'not again, oh god, not another one!' Kakashi went numb, as he saw Gai fall by enemy hands. Time stopped as he watched his spandex wearing rival hit the bloodstained grass.
"Gai!!!" he lunged at the enemy with deadly accuracy, and imbedded a kunai in between his eyes.
Seven more enemy nin came at him, but they where no match for the copy nin.
Kakashi turned to Gai. He was tired and battered, as slowly made his way to his comrade and long time friend. His mind was blank, he couldn't comprehend the fact that Gai loud, hyperactive, irritating Gai had fallen.
He was so caught op in his own thoughts, that he didn't saw the two kunai before they hit him in the stomach. He threw five shuriken after the last enemy nin, before he fell to his knees. A pained cry and a heavy thud was the last thing Kakashi heard, before slipped into unconsciousness.
He woke up to of somebody mumbling softly beside him, he tried to move, but a sharp pain from his stomach made him stop. He groaned and opened his eyes.
"Kakashi? Kakashi can you hear me?" a woman's voice asked him. He blinked a couple of times to adjust to the light, when he noticed Tsunade standing beside him. 'So I am in the hospital' he thought, as he tried to remember how he got there in the first place. Suddenly it all came back to him. The S-rank mission to stone, the ambush, Gai…
"Gai!" Kakashi shot up from the bed. The room started to spin, and Tsunade caught him before he hit the floor.
"Take it easy brat! Your wounds haven't healed yet" he was about to say something, but was cut of by Tsunade.
"No complaining, you have to rest, for a minute we were afraid you wasn't goanna make it" he could hear the concern in her voice, and looked op to meet her eyes.
"You'll have to be more careful Kakashi, your not immortal, you have to take better care of yourself" she said softly, as she helped him back to bed.
"Tsunade is Gai okay?" she slowly met a pair of mismatched eyes filed with so much pain and concern that her throat clenched. She sat down beside him, and took his hand.
"Kakashi, Gai...Gai didn't make it" Kakashi eyes started to sting, and he let out a sob.
"No, no that can't be true, you're lying. He can't be gone, he can't" she could se that he was on the verge of crying.
'so much pain his been through, his mother, his father, Obito, his sensei, Rin and now Gai, to much pain for someone so young' Kakashi was still trying to fight back the tears there where threatening to fall, as Tsunade wrapped her arms around him and started to rock him from side to side, as she whispered smoothing words to him. Kakashi couldn't hold his calm and careless façade anymore, and started to sob uncontrollable into her shoulder.
When Sakura opened the door to her former sensei's room, she saw something that would haunt her for the rest of her life. The great sharingan Kakashi, copy Nin of Konoha, master of a thousand jutsus, sensei, team leader and close friend, was crying. The always calm and lacy Kakashi was clinging to Tsunade like a lost child, sobbing like there was no tomorrow
She couldn't believe her eyes.
Tsunade lifted her head from Kakashi's silver locks, she hated seeing him like this, broken and lost. she and Jiraiya had been close to his father 'the white fang' Sakumo Hatake, so when he ended his own life and Kakashi was alone, had her Minato and Jiraiya stepped in and tried to help him. they had always considered him as a part of there family, so it was hard to see him in so much pain. She stroke his hair and continued to whisper comforting words to him as she looked over at the door.
Her eyes widened as she noticed Sakura. 'Shit, she shouldn't see him like this' she shook her head and gave her a look there said 'we talk about it later 'before she turned her attention back to Kakashi.
Sakura swallowed and nodded. She turned toward the door but before she closed it, she heard the broken voice of Kakashi say" never again, I can't take anymore".