Peaceful Waters

OMG! ‘@_@ I am soooooo sorry about the horrible delay. I’ve been through hell and a hand basket and it ain’t over yet sweetheart! But, you know, life sucks and then you die so fuck the world and let’s get high. Actually no, don’t get high. Don’t recommend that, let’s just read some mind altering fan fiction! In case anyone cares, I have a crappy drawing I did for Peaceful Waters on my DA account. Jaderaven is my name there as well. Ok well enjoy and please forgive me for the lateness of my reply…


Kakashi flashed himself away from the cottage as Sai left and made his innocent way into the town. If his perfectly unplanned route happened to lead him the exact same way that Genma and Sakura were going well he couldn’t help that. And so what if he wasn’t taking the road, but stealthfully flying from one tree to another just alongside them? He needed to keep his skills up. All purely innocent and certainly nothing to do with spying on one of his best friends and his favorite female student. No. Definitely not.


And yet as he strained to hear every word they said without letting either elite shinobi realize he was doing so, he did have some slight misgivings about his method of entry into the town. But definitely not enough to stop. Although he did almost smack into a tree as Sakura declared Genma and herself “a couple of sluts” but that was purely coincidental.


“Sex life. Why does Sakura need a sex life? Why do I need to be aware of her sex life? Why Genma of all people? Why does Sai come to ME to raise questions about Genma fathering people,” Kakashi grumbled silently in his head as he made his way along the trees, “Stupid off-time, things like this always happen. No such thing as a relaxing vacation.”


Kakashi restrained a (he felt) well-deserved sigh as he alighted from his position on a tree branch and soundlessly followed the two chatting shinobi into the village. They were walking around aimlessly discussing which way they should go and what they should do first. He was behind them for about another five minutes or so when they finally walked by the theater of the town. In large bold letters were words that seemed a message sent from the Gods. Icha Icha was still in theaters here as he had seen earlier and suddenly it seemed silly to be accidentally following his fellow ninja of the leaf. After all, what could he really learn about Genma or Sakura that he didn’t know already just from wandering purely aimlessly in the directions they happened to be going? It would be a waste to miss seeing a film of this magnitude on the big screen while he still could. It may be the last chance unless they re-released a special 3D edition.


Shaking his head and adjusting his suddenly uncomfortable mask that had for some unknown reasoned been dampened with drool he hadn’t realized he was creating, he took his chances on leaving Genma and Sakura to their own devices and bought a ticket from the nonplused looking teenager in the booth who gave him one look and rolled his eyes.

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Sasuke stepped back breathing hard and wiped the sweat threatening to break past his hitai-ate and obstruct his vision. He never let his eyes move from Neji’s form as the long haired shinobi moved back into his unique Hyuuga fighting stance. They had been sparring for several hours now and both elite ninja hadn’t been holding back, so needless to say both were tiring out and neither were about to admit it.


Neji blinked trying to give his chakra-laden eyes a moments break from battle and instantly regretted it as Sasuke took that opportunity to charge him. Neji brought his hands down smoothly, pushing carefully controlled chakra into Sasuke’s arms when said arms suddenly disappeared along with the rest of Sasuke’s shadow clone. Neji turned instantly as Sasuke attacked from the only blind spot in his vision. He jumped aside just in time as Sasuke’s kunai flew within millimeters of his face.


“I don’t need a shave that bad Uchiha,” Neji spat as he flipped nimbly avoiding the shrapnel coming from the last Uchiha.


“You could do with a haircut,” Sasuke smirked reading Neji’s next moves before he could make them and countering.


“Well not everyone can pull off the mangled straw you call a style,” Neji replied smoothly as he read the chakra flowing through the Uchiha and moved in close in an attempt to halt it.


Sasuke was taken completely off guard as Neji, wide eyed, suddenly leapt back away from him and dodged to the side as a large black lion took his place sending the Uchiha scrambling ungracefully to the side. Another large black object, a snake Sasuke’s keen eyes detected, was slithering alarmingly fast towards Neji. Without conscious thought, Sasuke sent a kunai through the roaring lions head causing ink to splatter all over the ground and his hands and face. Forced to close his eyes he cursed as he felt a thin metal wire wrap itself completely around him, pinning his arms to his sides, there was a swift jerk and Sasuke found himself falling face first into the grass. He quickly wiped the black mess off his face with the grass in time to see Neji caught in a similar position, only tied head to foot to a tree.


“Damn it Sai!” Sasuke growled spitting still more ink from his mouth and glaring angry red eyes at the infernally smiling artist who was just tucking the extra wire back into a pocket in his jacket.


“Sasuke-kun, I couldn’t help getting in on your sparring session,” Sai grinned tilting his head to one side, “Since it appears to be over would you mind having a word with me?”


“What the hell about?” Sasuke asked as he wiggled and wormed his arms around in an attempt to free them.


“Well, I saw Genma and Sakura together earlier and it appears that they are forming a rather intimate bond,” Sai began as he loosened the wire around Sasuke and added it to the length he had already put in his pocket. “I don’t want to harm their bond but as I understand it kissing other people cannot be part of that bond. If I were to know that there had been kissing outside of their relationship should I tell-”


Sai backed away quickly as Sasuke jumped to his feet and grabbed Sai by the jacket.


“Have you been talking to Genma!” Sasuke demanded his eyes burning red.


Sai could not help but remember the first time he had met the Uchiha back in Orochimaru’s lair. The first time he had felt fear had been in that hideout due to the gaze Sasuke was giving him now.


“Why-” Sai began.


“Hello! I’m still stuck here!” Neji called from the tree rather pissed off.


“Go untie Hyuuga,” Sasuke ordered in a frighteningly quiet voice, “Don’t say a word.”


Amazingly, Sai found himself doing just as Sasuke had asked. As soon as Neji was untied, he grumbled something about going to take a shower to get the ink out of his hair and left.


Sasuke again grabbed Sai by the jacket and pulled him over to a cluster of trees on the side of the field.


“You can’t tell anyone about that Sai,” Sasuke said firmly.


“But-” Sai began getting quite confused, “I haven’t told-“


“I don’t care. Sometimes kisses don’t mean anything. They just happen. There are kisses that no one ever needs to know about. It’s a private thing that only the people involved should know about.” Sasuke continued starting to ramble


“No one needs to know Sai, do you understand me!” Sasuke said practically yelling in Sai’s impassive yet slightly confused face.


“So I shouldn’t mention the kiss then,” Sai answered.


“To no one,” Sasuke reiterated.


“Damn that Genma,” Sasuke growled turning fiercely away from Sai and beginning to pace, “Sai you and I are going to go find Genma.”


“But you just said we shouldn’t mention the kiss,” Sai extremely confused and beginning to think that he would never understand this whole bond thing.


“That’s exactly why we need to talk to Genma,” Sasuke replied speeding off towards the village with a bewildered Sai at his side.


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“Whoa, what happened to you?” Naruto asked as he witnessed Neji stalking towards his cabin covered in ink.


“Sai. Why is your face so purple?” Neji replied raising an eyebrow at the gruesomely combined orange and purple shinobi.

Glaring off into the trees Naruto spat, “Sai. Where is the teme anyway? I want to talk to that bastard.”


“I saw him and Sasuke heading off towards town. If you’ll excuse me I need to shower,” Neji answered curtly heading into his cabin.


“Thanks Neji,” Naruto answered quickly speeding off towards town.


“Damn that Sai,” Naruto thought fiercely to himself. His head was still pounding from standing on his hand for that long. “I’m going to show him ‘pleasing to the eye’. I’ll please his eyes alright! When I get a hold of that bastard I’ll show him some interesting poses.”


Naruto concentrated on sensing the chakra signatures from Sasuke and Sai, which was hardly difficult because they seemed to be exerting themselves heading off towards town and didn’t seem to be all that concerned with camouflage, and set off on the quickest path towards them.


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Kakashi stretched, cat-like, and yawned contentedly. That was a fantastic movie. He’d be sure he’d make it back again at least a couple of times before he left.


Happy, content and still reveling in the storyline, Kakashi remained for a brief moment in a state of blissful mind numbness until a growing feeling that there was something that he should be doing began to creep up on him.


“Genma. Damn it,” Kakashi growled shortly, reaching up to scratch the back of his silver haired head as he began walking through the streets seeking out the dratted senbon chewer and his pink haired companion.


“Probably should have gone to a later showing,” he thought sheepishly, “Now where should I quietly and coincidentally happen to run into them. Now if I know Sakura and Genma at all she probably dragged him around shopping for hours and he is probably begging off to go eat something. Genma never could stand shopping for any length of time even if there is almost guaranteed sex as a reward.”


A full body shudder coursed through Kakashi at the thought, “Just yesterday I had my one of my best friends and my team on a paid for vacation. Now I have to figure out if he abandoned a child and why while he’s trying to get into my only female students pants.”


Kakashi frowned as he let his tracking instincts take over and lead him towards where Sakura and Genma would be, “I suppose it could be worse. He could still be trying to get into my pants.”


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“Damn that Genma. Why would he tell Sai? Why should I have trusted him? Stupid. Now every idiot in this team is going to think I’m gay. Shit. If Naruto finds out, I might as well announce it to the whole village off the Hokage’s faces,” Sasuke thought fiercely as he pushed himself to go faster, practically ignoring the blank faced Sai dutifully trailing him, “I’m going to kill that gay ass mother-”


“Sasuke-kun, I don’t-”Sai began speeding up to run beside the Uchiha.


“Shut up Sai,” Sasuke instructed as he landed back on the ground and started into the village, “Now help me figure out where they are.”

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Naruto watched as Sai inked his legion of mice and sent them scattering throughout the town as he and Sasuke followed.


“What the hell are those teme’s doing?” Naruto thought, completely mystified.


Curious now, his revenge slipping from his mind, he decided to follow them and find out what the heck was going on.

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“Aha, there they are,” Kakashi thought, pleased as finally spotted the pair eating at a local café. Conveniently enough they were seated outside on the patio.


“Well this should be easy enough,” Kakashi smiled as he spotted a bookstore right next to the place and went to take a spot behind some of the outdoor shelves of books.

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“Hahahahaha!” Sakura cackled as she pounded her fist on the table, “Kaka-Kakashi sensei did WHAT?”


“Well it was a long time ago,” Genma smiled around his senbon as he leaned back in his chair.


He was having a very good time with Sakura. It had been years since he had been able to actually wear civilian clothes outside of undercover missions. He could not remember the last time he had been able to relax this much. That hadn’t however dimmed his senses, which was why after realizing that Kakashi was spying on them he had decided to tell some rather embarrassing stories.


“How long have you guys known each other?” Sakura asked pulling herself together as she tried to take a calming sip of water.


“Since I was six or seven I think,” Genma answered smiling, he let his eyes go ever every inch of her body as she stifled her giggles. She was so beautiful, intelligent and funny. Incredibly talented too, if everything he had heard was true. Hell, she was able to patch him up wonderfully. He barely felt weak at all now and the pain had dimmed into memory.


Suddenly something out of the corner of his eye caught his attention, a small strange looking black mouse darted past the bookstore where he knew Kakashi was located. Even more unsettling he felt two, no three strong chakra signatures coming towards them. He recognized them immediately of course but he was a bit on edge because the one he knew was Sasuke’s seemed to be very dark and foreboding.


He unobtrusively got some senbon together in his hand under the table and waited.


“Genma. Genma?” Sakura asked waving her hands in front of the special jonin’s face, “ Hello in there.”


“We’ve got company,” he said simply motioning towards the street with his senbon.
In a sudden rush of ninja, much to the surprise of their fellow diners, two black haired shinobi landed in front of their table, followed seconds later by a rush of blond hair and a second after that a confused copy ninja.


Sasuke lunged for Genma sharingan flashing as Genma jumped out of his chair and shot senbon flying towards the angry ninja.


“Sasuke!” yelled Kakashi and Naruto at the same time as diners ran from the scene screaming, much to the disconcertment of the manager of the restaurant who saw money flying out the window.


“What the hell is wrong with you people!” Sakura yelled, eyes spilling fire as she stood abruptly sending her chair flying from under her, “Can I have ONE normal evening without you jackasses following me!”


“Sakura-” Kakashi started trying to calm down the enraged Kunoichi.


“Kakashi-senpai I think we had better stop Sasuke-kun and Genma-san,” Sai suggested pointing to the heated wresting match in front of them.


Genma was slightly hampered by his street clothes as they wouldn’t allow for perfect freedom of movement but it was enough to stay just ahead of the enraged Uchiha.


“What the hell man?” he managed to get out between dodging blows. He just wanted to stop this without either of them getting hurt.


“Why the hell did you tell Sai!” Sasuke screamed rolling out from under Genma and throwing another punch.


“Tell Sai what? What are you talking about?” Genma asked thoroughly confused.


“Don’t blame me for this Shiranui! You’re the one who broke our deal!” Sasuke screamed dodging a senbon and flying towards the older shinobi.


In a brief moment of shock Genma paused, unfortunately a second too long and took a strong blow to the face. Fortunately, that woke him up and in the next second Sasuke found himself in a neck lock with a senbon pressed to his neck.


“YOU-”Sasuke screamed.


“Sasuke listen to me quickly,” Genma said confused at how this had started but determined to stop it before it got even more out of control, “I swear on my mothers death I did not tell Sai anything.”


Sasuke immediately went limp and turned his head as much as he could with the senbon still there to look resolutely into Genma’s eyes, “Ok.”


Genma let go and rubbed the black eye that was developing nicely. “Why the hell did you think I told Sai?”


“Sai!” Sasuke turned to Sai who was standing next to Naruto and Kakashi who was dumfounded and would have had a noticeably gaped mouth if it hadn’t been for a convenient mask. “What the hell were you talking about earlier!”


“Well,” Sai answered thoroughly confused as to how he should proceed. Sasuke had said that some kisses were not to be spoken of and yet he had run to talk to Genma. Sakura hadn’t told him not to say anything but she had seemed to cut over him when he was talking to her in front of Genma. However Sasuke seemed rather intense so he decided to answer, “I was referring to when Sakura and I kissed the other day.”


“WHAT!” Kakashi, Naruto and Sasuke yelled heads whipping around towards Sakura who was standing stunned in the middle of five men.


“I,” Sakura started mouth opening and closing without sound for a moment.

It was just the calm before the storm however because then a fire seemed to erupt from her “Yes I kissed Sai, and I don’t regret it. It was something that needed to be done. I’d do it again in a heartbeat. Hell I may do it again in the future, and if I do its NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS! What the hell is going on here! Why is Sasuke trying to kill Genma and why was Kakashi spying on us, and why is Naruto here! Can I not have one day to myself without you weirdo’s keeping watch on me! I’m not a child and I can make my own decisions. My sex life is no ones business but my own and those I have SEX with!”


Genma edged quietly closer to Sakura and laid a gentle hand on her shoulder in unspoken support.


“But Sakura-chaaaaaan!” Naruto whined.


Kakashi still stood frozen to the spot and Sasuke turned his head to the side and “Hn’d” softly.


Sai stood stalk still confused and filled with some . . . emotion. What was it? Before he knew what was happening Sakura walked toward him grabbed his hand and without warning kissed him softly. About 10 seconds later she backed up giving his hand a squeeze and said, “I’m so sorry you’re in the middle of this mess Sai”


“Genma lets go,” Sakura said quietly reaching into her pouch and tossing some money on the table.


“Sure,” he answered gathering their bags and going to stand beside her.


“I don’t want to see any of you again until I come looking for you do you understand,” Sakura said quietly to the now frozen shinobi.


When her words met only silence, she turned back towards the men.


“DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!” she said black storm clouds and lightening roaring up behind her.


“Yes,” replied Naruto, Kakashi and Sasuke stepping back a bit.


Without another word, Sakura and Genma walked off into the darkening town.


“What’s going on here!” yelled the manager of the café coming up to the frozen ninja.

“Umm,” Naruto started grinning widely and scratching his head, “We were just-“


Turning back towards where his teammates were just a moment ago, no one remained but Sai still frozen in the same position he was in after Sakura kissed him.


Sai did not know which way was up he was filled with . . . feeling. It was strange and wonderful and confusing. Completely oblivious to the manager now screaming at Naruto and throwing bread sticks, he felt something wet trickling down his face. He lifted his hand to his face expecting to see blood or even something that had bounced off of Naruto from the manager. Instead he saw water, it had apparently come from his eye. Leaving behind the sound of angry manager and yelping Naruto, Sai leapt off into the darkness to go think.


Ok so if you’re all still interested there’s the next chapter! More to come! And closer together as well. As always please R&R!