Growing Up Sakura

First in case anyone is wondering, yes the summary of the story is correct I am leading my way slowly but surely to the whole deal with Sasuke and Itachi etc and that’s all I’m saying for now about that because I really don’t want to give you the whole plot, I want you to experience it as you read. Just wanted to let you all know that I haven’t forgotten about my summary.

DAMN! I’ve been misspelling Tsunade’s name for what? Three chapters? And nobody told me! >( I think it may also be “jutsu” and not “Jitsu” how embarrassing… Ok I will do it correctly from here on out and when I have time I will go back AGAIN and re-edit. Also I am adding my own fanart that goes along with this fic, its at deviantart.com at my page there and I know it stinks but I’m doing my best here especially with the limited amount of time I have to work so check it out!

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Chapter 8: Coming Home to You, Chapter 9: My Name is Hatake Kakashi, You Raped Sakura, Prepare to Die


Sakura ran down the street on pure adrenaline, having almost completely exhausted her chakra during the course of this long and trying day from getting up at 5:30 in the morning she had fallen from a 2 story building, healed a wounded Jounin, used her new technique, trained all day, danced all night, gotten drunk, performed an incredibly difficult poison extraction technique while intoxicated and shoved off a rather strong shinobi while he was busy plowing her. Blindly, not even caring where she was going or the fact that she was in pain and she had no shoes she turned a corner and suddenly screamed when someone’s strong hands grabbed her shoulders.


“Don’t touch me! Let go! LET GO, LET GO!” Sakura shrieked at she didn’t know whom, the feeling of someone touching her after what had just happened was too much and she closed her eyes and feeling hot tears finally escape. Suddenly through the hysteria she heard a familiar voice saying her name.


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“Sakura? SAKURA!” Kakashi said frantically keeping firm grip on her shoulders and urging her to open her eyes and see it was him.


“What happened? What’s wrong?” he pleaded letting go of one shoulder and grabbing her chin to tilt her head up to face him which must have been just the wrong move because with her arm free she belted him a good one right in the gut. Fortunately, there were advantages to being an infamous Jounin copy-nin and the little amount of chakra that he could sense that she had left wasn’t enough to gather that monstrous strength that she was usually able to summon so it was just an ordinary shinobi-strengthed punch, which he could easily handle.


“Sakura open your eyes, it’s me Kakashi,” Kakashi said feeling he probably should have said this to begin with.

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“Kakashi?” Sakura said hopefully daring to open her eyes, and saw the most beautiful masked man in the world, feeling instantly relieved and safe she promptly collapsed exhausted into his arms and blacked out.


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Standing in the middle of the sidewalk holding a passed out Kunochi who was barefoot and bleeding and had just screamed rather loudly to make him let go of her Kakashi felt rather awkward and decided maybe there was a need for a little more privacy. Quickly, hoping he didn’t look too much like a kidnapper (and the mask couldn’t be helping) Kakashi picked Sakura completely up bridal style and performed the transportation Jitsu to carry them both to his apartment.


Carefully cradling Sakura in his arms Kakashi took her over to his couch and lay her down beginning a careful examination of his former student. Her face was flushed from crying and her mascara had run, running his eyes down her body he noticed several bite marks and a rather large hicky on the side of her neck. Her dress looked disheveled and as he got to her legs he again saw what he was hoping he hadn’t earlier. There was blood, already beginning to dry down the sides of her thighs and it didn’t take a genius shinobi to tell where the blood originated from. Looking down at her feet he saw that they were bruised and bleeding as well from her barefoot run down the street. Going over to sit on a chair by the couch that the young girl in front of him had dozed off in that very morning Kakashi placed his head between his hands trying to figure out what to do.


“I need to know what happened, I mean I know what happened but I need to know WHO so I can kill them and rip their balls off,” Kakashi thought angrily, “Should I wake her up or let her rest? No. I have to wake her up, this guy could be getting away and I don’t know how injured she is, I might have to bring her to the hospital.”


Walking back over to the couch Kakashi sat on the coffee table and feeling it best not to get into the whole “don’t touch me” mode again instead decided to gently call her name. If he had to he would dump some cold water on her.


“Sakura, Sakura” he said softly and to his great relief he saw her eyelashes flutter open.


“Kakashi” Sakura said in the most pitiful tone he ever heard as fresh tears began to well up in her eyes.


“Sakura, yeah it’s me,” Kakashi said quietly. “Sakura I need you to wake up and tell me exactly what happened ok? We may need to take you to the hospital. . . Have you been raped?”


“Yes. No, I mean yes but no,” said Sakura beginning to sob, “No it’s all my fault. I shouldn’t have gone to the hotel room and I never said no and I guess I was too drunk but I thought I only had two beers besides the cup of wine Ryu gave me in his room, and- RYU! Kakashi you have to help me I may have killed him you have to go check!”


Confused by the quick run-on sentences and unable to make everything out over the sobs that were coming every few seconds all Kakashi really understood was “Yes”, “no” ,“my fault” ,“drunk” and “Ryu . . . killed”. If it was this Ryu who had done this to his little Kunochi he very much hoped he was already dead because he was about to find new levels of pain if he wasn’t.


“Sakura, calm down. You’re safe now ok. Just take some deep breaths and tell me exactly what happened,” Kakashi tried again.


“Ok, ok,” said Sakura sucking in air and trying to get a hold on herself. “ I went out to meet Ino like I said and she was with a guy already so we decided to split up and then Ryu came into the bar-“


“Who is Ryu,” Kakashi growled sure that this was the dead man that had hurt his Sakura.


“He’s my old ex-boyfriend from sand country, I mentioned him to you once after I got back from my training over there with Tsunde, well he just finished a mission and he found me in the club and so we hung out together and he invited me to his hotel room and I stupidly said yes because I was so desperate for a boyfriend after all the thoughts I was having this morning so I went with him and we kissed and I told him we were going too fast so he stopped and we had a drink and then…then I can’t remember much, I guess I can’t handle my liquor but I only had two beers and that glass of wine, but next thing I know we were in the bedroom and I thought something felt wrong because I couldn’t think clearly so I started to do the poison extraction technique on myself to clear out the alcohol but I couldn’t talk while I was doing that because its really hard and I was already having a hard time thinking and then. . . and then. . .he-” Sakura said quickly at first and then at the end unable to continue.


“I know Sakura, you don’t have to tell me that part,” Kakashi said quietly.


Taking a deep shuddering breath Sakura looked into Kakashi’s eyes as he still had the Sharingen uncovered and continued, “When I cleared my system enough I used my new technique and shoved him off, that’s why I need you to go make sure he’s ok, I don’t know how much damage I may have caused him.”


“He deserves anything you gave him,” Kakashi said adamantly looking into the moist green eyes of his treasured friend and trying to pour out any support he could.


“No, Kakashi, it’s my fault,” Sakura said looking away, “ I got myself into the situation by drinking too much and not saying no.”


“Sakura you’re not thinking clearly, maybe you made a mistake by going alone to a hotel room with a guy you had no intention of sleeping with, but it sounds to me like you tried to tell him he was going to fast. And it also sounds like he probably did something to that glass of wine you had. If he did and even if he didn’t I don’t know what kind of trash takes a girl to bed when she’s obviously too intoxicated to think straight. It wasn’t your fault if you didn’t want it, he should have respected that,” Kakashi said speaking carefully. He wanted make sure she understood that this wasn’t her fault. He had so many experiences over the years of being a top class shinobi dealing with girls who had been raped and he often found surprisingly that many of the girls found ways to blame themselves. He didn’t want his Sakura fall into that mind trap.


“Maybe,” answered Sakura turning even farther away, and then suddenly turning back to him, she reached out and gripped his gloved hand, “Either way, Kakashi can you please go see if he’s ok? And don’t hurt him! I just want this to end, I need to know if he’s ok I couldn’t bare it if I killed him. Even if it wasn’t my entire fault, it wasn’t his either. There were two people in that room tonight . . .”

Sakura broke off beginning to cry again and Kakashi moved to sit next to her on the couch and lift her body so that he could cradle her and hug her, letting her sobs rack into his green vest as she lifted her arms to hug him back tightly.

“Please Kakashi, please go see if he’s ok,” Sakura cried, “I guess I’m not going to be a good ninja after all, I can never seem to stop what I’m feeling. I just can’t stop crying.”


“You’re completely drained Sakura, losing your virginity like this is traumatic. And the way of the ninja just says you don’t show your emotions during the mission, it doesn’t say that you won’t have any, and it defiantly doesn’t say that you can’t share them with people you trust when you need to. Otherwise we’d all go insane. I’m here for you Sakura. Besides it sounds like you did pretty well, you were able to think with a hazy head and heal yourself and stop the situation. That’s better then a lot of people could have done.” Kakashi said hugging her tightly and talking softly into her hair. It smelled of roses and lavender.


“Really?” asked Sakura leaning back a bit to look into Kakashi’s eyes, their faces close together.


“Really,” said Kakashi quietly unable to break eye contact.


Silent, Sakura and Kakashi held each other in the darkness of his apartment unmoving looking intently into each other’s eyes as if searching for something.


Clearing his throat Kakashi laid Sakura back on the couch and said, “If I’m going to go check on this bastard I’ll need to know where he is.”


“At the hotel just down the street from where I ran into you,” Sakura said averting her eyes, “I think it was room 1503.”


“Right,” said Kakashi striding towards the door.


“Kakashi,” Sakura called, “Promise me you won’t hurt him.”


Pausing for a moment by the door Kakashi finally answered quietly “ I promise. If you want you can take a shower, you can wear some of my clothes, I have everything in the closet in my room, and you’re welcome to anything in my house Sakura. Whatever you want is yours. I’ll be back soon.”


Opening the door to leave Kakashi heard Sakura say “Thank you Kakashi-kun.”


“Hn,” was all he was able to get out as he closed the door, his mind already set on how he could get this Ryu without breaking his promise to Sakura.

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Sakura lay back on the couch as she heard the door close behind Kakashi completely drained she just let the darkness of the apartment envelope her and imagined her body becoming one with the couch. Realizing many moments later that said body was extremely sore and now dirty and bloody and not in a good wholesome training kind of way, she soon wanted nothing more than to take Kakashi up on his offer of a shower and clean clothes. Preferably something that would cover her from chin to toes and would be so baggy that no one could see she had curves. Maybe Kakashi had some spare masks she could use as well. All Sakura wanted to do was hide from the fact that she was a woman, gone was her usual desire for complementary outfits and matching accessories. Sakura wanted to disappear. Maybe if she hadn’t dressed up so nice the incident would never have happened.


Getting up from the couch and awkwardly making her way to the bathroom feeling an uncomfortable soreness between her legs Sakura knew deep down that she was acting a bit childish thinking that a simple change in garb would have resulted in a non horribly emotionally scarring evening but at the moment it felt good to wallow a bit. Stripping off her dress and realizing there was nothing else to take off Sakura shuddered and turned on the tap in the shower making it as hot and a little hotter then she could comfortably stand. Stepping inside and closing the curtain she stood under the spray letting the water slowly penetrate her hair and run down her body. She stood like that for a full 10 minutes letting the slightly scalding water beat off of her. Finally she reached for a bar of soap and washcloth that were sitting in the soap dish and began to vigorously scrub at her body starting with her hair and then at her face and neck, working fiercely on her breasts and then finally to where all of her pain was coming from. She scrubbed at her thighs until long past all traces of blood were gone and then plopped down onto the floor of the tub letting the water rain on her again as she let tears run down her face mixing with the water.


Mourning over her loss Sakura decided to try to get up and go get dressed and hopefully fall asleep. Preferably dreamless. She turned off the water and toweled off her body, which was now very red from the hot water and scrubbing. Wrapping the towel tightly around herself she exited the bathroom and went to Kakashi’s bedroom. Looking in the closet she saw what seemed like an endless supply of Jounin uniforms identical to the ones he wore everyday. There was nothing else in there except for one green jumpsuit that looked remarkably like Gai’s shoved in the very back with a collection of dust on it. She supposed it must have been some kind of joke birthday present and she couldn’t help but smile as she wondered by he hadn’t simply burned it. Reaching for a new set of soft black pants and black turtleneck Sakura also saw his stash of masks. Grabbing for one she took her pile of clothes and sat on the end of the bed getting dressed. Wearing the pants, Sakura looked at the mask that she held in her hands. So easy to hide behind one of these, so easy to conceal emotions. That decided her and she slipped it over her head covering her face from just below the eyes down and then put the shirt on. Breathing in the scent of Kakashi and laundry soap Sakura closed her eyes and got up to walk over to a mirror. She looked like a little kid playing dress up in her daddy’s clothes. Kakashi was still a good head taller then her and his body obviously more masculine then her womanly frame. Smiling Sakura was pleased. This is exactly what she needed right now, these clothes were defiantly not form fitting. She was also pleased due to the fact that now since she wore Kakashi’s mask it was much harder to read her face. She knew she was smiling but no one else would. As her brief moment of levity left her she also noted that no one could see her sad face either. Sakura could completely see why Kakashi wore a mask, you could be yourself behind one without showing anyone who that really was. She might never take it off.


Walking away from the mirror Sakura crawled into Kakashi’s bed and threw her towel over his pillow so her hair wouldn’t soak it, then grabbing the covers and curling up into a tight ball Sakura willed herself to sleep, her new mask catching the tears that slowly leaked from her eyes.


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Speeding towards the hotel Kakashi tried to run over in his mind exactly what he wanted to do and say. Well not exactly what he wanted he had made that ridiculous promise to Sakura not to hurt him.


“If I kill him instantly that may not really count as ‘hurting’,” Kakashi pondered nearing the hotel, “ and if I use my Sharingen on him to destroy his Psyche that wouldn’t really ‘hurt’ him per se.”


“But Sakura might think so and I just want to do what’s best for her to make her comfortable again,” Kakashi retorted to himself.

“But this guy deserves to die,” his mind shot back.


“Agreed,” thought Kakashi, “On the other hand psychological warfare may present some advantages as well, no visible scars and no proof to lay at the feet of Konoha because after all killing a sand shinobi in cold blood with no excuse that I’d be aloud to tell anyone, someone might take that as some sort of ‘anti-sand’ action and start a war. Don’t want that.”


Kakashi reached the hotel and stood across the street still pondering his actions. Suddenly smiling devilishly Kakashi realized what he would do. He walked confidently through the hotel lobby to the elevator and pressed the button for the 15th floor. The doors opened a short time later and he walked over to the room where his little Kunochi had been taken advantage of. Taking a deep breath to calm him and telling himself to stick to the plan and not immediately destroy Ryu, Kakashi tested the door and found it was a little ajar. Taking a moment to scan for chakra signatures Kakashi found only one in the room and it appears to be staying in one place. Closing the door behind him Kakashi looked over the living area of the hotel room and saw nothing really out of place, a bottle of wine was on the counter by the bar and there were two empty wine glasses on the coffee table. He walked over to them and using his chakra tested for anything unusual. Unable to determine anything he walked over to where he assumed the bedroom was since that was where the solitary chakra eminence was coming from he switched on the light to see a fairly tall sand shinobi with dark red hair fully naked laying on the ground with his back against the wall across from the bed. Looking at the bed Kakashi could see a couple spots of blood and over in the corner where what he assumed to be Sakura’s panties next to the underwear that must have belonged to the rapist. Closing his eyes and clenching his fists tightly using every ounce of ninja training and restraint Kakashi did not start wailing on the prone figure, instead deciding to get a bucket full of ice some nice maid must have left earlier that was now just freezing cold water and splashed it on the deviant.


Sputtering and letting out a loud, “AH!” Ryu came fully and instantly awake and in good shinobi form jumped to the balls of his feet in a crouch looking quickly around to assess the situation.


Beginning to play his part Kakashi walked slowly towards the boy and said “Are you ok son?”


“What?” asked the sand ninja blinking quickly.


“A hotel maid noticed the door open and thought something might be wrong so they sent for someone to find out what’s going on. Are you alright?” Kakashi asked monotone.

“Yeah, Yeah, I think so,” answered Ryu standing up, noticing he was naked and making a little jog over to the bed to grab his underwear. “Excuse me.”


“You want to tell me why there’s blood on the bed son,” Kakashi asked quietly.


“It’s ok,” answered Ryu now half clothed, “That’s just from the girl I brought back tonight. Bitch turned out to be a virgin. She wanted it bad though so I had to give it to her you know.”


“Oh yeah?” asked Kakashi taking another in what would most likely need to be a series of deep breaths, “If she wanted it so bad where is she now?”


“ I don’t know. Bitch couldn’t handle it I guess and she threw me off. It’s weird cause I think I was out before I hit the wall. I’ve never encountered a technique like that.”


“Think maybe she didn’t want what you were giving her?” Kakashi asked.


“No way, she was totally wet man. Besides she practically undressed me,” Ryu answered in another burst of juvenile machismo that made Kakashi want to vomit.


“How old are you? What’s your name rank and affiliation,” Kakashi inquired.


“Me? I’m 23, Yamamoto Ryu, rank Jounin of Sunagakure,” Ryu answered. “Hey who are you anyway-”


Kakashi stopped him from any further talk by lifting the restrictions from his Sharingan and hypnotizing the kid.


“Ok, I’ve had enough of your shit Ryu. Now you’re going to answer some questions truthfully and as soon as I ask ok?” Kakashi commanded.


“Yes,” answered Ryu staring blankly into Kakashi’s Sharingen.


“First, do you think you raped Sakura” Kakashi asked.


“No,” replied Ryu.


Kakashi sighed and leaned against the wall fighting the urge to close his eyes and bury his head in his hands.


“Did you do anything to Sakura to help convince her to have sex with you?” Kakashi interrogated.


“Yes, I used my Intensification Jutsu on her glass of wine to loosen her up. I knew she wanted it but I also knew she was too uptight to let go,” Ryu answered.


“Intensification Jutsu?” Kakashi asked, “ I’ve never heard of that. Show me what it is and tell me what it does.”


Ryu proceeded to make a series of quick hand seals and cast the Jutsu into the air causing nothing to happen, “This is a technique I made up that only I know about. I can intensify any property in a liquid with it as much or as little as I want.”


With his Sharingen activated Kakashi had the Justu down, what a shame a dolt like this kid had invented something so potentially useful and used it to get a 17 year old virgin drunk.


“Tell me, how many girls have you slept with Ryu,” Kakashi asked.


“53,” Ryu responded.


“How many girls did you . . . persuade into having sex with you like you did tonight?” Kakashi asked, Ryu’s answered would play a key role in exactly how long his punishment would last.


“16,” Ryu answered.


“Dumb oversexed idiot. Kid sleeps with 53 girls and feels the need to ‘convince’ more.” Kakashi thought his rage building.


“How many were virgins?” Kakashi asked blandly.


“7,”Ryu answered.


“Right,” said Kakashi walking over the stand directly before the boy and activated his Mangekyo Sharingen and prepared to engage Tsukuyomi. Placing the boy into the hell of the red mooned world Kakashi turned Ryu’s form into that of a girl. Creating another Ryu Kakashi had him throw the now cross gendered shinobi onto a bed and begin raping him/her.


“Stop! NO!” the she-Ryu called out.


“You will now experience first hand what you did to those girl. You will be raped 16 times. 9 times as a more experienced girl and 7 times as a virgin with all the pain that comes with it. When that is through I will release you and only one second in our world will have passed,” Kakashi informed the sand shinobi. “I will then hypnotize you once more so you do not remember me ever coming here or talking to you and the only thing you will remember is the pain of what you’re going through now so hopefully you will never prey on an innocent girl again. Oh, and you will never ever go near my Sakura again or even think of touching her or telling anyone what you did to her you sick little oversexed pervert.”


One second later in real time Kakashi did as he had promised and left the hotel room sluggishly, severely drained of chakra. In fact he wasn’t entirely sure if he would be able to actually make it back to his apartment. The only thing that kept him from collapsing to the ground from exhaustion was the thought that Sakura might wake up alone and be frightened, so he slowly made his way to his apartment and when he finally made it and opened up the door he had just enough energy to collapse onto his sofa content that he had fulfilled his promise to Sakura and still satisfied his needs to teach that bastard Ryu a lesson he would never forget.