Rising sunset ch. 2

It was 5 o'clock in the morning. Sakura was leaning against the middle trunk at the training ground. Actually she knew that it was senseless to come there so early -though she told Kakashi the time when they would met- but she hoped that he would be punctuary just once in his life. She sighed. Actually she knew it. As always. Then she heard somebody coming out of the forest. She lifted her head to see who it was not able to hide the hope that it would be the Copy Ninja.

"Good morning, Sakura-san."

Sakura sighed again and look back to her feet.

"Good morning, Sai."

Sai looked around looking for Kakashi, but when he recognized that Sakura was alone he asked:

"Where is Kakashi-sensei?"

Sakura started to laugh. She knew that Sai could not know Kakashi's bad habits as good as her. After a few seconds she took a deep breath and looked into his face. You could see that he was confused because of her sudden laughter.

"He got lost on his way of life.", Sakura said while still smiling.

This confused him even more. When he saw that Sakura sat down on the ground, he walked towards her and asked:

"Do you mind if I-", he didn't finish the sentence, but he waved his head lightly to the place next to Sakura.

"No. Sit down."

He sat down next to her and took a book out of his pocket. While he was reading she read the title of the book. The headline said 'How to get friends'.

"You are still reading that book?", she smiled again.

"Y-yes, you know, it is not easy for me. I don't want to do something wrong."

"Sai, a book can't explain something like that to you. You have to make your own experiances."

"But it helped me pretty good till now. For example the thing with the nicknames."

Suddenly he felt an angry glare on him. He looked to Sakura and in her eyes there was a fire of hate just waiting for burning him. Afraid of getting hit by her again like he was hit on the day he gave her a nickname, he sat a little bit away from her.

"Yes. I. Remember. My. Nickname. Very. Good.", she said each single word with a clear threat.

Now he wished that he had never called her 'Ugly'. Because of that his life was in real danger back then. On this day he made known with her temper and ended up with a red form in his face of Sakura's hand. That hurt.

First there was silence between them, but when time passed by and the sun began to rise, Sai broke the silence.

"Sakura? Two hours ago, you said that Kakashi had gotten lost...Do you think we should go looking for him. Maybe something happened to him."

"Believe me, Sai. The only thing which happened to him is his bad habit to make his students wait for him for such a long time. You will see that he is perfectly fine."

She watched the sun trying to come out of the ground. Something was wrong with the sunrise this day. It was not the normal warm coloured sunrise as it usually was. It was a red one. Actually it had the colour of a sunset.

"Do you also think that something is wrong with that sunrise, Sai?", she asked worrying about something.

"Hmm? You don't know what that means?"

"What what means?"

"The red sunrise. An old legend says that when the sun rises in a red coloured sky, then there was a bloody battly the night before."

Suddenly she felt really sick. Was she worrying about something what might has happened? But there was nothing she could worry about. Nothing she didn't know.

"'Rising Sunset'", Sai continued.

"What?"

"'Rising Sunset'. A sunrise like we have today is called so. ... But it is just a legend.", he shrugged his shoulders.

'Just a legend', Sakura repeated for herself.

"Do you really think Kakashi-sensei is alright?", he asked again.

Just in that moment the Copy Ninja appeared in front of the other two and smiled.

"Sorry, sorry. You know I got lost on my way of life.", he said.

Sai looked surprised from Kakashi to Sakura.

"Wow, how did you know that, Sakura-san?", he asked.

"...", there was no answer. Her glance was empty.

"Know what?", Kakashi asked when there was no response.

"Well, Sakura-san knew that you had gotten lost on your way of life."

"Really? Damn it. I need a new excuse for next time."

"Huh?"

"N-nothing, nothing. Just talking to myself. So should we get started?"

Sai nodded. But no reaction from the pink hair girl. When Kakashi noticed that something was wrong with Sakura, he walked towards her and lowered his head so that his one was right in front of Sakura's. His hands rested on his knees and he spoke calmly.

"Sakura?"

"..."

"Hey Sakura?", his voice was still calm.

"..."

He looked over to Sai who had a supposition what was going on with Sakura.

"Maybe she worries about Naruto-kun and Sasuke-kun. I told her the legend of the 'Rising Sunset' and I think that she thinks that something happened to them."

Kakashi understood and looked again straight in Sakura's eyes which were still empty. He took a deep breath.

"Sakura, I love you.", he said and forced himself not to smile.

Suddenly there was life in her eyes again...well, actually there was shock in them and then Kakashi laughed out loud placing a hand on top of her head and ruffled her hair.

"I knew that I would get your attention with that.", Kakashi still laughed.

Sakura and Sai looked at him in shock and in confusion while Sakura's cheeks were turning redder and redder. When Kakashi recognized that they wouldn't get it he said it:

"This was just a joke. I had to do this in order to get Sakura's attention."

Sai was speechless but Sakura was angry. Very angry.

"This is not funny, Sensei. I am worrying myself to death and you have nothing to do to fool around."

Danger. Her temper was like a thunder. You never know who it will hit.

"Calm down, Sakura. There is nothing you have to worry about. Remember our conversation yesterday?"

Sakura nodded. Still angry.

"Okay, then if there is nothing else we can finally start.", the Copy Ninja said while looking for something in his pocket.

"You are not going to read, are you?", the you konoichi asked.

"You should know me better. I take your training seriously. And since Sai trains with us today, I thought of a training you know pretty good.", he smiled.

Kakashi rose his hand so that Sai and Sakura could see what he was holding. The bells glittered and rang as he moved them a little bit. Then he smiled devlishly.

"Same rules as always, Sensei?", Sakura asked with the same devlish smile on her face.

Kakashi nodded. "I have to warn you. I have already read the 'Icha Icha Paradise'-series. You have nothing to trick me this time."

Sai was standing next to both of them and watched the verbal duell. He didn't understand a single thing of what they were talking about.