Gai stared down at his sleeping student sadly.
Lee's wounds were bad. Really bad. Gai had over heard several of the doctors speaking in the hall as he was walking down the hall to his student's hospital room.
Multiple broken bones, fractures and contusions. The bone in his lower left arm and leg had been completely crushed, the muscle in his arm; along his bicep, just below his shoulder had been peeled away from the bone and their was nerve damage that would cause Lee severe pain for several years even once the wound was healed.
And on top of that, there were several very small bone fragments pressing up against Lee's spine, making it very difficult for him to walk around and move on his own.
And Gai was having a hard time facing reality. The thought of Lee having to give up his dream was simply too much for the man to handle, he loved Lee like a son and would do anything in the world for him.
He ran his palms over his face and blinked back tears. He was an idiot to cry when he was on duty. Or in public since shinobi weren't supposed to let their emotions get the best of them, but as soon as Lee had been taken out of the exam hall on the blood stained stretcher being carried by the medical nins, it had been like a switch flipping in his head. The tears had started and no matter how long he stayed with Lee or even when he was alone, the tears just wouldn't stop.
He was so scared that he had just ruined this particular young man for life. He was so scared that his student's dreams would be crushed and he would be forced to retire before he could achieve his goals. He was terrified that Lee's wounds would somehow become infected-and his student would die.
There was so many terrible things that could happen from here. So many things that could end Lee's career as a shinobi and there were even more that could end his life. He hung his head and took a shuddering breath and hastily wiped his eyes with his sleeve as the door opened a bit and one of the council members stepped inside. Gai looked more than a little surprised to see someone considered to be a noble, walking through his student's door.
Especially since the noble's of the village rarely visited the lowly soldiers and shinobi that protected the village. The elderly man looked at Lee for a second then glanced at the green clad nin. "Gai."
Gai stood up and dropped to one knee in front of the man and bowed his head to show respect. "My lord."
"How is your student Gai?" The lord asked as he looked at the boy again. A blank expression on his face.
"He is..." Gai glanced at the sleeping boy as he took a shuddering breath and unconsciously fisted his unwounded hand in the bed sheets. "Holding up as well as to be expected." Gai said after a second or so.
"I hear that he may have to retire." The lord said, as he looked at Gai again and smirked when he saw the man flinch. Ah, so it was true. How perfect.
He had come to the hospital intending to seek out the perfect weapon-er shinobi to serve as an assassin. He had been concerned for a while that the village bane had been getting too strong, and after seeing the demon fight in the chunin exams he was more convinced than ever that the monster had to be put down.
That's where Gai came in. The man was one of the most loyal shinobi that the village had to offer next to the copy cat nin, who's dedication to the village was legendary. However he doubted that Hatake would take up this particular task since it was so close to his heart.
Gai however-was in a desperate situation right now and could easily be manipulated to suite his purposes. He's offer the man a chance. An painfully impossible choice for him, that would in many people's eyes make him a traitor.
Kill Uzumaki Uzu, and save his student.
Or sit back and watch his student suffer for the rest of his days, however few they may be...
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Kakashi looked at the pink haired girl and sighed tiredly.
Damn it. It had been almost a week since Uzu and Sauske had been released from the hospital and oddly enough Sauske was his only student other than Sakura who had shown up for any of the missions that they had had so far.
It was irritating that Uzu seemed to be blowing them off, and shirking her responsibility as a fellow shinobi. But then again, something may have happened to her and though he was loath to admit it; he was starting to get worried about the girl. Maybe he should swing by her place and check on her. "Kakashi-sensei, could you help me practice my..." Kakashi's blue eye flickered up from the book in his hand to Sakura's face as she blushed a bit. He raised a brow at the girl sensing that she was trying to ask him to fuck her again.
He weighed the pro's, which mostly consisted of Sex. Sex was nice. It had been over fourty eight hours since he had fucked a warm willing body. Sakura had a damn talented mouth... And-he could'nt really think of any con's at the moment since all of the blood was rushing south. Causing his body to harden.
He snapped his book closed and smiled warmly at her. "Of course, Sakura." He said in a smooth silky tone as he waved bye to Sauske, grabbed Sakura and walked off into the woods.
As soon as he was sure that they were alone he grabbed Sakura and slammed her up against the nearest tree and kissed her, through his mask. She moaned softly and wrapped her legs around his hips so that he was pressed against her, he made a hissing sound and ground himself against her as he ripped her shirt and slipped his hands inside to tease her small breasts. She arched her back a bit as he nipped at her skin through his mask.
She wished that he'd take the damn thing off. But knew that if she tried to pull it down or remove it, he would snap her neck.
He had made himself perfectly clear the day that he had first taken her aside and fucked her; his mask, his face, those things were off limits to her. He didn't explain why but she was'nt stupid. Kakashi only showed his unmasked face to someone that he felt a deep bond of affection for, and apparently he didn't have that deep bond with her. Not that she minded any since he was a fantasic lover.
She felt the blade of a kunai lightly gliding over the seam in her shorts and her arousal spiked. "Mn, sensei...stop playing around." Sakura gasped as she felt his fingers slip through the hole that he had just made and finger her, her breathing hitched a bit as he slipped two fingers inside of her and teased her as he sucked at the skin of her shoulder. She robe his fingers shamelessly as she gripped his shoulders, she was already so close that she didn't really notice when he lifted her up a bit and unzipped his pants and withdrew his fingers and slipped his dick inside of her and started thrusting until she was screaming and clenching and milking him as she came.
He growled and withdrew from her and came on the outside of her thighs. Sakura whimpered at the loss, damn, she had been so close to her goal that time. Kakashi laughed, knowing all too well why Sakura was so hot for him.
Her bitch of a mother had had him investigated and found some intresting things out about him. Like why he had'nt married or settled down yet and started a family. As well as how much money he makes on his jobs and other things that were'nt really anyone's buisness. And had sent Sakura to seduce him and get pregnant with his child.
It would never happen.
Kakashi would never get that careless, nor would he ever get some common whore pregnant with his child. He'd kill the girl before he let her give birth to one of his blood line. He put her down and moved back and fixed his clothes as she pulled herself together and fixed her own. "Geez sensei, you always pull out. I thought that guys liked to leave a piece of themselves inside of their women." Sakura complained a bit. Kakashi snorted.
"Your not my woman." And he had zero possessive tendencies towards her since he didn't really like her anyways. The only reason that he bothered with her was because he had had to find out what she was up too, and because he was curious about the sex. Nothing more.
Now that he had the information that he needed, he didn't need to bother with her any more. Not this way at least.
Sakura looked at him, not the least bit bothered by the fact that he had just said that she was'nt his woman. She knew that catching him in her net would'nt be easy since Kakashi was such a wild and difficult man to catch.
She walked up to him and tipped her head back and closed her eyes and waited for him to kiss her, Kakashi shook his head and leaned down and whispered, "Never again." And walked off leaving Sakura feeling as if she had just had a bucket of icy cold water as dread settled like a lead wieght in her stomach. Oh her mother was going to be pissed about this.
Kakashi walked out of the woods and looked around as if he was expecting someone and sighed, now that he was'nt distracted anymore he was back to being worried about Uzu. Maybe he'd swing by her place and check up on her and make sure that she was okay.
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Uzu had'nt been able to sleep like she had hoped. For some strange reason every tiem she had tried to doze off, she had felt an overwhelming sense of anxiety and in the end had gotten out of bed and wound up in her living room, sipping some cinnomen and apple herbal tea, that she sometimes made to help her relax. She found the tea soothing, it's scent and taste pleasing, and often ended up dozing off after drinking some of it.
But for some reason unknown to her, she had'nt been able to do that just yet. Even though she had drank four cups of the stuff already. She turned on the TV and stared at the screen as there was a soft knock on her front door.
She sighed and turned the TV off again and set the remote and her tea aside and stood up to go answer the door, stopping briefly just at the door to silently debate with herself on weather or not she should pull on her jacket and use the hood to hide herself like she usually did when she heard Kakashi's voice on the other side of the door.
"Uzu? Are you going to open the door or do I have to kick it in?" He sounded like he usually did, though the threat of having him kick open her door, again was enough to make her open it and glare at him. She was too tired to put up with his shit today.
He braced his elbows on the door frame and leaned into the apartment and looked it and her over. Everything looked okay. "You missed training today." Kakashi said as if he were using that fact as an excuse to bother her. She sighed and rubbed her temples and moved away from the door knowing that he would want to come in and look around for some reason or another.
"Yeah, sorry. I had some things to do." Like fix her back door, put out the small fire that someone had set in her bedroom before she had come home, go buy a new mattress and some new bed sheets, do some grocery shopping...
The list went on and on.
No wonder I'm so tired. She thought half amused as Kakashi brushed by her and walked into her apartment as she closed the door and turned to look at him as he examined everything in her living room. He didn't smell any blood, niether hers or anyone elses so she had'nt been hurt in an attack. Yet he did pick up the subtle smell of smoke. "Was something set on fire?" He asked curiously as he turned to look at her. His gaze calculating.
Seeing that look on his masked face made her want to slap him. She hated being looked at like that. Like she was a bug in a glass display or something. But she was'nt about to lie to him since he'd do something wierd to her if she did. "My bed. Someone took the screws out of the back door and set my bed on fire." She didn't bother mentioning that the sorry son of a bitch had probably waited on her, hoping that he could ambush her.
"Are you okay?" Kakashi asked as he looked her over again, silently cursing the demon sealed in her body. Even if she had been hurt, she'd never tell him. Just like he would never know if she was wounded due to how quickly her wounds healed. Always knitting together so perfectly that her skin was never scarred.
It infuriated him to know that she was suffering. And that there was nothing that he could do to help her because he never knew just how badly she was hurting. "I'm fine...I was out when it happened so no real harm done."
He nodded his head, but could'nt help himself from asking where she had been while she was out. He had himself convinced that he was just asking out of curiosity, but he was'nt such a fool as to not know that he was actually asking for more personal reasons. Out of his three students, Uzu was the one that he watched. The one that he took maticulous care of. The one that he would do anything for, no matter how damning.
He doubted that she was aware of the power that she had over him because he always held himself so aloof, and acted so cold towards her. He didn't want her to know how much he worried, or cared for her, he didn't really know what kind of person she was.
Though he knew some things about her.
She was quiet, well educated, dedicated to her work as a fellow shinobi though she sometimes got side tracked by the attacks and such. All in all she appeared to be a very nice person, and though he wanted to believe that she was exactly as she appeared to be, years of experience had taught him that people were rarely what they appeared to be. The Kyubbi was just another reason why he watched her so closely. Still, he did like those things that he saw in her. Even if they were faked or forced.
He knew that containing a demon could'nt be easy for her. In fact he was sure that in many ways it was very painful and put a strain on her body and mind, leaving her open and vulnerable to the demon's manipulations. He worried that she sometimes caved in to the demon's wishes without realising it.
"So you skipped out on training today to do-"
"Nothing that should concern you sensei. I kept myself out of trouble." Her cheeky reply made him smile, there was that prickly, willful nature that he enjoyed so much.
"Thats all well and good, but tell me anyways." So that he could set some traps around her apartment before he left her. Just in case.
She reached up and massaged her temples again and he frowned and walked over to her and pulled her hands down away from her head and tipped her head back so that he could look her over more thuroughly. Her face was paler than usual and there were dark almost bruise like circles under her violet eyes. "You have'nt been sleeping." He said it almost like an accusation as he studied her face.
"I have'nt been doing a lot of things this past two weeks..." She said absent mindedly as he brushed his thumbs along the curve of her cheek bones, lightly tracing the dark markings under her eyes.
"Like what? Anything that I should be concerned about?"
"No not really... I really am sorry that I missed training today."
"Don't worry about that. Just try to take better care of yourself in and get some rest." Kakashi said gently as he dropped his hands away from her face and moved back away from her. It was time that he left since he had done what he had come to do, and checked up on her.
"Leaving now sensei?" She asked curiously as he brushed past her and moved over to the window.
"Yeah. Just get some rest." Kakashi said as he opened the window a sliver and slipped out and closed it behind him. He'd be back to check on her again in a few hours.