mischief's cracktastic shorts

Genre: possible crack? Hell, I dunno.
I’m tired. X.x

Word count: 543

Pairings: hinting at future/possible NaruSakuSasu

style='font-size:14.0pt'>Denial

Kakashi is trying very hard not to
notice the way his hormone-driven, teenage students have been looking at each
other lately. Because to acknowledge what is going on, would require him to do
something about it, and the last thing he wants to be doing is lecturing those
three on the consequences of sex. That
was not part of the shinobi job description.

He’s a thirty year old bachelor. He’s not a parent. His own
father died before he had reached such a difficult age. Who is he to tell them
how to live their lives? Okay, yes, he is their sensei, but come on! If he’d
known that one day he’d be sitting here not contemplating whether he should intervene
in the sexual lives of his students, he thinks maybe he would’ve failed them
and sent them back to the academy to become someone else’s burden.

This isn’t his responsibility. He’s not their parents. Okay,
that one’s not even fair, he knows, admitting that at the very least he’s
become a sort of brother-like figure to them, possibly more, despite the fact
that he’s tried his damnedest to prevent it from happening.

But that’s not even the point. The problem is that the male
members of team 7 should not be
eyeing their female teammate like starving men in front of an all you can eat
buffet no matter how inevitable it may be. He realizes they’re teenagers, and
Sakura’s certainly not unattractive, but still!

Yeah, this is the part where he should be lecturing them on
camaraderie, team values, etc., but yeah, the denial thing works better for him.

Besides, it’s not as if Sakura is still that naïve, fragile,
fresh-out-of-the-academy, child she was four years ago. She’s a very capable class=SpellE>kunoichi. Not to mention the fact that after training with class=SpellE>Tsunade-sama, she can just as easily kill someone with her
bare hands as look at them.

No, she can take very good care of herself. Of course, this
is saying that she would even want to
dissuade any attention she might receive from her teammates. The boys aren’t
the only ones who’ve been looking after all.

Okay, so he wasn’t surprised to catch her checking out class=SpellE>Sasuke given their history and the fact that apparently
every teenage girl in the village was after him, but Naruto,
too?

Yep, denial’s kicking in nicely right about now. Nope, his
sixteen year old students are certainly not
perving on each other. No, he is not going to need to
lecture them on what could very conceivably happen in the future with class=SpellE>Naruto’s lack of impulse control and all.

Hell, they’re old enough to learn that lesson on their own.
They are ninja; they’ve already killed. They’re entitled to spend their spare
time however they damn well please, so long as they show up for training and
missions and are able to get the job done and everyone can pretend nothing’s
going on.

He studiously examines the latest book in the class=SpellE>Icha Icha series in front of his
face as he attempts to block out the noise from Sakura smacking class=SpellE>Naruto upside the head and berating him for making yet another
lewd comment. style='mso-spacerun:yes'>

Kakashi turns the page slowly.

Yes, denial is a beautiful thing.