Hey! I'm Nops. I've written fanfics before but this is my first time with Naruto. so i guess in a way i'm kinda new on naruto archive ok im babbling but yeah... I have never written a story with fighting and stuff, only lovey dovey so I will try okay.lol. I hope I can do okay with this story. The title of course is from the song I love very much starlight by muse. The lyrics are so awesome!oh yeah the beginning of the chapter, the lyrics are not mine. -sighs- please read and review!

STARLIGHT

By: Nops

Rated: M for mature.

Story/action.

Thoughts.

"….." speaking

A/N: Author's note

Summary: Sakura is nineteen-year-old naïve and innocent jounin, trying to go through life. Life gets harder when she falls for a certain silver haired jounin, who's always been there for her. When he does know her feelings, how will he react? Trouble and tension brews near borders as well, could somebody be after Sakura?

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto and its characters. They belong to Mr. Masashi Kishimoto. I also don't own Muse's " Starlight." lyrics.

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Chapter 1

Far away, this ship is taking me far away…

A twig being stepped on was heard nearby. The light blue sky with white clouds hovered the forest shading certain trees. One of which, a huge cloud shadow loomed over a huge tree. In one of the branches, a girl stood close with her back facing the trunk. She had pink hair that flowed down her back to her elbows like a waterfall. Her usually beautiful drowning green eyes was squinted and very alert as she was concentrating, ready for her opponent to strike.

He made a mistake, she thought, it was one of those rare times. When he let slip and set a twig broken in half. That alerted her that his presence was very, very near. In fact, he was too close, one careless mistake and she could give away her location. She held her breath and let it out as slow and quite as possible. Beads of sweats began to form on her no longer prominent forehead.

She was getting very anticipated and quite impatient now. He was dead silent and she knew that he knew that she was very close by as well. Her grip on the trunk tightened, her legs begun to get numb. It was still for a minute or two, Sakura could only hear the crowing of birds and a hint of a stream nearby. But she had sensed no sign of human movement.

She took another deep and slow breath again. Then, she saw, between the spaces of the thick leaves, the silver haired jounin walking casually and slowly towards a tree right in front of her. What the hell is he playing at? The kunoichi is very confused. She witnessed as he walked and sat himself down at the tree, and pulled out his orange icha-icha book.

Why that bastard! Sakura was angry now. How could he, when they were in a serious spar for once, this was one of the longest times Sakura could hide without him sensing her, just pull out that stupid pervy book and read. Unaware of what will happen to her, she quickly leaped out of the tree, straight at him.

Her face furrowed in confusion more as she saw the Kakashi reading turned into wood.

Her body still airborne, Sakura realized, with her fists formed into a punch, the wind blowing in her face, this was just a trap. She fell for it, hook, line and sinker.

Shit!

She tried to turn her body and land as far away as possible.

" Too late." The real Kakashi said, behind her. He was also in the air, ready for her.

Sakura was not going to give up just yet.

She kicked him hard in the stomach and landed about a distance from him.

Kakashi winced at the impact her leg left on his abdomen but recovered quickly as he landed on the grass a few metres away from her.

Sakura ran towards him, fists ready to try and take him out. She leaped and aimed towards his face. He was too quick and caught her tiny fists in his large hands. Sakura then used her legs again and kicked him in the chest to give her a boost and she jumped off him.

Before she landed, a series of kunai's were thrown at her, one caught her in the back, she landed on the ground again and removed it. Kakashi was nowhere to be seen. She secured her perimeter looking above, far left far right, just in case she could see a glance of silver.

In an instant, somebody grabbed her from the back, crushing her arms together. Unable to move, she closed her eyes as her face landed first on the ground, with the person on top of her, her hands still behind her back.

" ooomph. No fair." A muffled voice shouted from the face that was currently inside the ground. She shook her face, and turned around to Kakashi, who was still sitting on top of her.

" Sakura, you have to exercise and get fitter, we've been only sparring for three hours and you're very exhausted."

" Four!" Sakura corrected him loudly, wincing from pain at his weight on her back.

"Nevertheless, you still need more training. From tomorrow, we will lessen our spar time and put that into training you mentally and physically fit."

He slowly removed his position of kneeling on top of her and stood up, brushing his vest and pants.

Sakura wriggled while lying on the ground. Her muscles aching like hell from the day's training.

Sakura turned around and lay on her back.

" It's getting late. I'll walk you home." Kakashi said, he held out his hand for Sakura to take. Sakura took it and he helped her up.

Kakashi stared at her for a moment, before laughing behind his mask.

" What?"

" I ought to do this to you more often. Your face looks very intimidating covered in mud."

Sakura gasped and punched him in the arm.

But she laughed as well.

It was another good day, she thought, staring ahead of her.

There was silence between them, Sakura lost in her own thoughts, Kakashi simply chose this moment to observe the young kunoichi. She was no longer an obsessed-with-Sasuke-lovestruck twelve year old. Sakura is nineteen now, young, strong and cares for anyone else beside herself. And him, he was getting old as well.

" Kakashi?" Sakura's voice gently interrupted his thoughts like a simple breeze on a candle.

True, they were so close now, Sakura even called Kakashi by his name now, only on occasions where she wants to annoy him now, she would use the former sensei.

" Hn." He grunted.

" I miss them." Sakura's voiced was sharpened with sadness.

After Sasuke left, Sakura was very vulnerable and depressed. She got close with Naruto, they became so close friends, but life turned on her again. She was depressed and lonely when Naruto joined ANBU. By that time, Sasuke returned, claiming to have killed his brother Itachi. But he too, joined ANBU, and so Sakura was very lonely and left out of the old team seven. Kakashi saw from the beginning, and now they're really close friends. He thought she's quite over Sasuke now. She loved them dearly like brothers, but now they're always out on missions, being in ANBU and all.

" How long has it been?" Sakura asked.

" A month, they'll be back in two more weeks. Don't worry." Kakashi comforted her.

He pulled out his Icha Icha on deserted island for a month and flipped a page open.

" Ruin the moment why don't you." Sakura groaned sarcastically. When they're having these heart-to-heart, he just had to pull out the stupid book.

" Our moment is finished."

" Kakashi, I wonder how'd you react if I stole all your books and burned them."

" I'd have to kill you." He said quietly.

" uuurgh…" Sakura groaned in frustration, she hates it when he reads and he doesn't pay attention to her.

" Kakashi…"

Kakashi kept on reading.

" Sensei!"

" hn. Anything I can do?"

" Why do you have to read all the time?"

" Sakura-chan." He said this to annoy her, and ruffled her hair.

" Can't a guy do what he wants?"

" Pervert." She said quietly.

" Sa-ku-ra." He said with a slight irritation. " I'm a mature man, I have my desires."

" You're a pervert old man with desires." She twisted his words.

" and you're so…" He sighed and ruffled her hair.

"What?" she asked annoyed, pouting her lips.

He said nothing and kept on reading.

" Tell me!"

" what? Am I turning into Tsunade? Everyone says that…"

" yeaahh that and…"

" then?"

" never mind…"

For some reason, today Sakura had decided to give up bickering with him, and she immediately looked toward the sunset. Kakashi had realized both of them were on the bridge where team seven always meets. Kakashi saw before him a sight he hasn't noticed till now. The orange scenery made Sakura's face looked gorgeous. In fact, he came to the conclusion that she was very beautiful, as he heard from the men in bars, one of the most desirable women in Konoha, and she doesn't know it.

He watched her beautiful green eyes mix with the orange ambiance, causing a brown texture with three colours he could have sworn were moving around in waves. He saw how soft and silky her pink hair was that she tucked behind her back and wondered how they'd feel when his hands ran through them. He admired her smooth porcelain skin, she had a few bruises and cuts from training, but she could heal them. He suddenly felt guilty and looked away before going too far when he eyes started to roam below her neck. He almost checked his ex-student out.

" Are you going tonight?" she asked her sensei.

" … To the bar yes." He replied casually.

" I don't know if I want to go."

" Why not?"

" Lately I've been feeling kind of left out…"

" How so?"

" I can't help but be jealous of Ino, and even Hinata has got a boyfriend now. They're also ahem well developed now. Ino is so hot now, and even Hinata's grown some." Sakura herself raised her eyebrows when she answered him. It was weird, talking to your teacher about your friends getting hotter.

Kakashi merely shrugged, Sakura suspected he couldn't care less.

" So are you…you're…cute."

Sakura felt warm that he called her cute. But she was human of course, she couldn't help but desire more to her looks and personality to make people like her.

" Eh, sorry Sakura-chan, I gotta go, I have to report to Tsunade to see if I'm venturing on new missions, see you tonight." He made hand seals and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

" Idiot." Sakura whispered. She hadn't told Kakashi everything. There was something else she was confused about, she felt this odd behavior arose within her every time he was around. Perhaps, she's so lonely now, seeing as her friends have boyfriends and social life, she needed Kakashi to be her new best friend.

That's a laugh, imagine that. Poor Kakashi. She tried to imagine the two of them going shopping together. Doing all sorts of girly things. Then, she felt like she was kidding herself, she didn't know what it was, but her conscious was somehow trying to deny something. She didn't know what.

But she didn't know why she felt angry and disappointed when he left her like that.

TBC

A/N: how was it? Is it a bad first chappie? Please read and review.

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