Falling for my Sensei ?? Kakashi Hatake x OC

Mesmerizing (Kakashi's POV)

I have to hide this from her and hide it well. She doesn't understand why she can't be a part of this mission. And I don't think there's any way to explain it to her.

It's not about her being too weak to go after Hidan. Akari is a strong, intelligent and skilled shinobi.

But this would be too much for her to take on and remain level headed.

She still holds so much hatred in her heart for this man. We all do.

Kurenai was all that she had left. And he stole her life like it was owed to him.

Like he had the right to take it.

Coming face to face with him was almost too much for even me to handle.

And it was all a game for him. He dangled Kurenai and the threat of hurting Ari in my face.

Hidan would eat Akari alive.

She's everything to me. The idea of being without her is one that is terrifying.

One that plays with my will to go on in this world.

So I have to protect her.

I hear Ari, Iruka and Asuma talking as I get closer to the clearing.

"How else will she learn not to hurt herself if she doesn't hurt herself." I hear Asuma say up ahead.

Akari has been working so hard on the purple lightning jutsu. But I don't want her to push it.

Asuma and Iruka came to watch her train today which is perfect. Asuma has always been rough with her and Iruka has always coddled her which balances it out perfectly.

When she was a child, Asuma would tell her to shrug it off anytime she would come into the apartment crying about a skinned knee or a bruised elbow.

She couldn't have been older than five or six at the time.

She would take a deep breath in, straighten out her shoulders and say "I'm okay now Asuma." She would look at him with tears still in her eyes, waiting for him to notice she was being tough. She wanted to impress him so badly.

Iruka would always rush over and wipe her tears from her face as if she had been his own daughter.

I would simply avoid her as much as I could. I've never been much for children anyway.

Besides, I was still in ANBU at the time so I wasn't around much.

When I became her teacher, I have to admit I was pretty hard on her as well. But it was only because of the potential I knew she had.

"Kakashi is the one that taught me to be persistent. What do you think training with him was like growing up?" I hear her respond.

Tough. But it made her tough.

"You think it was easy?" I hear her scoff as I make my way onto the field.

I chuckle to myself. Her determination is admirable.

She looks tired as fuck though. As if she would collapse at any moment if it weren't for wanting to know the justsu so desperately.

"And you think having you as a student was a piece of cake?" I laugh and give her a smile as I see her grin widely at me.

"Long meeting?" Asuma asks me. I take my book and folder full of papers and drop them onto the ground next to Iruka.

I rub my hand over my face in an attempt to wipe the irritated expression off of it. I know it'll worry her.