Adult-FanFiction.org : Naruto

Heart-Shaped Box	By : JazzyBell Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female > Kakashi/Sakura Views: 7458 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I make no profit off the creation of this work.

Chapter List
- 2
- 3
- 4
By the time Sakura made it to training her face was redder than her outfit. It didn’t matter what she did her face just seemed to stay that color. Perhaps that was because all she could think about was what she had just been told.
The youth truly were impressionable.
Kurenai spared no detail and she had been given way more information that she had ever received at the Academy. She couldn’t even imagine learning any of that from Iruka-sensei. Actually she glad she never learned much about this particular subject from that man. She was also certain that he was glad he never had to teach it.
“Sakura why’s your face so red?” Sakura’s fist flew out and knocked Naruto clear across the training field. His scream of agony filled the air not even causing Sasuke to blink. She supposed her actions were something of the norm. She had lost count of the number of times that she had to berate Naruto for something stupid that he had done. With ease Sakura pushed Naruto out of her mind and glanced around warily. Kakashi-sensei wasn’t there when she showed up which really wasn’t unusual but it set her nerves on edge anyway. What would he say? What would he do? What were the tactics that he wanted to discuss?
The longer he made them wait the damper her palms became and the more her panic started to rise. She managed to suppress it though, noting that Sasuke had started shooting glances her way. He’d never ask her what was wrong but the fact that he was starting to suspect something was enough to help her regain her composure.
The wild-eyed look was not really her thing.
“Argh!” Naruto said once he had regained consciousness and rejoined his teammates. “Why is Kakashi-sensei always late?!”
At this point Sakura would normally chime in and make all sorts of complaints about their sensei but she just wasn’t feeling it that particular day which was another thing that didn’t go unnoticed by her teammates. Neither of which remarked upon it but that was because Sasuke was Sasuke and Naruto knew she currently wasn’t in the mood for it. One of the things she could admit that she liked about Naruto was that he wasn’t always as dumb as he looked.
A poof sounded announcing Kakashi-sensei’s entrance and as per usual she and Naruto yelled, “You’re late!” although hers was bit half-hearted.
“Alright, kiddies. It’s time to train. Sakura you’re going to train with—“
“Naruto?” She suggested causing all three males to look at her. She couldn’t have been more obvious if she had screamed, ‘I’m going on a mission and I’ll have to have sex with our sensei’. She never trained with Naruto. She never even wanted to but of the three he was preferable. She really didn’t want to deal with Kakashi-sensei even though he was her usual training partner --if you called the game of him hiding and reading while she tried to find him training that is. Sasuke would wipe the floor with her without putting forth any effort and then ditch her to pull Naruto away from Kakashi. It hurt her to admit that but she knew Sasuke probably better than she knew herself.
“…Yes. Sakura I want you to train with Naruto. Sasuke you’re with me today. Taijutsu only.”
Sakura sighed inwardly and mentally prepared herself to be beaten. Naruto was brute force personified.    Had he not banned the other jutsu she may have stood a chance with Naruto but as it was…not so much. Why couldn’t he ever play up her strengths for once?
Did she even have any? Sakura pushed away her disparaging thoughts and focused on Naruto.
They stood across from each other both waiting for the other to move. Sakura immediately went on the defense but Naruto didn’t move and she knew why. The kunoichi suddenly Sakura felt ashamed. She knew Naruto had a fondness for her and to make an attempt to hurt her was almost an impossibility. It was why she wanted to spar with him in the first place. He may beat her but she’d still be able to walk (limp) away from the match.
So Sakura smiled and said, “Thanks Naruto for volunteering to help me with my taijutsu.” He immediately beamed at her as if it were his idea in the first place. “It’s no problem Sakura-chan! I’ll always be there to help you.”
Sakura nodded although thinking of Kurenai’s words about she may want to change teams made her wonder if that would truly be the case. “So tell me what I should work on, okay?”
“Sure!” Naruto said.
She didn’t tell him not to go easy on her because that would defeat the purpose of her working with him in the first place. She felt guilty but she didn’t feel that guilty.
In the end he still wiped the floor with her. Sakura lay on the ground utterly exhausted while Naruto was still bouncing off the figurative walls.
Pride was a thing that she had to strangle long ago.
Admittedly he did point out every single one of her weak areas and he calmly showed her how she could avoid them. She had to admit that even though he was annoying Naruto was a good teacher.
Her pride hurt that she had to ask him to help her in the first place.
She was utterly worthless.
She was so tired of being the weak link on her team. She truthfully didn’t understand why she was a part of this team in the first place. It didn’t matter what anyone said. She just didn’t fit. She felt like one of those kid puzzle toys--the ones with the shapes. She was a circle constantly being forced into the square hole. She just wouldn’t fit.
Training took entirely too long to be over with, although had she been thinking clearly she would have wanted it to last a bit longer. She felt a foot nudge her and she opened her closed eyes to look up at Kakashi-sensei. “You did well today Sakura. I’ll have you work more with Naruto in the future.”
Sakura internally jumped for joy that--if that was something you could do sarcastically.
“Naruto, Sasuke for the next few weeks you’re going to be working with different teams. Naruto you’ll be working with Gai’s team. Sasuke you’ll work with Asuma’s team.”
Sakura inwardly screamed. Sasuke would be working with Ino? That pig would never let her live it down. Although she wasn’t really worried. Like Sasuke would want anything to do with her.
“Sakura and I are going on a mission.” Sakura mentally counted to three. She only made it to two before Naruto exploded.
“What?! Why can’t we go along? We’re a team. We should do missions together!”
“You can go in my place if you want.” Sakura interjected earning her a hard look from Kakashi-sensei which she ignored. Naruto could play a female better than she could and he knew it well.
Sometimes she wondered about Naruto’s sexual orientation. He’d better not have his eyes on Sasuke if he was batting for the other team because then she wouldn’t care how strong he was she would bring him down.
“Really, Sakura-chan?!” Naruto said with an excitement that was totally inappropriate for the mission not that Naruto would know that.
Sakura continued to ignore the nasty looks Kakashi was sending her way.
“Su—“
“No.” Kakashi said cutting Sakura off.
“But Kakashi-sensei if Sakura doesn’t want to go then—“
“This is not up for discussion Naruto.”
Sasuke spoke up for the first time showing his own disgruntlement for being passed over. She’d let him take her place too. They protected her from everything else. Why not this too? “Why is Sakura going while we’re not?”
“Because the mission requires a kunoichi which neither of you are…unless I’m mistaken?” Kakashi asked raising a curious brow and reluctantly Sakura felt a giggle slip out. Naruto’s loud denials filled the air while Sasuke scowled. “Dismissed.”   Sakura wanted to get up and follow Naruto and Sasuke but she knew better than to play that game with the famed Copy Ninja. It really wouldn’t do for him to drag her back by the hair and truthfully she didn’t really want Sasuke and Naruto to know she was dreading this mission because that would lead to questions as to why and she knew Naruto well enough to know that he wouldn’t leave well enough alone and Sasuke wouldn’t stop him because he’s secretly want to know too. Then she’d have to tell and suffer the consequences afterwards.
They waited until their companions were gone before Kakashi turned to look at her. With a sigh he said simply, “We should talk.”
- 2
- 3
- 4
You need to be logged in to leave a review for this story.You need to be logged in to leave a review for this story.
Report Story

Heart-Shaped Box