Frogs in the Bath Tub

If only those dumb frogs would stop popping up then Sakura wouldn't be sitting in Kakashi's lap half naked in broad daylight and Genma wouldn't have started that god awful rumor.

It started out as a peaceful, sunny day in Konoha…

Kakashi was walking down the abandoned street with his nose buried in his book, after his usual late start he went to the Hokage's office to check in on missions. Alas, there had been none, not that he was complaining, today he just purchased the newest addition to the Icha Icha Tactics collection.

Birds flew overhead from tree to tree building nests in the late spring, early summer weather. It wasn't exactly hot but pleasantly warm and Kakashi found himself heading towards the park to enjoy a nice quiet day, taking a road that he hadn't remembered being on before and enjoying the river on one side of him and the town houses on the other side of him. Each one with their own yard and well manicured yards.

He barely glanced up as he passed them but wandered how many of them were civilians, lucky to have the time to do such things.

Kakashi was nearing the bridge when a scream caught him by surprise. His head jerked up from the book he was reading. It sounded familiar... the scream sounded again and he knew he recognized it.

"Sakura."

‘And here I thought I was going to have a nice peaceful day in the park.’

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Naruto had been walking from the ramen shop when he first saw Sasuke walking down the street, the whiskered young man went to wave but frowned as a thought occurred to him. Naruto swallowed and looked up into the dark, angry eyes of the Uchiha Prodigy.

Naruto had forgotten his meeting that morning at the old training grounds...

Sasuke advanced on Naruto, Naruto in return, grinned sheepishly, "Ahaha, Sasuke-teme, long time no see?" Sasuke glared at him and continued walking past the blonde.

Naruto frowned, "What not even a hit?"

Naruto found himself coming to regret those words.

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Genma was walking down the street when a yelp caused him to jump in surprise, the yelp, followed by cursing, peeked his curiosity, and so the senbon baring ninja went to investigate.

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"Opps."

Sasuke stated, it seemed like the appropriate reaction to what he had accidentally just done. Yes, even though he was upset, it was accidental.

Naruto held a very broken wrist in his hand, "OI! TEME THAT HURT!" Sasuke raised an eyebrow, "I'm sure it did." Naruto gave a growl and was about to lunge at the stoic Uchiha in front of him when Genma rounded the corner.

"Oi, which of you kicked a dog?" Naruto blinked, "Neither of us." He stated confused. Sasuke smirked, "Dobe."

Naruto glared, "Teme, you broke my wrist!" Genma nodded, "Ah, Sasuke did it." Naruto stared at Sasuke a minute shocked, "You kicked a dog!"

A scowl found its way across Sasuke's face and Genma shook his head, "You should have your wrist looked at by Sakura, she lives a few blocks down, doesn't she?"

Naruto grinned, "Ha, I'm telling Sakura-chan you kick dogs!"

Naruto yelled in a sing-songy-voice causing more than one stare from the sparse passer-bys.

Sasuke shook his head as Naruto made a run for it, but then a thought crossed his mind and he turned to Genma, "How do you know where she lives?" Genma grinned, "Heh, kiddo you've been away too long."

It was true. Sasuke had just returned last month to Konoha, now nineteen he had forsaken Orochimaru after he interfered with his fight with Itachi. Itachi had perished and now Sasuke was back in Konoha for good after making a deal with the Hokage. Naruto had immediately accepted him, and everyone else either treated him with cool indifference, fear or admiration.

Sasuke only had one goal left, and that was resurrecting his clan. And after a month of avoiding Sakura like the plague in that matter, she was seeming like the only potential subject. Though he had barely said two words to her since his return that didn't consist of 'hn' or 'ah' or had he yet to train with her, dual with her or see her abilities since their last outside encounter when they where 15.

He had a lot of work to do, he realized.

“Hn,” was Sasuke's reply to Genma, who shrugged, "Naruto's going to make you out to be a puppy killer if you don't run."

Sasuke narrowed his eyes and disappeared in a blast of chakra.

Genma grinned, Sasuke had never gotten an answer.

But he didn't need to know that practically every one in Konoha knew where Sakura lived because she was such a generous person and helped everyone whenever she could. He didn't want to see the pink haired girl crushed after all these years the 18 year old had been recovering.

Let Sasuke make a fool of him self. It'd save Naruto the trouble of doing it. Feeling pleasantly evil Genma decided to see the drama unfold.

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Sakura had just walked in her house as the first ray's of dawn were stretching across the horizon, the exhausted Kunoichi had passed out as soon as her tired body had brushed against her king size bed, the promise of a bless-filled sleep out-weighing her need of a bath and change of clothes.

The young medic-nin had just went through an 18 hour (with intermissions to recover her stamina and chakra) surgery and she would have liked nothing more than to succumb to the sweet abyss of nothingness forever.

…But that was not to be her destiny, as at nine o clock her alarm clock went off. So in desperate need of a bath the young Konoichi compromised, she turned on the tub water dumped a bunch of bubble bath mix into the tub, brushed her teeth crawled into the bath after tearing away her clothes, turned the bath water off with her foot and went back to sleep.

Sakura had been asleep precisely a half an hour when something moved in the bathtub. Sakura awoke with a start and stared down at the water in confusion.

An orange head popped out of the bubbles, "Oi, your water's getting cold."

Sakura screamed.

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Genma had caught up with Naruto and Sasuke who where dodging fists and kicks, well Sasuke was dodging Naruto's FIST.

But still… Genma opened his mouth to yell at the two idiots when a scream came from a few blocks over. Naruto and Sasuke stopped fighting and Naruto was the first to recognize the scream, "That sounds like Sakura!" The three didn't waste anymore time arguing.

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Kakashi appeared in front of Sakura's door with his hand poised to knock just as the door swung open and a very wet, petrified, very naked, besides the dinky little towel she was clutching, (if you could call it a towel…) kunoichi ran smack dab right into him.

Kakashi automatically caught her as they began to fall backwards down the steps.

Kicking off the steps before either could fall Kakashi found himself smack dab in the middle of the street with a stunned Sakura in his lap.

He caught the surprise in the young Kunoichi's face as she stared at Kakashi, emotions flashed through her eyes as she recovered from the fall, fear, shock that morphed into anger then embarrassment… then strangest of all it all morphed into relief.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING TO MY SAKURA-CHAN ERO-SENSEI!" Naruto cried in rage pointing to Kakashi in shock, anger and disbelief.

Sasuke stood beside Naruto, his face wiped clean and Genma beside him, his senbon at his feet where it had fallen from his mouth, Genma grinned, "Nice going Kakashi, right in the middle of the street you sly dog!"

Sakura's face lit up as she stared in shock at the three on lookers.

---Rewind---

Naruto rounded the corner and slid to a stop as he spotted Sakura and Kakashi in the road, his first thought was she attacked him, but then he really saw, or thought he saw...

(Naruto vision:)

Sakura's eyes were wide with apprehension and fear (He didn't know it was shock), Kakashi was sitting on the ground with his legs stretched and slightly bent at the knee. His eye was narrow and predator like, (he hadn't realized Kakashi's instincts had taken over so neither of the two would be creamed on the ground in a bloody and bruised mess as he would be falling down a set of stairs.)

Both Kakashi hands were on Sakura's hips pulling her forward, Sakura had one knee over Kakashi's leg laying the length of his bent leg. The other was between both his legs and brought up just a bit like she had been pulled down and was trying to get up (which she was).

Both Sakura's hands were on Kakashi's chest where her chest rested against her hands and she was forced to look up at Kakashi, and his head was dipped and with that look in his eyes and the 'deer-caught-in-head-lights' look in hers the picture looked really bad.

And that's what everybody but Sakura and Kakashi could see.

-----Present----

Sakura was so shocked she couldn't move, Kakashi was just as shocked as her, but not from what had happened but from what Naruto was saying, no, yelling in the middle of the street.

"How could you take advantage of our sweet little Sakura-chan! Attacking her in the middle of the street! You know she trusts you! It's alright Sakura-chan evil ero-sensei can't hurt you while we're here!"

Sakura was too shocked to respond as his implications became known to the world, the world being a few onlookers gathering at a surprisingly fast rate, you really couldn't scream like that in a ninja village, it attracted attention.

Kakashi didn't know what to say, how'd you turn something like this around?

Suddenly Sakura let out a snort of laughter and gave a chuckle, "You dork." She laughed rolling her eyes. Naruto looked confused, Sasuke frowned and Genma quickly hid the expression on his face. Kakashi gave Sakura an almost relived look, "Of course Kakashi would never take advantage of me in the middle of the street!" Kakashi was about to let out a relieved sigh as Naruto started to change his mind about what he had been yelling, he could have sworn he saw something like relief flicker in Sasuke's eyes.

But Genma looked disappointed, until...

"Kakashi would naturally take advantage of me in my bedroom, or my bathroom, in fact, I'm going to take advantage of him right now in the tub." Sakura was up on her feet towel in one hand his wrist in the other as Kakashi suddenly found himself being dragged into Sakura's house.

"HE'S BRAINWASHED HER WITH THE SHARINGAN!" Naruto yelled panicking outside, Genma just stood there like a grinning fool, oh did he have something to talk about now. Sasuke remained silent. No one followed them in because they where all to absorbed in their own thoughts and whispers.

Kakashi, smartly, didn't say anything. Sakura dragged him to her bath room door, and for the first time, in a long time, Kakashi felt something akin to panic well up inside of him, she wasn't seriously...

Sakura turned around and released his wrist and turned pleading eyes on him, "Kakashi-san, please, please, please go see what's in my bathtub, I was in there one minute and suddenly there was something in the water and it talked!" Kakashi frowned, was this some sort of joke? He sighed and pushed open the door to the bath room, his eye narrowed, no there was defiantly something there.

At his entrance an orange head popped out the water, "Yo!"

And Kakashi was silently admitting in his head, what a damn brilliant bastard Jiraiya was.

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In the hokage tower…a few moments later.

Tsunade stared at her desk, she had just left a minute ago and now… there were candid pictures scattered about it…

"JIRAIYA!"

She'd gone and lost another bet, dammit, she was sure she'd win this one, seriously, who would have thought, Hatake Kakashi and Haruno Sakura?

The bastard.

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A/n: I seriously wrote this FOREVER ago, I’m just posting it here for fun :3