Into the Light

DG32173

Sarah: here's a new Kaka/Saku fanfic. I don't own the Naruto anime, manga, or anything from said anime and manga. Thank you.

SUMMARY

When he gets the word that she had fallen in the front lines of the war, he falls into a deep depression. He soon dies of heartbreak, committing jisatsu. Here is the tale of their next life… Kaka/Saku

NOTE

(Authors note)

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Scene change

POV change

Memory

Scene change in memory

TRANSLATIONS

Jisatsu: suicide

Prologue

"You're joking, right?" Kakashi asks, his heart starting to break, knowing that it's no joke.

Tsunade shakes her head sadly. "I wish I were. I'm sorry Kakashi, she's gone," the Hokage says softly. "She was brought in just an hour ago. You can come say goodbye, if you wish."

Kakashi nods, his sight starting to blur with tears he thought he had long ago lost the ability to make. But this news is far worse than any he has received in his thirty-eight years of life. Sakura, his beloved Sakura, died in the front lines in this last-ditch war with Sound. Sound knew it was beat before the war began, but had to make one last stand before falling apart. Already, many good shinobi and kunoichi have fallen, barely a month into this war. He follows Tsunade to the hospital morgue to say goodbye to his best friend, love, wife. He doesn't know how he will live without her in his life.

For the years between Obito's and Rin's deaths and the first time he laid eyes on Sakura, he had shut down emotionally. Then he met Sakura, and she brought him back from emotional hibernation with just one look. Her similarities to Rin, his first crush, was astonishing, but she was also far different from Rin. His fondness for the spirited girl grew quickly into companionship, then friendship, and finally love. She knew exactly how to piss him off, how to make him laugh, and exactly how to comfort him when memories of Rin and Obito became overpowering.

And now, only two years into their marriage, she's gone in an instant. And the ache from losing Rin and Obito was nothing compared to the brokenness he is feeling at losing his beloved Sakura. Seeing her lying motionless on a cold metal table tears at his heart like starving piranha tearing at fresh meat. His throat clenches tightly while his heart cries out in despair. Soon, their friends and comrades start filtering in to say goodbye to Konoha's most treasured of kunoichi. No matter who she came across, she quickly befriended them before anyone realized it. Everyone that she healed swore on their life that an angel healed them. But she reserved her special, loving touch for Kakashi alone.

But now, the Angel of Konoha, Konoha's Living Cherry Blossom has met her end on the blade of a Sound nin trying to get one last kill before Sound is no more.

Two months later

There was nothing anyone could do to bring Kakashi out of the severe depression he fell into the night he got the news of Sakura's death. Slowly, the visitors to the depressed Copy Nin filtered down to a few close friends. But not even Ibiki, one of the most hardened of Konoha nin, could stand to see the wreck Kakashi has become since Sakura's death. Slowly, even the visits of close friends became few and far between.

Finally, two months after her death, Kakashi can't stand to live without his beloved cherry blossom any longer. So he pulls out a kunai and stealthily makes his way to the private Haruno graveyard she was buried in. He kneels before her elaborate gravestone, reading it several times over. He has done this every night since she was buried here, so any viewers wouldn't think it unusual of him to visit her grave and continue on their way.

Once Kakashi is certain that no one is around, he performs his headhunter jutsu, only this time into Sakura's coffin beside her. It is smaller than usual coffins, as she was smaller than most people, so it is very cramped for both him and her. He lovingly strokes her hair and then plunges the kunai into his own heart, praying for a quick death so as to reach her sooner. His prayer is answered, for he dies seconds after the kunai pierces his heart.

The next day

Several of Kakashi's friends had gone to visit the Copy Nin, only to find the front door to the ancestral Haruno mansion wide open and the man nowhere to be found.

Kiba, under command of Tsunade, sets Akamaru to follow the trail Kakashi took. The trail leads around the manor and to the graveyard in the back. It stops cold at Sakura's grave. Upon Tsunade's orders, the coffin is dug up to be inspected. Instead of the single body they had prayed to find, they find two bodies: Sakura, and Kakashi with a kunai in his heart and his arms around her waist to hold her close. The coffin is reburied and the gravestone is altered to honor both ninja whose bodies lay within the grave

Sarah: … that was downright depressing. But the rest of the story will be much better … I hope.