Chapter 1

Kakashi was standing in the back of a room that wasn't being used at the moment there were quite a few people at this little Christmas party. He could see the few people in the room in front of him.

Everyone of the males were dressed in there usual ninja dress of uniform. For some reason the female kunoichi decided to dress up.

Kakashi didn't really see the point of dressing up.

As he was thinking this a blur of pink hair which was his former student Sakura, in a black dress that had a V neck cut that came to the top of her knees and heels came rushing at him.

"Save me!" Sakura shouted and immediately ducked in back of Kakashi.

Genma and Naruto were close behind with mistletoe above there heads.

"Get back here Sakura." Genma called out.

"Come on Sakura one kiss." Naruto whined out.

"Get away from me." Sakura called back.

Kakashi rolled his eye, "Why are you involving me in your little dispute Sakura?"

"It's not a dispute it's a catastrophe or a mini hell!"

Kakashi sighed and looked at Genma and Naruto, "Can you guys just leave her alone for an hour?"

Genma looked away, "Hey Naruto, look there goes Ino!" He quickly took off after his next victim with Naruto following closely at his heels.

"Those bastards!" Sakura cried out, "How dare they go after Ino!"

Kakashi turned and looked at Sakura, "I don't get it; first you want to get rid of them now you want them back?"

Sakura blushed heavily and looked away, "It's not that. It's just that they went after Ino."

"Does this have something to do with her being your rival?"

"Hell yes it does!" She had her fist up and her eyes were shining.

Kakashi shrugged, "You really shouldn't let it bother you. You should really try and ignore it."

Sakura looked up at him, "Is that how you handle everything you come across? Doesn't anything bother you?"

Kakashi shrugged again and looked away, "I really don't know."

Sakura frowned and narrowed her eyes as she looked up at him, "Your doing it right now aren't you."

Kakashi put a hand in back of his head and scratched giving her a happy eye crease, "What were we talking about?"

Sakura smiled, "We were talking about how much of an annoying bastard you can be!"

"Don't be so cruel Sakura or I'll send you back to fight off the wolves I so graciously saved you from." He gave her another happy eye crease and started to walk away.

Sakura immediately clutched onto his arm, "I don't think so and you are not leaving me there with them!"

Kakashi tried to pry her hands off his arm, "Sakura your being clingy."

"Sorry." Sakura said as she immediately let go of his arm. "So what do you think of the Christmas party so far?" Sakura asked as a way to start a conversation.

Kakashi shrugged.

Sakura wanted to hit him. She and Shizune went through a lot of trouble just to set this whole thing up.

"Did you try any of the food yet?"

"I'm on a diet."

Sakura's eye twitched, "Did you have anything to drink then?"

"I'm pretty sure Genma spiked whatever drink you have in here."

Sakura gave herself a mental note not to let Genma in to further parties without someone giving him a strip search in advance. She smiled deviously wondering if she could get either Ibiki or Yamato to do it, then she shuddered.

Kakashi looked over to see Sakura smile, "What are you smiling about?"

Sakura's smile widened as she looked up at him, "Oh nothing."

"Does it have something to do with me?"

Sakura looked away from him, "Maybe."

"Sakura…" Kakashi was beginning to say that whatever it was, she should give it up when she abruptly stopped him.

"Oh, look there goes Captain Yamato!" She went and chased after him not before she mumbled a thought of hers out loud, "I wouldn't mind getting him under some mistletoe."

Kakashi was unsettled at the very thought of Sakura kissing Yamato.

Kakashi had grown fond of Sakura through out the years. She was now a jounin in charge of mostly all of the hospital affairs and all at the age of nineteen, which was quite an accomplishment. She had saved many lives on S-rank missions. She was no longer his student but he could probably learn things from her now.

The very thought of her kissing someone else didn't sit well with him especially if it was one of his own former subordinates.

Kakashi looked at where Sakura was she was practically trying to grab at Yamato's arm to drag him over to some mistletoe which was situated at a close by door.

Kakashi walked over to where they were making sure he avoided being caught under the mistletoe.

He came to where Sakura and Yamato were he lifted his hand in his usual greeting, "Yo."

Yamato actually looked relieved, "Kakashi, good to see you."

Sakura looked slightly annoyed at Kakashi's sudden appearance.

"Sakura I forgot to tell you something earlier."

Sakura looked at him giving him a 'Tell me then go away!' type of look.

She smiled brightly up at him even though the words were ground out, "What would that be that you forgot?"

"Well," Kakashi started, he looked away hoping inspiration would hit him.

"Well, what?" Sakura ground out crossing her arms. He was wasting her precious time away from Yamato. She started to tap her foot in annoyance.

"You should really have that tic of yours looked at you know." Kakashi said suddenly.

Sakura stopped tapping her foot against the ground and stomped it, "It's not a tic to tap your foot." She waved her hand in an agitated fashion, "Is that all you wanted to tell me?"

"No, there was something important I had to tell you."

Yamato quickly left. He did not want to be there, he slipped away without Sakura noticing.

"You know what," Kakashi said, "I forgot."

Sakura spun around to find Yamato missing and then she spun back again to find Kakashi walking away.

Sakura immediately chased after Kakashi.

Kakashi was directly under the mistletoe when Sakura caught up.

"You did that on purpose didn't you?" Sakura ground out.

Kakashi looked up then looked back at her with a happy eye crease, "Nope."

Sakura looked up and saw the mistletoe hanging above his head. Her eyes widened in surprise. She looked back at Kakashi and he was kissing her.

It was so quick Sakura didn't have time to react. He was there then he was gone. He was walking away toward the desert table.

She really couldn't figure out if that happened or not. Sakura quickly shook her head and made her way toward the restroom.

She quickly went to a sink and turned on the cold water. She ducked her head and put a hand in the cold water and started to touch the back of her neck with the wet hand.

For some reason when Kakashi left her standing under the mistletoe the room suddenly got hotter.