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After taking a blood sample and vitals from the patient, a male ninja who had returned from a mission with a strange rash, she turned down his bedding and was asked if she could give him a sponge bath, but she told him another nurse would be in shortly to take care of him. Taking his look of disappointment to mean that he really wanted be clean right now, she contemplated taking on the task. After seconds of internal debate, she decided against it, as it would make her late for her training. Kakashi and Tsunade together were a formidable team, and she did not want to waste one second of potential experience.
Bidding good afternoon to the patient, Sakura started swiftly down the hallway and up the stairwell to Tsunade's office once more. It was nearly 1 o'clock, so Sakura and Tsunade shared a lunch of pre-made bento boxes Shizune had delivered while Sakura was with the patient. Then together, student and teacher made for the training field.
Arriving and seeing, no surprise, that Kakashi was not there yet, Tsunade drilled Sakura through push-ups, laps, stretches, weight-lifting and dodging before, at 3 o'clock, Kakashi made his grand entrance and was launched into a flurry of angry fists as Tsunade and Sakura sought to teach him a lesson for not being punctual. How did he even survive in the shinobi world if he didn't have one of the most important skills: time management?
Finally, at around 4 o'clock, Sakura readied herself to battle her two teachers in genjutsu. Tsunade herself was quite capable with genjutsu, but this was definitely Kakashi's area of expertise. They faced each other on three ends of the field, forming a triangle. Kakashi and Tsunade would be working together against Sakura.
Sakura supposed the triangle formation was to psych her out, but she knew the beginnings of this move. Tsunade would come at her with fists flying and Kakashi would disappear underground and then come up behind her while she was dodging or exchanging punches with her master. Then, with a suitable genjutsu prepared and ready at any moment to catch her between the eyes, that would be the end of round one.
But it didn't happen exactly as her foes planned. Tsunade, of course, initially distracted her, but she quickly dispatched three clones to keep her master busy. Then she travelled underground, meeting Kakashi halfway across their territories and performed quick hand signs of a new genjutsu she had secretly been developing on her own. When she'd tried it on her mother's cat and then her mother, it had worked perfectly. Using the element of surprise, she enfolded Kakashi into a radical dream-like world, replete with flying monkeys. While Kakashi burst up from the ground to tackle the illusions, Sakura raced around the training grounds, avoiding Tsunade's genjutsu and taijutsu attacks. Leaping from tree to tree, she made two more clones of herself (the three from before had been exterminated) and dropped behind a bush to watch her clones' performance. They were knocked out in seconds, and Sakura waited, nerves tingling, for Tsunade.
But Tsunade did not come into Sakura's line of vision. Sakura waited for some 20 seconds, then she kicked herself. Of course, Tsunade would go to free Kakashi from the unexpected genjutsu. Damn! She had meant for her new jutsu to keep him occupied while she beat her master. Okay, new plan, new plan…
What the heck was that! Ah! Oh gods, spiders! Spiders everywhere! Crawling up her legs, down her arms, weaving stringy webs into her hair! Poison! Poison injected into her veins! Her vision clouding, Sakura pressed her hands together and gasped, "Release!"
Head clearing, she whipped around to spy Kakashi jumping up higher, into a tree. Damnit! He must've… grrr! "Kakashi-sensei, you boil my pudding!" Sakura bit out angrily. She heard quiet laughter to her left. Anger flaring, she turned to her right. There he was, crouched, sharingan eye uncovered. She could sense one more of him somewhere near her. But this one was probably the real one. His clones couldn't produce high-quality nightmares, so he left it to himself, most of the time.
Sakura smirked at him. "Having fun, are we?"
"Never at your expense, Sakura." said a voice from behind her. Eyes widening, she saw the clone in front of her poof into smoke and understood. Kakashi then roughly turned her around, but with her eyes shut tight, he couldn't get to her sight.
"You know, an enemy like Uchiha Itachi would cut your eyelids off if he needed to," Kakashi slammed her front-side against a tree and she let out a gasp of surprise. She hadn't expected him to do that; Kakashi rarely fought too roughly, physically, with her in these mock battles. She felt him behind her, one arm locking her in place while the other was held against her back, pressing her against the tree. What the hell was he trying to do? Suffocate her? It wouldn't work this way at all.
"That'd be stupid of him," Sakura said, trying to twist out of Kakashi's grasp, but he was holding her there… holding her there! He must be waiting for Tsunade! Oh, quick, quick Sakura! Her master might punch through the tree or be performing the hand seals to a very complicated genjutsu. And with her arms pinned behind her back by Kakashi, Sakura could not escape using genjutsu.
She continued her train of thought from Kakashi's reference to Uchiha Itachi. It might distract him so that he was not prepared for Tsunade's signal when she rejoined the fight.
"Without eyelids, a human cannot blink. If a human cannot blink, his eyes dry out in minutes, and then the sharingan would be rendered useless. Granted, the human would not be able to see and be in a horrible amount of pain, but Uchiha Itachi would've lost his primary weapon in the fight," Sakura said, as she built up chakra in her fists.
"Very good. You should work for the Investigation Bureau." Kakashi loosed her arms from behind her back and pulled them to her front. Fists pinned again and plan now unraveling as she had no way to reach Kakashi with her punches of doom, she laid her head against the tree in a moment of defeat.
To keep her in place, Kakashi mashed his body against hers, and she could feel his entire front as well as he could feel her entire back. Even their ankles touched each other. How many minutes had it been now? Probably only one. Her master was taking a long time. Wait! Be ready to move when Kakashi releases her. This was a trick. A strategy. If they made her wait for a long time, they would expect her to cool down and lose focus of the fight. Then BAM, they would defeat her. But she would stay alert! Haha!
She could barely feel Kakashi's breath on her neck, filtering out through his mask. His pectoral muscles were putting all they had into holding her in place, and though her chest was squashed against the tree, she had no trouble breathing. But for some reason, her navel to the top half of her knees wasn't being held by Kakashi's body. She was right up against the tree anyhow, but she could freely move her bottom and thighs any which way she wanted. His hold then continued after the bottom half of her thigh, cutting off her circulation from the backs of her knees to her heels. Which meant she could still wiggle her toes. Fabulous.
Then she hit upon an idea. A wonderful, horrible, creepy and evil idea. But… she was fifteen years old. She never took any missions that could end up with her using her body in a sexual way as a weapon. But it couldn't be very hard. 'I mean, he obviously didn't press up against my butt for a reason. Other than that it would have been totally inappropriate, him being my teacher and all (however, real enemies had never tried to defeat her using sexual advances) [thank the gods for that], it could be that he would eventually become sexually aroused and thus distracted from the goal.'
As soon as she thought this, she felt disgusted with herself. She had no right to picture a… um… scantily dressed Kakashi the second after that thought was completed. Besides, he probably never thought of her that way. But… a weapon was a weapon. This was a no holds barred game. She wanted to win this, badly. And if Kakashi messed up, he would never hear the end of it from Tsunade, and Sakura would be awarded teasing rights as well. However… would this impair their relationship, possibly for a long time? Jumping suddenly in his books from cute student to sex-crazed maniac might frighten her sensei away from her forever. Was this a risk she was willing to take?
'Well… some scars do fade with time,' said a small voice somewhere in the back of her mind. 'And false scars always do.'
'You're right, voice in my head who sounds a lot like me,' Sakura agreed. 'I can always explain why I chose to do this…'
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Cliff-hanger! Mwahahaha! Oh, don't be so surprised. Not about the cliff-hanger, about the fact that I chose to put a little KakaSaku in here! Oh yeah... who's up for that in the next chapter? I must say... 8D I certainly am! Woot woot. Review? Just click on that button with the green lettering below.