“Just one kiss, sensei.”

He looked away from her.

Belatedly she corrected herself. “Kakashi.”

She reached out to lay her hand over hers, only for him to pull it out of her reach. It hurt, but then she was used to getting hurt by all sorts of people so she tried not to let it show on her face. Even so, it must have shown, because a pang of regret pinched Kakashi’s brow and he lifted that same hand he’d withdrawn to tuck a stray pink lock behind her ear. He cupped her head; his hand large enough to span across her neck to both curl his fingers around her nape and rest his thumb on her jaw. Sakura’s heart leapt into her throat as she saw a familiar expression dawn on his face – the same one she’d seen in the forest after he’d tried to force-feed her a mushroom. The same distant hunger was there, as if the only thing that mattered in the entire universe at that moment was Sakura.

Then with a light tug, he pulled her forward and leant in to kiss her… on the corner of her mouth.

It was a kiss that contained a strange mixture of innocence and intimacy that she’d never felt before. She could feel his hand shaking and both taste and smell the alcohol on his breath. Kakashi was a wreck, and she had no right to play with him just to sate her naïve curiosity.

Slowly he pulled back, removing his hand from where it was now cupping her cheek to grip his glass. She noticed his knuckles turn white as she touched the place he’d kissed her wonderingly.

“Go back to your room,” he rasped, his voice having broken into a hoarse kind of whisper. “And lock your door.”

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Duty Before Honor by Silvershine
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