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Oriko sighed heavily, and closed her eyes trying to quell the irritation within her,
“No. He doesn’t like me; well I hope he likes me enough that I don’t get on his nerves or anything, but he definitely doesn’t like me like ‘that’,”
She shot the pink haired girl a serious look, silently telling her to drop the subject; and although she did as ‘ordered’ the slightly bewildered, if not dazed and shocked look didn’t leave her face as they continued to their destination. Oriko felt progressively more uneasy by Sakura’s words and actions,
“What’s your name? How do you know Kakashi?” She asked as they stood just outside of the door, the girl seemed to click back to reality,
“Oh! I'm Haruno Sakura,” she bowed politely, “And Kakashi-sensei was my Jounin instructor when I first graduated from the academy, but I am currently under the tutelage of Tsunade-sama,” She explained a thankful smile appearing on her face,
“Ah, that explains it; then…may I ask you something?” Oriko lowered her voice a touch, worrying someone would over hear, Sakura nodded, not fully understanding the other woman’s hesitance, “Was Kakashi as…‘uninvolved’ and, well, lazy with your training?” Sakura thought for a moment, recalling her days under Kakashi’s tuition but firmly nodded,
“He left most of it for us to figure out and just supervised really…besides we only really did missions with him,” She recalled, observing Oriko’s thoughtful nod,
“Okay, cool! That settles that then, I’m Oriko, by the way,” A pleasant smile found its way to her face as she stepped back and bowed gently, Sakura internally smiling at the relaxed nature of for-the-time-being colleague.
Sakura opened the door to reveal a small room, almost completely taken up with one large table (buried under countless pieces of paper) and a number of filing cabinets – all of which empty,
“Geeze…Tsunade-sama can be so lazy sometimes!” Sakura grumbled as she walked into the room, followed by Oriko, the pink haired girl sighed heavily, “Well, we need to organize all of these medical files according to date and alphabetically,”
Oriko’s shoulders immediately slumped at the sudden weariness which came over her, despite it being only quarter past ten in the morning. They began and set to work, Oriko not hesitating to pull over a spare chair to her and being piling pages onto it, in a tall (and albeit shaky) tower of paper; as she pulled off one report she organized it by dates first, then alphabetically.
They’d been sorting and filing sheets for a good hour before Sakura piped up again,
“Oriko, are you sure that Kakashi-sensei is…uh, ‘just your friend’?”
“Yes, Sakura! We’re just on good terms is all, I have the occasional beer with him…well, he’s really more of a Sake man, but whatever,” Oriko shrugged, her eyes darting over yet another report and placing it down in the correct pile, before reaching for another, she looked up to Sakura who held a very weird expression, as though unable to imagine Kakashi in a bar. Oriko couldn’t hide the smile which crept to her face at Sakura’s expression,
“What?”
“Uh…I…nothing,” She shook her head, turning her attention back to another report; Oriko grinning a little more to herself at Sakura’s look of disbelief, somehow the younger generation can never understand that the elder was young at least once…though I wouldn’t describe Kakashi as old…
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Hatake Kakashi: Fascination
FanfictionKakashi thinks he's in for a nice break, free from students, after Naruto's recent departure with Jiraiya, but he hadn't counted on a beautiful stranger turning up in Konoha whom Tsunade thinks would become a powerful asset were she to be trained as...
