Cherry Blossoms in Fall

Title: Cherry Blossoms in Fall

Pairing(s): Sakura/Kakashi; Minor: Sakura/Sasuke, Sakura/Naruto, Sakura/Sai Eventually minor pairings: Naruto/Hinata

Rating: M (Lemons, explicit language, and violence)

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Naruto characters or any other ideas drawn from the series. Nor do I make any profit from the series.

Recap: Kakashi has been temporarily turned into a teenager because of one of Sakura’s experiments. Naruto, Sasuke, and Sai attacked Kakashi and were able to stab him; he is now in Sakura’s care.

“Are you going to tell me why you guys attacked Kakashi?” Sakura asked once she and Sasuke were walking through the garden.

“Kakashi claimed that you belonged to him. But that’s not true is it Sakura?” Sasuke asked calmly.

“Kakashi said that?” Sakura frowned. She suddenly felt the warmth of someone pressed against her back and Sasuke’s warm breath on her neck.

“It’s not true because you still love me…” Sasuke slipped his strong arms around her waist and pulled her close. Sakura’s breath hitched and she felt the familiar warmth of feelings for Sasuke washing over her. She hadn’t felt this way about her first love in so long. But it still wasn’t like with Kakashi, Kakashi made her melt with just his voice and smile. “Marry me Sakura.” Sasuke breathed against the shell of her ear. Sakura’s jaw dropped and she felt her heart stop.


Chapter 6: The Festival

Sakura forced Sasuke’s arms from around her once she’d regained her wits. She stepped away and turned to glare at the Uchiha. “Why are you asking me this now Sasuke?” Sakura asked incredulously.



Sasuke blinked slowly and shrugged. “We’ve been apart for about 7 years now—.”

“8 years actually.” Sakura sniped in, glare hardening more. Sasuke smirked.

“See I knew you missed me.”

“Of course I missed you, you were part of my first team and you just left us.” The pain from that experience bled into her angry features making her soften.

“Well now that I’m back I’ve realized we are perfect for each other.” Sasuke said plainly, almost wishing she’d go back to being angry so he wouldn’t have to deal with the heart clenching sad face she was making.


Sakura looked up at Sasuke with confusion. “What makes you say that?”

“We are perfect! We are both without our clans and need to revive them. We’re both powerful and attractive. It would be insane if we DIDN’T get married.” Sasuke said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

“That’s why you want to marry me?” Sakura asked in amazement. “Because of our clans?”

Sasuke raised an eyebrow. “Is that not enough of a reason? The elders in the village will want you to marry someone from a clan. There is no hope for you and Kakashi. You shouldn’t even consider it…” Sasuke stepped closer to her about to take her into a hug. “He’s beneath you anyway.”

Sakura’s face twisted in disgust and she stepped back from Sasuke further increasing the space between them. “I hear what you’re saying about the elders. And I wouldn’t want to get Kakashi involved in that mess; they could destroy him in their efforts to make sure I marry into a clan. But I won’t be marrying you. I will marry someone I love no matter what the elders say and I doubt I can ever love you like that again.”

Sasuke scowled. “So you’re saying you will give up on Kakashi but you won’t consider my request because I spoke the truth? The ninja from clans are better than the average ninja that’s just the way things are—.” Sakura slapped Sasuke.

“That is not true! Naruto may be loud and obnoxious at times but he is a thousand times the shinobi you are. And Kakashi may be bed ridden because of a stab wound from fighting men 14 years younger than him but it still took THREE of you jerks to take him down. So stop speaking so high and mighty about the great Uchiha clan because it doesn’t exist anymore. By shinobi law a clan can only be formed from a family of 6 with the approval of the elders. You are not part of the Uchiha clan because there isn’t one.” Sakura walked away from the flabbergasted Uchiha. “So stuff that in your pipe and smoke it you brat!” Sakura fumed as she walked back into the castle.

Sasuke stood in the garden awhile longer considering what she’d said. She was right about clans. Technically speaking the elders don’t have to even consider him as a possible husband for Sakura. He’d always thought that Sakura would just be waiting for him, waiting to beg him to come back. But now she was looking to a man much older than himself and his trump card…the elder’s wishes…they didn’t apply to him anyway. He would have to win Sakura back if he were to have her and then overcome the resistance from the elders. “She probably hates me now…” he mused aloud.

“No Sakura can’t hate you teme. She’s just pissed about what we did to Kakashi.” Naruto spoke up from the castle porch. He had his arms crossed and was looking down at Sasuke.

“Did you hear all of that?”

“Yeah.” Naruto said gruffly. He was pissed about what he heard Sasuke say about clan nins vs. average ninja but Sakura’s response made up for it. “Sakura wasn’t raised by her clan though, she doesn’t think like you do.” When Sasuke didn’t care to respond Naruto continued to talk. “So she pretty much said she would give up on Kakashi…that’s good at least.” Naruto grinned and Sasuke scoffed.
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Kakashi groaned and opened his single onyx eye to look about the room. He was back in his bedroom at the Tsukino castle. Sakura sat beside him and was tending to his wound. He didn’t feel any pain but he was immediately concerned by the pained look on Sakura’s face. “You ok Sakura?” he murmured. Sakura jumped in surprise seeing him awake and quickly forced a smile.

“Yes I’m fine.”

Kakashi frowned, smelling what was out of place. “Care to explain why you smell like Sasuke?”

Sakura winced and Kakashi was immediately assuming the worse…Well she still smells like a virgin and there is no arousal…if he tried to force her… Kakashi’s mind ran away with him with all of the bad things he’d do to the unsuspecting Uchiha. “Sasuke and I had a talk. He got a bit too touchy.” Sakura explained, not noticing Kakashi’s fists clenched.

“What did you two talk about?”

“Kakashi if we started…this…” Sakura gestured vaguely between them. “It could only last until we return to Konoha. Tsunade has been writing to me telling me that the elders are interested in arranging a marriage for me with a clan. I can refuse for awhile but eventually they will try to pressure us to break up. I don’t want you to go through that.”

Kakashi watched Sakura and listened to what she said. “I’m tougher than that Sakura…”

“But you’ve worked all these years to be a ninja above reproach!” Sakura insisted, taking Kakashi’s hand and squeezing it. “They will slander your name, maybe even court marshal you for the tiniest things until you finally give up.” Kakashi pondered her points; he wouldn’t put such behavior past the elders either.

Kakashi squeezed her hand back and sat up and faced Sakura. Sakura fussed for a second over his wound but Kakashi interrupted her. “You are right that a brand new relationship wouldn’t last long under those circumstances. So maybe we should keep it a secret for awhile?” Kakashi suggested with a happy eye crease. Sakura blinked in surprise.

“Keep it a secret? From a NINJA village?” Sakura asked incredulously.

Kakashi chuckled. “I’ve kept my face a secret for almost my entire life. The only people alive who’ve seen it are you, the ramen stand people, and Genma, and Genma cheated because he got me off my ass drunk. The pervert…” Kakashi shuddered in mock fear of handsome brown haired perverts demasking him and Sakura giggled.

“It could work…” Sakura mused. “Sounds down right exciting actually.” Sakura near gushed at the romanticness of it and Kakashi chuckled at the sight of the young Sakura he remembered shining through.

“Though…the fact that everything with a dick seems to be chasing after you is kind of annoying. It will be a pain not being able to stake my claim.” Kakashi mused. Sakura giggled and her face flushed pink.

“Well you’ll just have to trust me!”

“Hmm…and you’ll just have to trust me when I go out drinking with the guys…and Anko…” Kakashi smirked when Sakura immediately scowled, he could almost see the inner rantings going on in Sakura’s head. “I bet it would be easier to trust each other if we could still touch each other like a couple…” Kakashi mused reaching out and stroking Sakura’s cheek.

“We can’t in public, people will get suspicious!”

“Are you kidding? I can eat ramen in public without anyone seeing my face I bet I could grope you all over in public and no one would be the wiser.” Kakashi laughed at the crimson blush that stained the pinkette’s cheeks. Kakashi’s face softened and he pulled down his mask to give Sakura a melting smile. “How about a kiss?” Sakura smiled and leaned in.

Kakashi slipped one large hand behind her neck and he craned up to kiss the cherry blossom. First just a small brush of lips and then a more passionate kiss developed.

Kakashi smirked when he felt Sakura impatiently lick his lips for more and he opened his mouth to attack her tongue with his own, surprising Sakura immensely. Sakura squeaked in the kiss and giggled when the copy ninja pulled her down onto the bed and rolled on top of her.

They leisurely explored each other’s mouths, Sakura was intrigued by the fang like canines that she felt in his mouth and his tongue felt a tiny bit longer than it should be for a human. Kakashi was overwhelmed by the vanilla and strawberry smell that was permeating the room. Sakura’s soft pink tongue exploring his mouth had his blood roaring in his ears.

Kakashi pressed the growing excitement in his pants into her pelvis and Sakura gasped into the kiss. Kakashi pulled away and chuckled at the dazed and somewhat shocked look on the girl’s face. He licked his lips and smirked down at her, flashing a fang and Sakura felt her body hum in arousal. Kakashi leaned down and nuzzled her neck. “If we’re going to keep this a secret you’ll need to start using a lot of body wash so Naruto won’t notice my smell on you.” Kakashi said huskily against her skin. Sakura nodded dumbly, her mind still trying to catch up with the current events.

“I smell dinner you should take a bath and I’ll take a shower.” Kakashi said as he climbed off of her and after giving her a quick kiss went to his bathroom. Sakura shakily stood on wobbly feet and made her way back to her room, being careful to avoid Naruto.

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Sai and Naruto made dinner as an apology to Kakashi; they made his favorite miso soup. They sat at a low Japanese style table, Sai Sakura and Kakashi on one side and Sasuke and Naruto on the other. They were all tense at first but Kakashi broke the tension by commenting on Naruto’s pathetic taijutsu skills which immediately caused the blond to burst out into loud promotion of his “awesome ninja skills!” Sakura laughed and Sai smirked. Sasuke lightly insulted Naruto’s modesty and the dobe and teme were in a full out argument. Sasuke was comically impassive while fighting the loud energetic Naruto.


Sakura laughed and jumped into the Naruto bashing at times but she was momentarily distracted by the fact that Kakashi was eating in front of them but they couldn’t see it. She stared in amazement as the bowl got lighter but no sign of his face was seen.


Kakashi noticed her staring and sent her a wink which couldn’t be seen because one eye was always covered but Sakura still caught it. Sakura’s eyes widened when she felt the shortest but still strong touch brush her back side. It was distinctly a hand but as fast as she felt it the touch was gone. Her jaw dropped. Kakashi had just felt her up RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE BOYS.


She could see his silent chuckling and was even more shocked when she felt two hands tweak a nipple immediately exciting the young woman. She squeezed her thighs together and shot the copy ninja a warning glare. Kakashi subtly nodded around towards their oblivious audience and it was clear what he was saying. “Told ya so, Sakura *insert smug smirk here*.” Sakura thought back to their earlier conversation. “I bet I could grope you all over in public and no one would be the wiser.”


Sakura gritted her teeth and resigned her self to a dinner where she’d be constantly distracted by Kakashi’s touching. Sakura tried to school her face back to impassiveness but it was proving difficult. Sasuke at one point spared them a brief suspicious look but upon being unable to see Kakashi doing anything wrong he went back to listening to one of Naruto’s bragging stories about being trained by Jiraya.


Kakashi’s plates were empty and it now appeared as if he was just listening to Naruto, Sasuke, and Sai but Sakura knew better. I’m going to KILL him! This isn’t faaaairrr~~ Sakura squirmed as Kakashi’s brief touches were traveling up her inner thighs, she’d tried clamping her legs shut but he’d some how get his hand between them. Sakura’s face and neck were heating up and the boys were beginning to notice making Kakashi retreat his touches.


“Are you okay Sakura-chan?” asked Naruto.


“I’m feeling a bit off. I think I’ll go to bed.” Sakura stood shakily and left the room. The boys looked after her concerned but then immediately went back to their conversations. Kakashi continued to pretend to listen but his thoughts were on a certain pink haired kunoichi.


A week passed by and Kakashi and Sakura were able to keep their budding relationship from their teammates. Sakura insisted that Kakashi was having far too much fun keeping everything secret, he’d grab her from around corners and kiss her senseless then allow her to walk off with Naruto babbling obliviously, her lips swollen and face flushed. They’d not progressed their relationship beyond touching and kissing but neither seemed in a hurry to rush.


At night once the boys were asleep Kakashi would make his way to the West Wing and join Sakura in the library. They’d make light conversation while she did research, Kakashi would occasionally skim some of the texts finding them interesting but they were mostly just volumes with techniques for Secondary powers.


One day Kakashi asked something that got Sakura thinking about their relationship much more seriously. “Would our children have your powers?” he asked as he flipped through a book that focused on training young children to control their Secondary powers.


Sakura dropped her pen for a minute then blinked owlishly at Kakashi. Her mind was immediately over run with little silver haired children with green eyes and Kakashi’s mask. Sakura smiled fondly at the thought, she could definitely picture it and it wasn’t a bad picture at all. “Yes they’d all have my powers because it’s something all descendents of the Secondary’s inherit. I’m not sure if it will always be present in my descendents but my immediate family will definitely have it.”


“Will they have your pink hair too?” Kakashi asked in amusement, Sakura had shown him a picture of her biological parents. Pink hair apparently ran strong in the Tsukino clan.


“Well it depends on how our genes interact. Most of the males from my family had pink hair but it had a grayish look to it, so it didn’t look that girly. Pink hair is not a dominate feature usually, they might all have your hair.” Sakura mused eyeing Kakashi’s silver.


Kakashi smiled. “I got my father’s hair but my mother had black hair.”


“So did my grandpa! They might have black hair! And if they get your eyes they’d look like Sasuke!” Sakura laughed at the thought of what the villagers would say, Kakashi shook his had at the silly woman and continued to scan through the book in his lap.


“I hope they all have your eyes…” he mumbled softly, but Sakura heard and she smiled at the copy ninja.


“It’s a toss up with the eyes; blue eyes ran strong in my family before my grandfather married into it.” Sakura mused as she eyed a family picture that she kept on her desk. The Tsukino family picture was a sea of pink hair and blue eyes except for a small branch of it that had some black and pink and greens.


Kakashi noticed Sakura’s eyes get misty as she stared into the still faces of the family she’d never known. “Do you want a family Kakashi?”


“Yes.” He didn’t hesitate or temper his answer at all; this reassured Sakura because she’d been thinking about how long they could last.


“How many children would you want?”


Kakashi’s mask was pulled down like he usually had it when it was just him and his cherry blossom. He smiled warmly. “As many as you will give me.” He reached across they table and they held hands. “I know things are still unsure, we don’t know what Konoha will say, but I’m serious about us koibito.” He said softly as if he were sharing a secret between them, as if prying ears would violate their special moment.


Sakura felt her heart flutter. She could now say without a doubt she was in love with Hatake Kakashi. But now she had to think of how she was going to be able to keep him. She didn’t want the elders to hurt him because of her but she didn’t want to lose him either.


Kakashi could read what was bothering her immediately. “We’ll worry about that when the time comes ok?” He released her hands and went back to reading through the book.

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The day of the festival came and the guys found themselves separated from their cherry blossom teammate. The festival stands were set up around a large lake that bordered against the Secondary graveyard on one side. Maito Kenta took a reprieve from his hermit behavior to help the townsmen set up the poles for the paper lanterns. There were already many toris set up around the lake because many of the Secondary mansions bordered the lake. The vendors were some of the town’s people but were mostly from the villages that existed beyond the huge forest that surrounded the Flower village.


Travelers were encouraged to stay in the country for this festival which was a special festival that was kept alive by the Flower villagers. The festival’s history goes back to the times of the Secondary’s who held the festival to not only celebrate the harvest but also celebrate the contract between the Secondary’s and Primary’s. Demons and spirits gathered to amicably coexist with the Secondary’s back then and mingle with other humans as well. Civilians were able to interact with the demons in a peaceful setting. There were many dances held by the Primary’s and Secondary’s to celebrate their union but now there was only one Secondary to participate.


The villagers had to be careful not to advertise the fact that there would be a Secondary dancer. And thanks to a jutsu created by the forest demons once the travelers passed through the forest the next day they would forget all about meeting a Secondary woman. This was a technique developed by the demons wanting to protect the last Secondary but also wanting to continue the tradition of the festival which had been diminished by the loss of the Secondary’s.


There was an excited murmur from the vendors who had received word that there was going to be a special dance, though almost all the vendors had been to last years festival and seen Sakura dance then they did not remember it because of the forest’s spell.


Team 7 minus Sakura assisted in the decorating and was amazed at the appearance of the place at night with the lanterns lit. Right after sundown was when the dancing began. So far the dancing consisted of village women and demons of the forest. The dancing women danced the traditional dances of the Secondary’s minus the powerful element manipulation that was part of the dance. Even though it was December their dancing dresses were somewhat revealing, the weather within the village was being heated up by the Primary’s in the forest to give it an early fall cool feeling to the area without being too cold.


“Back in the day their dances would be an overwhelming show of fire and water! You’ll get to see Sakura-hime dance that way tonight.” Jinenji said to the four men as they walked through the crowds.


“You got to see the festivals back then?” Sai asked.


“Oh yes the people of the Flower village have a special bond with the Secondary’s because before they formed their contract with the Primary’s they were part of our village in Snow Country. After they’d migrated here and achieved enlightenment they’d formed their contract but we would always migrate to visit their festivals. They were amazing…a very peaceful people.”


“What if there are ninja here…” Kakashi mused as he eyed the strangers that had traveled through the forest for the festival.


“There aren’t any. The Primary’s in the forest right now analyze all of the newcomers and if any of them have chakra signatures they put them under a genjutsu that has them thinking they have very important business to get to at their village and they turn around immediately and leave on their own.”


“The big guy is right.” Said a voice at their feet. The five men turned to stare down at Lynx who sat in their path. Naruto pointed at the cat in shock.


“THAT CAT JUST TALKED!”


Lynx rolled her green eyes and gave Naruto a flat look. “Aren’t foxes supposed to be clever? And to think I’m related to your kind…” Lynx languidly jumped up onto Kakashi’s shoulder who smiled at her. She sat on his right shoulder and curled her tail around over his left.


“This is Lynx she’s the cat demon that saved Sakura-hime almost two months back.” Explained Jinenji. Naruto proceeded to shout at the cat about his intelligence but she pretended to not hear.


Suddenly there was a commotion of cheering and shouting. Intrigued the five men and cat moved through the crowd to see what they were seeing, there on the water were figures of light dancing on the water. Kakashi realized they were the figures he’d seen in the West Wing restricted area.


“What is this?” wondered Jinenji in amazement.


“So this isn’t part of the festival?” asked Sasuke.


“No…How is this happening, do you know?” Jinenji asked a man in the crowd who cheered on the dancing figures of light. He shrugged but the man standing in front of him turned around and shouted over the cheering.


“A woman dressed as a dancer walked out onto the water and put some poles in the water. See those?” He pointed out to the edges of where the lights were dancing and there were poles sticking out of the water with clips on top that held up paper sutras. The sutras were glowing.


“Must have been Sakura-hime.” Jinenji murmured.


“It’s a time jutsu Sakura was working on. It’s recreating a scene during a past festival it looks like.” Kakashi explained. Jinenji looked overjoyed and began to make his way through the crowd to get a better look. Kakashi was slowly returning to his previous age over the past week. He’d estimate he was probably back to the age he was when he trained his first genin team.


“The same jutsu you stepped into?” Sasuke asked.


“That’d be the one…” Suddenly they were approached by Jin, the man who worked at the shrine with Sakura.


“Good evening. Sakura’s performance will be beginning soon.” Jin informed them but his help was immediately made pointless by Jinenji announcing in a booming voice that Sakura would be dancing a ways down along the lake. The crowd began to move and Team 7 approached the stands that were set up along the shore of the lake and sat down on the front row by Jinenji and Jin.


Off to the side were a band of musicians. A myriad of guitars and flutes and drums began to play but the drums over powered the other instruments with a harsh pounding that set an almost sensual beat.


Jin glanced around wondering when Sakura would appear then his eyes fell on Lynz and he scowled. “What are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be with Sakura?” Lynx blinked lazily then her eyes widened.


“DAMN! Forgot!” The cat jumped down from Kakashi’s shoulder. The human men watched in amazement as Lynx began to transform. Her hair shortening and lightening to the point of being invisible, her body structure grew and morphed into a human-esque shape until finally she stood before the group in a human form. She still had her green cat eyes and large black cat ears on top of her head, but her body was in the shape of a tall teenaged man with tanned skin. Her hair was long and flowing down to her lower back. She looked like a very attractive young man with cat ears. Kakashi noted the tail that swished lazily behind the man and he got a very Lynx like bored expression as he examined his hands.


“I thought you were a female cat…” Kakashi wondered.


“I am, this is just for the dance.” Lynx jumped off towards the shore off to the side and was heading towards the graveyard.


Jin turned to explain to Sakura’s shocked teammates. “Sakura’s dance is the highlight of the festival; it illustrates the formation of the contract. It also is supposed to illustrate yin and yang and the balances of nature. Man, female, fire, water, Primary, Secondary, so on…” Suddenly there was a hush as the tempo of the music picked up, the dance was beginning.


Sakura made an entrance wearing an elaborate formal kimono. It seemed to swallow her up, the many layers piled on top of her. She walked gracefully on the water towards the center of the area designated for the dance, ripples swelled outward from where even the kimono rested on top of the water. “Amazing chakra control.” Sai murmured. Sakura’s face was the picture of stoicism.


Sakura suddenly bent down and took a handful of water into her cupped palm. She brought it up to her face and blew onto it the crowd could see a green glow form in her palm and she allowed the water to fall from her hand and into the lake which then proceeded to glow green as well. The green brightened, throwing a shadow over Sakura who continued to just stand as suddenly green algae began to grow at a rapid pace. “In the beginning the Secondary’s came to Light Country and found a desolate land ravaged by Water.

They overcame the obstacles of this fruitless land and created one of warmth, of green plants and the animals that had fled the destruction from the nomads of Water returned.” Primary’s that had taken on the shape of normal sized animals began to walk about the water on the algae as if it were land. The voice that seemed to come from nowhere narrated the story of the Secondary’s.


“Then one day a powerful Primary took notice of this great people and wished to share in their inner strength.” The water not far from Sakura began to swirl into a whirlpool that had the crowd murmuring in excitement and interest. Lynx in his male form jumped gracefully from the whirlpool which immediately diminished back to still algae covered water. Lynx landed gracefully on the water and smoothly stepped up to Sakura who turned to him.


“The Primary wished to make a deal with these people, in exchange for their bodies and minds the Primary’s would change the nature of their souls and allow them spiritual control like no other human. And they accepted this deal.” Lynx stepped up intimately close to Sakura and reached around her for the tie to her obi. After Lynx undid it the water began to suck down the layers of her kimono into the water.


Team Kakashi almost freaked out when they began to think that Sakura would be left naked. But they then saw that once the final layer was pulled off her shoulders and pulled down into the water Sakura was wearing a dancing dress underneath. The top was a band of silver material that only covered her breasts leaving her waist and stomach completely bare for the eager eyes of the audience. She wore low riding black bikini cut undergarments to cover the essentials in that area and around her waist was a translucent silver skirt that went all the way to below her knees. Her feet were bare but she had silver trinkets around her ankles and wrists, her pink hair flowing freely down her back.


As she was pulled into Lynx’s arms and they began a tango-esque dance to the beat of the music, Kakashi watched enthralled as she moved sensuously her face gaining a small smile as she grew more confident. Kakashi briefly glanced around to the rest of the crowd and found the women staring in awe and the men watching in a mixture of awe and lust. He could definitely smell the lust rolling off of his male teammates.


The crowd suddenly roared with its amazement as Sakura and Lynx jumped apart to dance about five feet apart. Their movements now being accompanied by fire and water, Sakura was using fire as a whip like accessory to her dance she’d move her arms and the fire would whip around and curl about her arms, not touching her but close enough to cause warm orange colors on her smooth flesh. Lynx was using water from drawing it up from the lake and allowing it to wrap up and slither up his legs. Lightning shot down from the sky around them and their dance was suddenly a flurry of water fire and electricity that was swirling around them, the lightning forming an eternity symbol while the two danced within the rings.


“And so the Secondary’s took the Primary’s into their bodies and were able to achieve perfect chakra control!” the bodiless voice boomed and as the music moved towards the climax suddenly Lynx and Sakura threw themselves towards the overlapping point of the eternity shape and their bodies smacked together with a crack of thunder there was a blinding flash of light.


The crowd shielded their eyes and when the light died down they looked to see a singular woman dancing gracefully in the center of the lake. The lightning now formed a singular circle around her and Kakashi was reminded of the circle Sakura always wore on her clothes. The fire and water were shooting up around her in large arches. The woman had long pink hair with black streaks, black cat ears on top of her head and glowing green eyes. She was the picture of grace even with a somewhat awkward tail swishing behind her. The music built up and built up until the lightning, fire, and water shot up the sky and a pillar of earth shot up from beneath the water’s surface and held up Sakura who ended her dance in a graceful bow.


The crowd stood with cheers and excited talking. Team Kakashi stood and clapped feeling their hearts hammering from the music and excitement of the show they’d just witnessed. Sakura bowed and began to make her way off of the lake.


“THAT WAS AMAZING!” Naruto hollered excitedly. He shook Sasuke who was still staring transfixed at the lake. “Kaka-sensei did you see?! Kaka-sensei??” Naruto noticed their team leader missing but the other two men were still in a bit of a daze. “Where’d he go??”


Preview: Kakashi has a talk with Sakura about her dance and the team is called back to Konoha. How will the rookie nine react to the return of the cherry blossom? Read and Review and I’ll get out the next chapter soon!