I'm soooooooo sorry for the delay! :( There is just so much going on in my life that I just barely find time to write or think about writing for that matter :( Please enjoy at least this small offering and don't kill the writer. I will finish this story, it just may take longer than anticipated.

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The sun hasn't risen yet when Sakura started to wake from her sharingan induced sleep. It was a dreamless sleep, only a feeling of utter unfulfillment was what she felt upon waking up. Her sleep daze mind was trying to piece together the night, before she fell asleep. She was sure she wanted to do something, that there was some kind of plan she had in mind surely before going to sleep.

Sakura cracked one eye open and her sight fell on her garments. Seeing the red lacy material around her breast the previous evenings events came rushing back to her. A small angry blush crept to her cheeks as she berated herself for letting Kakashi play with her like that.

The bed shifted and she felt a warm body press to hers. She stiffened as she felt an arm drape over her waist. Her first angry instinct was to slap it away but that would mean he would probably wake up and she didn't want that. Sakura tried to relax and fall asleep for the last two or so hours before they needed to get up.

Closing her eyes she started to be over aware of the heated body behind her and the tingly feeling that emanated from his simple and innocent touch on her stomach.

She let out a small frustrated snort. When did I become so susceptible to a simple touch of a man? Why is his touch so different from others? Is it him or is it just the lack of touches I received during the last year? It must be the latter. Stirring her emotions so easily with the simplest of touches couldn't even he manage. She pushed the thoughts about him tightly back to the recesses of her mind. She didn't want to think about the past: not now and not in bed with another man.

This was starting to be too much for her and the stirring emotions and memories tried to resurface so soon after she had her little break down just few days ago. She tried moving out of his reach but once she started to wiggle the hand around her waist only tightened. As he moved closer his hand came to rest just under her breast. A treacherous thought surfaced; part of her body and mind wished his hand would move more up and cradle her breast in his warm palm. Her body was betraying her as she felt her heart beat a little faster and small but intense heat spread between her legs when her mind started remembering the feel of his big calloused hands on her pert nipples and soft skin of her breasts.

Ineffectively she tried scrapping the images from her mind. The feel of his body behind her was not really helping her with that task and keeping her wide awake. Wiggling her butt unconsciously she tried finding a better position to sleep in; preferable out of his reach, but Kakashi had an iron grip on her.

She squirmed few more times not making herself too comfortable or sleepy enough to drift off to dream world. Trying one last time to get out of his reach she bumped him with her behind and froze when she felt something hard nudging her bum. Is that what I think it is? Is he awake? Sakura stilled and strained her senses to find out if he is sleeping or just faking it. His breath seemed regular enough but that could be faked. Even with her senses strained to maximum she couldn't be sure. If she had to say she would go for not faking it. Even though he had a hard-on he wasn't moving other than a regular rising of his chest.

This sleeping position was beginning to be very uncomfortable and her bladder decided it was full at this precise moment. She had to face it; there were just two options. Either she will try to get out of his iron grip, but that would involve more wiggling and the result would be an even more hardening little Kakashi. Or just stay as she was, utterly uncomfortable and try to get some sleep and hold it until morning.

Well, if she had to be totally honest there was another option. Make use of the current situation and use the poking stick that is currently nudging her behind. Her mischievous side was starting to win over and push to get the option number three. That was the plan before her induced sleep anyway so why not use the opportunity now? Sakura wasn't too happy about Kakashi making her fall asleep but she couldn't be too angry at him; she did torture the guy for the past few years. He had some right for retribution; she will give him that, but nothing more.

Squirming some more she could feel the bulge in her back become more hard. Okay this is taking me nowhere and option number three is out of the question at least until I get to the bathroom. Sakura resigned herself to this situation and tried to will herself to sleep, wiggling last time in a vain attempt to make herself more comfortable an relieve some pressure from her bladder in Kakashi's iron grip.

A gruff voice spoke in her ear. "Wiggle all you want but there will be only sleeping."

"Tell that to your 'little' friend that's poking me in the back." Sakura retorted wiggling again and trying to get free.

"If you stop moving, our 'big' friend will go away and we can go back to sleep." Kakashis sleepy voice spoke to her ear and the pinkette could picture the pout on his face as he corrected her about their friend. Even though he is The Hatake Kakashi he still is a conceited as every other man. Sakura would roll her eyes if they were open.

"You go to sleep. I need to go to the bathroom."

There was only silence from behind her.

"Kakashi I will pee the bed if you won't let go of me."

More silence.

"Do you want me to break your arm?"

His only reaction was that he nuzzled her hair. He really likes to snuggle doesn't he?

"I'll break the poking stick."

There was a slight hesitation as if he was contemplating if she is really capable to break something that doesn't have a bone. The grip loosened so he must have come to a conclusion that if someone knew how to break it, she would be the one. Pink blur disappeared behind the bathroom doors as she ran for the much needed toilet.

Finished with the business she quickly washed her face and came back to the bed. It was still too early to be getting up but she didn't feel sleepy at all. Kakashi had his back turned the other way so she quickly made sure he wasn't looking and was about to take out the smutty book from it's hiding place. Her hand stopped midway as she decided against it. She knew where it would lead eventually and she wasn't really in the mood to beg Kakashi for little help right now. Instead she took out her small medical notebook and started rereading her older notes.

She heard an incomprehensible sound coming from the copy-nins direction, probably not liking the light coming from the small bedside lamp. He groggily pulled the quilt over his head with more grumbling that sounded like 'no respect for the elders'.

The few hours till the morning passed more quickly than she thought. The dawn was already breaking when she came across a note she made about the time that Naruto came back from one mission torn to pieces and she was mending him. Although he was injured in many places, the wounds weren't life threatening. Once the healing was finished her hands were burned by his residual charka that leaked through his wounds as she was healing them. She almost slapped herself when the realization dawned on her. She forgot to tell Kakashi about the incident with the gardener, Shokubutsu.

"Kakashi wake up!" Sakura shook the sleeping copy-nin awake. She wanted to tell him before she forgot once again about it, and the sun was almost up so one could call it already morning. Serves him right for making me fall asleep in the first place.

Kakashi waked with a start from his dream and sitting up abruptly with last sleepy words on his lips.

"... youthful enough..." Kakashi blinked few times to get the image of a stripping, half naked Gai out of his mind. In his dream Gai was trying to prove he was youthful enough to pass as an undercover stripper on a special mission they were assigned. He was about to rub oil on his hairy chest when he was woken by his little pink savior. It was more of a nightmare; Kakashi corrected himself. The simple idea of him and the 'Green Beast' being on one undercover mission was absurd at best. Both of them stood out in the crowd too much to be undercover; both for different reasons entirely. Thank kami it was only a dream.

".. ehm... Kakashi?" Sakura asked startled by his sleepy exclamation.

His droopy eye looked at Sakura happy about the good timing. Seeing anything more of half naked Gai rubbing an oil to his hairy chest would be too scaring for his mind. He looked around and noticed the lack of daylight coming from outside. "It's still night Sakura. Normal people tend to sleep at this time of the day."

"It's good then that you are not normal isn't it, sensei?" Sakura teased him some more as she knew how much he hated being disturbed from his sleep unnecessarily. When they were still genin at missions he was always last one to sleep and first one to get up, but outside of missions or in safe surroundings he was impossible to wake. For one who had dogs as his summons he sure acted like a cat. Always sleeping or napping during the day, preferably on a tree branch or on a roof top; and he was equally grumpy once waken up before he deemed it was the 'right time'; which it never was according to his internal napping clock. She changed so much since her genin days, yet he seems the same as when she first met him. It seems some things just never change no matter how much time passes.

"Consider yourself lucky that I take it as a compliment. Now go back to your reading and let me sleep until 'normal' people wake up." With that said he turned around pulling the blanket over his head.

Sakura just rolled her eyes and went to remove the blanket from his face.

"Kakashi! I need to tell you something."

"Can't it wait until morning?"

"No." Was her resolute answer.

With a resigned sigh Kakashi opened his eye and waited for her to speak. She furrowed her brows in annoyance at him and kept silent.

"..." Her left eye brow started twitching a little bit, which was never a good sign. That was usually the only warning you got before the pain came. Vein popping up or one brow twitching equals great pain and suffering if not stopped on time. Naruto and Sai were usually the ones on the receiving end of her angry fists. He tried to warn them some time ago and educate them about the little signal she gave before the mayhem but the socially inept Sai never recognized and Naruto was usually his rilled up self to even notice this in his over enthusiastic fits.

"Fine." Kakashi grumbled and sat up turning a bit to Sakura. Her eye brow stopped twitching, thank kami. Kakashi sighed with relief inwardly. He was too sleepy and comfortable to deal with angry Sakura at the moment.

"When I was walking around the ryokan I met this gardener. I think his name was Shokubutsu and his daughter was Midori. He was injured so I offered to heal his hand as it was bleeding and he would have to have few stitches and might get an infection if not treated properly..." Sakura stopped her ramble as she looked at Kakashi's face that had a hint of annoyance at her small diversion from the main topic, "Right. So I healed his hand and I checked his chakra system as per usual before healing and nothing suspicious came up. It was a regular civilian chakra system, but once I healed him I realized I had residual chakra on my hand."

Sakura was waiting for him to come to some kind of conclusion, but Kakashi seemed unimpressed with the provided information.

"Try it in normal people talk Sakura. "

"Residual chakra. When you heal someone you push your chakra inside the person and his chakra is usually not strong enough to push out of the wound onto the healers hands. That happened very rarely and only to people with huge chakra reserves. It happened to me only once, when I was healing Naruto." Sakura saw as the realization dawned on him.

"So there is no way for this kind of thing could happen with a civilian, right?" Kakashi asked Sakura just to make sure he understood her correctly.

"Right. But the most puzzling thing is that he didn't have that much chakra. I checked his chakra system, remember?."

"Are you sure this can't be a hitch of some kind? That you missed something while checking him?"

"I don't think so. I know I usually do this on autopilot but the feeling is unmistakable. It's a cold tingling sensation a bit numbing and it can burn your skin if there is too much contact with the foreign chakra." Sakura tried her best to describe the feeling on her hands.

"So? Do you think it might have something to do with what is going on here?" Sakura asked trying to get some reaction out of Kakashi. She could see his mind going to his special calculating mode.

"Hm. "

Sakura waited for him to elaborate but he stayed silent.

"Kakashi?" she poked him in the shoulder. He turned to her and crinkled his eye at her.

"How do you feel about a quick trip?"

"Care to elaborate more?"

"Nope. Be ready in ten minutes. We'll eat on the way." With that he jumped out of bed, dressed quickly in his regular jounin outfit and ran out of the room leaving Sakura to get ready for an unplanned trip to who knows where.

Sakura quickly dressed and as an afterthought she quickly scribbled a note to Ino. If she manages to take her mind off of her boy-toy and actually wonders where they are.

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