That's MY Book!

Disclaimer: If Naruto was owned by me, there would be a few... changes. Unfortunately, its not.

A/N: -BlueBastard gives reviewers an appreciative grin- God. You guys rock.
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Sakura was almost too shocked to speak. Almost.

"Baka sensei... what are you- why are you... Kakashi, you're always late. That's how it's supposed to go." Sakura stated aloud, tripping over her words as she tried talking too fast while not knowing exactly what to say.

"Yeah, Kakashi-sensei." Naruto added, looking at Sasuke and seeing him nod in agreement, "You're ALWAYS late."

Throughout the complaints, the jounin's eyebrow had been raised inquisitively. First they shout at him for being late. Which he ALWAYS was. And now the one time he comes early, they complain AGAIN.

'I guess I just can't please 'em,' Kakashi shrugged mentally.

His visible eye crinkled into a wide smile, "I know. And here's what happened-"

Naruto's jaw dropped as he interrupted, "Are you telling me you even have an excuse? For being EARLY?!"

He frowned a bit at being interrupted, "Yes." -but continued nonetheless in a sort of cheery voice- "And here's what happened. I was wandering through the rooftops when I suddenly found one that was carelessly left open. And inside-"

Sakura had turned a slight pink as she heard the beginning of his excuse.

'Nooo... He couldn't be talking about....'

"-was someone who was very cold."

'He WOULDN"T....'

"Actually, you guys know who I'm talking about."

'HE WAS!!'

"And it's none other than our very own-"

"YES THAT'S A LOVELY EXCUSE KAKASHI!" Sakura interrupted in the loudest possible way. She doubted anyone within the whole Konoha village was asleep now.

The guards at the the entrance gate, YES the ones who had been sleeping on their feet, jerked awake and pulled out their shuriken. Their eyes wide as they tried to find out where the attack had come from. And growing wider as they tried shouting to one another, only to find a high pitched ringing covering their senses. One of the newer members just about fainted right there.

Ignoring the fact that both Sasuke and Naruto had just about collapsed to the ground, scrambling to cover their ears less they wanted to ever hear anything again, Sakura continued, "But we all know how you're such a horrible liar Kakashi."

"But-" Kakashi's eye twinkled, "I wasn't lying."

"Haha, that's funny, Kakashi."

"Sakura... I didn't say anything funny."

"Haha, yeah. Of course you didn't." Sakura turned towards the forest before he could say anything again, "Okay guys, come on. Let's go train."

'Whew, disaster averted,' she mentally wiped her imaginary sweat.

She didn't want to put up with the shocked look and extremely loud teasing she'd probably get from Naruto. ESPECIALLY when she knew he would get the totally wrong idea. After all, Kakashi would probably say something to the effect that SHE, Sakura, had been coming on to him. Which... unfortunately... was the partial truth.

'No no no no no no NO,' she shook her head, She had been asleep. ASLEEP. It's like how people couldn't control snoring or sleeping walking. Except in her case it had been... uh, sleep... cuddling?!???

'GAH!! NOOO!!' Sakura shouted silently to the sky, covering her face with a hand as if the mere act would wipe away the image that kept resurfacing in her mind. The one where she was in her bed. Sleeping. And Kakashi would appear. In the bed. HER bed. WITH her. She clamped her other hand over her face. As if THAT would help. Little did she know she had a one jounin audience striding silently beside her. He had the biggest smirk in the world plastered unmovingly on his face. For which he was glad he had the mask for. He was especially glad Sakura didn't seem to notice yet the way her thoughts seemed to convey directly to her facial and body expressions.

'What will Sasuke think? I don't even want to KNOW what he'll think!!' Then her shoulders slumped as she thought a moment, 'Wait, why would I care what he thinks? He can think WHATEVER he WANTS to think.' But her face returned to one of horror, 'Wait... No. NO that would be BAD. Very bad.'

Which is why she felt it VERY important to come up with a plan. She had to get out of training. And she had to go and find Kakashi's book. If objects could feel pain, Sakura would bring it more than Kakashi's infamous sacred finger justu: Thousand Years of Death. Ohhhh, if ONLY, she thought while grinding her teeth. Thinking back to her escape, she smiled as an idea came to her.

'Yeah... I'll just sneak away when everyone gets all into training and stuff.' Inner Sakura grinned, 'Hehe, I rock!'

Sasuke and Naruto, walking a little ways behind their former sensei and the pink haired chuunin, exchanged confused glances before shrugging it off. Kakashi-sensei was always weird. And Sakura had her moments. It wasn't anything to worry about, right? Naruto didn't want his head to hurt, so he just let it drop. Sasuke, on the other hand, had his doubts.

As they reached their usual clearing in the forest, Sakura planted her feet, trying to look like her usual calm self. She might have succeeded. Uh huh... might have...yeeeaaaahh. And yet....well, it's not every day that you see someone's eyes nearly pop out of their head, with the way it's glancing so fast back and forth among three different people. Add the sky, the ground, the rock, the tree, and just about anything else, and it's like looking at a jerky green whirlwind. Yeah... normal. RIGHT.

She waited patiently for everyone to begin their own routine. Since that's normally what they did when Kakashi returned from a mission. Everyone giving the other some advice as they practiced all at once. Obviously, being a jounin as well as their senior, Kakashi didn't usually get any advice from them. More the other way around. Though Sasuke did have his moments. Sometimes they would wander as they trained. The dense foilage would envelope them, making them feel they were in their own little world. Distracted. It was something Sakura was definately counting on. Unfortunately, her well thought out plan was shattered like glass as Kakashi cleared his throat.

"I think we should try something different today."

Naruto's blond head swiveled around excitedly, "Wha...? Different??"

Sasuke's brow raised in question to this as well.

Sakura blinked, refusing to show the shock that was clearly evident below the surface of calm. 'Different? Huh? Waaaiiiitt... what is Kakashi up to?'

I' shouldn't be doing this,' Kakashi thought to himself, even while he still smiled cheerily, 'I shouldn't be doing this. I REALLY shouldn't be doing this.'

'Hey,' his darker side countered, 'she's the one who took the book. If she'd have just given it to you, you could be reading. Right now.'

Coming to a decision, the jounin turned his attention back to his students. Or rather, his teammates. They weren't the genin they had been six years ago, after all.

"Today, I've decided it's about time we sparred. Test our abilities. So choose your partner well."

"You're going down, dobe." Sasuke stated instantly, shooting a glare at his rival.

Naruto scrunched his face up, "No way, Uchiha brat! You're the one going down."

Sakura rolled her eyes. Obviously the two ego inflated rivals would instantly pair up.

'Wait... maybe this is a good thing.' Sakura brightened, 'Maybe I can still get away.'

That's when her eyes fell on Kakashi. Who was currently looking. Straight at her. Expectantly. Her jaw nearly dropped. Nooo waaaayy.

"Are you ready, Sakura?" The silver haired man asked, his visible eye curving upwards in a grin.

"Uh...." Sakura didn't realize her mouth was open. What she did realize is that her brain seemed to have fallen in something close to... a gaping black hole of doom. Where words and ideas just didn't exist. She could've kicked herself. But she settled for standing and staring instead.

A hand on her head made the black hole implode, snapping Sakura's attention back to the jounin in front of her, "Uh... what did you say?"

"I asked if you were feeling okay."

His face. Was so. Close.

'Hand... so warm...'

'Idiot. Needs. Plan,' her inner self gave the mental kick needed.

Kakashi blinked as her green eyes stared into his. She seemed to be lost in thought.

'And I seem to be lost in her eyes...' Kakashi blinked again, and sighed, 'See, THIS is what happens when I don't have my Icha Icha Paradise to entertain me.'

"Sakura, when are you planning on giving my book back." He said it simply. As if he was commenting on the weather. But the seriousness emanated in waves from him, making even Sasuke and Naruto pause in their warm up battle.

Noticing three pairs of eyes on her, Sakura started to squirm. Agh, what to say. What to say.

"Don't tell me we're talking about the SAME book that my perverted Jaraiya sensei writes." Naruto huffed, crossing his arms. He couldn't see why Sakura would even want to touch that book, much less get it from Kakashi.

"NO." Sakura said, before glancing at Kakashi, then Sasuke and finally back to Naruto. Her voice was slightly lower as she continued, "Uh... or yes. Er, maybe."

Sasuke raised his eyebrow again.

"What?!?!" Naruto just about pounced on Kakashi, crying out, "Why would you give our Sakura something like that, Kakashi! You... you old, perverted, bastard!"

At the word 'old' Kakashi's visible eye twitched. Naruto was too busy frowning to notice the closed fist heading towards the top of his unprotected head. A pounding red lump was soon connected with a whining kyuubi vessel. Satisfied, Kakashi replied, "For your information, I did not GIVE my book away."

Pausing a moment in his whining and pain-filled dance, Naruto looked up at Kakashi. His mood did a sudden 180 degree flip as he started laughing, "Bwahahahaha hahaha haha!!" He looked back at a slightly confused, slightly irritated Kakashi, before continuing, "BWA hahah HAh hahah ha!!! Sakura -haha- she- hahaha- she took the book from you!!"

Unfortunately for Naruto, he can be such a slow learner sometimes. Which explains the second and third lump that followed soon afterwards.

"I was wondering why your nose wasn't stuck in another one of those books." Sasuke said from a relatively safe distance away, "I mean, by NOW I figure'd you'd have gone... and... pulled out your... book...." His words slowed down as he looked at Kakashi.

The same jounin who, currently, had his nose definately buried in one of those Icha Icha Paradise books.

All three chuunin took a moment to just stare at him. He continued reading, supposedly oblivious.

'What the hell?' Sasuke growled, though his thoughts held a hint of surprise.

Sakura's eye twitched, 'So... he was... complaining all that time and he... already HAD a book ON him?!?!'

Before anymore furious thoughts could be put on the rampage -specifically Naruto's- Kakashi sighed and pulled his head back and scratched it, "It just... isn't the SAME. I've read this one more than a dozen times already."

He turned to the pink haired chuunin, "Sakura, are you done re-"

Sakura, knowing what he was about to say next, leaped forward and clamped her hand over his mouth. Or rather over the part of his mask where his mouth would be. She'd die if Naruto and Sasuke found out she had taken the book to READ it. She still shuddered when she thought about what those pages had revealed to her. Too much. TOO much images. She had felt so... dirty after reading it. She didn't know how Kakashi could read it in public. And quite frankly, she wasn't sure she wanted to find out.

She interrupted with a nervous laugh, "Am I done burning it? No."

Kakashi's eye widened visibly at this before slowly narrowing.

Backing up, Sakura laughed again, "Joking. Joking, Kakashi. I just wanted to see how long you'd survive without your little book."

Kakashi's expression was unreadable at the moment. For which Sakura was hoping was a good sign rather than bad. The jounin phrased his words carefully, "Do you want to see how long you'd survive if I didn't have my... 'little book'?"

But this he had said close to her ear. He had leaned in so suddenly, she hadn't even seen movement. Neither of her other two teammates seemed to hear, or even notice, that last statement Kakashi had said.

That's when a familiar figure suddenly showed up. His dark hair in its usual ponytail and the scar across his nose crinkling, the chuunin waved in greeting.
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Hey, you know what guys? I actually have this fanfic typed out all the way to chapter 19, cuz I started on ff.net first. So, uh... all in favor of me just dumping a crap load of chapters say aye.