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 is slowly recovering from the time jutsu that had turned him into a teenager again, back to 26 years old by the time of the festival Kakashi and the rest of his team were witnessed to an ancient Secondary dance preformed by Sakura. Kakashi’s disappeared from their group.


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??”


Chapter 7: Return to Konoha

Kakashi stalked Sakura through the woods as she briskly walked back to the Tsukino castle. Her sheer dress waved in the breeze behind her as she walked, her hair still adorned with black streaks and her ears twitched and flicked every time Kakashi made a sound, even if it was one no human could possibly hear.


But it excited Kakashi to know that Sakura’s senses were now like his, that she knew he was there readying to pounce on her. She was such a small lithe thing, she looked easy to break and even though Kakashi would never hurt her he still wanted her beneath him whimpering.


In response to Kakashi’s arousal Sakura’s spiked, the scent of her arousal with anxiousness had Kakashi’s dominating side rearing and thrashing for control. Kakashi licked his lips. Sakura suddenly broke out into a run and Kakashi obligingly took chase.


Sakura’s panicked footsteps echoed on the wood of the Tsukino castle porches as she ran full barrel through the place in search of a place to hide from the man she was in love with. Kakashi used his expert chakra control to run through the tops of the trees that bordered the castle, feeling like the predator he was. He was going to prey on her sweet little body tonight.


Sakura ran full tilt into her room, her bare feet slipping along the smooth hardwood floors as she hurriedly turned to snap the shoji door shut, she leaned back against it and used her perfectly chakra control to mask her chakra completely, not even Kakashi could sense her now. Then she realized her fatal mistake. “MY BEDROOM?! HOW OBVIOUS!” Sakura seethed in self deprecating hate. She was immediately filled with horror as a dark chuckle emanated from somewhere in her room.


“Indeed…it’s cute how naïve you can be at times, makes me want to take advantage of you.” He ended with a dark tone and Sakura squeaked as she was suddenly thrown over a shoulder and forced to be pinned down onto her own bed.


“KAKASHI!” Sakura screeched as Kakashi used his much larger frame to pin her down as he licked and kissed her neck. Sakura’s heart hammered wildly from the run and the passionate caresses her lover was giving her.


“mmmm Sakura I’m not sure how long I can wait to mark you.” Kakashi practically growled against the hollow of her throat.


Sakura whimpered and pressed her crying core against his thigh and grinded the wetness against it, her hardened clit experiencing exquisite pleasure. Kakashi chuckled at her desperation and leaned back to curiously observe the large black cat ears on her head, he reached one hand up to stroke it and Sakura gasped. She stopped breathing for a second then she began to purr and grind more gracefully and languidly against him.


The smell of their mingled arousal was palpable, making Kakashi’s mouth water. “You’ve been teasing me all week with your cute little figure and your innocent faces. You should submit to me now.”


“I’VE been teasing YOU?!” Sakura said as indignantly as she could through a haze of lust and Kakashi smirked. All of his public caressing and sneaky make out sessions were flashing back and he couldn’t stop the perverted grin that spread across his handsome face.


Kakashi sat up off of the cherry blossom to pull off his shirt, Sakura’s jaw dropped at the newly exposed skin. The copy ninja reached down to Sakura’s legs and lightly began to stroke the skin on the backs of her thighs and knees, seeing how ticklish it was he made a mental note to touch her here when around the boys. He spread her legs and Sakura was immediately overcome with embarrassment. “St-Stop! I’m still sweaty from dancing!” Sakura beseeched but he was having none of it.


Kakashi brought his face down to Sakura’s panty covered center, he’d flipped the sheer dress upward over Sakura’s torso and now had his nose pressed against the black material of her panties. Sakura felt like her face would explode it was so hot, and now her blush dipped down to her neck and chest when she heard the distinct sound of Kakashi sniffing. “KAKASHIIIII!” Sakura’s complaints were silenced by him licking through the material and rubbing his nose where he felt the swollen clit throbbing in need.


He pulled the panties to the side to get his first look at his love’s dripping sex. He groaned in appreciation at the sight. “You shave…” he whispered adoringly and immediately began devouring the wet folds of Sakura’s pussy. Sakura cried out in uncontained excitement as Kakashi’s tongue dipping into her and lapping at the juices, breath hit her sensitive clit making Sakura arch for more contact.


Sakura’s delicate fingers laced into Kakashi’s silver hair and she tried not to pull as something in her wound tighter and tighter. Then Kakashi’s tongue retreated from her pussy and went to lapping with quick strokes at her clit, one long digit pushed into her core. The finger stretched up to find the sensitive spots in Sakura’s soft cave; one spot in particular had her crying out his name. He added another digit and soon Sakura was careening over the edge her muscles tightened her throat almost hoarse. Sakura’s grip on the sheets beneath them slackened as she was overcome with the satisfaction of her first orgasm with another person.


“Wow… that was rather nice.” Sakura said breathlessly. Kakashi continued to play with her as her muscle’s contractions died down and then he sat up to allow her to see him licking his lips and fingers. Sakura blushed furiously. “You pervert…”


Kakashi winked his black eye. “You know you like it.”


Sakura noticed the bulge straining against Kakashi’s pants. Without any warning she got up and went to give Kakashi a hug which had the copy ninja curious. Suddenly she flipped them around so he was in the position he’d previously had her in, though she was not as good at pinning him down the copy ninja allowed her to explore his chest with kisses.


When her goal became apparent, somewhere between licking the twitching muscles of his abs to slipping a hand into his pants, Kakashi choked and slid a hand into Sakura’s pink tresses to stop her. “You don’t have to do THAT Sakura.” Sakura batted his hands away impatiently.


“So you can orally assault me but I can’t orally assault you? That doesn’t sound very fair.” Sakura purred and Kakashi blinked in surprise and reached down to lift Sakura’s face away from his crotch. Sakura’s eyes were luminescent green cat eyes. He stared and frowned.


“Sakura?” her last comment had not been said in her voice but the husky female tones of Lynx. Sakura sat back out of Kakashi’s grip, her face twisted in pain.


“Lynx! Stop taking control!” she shouted to herself. Kakashi frowned in concern and leaned up to hold Sakura’s face. Suddenly Sakura’s cat ears began to twitch like crazy and her body began to glow and the cat ears receded and her hair returned to its all pink mass. Lynx appeared on the bed from a glow that had formed. She glared up at Sakura.


“I was going to help you kitten.” Lynx harrumphed and turned her back on Sakura who glared.


“That was not the time to HELP me!”


“Uhhh was Lynx molesting me?” asked Kakashi attempting to look like a blushing virgin which only made Lynx snicker and Sakura annoyed.


“I’ve made a blood pact with Lynx, she’ll be coming with us to Konoha but you agreed to not take over completely Lynx!” Sakura chided the uninterested cat that was stretching lazily.


“Well it was fun dog-boy.” Lynx winked at Kakashi and made her way out of the room.


“I feel so violated!” Kakashi said while Sakura shook her head in irritation. Sakura’s eyes were drawn down to the still very sturdy tent in Kakashi’s pants. Sakura felt the area between her legs throb in desire and she reached up to continue what they were doing but Kakashi stopped her regrettably. “Naruto…”


“What?” Without her bond with Lynx she couldn’t scent the air as well but because of the blood pact she could scent things at almost the level as Kakashi, though dogs have notoriously stronger noses. But she didn’t have to smell the fox container coming before she heard his bellowing voice.


“SAKURAAAA-CHAAAAN~~~~!!!”


Sakura growled in annoyance and Kakashi sighed in disappointment. “Well we’ll finish this soon enough koi-kitten.” Kakashi kissed Sakura on the lips and then pulled up his mask and transported back to his room for a cold shower.


Sakura was heading towards the shower when Naruto barreled into the room dragging a scared looking Jinenji behind him. Apparently Jinenji wasn’t used to running at ninja speed through a forest.


While Jinenji was catching his breath Naruto was visibly scenting the air. ‘Oh no there’s no way he won’t notice what we were doing…’ Sakura fretted as Naruto’s eyes narrowed suspiciously and Sakura forced a carefree smile. He eyed her for a minute and then visibly brushed it off as being his confusion. Sakura resisted the urge to sigh in relief. Jinenji was totally oblivious to the exchange.


“Jinenji says he has a scroll from Konoha for you!” Naruto shook Jinenji’s arm who glared at the excited young man and held out the scroll to Sakura. Sakura took it and as she scanned the contents Jinenji was making his way to the door.


“Wait Jinenji-sama…” Sakura murmured as she continued to read. He stopped and turned around expectantly.


“You need me to send off a reply Sakura-hime?”


“No I can do that. But I have some things I’ll need you to do for me. If you don’t mind…” Sakura gave him a hopeful smile and he grinned back.


“Anything for you hime…”


“Well first I’m going to have Lynx follow you back to village. Lynx!” Sakura called out into the hallway and the cat sauntered around the corner.


“What is it?” the black cat asked her mistress.


“I’ll need you to follow Jinenji-sama a little bit. You two and another villager are going to need to take a walk through the forest tonight. You guys will work out a sign for Lynx to make when a ninja is nearby and when there is one you, Jinenji-sama, are going to tell the villager you bring along that a daughter of a local merchant is being escorted through the forests to Fire Country.” The cat and village leader blinked at Sakura in confusion. “But before you guys do that Jinenji-sama, I hope it won’t be too much trouble for you to send a few villagers to help me pack up my research, I’ll also need six horses and a light cart.” Sakura said thoughtfully.


“What is all that for Sakura-hime?”


Sakura stared down at the contents of the scroll in deep thought. “Hmm…Oh? I know I said we’d be staying until the end of January but Lady Tsunade has called us back to Konoha we must leave by morning. I’ll be the merchant’s daughter and the boys will be my escort. The Primaries have told me there’s been an increase in the number of Mist ninja hanging out in the forests watching the village. After what happened a few months back they are probably looking to see if there are any ninja in the Flower Village, so we’ll need to pose as civilians at least until we get into Fire Country.” Sakura explained.


“WE’RE GOING BACK TO KONOHA?! I’LL GO TELL THE TEME!!” Naruto shouted excitedly.


“Don’t bother we heard everything.” Sasuke and Sai entered Sakura’s bedroom and Sakura was beginning to think it was getting crowded.


“So can you do all that Jinenji-sama?”


“Of course Sakura-hime! I hope you’ll at least visit us again someday…”


“I will, I promise.” Sakura smiled as Jinenji left with Lynx in tow.


“If you guys could go pack and then help me pack some of my stuff I’d be appreciative.” Sakura said to the boys as they were about to leave to pack. They nodded their heads and went to their respective rooms.


“Konoha…” Sakura mused as she shut the scroll and stare out at the early winter night.

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Early the next morning Sakura was securing the cart with all of her research materials and clothing. The boys secured their modest packs to their horses. Sakura then noticed their dilemma. “There’s only five horses…?”


Kakashi turned from tying his pack to his horse to nod. “Jinenji said they only had five to spare and to send his apologies.”


Sakura sighed and secured the fifth horse to the cart and tied its reigns to Sai’s horse’s saddle. “Don’t get crazy maneuvering your horse Sai.” Sakura then turned to her boys to find all of them seated on a horse leaving her without one. Kakashi reached down a hand and Sakura smiled. “Thanks.” She let Kakashi pull her up to sit side saddle in front of him. Sakura didn’t notice the looks the other boys had; it appeared they were silently berating themselves for not thinking to offer her a ride. “Let’s go we don’t want to be late for the meeting!” Sakura shouted and then they were off.

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About three days later in Konoha…


The nine remnants of Konoha’s Twelve stood in Lady Tsundade’s office standing about a makeshift table set up with documents and maps upon it. Shizune stood to the side poised to take notes on any discussions that might be helpful. Konoha had been on high alert since information had come in from the Flower village of a possible attack by rogue ninja.


The Konoha Twelve was a group formed after almost all the members of the Rookie Nine had achieved chuunin level status. They now included Kiba, Shino, Hinata, Ino, Shikamaru, Chouji, and the members of Team Gai: Tenten, Neji, and Lee. Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura had not returned to fill out the twelve number, but also included in the group were the former genin teachers of the Twelve: Gai, Asuma, and Kurenai.


Tsunade glanced at the clock in frustration. They’d been standing in dead silence for about a half hour, the group assembling at roughly the same time thanks to ANBU coming to their homes in the early afternoon to retrieve them. The occupants of the room could sense the tension rolling off of the Fifth and her assistant. “Is it war?” asked Asuma around the cigarette in his mouth.


“No…” Tsunade answered simply without explanation.


“A mission?” asked Shikamaru.


“Not exactly.”


Ino exploded in a fit of emotion. “Well if it’s nothing official and you have time to just shoot the breeze and have us stand around like idiots then maybe you should commission for Sakura’s name to be placed on the memorial stone!” Her face was red and tears began to form at the corners of her eyes. Shikamaru frowned and hugged Ino about the shoulder with his arm. The rest of the group either stared at Tsunade in silent horror or looked down to the ground in silent grief at the loss of a young kunoichi.


Tsunade looked fit to scream at Ino but she reigned in her anger. “Actually—that’s what I’ve called you all here about.”


The door of the office opened with a loud creak and the group turned to see Team Kakashi standing there with a certain pink haired kunoichi among them. Jaws dropped and a few gasps came from the girls. Ino was slower to turn but when she did she stared in dumbfounded shock. Sakura blinked and gave everyone a smile. She had a feeling that Tsunade might not inform Konoha that she was in fact alive but she didn’t expect to see all of her academy mates in the office. Ino’s eyes teared up further and she ran at Sakura taking her into a strong hug. “SAKURA!”


Sakura looked surprised as she returned the hug. “Hey Ino-pig.” She said hesitantly. Ino was sobbing quietly, her shoulders shaking.


“You’re stupid forehead!” Ino exploded beyond the tears and Sakura scowled. “How could you scare me like that?!” Ino shouted into Sakura’s face and Sakura’s scowl softened.


“Sorry pig.” She let Ino pull her into another hug and Tsunade stood.


“I’m glad you made it back. And I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you that everything was ok with Sakura, Ino.” Tsunade apologized. Hinata and Tenten ran forward to give Sakura hugs while the rest of Team Kakashi entered the office and joined the large group of mostly jonins. “But the reason I’ve called you all here for this meeting was not for a reunion. You are all here despite your ranks to be part of an unofficial mission here in Konoha. You’ve been chosen because you are all friends or close acquaintances of Sakura Haruno. Come here Sakura.”


The group watched Sakura curiously as she walked over to stand beside the Hokage. “The mission is to protect Sakura from all threats, inside the village and out. Sakura has been deemed a special class of ninja separate from the others by the elders and it is a HUGE matter of village security that she be protected from assassinations.” The group, minus Team Kakashi, blinked in surprise and the questions buzzing in their heads were immediately answered. “All that I’m about to disclose to you is top secret, any violation of this secret can mean serious punishment. Sakura is the last of the Secondary’s and because of this her lineage must be protected at all cost. Her abilities give our village a huge advantage over foreign villages.”


There was a look of understanding and silent shock from the genin teachers, Asuma’s cigarette fell from his gaping mouth. Sakura blushed at the stares and turned to stare out the Hokage tower’s windows. “Those that understand the history of the Secondary’s can explain it to the younger of you but for now we must focus on what we are going to do about these attacks. I’m informing you of the attacks because Sakura will not be leaving the village for a long while and so if these attacks happen she could be vulnerable to them. We have no reason to believe that they know Sakura’s significance but we cannot take chances.”


Tsunade felt immediate ire from Sakura. “What do you mean I won’t be leaving the village for a long time?! No missions??” Tsunade opened her mouth to respond but she was interrupted by a presence at the door to her office. There stood a group of five of the elders. Ahead of the group was an old woman who was clearly one of the older members of the Hyuuga clan. Also among them was a member from the Abarame and Nara clans, the other two were from clans as well.


“The Elders have decided to make a law especially for you Ms. Haruno. You may not leave the walls of this village before you produce a child for one of the clans of Konoha.” The Hyuuga woman explained. Sakura’s jaw dropped and her face flushed in rage.


“And if I don’t WANT to have a kid with any of the clans?!”


“Then you won’t be leaving this village. Ever.” The Nara member said.


Sakura turned to Tsunade for support but she shook her head. “The Elders decided this unanimously there is nothing I can do to overrule that.” Sakura resisted the urge to punch through the nearest wall as the elders approached her.


“We’ve come to meet this Secondary survivor. We hope you’ll allow us to see a sample of your powers Ms. Haruno.” Said one of the unnamed clan members.


Sakura growled and held up her fist. “I’d be happy to give you a taste! You—HMPHM!” Shizune ran up and covered Sakura’s mouth, successfully muffling the threats and curses about to stream out. Shizune gave the elders a forced smile while Sakura glared. Kakashi chuckled nervously and stepped out of the group of ninjas to take Sakura by the arm and pull her away from Shizune and the elders.


“Sakura’s been travelling a lot and is under a bit of stress I imagine. Perhaps you can invite the other elders to come observe one of our training sessions…maybe tomorrow around noon?” Kakashi suggested asking the question to both Sakura and the elders. Sakura nodded her consent and the elders made affirmative responses.


“Well we won’t interrupt your briefing any longer.” Said the Hyuuga elder and the group left the office.


“So we have a Secondary and we can’t use her skills until she’s had a kid. Great.” Asuma scoffed.


Sakura was about to rant about the matter but was interrupted by Tsunade. “Lets focus on the matter of these attacks for now Sakura.” Her tone left no room for argument and Sakura halfheartedly joined the other ninja at the table looking down at the maps and pictures strewn across it. “Our intelligence suggests that they still plan to attack and it will be soon, in the next few weeks perhaps. Luckily we had a squad raid their headquarters which was an abandoned village a few miles north of here.”


“What happened to the villagers?” asked Ino.


“Their fields became infertile and they moved to the village south of here the Nigawa village. Though some of their weaker villagers are still resting here in Konoha. We’ve checked their backgrounds most of them are just these pregnant women and their husbands who need to use the hospital here.” Shizune explained.


Kakashi lifted a map off the table and stared at it for a second. “There is something strange about this map. They marked where they will attack clearly and it shows that they will be attacking the southern gates.”


“That’s our most heavily forted gate.” Gai murmured staring at the map as well.


“Yes and we’ve doubled the guards on that section of the walls as well.” Tsunade nodded.


“It’s rather foolish to attack our strongest defense…” Kakashi mused. Sakura asked him to hand her the map and he did.


“Well they are foolish brats.” Sasuke pointed out. His finger indicated the photographs of the known attackers. Most of them were young men maybe a couple years younger than the Twelve.


“But there are erase marks on this map.” Sakura pointed out, she set it on the table and pointed to a graphite smudge covering the Hokage tower’s location on the map.


“They were probably planning on infiltrating secretly and attacking the tower but realized that wouldn’t work.” Kiba guessed. Sakura shook her head in disagreement and pointed out a couple other lighter smudges on the Academy and the hospital.


“It seems like some kind of trick to me.” Sakura said forebodingly. She took a pile of pictures that the other members of the group were passing around. She began to flip through them but stopped on one of the pictures. “Lady Tsunade is this who I think it is?” she asked showing the Hokage a picture from the pile and pointing to a figure in it.


Tsunade took the picture. It was a picture taken by the reconnaissance team of some ninja entering one of the buildings in the village, but among the group of ninja was a man in a white lab coat. “We don’t have information on this guy. Do you know him Sakura?”


“Yeah I think that is Minori Takuma!” Tsunade blinked in shock and stared closer at the photograph, understanding melted across her face.


“Who is that?” asked Sai.


“He was a top medic nin from Lightning. He was exiled from there because of some experiments he did with fertility. He used chakra to genetically modify fetuses in the womb and then aborted the children that did not inherit the blood line traits of the clans. He was once one of the top medic ninja in the world.” Tsunade explained.


“He was a top medic nin but he sucked in battle. He never made it past genin level in Lightning.” Sakura pointed out. “Why would he be involved in an attack on Konoha?”


“Maybe he is just there for medical assistance for the attackers.” Suggested Gai.


“We had a feeling he was the leader though, based on what our intelligence had gathered.” Tsunade said.


“And if their base was north of Konoha why were there members of their group around the Flower village?” Sakura turned to call out to Lynx who was lazily sleeping in the light of a window in the hallway. Lynx sighed and came in to join the intelligence briefing. “Lynx did you ever see any of these guys hanging around the Flower village?” asked Sakura showing the black cat pictures. The Twelve stared in interest at the talking cat.


Lynx lazily eyed the pictures but shook her head. “No. Except that doctor guy but he hasn’t been to the Flower village since the massacre.” Sakura’s eyes widened.


“He was at the massacre?”


Lynx nodded. “Yes I thought he was dead actually. That guy is Nakamori Takuma.”


“No that’s Minori Takuma.” Sakura corrected.


Lynx stared incredulously. “He must have changed his name then because that is definitely Nakamori Takuma. He was a Tertiary ninja that was doing research on fertility in the Flower village before the massacre. In fact…he helped your parents escape the massacre. He was from Water Country and so he was in charge of watching some of the prisoners before the executions. He helped your parents escape because your mother was very pregnant at the time. A couple of the Primarys helped make sure they made it to Konoha but they told me that Nakamori left them at the border of Fire Country and went traveling towards Lightning.”


“He’d betrayed his village by helping them escape so he applied for citizenship in Lightning and started over.” Tsunade said.


“We need to assume that they at least know that I am here in Konoha then. They might also have known that I was in the Flower village since they’d sent some of their ninja there.” Sakura guessed.


“And you being here might be the reason they are attacking. To find a chance to kidnap you maybe.” Shikamaru guessed.


“So when the attack does occur I want you all to make sure that does NOT happen. You must not leave Sakura alone at any time during the fighting.” Tsunade warned. “Shizune will make copies of the information here and have it available for you guys in the archives.”


Sakura noticed a small pile of clay in a bag on the table. Sakura lifted it up curiously. “This looks like the clay that Diedara uses.”


“Some of the enemy nin are ex-Sand so they might have knowledge with explosives so we’ve prepped the guards to be prepared for bombs.” Tsunade explained. “For now I need to get back to work so you all enjoy some time off. I’ll start assigning new missions but not all of you can leave because most of you need to stay here for Sakura. You’re dismissed.”


Sakura let the others leave and then turned to Tsunade. “I’d like to stay at one of my teammate’s homes until the attack. And where I’m living will have to be a secret between you me, that person and Shizune.”


Tsunade nodded. “That is a good idea. Your old place has already been rented to someone else anyway. Who did you have in mind?”


“I was thinking Kakashi.” At Tsunade’s curious look Sakura explained her reasoning. “Naruto’s a blabbermouth and his apartment is small…Sasuke has been acting strangely sooo yeah…and Sai is way too strange.”


“Kakashi is strange too…”


“Yeah well Kakashi also has a spare room.” Sakura lied. Tsunade nodded.


“Very well. It will be top secret I wont even tell the elders.”


“Thank you shishou!” Sakura left the office and departed down the tower to see Kakashi waiting by her cart. Sakura looked around to see the others gone. “Where’d they go?”


“They went to unpack and get stuff to eat I guess. I thought I’d help you apartment shop.”


Sakura grinned. “Actually…”She sidled up close to the copy ninja. “Lady Tsunade says I can live with you until the attacks. She’ll keep it a secret for my protection…that is…if that’s ok with you.”


Kakashi smiled an eye creasing smile. “That sounds great.”


“Do you have room for all of my stuff?”


“I have an empty spare bedroom you could use, and a plenty big king bed.” He whispered the last part in case any people passing by got nosy. Sakura giggled and they began to make their way to Kakashi’s apartment.

Preview of upcoming chapters: The attack on Konoha takes place with some surprising results but not before the Twelve and their former genin senseis have a night out. Kakashi and Sakura begin plans for how to solve their elder meddling problems.