Those Nights by Skillet is really a great song for this couple. You should listen to it. Don't own either of them.

She was desperate to keep him awake, alert and focused.

"Remember all those night when I'd climb in through your window and the only light would come from your TV and we'd talk for hours because they were fighting?" Sakura spoke through the sobs and pants, trying her best to make sure Kakashi's eyes didn't close.

"Your par... parents fought... a lot... in those... days, didn't... they?" he laughed weakly. Blood spattered onto her arm and chest near his mouth, but she didn't care. He had to stay alive, they had to get back to Konoha before dusk, so he could get medical attention - more than she could provide with her nearly-gone chakra and her pack swept away in the river's tide. He was talking lucidly. He would make it.

"Yes, they did," she cried. "But not nearly as much as I was over there." He coughed up a little more blood. "Sometimes we'd just watch those stupid late-night sitcoms and laugh so we'd stay sane. We both had so many problems back then."

"Still... do... " he coughed. More blood flecked her.

"Or the radio would play all night, and I'd sing or you would, but never the both of us together," she panted. "Why was that?"

The tree branches flew by underfoot and Sakura clutched Kakashi closer to her, unwilling to even think of her life without him in it.

"We'd race, too, across the village, and then collapse in your apartment, not sure whether we should laugh or cry."

She was a bloody, dirty mess, and she knew it, but all that mattered was getting him home, safe.

"Those nights belonged to us, through all the hard times, and there was never anything wrong with us, not on those nights, when we were together," she sobbed out.

"They... are... ours... Sakura-chan," he gasped. "They always... will... be. There's nothing wrong... with... us... "

"We've faced it all together," she gasped, tears dripping from her chin. "We'll live forever and never die, stand and not fall, right? Oh, I wish those nights would last."

She felt a chuckle deep in his chest, and heard him say, "They... will... " but the pleasure she took was muted by the joy of the sight of those huge red gates. She picked up her pace, diverting some of the chakra in her arms, which she was using to carry the man she loved, to her feet to push harder from tree to tree, until she stood before the guard.

Her chakra was nearly depleted and she fell, still crushing Kakashi to her chest.

"Those nights," she whispered.

"Are... ours... with more... coming," he promised raggedly.

Their vision went black.

-

She woke up in the hospital with a medic over her, pumping chakra into her heart. Another stood over Kakashi, doing the same in the other bed.

"Oh, thank God, you're awake!" Her medic was Shizune. Tsunade was working on Kakashi.

"Kakashi - "

"Is fine," Tsunade said, shutting off her power centers. "Go back to sleep."

Sakura's eyes slid closed. When they opened again, she saw her lover with his odd pair trained on her, glassy from the medication he was on. She stood shakily from her bed and crawled into his. Kissing him on the cheek, she whispered, "Those nights."

"Those nights kept me alive," he answered softly.