A/N: This is a Kakasaku story. In the first chapters Sakura is quite young, but don't worry: I'm not into pedophilia! Just wait and see… ;)

On my profile you can find my usual intro about Kakasaku and the whole age gap thing.

The beta reader of this story is Clearheart: she had been super fast to edit it. Thanks a lot!

Disclaimer: Too bad I don't own Naruto, and you really don't know what I'd give to own Kakashi! Well, at least now I own a Kakashi plush doll…

A LESSON IN SEDUCTION

Chapter 1: A lesson in seduction

Kakashi and Sakura darted off the high trees of Konoha's forest. They were heading to a village in the outskirts of Fire Country to carry out a mission for the Fifth. Kakashi being the leader, and Sakura his backup medic nin.

A rich merchant of the village had been trying for months to dethrone the local daimyo (1). The merchant had a huge patrimony, which was greatly superior to that of the daimyo himself. As time passed, the daimyo resisted the merchant's pressures, but then one night the daimyo's daughter was kidnapped. The merchant offered his help to rescue the daughter in exchange for becoming the new village's daimyo.

It was pretty obvious that it was all a plot of the merchant to achieve his purposes, but without any evidence the daimyo could not accuse the man, and the merchant was way too influential within the Fire Country thanks to his large fortunes.

The Merchant would have surely saved the daimyo's daughter by killing the captors and destroying all the evidence relating to his person. This way, the daimyo would have had to retire from his position in the merchant's favor.

The daimyo wasn't willing to do that. He really wasn't. The merchant didn't deserve any rise in power after what he'd done to his beloved daughter.

The same day his daughter was kidnapped, the daimyo made up his mind: he secretly informed the Hokage of what happened, asking for a rescue mission.

This is how Kakashi and Sakura were sent to the village.

Sakura was panting rather hard now; Kakashi knew she had been stuck in the hospital during the past months, so he was expecting her to be a little out of shape. Time to take a break. Besides, he was beginning to feel a little tired himself. It had been a long journey, and now they were at about one hour walk from said village. They could also use the time to fix their plan.

He stopped rather abruptly as he saw a nice little clearing, and Sakura almost bumped into him. Eventually, she managed to stop herself just a few inches away from his back.

She glared at said back and growled her disapproval, while tiredly running a hand across her face to sweep away the sweat. By the time she had regained her breath, Kakashi was already sitting under a tree, comfortably leaning against the trunk with orange book in hand.

She got closer and sat beside him. Kakashi shot a glance toward his companion and wait another minute to let her relax a bit, then he closed his book with a snap and put it securely away into his back pouch.

"So, Sakura-chan, mind if we look over again our plan in detail?" Those were the first words he had spoken since their departure, and Sakura was really glad to hear his voice. She was used to his silences, but during those times there usually were other teammates around, too. This was the first time it was just the two of them, and it turned out to be a rather boring trip.

"Sure, sensei," Sakura said, smiling at him.

"Well, we're almost there. Time to change our clothes. From now on, we'll walk as normal civilian and we'll try to not be noticed."

"Does this mean you'll have to give up to read that nasty book of yours?" She cut him off, a teasing smile playing on her lips.

He chuckled at her remark. 'Always so smart, Sakura-chan,' he thought.

"Yup. This also means you're going to see my face for the first time." His words effectively shut her up and made him grin, amused by the facial expressions she made as the thought slowly sunk in her.

"But not until tonight. I don't want people at the party recognize me as the man who arrived today in your company, or else they will start wondering about you, too. So, for now the mask stays on. It will be a little strange for a civilian, but we'll choose the first hotel on our way in order to be seen by less people."

Sakura's mouth was still slightly agape and her eyes were wide. She didn't hear what he was saying as her mind was still focused on the mask issue. She didn't consider it when they were assigned to the mission! Suddenly she was really happy to have been sent here with Kakashi.

"Naruto will be oh so pissed off when I'll tell him!" She giggled.

This earned another chuckle from Kakashi.

"As I was saying, as soon as we'll enter the village we'll search for an hotel, so that I have enough time to take a shower and change for the party. I guess it could take about a couple of hours to retrieve the information we need from the merchant's daughter, then I'll come back to you and we'll rescue the kidnapped girl. I hope she won't need any medic assistance, but then again… that's the reason why you're here."

"Sensei… are you sure the merchant's daughter knows the location in which the prisoner is held?"

"From the information we have, her father is very close to her and always confides with her about everything. So it is very likely that she knows what we need."

"But… how are you exactly going to gather such information? It's not like she will be willing to share such a matters with a strange man".

Kakashi smiled seductively under his mask; even if she wasn't able to see his smile, she noticed an unusual glint in his visible eye.

"Seduction, Sakura. It's called seduction." Both his voice, lower and deeper than usual, and the fact he didn't use the usual honorific attached to her name (2), gave her slight goose bumps on her arms, something that had never happened to her before.

"Oh…" was all she managed to say, surprised as she was. Her eyes hadn't been this round since she was twelve.

"What's so strange?" This time his voice held a mocked, hurt tone. "I understand you've only seen me as your teacher, but I'm a man, too."

"It's not that, sensei… it's just that… you know, does this mean you'll have to sleep with her? There really are these kind of missions? I would never be able to do such thing." Sakura was afraid, and Kakashi saw it clearly in her eyes.

He was once again amused by her reaction, she was still so innocent. She had just turned sixteen, after all, and he didn't think she had so much experience with boys. She was always confined in that hospital to work and whenever he saw her hanging out with her friends, she never was with a boyfriend. She wasn't probably still at ease with such matters.

"I guess you've never talked about this with your shishou, have you? Would you like to have a little chat about it now, Sakura-chan?"

She nodded vigorously. After all, she wanted to know what she could have to face in future.

He moved so that now he was sitting facing her.

"Well, first of all you have to know that no one will ever force you to take these kind of missions. Shinobi are often required to do life threatening missions, as you already knows, but missions which could involve sex are another thing. Especially for women, which are more sensitive to this issue. These type of missions will never be mandatory."

He saw she was intently listening and went on.

"As I was saying, no one will force you to take these kind of missions if there is even a little possibility that you'll end up to sleep with your target, and no one will think less of you as a kunoichi for not accepting it. You'll have to learn anyway how to seduce a man, because there are even missions in which you just have to entice a target, and then let your teammates take care of him."

"To seduce a man…" she repeated absent mindedly, eyes glued to the ground.

"But I don't even know how to begin seducing a man, sensei!" she said, a bit too loudly, as frustration and apprehension took over her.

Kakashi put his hands on her shoulders in a reassuring manner, and locked his eyes with hers before speaking in a concerned tone.

"Sakura, you don't have to worry. You're still too young for this. I'm sure that when you will be asked for these missions, you'll already have had some experience with guys, so you'll be perfectly able. Besides, it's very easy to seduce a man if you are a pretty woman, and seeing as you are a very pretty girl, I'm sure you'll grow up into a beautiful woman". He said it in a matter-of-fact tone, with no malice at all, but it made her blush nonetheless. So he gently squeezed her shoulders and gave her his usual eye crinkle smile to say it was all right.

Then, he let go of her shoulders and moved to his previous position next to her.

"Anyway, I'm not planning on sleeping with her tonight. If you are good in seduction, you'll see that most of the times you can have your information even without having to go that far. A little of sake, not too much or the target won't be able to tell you anything, some good conversation, a light flirting, a peck here and there, and you're done."

"Good conversation?! You?!" She snickered incredulously.

"Ow, this is not very kind from you!" He said in a fake, offended tone. In fact, he knew she had all the reasons to think so, seeing as she had never seen him in action. Then, he had an idea.

"You know what? Come with me tonight. I'll give you a lesson in seduction."

"What?!"

"You can watch me from the outside and listen through our earphones," he explained.

"Fine, but I'm not interesting on following you if you take her to her bedroom…"

He chuckled. "Well, if she is a good looking woman I could be tempted by that. Sometimes I've done it even if I had already get my information. But seeing as I'm paired with you in this mission and you'll be waiting for me to take action, it wouldn't be very nice from my side, now would it?"

Sakura blushed thinking of all the women he could have slept with while on missions and he grinned inwardly. It really was funny to tease her every now and then.

"What if she doesn't tell you what we need to know?"

"She will, no doubt about it." He smirked smugly under his mask, and Sakura rolled her eyes.

This was going to be an interesting lesson.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed it! Reviews are really appreciated!

(1) daimyo were feudal lords who ruled large lands and villages. It's an hereditary title.

(2) Japanese always use honorifics. Chan and kun are surely less formal then san, but the most informal way to refer to someone is by calling him/her without any honorific. Only relatives, very close friends and sometimes lovers don't use honorifics. So that's why Sakura is surprised by being called like that from Kakashi: combined with that sensual tone of voice it's like he's trying to seduce her. It's quite intimate and she's not used to it, especially from him.

There are other cases in which Japanese do not use honorific. The fact that no one ever called Naruto as kun or chan, could be seen as a disrespectful sign. It suits with the begin of the story, when no one loves nor respects Naruto. Let's see as Sakura used refers to Sasuke as Sasuke-kun with a sweet voice, while called Naruto just by his name always shouted in a disgusted way.

If you are interested in honorifics use, you can find more information on wikipedia.