Chapter Four

Dancing on edge

Sakura led Kakashi to her apartment and soon as they shut the door, she started kissing him. Her hands ran through his hair messing it up, she pressed breasts up against his chest. Kakashi's hands were in the air around her waist, not grasping her. "Sakura." He said against her mouth, and she ignored him. Her free hand snaked up his shirt feeling his abs.

He pulled her away by her shoulders and she looked at him confused. "You just had a lot happen. As much as I want this and trust me when I say I do, I don't think it's the right time. Do you want to talk about it?"

She looked saddened by the rejection. "It hasn't hit me she's gone." She paused flopping herself on the couch. "And I found out I was adopted." She explained hugging a decorative flower pillow with laces around the edges to her chest. He sat next to her with a shocked expression, "Adopted?" She nodded. "My mother told me my real one died during birth and my father is an Uchiha." She left out the rest for reasons she didn't want to dive into.

Kakashi looked dazed and took a moment to process what she said. "I see. How do you feel about it?" He asked. She frowned dug her face into the pillow more, "Confused." Was the only word she could conjure up. Kakashi put an arm around her shoulders, and she sank her head into his lap. "Understandable." After a moment of silence, she didn't respond and felt her eyelids grow heavy and eyelashes flutter, letting herself drift off to sleep, not even realizing how exhausted she was.

Kakashi ran his hand through her soft hair that smelled of coconuts while she was asleep and smoothed it out. It killed him to know she was hurting.

The next morning Sakura awoke on the couch to the smell of coffee and food. She peered out to the kitchen and saw Kakashi cooking. "You awake finally?" He smiled at her without his mask or a shirt. His sweatpants hung low exposing his 'V' yet again and by God it was such a good sight to see first thing in the morning, it made her weak in the knees.

Sakura walked next to him slowly grabbed the fresh pot of coffee he just brewed by the stove and poured it in a cup. "Thank you." She leaned in to kiss his cheek and he turned and grabbed the back of her head, capturing her lips. He pulled away after a couple of seconds running his thumb over her bottom lip and she was caught under his spell, "Go sit down, breakfast will be ready in a minute."

Sakura was summoned to the Hokage's office for a checkup and Tsunade told Sakura to take a vacation from the hospital and work only part time when she got back from her break. Only temporarily until things got figured out or when they really needed her to work more than that.

She headed over to the training grounds after her trip to the hospital, meeting Itachi to work on her prowess. Her eyes landed on the man in a low ponytail waiting. He lifted a finger motioning her to follow him. "Where are we going?" she asked, trailing behind him. "Away from the village so we don't wreck anything." Sakura raised a brow at that.

"Were going to be working on your summoning." He explained. "My…summoning?" She asked and he nodded in reply. "The rinnegan has its very own summoning the Uchiha scrolls mention. Were going to test that out." He finished. Sakura rubbed her arm nervously. "Uh..are you sure that's a good idea?" she questioned hesitantly. He just stared at her blankly for a moment. She threw her hands up in defeat. "Fine!" She agreed.

"Do you have any idea how this works?" She asked him. He shook his head. "Not exactly." He told her.

Sakura focused and pressed her hand to the ground feeling the chakra from her eyes in her fingertips, "Summoning jutsu!" She yelled out. A giant brown fuzzy bear appeared in front of her. It wasn't as angry or as destructive as she thought it would be.

The bear looked down at her puzzled and leaned closer for a better look at her. "It's been ages since I've seen that eye." the brown bear said. "Are you nice?" Sakura inquired leaning back. Seeing its size and the bear let out a belly laugh. "Depends on the day kitten." The bear winked.

Itachi slapped his hand to his face. 'No way is this the summoning.' He thought to himself.

Sakura rubbed its fur on his foot since it was the only thing she could reach. "So soft!" She exclaimed with a childlike smile. The bear looked proud and puffed its chest out, "I'm glad you noticed. The upkeep isn't easy." Sakura was in awe. "What's your name?" she asked, looking up. "Kuma." He paused. "Strange human. Your different than the rest, aren't you?"

Sakura shrugged at that. "It's nice to meet you! So, you're a bear spirit. You have the eyes as well..." She noticed. "I was a spirit animal of Hagoromo Otsutsuki, I'm the leader of the bear clan summons. We come from a different realm." He informed her. "Wow! That's so cool!" She smiled. "You can summon me if you please…. what's your name human?" He asked. Sakura jumped at that. "Oh! How rude of me Kuma. My names Sakura Haruno!" She introduced herself. "You may summon me at will Sakura. I like you."

Sakura did the summoning again after Kuma returned to his realm. "Let's hope this one is more…. normal." Itachi said with his head on his forehead feeling a headache come on and a scowl on his face. "Summoning Jutsu!" Sakura called out again pressing her palm to the ground. The next one was a black and white tiger with ice blue eyes. She didn't look as friendly as the last one and she was huge, but still smaller than the bear. "How dare you summon me girl?!" She hissed and pawed at Sakura and Itachi causing them to jump out of the way.

"I'm sorry!" Sakura squeaked out. She could tell the Tiger was a female. "Let me introduce myself." She told the cat. The tiger sat down waiting for her to speak with its tail slithering around itself narrowing her eyes. "I'm Sakura Haruno! What's your name?" She yelled out. The Tiger gave her a peculiar look. "Tora. Do you happen to have any fish?" She purred, licking her paw.

Sakura shook her head no and the cat made an unpleasant sound. "You called me out of my realm and don't even have any tuna?" she asked appalled. "I'm…sorry?" Sakura apologized. "Hmp." The cat stuck her nose up at the apology and strutted around them in circles. "I haven't seen a human in a long time. Most are greedy and hateful." She explained.

After talking more with the Tiger, she agreed to be one of Sakura's summons. "Very well…Sakura. Only when it's dire. No more social calls. Do I make myself clear?" Tora told her and Sakura grinned and agreed.

After the cat was gone, Itachi looked over to Sakura, "That wasn't what I was expecting." He said bewildered.

Sakura was feeling a little weak after the training session and her stomach started grumbling. Her face turned red, and she glanced over to the Uchiha with wobbly legs. He chuckled in response and bent down in front of her. "Hop on. We will go get you some food." He told her. Sakura jumped on his back, wrapped her arms around his neck and he grabbed her legs to support her.

While on his back Sakura gazed down at him in wonder, "Why are you so nice to me?" Sakura asked him. It took a second for him to respond and she wasn't even sure if he would. "Because I care." He kept it short and sweet. That came as a surprise to her. 'He cares? Who would have thought the big bad Itachi Uchiha cared about someone other than Sasuke, the village, or his clan?' Sakura thought.

After that she felt stupid for thinking that. He didn't show it, was intimidating as hell, but he was a good person. So, it shouldn't have been shocking. Sakura hummed softly not responding and laid her head against him.

Itachi made it back to the village with her on his back, when they arrived at the training grounds, he set her down carefully. "Can you walk?" He asked. "We will find out." She told him with a smile. He'd never get enough of looking at her or her smile.

They stopped at the steakhouse and ordered food to see Sasuke and Naruto were already there. "Oh, you two together again huh?" Sasuke asked, approaching his brother with interest and Itachi put a hand in his face and pushed him away. "So nosey little brother." He said to Sasuke and Sakura giggled while Sasuke had a slight pout on his face.

During dinner Sakura and Itachi both ate their food and after a while he spoke, "Make sure you get proper rest. That power is new and can be very draining." He explained. "I'll try. Thank you for training me. Can I ask why you wanted to?" She questioned. He remained silent for a moment across the table. "Theres got to be a reason I wanted to?" He answered her question with another question with a raised brow and his eyes shut. Sakura sipped her tea and shrugged. "I suppose not."

The next day, Sakura was informed of the Hidden Leafs yearly ball tomorrow night despite all the madness that occurred recently. It was an event where everybody dressed up and went to a fancy party. Sakura never paid any mind to that before because she was always working in the hospital.

On her way out of the steakhouse she had made plans with Naruto, Sasuke, Hinata, Shikamaru, Neji, Ten-Ten, Rock lee, Kiba, and Choji for a get together just like when they were kids. She wasn't sure what they had in mind or were doing, but she agreed to attend.

Sakura brushed her hair and threw on a white sundress with matching flip flops on and a sunhat. She didn't plan on training today. She headed out the front door of her apartment. Before meeting everybody she stopped in front of a grave.

"I wish you were here." Sakura forced a smile. It was Ino's headstone staring back at her. "It doesn't feel right going and you're not there." She balled her fists up and tears started to fill her vision. "It doesn't seem okay to have fun when your dead." Her voice wavered. Sakura bent down and placed her favorite flowers nicely along her grave replacing the dwindling ones. She wiped her eyes and stood up. "I love you Ino-pig. I hope your watching over me." Sakura finished, walking off slowly to meet her friends.

Sakura arrived at the spot they all agreed to be. It wasn't anything special planned, just to hangout and then go get some food afterwards. Sakura was the last to arrive. She noticed Hinata staring at Naruto from afar with a blush, Kiba and him bickering about who's going to become Hokage, Sasuke and Neji glaring at each other for some reason and Rock Lee trying to spar with them both. Ten-Ten and Choji were off to the side just chuckling.

Sakura waved, "Sorry I'm late guys." She faked a smile scratching the back of her head. They all stopped and looked at her. "SAKURA!" Naruto screeched and started running to her and he was met with a punch in the face. "Knock it off idiot!" Sakura growled holding a fist up. Sasuke and Neji snickered while Hinata ran to Naruto who was dazed from the hit. "Your so mean Sakura." The blonde-haired boy groaned rubbing his cheek.

They had spent their time catching up on everything everybody missed. Filling in their comrades about previous missions while Sakura stayed silent. She didn't want to talk about their missions, and they knew why.

That's when the thought hit her, "Where's Shikamaru?" Sakura asked looking around. "Did anybody invite him?" Choji spoke up, "He hasn't left his house since…. you know. Our team is gone. We invited him, but he didn't end up showing up." Choji explained and suddenly the mood dimmed down. "I see…" That's all Sakura could manage to say.

They all picked a place to eat at that would accommodate the big crowd they had gathered and ate with laughs and smiles. Everybody seemed to have a good time other than Sakura who remained silent and Sasuke who was always solemn.

Sasuke sat next to her and finally spoke, "Are you okay?" he asked slowly in a hushed tone without looking at her. The concern didn't feel natural coming out of his mouth. She raised her brow at that and crossed her arms. "You actually care?" She countered back sarcastically which earned an arrogant smirk from him. "Not often. Don't get used to it." He responded.

Sakura sighed resting her head in her hand. "I don't know. I feel numb." She conveyed. "Your strong Sakura. If there's anybody you could relate to….it would be my brother." He told her. Sakura bit the bottom of her lip in anxiety.

"What makes you say that?" she questioned, looking to the side at him with her hair draping down her shoulders. He shrugged. "You two have had the same things happen to you and you're both on the same power level. At least to me." He explained, taking a bite of his onigiri. She punched him in the arm playfully and smiled. "Does that mean you look up to me?" She joked and he scoffed in return with a light blush tinting his cheeks. "You wish brat."

Everybody said their goodbyes after dinner and went their separate ways. Sakura decided to stop by Shikamaru's house on her way home and knocked on the door and waited. He answered looking surprised. "Sakura…. what brings you here?" he asked sadly. Sakura smiled in return and handed him a takeout box. "I got you some food since you didn't make it today! Can I come in?"

Shikamaru couldn't refuse her with the nice gesture. He stepped out of the way and motioned for her to come in with a sigh. "What a drag…."

Sakura stepped inside and sat on the couch and Shikamaru sat in a chair across the coffee table. "Why didn't you come out today?" She decided to get straight to the point leaning forward in her seat placing her hands on her knees. "I didn't feel like it. You know why." He answered the obvious. "I do know." She paused, tucking a hair behind her ear and then continuing. "But do you think that's what they would have wanted?" she asked softly.

That made Shikamaru think for a moment. "Probably not. But I'm not ready to be social yet. I need time." Sakura nodded, "I understand. But don't lock yourself inside forever, okay?" Shikamaru shot her a serious look, "They told me you killed them both yourself." He stated. She waited for him to continue. "Did it feel good?" he asked genuinely.

Sakura was taken back by the question. "At the time, yes." she said. "What about now?" He dug deeper. "It didn't feel good after. Because I murdered those men in cold blood just like they did to Asuma and Ino. Do I regret it? Not for a moment. But it still doesn't change the blood on my hands now." She expressed. "I see… well, I am happy you did. Thank you, Sakura." He conveyed his gratitude.

Sakura said her goodbyes to Shikamaru shortly after, feeling better after their conversation that maybe one day they both would feel better having a hole in their heart where their comrades were. Sakura walked back to her apartment alone and unlocked the door and entered. She found a note on her dining room table with another flower next to it and smiled knowing who it was from. She opened the letter and began to read it.

Sorry if this comes across cheesy or something you find distasteful. But I thought I'd give it a shot.

Tomorrow is the village ball, and I was hoping we could go together officially.

You have every right to say no.

- Kakashi

Sakura giggled a bit at the apprehension in his note, and he was right. It wasn't usually her thing. But she'd never turn him down or deny him. Especially having the guts to ask and how sweetly he did it too. She tucked the note away and placed it back on the table. She added the rose to the previous one dwindling in its vase and smiled, before heading to bed.

The next day arrived hastily, and it was already 3 o clock and Sakura just started getting ready in her room for her first official date with Kakashi. She picked out a black tight-fitting dress that went a little past her knees and had a slit on the side of it. She curled her hair throwing it in an updo with her bangs out and two pieces of hair hanging by her ears framing her face.

She picked up a fluffy makeup brush and applied a pink blush to her cheeks. She kept the makeup rather light but added some red lipstick popping her lips after applying it and eyeshadow for the special occasion.

Sakura glided her silver emerald stone necklace around her neck with matching earrings and bracelet. She added a dainty silver anklet with her black heels and gave herself a final look. She didn't even recognize herself; she never had a reason to dress up much, being in combat all the time.

It was now 5 o clock and Sakura heard a knock at her door and smiled. "Coming!" She called out, careful not to trip on her own feet on the way there. She swung the door open, and her eyes met Kakashi's in a completely different manner and tone than ever before. His eyes slowly and obviously glided over her body head to toe. He had to hold back his hard on just from the sight of her. Her breasts were pushed up in the strapless dress leaving her cleavage and tight curves for all to see. And they were his.

He was wearing a black tuxedo with a matching black mask and shoes and his hair the same. He felt out of her league being placed next to her. He pulled her in gently by her waist and lowered his mouth to her ear. "God, you look absolutely ravishing tonight." He whispered huskily letting his hand slide down to her lower back. This made her blush violently, "Thank you. You know you're a handsome as hell, right?" She countered back at him in a meek whisper. He pulled back and they stared at each other with such intensity they could feel the electricity bouncing off their fingertips.

Kakashi leaned down for a kiss and she held two fingers up to his lips right before he reached hers and smiled, "My lipstick." She said softly. He pulled back and chuckled at that. "Right, can't ruin your look before getting to the party. That will have to wait for later." he declared, taking her hand in his.

They arrived at the ball with their arms looped together. Sakura looked around to see fancy decorations, white table covers with flowers in vases as center pieces, a live band playing classical music, and twinkly lights hung the ceiling with crystal chandeliers. "It's beautiful." She said in awe to Kakashi who smiled under his mask at that.

He never attended one of these either to know what to expect. But she was right, they put a lot of work into this.

He recognized the majority of everybody in the room, village elders, clan leaders, clan members, Tsuande who had to make an appearance, and Naruto and Hinata? 'Good for him.' Kakashi thought, seeing him act gracefully for once with a blushing hyuga next to him.

Kakashi reached an arm out to her and asked, "Would you liked to dance?" She blushed yet again offering him her hand and nodded, unable to find words.

They made their way out onto the dance floor where the music was nice and slow, and groups of pairs were slow dancing. Kakashi grabbed one hand and placed his other on the lower half of her back pulling her closer. Sakura gasped lightly. "Is this what you expected?" Kakashi asked. "I didn't know what to expect other than to dress fancy." Sakura said slyly.

He spun her around her and pulled her to his chest surprisingly causing her to lose her breath. He continued the slow dance and she chuckled at that. "Where did you learn that?" she asked breathily. He placed his lips by her ear and whispered, "You'd be surprised what the sharingan can learn Sakura." Sakura tightened her grip on his shoulder and rested her head against his chest. "Kakashi…" she whimpered, and he knew what about. He could smell her arousal. She felt his chest vibrate from a chuckle.

"Let me get you a glass of champagne." He told her, pulling away and walking to the drink table. While he was away

Sakura wasn't sure what to do with herself. She backed up slowly and bumped into somebody behind her. "Sorry!" She squeaked out. The man turned around and it turned out to be Itachi. His mouth hung open slightly, taking in the sight of her. "Sakura…" He was wearing an all black suit, no tie, even his undershirt was black cut into a deep v neck where his chest was showing. "You look…beautiful." He told her. She smiled in response, "Thank you. You look nice. Unusual seeing each other in these clothes huh?" She joked trying to relieve some of the tension. "Not at all. You fit perfectly." He responded back gracefully.

Just as he was about to ask her for a dance, Kakashi returned.

Kakashi handed the glass to Sakura and wrapped his arm around her waist possessively pulling her closer. "Here you go." Sakura took the glass. He looked at Itachi who seemed taken back. "Itachi, nice to see you here." He said coolly. Itachi smirked at that, "Nice to see you too Kakashi senpai." Sakura glanced back and forth at both men feeling some kind of silent showdown was happening here. "I'll leave you two to it then, pleasure making your acquaintance Sakura." He put emphasis on her name and walked off to mingle.

Sakura and Kakashi continued their night, after a few hours they made their exit and headed back to her apartment. When the door shut, she led him to her bedroom kicking off her heels as she was walking.

Once inside her room, Kakashi kissed her tenderly, running his hands all over her body feeling her silk dress. "You're so stunning." He told her again. He kissed her earlobe biting and licking it softly moving his way down her neck to her shoulder. Her hand gripped his back clenching her legs together to try and relieve some of what she was feeling. "Kakashi…" She groaned.

He removed his jacket and began unbuttoning his shirt dreadfully slow. The moonlight lit up the room, Sakura sat on the edge of her bed resting on her elbows with messier hair in anticipation, biting her lip with the look of pure want written on her face. He could see a sneak peek under her dress of the black laced panties waiting for him.

After he removed the shirt, tossing it to the floor, he went back to kissing her hungrily. His tongue swirled around hers. He leaned her back onto the bed to where they were both hanging off it and he was on top in between her legs. He could get lost in her kiss. He never wanted this to end. He wanted to make this moment as memorable as possible for her.

His fingers feathered up her legs creating goosebumps on her skin. She moaned into his mouth, and he hovered over her underwear and stroked her clit over the fabric with his fingernail teasing her. "Mmm please touch me." She whispered, cupping his cheek, begging. "You're not even out of your dress yet. Be patient." He told her which made her whimper. He bit her shoulder that was surely going to leave a mark, then began to slide her dress off to reveal the sexiest lingerie she could have ever worn for him.

His eyes ran over her with a fire building in his stomach, matching black lace and he could see through everything as she was sprawled out just waiting for the taking. "My god Sakura." He groaned seeing that. She let her hair down causing the curls to run down her back and shoulders. He continued kissing her and cupped her breast firmly kneading them. He grinded his hard on against her throbbing core earning him another delicious moan. He pushed her bra up pinching her nipples causing her back to slightly arch.

His mouth moved from her lips down to her breasts. He latched onto one swirling her nipple around with his tongue and caressed the other at the same time. Her whole body was tingling, her hands ran through his hair, and she could feel the dampness in her panties. He switched breasts giving the other nipple the same attention. She was panting heavily at this point and began feeling lightheaded.

His mouth moved from her breasts slowly pressing wet kisses down her stomach stopping at her panty line. She looked down at him waiting, not knowing how much more she could take before exploding. "I want you Kakashi." Was all she managed to say through her panting and heavy breaths. He smiled up at her removing her underwear. Sliding them off her legs revealing her slick pussy glistening. He ran his index finger from her hole up her slit. "Your so fucking wet for me Sakura." He rubbed the slickness onto her clit creating circles. Her moans grew louder and more consistent while her legs twitched. He ran his hand back down her slit entering her with his index finger listening to the noise that action made. "Oh my – yes." She moaned out. But too soon he pulled out leaving her feeling empty.

He lowered his face to her pussy and began licking her, before she could protest all she could feel was the warmth of his mouth on her clit. She leaned her head back moaning, with her eyes rolling to the back of her head. She ran her hands through his hair, and he took her clit in between his teeth and sucked on it while licking. "Fuck, that feels so good!" She cursed grabbing her breast with one hand spreading her legs further apart.

As his tongue kept working wonders on her running from her clit down her slit teasing her whole in just the right spots, she felt this pressure building. "Kakashi! So good! So good!" She kept yelling out which made his dick swell with pride and need. Precum dripped out of his tip onto his boxers. He added a finger during, and her moans turned into screams. "Yes! Yes! Yes! God I'm about to – I'm about to!" She moaned out feeling her whole entire body shake and Kakashi holding her down.

He pulled back from Sakura who was panting and dazed. "Can I taste you next?" she asked, licking her lips. He shook his head, removing his boxers. "Maybe another night. I want to finish inside of you." He lowered himself to the bed and put them both fully on the bed the right way this time.

He began to kiss her again and she could taste herself on his tongue and he positioned himself at her entrance rubbing his cock onto her clit. Sakura twitched and Kakashi let out a low chuckle. "Sensitive?" He didn't receive a response. "I'm going to go slow, okay? Let me know when It's okay to move." He entered her and she gasped at the feeling. "Ahhh." The pain was a dull feeling, but it felt good.

He sat there for a second using all his willpower not to slam into her over and over. "You can move." She told him.

He started to thrust steadily, and she wrapped her legs around his back gasping and clutching behind his neck. Kakashi sucked on a nipple remaining at the same tempo hearing her moan wildly and beginning to meet his thrusts. "Faster! Faster! Please, fuck me." He didn't need to be told twice. He slammed into her hard and fast and her moans turned into screams. "Your pussy is so tight. I don't know how long I'll last." Kakashi moaned. "Your cock is so good Kakashi." Tears spilled out of her eyes from the overwhelming pleasure and the room was filled with skin-smacking noises and their loud moans. Sweat had made their bodies slick and Kakashi captured her lips into another kiss while continuing to pump into her.

The pressure was building for them both with every thrust, they were reaching their climax. "Kaka-I'm I'm gonna." She stuttered not being able to form a proper sentence. "Me too. Fuck Sakura." He slammed back into her for the final time and they both came.

Kakashi slumped next to her, and she wrapped her naked body around his laying her head onto his sweaty chest hearing his heartbeat rapidly. "I love you." Sakura confessed first. She waited a minute growing more worried by the second not even looking back up at him. "I love you too." He said holding her tighter to him. "So much." He rested his face into her hair and kissed the top of her head.

A/N: Hope everybody enjoyed another chapter. Didn't know how long to drag out the whole Kakashi and Sakura sexual tension so here it is. And I just want to clairfy because I did not mention it in the story that Sakura is on birth control. That being said, I will see you guys next chapter!