"Oi, Kakashi-sensei!" A familiar voice reached the sleeping man's ears.

However, it wasn't the sound of the voice that made Hatake open his eyelids. It was because of the weight of somebody's body, and so he began to wonder if he hasn't been caught by one of his ex-students on a shameful act...

He opened his right eye lazily, but when he saw a well-formed blonde straddling him in the right place to turn him on, he sobered up immediately.

"Ino, what the hell are you doing?!" Kakashi shouted irritated, as it wasn't a new situation to him.

The young kunoichi in response put her mouth in a pout, sticking out her large breasts proudly in front of her. "I've come to visit you, sensei," she replied.

"Oh you! You stupid bitch!" Another girl shouted, her head — adorned with two buns — popped out from behind the window sill. "Get off him! Right now!"

It was too much, even for Kakashi.

The man pushed young girl off and jumped up from the bed then hurried frantically to the bathroom, where he pulled on his yesterday's clothes. While in his bedroom a real battle raged between the two young kunoichis.

On his way to the bathroom, he also hears; "I was here first!"

And; "You fucking slut! You always have to get into your boys' beds first thing in the morning?!"

And finally; "Kakashi-sensei is a real man!"

Hatake rolled his eyes, trying to focus on how he should get out of his apartment unnoticed. And at the moment when the voices seemed to grow in strength, and hence, they were probably approaching the bathroom. At the last second, Kakashi formed a seal, disappearing in a cloud of smoke just as two fighting kunoichi burst into the room.

He didn't go far, but just enough to be able to evacuate from his apartment on the first floor and escape unnoticed down the staircase, and then scuttled down a side alley. The plan would have been perfect hadn't it been for the fact that right after Kakashi found himself in a side street, he ran into someone. That person hit the wall with a soft, familiar moan. Hatake grabbed the familiar kunoichi's shoulders, looking into her green eyes.

"Are you okay, Sakura?" he asked in a whisper.

The pink-haired frowned. "Why are we whispering?" she replied, but then Kakashi's hand landed on her mouth.

The young woman raised an eloquent eyebrow.

"The point is, they can't find us," Kakashi whispered in her ear after bending over to her previously.

A smirk twisted his former apprentice's lips just as his hand vanished from her mouth.

"Is it about your new fans again, sensei?" she asked teasingly.

"You have to help me hide," he said in panic, his gaze wandering over her face. "Ino scares me..."

Sakura would have burst out laughing if the situation weren't that serious.

"And what was this Pig doing today?" Sakura asked lightly, giving Kakashi a curious look.

The man looked away from her, instead looking towards the exit from the alley, where several passers-by could be seen.

"You don't want to know," he muttered.

Sakura's face marked a scowl as she frowned angrily. After a moment, her hand shot up towards his masked face, squeezing his cheeks, making the man pout, his attention returning to hers.

"You have to tell me right now!" she hissed as their eyes locked, his surprised at the sudden anger burning in her jade irises.

Kakashi tried to look away from her, but her firm grip didn't allow him to do so.

"Right now!" she urged him.

Hatake has never seen Sakura so angry before, but since their last mission, Haruno has become more... overprotective of him. Perhaps overprotective was a bad word. For as long as he can remember, Sakura has always cared about him, but since he gained his fans, her behaviour has changed and the man didn't quite know what was the reason. He may have been a genius, but women have always been a mystery to him. So why did his former apprentice act this way? Visiting him more often and making sure that Ino or Tenten didn't harass him too much.

Shit, it's all because of this stupid mission...

"Ino was sitting on top of me," he confessed. "She probably crept through the window of my apartment and..."

The anger flared with even greener shade in her eyes.

"That bi..." Kakashi covered her mouth in time before she screamed.

"It doesn't matter, Sakura," he whispered in her ear, adding reassuringly, "I can handle it myself. She just surprised me because I was still asleep."

Sakura gritted her teeth, and when his grip loosened, her tone lowered to that murderous as someone threatened to kill her friends, "I'm gonna murder her." A devilish smile danced on Sakura's lips, as she clenched her hand into a fist.

Kakashi sighed in resignation. "I'm afraid that's not a good idea, Sakura," he added with his typical calm voice. "You need to help me," he hushed, moving away from her just enough for them to exchange glances. "I have to hide somewhere for a while... maybe if she doesn't see me, she'll get over it... well, both of them."

"Tenten too?" Sakura was surprised, and then she bit the tip of her green-painted fingernail, mumbling, "It's been going on for a month and they still haven't given up... maybe if you..."

Hatake frowned, glaring at his former apprentice. "No, I'm not going to tell everyone that I'm gay, just because two horny teens can't forget the sight of my face," the man groaned pitifully, lowering his head.

Sakura bared her teeth in a wide smile.

"Then you need a disguise," she said.

Kakashi leaned forward and rested his forehead against the shoulder of the young kunoichi.

"Something decent, you know I hate it."

Haruno patted him tenderly on the back.

"Anything for you, Kakashi-sensei," she replied.

~*~

"You know, that's not what I meant," muttered the disgruntled man as they walked the streets of Konoha side by side, walking from her apartment back to his.

Sakura snorted. "Perhaps you had a better idea, huh?" She glanced at him, raising an eyebrow. "It's decent. You don't have to walk half-naked around the village, and besides... I couldn't let you wear the mask because everyone would recognize you right away."

"Sooner or later the sharingan will burn a hole in this lens." This time it was he who snorted.

Sakura rolled her eyes. "You're just mad about this makeup and dress," hissed the pink-haired kunoichi, glancing at her companion. "I had to put on you the longer one, or else how would you show up in public with those unshaven legs?"

She raised an eloquent eyebrow, and Kakashi glared at her.

"Dressing me up as a woman doesn't necessarily fit into my to-do-list-of-things-before-I-die..."

"But you're a very beautiful woman," she replied, wiggling her eyebrows playfully.

Kakashi groaned pitifully when suddenly someone whistled behind them. Kakashi and Sakura stopped abruptly. Jōnin, in a wig with dark, long hair and purple contacts, looked at the nineteen-year-old boy with the dog at his side.

"Oi, Sakura! Who's your pretty friend?" Kiba said, eyeing Kakashi.

Haruno barely refrained from laughing, clenching her lips in a narrow line.

"Er... hello, Kiba," she greeted, waving her hand at him, and when she looked at Kakashi, she noticed the murderous expression on his face. "This is... Hekate Kinuko, my very distant cousin."

His expression remained unchanged, as if carved in stone, forever the same. Sakura bit her lower lip not to burst out laughing once again when Kiba winked at her sensei.

"Kinuko," Kiba said, as if he was tasting every letter of Sakura's imaginary name of a non-existent cousin. "Maybe you'd let me invite you on a dango?"

Haruno covered her mouth with her hand so as not to laugh again, then cleared her throat. "I'm afraid you're not her type, Kiba!"

Kakashi breathed barely visibly with relief. The only thing he needed in this situation was going on a date with a guy!

"Come on, Sakura. There's no other such handsome man like me in this village!" Kiba replied.

And here I would strongly disagree, Sakura thought maliciously.

"Sorry, Kiba, but Kinuko prefers women," Sakura replied, and Kakashi looked at her angrily, to which she silently replied; "At least, I didn't mess up your orientation."

Hatake shifted his gaze to the sky as Kiba smirked.

"We can always arrange a threesome, what do you say, Sakura?" The dog lover raised his eyebrows significantly, and Sakura flinched at the mere thought.

"Unfortunately, Kinuko and I are monogamists!" the pink-haired kunoichi retorted, and Kakashi, who was slowly fed up with this exchange, measured Kiba with a murderous gaze, from which the teenager shuddered and quickly changed the direction of his route, while Akamaru gave Kakashi a questioning look.

Well... you could easily deceive a man, but not a dog. I wonder if Akamaru will inform Kiba about this one day, Hatake thought maliciously.

Sakura and Kakashi continued their journey. Haruno had the brilliant idea that the man would move in with her for a while, as she had an extra room, which was empty. And her former sensei certainly needed a place where he wouldn't have to walk dressed as a woman, even if that meant sitting in Sakura's second bedroom all day long. However, they had to pick up some clothes from Kakashi's apartment and given his current status... they might have had a lot of trouble with it, but Sakura had a plan anyway.

"If Ino and Tenten are still there, I'll kick their asses," Haruno muttered, clenching her fist.

Kakashi snorted, an ironic smirk creeping across his lips.

"Relax, Sakura, or else I'll think that you're jealous," he said teasingly.

The mentioned one puffed up her lips as she considered his words, then gave him a contemptuous look. "Well, after a brief consideration, I think you deserve it."

"I deserved it? Why?"

"For ruining my social life," Sakura retorted, examining his surprised face.

"But I did nothing to..."

"To ruin my social life?" she finished for him, a smirk dancing on her lips. "Sensei, please. You're basically my free contraception..."

"Ah, that's what you mean..." the man muttered, searching in vain for pockets in his dress, into which he could stick his too masculine hands.

Sakura gave him a look from under a fan of long lashes.

"Don't you think I forgot about it. After all, it's because of you that I'm still a virgin... you've successfully scared my every partner away!" she hissed, waving her fist in front of his face.

How did they end up with this slippery subject? Kakashi thought dissatisfied.

"Well, I just made sure you didn't get hurt, no matter what kind of losers you picked. And yes, I also added Sasuke to this list," said the shinobi as if nothing bad had happened.

"Speaking of him, it would be a perfect revenge for scaring off his chosen one," Sakura laughed, looking at her sensei. "I don't think he'll ever forgive you for taking away such an ideal candidate for his heir's mother."

Kakashi rolled his eyes.

"He'll thank me for that. That girl had a monobrow... I doubt he would be happy if their child looked like this," remarked Kakashi reasonably, much to Sakura's delight.

"It would be interesting, at least," she replied. "And if she really cared about him, she wouldn't have been scared off that easily."

Kakashi smiled, eyeing his former apprentice suspiciously.

"Perhaps you haven't quite got over him yet," he said, and Sakura resisted the temptation to punch him on the shoulder, though her inner Sakura thundered, shannaro!

"No worries about that, sensei," she replied, dismissing him with a wave of her hand.

"You mean, after you've been crying on my shoulder for a whole month?" he asked, a smirk curling his lips.

Haruno cursed ugly under her breath, staring him down with the green of her eyes.

"You had to remind me of that, didn't you?" she snorted, crossing her arms over her chest.

Kakashi laughed. "I must admit that coming to you every night with a box of chocolates at that time was my favourite pastime. No matter how badly I had snotty sleeve after all this," he replied lightly, but his words made Sakura look at him suspiciously.

Could it be that her sensei... Haruno quickly chased this thought away. After all, Kakashi never had much to do in his life, so maybe she somehow made his life meaningful during this period, until she got used to the idea that Sasuke would forever remain her would-be killer. She accepted that fact, and though she still found him handsome, she had no deeper feelings for him. Well, maybe apart from friendship.

"You helped me a lot back then," she replied, ignoring his tease.

"Which doesn't change the fact that it took a long time and a lot of training under Tsunade before you recovered," he said.

Sakura smiled at that memory. "And many missions under your command."

"Ah, these missions were pretty interesting."

"If Naruto hadn't sabotaged each of them."

"Let's say that despite the destruction of our diversion, he always had an ace up his sleeve and thanks to that we were able to complete all missions successfully," Kakashi replied after some thought, looking at the building to which they were heading far too quickly. The man scanned his window but couldn't see through it if there were still intruders in his apartment.

"Is that why you let him as the only member of Team Seven score?" Sakura asked, eyeing her former teacher suspiciously.

Hatake seemed clearly amused at the observation of his only apprentice.

"Well, let's just say he had tough life, so he deserved a little something," he said, earning a punch in the arm from Sakura's fist.

"Sasuke also didn't have an easy life, and yet you select his girls... and you completely forbid me living my life!" the nineteen-year-old complained.

A mysterious smile adorned the man's lips.

"Let's put it this way. Naruto had never seen a lifetime partner in that girl, because she wasn't you," Kakashi replied, looking meaningfully at his companion. "Sasuke is looking for the other half, who will provide him with an heir. I think byakugan and sharingan are perfect for each other, no matter how crazy Hinata is about Naruto. He would never consider her for more than just a friend." Shinobi scratched his cheek, peering critically at the amount of foundation under his fingernail. "And then there's you, my sweet little cherry blossom."

Sakura blinked in surprise, still listening carefully to him.

"You who have never had your first real boyfriend, and who are eagerly throwing yourself at the immoral offers thrown around by groundless whippersnappers."

The pink-haired kunoichi considered the man's words. Yes, she never took all the boys she dated seriously, but if something had happened between them, wouldn't she have gotten to be attached to them? And they would then crush her heart with their boots... Maybe Kakashi was right about what he was doing, sticking out under her window every night. She had to admit that their evening talks were such a great entertainment for her and she never thought she would have so much in common with her former teacher to discuss. Well... at least until that flimsy mission, when Kakashi's face turned everyone's head... particularly all of the girls.

"If I allowed anything more than to get to first base, you'd become attached or worse, count on more than casual sex, and they would take advantage of you and then leave you,'' Kakashi continued as they reached the door leading inside the cool stairwell.

As they slowly made their way up the stairs, Sakura paid no attention to anything other than her teacher in disguise.

"They didn't care about you. I saw it right away, so I intervened every time. Perhaps too rashly, because in the end we learn from our mistakes, although I made too many of them in my life to let the three of you follow into my footsteps." Kakashi stopped in front of the door leading to his apartment and reached for the key to his pocket. "Perhaps I was too involved in all of this and took your safety to heart too much." You 're certainly not as fragile and vulnerable as you used to be..." Kakashi paused for a moment as he realized that he had no pockets in the dress he was wearing.

Sakura liked to listen to Kakashi's wisdoms, although they weren't always correct. It wasn't about their meaning, it was about the tone of his voice, so masculine and deep and pensive. It was this voice that made her fall asleep in its depth every night. Kakashi never blamed her for falling asleep in the middle of each of his tales of his adventures from his youth. And the young kunoichi would never admit to herself in her life that she fell in love with this image of a young and wrathful masked shinobi.

"So, you're saying that all you considered was just my broken heart?" she asked after some thought.

Kakashi gave her an inscrutable look as he patted his entire outfit for the missing key.

"I didn't want you to go through it all again," he said, and the young kunoichi's heart fluttered like the wings of a trapped butterfly, before adding, "All those chocolates were really expensive."

Sakura rolled her eyes and snorted.

"And apparently you liked that period of time..." she pointed out his previous words.

"Because I felt needed then," he replied thoughtfully, looking up at the ceiling of the stairwell, still analysing where his keys might have gone.

"You're needed all the time, sensei," Sakura said shyly, which met with his curious gaze wandering on her flushed face.

"Really?"

And then it hit him. He wrung his hands and looked helplessly in the direction of Sakura.

"My keys are left in the apartment," he said, pressing down on the handle.

The door didn't even budge.

"Maybe I'll try?" Sakura offered, but Kakashi grabbed her hand in time.

"You better don't... the rent is expensive enough for me already..." he said. "We'll go in through the window."

Sakura nodded.

The two shinobi went to the external stairs and made their way to the windows on the first floor of the building that led to the man's apartment. The first to squeeze through was Sakura, followed by Kakashi in disguise.

As soon as the feet of the pink-haired kunoichi were in the middle of the dark room, the first thing she saw were the overturned chairs and the table. And only after a while a blonde entered the living room, holding a bundle up to her left cheek.

"Sakura?!" Yamanaka was surprised.

Kakashi felt tense at the sight of his apartment like this. Fallen furniture wasn't a problem, although it would have required him a lot of energy to clean it up, and he didn't like that idea. The man would love to sigh, had it not been for the fact that Ino would have recognized his tired voice at once.

"You, nasty Pig!" Sakura snapped, as remembered that less than an hour ago Kakashi had escaped from his own apartment because of this girl. "You have nothing better to do, than just hang out in my sensei's apartment?!"

Yamanaka snorted.

"Like I did something bad... you're always coming here!" she bit back.

Sakura gritted her teeth, visibly furious.

"Because it's my ex-teacher! We're in the team together, and if I come over to visit him from time to time, it's fine!" Haruno didn't hide her agitation now. "At least I don't ride him like some prey, only because it turned out what a handsome guy was hiding under this mask!"

Kakashi standing right behind her twitched at her words, and Sakura a little too late realized what she said.

"It doesn't explain why you came here right after he escaped..." Ino replied, completely ignoring Sakura's teasing. "Are you hiding him?" she asked, eyeing her friend suspiciously.

"No!" Haruno retorted, violently looking for some explanation of her presence in the apartment of her sensei. "He had to go to the Hokage, and since he wasn't wearing fresh clothes, he asked me to collect a few from his apartment so that he could prepare for the next mission."

Ino sighed, putting what turned out to be an ice bag on the kitchen counter, and Sakura and Kakashi's eyes saw Yamanaka's swollen cheek as she looked back at them. Apparently, Tenten took the fight seriously...

"Shit," she hissed, looking around the apartment. "Tenten and I took it a little too seriously..."

Sakura rolled her eyes. "Just go away... I'll clean up here," she muttered.

The blonde smiled mysteriously.

"You?" Ino laughed. "Who's your new friend?" she asked, eying the stranger.

Sakura snorted. "She's my distant cousin, Kinuko. I didn't even know that she came today... I have a free room, so I offered her to stay with me so as not to tire my parents."

"So why don't we all three clean up here?" Ino suggested, and Sakura growled dissatisfied.

"We don't have time for that, Kakashi has to go on a mission at any moment," replied the pink-haired kunoichi.

Ino looked at Kinuko once more.

"Or maybe you also came here to compete for the favour of Kakashi-sensei?" the blonde wondered aloud.

Sakura sighed resignedly.

"Ino, no one here is interested in Kakashi more than you..."

"And you!" Her friend pointed out.

Sakura pursed her lips into a narrow line.

"You were going to visit him today too, weren't you?"

"But not for the same purpose as you!"

"Maybe you won't seduce him outright, but you surely want to take him for yourself!" Ino complained.

Kakashi shifted from foot to foot, clearly tense with their exchange. The fact that he was standing right behind Sakura didn't make it any easier for her.

"Maybe your cousin also thinks she has a chance with Hatake?"

Haruno rolled her eyes.

"You're paranoid, Ino," said the young kunoichi, then added, "Kinuko isn't interested in men at all, and I'm here to pack Kakashi's things!"

Yamanaka smiled slyly.

"Then pack and I'll have a look," she said, pointing to the bedroom.

Sakura swallowed loudly. It wasn't the best idea. She didn't want to rummage in Kakashi's things at all. Especially that he himself was here and he could have done it, but for Ino.

"This cousin of yours isn't very talkative," Ino said after a moment, when Sakura still hasn't moved.

"It's because she came to see Tsunade, because she lost her voice after the last mission," Sakura made it up quickly.

Kakashi made a pained face as if something was wrong with him, and Ino looked back at her friend.

"Amazing, she's kunoichi too?" Yamanaka was surprised.

Kakashi nodded.

"Yes," Sakura said at the same time, then slowly moved towards the man's bedroom.

Her hesitation was noticed.

"What's wrong with you, Sakura? What makes you so intimidating about fumbling with your former teacher's belongings?" Ino said venomously.

Sakura pressed her lips into a narrow line so as not to say a word.

"You've already seen the worst!" The blonde laughed.

Kakashi wanted it all to be over. He was sick of the makeup, the lenses, the dress, and even the wig that made his head itch. But more importantly... he would rather be alone with Sakura again... and ask her a few questions.

"I'm sure you've seen a lot more scandalous things than I did, Ino-Pig," Sakura bit back, stopping in front of the door.

Yamanaka laughed.

"Me? Me?!" When Ino started laughing again, Sakura pushed the door to the other room, but she was stopped by her friend's next words, "You're more scandalous than me!" Another burst of laughter, fury boiled in Haruno. "You're the only woman who has ever read the same kinky books as your sensei!"

The mentioned one frowned menacingly and slowly turned to face Sakura's old rival, who seemed to be trying to regain that name.

"Only because Kakashi made me do it!" she barked back, recalling how, on the night before her first date, Kakashi showed up in her apartment, opened the book and held her head right above her, instructing her to read until she learned the risk of a heartbreak. And perhaps Sakura would have punched him in the face, if not for the fact that the scene she started reading she liked very much.

Yes, Haruno already knew the pain of a broken heart from the moment Sasuke tried to kill her, and Kakashi then tried to heal them and glue all the broken pieces together. And perhaps her ex-sensei thought she wasn't ready for another punch. And maybe he was right, he had helped her in some way.

"Say that to yourself, pervert!" Ino said to her.

Sakura huffed, clearly angry, then stormed into Kakashi's bedroom, with Kinuko behind her. Haruno started to angrily complete sets of clothes. She pulled some of his uniforms out of the wardrobe, folding them into squares on the bed, while their rightful owner stood in the doorway, staring at her with wide eyes. It was then that Sakura hesitantly approached the small chest of drawers, from which she began to take out his underwear one by one.

"I'm not sure if Kakashi will need underwear during his mission," Sakura said, examining the silhouette of the man dressed in a dress.

Kakashi in disguise barely nodded.

Sakura sighed resignedly and started arranging the man's underwear on the pile of clothes until something strange in the drawer caught her attention. Haruno once again walked towards the small piece of furniture, carefully examining the thing completely incompatible with the men's underwear set, and after a while she pulled out a dark cotton bra decorated with a bow in the middle.

The pink-haired kunoichi opened her mouth in surprise when she realized that she knew this bra. She gave Kakashi a questioning look, pointing to the bra hanging from her finger.

"And I don't think it belongs to him," Ino remarked, standing right behind Kakashi, looking over his shoulder.

Sakura quickly regained control of her voice. "Of course, it's not! This is my bra!" She snapped.

Ino put her hand on Kakashi's shoulder.

"What a pervert of your teacher," Ino said. "And he seemed so saint when he pushed me off this morning..."

Sakura gave her friend a contemptuous look.

"You're addicted to sex, Ino," Sakura muttered, folding her bra on the pile of clothes, which looked like a cherry on top of this pile of uniforms and underwear.

"Really, Dirty Forehead?" She wiggled her eyebrows playfully. "By the way, what does he need your bra for? Mine would be more interesting, not only bigger but also much more intriguing and made of lace, and also..."

"Enough!" Kakashi snapped, tearing off the wig and the dress, he was wearing his pants under.

Ino smiled slyly.

"I see you lasted a long time, Kakashi-sensei," she said in a lascivious tone as her hand began to slide from the man's shoulder through his torso until... Kakashi moved away.

"Get out of here!" The furious man roared, turning to Ino, who didn't flinch.

Sakura froze with her hands clenched on the book, which she took out from under the pile of underwear in the drawer.

"She also, or just me?" Ino asked with a mysterious smile wandering on her lips.

"Answer this question yourself," Kakashi growled, before he started towards the bathroom to get rid of the lenses and that hideous makeup that made his skin no longer breathe.

When he returned to his bedroom, he didn't notice Ino anywhere, and Sakura was still standing with the book in her hands. She looked paralyzed.

"This bra..." the man began, wiping the rest of the water off his face with a towel. "It was a gift from you."

Sakura glanced from his face through his naked torso to the line of his pants.

"How...?" She was surprised, and the book slipped from her hand and fell with a thud to the floor.

Kakashi ran his fingers through his hair nervously. "Do you remember Naruto's eighteenth birthday?"

Sakura frowned as she thought hard about it, but she couldn't remember anything, so she shook her head.

"You felt uncomfortable in it and you just took it off and told me to keep it as a souvenir," Kakashi replied, and Sakura's mouth opened in shock.

"I was so drunk that I gave you, my bra?"

"Not only that..." he replied, scratching his nape in embarrassment. "You told me your feelings then and you kissed me..."

Sakura's face turned pale to match the colour of his bedroom wall.

"But how... how...?" she gasped.

Kakashi moved towards her, stopping only when he was right in front of her. He put his hands on her shoulders and took a deep breath.

"I've never felt so good in my life as at that night when you said you love me and you kissed me, but all I could think about was... why I deserved for your love, or maybe it was just alcohol speaking for you? But I kept this bra as a souvenir, because my mind often pranks on me, and that way I was at least sure that it had really happened and that I hadn't made it up," he explained, and one of his hands landed on her cheek.

Sakura was in such shock that she didn't register this delicate touch at all.

"Since then, I decided that I wouldn't let anyone else come to you, not because they didn't deserve you, but because of my sick desire to have you for myself... through all the years in which I visited you every night were proof of my devotion to you, but until you confessed your love to me, I had no idea what was driving me... well, now I know."

Sakura blinked surprised once again. She searched her head for the right words but had absolutely no idea how to respond to his confession. It was deep and beautiful and... too unreal to be true. Was it her dream?

"I have no idea what you'd like to hear from me, Kakashi. Beside the fact that I'm grateful to you for the time and attention given to me, I also... in some way got used to your company and at some point I began to notice how important role you played in my life; until... that flimsy mission, when your mask was torn to shreds, I had no idea who was hiding behind it and when... Ino and Tenten discovered it, somehow I felt jealous... I don't know why, but I wanted to shout to them that I had the priority, because I fell in love with you even before you showed me your face, I lost my heart for you, fell for your personality. And I didn't want it to be taken from me..."

Sakura had a feeling that her tongue was starting to get tangled, but luckily, Kakashi came to her aid. He pulled her close to him and placed a kiss on her lips. The pink-haired kunoichi didn't argue, just clung to him even more when their tongues pressed together, as if in a dance. The blood boiling in their bodies drowned out all sounds, so perhaps she only thought that Kakashi whispered between their kisses, "You're mine."