Back at One

Premise: 1 You're like a dream come true; 2 Just wanna be with you; 3 Girl it's plain to see that you're the only one for me; and 4 Repeat steps 1 through 3; 5 Make you fall in love with me, if ever I believe my work is done then I'll start back at one. KakaSaku

Making the summary fit was hell. I have not written anything fluffy in a long time. Based off of the song Back at One by Brian McKnight. Listen to it, it rocks my socks.

Disclaimer: I don't own the song or the characters

WARNING: REALLY PRETENTIOUS FLUFF. Sucky fluff maybe...but fluff none the less

Chapter 1: You're A Dream Come True

"Sakura…"

"Yes Kakashi?" Sakura asked as she looked up from her reading material to gaze at his seemingly shocked face. The shadows played over his features and Sakura raised her eyebrow as he pulled in closer to her. Usually her old sensei wasn't one to invade personal space.

His one eye narrowed as he kneeled down to look at her directly in her eyes. Sakura blinked innocently and tilted her head wondering what had gotten into her old sensei. "What are you reading Sakura?"

Sakura blinked again before laughing in realization. "I thought that you would have recognized the cover right away!" Sakura chirped as she waved the book in front of his face.

Kakashi's eye remained narrowed as he gazed at her, "Impossible. You must be hiding another book behind the pages," he muttered and tried to peak around her hands to gaze at the pages that he had memorized several years earlier.

Sakura giggled as she pulled the book away from him and stood up. "I really don't think you can hide something behind a book this small," Sakura laughed before closing the bright orange cover with the large red sign on it with a loud snap, "Especially when it's all closed up. Don't you think Kakashi?"

Kakashi paused for a moment before standing up slowly, "Why are you reading that Sakura? I didn't think that it was your kind of literature," Kakashi muttered as he scratched the back of his head. He would never admit it to her, but he still had trouble comprehending the visual of the bright orange book being held in her hands while her eyes were actually scanning through the pages.

Sakura smiled and crinkled her eyes in the process, Kakashi couldn't help but wonder when he had noticed just HOW the girl smiled and how her eyes glowed even when the bright smile was gone. "Why do YOU read it?" Sakura asked in response and with her hands on her hips, "Are you saying that just because I'm a girl I shouldn't be reading this in public?"

Kakashi smiled nervously at her as he once again rubbed the back of his neck, "No, its not that at all." 'More like you shouldn't be reading it because you're little, not so little, pink haired Sakura who used to scream and punch at me while I was reading it.'

Sakura raised her eyebrow and seemingly read his thought process, "I'm not a little girl anymore Kakashi. I'm a good twenty years old and I have even stopped calling you sensei."

"Ah…" 'So now I notice…'

Sakura just laughed again as she prodded at the weapon pouch sitting on her hip and slipped the novel into its dark recesses. "Ready to train then?" She shrugged off her green Jonin vest and rolled her shoulders.

"Ah…" He couldn't help but find her actions very familiar. The stiffness in his shoulders left as well as he stretched his neck.

Sakura walked out towards the open field and turned back towards the silver-haired man. He was still standing near the tree line with his eyes surveying her but in the next moment he was gone and Sakura let a smile grace her lips. She scanned the area and disappeared in a huge flourish of pink petals as well.

Kakashi bounded through the trees quietly as he watched the pink cherry blossoms scatter in the clearing. He lifted his hitae-ate away from his sharingan eye quickly and searched for her chakra signature. He was shocked to find that Sakura had appeared directly in front of him. "Frontal attack Sakura? I thought that you had gotten over such obvious actions?" Kakashi stated as he ducked from her fist and expertly dodged while taking steps backwards and swinging his body around the trees.

"Well actually Kakashi," Sakura smiled as she twirled and swung her foot at his knees before flying back to her feet and swinging her fist at his collarbone, "It turns out I had a question I wanted to ask you."

"Don't you think this is a bad time?" Kakashi asked as he made a move to try to catch her wrist but missed as she flipped to land behind him. He couldn't help but smile at her gracefulness and her grandeur improvement.

"Oh I just wanted to get it off my mind," Sakura replied as she flew to the floor and tried to take him off of his feet.

"It must be something very important in that case," Kakashi replied as he leapt up and raced through a series of seals. Just as he replaced himself with a stump a handful of kunai dug into the wood.

Sakura grinned as she turned around and focused her eyes at the man's belly button. Although Gai had told Lee that staring at the man's feet had worked for him, she found that his abs pleased her much more. Especially since he had decided that wearing the Jonin vest while sparring against her was simply impeding him. Plus his abs told her as much about his actions as his feet did. Sakura raced towards him again and flowed chakra into her fist, "I was just wondering if you can actually do that thing on page 59."

The next thing Kakashi registered was a chakra laden fist smashing into his shoulder, but he found that he couldn't quite care although the girl in front of him was flailing around in shock and backing up in surprise. "What?" he nearly screeched just barely holding onto his pride as a man as his butt slammed into the ground.

"What?" Sakura squealed back as she rushed forward and landed on her knees heavily beside him, "I've never landed such a direct hit on you like that, what were you thinking!" She was running her hands up and down his arm as he pushed himself off of the forest floor with his other elbow.

"What were you thinking?" Kakashi shot back as her hands started to glow a bright green and her fingers began to prod at his shoulder.

Sakura rolled her eyes at his childish response as she increased the chakra flow, "Well it doesn't matter what I was thinking then Kakashi. It matters that right now I think that you can't even do page 59 if you couldn't even dodge that."

"Sakura!"

"What?"

Kakashi rubbed his sore shoulder as he walked down the street towards the old ramen stand, Ichiraku, where they would be meeting up with Naruto and Sai. "I still can't believe that you let me take that hit," Sakura mumbled beside him as she tossed him several glances and a condescending glare.

'That's right, I let her land that hit,' Kakashi thought as he peered at her through the corner of his eye. He nearly tripped when he noticed that she had taken out the orange book and was currently walking with it shoved into her face. "Sakura…"

"You're right, it is easier than I thought," Sakura mumbled as she licked her thumb and turned the page. Kakashi's eye twitched at her actions as she flashed him a smile before going back to the reading content. "I meant the walking and the reading Kakashi, get your mind out of the gutter."

In his casual defense he began to reach behind him to dig out his teal colored book but that was when Kakashi realized that he hadn't even brought his book with him to their training session. He had stopped when he had found it more amusing to just be with her all the time, but now she was… and he was… "Sakura, you used to look up to me."

"I still look up to you Kakashi," Sakura replied and turned the page once more. The hand not holding the book then began to gesture at their height difference as she giggled.

Kakashi sighed and shook his before looking up at the road in front of him. The stand was only a little while more ahead and he could already see Naruto's head popping out and waving at them. The little bugger had sensed them even before Kakashi had registered his position in the village, "I'm getting old…"

"You're not old Kakashi," Sakura laughed as she once again flipped the page. She dodged a little boy that had almost ran into her side all the while still keeping her gaze trained on the words. "After all no old man would be able to pull off page 59. By the way, that was a little bit too much information even though you were trying to defend yourself."

Sakura laughed again as Kakashi found himself blanching at the memory of his mouth running off. It was the usual, he could read his book in public like nothing, but when it actually came to discussing the contents, especially with his once innocent little student, he had blabbering issues that he needed to fix. That was when Kakashi noticed Naruto giving them an odd look as the couple approached the stand. "Mou, mou Kakashi-sensei, what did you do to Sakura-chan? It's like she's turned into you…" Naruto frowned while trying to whisper into the older man's ear. Naruto couldn't whisper, it was physically impossible.

Kakashi held his hands up in defense as he stopped before entering the stand, "I am not responsible for that," Kakashi stated as he took one finger and angled it towards the girl who had continued walking into the booth and proceeded to sit down, still turning to the next page.

Naruto shook his head at his silver-haired sensei before moving to one side to let Kakashi in, "Then she must be your dream come true."

Kakashi blinked a couple times as Sakura's light giggle filled the air. He took a look over at her as her face flushed, her eyes glowed, her hair swayed and as she turned the page quickly. For just a moment he couldn't help but think that maybe Naruto was right.

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