That's MY Book!

Disclaimer: Eh, owning Naruto would be too much trouble anyways. Though the money should be compensation enough.
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Sakura blanched. Kakashi was straddling her now, his bare chest scraping hers since he had lowered his head next to her ear. His silver hair tickled the side of her face. And she couldn't help noticing the lingering smell of the forest on him.

'EH?! Did I just SMELL my sensei?!' She wondered frantically.

Meanwhile, in Kakashi's mind...

'Hmm... I probably shouldn't be doing this.'

'But she's practically a young adult now.'

'And YET somehow... I don't think that's the point.'

'Wait, am I arguing with myself?'

'Yes,' the more practical side of himself thought, 'we are talking about the honor of a young lady.'

'Screw honor. In fact, just screw HER.'

Kakashi frowned mentally. Such a hard decision. Then he noticed something.

'Did... did Sakura just... smell me...?'

Quickly, the pink haired chuunin turned to the one thing that she sometimes used as a defense. She opened her mouth... and talked.

"Kakashi-sensei... I, uh, the book is still back at my place." She said, putting up a nervous grin, "So maybe I should just go and get it now."

His blink was slow, the visible black orb fixing onto her green ones, "But... that's so far away."

"Actually no. No it isn't." Sakura replied hastily in chopped sentences, unnerved by his stare, "You'll see. It'll take no time at all."

"I just recovered from a life death experience, Sakura. Doesn't that count as something?"

"Yes. Yes of course it does. And I know just how much you love your Icha Icha Paradise." 'Tch, practically everyone in Konoha knew,' her inner self added with rolled eyes, while she outwardly continued, "So I should just go now and-"

"Sakura," Kakashi growled softly, nipping the lobe of her ear through the cloth covering his mouth. He had been trying to get her attention. And... well, let's just say he succeeded, "I don't think you were paying attention. I said I just survived a near death experience."

Sakura frowned, 'What is he trying to get at? Why was he'- suddenly, a look of surprise swept over her face- 'OH. Uh... was he... Is he trying to...???'

The chuunin scooted her head to the left, away from his lowered head. She bit her lip, trying to ignore the feeling that arose from their chests briefly rubbing as she moved. Slowly, in a slightly shaken voice, she said, "Uhhmm, Kakashi-sensei...? I don't think... that this is such a, uh, such a good idea..."

Looking amused, Kakashi lifted his head slightly to gaze at her better, "Sakura... you keep calling me that... but I'm not really your sensei anymore."

'Uhh... at least, not technically...'

He dipped his head closer to hers, ignoring her futile attempts to twist away. "Uh. Umm. You're... uh, you're not? I mean, I know your not. 'Cause Tsunade is teaching me now." She babbled, unable to control the words tumbling out as she found Kakashi's face leaning closer and closer, "But I'm just so... used to... calling you that.... and..."

Seeing her current, useless words did nothing, she tried another direction and dressed her words quickly with anger, "Kakashi you stole my first kiss!"

Well. That stopped him.

He blinked, "No I didn't."

Aw crap. Now what?

Before she could think of anything else, though, Kakashi decided it was time to act. Or at least, his body decided. His mind didn't quite agree.

'Noooo, I can't do this to Sakura!'

'.... Can I...?'

'NO!'

Even his voice betrayed him, "Actually, in order for that to happen, I do believe I'd have to do THIS first."

With a quick flick of his deft fingers, his black mask was pulled down. Sakura was frozen by that simple act alone. I mean, holy crap of the holiest crap! This was Kakashi. Kakashi pulling his mask off. His mask. KAKASHI'S MASK. OFF.

Blinking, trying to recover from the shock of laying eyes on what felt like forbidden fruit, Sakura stumbled over her words, "Wha- wait, you're mask... you would never- you're an imposter aren't yo-"

But before she could continue her heinous accusations, Kakashi felt his lips were enough of a distraction to stop her. Damn. He was so right.

His warm lips assaulted her own. Pressing. Needy. Yet pleasant and patient at the same time.

'Ack, he's...Kakashi's kissing me! For REAL this time!?!?' Sakura couldn't quite decide what to be. Shocked? Happy? Maybe Shappy??! 'That doesn't make sense!!' she wailed indignantly.

The chuunin felt her thoughts draining quickly as she began to melt into the kiss. Kakashi's lips were so... warm.

'I should... uh, pull away,' Sakura mentally shook her head, trying to arrange her scattered thoughts, 'shouldn't I? Yes, yes I should.'

Which was why she found herself suddenly confused as she reached her arms upward to wrap around the jounin's neck. Kakashi's eye widened slightly at this, though he closed his eyes as he happily complied, closing the small distance left between them. That meant he wasn't just straddling her anymore. His whole body was on top of her now. His whole half naked body.

'Gods...' Kakashi's mind was more lost than Sakura's, 'I'd give up strawberries for the rest of my life... to have this...'

A part of the jounin's mind wondered if he had ever really liked strawberries before. But then again, his mind was temporarily on hold for now. It felt so good, his bare skin against her... well, not bare skin... But even so, his heightened senses felt everything. Her smooth legs against his muscular lean ones, which he quickly thanked her shorts for. And the way her soft arms wrapped loosely around his neck started to drift. Sakura's fingers, tracing random designs on his back, was driving him insane.

Sakura felt a slight, wet warmth brush across her lips almost hesitating, as if asking permission for something. Unsure quite what he was asking, Sakura's clouded eyes looking up inquisitively at the half-lidded eye above her. Kakashi found those green orbs to be so full of naivette and trust. Overflowing seemed the right term to describe it. Growling at the heat that was expanding throughout his body, Kakashi ran his hand through her silky pink hair, the other trailing lightly along her side. Sakura shivered at the sudden sensations derived from those fingers traveling through her silky tresses and over her cloth-ladened body. She made a small moan into their kiss. Something which didn't help a lot to reign in the jounin's control.

Thankfully, he had enough restraint to keep his hands from wandering too much. His restraint even prevented him from ripping her clothes off then and there.

Barely.

Despite the puddle of goo her mind had suddenly melted into, Sakura couldn't help remembering the scene from the stolen book. The hero and heroine had fallen into this exact same predicament. And then the lady had...

Inner Sakura grinned devilishly, 'Do it. Do it. DO IT.'

Kakashi felt Sakura's lips twist into a grin in the kiss. Before he could even wonder -well, if his mind had been working he'd be wondering- but anyways, before he could even wonder what she was grinning about, he felt something. Her leg had somehow made its way to a very sensitive area. And now the chuunin's leg was pressing upwards. Right in between his own. Kakashi felt the end of his boxers hiking up a bit as her smooth leg grazed his inner thigh tauntingly. First one. And then the other. The jounin couldn't help the shiver that suddenly ran through his body.

'Ah, Sakura... doesn't she know what she's doing to me...?' Kakashi groaned a little, deepening their kiss. He shivered again.

Without skipping a beat, her leg shifted, grinding pleasurably in that particular hot spot. To add to the effect, the chuunin raised her hips slightly, giving it more... well, feeling.

The silver haired jounin pulled his head back, gasping in much needed air. It was his turn to become a bit flustered as he realized where she might have gotten that move from. His eye widened for the second or third time that night.

'Wait a minute... But that would mean- She... she READ it????'

Blinking calmly, despite the shock a moment before, Kakashi fell into a smirk, "So then, you DO have something better to offer..."

'Eh?!?!' Her mind suddenly awoke, having been released from the warm imprisonment of the kiss, 'What am I doing? WHAT am I still doing here?!?!'

Then his words hit her. He had asked her that same question before. When he had been busy... reading his... book. Suddenly she was assaulted by all sorts of doubts and queasy feelings of uncertainty. They shouldn't be doing this. She had hardly gone this far with anyone before.

She gasped mentally in sudden understanding, '...That BOOK. It's... corrupting. OMG my mind must have been tainted with that single exposure to it!!'

She couldn't let this happen. It was all too fast.

Quickly, her mind spinning, she improvised, "Eh? Uh, Kakashi? What's Gai doing here?!?!"

The silver haired man's normally level tone raised ten notches above normal, "NANI?!?!" He jerked his head towards the doorway of his room, fully expecting to see his thick-browed rival gloating on the spot.

To his surprsie, the weight beneath him shifted and he heard a sudden popping noise. Before the smoke even drifted to the edge of his vision, he knew what happened as he suddenly found a bundle of curtains replace what had once been a warm chuunin's body. A flash of pink was the last he saw of Sakura before she disappeared out the window.

A few minutes passed. Then a few more. And even more. Okay, maybe even a few hours.

Finally figuring that she wasn't coming back, Kakashi propped his chin up on his elbow, "Hmm, maybe I went too fast?"

Grimacing at the sudden realization of the still evident hard on, the jounin stated with a sigh, "I didn't even get my book back."

Reluctantly pushing himself up from the bed, the silver haired man made his way to the bathroom. He was very much in need of a shower. A COLD one.

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Sakura shivered, glad for once for the slight chilly air of the night. It was doing a great job cooling down her suddenly heated skin. What had happened back there? How could Kakashi make her feel so...? And had she done what she thought she did?

Her voice low, the chuunin growled, "Grrr. That book. That's it, I'm gonna burn it like I said. I can't believe I put that off for so long."

'He KISSED me...'

Sakura shook her head, having almost slipped as she landed sloppily on the next rooftop. 'Focus,' she berated herself.

'His body was so warm...'

"Of course it was warm." She muttered, "He's a living person, isn't he?"

'But any other living person hadn't ever made her feel THAT way before.'

"Argh, stop arguing with yourself." Sakura shook her head, seriously needing to focus on what she was doing. The chuunin had to windmill her arms that time to prevent a face to face greeting with the ground.

Finally retrieving her balance, the pink haired girl put off the internal argument for when she reached home. She was oblivious of the dark eyes that trailed her moonlit figure from the shadows.

Dropping in from her window, she stood and stretched, suddenly tired from all the activities earlier that day.

"What time is it anyway." She yawned.

But she paused mid-yawn as she looked over to her bed. The bed that was supposed to have the book on it. Kakashi's book. That same Icha Icha Paradise that the jounin loved so much, the one SHE had stolen, was currently... not there.

NOT there. NOT on the bed where she had left it. GONE.

Yeah, did I mention that it was not there?

Sakura took the time to look shocked as three words dropped slowly from her mouth, "Oh. My. God."