Fifth fanfic up and running :) Not to mention first my first ItaSaku...sweet ::Grins:: KakaSaku and SasuSaku may be the best couples ever, and I love writing for them, but ahhh...ItaSaku is just so...HOT. ;) Heh, enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto does...curses...
Wet Mission
Chapter 1: Assignment
"Honestly, Naruto, stop worrying!", Sakura sighed, slipping more articles of her clothes and other belongings into a large black backpack.
"Can you blame me, Sakura-chan?!", Naruto moped, his arms crossed over his chest, while he sat cross-legged on her bed, opposite of where Sakura was standing; stooped over her bag.
Sakura sighed once more, trying to shove her toothbrush into a tiny crevice in between a pair of leggings and a towel, "Actually, yes, I can. I'm a Junin, Naruto, along with you, if you've already forgotten! I can take care of myself."
"That's true, Sakura-chan…", Naruto said quietly, watching his beautiful life time companion continue to pack her bag, "…but this mission is different! Kakashi-sensei and I won't be there to help you, until at least week after you arrive!"
"Your point?.."
"Something bad could happen to you!"
"Naruto, I'll say it again. I-can-take-care-of-myself!"
Naruto sighed and drooped his head like a sad puppy, starring at his thumbs, which were twiddling in his lap, "This mission is…different, though!"
Sakura couldn't help acknowledging that he was right about that…it certainly wasn't a mission that she had ever done before…
"Sakura-chan…what if?..-", Naruto started quietly.
"-What if what?!", Sakura snapped, beginning to feel rather aggravated with Naruto and his persistence to get her to stay behind for this mission.
"What if…", Naruto hesitated, lifting his matured face up to meet Sakura's, "…what if you're forced to do something?"
Sakura's heartbeat seemed to pick up it's pace rather quickly just then. A tense feeling had suddenly creeped it's way up into her stomach, and she felt extremely cold for a brief moment.
Nibbling on her lower lip quickly, Sakura inhaled calmly, and answered, "Whatever happens, happens."
Sakura continued her packing, while Naruto practically blew up in her personal bubble,
"Sakura-chan! You can't be serious! I won't let it happen! I'll never let you loose your virginity to some random dick-head in a whore house! You're beautiful Sakura-chan! You'll be spotted out like that!"-Naruto snapped his fingers harshly- "That can't happen to you Sakura-chan! It just can't! I won't let it! I have to be there! Kakashi-sensei too! To help you!"
By now, Naruto and jumped off of Sakura's bed and was standing to the side of her, breathing deeply from his sudden out-burst. Sakura stood there next to him, her back arched over her bed, her hands rested of her stuffed backpack, as she leaned forward. He really seemed pissed off…but at the same time, almost on the verge of tears.
Sakura shut her eyes gently. Then she straightened herself up, and turned to face Naruto. She opened her emerald eyes slowly, wrapped her smooth arms around his neck, (she then felt his entire body tense up in shock), and spoke softly to him, "Naruto, thank you, for caring about my safety. But you need to trust me. I'll be able to handle myself, and anyone else for that matter.", she pulled her arms back from his neck, and smiled thoughtfully, "Okay?"
Naruto just gazed at her. He really had never stopped loving her, even after all these years. He just still wasn't convinced though. His gaze was rigid and troubled.
Sakura sighed, clutched her backpack's strap, and hurled it over her shoulder. It honestly had to have weighed a ton and a half.
"Naruto, it's for the mission.", Sakura said.
"Screw the damn mission.", Naruto mumbled, finally averting his gaze from her, to his feet.
"You know I won't do that.", Sakura replied, leaning forward, and kissing Naruto on the cheek, "I'm going to say goodbye to Kakashi-sensei. If you're going to stay for a little longer, lock up for me when you leave, okay? I'll see you in a week."
- - -
Heavy storm clouds were cluttering the skies above Sakura's head, as she kicked a small pebble a few feet in front of her, repeating the kick whenever she caught up to the little stone.
Just as she turned the corner to Kakashi's house, a thick sheet of rain cascaded down onto Sakura…and her pebble.
"Good thing I like getting caught in the rain…", Sakura mumbled sarcastically, picking up her pace, kicking her pebble down the sidewalk along with her quickly. Come on, she couldn't just abandon it.
Wearing her usual tank and skirt outfit, and with the freezing rain completely drenching her by the second, Sakura decided it would be best to leave the little stone, and find fast shelter in Kakashi's home; she couldn't risk getting sick before this mission.
Finally reaching his porch, Sakura rang the doorbell hastily. After about five shivering minutes, Sakura was actually beginning to consider either braking down the door in frustration, or just leave without saying goodbye. But it was at that moment when the door opened, and Sakura was greeted with a happy-faced, warm, fluffy-but-spiky-haired Kakashi.
"I had a feeling that it was you.", Kakashi smiled happily.
"Yes well, you were right.", Sakura smiled irritably in return, as she stood there shivering.
Pretending to just notice that Sakura was sopping wet and practically freezing to death, Kakashi huffed sarcastically, "Sakura, you're all wet!"
"Kakashi-sensei!", Sakura wailed, her exposed arms and legs feeling as though they might fall off.
"Oh, feel free to come in by the way."
"Thanks!", Sakura grumbled, and marched past Kakashi in a huff. Removing her wet boots, Sakura made her way through the kitchen and to the living room, Kakashi following behind casually.
Setting her enormous bag down on the couch, where it sunk in the cushion about two feet, Sakura turned to Kakashi before he could speak, and said sternly, "I've already had the whole, 'bad things might happen to you if we don't come along', shit of a discussion with Naruto, so please, Kakashi-sensei, don't try to talk me out of this, or make me worry even more about it!"
Looking at her, with almost a confused expression on his masked, yet obviously handsome face, Kakashi merely answered, "I was only going to give you a pat on the back, and say 'meet you in a week Sakura. Good luck'.", then he shrugged casually and smiled innocently.
Sakura sighed, "Liar.", she thought,
"Well, I did come here to say goodbye until next week…so, I guess…bye Kakashi-sensei!", and before Kakashi could dodge her, Sakura leapt forward and repeated the hug that she had given to Naruto a while before.
Kakashi sighed, but smiled as well, and returned her hug warmly. He spoke carefully, "Sakura, I know that you're a strong, talented ninja; who can take excellent care of herself.",
Sakura broke the hug and smiled gratefully at the compliment,
"but,"
Her smile faded.
", you do need to be careful, Sakura. This might seem like an easy mission, but trust me, it took the Hokage a good long time, before she finally decided to let you take it on. It will be different."
Sakura tilted her head down, and starred hard at the floor, "I thought I asked you not to try and scare me Kakashi-sensei.", she mumbled ungratefully. She had really expected words of encouragement from him more than anything else.
"I'm not trying to scare you. I'm just trying to make sure that you understand that this mission will not be a piece of cake."
"I understand that, dammit!", Sakura snapped, clenching her gloved fists and looking up at Kakashi strictly, "Look, I know, you and Naruto and everybody else still think that I'm poor, little, weak, virgin Sakura! Well, just a little newsflash to everyone, I-am-not!"
Sakura's chest rose up and down heavily for a few moments, as she glared up at Kakashi, who was as calm as ever.
"So, your not a virgin?", Kakashi asked, almost amused.
Sakura's face turned beat red, and she practically shouted in his face, "Of course I am! B-But that's none of your business! Ugh! I'm leaving, see you in a week you perv-sensei!"
Sakura yanked her backpack off of the couch, hauled it onto her back, and made for the door. Kakashi followed slowly, grinning beneath his mask.
Reaching the door, Sakura pulled her boots on, and turned to face Kakashi one more time before leaving.
She raised her index finger and shook it at him, like she was about to say something. But she hesitated, as if trying to decide exactly how to say it. Finally, she sighed, and getting up on her tip-toes, she kissed him on the cheek, as she had done with Naruto, and said, "I'll see you in a week, Kakashi-sensei. Wish me luck."
But before Kakashi could say anything else, Sakura had dashed through door, and was on her way to her toughest mission that she would ever have to face.
- - - - - -
The nerve of Naruto and Kakashi-sensei. Honestly. She was strong enough to handle herself. Jeez. Although, she was kinda…well…scared, about this mission.
Blinking her emerald eyes from the rain water, Sakura flew through the trees of the forest outside of Konoha. Her conversation with Tsunade-sama was brisk and clearly playing throughout her mind, over, and over…
- - - - -
Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi all lined up a few feet in front of the Hokage's desk, waiting for her orders.
Sitting down and lacing her fingers together quickly, Tsunade's fierce hazel eyes scanned the three ninja in front of her,
"Your next assignment, Team Kakashi, is labeled; Akatsuki Penetration."
At the word 'Akatsuki', Naruto's eyes slanted and a deep growl escaped from his throat.
"Calm down Naruto.", Tsunade barked in annoyance, "Let me explain this mission to you all…well, Kakashi, you're already aware what happens in this mission, correct?"
Kakashi's usual calm, cool, and collected look, had vanished from site, as both Naruto and Sakura gasped gently from shock, when they saw the rather aghast look in his revealed eye.
Clearing his throat, Kakashi simply calmed himself down, and nodded to the Hokage.
"Now, this assignment is an ANBU ranked mission, so you'll all…"
As Sakura listened to her former Master's instructions, she couldn't get rid of the feeling that Kakashi had suddenly began starring at her. Looking up gently, not wanting to disturb Tsunade in her instruction, Sakura glanced up at her sensei's eye; which was rested on her directly.
'Why is he looking at me like that?!', Sakura thought to herself tensly. Indeed, Kakashi was starring at Sakura, with a look in his eye that she couldn't quite read.
"…and so, Sakura, being the female of your group, you will have to go undercover within the Akatsuki, as their femininity sidetrack, for-filling every single one of their needs…"
Sakura's eyes widened, as Kakashi shut his, sighing.
Now Sakura knew what the look in Kakashi's eye had been.
Sorrow.
- - - - -
The Akatsuki compound was another several hours away, and it must've been around midnight, is Sakura had been keeping correct track of how far she had been traveling so far. She sighed. Why did she agree to this?…Because she was a kunichi, and a damn good one. Willing to do anything for her village, for her friends, to gain revenge for Sasuke.Shivering slightly, Sakura continued pumping her legs down hard on every other branch that passed beneath her, to keep up her pace.
Originally, Tsunade had wanted to send Ino in for this job. Unfortunatly, Ino and Shikamaru had, unknowingly, been 'seeing' one another for the past few weeks. And, well, let's just saw Ino wouldn't be out for any missions for the next couple of months.
So, with that option screwed, Tsunade had no choice but to put Sakura up for this particular job, no matter how much it pained her to.
Sakura was innocent. Innocent in the sence that she had never had sex before. Sure, Sakura was very pretty for a 15 year old girl. She wasn't completely developed yet, but Sakura definetally had the potention to fully sprout at any time. Not to mention that she was already turning many-a-head within the Konoha village. To be flat out open with it, Sakura was perfect for this mission.
Akatsuki was no doubt filled with horny men who hadn't had the pleasurable company of an attractive woman for quite some time. Also, it was the perfect way to get within the compound, without being slaughtered, and possibly even gain the information needed for an attack on the place.
This was Sakura's job.
Get in alive.
Keep the men satisfied.
Get any possible information.
Wait for assistance.
Sakura sighed once more, and finally decided to get some rest. She was only about ten minutes from the Akatsuki compound, and she didn't want to look sloppy and tired when she got there.
- - -
Snuggling up to her sleeping bag tightly, Sakura's emerald orbs gazed sharply into the neat fire she had made. Sakura could see little figures dancing within the golden orange flames, spitting and sawying around lazily.
"How the hell am I even going to get them to let me in?", Sakura whispered to herself. She was growing frustrated and nervous with every minute ticking by,
"Wh-What if they see through this plan? What if they know what I'm up to?! What if they don't find me attractive enough!?…My God..what if Itachi recognizes me?!"
Sakura's heartbeat sounded more like a bongo at this second. Growing up in the Konoha village, Itachi had most definetally seen Sakura around before. Not to mention, Sakura was always following Sasuke around, so he had to have at least known who she was! Oh shit. Oh crap. Oh God. A cold trickle of sweat collected just above Sakura's brow, as she kicked her sleeping bag off and let the night air wash over her body.
"If…If he remembers me…I'm dead."
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