Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Of Love and Betrayal ❯ Training Begins ( Chapter 6 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto!

Warnings: Violence and language.

Side note:This chapter has a huge fight scene between Sakura and Kakashi. I'm not that great at writing fight scenes but I hope you like what you read. Please review with any questions, concerns or any feedback… all reviews are welcome and thanks a bunch to those who did review!

 

- VI -

Training begins(Revised)

 

That night Kakashi decided to make camp a little earlier then usual; he planned on beginning Sakura's training today. Kakashi stopped in a small clearing that he thought was sufficient enough for the night. Sakura soon entered the clearing and stopped behind him, her eyebrow raised in confusion.

“Kakashi we still have a long time to go until nightfall, why are we stopping?” She asked, dropping her light pack to the ground and stretching her arms above her. Kakashi dropped his pack as well and turned to face Sakura.

“I plan to start training you today and we are going to start with a battle to see how much you know right now so I don't want you too tired out,” He explained.

`Finally! I thought we would never get to train!'

Sakura only shrugged her shoulders and started to collect small pieces of wood for their fire. When she had collected all she could find she went back to the clearing and deposited her load in the middle of the grassy field.

“Hey don't bother making a fire right now we are not going to stay in this clearing while we fight,” Sakura heard Kakashi say to her right.

She looked up to find Kakashi had taken off his Jounin jacket and only had on a loose black shirt, his usual black mask, and his pants on.

Following his lead, Sakura unzipped her own jacket and deposited it next to her pack. She took off her over shirt, leaving a loose sleeveless shirt, and secured her Hitai-ate around her head.

`Finally I can show him just what I have learned from someone else, my true sensei,' she thought and looked back up at Kakashi expectantly.

“We'll leave our things here. There is another clearing a little ways from here, that's where we will fight,” Kakashi said and then took off into the trees, Sakura close on his heels.

Once they reached the clearing, Sakura took her gloves from her kunai pouch and slowly put them on, smirking.

“You ready?” Kakashi asked watching her put on her gloves.

Sakura nodded and watched Kakashi lift up his Hitai-ate to reveal his crimson Sharingan.

`So I guess he's going to take me seriously… Good he couldn't beat me otherwise.'

Both shinobi watched each other carefully, studying each others body language. Sakura avoided looking at Kakashi's eyes, remembering Gai's advice about fighting against a Sharingan user. In a burst of pink petals Sakura disappeared before Kakashi. She crouched down in the underbrush and watched Kakashi who still stood in the open clearing.

`What is he doing just standing there? He's wide open to any attacks.'

Sakura threw some kunai at Kakashi and then ran to another position, throwing kunai as she went. Kakashi dodged all the kunai with the metal on his gloves; His eyes followed the direction they had come from. He smirked and disappeared from the clearing.

`Found you Sakura.'

Kakashi appeared before the startled Kinochi and grabbed her from behind, successfully making her immobile under him. His eyes widened when the body underneath him disappeared and in its place was a log.

“Kuso!”

He looked around and saw another flurry of kunai coming at him from all directions. He jumped out of the way and performed a seal.

Kakashi disappeared from her sight, Sakura jumped back and waited, listening carefully. Her emerald eyes scanned her surroundings, looking for any signs of Kakashi. When she didn't find any she jumped up from the ground just as Kakashi's fist burst through the patch of grass that she just had been standing on.

She smirked and landed in front of the grey haired shinobi. “I'm not that naive, Kakashi.”

“I guess I should get serious then huh?” he said and lunged for her.

She dodged his flurry of punches and kicks while throwing some of her own hits. Kakashi threw a punch at her chest and Sakura blocked it with her arm, causing it to graze her jaw. Sakura's eyes began to water from the impact, but her eyes burned with rage.

`That hurt, asshole!'

She threw her own chakra induced punch and landed a hit to his chest, causing Kakashi to fly back through several trees. Sakura watched in pleasure as Kakashi slowly got up, breathing hard. Not letting him get any time to rest, she did a set of seals.

“Sakura Fubuki no Jutsu!”

A flurry of pink blossoms began to fall all around them making it hard to see a few inches in front of you. Sakura made her way through the storm of flowers and threw a hard kick to Kakashi's ribs, but Kakashi caught her foot and twisted it painfully. Sakura twisted her body out of his hold and back flipped out of his reach. She then lunged at him again but to Kakashi's surprise she dropped to a low crouch and kicked her leg up connecting with the bottom of Kakashi's chin. The body before her disappeared and she saw a log appear from the smoke. She suddenly felt a presence behind her and she tried to jump out of the way but was too late and Kakashi connected a solid punch to her back, sending her flying. She jumped up from the ground and lunged at Kakashi again, furious that she had let Kakashi land a hit on her.

“I see you've improved on your Taijutsu,” He said dodging her flying fists.

“That's not the only thing I've improved on Kakashi.” She jumped back and performed seals, her emerald eyes glittering.

“Kage Bunshin.” Three more clones of Sakura appeared beside her and they lunged at Kakashi, latching onto his arms and legs.

“Let's see you get out of this one. Bunshin Bakuha!”

The three clones exploded around Kakashi, but instead of being hurt the Kakashi in front of her turned into a log… again.

“Shimata! Where the hell are you!?” Sakura yelled thoroughly frustrated.

She jumped from the clearing and searched from the shadows. She saw a glint of light from her right and turned just in time to block a punch from Kakashi. She sliced a kunai at his stomach, successfully slicing open Kakashi's stomach.

`Yes! Finally got him.'

Kakashi grimaced and jumped back into the shadows holding the bleeding wound. Sakura chased after him while her hands performed a flurry of seals.

“Doku Kiri!”

A huge cloud of purple mist was expelled from her mouth and Kakashi quickly covered his face, trying not to inhale any of the poisonous fumes.

`She already knows a lot of jutsu's and she has improved a lot on Taijutsu.'

He jumped out of the cloud and landed on a tree branch, safely away from the purple poison cloud. He winced when a twinge of pain went through him from the wound on his stomach.

`She's definitely improved if she can wound me.'

Seeing a glint of light from his left, Kakashi jumped from the tree just in time to dodge three Senbon that had hit the tree where his neck was just seconds ago. Kakashi's eyes widened a fraction, very impressed at Sakura's accuracy. His mismatched eyes searched around him and caught a glimpse of pink in the bushes. His hands formed a seal quickly.

“Katon Goukakyuu no Jutsu!”

A huge fireball formed before Kakashi and sped towards Sakura who was hiding in the bushes under him. She jumped free from the fireballs path and back flipped into their original clearing.

`That was Sasuke's move…'

Sakura violently pushed that thought away. She did a slow circle, her roaming eyes trying to catch any movement.

A gust of wind went through her and then she saw a 12 year old Sasuke leaning heavily on a tree, kunai sticking from him and blood everywhere. Sasuke reached out a hand to her.

“Sakura…Help!”

Sakura's eyes burned in anger and she scowled and brought her hands up.

“Kai!” the Genjustu was released and she found Kakashi standing in Sasuke's place.

Sakura leaned down and released the hook on the weights she had been wearing on her ankles and her wrists and dropped them to the ground, causing a cloud of dust to rise from the impact. Kakashi watched in amusement, slightly surprised she still had the weights on.

Sakura's face was twisted in a sneer before she disappeared and Kakashi sensed her behind him.

`She has gotten fast, almost as fast as me!'

Kakashi quickly spun around and dodged the fist aimed at his head. He saw the slight blue tinge around her hands and he jumped back.

`I can't get hit by her again or I'll be put in the hospital.'

He did a set of seals and created two more shadow clones. They all lunged at Sakura and she was stuck fending off three different pair of fists, giving her no room to counter attack. She finally stabbed a clone and landed a punch on the other clone, leaving the real Kakashi standing before her.

“Is that all you have Kakashi?” Sakura said sarcastically.

Kakashi smirked, his eyes looking straight at her before another clone jumped on her causing her to crumple to the ground. Kakashi replaced his clone above Sakura and held her hands behind her back.

“Well I guess this match is over…” Kakashi said, pleased with himself.

`Not quite…'

Sakura forced chakra to her hands and her fingers pressed three points in Kakashi's wrists and then she forced her chakra into him. Sakura smiled widely when she felt Kakashi's hold on her completely disappear.

“Fuck!” Kakashi muttered as his whole body began to get numb, starting from his arms. Sakura smirked to herself, knowing she had surprised Kakashi, he never swore, and the fact that he did now pleased her a lot.

“What the hell did you do?!” He asked Sakura who was now smirking at him.

“I proved you wrong… now the match is over.”

Kakashi sat and inspected his arms, not pleased to see a slight bluish tinge to them.

“What did you do to my arms, Sakura?”

Sakura approached Kakashi and took his arms in her hands. She quickly healed his arms as much as she could and then let him go.

“You wont have full access to them for a couple of hours, basically I closed off your chakra by pressing pressure points in your wrists and then I forced my own chakra into your system, causing your nerve messages to and from your brain to be disturbed so that you cant use your arms for a short amount of time. Its something I perfected from Kabuto,” She explained.

Kakashi sat silently feeling a slight tingle in his hands but when he tried to move something, he couldn't.

“Well I guess you have gotten a lot better. I don't really understand why Tsunade wants you to learn more jutsu's you already have a good arsenal…” he trailed off and became silent again.

“Yea well she doesn't really know about all the different techniques that I know. I had a lot of time and access to many different scrolls under Tsunade's tutelage, and I took full advantage of it.” Sakura mused, removing her gloves and rubbing her sore jaw gingerly.

“Your lucky I didn't kill you for punching my face…” she trailed off still pissed.

Kakashi chuckled and looked up at her from his sitting position.

“Yea well I guess our training session is over since I can't teach you jutsu's without the use of my hands,” Kakashi said but winced and looked down at his wound that had started to bleed again.

Sakura felt bad for the older Jounin. `I shouldn't have gone so far…'

She walked over to Kakashi and kneeled down in front of him.

“Let me see your wound.”

Sakura moved her hands over his wound and healed it and then she pulled away and looked down at his arms.

“Give me your hands again,” she ordered.

Kakashi hesitantly lifted his arms as much as he could and Sakura took his partially gloved hands in her own. His hands were warm to the touch and his fingers were so covered with scars that there was hardly a finger print anymore. She silently studied his arms, looking for the place she had temporarily paralyzed. She found the spot where the nerves were unable to pass and she pushed another burst of her chakra into that spot. The chakra unblocked most of the nerves and she could see more messages coming to and from the brain. Kakashi felt more tingling in his arms and experimentally tried to move a little and much to his surprise his fingers moved sluggishly.

“I thought you couldn't fix it.”

Sakura let go of his hands and leaned back on the balls of her feet.

“I thought I couldn't either; I was just going on a hunch. You'll probably have full access to your arms in thirty minutes.” She finished and got up from her kneeling position.

“Thank you for healing my wound Sakura,” he said and smiled under his mask.

Before she could reply he got up and turned to head back to the camp they had left there things in. Once there, Sakura moved to make a fire but Kakashi stopped her.

“Don't worry about making a fire I'll do it. There is a small stream nearby if you want to go wash up,” he said already turning his back to her.

“But you still don't have that much movement in your hands how…”

“Don't worry about it, I'll figure out a way. Just go,” He said his back still turned.

Sakura stared at his turned back stunned, but she got over her surprise and went to get her bathing tools from her pack. With her arms full she turned to leave.

“Thanks Kakashi. I'll be back in a little bit,” she said and took off leaving Kakashi to his thoughts.

`She has gotten really good. She has learned a lot of new jutsu's that I never taught her. Not only is she sufficient in Ninjutsu, she also is not affected by genjutsu and she probably is very skilled in that area as well. She has also improved greatly in her Taijutsu, which is probably due to Gai's training sessions.'

Kakashi sat next to the small camp fire, his black orb gazing into the flickering flames, unseeing.

`That last technique she used was very unusual… the fact that she knows so much about the body tells me she is very skilled with being a medic nin which is not surprising considering her tutelage under Tsunade. Overall I think she is more then qualified to become ANBU. She will probably be able to get through the recon and the written exam of the ANBU entrance exam… I just hope she will be able to pass the mental test.'

Kakashi sighed and looked down at his hands. `She was right I'm already able to have a lot of movement from my hands. She has indeed grown both mentally and physically the past couple of years.'

Even though he felt he had failed miserably with team 7, he was still proud of both Sakura and Naruto's progress. He thought back to the decision he had made years ago.

`I didn't think my absence from her life would affect her so much… I just couldn't stay in her life; it was too painful… for both of us.'

He had made sure that Tsunade had given him long missions for the last couple of years. He had stayed as far away from Konoha as much as possible because he didn't want to be reminded of his failure and his locked up feelings.

Ever since team Kakashi was reunited he had started to develop feelings for the single girl of his team. No matter how hard he had refused those feelings, or how much he had told himself that he was wrong and his affection towards the pink haired Kinochi was wrong, he just couldn't help but feel stronger for her. Every time she was near he just couldn't help but feel a tight knot in his stomach and feel his chest tighten.

Kakashi shook his head, trying to get Sakura out of his thoughts, but to no avail.

`Being near her is just making all of this worse. When I was able to avoid her I could control my feelings, but now it is just too hard.'

Kakashi just hoped that he could get through this mission without revealing his feelings for the pink haired Kinochi.

`Once this mission is over we can go back to not seeing each other again.'

Even though he kept repeating this like a mantra in his head, he had a nagging feeling that things were about to get much more complicated.

- 0o0 -

Sakura walked into the small clearing and was surprised to see, not a stream, but a waterfall that ended in a huge pond.

`It's beautiful.'

Her emerald eyes gazed up at the amazing site and wondered if Kakashi had known about this all along. She dropped her things by the bank and then took off her outer clothes. When she was down to her panties and her bindings she waded into the cool water, shivering slightly from the cold. She proceeded to wash herself and her hair. When she was done she got out of the cool stream and dried herself. She got up from the bank and walked out on top of the water and sat down, closing her eyes.

She had gotten into the habit of meditating to organize her thoughts and calm her mind. She focused her thoughts while at the same time her senses stayed alert for any intrusions.

After another hour she got up from her meditation feeling almost calm again and got dressed.

Kakashi was probably wondering where she was, she didn't want to worry the man anymore then he was probably already worried. She got her bag and took off back to the clearing where she found Kakashi sitting next to the fire deep in thought.

“I thought you got lost,” Kakashi said.

Sakura heard the smile in his voice and she looked over to see Kakashi watching her.

“No I found it alright I was just meditating for a while, I wanted to clear my mind.”

Kakashi didn't respond so she just shrugged her shoulders and jumped into a tree.

“Ill take first watch tonight, I wouldn't be able to sleep right now even if I tried.”

When he didn't respond she just took out a scroll and started to read some reports she had brought along with her. A couple of hours later she put away the scrolls and looked down into the clearing. She was surprised to find the fire reduced to just embers and her companion asleep on his mat next to the fire. She jumped down into the clearing and put some more wood on the fire which brought it once again to a blaze.

Sakura's eyes were drawn to the sleeping man on the other side of the fire. Against her better judgment she went over to stand over him. He looked so innocent when he slept. Even though a third of his face was visible she could see that the usual worry lines around his eyes weren't there when he slept and her fingers itched to pull down his mask to see the rest of his face. She slowly brought her hand up to his silver hair and gently slid her fingers through the surprisingly silky locks.

She knew what she was doing was a huge invasion of Kakashi's personal space and if he ever found out he definitely wouldn't be please, but she just couldn't help it. She had this ridiculous urge to just pull down that hated mask and… what?

She didn't know but she gulped back her nervousness and gently started to pull his mask down. When she could see his face fully, her eyes roamed over his features. To say the least Kakashi was indeed handsome. She brought her fingers up to slide them along his cheek in a soft caress of sorts. Her eyes strayed back up to his eye that should have been closed but instead her emerald eyes clashed with his black eye. She pulled back startled and quickly stood up.

“Gomen…it's your watch,” she said simply and retreated to her side of the fire, afraid to see the look in his eyes.

`Stupid! Stupid! What was I thinking?!' she berated her self inwardly, trying not to remember the tantalizing smell of him.

Little did she know the man in question was berating himself as well but for an entirely different reason.

`Why didn't I stop her!?'

Kakashi sat up from his mat and looked over to where Sakura was laying on her side facing away from him. He knew she wasn't sleeping because of the tense way she held herself.

`What was she doing anyways?'

Kakashi dismissed that thought almost immediately, not wanting to go down that path. Shaking his head to calm his nerves, he jumped into the spot Sakura had been in just minutes before.

`Just forget it ever happened, it's not like I'll be seeing much of her after this mission.'

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Authors note:

Yeah the 6th chapter is done! So now Sakura is starting to feel something towards Kakashi. In this chapter you kind of get the inner battle Kakashi is having. So next chapter will be up in a bit I'm already working on it. Also if you guys have any suggestions or comments please review. Thanks for reviewing and reading!

 

Next chapter:

So in the next chapter Kakashi and Sakura will finally make it to Sunagakure and they will meet up with Gaara. Also Sakura and Kakashi's relationship start to take a much different turn…