Young and in Love

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Kakashi decided that this was an interesting predicament: Haruno Sakura was asleep in his lap.

His former student was asleep in his lap.

Asleep in his lap was a young woman of his acquaintance, who he had watched grow into great power and a formidable reputation as a healer and a fighter. And he could see down her shirt.

Sakura - a really, very attractive woman, who also happened to be his friend and comrade - was passed out like a kid who had played too hard at a festival, right on top of him and it was giving him dirty, filthy thoughts about ravishing her.

The woman he wanted to spend the rest of his useless life with, was using his right leg for a pillow.

No, it didn't really make much difference how he twisted his mind around it, he was completely taken with her.

Kakashi let his fingers drift across the fall of pink hair draped over one of his thighs. A small smile still ghosted across her lips every now and then. The half-smile was how he knew she was really asleep. If he moved his leg, at all she'd rouse and the moment would be lost.

His back was pressed into the rough bark of a large camphor tree, the ground beneath a soft mat of green moss and dead leaves. He wasn't uncomfortable, his only concern was completing their high-risk courier mission and getting them back home. No, he just wanted her to be safe; that was all he cared about - and his feeling that way was rather unfair to both her and to his employers.

They were going to have to stop going on missions together.

"Kakashi?" He heard her say softly, almost a whisper.

"Mmhmm?" One moment she was asleep, the next those big green eyes were staring up at him.

"Will it always be like this?" Now she was looking up into the green branches over them, and the bits of sunlight that filtered down danced in her eyes.

"No," he said. How could anything ever be the same, now that he knew?

"Good. I don't like it when things are too quiet." Her small smile was contagious.

"It's good sometimes," he said, stroking her hair again.

"It is."

"We should go." Kakashi held back a sigh.

Sakura sighed for him. "I'm so comfortable though."

"Home and bed will be much more pleasant, I assure you," he said, and she sat up, allowing him to get his legs under him to stand.

"No, I really don't think so. Unless..." Sakura started to say, though she didn't continue.

"Unless what?"

"Unless you're in it with me," she said.