A/N: do not own Naruto or its characters but love the show….well until they put fillers everywhere. Enjoy

GOMENASAI

"Gomenasai, Kakashi," she faintly whispered before her body was consumed in blackness.

Holding the bleeding kunoichi in his arms as he sped back to the village leaping expertly from tree to tree, he struggled to drown that word that would break his every existence.

This can't be happening, not again. Father, mother, Obito….and now the woman he loved was saying the same thing to him after months of contemplating and confused feelings.

"No, I won't let you say it and walk away from me. Not ever," he said as the skyline of Konoha came into view.

Sakura felt something cool against her back, the sensation was comforting even in the darkness. Voices seemed to bounce back and forth, she recognized her shisou's voice immediately and tried to open her eyes to register where she was but a searing pain in her abdomen reminded her of the battle that had ensued a few hours ago.

"They had been outnumbered from the start but with the forces of Genma, Shikamaru and herself with Kakashi as their team leader. It sounded like a simple mission when Tsunade said it was a retrieval mission in the country of the wave until she saw who her team mates were.

The rain blinded them as they battled the group of exiled ninjas. Shikamaru's shadow binding technique was at a loss because of the rain and Genma and Kakashi were doing their best to hold off the pack that had surrounded them. A careless move rendered Shikamaru immobile as he tried to get up but the gash on his leg prohibited him. Sakura inched over to him and soon a green steady glow filled the palms of her hands as she concentrated on healing Shikamaru as fast as possible but it looked like the more they fought, more ninjas would appear almost like a cloning technique.



"Could it be? It couldn't be that they were using the rebirth technique? It can't be, all of them couldn't have mastered it." And indeed they hadn't, and the immense chakra flow was eating at them and disabling some of their body functions.

"Kakashi- sensei! Genma! Get closer to me!" They heeded and came closer to Sakura who was crouched near a recovering Shikamaru.She explained the manipulation of the technique, a risky procedure since it was still in its infant stages and uncontrollable on her part but it was still her own technique and she would bear all the risks

She marked the earth with a symbol, encircled it and with a few drops of her own blood she turned to them,

"No matter what happens, do not touch me and do not leave the confines of that marked area."

Kakashi, Genma and Shikamaru watched as she made some hand seals, "Piercing death barrier technique!" All at once, a bubble of warm chakra surrounded them as their enemies dropped like flies before them.Their own chakra turning against them. Kakashi watched as Sakura tried hard to control the immense flow from going out of control

" So this is what she was afraid of? She's doing fine, I don't know why sh…." the thoughts stilled as he saw the reason.

Blood was already trickling down her neck," just a bit more…just a bit more…a little." She felt the strains of the chakra system latch onto her organs, one of her kidneys had stopped functioning and her liver was slowly being wrung like a dish cloth.

"Sakura! Stop!" he screamed before they were knocked out by an intense blinding blue light different from the healing mold of chakra.When he came to, she was covered in a pool of her blood, burn marks all over her body struggling for breath.

" Gomenasai Kakashi..."