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AN: I had this up before, until I went on a rampage and removed everything. As it turns out, I do not have the back-up of all the chapters, nor do I have the final edits of everything, and the time-frame for this(which i started writing around the time we discovered Obito was Tobi) has passed in the manga, I think, but I'm reuploading the chapters I have backed up.
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This was originally the second chapter.
Kakash-centric.
Takes place during the Sasuke-Sakura confrontation where they try to kill each other.
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Kakashi feels his heart stop when he sees Sasuke's half-formed chidori aimed at Sakura's back.
For a moment, all he can see is a terrified face framed by dark-brown hair, and a grey-haired boy with a cackling fist.
In that split second, it is not Sasuke and Sakura, but Kakashi and Rin. He sees her expression, the shock and betrayal written across her face as she stares first at him, eyes wide, mouth sporting blood, then at the arm- his arm- buried in her abdomen.
"Ka..kashi.."
Her eyes are wide, just like Sakura's as she turns to face Sasuke.
Sakura.
The moment is over and he is back to the present, watching as Sakura turns and Sasuke's chidori moves towards her in slow-motion.
Kakashi is running, jumping from one landing to another, because he has to make it, he has to save Sakura. He can't fail this time, can't watch himself do this to another person he loves (even if Sasuke is the one with the Chidori, Kakashi is the one who taught it to him, the reason why Sasuke can do this to another person and so Kakashi will be the one responsible for it if Sakura dies).
He will stop it.
He makes it in just a nick of time, flicking Sasuke's wrist away with a kunai and sliding to a stop between his two students.
"You've fallen so low, Sasuke."