This was the first ever ff I wrote. I don't know what drove me to write ten chapters for my first one but here it is.
Due to inexperience and writing at three am there are lots and lots and lots of grammar and spelling mistakes but I hope you can look beyond that and enjoy the story. I don't know if it's good, I thought it was then, but I haven't read through it for some years, it for you to decide
Chapter One
The rain fell down and hit Kakashis face hard as he ran through the woods. Sakura moaned in his arms which made him go even faster. His goal was a cave not very far away that they had stayed in yesterday, there they would be safe. He had put up his ANBU mask on top of his head to see and breathe better. Sakura turned and moaned again, he pressed her harder against his body. Her mask was gone; it had been crushed by the enemies. He took a quick look down and made a disgusted face, she had a couple of deep wounds right above her left hip and she had probably hit her head in something since she was unconscious. The blood had broken through the bandages that he had laid on quickly and was now all over his clothes, but he really didn't care.
The cave had a small entrance that was hard to spot if you didn't know where to look. Inside he putted Sakura down on her blankets. With the wood that was left he made a fire and started to heat some water. He was no medic nin so he knew he had to clean the wounds by hand. When it was warm he removed the old bandages, cleaned the wounds and putted on some new. He examined her head to see if he could find any blood or other things that would indicated to why she was unconscious. All he could find was a small bump. It couldn't just be from that he thought but since he had not much medic training he wasn't sure. He manage to get her enough conscious so that she could swallow a blood pill. He looked at her and thought of what he had just done. He remembered himself really liking to draw his fingers through Sakuras hair. He looked down at her and even though she was injured she looked so very beautiful. When he realized what he was thinking of he felt like slapping himself. An ANBU should not get involved with another ANBU, especially not one that had been his student for many years. He laid another blanket over her and went to the other side of the almost burned out fire. He fell right into his own blanket bed, after changing his thorn shirt, and fell asleep.
He woke up just hours later with a hand on his forehead. Sakura was sitting beside him looking worried. He tried to sit up but she pushed him down. "Sakura" he said "Why are you up? You are wounded and you were unconscious! Shouldn't you be resting?" he didn't mean to raise his voice but he couldn't help but do it a little. She looked at him in a very professional way "You should never sleep if you have hit your head. If it turns out really bad you might end up in a coma" then she added with a pale smile "And I've already healed most of my wounds, both in my head and on my body. I must say you did a nice job cleaning them". Inside, all she wanted to do was to give him a really big hug for saving her life, as he had done many times before. But an ANBU shouldn't show too much emotions since it might jeopardizes future missions where you had to be professional. Then she spoke again "Kakashi are you hurt somewhere?" she asked and looked in his eye "Your pulse is a bit high but there seems to be nothing wrong with your lungs or your heart". He moved and pulled up his shirt. Under he had two cuts across his stomach, one a bit deeper than the other. They were not infected but a bit dirty and one of them was still bleeding a little. She really had to concentrate to not look at his well trained stomach. How could I not have noticed the wounds? She looked at the shirt; he must have changed it before he went to bed. She started to clean the wounds and then putted on a clean bandage when it had stopped bleeding. She wasn't able to heal it all since she was still exhausted from healing herself. When she was done she saw that he had fallen asleep once again. She on the other hand would not have the luxury to sleep for any long time, since she had smacked her head she needed to wake every hour to see if she still could. Even though she had healed herself she did not want to end up in a coma.
When Kakashi woke up the next time the cave had a dim light. It was probably dusk or dawn. How long have I been out? He looked over at Sakuras bed and found that she was gone. He rushed to his feet and when his head stopped spinning he went over the now totally burned out fire, to her place. Where could she have gone? He knew she wasn't stupid enough to go out on her own to complete the mission. Or maybe he had been out cold for days and she had gone to get help. Or maybe the enemies had taken her. If that was so he immediately decided that he would stop at nothing to get her back. He surprised himself with that thought; do I really feel so strong about her? He tried to tell himself that it was just because she had been his student; I would have felt the same for Naruto or Sasuke. Or would I? He was so up in his own thoughts that he didn't hear that someone entered the cave.Sakura pushed some of the branches that covered the opening to the cave aside. Her arms were full of fire wood that she had gone outside to pick. When she entered she looked around, finding Kakashi's crouched over her bed. She dropped all the wood in her arms on the floor and ran over to him. Putting her hand on his shoulder she asked "Kakashi are you all right?"
By reflex he turned around, took the hand, stood up and twisted the arm up against Sakuras back. She was frighten but stood still. When he realized who it was he immediately let go, turned her around and hugged her hard. This time Sakura was surprised. Kakashi never shows this much emotions. She continued to stand still until he let go of her a bit, then she looked up at him and said "Who are you and what have you done to Kakashi?" in a slightly joking voice.
He looked back "What do you mean?" he asked. "Well" Sakura said "It's just that I've never seen you show this much emotions before, ever, and we have been through quite some stuff, both with team seven and with ANBU. I am sure if I told Naruto or Sasuke that you hugged me without any special reason they would just say I made it up. What is with you?" She pushed away his arms gently and scrutinized his face. Kakashi started to beat himself up inside. I shouldn't have done that. An ANBU isn't supposed to show emotions. How should I explain this? He sighted inside when he realized that he had to tell the truth. He fixed his eye on a spot right between her eyes "I was worried that you had been taken by the enemies. I was so up in my own thoughts I didn't hear you entering. I'm sorry if I hurt you. And I'm sorry for hugging you; I was just so glad that you were all right" his voice was emotionless, or at least he thought it was.
Sakura smiled at him "Kakashi, we have been a team for very long and I'm not a little girl anymore. I can take care of myself". With that said she walked over and picked up the wood she had dropped. "I'll look at your wounds and heal them a bit more and then we'll get back to Konoha" she said after a while. Kakashi nodded and walked over to her.
