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Chapter Twelve - I Believe in You

Sakura walked up to Kakashi's side, he eyed her and put his book away.

"Are you ready?" he asked her and she nodded. "Well, then I will take my leave... And don't try to do something that even I wouldn't do..."

"And what wouldn't even you do?" Sakura said to him and smoothed out her red hair and redid her ponytail.

"Something stupied, like trying to kill our targets one your own for an exemple..." Kakashi said to her and she hit his upper arm.

"That's just stupied! Why would I even do it one my own?" Sakura mumbled to him and started to walk and he followed.

"Because I believe that is a thing you could do..." he told her. "I don't need you dead before the mission is even over... Don't you agree?"

"Wasn't you the one who said that you would take your leave?" Sakura said to him and stopped walking.

"Aaa... But I want you to promise me that you won't do anything that could kill you..." Kakashi stopped behind her and looked down at her back. "I don't want to tell Naruto that you been killed during our mission, because of your lack of self control..."

"Excuse me?!" Sakura turned around to face him and put her index finger into his chest. "You are the one who lack self control! You could have us both killed yesterday, remember!"

Kakashi looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Gosh! You were acting like a rebellious and lovesick teenager in that alley! Oh, yes you did!" Sakura said, when she notice he was about to open his mouth. "And I even don't know why?!"

Kakashi sighed and stepped away from her jabbing finger in his chest.

"Who said I was looking like a lovesick teenager?" Kakashi asked her and crossed his arms over his chest.

"I said... And you did, right after Neikan insulted you, Silver..." Sakura told him and looked at Kakashi who frowned at his new nickname.

"I just... I just didn't like the way he looked at you..." Kakashi bit the inside of his cheek.

`Damn it! That didn't came out right...´

This time it was Sakuras turn to raise an eyebrow.

"You-You didn't like the way he looked at me...?" she asked him.

"Is it wrong of me to protect my former student, who is a girl? You didn't see his eyes... It was eyes that could have raped anyone mentally..." Kakashi told her and his eye softened when he looked at Sakura. "You need to be careful... Don't won't to lose... you ..."

Kakashi's last words was carried away by the wind and Sakura looked puzzled and then he was gone with a 'poof'.

"You can't just 'poof' away middle of the conversation...!" she growled and bit her lip.

"I guess he can..." a bored elder voice come from beside her and she looked down.

"Pa-Pakkun?!" she said and looked surprised at the little brown pug, who was only missing his Konoha forehead protecter. "Did he leave you with me?"

"It lookes like that..." Pakkun told her. "And for now one, I will not speek to you. If you have questions I will simply nod or shake my head to you..."

Sakura nodded and they were of to hunt for Neikan.

***

Kakashi pop up beside a tree and he watch in far distans how Sakura and Pakkun took of. He sighed.

"When are you going to return that gem?" a squeaky voice said behind him and Kakashi jumped.

He looked around and saw that old hag Uranai.

"You always appear when bad things are about to happen..." Kakashi mumbled and Uranai raised a fuzzy eye brow. "And how did you know that I took her stone?"

"Haven't I told you that I'm a prophetess..." Uranai said to him. "And I do not always appear when things are going bad..."

"Anyway, I guess you have something els on your mind, more then just telling me to return her stone..." Kakashi said to her and she looked up to him.

"As bright as ever, Hatake-San..." Uranai said and smiled her toothless smile. "I guess that's what it is to expect from the late Yondaimes old student..."

Kakashi shrugged and digged his hands in his pockets.

"I was just going to ask you, if you are prepared to let her go when she is in Shinkous possession...?" Uranai asked him and Kakashi glanced at her. "I know what that girl means to you and don't deny it..."

"It depens on how you mean it..." Kakashi muttered. "She is my former student and now my team mate. Of course I care for her, but that doesn't mean I care for her in the way you mean it one... And yes, I'm prepared for it..."

Uranai roar with laughter and Kakashi frowned annoyed.

"...Hum... A bad liar as always, Hatake-San..." Uranai chuckled and calmed herself a bit. "You should tell her how you feel for her. Before it's to late..."

"No I can't... She still hates me and... and I have never been lucky to have someone with me for so long as Sakura has, without being killed." Kakashi told Uranai who smiled faintly at him. "If I tell her she is going to be killed... Like everyone els I have cared for."

Uranai looked at him with sad eyes and she watch a leaf dancing in the wind.

"You still doesn't get it, do you...?" Uranai said to him.

"What do you... mean...?" Kakashi looked beside him and Uranai was gone. "Kuso..."

***

"We have look everywhere... He is nowhere..." Sakura morned and sat herself on a woodenbox beside a store.

"We haven't look everywere..." Pakkun told her when he saw that no one was watching them.

"What do you mean? Of course we have..." Sakura told him. Pakkun frowned.

"No we haven't... He is a man..." Pakkun said to her and tried to gave her a hint.

"He is a man, so? Even I could have figure out that much..." Sakura said a bit annoyed.

"He is a man, yes... And almost all man have needs, right?" Pakkun told her and put his pads on her knees, when Sakura looked a bit puzzled. "I don't won't to spell it to you..."

"I still don't get it..." Sakura said and Pakkun sighed.

"Kakashi have always praised you for your cleverness, but now I wounder..." Pakkun muttered and Sakura glanced at him.

"All right, he is a man and man have need..." Sakura stoped and looked at Pakkun. "Pakkun, you can't be serious..?!"

"Ah good girl, you figure it out... And yes, I'm..." Pakkun told her.

"I'm not setting my foot in a strip club!" Sakura told him. "No way in hell I will do it! Not even for this mission!"

"Do you have a chose...?" Pakkun looked at her.

"Aaa I do... I chose to not go..." she turned her head away from Pakkun. "Ask Kakashi to do it..."

"No, it has to be you..." Pakkun told her. "It's getting late, you should go back to the inn and talk to Kakashi about it. Jaane..."

Pakkun disappeared with a poof and Sakura growled.

"I will kill him and his dog too..." she muttered and started to walk back to the inn.

When she entred their room she saw Kakashi at the window that almost look like an oriel. She cleared her throat and he turned his head around.

"Sakura..." he said softly and Sakura forgot for a moment why she had been angry at him. "Did it went well?"

"Er no, it didn't... That's why I need to talk to you..." Sakura said to him and walked to the bed and sat on top of it. "Pakkun had this crazy idea to send me to a strip club..."

Kakashi choked on his own saliva and looked at her.

"Did you- Did you think his idea was good?" Kakashi asked her and she shrugged.

"No I didn't..." she told him and Kakashi sighed in relief. "But we don't have anyother chose... Pakkun believed that Neikan would be in a strip club..."

`That old dog... Next time I will not choose him to watch over her...´

"Do you think Pakkun has right?" Sakura asked Kakashi who looked away.

"I'm afraid he is..." Kakashi sighed and walked to the sofa and sat himself down. "The thing is that you can't enter as a woman, if you... if you are not in the game as they put it."

"What do you mean?" Sakura asked him.

"You are a stripper or you are not... That's what it means..." Kakashi told her and sighed deeply.

"So if I'm not a stripper I'm not welcome, is that what you mean...?"

Kakashi nodded and Sakura frowned.

"This is getting harder and harder..." Sakura mumbled.

"Indeed... And we don't have much time either... Shinkou has put some marks on the village already... Three people has disappeared and five have been find dead..."

"When did this happen?" Sakura asked.

"During the time we was in this room to spy on Shinkou..." Kakashi said and Sakura felt how guilt washed over her. "Don't feel guilty... Even if we had been out there, we could have done nothing to help them..."

"Then it's decided... I will go to that strip club..." Sakura told Kakashi, who looked at her.

"Are you sure?" Kakashi asked her and she nodded.

"But I'm terrified to do something wrong..." she mumbled. "I don't know what a stripper those?"

"They us their femininity and their bodys to..." Kakashi looked in to her eyes. "...To entertain... the male..."

"That part do I understand... But I really don't know how to... how to us my femininity... I haven't used it in some years..." Sakura said to Kakashi who raised an eyebrow.

She had no idea what she had done to him all this years. She was propably unaware of her own femininity, even if it was small it was still there and drived him mad with lust.

"Just do like the other those... I'm sure that your sex appealing of a dead horse, will turn on some unlucky fellows..." Kakashi told her.

`Like me for an example...´

Sakura utter something that Kakashi wasn't sure about. It could be 'I will kill you' or 'You have one second to run for your life'.

"Anyway, if you want to do this you should hurry up to find the strip club..." Kakashi told her and raised from the sofa. He looked to Sakura who looked like she was about to faint. He walked towards her and sat himself beside her on the bed. "Are you all right?"

She nodded and Kakashi put a comforting hand on her knee.

"I understand if you are nervous... Just tell me if it something that I could do for you before I go?" Kakashi asked her and she looked down to her knee that Kakashi had his hand on.

"Aaa... Watch me..." she mumbled.

"Pardon?" Kakashi said and was unsure what he had heard.

"I-I want you to watch me... If something should happen, I can't use my strenght, you know..." Sakura said and Kakashi's jaw drop some inches. "Will you?"

"Of course..." he said and took away his hand from her knee. "You should take a shower and put some make up on you..."

She raised from the bed and was walking slowly towardes the bathroom.

He watch her and suddenly Uranai's voice echoed in his head;

"You should tell her how you feel for her. Before it's to late..."

Kakashi leaped from the bed and took Sakuras wrist. She looked at him.

"Kakashi...?" she asked and raised an eyebrow.

"I-I just..." Kakashi swallowed. "I just wanted to say that I... That I believe in you..." He was such a coward.

"Oh... Well, thanks... I think..." she mumbled and Kakashi let her go. "I will see you soon..."

He watch the bathroom door close and he clench his fist. He wanted to hit himself because of his idiocy and cowardliness.

Kakashi sighed and closed the front door behind him.

***

Sakura turned of the shower and walked out of the shower cubicle and dried herself up and fixed her hair that looked like it never had seen a brush before.

"Urg... I hate this! And I didn't bring enough conditioner..." she growled and tried to comb her hair with her fingers.

When she was satisfied with the hair (that was in a half bun, with some strands hanging loose of it), she put on some light make up and dressed herself in her cream-pink kimono and she went out of the inn.

The sky was getting darker and she was walking blindly on the street, when she saw someone that could help her. She walked towards one of the houses.

"Bisuke...?" Sakura looked down at the little light brown dog with droopy eyes.

The dog nodded and started to walk and Sakura followed him.

When Bisuke stopped, it was in front of a dark building and Sakura shivered.

"Don't be afraid, miss..." Bisuke whispered to Sakura. "He will watch over you..."

"Thanks..." Sakura said to the dog who took of and left Sakura alone. "Now or never..."

"Oh, isn't this Hitohira-Hime?!" a voice called behind her and Sakura turned around.

She was frozen to the spot.

Author note:

Kakashi is a coward and Sakura is stuck to her stripper plan. What will happen next?

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 ). :)

And some notes;

When I writes the text 'like this' it means that the person in question is thinking. When I writeslike 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!

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