The distraction was simple, but when it fails Sakura has to think fast to come up with a different distraction. Unfortunately, it distracts the wrong people. SakuraxKakashi

Disclaimer: Masashi Kishimoto thought up Naruto.

The Distraction

Sakura fidgeted. She was bored. Dressed in civilian clothing consisting of shorts and a thin white cotton short sleeve shirt she also felt uncomfortable. She could hardly wait to finish the mission so she could change back into her ninja clothes.

A breeze of hot air drifted through the night. Team Kakashi was currently in a casino town in the middle of the desert in Wind country. A hot, dry, sandy desert. So if it was a desert, where did all the water come from for all the fountains she had seen? The one in front of her, for example, was as big as a large pond and advertised 150 jets that forced the water out in beautiful displays of aquatic grace.

A large crowd had gathered for a dedication ceremony for the new fountain. During the dedication, the casino owner was going to be selling some stolen architectural plans to a broker. Team Kakashi's job was to retrieve the plans. It was a "C" rank mission, but due to a larger than normal turnout of candidates for the Chuunin exam there were no genin or chuunin available. So Kakashi's team ended up with the job. Sai had wanted to come along as well, so instead of a four person squad, they had five.

It had been decided that Sakura would cause a distraction by setting off some fireworks and Kakashi and Sai would monitor the movements of the target and when he was in place Naruto and Sasuke would interrupt the transaction and take back the stolen documents.

It was a simple plan. Neither the target nor the buyer were ninja. None of the guards hired for the event were ninja either. It was truly, as Tsunade had said, a mission they could do in their sleep.

So of course something went wrong.

Very wrong.

Hilariously wrong. Well, it would take a few weeks before they could laugh at it. But still…

Just as Sakura lit the rocket to create the diversion a professional fireworks display erupted across the sky. It was a surprise for the dedication that was, as it turned out, the only secret the otherwise talkative target was able to keep to himself.

Sakura's wireless radio came to life as Kakashi spoke "The diversion won't work, the target and buyer aren't reacting. Sakura, come up with a different diversion! Quick!"

Looking around, Sakura saw a lot of drunks in the crowd. It was a party after all, and the liquor was cheap. Swaying a little bit, Sakura started laughing and pushing her way through the crowd to the side of the fountain.

"Excuse me, cutie." She gave a group of men standing in front of her a big smile and grabbed one of them by the arm. "You're cute! I hope you think I'm cute too." She released him as soon as he gave her a big smile.

Climbing up on the three foot wall that was in front of the fountain she waved her arms in the air. "It's so pretty here!" Turning around she looked at the water. Her reflection looked back at her. Many heads had turned to watch the pretty, young, drunk woman. Including, unfortunately, Kakashi, Sai, Naruto and Sasuke.

She swayed a little bit on the two foot thick wall. Looking surreptitiously into the crowd she determined that she needed to get the attention of more people.

Fanning her face she yelled loudly "It's so hot out!" and lifted her shirt up over her stomach, but stopped before she got to her bra. Noting that she was now the center of attention she looked back at her reflection in the water. It rippled slightly as the breeze created small, lazy waves. Her pink hair, green eyes and dark blue shorts stood out, making her reflection look like it was floating comfortable in a pond. She suddenly got an idea.

Releasing her shirt she pointed at the water and yelled as loud as she could. "Hey! I'm in the water! And I'm drowning! I'll save you!" She jumped into the four foot deep water and started flailing around where her reflection had been a moment before.

"I'll save you too!" The man she had called "cute" jumped into the water, along with his companions.

"Ahhh!" Sakura screamed "My bra came off! Help me find it, quick!" About a hundred men jumped into the fountain then. They started looking around in the water, pushing each other out of the way. Several women quickly followed them into the water with the intent of pulling their wayward boyfriends and husbands out of the fray.

Well some of them.

Well, maybe one of them. The rest, however…

"I lost my bra too!" A woman's voice came from the other end of the fountain.

"Mine just floated away!"

"My shirt came off!"

"My shorts came off!"

"My speedo has floated away revealing my well toned…" whatever the masculine voice was planning on revealing as "well toned" was lost in the resulting melee of increasingly naked, drunken guests.

Sakura had started a riot. Or an orgy. They didn't stick around to read the police report to find out.

Standing in various locations around the fountain, staring at her wide eyed were Kakashi, Sai, Naruto and Sasuke. She made her way through the water and around the… "Oh! So that was what was well toned." Sakura said out loud as she passed a man who was minus his speedo. However, he wasn't minus some very important pieces of his anatomy.

Anyway, Sakura made her way back to the fountain wall and climbed out just as her four teammates reached her. She stood up on the wall and arched her back as she reached up to squeeze the water out of her hair then jumped down to the ground. The four men stood very still, trying to remember to breath. And stared. At her chest.

"Sakura." Kakashi's face was red. He gulped loudly before he could continue talking. "Umm. When you jump in the water wearing a thin white shirt and take off your bra, you might want to make sure you have something on under that bra – like bindings or something."

"Why?" Sakura had a brain-dead moment as her red faced teammates looked at her like she was a juicy steak. Following their line of site she slowly looked down at her chest and saw… Everything. Turning red she turned her back to them and put her arms around her chest. Her wet shirt was so clingy and see-through that it pretty much looked like she wasn't wearing a shirt at all.

She couldn't believe she didn't think of that earlier. Of course, someone like Ino would have thought of it and done it anyway, but Sakura wasn't like Ino. She usually wore bindings but this job was so easy she didn't think she would be fighting so she didn't see the need to bind her… "Oh God…." She sighed and sank down to the ground in a crouch and put her head on her knees.

"Wh…where are th…the pl…plans?" She stuttered out shyly.

The four ninja were silent for a few seconds then started arguing. Sakura heard the words, but didn't care who spoke them. She just wanted to sink into the ground and not come up again for a hundred years.

"Did you see him?"

"No."

"Where'd he go?"

"I thought you were watching him?"

"I was watching Sakura…to…umm… make sure she was alright."

Was that Kakashi's voice? Sakura felt her stomach summersault.

"Are you saying we let him get away with the plans?"

"We have to find him!"

Sakura raised her head and looked up at the four men arguing. The riot was getting louder and she heard the security guards trying to break it up.

Kakashi knelt down and spoke into her ear. "Sakura, go back to your room, we'll see if we can find the guy again." He ran off into the crowd. She put her hand over her ear, where she had felt his breath a moment before and let out a sigh of frustration and embarrassment.

Sakura slowly stood up, then ran as fast as she could back to the hotel.

Two days later…

Tsunade was not a woman who was easily shocked, but this had shocked her. After she heard their story she sat for several minutes with her eyes shut. Finally she opened them.

"The last time I checked none of you were teenagers anymore. So quit acting like it!" Her stern voice carried throughout the room and she scolded each of the jounin in turn.

"Naruto! Sasuke! Sai! There is a time and place for everything, and ogling your teammate during a mission is something only the late Jiraiya would compliment you on."

"Kakashi! Kakashi. Just ask the girl out already! This is getting pathetic!"

"Sakura! Do something about Kakashi! Oh, and bindings were invented for a very good reason. If you need reminding ask a genin. And you might want to cut down on your contact with Ino. Obviously she's becoming a bad influence."

"Now get out of my office! Lucky for you this was a genin job and the pay was low. I'll have a genin team try again in two weeks. When they succeed I will give them permission to laugh at you." Tsunade returned her gaze to her paperwork and ignored them.

The five shinobi silently left the Hokage's office. Sakura and Kakashi walked a few feet down the corridor then stopped and waited for the other's to disappear from view.

Sakura looked up at her silver-haired companion. "What was she talking about? What am I supposed to do with you?"

"How about we discuss it over dinner?" Kakashi bent down, lowered his mask, and to Sakura's surprise kissed her on the cheek. Her stomach was doing summersaults again.

'So now what?' The pink haired girl wondered to herself. 'Eh… Go for it. He wouldn't have looked at me at the fountain if he wasn't interested. He's not like Naruto, Sai and Sasuke. That was probably the only time in his life he was ever distracted. And I did it.'

"Hmmm." Sakura smiled up at him. "Does the fountain count as our first date? Because… second dates are much more fun."

All Kakashi could do was stare. Tsunade was right, he should have done this months ago.

Lowering his mask again he answered in a husky voice as he moved his lips over hers. "Yeah. It's a second date."

Kakashi will lower his mask for one second for each review this story gets xD