So idk what's even going on anymore. My otps keep having weeks and I get inspired to participate, especially since I've been trying to do drabbles, and drabbles are just easier to push out than my chapter fics. So I guess I'm going to try to do all of Kakasaku week, though who knows if I actually will, because I have a paper due this week. And then after that, I'm going to try to update my chapter fics. (I know it's been a long time for some of them...but at least I'm still writing different things for you to enjoy! My muse is a fickle thing. -_-)

Anyway, I don't own Naruto.

Danger and Rescue

When he speaks to her, his tone is gentle and calm. But in the ten years they've known each other, Sakura has learned to read him.

Kakashi is not calm. He is furious. Furious at her for disobeying his order to stand down, for blindly attempting to take on the enemy without knowing what she was up against. He is furious at her for being captured.

But, if their severed limbs are any indication, Kakashi is more enraged with the enemy nin who took her. The grass is stained red, and forty pairs of eyes see no more.

Still, when he speaks to her, he sounds composed. In control. "Can you hear me, Sakura?" he asks slowly. He brushes a few pink strands away from her face, smearing the blood she knows is there. "Do you understand me?"

She wants to tell him yes, of course she understands him, because she is Sakura and he is Kakashi and despite what he says she understands what he means, understands what his uncovered eye is telling her. She understands that his fury is fueled by his terror. She understands that he can't go through this again, can't watch another person close to him fade away while he continues to live.

She wants to tell him that she's sorry.

But it's hard to breathe because she's drowning and the only thing that bubbles from her lips is more blood.

He shushes her, keeps smoothing down her hair. "Don't waste your energy. Sakura, you have internal bleeding. You have to heal yourself."

She knows she does, but she is just so tired and she wants to take a nap and she can feel that it is all futile anyway. And so can the ninken, because Bisuke hasn't stopped whining since he found her and Pakkun keeps snuffling in her hair and Shiba keeps pacing and the others just look at her with sad eyes.

But Kakashi refuses to see it, refuses to give up. So, for him, she allows her hands to glow green.

And when they stop, too tired to do any more, his inexperienced hands take their place.

A/N: You all know how much I love angst. You should know by now that killing Sakura off on the first prompt is my style. hahaha

But yay, my first solely Kakasaku thing! I have a chapterfic planned in my head as well, but who knows when I'll ever get around to writing it.

Anyway, drop a review! Let me know! ;)