Crash and Burn

Disclaimer: I do not own. If I did Kakashi would be mine and I'd get to see his face (I know, we've seen his father's but I want to see his on him)

Summary: Sakura's life falls apart and she must re-adjust her life. Kakashi is made her legal guardian and must help raise her, becoming her family. I have no plans for this being a romantic Kakashi and Sakura story, there are plenty of those out there with few as a family/friendship base.

Thank you to Platti for beta-ing. Please check out her stories as well ^_^

PROLOGUE:

Most people thought that they knew Sakura, and in a sense they did. The only problem was they didn't know everything about her, or know her as well as they all thought they did. What they didn't know is that she hid the fact her life was hell at times at home.

Sakura never said a word about it to others. She had observed how people treated Sasuke after his family was slaughtered and she didn't want their pity. She saw how they treated Naruto and didn't want to be looked down upon for being on her own instead of having parents.

No, she didn't want that so she decided to continue acting how everyone wanted her to act. She continued arguing with Ino over Sasuke even though she had other issues to worry about. She kept trying to get Sasuke's attention because that's what was expected of her and to stop would send red flags up to everyone. She continued to be annoyed with Naruto even though he provided a distraction from her thoughts, for which she was thankful.

Inside Sakura couldn't wait to graduate from the academy. Her father had told her she wouldn't make a great ninja but she was going to prove him wrong she hoped. Once she graduated that would mean having a team and going on missions. That meant less time at home with a father that use to be physically abusive and was still emotionally and mentally abusive. Her mother never did anything about it because she didn't like confrontations.

This was why Sakura couldn't wait to be old enough to move out. She didn't want to draw attention to the issues so she was trying to wait it out. She figured in the time to come she would be busy training with her team and that once they got pass the lower rank missions they would be traveling out of the village. She was nervous, what if her team found out she'd been abused when she was younger? What if her team hated her as much as her father or didn't care about her like her mom?

Well, she was about to find out since the graduation test was coming up soon and things would go from there if she passed, which she was positive that she would.