Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Unexpected Love ❯ Confessions ( Chapter 4 )

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Unexpected Love

Chapter 4

 

Confessions

Sakura quickly flew up in bed with wide eyes after having a most pleasurable dream about Kakashi as the morning rays of sunlight filtered through her bedroom window. She held a hand to her heavily moving chest with labored breathing as the dream she had just awoken from played through her mind.

 

Kakashi had just finished kissing her after dinner and was leading her into her bedroom by the hand. He laid her down on the soft sheets with him leaning over her, whispering soothing words to her as he traced feather light touches down her body in places she had never been touched before. He began, with agonizing slowness to remove her clothes, letting them drop carelessly to the floor as he kissed the skin presented to him. Soon Sakura found herself returning the favor and removing his clothes as she copied the earlier movements of Kakashi.

 

He took control as he flipped her over onto her back with him straddling her waist as he leaned in for another gentle and lust filled kiss. He continued down her body, pleasuring her in ways she never thought possible until he positioned himself at her entrance...

 

Then she had awoken in the state she was in now as she tried pushing the dream to the back of her mind so she could get ready for work. She had been working at the hospital as Tsunade's apprentice, healing patients and running errands ever since she had became a Chunin as Naruto and Sasuke had both left.

 

She loved to help out anyone in need and if she could save someone's life by using her energy then she would gladly do it. The look on the patients face when they were healed of an injury or sickness always brought a warm happiness to her heart that made her that much more determined in her duties. She had thrown herself into her new found happiness as thoughts of Naruto and Sasuke strayed to the back of her mind, only brought up by painful or familiar memories.

 

Kakashi had been the one thing constant in her life since that day Sasuke and Naruto left their separate ways, leaving Sakura to cope with being left out. Those thoughts and feelings were quickly locked away when she would occasionally train with Kakashi, but eventually the feelings were unlocked from their safe keeping that had left her bleeding emotionally inside.

 

Sakura swept her past experiences aside as she pushed the pink sheets to the side of the bed as she swung her legs over the side. She shivered from the coldness of the floor as her feet made contact. She hurriedly took out her usual medic uniform and made her way into the bathroom. Quickly taking a shower and donning her clothes that consisted of a simple white skirt, a white tank top with a lap coat over top; she left the tendrils of warmth to deposit her dirty clothes and put on her sandals. She decided on skipping breakfast since she didn't feel too hungry and locked the door as she stepped out of her house.

 

Sakura lifted her gaze to the open sky that was beautiful as the first rays of sunlight brightened the walkways. The air was warm and promising of the hot summer day as she made her way to the hospital with light footsteps. She loved the early morning hours when every thing seemed so peaceful with everyone just waking up and the animals stirring from their sleep.

Before long she was in front of the hospital, looking up at the large stone building that held numerous rooms with patients. She sighed as her day of work started. She entered the building where she met a few early morning medics as they served breakfast to the patients. Occasionally waving to a fellow medic she made her way to Tsunade's office where the medic Hokage was sure to be this early. She knocked softly on the door she didn't wait for a reply before she went into the room where Tsunade was doing paperwork with a grimace on her face.

 

"Good morning Sakura," she said looking up briefly before scribbling something down on a notepad.

 

"Good morning, how are you today?" she asked, taking one of the three seats in front of her desk as she saw Tsunade's mouth open wide in a yawn.

 

"Tired, I stayed up all night," the Hokage said, stressing it with another yawn.

 

"Gambling or drinking?" Sakura asked knowing the habits of Tsunade since she had been working with her for a few years now.

 

"Both, and I lost my gamble." She pushed the papers away as she sat back in the chair, rubbing her eyes tiredly as another yawn emitted.

 

"That's going to kill you one of these days.”

 

"I know, I know. How are you today?"

 

"Great, what do you have for me to do today?"

 

"Well...besides this paperwork there has been no patients this early today so you can either do these..." she said motioning to the stacks of papers. "Or you could take the first shift off and go train, which will it be?"

 

"Um...if you don't mind then I would like to train."

 

"Fine...What happened to your hands?" Tsunade asked seeing the faint traces of small scabs over her knuckles.

 

"Well let's just say that I got mad at a tree the other day," she said sheepishly as she looked away with a small blush adorning her cheeks.

 

"I see...well then don't hurt another one or else there won't be another tree in the forest," Tsunade chuckled as Sakura stood up from her chair, heading for a quick exit.

 

"See you later!" Sakura yelled as she quickly walked down the hallway.

 

"That girls' got too much energy," Tsunade sighed wearily as she went back to the paperwork.

 

Meanwhile Kakashi was just waking up from a pleasurable dream he had just had of him and Sakura in a bed. He wasn't phased at all, he had in fact enjoyed the fantasized dream but was soon brought to reality by his black alarm clock blaring the red numbers; 8:00. He sighed from beneath his mask before he slowly got out of bed and made his way to the bathroom where he took a quick shower before donning his usual Jounin outfit. Before leaving his apartment he took his latest Icha Icha Paradise book off of a large bookshelf filled with the orange books, putting it into his side pouch. He walked in his usual lazy slouched position with his hands in his vest pockets out of his boring apartment and into the now waking village.

 

He made his way to Jounin Headquarters to see if there were any missions that he could start the day off with. To his distress the last mission was handed out to a Chunin that had gotten in front of him. He walked out of the building and decided to take some time in the forest reading his beloved book that he had already read twice.

 

Kakashi went to his usual training place where he used to train Team 7 and got up into a tree where he took out his book and began reading with complete silence around him.

 

A few minutes had passed with peaceful reading before he heard the voice of a familiar female saying a completed jutsu a short distance from where he was positioned. He looked down with his one visible hooded eye and saw a clone of himself and Sakura fighting. He decided to just stay silent and watch the woman that had been in his thoughts so much as she fought against the clone of himself. It was a perfect clone but it was constantly dodging Sakura's attacks, which had happened the other day when she was practicing with an illusion. He was amused when he could hear her cursing the clone as she repeatedly missed it.

 

He decided that she had wore herself down far enough before she would lose her temper, he silently jumped from the tree and walked up behind her without her even noticing his light footsteps. He just couldn't resist scaring her when she was engrossed in training as she had her back turned to him. He smirked beneath his mask as he laid both his hands on her shoulders making her gasp in surprise and jump about two feet in the air. She whirled around, knocking his hands off in the process as she glared daggers at him for scaring her like that.

 

"Damn you Kakashi, don't ever do that again!" she yelled narrowing her eyes and placing her hands on her hips, trying to feign anger.

 

"Do what?" he asked feigning innocence.

 

 

"You know very well what!"

 

He shrugged his shoulders and placed his hands in his pockets, though he was trying to keep the smile from showing under his masked face.

 

"What are you doing here anyway?" she asked crossing her arms over her chest as she eyed him suspiciously.

 

"I should be asking you the same thing. Aren't you supposed to be at the hospital?" he asked raising a silver brow.

 

"No. Tsunade gave me the shift off...Are you trying to avoid my question?" she asked raising her eyebrow, mimicking his earlier action.

 

"No, I was reading until your loud training interrupted me." He smirked when her saw her eyes narrow dangerously and she placed her small hands on her hips once again.

 

"So, it's not like you were reading anything important now were you?"

 

"Actually I was in this intimate scene where this man and woman were in the bed and..."

 

"Okay, okay, stop!" she yelled as she ran over to Kakashi and covered his masked mouth with her hand. She slowly pulled her hand back, realizing that she was this close to him and hoping he wouldn't continue where he left off, not that she didn't know what he was going to say as a blush alighted her cheeks.

 

"It's nothing you should be embarrassed about. You've surely had that kind of intimate closeness with a person before." As soon as the words were out of his mouth he suddenly regretted them as he saw Sakura's face turn down as she looked at her feet in an awkward silence. "I'm sorry Sakura, I didn't mean that," he said stepping forward to bring her into his embrace.

 

"That's okay...I guess everyone thinks I'm some kind of slut since I've been after Sasuke for so long and then I suddenly stopped." A few tears slid down from her eyes as she said this as her arms hung limply at her sides as Kakashi embraced her in a hug.

 

"You are not a slut," he said rather forcefully then lowered his voice when he felt her shiver in his arms.

 

"You could never be that kind of person...I'm sorry." He brought his hands down to his sides as he heard her sob louder. Thinking that he had hurt her with his words he turned to leave. Before he got two steps away a pair of arms circled his waist as Sakura's face pressed into his back. Surprised at her behavior he turned around so she was once again in his warm embrace as she leaned against him crying.

 

"No...I'm sorry...you wouldn't of known that I've never done anything intimate with anyone. I guess I just don't have the looks of a woman and more of a girl. I don't even fill out like the rest of the girls do. I guess I was left behind in that department...besides no one has ever touched me unless it was some drunk who thought I was pretty enough to try and rape." She said the last word softly as if it hurt her emotionally as more tears threatened to fall from her closed eyelids nor did she register that Kakashi was now holding her at arms length so he could see her face.

 

"Sakura...did someone try to rape you?" he asked softly as he gently turned her face up to meet his eyes.

 

"Yeah..." she answered just as softly as the tears slid down her face.

 

"When?" he brought his thumb up to wipe the tears from her face as they left red steaks on her porcelain skin.

 

"Last...month when I was coming home from the hospital...at night." She shuddered as she remembered that night that happened not too long ago.

 

She was coming home from a late night at the hospital, walking down a dark alleyway thinking that she would take a shortcut home. The street lamps had been snuffed out and it was so dark that it was impossible to see beyond a few feet in front of her steps. It was a cloud filled night without showing the moon when a drunk man had grabbed her roughly around her waist and pulled her into a dead end between two apartment duplex's.

 

She could smell the languid alcohol on him as he breathed against her neck, making her nearly gag on the scent. His rough hands groped her breasts, that sent shivers of fear spiking through out her body, but the man mistook the shiver for pleasure and turned her around, pressing her up against the wall wall. Before she could register through her fear hazed mind she didn't notice that he had ripped her shirt and bra off and was now unfastening her medic skirt.

 

She had reacted out of instinct and had brought her knee up into the man's groin. As he doubled over in pain she made a run for it and easily outran the drunken man as she made it to her house and locked the door and all the windows. That night she couldn't go to sleep for fear that the man would find her and try to rape her again. Ever since that day she had took the long way home instead of taking any shortcuts and she had been paranoid when any guy would leer at her.

 

Sakura was now shivering uncontrollably with her eyes wide in fear as if she were replaying that night over and over again in her mind. She had been so scared that night that she had even kept away from Naruto and Sasuke. But her fear had finally been pushed to the back of her mind when it came time for the Jounin exams. Now the memory came to the forefront of her mind and she was scared that it would happen to her again. It didn't help any that Kakashi was trying to calm her down because her mind saw him as the male from a month ago.

 

"Sakura calm down, I'm not going to hurt you!" Kakashi said worriedly as he gripped her shoulders that were shaking uncontrollably.

 

Instead of calming down she shook more violently as if she were having a seizure, but it was her fear of that night that had her in such a state. At the back of her mind she knew that it was Kakashi who was with her but it didn't calm her down enough, knowing that Kakashi was male just like her attacker.

 

Kakashi was scared to death that he couldn't get her to stop shaking but was afraid to do anything for fear that she would become more fearful of him.

 

"Please Sakura, I am not your attacker..I'm you're friend...Please stop this!" he ran his hands down her arms, clasping her small hands in his larger ones and brought them to his cloth covered lips, placing a kiss on each of her palms. He was glad to see her shaking diminish somewhat but she was still shaking so badly that her hands were being pulled from his own. He slowly, so as not to frighten her, circled his arms around her waist and slowly began drawing her nearer to his self. He was glad that she didn't try to pull away from his arms but she was still shaking so badly that he had to tighten his grip on her. After what seemed like an eternity to the Copy Ninja, Sakura was pressed against his chest sobbing brokenly as her shivering ceased.

 

He knew it was difficult on women who had tried to be raped and it was fortunate that his Sakura was a ninja or else she would have been raped. She must have been afraid of any man she had come in contact with including her friends. He would do every thing in his power to assure his Sakura that it would never happen to her again, because he would stay at her side from now on.

 

'Wait...when did I start calling Sakura mine?' he pondered to himself as he pulled Sakura closer if it were possible, but those thoughts were quickly diminished when her softly spoken words reached his ears. His eyes widened slightly as she told him of what had happened that night and how she had been afraid for so long, even of Naruto and Sasuke.

 

Why hadn't he seen the signs before that she was suffering not just from failing the Jounin exam but from almost being raped? He had seen cases where women had been almost raped and had committed suicide because they couldn't handle the fact that it could happen again. But he knew and to be on the safe side would make sure Sakura would never try anything so stupid when she had friends to help her through this. He wondered if she had told anyone beside himself, but it was most likely that she had not since Tsunade would have assigned her a bodyguard.

 

His gaze returned to the top of Sakura's pink locks as her crying and shivering stopped. His left hand was on her back, rubbing various soothing patterns in an act to calm her down and assure her that he wouldn't hurt her while his right hand was tangled in her silky waist length hair. They remained impassive as they shared in each other's presence and comfort, breathing in each other's natural scents and warmth. Kakashi felt Sakura shift in his arms that brought his gaze to her emerald eyes that was red from her earlier crying.

 

"I'm sorry...I didn't mean to lay my troubles on you," she said with a hint of laughter in her voice as she saw that she had soaked his vest through to his shirt with tears.

 

"No problem, that is what friends are for." He smiled down on her but she only saw the crinkling of his eye, but knew he was smiling all the same to try and lighten the mood.

 

"Your the first person I've ever told about...that."

 

"Then it will be our little secret," he whispered in her ear, which sent shivers through out both of their bodies.

 

"You promise?" she asked looking up with wide eyes, silently praying that he wouldn't tell Tsunade because if he did then she would be assigned a body guard that she didn't want.

 

"Do you remember what this man looked like?" He said, deliberately avoiding the subject because he thought it would be a good idea that she would have some protection.

 

"No it was too dark...you didn't answer my question."

 

"Sakura...I would suggest you tell the Hokage..."

 

"No! Please don't Kakashi!" Sakura grasped onto his vest making her knuckles turn white for fear he would tell.

 

“But I would ask permission to become your guard." He stroked the side of her face with the back of his hand, trying to calm her fears and was glad that her eyes returned to their normal size and she had released her tight grip on his vest.

 

"You would do that?"

 

"Yes."

 

"Okay, but I won't tell Tsunade until she says that you can be my guard."

 

He chuckled, wondering how on earth they would get Tsunade to agree when she didn't even know what they were talking about. "Okay, if Tsunade doesn't let me become your guard then I won't make you tell her."

 

"Thank you!" Sakura threw herself at Kakashi as she embraced him with all her strength. Now the incident that had happened a month ago didn't seem like any big of a deal since Kakashi would be by her side.

 

Kakashi was a bit taken aback at the strength she used to hug him that almost cut off his breath, but she wasn't that strong to stop the great Sharingan warrior from breathing. He ignored the prideful side of himself and returned the hug but not as strong for he knew he would hurt her if he did.

 

"Any time," he said as Sakura pulled back to look up at him with a large smile on her face as her cheeks lit up with a brilliant red hue. She became shy as she turned her head to the side, not wanting Kakashi to see her blushing from her outburst of hugging him.

 

Instead of teasing her from the presented opportunity he took her hand into his own and motioned for her to follow him out of the forest. He started removing his hand from hers but was stopped when she grasped it tighter, not letting him remove his hand. He looked down to find her grinning up at him shyly with a hopeful expression in her eyes. He squeezed her hand signaling that he would not remove his hand, but chuckled when he saw her cheeks light up once again with a dark red blush.

 

"What?" she asked incredulously, hearing him chuckle at her as she sped up to walk beside him.

 

"You look...never mind."

 

"I look what?" She jumped in front of him, making him stop in his tracks with a pouting expression on her face.

 

"You look sexy," he whispered in her ear with huskiness to his voice.

 

Sakura was too shocked to say anything and didn't even notice when Kakashi started walking on without her as he let her frozen hand drop to her side.

'He just said I was sexy...'

'He just said I was sexy!' Inner Sakura yelled.

 

After standing there for about a few minutes she noticed that Kakashi was far ahead of her, waiting for her on the path that led back to the village. She felt a blush rise to her cheeks as she ran to catch up with him. As she neared she noticed that he was smirking at her from beneath his mask, making her blush blare brighter. Once she reached his side she looked down, finding the grass really interesting instead of raising her eyes to look up at the handsome Jounin. She gasped when he took her hand into his own without saying a word and began walking again with her following beside him. She risked a glance up at Kakashi to find him watching her with the smirk still on his face.

 

"You still look sexy," he said in a less husky tone but enough to make shivers run from their connected hands up her spine.

 

"Well...Um...Thank you...I guess."

 

"Your welcome, my little cherry blossom," he said, tweaking her nose with his forefinger and thumb and brushing a stray lock of hair behind her ear.