Authors Note:

I don't know how long I am going to make this - I don't really have a plan. It is just kinda falling together the way I want. I can say that it will not end anytime soon as I have a lot of incidents in mind :)

As always - Reviews Please! I love them.

The younger Kakashi enjoyed the walk to the Hokage Tower a little too much, in Sakura's opinion. She had caused it. She had turned him into the well known pervert he was in the future. Sakura had always assumed it was hereditary - or at least nurtured into him by Minato who had inherited it from Jiraiya. But no, she caused it. All the books said to make sure the patient had a hobby. But to think that if she hadn't suggested he find something, anything, then maybe he wouldn't have always been reading that infuriating series. Maybe Kakashi would have trained them better as he would have been less distracted when he became their sensei.

Kakashi read the damn book the entire way to the tower. As far as Sakura could tell he wasn't even aware that people were noticing. He was a highly recognizable shinobi with a large reputation. Of course other Shinobi and even citizens would notice him blatantly reading porn as he walked down the street. The Anbu operative had left them. The village must have gotten used to Kakashi's quirks in the future because no one really paid any attention to what he was reading - it was just typical. It was to be expected that if you went looking for the Copy-nin in her time that you would find him either asleep in a tree, reading his book somewhere out of sight or in front of the memorial stone.

They finally reached the Hokage tower and began to climb the steps towards the Third's office.

"You should put that away," Sakura hissed as yet another person stared at the pair, slack-jawed.

"Eh?" Kakashi glanced up at her with the lazy look she associated with the man she knew in her time. The only difference was this Kakashi's body was just becoming a man. "Does it bother you?"

Sakura could feel the young Kakashi's eye studying her and tried to keep her composure. As it was she felt heat in her cheeks and knew she had a slight blush on her face. She didn't want to give him the satisfaction of knowing that it did bother her. Why was it that Kakashi enjoyed messing with her no matter what era they were in.

"You should read it," Kakashi added. "I'm sure with your...experience... you would enjoy it."

She barely noticed that she stopped in the middle of the hallway to stare at him. Kakashi continued walking slowly but turned his body to look back at her. Sakura opened her mouth to reply but nothing came out. Her hands clenched and she felt her whole body flush.

"J-just.. shut up!" she managed to ground out and stomped past him through the Hokage's office doors around the corner. She heard Kakashi chuckle behind her - a sound she had yet to hear since she met his younger self. Sakura didn't know if she should feel like she accomplished something or if she should turn around and punch him through the wall. If it wasn't for the look on the Third Hokage's face as she entered his office she would have chosen the latter. The Third looked both surprised and amused by the pair of them. Sakura didn't know how much he overheard but he gave her an encouraging nod. She turned to glance at Kakashi and noticed he was putting the book away in his pouch. The Kakashi she knew would have kept on reading but this version of the Copy-nin was much more serious about his work.

"You asked for us Hokage-sama?" Kakashi said, the model of professionalism.

"Yes. I have a mission for the pair of you," The Third tossed a scroll towards Kakashi.

"Both of us?" Kakashi answered slowly as he opened the scroll and read its contents.

"Yes, I'll need the two of you to accompany another couple," the Third sighed as he watched Kakashi hand the scroll to Sakura to read over. "I'll be sending you two with Genma Shiranui and Anko Mitarashi to Machiko Village. This is a big tourist spot for couples especially during this time of year as it is right in the middle of their couples festival. The village had requested a pair of shinobi to investigate a series of disappearances of young couples visiting. As you can guess this is very harmful to the village reputation as over 15 couples have disappeared since the opening of the festival. We sent two shinobi over a week ago to investigate, Asuma Sarutobi and Kurenai Yuhi. They had begun to find evidence of struggle and bodily harm when they too went missing."

Sakura's heart sank for the man in front of them. His own son had gone missing. No wonder he pulled Kakashi out of his forced leave to investigate.

"Why Saki though, she is just a visitor to the village?" asked Kakashi. Sakura tried not to shoot him a glare - she was more than capable of handling this mission.

"As you are under medical leave, Kakashi, I cannot send you without your attending medic. The other option was Might Gai and a poor Hyuga girl and I don't think I need to explain why I chose not to send that pair." The Third smiled wryly at them. "Kakashi you will be the lead on this mission and be paired with Saki here. You two are to act like a real couple on a romantic getaway with your friends in the hopes that you will be targeted. I also expect you to find my son and miss Yuhi as soon as possible."

Sakura felt her stomach dip. She had been on many missions with Kakashi in her time. A lot of them had been recon or undercover but they had never been a 'couple'. At most he had been her uncle - once even her father (much to his distaste). But this wasn't the Kakashi that she knew. He was much younger and troubled. Sakura tried to glance sideways at him to see if he was reacting to this news but he stood at attention - waiting to be dismissed - no indication that he had any opinion on the mission whatsoever.

"Your team mates are waiting at the gates as we speak. Please meet them as soon as you are able. Saki - could you please stay back for a moment before you go pack?" The Third Hokage waved Kakashi away. Sakura tried to see if Kakashi reacted to any of this but he was gone before she could meet his eyes.

"I know I said I wouldn't send him out unless absolutely necessary but -"

"No need to explain, Hokage-sama. Asuma-sensei is your son, after all," she smiled back at the older man.

"Ah, sensei? So, he must be okay then." The Third smiled back at her.

"AH, sorry!" she said in panic.

"Don't be sorry, girl. You comforted an old man. But does that mean you may know Kakashi-san in a similar aspect?"

Sakura tried to keep her face blank but wasn't sure how successful she was. "You know I can't answer that, sir."

The Third's laughter followed her down the hallway as she exited the building. Butterflies fluttered in the pit of her stomach.

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Sakura was the last to arrive at the gates of the village. Teenage versions of Genma and Anko leaned up against a large pillar. Kakashi was a few feet away reading Icha Icha, much to Sakura's embarrassment. He barely bothered to look up as she approached them all. Genma and Anko turned to look at her. Genma gave her the once over and smiled cockily - at least that much hadn't changed. Sakura had to admit Genma had been easy on the eyes when he was younger. Anko looked a lot more hopeful and cheerful than the woman she knew in the future - who was downright terrifying. Sakura didn't know too much about either of them - mostly just through their reputations. Neither had become Jonin Sensei but both were specialists in their own way. Unfortunately, Sakura's talents had never given her the opportunity to work with ether of them for long periods of time.

"Who's this, Kakashi? Some new Anbu hottie?" Genma pushed himself off the wall towards her. "Makes me wish I wasn't assigned little Anko here."

"Shutup, asshole." Anko shouted.

"Saki Hara. A medic trained by Lady Tsunade. Saki - these are Genma and Anko," Kakashi pocketed his book.

"Lady Tsunade? I've been trained by Lord Orochimaru - surprised we haven't met yet!" Anko said cockily.

Sakura had forgotten about Anko's connection with the other Sannin. "I didn't get to travel with her. Lady Tsunade just spent a lot of time in my village after the war and taught me a lot of valuable things. I had already been working in the hospital there but she saw my potential and really helped me out." Sakura had started to walk out of the village hoping that the others would follow and the conversation would shift to the mission rather than herself. "I came here to learn more from the hospital and become a part of the village."

"Is that why you got banned your first day there?" Kakashi's voice came from beside her - closer than she had anticipated. Sakura felt her body jump in surprise and prayed to Kami that none of the others had noticed. This whole situation was really putting her on edge.

"I can't help it if that woman is a moron." Sakura said as she glared at him out of the corner of her eye. Neither of them noticed the shocked looks exchanged by their other two team members.

"How do you know each other?" Genma asked.

"Classified." Kakashi said coldly. Sakura rolled her eyes but decided not to add anything.

"We'll reach Machiko Village by nightfall so we should change into civilian clothes in an hour or so." Anko said - not caring for the back story of the pretty brunette and Konoha's most eligible bachelor. "You guys good to be all lovey-dovey starting then? We don't know how far back potential surveillance goes. We can't risk being found out if we want to find Sarutobi and Yuhi."

"Don't worry," Kakashi replied as he leaned in slightly to Saki and added, "especially with your experience."

Sakura felt all the blood in her body rush to her face. His voice had sent a chill down her spine. Kakashi was ahead of them seconds later and Sakura didn't even have time to give him a fowl look in response.

"Never thought I'd see the day," Genma said from behind Sakura.

"Me neither," Anko said with a laugh.

"What?" Sakura asked dazedly.

"The ice-cold Copy-nin flirting," Genma chuckled.

"-I was not!"

"-He was not!"

Both Kakashi and Sakura had stopped in their tracks to glare at Genma and Anko. The pair laughed in unison as they continued down the road. Sakura followed with her eyes until her sight landed on Kakashi. Kakashi looked back as if considering something before quickly turning away. Sakura's mouth fell open in shock as her heartbeat fluttered in her chest. Sakura did not understand herself at all. This was her sensei. Her weird, pervy, lazy, genius of a sensei. The man who watched her grow up. The man who watched her fall in love and get it thrown in her face. The man who saved her life countless time. A man who was 14 years older than her. A person who she should feel disgust and terror at the prospect of him flirting with her. But terror is not what she felt. Her heart was beating faster. Her face was tingling. Her stomach bubbled with excitement rather than anxiety. She even felt the beginnings of a smile on her lips and the sudden urge to screech and hide her face. It wasn't the old, lazy Kakashi from her time that had looked at her. It wasn't her sensei's lazy walk that she watched in front of her. It was the swagger of a young man she was only just getting to know. A guy her age. Who looked at her like that.

Sakura took a deep breath and pushed all of that down. That's not happening. She was mistaken. No way could that ever be real. Young Kakashi was just getting back at her for impacting his life - for making him come to terms with his past. He was deliberately reading that to mess with her. Everything he was doing was to mess with her. Sakura ignored the part of her psyche reminding her that Kakashi continued to read those books in her time. Obsessively.

"You coming?" Genma yelled back at her. "What did you do to her?"

Kakashi ignored him as he took the lead again. Sakura smiled sheepishly as she caught up. This was going to be weird.

An hour later the four separated by gender to change into their civilian wear. Sakura changed her standard red tunic for a light blue yukata. She made sure to conceal all her weapons and tucked her hair up with senbon that looked like hair accessories. She could barely ignore the bubbling of excitement in her stomach. She had never really seen Kakashi in true civilian clothing and the prospect of seeing the younger one that way had her more excited than she thought she'd be. She wondered if young Kakashi would still be wearing his mask. If she could come away from this mission having seen what was underneath the elusive Copy-nin's mask then she may reconsider pummelling his older self in the future.

Sakura turned to see if Anko was ready to head back to the boys and was yet again reminded that she was not in her own time. Anko looked so young in comparison to the woman from her own era. Sakura wasn't sure how old Anko was in the future but right now she looked a lot younger than herself. Anko was waiting impatiently against the trunk of a large tree looking uncomfortable in her own light purple yukata. Sakura couldn't help but wonder if Anko was going to be able to convincingly act like she was young and in love.

"Ready, princess?" Anko asked sarcastically. Anko didn't wait for a retort before she had turned on her heel and headed back towards to boys. Sakura followed mutely, not quite sure how to reply to her attitude.

They reached the road where Kakashi and Genma were in silence. Sakura swore to herself when she looked at the young version of her future sensei. He was still wearing his infernal mask. He had barely even changed. His standard issue flak jacket was missing as was his headband. He had no weapons on him - that she could see- and he had switched his shoes to simple boots. The rest was almost the exact same. Black pants and black long sleeved shirt attached to his mask.

"How are you supposed to pass as a civilian in that?" Sakura asked as they all continued on their way.

"I do all the time," was his simple reply.

"WHAT do you think you're doing?!" Anko shouted. Sakura looked ahead towards the other couple. Genma was backing away from a very angry looking Anko.

"We are a couple." Genma emphasized. Anko's mouth hung open in silence as she lowered her other fist and took her position next too Genma again - a bright blush staining her cheeks. Sakura glanced sideways to her own mission partner to see what he thought of the situation but his nose was buried behind the cover of a bright orange novel. She clenched her fists, ground her teeth and held back every urge in her body telling her to punch him into the dirt. When was she going to get back to her normal life?

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Machiko Village's love festival was famous even in Sakura's time but she had never had the opportunity to go. She had never had anyone to go with. The festival was created around a local myth about a injured ninja who fell in love with a young medic who found him in the forest outside the city. He was from the enemy nation during one of the great battles in history, it changed depending on who told the story, but the young medic couldn't just leave a man to die in the forest alone. She nursed him for months until he reached his full health again. The night that he was finally able to go back to fighting for his country there was a meteor shower. It was during this meteor shower that the two warring nations decided to attack each other just outside Machiko village. The young lovers couldn't bear the thought of fighting against each other and begged the other to join their side. This is where the story would change from person to person as some claimed that the pair ran away together and hid from their home nations. While others said that they were both killed during the attack and their bodies were found together in a deathly embrace.

It was said that any young couple who spent the night of the meteor shower together would live happily ever after. Sakura wasn't sure where this part came from - as the story sounded more tragic than anything - but had always dreamed of coming to the festival with Sasuke. Now she was here in the past with her 17 year old sensei.

So far, there were no patterns to the disappearances. Genma and Anko went to stay at the Inn that Asuma and Kurenai disappeared from. Sakura had expected that they would stay there too but Kakashi told her that there hadn't been any other rooms available so the Hokage had put them somewhere else.

Evening entertainment had begun to set up and the smell of food stalls and great restaurants filled the streets. They had made plans to meet up with Genma and Anko the following day. Genma was going to search the room that Asuma and Kurenai had last been seen in for clues. It was Kakashi and Sakura's job to wander the village and draw attention as an adorable couple in the hopes that that would draw the culprits attention. It had been obvious from Anko's demeanour that she was not going to be able to keep up appearances for very long - especially with handsy Genma. Sakura wasn't sure she would fare better especially when considering that Asuma and Kurenai ended up together in the future. The pair had obvious sexual tension that would have helped them on a mission like this.

Sakura was surprised when they arrived at their hotel. Genma and Anko were staying in a modest Inn but the place they were standing in front of now was anything but modest.

"Seriously?" Kakashi mumbled as they entered. He sauntered up to reception, was handed two room keys and motioned for Sakura to follow. The girls behind the reception counter were staring at the pair of them and giggling.

Their room was a few floors up and it seemed that the higher they went the more fancy the décor got. Sakura had never been in a place this fancy. Everything was gilded. Everything. Sakura didn't understand how they gilded the carpet but they managed to. She chanced a glance at Kakashi but his eye was staring resolutely forward as he scanned the door numbers. He had barely spoken a word to her since they got to the village. At least his book was away...for now.

Eventually he came to a stop outside a room. Sakura could have sworn she saw him fumble with the key but there was no way any version of Kakashi would fumble. She followed him into the room quietly. The whole situation felt awkward but she nearly forgot herself as she saw the room before her.

It was huge. The room was twice the size of her entire apartment. There was a fire place and lounge area with two of the comfiest couches she had ever seen. The bed was a grandeur looking 4 poster king. There were double doors leading to the balcony that overlooked the village and the festival below. Out of the corner of her eye she saw the bathroom and nearly feinted. It was marble. It had a huge bath tub. The size of the public baths back in Konoha. Sakura felt like squealing in excitement. She tossed her bag on one of the couches and nearly jumped onto the large bed.

"This is so cool!" she laughed and looked at her partner.

Kakashi was stiffly searching the room for any signs of tampering. He began to set up seals around all the entrances designed to prevent them from hearing their conversations clearly. He wasn't going to prevent people from coming in but he was going to make sure they never caught whiff that the pair of them were ninja. When he was finished he tossed his bag on the coffee table and looked around. It was a large room and Saki was very happy about it. He, however, was full of dread.

He hated these kinds of missions. Ask him to assassinate an entire castle - no problem. Tell him to pretend to be someone's boyfriend - no, just no. But that was the mission and they needed to be convincing and he was never one to be half-assed about a mission. He watched as Saki jumped on the bed like a little girl. Her yukata became ruffled as it bunched up around her legs. Kakashi couldn't stop his eye from grazing up her body. His eye only stopped when he noticed she was staring at him and blushing furiously.

Kakashi quickly looked away and began to scratch the back of his head. He definitely had not meant to do that but the image of her on the bed reminded him so much of a scene from the orange novel in his back pocket that he couldn't help himself. He had never had much interest in girls around the village. Not that he didn't have any experience. He just never actively sought it out beyond rare moments on his more dangerous Anbu missions. Whatever these books were arousing in him needed to be put aside for now.

Kakashi looked back towards Sakura who had straightened out her clothes and gotten up from the big bed.

"I guess we should get out there and walk around," she suggested shyly.

Kakashi hated how awkward this was. He wasn't even sure why he had become awkward in the first place. He just couldn't stop thinking about doing other things with her in this room. Both because of the mission and because he wanted to. He had never wanted to before. Why did he want to?

Sakura had started to walk past him towards the door taking his silence as indication that they should leave. Kakashi uncharacteristically let his emotions get the better of him and grabbed her elbow to stop her from walking past him. It didn't take much pressure to pull her closer to him. This is for the mission and nothing else, he reassured himself.

"We should probably take care of something before we get out there," he said dryly.

"Eh?" Kakashi did not find her flustered face cute. Not cute at all.

Rather than answer her Kakashi just raised his eyebrow and pulled her closer to him. Sakura couldn't help but notice that even at this age he towered over her.

"What are you doing?" she asked softly. Her heart was hammering in her chest and she should be pulling away. She didn't know why she wasn't pulling away.

"Do I seriously need to explain?" Kakashi mumbled.

She scowled at him in return and tried to pull away but she didn't budge. Kakashi took a step forward. Her body now almost flush with his - she was forced to look up.

"Experience, Saki," His face was getting awfully close. "I thought with all that experience you'd be able to figure out what we need to do right now."

Sakura's face was instantly the colour of a Tomato and she tried to pull away again. She closed her eyes and tried to put distance between them but was held still by the younger Kakashi's arms.

"Don't you da-mmph," her eyes shot open. His lips. His lips! Right in front of her, touching her lips with his own, was Kakashi. Kakashi was kissing her. And she was letting him. He pressed into her and nipped at the bottom of her lip. She gasped in surprise which only allowed him to deepen the kiss further. Sakura could feel him pushing her backwards until her back hit the post of the bed. His eyes were closed which she knew was normal but still seemed weird. His hands wrapped themselves around her waist and he managed to both pull her more towards his own body and push her more firmly into the post behind her. Sakura couldn't suppress the small groan that escaped her.

What surprised her the most was that young Kakashi groaned back and pushed into her further. She wasn't sure when but her hands had somehow found themselves in his messy white hair and she began to meet his kiss fervently. Kakashi's hands began to roam which just egged her on more. Sakura felt her leg come up to wrap around Kakashi's as his hand dipped down to grip her ass.

Kakashi wasn't sure how what he intended to be a tension breaking kiss turned into a mad make-out session. They needed to break some boundaries in order to fake being a couple which was why he knew he had to at least kiss her before they left the room. If he hadn't then they wouldn't have been able to do anything even remotely convincing out on the streets - not that he would really know. But somehow he had found himself pushing his tongue into her little mouth and enjoying it. He wanted to curse the orange book in his pocket. Or, rather, his old self wanted to. His current self desired nothing more than to push Saki into the bed further. Her tongue swiped across his own and her teeth dragged lightly across his bottom lip. Kakashi gripped her harder amd shifted so that he could pull her down onto the bed.

Sakura had no idea why things had progressed so quickly. How had she ended up on top of him again? Her legs were on either side of his torso, their lips connected furiously and her yukata continued to ride up. One of Kakashi's hands was on her neck - pulling her down into him - the other was playing with the edge of her yukata that sat at the top of her exposed thigh. She felt hot and a burning throb in her core. Sakura couldn't get close enough to him. She tried to push her body onto him further and felt the apex of her thighs drag across something hard beneath her. Kakashi groaned into her mouth, grabbed both of her thighs to hold her in place and ground her down onto him.

She broke their kiss and moaned into the side of his neck. What was she doing. What were they doing. This was Kakashi. Kakashi-sensei. She was making out with her sensei when he was 17. He was going to remember this. She could feel his erection. Her face continued to heat up. She pulled her head away from his and looked down. Young Kakashi was breathing heavily beneath her and looked just as surprised and flustered as she did. His hands were still bunched up in her yukata and his mask was down. His mask was down. Sakura smiled widely down at him.

"You have a mole!"

He scowled back at her. Young Kakashi didn't know what to do now. Did he continue? He wanted to continue. Did she want to continue? She wasn't moving off of him. It was the first time in a long time that he didn't know how to react or what to do. He throbbed painfully against her which, judging by the darkening tint to her cheeks, she felt.

"Um," she glanced awkwardly to the side. "We should probably go out there, then?"

Kakashi didn't trust his voice and just nodded. Neither of them moved. He didn't dare move for fear that he would jump her again. This was dangerous. She was dangerous. She was a distraction.

"Feel comfortable?" Kakashi hoped she didn't hear his voice quiver. He began to push himself up on to his elbows and tried to ignore the feel of her on his hardness. Tried to ignore the smell he knew was arousal. Kakashi cursed his nose. He could have sworn that she looked dejected as she pulled away from him.

"Comfortable?" she looked back at him, confused, as she rose to her feet off the bed and away from him.

"Yea," he stood from the bed and straightened his clothes. He was trying to ignore what happened. It was just for the mission. All a part of his plan. "Now our first time doing that won't be out there in the public eye."

Sakura couldn't open her mouth to reply. She wasn't sure what to think. She finished straightening her hair and clothes and just nodded. Her stomach bubbled uncomfortably. She was stuck between turned on, disgusted and sad. Turned on because she had just made out with a very good looking Anbu Captain. A Captain who had been very into her as well - if she had felt it right. Disgusted because her perverted Sensei and current Hokage in the future was likely remembering this very occurrence right now. And sad because he was pushing her away and all she wanted right now was to be closer to him.