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The soft light of the morning failed to grace the residents of Konaha with it's presence today, but stubborn rays of light still managed to push their way through the thickness of the gathering clouds. The sweat smell of rain could be felt in the air if one merely held thier head into the soft breeze which swept across the tall and proud country. But, did anyone really have time to just stop and smell the upcoming rain? If they knew the clouds were heavy, could see the clouds ready to rain.Why would anyone take the time to feel it? Isn't that what this world has come to?If you know of it's existance and you can see it through your eyes, there's really no reason to feel it, is there?Or is the reason held behind fear of once you feel it, the fact that it will rain becomes absolute.It is human nature to first know of it's arrival, than to cry and be sad when it finally arrives.

Sakura, on the other hand, could not see the cloud grow heavy over the once blue sky due to the fact that tree cover above rendered her gaze to the forest scenary around her. The required shinobi foot wear she did indead wear lay of the surface of the rocky floor motionless.Distant chirping of some strange bird failed to break the now nineteen year old's focus on the sounds around her. Even her long odd pink hair fell motionless against her face with the lack of any sort of wind. The trees that covered the wind from reaching her also managed to block the already darkened light to make the shadows blend perfectly into the darkness and completly disappear.Her chest glisened slightly in what lttle light remain around her as her breathing rose the chest up then down when she inhaled and exhaled breaths of effort. Her soft yet chapped pale red lips parted ever so slightly to allow her lungs with the air they desired.Her beautiful green eyes, pierced the surrounding for any sort of movement no matter how slight or rapide. But so far everything she gaze upon were thick tree trunks that remain motionless, and the dead leaves that had fallen from them.None of which posed any threat to an experienced jounin as herself.

The kunai knife that she grasped in her bandaged hand tightened considerably once the sences picked up the presence of another.Hidden deeply an well behind the large leaves and wood could not hide the chakra that they set free from their bodies unwillingly.But then again perhaps her visitor knew of this flaw and had purposely set themselves close to her as a diversion to another attack.Not willing to take the chance of a surprise attack, Sakura performed a seris of seal at rapide speed, her hand positions seeming to morph together at the speed they were performed.Soon three other identical Sakura's pulled free from the smoke surrounding the original, successfuly hidding the identy of the first.Each version too grasped the kunai within their hands as each copy pressed backs with another untill a small circle was formed between the four.Four pair of eyes searched the surroundings, finding nothing untill...

The three others mentally gasped in surprise as their sister copy melted into the rocks beneath thier feet but remained completly unfazed to the untrainded eye.The enemy had attack the copy with exceptional speed as to not be seen by niether of the three, but Sakura knew that they were well aware of just which one was indeed the real one and was merely playing with her.She needed to think of a new plan. One that isn't familer to the enemy, but how?

Sakura quickly disappeared into a puff of pink smoke, all three remaining followed the lead.Together each copy seperated from their sisters to confuse the one that challenged her, speeding in compelty irratical movements that could throw even the most skilled eyes from the target.Suddenly, when all three copys managed to gather together for a split second, a ray of kunai entered each copy's body skillfully.And caused them to fall back into the cloud of pink of which they were born, leaving only one standing.The real one not born of Jutus or of clouds of fake birth, but the one which heart's beat rapidly within her chest.Landing on one of the surrounding trees surface with no effort, a smirk replaced the once completey calm face of Haruno Sakura.

"Damn that eye"She cuckled softly hearing a similar reaction echo through the compact area inwhich today's training had been held.

"Don't blame the Sharigen for your misfortunes, Sakura."She heard the low toned reply that seemed to come at her from every direction as if he was surrounding her.Sakura sealed her hands together and gently pressed her fingertips against her soft lips in focus.She could feel his chakra increase, signalling some sort of attack, but what she had yet to figure out.All she could do was to transfer chakra to her feet in an attempt to somehow match his speed knowing that any Jutus who be easily copied.It was, after all, his nickname.

Then her attacked, before she could see him move, he had appeared infront of her.His leg swung around ina round house kick, attempting to make contact with the shinobi's head.Sakura, using the exeptional skill of chakra focus, quickly dogded the kick and clenched her hand into a fist.Thrusting it forward at the masked man that had yet to regain his composure from the initial attack, it would have made contact with his face if Kakashi hadn't managed to duck down just in time for Sakura's fist to punch right past his head.Using the left leg that swung around to straight kick at the womens chest from his position still crutched on the branch.Sakura gasped and swiftly blocked his attack, grabbing his foot it the process.Smirk as if she had somehow goten the upper hand on the situation, Sakura began to spin around, and with a grunt of triumph, tossed Kakashi's body away straight towards the trunk of the tree.But gasped in surprise when Kakashi puffed into a log when it made contact.Cursing, Sakura quickly leapt up, grasping the top branch above her as a large fire ball flew at where she had previously stood. Pulling her body up to stand on the surface she blocked a punch aimed straight at her face, her leg lifted to strick Kakashi's waist from the side but his hand blocked the blow.She felt his gloved hands grab her ankle.She kicked her leg madly, trying to get him to release her, untill she came up with an idea.Her leg lifted high above his head so his hand, still grasping her ankle, matched his height.Sakura saw his eyebrow raise at her actions.

"Nice trick."He grinned.Sakura grinned, then quickly withdrew into her body and thrustened it into his chest.Finally able to make contact with the man that was thought to be untouchable, as he stummbled backwords.Sakura set her leg down on the branch and regained the fighting stance she once held.Kakashi, appearing unfazed, too entered his stance.

"Is it still so nice?"Sakura smirked.Kakashi chuckled, his deep masculin voice piercing the quiet.

"It gave an old man some entertainment."He shrugged.

"Well if you liked it that much, perhaps I can use it elsewhere also."She shrugged abscent mindedly.Than lunged towards him, sticking her fist out at his body, not surprised to have his easily block.She twisted her body so that her other leg too kicked at him, aiming at the smirking face that watched her efforts.This too was blocked.Trying a different angle, Sakura knelt down and swung her foot in an attempt to trip the man before her but missed as his body twisted into a backflip at rapide speed then lunged forword at the recovering Sakura.Grabbing her wrists, he tackled her to the tree.Her back hitting the surface with a thud, but immedity knew that if he wanted to he could inflick more damage then that.

"Stop going easy on me Kakashi."She snapped, glaring playfully into his multicoloured eyes that stood mere centimetres from her face.She could hear his deep breathes that he inhaled than exhaled onto her face, feeling the hot waves of air as it escaped through his black mask which covered his lower face.

"Why, you've given me no reason not to."Kakashi winked at her, as if to feed the fuel to the frustration he knew she was feeling.

"It would appear I've been underestimated."Before Kakashi could react, threads of thin yet extremely strong wires intrapped him in a binding hold, causing his hands to release hers.Kakashi frowned in surprise as her was dragged away from her and slammed into the tree trunk that stood beside her.Chuckling at the sight of the mighty Hatake Kakashi tied effortlessly to a simple tree, she rose to her feet as leapt off the trunk to land before him.Grinning madly, Sakura watched Kakashi smiling right back at her.Finally getting slightly annoyed at his happiness as asked him what was so damn funny.

Kakashi chuckled."I've been underestimated aswell."The kunai he had been using to slice the wires had finally been able to cut right through and he leapt to his feet.With great speed, his palm thrusted towards Sakura who twisted her upper body to the side, dodgeing the attack.Kakashi's other palm inturn thrusted into Sakura direction, but she twisted her body to the other side missing it again.Kakashi tried a roundhouse kick, but Sakura swiftly bent forward allowing his leg to fly straight over top of her back.Quickly she bent back into a back flip attempting to kick him in the process, but Kakashi had enough time to block then through a punch at her as she exited her flip .Sakura managed to block barely, before Kakashi's other fist swung at her from the side,she put up her forearm to block.Kakashi swiftly reached out and before she knew it both his hands grasped hers and , twisting his body, effortlessly tossed her weight over his shoulder.Sakura gasped and landed on the tree trunk, using her chakra so she was able to remain verical on the surface.Leaping from the crutched positon she lunged her heel at his body, but his hands blocked her attack as she desended down.Using his foreheads as a support system she pushed herself away in a back flip.Landed a few feet away, she immediatly propelled herself forward.Thrusting a clenched fist towards Kakashi he moved out of the line of fire, then again as she attack with the other hand.Swifty knelling down she swung her foot ,attempting to trip him, but Kakashi fipped off the branch.He began a full out nose dive down from the surprisingly high tree branch towards the floor.His sharigen glanced to the side at the suddenly movement to the left of him where he saw Sakura falling as he did.Her pink hair blow madly as the wind caused by the fall blew against her skin.

"Stop running away from me!"She cried other the loud wind.Kakashi smirked.

"Who says I'm running?"He cried, his hands quickly performing a rapide number of seals, Sakura cursed and too quickly performed another set of seals of her own.Soon a huge fire ball hurled towards her, but she couted with a large wall of leaves and dirt that extinquished the blaze.Flashing the man a dangerous gaze, she increased her desent by folding her dody into a thin matter with easily flew past all the air molecules.Jsut before she landed, Sakura clenched her hand into a fist and with a cry of strenght struck the ground below her with all she had.The hard rock immediatly bust into thousands of pieces, sending huge cracks running as far away as miles.The strong trees that once stood as if nothing could bring then down were litterly ripped from their comfortable place in the ground and crummbled deep into the landslide of bolders.Kakashi mentally cursed as he quickly sealed a Jutus and shot out long wires from his hand, slipping them around the branches above.He gribbed onto them as they gratfully stoppped his descent, knowing that he would have surely been swollowed up by the rocks below if he hadn't.

After a while all the shifting rocks stopped and slide into thier new positons, Kakashi looked down upon a sea of bolders and ripped up grass along with many half buried trees in amazment.It still troubled him deeply at how much strenght one small girl was capable of releasing at any moment.Seeing that Sakura had landing safely on the ground with no effort and was calmly looking up at where he hung.

"Jesus Christ Sakura."Was all that mangaed to escape his lips as the shock and awe began to wear off.He saw he smile and shrug."Perhaps, that's end of training today?"He replyed.She nodded in agreement with a sigh and allowed herself to fall backwards to the floor with a careless thud.Shutting her tired eyelids against the warmth of the air that day.Now that she had nothing to focus completely on , she could feel that werid feeling she felt everytime it was about to rain, but today and at that moment, her overheated body would gladly welcome the cool water from above.Her eyes opened slowly and gazed upon the masked face of Kakashi as he towered over her. Still quite tall even though Sakura has grown considerably.His eye curved up into a smile as he looked at the obviously tired shinobi below.

"Great workout Sakura.But next time could you try not to kill me.?"He replyed.Sakura smirked and once again allowed her heavy eyelids to do as they desired and shut them.

"It wouldn't have killed you, but it would have sealed the match for me." Kakashi scratched his head, and replyed with a simple nod of his head."Come lay down with me."She jestered to the ground beside her, after a moment of what Sakura knew was mental agrument, he did as she requested and sank to the rocks below, resting his tired body on the surprising soft surface.Resting his gloved hands behind his head after her adjusted the headband around his head down over the Sharigen as the use of it drained his chakra if he used it to often.

Silence fell over the couple as they remained still against the soothing rest that thier tired bodies requiered after training all morning.Bird's calling to eachother up in the trees that remained standing, echoed down and made Sakura grin slightly.She loved the fact that she could do so much damage to this forest ground and yet, life remained.The world turned just as it should and animal's returned to their business as if nothing had happened.

Slowly, but never hesitating what her consiquences would be, reached out blindly and linked her slender fingers with the strong bold hands that rested beside her.Kakashi willingly allowed this.Loveing the feeling of her hands resting in his so casualy.

Sakura rolled over and shifted as that her hips now stratled his chest, letting her long pink hair carelessly fall over her shoulder and hang just beside his masked face.His hands came to set on her small waist as if that's where they truly belonged.Her fingers began to run through his sort yet odd silver hair.Fasinated by how easily it permitted her actions, no tangles what so ever.

"You like me hair, don't you?"Kakashi smiled up at the women that stratled his chest.

"It's just, unique."She whispered softly, not removing her gaze from his hair where he hand still played.

"Is that a good thing?"Kakashi chuckled softly.Sakura nodded, finally turning her attention to his one black orb that still looked up at her.

"Hey, I was thinking.."Sakura suddenly churped up.

"Yea?And what about?"Kakashi grinned lovingly up at the women that stared back at him.Casualy slipping his gloved hand up underneath the skin tight black t-shirt that she usually would waer to train in, felling the cooling sensation of the beads of sweat that formed on the small of her back from the morning of intense training.Sakura still perfered to train with her ex-teacher turned lover for some reason.Problably still wanted to learn more skills that he had yet to teach her.

"We should go dancing tonight."Sakura squealed as his body suddenly in a blink of an eye had somehow flipped over so that his defined body now took the position above the small yet also defined body below.Relying on the straingth of his arms to prevent him from falling on top of the slender body beneath him,as the beautiful sound of her laugh brang pleasure to his worn out body.

"What makes you think that I can dance?"He inquired with a raising of an eyebrow.Sakura shrugged below him letting the hands that once strocked his hair transfer down to slip underneath the jounin vest he wore and deep into the t-shirt that lay below, loving the feeling of his tight chest museles against her slender fingers.She then allowed his masked lips to desend down onto hers ina soft yet passionate kiss.

"SAKURA?"The sudden call abruptly hulted all actions between the two."SAKURA WHERE ARE YOU?"Kakashi swiftly lifted his body from her and rolled immediatly away to come to rest his back against the tree beside the two.Sakura propped herself up onto her elbows, glancing over at him with a glare in her eyes.Her chest filled with a sinking feeling as she watched his hand reach behind him and pull out a copy of that strange perverted book he always kept.How Sakura hated that damn book.How she hated the way his expression always shifted to completly unreadable whenever someone stepped into the moment she shared with him.She fought back the tears that formed behind her eyes at his constant actions.

"Sakura there you are, I've been looking all over for you."She looked up to see Ino running towards her, her long blonde hair blewing in the wind behind her.When she finally arrived, Sakura noticed how out of breathe Ino was as her breathing remained deep even after arriving.Unlike Sakura, she had chosen to remain as a chuunin and not take the final exam to becoming a Jounin as she did. And as a result her stamina level would always remain lower that that of her old friend.

"What is it?"Sakura asked, knowing that she she shouldn't take her anger out of her friend that obviously wanted to talk with her, but Sakura desperatly needed to release the bottled anger she felt as a result of Kakashi's actions.

"I was wondering if you'll be joining me and Shikamaru for a drink tonight.Of course Kakashi-sensei is welcome as well."Kakashi's ears perked up in fake surprise of the mention of his name when he had been intently listening in to Sakura's friend.Lifting his head to look into the deep blue eyes that watched him, he managaed to remain completly unemotional even when his mix-matched eyes fell onto Sakura as she turned her gaze away from him and sat up straight."Come out with me and Sakura tonight for a drink."Ino smiled.Kakashi pointed at his chest in confussion.

"Me?"He asked.Ino friendly nodded."Uh, well I'm alittle to old to be partying all night as a younge soul such as yourself in capable of."Kakashi replyed.

"Nonsense.You're not old at all, tell him Sakura."Ino replyed turning to her friend who had tuned herself from the conversation."Sakura?"Ino asked when she failed to reply.

"Fine."Ino turned back to Kakashi at his sudden repsonse."I agree to come for ONE drink."He agreed."Now run along, Sakura and I have some training to finish off."Ino nodded.

"Ok, bye Sakura!"Ino called as she ran off from where she came once again leaving Sakura and Kakashi alone.

It was a moment of silence before anyone spoke up.Kakashi was the first.

"Sakura, If you don't want me to go, then I will not."He replyed as he slipped the book back into his back pocket.

"You don't get it, do you?"He raised an eyebrow in confusion, awaiting her continuation.Sakura slowly turned to face him."It's the fact that I want you to go that angers me."

"I fail to understand."Kakashi replyed.

"Kakashi, I love you." Said Sakura.Kakashi blinked.

"I love you too."He replyed

"Then why much I be the only one to know that!"Sakura cried, her loud voice piercing through the quiet forest.Kakashi hung his head, shutting his eyes.

"Sakura,I'm sorry, but I just don't think that now is the best time to tell everyone.Please understand."He whispered.Sakura narrowed her eyes in saddness as she slowly crawled over to where he sat, laying her head onto his chest, as his arms welcomed her into a tight embrace.

"I don't, but if it's what you want I am glad to keep this silence."

"Thank you."He whispered.

"But it's been two years.When will be the right time?"Sakura asked, her hands gribbing to the thick material of his uniform.

"Soon, Sakura.Soon."