Heart Throb

by KnightW0lf90

This will mostly center around SasuSaku and their future together. Ps there is and will be smut\ lemons. I might throw in some yaoi around Kakashi but I won't tell you who, no it's not Naruto Hinata might get pissed if it were. this is my own alternate ending after the 4th shinobi war. Naruto will be 6th hokage not 7th and eventually I plan to go into what all their kids are like.

2. Chapter 2

Author Speaking:

Hey guys I hoped you liked chapter one and if you did then I think you will like chapter 2 even more! Let me know what you think guys and gals, I want to make sure you all are enjoying the suspense as much as I am! Also there will be more smut just not in this chapter , I promise :D

Heart Throb Chapter 2

Kakashi followed out of the tent after Sasuke and saw him nowhere in sight. Hatake headed back to the designated Konoha tent where he was supposed to be. The elders question Kakashi when he walks through the door, "Kakashi, where have you been?" Kakashi bowed his head out of habit, "Forgive me I had an important matter to attend to."

Naruto looked at Kakashi knowingly, Tsunade's gaze also weighing heavily on the copy nin. Both Hokage had felt Sasuke's chakra disappear yet said nothing in the elder's presence. "We are headed out tomorrow; I want every ninja that is mobile to assist in packing the caravans for the wounded." Tsunade sided with Naruto on this matter; in fact she had a hard time believing it was Naruto who suggested it. "Also Find Shikamaru and have him report to me as soon as possible."

Kakashi stiffened waiting for more orders from the new Hokage, "Hai." Kakashi was about to disappear when Tsunade spoke her mind, "Kakashi, send five of your best root members to this tent immediately." Kakashi nodded, "Hai, Tsunade-sama."

The elders looked puzzled at the moment, "What is the meaning of that Tsunade?" Naruto looked at Tsunade also wondering what she wanted five of those guys hanging around here for. Suddenly five root members as she requested bowed before the four of them in the tent. "How can we serve you Hokage-sama?"

Tsunade pored herself a glass of sake offering a cup to Naruto, which he took gladly. "Get these two back to Konoha tonight." Naruto looked at Tsunade as if she'd officially lost her mind, "Eh?" The two elders looked at her with surprise, "Nani?"

A root member spoke up, "There are three others in this room lady Hokage, to which are you referring?" Tsunade looked at the root member like he was stupid, "The boy in the goofy orange outfit is your new Hokage, and obviously I meant the two old geezers Hamura and Koharu."

The root members made noises of surprise their gasps echoing throughout the tent, "Oi, oi BA-chan nani o yatte imasu?"- The elders interjected for Naruto "Tsunade! That was not to be made public yet."

"What do I care? Now get them a carriage and get them out of my sight. I'll deal with you two later."-"Hai, Hokage-sama!" The elders stood rather upset, "We will talk about this later Tsunade." They spoke while leaving. "Tch. Whatever." She took another gulp of sake. "Ano.. Ba-chan you know by tomorrow everyone is going to know that I'm Hokage now right?" Tsunade smiled with a drink in her hand back turned to the blonde boy slumping on the couch, "Aah, I know." She poured Naruto more sake.

She observed as Naruto had the silliest dramatic face she'd ever seen he looked annoyed even, "What is it?" Naruto pointed to a stack of papers on her desk, "Is the pile always that high?" Tsunade chuckled, 'You got no idea kid.' Naruto downed his drink in one go, "Ya know granny Tsunade, this stuff taste really nasty…" Tsunade nodded her head in agreement, "Aah." Naruto reached for the bottle, "Than why do you drink it all the time?" he poured another glass. "Not all medicine taste good, besides it gets a few things off your mind."

Kakashi had finished ordering people around and had decided not to send Shikamaru to the wolves den last night. All the tents were in chaos trying to keep up the only necessary badly wounded ones. He was walking over to Sakura's tent to wake her. Everyone had been asking for her directory. Tsunade slightly hungover needed the help and sent Kakashi to go after her, though he doubted she would be of much use today. Thinking back to when Sasuke had first left her she was a mess for the first few months.

He knocked on her tent door lightly observing the falling tents around him. Naruto had turned it into a competition; the team who took down the most tents would not have to walk home. He walked into her tent when she didn't come to the door. He hated seeing his student cry and he knew why which made him more upset at seeing her weak state. She was curled into a ball on her bed crying her eyes out and probably had been for hours from the looks of it.

Kakashi sat down near her feet and rubbed her back in circles attempting to sooth her cries. She hadn't even noticed him in her room until she felt him sit down on the bed which alarmed her, 'Damn it Sakura pull yourself together! You're a hidden leaf kunoichi now act like it!' Sakura sat up whipping her eyes not even looking into Kakashi's not feeling like accepting his pity for the moment.

Kakashi wasn't one to dig up old wounds, "Tsunade needs your help with the wounded, and we're trying to load them onto caravans at the moment." Sakura nodded her head and he noted how her eyes looked lifeless she closed her eyes and looked up at Kakashi with that fake smile and fake light in her eyes.

Kakashi frowned upon seeing this and scolded her for it as he lost his temper, "Sasuke wouldn't be happy if he saw you like this. And don't throw me that smile when I know better and so do you." Sakura started to frown again the sorrow filling her jade eyes. Kakashi placed a hand on her head and rubbed the surface in a caring fashion. "I'll always be here for you Sakura. You and Sasuke both do you understand me?" Sakura gave a weak turn of her lips to show her appreciation.

"Good now let me start to pack your things while you finish that report." Sakura stood and walked over to her bed like a drone, "Hai." a lifeless mindless drone. 'I'm going to fix this Sakura, I promise.' Kakashi finished packing her things as she finished her report. Sakura found that it was easier to not think of Sasuke when her mind was kept busy.

After her and Kakashi finished breaking down her tent Sakura made her way to section A of the medical tents knowing that sense the heavily wounded were located there she would most likely find Tsunade. "Finally, where have you been?" Sakura bowed her head in respect, "Forgive me lady-Hokage I was busy."

Tsunade could tell something was off by her students' cold nature and bland tone. "I'll need you to travel between the four caravans to make sure we don't lose any of our wounded on the trip back to Konoha, once we near within 40 miles of the village I'll have you and senior staff along with seven medics to prep KEH (Konoha Emergency Hospital) understood?" Sakura nodded her head, "Hai."

The Leaf village was the first to set out to their respected country. Kakashi was feeling perturbed as he wasn't use to being the one heavily guarded. Both the Hokage and Kakashi were leading the convoy, the Hokage each had two regular Anbu members followed closely behind and Kakashi had two root members guarding him.

The Anbu members became alerted when a shinobi started coming up behind them, "It Ok he's with me!" Naruto yelled to his Anbu both naturally suspicious of Shikamaru. "Everything's going smoothly Naru- I mean Hokage-sama."

"You know I'm still just the same old Naruto, you don't have to call me Hokage all the time!" Tsunade snickered at the blonde boy, "Aah, tell me something I don't know." Naruto felt a vain popping, "Nani! What'd you say granny!" It was Tsunade's turn to bust a blood vessel, "Who are you calling Granny; You snot nosed brat!"

Shikamaru just sighed and shook his head, "Something's never change do they?" Kakashi nodded "Yeah, somethings never do." Kakashi started to run alongside Shikamaru, "Do me a favor and check on Sakura for me, we are nearing the village it won't be long before she'll have to take off with her team of medics."

"I'm guessing sense I hadn't heard anything about Sasuke he wasn't accepted back into the village, am I right?" Kakashi kept driving forward not looking over to answer Shikamaru directly, "She might not recover from this heart string being ripped out a second time."

Shikamaru looked over at Kakashi knowingly, "Hey Naruto I forgot something at one of the Med bays, I'll be right back."; Naruto not even paying attention to Shikamaru, "Careful Granny! We wouldn't want you to strain a muscle or something from running to fast!" Tsunade in her outburst of annoyance with her blonde office companion "What did you just say! Come here you little brat!" fists went flying while the Anbu were left confused on who to protect. Tsunade was chasing after Naruto making craters in her wake. Naruto Screaming for "Help!" Kakashi sighed telling the Anbu to just let them go.

Sakura had already prevented countless shinobi from dying on this three day trip back to Konoha and had just finished working on another patient. "Yo." Shikimaru was running alongside the procession when he jumped up to squat next to Sakura. "Hi, Shikamaru." He leaned back enjoying being off of his feet now having cloud envy knowing he was about to see this girl upset, "How are you holding up?"

Sakura gave a heavy sigh she knew what he was asking but decided to ignore it, "All is well, no deaths so far I'm running a little low on chakra but we're almost home free so I'm not too worried about it." Shikamaru mumbled a troublesome, "excuse me?" Sakura was feigning stupidity and he knew she knew that he knew, "You know what I was asking you Sakura, or did you just want me to say it aloud?"

Sakura pulled her hair out and shook it around so that it would lie naturally against her covering her eyes effectively. "What do you think Nara, I thought you were supposed to be the genius?" He just continued to lay back arms behind his head, "Troublesome woman." Sakura had to bite her lip so that she wouldn't say something she'd be sure to regret later. She stood up grabbing her head band and jumped off of the moving cart.

Sakura went to find her assigned group and made her way with them to the front of the caravan. "We are going to head to Konoha now my-lady." Tsunade nodded her head in agreement and off she went. Shikamaru was following close behind but lingered near Kakashi, "How is she?" Shikamaru responded, "Tsk, Angrier than hell at me for asking that same question." Kakashi let out a sigh and remained silent the rest of the way to Konoha.

'This promise isn't going to be kept easy, Sasuke.'

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It had been Four weeks sense the war was over now and the one thing Kakashi couldn't help but notice is that not once has he seen Sakura around. He finally knocked on her door only to be greeted by her mother, "Oh, Who are you?" Kakashi had his eye squinted into a fine line with a hand rubbing the back of his head, "Oh well I'm a friend, well no an old Sensei of Sakura's I was wondering if you knew when she would be home?"

The lady looked at the white haired shinobi with disinterest, "Sakura-chan doesn't live here anymore." Kakashi looked surprised by this, "Oh?" The woman smiled shaking her head "Well she is grown now I suppose It can't be helped that she wanted a place of her own, she is 19 after all." Kakashi unsure of where to go from here blurts the first thing that comes to mind, "Would you happen to know where I can find her?" The woman pondered whether or not she should trust this man with the information, "She lives closer to the hospital now, Between KEH and the old Uchiha district apartment number 207 I believe."- "Thank you."

Tsunade found herself in the hospital most days and couldn't help but noticed that her student hadn't taken a day off. "Sakura come here for a moment." Sakura finished explaining a few details to the morning staff before complying with Tsunade's wish, "Is there something I can help you with Lady Tsunade?"

"When is the Last time you took a break from hospital duty?" Sakura tried to play it off but Tsunade knew the girl long enough that she could tell when Sakura was hiding something, "I haven't lately we still have plenty of wounded so I don't plan to take break for too long." Sakura tried a new strategy however if she didn't lie about what she did, and only why she did it then it might be more believable.

Sakura gave her master the brightest smile and Tsunade couldn't help but see how real it actually looked. Sakura sighed, "Try not to worry about me so much Tsunade-sama; I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself, I am your student after all." Tsunade thought to herself, 'That's what frightens me.' As Sakura bowed her head in respect, clipboard held to her chest she began to walk away. Tsunade called after Sakura, "I scheduled you late next month for a physical, and I expect you to be there." Sakura continued walking not sparing the Hokage a glance, but simply waved her hand in acknowledgment, "Hai, hai."

Sakura implemented a new program In Konoha that Lady Tsunade found rather smart. Three days out of the week Sakura would find herself along with three chunin medical staff teaching a class at the ninja academy. Today she would be working alongside Iruka-sensei and his class of first years. She would come to the class right after sparing day's so that she and her two staff could show examples of what medical ninjustu could do, and why it is important. The idea is that by making students interested they would take classes at the hospital their second year and this could potentially put at least one medical ninja on each team the day they are assigned to their three man squad; Just as Lady Tsunade had suggested during the third shinobi war.

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Now nearing nearly 7 weeks after the war had ended Kakashi had decided enough was enough. He hadn't told anyone of the night Sasuke left Sakura in a blubbering mess. He had been knocking on her door twice, sometimes three times a day and no answer. So tonight Kakashi had decided that he was going to wait for her in her home. When he crawled into her new apartment window he was shocked at what he saw.

Clothes were lying around everywhere; clearly she hadn't done laundry in a while. Nothing was unpacked the evidence being boxes stacked practically to the ceiling, her bed was unmade and she only had a clock and a picture of old team seven next to her mattress that happened to be on the floor, all of it.

Kakashi made his way out of her bedroom and found the living room was no different. There was no furniture with the exception of a stool at the counter, in front barely touched ramen. For a moment Kakashi thought he had entered the wrong house and was at Naruto's instead. 'Sasuke is going to kill me. I had no idea she was that bad.' Kakashi went to throw the cold insta-ramen away when he noticed the trash can was completely full of nothing but shredded paper and books he knew she loved.

Kakashi sighed he had no idea when she would be home so he was contempt with starting the promise he made to Sasuke; he would take care of her. Kakashi had been so busy trying to bring Sasuke back to Konoha that he sometimes forgot how much she must really need someone there for her; with Naruto as Hokage he no longer had time for his friends it seemed.

Kakashi went to work, he was going to fix up her place whether she liked it or not; he had a feeling she wouldn't be home anytime soon, even if it was a Friday. Six hours later worn out Kakashi and a clean apartment he had ordered take out and waited for his student to come home.

Sakura had been kicked out of the hospital by her own staff and was walking up the steps to her apartment, 'I must have left my lights on, great.' Sakura pulled out her key to unlock the door, closed it behind her and kicked her boots off somewhere uncaringly. Kakashi herd the shoes hit the wall one after the other and sat cross armed at a small table he unpacked for her. Sakura dropped her keys to the ground when she saw Kakashi. "What are you doing here?"

"I dropped by to see how my favorite student was doing." Sakura looked angry at him while her eyes still looked tired and sad. Kakashi noticed the bags under her eyes and how pale she looked. "Leave Kakashi, I'm tired and I want to sleep." Kakashi stayed unmoving. "Not until I see you eat something." Sakura just gave him the angriest glare she could, "I'm not a child, and I certainly don't need you act like you're my father." He snickered at her, "Oh come on Sakura you should know better than that, you may have Tsunade and the rest of your friends fooled but don't insult my intelligence."

"If I eat the god damn food will you leave me alone?" Kakashi just stared at her, she truly had changed but not for the better it would seem. "Sit." She did as she was told and started to eat the plate of vegetable fried rice. Kakashi joined her and started to eat. They had been eating in silence for about 10 minutes when Kakashi decided to speak, "You know, Sasuke wouldn't wan-" Sakura cut him off in a fit of anger only to yell, "What the hell would you know about what Sasuke would want!?" she seethed out venomously.

Kakashi yelled back at her, "I promised him that I would take care of you! Look at you, you're not eating properly, you're a workaholic from what Iruka's told me and when I got here the place was a mess!" Sakura just looked down at her food as he continued his rant. "When's the last time you slept for more than four hours!? Look at me Sakura and answer me." She looked up to face the man with a glare to match his own, "You should have learned to stop making promises you can't keep a long time ago."

Kakashi looked like he just watched someone die, his eyes wide body cold stiff. Of course how could he forget he had told her everything would be fine and the next day Sasuke was gone, he told Obito he would protect Rin but had to kill her. He said he would never allow his comrades to die yet so many of them did. He knew she was only trying to get to him but the problem was is that she had.

"If I have to tell the Hokage's the truth I will Sakura." Sakura was angry, she was sad, she was hurt, "Then why are you even here?" Kakashi stood grabbing their plates, "Because, those who abandon their comrades are less than scum." Sakura stood up her back turned to Kakashi and started to cry. Kakashi walked over to where she stood and she threw herself at him crying into his chest.

When she started to calm down she looked Kakashi in the eye, "I'm sorry for what I said earlier." Kakashi just rubbed her back, "It's alright, and you were only being truthful." He pulled her off of him, "Go take a shower, I'm going to pack your things." She looked at him perplexed, "Where am I going?" Kakashi looked at her sternly, "You are taking the rest of the week off, and you're staying at my house." She knew there was no room to argue and complied.

The next morning Sakura awoke to the smell of breakfast cooking and walked down to see Iruka In the kitchen with only a robe, Kakashi's robe to be precise. Kakashi was in his usual get up but only no mask. It hadn't been her first time to see him without it on, she was a medic after all and Kakashi almost religiously avoided the hospital seeking aid from Sakura most of the time. Iruka blushed slightly he was sure Sakura had heard them last night when Kakashi decided to ravish him against their bedroom wall.

Kakashi not looking up from the morning paper inquired as to how she slept, "How was your first night here." Sakura sat down not really feeling like eating, actually she hadn't felt well at all this morning, "Ok I guess." Iruka put down plates of toast, eggs, and bacon before the three of them. Sakura normally loves this kind of breakfast but something about the smell made her nose turn and her stomach do flips.

Sakura placed a hand to cover her mouth and nose and stood up quickly, Iruka and Kakashi looked confounded by her behavior. "Excuse me!" She got out before running down the hall to enter the bathroom. She emptied her stomach of last night's contents and was feeling miserable, 'Great I must be getting sick, it's a good thing I have the week off.'

Kakashi poked his head through the doorway, "You feeling ok?" Sakura nodded her head yes but just as she did so another wave of nausea hit, and once more she felt her stomach empty itself. Kakashi couldn't help but think of how bad it smelt but went to her side regardless. "Just let it all out." He spoke in a calm voice rubbing in circles on her back. 'Like I have a choice.' She thought sarcastically to herself.

She stood up going straight for the sink to wash out her mouth and brush her teeth. "Maybe if you come eat a little it will settle your stomach." Sakura looked miserable, "Maybe…" or maybe not the next five day this strange phenomenon continued every morning. 'Something isn't right.' Sakura put all her focus to her abdomen sending wave of chakra searching for anything, 'That's… This isn't good. I have an appointment with Tsunade three days from now and if she finds out… no, no I can't let her find out.'

Kakashi knocked on the bathroom door, "Sakur-" she swung the door open to face the white haired man, "Kakashi, use your Sharingan and look at my abdomen." He gave her a questioning look, "Why would I-" Sakura growing increasingly inpatient cut him off, "Just do it for me please!" Kakashi wanting to figure out why this was necessary did as told and was confused as to what he saw, "You have two different chakra signatures… one's smaller than the other. What's going on Sakura?"-'Shit!'

"Kakashi you have to promise me that you won't tell anyone."- "Sakura, tell me what's happening." Sakura sat down on the toilet gripping her head in both hands elbows resting on her knees trying to figure out the best way to tell Kakashi the both good and bad news, "Sasuke is no longer the only Uchiha." Kakashi didn't know where to even begin.

"Sakura when the Hokage finds out she won't have a choice." Sakura knew what he was talking about she needed to leave, "Sasuke is still considered a traitor, you'll be branded as such and they will kill that child Sakura there is nothing I can do-" once again he was cut off, "Except stay silent." Her eyes could kill she was serious and he could tell that she was. You never get between a mother bear and her cub.

"I would like to know how you plan on keeping this child Sakura because clearly you want to!" Sakura stood up to yell at him frustrated, "I don't have a plan!" they just stared at one another in a test to see who would cave in first. "The one and only thing that I know Kakashi, is that I refuse to take his family away from him a second time. Sasuke's been through enough pain in his life, don't you think so?" she gripped her stomach looking down at her feet.

Kakashi sighed walking away from her hands behind his head only to turn back and look at her. "Three days Sakura, you need a plan by then because there is no why Tsunade will miss something like that."- "I know." The next day Sakura got dressed for the day and was headed out the door before even Kakashi. "Where are you going?" She didn't stop walking towards the door, "There are somethings I need to grab from work." Kakashi looked at her with suspicion but let her go.

When she arrived at KEH she signed herself in and mentioned where they could find her for the day as always. Sakura had tried to avoid all senior staff at the hospital; she knew their rounds so it truly wasn't that hard for her. She made her way into the morgue she found the unidentified person she was looking for, a burn victim from the war about the same height and size as Sakura.

She rolled the person down to the west wing where she knew there were less people. In the almost empty room Sakura laid the roll-e chair on its side like it had been knocked over and placed the dead girl next to it. Before continuing her escape plan she took off her head band and tied it where her own would be to the dead girls head.

Sakura grabbed her matches and held them in hand; she stood on the desk to break the fire alarm sensor so that when fire engulfed the room no one would know until it reached the hall. Sakura lit anything flammable in the room and walked into the hall quickly. She broke all the alarms and lit the next seven rooms on fire and walked out the back door quickly. She climbed rooftops and made her way to the old training grounds where she had a bag packed and a cloak she could wear, it was time to abandon her home.

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Tsunade had just sat down for lunch when suddenly an anxious looking Shizune busted through her office, "Tsunade-sama! The West wing is on fire!" Tsunade stood while slamming her hands on the desk, "Evacuate everyone now!"-"Hai!"

Iruka was on his way to visit Kakashi when he noticed the flames coming off of KEH, he ran as fast as possible. "Kakashi! The hospital is on fire!" as soon as the words left his mouth an Ambo root appeared before them, "Kakashi-sama-"-"Send two teams to help the Hokage in any way we can!"- "Hai!" Kakashi just growled disappearing to go talk with Naruto, 'Damn it Sakura, you pick today out of all to go back to that hospital!'

Kakashi appeared before both a bored looking Naruto and an annoyed Shikamaru. "Rokudaime Hokage, The hospital is on fire." Naruto was becoming more and more like his father every day and was gone in a flash. Shikamaru and Kakashi followed soon after, the flames no longer progressing was contained in the west wing however it did travel to the second floor. With the collaborated efforts of jonin, Ambo, and root alike the flames were extinguished with collaborated water ninjustu.

To say the tall blonde woman was mad would be an understatement, "I want a count on all patients and medics!" Shizune went to work on fulfilling Tsunade's demand, "Hai, Hokage-sama!" Naruto had gotten burnt trying to save two little infants, "Let me see that arm!" Naruto let the Godaime look at his arm, "You should have been more careful!"- "hehe, sorry about that."

A young medic came running with a paper held in her hand, "We are missing one medic my Lady…" All heads turned towards the girl. "Who?" the medic spoke sincerely, "Haruno Sakura." Kakashi grew wide eyed, 'No, this wasn't supposed to happen… I was supposed to protect her!' Tsunade ripped the paper from the poor girl, "That's impossible! She had the week off!" but sure enough there was her students name she had signed in 40 minutes prior to the incident starting for the first shift. "No she… She signed into the west wing…" Tsunade started to shake cupping a hand over her mouth.

All three males, Kakashi, Naruto, and Shikamaru ran back into the charcoaled building in search of the pink haired girl moving through all of the rooms. Shikamaru came upon the scene; "You both need to come quick…" they were there in an instant. The nine tails was already trying to sooth Naruto as he broke down breathing heavily not because of the smoke in the air but because he felt his heart ripping out of his chest. Kakashi was taking it all in at once; there he saw a crisp body curled into a ball mostly ash now with just the metal portion of her headband fallen next to what he assumed was the face.

The males didn't know what to do Shikamaru had turned away trying not to puke; Naruto was crying beating his hands on the ground while Kakashi stumbled backward in an attempt to keep it together. It wasn't the first time he'd seen those he carried about die but now he was sure that he was cursed.

Tsunade and Shizune watched as Kakashi appeared from the smoke, "Did you find her, is she alright!?" Shizune asked hopefully as she was crouched next to her trembling master. Kakashi kept walking past her and the Hokage both to find a more suitable medic, "Rokudaime is in the building, west wing. Bring a few others; there is a body that needs recovering." Shizune finally letting her tears shed rocking back and forth, her and Tsunade sharing their comfort.

After hours of explaining, and working to resolve all that had happened that day Kakashi had finally retired himself to his home. He hadn't wanted to really grieve and was trying to figure out what happened earlier today, but there were no answers to his question not yet anyway. He was cleaning his house trying to take his mind off of things but when he entered his guest bedroom were Sakura had been staying he broke down breaking anything he could put his hands on.

In his fit of anger he had picked up the picture she had of team seven and chucked it against the farthest wall. He slumped down against the bed sitting on the floor as he let himself lose control, something he hadn't done sense the day Rin died 'I failed again.'

He woke up cold on his hard wooden floor plagued by the memories of all those he has lost, taunting him. He picked himself up looking around the room that he had destroyed. Kakashi went to grab cleaning supplies he didn't want to be able to smell her sent in this house. When Kakashi grabbed the broken frame that held the picture of team seven, he paused not sure if he was seeing things.

Behind the picture was a folded piece of paper, Kakashi slid it out from behind. It was a note titled to him. Kakashi had never been more eager to read anything in his life, as he opened he read from Sakura, "Kakashi, I'm not sure if or when you will find this but when you do you must tell no one…" He continued to read the note, "I am still alive, the only thing logical was for me to fake my own death. I had to take the risk; I promise to be safe in my travels. No one must know I bare Sasuke's child or of my existence but you. If you should happen to meet Sasuke before I find him then tell him about my survival. I'm sorry you had to find out like this and I realize people will be in pain but that's how it must be to ensure the safety of mine and Sasuke's child. Thank you, sincerely Haruno Sakura."

Kakashi tore the paper to shreds, he would tell no one per requested. He felt like an idiot, if she had asked him he would have told her where to find Sasuke in this case and now he had no way to communicate to Sasuke where she may be because she never said. Probably scared that in his new position he would be forced to reveal her location. She was smart but so was he, the aster her found real evidence to put the elders away the sooner Sasuke could return. Which intern meant that Sakura could also return.

Most of Konoha attended Sakura's funeral, even the other Kage attended all speaking of her heroism during the war. Ino was crying on Shikamaru as Tsunade spoke to the Leaf Village about her pupils sacrifice. Hinata was giving comfort to Naruto as she watched his heart breaking. Iruka was comforting Kakashi at the time not caring that Anbu root was watching his every move. Kakashi was tense as it was hard to keep a secret like this as he saw every one of her friends and family suffers at the unexpected loss.

Meanwhile in the four days it took the leaf village to organize her funeral Sakura had finally made it to the very outskirts of the land of fire to the town of Kakunodate. While she was still in the land of fire soon she would be on a boat headed for the Degarashi Port in the Land of Tea. She had been using a henge ninjustu in her four days of travel along with an alias. Sakura passed the checkpoint easily and boarded the ship that would take her less than a day to get to the port.

After one more days travel she would finally settle in the most southern portion of the Land of Tea about 30 miles from Minatocho. While thinking of places to go in her escape she remembered back to her genin days when team seven had helped Idate, Ibiki Marino's little brother. Sakura remembered how calm and peaceful the land was, truly beautiful. She resolved to settle down in a small country home to grow an herb garden and earn a living by spending her days in a healing hut raising her child.

When she arrived no one in the town had ever heard of a Sakura Haruno, it was perfect. She had taken all of her emergency money with her and had enough for a small home of five bedrooms. It was bigger than what she wanted but it was perfect as it came with three acers of land, mostly trees. Sakura payed in full not owing a single cent on the house and still had some to spare.

Sakura went to work clearing away trees that she would use later for her garden and hut. She hadn't lied to Kakashi when she told him she need to grab some things from work, Sakura had packed a bag full of rare but valuable herbs that were sure to burn if she had left them anyways. The costal weather was convenient temperature wise to grow the herbs. The first thing she did was to make a greenhouse but she needed a few more supplies and went down to the small town to find what she needed.

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Kakashi had been interrogating shinobi of all ranks as well council members and heads of clans in the village seeking the truth of what the elders did to Itachi Uchiha and the rest of his clan. Yamato had been helping him in this secret mission. Naruto wanting Sasuke home as soon as possible concurred with Kakashi and supported this, Tsunade backing both of the males hating the elders with a deep passion.

Author Speaking!

I hope you all enjoyed, Sakura is one smart cookie. Optimistically let's have some faith that Sasuke doesn't get too upset by this, he did after all entrust Sakura to Kakashi :/ we shall see… Until next time guys which will hopefully be this week sometime!