His Bloodied Blossom

Chapter 3: Keeping Your End of the Wager

Naruto's Pov:
Near border of Land of Fire

Today was a day to be remembered, this would be team 7's first ever mission outside of the village.

But it was more than that for Naruto. It was also the day that Naruto would be stuck without ramen.

For two weeks...

He was screaming internally. He was torn, should he be happy or distraught?

So he did the next best thing...

He whined.

"Kakashi-Sensei! When are we gonna be there?! I'm tired and hungry and I-!" Naruto was cut off when a kunai was put to his throat.

"Stop whining! You're giving me a headache! So shut up!" Kakashi growled out at him, sending chills down his spine.

"H-hai s-sensei!" Naruto squeaked in fear. He knew that he wasn't the only one who was scared, he looked over at their charge only to find his hands shaking as he held his sake bottle.

Now Naruto didn't particularly like their charge, he was rude and disrespectful to him and his team, simply because they were genin and they couldn't possibly protect him.

Kakashi hadn't bothered to defend them either! Sasuke has glared at said man, while Naruto struggled to keep his mouth shut-in fear of being dismantled- and Sakura, she just let it roll off her, she didn't seem to care at all.

So now here they were walking down a road on their way to the land of Waves.

This was going to be one loooong mission...

Sakura's Pov
Forest Near the Border of Waves

Sakura tried to keep as physically calm as she could, trying not to kill their client, he was a total douche.

Sakura allowed a long drawn out sigh to come from her. It wasn't that she didn't want yo be here, It was just the person they were asked to escort that was the problem.

A voice broke her from her thoughts, a very familiar voice.

"What Sakura? Tired already?" Kakashi teased from her left.

She scowled at him and said, "No! I just want this mission to be over with. And if anything you are gonna be the one who wants to go home first, because you just can't wait to get back to that smut of yours!" She teased back.

This had become a regular occurrence, Kakashi would tease her, she would tease right back without hesitation. It was sort of relieving, because even after a month of being on team Kakashi she hadn't really found out a lot, except that 1: He had a small summoning names Pakun. 2: He read icha icha paradise. 3: He loved getting brand new kunai. 4: He loved to tease her.

He hadn't given a reply so she knew that she was right, and so did he.

She smirked at him, but stopped, her hand struck out to grab Kakashi's hand, she felt him freeze as she gripped his hand tightly.

"Kakashi..." She said quietly, her gaze downcast.

"Sakura?" He said his voice strained.

For some reason his heart beated a little faster than before.

"Look, this puddle, it hasn't rained in weeks...This isn't right..." She said gripping his hand tightly.

For some reason Kakashi felt slightly disappointed, but also relieved. He also knew that what she said was true, it hadn't rained in weeks.

Kakashi suddenly felt movement behind him, and as if instinct reacted he yelled. "Get down!" And he tackled Sakura to the ground, they barely missed being hit by a claw-like hand.
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Kakashi's Pov

He was angry.

No, check that.

He was down right pissed off.

They tried to harm his students, to kill his students, and that alone was something he could not let go unchecked.

As hard as he wished to deny it, those little shitheads had grown on him. And although he would never admit it to anyone, his female student had grown on him the most...

"Sasuke! Naruto! Protect Tazuna! Sakura, fight with me!" He ordered, and they didn't hesitate to obey his command.

In a flash Sakura was by his side, Sasuke and Naruto stood on either side of Tazuna, kunai drawn, body's tense, ready at any moment to attack if need be.

He watched his student stand next to him, nothing but determination etched into her face.

This would be fun.

He saw as the Demon Mist Brothers stood in front of him.

"Are you ready to shed some blood, Pinkie?" His eyes gleamed with bloodlust.

"The question is, are you?" She retorted smugly.

"Heh, I always am bitch. Just you watch." He said as they stared down their opponents.

"Hm, alright, how about this? If I take out my guy faster than you do yours, you have to do whatever I tell you to, same goes for you if you win." She was being smug again, and he knew it.

"You're going to lose!" He yelled as his bloodlust hit it's peak and was rolling off him in waves.

They jumped at their opponents.

It's safe to say that Kakashi won.
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Sakura's Pov
Tazuna's House

"Dammit.." She muttered underneath her breath. She had finished her dinner and decided to sit on the roof. It had been three days since they had made it to Tazuna's home, on their way there, they had been attacked by Zabuza, a rouge nin from the Village Hidden in the Mist.

And Kakashi had proceeded to tell them he was fine after their encounter with him, when in all reality he had barely made it to Tazuna's doorstep before he collapsed on top of Sakura.

The thing that really bothered her was that he won their, she guessed, wager? Of theirs, and it pissed her off beyond belief.

Having enough of being alone with her thoughts she stood, and brushed imaginary dust away from her clothes.

"Done staring at the sunset pinkie?" A voice called to her.

She gasped and spun around, only to find her sensei there. His headband was gone, exposing the scar across his left eye to her.

A pair of red and black eyes clashed with emerald ones.

"You're awake!" She said, despite her attempts to not sound happy, she failed.

"Ah, and I see you are happy to see me! You have no idea how much that means to me!" He faked an exasperated look and smirked at her. The sarcasm that came from him made Sakura frown slightly. Even though he knew what he said was true, and so did she.

"You'd love that wouldn't you Kakashi?" She said as she spun back around to look at the sunset.

He stepped up behind her, to probably look at the sunset, she told herself, just to keep other thoughts at bay.

"Oh of course I would! But. You know what I'd love even more?" He said as one of his hands made it's way to her hip, the other on the side of her rib cage. He gave an animalistic growl, his teeth lightly grazing over her shoulder. She froze when he whispered ever so huskily in her ear.

"If you kept your end of the wager..."

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Whew! My favorite chapter so far! I'm kinda disappointed that hardly any one has read this story, but these things take time of course. So as always! See you next time!
                         -lovesnaruto7