Diamondera: WOW. You guys made my week when I published the story and by the next morning I had 2 reviews, 3 follows, and 1 favorite. The numbers just grew from there and I walked around all day with a huge grin on my face. People got scared that I was about to pull some big elaborate prank I was grinning so much. It's great to know that people out there would read my story. Thank you to CharitysSongbird, NarutoHinata20114251 for reviewing. Before this gets any longer I'm going to cut it off so I hope you enjoy.

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"Speech"

'Thoughts'

'Jutsu'

"Demon Speech"

'Demon thought'

Ch. 2 LIVE!

Kakashi sprinted across the rooftops of Konoha towards the hospital. His mind was racing in fear as he glanced down at the boy he held in his arms. The boy's mangled eyes had soaked the quick bandage job he had done in blood. The boy's heartbeat was erratic and faint. Kakashi had seen wounds like this before, but they had been on grown shinobi. He honestly didn't know if the boy would make it.

'If only I had been a couple seconds sooner...'

Flashback start

Kakashi was hopping from building top to building top on his way to the Hokage's office to report in on his ANBU mission. The sun was setting which cast a fiery glow on the Hokage Monument and warming Kakashi's exposed skin. The breeze blew just slightly and birds could be heard singing amidst the rustling tree leaves. In the background you could hear the coalescing of noises that came with daily village life, but they held a definite sad undertone on this day. It was the second day since Itachi had killed his whole clan and the beautiful weather seemed to mock the mood of the mourning village. All ANBU not on critical or S-ranked missions had been recalled to konoha to pacify the villagers that they would be safe. Kakashi had been part of a tracking team sent after Itachi as soon as he was found to be the culprit of killing his clan. Kakashi knew that if Itachi had not been found by now he would never be found. Itachi had been an absolute genius just like Kakashi, and so when Itachi had been assigned to Kakashi's squad Kakashi had taught him many things. It brought Kakashi a small amount of macabre satisfaction that Itachi had not been caught as evading pursuing forces had been one of the things Kakashi had taught him.

Kakashi landed lightly on top of a small two story store and was about to leap to the next roof when he heard the unmistakable sound of a body impacting a wall as well as some angry speech. 'I guess I have to check this out. Sigh. I know its part of my job but I really just want to get home and read my Icha Icha books. Oh well that will have to wait and it allows me to be legitimately late to the debriefing. Hehehe.' With his plan of action in mind Kakashi crept silently over to the edge of the building and looked down.

Just in time to see the kunai tear through the boys eyes. Kakashi's world stopped as he saw the boy free from his captors grasp begin to fall crying out in pain. His sharingan recorded every part of that horrible moment that would haunt him for years. Kakashi's blood turned to ice and then molten lava in the space of a second. His vision reddened as his mind went blank from rage.

The next thing Kakashi knew he had both of his hands buried through the ninja's chest each one chirping with a Raikiri. He yanked his arms out of the corpse letting the attack fade before rushing over to the fallen boy. His worst fears were confirmed as he stared at the boy's mutilated face. 'It's Minato sensei's son.' Kakashi thought as he was gripped with a huge amount of fear and sadness, the likes of which he hadn't felt since Rin's death.

Kakashi quickly dropped to his knees, pulling out his first aid kit. He rolled the boy's body onto its back. It was clear to Kakashi, as he began to dress the wound, that if the boy was to make it to the hospital he would need to slow the bleeding down. Kakashi worked furiously, thanking Kami for the first time that he himself had lost an eye and so he knew how to properly bandage such a wound.

Kakashi made a shadow clone, as soon as he felt that he had done as much as he could do, which sprinted off towards the Hokage's office. Kakashi then gently lifted the boy into his arms using chakra to help keep the boy where he was in Kakashi's arms.

'Please be okay...' Kakashi thought as he sprinted off to the hospital.

Flashback end

Kakashi saw the hospital coming in fast. He started pulsing his chakra in the code signal to tell the ANBU guarding the hospital that he was a friendly and he was coming in with a severely injured person. He was to the side of the hospital and was just a block away when Kakashi's heart dropped. The boy's heart had stopped beating. Kakashi forced a huge amount of chakra into his legs as he went faster. It would take too long going around to the front main entrance and the boy in Kakashi's arms had seconds if he was to live.

'First floor is most of the emergency rooms, but there is no window for me to go through and the main entrance is too far away. Second floor is just doctor's examination rooms. The third floor has … an operating room! Quick is there a room that looks empty? Yes there, the middle one!' Kakashi processed this all in the blink of an eye and then launched himself with a chakra empowered jump right at the window orienting himself so he would hit feet first.

A seal weakly appeared on the window then flickered and died when Kakashi's feet hit the window and Kakashi busted right on through. Glass exploded everywhere sailing through the air sparkling like a hail of diamonds. Kakashi curled himself up so he could protect the boy as much as he could from the rain of sharp glass slivers. Kakashi landed smoothly surrounded by the sound of glass bits hitting the floor playing a tinkling song of destruction. He searched the room for anything he could use. The room was littered with presents presumably for the black haired kid who laid unconscious in the hospital bed over by the next window. Kakashi saw no equipment in the room besides a second empty hospital bed over by the door.

Kakashi charged over to the bed and dumped the boy on to it. The boy's heart had stopped and Kakashi knew it would take more than CPR to start and steady the boy's heart but there was no time to run and find a defibrillator.

'Defibrillator…electric pulse… Electricity… LIGHTNING!' Kakashi ripped the boy's hideous orange jumpsuit open as he finished that thought. Kakashi channeled the smallest amount of lightning chakra he could to his hands and hovered them at the boy's right collarbone and next to the boys left armpit.

'Now!' Kakashi shouted in his head as he pressed both hands to the spots and let the small amount of lightning chakra surge into the boy. Kakashi then quickly began chest compressions. '1, 2, 3, 4, 5….27, 28, 29, 30.' Kakashi quickly counted off 30 compressions in his head and then gave the boy two CPR, mouth to mouth, rescue breaths.

Then thirty more chest compressions.

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Then two more breaths.

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Then another shock of lightning chakra.

Kakashi's sharingan showed him that the boy's chakra system which had started to slow jumped and sped up a bit with the lightning chakra shocks. He saw the Kyuubi's chakra begin to leak out of the seal and stretch through the boy's chakra ways in an effort to heal the boy. However that would mean absolutely nothing if the boy's heart didn't restart.

Time seemed to speed up and slow down randomly for Kakashi as he continued the cycle of chest compressions, breaths, and lightning chakra shocks. Fear began to well up in Kakashi turning into terror and guilt. Kakashi's mouth seemed to be stuck shut leaving Kakashi unable to voice his panicked thoughts.

'NO! You're not allowed to Die!' Lightning shock.

'I won't fail Minato sensei ! I won't let you die!' Rapid chest compressions.

'Breathe Damn It! I won't fail you too' two rescue breaths.

'I didn't guard your mom while she was pregnant with you just for you to die now!'

'I didn't guard you from all those drunks or make sure you were decently taken care of for you to kick the bucket now, there is so much left for us to do!'

'I haven't been able to congratulate you on becoming Jonin or ANBU and lead you on missions as my kouhai !'

'I haven't been able to share stories with you about your parents when you made Chunnin!'

'I haven't been able to be a surrogate big brother to you yet like I should have!'

'You Can't Die On Me!'

'LIVE'

As Kakashi mentally screamed the last thought he sent in desperation a large jolt of lightning chakra into the boy. Kakashi then felt it. A heartbeat. It was faint but it was there. Kakashi instantly stopped the electric jolts but continued on with the CPR. Kakashi's sharingan showed the Kyuubi's chakra take hold and energize the heart to keep it beating. Never before did Kakashi think he would be grateful to the fox.

A brief bubble of calm silence had surrounded Kakashi and the boy as Kakashi resuscitated the boy's heart. It was broken when the sandaime Hokage with a squad of ANBU came flying through the broken window and a team of doctors with a gurney and other emergency medical devices came crashing through the door.

With a loud clatter of footsteps and medics calling out their diagnosis the medics got to work. The boy was then lifted on the gurney and rushed out of the room with the clatter of the medic's footsteps receding down the hall as they rushed the boy to the emergency room.

"ANBU take the other patient here and all of his things to a new empty room. Then see if you can do anything about the broken window. Inu come with me," The Hokage barked his orders quickly no longer the gentle old grandpa that most of the village saw him as. Kakashi followed the Sandaime as they quickly chased after the medics.

"I got the message from your shadow clone Inu now report what happened after that." the Hokage commanded using Kakashi's ANBU codename.

"Hai Hokage-sama" Kakashi replied quickly recounting what had happened, up to when the Hokage and ANBU had come through the window, as they followed the medics through the halls.

The medics crash through the operating room doors leaving the Hokage and Kakashi outside.

Kakashi stood for a minute with the Hokage just staring at the operating room doors as the light above blinked on signaling it being in use. It was silent again as both men were left to their thoughts with both hoping that the boy would make it through this.

As the adrenaline wore off Kakashi's vision swam. He was able to put the cover over his sharingan before his world went black.

-XxX-

Hiruzen the Sandaime Hokage caught Kakashi in time before the young man hit his head on the floor. 'Passed out from a small case of chakra exhaustion from keeping that sharingan activated I see. The stress probably didn't help either. Lucky for him his hair is already gray' the Hokage chuckled. He hefted Kakashi over to a set of chairs that sat facing the operating room doors. Hiruzen lowered himself into one as he let Kakashi's body settle in the other.

"Report" Hiruzen ordered to a seemingly empty room with the open hallways leading off of it looking just as deserted. Then spontaneously to the untrained eye the six ANBU that had arrived with the Hokage appeared before him.

"We moved That patient and all of his things to a new room Hokage-sama. We were unable to fix the window at the current time due to not having the proper resources to do so." reported the kneeling ANBU with a Taka mask.

"Good work. Sagi please see to Inu, he has a small case of chakra exhaustion and while he should be waking up soon I would like him fully functional as soon as possible. Once Sagi is done, one of you go tell my secretary that I will be unavailable for a while and then find the body that Inu left behind. It should be behind the Red Hornet bar in the alleyway." the Hokage commanded. He was met with scattered response of Hai Hokage-sama as five of the ANBU seemed to disappear again leaving one ANBU in a heron mask. The remaining ANBU moved over to the slumped unconscious form of Kakashi, medical ninjutsu glowing in the ANBU's hands. Hiruzen let out a sigh as he let his muscles relax a bit as he settled down to wait for news on the boy.

-XxX-

What seemed to be an eternity later to the now conscious Kakashi the light above the operating room door turned off. Kakashi and Hiruzen stood as a doctor slipped out of the operating room.

The doctor smiled at the two shinobi. "The boy is going to live." The doctor told the two causing Kakashi even with his ANBU mask to show huge amounts of relief in his body language.

"His eyes?" Hiruzen asked preparing for the worst.

"They were unrepairable even with our best medical ninjutsu. The bone behind his eye was broken as if pierced slightly which broke the protective membrane around the brain. This along with losing his eyes made him loose conscious and go into severe shock. However any infection seemed to be electrically seared away letting us easily seal the break in the protective membrane. He will be blind in both eyes. We were able to repair both eyes to a point where they don't have to be removed but he will be unable to see out of them. This is because not only are we unable to repair the inner workings of the eyes but his optic nerves were damaged from the electricity that got rid of the infection."

"Very well. Please update me on any changes in his health." The Hokage told the doctor before turning to Kakashi with a face clouded with emotions. "Let's get going Inu. There is nothing more we can do for him now and I need you to report on your original mission."

Kakashi nodded and followed the Hokage as the Hokage began to walk towards the stairs. He turned one last time and saw the boy with bandages around his eyes getting wheeled out of the operating room.

"I'm so sorry Naruto."

Diamondera: Well that's it for now guys. I hope this chapter is long enough for you. I didn't think the first chapter would look that short. The parts on CPR are as accurate as I could get them since I have not taken any CPR classes, which I plan to take as soon as I can. I kind of rushed in writing this chapter a bit because my life is about to become a bit hectic with SAT, ACT, family stuff, and more. However I really wanted to get this chapter out to you before I possibly disappear for a while. If you are looking for a good story to read I would suggest reading Leaf's new Tree by CharitysSongbird . It's a very well written fic that I really enjoy. There may be a poll or two going up soon about a few details in the story and I will let you guys know when I put them up.

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