Life's Greatest Mistake
Chapter 1: Mistake
Okay, So this is the original story line, I've decided to make the confusing as hell nutcase confusion plot that I made to accompany this story into a completely different story, I haven't figured out the title but they're being separated. Also, I have no idea how to continue this particular one shot, if I figure something out later on I might add a second chapter.
Please make do with this first chapter that I've done some editing to
Disclaimer: Naruto is not mine; you want the real stuff get off this site :)
Thoughts
Paragraphs are memories
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A few hours after Tsunade had woke Sasuke from his sharingan induced coma, he argued with Naruto until the blonde gave in and agreed to a fight, Sakura tried to prevent it but they simply ignored her, as if she wasn't standing beside them. Once the two boys got to the roof they both started their fight with their usual bickering, only Sakura seemed to notice Sasuke's word choice in regards to the symbol of their village. she was about to shout and interfere again but the boys were charging each other so she fell back and watched as they threw punches and kicks, growing worried when Naruto brought out his signature clone technique and Sasuke countered with a massive fire ball that erupted then entire roof into blazing wild flames that even jumped towards Sakura. she yelped and quickly patted the flame attached to her skirt before it could get too big and returned to see where the fight was, in her panic to get away from the flames that very nearly consumed her, she had dived off towards the side where she would be safer but incidentally closer to the fighting boys. Growing panicked again, Sakura shouted at them to stop before they killed each other but again it was as if they couldn't hear her, as if she wasn't there shouting at them. Sakura didn't like the two of them fighting but there wasn't anything she could do—she wasn't a fighter, she'd never match up to them, their stamina out lasted her every single time, interfering physically could get her seriously hurt.
"Both of you just stop it!" Sakura shouted at them, flinching back as the flames of Sasuke's grand fireball erupted out words, batted away by swirling blue currents of chakra, the flames danced along her arms and legs, burning her skin and electing a pained shout but again it was as if the boys couldn't hear her. Naruto formed his Rasengan, using it to draw in wind to his person and push the flames away, he planned on dispersing it when the flames were far enough away but then Sasuke made several hand signs and summoned the Chidori to his hand. Flinching back at the sound of a thousand birds chirping irately in his ears, Naruto gritted his teeth and added chakra to his rasengan, stabilizing its form and keeping it present in his hand even as his clone dispersed; neither boy saw Sakura run towards them nor did they hear her scream.
This time, Kakashi didn't make it in time to save her
The two boys froze, their eyes wide as their jutsus clashed, blood spraying all over them as a familiar shade of pink engulfed their vision. Memories from times they forgot surfaced in their minds, overflowing them in emotions to dark and thick for them to name. They only had the time to register that it was Sakura who got between them, that she took their hit, before they were flying through the air and crashing onto hot cement, their chests aching as a familiar voice shouted desperately in the air, nearly defining them. Sasuke and Naruto pushed themselves up, wincing at the pain blooming in their stomachs, only to freeze as they found their teacher kneeling on the roof of the hospital with Sakura propped against one leg, her head laying limply against his shoulder as her blood steadily and alarmingly rolled down his limbs like a river that was finally freed from a dam. Neither boy needed to wonder closer to see where their attack's landed on their teammate, Sakura's left shoulder had a cruel imitation of the Uzumaki crest twisted on its milky skin and her right shoulder looked like the snarling gaping mouth of a demon screaming in agony.
"Please," Sakura coughed weakly, blood spilling down her chin as she struggled to keep her eyes open, "Please, Sasuke-kun… Naruto… Please" tears were spilling from her eyes as she tried to turn her face towards Sasuke, seeing only his leg from over her teacher's shoulder, she couldn't even see Naruto because Kakashi readjusted his hold on her, lifting her into his arms as he rose to his feet, wobbling slightly from her added weight. "Please..." Sakura whispered, "don't fight, please…" her eye lids were weak and her world was starting to grow dark, she heard someone's voice mumble cold and low, sending shivers up her heated and burned back but she couldn't stay conscious, she let her eyes filter close as she pressed her face just that little bit closer to her teacher, wondering absently if he could somehow take the pain away like he used to take the sting out of Sasuke's words. Before either boy could move Kakashi spoke, his voice so cold both boys shivered for a moment before they saw him disappear behind the door leading to the rest of the hospital. It took Kakashi a moment but he finally found Tsunade, she took one look at the tiny girl in his arms and started shouting orders to the nurses and doctors wondering the hall. Kakashi placed Sakura into a nearby streture and watched as she was escorted away by rushing, panicked, nurses, all shouting words that didn't make any sense to his buzzing mind.
"What happened?" Tsunade asked Kakashi as she readied herself for surgery, Kakashi following her into the prep room only to be held back by another surgeon, leaving him standing in the door way looking like a lost puppy
"Naruto and Sasuke got in a fight on the roof, Sakura interfered," Kakashi answered courtly, as if he was trying to distance himself from the reality of the situation, "Sasuke used Chidori and Naruto used Rasengan."
"Why the hell would they do that? Those idiots!" Tsunade snapped as she headed for the door, she stopped at the entrance to the emergency room. "From what I've seen of her wounds, I doubt she'll live," Tsunade spoke softly, she watched the jonin lean against the wall, almost uncaringly if not for that harsh thump he made, Tsunade paused in the door way, wondering if she should speak the last bit of knowledge she did have or if she should keep silent. she looked back at the man she used to change the diapers of, she remembered teaching him how to walk, babysitting him when his father was off on missions and even feeding him when he was still just a toddler, never once in all those years of contact she had with the him, did she ever see him look as if the world was falling into ashes around him and he was helpless to stop it, as if he was accepting his death and just simply awaiting it to happen. she had to tell him, she had to let him be aware, she couldn't keep it from him, she couldn't hide it from him, she owed him the most likely possible scenario even if it meant that it would send the man crashing into a swirling pit of despair and misery for the rest of time.
"If she does live..." she hesated, she was going to back track quickly but the look Kakashi gave her told her to finish her sentence not matter how gruesome it was,"...she'll never be a kunochi again" she closed the door behind herself quickly, unable to see that look of utter devastation on his face, she all but raised him until he was four years old, she couldn't find herself braving the look of despair and heartache, not from that little boy she used to carry around on her hip. Kakashi allowed a heavy sigh to escape his lips as he slid to the floor, his hands gripping his gray hair as if he was going to rip it out, the leather over his knuckles were creaking and stretching, the seams popping in irritation, his teath were grinding together till they were squeaking annoyingly in the air.
Why couldn't I get there in time?
"Sensei," he looked over at his student and smiled, pressing his hand against her fevered face
"Its just a cold, you should be over it by morning," he reassured her, changing the wet towel on her forehead
"Sorry Sensei," she murmured sleepily
"For what?" he asked, smiling at her, "I get to slack off and the boys get to argue without restraint."
"...That's not helping," she pouted at him
"Get better soon then you can tell us what to do," Kakashi chuckled
"Hay, you're the grown up, you're supposed to boss us around," she whinned
"then as you're superior, I'm ordering you to get better by daybreak," He sniggered, flipping his book open just to annoy her
The monitor for the too small girl's heart was giving a steady flat note…
Please…
"Sensei! look it! I'm higher then you are!" She giggled at him, waving from the top of her tree with a blush on her cheeks
"Heh, guess Sakura has the best chance of being Hokage and as for the Uchiha? well I guess they're not as proficient as I thought,"
"Sensei that was mean!" Sakura's voice echoed through the forest, ringing loudly in his ears, "Apologize! you're supposed to encourage them not belittle them!"
"Encouragement... huh, never heard of it,"
"SE~NSEI~I!"
Tsunade starred at the tiny girl on the table, her hands were covered in blood…
Please Sakura…
"Sensei!" She laughed, waving at him, "You'll never guess what happened!"
"Am I going to be ashamed or embarrassed?" his answer was a book to the face
"Save those comments for the boys!" Sakura barked at him, she put one hand on her hip and pointed the other at his face
"Its rude to point," Kakashi pouted at her
"The girls and I are having a sleep over," Sakura ignored his comment, "No listening in!"
"Why would I want to?" Kakashi asked as if her order made no sense
"Asuma-san and Kurenai-san have already threatened with dropping by," Sakura told him, dropping her hand and looking down at him thoughtfully, "I told the girls not to worry because You'd be on a date."
"...I am not girl-hunting just for you," Kakashi snorted
"If you don't find a date by noon, Ino-chan say's she knows a woman,"
"...you're mean,"
"Quite using me as a teacher-aid and I'll start being nicer"
"Promise?"
"Do you?"
Kakashi snapped to his feet when the doors to the operation room opened…
I'll never ask for anything ever again…
"Please tell me you're joking sensei," Sakura looked pale as she stared up at him
"you climbed the tree just fine," kakashi drawled, nose stuck in his book, "the hokage mountain shouldn't be a problem for you."
"I'm more worried about the boys," Sakura said dropping her eyes to look at the two soaking wet boys stomping angrily out of the river they crash landed in
"They'll get it eventually," Kakashi drawled, "now then-"
"Don't you dare ditch us!"
"You're impossible," she sighed, closing her eyes
Kakashi's mouth opened and closed repeatedly…
Just please…
"Do you really think we're ready for the chunin exams sensei?" Sakura asked, ignoring her teammates as they argued pointlessly
"Hay, Don't you trust my teaching methods?" He asked with a smile
"The 'sink or swim' scenario is proven to be more lethal then productive," Sakura dead panned, "What are you planning now?"
"Are you telling me that you don't trust my judgment?"
"You pit the boys against each other every chance you get and use me like a dictionary," Sakura retorted, putting a hand on her hip and looking up at him in irritation, "What are you planning sensei?"
"Trust me Sakura-chan, you'll all live," Kakashi smiled
"You say that as if there's been casualties," she narrowed her eyes at him
"You're reading too much into things," he looked away, her perceptiveness alarming him once again
"Sasuke and Naruto aren't going to be happy if I back out because I don't think we're ready for this." Sakura sighed at last, "if something happens I'm blaming you."
"You always blame me," he retorted
"Then quite messing up," she retorted jokingly, her green eyes dancing in amusement
The cold look in Tsunade's eyes had done nothing more than confirm his fears...
she was a few feet shy of the top of the cliff, two civilian children held to her chest, sweat was pouring down her face, her legs were shaking and dark shadows were beginning to form under eyes. Her foot slipped and with a burst of perfect precision, Sakura spun on her good foot and threw both young children to the safety of the surface, and then screamed as the chakra at her feet gave out and she was sent careening down to the raging river a hundred plus feet down. she didn't get too far before Kakashi caught her, wincing under her accelerated weight and nearly dislodging his own placement on the cliff face.
"easy there Sakura-chan," Kakashi coughed, adjusting his hold on her as she looked up at him with wide eyes, "I thought you're control was the best on the team?"
"Sorry sensei," Sakura sighed, her eyes dropping slightly, as if she was about to fall asleep
"Hmm, no worries, I'll always be there to catch you,"
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It had been half a day since the incident on the hospital roof and Tsunade and her best medics had yet appear from the emergency room. Sakura's parents had taken Sakura's critical condition hard and forbidden them from Sakura's life forever. A group of people were hoping that their gathering at the hospital would somehow boost Sakura's chances of surviving. Considerably more when they donated blood and chakra for her. The large group still hadn't heard anything from the hospital about Sakura, but her teammates knew that she was dead—no one could have survived from that attach. Ino refused to acknowledge their existence for the time being and the rest of the teams were too mad to look at them. It was raining unusually hard outside, as if the land of fire was weeping for the loss of another of its many children. Thunder could be heard in the distance just beyond the mountain, flashes blinded those who looked towards the sky; their tears unseen in the torrents of the gathering storm. Sasuke glanced at Naruto with a frown on his face, it was a little scary to see the blond boy so out of it but then again, he did just help kill his teammate and crush. They had now come to a point were neither needed to say a word to understand what the other was feeling. Jiraya had decided to get Naruto out of the village and train him so that he could prevent that kind of accident from ever happening again.
"How long are you going to be?" Sasuke asked softly watching as his blond teammate turn away from the sea of soaking people before them
"I don't know…" Naruto said softly, Sasuke nodded his head slowly
"We should keep in contact… write letters or something… we could use a key to open them…" Sasuke said softly, Naruto nodded his head
"A password?" Sasuke asked, Naruto paused as he looked back over at the mass before the hospital doors; the rain mixing with his tears
"You know it," Sasuke stared at the frightening blank face on Naruto Uzimaki's face, "Team seven's regret." Naruto whispered and Sasuke nodded his head—that was reasonable
Sakura was their regret…
Kakashi regretted not moving fast enough to save Sakura's life, Sasuke regretted that it was his Chidori that stopped Sakura's heart, and Naruto regretted hitting Sakura period
"When will you leave?" Sasuke asked slowly
"Honestly? I don't know," Naruto said softly, Sasuke nodded his head. They had signed a summoning contract with cats, so they could write to each other without suspicions rising. Although it would be slightly more difficult for Sasuke then it would be for Naruto, the blond new his teammate would find a way. "We should leave before someone decides to kill us." Naruto whispered softly, just barely loud enough for Sasuke to hear. Sasuke nodded his head and both boys turned away from the mass of people without noticing the several pairs of eyes that watched them leave. Some were hateful, some understanding—some were nothing more than dead haunted stares.
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Sasuke looked out over his village one last time before he turned and jumped into the trees, the sound four close behind.
Shikamaru was ordered to gather a team...
the Sound four protected Sasuke...
Choji fought Jirōbō...
Neji fought Kidōmaru...
Kiba fought Sakon and Ukon and was saved by Kankuro when the brothers were just about to kill him...
Shikamaru fought Tayuya and received help from Temari when Tayuya broke free from his Shadow possession jutsu...
Naruto fought with Kimimaru before Lee came, then he went on a head.
Lee fought with Kimimaru when Gaara saved him, then Gaara finished the job with a too close call at the end.
Naruto and Sasuke fought at the great divide waterfall...
In that great black orb that surrounded Sasuke and Naruto as their final most powerful attaches combined, the two boys held a pinky promise to each other, it wasn't long before soft hands enveloped their own and looking beside them both boys saw a girl dressed in white. Her long pink hair floated around her head like a halo and her long white sleeves surrounded the two boys like a blanket.
"Forever together." The girl whispered with a soft smile, Sasuke and Naruto smirked up at the older girl—they were only eight and she was easily twelve; but they loved her all the same.
"Together forever!" The two boys chimed together, smiles splitting their faces, the girl giggled softly at them before she seemed to fade away from them. But neither one was scared or concerned, because her warmth stayed with them, keeping away the cold of the water they were drenched in and her light was protecting them from the darkness that was chasing them.
"Together forever," both boys whispered together softly, a single tear slipped down their cheeks and combined as it fell away from them. When it neared the edge of the soft and warm protection of their friend it turned into a strange looking stone, a stone with swirling black and blue in the shape of a tear.
Their most precious will protect them from beyond their sight...
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I haven't decided if I'm going to continue this story from this point on... I might but that would require huge editing to the Cannon serious, certain missions might not happen... I don't know, I haven't decided yet
Reviews are nice
suggestions appreciated
And helpful criticism is always wanted
Sincerely Koomahana