Falling for my Sensei ?? Kakashi Hatake x OC

Sakura

"Well, I guess, I just wanted to come and say that I'm sorry for earlier." Her words sound forced and uncomfortable.

"You wanted to? Or Kakashi wanted you to?" Her expression turns irritated.

"Can't you just accept an apology." She mumbles, attempting to mask her annoyance.

"Okay, fine. Is that all?" I move to get up from the couch.

"Why do you hate me Akari?"

I stop and take in a deep breath. I've about run out of patience and even more so with all this wine in my system so, what the hell.

"I don't hate you Sakura. But I also don't like you."

My admission doesn't phase her.

She already knows I don't like her. She waits for me to continue.

"You're completely distracted by your ridiculous obsession with Sasuke and it jeopardizes our team. So I don't trust you.  You don't take our training seriously and you put no effort in whatsoever. We're constantly having to save you, which doesn't bother me as much, but when you have a shot at something, you never take it. One day it's going to come down to our lives, and truthfully I would never want to put my life in your hands."

I pause, letting her digest my words.

"The worst part is that you have no reasonable excuse for falling behind. You have parents that love and support you. You have an actual support system Sakura. A house with your family that you get to go home to every night. All of your other team members, Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi and I... we have no one left. We've suffered from pain that we never asked for. Yet we take our pain and use it to fuel our motivation. You choose to suffer the pain of loving someone who doesn't even want to be loved and you allow it to affect your progress."

"And we're on the verge of the 4th Great Ninja War... Do you actually feel like you are strong enough to go out there and protect our people and your comrades?"

I finally stop and take a breath.

I was so busy chewing her out that I didn't notice the tears running down her cheeks.

"I-I'm sorry." She aggressively wipes at her eyes. "I didn't mean to cry."

I stay silent though because I'm not sure what else I can say to her.

"I know that you all have had it rough and I should consider myself lucky. Or that I shouldn't let some guy affect me the way Sasuke does. But Sasuke isn't just some guy to me, Ari."

I take a long sip from my glass.

"I love him. So much in fact, that I put him and his needs in front of my own and everyone else's, every day. You say that I'm obsessed but really, I'm watching out for him. Because he won't accept it from anyone else."

"That's stupid Sakura. He doesn't even love you back." I state bluntly.

But she shakes her head.

"You're wrong. I know Sasuke loves me. He just loves me in his own way. The only way he knows how to love."

I look deeply at the girl sitting in front of me. When she speaks of Sasuke, her eyes become alive. She speaks of him with so much adoration and passion and as if she would trade her life for his at any given moment and do it with joy.

It's very foreign to me.

I don't think I've ever felt like that about a man before.

"Haven't you ever been so madly in love with someone Ari, that you would give up anything, sacrifice anything, even lose yourself, loving them?"