Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Unexpected Love ❯ First Kiss ( Chapter 3 )

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Unexpected Love

Chapter 3

 

First Kiss

 

Sakura sighed in relief that Naruto had interrupted, but felt cold now that Kakashi had moved away from her. She wondered what would have happened if Naruto didn't interrupt. Just the thought made a blush rise to her cheeks as she watched Kakashi's back as he slouched in her doorway, hiding Naruto from her view.

 

'Wait a minute...Kakashi stole my first kiss!' Inner Sakura yelled as her face began heating up from anger. She decided to put Kakashi in his place as she stormed over to the door and pushed him aside.

 

"What do you want Naruto?" she asked angrily seeing the cheerful kitsune talking quickly.

Naruto looked taken aback from the tone of Sakura's voice so decided to hurry and escape before she would pummel him into the ground. From the look on her face it looked like she would if he didn't hurry and tell her what he had came for. "Uh...Hello Sakura-chan...I just came to tell you that Sasuke and I are going on a mission and won't be back for about two weeks." While Naruto was telling Sakura this he was slowly backing up towards the street, just in case he needed a quick getaway.

 

"Well thank you for telling me Naruto, but I have some things to do so if you'll excuse me," she said in her sweetest voice, which usually meant trouble. She then slammed the door, making it creak on its hinges. She turned around to found the remnants of gray smoke circling through the room. Kakashi, seeing the angry look in her eyes and having an idea what it was about quickly left, not up to feeling her wrath at the moment.

 

"When I find him!" Sakura hurriedly slipped on her sandals and locking the door behind her, ran through the crowded streets to the one place Kakashi usually is when he isn't training. She found him at the memorial sight of the third Hokage up on a branch of a tree, reading one of his Icha Icha Paradise books.

 

"Kakashi!" Sakura yelled up into the tree, but with no affect as he flipped a page of his book and continued reading.

 

"Are you listening to me?" She saw him follow the words with his eye, clearly stating that he wasn't or he just wanted to piss her off even more. Instead of wasting her breath she grabbed onto the first branch and swung herself up until she reached the branch he was perched on. She panted from the exercise as she closed her eyes for a brief moment to regain her breath, but regretted it when she wobbled to the left and began falling from the branch. Before she could even scream a pair of arms encircled her waist and pulled her back up on the branch, but the hands didn't remove from around her waist, instead they pulled her back until she was flat against the person's chest. She looked down and she saw Kakashi's orange book held in his hand and watched with growing anger as he turned the page, meaning that he was still reading that book with her in his arms.

 

"Kakashi!" she growled as she tried snatching the book from his hands, but failed when he pulled the book up over her head where she couldn't reach it as he continued reading. She formed a plan in her mind that would get Kakashi to stop reading the book.

 

"You pervert you stole my first kiss, didn't you?" Sakura said turning her head around until she was able to see him clearly. She was surprised that he actually put down his book and turned his head back down to look at her in something akin to confusion and mischief.

 

"No, I don't think I did," he said reclining his head back on the tree and looking down on her with his one eye as he smirked beneath his mask.

 

"What do you mean you didn't because you did!" Sakura said crossing her arms over her chest with a pouting look on her face.

 

"Nope I didn't. Do you know why?" he asked coming closer until he was a few inches from Sakura's face as the smirk appeared beneath his mask again.

 

"N-no," Sakura tried backing up but was restrained when Kakashi circled his arms around her waist. She thought deja vu all over again as he inched his way closer until she could feel his breath tickling her skin through his mask.

 

"I did not steal your first kiss Sakura because my mask was still on," he said inching closer all the while. Now he was close enough to her that one slight movement would bring them the rest of the way together until their lips met.

 

Kakashi berated himself for thinking bad thoughts about him and Sakura, but he couldn't stop the feelings as they coursed through his veins. He noticed the faint scent of strawberries that was the flavor of her shampoo, which made it all the more difficult to back away from her warmth. He felt that it was wrong to have these feelings about one of his students but he couldn't get the thought of her out of his mind. But she wasn't his student anymore. She was Tsunade's student in the hospital where she was learning to be a medic ninja so that didn't mean he was messing around with his student, did it?

 

No. He decided that she wasn't his student anymore but her really close friend, especially from the distance separating them. Maybe he should just stop thinking and go with what his heart and mind told him to do instead of pondering on these things.

 

While Kakashi was pondering these things to himself Sakura was having much of the same thoughts. Kakashi wasn't her teacher anymore so people shouldn't say anything bad about them if they did get together. But there was their age difference to consider. He was what...fourteen years older than she was. She could name a few married couples that had about a twenty age difference. Wait...what was she doing talking about marriage, it wasn't like she planned on marrying Kakashi. She could tell that she had some feelings for the Sharingan warrior or her heartbeat wouldn't have sped up every time he got too close or she wouldn't stutter nor would a warm feeling spread throughout her body as if she were complete fool, would it? She had never even felt this way about Sasuke, maybe it was hormones or something like that which teenagers went through.

 

But she was hardly a teenager anymore, she was nineteen years old, going on twenty. She had came to the thought that she wouldn't think anymore on the matter until she got home. She brought her mind back to her current situation. As of now Kakashi was but a few centimeters away from her lips and had a glossed over look in his eye, almost as if he were thinking along the same lines as she was.

 

"Um...Kakashi?" she asked expectantly seeing him break out of his state of thinking.

 

"Hmm?"

 

"Y-you could back up some you know," Sakura said a small blush arising to her cheeks.

 

"Maybe I don't want to."

 

"W-why?" she asked trying to keep him in a conversation so she could think of a way to escape this uncomfortable situation. It wasn't that she didn't like being this close to Kakashi, it was just that they were at the memorial where a lot of people came to pay their respects to the former Hokage and she wasn't sure that she wanted people to see her with Kakashi like this.

 

"I like being near you Sakura," he said breathing her name out in a near moan.

 

"But you don't have to be this close, do you?" she whispered as she slowly leaned backwards with Kakashi following her every move.

 

"No...but I want to." He pulled back away from Sakura with a kind of confusion and anger in his eyes that scared her.

'I shouldn't be thinking of Sakura this way, she is only one of my students, my friend but nothing more,' he thought to himself as he leaned back up against the tree and pulled out his Icha Icha Paradise book as he tried not to think about Sakura.

 

Meanwhile Sakura was confused. One minute Kakashi was almost going to kiss her again and then the next he had pulled back with anger in his eye. 'Did I do something wrong?' she wondered, thinking there wouldn't be any other reason why he would be angry.

 

"I will train you if that is what you wish," Kakashi said turning a page of his book as he continued reading.

 

"Sure...bye Kakashi-sensei," she said quietly then turned, jumping down from branch to branch until she landed safely on the ground. She took one last look up at Kakashi before she sprinted away from the memorial, hoping to get home without running into anyone she knew. It was but a few short minutes before her mad dash had brought her home. She hated that the house seemed so empty ever since her parents had died, it was like she was all alone in the world and didn't have no place to call home.

 

She sighed in annoyance at where her thoughts turned so she decided that taking a warm shower would do her some good. She retrieved her pink sakura blossom pajamas that consisted of a thin strapped top and a pair of shorts, she made her way into the bathroom. She fixed the water until it was hot enough that it wouldn't burn her. She slipped out of her clothes and stepped into the warm shower, washing away all her worries for a moment as she washed her hair and body. All too soon she was cleaned and turning off the water. She exited the shower and wrapped a towel around herself. After she had wrapped the pink towel around her body she looked up to see no other than a masked man with one of his eyes covered.

 

After Sakura had left, Kakashi felt bad that he had acted so distant toward her and now she most likely thought that he was a complete jerk, especially since she called him sensei. He had pushed aside his thoughts and acted, leaping down from the tree.

 

He had knocked loudly on the door, but there wasn't an answer. He had thought that she was just mad at him for being so different towards her and he had tried the door to find that it was unlocked. He had made his way into her house but didn't see her anywhere in the living room or kitchen. He had decided that maybe she was tired and went to bed so he had made his way to her bedroom.

 

 

When he stepped inside she wasn't in her bed, but where the bathroom connected to her bedroom the door was open all the way and he saw a beautiful sight. Sakura had just finished wrapping a pink towel around her so it would stay in place and that was when she looked up and caught sight of him staring at her. He couldn't help himself when his gaze roamed from her wet hair and emerald eyes to her flat stomach, curvy hips and down to her long legs then back up to her eyes.

 

'Wow she's beautiful.' He saw her eyes smolder from an emerald to a dark green. He decided to bolt or else he would be in for her wrath.

 

"Sorry...I'll let you change," he said sheepishly as he turned his back and shutting the door behind him, went into the living room to sit on her couch until she was dressed. He began to wonder if he should just leave because he was almost positive that she would be angry with him for seeing her in such a state. But it wasn't his fault that he didn't know she was taking a shower and that he had happened to come in at that exact time, was it? But it was a beautiful sight he was presented with.

 

Her body was just right in his standards. Curvy and small but not too much with her amazing emerald eyes and pink hair that looked silky to the touch. He pushed these thoughts aside when she opened her bedroom door and walked out with her pajamas on. He couldn't help it when his eyes roamed down her body once again. The turned his head away so he wouldn't make her mad again and waited until she acknowledged him before saying anything.

 

"What are you doing here?" Sakura asked with her hands on her hips with an angry tint in her voice.

 

"I came to apologize," he said turning his head back around, looking into her eyes.

 

"What for?" she asked somewhat confused as to why he would apologize, until the incident that happened earlier came back to mind.

 

"I acted like a jerk. I'm sorry," he said sincerely as he got up from the couch to leave since he had said what he had came to say. As he began turning the doorknob he was stopped when a small hand was laid on his shoulder. He looked over his shoulder and was met with a rather cute sight. Sakura had her hand on his shoulder with her head turned away with a slight blush running across her cheeks.

 

"Yes?" he asked in his normal lazy tone as he continued gazing at her.

 

"I was wondering if you wanted to stay for dinner...I mean if you don't have anything else to do...never mind forget that I asked." She removed her hand from his shoulder as she turned back around but was surprised when she stopped, coming in front of a green vest. She knew who it was as she tried side stepping but he just followed. She sighed in annoyance and looked up with a pointed look asking what he wanted.

 

"I would love to stay for dinner," he said as he brought his right hand under her chin and tilted it up until he could look into her emerald eyes.

 

"A-are you sure?" she asked timidly.

 

"Yes if you don't mind my boring company." His eye crinkled as he smiled beneath his mask at Sakura as a blush returned to her cheeks.

 

"You're not boring...most of the time." She stepped back out of his reach and proceeded to the kitchen with Kakashi's soft footsteps following.

 

"So what do you want to eat?" she asked, turning around and facing Kakashi, opposite the bar that she was behind.

 

"Anything," he said shrugging his shoulders in a non-caring way as he sat down on one of the barstools as he watched Sakura with an interested eye.

 

Sakura walked over to the sink, reaching up above it to open a cabinet that held different assortments of noodles and pasta's. As she reached up her pajama top pulled up to show her flat stomach that Kakashi stared at, seeing the creamy skin underneath. She took a pot from another cabinet and poured 1/2 a cup of water and the noodles into it after she turned the stove on medium. Next she went to the refrigerator and took out a package of fish that she placed into a frying pan she already had on the stove, then turned it on medium as well. She returned back to the refrigerator and took out a loaf of bread that she had made recently and put it in the oven to warm.

 

She walked opposite the stove and retrieved two wineglasses and set them down in front of Kakashi. "What do you want to drink?" She began taking numerous bottles of wine from beneath the bar, laying them on the counter.

 

"Or I have juice and milk," she said motioning to the refrigerator.

 

"I didn't know you drank wine Sakura," Kakashi said motioning to a bottle of unopened strawberry flavored wine, which Sakura poured into both glasses as she ignored the comment. He noticed that she wasn't going to answer him as his eyes roamed over the bottles as she placed them back under the bar, seeing most of them half empty as he became worried that she had drunk all of that.

 

"Did you drink half of those bottles?" he asked concerned once she finished placing the bottles of wine, except the strawberry under the counter and took a sip from her own glass.

 

"After my parents died I began drinking, hoping to take the pain away," she said quietly with her head down, not wanting to see the look in Kakashi's eye thinking that he would be angry as she waited for his lecture. When it never came she raised her head to find him watching her with a kind eye filled with understanding and sadness.

 

"I see," he drawled out as he continued watching her. Sakura not being able to keep his gaze and thinking that he was going to lecture her, went back over to the stove where she stirred the pasta and flipped the fish with a spatula. She gasped when she turned back around and was enfolded in a warm embrace from Kakashi. She looked up with confused eyes as she was going to ask him what he was doing when his finger covered her lips, silencing the words in her throat.

 

"I understand. You didn't know anyway else to get rid of the pain so you drank until you were too numb inside to feel any pain from your parents death. I would disprove of it because you would most likely become addicted to it but I have seen that you haven't, so I understand your need of it back then when you were but sixteen. If you ever need anything or if you're feeling low then just come see me and I'll help as best as I can, understand?"

 

He watched her nod her head before he pulled her small frame closer as he laid his chin atop her head, breathing in her relaxing scent of strawberries and trees. He knew that he shouldn't be doing this because it would bring his feelings out for Sakura but he wanted her to know that it would be all right to see him if she had any problems. Yet it seemed right when he circled his hands around the small of her back as her arms circled his waist in return.

 

Sakura was the happiest she had been in a long while after Kakashi gave his rather long speech. It was hardly ever that he said so much and it pleased her that he would say those things to her. She thought that he would be mad that she had been drinking at such a young age, but was surprised when he was proud of her for not taking it to the next level. She sighed, bringing in his relaxing scent, cedar and pine from the forests. She nuzzled her cheek against his vestclad chest as she tightened her arms around her waist. As she breathed in the scent of burning fish she quickly released Kakashi and turned around, turning the stove off and turning the fish to find them slightly burned. She stirred the pasta and making sure the noodles were not burnt she turned back around to find Kakashi already back behind the bar, watching her with an amused expression adorning the visible part of his face.

 

She turned back around and got the bread out of the oven and turned off the burner the pasta was on. She quickly sliced two pieces of the bread and dished equal amounts of fish and noodles into two plates. She took two pair of eating utensils out of a drawer before taking the food over to the bar. She gave Kakashi his plate as she went around to sit beside him and eat her own dinner.

 

"Sorry about the fish," Sakura said motioning to her own fish that was burnt on one side after she took a bite of it.

 

"No problem, it's great."

 

"Thanks but you don't have to flatter me," she said with a blush as she finished eating her dinner. While she picked up her glass of wine she took a glance in Kakashi's direction to find that he had already finished eating and drinking his wine. As she thought on this she thought that Kakashi had to pull down his mask to eat and drink but she had been so busy eating her food that she didn't get a chance to see his face. Kakashi, seeing the annoyed expression on her face asked what was wrong.

 

"I didn't get to see your face," she pouted as she took the dirty dishes and laid them in the sink. She turned around to hear light chuckling coming from Kakashi with his eye closed and his arms crossed over his chest as he leaned back in the stool.

 

"What's so funny?" Sakura asked, narrowing her eyes and crossing her arms over her chest as she leaned over the bar, glaring at Kakashi.

 

"You," he said opening his eye and leaning forward on the counter with his arms crossed like Sakura's were.

 

"Why do you wear that mask anyway?"

 

"Now if I told you then it wouldn't be any fun now would it?"

 

"Maybe not for you," she said resuming her pouting and glaring stance.

 

"You look like a little kid again when you pout like that," he said moving closer as his eyes roamed over her face and down to her crossed arms.

 

"I'm not pouting," she said indignantly. This time she didn't want to pull back since no one was around but Kakashi and her as she wanted to see how far they would get without getting interrupted.

 

"Do you want to bet on that?" he said inching closer.

 

"Maybe I do," Sakura said inching closer as her heartbeat sped up and her breath quickened.

 

"I never did steal your first kiss, do you know why?"

"No," her arms uncrossed coming to rest on each side of Kakashi as he came forward once more.

 

"I didn't do this..." Kakashi hooked his finger under his mask and pulled it down until it rested on his neck, but Sakura wasn't able to see his face due to the short distance between them. He closed the small distance and their lips met. Kakashi thought that he was in heaven as his lips met her untouched ones. They were soft and tasted delicious as he ran his tongue across her bottom lip, silently asking for entrance into her mouth.

 

Sakura, having never been kissed before didn't know what to do as his rough yet soft tongue dragged across her lower lip. She could feel him place his hand behind her head, pushing her mouth closer, making her gasp in surprise at the sensation. She tired pulling back on instinct when she felt his tongue enter her mouth, never having anyone be this close to her before. She quickly calmed down when his tongue fought a one-sided battle with hers until she got enough courage to play back. Before long they were both left breathless with Kakashi coming out to be the victor, and had to reluctantly pull back from each other as Sakura panted and Kakashi breathed heavier than usual with his mask pulled back up in place.

 

'Wow...that was hot,' Inner Sakura said as Sakura gazed into Kakashi's eye that stared heatedly back at her. 'My...first kiss.'

 

'That was ecstatic...better than my Icha Icha Paradise books,' Kakashi thought as he stared back into her two emerald eyes that glittered with lust.

 

'Wait...he's my teacher...I can't be doing this! And yet?' Sakura thought frantically but couldn't keep the blush from surfacing to her cheeks as she replayed the moment through her head.

 

'Wait...what was I thinking coming on to Sakura like that...I shouldn't be doing this!...And yet?' Kakashi thought as he watched the blush surface to her cheeks.

 

It seemed ironic that they were both thinking the same thoughts of what they had just shared but they both knew that it felt right to be so close and intimate. As they both knew that nothing would ever be the same between them again. They were no longer student and teacher or friends, but something closer. Simultaneously they turned their heads away in opposite directions. Sakura not knowing what to say and Kakashi wondering if he should say anything.

 

"Ahem...I should get going," Kakashi said looking back at Sakura who in turn looked at him.

 

"Yeah...I need to get in bed since I have to work with Tsunade tomorrow," Sakura said as she led him to the door.

 

'Mind out of the gutter Kakashi,' he thought to himself as he followed Sakura to her door as images of her bed came to mind.

 

"Well...um...see you later Kakashi." Sakura had opened the door and stood aside while Kakashi walked through.

 

"Bye Sakura...that was your first kiss," he said before he left in a puff of smoke. Once the smoke cleared Kakashi couldn't be seen, having made his exit. Sakura closed the door softly, then leaned against it, as she grew lightheaded from what had just conspired. She smiled a smile of true happiness that maybe she could have a great life after all when she had two wonderful friends and most of all a silver haired Jounin that had stole her first kiss.

 

Maybe life wasn't so bad after all. She felt giddy as she skipped to the kitchen and began washing the dirty dishes they had eaten out of for dinner. Then remembering one of their conversations after dinner she froze for a moment.

 

"I didn't get to see what's behind his mask!" she yelled to the empty house.