DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO. THAT HONOR GOES TO KISHIMOTO-SAMA!

A/N: This chapter is a lot better especially towards the end. I got on a bit of a writing roll today so this is why the next chapter is up already! I hope you guys like it!


"Rin, Obito, Sensei they passed, they almost didn't but they got the idea of teamwork in the end. We've been on a few missions since then all of them D-Ranked of course. But today Naruto managed to convince Sarutobi-Sama to give us a C-Ranked Escort mission. We are accompanying an old bridge builder Tazuna to his home in The Land of Waves I better go actually – We were meant to leave an hour ago" Kakashi turned and headed away from the memorial stone.

After an hour of walking Kakashi had noticed a puddle on the ground even though it hadn't rained then they were attacked by two chunin level mist ninja Kakashi let himself be "attacked" using a replacement jutsu and let his students battle so he could see what their techniques were. He jumped back in at the last second to help them out.

Later down the track Team Seven and Tazuna came across Momochi Zabuza a missing-nin from The Mist Kakashi revealed his Sharingan to Zabuza and to Team Seven.

The three Genin were freaking out as their teacher explained about Zabuza being the master of the silent assignation

"Well If we fail we only lose our lives" Kakashi spoke in a deadpan

"How can you say that!" Sakura yelled at him.

Zabuza spoke then and Sasuke started freaking out even more

"Sasuke calm down. I'll protect you with my life. All of you. I Will Not Allow My Comrades To Die. Trust me."

Zabuza then appeared behind the children Kakashi attacked him Both using a water clone. In the end Zabuza had Kakashi trapped in a water prison jutsu. Then made a clone to finish off the three Genin.

"Listen. Get the bridge builder and run. You can't win this fight. He's using all his power to hold me in this prison. So he can only fight with a water clone, but the clone can't go far from his real body. If you get away from him he can't follow. Now RUN!" Kakashi yelled.

'She can't get hurt I can't lose her too. She's my everything. Please guys run!' Kakashi added in his mind.

The team had already made up their minds though, they wouldn't leave their Sensei. Then Naruto and Sasuke in uncharacteristic amazing display of teamwork managed to distract Zabuza long enough for him to accidently release Kakashi from the water prison. Kakashi then manages to take down Zabuza but as he's about to make the fatal blow a Mist tracker-nin jumps in and does for him before whisking Zabuza away. Kakashi then collapses from Chakra exhaustion leaving his team and Tazuna to get them to Tazuna's house.

Kakashi was bedridden for days. When he awoke Sakura was fidgeting with something around her wrist. Kakashi blinked a few times at it then realized what it was 'the bracelet I gave her the day she was born' He thought to himself.

"Sakura… Are you ok? Do you want to talk about something?"

"Oh it's just that my birthday is coming up, probably before we get back to Konoha. I'm just a bit worried. You see this bracelet here. My foster parents told me I already had it on when I was given to them. So it would have come from my birth mother or father. Every year after that on my birthday a new charm appears on it and my foster parents have promised it's not from them. So I'm assuming one my birth parents are a ninja and that's how they do it. But this year I won't be in Konoha for my birthday so they won't be able to put a new charm on it. It's always my favorite gift because it makes me feel like even though my parents gave me up they still must love me and think about me. Is that silly Kakashi-Sensei?"

"Of course it's not silly Sakura-Chan. I think it's completely normal to cherish the only bond you have with your birth parent. I'm sure if they are managing to get in and out with your birthday present each year they will be aware that you are now a genin and are going off on missions so they will wait till the mission is finished and come and put it on your bracelet when we get back." Kakashi gave Sakura a reassuring eye crease.

The charm in question – a bell this year to represent the bell test and becoming a genin – was in fact in a scroll in the pocket of Kakashi's flak jacket. He had already decided it would be too suspicious to put it on the bracelet while on the mission. Sakura was intelligent enough that even if she didn't work out it was him, she would realize that he would sense another ninja coming in even with his chakra exhaustion. This would mean she would expect him to tell her who it was which he couldn't do. So he'd put it on when they got back.

"Thank you Kakashi-Sensei, I feel a lot better now." Sakura gave him a huge smile.

"That's ok Sakura-Chan. How about you tell me a little bit more about you're bracelet like what your favorite charm is."

"Ok Kakashi-Sensei! Well I like all of them but my favorite so far is the miniature Kunai that was put on for the birthday of the year I started at the academy. It looks just like someone shrunk an actual kunai it's that detailed! Oh but I also love the little cherry blossom charm that my foster parents said was put on for my first birthday" Sakura grinned hugely talking about the bracelet she cherished most.

Kakashi hid his own huge grin behind his mask, ecstatic that the bracelet made his little girl so happy.

It was then the others came back in and they started talking about Zabuza and they all came to the realization that that tracker-nin had not killed him but just put him in a near death state.

They decided the next day they would start training for when Zabuza would reappear.

Next up; Chapter 4: Tree climbing, fatherly pride and Zabuza reappears.