p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""How do I look, boys?" Sakura twirled for Naruto and Sasuke, showing off her snow-white, high-waisted skirt and soft pearl crop top, balanced on the heel of her white platforms. A few fake tattoos had been carefully drawn on, just to peak out from under her clothes, a tease. A white leather garter was wrapped around her left thigh. She had rhinestones in heart patterns around her eyes, a perfect blush made by cosmetics, and innocent doll eyes. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Angelic, Sakura-chan," Naruto grinned at her, his blue eyes wide. She didn't fail to notice the look Genma and Kakashi shared from where they leaned against a wall nearby./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"One half of her mouth quirked up. "The best kind of disguise." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""I think that's called a lie," she heard Genma murmur to Kakashi. She whipped around, her skirt floating about her thighs, and narrowed her verdant eyes at them. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Kakashi-sen-," Sakura caught herself before she called him sensei. "You're dismissed. I won't need you again until 10." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"The toothpick in Genma's mouth fell to the floor in his shock. "For laughing?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Kakashi's face was unreadable. "I can't leave you with only one guard." Those grey sky eyes were trying to level her, but she ignored it, even as goose bumps spread over her skin. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""You can send Guy in your place, if you feel the need. But I'm within company walls. No one is getting in here to hurt me." She gave him her own leveling look. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"He said nothing, only whipped out his phone as he turned to leave. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Don't worry, Kakashi!" Naruto called out from where he was seated just off of the photo set. His eyes crinkled up with amusement. "Nothing will get past Sasuke and me!" Sasuke crossed his arms and scowled. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Since Sakura had arrived after getting done up, Naruto had been bothering her about the engagement non-stop, and Sasuke had been sulking. He was always sulking, but Sakura almost swore he was worse than usual. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"A few years ago, you couldn't have paid Sakura money to tell Naruto a secret as big as her engagement to Kakashi, but he'd grown up a lot since they'd been kids fighting for a dream together. He was…settled in himself. Controlled, or at least, more controlled than he had been. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura just needed an opportunity to tell the boys without so many other people around. As it was, techs, stylists, directors, and photographers were running about around them. FireDrive was shooting photos for the upcoming edition of StarGazer, a popular music magazine. The shots were promos for the next album, though it wouldn't drop until after the New Year, when Sakura was done filming for Night High and had had a little time to rest over the holidays. After it dropped, it was off for tour time./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura didn't get a chance to try to let the boys in on the secret before a director waved them onto the set. Her boys were dressed in equally light colors for this set of photos, though Naruto's white button down was unbuttoned, his toned abdomen on display, as well as the spiraling tattoo around the center of his belly. Sasuke's white pants had been shredded, and his usual dark headband had been swapped for one of such light blue it neared colorlessness. Oh, the fangirls would have heart attacks. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"It was the little details that were important for these photos, though. The spot of lipstick at the corner of Sakura's mouth that was just a little too red, the dark flashes of the tattoos, the black lines that looked like they were trying to climb Sasuke's throat from his necklace, the dark hems of Naruto's jeans. They'd all been done up to look like innocence with rot leaking into them, in extremely subtle ways. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"It was going to be their presence and posing in the photos that really brought it together in the end. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Crew had moved a black chaise into the backdrop, petals the color of drops of blood rained down onto it. Sakura was sent up first. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She assumed a position on her back on the chaise, one arm thrown up over the top of her head. The velvet of the cushion under her rubbed softly against her skin where it was bare. At a command from the photographer, who began to circle her like a helicopter, she arched her back dramatically, and made her eyes huge. Like she was about to be devoured. Or like she already was. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Then she flipped over onto her stomach, reaching a hand out in front of her, imploring for the person behind the camera to come join her. The bright lights above her were making her feel hot, but the photographer continued calling out encouragement and directions. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Here, Sakura!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Now, fear, I want to see the fear!" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Sleep!" She closed her eyes, doing her best to look angelic as a crew member began to drop red and black petals onto her skin from above, each contact like a butterfly kiss on her skin. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Knee bent!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She obliged every time, until she was finally released for a brief break, while Naruto and Sasuke took their individual shots, posing with similar facial expressions. Sakura sipped a bottle of water, letting the cool liquid fill her as she watched them. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Up next, they did group photos. For one of them the three of them lay down on a patch of fake grass, in a circle with their heads together. These group photos were meant to show each of them becoming progressively more corrupted. Their facial expressions, one at a time, conceding to darkness. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"For another set the three of them were positioned around a pool table, like they were being over taken by the sin of gambling. Empty bottles began to appear around them, the suggestion of bad habits. They changed outfits repeatedly, each one with more dark motifs than the last./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura was swept up in the high of creating, as she always was. Music was her preferred art, but all other avenues called to her, always. Becoming something else for that art, she poured herself into it, every time. Hours went by, with all three of them putting their best into the performance. They had short breaks periodically, where they could sit and sip water, and discuss the photos with the photographers and directors. They took an hour for dinner and then reconvened. All the while Sakura failed to find a moment to share her secret (part of it anyway) with her band. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura narrowed her eyes at one of her first photos, from where she sat in one of the high chairs by Director Iruka, displeased. "We're redoing this set." She pointed at the screen and the stream of photos where her back was arched. She didn't know just what it was that she didn't like, but something was missing from her expression. Weird. She was presently wearing a black stained dress with long sleeves that draped dramatically down, and her makeup had changed to darker, sultry eyes, with two black lines that cut across the center of her face./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"The photographer looked ready to burst a blood vessel. "Miss Haruno, it is 9pm. Surely there is nothing so grievously wrong with-"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura gave him an icy look. She'd made him retake several photos, in fact, adjusting some things as they occurred to her. "Director Iruka, I'm going to go change back into that set. Hopefully, the chaise will be back by the time I return," There was no 'hopefully' about it, that sentence was a threat. She hopped off her seat, and made for the changing area of the large, echoing room. The photo studio was an entire floor of Senju, usually full of people, but at this hour the numbers had dwindled to only those actively working on FireDrive's shoot. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She could hear the photographer having a fit behind her. She did not care. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura, noticing a distinct lack of people around the screen dividers for changing, motioned for Naruto and Sasuke, who had finished and were getting ready to call it for the night. They made their way over, and when they stopped on the opposite side of the divider from her, she reached around and yanked them behind with her. Modesty was not something she was concerned with. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Sakura, I don't know if Hinata would like this," Naruto said nervously, and pointedly looked up at the ceiling as Sakura began to strip, back to them. Sasuke couldn't be bothered, he just stood and looked on without interest./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Naruto, I love how much you respect your girlfriend. You just keep looking up. But now seemed like a good time to emtell /emyou." Her voice was heavy with implication. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Naruto's head whip back to look at her. He caught himself and resolutely returned his gaze to the ceiling. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""First, I want a Drive promise of secrecy." She heard the boys inhale sharply as she began to tug the white skirt back up over her hips. When they'd fallen together into making music, almost a decade ago, they'd used Drive promises for the utmost of important things. Things that no matter what happened between them, they would not break the promise, or the secrecy. None of them had ever broken one, even when tempers boiled between them. They were a family, first and foremost, over all else. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She had not asked for a promise like this since she'd moved into her house and disclosed the address. And they would never share that information. She knew Naruto was not the blabbermouth he had once been, but asking this made her feel better. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""We promise." They said in unison. Sakura finished pulling her crop top on and then met their extended fists, grabbing Sasuke's wrist. Sasuke grabbed Naruto, and Naruto grabbed her, creating a circle. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Drive." They all said again. Sakura met each man's eyes, Naruto's ocean deep and Sasuke's as dark as the feather of a raven. It was silly and childish, this tradition of theirs, but none of them laughed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Good." Sakura let go and smiled at them. She wrapped her arms around their shoulders and pulled their heads close to hers. "Here's what's up, my boys. I am marrying," She cast a surreptitious glance around, checking for silhouettes behind the screen. "Kakashi." Even Sasuke couldn't hide his surprise, and she grinned at their reactions. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Oh yeah, keeping his identity a secret for a while was going to cause all kinds of delicious uproar in the public when they found out./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""You- he-" Naruto sputtered. His face was turning red, while Sasuke's brow furrowed and his mouth tugged down. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""We haven't been broken up that long," Sasuke muttered. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Oh, my dear Sasuke, time doesn't matter to the heart." Sakura leaned her head toward him and bumped his chin with the top of her skull. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Clearly," He scowled. She returned his scowl, but it quickly melted into a grin./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Naruto finally strung his thoughts into coherency. "He's so much older than you! But, I mean, he's totally hot. And you spend so much time together, so I guess age doesn't really matter."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura laughed. "No, age doesn't really matter. As long as both parties are legal," she added seriously. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She stepped from between them and turned back to pinch both of them on their cheeks. "Watch me bloom." She winked at them, saying something she used to tell them in challenge. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"With that, she strode from behind the screen, all dressed again, and made for the makeup chair, where the artist was waiting with a cup of coffee, sipping it for strength to deal with the diva coming towards her. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura didn't know what possessed her to do it, but she smiled at the makeup artist and apologized. "I know it's late. I just want it to be the best work we can do." Her jade eyes glowed up at the other woman. The artist blushed and stumbled a bit. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Of course! Let's get it done!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Just as Sakura was laying down on the chaise to try those photos again, Kakashi appeared. He stood just to the side, in her direct line of sight. Seeing him, she decided she was going to get these perfect so that she could be done for the night. Well, almost done. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"The photographer, tense with irritation, began his ministrations. His voice was much less nice this time. Sakura withheld the desire to throw his camera./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She arched her back, tossed an arm over her head, and widened her eyes. She kept Kakashi in her sight as she sighed and stretched and moved and pouted. The poses and facial expressions felt better this time, more relaxed, dreamier. She bent her knees on the chaise, adding to the image. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Kakashi looked away from her, the tips of his ears ever so slightly pink./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"And Sakura smiled outright, despite knowing that wasn't what she was meant to do. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Finally, she waved off the grumpy photographer and rose to leave. Her guards, now Guy, Asuma, and Kakashi, fell in behind her, Genma having been relieved hours ago. She was too tired to change, so she just led them to the elevator bay. She shot off a tweet before they stepped on, and she slapped the button for the second floor. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Not done?" Asuma asked from behind her. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She gave him a feral smile through the reflection of the mirrored doors. "One more thing. You boys go down, I just need Kakashi for something real quick." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Kakashi exchanged apprehensive looks with the other men. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Ah, the endless work ethic of youth!" Guy beamed at her. "You go right ahead, Miss Haruno."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"When the doors slid open, she walked on, head held high, knowing full well Kakashi would be right behind her. The hem of her skirt tapped the backs of her thighs as she walked, just under her ass. She took him to an empty executive lounge with windows facing the street below, the lights off. She glanced quickly outside and nodded to herself. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Kakashi stood in the center of the room, watching her in the near dark, as she grabbed a bag from under a couch that was suspiciously close to the floor to ceiling windows./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Come here," She ordered him. He obeyed, unsurprisingly. "Sit." She pointed to the center of the couch, and he sat in front of her. He was now eye level with her, the street lights outside illuminating his features. She produced a beanie from within the bag, and tugged it over his hair, paying close attention to tucking all of his distinct, silver strands under it. Then she took each of his hands and tugged his gloves off, dropping them on the floor. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Ready?" He gave her a confused look, but she didn't wait, as she heard the sound of vehicles pulling up below them, doors sliding open. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She straddled him, her knees on either side of his legs. He watched her intently, and she resisted the pull to get sucked into those gunmetal eyes, as she had yesterday morning while training. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She took his hands and put them on the backs of her thighs, not too high and not too low, and then placed her own hands on either of his shoulders. Looking down at him, she smiled. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Let's give them a real show, shall we?" He blinked. His eyes crinkled slowly as he understood, as he heard the commotion of the paparazzi outside./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThis had been strategically set up by Sakura. They were perfectly visible from the ground, but at this angle Kakashi's face was entirely hidden by Sakura's body. Before getting on the elevator upstairs, the tweet she'd sent had been from her own fake fan page 'Sakura Sightings', telling the press she had been seen sneaking by second floor windows with her lover. The twitter account had been Shikamaru's idea, of course, years ago. That way she could control things before they got out. And because it sent out a non-suspicious number of accurate sightings, the account was followed by several big news crews./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"'The best rumors about you are the ones you start yourself.' He'd told her with a wink. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura leaned her face down towards Kakashi, until their foreheads were nearly pressed together. Her heart began to beat faster as he stared right into her, unflinching. His hands were hot on the backs of her thighs, and she could feel the same heat from the outside of his own thighs. She could feel his fingers playing with the garter still on her leg./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She had a sudden vision of herself straightening her legs so that her hips were equal height with Kakashi's face, lifting her skirt up, and of Kakashi pulling his mask down to lean forward and-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She mentally ripped the image to pieces. When had she become so…so… She didn't know what to call it. Her first thought was 'slutty' but that wasn't right. Horny, maybe?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"They continued to stare at one another in silence for a few more seconds, while Sakura struggled to remain calm. She blinked. His eyes traced the heart rhinestones around her eyes that the makeup artist had painstakingly reapplied./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Do you think this is good enough? Should we maybe move, or-" She didn't get to finish the sentence. Kakashi reached up with one hand, hooked a finger around the top of his mask, and pulled. Sakura didn't get the chance to see his face, because his mouth was suddenly on hers. Her eyes closed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Stars exploded in Sakura at the feeling of his lips on hers. They were soft and questioning. Tentative. His mouth was full and plush. The hand that had removed the mask found its way into her hair, while the other one remained on her thigh, his fingers digging in a little harder around the garter./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Heat pooled between her legs as he deepened the kiss. Oh so sweetly his tongue caressed her lips, a gentle request. She parted them, and he swept gently in. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"When she met his tongue with her own, he seemed encouraged, and began to kiss her harder, more devouring, in long, thorough strokes. She sank down onto his lap, completely forgetting about behaving as a block from the cameras. He bit her bottom lip – his teeth were so sharp - and she made a small, quiet noise into his mouth. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"He seemed to like that, a lot. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"He took his hand from her hair, and instead gripped her chin. He tilted her head to one side and began to leave a trail of kisses and bites from her mouth to her jaw, and then her neck. His sharp canines scraped her skin in a way that made her weak./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"No one-emno one/em-had ever kissed her, touched her, like this. With hunger and empossession/em. This was nothing like kissing Omoi for filming. What the hell had she been doing all this time, when he'd been right next to her for years? /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Everywhere his mouth went left scorch marks. She gripped his shoulders tighter. Her panties began to dampen, and she sat fully onto his lap, her knees completely bent. The hand that had been on the back of her thigh slid up to hold onto the end of her skirt. The feel of him between her legs was an entirely new kind of ache. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Very slowly, Kakashi worked his way back to her mouth, and reclaimed it, this time with more force. This was a taking and a claiming and she thought hazily that he could take whatever he wanted. She scraped her nails against his scalp in encouragement. Kakashi took his time thoroughly working her mouth over, the hand at her skirt slowly trailing fingers over her skin. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"When she thought she would burst, or start stripping, he slowed, his kisses becoming lighter, less demanding. He kissed the tip of her nose, then pulled his mask back into place. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura fought to calm her body and opened her eyes. Her body buzzed everywhere he had touched her. She felt bereft without his mouth on her. It was too short. It was too long. It was too much. It wasn't enough. She needed more. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Kakashi's face resumed its usual impassive look. Slowly, painfully aware of the wetness between her legs, Sakura stood up on unsteady legs. Her senses returning to her, she remained in front of Kakashi as he swung over the back of the couch and out of sight of the cameras. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"What the hell had just happened? /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Her skin was tingling all over, little electric zaps running up and down her body. She blinked at Kakashi in a daze and followed after him as he walked out into the hall without a word. Why wasn't he saying anything? Why wasn't she saying anything? But she couldn't even begin to put words together. She felt like she'd done a system reset, like she was blinking her eyes open in a new world./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"They went out the back of the building, where Tenzo was waiting with her car, Guy and Asuma in another by the curb. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"When it was just the two of them in the back seat, all Kakashi said, very quietly, was "You do look angelic."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Angelic, Sakura-chan," Naruto grinned at her, his blue eyes wide. She didn't fail to notice the look Genma and Kakashi shared from where they leaned against a wall nearby./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"One half of her mouth quirked up. "The best kind of disguise." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""I think that's called a lie," she heard Genma murmur to Kakashi. She whipped around, her skirt floating about her thighs, and narrowed her verdant eyes at them. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Kakashi-sen-," Sakura caught herself before she called him sensei. "You're dismissed. I won't need you again until 10." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"The toothpick in Genma's mouth fell to the floor in his shock. "For laughing?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Kakashi's face was unreadable. "I can't leave you with only one guard." Those grey sky eyes were trying to level her, but she ignored it, even as goose bumps spread over her skin. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""You can send Guy in your place, if you feel the need. But I'm within company walls. No one is getting in here to hurt me." She gave him her own leveling look. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"He said nothing, only whipped out his phone as he turned to leave. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Don't worry, Kakashi!" Naruto called out from where he was seated just off of the photo set. His eyes crinkled up with amusement. "Nothing will get past Sasuke and me!" Sasuke crossed his arms and scowled. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Since Sakura had arrived after getting done up, Naruto had been bothering her about the engagement non-stop, and Sasuke had been sulking. He was always sulking, but Sakura almost swore he was worse than usual. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"A few years ago, you couldn't have paid Sakura money to tell Naruto a secret as big as her engagement to Kakashi, but he'd grown up a lot since they'd been kids fighting for a dream together. He was…settled in himself. Controlled, or at least, more controlled than he had been. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura just needed an opportunity to tell the boys without so many other people around. As it was, techs, stylists, directors, and photographers were running about around them. FireDrive was shooting photos for the upcoming edition of StarGazer, a popular music magazine. The shots were promos for the next album, though it wouldn't drop until after the New Year, when Sakura was done filming for Night High and had had a little time to rest over the holidays. After it dropped, it was off for tour time./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura didn't get a chance to try to let the boys in on the secret before a director waved them onto the set. Her boys were dressed in equally light colors for this set of photos, though Naruto's white button down was unbuttoned, his toned abdomen on display, as well as the spiraling tattoo around the center of his belly. Sasuke's white pants had been shredded, and his usual dark headband had been swapped for one of such light blue it neared colorlessness. Oh, the fangirls would have heart attacks. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"It was the little details that were important for these photos, though. The spot of lipstick at the corner of Sakura's mouth that was just a little too red, the dark flashes of the tattoos, the black lines that looked like they were trying to climb Sasuke's throat from his necklace, the dark hems of Naruto's jeans. They'd all been done up to look like innocence with rot leaking into them, in extremely subtle ways. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"It was going to be their presence and posing in the photos that really brought it together in the end. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Crew had moved a black chaise into the backdrop, petals the color of drops of blood rained down onto it. Sakura was sent up first. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She assumed a position on her back on the chaise, one arm thrown up over the top of her head. The velvet of the cushion under her rubbed softly against her skin where it was bare. At a command from the photographer, who began to circle her like a helicopter, she arched her back dramatically, and made her eyes huge. Like she was about to be devoured. Or like she already was. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Then she flipped over onto her stomach, reaching a hand out in front of her, imploring for the person behind the camera to come join her. The bright lights above her were making her feel hot, but the photographer continued calling out encouragement and directions. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Here, Sakura!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Now, fear, I want to see the fear!" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Sleep!" She closed her eyes, doing her best to look angelic as a crew member began to drop red and black petals onto her skin from above, each contact like a butterfly kiss on her skin. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Knee bent!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She obliged every time, until she was finally released for a brief break, while Naruto and Sasuke took their individual shots, posing with similar facial expressions. Sakura sipped a bottle of water, letting the cool liquid fill her as she watched them. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Up next, they did group photos. For one of them the three of them lay down on a patch of fake grass, in a circle with their heads together. These group photos were meant to show each of them becoming progressively more corrupted. Their facial expressions, one at a time, conceding to darkness. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"For another set the three of them were positioned around a pool table, like they were being over taken by the sin of gambling. Empty bottles began to appear around them, the suggestion of bad habits. They changed outfits repeatedly, each one with more dark motifs than the last./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura was swept up in the high of creating, as she always was. Music was her preferred art, but all other avenues called to her, always. Becoming something else for that art, she poured herself into it, every time. Hours went by, with all three of them putting their best into the performance. They had short breaks periodically, where they could sit and sip water, and discuss the photos with the photographers and directors. They took an hour for dinner and then reconvened. All the while Sakura failed to find a moment to share her secret (part of it anyway) with her band. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura narrowed her eyes at one of her first photos, from where she sat in one of the high chairs by Director Iruka, displeased. "We're redoing this set." She pointed at the screen and the stream of photos where her back was arched. She didn't know just what it was that she didn't like, but something was missing from her expression. Weird. She was presently wearing a black stained dress with long sleeves that draped dramatically down, and her makeup had changed to darker, sultry eyes, with two black lines that cut across the center of her face./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"The photographer looked ready to burst a blood vessel. "Miss Haruno, it is 9pm. Surely there is nothing so grievously wrong with-"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura gave him an icy look. She'd made him retake several photos, in fact, adjusting some things as they occurred to her. "Director Iruka, I'm going to go change back into that set. Hopefully, the chaise will be back by the time I return," There was no 'hopefully' about it, that sentence was a threat. She hopped off her seat, and made for the changing area of the large, echoing room. The photo studio was an entire floor of Senju, usually full of people, but at this hour the numbers had dwindled to only those actively working on FireDrive's shoot. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She could hear the photographer having a fit behind her. She did not care. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura, noticing a distinct lack of people around the screen dividers for changing, motioned for Naruto and Sasuke, who had finished and were getting ready to call it for the night. They made their way over, and when they stopped on the opposite side of the divider from her, she reached around and yanked them behind with her. Modesty was not something she was concerned with. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Sakura, I don't know if Hinata would like this," Naruto said nervously, and pointedly looked up at the ceiling as Sakura began to strip, back to them. Sasuke couldn't be bothered, he just stood and looked on without interest./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Naruto, I love how much you respect your girlfriend. You just keep looking up. But now seemed like a good time to emtell /emyou." Her voice was heavy with implication. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Naruto's head whip back to look at her. He caught himself and resolutely returned his gaze to the ceiling. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""First, I want a Drive promise of secrecy." She heard the boys inhale sharply as she began to tug the white skirt back up over her hips. When they'd fallen together into making music, almost a decade ago, they'd used Drive promises for the utmost of important things. Things that no matter what happened between them, they would not break the promise, or the secrecy. None of them had ever broken one, even when tempers boiled between them. They were a family, first and foremost, over all else. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She had not asked for a promise like this since she'd moved into her house and disclosed the address. And they would never share that information. She knew Naruto was not the blabbermouth he had once been, but asking this made her feel better. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""We promise." They said in unison. Sakura finished pulling her crop top on and then met their extended fists, grabbing Sasuke's wrist. Sasuke grabbed Naruto, and Naruto grabbed her, creating a circle. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Drive." They all said again. Sakura met each man's eyes, Naruto's ocean deep and Sasuke's as dark as the feather of a raven. It was silly and childish, this tradition of theirs, but none of them laughed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Good." Sakura let go and smiled at them. She wrapped her arms around their shoulders and pulled their heads close to hers. "Here's what's up, my boys. I am marrying," She cast a surreptitious glance around, checking for silhouettes behind the screen. "Kakashi." Even Sasuke couldn't hide his surprise, and she grinned at their reactions. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Oh yeah, keeping his identity a secret for a while was going to cause all kinds of delicious uproar in the public when they found out./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""You- he-" Naruto sputtered. His face was turning red, while Sasuke's brow furrowed and his mouth tugged down. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""We haven't been broken up that long," Sasuke muttered. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Oh, my dear Sasuke, time doesn't matter to the heart." Sakura leaned her head toward him and bumped his chin with the top of her skull. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Clearly," He scowled. She returned his scowl, but it quickly melted into a grin./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Naruto finally strung his thoughts into coherency. "He's so much older than you! But, I mean, he's totally hot. And you spend so much time together, so I guess age doesn't really matter."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura laughed. "No, age doesn't really matter. As long as both parties are legal," she added seriously. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She stepped from between them and turned back to pinch both of them on their cheeks. "Watch me bloom." She winked at them, saying something she used to tell them in challenge. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"With that, she strode from behind the screen, all dressed again, and made for the makeup chair, where the artist was waiting with a cup of coffee, sipping it for strength to deal with the diva coming towards her. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura didn't know what possessed her to do it, but she smiled at the makeup artist and apologized. "I know it's late. I just want it to be the best work we can do." Her jade eyes glowed up at the other woman. The artist blushed and stumbled a bit. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Of course! Let's get it done!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Just as Sakura was laying down on the chaise to try those photos again, Kakashi appeared. He stood just to the side, in her direct line of sight. Seeing him, she decided she was going to get these perfect so that she could be done for the night. Well, almost done. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"The photographer, tense with irritation, began his ministrations. His voice was much less nice this time. Sakura withheld the desire to throw his camera./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She arched her back, tossed an arm over her head, and widened her eyes. She kept Kakashi in her sight as she sighed and stretched and moved and pouted. The poses and facial expressions felt better this time, more relaxed, dreamier. She bent her knees on the chaise, adding to the image. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Kakashi looked away from her, the tips of his ears ever so slightly pink./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"And Sakura smiled outright, despite knowing that wasn't what she was meant to do. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Finally, she waved off the grumpy photographer and rose to leave. Her guards, now Guy, Asuma, and Kakashi, fell in behind her, Genma having been relieved hours ago. She was too tired to change, so she just led them to the elevator bay. She shot off a tweet before they stepped on, and she slapped the button for the second floor. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Not done?" Asuma asked from behind her. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She gave him a feral smile through the reflection of the mirrored doors. "One more thing. You boys go down, I just need Kakashi for something real quick." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Kakashi exchanged apprehensive looks with the other men. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Ah, the endless work ethic of youth!" Guy beamed at her. "You go right ahead, Miss Haruno."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"When the doors slid open, she walked on, head held high, knowing full well Kakashi would be right behind her. The hem of her skirt tapped the backs of her thighs as she walked, just under her ass. She took him to an empty executive lounge with windows facing the street below, the lights off. She glanced quickly outside and nodded to herself. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Kakashi stood in the center of the room, watching her in the near dark, as she grabbed a bag from under a couch that was suspiciously close to the floor to ceiling windows./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Come here," She ordered him. He obeyed, unsurprisingly. "Sit." She pointed to the center of the couch, and he sat in front of her. He was now eye level with her, the street lights outside illuminating his features. She produced a beanie from within the bag, and tugged it over his hair, paying close attention to tucking all of his distinct, silver strands under it. Then she took each of his hands and tugged his gloves off, dropping them on the floor. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Ready?" He gave her a confused look, but she didn't wait, as she heard the sound of vehicles pulling up below them, doors sliding open. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She straddled him, her knees on either side of his legs. He watched her intently, and she resisted the pull to get sucked into those gunmetal eyes, as she had yesterday morning while training. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She took his hands and put them on the backs of her thighs, not too high and not too low, and then placed her own hands on either of his shoulders. Looking down at him, she smiled. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Let's give them a real show, shall we?" He blinked. His eyes crinkled slowly as he understood, as he heard the commotion of the paparazzi outside./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThis had been strategically set up by Sakura. They were perfectly visible from the ground, but at this angle Kakashi's face was entirely hidden by Sakura's body. Before getting on the elevator upstairs, the tweet she'd sent had been from her own fake fan page 'Sakura Sightings', telling the press she had been seen sneaking by second floor windows with her lover. The twitter account had been Shikamaru's idea, of course, years ago. That way she could control things before they got out. And because it sent out a non-suspicious number of accurate sightings, the account was followed by several big news crews./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"'The best rumors about you are the ones you start yourself.' He'd told her with a wink. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura leaned her face down towards Kakashi, until their foreheads were nearly pressed together. Her heart began to beat faster as he stared right into her, unflinching. His hands were hot on the backs of her thighs, and she could feel the same heat from the outside of his own thighs. She could feel his fingers playing with the garter still on her leg./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She had a sudden vision of herself straightening her legs so that her hips were equal height with Kakashi's face, lifting her skirt up, and of Kakashi pulling his mask down to lean forward and-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"She mentally ripped the image to pieces. When had she become so…so… She didn't know what to call it. Her first thought was 'slutty' but that wasn't right. Horny, maybe?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"They continued to stare at one another in silence for a few more seconds, while Sakura struggled to remain calm. She blinked. His eyes traced the heart rhinestones around her eyes that the makeup artist had painstakingly reapplied./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;""Do you think this is good enough? Should we maybe move, or-" She didn't get to finish the sentence. Kakashi reached up with one hand, hooked a finger around the top of his mask, and pulled. Sakura didn't get the chance to see his face, because his mouth was suddenly on hers. Her eyes closed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Stars exploded in Sakura at the feeling of his lips on hers. They were soft and questioning. Tentative. His mouth was full and plush. The hand that had removed the mask found its way into her hair, while the other one remained on her thigh, his fingers digging in a little harder around the garter./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Heat pooled between her legs as he deepened the kiss. Oh so sweetly his tongue caressed her lips, a gentle request. She parted them, and he swept gently in. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"When she met his tongue with her own, he seemed encouraged, and began to kiss her harder, more devouring, in long, thorough strokes. She sank down onto his lap, completely forgetting about behaving as a block from the cameras. He bit her bottom lip – his teeth were so sharp - and she made a small, quiet noise into his mouth. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"He seemed to like that, a lot. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"He took his hand from her hair, and instead gripped her chin. He tilted her head to one side and began to leave a trail of kisses and bites from her mouth to her jaw, and then her neck. His sharp canines scraped her skin in a way that made her weak./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"No one-emno one/em-had ever kissed her, touched her, like this. With hunger and empossession/em. This was nothing like kissing Omoi for filming. What the hell had she been doing all this time, when he'd been right next to her for years? /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Everywhere his mouth went left scorch marks. She gripped his shoulders tighter. Her panties began to dampen, and she sat fully onto his lap, her knees completely bent. The hand that had been on the back of her thigh slid up to hold onto the end of her skirt. The feel of him between her legs was an entirely new kind of ache. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Very slowly, Kakashi worked his way back to her mouth, and reclaimed it, this time with more force. This was a taking and a claiming and she thought hazily that he could take whatever he wanted. She scraped her nails against his scalp in encouragement. Kakashi took his time thoroughly working her mouth over, the hand at her skirt slowly trailing fingers over her skin. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"When she thought she would burst, or start stripping, he slowed, his kisses becoming lighter, less demanding. He kissed the tip of her nose, then pulled his mask back into place. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Sakura fought to calm her body and opened her eyes. Her body buzzed everywhere he had touched her. She felt bereft without his mouth on her. It was too short. It was too long. It was too much. It wasn't enough. She needed more. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Kakashi's face resumed its usual impassive look. Slowly, painfully aware of the wetness between her legs, Sakura stood up on unsteady legs. Her senses returning to her, she remained in front of Kakashi as he swung over the back of the couch and out of sight of the cameras. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"What the hell had just happened? /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"Her skin was tingling all over, little electric zaps running up and down her body. She blinked at Kakashi in a daze and followed after him as he walked out into the hall without a word. Why wasn't he saying anything? Why wasn't she saying anything? But she couldn't even begin to put words together. She felt like she'd done a system reset, like she was blinking her eyes open in a new world./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"They went out the back of the building, where Tenzo was waiting with her car, Guy and Asuma in another by the curb. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"When it was just the two of them in the back seat, all Kakashi said, very quietly, was "You do look angelic."/span/p