Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Of Love and Betrayal ❯ The Kiss ( Chapter 8 )

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Warning: slight violence, some sexual content, and adult language.

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Kakashi sighed and lay down next to her, his body tense. Sakura lay back down next to him and curled against him burying her nose into his warm chest.

`I don't know why but I feel warm and protected when I'm with him…'

She knew tomorrow they both would go back to being companions, but for tonight she needed the comfort he afford, she needed him here.

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- VIII -

The Kiss(revised)

 

Just as expected, the next morning when Sakura woke up, Kakashi was no where to be found. If it wasn't for the tear stains on her cheeks and her puffy red eyes, Sakura would have thought the events of the previous night where just a dream. Seeing that it was already eight, Sakura quickly washed her face and combed her pink hair. An hour later Sakura was sitting in Gaara's office; Kakashi beside her.

“I will not be able to work on this treaty as long as I would have liked too. Some new events have come to my attention and I am forced to work on other issues,” Gaara said looking at both Shinobi before him. “So let's get started then.”

Both Sakura and Kakashi nodded in understanding and pulled out some scrolls.

“Both of our villages agree that being allies have become very beneficial to all of us. Suna has requested a new portion to be added to the treaty though.”

Sakura looked up at Gaara and realized that he was looking straight at her.

“We want to increase trade between our villages and we would also like to encourage more comradity between shinobi by continuing to have the Chuunin exams together. In the last couple of years we have adopted a lot of the ways of training our shinobi from you and I request that we can have a Medic Nin from Konoha to help improve our medical district.”

Sakura leaned back in her chair. She understood perfectly why Suna would want to better there medical training. From what she saw a couple of years ago, they were no where near as advanced as Konoha.

“Gaara I agree with you that it would profit your village greatly if you better your medical training. I will make sure to discuss sending a couple medic Nins from Konoha to assist…”

“I actually had you in mind; after all you are one of the best, next to the Hokage herself.”

Sakura gazed back at Gaara, flattered that he would think so highly of her skills.

“I'm sorry but I won't be able to as of this moment. But whenever I can I would be happy to help you. I can even start helping while I'm here now.”

Gaara smiled slightly and looked back down at the scroll rolled out on his desk.

“That would be greatly appreciated Sakura, thank you.”

“Actually there is something our village might need assistance with…”

Both turned to stare at Kakashi who had suddenly spoken up.

“Since our villages are allies and in being allies we have similar enemies I think that both of our villages should consider creating a joined force that will be trained together and will fight together on behalf of both villages.”

Gaara leaned forward in his chair.

“I think that is a good idea, but it will be difficult getting the elders to agree with that. Even so, I will definitely think more on it.”

For the rest of the day the three shinobi talked back and forth considering different treaty agreements. Finally Gaara sighed and rolled the almost finished alliance back up.

“I think we got pretty far today. We will meet at the same time tomorrow and finish the treaty.”

Sakura and Kakashi stood and turned to leave.

“Oh Sakura your friend… Ino, she wants to meet with you tonight at her house.” Gaara said.

Sakura turned her head and nodded and then left the large office with Kakashi beside her. They walked down the corridors that led to the exit, both deep in their own thoughts.

Sakura slid her eyes over to peek at Kakashi, wondering if he would mention anything about last night. He looked like he hadn't slept much, considering the deep bags under his visible eye. Feeling a little guilty for her actions last night, Sakura stopped and turned to look at Kakashi. She was just about to open her mouth to say something when Kakashi stopped not looking at her.

“Don't,” he said simply and continued walking.

Sakura just stared after him slightly annoyed that he hadn't let her say anything.

`Fine if he doesn't want to talk then I'm just fine with that.'

Sakura turned angrily back down the deserted street and headed to Ino and Kankurou's house. When she got to the house she knocked on the door and was surprised to have it swing open almost immediately and have Ino almost crush her with a hug.

“I'm so glad you're here!” Ino cried and let her go.

“Uh…me too?” Sakura said slightly confused.

Ino just laughed at her expression, turning to close and lock the door behind her.

“I want to take you to this small restaurant that I absolutely love. We have a lot of catching up to do,” Ino said dragging the helpless Kinochi along behind her.

When they reached the small restaurant they took a seat and ordered.

“So forehead what's been going on with you?”

Sakura noticed Ino's use of her old nickname and she grimaced a little.

“Aren't we a little old to be using childhood names?”

Ino just laughed waving her hand in dismissal.

“Oh please Sakura stop acting so old… so spill.”

“Well not much has happened, I mean, I've been training a lot under Tsunade and I have become Jounin. Right now I'm training to become ANBU.”

Ino's eyes widened in surprise and slight worry.

“Wow, ANBU… that's definitely a big deal… do you think your ready for that?”

“Yea… I've just been so bored with the dull routine of being a regular Jounin. I want to be out there collecting the intelligence and going on the missions that protect the village. I don't know I've just wanted a change in my life I guess.”

“Yea that's understandable; I guess that's my reason for coming here.”

“So how did you end up coming here?” Sakura asked really curious.

“Well I had met Kankurou at our first Chuunin exams and then after that I met him again on a couple of missions we had in Suna.”

“So that's how you met.”

“Yea and we basically hit it off, so I decided to leave Konoha and move here, I mean I'm still a Konoha shinobi but Tsunade has agreed to let me stay in Suna as a representative for Konoha.”

“Well I'm glad you're happy,” Sakura said sincerely.

Ino smiled her blue eyes sparkling. “Thank you Sakura… So how is everybody else doing, I really haven't been in contact with anybody for a while.”

“Well Naruto and Hinata finally got together and they're now married. She just found out she's pregnant.”

Ino squealed in delight. “Oh Kami, finally those two got together it seems like Hinata has been chasing after Naruto forever. Wow I wonder what their baby is going to look like. How did the Hyuuga's take it when they got married?”

“Well at first they weren't happy but Hinata gave her title as heir of the Hyuuga clan to her sister Hanabi and Hanabi and Neji are getting married in another year.”

“So I guess that all turned out pretty well. Hinata was never the leader type anyways; I don't think she ever wanted to be the leader of the Hyuuga clan, she is just too sweet.”

“Yea she is, but she has gotten a lot stronger, she even became a medic Nin like me, but she studied under Shizune.”

“I guess the Byakugan would be a good asset to have as a medic Nin,” Ino agreed.

“Yea it helps a lot and it has increased her self confidence too.”

“I'm glad to hear that, she has always been so shy, I think it was because of all the pressure of being the heir.”

“Yea I think so too,” Sakura agreed.

“So what about everyone else?”

“Well… Kiba, Shino, and TenTen are all Jounin now and they all have there own teams of Genin. Uh, Naruto and Neji are both ANBU captains. Lee is also in ANBU but he hasn't become a captain yet. Chouji is a teacher at the academy now and Shikamaru has become a Jounin, he comes to Suna a lot I guess him and Temari have hit it off or something.”

“Yea I've seen him around sometimes. Wow so everybody is doing pretty good. I can't believe how far all of us have come. Would you have ever thought that every one of us would be Jounin so young?”

Sakura didn't answer, her eyes looking down into her lap. Picking up on her friend's sudden sour mood, Ino's eyes narrowed.

“What's wrong Sakura?” she asked concerned.

Sakura sighed. “Its nothing, I don't want to dump my worries on you.”

“No don't worry about it; we did come here to talk didn't we? Come on spill.”

“I think I'm attracted to Kakashi…”

Ino practically choked on the tea she had been sipping. Sakura quickly jumped up and patted her friend on the back.

“Nani? Tell me I heard right… did you say that you are attracted to your ex-sensei, the guy you have hated like forever?”

“I know it sounds weird but… well I've just been having some weird feelings around him and I keep thinking about him…” Sakura groaned and dropped her face into her hands. “What's wrong with me?”

Ino stared at her friends frowning face and thought for a minute.

“But I thought you hated him because he had abandoned you and practically treated you like you never existed.”

“I did hate him, but these last few weeks I've been running into him a lot and… well I don't think he meant to hurt me the way he did, I think he has a reason for what he did.”

“Hm… well I guess if you're attracted to him you should tell him or something.”

“No I don't think that's a good idea, just because I'm attracted to him doesn't mean I want a relationship, plus he is like ten years older then me, that whole thing would just be weird.” Sakura sighed. “I don't know what to do. My head keeps saying that at the end of this mission I will go back to not ever seeing him again but I keep having a nagging feeling that something big is going to happen between us…”

Ino bit into her rice ball and chewed, thinking about her friends' dilemma.

“Well if you really don't want to start anything then don't, but if you think about it Kakashi is probably the kind of guy that doesn't get serious with girls, so if something does happen between you guys then at least both of you will know that a relationship is out of the question.”

Sakura thought about Ino's reasoning and realized she had a point. She had never seen Kakashi with a girl in all the time she had known him; so maybe if something does happen between them then he wouldn't make a big deal about it. Slightly reassured, Sakura finished her plate and pushed the empty bowl away.

“I'm glad we got to talk, lately I haven't really had anybody to talk to. Naruto is always with Hinata and Tsunade is always busy so I kind of feel lonely sometimes.”

Ino stood and hugged her friend. “You know your welcome with us anytime. I'm glad we talked too.”

Ino stepped back from her friend and looked at the clock on the wall.

“Oh it's getting late I should get back before Kankurou starts a search party for me. Make sure you stop by before you leave tomorrow, this time I want to have a chance to say bye.”

“I will, thanks Ino for listening. I'll see you tomorrow,” Sakura said waving as her friend walked out the door.

Sakura followed a couple of minutes later and walked down the dark streets. Sakura felt her thoughts drifting back to Kakashi. Ino was definitely right about Kakashi not getting serious about any relationship. She didn't think the man knew what a serious relationship was if it bit him in the ass.

Her cheeks flushed pink when she remembered when she had almost fallen out of the tree the other day.

`I still cannot believe I was that distracted.'

She reached the hotel that they where staying at and she made her way up the stairs to her room. She paused outside of Kakashi's room wondering if he was in there, but she shrugged her shoulders, deciding it wasn't her business. She went into her room and took off her sandals and washed up. She then sat on her bed and closed her eyes, deciding to meditate a little before trying to sleep. An hour later Sakura opened her emerald eyes, feeling her stress level considerably lower. She was definitely glad that she had talked to Ino, being able to talk to someone about her inner doubts and fears definitely lifted a weight off of her shoulders. She slipped beneath the covers and fell instantly to sleep.

- 0o0 -

She felt warm lips on her neck and she arched her neck to give those deliciously soft lips more access to her sensitive neck. Her senses became more focused and she realized that there was a warm weight pressing her down into the mattress. Unlike usual, she didn't freak out or become nervous under the weight, instead she arched her back so that she could press closer to him. His warm lips made there way up her sensitive neck to her jaw line, where they gently nibbled. The lips pulled away and she whimpered at the lost contact but she was rewarded when those lips pressed against her own and she eagerly slanted her lips making the kiss deeper. When he gently ran his hot tongue against the seam of her lips, Sakura willingly opened her mouth to his explorations. Her tongue went out to meet his and they danced a sensual dance until they had to move apart to breath. Sakura opened her eyes slowly to be met with a handsome tan face and familiar pink lips. Her eyes traveled further up the hauntingly familiar face and she was met with mismatched eyes that were filled with a tender emotion that she had never seen in any other's eyes. Not wanting to think anymore she ran her hands into his silky mane of hair and pulled down, forcing his lips back to her own….

- 0o0 -

Kakashi had gotten back to his room a while ago and had heard when Sakura had returned to her room as well. He was lying on his small bed, familiar orange book in hand, when he started to hear odd noises coming from the room next to his….Sakura's room. He put down his book and listened closer. The sounds became slightly louder and they sounded like …. Moans?

He got up from his bed and left his room, worried that Sakura was having another nightmare. He slipped into her room and made his way through the dark room to the edge of the bed. He saw Sakura lying in the bed, her pink hair fanned out over the pillow. She made another mewing sound and he frowned when he noticed the pink flush in her face and the way she was breathing hard. He sat down on the edge of the bed and brought a hand to her forehead to check if she had a fever, but her forehead was not hot at all. He looked back down into her face and noticed she was biting her lip slightly and that her breathing had increased erratically.

`What is wrong with her? Is she having another nightmare?'

Sakura made another small noise deep in her throat and she arched slightly off the mattress, tossing her head to the side.

“Kakashi…” Sakura moaned and arched again.

Kakashi pulled back stunned to say the least.

`What the hell is she dreaming about exactly?'

Kakashi's black eye stared at the sleeping figure before him. She looked so beautiful when she slept; it was like looking at a completely different person. During the day she was so guarded and serious that it was hard to see the same Sakura he had known, but when she slept she looked so innocent and carefree. Her face was free of the usual hard edge that she wore when she was awake. He leaned down and brought his gloved hand to her face, stroking her cheek gently. Kakashi knew it was wrong and he had to control himself but he just couldn't help it.

`Just this once… Kami please just this once…' he pleaded and leaned down, sliding his mask off his face.

He was a hairsbreadth from her, his eye gazing at her sleeping face. He tried; he really had tried so hard to stay away from her… he thought that if he stayed away then these feelings would disappear. He had been wrong; as soon as he had laid eyes on her again, all those feelings had come rushing back and even stronger. He didn't want to care about her, he didn't want to let another person into his already withered heart, but she had somehow gotten in without him even knowing how. He closed the space between them and finally claimed her lips. They where as soft and warm as he had imagined and he groaned in pleasure and deepened the kiss. He had wanted to feel the warmth of these lips against his own for many years and to finally be kissing her was almost too much for him to handle. Sakura stirred under him and he reluctantly pulled away.

“Sakura… I…” he never finished his statement because at that time Sakura's emerald eyes opened and Kakashi was gone.

- 0o0 -

The dream had felt so real; she could have sworn she had felt lips on her own. She brought her fingers to her lips and felt the moisture there. She frowned trying to remember the hazy dream. She had heard his voice.

`Kakashi'

- 0o0 -

Kakashi kneeled on the wall outside of Sakura's room, breathing hard.

`That was reckless… this mission needs to end, I can't stay near her anymore or I'll do something I know I will regret.'

He thought about the way Sakura's lips felt against his own and a wave of guilt engulfed him. He felt that he had taken advantage of her… he had kissed her while she slept, if he had done that while she was awake she probably would have punched him through a couple of buildings. Kakashi winced just thinking about it.

`I'm going to have to distance myself from her until we get back.' Kakashi decided, jumping off the wall and landing on the ground below.

- 0o0 -

The next day there was definite tension in the Kazekage office as the three ninja finished the last touches to the treaty between Konohagakure and Sunagakure. Gaara rolled up the scroll and sealed it. He handed the scroll to Kakashi and leaned back in his chair, looking between the two shinobi before him. They had both avoided each other's gaze for the last five hours they had been in the room with him. He knew something had happened between the two that had caused a rift between them and frankly he was a bit curious as to what, but he decided it wasn't his business.

“Thank you for all of your help and I hope you enjoyed your stay in Suna. Please give that scroll to Tsunade, tell her that it is just a draft of the treaty and both of us have to get together and go over it some more.”

Kakashi put the scroll in his pack and nodded in understanding. Sakura stepped forward and bowed respectfully.

“Thank you Gaara for everything, I hope we get to see each other again soon.” She said and then they both turned and left leaving Gaara in his quiet office.

Gaara's blue eyes gazed after the two shinobi, his eyes narrowing slightly.

“Hmm…. Interesting.”

- 0o0 -

After saying a teary goodbye to Ino and Kankurou, Sakura and Kakashi left Suna and started on the trip back to Konoha. The rest of the day was heavy with a thick awkward silence. Sakura couldn't help but sneak peaks at her quiet companion. He looked normal; his droopy eye gazed ahead of him lazily inspecting his surroundings. She remembered the feel of his lips in her dream last night and a slight blush crept up her cheeks. She shook her head angry at herself for acting like a virgin school girl. It wasn't like she hadn't had sex or kissed a person before, it was not a new thing to her but she didn't understand why her dream made her act so childish. She sneaked another peak at Kakashi, her jade eyes studying his face. He was acting different today, he was ignoring her completely and frankly it was pissing her off.

“So are we not going to talk the whole way back? Look if it was the other night that got your panties all in a bunch then I'm sorry for making you uncomfortable, it will never happen again.”

Kakashi glanced at her, his eyebrow raising an inch, but he said nothing. Sakura sighed, her shoulders sagging slightly.

`I give up on this guy; it's just not worth it.'

For the next two days they traveled only stopping after the sun had gone down and then during the nights Kakashi would train her in many different kinds of jutsu's so that by the end of the third day she had learned a whole new set of jutsu's. It was nearing sunset when they first saw the familiar sight of the large open red doors and the village beyond those doors.

`We're finally home!'

Sakura felt a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach when they passed the gate. She knew what was about to happen. This was the end of the mission meaning this was the end of seeing Kakashi. He wasn't forced to be around her anymore and so he would go back to ignoring her and she would go back to pretending it didn't hurt her. She sighed inwardly and waved to the guards on duty. It wasn't like she cared or anything. She should be used to it by now… but something happened to her on that mission. At least before she didn't think about Kakashi, now she couldn't get him out of her damn mind.

Sakura inwardly berated herself for letting her feelings take over once again.

Before she knew it they were before Tsunade and Kakashi was giving Tsunade the scroll Gaara had given him and relaying his message. The blonde women before them listened intently. When Kakashi was finished she put the scroll in a drawer in her desk and looked back at the two shinobi before her.

“I hope your training went well Sakura, I'm sure Kakashi has had plenty of time to teach you enough. I will be giving your name to ANBU so expect a house call soon.” Her honey eyes looked at Kakashi. “Kakashi thank you for training Sakura, I hope she didn't give you too much trouble. I expect a full report from the both of you by tomorrow. You're dismissed.”

Both Kakashi and Sakura left her office and walked silently down the halls of HQ. Once outside they stopped, gazing at the lowering sun.

“Arigato Kakashi for training me… I guess I'll see you around,” Sakura said awkwardly and then formed a seal and disappeared. Kakashi gazed at the spot she had just been and sighed, something in him was relieved to see her go; finally his life can get back to normal. Another much larger part of him missed her presence already.

“It's for the best…” he said, but something in him knew that he was fighting a losing battle. He formed his own seals and disappeared as well.

- 0o0 -

Sakura was woken up by loud banging on her door. At first she thought she was dreaming but the insistent banging continued, forcing her to get up from her bed groggily. She glanced at her alarm clock; it was only 3 in the morning.

`Who the hell is waking me up at three in the freakin morning,' she thought grumpily.

She hurried to the front door and opened it surprised to see two ANBU in her front door.

“Get dressed your coming with us,” the one on the right said simply in a gruff voice.

Sakura nodded and went back into her house putting on her full Jounin uniform and putting on her gloves and stocking her weapons in her pouches. When she was finished she left with the two ANBU. They arrived at a building she had never noticed before. The two ANBU approached the door and it opened seemingly by itself and they all stepped through. She was lead down a dark corridor and then was roughly pushed into a large room with a semi circle of desks, eight different ANBU sitting at the desk and many others standing at the walls.

“Haruna Sakura, Registration ID 012601, Age 22.” The man in the middle said.

Sakura's gazed flicked back to that man and she nodded in confirmation.

“I understand that you want to partake in the ANBU exam, what are your reasons for joining ANBU.”

“To better serve my village and my people, to protect them with any means necessary and to give my life to them if need be,” She responded confidently, feeling a strange surge of confidence run through her.

Many of the ANBU nodded but the man that had spoken just watched her intently.

“You were apart of team 7, under the tutelage of Hatake Kakashi, about 8 years ago you became the Hokage's apprentice. You are trained in being a Medic Nin; you are also quite skilled at Genjustu, and Ninjutsu.”

Sakura was a little annoyed that he kept on telling her facts about herself like she didn't already know her strengths and weaknesses.

“Your exam will begin now. You will be blindfolded and brought to a location at which you will be told what you will have to do. If you pass this exam I will see you again in three days. Good luck.”

Sakura nodded and bowed slightly and then turned to leave. Out of the corner of her eye she caught a glint of metal and she quickly blocked the kunai with one of her own, she then whipped around and released a wave of chakra effectively blocking the many kunai and Senbon thrown at her. She turned back to the sitting ANBU and then walked out the door with no more threats to her person.

The head ANBU smirked under his mask pleased with the pink haired Kunoichi's response.

“Let's see just how good you are Haruno Sakura.”

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Authors Note:

That was the 8th chapter! So I thought that the whole mission was taking a little too long so I decided to skip a little and get to the ANBU exam because I really want to get to the bulk of the story. Also that little episode between Kakashi and Sakura is just the beginning of everything. I will be updating in a week or so. Also I am thinking about writing two more fics, one will be a Sasuke/Hinata fic and the other one will either be Sasuke/Naruto or Neji/ Hinata I'm not sure yet which couple I want to write about. I'll put the summaries up when I get to outlining them. Well until next time and please review with any comments, suggestions, or flames. Ja Ne!

 

Next Chapter:

The ANBU exam starts, what will Sakura face that puts her in the hospital for two days? And has she passed the exam?