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Chapter Eight - My Obsession
Sakura growled at the blond Hokage in front of her, who looked down to some papers on his desk.
"Why do I have to continue my ANBU training while Kakashi-Sense-... -pai, is in hospital...?" she asked and her eyebrow twitched.
"Technically you don't need him any longer... You cleared your first 'ANBU' mission and that means I can place you with another ANBU memeber if you want too..." the blond Hokage said a bit calmly then usually.
"I don't want another memeber from ANBU to train me... Do you hear that? No one else!" Sakura growled even deeper and glanced deadly to the Hokage. She didn't even hear the door open behind her.
"There did you really breaked my heart, Sakura..." a familiar voice said behind her and she turned around.
"Ya-Yamato-Taichou?" Sakura burst out.
"Thank good that you came...!" the Hokage said and looked at the brown haired man in front of him. "She was about to kill me at any moment..."
"I doubt that, Naruto..." Yamato said in a bit of disbelief and the blond Hokage smiled to him.
"Wait a sec! If Yamato-Taichou is here, does that mean he is my new team mate...?" Sakura asked and looked from Yamato to Naruto.
"Ah, as clever as usual, Sakura-Chan..." Naruto said and Sakura frowned.
Why was she always putted with her seniors? The matter of Kakashi she could understand, he had after all 'known' her since she was Genin, but with Yamato she still couldn't understand why.
`Well, anything is better then Genma I suppose...´
"I will leave her to you, Taichou..." Naruto said to the brown haired man, who nodded. "And by the way Sakura, some woman droped by my office yesterday. She told me to thank you for helping them..."
"Really...? What was her name...?"
"She didn't tell, but she told me that I should greet from 'Falling Star'..." Naruto said and Sakura began to smile.
So Hidama had been passing by Naruto's office just to say thanks. Somehow Sakura was a bit glad to hear that.
"That smile on your face tells me that you know who this woman is..." Naruto said and placed a signed paper form on a pile to his left. "And..." he pused. "And have you gain some weight? You look a bit fatter..."
Sakura looked to Naruto and she was stuned. What should she tell him.
"Um... I... I have just been eating a lot of dangos recently... and I haven't exercise that much..." she lied and hopped that would cover her.
"Oh... I guess that what Kaka-Sensei told me about you was true then... You really loves sweets..." Naruto said with a smile and Sakura looked dumbfound to him.
She had got away with that, by telling him a really bad lie.
"Eh... Let's go Sakura..." Yamato suddenly said and looked down to her with a bit of anxious expression on his face.
He almost pushed Sakura out of Naruto's office and then they where out in the street.
Sakura looked up to the grey-blue winter sky and felt how the December sun was warming her face. It felt really nice, but yet she was troubled.
She sighed.
"Is something troubling you?" Yamato suddenly said and glanced at her.
"No, nothing..." she answered him.
"Nothing? Why do you have a frown in your face then...?" Yamato asked and Sakura looked at him.
Suddenly her stomach gave away a loud grumble noise and she blushed, while Yamato sweatdropped.
He had totally forgot that she was pregnant.
"Maybe we should eat something..." Yamato offered and began to walk away with a blushing Sakura after him.
When they had ordered, got seats by the window and finally got their food, they began to eat.
Sakura (who had ordered a little more) eat with a quite good appetite.
Yamato wathed her in amusement and after a little while he began to eat too.
"So, how are things going nowadays...?" Yamato asked her and she looked up to him from her food.
"Fine... I think... Life couldn't be much better..." she told him and putted her chopesticks aside. "Why do you ask...?"
"I though that I needed to catch up..." he told her and glanced at the frowning Sakura. "Anyway, finish up and then we are going to do some light training together... Does that sound good to you...?"
"I guess so..." Sakura mumbled and Yamato nodded to her.
"Good."
~oOo~
Sakura trowed herself down to the slightly stiff grass under her favourite oak and she panted slightly.
Yamato was a real slave-driver and she glared at him. He was barely sweating.
"That's not fair..." she muttered and he looked down to her.
"You will catch a cold if you lay down too long on the ground..." Yamato told her and she huffed.
"I'm tired... If you don't want to carry me home, you better let me lay down here for awhile..." Sakura mumbled and felt how Yamato walked up to her side and leand over her.
"I will not carry you home..." he told her and she narrowed her eyes. "Just answer me this, will Kakashi-Senpai be by your side... when it's born...?"
Sakura looked confused up to Yamato with big emerald eyes.
How could he know?
"I-I don't know what you mean..." Sakura said and tried to focus on something else.
"Sakura... I know that you are with child... Kakashi told me..." Yamato said and Sakura snapped her eyes to him. "I promies, I will not tell anyone about it... And I don't even think I could do that with out having him in my heels..."
"I didn't know he told you about my state... And I don't know, he haven't talk much about it and neither have I..." Sakura told him. "To tell you the truth, I don't won't to talk about it either..."
Yamato nodded in understanding and smiled down to her.
"Then I will ask you this... Do you want to be a part of me? Be a part of my life...?" he asked.
Sakura blinked and looked in to his dead serious face. He did really mean does words he had said.
"...But you... Gomen*, but I can't be with you..." Sakura said and pushed herself up from the ground. "I... I have to go..."
She walked away from Yamato, who smiled slyly.
`This is going to be interesting...´
~oOo~
Sakura stopped outside of nursing room 102 and looked at the name on the door. Should she just stay here, outside of the door or should she enter?
She was right now really confused and she couldn't believe what Yamato had told her just a moment ago.
`He must have been joking... He must have...´
She decided to open the door and walked in to the room and she closed the door behind her. The view that met her was that silver haired Jounin, sitting in the bed, reading one of his Icha Icha books and he glanced to the newcomer.
"Sakura...?" he suddenly said and putted down his book to his lap. "I didn't expect you today..."
"And neither did I..." she mumbled.
"Is there something you want...?" he asked her and she sat herself down to the stool beside the bed.
"Well, Yamato-Taichou become my new team mate from ANBU and..." Sakura suddenly stopped. She couldn't (somehow) tell Kakashi what Yamato had said to her.
"And what...?" Kakashi looked at her.
"And he brought me lunch..." Sakura smiled and Kakashi frowned.
She only smiled like that when she was hidding something. Why would she hide something from him? If it wasn't something that concerned him that is. He was a bit annoyed about that.
"Was that all?" he asked.
"Well, he worked me to tears too..." Sakura said and then she could hear the door open behind her.
"Ah! There you are, Sakura..."
She stiffened.
`God must really hate me today...´
"I figure you would be here... She didn't disturb you too much, Senpai...?"
"Ah, not at all, Yamato..." Kakashi said and smiled with whole his face.
Yamato walked up behind Sakura and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Hokage-Sama want to see us..." Yamato told her and bent down to her ear. "Right now..."
Sakura (who hadn't been ready with Yamato's sudden move) blushed and knot her hands in her lap.
Kakashi looked at them with a raised eyebrow. Yamato was definitely too close to her for his own good. Sakura belonged to him, none else and Kakashi was the one who would make it be like that.
Yamato looked up to his Senpai and he smirked inwardly.
Even if Kakashi was the master of master to hide his emotions, Yamato could see that his eye burned with jealousy and even a bit of rage. That confused and even surprised Yamato slightly and he wanted to know why Kakashi acted in this way towards him and in front his former student.
Well Kakashi had shagged her, but that didn't mean that he cared for her in that way. The only thing Yamato could think of was that Kakashi was jealous of him, because he was spending time with his former student. But that was really a long shot and what about that bit of rage his eye showed.
Yamato wanted to know why, so he placed his cheek against Sakura's (who began to blush even deeper) and hopped to see something to confirm his suspicions. But it never came. Kakashi was as impassive as ever, almost like he was ignoring a scold from his angry parents. Kakashi had always amazed Yamato in every way he could think off, even now.
Sakura, on the other hand, was fidget. What was happening to her? If someone (even someone she knew) would have done that before, she would have hit him to the next kingdom to come.
The only reason she could come up with, was that her body was exhausted and she was after all pregnant. Her 'normal' hormones had taken a break and she was left with those other hormones that could compete with Kakashi and even Jiraiya of being the perverted one.
"Should we go, Sakura...?" Yamato said and brushed his lips agains her cheek. Still trying to get some kind of reaction from his Senpai.
"Ha-Hai...!" Sakura squeaked, raised from the stool and walked out of the room as fast as she could.
Yamato smiled after her and turned his face to Kakashi.
"She is a nice girl, isn't she...?" Yamato said and Kakashi gave him a glare.
"She isn't a girl anymore..." Kakashi told Yamato with a impassive voice, matching his similar appearance.
"You are right... She isn't, she has become a young lady... a pregnant one..." Yamato told him and saw how Kakashi looked away from him. "I need to go now, Hokage wanted us to go on a mission together..."
With does words Kakashi looked back to Yamato, who saw his crimson eye watching him. This was the second time Kakashi had showed him his Sharingan in that way he did now. Kakashi was threatening him. Telling him to not touch what didn't belong to him. Not to touch Sakura.
Yamato find that kind of amusing and even strange, but this made him more sure that his suspicions was more then just suspicions. Kakashi had a thing going on with his pupil.
"I'm not like you..." was the only thing Yamato said before he walked out of the room.
Kakashi's eyebrow twitched. Had Yamato just smirked at him?
"He is up to something... That sly bastard..." Kakashi growled and glanced to the curtains that was pulled over the window.
Yamato had taken the wrong girl to lay his eyes on.
~oOo~
Sakura couldn't concentrate to what Naruto said to her and Yamato. Everything was just a big mess. Why was her life so fucking troublesome?
"Sakura... Oi, Sakura-Chan!"
"Huh?" Sakura looked to Naruto.
"What's the matter with you? You are starting to goof out like Kaka-Sensei..." Naruto said. "Is that a side-effect of being with him almost everyday? If I had known that, I hadn't let you be with him that often..."
"Eh... I was just thinking about stuff..." she said and waved her hand to Naruto in a just-forget-that manner.
Naruto looked at her with his blue eyes and then he smiled.
"Good, because I don't think I would survive two Kakashi..." Naruto told her with a grin and then he looked to Yamato. "As I said before, I would have send someone else, but I didn't have others to send to this kind of mission..."
"Excuse me, but what kind of mission are we about to do...?" Sakura asked and Yamato looked down to her.
"We have been asked to look up this man..." Naruto said and took up a picture from the desk.
"But, but isn't he a lord...?" Sakura asked.
"He is, but his people is suffering due to his greediness..." Naruto said.
"We have got permission from that country Daimyo to assassinate him..." Yamato told her.
"But how can we successes to do that...? He is most likely to have guards everywhere..." Sakura said.
"Well 'sneaking' in wouldn't be a problem, because I have fixed so that you and Yamato-Taichou are married and that you two are very influential in Hi no Kuni*..." Naruto told her. "You will be his guests..."
`Why does this feel like a déjà vu?´
"That's how you will come neare this man, he likes people with power and money..." Naruto continued.
"And nice looking womens as well, that is what I have heard..." Yamato told Sakura who frowned.
`Indeed... This is definitely going to be like the last time I was on a mission like this... But I'm not going to shag Taichou or that man... Never!´
Suddenly the door burst open and the silver haired Jounin Hatake Kakashi leaned on to the door frame.
"Huh? Kaka-Sensei...?" Naruto said and watched how the Jounin clenched to the door, panting. "Shouldn't you be in the hospital...?"
Sakura looked towards Kakashi who was (obviously) not yet in form to be out walking.
"I-I will go with them..." he panted and Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"Hah? But you are still not recovered..." Naruto said and Kakashi sighed.
"I will be... Just... Just let me go with them..." Kakashi said and the three of them looked at him.
Naruto with a questioning look, Sakura was more worried (her medic instinct) then questioning and Yamato hide a smirk, but he too was a bit worried for his Senpai.
Naruto sighed and he knew that Kakashi was stubborn as a mule, so he gave up.
"Hai Hai... Go with them, but don't exert yourself too much... You can dismiss. Sensei, can you stay for a second?"
Kakashi nodded and saw how Yamato and Sakura walked out of the room, closing the door behind them.
"Sensei, it's unusual of you to walk out of the hospital just after have waking up and then demanding a mission. Has something happen...?" Naruto asked and watched his Sensei closely.
"No, nothing speciall... I'm just worried about Sakura..." Kakashi said.
"Worried about Sakura? She can take care of herself and she has Yamato-Taichou with her... There is no need to be worried..." Naruto said and Kakashi thought that Naruto sounded too much like his father when he had said that.
"I know that she can take care of herself, but this mission... I think this is too much for her, she is still recovering from the last seducing mission she was on. That one with Shinkou..." Kakashi said, but that was totally a lie. He just didn't want that lord to touch her and he was a bit worried about Yamato too. She was his and only his.
"But that was like months ago and she didn't look like she even minded this mission..." Naruto said.
"She hasn't any other choice..." Kakashi looked to Naruto. "You are our Hokage, we take the missions you ask us to do even have much we rather don't want to. Sakura is doing the same as everyone else have done for generations..."
Naruto looked away from Kakashi and glanced to a pille of paper on the desk.
"I know that..." he mumbled. "She wasn't my first choice... If I could, I would have send Ino..."
"Why not send her? She is much more fitting for missions like this..."
"I just said that if I could, but she is pregnent and..."
"She is pregnent?" Kakashi said a bit surprised.
"She is and believe it or not, Sai is the father..."
Kakashi looked even more surprised.
`That would explain why he walked in to my own home and threatening me like that... He is going to be a father to Ino's child... He knows exactly what Sakura is going through and that's was maybe way he asked me to do that to her... To protect her...´
"Sensei?" Naruto asked and Kakashi looked up to him. "Are you still going to ask me to send someone else...? If you are, I will have to send Anko and Gai to this mission..."
"Anko... and Gai...?" Kakashi looked in disbelif to Naruto. "I think that maybe Yamato and Sakura is more suited to this mission after all..."
"I thought so too..." Naruto said and took up a paper and placed it in front of him. "Just so I know... What will you be?"
"Huh?"
"Yamato and Sakura is supposed to be married and influential, so what will you act as?" Naruto asked and began to scribble something down on the paper.
"I will act as Sakura's bodyguard... After all, she is a very 'important' person..." Kakashi said and smiled.
~oOo~
Sakura sighed and watched the two males in front of her. One with brown hair and nicely clad, the other with unruly silver hair and dressed as a guard, with the ANBU katana stuck to his waist.
It had been a tough journey from Konoha and she wondred why. Well, the weather was much warmer here then in Konoha, (they had to stop on the way to change in to less warmer clothes) but it also could be her pregnancy or just the fact that the 'boys' was annoying her to no end.
She thought back to that day they had left Konoha for this mission.
"All right... Hokage-Sama has ordred me to be Taichou for this mission..." the brown haired man said and rolled out the scroll. "We will dress in fineries, but we will have our ANBU gear with us. It's after all a stealth mission, no one can find out that Konoha was involve..."
"Yamato-Taichou, shouldn't we wait for Kakashi-Senpai?" Sakura asked.
"He is late as always and he can read the scroll later, anyway our target is Lord Iyagaru Kusari... He is, as you have heard, greedy and he is most likely cheating on his wife... If you could snare him, it would be a good thing..."
"Do I have to have sex with him...?" Sakura gave Yamato a worried look.
"Eh no... I don't think so..." Yamato said and then he smiled slyly. "But if you want, we could-..."
Yamato's head suddenly shoot forward and he looked up with tears in his eyes.
"Sen-Senpai!" Yamato burst out.
The silver haired Jounin/ANBU stood behind him and looked like he was ready to kill.
Sakura had seen her Sensei like that before, but not towards a friend and she guessed that he was doing it to protect her. After all, he had promised her once to always protect her, that meant maybe even from ridiculous statement from others as well.
She sighed. He was taking this to seriously.
"Kakashi, was that really necessary?" Sakura asked the silver haired man, who still had that 'killing' chakra all over him.
"Aaa, it was..." Kakashi said and looked at Yamato who took his distance from his Senpai.
She sighed again.
`There he go again with that look of a lovesick teenager...´
"Here, Senpai..." Yamato said and tossed the mission scroll to Kakashi. "Read through it... Come on Sakura, let's go..."
Yamato lay a arm around Sakura's shoulder (in a friendly way Sakura thought), but Kakashi let out a low growl behind them, almost like some kind of dog guarding its possession.
Sakura glanced to her Sensei that had 'kill' written all over his face expression.
`Why is he so overprotecting?´
"Alright, Alright... You and Kakashi will walk together and I will walk alone..." Sakura told them firmly and pushed Yamato to Kakashi's side and she walked through the gate annoyed, followed by two astonished team mates.
It had been four days since then and Kakashi hadn't let Yamato near her and she couldn't even have normal chats with her Taichou, before Kakashi had appeared between them and telling them a really bad excuse. Those things had made her almost lost it.
Well it could be worse, he could have began 'sleep' with her under the very same quilt (well he had apparently done it before, but she couldn't remembered that) and even began to feed her with his own food from his plate. Those things would be the end for the Copy Ninja and Sakura was the one who would make sure of it.
"Sakura, you are falling behind..." the brown haired man said and glanced at her.
"Of course she is falling behind, we have walked for almost a day, Yamato..." the silver haired man said (always had he come to her defence).
"But we are almost there, Kakashi..." the brown haired Yamato told the silver haired Kakashi.
"I know. But we can't let Hime-Sama pass out in the middle of these woods..." Kakashi said.
Sakura looked at them. Arguing about something stupid like that, was really pathetic for being two grown up males. But Kakashi had a point.
They had almost walked for a day and she was about to pass out soon.
`Good what I hate to be pregnant... Always tired, hungry, grumpy and your body feels like you are carring stone with you all the time...´
"Come on Sakura... I can carry you on my back, until we comes to the place..." Kakashi offered and she looked up to him.
"Me, piggy ride on your back..." Sakura mumbled and suddenly she got the disturbing mental image of Gai giving Kakashi a piggyback ride. "Eh... No thanks... I think I will just walk..."
"All right, suite yourself..." Kakashi said and then he looked to Yamato, who couldn't help to laught slightly at Sakura's expression.
~oOo~
"I'm going to die..." Sakura grunted and she almost fell on her own feets.
"Watch it!" Kakashi said and grabbed her arm, so she wouldn't fall down to the ground. "You need to be more careful, or else Ino will kill me..."
"Ino, killing you? Seriously, that most be a joke..." Sakura mumbled and glanced at Kakashi.
"You don't know how scary some womans can be, if they got angry..." Kakashi told her.
"Actually, I do..." she said and thought of her Shichou.
"Sakura, you should stay close to me... Our mission begans now, so we need to act like a couple..." Yamato said to her.
"Hai..." Sakura answered and walked up beside Yamato.
Kakashi, on the other hand, walked behind them as the loyal 'guard' he was. But he was a bit uneasy to see Yamato beside his Sakura, holding her hand in his.
Sakura looked around the town. It was a quite big town, with a lot of shops, inns and restaurants. She couldn't remember last time she had been in a town like this during a mission and she was pretty sure it had been before the war and before Sasuke's death.
This was just great. She had to start to think of Sasuke again. Thinking of him during a mission was not a good thing for her to do. She had always been a bit absent-minded while thinking of him and in the end almost get killed thanks to it. But while trying to get her first love out of her head, a second person was trying to get in and she wasn't particularly glad that it would be him taken up the place.
"Sakura... Keep your mind focus on the mission..." Kakashi said in a low voice behind her and Sakura glanced to him.
"I was just admiring the town..." she told him and he looked down to her.
"You wasn't... You had the same look when you are thinking of something that is troubling you..." Kakashi said to her still in a low voice. "Is something troubling you?"
"No, nothing more then that I have notice that people are looking at us..." she said in a similar low voice and saw how Kakashi was looking around.
"They are just curious..." Yamato suddenly said beside Sakura who glanced up to him. "Don't mind them, they have obvisoly never seen people from this far away..."
"What do you mean...?" Sakura asked him.
"The town of Kirizai hasn't have foreign notable in a really long time, due to the new regime of Kusari..." Kakashi suddenly told them. "I was here once, trying to find out who had killed, at that time, the lord... But I found nothing, I still believe it was a work of a Shinobi and Kusari had just been promulgate to succeed the former lord. I have never liked him... Anyway, Kusari is very solicitous to have everything he 'owns' in his possession. He only sells their paulownia trees and woods to Hayashi no Kuni* and I believe that's way this town is suffering... This town need to export to survive or else Kusari will be this towns doom, by taking money this town don't really have..."
Sakura looked to Kakashi and she felt sorry for this town people that lived in this town. But suddenly she thought of something.
"If this town is suffering, why is there so many restaurants, shops and inns...?" she asked.
"Is is due to the money the former lord left behind, in his will he gave the people of this town his money to built and restore buildings..." Kakashi said and watch Sakura.
"So this town is actually this big because of the former lords money to the people..." Sakura said and Kakashi nodded slightly. "He sound like a great man..."
"He was. It's a shame that he got killed for almost twenty years ago..." Kakashi said and Sakuras jaw drop.
`Twenty years ago! That lord must have been really rich or the people have keep the money in a tight leash until it was needed... But that could also mean that the money is probably already been spend...´
Sakura looked to a woman that was dressed really nicely and she whispered to a woman beside her. She couldn't hear what they said, but their way of looking at her, almost like Sakura was something dirty that had been dragged in to the best room, made Sakura think that it was due to her hair color or even her kimono that Sakura didn't think was that awful.
"Are you hungry?" Kakashi suddenly asked her and she jumped a bit.
"No, why do you ask...?"
"I thought I heard your stomach growl..." Kakashi teased and Sakura glared at him. "Or is it something else?"
"Well thoes womens... They were looking at me and it felt really uncomfortable..." Sakura mumbled and this time Yamato looked down to her.
"Don't worry Sakura... They will not harm you..." Yamato told her and squeezed her hand and Kakashi huffed behind them.
"But they did said that they thought Sakura was to young to walking around with a much older man and they even commented her hair..." Kakashi said and received a glance from Yamato and Sakura. "And then they feel sorry for that girl to be pregnant in her age with that much older man..."
Yamato cough and glared to Kakashi.
"I didn't know that you could hear them...?" he said to Kakashi who looked back to him. "And how the hell could they see if Sakura is pregnant? Me myself can't barely see it..."
"Call it a womans intuition..." Kakashi told Yamato who frown at him.
~oOo~
"You must be our guests... Welcome! Kusari-Sama isn't back yet, but I will take you to his wife. She will take care of you instead..." a older maidservant said to them.
"Arigatou*." Yamato said to the woman and bowed.
The older maidservant leaded the way to where they would meet Kusari's wife and Yamato had hooked Sakura's arm with his and followed the woman, with a slightly sullen Kakashi behind them.
"What exactly are we suppose to do here anyway...?" Sakura mumbled to Yamato.
"As Senpai told you before, this town has the biggest market when it comes to paulownia trees and we are interested in by some of their trees..." Yamato said in a low voice.
"That can't take very long..."
"Well Kusari isn't the one who trust foreigner and it can take some time to make him trust us and then go through with the deal... That will give us a lot of time, to do what we are supposed to do..." Yamato mumbled and saw how the older maidservant stopped in front of a shoji door.
"I will announce your presence..." the older maidservant said and slide the door open and disappeared in to the room and slide the door close behind her.
"Wonder how his wife is?" Sakura mused and looked to the shoji door and suddenly the door slide open and the older maidservant told them to come in.
"Hinoki-Sama, your guests..." the older maidservant said to a woman in the middle of the room and she looked up to the three people entering the room.
"Ah, excellent Chiyoko... You may leave..." the woman in the middle said with a soft, but yet with a slight authority in her voice.
The old maidservant bowed and walked out of the door, sliding the shoji door close behind her.
Sakura looked to the woman in the middle and she saw the most beautiful woman she ever had seen. The womans long dark ebony hair made her skin look almost like snow and her dark chocolate eyes was warm and friendly. She was a very pleasing woman to look at.
"Welcome, you may have a seat..." the woman Hinoki said to Yamato and Sakura and showed them two zabuton* on the floor opposite her.
Yamato bowed, dragging Sakura along with him and then they took the seat.
"We are honoured to be in your beautiful home, Hinoki-Sama..." Yamato told the woman who smiled to him. "This is my wife, Hashidoi Tara..."
Sakura made a quick glance around the room and saw how the paper walls was covered with painting of cherry trees and mahogany panel. A suddenly soft nudge in her ribs, took Sakura back to presents.
"Go-Gomennasai*, Hinoki-Sama... I was fascinated by this lovely room..." Sakura said and bowed politely to the woman in front of them.
"You have a lovely wife, Deigo-San..." Hinoki said with a bit of a laugher in her voice to Yamato who frowned a bit. "And she is really beautiful too, I beat you are watching her like a hawk..."
"Well, that's why we have one of our guard with us... He is Tara's personal gaurd..." Yamato said and Hinoki looked to the silver haired man in the corner of the room and she blushed slightly.
"He looks really loyal..." Hinoki said to Sakura who looked to her.
"Oh, he is..." Sakura confirmed.
`Too loyal...´
"My husband should be here very soon, but would you like to have some tea before he comes?" Hinoki asked them.
"Yes please..." Yamato said.
Sakura could understand why Naruto had send them to this mission.
Yamato had always been very polite and very eloquent too (when it comes to his manners), that was probably why Naruto had send him. And when it come to Sakura herself, she could only think of that she maybe had better 'manners' then most of the other kunoichi's and she worked pretty well with Yamato as well.
Hinoki glanced to the maidservent Chiyoko (that had entred the room) and she had began to place three senchawan* on the table and then poured hot tea in the cups. After that Chiyoko walked away and Hinoki lifted her cup to her mouth, before she gave the silver haired man in the corner a soft smile.
Kakashi glanced to the people sitting beside the low mahogany table. He just had that feeling that the woman Hinoki, was looking at him time to time and it was quite annoying actually. He wasn't interested in her and and she had a husband (who was obvisually cheating on her).
His eye stopped at Sakura and saw how she unnoticed sniffed on her tea and Yamato did the same, before they drinked the tea. He prised her inwardly for being such a good student and that she actually had listen to him during her days as Genin. It was more then Naruto and even Sasuke had done. The two of the boys had been too busy with themself and arguing about stupid thing that they hadn't even care to pay attention to their (back then) 'awesome' Sensei.
As every Shinobi know, poison could be a Shinobi's worse enemy. But Kakashi didn't thought that Hinoki and her husband would poison their guest that had obvisaly a higher status then themself. They would gain nothing by poison them.
"So Deigo-San... Why do you want our precious trees for?" Hinoki asked Yamato who glanced at her.
"Um well..." Yamato began, but he didn't know what to say.
"My husband and I have recently open a big inn in two different places in Hi no Kuni and we have overheard about the lovely trees that exist here and we wanted to buy some to place in the garden and also use to our furniture as well..." Sakura said with a such sweept move that Yamato had to thank her later for thinking out this and Kakashi smiled to himself.
"That's really interesting and my husband and I, feel very honoured to have you here for just that reason..." Hinoki said with a smile to Yamato and then she gave Sakura a strange smile.
Sakura didn't like that smile Hinoki gave her and she was thankful that the shoji door was pushed open and Hinoki glanced to the person walking in.
"I'm sorry that I'm late..." a mans gruff voice called out behind them and that made Sakura jump and turned around.
The man was as tall as Kakashi, if not even taller and he had broad shoulders, light brown hair, stern empty brown eyes and he had the beardiest face Sakura ever had seen and she noticed that Kakashi had made a quick glance to the man and then he had looked down to the floor.
"Something came up and I had to fix it..." the man said and when he came closer, Sakura could see faint scars in his face and that made Sakura sure that he once had been a warrior or something like that.
Yamato raised up, dragging an unsteady Sakura along and they bowed to the man who had walked in.
"It's a honour to see you, Kusari-Sama..." Yamato said and looked up to the man Kusari who smirked down to Yamato. "My name is Hashidoi Deigo and this is my wife, Tara..."
Kusari looked to Sakura with eyes that Sakura recognized as pure lust. She felt already uncomfortable with that mans presence.
"Such a lovely little flower to wife you have..." Kusari said and took Sakura's hand in his and kissed it, longer then necessary.
Kakashi shifted on his spot. If he could, he would forcly remove Kusari's lips from Sakura's hand and tell him to fuck off. But right now he was just a simple guard, he couldn't do anything, as long as he didn't find it abusing to Sakura. And he was pretty sure when she began find things as abusing to her.
Sakura was a bit disgust by Kusari and after he had let go of her hand, she rubbed it against her kimono unnoticed.
"Deigo-San, why don't we talk business elsewhere...?" Kusari said to Yamato, who looked to him. "And let the women have their talk as well..."
"Why not..." Yamato glanced to Kakashi and told him to keep an eye on Sakura, before he had left the room with Kusari.
Hinoki looked at Sakura over the brim of her cup and she sighed.
"Well, aren't you a bit young?" she suddenly said and Sakura turned around to face Hinoki.
"Excuse me...?" Sakura said and glanced to Hinoki who smirked.
"Don't you think you are a bit too young? To be married and even to carry a child...?" Hinoki said and Sakura looked a bit surprised to her.
"How did you...?"
"Oh please... I have also been pregnant, so I sould know..." Hinoki said and placed the cup on the table. "And you didn't answer my question..."
"I'm old enough to make my own decision..." Sakura told the woman who gave Sakura a false smile.
Sakura was sure of one thing. She didn't like this woman and apparently, this woman didn't like her either.
"And your child... Your husband, he isn't the father to that child, is he...?" Hinoki said and Sakura froze.
She didn't know what to say right now and the only thought that crossed her mind was to flee out of this room.
Kakashi watched the two woman and he saw Sakura freez to the spot. He knew that Sakura didn't want to talk about her pregnacy and that woman had said the right things to make Sakura uncomfortable and even a bit scared.
It had been his fault that Sakura had been too ashamed to talk about her state. Was she too regretting what they had done and the result of their act? He would never found that out, because she had refused to talk more then necessary about her pregnacy.
However, Kakashi decided to end this conversation before Sakura would faint of illness or something like that.
"Excuse me, but I can see that my mistress is tired, Hinoki-Sama..." Kakashi suddenly.
Sakura glanced thankful to him, but she wasn't stupid to miss those protective glances he cast her.
`Why should I even bother to care anymore...?´
Hinoki looked at Kakashi from her position and she looked questioning at him.
"You shouldn't let your guards talk too freely... At least not to people with higher status then himself..." Hinoki said to Sakura who looked a bit embarrassed.
"Sumimasen*... He is quite new... It will not happen again..." Sakura said and glanced to Kakashi who looked to her.
"I hope not... But I guess he is right, you should take some rest..." Hinoki said. "Kiku, take Tara-Chan to their room..."
"Ha-Hai..." a small voice said somewhere in the room and a thin younger woman appeared out of no where and walked up to Sakura.
Sakura bowed to Hinoki before she was escorted out of the room by the young woman Kiku, followed by Kakashi in her heels.
Kiku's long black hair swayed back and fort in a very seducing why (Sakura thought), while she walked them to the room and Sakura glanced to Kakashi behind her.
"Close your mouth, perv... I know what you are thinking and I'm not going to let you impregnate some poor servent girl as well..." Sakura growled to him and he looked down to her with a questioning look.
"Is that what you really think of me...?" he mumbled to her and she looked away from him. "Just so you-..."
"Just shut up..." she barked in a low tone to him and stopped in front of the maid Kiku, making Kakashi walk in to Sakura's back. "Oof... Watch it..."
"Suman*..." Kakashi mumbled and backed away from Sakura.
Kiku looked a bit concern to Sakura, but decided to open the mahogany door to the room.
"Her is your and your husbands room, Tara-Sama..." Kiku said and took Sakura in to the room and Kakashi followed along.
"Thank you... It's really a lovely room..." Sakura said to Kiku who smiled faintly.
"Is there anything you wish for, Tara-Sama...?" Kiku asked and Sakura looked thoughtful down to the floor.
Well, Sakura was craving for aubergine in miso (oddly enought Kakashi's favorite food) or some lemon ice cream with carrots sticks and she couldn't explain the carrots on her lemon ice cream, it felt just felt like she wanted those carrots on her icecream.
"No thanks... I believe dinner would be served soon..." Sakura said to Kiku who nodded and walked out of the room.
When the door was closed, Sakura turned around to face Kakashi.
"What the hell was that!" she growled.
"Was what?" he asked as calmy as usually.
"That thing you said back in that room, to Hinoki... You are just some simple guard to her, you have no right to talk!" Sakura hissed.
"But I saw that you began to be uncomfortable of what you was talking about, so I thought that I would end the conversation right there..." Kakashi said to Sakura who frowned.
"Well, I was uncomfortable with that talk, but that give you no right to interfere like that... It's exactly like the last time!" Sakura told him. "Do you want everything to be exposed?"
"No, but I just told that woman that you was tired. I'm after all supposed to look after you..." Kakashi said in a matter-of-fact voice and came closer to Sakura.
"And I have never heard of a guard that would care for the one he is watching, not in that way at least..." Sakura told him and Kakashi sighed.
Well he couldn't argue with that, because she was right about that fact and he couldn't help to be worried for her as well. Like he always had been.
He sighed and turned his head away from her.
"I guess... I guess I will head out to find your husband..." Kakashi said and then he left her alone in the room.
Sakura was really annoyed right now. Not just that he maybe had blown their cover, but in the way he had emphasis Yamato as her husband.
What was his problem?
"I swear... Sometimes I really wonder if he is pregnant as well..." Sakura muttered and walked in to the room beside and laid herself down to the bed.
She looked up to the wooden ceiling and she sighed deeply.
~oOo~
Sakura wasn't the one who was that picky about her food, but today she had rather turned on her heels and walked out of the dining hall.
This food wasn't really proper for her stomach, that still had a tendency to spill the guts out. But Sakura tried to be as polite as she could, until they all had finish their food and Sakura was escorted by Kiku (once again) to their room with Yamato beside her and Kakashi walking behind them.
She had hopped that Yamato would ask them to get another room to him, but he hadn't and Sakura understand it was because they where supposed to be married. And everything had been stupid Naruto's fault. If he hadn't put Yamato as her husband and Kakashi as her loyal guard, she maybe had enjoyed this mission a little more.
Kiku bid them goodnight and Yamato opened the door to the room and Sakura walked in first, but Yamato was stopped by a sharp thing, glowing deadly in the silver light of the moon.
"What do you want, Senpai...?" Yamato asked in a low tone and glanced to his right.
"I was just making sure that you keep your hands to yourself... Or else it will be one more that won't be happy tomorrow..." a cold, but yet calm voice said from the shadows.
"Why would I even think of touching her like that..." Yamato mumbled. "As I told to you before, I'm not like you..."
No respond.
"See you tomorrow, Senapi..." Yamato said, before he 'waved' away the glowning katana in front of him and walked in to the room, closing the door behind him.
Yamato walked in to the bed room to his right and saw that Sakura was already laying knocked out on the bed, with the quilt covering most of her body. He shrugged and began to undress himself down to his underwear and he knew that Sakura would began to bitching about his presence in the bed, but it was to much fun to tease this Kunoichi.
He walked over to the bedside and sat himself down to the bed. Sakura shifted and rolled over to face Yamato who bit the inside of his chin.
She wasn't doing it easy for him. Not when her dressing gown was not covering parts that should be covered.
He sighed.
He could slip into Kakashi's room and 'borrow' his bed, but then he remembered that Kakashi didn't have a room and he was sleeping outside of this very room, as Sakura's guard.
He could sleep in the sofa in the next room, but then yet again he remembered that the room beside the bed room didn't have a sofa, just two small armchairs.
"Stop ogling my breast..." Sakura suddenly grounted and Yamato looked at her.
"I'm not-...!" he began.
"You are... You shouldn't harass your pregnant student... Kakashi-Sensei..."
"Ka-Kakashi...?" Yamato looked away from her with a raised eyebrow and glanced around in the bed room, like he would find his Senpai sitting in the dark corner of the room. But be calling by her perverted ex-Sensei's name, annoyed him deeply. He wasn't like him and he wasn't a pervert, well not as big as his Senpai, but still far from him.
"Um... Sakura, can you take-..." Yamato began (not looking at her), but Sakura cut him off.
"I'm not going to sleep with you again..." Sakura muttered and Yamato who never had blush (if he wasn't drunk), felt how his cheeks began to be warm. He didn't want to hear this. Not from her soft lips, saying this like she saw a part of some smutty porn movie.
He couldn't stand this. He needed to get out of this room, but he couldn't ask the maids to give him another room. They was supposed to be married.
"This sucks..."
Author note:
Sakura is on a mission with Kakashi and Yamato. Kakashi is quite protective when it comes to Sakura and Yamato find himself in a situation he didn't think he would find himself in. :)
It may contain some spelling errors...
Sorry if this took so long to put out. I have been working a lot and now I have been home from work due to my back problem. If you think some parts is odd, it's due to the medication (I have had a hard time to keep my thoughts thoughter as well as keeping my eyes open, while writting with shaky hands). But now is chapter 8 out and a bit longer then usually, I think. :D
And some notes;
When I writes the text 'like this' it means that the person in question is thinking. When I writes like thisthe person emphasis just that word and when I writes like this that means flashbacks.
Mini Japanese dictionary and little more;
Arigatou* = Thank you
Gomen* = pardon (your pardon)
Gomennasai* = I beg your pardon
Hi no Kuni* = Fire Country
Hayashi no Kuni* = Wood Country
Senchawan* = Small porcelain cups used for fine-quality steeped green tea
Sumimasen* = Sorry
Suman* = Sorry
Zabuton* = A Japanese cushion for sitting
Do feel free to ask me if something is bothering you.
And thank you all for your reviews! I also want to thank everyone els who read this and fav it! Thank you! ^-^
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