Chapter 15

"Yes! Don't stop." she moaned.

Kakashi gritted his teeth as he thrusted faster into her. Sakura laid beneath him panting heavily. He watched as she reached up and began massaging her breasts.

"I love you, Sakura." he groaned as he screwed his eyes shut as he felt himself begin to tighten, his climax quickly approaching.

He grabbed her knees and pushed them up and apart more, gaining more access and a deeper thrust.

"I love you too, darling!" she cried out as he felt her climax around him.

"Sak-!" he started to call out, but the sound of his alarm interrupted him.

Kakashi opened his eyes and found himself laying on his back in bed. He jerked up and looked around frantically and found he was alone in his bedroom.

"Jesus…" he groaned in frustration as he turned off his alarm and reached up and rubbed his sweaty face.

Throwing his blanket to the side he groaned again when he found the obvious bulge in his sweatpants.

"She would kill me if she knew I was dreaming of us having sex!" he whispered harshly to himself as he rushed into his bathroom.

Reaching into the huge walk in shower, he turned on the cold water and quickly stripped out of his clothes and stepped under the freezing spray. Kakashi instinctively shuddered and recoiled as the water hit his heated skin.

'Why today of all days for me to have my first hot sex dream about her?' he thought as he reached with his arm out and leaned against the tiled wall so the icy water could drench him.

Kakashi and Sakura were going to spend the morning in his gym so she could teach him some basic self-defense and combat skills. It would require constant contact and he wasn't sure how long he could survive that without breaking. Not after the intensity of the dream he just had.

He made a promise to Sakura when they got together to take things slow. He had zero issue with this, but he was curious ever since. Why did she want to take this path? What happened in her past relationships that made her so reserved and nervous? He knew his past track record didn't reassure her at all, but he was determined to show her that he cared.

Which he did. He loved her.

He felt himself begin to shiver as he managed to calm himself down. Turning off the water he stepped out and grabbed a towel and roughly dried his hair before wrapping the towel around his waist.

'I'm already late, I hope she won't be too upset.'

A couple of minutes later, he walked out of his room and down the hall to the rec room. He saw the door was partially open indicating that Sakura was already inside.

"Good mor-" Kakashi started to say but found himself at a loss of words at the sight in front of him and halted midstep.

Sakura was off to the right side moving some extra floor mats around where he usually did his boxing exercises with his trainer. But it wasn't what she was doing, it was what she was wearing.

'You have got to be fucking kidding me.' the CEO internally cried out.

Her long haired had been pulled back in one of her signature messy buns, fly away hairs going every which direction. The bodyguard was wearing a red sports bra and a pair of extremely short black shorts with her usually running shoes. There was very little left for his imagination at this point.

There was more creamy skin exposed than clothing on her petite frame. He had the urge to walk over and let his hands roam all over the soft flesh, but quickly reeled himself back in.

'Stop being a pervert! Yes, your girlfriend is drop dead gorgeous and extremely fit, but that doesn't mean you get to touch her willy nilly. Hands to yourself, Hatake.'

Sakura finally acknowledged him as she stood straight and faced him with a dazzling smile.

"Morning, darling." Sakura said as she walked over to him and stood on her tiptoes to place a kiss on his left cheek, "Did you shower?"

"I love you too, darling!"

Images of the dream he experienced not even an hour ago came to mind as she spoke to him and the panic set in.

"Morning." he said as he came back to reality, "Uh, my hair was doing something weird so I just hopped in to wet it down."

Green eyes just narrowed at him in suspicion.

"Your hair is always weird."

"Weirder than usual." he lied.

Sakura just stared at him oddly for another second before he found the confidence to speak. She had totally called his bluff but it seemed that she wasn't going to question him further on it.

"Daring choice of attire, I see."

Sakura gave him a confused look as she stepped back. She looked down at herself briefly before looking back up to him.

"Does it bother you? I can go change if you want."

Silver brows shot up as he raised his hands in defense.

"No! Not at all! I'm just not used to seeing you wear, uh, so little clothing. Can't complain and not say that I don't hate what I see though." he dared saying with a cheeky wink.

'I don't think I'm going to be able to survive this…'

Sakura felt a devilish grin come to her then.

"I need my full range of motion for this." she easily reasoned.

However, Sakura knew that she didn't need to wear so little. She could have easily wore a tank top and leggings, but for some reason when she woke up this morning she was feeling feistier than usual and decided to be a little daring with her choice of attire. She actually had never worn such an outfit before around anyone, so she was nervous that he might've had a bad reaction.

Her and Kakashi had been together for a couple of weeks now and he had stayed true to the vow of "going slower than a snail's pace" and Sakura couldn't be more thankful. They hadn't done anything too daring so far in their relationship. They continued to sleep in separate bedrooms per her request and all of their intimacy had been very tamed so far. Except for a couple of times that they had gotten carried away, but Kakashi always reeled them in before she could even think too.

Sakura knew he desired her and she desired him, but she felt she wasn't ready yet. She wasn't sure when she would be either. Sakura decided to use today as an opportunity to see how he'd react to her and silently test his limits. Hers as well.

She knew she was being overly cautious and doing things like this was her way of overcoming those fears that she ingrained into herself over the past four years.

So far she proved that he was indeed affected by her outfit choice, but respected her nonetheless.

'Now let's see if he can keep his hands to himself besides what's required from training.'

"Okay! Let's get going then. We can start with stretches and a warm up run." she quickly said before he could reply.

Kakashi simply nodded at her and gestured for her to lead the way. Over the next twenty minutes they ran through the various warm up exercises and eventually found themselves on the mats again.

"Okay, so basic self-defense is pretty easy." Sakura began to explain, "Grab my arm here and I'll show you the first move. Super basic."

"You make me feel like some child with your tone, Sakura-sensei." he sassed as he reached out and grabbed her arm where she instructed him.

She just rolled her eyes at his words.

"Take this seriously or I'll make this experience a lot harder than it needs to be." Sakura said in a stern voice.

Kakashi must have caught the hint since she got no reply back.

"So if you find yourself in a situation where you and I are separated and someone comes at you and grabs your arm or tries to stop you from getting away, use the heel of your palm and use the momentum of your body weight and strike them in the nose. Like this."

Sakura slowly moved her body through the motions as she guided her hand towards his face and stopped right at his nose.

"Okay, now you try, but I'm gonna come at you a little faster. Don't hit me though." she said absent mindedly.

"I'd never hit you." he shot back quickly as they readied themselves, "I already feel awful that you got hit the other month."

Sakura pursed her lips and gave him a single nod at that. She felt a little silly with herself at that point. She knew he cared about her well being immensely and she in a sense questioned it with her off handed comment.

Taking a deep breath she cleared her mind and looked at him to find he looked equally prepared. Taking it as her signal, she charged at him and he followed through perfectly.

"I have a feeling you'll be able to pick this up easy." she smiled as they broke away.

Kakashi shrugged as he smiled at her.

"I've got the best person to teach me, so I hope I can make you proud."

Sakura couldn't help the grin that came to her at that point. He always knew the right words to say to make her instantly feel better.

Over the next hour she showed him various self-defense moves and a couple of combat moves in case he ever needed to be the one to attack. He was very attentive and listened and watched her closely as she guided him through each stage. His execution of the moves was nearly perfect every single time.

Sakura was pleasantly surprised with how well he was actually picking up all of it.

He was a natural fighter.

They eventually worked up a hard sweat once they started doing combination sets. Kakashi stepped away as she stopped to get a drink from her water bottle. She watched as he peeled the sweat soaked t-shirt off and she felt her jaw slack at the sight.

'Oh my…'

She had yet to see him go shirtless except when he was in bed and felt herself become very distracted at the sight. He was facing away from her, so she allowed herself to eye him as much as possible. She felt a blush come to her as she watched the muscles in his shoulders and back flex as he reached up to stretch out.

'Jesus, I'm getting a taste of my own medicine…'

She knew he was in shape, but to see the results of his constant workout routines was nearly mouth watering. He was the perfect proportion of lean and muscular that she loved in a man, not too bulky but not skin and bones either. He just looked flat out strong.

'Great now I have to worry about keeping my hands to myself…'

"Like what you see?"

Sakura jumped slightly as she registered his voice. When had she drifted off? Blinking a couple of times, she focused back onto him and found he was just a few feet away from her now. A mad blush had worked its way up to her cheeks and spread.

"Obviously." she said in a sassy voice.

'My goodness, he's even better looking from the front.' she cried to herself as she let her eyes linger down from his pecs to the very subtle six pack he donned.

"Hope this isn't a distraction then." he teased back, clearly amused.

Sakura sucked in a silent breath as she forced herself to send him a dirty look.

"It's going to take a lot more than a sweaty, shirtless man to distract me."

"A good looking sweaty, shirtless man." he added.

All she could do was roll her eyes at that point with a barely there smile. Tossing her water bottle back onto the floor, she pointed where she wanted him to stand.

"Don't flatter yourself too much, darling. You're only pretty okay looking after all." she finally decided to play his little game before switching back into a serious tone, "Now let's continue with doing sets, same as before."

"Roger that, sensei."

The bodyguard furrowed her brow as she charged at him and grabbed his arm right arm. Like planned, he pulled his arm back to strike however she had other plans.

Self defense was never strictly textbook and she wanted to give him that information first hand that anything can happen when you're attacked head on.

As his hand raced towards her face, she used her free right arm and quickly snatch his wrist and yanked it down. Kakashi's face registered surprise, but his expression dropped when she felt the arm she grabbed initially twist and pull free.

'What the…?! How?'

Kakashi twisted his body away as he allowed her to continue to pull his left hand down to her left side. He spun quickly and threw her off balance as she accidentally leaned too far to the left as her body twisted and suddenly felt her knee give way as he managed to hit the back with his heel.

She released her hold of his wrist as she attempted to roll away to compose herself. Kakashi had other plans as he turned and managed to wedge his foot in the crook of the knee he struck earlier and effectively immobilized her.

Sakura swung her left hand behind her aiming directly for his groin as anxiety flooded her. She wasn't expecting this level of resistance when she decided to take things a step further. She hadn't prepared herself to take him on fully and let her guard down and now was seeing the error of her ways.

'Does he have combat training?! Why the hell didn't he mention anything about this?! This is way more advanced than what I've shown him so far.'

Kakashi clearly saw the course of action she planned on taking and quickly removed his foot and snatched her wrist and yanked her to his right. Sakura winced slightly in discomfort as she felt her body twist and get pushed against the mat as he dropped and straddled her.

She attempted to lunge forward as she used her free right arm to strike him, but he easily blocked it by taking the blow with his left forearm before snatching up her wrist.

"Draw!" she called then and he released his hold of her pinned arm instantly.

It was a dirty trick, but Sakura used this as her opportunity to get an upper hand. Kakashi began to stand up, but she lunged forward and used the momentum of her weight and shoved both of her hands into his chest and knocked him off balance.

"What the…!" he called out as she used this chance to crawl on top of him and pin his arms down.

'Why did he lie to me?!'

"You called draw!" he argued as his furrowed his brow.

'What else has he lied about?!'

"You never said you had any damned combat training!" she yelled, "Why did you lie to me?!"

Kakashi froze when he heard the fear, clear as day, in her voice.

"I never lied!" he quickly replied as he immediately stopped resisting and just laid there, "You know I've have training in boxing! He makes me do some MMA exercises once in a while to keep things interesting. I've told you all this! I didn't lie about anything, Sakura!"

He felt her tight grip on his wrists loosen as it seemed she began to calm down slightly. Her face registered a mix of panic and embarrassment then.

"I'm sorry." she whispered, as realization started to set in, "I'm so sorry."

Kakashi used this as his chance to sit up. With her still straddling his lap, he twisted his hands and gently took hold of her hands when she released his.

"Don't be sorry." he spoke quietly back while he squeezed her hands once.

She refused to make eye contact with him. He dropped a hand and reached up to cup her cheek, using his thumb to stroke it gently.

"I completely disregarded and didn't take it that seriously." she mumbled so quietly he had to strain his ears to hear her, "I didn't realize how much and how long you've actually been training for."

Kakashi felt awful then. There was still so much they didn't know about each other. So much they hadn't gotten to discuss yet now that they're together. She knew that a personal trainer comes twice a week and they boxed, but she never really knew that he was doing more than just exercising.

"You didn't know and I failed to tell you. It's all my fault. I knew the exercises he used were MMA-styled, but I didn't think they'd actually be useful in this. I feel stupid for not telling you sooner when we planned this day out."

The bodyguards face scrunched up then.

"Don't blame yourself. I over reacted. I shou-"

"And you had every right to overreact!" he interrupted her from talking, "I sprung it onto you. I need to be the one apologizing, not you. I'm sorry, Sakura. I'm sorry I sprung that on you."

He tucked one of many pieces of pink hair behind her ear that managed to come free from her bun when she didn't reply. She instinctively leaned into his touch then. She still hadn't looked up to him and he was worried.

"Sakura, please look at me." he asked lightly.

Bright green eyes looked up then and he saw the whirlwind of emotion in her gaze when he dropped his hand back down. He leaned forward and placed a barely there kiss on her lips.

"Thank you for training me today. I really did learn a lot." he said as he pulled back.

He watched as the confliction left her expression as a small smile came to her then.

"Really?" Sakura asked tentatively when she found her voice.

Kakashi playfully scoffed at the audacity of her questioning her abilities.

"I have the best of the best showing me the ropes. You're amazing, Sakura. Don't ever question that. I only had training in the form of exercises, if you could even call it "training." I never knew how to properly use those routines until you showed me."

The pinkettes smile only grew as he spoke. He was relieved that he was able to make her feel better, even if it may only be slightly.

He leaned forward and kissed her again, only this time more deeply. She could feel the sincerity of his apology behind the kiss.

Sakura felt so relieved that he didn't react too badly to her over reaction. She had let her emotions get the better of her and just assumed the worst.

'I definitely need to learn to trust better. He's done nothing but prove himself to me, so why am I doubting him? I need to stop jumping to conclusions with him so much. He's different… he's not like him.'

She let herself enjoy this moment as she kissed back and snaked her arms up and around his neck. She got a welcomed hum from him in return as she felt large hands rest on her hips. She realized suddenly that he was still shirtless and she was wearing barely anything at all.

Anxiety flared up, but suddenly receded as excitement replaced it. The pinkette was surprised with how quickly her body reacted and adapted in those few seconds.

Sakura trailed her tongue across his bottom lip and immediately was granted permission as they battled for dominance. She tightened her hold around him as she felt him draw slow circles on her skin with his thumbs.

Kakashi pulled back for air and immediately began peppering kisses along her jaw and down her neck. She felt her heartbeat race faster and faster as he softly kissed across her bare shoulder and couldn't help the sigh of pleasure that left her.

"Kakashi…" she whispered breathlessly.

She felt amazing. She was scared and nervous, but she felt safe. It was okay to be vulnerable right now, she reasoned. Warmth started to spread throughout her whole body as he followed his path back across her shoulder.

Kakashi's grip on her hips tightened as she said his name and he moved to recapture her lips. Only this time there was more heat behind it. Sakura ran her fingers through his hair as she urged him impossibly closer.

Breaking away, she gasped when he grabbed and pulled her flush against him and immediately felt the hard bulge through his basketball shorts rub against her core. His hands roamed across her bare back and she felt shiver after shiver run up her spine, both a mixture of good and bad. But mainly bad.

The anxiety returned tenfold and overtook everything else in that second.

His lips found their place on her neck as he trailed wet kisses along as panic set in.

'Please, don't…' she began to think.

"Stop…" she softly cried.

Kakashi stilled his movements then and before she knew what happened he all but shoved her off his lap as he scrambled to stand up.

He turned and looked down at the stunned woman sitting on the floor once he had placed some distance between them. Sakura was staring up to him with wide eyes and kiss-swollen lips.

'You fucking idiot! You promised her!'

"I'm so sorry." he finally said as he ran his hands through his hair, "Please forgive me."

Memories of Sakura running her own fingers through his hair just moments ago came to his mind against his better judgement.

'Stop it!' he scolded himself as he screwed his eyes shut to rid himself of the memory.

This was not how he planned their morning to be like. They were supposed to have a nice start of their weekend. Self defense training and then Kakashi was going to make them a nice lunch before they relaxed the rest of the day watching a couple of movies before ordering in some food for dinner.

But, he fucked it all up. He let himself get carried away. He made her feel uncomfortable. Barely two weeks and he had already broken his promise to her.

'It's that damn dream's fault! Why did it have to happen today?!'

"Kakashi… it's okay." Sakura replied as she made to stand up and stepped towards him.

"No, it's not! I broke the one promise you asked for." he countered, "I feel awful. I'm so sorry."

Sakura walked over and stopped right in front of him and forced him to make eye contact. Her earlier surprised expression had been replaced with grumpy one.

"You didn't break any promise." she told him as pink brows furrowed at him, "When I asked you to stop, you stopped. Everything up until then, I was fine with! You respected my request, so it's okay."

Kakashi looked down to her with a face filled with mixed emotions.

"But I went far enough to make you need to say stop. I don't want you thinking I'm trying force myself onto you." he reasoned.

He wouldn't forgive himself anytime soon. Sakura was the one who was in control, not him. He allowed himself to get carried away and scared her. He pushed her over the edge of her comfort zone.

'I can never do this to her again. I can't keep slipping up like this. I need, no, I have to show her how serious I am.'

Sakura took the final step separating them and snaked her arms around his midsection and hugged herself tightly to him.

"You worry too much, darling." she mumbled quietly as he felt her rest her head against his bare chest, "I know you're trying your hardest to prove yourself and for that, I'm so grateful. But, please, don't beat yourself up over this. I'm not expecting you to be perfect. No one is."

Kakashi wrapped his arms around her shoulders then and placed a chaste kiss on the top of her head before letting out a tired sigh.

"I just want to be a better man for you."

'I don't deserve her.'

"You are. You're one of the most kind and caring men out there. Don't let one thing ruin everything." she said confidently as she stepped back and smiled big up to him, "And, plus, all can be forgiven when you make me lunch."

He quirked a brow at her sudden change of topic.

"Really?"

"And give me a shoulder massage afterwards." Sakura added with a smug smile, "I haven't worked out this hard in a few months and I'm really sore."

Kakashi let his shoulders slump as the pent up stress was released then and nodded as he smiled back.

"I think I can work with that."

'No more. I can't lose her. There's no more time to be selfish. Her happiness comes before mine.'

A/N: Enjoy this lovely bit of pure KakaSaku goodness for this weekly update. I just haaad to tease you a bit. ;) We won't see smut for a little while still, but I proooomise it's coming. I've had it brewing, refining, and growing in my brain. Hehe. Our pinkette wants to make sure our boi is prepared for the unexpected and lets just say she's relieved to see he can defend himself, even tho she had a damn near panic attack.

What do you guys think? Did she have every right to react that way? They're still getting to know each other in every sense!

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Thank you as always to the greatest friend and beta, Taytay95, for working with my ever changing schedule and tsunami of ideas and 300 texts a day that's purely related to KakaSaku only, lmao. Go check out her stories!