For the one I love.

"That's not enough, Sasuke. Hit me like you'd hit your brother. I know you can handle it." Kakashi-sensei's deep voice said. My stomach tightened into about twelve or so knots. My Kami, I thought to myself.

Sasuke-kun's eyes narrowed at the relatively provocative statement. He closed them and when he opened them again, they were crimson, black commas swirling fast. Kakashi-sensei smirked under his mask. He kept Icha Icha Paradise (or whichever one it was) into his pocket. Things were about to get interesting.

Naruto smirked. "Temee is dead." For the first and probably last time in a long time, I couldn't help but agree.

Sasuke-kun was back. After disappearing for about four and a half years, he just came back. He just appeared at the Konoha gates and took himself into Shihou's office. Apparently the story was he went to seek more power from Orochimaru before he realised he was being used and he was just wanted for his body. In his rage he killed Orochimaru and Kabuto and decided to go out and kill his brother. His brother confessed to having done everything he did because he loved him and told him to get back to Konoha and avenge him by getting strong enough to kill Madara. Itachi-san told him it was Team Kakashi that was destined to kill Madara and control the Kyuubi. Then Kakashi-sensei was to lead Konoha into the 4th great Shinobi war against the Akatsuki (after Shishou stepped down and let him become the 6th), defeat them and then lead Konoha into prosperity. Team 7 would be reincarnated as the Legendary Sannin and Kakashi-sensei as one of the most powerful shinobi in the history of Konoha, the same league as the first, and the third. And Kakashi-sensei would then avenge all those who were close to him.

As he spun his story, Shishou was so shocked, she immediately sobered up. Naruto just fainted. My eyes almost popped out of my sockets. Even Kakashi-sensei was shocked. Sasuke-kun just looked at all of us like we had mutated. I wanted to ask him how sure all this was gonna happen, but all I managed was a little "Sasuke-kun..."

He turned to look at me. It took a while for me to collect my jaws from the floor.

"How sure are you this is going to happen?" I finally managed to ask. He looked at me with that ever stoic and calm trademark Uchiha look.

"I'm not." He replied softly. "But what I'm sure about is that Akatsuki are going to go on a rampage, killing and plundering, before Madara comes out with the other tailed beasts and begins the war. This is the calm before the storm. Every, and I mean every shinobi powerful enough to go on an S-class mission should train and train very hard, irrespective of what level they are. I know we've lost many fighters, and I'm the only one left of my bloodline, the Hyuuga being the only others left, but desperate times call for desperate measures. I can guarantee you, these are very desperate times. This time, those guys are going all out. In the end it's going to be Akatsuki versus The hidden village of the Leaf."

All that led to our current situation. Sasuke-kun training with Kakashi-sensei. Tomorrow it would be Naruto. The day after, me. He and Gai-sensei decided to both train teams 10 and 12, since Asuma-sensei died and Kurenai-sensei is 8 months pregnant.

"Chidori!"

"Chidori!"

There was suddenly a blinding light, and when the smoke cleared both men were standing there......

Shirtless.

I just stared.....no, ogled. I tried to look away. Really, I did. But my eyes, my neck, my head refused to move.

Both men had the sex appeal that arguably passed Ardonis, but one man in particular..........Kami really did take his time when He was creating him, and, of course, produced a......I don't even know.

After Sasuke-kun shattered my heart and left, everyone was deeply affected. Naruto, in fact, was so affected, he took off to train with Jiraiya immediately, leaving Kakashi-sensei and I alone. We trained for a while, just the two of us, but it wasn't rocket science to see the cool, calm, collected, copy-nin was seriously, seriously affected. He was never much of a drinker, but alcohol kinda numbed the pain. There were days Genma had to carry him to his apartment, since he was so drunk, he barely knew his name.

Afterwards he resorted to missions. He took mission after mission, most of them S-class. Tough missions that would keep him away for long periods of time, as well as help him vent his hurt and frustration. And vent he did. Because he was always being sent on dangerous missions all the time, he was constantly training. He became so powerful, he was immediately raised to a kage-level shinobi. All this while I was alone. And he realised.

He knew my potential and what I was capable of. All those times when I was a kid and I thought he was ignoring me, he was actually gauging my abilities. I didn't exactly have a lot of chakra reserves like Naruto, or an exceptionally skilled genius like Sasuke-kun, but I had excellent chakra control, ridiculous raw strength, and a knack for medical ninjutsu. On top of that I was a genjutsu-type nin. So he politely asked Shishou to train me on the latter two, then Kurenai-sensei too before she got too pregnant.

Naturally, being him, he didn't want me to now he suggested it, so told them never to tell me. But I got it out of Shishou once when she was extremely drunk. That's when it hit me.

My little girly, annoying crush on Sasuke-kun was gone.

I had now fallen in love, six years later, with Kakashi Hatake.

My ex-sensei.

And here he was, right in front of me, a nasty burn on his left hand, his headband knocked off, leaving his silver unruly hair to fall towards his left sharingan eye, mask still in place (was it stick on his head or something?!) and NO SHIRT ON!!!!!!!

He was in extremely, EXTREMELY good shape, physically. His toned chest, his gorgeous abs, his muscular arms.....he was literally dripping sexy, sexy, delicious masculinity. My inner fainted, either from blood loss or sheer shock. I didn't know or care. I was still too busy ogling, before Naruto rudely interrupted.

"Oi, Sakura-chan, go heal Kakashi-sensei and Temee's hands. Stop staring." He grumbled, obviously bored.

It's moments like this that I happily thank Kami very graciously for giving Naruto his dense idiocy.

"O-o-oh. Uhmm, yeah. I'm on it." I said slowly.

I slowly walked towards them. Kakashi-sensei looked towards me, with half-lidded mismatched eyes and I almost tripped. I headed to Sasuke-kun first. I took his hand and healed him. Ino had her sights on him. She'd really matured up, and I could tell Sasuke-kun was kinda taking an interest in her. I inwardly smiled. I healed his hand and smiled at him.

"You're fine now. Go get dressed before your fan girls get here." He just smirked, the closest he could get to a smile.

I timidly walked towards Kakashi-sensei. I took his hand into mine and begun healing it. I couldn't help but look at his abs from the corner of my eye. My mouth was almost watering. He curled his long fingers around my hand, making me feel a little wet between my legs. Just a mere touch would turn me on like this. Damn.

I swallowed. Hard.

"Sakura?" he asked in that smooth, deep voice that sent wonderful sensations down my spine.

"Yeah?"I replied, not looking at him. I don't even know how my voice was steady.

"You okay?"

I nodded. I gently (unhappily) slid my hand out his grasp. "All done." I said. I stood up and went to sit next to Naruto and Sasuke-kun.

"Okay. That's it for today. As usual, Sasuke, your skills are superb. I should get you to try out for ANBU. Naruto, tomorrow it's you. As usual, at the bridge. Don't be late."

"That's my line, Kakashi-sensei." He said. Kakashi-sensei smiled and pouffed away in a cloud of grey smoke. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding. I told the boys bye and begun walking to my apartment.