One Day at a Time

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Day Six: Getting Started

"So, Kakashi. What way do we need to go around this?" Koroku questionned as he sat in the middle of his prisonners' room, sitting backwards on a chair while he watched the two. Kakashi remained silent. The man had come in the room, letting the door open for his subordinates who waited outside, ready to come to his aid should it be necessary. The jonin had already counted eight of them, and he assumed that they weren't all there.

"If you don't tell us all your little secrets, I'm afraid the girl will have to pay." He never spoke aggressively, apparently preferring to use a false gentle tone. Kakashi spent some time analyzing him, wondering how he should react to get the best results. He never looked at Sakura. It couldn't bring them anything positive if he showed himself to be too close to her.

"But if I tell you my secrets, I'll have to kill you." He replied, giving a happy eye crease and a small smile. He could pratically feel his partner's gaze burning him. It was the first time she saw him without the mask, after all. That sure hadn't been how he'd thought it would happen. He hadn't even planned for it to happen at all. Kosuke gave a throaty laugh, apparently appreciating his prisonner's humor.

"Sharingan Kakashi... One bad ass of a ninja. I hear that no one ever managed to squeeze a word out of you. I don't believe I'll be able to either." Kosuke started as he got up from his chair and made his way behind a sitting Sakura. Her eyes avoided him, looking straight at a stain on the wall instead. Kakashi held his breath, bracing himself for what was coming.

"But maybe miss here will be able to, hmm?" He continued as he grasped as fistful of her hair and pulled harshly on it, forcing her to look up at him through squinting eyes.

"If she begged you, wouldn't you do anything for those sweet eyes of her?" He used his free hand to caress her cheek and hair, brushing the stray bangs away from her pretty face.

"Like you're eve gonna be able to make me beg." Sakura let out, glaring straight into the eyes of the man above her. This earned her a chuckle.

"Oh, girlie, you'd be surprised." He replied, his tone as sweet as honey, as he kneeled down with her, a leg on each side of her body. His hand wandered lower, fingers ghosting over her neck before resting at her collarbone. Kakashi's eyes never left them, even if he didn't want to see any of it.

"I wonder if your sensei over there is as curious as me about what's hiding under this shirt." His hand quickly slipped lower until his fingers hooked under the hem of her shirt. He raised it slowly, taking his time as if unwrapping a beautiful present.

"It's no surprise to him." She spat back, baring her teeth at her offender. This made him pause, a look of great surprise on his face before he started on another laughing fit.

"Seriously?" He asked, turning to Kakashi. "Everyone knows that you read Icha Icha all the time, but fraternizing with your own student, that's a good one." To be honest, he almost blushed. He was no prude, by far, but discussing sexual matters always made him incredibly uncomfortable. If embarrassing him had been on her checklist, she could cross it.

"No answer? Come on, man. Give me the details, or I'll have to find out for myself!" Koroku encouraged, raising the hand that wasn't in her hair in exasperation. For god's sake, why had she said this? Was she really expecting him to make up some sort of sex encounter?

"Get your mind out of the gutter, you idiot. He's never touched me." He was thankful for the clarification, but he couldn't tell if it was to save him or to tell the truth. He had never even see her naked. Or topless.

"Such a tongue you have, miss. How about we check this out then?" He teased as he resumed lifting her shirt. Kakashi hurried to look away, his breath trapped in his throat. For one, he didn't want to see a stranger grope his friend. For two, he didn't want glimpses of her chest to haunt him after this. The tension between them had been high enough already.

"Hey, don't be like that. I'm sure Pinkie over here will be hurt if you refuse to look at her." Kakashi failed to understand the threat in his word until he heard Sakura gasp in pain. He returned his gaze to them reluctantly. It seemed what had caused his female companion pain was the hand that squeezed roughly on one of her exposed breasts.

"She ain't so bad to look at, huh?" Kakashi could pratically feel the bile rising in the back of his throat. His whole body was tense, the urge to jump and cut the throat of this disgusting excuse of a man almost too strong to resist.

"Too bad you're not as pleasing to look at as I am." Sakura retorted, a proud smirk on her face. Her sensei couldn't help but be impressed by her. She showed no sign of fear or doubt.

"Be careful what you say dear, you might tempt me into doing some sinful things to you." Kosuke whispered in her ear, though still loud enough for Kakashi to hear. He really wished she could hold her tongue a bit though.

Her captor didn't hesitate to shove her head to the floor, making her grunt in pain when her forehead collided with the hard concrete. She was left with her hips still high in the air and the rogue nin took this opportunity to press his crotch to her rear.

"See what I mean?" He teased, one hand holding her head to the floor while the other traced her spine until it sprawled across her lower back. The jonin's body jerked forward, but he stopped himself at the last second from lauching himself at Koroku.

"Alright, down to business now. How about you tell me your little secret, Kakashi?" The missing nin said in a more serious tone, though he was currently caressing Sakura's back and his eyes never left her.

"I'm afraid I can't do that." He replied evenly, his expression returning to his usual aloofness. He hated having to say that. But they were shinobi, and shinobi did not give away their village's secrets even at the cost of their lives.

"You're a hard nut to crack, aren't you."This said, he proceeded to shove his teammate's panties down. She didn't take kindly to this. At all. In the blink of an eye, the kunoichi had spun herself around on her back and her feet connected hard with Kosuke's chin. He grunted loudly before cradling his painful jaw, giving her the occasion to back away from him.

"And your partner's one tough cookie, isn't she?" He groaned, turning to Kakashi with a look of clear exasperation on his face.

"You know what? I'm gonna be the nice guy here. I'll give you two the night to think this over. I'll be back tomorrow to ask my question again." He let out as stood up and made his way to the door. "I'll even leave the light on for you guys."

"I really hope you have a better answer then, because I won't be as gentle." The door closed and locked after those words were said. Kakashi released the tension from his body, dropping from his knees to sit on his heels with a heavy sigh.

Sakura fumbled around with her clothing, fixing it so she could be as decent to her sensei's view as possible in this situation before she came to sit closer to him. She was looking at him, that much he knew, but he couldn't bring himself to meet her gaze.

"Are you okay?" Sakura smiled as she heard the concern in his voice. His heartbeat speeding up a bit when she slipped around him from above his head to pull him into a soft embrace.

"It'll be okay." She whispered against his shoulder, relaxing there for a moment. He couldn't decipher how she actually felt. Either she kept up an incredible façade or she was stronger than he gave her credit for.

"You're not a virgin, are you?" The question left his lips with a lot of hesitation and some embarrassment. She shook her head no and he was thankful for that much. The last thing he wanted was for her first sexual encounter to happen like this.

His partner had since many years learned that she should be careful of his nose. It had freaked her out when he'd explained that he could tell with who she had spent time in the day, and how close they had been. Since then, she'd made sure to either wear a mild perfume to camouflage any other scents on her, or to wash up before meeting him. It had bothered him a bit that he could no longer just take a sniff to know what she been up anymore, but he understood her need for privacy.

"As long as I'm not alone in this I can hold up, okay?" She muttered before breaking their physical contact. He gave a quick nod before cradling the back of her head in a hand, pulling her closer to him so he could kiss her forehead. It was hard on him, knowing that he just had to say a few words to get her out of here.

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