Seeing Things
03-24-07
Summary: Ninjas see Death all the time, but none quite like Kakashi. Naruto/Sandman
Kakashi sees things he knows shouldn't.
It once scared him, seeing her when no one else did. He worried that he really was cracking up. If he was hallucinating, he shouldn't be doing mission and putting his team in danger. It wasn't too uncommon for ninjas to slowly go off the deep end. He figured he was a likely candidate for that, but some small voice in him said he need not worry.
The first time he saw her was the day Obito died. She was knelling beside him as they left. A beautiful woman in a black dress with dark eyes and a small smile. She had not seemed scary or evil to him, but he knew he wanted her to go away.
He had blamed it on the blood loss and told no one.
The second time was seven years later. Before their team could make it to the Fire County border, they came up against eleven Cloud ANBU. That day she was sitting far above them all on a tree branch. He only saw her for a second before one of the ANBU's swords flashed inches from his face. Later she was gone.
He blamed it on stress.
The third time had been a mission in Grass with Gai. They had been order to kill a band of wondering ninja raiding the border towns there. It should have been easy with the two of them. The fight had ended quickly with only two badly injured ninjas escaping. Gai had only gotten a few scratches, and seemed fine until they were chasing after the fleeing ninjas.
Then he fell.
Kakashi had caught sight on him out of the comer of his eye, managing to catch him before he hit the ground. He had shouted at him, but received no response. He checked him for injures, seeing only the scratches from before. For the first time in years as a shinboi, he almost panicked.
That was when he saw her, standing in the same black dress he had seen her in the day Obito died. She was looking down at Gai with the same look she had been using on Obito. She still did not seem scary or evil to him, but again he knew he wanted her to go away. It was then he understood who—what he was seeing.
"Please," He whispered quietly, not quite able to take his eyes away from Gai's pale to look at Her when he spoke. "Don't take him."
No sooner had the words left him mouth than he found himself jumping to dodge two throwing knives headed his way. Throwing Gai over his shoulder, he sent three in return. He didn't relax and look back at Her until he heard a body hit the ground.
"Not today," She whispered in his ear. With a wink and a wave she disappeared.
Kakashi never told Gai or anyone else what had happened that day. When they returned to the village, the doctors told him he also took a large dose of the poison that took Gai down, but had a greater immunity to it.
So he blamed it on the poison.
The forth time he saw Her was the Wave Country mission with Team Seven. After the kid had died and Zabuza had laid down beside him, he saw Her. She stood as he had always seen Her, beautiful and dressed in black. Her hands were neatly folded behind her as she waited above them.
Kakashi could not find a way blame in on anything this time, so he accepted that it was all real.
He has only seen her a few times, and knows he will see her at least once more. At least Death looked like one of the girls in Icha Icha.
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