A/N:
Hello, sorry for taking so long. So the dates officially start with this chapter, Kakashi's date. What is the former sensei planning? :D
Enjoy!
Again I'm in a deal with my friends and they update simultaneously Maten (Friendzoned) and Erihiwatari5 (Freaks), please check their stories if you want (they are in Spanish).
I just recently finished exams, and you'll see how much I studied for my Chemistry's exam in this chapter, lol.
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The Try-Outs
By: NenaUchiha22
Chapter 3: A Date with My Sensei
Tsunade was more than happy to have Sakura working on the Research Department. She was good at using chakra to examine microorganisms, finding antidotes was her specialty so it was easy for her. Her girl was very smart and she needed her in that department for at least 3 months to accelerate the already stuck Research Department.
Sakura was overwhelmed with the amount of work she had the first two days, she even had to go back to the library to remind herself of a few compounds she had forgotten. The first day she asked herself a lot of questions as she researched for answers she had forgotten from her time being the apprentice of the Hokage… How did the Fisher Johns worked? It served to determine if a compound's bond was covalent or ionic depending on their boiling point, if it was higher than 350°C it was ionic, lower it would make it covalent. How could you differentiate a covalent bond with a dipole moment and a covalent bond without one? You must run a solubility test using H2O and CCl4, if the compound dissolves in water it means it is covalent with dipole moment, if it dissolves in CCl4 is because it doesn't have a dipole moment in the covalent bond. All of those things she had to re-read from notes and hit a few books, lucky for her she had the IQ of a genius so she only had to read one more time to remember everything she had forgotten.
By Wednesday she felt like she got it all under control, she had managed to learn the name of her comrades and organized the department to the point that by the end of that day they already had a vaccine almost complete.
To her surprise she woke up early on Thursday, she took a bath and was about to pick her clothes when she realized…
God. Her date with Kakashi was today.
Her heartbeat raised and she panicked. What was she going to wear?
A knock on the door made her jump.
"Sakura?" Kakashi's voice.
"Yes?" she asked without opening the door and resting her body against it so he wouldn't open it. She was still wearing only a towel to cover herself.
"Today is our date" Kakashi reminded her.
"Okay, will be down in a second" she said. "Kakashi where are we going?"
"It's a surprise" he answered from the other side of the door.
"Can you at least tell me what to wear?" she asked shyly.
"Casual" he said before she heard him turn around and her footsteps going down the stairs.
Agh. Casual meant a lot of things.
So she decided to wear jeans and a light pink T-shirt, she chose her white converse. She put on a little make up and looked at her in the mirror. She looked nice, her T-shirt was tight and made her light curves looked a little curvier. She looked simple and comfortable. She hoped she had picked the right outfit and he wasn't taking her anywhere fancy where her casual outfit would stand out.
She walked down the stairs, and looked at Kakashi. He was wearing black jeans and a black T-shirt, she smiled because she had picked the right outfit.
"Hello" she greeted, and he looked up from his book. God. He was so handsome.
"You look beautiful" He said and he kissed her forehead. She smiled shyly. "Breakfast is ready" he pointed at the table set for two.
"And… the others?"
"I forced them out so they wouldn't interfere" he said. She laughed a little at the image of Kakashi forcing them out.
They had scrambled eggs and pancakes for breakfast. She sat next to him so close their knees touched, but none of them minded the contact.
"How was your insane three-day shift?" he asked.
"Oh, insane couldn't even begin to describe it. But it was pretty enriching experience, I realized I had forgotten a lot of things" she explained.
"I heard from Tsunade-sama that the place was stuck before you arrived" he said while placing a hand on her leg. She blushed.
"She exaggerates" she said smiling and allowing him to touch her leg by placing a hand on top of his encouraging him.
He continued to caress her leg, and her heartbeat kept increasing. She could swear he could hear it.
"So… w-where are we going?" she said. God. Did she just stutter? She couldn't concentrate with him touching her leg that way.
"You'll see" he winked before getting up and picking up the dirty dishes. "Let's go" he said. She grabbed his hand.
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"So… sensei, are you going to tell me where we're going?" the pink haired asked.
She was blind folded courtesy of the copy-ninja, and he was carrying her piggyback style. Sakura could tell by the smell that they were in a forest, and by the way Kakashi was jumping, they were probably jumping on branches to get to whatever place they were going faster.
"It's been years since the last time I was your teacher" he reminded her and she smiled. She knew he hated it when she called him 'sensei'. "And I can't tell you. It's a surprise".
She sighed and he laughed at her disappointment.
It passed what seemed 30 minutes and Sakura felt Kakashi drop down from a branch and walk on solid ground for other 10 minutes until he carefully let her down. He removed her blindfold with extreme care as if she was a porcelain doll that could break and waited until she opened her bright big green eyes.
She first stared at him and then looked around to see where they were.
They were in the middle of a field covered with different flowers. If she didn't look carefully she would have thought that the field had no end. But at about three kilometers west she saw a few tall trees that she guessed it was where they came from.
The place was beautiful, it was early morning and they could see the sun in a few shades of yellow and orange. The field was extremely colorful with all the possible shades of pastel. After looking at everything around her ratio, her eyes met Kakashi's and she raised an eyebrow. The place was beautiful, yes. But she had no idea as to why Kakashi had brought her there. She never thought of him as a romantic type kind of guy who would bring her to that kind of scenario to have a picnic.
"You like it?" he asked a smile covered by his mask.
"I do" Sakura answered. "But… what are we doing here?" she asked.
Kakashi smiled and put his hands on her shoulders.
"Remember that time I got hurt after a mission that you took care of me?" he asked and got a smile in response.
"Yes, of course" she answered holding his gaze.
She remembered because it was during that time when her small crush on him developed. They shared a lot of things during that time, as his nurse she spent a lot of time with him, and because she did they developed a deeper friendship. They shared their secrets and fears, their regrets and achievements, their life goals and their childhood dreams.
"I shared with you a lot of my favorite interests" he told her. She smiled and nodded. "One of them was my favorite book"
Her smile slowly faded.
His favorite book.
The one and only.
Icha Icha Paradise.
"We're here to recreate my favorite scene from Icha Icha Paradise" he told her, his eyes completely serious.
She blinked slowly before taking a step back. Her mouth dropped and her eyes slowly resembled a pair of soccer balls.
Of course she remembered that scene, he made her read that part when he was on bed ill. She had to stop herself from hitting his injured face back then.
Then she looked at the flowers again, and she remembered that scene. The main character had just kidnapped his lover away from her parents. He dropped the girl on a field covered by flowers just like the one she was standing on.
"Sakura, you okay?"
The girl didn't have time to complain about her lover throwing her on the flowers as he quickly covered her protests with wet kisses, she moaned at his aggressive gesture but kissed him back just as hungrily. His hand dropped from the sides and he grabbed her leg causing a deeper moan leave her lips.
"Sakura?"
The girl didn't lose time as she grabbed his chest from under his shirt and started caressing his abs at an agonizing pace. He growled at this action and started kissing her neck slow, so slow her sighs were long and deep. He took her—
"SAKURA?!" Sakura was brought back from her thinking thanks to Kakashi's scream. "I was kidding, we are not here to recreate a scene" he said looking sorry for scaring her.
"Oh" Sakura said and blushed a little. After all she just remembered the scene she supposedly despised. "Then… why are we here?" she asked.
But before Kakashi answered she felt three chakra signatures approaching their location. Both looked in that direction and Sakura looked at Kakashi with an intrigued look, Kakashi answered with a wrinkled smile.
The three men that were walking towards them were wearing an Iwagakure headband, and were wearing a kind of sport gear that Sakura couldn't distinguish. Before they came to a stop Kakashi continued to answer her question.
"Well, we did come here because of something we shared during the time you took care of me" he started.
"What did we share?" she asked suddenly a little concerned.
"We shared our goals, our dreams and our… fears" he finished emphasizing the word.
She gulped at that word. During the week she took care of him, he confessed the three things she feared the most. A) Porcelain dolls B) spiders C) fear of heights. But the important thing is that she confessed to him that one of her life goals was to overcome all of her fears.
"We're here to overcome one of your fears. That's our date" he said a smile beginning to form under his mask. Before Sakura could say anything one of the men interrupted.
"Hello, Kakashi-san. We're ready if you are" the tallest began to speak.
"Hello Yanso" Kakashi greeted. "This is Sakura, Sakura this is Yanso" he introduced them. "He is Kotero and he is Doka" he introduced the brunette and the blonde respectively. Sakura bowed politely but was still tense as to why these men were on their date.
"Nice to meet you, what are we supposed to be ready for?" she asked looking from the three men to Kakashi a little tense.
"We're here to overcome your fear of heights. We're here to do Jumpe-kaze" he said as if the name was common enough.
Before she could ask what the hell that meant Yanso intervened.
"Nice to meet you Sakura-san, we are from Iwagakure and we were blessed with the Tsuchikage's control of earth style lightened boulder technique. Therefore, in our country we've created a new type of entertainment known as the Jumpe-kaze". Yanso began to explain.
"We use our earth lightened boulder technique on ourselves and it makes our body and everything we touch lighter than air. That's how we can fly just like the Tsuchikage can." Kotero followed the explanation.
"Jumpe-kaze consists on us flying 12500 feet carrying someone who does not possess our ability to fly. When we reach those 12,500 feet we let go of the person and when the person reaches 5000 feet before touching the ground we caught them and slowly reach solid ground" Doka enthusiastically finished.
But his enthusiastic face faded as he saw Sakura's expression. She looked more pale than usual and her eyes completely frightened. As the three of them saw that she was not giving any response, the trio looked at Kakashi for a hint on what to do next.
Kakashi looked at Sakura, her expression didn't change. It seemed as if she had just seen one of her loved ones murdered in front of her. Kakashi smiled apologetically at the three of them, and delicately grabbed Sakura by the arm dragging her away from them so they could talk.
When they were away, Kakashi broke the silence. "Sakura, I'm sorry. You wanted to overcome your fears as one of your life goals. That's why I stupidly thought that this date could serve as the moment where you overcame your fear of heights. I'm sorry, I should have told you"
"…No" Sakura interrupted him. "They came all the way from Iwagakure?" she asked still looking at the horizon not seeming to know what was happening around her.
"What? Yes, they came from Iwagakure"
"It's a three days trip…" she absently answered. Kakashi grabbed her shoulders forcing her to meet his eyes.
"Sakura, you don't have to do this. They will understand, you don't have to do this because they came all the way from Iwagakure" he answered.
Sakura kept quiet. She swallowed hard before closing her eyes. Yes, heights frightened her to death, but she also wanted to overcome all of them because she had this idea that if she overcame her fears she'd become a stronger kunoichi. And there was nothing she wanted more than be stronger every day.
She had to do this, she'd regret it for the rest of her life is she didn't.
"I'll do it" Sakura suddenly blurted out.
"What?" Kakashi was taken aback by her sudden response. "Sakura, you don't have to. Don't do it because they came here from Iwagakure"
"No, I don't want to do it because of that" Sakura met his eyes. "I want to do it because when I told you that I wanted to overcome my fears I wasn't lying. I want to do it"
A look of determination was on the girl's face and Kakashi let out a sigh. He nodded and made a gesture towards the trio to assure them that everything was still according to plan.
Yanso gave Sakura the gear she had to wear. And with a little help she put it on, she had a parachute on her back inside a tight backpack just for emergency. She had earplugs to prevent harm because of change in pressure and she was also given a helmet. Kakashi was given the same kind of gear and equipment. After fifteen minutes they were set to go.
Yanso grabbed Sakura, and Kotero grabbed Kakashi, after a few hand signs they slowly started levitating. Sakura shivered a little once her feet left the ground. Doka followed them closely. Sakura could feel the temperature starting to feel colder, her hands started to get numb.
After about 7 minutes they reached the desired altitude. Sakura's heartbeat stopped for a second, she knew Kakashi would go first, so she saw him and he gave her a thumbs up. Kotero counted three using his hands and let go of Kakashi, Kakashi immediately fell and Sakura wanted to scream out of fear. Just a millisecond after Kakashi fell, Doka and Kotero followed.
Sakura stood there in the sky carried by Yanso, she saw Kakashi's body becoming smaller and smaller each second. Until she suddenly saw him being stopped by Kotero and she knew he was safe. Not in ground yet, but at least he wasn't falling free.
Her heartbeat accelerated once she knew her turn was on. They had to wait for Doka to reach them for them to start their skydiving experience. Yanso squeezed her shoulder, and she knew that on the count of three, she'd be falling from 12,500 feet.
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God. No. Freacking. Way.
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HELL NO!
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SON OF A B—
She fell, adrenaline rushed through her veins and she knew she was trying her hardest to scream her lungs out, but at the speed she was falling air covered her mouth and not a single sound could come out. Her cheeks felt cold, her heartbeat probably sounded like a sledgehammer but all the possible noise was not audible because the sound of air hitting her skin was enough to silence everything else.
She could see the field of flowers coming closer, she could now distinguish the lilies from the white roses and she started to panic, this was a bad idea. She was going to die. A certain death, she didn't even say goodbye to the rest of her team. She was so screwed, she wanted to be known as the best kunoichi in the world and have an amazing death on the battlefield saving her village… but no, she was going to die doing Jump-kaze, whatever that was, a skydiving shit that she shouldn't have agreed on, on the first place, worst fucking idea eve—
And she was caught by Yanso followed by Doka and she took a deep breath and sighed so loudly she scared the duo for a second.
Now she was floating slash flying on top of the field. And she had to admit… it was beautiful. The most beautiful sight she had even seen, for a moment all the fear she felt in the beginning started to be worth it. That sight would leave anyone even the most aloof person, speechless. And then she laughed, because it was freacking crazy. She just scratched something off her bucket list without even planning it. She was grateful for Kakashi, he did what no one else would have done… Make Sakura do something she didn't plan herself.
They reached solid ground and Kakashi was already there next to Kotaro waiting for her. He looked expectant, he didn't know what to expect; an angry Sakura, a traumatized Sakura, an scared to death Sakura, a crying Sakura, a—
But he stopped wondering once he felt her slim arms around his back. Sakura was hugging him and he hesitated for a moment because of the shock before he could hug her back.
"Thank you" she said and he smiled under his mask.
"Anytime"
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"So basically, you saved them and that's why they came all the way here as a favor" Sakura said as she kept jumping on branches.
"Well… they offered their famous Jump-kaze back when I rescued them on a mission, I never thought I would accept their proposal, but I just thought it could be a good idea"
They were on their way back to the village, and on their way Kakashi shared the story of how he met Yanso, Kotaro and Doka. He was sent on a mission a year and a half ago to find a certain killer who could absorb chakra signatures depending on their nature. Kakashi found the guy and killed him, but also rescued a few ninjas that were caught by the kidnapper. They were so grateful they had offered him to take him on a Jump-kaze anytime he wanted.
They reached the gates of Konoha and by then it was already night. Both were too tired to go to eat somewhere so they decided to go home and just eat anything that they could find in the fridge.
When they arrived home, nobody was there. They had a quiet dinner, just cheese and yogurt as they didn't feel like making anything more elaborated.
"You know, I'm really glad you planned this date" she said.
"Really? Why?" He asked.
"Well..." Sakura began to say. "If you had not plan this I don't think I would have ever done it... And for that I'm grateful. Thank you, Kakashi"
Kakashi was suddenly taken aback by the sincerity of her words. And he smiled in response. His date worked out fine, maybe even better than he expected.
"Kakashi" Sakura called again.
"Yeah?" he answered a little curious as he swallowed his piece of cheese.
"Will you ever show me what's underneath the mask?" she asked.
Kakashi laughed a little before turning serious. He put down the carton of juice he was drinking on the counter and looked at her.
"You really want to see what's underneath?" He asked.
He stood up from the spot where he had been sitting and walked towards her not breaking eye contact with her. Sakura wondered for a minute if he was going to show her his face. Her heartbeat raised in excitement. Jesus. Fucking. Christ. Was she going to see the copy ninja's face for the first time?!
Sakura unconsciously walked back until her back was pressed against the door of the refrigerator. She stopped breathing for a second as Kakashi got closer to her.
"You know" Kakashi began to say as he leaned his head towards hers. "There's only one way to see my face"
"Y-yeah?" Sakura stuttered a little as she felt her cheeks getting warmer.
He grabbed her chin and tilted slowly her face to the side so their noses where no longer in their way, as they got more intimate. "You are gonna have to kiss me" he said.
And with a low puff, the copy-ninja disappeared leaving the pink haired kunoichi cursing under her breath. Did he just make her believe he was going to kiss her and just left? God, she was going to kill him. A little embarrassed she walked upstairs, it was already night and she had to prepare for tomorrow. Her date with Sai…
And for that one she did not know what to expect…
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N/A: O-M-G. I had already written this chapter but I didn't save it ... and by the time I checked it I only had the first paragraph. But there, I finished it thankfully. I really hope you liked it.
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