A Twist in fate

Chapter one: Love struck

Sakura and Sasuke's break up hits Sakura pretty hard, later that week Kakashi stops by to check on his favorite student Sakura. He sits down next to her on the curb in front of the hokage tower where she works.

He tells her, "Sakura you know I'm here for you, I will always be here for you, my sakura blossom."

Without noticing it, she had started to smile again. He stood up and reached his hand out to her, "Let me walk you home, come on. It's on the way to my friend Iruka sans house."

She hesitated but let him help her up and instantly Kakashi put his arm around her and smiled at her trying to ignore the feeling gathering in the pit of his stomach.

As they are walking he is to lost in thought, 'Why am I holding her, why is she not pulling away…and why do I have to urge to never let her go…she is, or was my student…that is all she is to me!'

They arrive at her parents' home and her father opens the door. Kakashi turns to look at Sakura in confusion as he asks her, "Why are you staying at your parents place? I thought you were 18…is something wrong with your apartment?"

She looks to her father and he walks back inside shutting the door behind him. She looks to the ground as she starts speaking.

She tells him, "Yeah, my home was kind of…destroyed after I broke up with Sasuke after I found out he had been cheating on me with my best friend Ino, Best friend? I guess I can't really call her that anymore…the walls are dented, the doors are broken, windows are shatter…it's such a mess."

Kakashi without a second thought pecks her on the cheek and waves to her as she storms off in search of Sasuke.

Sakura walks inside with flushed cheeks her father asks her with a smirk on his face, "What happened to you?" she quickly says goodnight to her parents and rushes off to her room.

Kakashi sets out in determination to find Sasuke; he found his attempting to flee the village. No doubt he was planning to join forces with Orochimaru to gain more power.

Kakashi stands his ground and yells at Sasuke from behind, "Did you trash Sakura's apartment? Were you trying to hurt her, trying out your new chidori and then you lost control? SASUKE!"

Sasuke turns around to see his former sensei, "Kashi Sensei? Why do you even care? She means nothing to me, she never has, nothing but a nuisance. Plus she's just your "former" student so tell me why you care what happens to her so much? It's not like you to get close to anyone."

Then out of nowhere Sasuke felt a sharp pain in his leg and the blade of a kunai at his throat, he heard the husky angry voice of Kakashi in his right ear.

Kakashi tells him under his breath, "I don't care if I am her Sensei, you may never hurt Sakura…Got IT! I know that I am just her Sensei, you are her team mate. Now look at you, your running away from being arrested for attempt of murder on your own team mate...and to top it off you were trying to kill your girlfriend, that really doesn't look good on your part…not that she would call the cops on you anyways…but I would!"

Sasuke smirked, "Okay, but now tell me…how do you really feel about our little Sakura Chan who is now all grown up…I already know that she was the Sensei's favorite student."

Kakashi thought about it for moment and came to a conclusion and let his guard down, but Sasuke just stood there struck with curiosity to know the truth. Sasuke things to himself, 'No way…Sensei has fallen for Sakura?'

Kakashi reluctantly mumbles out, "I…Wab…Har…" He stares at the ground at his shadow not wanting to look Sasuke in the eyes.

Sasuke's unsure of what he just heard asks him to repeat himself, "What?" Sasuke stares in awe at his former Sensei.

Kakashi drops his guard again as he tells Sasuke in an audible voice, "I am in love with Sakura Haruno!"

Sasuke elbows Kakashi in the gut making his gasp for air, Kakashi punched air near Sasuke's head missing on purpose to give Sasuke false hope of defeating him. Kakashi grabs a kunai doused in a poison to immobilize his whole body. Kakashi jabs the blade into Sasuke's side. The poison traveled swiftly through his blood stream and Kakashi walks off to the clinic to get Ino, not the best medic ninja but she was the best for this job.

When she saw Sasuke she freaked out, "Sasuke! Who did this to you? Who could? Who would do such a horrible thing?" He was covered in blood, he looked a lot worse than he really was, and he has a few cuts and bruises on his legs and arms and a cut on his neck from the pressure Kakashi put when holding his blade to his throat. But he will live.

Ino brought him to Tsunade after putting him to sleep.

That morning:

Sakura walked over to her apartment to start cleaning up around it to see Kakashi working hard and fast on cleaning up her yard since her apartment is still locked. When she saw his face was uncovered she felt her heart start pounding in her chest.

Instantly she became "Love Struck" and it confused her, her Sensei for so many years was now so much more in her eyes? What would he think if he only knew?