Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Unexpected Love ❯ Confrontation ( Chapter 8 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. All rights and privileges belong to Kishimoto-sama.

Unexpected Love

Chapter 8

Confrontation

Sasuke watched the pair walking side by side with their hands and shoulders occasionally brushing against each other as anger welled up in his chest. These feelings were something he wasn't familiar with except when Naruto was always a step in front of him instead of it being the other way around. He felt jealousy towards Kakashi for the way he was acting around Sakura. When he saw Kakashi pull Sakura into an alleyway and kiss her he almost let his presence be known as he held back the urge to pull Sakura away. Instead he let his anger simmer down when they pulled apart and continued on down the road with him following on the rooftops of Konoha a few yards behind them.

 

It wasn't long until they arrived at a restaurant where they walked in behind a wooden flap that was the front door. Instead of following the couple inside, for he knew they would recognize him, he used a jutsu to increase his hearing so he could hear what they were talking about.

 

"I'll have two pork ramen with tea please," Sakura ordered from the young man who was writing down their orders on faded brown paper.

 

"So now you're ordering for me too?" Kakashi teased lightly as he folded his hands on top of the scarred tabletop.

 

"Why not?" Sakura said shrugging her shoulders, deciding to play along.

 

"Trying to be a wife already are we?" Kakashi asked as the waiter returned with their tea.

 

"Nani?" Sakura choked out from behind her tea, making her clear her throat loudly for the tea had went down the wrong way when he said that.

 

"I said you're trying to be a wife already huh?" Kakashi said, knowing perfectly well that she heard him as he broke his chopsticks apart and pulled down his mask.

 

"I know what you said, but why are you talking about a wife?" Sakura asked incredulously as she likewise broke her chopsticks and began eating her pork ramen.

 

"You want to marry me don't you?" Kakashi asked, feigning hurt as he tired to hide the grin spreading across his face.

 

"Kakashi, don't you think it's a little early for that!"

 

"Not if we love each other enough."

 

"..."

 

"I'm just kidding Sakura," he laughed out loud, seeing the shocked expression on her face.

 

"Humph." Sakura quickly finished off her ramen and tea in record time before looking up to find Kakashi already finished with his food. She laid her money on the table for the food before she walked out of the restaurant with Kakashi trailing behind her with his mask pulled back up.

 

"So, what are we doing today?" Kakashi asked, sidling up alongside Sakura as they walked away from the living quarters of Konoha.

 

"I was going to practice for the Jounin exam today."

 

"And I suppose you were wanting me to help you?"

 

"Yes, and you can show me some more cool jutsu's."

 

"Trying to get secrets out of me are you?" he teased as he wrapped his arm around her waist when they entered the training grounds in the forest.

 

"And why not Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura teased knowing how he didn't like her calling him sensei anymore.

 

"Do you insist on calling me sensei still," Kakashi sighed as he took his place across from Sakura as he waited for her to make the first move.

 

"Oh come on Sensei your no fun," Sakura pouted as she put her arms behind her back and began forming seals.

 

'What's she up too?' Kakashi asked himself as he jumped back when she pulled her hands in front of her.

 

"Fire ball Jutsu!" Sakura yelled as she blew through her hand, making a huge fireball engulf the place that Kakashi occupied. After the fire cleared Sakura could only see crisp grass where Kakashi was once standing, but no sign of him. She opened her other senses and was able to detect the faint traces of Kakashi's familiar chakra coming from behind her.

 

She whirled around to come face to face with Kakashi, but she could tell through his Genjutsu that it was a clone. She took a kunai out of her pouch on her leg and whirled it around her finger as she made a clone jutsu of her own and sent it out after the real Kakashi, knowing where he was now. She threw the kunai in her hand; it sped through the air, surprising the clone when it became embedded in its stomach.

 

She smiled in satisfaction at distinguishing the clone before she used a transportation jutsu to meet up with her clone that had found Kakashi in a tree further in the forest. She arrived up on a large branch beside her clone that was watching Kakashi who was lounging on another branch a few feet away with his orange book in his hand. She began getting angry that he would try to read at a time when he was supposed to be training her. She jumped forward.

 

Kakashi kept his eye trained on his book but was still able to see what Sakura and her clone were doing. Mentally smirking when he noticed Sakura's eyes narrow in anger and crouch on her branch, propelling herself into the air straight for him. He chuckled when Sakura's foot pulled on the invisible wire he had set that triggered a large net that propelled downward, capturing Sakura in it's thick ropes. He watched as she struggled to get out of the net with no success.

 

His eye widened in shock when he no longer felt his precious book in his hand as he continued watching Sakura trying to escape. He turned around quickly and was surprised to find the real Sakura with his book in her hand and a feral smile on her lips.

 

"Never let your guard down Kakashi," Sakura lectured playfully using the same words he used to use on her all the time.

 

"Very smooth Sakura, but didn't I say never let your enemy get behind you?"

 

"What?!" Sakura whirled around to find the real Kakashi on the branch right behind her with his eye curved, indicating that he was smiling and his hands set in a sign to focus his chakra.

 

"Are you going to give my book back?" Kakashi asked as his gaze returned to his orange book that was still in Sakura's clutches.

 

"No, you'll have to get it yourself if you want it back," Sakura said as she placed the mentioned book in her lightly tied belt around her waist as she vanished in a whirl of cherry blossoms.

 

"So my little cherry blossom wants to play, eh?" Kakashi asked himself out loud as he disappeared in a cloud of gray smoke. He quickly found Sakura and got behind her as she jumped from branch to branch trying to put as much distance between them as she could. But she wouldn't get far before he caught up with her.

 

"Trying to run away?" Kakashi called up to her as she looked back with a determined expression on her face when she noticed that he had found her.

 

"Maybe," Sakura replied slyly as she picked up her speed until she was but a blur among the green leaves and brown bark of the trees.

 

"You can run Sakura but you can't hide." Kakashi picked up his speed also until it was a little faster than Sakura's current speed as he thought on how much he liked the game of cat and mouse. In a minute he was jumping along side Sakura on the same branch with their footfalls falling exactly at the same time.

 

"Give up yet?" Kakashi asked as he shifted his gaze over to Sakura who was slightly panting due to the distance they had already covered.

 

"No way!" Sakura increased her speed even more, not realizing that they were at the edge of the forest and nearing the last branch to jump on as she looked over to Kakashi.

 

He smirked beneath his mask when he noticed that Sakura was about to fall if she didn't look where she was going, instead of watching him. Kakashi watched with feigned amusement when she came to the last branch and wasn't able to keep her feet rooted to it due to the speed she was going at. Sakura yelled as the ground came up faster and faster as she closed her eyes for she knew she would hit the ground at the rate she was falling with no way to stop. An inch before her back collided with the ground she felt a strong pair of arms encircle her waist and opening her eyes, found Kakashi maneuvering himself so his back would hit the ground instead of hers.

 

Kakashi landed on the soft grass with Sakura landing on top of him with a slight gasp of surprise at finding herself on top of him with her limbs aligned with his.

 

"Tsk, tsk Sakura you should know better than to not watch where your going," Kakashi playfully lectured as he watched the blood rush to her cheeks.

 

"Very funny," Sakura smirked as she pinned Kakashi's hands above his head, thinking that she had won. "I win."

 

"I don't think so," Kakashi smirked as he flipped Sakura over his head and followed her where he was now straddling her waist.

 

 

"That was a dirty trick," Sakura growled as she lifted up her hips trying to throw him off of her, but it only resulted in a strangled groan coming from Kakashi.

 

"All's fair in love and war," came Kakashi's husky reply as Sakura realized why he had groaned like that. She looked down to find the position they were in, making the blood rush to her cheeks as images materialized in her mind.

 

"Um, you can get off of me now," Sakura whispered seeing a feral gleam in his eye.

 

"What if I don't want to?" Kakashi whispered in a huskier voice, leaning down next to her ear and lightly nipping her earlobe through his mask.

 

"Y-you won so g-get off," Sakura stammered after a low groan, unbidden escaped her lips as he moved on to her neck.

 

"Yes, I won but don't I get a prize?" Kakashi asked as he nibbled at her collarbone as he exposed her shoulder to his gaze.

 

"I..I never said that," Sakura whispered as another moan, louder this time escaped from her slightly parted lips.

 

"Hmm." Kakashi was too engrossed in caressing her skin through the fabric of his mask that he didn't have a ready response when his groin tightened as she moaned again. Her scent was like a drug as he brought in her cherry scent, breathing heavily as if he couldn't get enough.

Sakura was in bliss as Kakashi caressed her skin while his hands ran up and down her side, making a shiver expand throughout her body.

 

Before Sakura knew what had happened Kakashi was thrown up off of her and flung a short distance away where he landed on his feet in a crouched position. Looking down she could see a long shadow cast by whoever had thrown Kakashi like that and followed the shadow up to very familiar looks. After what seemed like an eternity Sakura's gaze landed on the face of no other than Sasuke who had a dark frown on his face.

 

"S-Sasuke?" Sakura asked in slight fear at the dark gaze that he directed at Kakashi.

 

"Get up," Sasuke demanded to Kakashi in a low tone as his gaze locked on the Copy Ninja who was a few feet away.

 

"What's wrong Sasuke?" Sakura asked, pushing herself up from the ground and taking a step so that she was in front of Sasuke.

 

"Get back Sakura," he said in a slightly softer voice as his gaze flickered down to her eyes.

 

"Why are you doing this?" she asked softly with a slight hint of fear in her voice that turned into a gasp when Sasuke pushed her aside, resulting in her falling on the ground.

 

"Get up!" Sasuke said louder this time to Kakashi as he brought his hands up from his sides and focused his chakra with the sign of the tiger. Kakashi got up slowly, wondering why Sasuke was acting this way; but he had a pretty good idea why he was so mad.

 

"What is this about Sasuke?" Kakashi asked in an uninterested tone as he got into his usual slouched position, though he knew Sasuke really meant business.

 

"You have no right to touch Sakura!" the usually quite Sasuke yelled as he started making signs with his hands.

 

Kakashi easily dodged the giant fireball that Sasuke hurled at him and took up his own defensive stance just in case he needed to be ready. He saw Sasuke create a few signs then run at him faster than any normal eye could catch, but Kakashi was able to see him if only as a blur. Sasuke stopped in front of him and threw a punch at his face that was caught in Kakashi's fist, but Sasuke proceeded to throw punches and kicks at Kakashi who was able to dodge or stop them all.

 

Sasuke yelled in rage that none of his attacks even seemed to faze his former teacher as he jumped back a safe distance, panting from anger.

 

"Your wasting your energy," Kakashi stated as he slouched in his normal, uncaring position.

 

"So what?!"

 

"You can't beat me Sasuke."

 

"How dare you touch Sakura like that!" Sasuke yelled as he clenched his fists until his knuckles turned white.

 

"I don't know what you're talking about," Kakashi shrugged as he kept his lone eye on the enraged Uchiha.

 

"Don't play dumb!" Sasuke yelled as he charged at Kakashi once again, but was once again held fast in Kakashi's grip.

 

"What's wrong Sasuke? Are you jealous that I have Sakura?" Kakashi whispered low enough where Sakura couldn't hear as he tightened his grip on Sasuke's wrists.

 

"Don't touch her again!"

 

"I'll do what I want, you had your chance and you broke her heart so it's your own fault that Sakura doesn't see you as more than a friend." Kakashi released Sasuke's wrists as he felt him go limp in his arms as all the fight left him. He watched as Sasuke sank to the ground with a blank expression on his face. Seeing that Sasuke was no longer a threat he went over to Sakura who was still on the ground with a look of shock in her emerald eyes. He knelt down in the grass in front of her and watched as the emotions filtered across her face until she looked up into his eyes as her shock turned into relief.

 

"Are you okay?" Sakura asked worriedly as she threw her arms around Kakashi's neck and started crying lightly in his arms.

 

"Yes," Kakashi responded as he circled his arms around Sakura's waist and pulled her towards him until she was in his lap.

 

"Why did he do that?" Sakura asked brokenly as her tears subsided.

 

"I don't know," he answered with a hint of anger in his voice for Sasuke acting the way he did.

 

"He's gone," Sakura said after a moment as she saw Sasuke disappear in a cloud of smoke.

 

"Do you still want to train?" Kakashi asked after a moment as he stood and pulled Sakura up after him.

 

"If you show me a cool jutsu," Sakura pleaded as she clung to Kakashi's arm and looked up at him with wide eyes.

 

"Trying to seduce me Sakura?" Kakashi whispered in her ear, making a shiver run through her body as he smirked beneath his mask.

 

"No, but if you show me a cool jutsu then I'll give you something," she answered just as quietly as a small blush adorned her cheeks.

 

"Interesting, anything I want?" Kakashi asked slyly as he took a few paces back so he was a few feet from Sakura.

 

"Yeah, anything you want," Sakura said unsure as she suddenly wished she had never said those words.

 

"Deal," Kakashi said as he took a scroll out of his Jounin vest and tossed it to Sakura who caught it with ease.

 

"What's this?" she asked as she tossed the scroll into her other hand and unrolled it, bringing a surprised expression on her face. "Summoning Dogs?" Sakura asked expectantly as she rolled the scroll back up and looked at Kakashi questionably.

 

"Yes, I'm going to teach you how to summon my Ninja dogs, if you want."

 

"But aren't you the only one that can summon the dogs?" Sakura asked curiously.

 

"Yes, but I can pass the technique on to someone if I choose so. Do you want to learn how to summon them?" Kakashi asked as he took his hands out of his pockets and brought them together in front of him, forming the sign of the horse.

 

"Yes," Sakura answered quickly, thinking he would extract the offer is she waited too long to answer as she brought her hands up from her sides and copied the sign of the horse.

 

"Good, now watch my hands carefully so you can learn the signs." Kakashi then began making a short stream of complicated signs to summons his Ninja dogs as Sakura followed. After a few tries Sakura was able to successfully get all the signs correct in a matter of a few seconds.

 

"Good, now you have to sign the scroll for you to be able to summon the dogs," Kakashi instructed as he took the scroll from Sakura and opened it on the ground. At the bottom of the scroll were a few signatures that showed how many people had used Kakashi's hunter dogs before he ever did. Sakura pulled a kunai from the pouch on her leg and cut her finger enough where a thin stream of blood flowed out. She placed her finger on the faded parchment and signed her name as neatly as she could with her blood. After she was finished she looked up at Kakashi with a smile that he would put so much faith in her to allow her to use one of his most powerful weapons.

 

Wordlessly Kakashi took Sakura's injured finger and wrapped it with a strip of white cloth that he pulled from his pocket and then helped her stand up from the ground.

 

"Thanks Kakashi," Sakura said after she stood on her toes and lightly kissed his mask-covered mouth. When Sakura pulled back she had no time to react when Kakashi pulled down his mask and molded his lips to hers in a deep passionate kiss. Sakura's blood sang with desire as Kakashi ran his hands down her back and came to rest on her hips, where his thumbs rubbed small circles through the cotton of her pants.

 

Sakura felt as if she were on fire when Kakashi deepened the kiss further when he thrust his tongue playfully into her mouth and danced with hers as a growl of pleasure erupted from Kakashi's throat. A gasp fell from Sakura's throat when Kakashi left her lips and trailed light kisses down her throat as his hands that were on her hips moved up under her top to caress her skin with feather light touches.

 

"Kakashi," Sakura moaned as Kakashi moved his hands further up her stomach.