Tsunade sat in her office, an ironic smile playing on her lips as she held the latest report from Team Seven leader Hatake Kakashi in her hand. She knew that the last mission didn't go according to their plan and they risked a lot, which is why he repaid her in such a beautiful way... Yes, Kakashi had a charm, but even that wouldn't save him from her wrath for what he wrote in this report. She crumpled a piece of paper in her hand and threw it into the trash can.

"Shizune!" she shouted, knowing full well that her assistant was on the other side of the door. "Bring me Sakura here! Now!"

The poor brunette flinched at the annoyed tone of the Superior's voice and almost ran out of the tower.

"Hatake Kakashi," Fifth snorted. "You'll receive an important lesson..."

She got up from her desk and walked over to the window that presented the view of the entire Hidden Leaf Village. She sucked some fresh air into her lungs before her face twisted into a malicious smile once again.

The Hokage had a plan for which Sakura Haruno was needed.

After less than ten minutes, a breathless Shizune burst into her office, followed by a 20-year-old, pink-haired woman wearing a hospital smock. The two women stopped in front of the Fifth's desk, who was back in her chair, making herself comfortable.

"Shizune, you can go," she dismissed her assistant, who cursed and rushed to the exit, and as soon as the door closed behind her, Tsunade turned her gaze to her former student. "Sakura, I'm sending you on a lonely mission."

The young woman seemed stunned. She blinked in surprise, but straightened and nodded. "Hai," she replied obediently.

Up until now, Haruno has usually carried out missions under the leadership of Hatake and has never been separated from her team, or even from their leader himself. Therefore, it struck her as strange, but she decided not to comment on it in any way.

"Your task will be..." Tsunade made an appropriate pause, during which she looked at Sakura from top to bottom, and then added, "...to expose Kakashi."

Haruno sucked the air into her lungs with a hiss.

"I'm not finished yet," added Tsunade sharply.

Sakura nodded, hiding her hands behind her back.

"I know how you do it, but you have to act on your own and no one can find out about it."

Another nod.

"Well..." Tsunade stared at the desk top. "If the rumours are true, Kakashi takes off his mask mainly while eating, which he often does in the solitude of his apartment, or..." Fifth looked up at Sakura warningly. "During sex."

Blushes crawled on the cheeks of the young Haruno, when she understood what it all meant for her.

"Your mission is to seduce Kakashi and make him remove his mask."

Sakura felt as if she was about to fall over. Instantly she felt weak.

"If the rumours are true, Hatake Kakashi has a soft spot for women who are much younger than him. That's why you fit perfectly into the scheme, and besides, Hatake knows you and won't suspect anything..." Tsunade didn't want to say it directly, but she heard somewhere in the village that Kakashi liked Sakura. She didn't know how much truth there was, but she hoped that this person was right, after all, there were many women who had sex with him, but none of them had discovered his true face yet, only some scraps of information — Hatake was supposedly delicious as a lover, and some of his women mentioned something about the fact that he could sometimes mumble the name of his former apprentice in a fit of sexual exultation. If that was true, Haruno fit well for this mission.

"Tsunade-sama..." Sakura started, but she wasn't able to finish.

"You have to drag him into bed, and considerign the next piece of information, you'll remember the close-up rather pleasantly," said Fifth, smiling slyly.

Sakura had no choice but to nod her head.

"Remember his features perfectly when you get him to take off his mask, and then you share this observation with me."

"Hai."

Tsunade didn't want to know at all what was hidden under Hatake Kakashi's mask. Honestly, she didn't care, but she couldn't tell his ex-apprentice that she was going to be a lesson for her ex-teacher; for he should remember for the future that it's better not to mess with the Hokage. So Sakura's real mission was to seduce and sleep with Kakashi, because Hatake would never have gone so far as to do so, but if he got her as if she was served on a plate, he probably would have seized the opportunity.

"You've got three days to do that."

~*~

Sakura had been standing in front of Ino's apartment for a good thirty minutes. It was already late afternoon, and the sun, low in the sky, cast long shadows of buildings on the street where Haruno was. She felt cold at the thought of her task, or perhaps it's because the temperature was getting lower, as autumn was knocking at the door.

Sakura quietly hoped that her friend would finish her shift at the flower shop sooner, because if there was anyone who could give Haruno any tips about coquette and flirting with men, it was Ino.

"Where, the hell, is she?" the irritated woman gasped.

She was angry because she couldn't quite imagine herself as a temptress.

"Sakura?" Yamanaka, who had just emerged from around the corner, was surprised. "What are you doing here?"

Sakura took a deep breath before she braced herself to explain the reason of her visit. "I need your help, Ino."

The blonde blinked in surprise, but a meaningful smile crept on her face. "Impossible. Has Sakura Haruno finally decided to throw away the hospital coat and find a boyfriend?"

The mentioned one rolled her eyes. "This is about the success of my mission... I have to seduce someone, and I don't know how..." she broke off, feeling the flush creep across her cheeks as soon as she thought about Kakashi. "I don't know how to get down to it."

Ino patted her friend on the back. "Well, that's what you got me for."

Yamanaka opened the door of her apartment on the ground floor and let Haruno pass, then closed behind them.

It was warm and cosy inside. A small living room with a kitchenette was modestly furnished, but Sakura herself had a similar apartment, so she didn't expect any precious decorations, as she knew perfectly well that their salaries were not high enough to allow for such stuff.

Both women sat down at the table, each with a glass of orange juice in their hand.

Three days, Sakura thought gloomily. How was she going to drag Kakashi into bed in three days?

"Seducing men is a simple task, all you need is a large neckline and a short skirt," Ino said, and Haruno wondered what Hatake liked the most in women, because she somehow couldn't remember the moments when she would have seen him fixated on anything other than his book. "But everyone likes something different. It would be easier for me if you could specify your goal."

Haruno looked at her glass.

"I'm not allowed to talk about it."

Ino looked closely at her friend, but didn't comment on it in any way, just went directly to the information.

"Well then... let's take such Kotetsu as an example... I talked with Yumi that he really likes it when the girl smells good and has her hair loose, and in turn Nanami mentioned that Izumo really likes it when her hair are pinned nicely and she also wears a skirt. Genma is a terrible primitive, and he'll fuck anyone he gets." Ino rolled her eyes, remembering not very pleasant sex with this guy. "Sai likes it best when I'm not wearing anything, but there are also those who appreciate fancy underwear, stockings and such. Ino thought about something. "Recently I also talked to Yūgao, you know... the one from ANBU... the one with purple hair," Ino added, seeing the perplexed look of her friend's face. "She has had sex with Kakashi several times."

Sakura tightened her hand on the glass. Normally, she would say to Ino that she doesn't feel like talking about her former teacher's sex life, and now her coach.

"Several times?" Haruno pretended as surprised so as not to sound suspicious.

"She says that sex with him was so fucking good that she often came to him herself, begging him to take care of her, but it depends on his humour. Apparently Kakashi must be in a good mood."

"I also heard that he takes off the mask then... Any chance that maybe Yūgao managed to see what is hidden under it?"

Ino shook her head.

"No way. His favourite position is doggy style." Here Ino raised her eyebrows significantly. "He only removes his mask when the woman's back is facing him. If she refuses him, he either puts the mask back on, or refuses, if he's not in the mood."

Sakura's mouth dropped open in amazement. It was way too much information about her former teacher.

"If one of his prey causes problems, as I just heard from Ayame, but not the one from Ichiraku, then he is said to be able to trap with the help of a sharingan and bring her to the brink of endurance just by looking at her..." Ino smiled mysteriously. "If it weren't for Sai, I suppose I would like to see for myself what Hatake Kakashi is capable of."

Haruno felt strong blushes on her cheeks.

"You are addicted to sex," Sakura said.

Ino rolled her eyes.

"Have you tried even once?" the blonde retorted. "Sai is quite good at it and meets all my expectations."

Sakura bit her lower lip, reminding herself of Sasuke, who went with Naruto on a C-rank mission because he was relegated to the rank of genin for betraying his country; while Naruto, as befits a true friend, decided to help him gain experience to re-sit the chūnin exam. Naruto himself had already achieved the rank of jōnin, while Sakura was really close to achieving it last time, but she failed and it looked like she was about to have more training under Kakashi's tutelage. And coming back... her sick fascination with Sasuke passed at the moment when this wreckage of a man tried to kill her and if it weren't for Kakashi and Naruto... she would be gone.

And so her sick fascination was gone. Since then, she had little interest in boys and only trained harder under Hatake, who taught her control over the earth element, because as it turned out earlier, when he was preparing her for the second stage of chūnin, Sakura's nature was water, which she mastered quite quickly. She somehow chose her career, as she continued to work in the hospital as a medical ninja, participated in the missions of team seven, and also tried to raise her rank. Hatake himself offered her training, and she was unable to refuse him, because she knew that she couldn't find a better teacher.

"I'm just... waiting for the one," Sakura muttered.

Ino snorted.

"Actually, if you really need some bed training, probably Kakashi-sensei wouldn't refuse you!" Ino laughed.

Haruno frowned. "Stop it, Ino, this is ridiculous."

"Oh, really?" Yamanaka smiled mysteriously, as if she was hiding some information from her friend. "Recently I heard Kimiko complaining that Hatake confused her name... and you won't believe what he said..."

Sakura shrugged and took a sip of juice from the glass.

"Apparently they were close to the end and when Kakashi-sensei was reaching his orgasm he muttered your name," Ino blurted out.

Sakura spat the contents of her mouth back into the glass, although she had already choked, so she began to cough in an uneven fight for another breath. Seeing this, Ino got up from her seat and went to help her friend, who patted her not too gently on the back, but at least she helped her.

"What?" Haruno gasped out when she managed to regain her breath.

Her friend's lips curled into a mysterious smile again.

"Don't ask me, I didn't witness this scene, but you can talk to Kimiko to make sure, because it's said to have happened to him quite often lately," Ino said, as if it was just information about what the weather will be like tomorrow.

Haruno blushed fiery and gulped down the drink from the glass.

Maybe... Maybe she had a chance... three days?

~*~

Sakura had a plan, but she didn't know what Kakashi would say to all of this.

She found him on training ground number three, where they had been training recently. Today they had no appointment, but somehow Sakura thought that maybe he would be hiding here, reclining on one of the branches of the nearby trees, reading his book.

"Kakashi-sensei!" she called from below, looking at his body spread over the bough.

He heard her, turned his lazy gaze on her.

"Hi, Sakura," he greeted her, and the sound of her name in his mouth reminded her of what she had heard from Ino.

Did Kakashi really desire her?

"I guess we didn't arrange training today, huh?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.

"No, but I thought..." Sakura bit her lower lip thoughtfully, not paying attention to the interest with which Kakashi started looking at her, and a smirk danced on his lips. "As you know, sensei, recently I almost managed to pass the second stage of the jōnin exams, so it was really close to... and I thought that... maybe... we would celebrate it? After all, it's thanks to you that I was able to achieve so much." She was floundering a little in her words knowing it was really a date invitation, though she would never have dared to say it outright.

Kakashi tucked the book away and slid off the branch, landing in front of her.

"Gladly. And you will also invite Naruto and Sasuke?" he looked at her suspiciously.

Sakura blushed up to her ears.

"I would invite them if... they came back from their mission," she said shyly, feeling a strong blush on her cheeks, and her words made Hatake smile in a triumphant way.

The man stretched, stretching his arms up, and Sakura was surprised to notice that his T-shirt and vest swung up, revealing a bit of his muscular abdomen. The young woman bit her lower lip as she studied the muscles that moved under the skin as he lowered his arms back down his torso and adjusted the top of his garment completely blocking her view.

"Something's wrong?" he asked with a smirk on his lips, seeing her brave gaze and flushed cheeks.

Sakura shook her head to wake up as her mind began to wander around the topic that bothered her, namely — why Kakashi in spasms of orgasm was groaning her name?

"Everything's fine," she replied, returning her gaze to his eyes.

The success of her mission depended on how she played it out.

"Then... see you at eight PM..."

"I know a certain place," Hatake said enigmatically, then added, "I'll come pick you up at eight."