Kakashi acted

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Kakashi acted. He lifted up his headband so that he could operate his Sharingan eye. Kakashi sent a fireball towards a blond who if memory served him right, was called Deidara. Deidara immediately blocked out the jutsu by creating a shield made suspiciously out of clay. Out of the corner of his eye, Kakashi could see Gai and Anko teaming up to battle Kisame, and Asuma was battling ferociously with a green plantlike person called Zetsu.

"You must be the famous Copy Ninja," Deidara said gleefully. He sent five kunais at Kakashi, who easily dodged it.

"Itachi san told me that he had fought you before," Deidara continued to chatter. "I am amazed that you're still alive. Usually, the ones he traps with his creepy Sharingan thing die off a few days later."

Kakashi felt exhausted. He had been both attacking and defending vigorously but none of it seemed to have any effect on Deidara. He dimly wondered at why Deidara was talking so much.

By the time Kakashi had realized what Deidara was up to, it was too late. Kakashi spun around quickly but before he was able to attack the Akatsuki who had been creeping up to him, he was grabbed roughly from behind. Kakashi was pretty sure that the Aktsuki was called Hidan.

Hidan gripped Kakashi's arms tightly and forced them to twist painfully behind Kakashi's back. Kakashi struggled with his attacker but Hidan was simply too strong. Deidara had already moved on to Kurenai, who was fighting for her life desperately.

"Kakashi sensei!"

Kakashi's head whipped around, only to see three of the Akatsuki members attacking Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura. Some king of sticky black line was being wrapped around them and the lines were creeping upwards to their faces. Kakashi could tell that soon their mouths and noses who be covered, not allowing them to breathe.

Naruto opened his mouth again.

"Kakashi sensei!!"

Kakashi struggled more intensely with his holder, who maintained a tight grip on Kakashi. The cursed Akatsuki chuckled in amusement and lowered his mouth close to Kakashi's ear.

"Looks like your students are calling you, sensei," Hidan murmured. Kakashi growled and carried on trying to break free, though he felt that it wasn't humanely possible.

"Kakashi sensei!!" Naruto screamed once more before the sticky black line completely covered his mouth. Gai tried to help Naruto and the others but he was simply flicked way by the black line.

Kakashi was beginning to panic. He was being forced to watch his students suffocate.

"Use your head, Kakashi," Kakashi thought desperately to himself. "Think of something you idiot! Use your head!"

"Use your head!"

Kakashi bent his head lower down and brought it up quickly, smashing directly into Hidan's face. The man howled in pain and released his grip on Kakashi. Kakashi ran forward without any hesitation. Jiraiya and Tsunade were quite far away, battling two Akatsukis at once. Kakashi thought he had actually heard one of the Akatsuki call Jiraiya "sensei".

It seemed however, that it was up to Kakashi to get his students out of the situation they were in.

"Chidori!" Kakashi's hand was immediately surrounded with blue chakra and he rushed forwards at the Akatsuki who was conducting the treacherous black lines. Kakashi recognized him to be Kakuzu.

Kakuzu's eyes widened as Kakashi smashed his hadn into Kakuzu's heart. The black lines engulfing Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura began to disappear, leaving behind three unconscious, but mercifully very much alive, Genins.

After wrenching his hand back out of Kakuzu's body, Kakashi sighed in relief. But he quickly noted that the night wasn't over and the other Akatsuki members were heading towards Naruto once more. Kakashi spotted Itachi among them and shivered slightly as he remembered about how he was trapped in the genjutsu. It was also a good thing that Sasuke wasn't conscious - Kakashi didn't think that he would be able to cope with a murderous Sasuke as well.

Kakashi placed himself in front of his students. He saw two fatal jutsus flying towards him and he quickly performed a shield jutsu. Kakashi's shield jutsu managed to block out the attacking jutsus but just barely. Kakashi could feel Obito's Sharingan eye slowly draining his chakra. By the way things were going, Kakashi estimated that he had only five minutes left before he blacked out.

After performing yet another shield jutsu and three attacking jutsus, Kakashi was struck with a plan.

"Summoning no jutsu!" Kakashi yelled and he slammed his bloody hand into the ground. However, instead of the usual pack appearing, only the bandaged dog appeared.

"Master?" the dog inquired.

"I…need you to take…," Kakashi panted, sending five kunais at the enemy, "Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura…to a safe place."

"Till when master?"

"I'll alert you when to take them back to Konoha," Kakashi gasped out and backed up slightly. The bandaged dog nodded but not before looking concernedly towards Kakashi.

"What about you master?"

"Three is you maximum," Kakashi said shortly, wiping away the blood dripping onto his eyes. "Go, now!"

The dog closed it's eyes and a bright light filled the scene momentarily. After the light had faded away, all the Akatsuki members shrieked out in anger and despair. For the jinchuriki was gone, along with his teammates. Only the Copy Ninja was left, looking thoroughly exhausted but triumphant at the same time.

Kakashi suddenly found himself the centre of the Akatsuki members' attacks. It took him all of his concentration and energy to simply doge all the deadly attacks aimed at him.

"Stop!" the leader yelled at his Akatsuki comrades. "We need him alive!"

"Alive?" Kakashi thought confusedly. "Why do they need me alive?"

Kakashi groaned internally as he realized why the Akatsuki wanted him alive. After all, he was the only one who could reach Naruto and the Akatsuki would need him to summon his dog again, to bring Naruto back.

"I really should think about the consequences?" Kakashi asked himself tiredly. He just barely avoided getting hit by a jutsu that would have knocked him out.

Kakashi unconsciously thought about the consequences he had faced for accepting Obito's Sharingan eye.

--FLASHBACK--

Kakashi was nervously waiting outside the Uchihas main hall. He was waiting with his sensei, who kept giving him a comforting smile. By the muffled loud voices Kakashi could hear, he suspected that the Uchiha elders were angry.

"You can come in now," an Uchiha opened the main hall's door and gestured for Kakashi and his sensei to go through.

Kakashi entered the wide room and felt small almost immediately. All the important Uchihas were seated around the room. Their red fan emblem painted on each of the four walls of the room.

"You're Hatake Kakashi," an Uchiha elder stated. Kakashi nodded.

"You're Namikaze Minato," the same Uchiha said to Kakashi's sensei. Minato nodded as well.

"Do you know why you're here boy," another Uchiha asked roughly. He couldn't have been more than a few years older than Minato but he had an arrogant air around him. His name tag read "Isai"

"No," Kakashi said simply. Isai hissed in anger.

"Because you have stolen what clearly belongs to an Uchiha," Isai yelled. His words made the other Uchihas around him nod in agreement.

"Obito gave his Sharingan to Kashi as a gift," Minato said. His voice had a cold edge anger to it, which Kakashi had rarely heard before.

"For all we know," Isai hissed, "the Hatake brat murdered Uchiha Obito and threatened that medic nin to transplant the eye."

Minato drew in his breath sharply in anger and Kakashi snarled under his breath in disgust. Minato gently squeezed Kakashi's hand, warning him not to get angry. Kakashi almost smiled. It was Minato who seemed more likely to attack the loudmouthed Uchiha.

"Your body will eventually reject the eye," an Uchiha medic nin said to Kakashi. Minato shook his head.

"The Sharingan eye only drains Kashi's chakra when it's used or exposed," Minato said steadily. "Right now, Kakashi is able to use it for at least ten minutes but I'm sure that he will be able to use for a longer time in the future. All he needs is some practice,"

"Nevertheless Minato," an elderly Uchiha protested, "he is not of an Uchiha."

"That doesn't matter!" Minato yelled. He closed his eyes for a while and forced himself to calm down.

"Obito gave his Sharingan eye to Kashi as a gif. It was his final wish for Kashi to gain the Sharingan eye," Minato said calmly, "Please don't deny Obito's wish."

Kakashi gripped his sensei's hand tightly as the Uchihas finally gave Kakashi the consent to keep Obito's eye. Isai glared at him angrily.

"You're exactly like your father, brat" Isai said venomously. Kakashi kept his bored expression on.

"I wish that I was like my father," Kakashi said lazily. "He managed to rescue all of his teammates. I didn't."

Minato smiled at his favourite student prudly. It seemed that Kakashi was finally learning that the true meaning of life was to protect those you love.

Kakashi fought the Akatsukis bravely. Anyone could see that. But his chakra levels were dangerously low and not to mention the fact that the Sharingan was slowly draining his remaining chakra.

Gai, Asuma and Kurenai raced forwards to aid Kakashi while Jiraiya and Tsunade were forced to battle Tobi and Deidara. Itachi and Kisame however, faced Gai, Asuma and Kurenai and prevented them from reaching Kakashi.

A jutsu finally managed to hit Kakashi. Kakashi felt the wind get knocked out of him and he dropped onto his knees, his guard completely lowered. Another jutsu hit him and Kakashi groaned as his world started to turn black. He slumped to the ground and blacked out.

His last thought was that at least his students were safe.

"Everyone get back to base," Pein declared. He had short orange hair and stud marking his face. "Kisame, you carry the Copy Nin and everyone else move."

Kisame broke away form his fight with Asuma and slung Kakashi over his shoulder. In just a few seconds, all of the Akatsuki members had gone - along with the famous Sharingan Warrior.

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