose to get closer to him and Shinkou..."

"I know that... But imagine yourself in my spot, what would you have done?" Kakashi asked her. "You are my team mate and I don't won't you to get hurt..."

"I agree with you, but what you did could have blow the whole cover or worse, the mission..." Sakura told him and Kakashi knew how right she was. "Good for us was that Ura-San was there... And... And I'm glad that you did hit him, because I wasn't really ready for what he did... But I still think that you didn't need that much force in the punch..."

"If he is a Shinobi he can handel it... And I need to protect my little sister from the bad wolf..." Kakashi said to her and watched how Sakura blushed slithly. "But next time I will not come to your need, you will have to handel it by yourself..."

"What a gentelman..." Sakura grumble and turned away from him once again. "And now I will try to sleep, good night...."

"Good night, Taichou..." Kakashi said to her and started to read his book again.

"Did you really meant what you said before...?" Sakura suddenly asked.

"Said when...?" he asked her and looked over his book.

"That next time you would kill him..." she said and he frowned. "You kind of looked serious about it..."

"I always look serious when I talk about people I wanna kill... Good night, Taichou..." Kakashi said a bit sullen and returned to his book again.

"And Ura-San... Did you ask her to come with you before you had hit him...?" Sakura asked again and this time Kakashi didn't bother to look at her.

"No I didn't ask her... Will you please stop with your interrogation and go to sleep? You have an importent day tomorrow... Good night..." Kakashi said to her and turned a page.

"How come..." Sakura began but Kakashi broke her of.

"Which part of Good night don't you understand?" Kakashi said to her and sat himself up. "If you don't go to sleep now, I will not hesitate to slip in to your bed and make sure that you go to sleep...!"

`Shit... Why did I say that to her..?´

Sakura looked at him in shock and in the same time a bit amazed over what he had said. But in the end she would kill him if he ever dear to get into the bed.

"I... I think I will go to sleep now..." Sakura mumbled and pressed her blushing face in to her pillow.

"Well then, I will say it again... Good night, Sakura..." he muttred to her and pushed himslef out of the sofa and walked out of the room.

***

The next morning Sakura met up Kakashi at one of the local restaurant not far from the inn.

"Breakfast...?" Kakashi asked her when she had sat herself down opposite of him.

"Not hungry..." she mumbled drowsy and lay her cheek on the table.

"Suit yourself..." he said to her and began to leave the table.

"Wait... Where are you going?" she asked him.

"Out..." he told her and put some mony on the table.

"Did I say something last night that upset you?" Sakura looked at him and he sighed.

"No. You were just... difficult last night..." Kakashi told her.

"Meaning...?" Sakura frowned at him in annoyance.

"That you were difficult last night... You couldn't stop talking, even when I told you to go to sleep and you had even told me before that you needed some sleep." Kakashi told her and she blushed slightly. Kakashi find it quite cut, with the light pink trace on her cheeks. "I started to think that you had been possessed by something, or is it something els?"

"I needed answers..." she said to him straightly.

"Answers to what?" Kakashi asked and was back in the chair opposite her. Sakura looked away from him and chew on her underlip. "Come on, tell me..."

His tone was so alike the way he had talk to them when they had been his student. It was demanding, but in the sametime friendly and urging them to tell him what was on their mindes.

Sakura ( to be honest ) had missed those thing from the man in front of her. When Sasuke had left and Naruto and herself had been left with their Sensei, something had change in their Sensei. She had always could come to him when she was depressed over her abillitys and he had been there for her. Before the war and even during it he had been a bit cold to them, both of them. But now he sat in front of her waiting for her to answer her own question, in away he had always had done when she had been a Genin. He was really going to listen to her.

Kakashi looked at Sakura a bit puzzled, by her suddenly absent.

"Well, are you going to tell me or not...? We don't have the whole day on us..." he said to her.

"What...? Oh, sorry... Well, I need answers to why you did it..." she told him and hid her blush by looking through the big window.

"Did what...?" he asked her and rised an eyebrow.

"Why you... Why you come to my need yesterday. You didn't have to..." Sakura said to him and he pulled his hand through his unruly silver hair, in away that almost was in annoyance.

"As I told you last night, I did it because I hate to see someone I..." Kakashi hesitated for a moment. "...Someone be abused..."

"That still doesn't explain why you come to my need... If I had wanted I could have done it myself..." she snorted and turnd to watch him again. He looked like he was about to leave again. "I just want to know why, that's all... You know my strength and weakness... You know I could have handle him by myself..."

Kakashi watched her from his place and he couldn't tell her that the reason to why he had hit that son of a bitch, was because he cared for her in away that wouldn't be suited from the elder in Konoha view.

"I know your strenght and also weakness... But I was afraid that you would panic or get in shock, so I did what was best for you and this mission... It was my desire to protect you from him..." Kakashi mumbled to her and he could see a bit of surprise in her face. "Don't get any ideas... I have been your Sensei for a long time after all..."

Sakura smirked at him and put both her palms under her chin, almost in a naive way and then she smiled brightly to him like she had done when she still had been a Genin. Kakashi frowned.

"So you were afraid that I would panic or get in shock...?" Sakura asked him, he nodded slightly. "So my own Sensei think that highly of me... You still see me as a girl, do you?"

"Well, not really..." he mumbled. "But you did no intension to push him away from you, that way I came..."

He had been right though, she had almost get to the stat of panic before Kakashi had come to her side. She as always, couldn't admit it to him because of her pride.

Sakura stared into his deep black eye and she could trace some light grey around his pupil. This was the firt time she had taken notice of it.

"I'm not going to thank you again..." she told him.

"I don't need it..." he told her back. He too was stuck in her eyes. The emarald color eyes of hers seemd to take some mental notes. He was not surprised of her doing so, she was after all trying to unfold his secrets. She was never going to successed.

"Your desire you say... Can I ask you why your desire was to protect me?" Sakura asked him and Kakashi was the one who broke the eye contact.

He couldn't tell her why. Not yet at least.

"You know what, those things can wait a bit..." he told her and rised from the chair. She looked up at him questioningly. "I think we have some things that need to be done, before I answer your question."

Sakura was about to open her mouth to ask the same question again, but Kakashi was fast to open his mouth.

"As I said, mission first, after that we can talk about it..." he left her at the table, she was quite dumbstruck with his answer and the why he had left her.

Anyway, she knew that if she wanted answers, she just had to wait for him to tell her. The more you asked him to tell you, the more he would consider to keep it for himself. Like he always had. Sakura had just ( finally ) found that out.

Sakura looked out through the big window of the restaurant and saw Kakashi outside. On of his hands had slipped in to his pocket and the other one hold that little blue-green book. He didn't read it, but he seemed to more look at the weather and that concerned her gravely. Something was on his mind, but what?

She looked at the half eaten tost on the table that had been Kakashi's and she sighed.

`Maybe nothing is on his mind for a change... That would be something new...´

Sakura then stood up and walked out of the restaurant too.

Author note:

Well, Kakashi and Sakura have found out a little more about the man Shinkou and his henchmen and Uranai ( Ura ) is skeptic about their plan. While Sakura tries to ask Kakashi questions that actually have "no" answers ( and fails ). Kakashi is still stick with the dilemma of telling her or not. In the end he chose the later one, but he can not really let it go. And Sakura now think that she has a plan to unfold some secrets about what Kakashi's desire is...

It my contain some spelling errors, sorry for that ( I'm a very lazy person, as long it's readable I'm happy with it ). :)

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