"If I never knew you"

By Morobutt

Chapter 4

'Listen to your heart
when he's calling for you.
Listen to your heart
there's nothing else you can do.
I don't know where you're going
and I don't know why,
but listen to your heart
before you tell him goodbye. '

Listen to your heart byDHt


It wouldn't be till evening later that day that she woke yet again; she had fallen over in her sleep and was now on her right side. Putting her right hand under her pushed herself in to a sitting pose and looked around her. Kakashi was still a sleep a few feet away from her, she balled her hands in to fist and rubbed her eyes before she got up and walked over to Kakashi. He seemed to be doing ok; Sakura knelt down next to him and rested the back of her hand over his forehead. He didn't have a temp which was a good sign; she then rested her head on his chest and lessened to him breathing. His lungs sounded clear, he just needs rest she thought.

It was starting to get dark again, Sakura looked through the trees and up at the sky. It was already starting to change from blue to purple, her eyes drifted from the sky to Kakashi. They would have to move again, it would be too risky to spend the night in the same place two nights in a row when you have people coming after you who want you dead. She let out a sigh as stretched out, she felt a lot better now but was still only at seventy percent. She wasn't as fast as Naruto when it came to regaining her strength and chakra.

She would have no choice but to carry Kakashi to a different spot tonight. She let out a sigh as she took hold of Kakashi's arm and pulled him close to her and then jostled him a bit till he was on her back with his legs around her waist and his arms hung limb around her neck. She took a deep breath as she stood up with Kakashi now in a good position to get somewhere fast.

It was funny sight; Sakura was smaller the Kakashi and the way she was holding him she looked like a little girl who had just won a huge teddy bear at the carnival and refused to let anyone help her even though the teddy bear was two times the size of her.

Quickly just before the last few minutes of light where gone; she jumped in to a tree and started on her way back to the Leaf Village. She would again try and get to her home village to tell them what she had found out before someone tried yet again to kill her. She had been lucky so far, Kabuto must still be quite upset over losing his leg or maybe he was trying to find a way to get it back so he wouldn't need a page leg or someone to carry him around. She let out a soft laugh to self at the thought Kabuto looking like pirate with a page leg.

Sakura leaped down from a tree many hours later she was within six miles of the village now, she let put a soft pant as she slowly let Kakashi go and rested his back a tree trunk. Standing up she starched and tried to take a deep breath but forcing it only made her cough. Her green eyes feel on Kakashi who was still out cold

"I hope you don't mind…. If I take a rest… we're almost there now" she said softly

Sakura sat down on the ground and put her left hand in her back pouch and pulled out a canteen of water and drank from it. She had run for hours and had almost made it the other have of the way to her village before the light of a next day. Sakura let herself fall backwards; she now lay on her back. Taking a deep breath she closed her eyes to rest once again.

Sakura wasn't a sleep for long when she felt some one getting close to Kakashi and her. She laid there as if she was still a sleep but pulled a kunai out of her leg holster and hid it under her body. Whoever was coming might be taken by surprise with this she hoped as she waited for the person to show them self.

Finally someone jumped down out of a tree; a guy was wearing a black cloak and had a white mask that looked like a monkey with red lines under its eyes and had gouge over the right said of the face. He was closer to Kakashi then Sakura; his hidden eyes looked from Kakashi to Sakura. He didn't know what was going on, Kakashi and Sakura new better then to sleep without someone standing watch and the Anbu knew it. He slowly bent down and checked on Kakashi. It was then that Sakura attacked; she swiftly turned and lunged at the Anbu member who just jumped back and out of her rang in the blink of an eye. Sakura fell to the ground with a thud and scent some dust in to the air around her.

Sakura readied herself to strike again when her green eyes feel on the Anbu member, standing up she adverted her gaze from the Anbu member who sided stepped and got close to Kakashi and Sakura again.

"What's going on here Sakura?" the Anbu member asked

Sakura let out a soft groan as she looked over at the masked man in front of her. She knew his voice but can't seem to remember who it was. She stayed quiet for a brief moment before she answered him.

"Please… I must get to Lady Tsunade at once… we were attacked on are mission… I have info that Lady Tsunade needs to know at once"

Her voice low but full of urgency; The Anbu member titled his head in thought. She put her weapon away and held her hands where he could see them. He gave a nod to her and walked up to Kakashi, he let out a sigh as he bent down and picked him up. The Anbu member pulled him close and whispered in to his ear, he knew it was useless to talk to him because he more than likely can't hear him but he spoke to him any ways barley above a whisper.

"You own me 'BIG' time yet again Kakashi"

He moved Kakashi so that he was hanging over his shoulder before he looked at Sakura

"Do you have enough strength to make it back to the village?"

She nodded her head; the Anbu member jumped up in to a nearby tree and waited for her to join him before they went on their way to the village.


It only took them two more hours to get to the village gates, as they landed on the ground in front of the gates Sakura came to a stop to catch her breath. The Anbu member looked at her for a moment then at the desk near by the gate, Kotetu and Izumo sat there and watched as the Anbu member came up to them.

"Back already? That must be a village record there" Kotetu said as h laughed

"I don't think he got that far Kotetu… That's Kakashi he has over his shoulder you dumb ass" Izumo said as he hit Kotetu on he left shoulder.

The Anbu member just shook his head before looking back at Sakura. She was hunched over panting, the Anbu member let out a sigh at the site of her like that. She must have gone through a lot to end up like that. Sakura wasn't like she was when she was younger, she was no longer defenseless little girl that stood back and let others take care of her.

"Kotetu… Izumo see to it that Kakashi here gets to the hospital to be treated" the Anbu member said

Kotetu and Izumo quickly made their way from behind the desk and around to the Anbu member before Sakura could speak.

"No… He goes with us to see Lady Tsunade…" she said in an angry voice as she lifted her head to look at them.

"Lady Tsunade will see him later Sakura… Kotetu Izumo get going" the Anbu member said

He let Kakashi slip from his shoulder and in to Kotetu and Izumo grasp. He turned to Sakura who was now walking up to him, her right hand balled up in a fist ready to hit him. She didn't care who this Anbu member was, she would make him pay for thinking he would be able to split her up from Kakashi. The Anbu member just shook his head and started walking away but stopped.

"Look I am taking time from my own mission here to help you out, lest you can do is not be so dame troublesome Sakura… Now come on I'll take you to Lady Tsunade" the Anbu member said as he started to walk away again.


Sakura stood still and watched reluctantly as Kotetu and Izumo took Kakashi the other way then what the masked Anbu member wanted to go. She waited till she couldn't see them any more before she followed the masked Anbu member.

'Don't worry... I'll see you soon Kakashi' she thought to her self

The Anbu member was not too happy with the fact that she took her good old sweet time as they walked to the Hokage complex. It should have taken them in all forty-five minutes to get to the far side of the village but it took well over an hour to get there. Sakura slowly walked behind him, she really wanted to be with Kakashi. She glared at the back of the Anbu members head, if she could she would have beat him in to the ground.

Sakura tilted her head up as the Hokage complex came within sight; she let out a sigh as her green eyes darted down to the ground. She didn't want to brief Lady Tsunade on their mission that left her partner in the hospital. Before she knew she was walking up the steps to Tsunade's room; as they got to the door the Anbu member opened the door and walked her in.

Tsunade's meeting room was empty for the most part, the owner of the room and her assistant where the only other two within the room. Tsunade lifted her head from behind a large stack of papers on her desk and looked out over at her and the Anbu member.

"My Lady, I had found Kakashi Hatake and Sakura Haruno within a few miles away from the village in a bad state and brought them back to the village... Please forgive me for taken the time out of my own mission…" the Anbu member said as he gave a slight bow to Tsunade.

Tsunade rolled her eyes and waved her hand for him to go

"Yes yes… very will thank you… now please go back to what you where sent to do" she said in a rush

"Yes My Lady" was the entire Anbu member said

As the Anbu member turned to leave, Tsunade got up from behind her desk to look around for Kakashi but did not see him anywhere. Her eyes then feel on Sakura who was just standing there with her head looking down at the ground. As the door behind Sakura clicked shut Tsunade let in to her

"Out with it… Where is Kakashi?" she said in an angry tone

"He was taken to the hospital by Kotetu and Izumo, That Anbu member sent him there with them... I told him to bring him here but he wouldn't have any of it… He's hurt…. and I can't help him… I… I don't know what's wrong with him" she said softly

Sakura tried to remain calm as she started to shake; all she could see was him trying to gouge his left eye out. A hand softly rested on her shoulder and brought her back with a gasp as a tear ran down her cheek.

"Hurt how?" a calm voice came from above her

"He was acting wired while he was knocked out cold… he wouldn't leave his left eye alone… by the time I woke he had dug the skin raw around his eye and had blood around it… I think... I think Kabuto did something to him…" she said as she looked up at Tsunade

Tsunade's eyes where a bit wide as she spoke Kabuto's name, she had a frown on her face as she took a step back from her and rested her butt on her desk.

"I'll have to take a look at him... But I am guessing it's something to do with his sharingan… So… Kabuto's not dead… I take it he's the one that is bringing back the Sound village? This isn't good" she said

Tsunade leaned back a bit further on her desk and pulled a paper out of a folder and looked it over before looking back at Sakura. She let out a sigh as she got up off her desk walking past Shizune; who looked at her before going after her.

"Lady Tsunade… you have peopled coming to see you in a few hours... We must go over the paper work…." she said in a worried tone

Sakura looked from one to the other before following Tsunade out the door and down the stairs. She didn't say word to Tsunade; she must be as worried as she was about the Copy Ninja.


They quickly made their way over to the hospital with Shizune going on and on about how they didn't have the time to be going there. Tsunade could care less about that at the moment, Kakashi was one of the village best and the only thing that seems to keep him from his job is over doing it.

As Sakura pulled the door to the hospital open a girl came rushing over to them a worried look on her face, she shook her head as Tsunade looked at her.

"It's not good... Hatake won't stop trying to hurt himself or others so we had to sedate him and bound his hands and feet…" the girl said as she passed a chart to Tsunade.

Taking the chart Tsunade read it, her face turned in to a frown as she looked from the chart to the girl.

"Take me to him" Tsunade said as she handed the girl back the chart

"I should warn you he's been talking in his sleep about something and no one can make out what it is" she said

The girl led them down a hall and up two flights of stairs then past a nurse's station, his room was right on the left side of the nurse's station, with the door open. Sakura started to shake again; she was very worry about him.

Tsunade let out a sigh as she walked in to his room to look him over and close the door.


It didn't take long for Tsunade to return to Shizune and Sakura who were sitting outside the door, her face showed pain and sadness. She looked to Shizune first then to Sakura who looked as if her world was about to end.

"It's a Forbidden Jutsu… and at the moment I don't know if we'll be able to do anything for him… he may wake up and be able to deal with the pain… or we may just have to keep him sedated" she said softly to Sakura

Tsunade looked down at her and put her arm on her shoulder and Sakura started to cry a little.

"Sakura… I don't think it will be a good idea for you to see him… he has done a number to his left side of his face" she said

Tsunade took her hand from Sakura's shoulder and started to walk away but stopped and looked back.

"Sakura… I won't stop you... But know it's not healthy to harbor feelings of being more than just friends or even partners for your past Teacher… it only makes things worse" she said before turning and walking away.

Sakura brought her hands up to her face and rubbed a few tears away as stood and contemplated what Tsunade had said. She let out a sigh,

'If it was so plan to her what she felt then Kakashi must know the same thing.' She thought

Sakura slowly made her way to his door and looked in to his room, the lights where dimmed just so you could make out what was within the room. Kakashi's bead was to the right of the door; there was a small bed side table on both sides of the bed as well as a chair on the right side of the bed. Sakura stood in the door till she heard him murmur, she held her right arm to her chest as she took the first few steps in to his room hesitantly.

Once she was close enough to see his face she let out a gasp, Tsunade had been right he did mess up his left side of his face. A space the size of her hand around his eye was nothing but a red inflamed scab from him digging at his eye. She let out a sigh as she made her way to the right said of his bed; she pulled the chair closer to his bed and sat down with in it.

At first she sat with her back to the back of the chair just watching him breath, but not long after she sat in the chair did Kakashi start to stir. At first he just murmured but that slowly changed in to him starting to tug on his wrist restraints. Sakura slowly sat up in the chair and leaned toward his bed, she took her right hand and ran it down side of his arm till she got to his hand and held on to his hand. Kakashi took a deep breath and relaxed a bit and murmured again. At first the words where not audible but as the drug that sedated him wore off the she could make out some of what he saying.

"Sak… kura… I… I.. Lo…" he said in a soft voice

That was all he could get out before a nurse came in and gave him the drug again. Sakura let out a sigh and sat back in the chair, she could only guess what the next word could be that he was going to say. Now more than ever did she hate the hospital staff. Pulling her knees up in the chair and next to her chest she tried to snuggle up with the back of the chair. She let out a yawn and rested her eyes.


Sakura awoke to voices around her; she stayed huddled up with in the chair and just listened to what was being said around her.

"Hadn't we told you before Kakashi… to take it easy?"

"Asuma… I don't think Kakashi could do that… you remember what he was like in the Anbu... The word easy doesn't really fit within his vocabulary you know…"

There was a long pause before they said any more.

"Genma what are you doing here anyway?"

"Just killing time… oh hey, look a hot nurse… excuse me for a moment"

Sakura let out a yawn and stretched; at once all the others with in Kakashi's room fell silent, their eyes all on her. They knew she was there asleep within the chair but didn't want to wake her. It had been Asuma who heard the news first and told a few others who just followed him to the hospital to see how Kakashi was doing.

Letting her legs fall from the chair to the floor she looked around, the normal people that came to see Kakashi when he was in the hospital where there… but one seemed out of place. Sakura caught the back of Genma before he walked out after the nurse that walked by. She let out another yawn before getting up and looking at Kakashi.

"Any word on how He is doing" she asked

Asuma shook his head no and looked down at the ground; Sakura frowned and walked past the others in Kakashi's room and out his door. She slowly made her way down the hall before stopped and rested her side up against the wall. She brought her right hand to her face and covered it before running her hand down her face with a sigh.

"I've got to do something" she said softly

Before she could think she got up off the wall and running down the rest of the hall to the stairs. She pulled the door to the stairs open and ran down the stairs, two at a time till she got to the bottom. Sakura pushed her way through the door at the first floor of the hospital and rushed to the front desk

"Please… Is Lady Tsunade with in the hospital?" she asked

The girl from before came over to the side of the desk where Sakura was

"No she left for the day… she might be back at the…"

The girl didn't get to finish what she was going to say, Sakura had already ran to the doors and was out of sight from the girl. Once outside Sakura looked up at the sky, it was dusk… Tsunade was more than likely finishing up last minute paper work before she left for the night.

"I've got to hurry" she said to her self

Sakura turned to the detraction of the Hokage complex is in and started to run again. The streets where loaded with people, of all the times she needs to get somewhere fast... More than half of the village had to come out of their homes and make the streets crowded. Pushing past people here and there she let out a sigh, she was getting nowhere with this. She jumped up on the roof of a nearby building and started to run a top the houses and buildings till she got to the Hokage complex.

Sakura jumped down from the nearby house and ran up the stairs till she came to the floor that Tsunade's room was on and opened the door. She had gotten lucky; Tsunade was still sitting before her desk reading over the mission papers that where handed in that day. Lifting her head she looked over at the door and saw Sakura standing there looking at her as she was panting a little from the long run she had just done.

"Sakura… what are you doing here?" she asked

"I've… come to ask you something…" Sakura said with a light huff

Tsunade raised a brow at her as she pushed herself to the back of her chair and looked at her, she hadn't any idea what was going on within her head at that moment.

"Well… what is it?"

"Lady Tsunade… I humbly ask to be sent on a mission to find Kabuto and question him about what he has done to Kakashi…" she said softly as she looked down at the ground.

Tsunade let out a sigh; she had worn Sakura about how her feelings for Kakashi would only make things worse. Taking a deep breath she looked out over at Sakura who still was not looking at her.

"Sakura… I cannot do that… I'll be sending you to your death if I where send you after Kabuto… even if he is in no state to fight he still has underlings… and I will not risk losing one of the villages top medical ninjas we have… you are hear by forbidden to go after him… Kakashi would want you to stay put and wait it out…" she said to Sakura before waving her hand to dismiss her.

Sakura gave her had a slight bow before turning to leave Tsunade's room and closing the door behind her. She let out a sigh as she slowly started to descend the stairs back down to the ground leave. Sakura knew what she had to do, looking back up at the Hokage complex with a glare.

"If you will not do anything about this then I will" she said softly

She walked away from the Hokage complex and towards her home. Starting out slow and then picking up speed till she was in a run. It was now almost night and most of the people that where out on the streets had left. Sakura let out a sigh as she got to her front door of her house and opened it. It had been day's scene she was last home, she wouldn't be staying long, she quickly packed a bag and left again. Locking the door behind her she turned to leave only to bump in to someone who felt like a brick wall.

"Hey watch where you're standing" she said in an angry tone

Sakura rubbed her arm a bit before she looked up at the guy that was standing in front of her. Bright blue eyes stared down at her in a glare.

"You were told not to do this Sakura" came the slightly angry voice of Naruto

"I'll do whatever I want... it's not like sitting around and doing nothing is helping him you know… Maybe if I find out what it is that Kabuto did we might have some chance to bring him out of this… "She said softly

Sakura tried to side step him but Naruto just stood there blocking her way

"I can't let you do that… Tsuna..."

"Oh... So Tsunade sent her most favorite person to stop her student… "She said her tone getting louder and more forceful

Naruto took hold of her arm and made to try and bring her back in to her house but once he had his hand on her she closed her eyes and took a deep breath before she spoke

"You're going to want to let go of me Naruto... if you don't I will not be held responsible for what happens to you" she said coldly

"Sakura... what's gotten in to you? Why are you so willing to risk your life for him?" he asked her

He pulled her arm and gave her a good shake before he pushed her up against her door. Sakura hung her head as her back hit her door, a soft sniffle could be heard before she lifted her head.

"I love him… I tried to kill the feelings my heart brings up every time I am around him… he clouds my mind and… Naruto… please let me go… It's my fault he's like this… I flailed him on the mission we had... please let me make it up to him" she said as few tears ran down her cheek

Naruto rolled his bright blue eyes as he let go of her arm

"Go… if you're not back within the next 2 days I'll have Tsunade send back up… now go!" he said

Naruto stepped aside to let her pass. Letting out a soft sigh Sakura hugged him before she turned and left her porch and made her way to the village gates.

"I'll be back Kakashi… I promise"

She thought as she looked back in to the village before leaving for the sound again.