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New Year Resolutions (DONE)

By: Queenie7
folder Naruto › Threesomes/Moresomes
Rating: Adult ++
Chapters: 9
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Disclaimer: I WISH I owned Naruto, but I dont...very sad I know. I dont make any money off it.
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Chapter 3

Thanks for the reviews so far!

To answer Prism0467’s question. I wouldn’t so much call Sasuke world-wisdom-y, but more so accepting of what he is without any kind of shame (because he doesn’t comprehend that emotion). Much like my acceptance of being a dork. I live it, I love it, so deal with it.


New Year Resolutions

Chapter 3

Kakashi sat propped up in his hospital bed reading the newest addition to his book collection, Icha Icha Onsen. He had read it before, but it was the only one he hadn’t committed to memory…yet. He was just at a humorous part where a sassy girl flashes a pair of perverts who were peeping at her in the hot springs.

Chuckling to himself he thought how considerate it was of Naruto to drop it off early this morning…or was it very late last night? Thanks to the pain meds the past day was a bit fuzzy. Lingering pain or not he refused the nurse whenever she offered him more. He was going to be in his right mind the next time he spoke to Sakura.

Between being drunk on Christmas, light headed from blood loss, or whacked out on pain killers he hadn’t spoken to her coherently for a while. He was sure she was tired of it. In fact, he was wondering if she was angry with him at this point. When he inquired with the nurse if Sakura was in, she said that she had taken a personal day and would probably be out until tomorrow.

So either something bad happened or he did something to seriously annoy, perhaps even offend his own student. Either way he suddenly didn’t feel much like reading anymore.

Discarding his beloved book on the end table, he thought to himself what he would say to Sakura the next time their paths crossed. He had some explaining to do.

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Sakura lounged back on her oversized, black, leather couch, wrapping herself up in her warmest blanket. Finding the remote she turned the rarely used TV on and sat back to enjoy a cup of hot cocoa. She wasn’t sick or upset about anything, she was thinking ahead.

Today was New Year’s Eve. Sakura knew that tonight at about 12:30am the calls would start coming in about people with alcohol poisoning, drunken fights, dobes playing with weapons while inebriated, and a whole slew of other preventable injuries. Weather she was scheduled for tonight or not (and she wasn’t) Sakura knew that she would be paged in as back up or if anyone came in that required surgery and Tsunade and Shizune were busy.

She would stake an A-Ranked missions pay on it.

In the meantime, she wanted to get some relaxation in. To just do nothing more productive than throw a load of laundry in the dryer and rinse out her cocoa mug. Sinking back in the soft leather of the couch, Sakura tucked under the blankets and waited to nod off into a late morning nap.

Ten minutes later she was getting restless. She needed to move around, finish that report she left on her work desk, check on the new intern in the ER, update Tsunade on – NO! She wouldn’t go back to work! Not until they called her in or she was scheduled to do so. She knew for sure that she would be there until dawn and she would not be one of those medic-nins that practically lived at the hospital.

She would relax! She would! Really…

Shit… She had to move around. Her mind was too active to take a nap and she didn’t want to go to work. The apartment was spotless from not being home so often so cleaning was out.

Sakura suddenly sat upright, eyes wide and smiling. She could practice her new Jutsu! She had been putting it off due to work, and with this weather and time off she had no excuse. Downing the rest of her cocoa she ran to the closet to find her warm training gear.


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Kakashi was relieved to leave the hospital. Under medication or not, he hated it. Mostly because of the smell. If it wasn’t the rubbing alcohol it was the soiled sheets, or formaldehyde, it was any number of unpleasant odors to waft his way.

By all technicalities he wasn’t really discharged. In between attempts of the nurse to give him more medication, Kakashi had simply left a clone to give him some time to make distance, and hopped out of the window.

His apartment was normally a straight shot down the main South road of Konoha, but on a day like today he didn’t want to bump into anyone who would want to chat. He just wanted to get home, shower, take a non-drug-induced nap, have a bite to eat, and just plain relax. A rare luxury.

However, it being New Year’s Eve, downtown was bustling with people buying last minute items and party foods. He would bump into someone for sure. Better to take a short cut through the training fields. It was a little longer walk, but surely deserted on a day like this.

As his feet crunched through the silence of the fields he thought about what a total ass of himself he had made as of late. Granted he knew he was a pervert, but still, he shouldn’t make advances (however joking or not) on a student. It was bad enough that Jiraya peeped on women constantly in the hot springs, but he would have never hit on a student…or would he? Actually… he might not put that past the Sennin. He was after all the author of his beloved books.

“Shit.” He cursed to himself. In his hurry to leave he had left his Icha Icha Onsen book in the drawer by the hospital bed. He could go back for it now, but he really didn’t want to deal with the nurse should he bump into her again. That and…’Who’s training out here on a day like this?’

His thoughts were interrupted by sound of snow crunching under someone else’s swift steps in the field ahead.

Kakashi stopped in his tracks when he realized that the one person he was trying to avoid today was directly in his path, training in the field by herself.

Sighing heavily, he continued walking, she had sensed him for sure at this point so he might as well try and walk by the field casually pretending nothing was horribly awkward. When he emerged from behind a row of trees he raised an eyebrow at her actions. She was doing a motion similar to a fast tai chi, but something was moving around her. As he got closer he realized that it was a ribbon of water. When did Sakura learn elemental Jutsu?

Forgetting about his past transgressions, Kakashi decided to stand back a moment and see what his former student could do.

She was moving as fluidly as the water bending around her. From a distance it almost looked like she was dancing by herself. The water seemed to flow from her fingertips and glide weightlessly through the air. It wasn’t until she turned and gestured in a whip towards a wooden dummy that it was clear that she was NOT dancing.

As the water flew through the air it suddenly froze into icicles sharp as senbon and collided with the dummy in a cluster of ‘th-th-th-th-th-th-thunk’.

Kakashi let out a quiet whistle as Sakura turned toward him, panting lightly. “Sensei, when did you get here?”

So she hadn’t sensed him. ‘Shit’. Well it was too late to sneak by her now.

“Impressive Jutsu.” He said walking towards her. “When did you learn that?”

Sakura tucked a strand of pink hair behind her ear as he approached. “Tsunade wanted me to learn some. As it turns out I’m compatible with water. It’s easier to practice after it rains or where I can access lots of moisture. I had never practiced in snow before. That ice attack was the first time I’ve made any pieces that hold their shape. The others had all melted before they made contact.”

Kakashi smiled reassuringly. “You’ll get it in time. Chidori took me near five months to get right. Granted Naruto got his Shuriken Rasengan relatively quick, but he had the help of shadow clones. You should get it perfect in no time. You have better charka control than anyone in Team 7. Actually, I don’t think I know anyone from your year who can do it better.”

Sakura smiled, grateful for the compliment. “You really think so, Kakashi Sensei?”

“I know so, and if you feel like putting up with me for a while, I’ll even help you out with it.”

“How? I know you’ve copied a lot of water type Jutsu’s but your element is lighting.”

“True.” He said. “But I think you’re practice would work better if you learn to control fluid water better before you try and perfect ice.”

Sakura raised an eyebrow. “And how would you suggest that?”

Instantly Kakashi took off in a run, yelling behind him. “Moving target!”

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No smut yet, I know. But I’m working on writing stories with character development. Hang in there people! R&R
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