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Sacrificial Beauty	By : tillean Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 2373 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto or any of its characters, that right is reserved for Masashi Kishimoto. Also, the first two lines are an excerpt from SterlingCooks' Sacrificial Daughter on dailystrength.org
WARNING: There may be inadvertent spoilers.
Japanese vocabulary to know:
Sensei- teacher, though it is a term of respect that is also used for Doctors, Manga-ka, and others.
Shishou- a term of respect similar to teacher, but is used by an apprentice towards their master.
Omiai- a meeting between two people (and sometimes their families) usually hosted by a third party to determine if they are compatible for marriage.
Kohai- underclassmen, used by someone of higher class or rank to someone of lower class or rank in their school, or work.
Kakashi is 30 and Sakura is 16, but I'm not going to list this as minor because in Japan (and by transference Konoha) it's legal to have a relationship/sex with someone at the age of 16. I also think that considering everything Ninja have to go through combined with the semi feudal times they're living in, they mature faster mentally. So I see absolutely nothing wrong with this pairing and my story will reflect this.
Also, I'm saying that condoms haven't been invented due to medical jutsu being more effective anyway.
Let me know if you have any questions, I'll do my best to respond.
Please Read and Review, because it fills me with LOVE! Also, feel free to leave criticism or suggestions, I can take it! ^_^v
And finally, this story is edited, and often gets posted due to encouragement from my lovely Beta: Slinkymilinky

Chapter1: Choice
As a lamb was led to the slaughter

So too went the sacrificial daughter
When Sakura awoke to a light tapping at her door she suppressed a sigh and forced herself to answer it. Opening her door to a figure being backlit by the early morning sunlight Sakura squinted her eyes to discern whether or not she knew them, she didn't.
"The Hokage requires your presence within the hour." Sakura nodded her head in acknowledgement and the figure disappeared before she could blink.
Used to such things, Sakura didn't even bat an eye and turned back into her apartment to get dressed. She didn't rush since she hadn't been told to leave immediately, but she also didn't take the time to eat more than a piece of toast as she looked over her one room apartment.
Her bed was against the back wall in a nook just large enough to shield it from direct view of the door. A nightstand stood next to it, littered with various books she was in the middle of reading and her old-fashioned mettle alarm clock. Along the same wall she had a couch situated in front of the three windows and a coffee table in front of that. Said coffee table covered in notebooks and medical texts.
Sakura sighed, between looking up new jutsu, between books on medical procedures and her own notes scattered across it you couldn't even see the table's surface. She consoled herself that despite the covered table and dismally overflowing bookshelf she was able to keep the kitchen area of the room quite tidy, and unlike Naruto's apartment she made a point to vacuum at least once a week. And her bathroom was downright spotless!
None of that really mattered though, since she almost never had anyone over. The whole apartment was only about twenty tatami in size, but it was more than enough for a single person, especially since she didn't have to share her bathroom with annoying roommates! Sakura reflected again as she slid her sandals on that it had been a very good idea NOT to get an apartment with Ino-pig. They probably would have killed each other.
Sakura smiled at the thought as she stepped out into the morning and locked the door behind her. The walk only took about ten minutes to get from her door to Tsunade's office; it had been one of the reasons Sakura chose the building, with how often she was called in to assist with something or other it was useful to live close by. If pressed she could run the distance in a minute and a half.
When Sakura got to the reception area outside the Hokage's office she smiled at Shizune before knocking once on the door. She only waited for a moment before hearing Tsunade's yell of "enter!"
After entering and closing the door behind her Sakura looked at her shishou. Tsunade had an open bottle of Sake to her right, and an ever-growing pile of paperwork to her left. She didn't look up immediately and Sakura calmly took her place standing before the large desk.
Tsunade finally looked up from the piles of paperwork littering her desk to the bright green eyes of her apprentice. "Sakura…"
"Did you have a mission for me shishou? I gave you the report on my progress yesterday." Tsunade nodded and, seemingly subconsciously, played with the paperwork in front of her.
"Before I tell you the details of this mission, you need to understand that it is entirely voluntary." Sakura's eyes burned with curiosity, she had never heard of a 'voluntary' mission before.
Sakura nodded crisply and Tsunade's eyes bore into her as if measuring her capacities. After a long moment she let out a long breath and continued.
"With Orochimaru dead his subordinates have been mainly inactive. Recently however, a group of them have been gathering, and recruiting." Steepling her fingers and looking troubled Tsunade focused her eyes on a spot just above Sakura's left shoulder. "The Kazekage recently informed us that girls between the ages of seven and fourteen that had been reported missing from several nations have been seen there."
Sakura's brow creased in confusion. "You mean they're being recruited? But why would…"
"Not recruited." Having been cut off mid thought Sakura floundered for a moment before she grasped what Tsunade was implying, she forced herself to think through what she was going to say.
"You want me to pose as one of these girls and infiltrate their camp."
"This is not the mission I would have wished for your first jounin assignment, but you are the only jounin kunoichi who could pass for being under fourteen. There are some chuunin we could send but…" Sakura tensed at the thought of a chuunin girl attempting such a thing. Tsunade continued.
"This is a two nin mission. The female is to play the part of one of these girls, and the male counterpart's job is to become one of them." Tsunade forced herself to look again into Sakura's eyes.
"This mission is asking more of you than the risking of your life Sakura. They monitor each other as much or more than their enemies and each of them is a high level nin, your… interactions, with your counterpart would have to be real. The mission would be of an indeterminate amount of time, during which neither of your covers could be suspect." Sakura swallowed as she stared into Tsunade's eyes. She looked tired, defeated. Her eyes both begged Sakura to accept and save one of her kohai, and to refuse and save herself.
With a deep breath Sakura turned her head and traced the details of the rug with her eyes as she thought. Could she do this?
At sixteen she was one of the younger jounin in the village. Of the gennin she had gone through the first chuunin exam with, Shikamaru and Neji were the only other jounin. Most nins, excepting of course the extraordinary few like Hatake Kakashi, didn't usually achieve jounin until their twenties. So to say that questioning herself was NOT something she was used to doing would be an understatement. But this was beyond anything she had done before.
Sure Sakura could break every bone in a man's body and then choose whether or not to heal him. She could and had killed both in self-defense and as a part of a mission. She had (naturally) spent years learning the arts of seduction and what to expect from intercourse in her required kunoichi classes. But to not only lose her virginity for a mission, but to continue to be violated for anywhere from weeks to years; could she do that?
Tsunade sighed deeply at Sakura's prolonged silence, interpreting it as her own hesitant refusal. "I understand, I'll…"
"Who will my counterpart be?" Tsunade looked up in shock but covered it in a moment with her usual mask of irritation and collected herself briefly with a shot of sake before turning back to Sakura.
"Considering the nature of the mission I felt it right that you should choose. Of those qualified that are also available you have your choice of Shiranui Genma, Hyuuga Neji, Nara Shikamaru, or Hatake Kakashi… Sakura…"
"How much time do I have to decide?" Realizing that Sakura's decision had been hard enough without Tsunade making her second-guess herself Tsunade kept her response business.
"You have until the day after tomorrow before you have to leave, so let me know your choice by tomorrow night so your partner will have enough time to prepare." With a nod Sakura turned stiffly and left the room.

Sitting with her back to the middle pillar of training grounds number three, Sakura contemplated who would be her future partner. It was rather unnerving deciding whom she would be sleeping with for the duration of the mission. Any of these men she would have trusted with her life, but this was different.
First there was Genma, at least in his case she knew with an absolute certainty that the answer was no. Sakura could care less that he was the second biggest womanizer in the village (second only to Jiraiya), and she considered herself downright charitable for not castrating him after he had begun to pursue her whenever she wasn't around at least one of her overpowered male friends; but giving him free access to her for the duration of the mission? No.
Then of course there was Shikamaru. Not only was he already in a committed, long distance relationship with Temari (who coincidentally would tear Sakura to pieces for sleeping with her man regardless of the mission), but he was also not too far off the mark for what she was looking for in a man.
And she knew that if she was going to be able to complete this mission and then return to a normal life afterwards, she absolutely could not under any circumstances fall in love with her partner.
That of course left her with Neji and Kakashi. On the one hand Neji was neither attached nor a known womanizer, but there was still a bit of danger that she could fall for him. Sakura was fairly sure that he was too much like Sasuke (for whom she had thoroughly gotten over any romantic feelings when he had tried to kill them two years ago) for her to seriously consider him in such a light, but there was still that doubt within her that she might.
Of course Kakashi was hardly better. He did come with the almost certainty that she wouldn't fall in love with him, he was unattached, and though he was considered a pervert for reading blatant smut in public he had never been known as a womanizer but… he was Kakashi!
It wasn't so much that he had been her teacher, (that had been short lived and almost four years ago) or even that he was fourteen years older than her, (since she was often the more mature of the two) it didn't even bother her that he had been her team leader until she had become a jounin, (after all, in the society of ninja nothing was considered taboo between two consenting persons of equal rank) but Kakashi… She just didn't see him as a man.
Though when she thought about it, wasn't that what she wanted?
Sakura sighed heavily and tried to clear her mind enough to simply enjoy the warmth of the afternoon sun against her face. On the rare almost spring days that it wasn't raining she enjoyed sitting in the sun's warmth, it would still be a couple months before it became overbearingly hot and she wanted to enjoy it while she could. After all, she might not be able to do so again for a long while.
The moment of tranquility ended abruptly when her stomach growled loud enough to make her blush and she was forced to set aside her thoughts to go in search of food. She supposed she could have ramen- but then she'd run into Naruto, and she really wasn't in the mood to listen to him gush about all the missions he'd been on since officially becoming a chuunin.
Really, by all rights he should be a jounin, but he never seemed to be about when exam time came around. Sakura supposed it didn't really matter since team Kakashi always seemed to get more than its fair share of A-ranked missions anyway...
She missed the team. For the last month Sakura had been teaching medical jutsu to the gennin. Tsunade-shishou had always impressed upon her the importance of having a med-nin on every team but that would never be possible if someone didn't train them, so the responsibility had fallen to Sakura. And she hadn't had a chance to go on a real mission since she had become a jounin the previous month; (her final mission with team Kakashi had been canceled due to Tsunade needing to send Kakashi on an emergency solo mission), and since then she had begun teaching and they had never found a good time to reschedule.
Tsunade had said, 'With new rank comes new responsibility.' But Sakura would have liked to at least been able to celebrate with her team…
"Forehead!" Whipping around Sakura spotted her blond counterpart charging after her as if the furies of hell were at her heels.
"Ino-pig."
"I've been looking for you for the last hour!" Sakura tried to respond but Ino cut her off. "Talk, now."
Sakura tried again to speak, but Ino didn't give her a chance before grabbing her wrist and hauling her into the darkest corner of the nearest restaurant. Wanting to be upset with her, Sakura opened her mouth to complain but was cut off once again by one of the last things she had expected Ino to say.
"I had an omiai this morning."
"What!" Sakura didn't know whether to laugh or choke.
"You know, where you meet someone with the intention to consider marriage." Ino rolled her eyes as if Sakura had lost it, causing Sakura to narrow her eyes for a moment.
"I know what an omiai is Pig! But why did you have one? Aren't you a little young for that yet?" Ino flicked Sakura's forehead.
"Duh, because my parents arranged it of course!" They stared at each other hard for a second before Ino looked down at her fingers in contemplation. "I don't really mind though, I mean, Ka-san met Tou-san through an omiai when she was only a few months older than me… and look at how happy they still are!"
Sakura couldn't argue against the steadfast relationship and true mutual respect Ino's parents held for each other, but the idea of Ino getting married right now just seemed… absurd!
"So?" The prompt caused Ino's eyes to flick up momentarily but then they remained downcast as she began to faintly blush. "Spill it Ino, I can see you're dying to say whatever it is." Before Ino could find her voice a waitress came over and without even glancing at the menu Sakura ordered a bowl of egg drop soup and white rice, before continuing to stare at Ino intently.
"… It was Hyuuga Neji…" The breath rushed out of Sakura as if Ino had kicked her in the stomach. Ino didn't seem to notice and continued to speak. "He's turning eighteen in a few months and his family's eager to have him married and producing more exceptional Hyuugas… and Hinata's mother and mine have always been close so…" Sakura didn't say anything for a long moment as she contemplated what to say.
"Do you want to marry him?"
Ino blushed again but managed to look up this time. "I… I don't know. I mean, I don't really have a reason not to. I'm not in love with somebody else, and he tells me he isn't either, and of course I did always want a truck load of kids, and he's the type to really keep his word it's just that…"
"It's just that you don't want a loveless marriage."
Ino smiled, this is why she had had to tell Sakura, she knew her well enough that Ino didn't need to spell it out for her. "Yes."
Sakura thought for a moment. "So I'm guessing you suggested that the two of you go on a few dates to see how it goes?"
Ino blushed and looked down again. "Actually, it was his suggestion…"
Sakura smiled at her friend's uncharacteristic timidity. 'She must actually be serious about this if she's so worked up about it.'
"Well, I don't see a problem then, do you?" At Ino's confused glance she said, "He's obviously not the type of idiot who walks away from something great just because he doesn't know how great it is yet!"
Sakura laughed as Ino's smile became dazzling. Sakura always knew just what to say to make her feel better. "Of course! Do you think I would even consider a man who couldn't see the perfection before his eyes!"
Sakura laughed harder at Ino's newly re-inflated ego. "But I swear, when you have kids, I'm not going to baby-sit!"
As the two of them laughed the waitress came back with Sakura's order and she ate ravenously as Ino smiled over her cup of water. Time and circumstances might change, but some things never would.

That night, as Sakura lay in bed, she stared up at the ceiling trying to quiet her mind long enough to fall asleep. After an hour she had figured out two things: were FAR too many points on the stucco ceiling to make an accurate count and 2. She wasn't going to get any sleep until she had settled things one-way or the other.
And she couldn't help thinking about what Ino had told her earlier that evening… After finding out that he was going to be dating and possibly becoming engaged to her best female friend, Sakura knew that she couldn't possibly choose him to go on this mission with her. Which only left, "Kakashi…"
It was hard to imagine what sex with the copy-nin was going to be like. Would he even be able to with someone like her? Someone who with the right clothing, hairstyle and demeanor could pass for a twelve-year-old girl?
And what about him, he could be hideous under that mask of his for all she knew, what would he say if she felt the need to ask him to put it back on?
Like a bolt of lightning it suddenly occurred to her that she would get to see under his mask! A feat she was sure no one who hadn't known him from childhood had accomplished.
Of course this tidbit wasn't enough to make her feel comfortable with the coming mission, but she'd be lying to say it didn't take the edge off, a little bit at least.
Sakura told herself that it would be okay, Kakashi would never allow her to be hurt, and he wasn't any of the things that had worried her about the other candidates… But she couldn't help but worry a little bit. After all, he could always refuse the mission, leaving her no choice but to go with Genma, ewww...
And if he did take the mission there was always the possibility that they would never be able to act normal around each other afterwards. But still, he really was the best candidate; and she had been leaning towards him even before Ino mentioned the omiai. So she really had no right to complain, right?
Sighing again Sakura looked over at the clock to see that it was just after eleven, right around the time Tsunade would be settling down to sleep.
Unable to think of anything else that might help her get some sleep herself Sakura quickly threw on a pair of sweat pants over her panties and long shirt she had worn to bed and slipped on her sandals before heading out the door to visit her shishou.
The night air was refreshing against her face as she sped from rooftop to rooftop. The air was cold enough that Sakura realized she should have worn a coat as well, but she didn't have it in her to go back for one, she might put this off if she didn't go now.
So when she reached Tsunade's doorstep she knocked and then kept knocking until Tsunade finally answered the door with a roared, "What!"
Seeing Sakura standing there shivering with a determined look in her eye at eleven fifteen at night, she couldn't help usher her inside the warm living room and wrapping her in a blanket before forcing her to sit on the plush sofa. Softening her tone she asked, "What's wrong?"
Sakura smiled lightly at her shishou's concern even as she tried to still her chattering teeth. "Nothing's the matter exactly, I just decided on Hatake and I thought I should let you know." Tsunade looked surprised, though Sakura couldn't tell if it was because she had rushed over here without a coat to tell her this, or because of her choice in partners.
Tsunade sat herself in an equally plush chair across from Sakura. "Why Hatake?" Sakura almost rolled her eyes.
"Well… many reasons. First, I felt that Genma was out of the question, I just… not Genma." Tsunade fought back a smile and nodded as she waited for Sakura to continue, which after a moment of soaking up the warmth now surrounding her, she did. "Shikamaru and Temari are in a serious relationship and she would probably start a huge incident over it if I chose him." Tsunade's eyebrow shot up.
"I didn't realize they were being exclusive." Sakura smiled softly as she remembered a conversation she had had with Temari a few months back.
"They haven't made it all official or anything yet, but Temari would kill him if he slept with someone else." Tsunade seemed to contemplate this for a moment before nodding for her to continue.
"I was considering Neji, being that he's closer to my age and has never been my superior before, but when I was going to get some dinner I was accosted by Ino, who apparently had an omiai with him this morning." Tsunade looked even more shocked at this than she had at Sakura's choosing Kakashi.
"I think my information specialists on the social affairs of the city aren't working hard enough." The grim set to her jaw told Sakura that somebody was going to be getting a very angry lecture come morning.
After a moment of thought she turned back to Sakura with a slightly less grim stare. "So as far as you see it Hatake is your only choice?" Sakura frowned at Tsunade's words; she rather resented the implication that she would settle for a sub-par partner.
"Honestly, he is, but that doesn't mean that he's not also the right choice." At Tsunade's raised eyebrow Sakura explained her reasoning, ticking each point off on her fingers.
"He's not known as a womanizer or cruel lover," She successfully beat down the urge to blush at her own words and continued.
"He's not married or engaged or seeing anyone, unless of course you count his treasured porn…" Tsunade shared a smile with her even as she continued once again. "He's not really my type so it's unlikely that I'll be unable to detach myself from him when the mission is over." At this Tsunade's smile broadened but Sakura ignored it and continued to her last point.
"And most importantly, he would never harm me or allow me to be hurt if there was anything he could do to prevent it. Hatake may be a perpetually late pervert, but he is the right man for me to go on this mission with." Tsunade had allowed her smile to fade, but her face shown with pride nonetheless.
"You're right, of course." Sakura tried to smile but found herself yawning instead, causing Tsunade to look at the clock again, it was eleven thirty.
"Come in tomorrow morning at ten. Maybe if I call him in at seven he'll be there by then." Sakura tried to smile again but she couldn't make it reach her eyes and her ever-vigilant shishou noticed. "What?"
"You think…" Sakura looked into Tsunade's eyes, finally allowing her worries to show. "He won't turn down the mission will he? Because if I have to go with Genma I…" Tsunade's laughter cut her off.
"Don't worry in that regard at least." Tsunade's eyes sparkled as if thinking of some great mischief. "During his entire career Hatake Kakashi has never turned down a mission. He's argued about who his companions should be, or the plan of attack from time to time, but an outright refusal has never happened." Sakura felt as if a huge weight had been lifted off her shoulders, and she was finally able to manage a smile.
"Thank you Shishou." As she made to shrug off the warm blanket and return home Tsunade caught her hands.
"Take it, you can give it back to me tomorrow." At Sakura's bemused look she continued. "A cold is really one of the last things you need to worry about right now Sakura." Sakura blushed lightly and nodded before standing and making her way to the door.
"Good night Sakura."
"Good night Shishou." Sakura looked back at Tsunade as if to memorize her standing there in her old but well preserved robe. For a moment Tsunade thought she should say something, but the moment passed and Sakura was gone in a flurry of blanket before she could even open her mouth.
Tsunade shook her head with a small smile as she walked back to her own bed. "She always does make me proud, doesn't she?"

Hatake Kakashi was a man of few pleasures, or rather a man of many pleasures but few indulgences.
Almost five years previously he had told team seven that he had many hobbies, which was true if you included the ones he hadn't allowed himself to indulge in for years. Like chasing after girls. (That counts as a hobby, right?)
When he had first hit puberty he had been almost as bad as Genma when it came to how often he would try to seduce the female populous; though Kakashi professed to have considerably more tact.
There was also dog training which he hadn't done since finishing the training of his own eight nin-dogs. Also: training, sleeping, reading, training, being late, aggravating teammates, training, and when the mood took him- cooking.
If he were to really think about it he might realize that he had never really had many hobbies, but for that very reason he took care NOT to think about it. After all, claiming to have many hobbies that no one ever saw him do added to the mystery of Copy-nin Kakashi. (As if a mask wasn't enough!)
However, waking up at seven am to a bird pecking at the windowsill was neither one of his hobbies nor one he would pretend to have; but regardless, it was something he was used to.
Thankfully he had managed to avoid Genma last night when he had been looking for a drinking buddy otherwise Kakashi might not have felt the need to get out of bed until early afternoon. A brown bird meant that the Hokage wanted to see you soon, the black bird meant now. A call from a black bird was one that even the perpetually late Hatake Kakashi would heed whether he had been drinking or not; but today he needn't rush. The bird was brown.
Having slept rather well, Kakashi managed to make it through his morning routine of shower, breakfast and visiting the memorial by nine o'clock and arrived at the Hokage's office by nine forty-five on the dot. A feat to be proud of he assured himself.
Shizune seemed surprised to see him and he smiled his typical eye crinkle in greeting before entering the office without knocking and standing before the Hokage's desk with his usual slouch, hands in his pockets.
Tsunade didn't even look up. "I have a mission for you."
"Hn" Finally glancing up at him Tsunade noted that he must have escaped Genma's binging last night, as he looked rested for once. 'Good.'
"This is not a mission you are required to take, though when given her options you were the female counterpart's first choice." Kakashi made no comment (though he wondered at Tsunade's explanation), he had never turned down a mission before, not even the so-called 'optional' ones. He knew what that really meant.
Every mission you took risked your life, and as a nin you would be sent on sometimes certain death missions without anyone ever asking if you were okay with it; but when it came to the more touchy subject of sex, the higher ups became squeamish.
They titled the missions where they knew you would be forced into sexual acts 'optional.' Even when there was no one else qualified to take the mission. It made them feel better to think they had given you the 'choice.'
Kakashi never said a thing, unlike some of his less jaded colleges he knew that these missions were not even allowed unless they had something to do with Konoha security; no one could simply pay for such… services.
It was true that there were missions requested by clients that involved seduction, but the only ones accepted were those involving civilians. That way a simple genjutsu would suffice. If you somehow got into a situation where you had to either sleep with a target or risk the mission, you slept with them. But the mission wouldn't be accepted if the client knew such things would be required.
Funny the way people justified things… but Kakashi had no reason to turn down a mission he knew could mean the preservation of Konoha. Considering the things he had done in the past this couldn't be much worse. Sex was just sex after all.
Tsunade surveyed his reaction, noting that as usual she may as well have told him it was Friday for all the emotion he displayed. She had to hand it to the girl, when she was right, she was right. Hatake was the man for the job.
"Some of Orochimaru's old subordinates have been gathering lately." Kakashi immediately stood just a little straighter and focused upon her intently.
"Besides recruiting other missing nin they have been gathering young girls between seven and fourteen. ALL of their residents prey upon the girls." At this even Kakashi managed to raise an eyebrow in apprehension, did this mean he was going to have to sleep with children? The thought sent an awful chill through him, maybe this could be worse.
"I'm glad to see that you are displeased with the idea." Kakashi almost scoffed, displeased was beyond an understatement.
"Thankfully there are some among them who only prey upon one girl and are even possessive of them, hence your female counterpart." Kakashi was slightly mollified that he would not need to prey upon a parade of young girls, but he didn't entirely let go of his misapprehension. He didn't know if he would be able to bring himself to be aroused, let alone orgasm with a child.
Noting his still tense shoulders Tsunade smiled, deciding to torture him for just a bit longer. "She should be here shortly, I believe she had one more day of lessons to complete this morning."
Kakashi thought he might be sick at the thought of sleeping with one of the gennin girls, but forced himself to show nothing. He had done worse than this right? He had killed at the age of six, had tortured and interrogated subjects at the age of seven, on occasion he had even been forced to kill small children.
Granted those children had been prodigies from other villages or even rouges who had tried to kill him, but surely the sin was equal to that of sleeping with one of them, right? Kakashi drooped. No, it wasn't.
"Hokage-sama, who…" Just then there was a light nock at the door.
"That should be her now. Enter!" Turning to watch his mission partner enter the room Kakashi almost choked upon seeing a girl that couldn't have been more than nine or ten with long black hair standing in the doorway.
"Hokage-sama…" The girl froze upon seeing the Copy-nin Hatake standing before her, she looked scared and Kakashi couldn't blame her.
"Hokage-sama, I don't think…" Tsunade cut Kakashi off before he could refuse his first mission.
"Reika, what is it?" He almost laughed in relief- this wasn't her. Tsunade even seemed surprised to see her.
The girl's eyes darted back to Tsunade at the sound of her name and (after gathering herself for a moment) forced herself to straighten and deliver her message.
"Sakura sensei was called away to an emergency at the hospital and wanted me to say this exactly…" The girl's nervous eyes flicked back to Kakashi for a moment before she continued.
"That man can just damn well wait on me for once!"
Tsunade was tempted to laugh, between Sakura's words and Kakashi's stunned reaction to the identity of his partner it was a close call, but she managed to press her lips together and execute a nod to dismiss one of Sakura's most promising students.
Kakashi didn't feel like laughing.
Tsunade had purposefully allowed him to believe he would have to basically rape a child, when his partner would actually be a woman of equal rank… but he was honestly too relieved to be angry.
Sure Sakura had once been his student, and had often been his subordinate, but she was an intelligent kunoichi capable of deciding to both take on a mission of this nature and to have him as her partner. He no longer felt incapable of completing this mission the way it needed to be done for the highest rate of success.
"Hatake," Kakashi turned towards his now fully composed Hokage, he himself now as relaxed as he had been when he had first entered her office.
Tsunade held out a mission scroll. "You can read over the details for yourself, you leave tomorrow morning. You should probably go to the hospital to wait for Sakura so you can go over the mission together."
Before he could even nod his head she amended herself. "Go to the hospital NOW to wait. I'm quite sure there are any number of things you need to take care of before you go."
Kakashi didn't pretend to misunderstand what she had meant by things he needed to 'take care of.' He knew perfectly well what was expected on a mission like this.
"And Hatake?" He looked back over his shoulder at her as he turned to leave. "Try not to fall for her, she says you're not her type."
"Hn." And with a slight smile and a wave Kakashi was gone in a poof of smoke.

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