Peaceful Waters

Yay! I’m glad you all seemed to like the last chapter! I was a bit concerned about it but I think it holds true to my vision . . . Sorry I’m so tired right now I have no clue what I’m talking about. Anyway, for those of you who think they may know where the story is going or are anxious to know don’t fret. There will be answers, but all in good time. Possibly some in this chapter we’ll see how it goes. This story has been expanding on me at an alarming rate it went from a one shot to a full blown story and into possible two stories, but that won’t be for quite a while yet! I can tell you exactly where this “one shot” went off, it was when I started writing about what Sasuke was thinking in the hot springs back in whatever chapter that was. It got too deep for the fun little trifle I was planning on. Then, annoyingly the basic idea that I had for Genma and Sakura that I was going to use in my other story ALAWTWNBA, fit this one so much better. So here we are. I am excited about writing this now as opposed to annoyed at myself for screwing up my one shot. I want to let you know that all your fine reviews have thrilled me to death and I hope I can continue to deliver an interesting and hopefully amusing story to you all. Ok enough babble. ON WITH THE PLOT!


Sakura continued to stare at the pandemonium that had occurred at the unveiling of Genma’s not so private parts and only realized her mouth was hanging open when Genma reached over and closed it for her.


“But, but. I’m so sorry! I should have- “Sakura started.


“No, it’s fine. I’m a tokubetsu right? I can handle it,” Genma smirked at her as her cheeks grew red, first with embarrassment then anger, she was about to start her own little tirade when Genma cut her off with a sound kiss, after of course, removing his senbon. “Really Sakura, I’m just playing. It’ll die down in a minute.”


Sure enough the newly weds settled down first, both quiet and staring at anything but each other. One could almost see the dark clouds buzzing with electricity hovering over their heads. The two woman that had been loudly discussing Genma’s attributes pouted and quieted after seeing him kiss Sakura and turned to each other to whisper quietly shooting her envious glances. Sai, although startled by the blond and brunette suddenly turning one him, had quickly recovered and with Kakashi’s help everyone was sitting down fairly peacefully.


“Well this is relaxing,” Genma said sardonically popping his senbon back in his mouth and chewing hard, “So as you can see Sasuke you’re right. I have no penis. So I assume that next time I want to get in the hot springs with my towel on, no one will have any objections?”

This earned him a glare from Naruto and Sasuke, a raised eyebrow from Sai and a completely annoyed eye roll from Kakashi. Neji had managed to stay out of the whole thing and had edged quietly away from the group eyes still closed.


Sakura merely chuckled and said,” Come here Genma let me check your back and shoulders while we’re in the water.”


Genma complied moodily turning his back on the younger male ninja and giving Sakura access to his now tension stiffened shoulders and back. Sakura held her palms flat over his back as she worked assessing his condition.


“Everything’s healed nicely, you just need to relax and possibly begin some light exercise to make sure nothings stiffens up so you can keep your flexibility,” Sakura explained as she began to gently but firmly knead his shoulder. “Let me massage you for a bit and then lay back in the water and try to relax.”


Genma just grunted acceptance and closed his eyes relaxing despite himself at Sakura’s massage.


Naruto, Sai and Sasuke all decided to look away from their tormenters and leaned back in the water attempting to relax and failing miserably. Now that the excitement was over Naruto seemed to have taken an interest in checking out Sakura. Sai noticed this and decided to peer over at the couple as well, oddly enough looking at Genma almost as much as Sakura. Sasuke tried to keep his eyes closed but kept finding himself glaring at Genma and Sakura. Kakashi who was now sitting in between Sakura and Sai seemed to magically pull and Icha Icha book out of nowhere and began to read contentedly.


“Won’t your book be ruined by the steam?” Sai asked in amazement.


“Nope, knowing over 1000 ninjutsu comes in handy sometimes,” Kakashi answered perkily.


“You mean you used the jutsu that protects summoning scrolls from water damage on that porno?” Sasuke asked disgusted.


“Oh, so you know the jutsu already Sasuke? That’s great,” Kakashi answered still reading his book and giggling slightly.
Sasuke gave up and rolled his eyes turning to chat with Naruto who still had his eyes glued on Sakura.


“Do you have to keep staring like that Naruto? You’ve seen it all before. It’s not like there’s anything there,” Sasuke grumbled crossing his arms.


“Shut up teme Sakura-chan is beautiful! You’re just jealous!” Naruto complained loudly.


“Well I guess a man COULD be jealous of Sakura’s body . . .” Sasuke trailed off smirking.


“I don’t understand Sasuke-kun, I too once believed that Sakura was a hag but I believe the full view has proved that she does have a nice perky figure,” Sai questioned smiling brightly.


“YOU KNOW I CAN HEAR ALL OF YOU!” Sakura bellowed as she worked Genma’s back a little too strongly.


“OW!” Genma complained as she dealt a particularly hard squeeze to his shoulder, “I think I’m ok now Sakura really, I’ll just lay back a bit!”


“I’m sorry Genma!” Sakura said turning back to glare at her boys.


A lovely silence finally settled on the pool as the shinobi finally laid back and kept to themselves. The sound of birds chirping and insects buzzing was very soothing and for a good half hour there was very little to disturb the peace. Kakashi giggled occasionally, Sasuke and Naruto smarted off back and forth in lazy and contented manner and Sakura leaned back next to Genma and they held hands contentedly. But as usual with this group something was bound to go wrong sooner or later.


Sakura noticed Genma absently stretching his left leg and asked him if his knee was still bothering him.


“Hmm? No I have an old injury, see this scar on my thigh here?” Genma asked showing her a good five inch long slash that went from right above his knee towards his inner thigh, “I got this about 3 or 4 years ago, and it’s always bothered me a little ever since. I just always stretch it out when I’m not thinking about it. It gets tight really easily other wise.”


“Let me take a look and see if I can help any,” Sakura said taking his leg and placing it on her lap so that he was facing her, and consequently the rest of their little party.


Genma just raised an eyebrow and leaned back on the bench with his arms braced behind him to keep his balance.


Sakura talked aimlessly as she studied his old wound, “ You have quite a lot of scars Genma, are there any more that bother you?”


“Nothing like that one,” he answered quietly absently looking over and noticing that Sasuke was glaring at him once again.


“It looks like your scars almost have a pattern,” Sakura laughed lightly as she worked, “It’s almost like they were placed there to emphasize your muscles.”


“They were,” Sasuke said suddenly making them all start. Even Kakashi stopped reading his book, “ You were tortured by Tetsuo weren’t you?”


Before any of them could move Genma was up off Sakura’s lap and had Sasuke by the ear pulling him up from the bench. He leaned in closely to the dark shinobi and whispered something that made Sasuke straighten and allowed Genma to pull him towards the entrance barely giving him enough time to grab their bathrobes before they left.


:”What was that about?!” Naruto asked standing up as if to go after them.


“Leave them alone Naruto. They’ll be ok. This is something Genma and Sasuke have to work out by themselves. Sasuke should know better then to bring up something like that anyway,” Kakashi said angrily.


“Who is Tetsuo?” Sakura asked concerned.


Kakashi sighed and set his book down on the edge of the spring, “Tetsuo was a crazy follower of Orochimaru. He was a specialist in torture, but he looked at it as a kind of art form. He would torture people for Orochimaru with a special instrument that wouldn’t allow for healing with chakra so there was no way supposedly that the subjects would be able to survive. He enjoyed making cuts that not only hurt intensely but showed of attributes of the subject body. He loved shinobi because we all tend to be pretty well defined to begin with.”


“So how did Genma-”Sakura started.


“Genma’s mission was to assassinate Tetsuo. He succeeded,” Kakashi said gravely.


“But-” Naruto started.


“I wouldn’t bug Genma about it,” Kakashi warned looking at each of them in turn and ending at Sakura, “Any of you.”


“Hai, Kakashi- sensei,” they all answered.


“Kakashi-san,” Sai said quietly, “Would you come with me for a time? I have something I want to ask you about.”


Kakashi looked skeptically at Sai who had never asked him anything like this before and nodded silently following the young artist out of the spring.


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Genma continued to hold Sasuke’s ear as they made their way quickly back to their cottages and surprisingly went into Sasuke’s. Genma turned the Uchiha and threw him up against the wall standing right in front of him to block him from moving.


“It ends here. I won’t have you going at me the entire week and I won’t hear anymore insults about Sakura, is that clear?” Genma said in a quiet and deadly voice.


Sasuke opened his mouth as if to answer but Genma cut him off quickly, “I don’t know why you’ve got to get off on pissing me off. I don’t care what you know or you think you know about Tetsuo but I can promise you that you don’t know what happened between him and me. The only thing you need to know is that he’s dead. I killed him. And if you ever make reference to him again to anyone I will make sure that your life is even more hellish than it is right now. Clear?”


Genma stared darkly and intensely into Sasuke’s eyes feeling the chakra flowing in the young man. Suddenly Genma smirked and he leaned one elbow on the wall by Sasuke’s head so that their faces were mere inches apart.


“I think I know what your problem is with me,” Genma smirked carefully studying Sasuke as he spoke, “it’s one of these three. One you’re all hot and bothered because I’m with Sakura and you finally realize that she’s totally hot not to mention she’s safe because she’s been on your team and helped you get back into Konoha’s good graces. Two you’re all hot and bothered because you’re attracted to me, probably because you know I’m dangerous but you also know that given the right circumstances you’re better than me so I’m safe, or three you’re hot and bothered and it’s because you don’t even know why, but it is one of the first two, isn’t it Sasuke-Kun?”


As Genma finished speaking Sasuke found that Genma’s face had slowly closed the distance between them and even as he opened his mouth to protest Genma pressed his lips firmly against his kissing him slow, strong and sensually. Sasuke was too shocked to do anything but let the kiss happen. Or at least that’s what he told himself later. A good 45 seconds later Genma released him.


“You’re confused Sasuke,” Genma said in a voice still deep from the kiss,” I hear your plan was to resurrect your clan now that Itachi’s dead. My guess is you’re scared to death because you’re not ready to be a father and not ready to be in such a position of leadership. But you don’t want your clan to end with you and you’re scared that on one of these missions you’ll be killed and there goes the Uchiha clan and it will be all your fault.”


Sasuke’s eyes flashed red as Genma spoke but he kept still.


“Clan revival is no reason to bring a kid into the world. It’s not right to have children unless you’re ready for them. You won’t be any kind of father, man or clan leader until you figure out who you are. Here’s a nickels worth of free advice, if you’re worried about your clan dying out talk to Sakura or Tsunade about saving some of your sperm. That way you die, your clan lives on. In the mean time, grow the hell up. Figure out how to be the kind of man that can lead a clan as powerful as the Uchiha’s. Now as far as you and I go,” Genma straightened and stretched lazily still eying Sasuke,” You lay off me, grow up and let this whole back and forth thing go or I’ll tell everyone about this tender little moment we just had. Agreed?”


Genma smiled brightly and held out his hand toward Sasuke who had turned an incredible shade of scarlet, this time in the cheeks and not the eyes and warily placed his hand into the older shinobi’s.


“Great, let’s start over shall we? I’m Shiranui Genma, you’re Uchiha Sasuke. The pleasure is all yours,” Genma said gallantly bending over Sasuke’s hand and kissing his knuckles before he yanked it back wiping it desperately on his shirt and stalked hurriedly to his room slamming the door.


“Was it something I said?” Genma called smiling.


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Sai and Kakashi stepped into the cottage that had once been Genma’s and took seats facing each other at a table.


“Kakashi-san, you seem to know Genma-san quite well, is that true?” Sai asked.


“Yes, since we were children,” Kakashi answered.


“May I show you something?” Sai asked pulling something out of the pocket of his bathrobe. It was a journal sized book that had the picture of a young black haired boy one one side, Kakashi could not yet see the other until Sai turned it over for him to view.


“Oh my God, where’d you get that?” Kakashi asked taking the book and looking at the picture of a young white haired boy that graced the other side. “This looks just like Genma when he was a kid.”


“Genma-san had white hair?” Sai asked thoughtfully.


“Yeah it was almost white, really blond but it got a lot darker as he got older. How did you. . .” Kakashi trailed off turning the book over and looking at Sai. “This other boy is you isn’t it? So this isn’t Genma. Who is it?”


“That’s what I wanted to ask you about. That other boy was my brother in ROOTS,” Sai answered his fake smile for once missing, his face serious.


“Your brother. . .You don’t mean that literally do you,” Kakashi said quietly.


”No, he was a boy slightly older then me that liked my drawings. We became close and called each other brother. I was making that book for him but he died of an illness before I could give it to him,” Sai answered taking back the book carefully and placing it back in his pocket. “I noticed a resemblance between Genma-san and my brother almost at once. Their manners also seemed very much the same but the thing that really made me take notice was Genma-san’s penis. It is very much like my brothers, of course he died when we were about 11 so I don’t know how truly-”


“I get the idea,” Kakashi said leaning back scratching at his hair.


“Kakashi-san, does Genma have any close family in Konoha,” Sai asked.


“No. No one. Genma never really knew his dad and he came to Konoha as kid, alone,” Kakashi said slowly.


“Hmm, that would lead me to believe my suspicions are correct then,” Sai said seriously with what might be a tinge of excitement in his eye, “I believe that Genma-san is my brothers father.”


Woohoohoo! Was that fun or what? I hope it’s still good for all of you cause I’m enjoying myself. We’ll get deeper into everything as the story goes on I promise! But there’s still shopping to do and the week has just begun! I really didn’t mean to be such a Sasuke basher in this fic but is seems as if all you cold hearted people enjoy it so who I am I to stop your fun! As always please R&R! I love you all!