I decided to write a collection of one shots, and for those of you who don't recognise the plot lines, these are all memories that Kakashi had of Sakura, that are mentioned in my multi-chaptered story, Rain.

This one is the first memory that he has, when Sakura saves him and Obito's eye from enemies on an ANBU mission. Kakashi was kinda stupid and silly on this mission… tut tut tut, he thinks that he can take on the world by himself…

Or die trying…

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"Hold on Kakashi!" a determined voice sounded in his ear. "I won't let you die on me now!"

Kakashi fell through the darkness, heedless to the voice calling for him to come back. He landed safely, on his feet in the darkness. The ground slipped though, and he found himself drowning in water.

He treaded water, floating on his back for as long as he could. After a long time, he saw a figure above him. It was Obito.

The Uchiha was looking down at him, in both means of the speech. He had only one eye, and was looking accusingly at Kakashi.

"You lost my gift."

"I didn't mean-" Kakashi tried to apologise and explain, but Obito wouldn't listen.

"You lost my gift. You gave it to someone who will use it against the village, and against your comrades."

"Obito-" But he had faded from sight.

"I'm sorry…"

"Don't be." A relieved female voice drifted to Kakashi's ears, as he struggled to open his eyes. "You fought hard, and I managed to get you back."

"Kami, they really did a number on you, Hatake." A male voice, sounding concerned, and relieved at the same time.

Kakashi managed to lift his eye lids. The first thing he saw was pink. A face with pink hair leaned over him, emerald eyes inspecting him, before she sat back on her heels looking relieved.

"Thank Kami." She breathed, before falling forward on to his chest, her arms trying to circle him in them. "For a second there I thought I had lost you."

A chuckle came from next to the pink haired woman. Kakashi managed to turn his head to look around. He was lying on the ground, on the grass. There were pools of blood around him, and looking at his jacket and hands he could still see more.

"Welcome back to the living, Hatake." A man with caramel coloured hair, and a senbon in his mouth grinned, joking. "And how was your trip to the dead, may I ask?"

The pink haired woman hit the caramel haired man on the shoulder.

"Don't joke about it! It was too close for comfort!" she scolded, trying not to smile in spite of herself.

The senbon sucking man winced, rubbing his shoulder tenderly. "That hurt you know…" he muttered.

The pink haired woman rolled her eyes. "Oh, I'm sorry, Genma! Would you like me to kiss it better?"

The man, Genma, grinned, his white teeth flashing in a killer smile. "Please, Sakura. That would make it so much better!"

Sakura grinned back, her smile innocent. "Which would you like to kiss it? My left fist, or my right fist?"

Genma winced, "Ouch, harsh…" he looked to Kakashi and then grinned. "Is this how you taught your student to be like? Now I can see why you shouldn't teach."

Sakura rolled her eyes. Kakashi managed to give him an eye crinkle.

"It wasn't me who taught her that, try Tsunade."

Genma snorted. "No surprise. Like teacher, like student."

Sakura gave him a glare, before looking at Kakashi. "Well it was the teaching of Tsunade that let me save your life, so be thankful." She frowned at him, before prodding his chest, and then checking his eye.

"The enemy tried to take out your sharingan, but Genma and I arrived here in time to stop them-"

"Yeah, so be grateful we saved your sorry ass, Hatake." Genma interjected, grinning at Kakashi.

"Thanks." Kakashi said sincerely. He was truly grateful to them, for saving him, and Obito's eye.

"Hup-hm." Sakura cleared her throat, with a glare at Genma. "As I was saying, we arrived in time to stop them from removing your eye, and then I began healing you, while Genma fought them off. They had managed to damage your chest with a stab wound, but the thing that was killing you was your lungs. One of your ribs had punctured it, so I had to try and keep you breathing, while healing the rib and setting it back in place. It was hard because your blood was flooding your lungs and I had to stop top clear it out a few times. But we managed."

Genma laughed. "What do you mean 'we'? It was all you doing the healing, honey."

Sakura blushed with the praise, and coughed lightly. "But you were the one getting my back, and stopping those ninja." She then turned to Kakashi frowning. "And what do you think you were doing, fighting off that many shinobi when you should have called us on the communicator for help?"

Kakashi gave them a grim smile under his mask. "They had an experienced genjutsu user with a kekkei genkai that enhanced his genjutsu. Only my sharingan could deal with it."

They both shook their heads. "Trust Hatake to do something like take on over twenty shinobi because one of them had an upgrade on his genjutsu." Genma commented, his mouth playing with the senbon.

"Kakashi…" Sakura sighed, shaking her head. She had began calling him by only his first name at the start of the mission. He had told her that they were comrades, equals, so she should call him that, instead of referring to him as her teacher, when she had become his ex student long before.

"Hm?"

Sakura just shook her head at him, her eyes looking at him disapprovingly. "We are your comrades, meaning that we can handle our own in a fight as well. You could not take on that many shinobi-" she glared at him when he looked like he was going to interrupt, "and expect to live through it while trying to deal with a genjutsu expert. Whether you know it or not, we can handle it."

Kakashi listened, and then shook his head in disagreement. "I know you two can fight, but this guy was strong, and I mean really strong."

Sakura clucked her tongue in annoyance. "Kakashi, I have perfect chakra control, and I have been training with Kurenai for months now. She has taught me nearly everything she knows. I am not incapable with keeping a genjutsu expert distracted long enough to either kill him, or for one of you to kill him."

Kakashi stopped trying to talk and then sighed, in defeat.

"What Sakura is saying is right." Genma added. "We are you comrades, and you need to trust in us, and our abilities. You can't face everything on your own man."

Kakashi nodded. "You are right. I'm sorry. Next time I will think about it more, and trust in your abilities more."

Sakura gave him a bright smile, and then placed her healing hands on his chest, her hands glowing with chakra. The pain in Kakashi's chest faded away, and he gave a small sigh of relief, and murmured a promise under his breath.

"Arigato Sakura. Arigato Genma. I promise that I will not underestimate your skills in the future. I never knew how strong you were Sakura, and I am sorry that I missed it, until it was almost too late." He breathed.

Not that he let anyone hear his humbled talking.

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Kakashi has a small ego… *cough cough…*

Haha, Genma and Sakura bickering is fun to write as well… but Sakura's inner is more fun…

Hope you liked it, and please review… I know that there are people reading my stories and not reviewing… and it makes me sad… =(