Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Mission: Freak Out Kakashi ❯ Do I Love Her? ( Chapter 11 )

A/N: Since I have so many ideas for this that I'm just now going through, I've decided to write on this fanfic for a while. I'm in a `Mission Freak Out Kakashi' mood I suppose. Nothing wrong with that! This fanfic has a ton of supporters and for that I am glad!

 

There will be some KakaSaku in this chapter as well as hinted SasuSaku. You know, I never thought I'd write a fanfic with SasuSaku in it, considering I hate that pairing. What's wrong with me?

 

I've had some people trash my works because they think that Sasuke is the better choice, but my question is this: IF IT DOESN'T SAY SASUSAKU AND THAT'S ALL YOU SUPPORT, WHY READ IT OR EVEN REVIEW IT FOR THAT MATTER!? Geez, it just ticks me off…

 

Sorry I have to get that off my chest… Anyway, here's one of those “feelings” chapters *in the words of dreaming-freak.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

:::Mission: Freak Out Kakashi :::

 

:: Chapter 11: Do I Love Her?

 

::: By: Melissa Norvell :::

 

 

 

 

Sakura gazed at her sensei for a while, green eyes becoming more and more focused on his slumbering form. Slowly she reached over, down his chest, down his belly and hips and down to his feet.

 

The pink haired girl slowly took his feet out of the water, one foot at a time. She took the first foot out of the water, the crystalline drops flowing down his bare foot and back into its origin. Slowly and gently, the girl raised it to her face, eyes softening as her gaze fell upon her still sleeping sensei.

 

“Kakashi-sensei, you're feet must hurt so badly from all of that training. Here…” Soft, pink lips touched the side of his bare foot, slightly tickling it as she spoke in a whisper of a voice. “Let me make them feel better for you…” She began to lightly kiss his feet, placing the gentle touches all about the top of his foot and ankle, slightly pushing up his pants leg to kiss up his leg.

 

“Hm?” Kakashi stirred, moving a bit.

 

“Kakashi-sensei?” Sakura asked in a kind voice before the man sat up, his orange book falling neatly into his lap as his lone eye set sight on the girl at his feet, who felt up his left foot in her hand, then gave him a confused look. “Are you alright, Kakashi-sensei?” She asked.

 

“What are you doing with my foot?” A slight flush came to what was visible of his cheek.

 

“Oh,” Sakura smiled. “I took your feet out of the water. They were looking a bit pale so I decided to massage them and get the blood flow back, before they turned blue. You really shouldn't sleep with your feet in the water.”

 

The jounin blinked. “Oh.” He ran a hand through his silvery spikes. `It was a dream then…'

 

“What are you blushing about, Kakashi-sensei?” She asked lowly, trying not to embarrass him in front of his students.

 

A happy anime eye was produced. “It's nothing Sakura…Just a dream.”

 

He tilted his head towards the heavens. `Hm…I must finally be loosing my sanity. I did state when I first met these kids that if I got away with my sanity intact that I would be lucky. But that dream…' His eye narrowed a bit. `That could be troublesome…This is indeed becoming something more then I expected. It's beginning to grind on my subconscious…'

 

Sakura gently set his foot down, trying to ignore the blush on her teacher's face. “I think they should be warm enough now.”

 

“Right.”

 

 

“Okay,” Sasuke narrowed his eyes after crossing his arms and adding another depth to his already growing frown. “Something is going on here, so the two of you had better start talking.”

 

“Huh?” Kakashi and Sakura replied in unison, both of their heads moved over to Sasuke in perfect synchronization while Naruto drug his soaking wet body out of the water and on to a smaller rock slightly to the right of the three.

 

“Is there a problem, Sasuke?” Kakashi asked.

 

“Yes, there is.” The Uchiha said. “All of you have been acting strange over the last week. At first, I thought this was some childish prank, but now it seems to have escaladed into something much more.”

 

“What do you mean, Sasuke?” Sakura blinked.

 

“Huh?” Naruto looked a little bewildered as he scratched his head. “No seriously, Sasuke. We're just fooling around.”

 

“You might be…But something doesn't seem right about Sakura.”

 

“What?” Sakura defended herself, though a nervous feeling was brewing within the pit of her gut. “Oh don't be silly Sasuke. We just made a bet between us on who can freak out Kakashi-sensei-“

 

“Sakura!” The blond yelled, “He's right there!” He pointed to his teacher, sitting on the rock.

 

“He already knows, Naruto. “

 

“What?” Naruto yelled. “Who told him?”

 

“I did.”

 

“Well, now you just ruined the whole point.” Naruto pouted.

 

The pink haired girl rolled her eyes and turned to Kakashi, who just sat in silence, watching his students play out their arguments. Finally Sasuke spoke up again, breaking the short silence.

 

“So, Sakura…What's going on?”

 

“What?” The girl turned away from her sensei, looking quite confused. “What's so different about me? I still act like I always do.”

 

“Maybe he's just jealous because you did something with Kakashi-sensei.” The blue-eyed boy shot off, dark eyes narrowing and green ones flashing in irritation.

 

“How many times do I have to tell you!? I did not do anything with Kakashi-sensei!!” The girl yelled, her teeth grinding in anger and her shoulders heaving up and down with the energy her body put off from scolding the boy.

 

“Then why were you out so late together?”

 

“We went out to dinner and then we took a walk. He walked me home, that's all.”

 

“Yeah, but usually you ask Sasuke those kinds of things…”

 

“I agree with Naruto.” The Uchiha spoke up. “It's odd that you haven't been your usual self. You used to complement me and ask me to go places with you, not that I miss it or anything. But it seems like you're focus point lays in our teacher.”

 

Sakura began to get a little nervous. “Oh Sasuke,” She waved her hand downward. “What are you trying to say? I'm just caught up in the game is all…”

 

From behind her, Kakashi looked down at the rushing stream below him. He took a particular interest in how the water rushed against the visible rocks that stuck above the surface. He felt a prang of inward pain from the girl's statement, which was odd and even he knew. It wasn't like him to feel in such a way towards someone he was especially trying to distance himself from at the moment.

 

While he wanted to show Sakura that what she had was minor, he couldn't help but wonder what that dream was about. Was it a subliminal message? Was it the innermost workings of his subconscious? Or maybe it was just his loneliness building up? He knew he really shouldn't read Icha Icha Paradise before he went to sleep…

 

But even so, if it was brought on by his suggestive reading material, then why did it hurt so much to hear the girl speak so uncaringly towards him. His head raised up as he peered at her from across the river, seeing her pounding Naruto in the head and getting offended at yet another remark that the boy had made about the two of them.

 

When he thought about it, what was so wrong about being offended at something like that? Then his thoughts turned 360 degrees in the opposite. Of course it was wrong! They did have a big age difference, and they were teacher and student…But back when Kakashi was younger, such a thing wasn't so taboo. It was just like the young woman going for the older man. In his mind, part of it seemed wrong, but part of it seemed oh so right, and that part of his mind had the rest of his psyche dancing on eggs shells.

 

`Sakura…'

 

As if by mental command, the girl walked over and sat on the rock next to him. “I don't have to tell you anything about my private life.” A small hand reached out and grasped a larger one. “Especially if you keep pressuring me into it. If I didn't do anything, I didn't do anything…”

 

Kakashi looked to his student, who was still trying to defy her team mates. A mixture of emotions was readable through viridian eyes. Determination. Anger. All of the emotions that were the strong side of the kunoichi, but there were others which made him question her motives. Fear. Sadness. Dismay.

 

“Kakashi-sensei,” At hearing his name, he looked to the girl. “You know the truth. Tell Naruto that we didn't do anything.”

 

“But what about your prank?”

 

“I don't care anymore. “ Sakura replied. Then she paused and said something under her breath that only the jounin's sharp haring could detect. “You probably wouldn't want to think of someone like me that way.”

 

“Sakura…” The jounin leveled her with a look of understanding and reassurance.

 

The girl gasped, having known that her teacher heard her. Green orbs sparkled, on the threat of unleashing tears. She looked shy and hurt, but something about her saddened form was beautifully tragic and Kakashi couldn't help but notice.

 

“Kakashi-sensei…I…I'm sorry…I mean…”

 

For reasons unknown, even to him, Kakashi felt the urge to comfort and nurture this saddened form, his hand closed around hers, gently holding it.

 

Green orbs widened, not expecting such a move from her teacher. There was the familiar warm, calming feeling again. She didn't seem to care or notice Naruto or even Sasuke, who only stood a few feet away. She couldn't help but notice that familiar air coming back. The way her sensei looked against the back ground. The way the lone rays of sun that found their way through their branchy maze to his form, illuminating it with a type of almost celestial beauty.

 

Looking into his uncovered eye, she got lost within the depths of its color. He truly was truly an amazing man. Maybe her inhibitions were telling her that someone like that was too good for her. After all, he seemed untouchable. She wondered why Sasuke never seemed that way to her, or perhaps she was being dense…

 

He had rendered her speechless, and in her moment of silence, she could actually hear her heart beat within her chest. She grasped his hand more firmly.

 

She at least had a chance to have Sasuke, and at first, she secretly hoped and prayed that Iruka-sensei would call their names together. Knowing that she was on the same team as her childhood love was something that would have ensured the couple's existence, but so far it had been turmoil and hell between them. But now, as she stared into the lone eye of the man before her, compared to Sasuke, he was even more untouchable.

 

It seemed like he was so untouchable…and yet, here she was, touching him. She felt no guilt, even while displaying these emotions openly to both Sasuke and Naruto. Her soul couldn't help but being drawn in to the silver haired genius. He was unlike Sasuke in so many ways. It seemed like she was just now getting how special of a person he really was.

 

She had always cheered for Sasuke. She had always told him that he was strong. But Kakashi fought with no praise, and he was by far better then Sasuke. A jounin, a master ninja of both knowledge and prowess…When she thought about that aspect, she was a speck of dust compared to his glory.

 

Sakura tore her gaze away from her sensei.

 

`What the hell is going on? They're not even saying anything to each other!' Naruto thought, gazing at the two.

 

Sasuke said nothing; he just turned and walked off. Upon hearing the fading footsteps, the blond turned around and crossed his arms.

 

“Hey Sasuke, why are you leaving?”

 

The dark eyed boy looked over his shoulder and gave no answer.

 

“What? Are you mad that Kakashi-sensei and Sakura like each other?”

 

“Shut up, Naruto.” Sasuke turned his head and kept walking, leaving the confused boy standing there, watching his retreating form and scratching his head.

 

Sakura didn't even notice that Sasuke had gone. She reached over and put her other hand atop of his.

 

Kakashi's silver eye brow furrowed. “Sakura…”

 

“I know that I'm not worth much, but-“

 

“Don't say those things about yourself. You have many good qualities that your team mates appreciate.”

 

“But...” She paused. “I don't care if my team mates appreciate me. I want you to appreciate me.”

 

 

TBC

 

 

A/N: Well, this one is longer then usual. I went over two pages. I really need to write on Lessons in Shinobi Love. But I haven't had any inspiration. I'm going to keep writing on chapter 12 to this story though. That and chapter 2 of Captive Heart and chapter 4 of Song of the Forgotten.

 

Anyway, please review ^_^