You Never Knew
by
Sesshy's-Stalker
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
A/N: Ok so here's the new chapter. The last chapter wasn't the greatest so this one will be better, maybe. I don't really like typing fight scenes, so I'm making them vague, hope you enjoy it, read and review!
A/A/N:Someone asked how old everyone was, ok all of the Rookie nine are about 26(around that age), Kakashi is...40, wow.
Chapter 4:Like Titans, huh?
' It got quite cloudy all of a sudden today. That's a bad omen if I ever saw one. I wonder what our 'Hokage' is up to right now. Oh well, might aswell catch up on some light reading.'
With that thought Kakashi pulled out his favored reading materiel.
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"Naruto, how is Kakashi going to help you with Gaara?" Naruto and Sasuke were walking down a dusty road leading to a grassy training ground. " Well, you remember that time he sealed up your cursed seal. Well it's something like that, but not as extreme. You see, ever since 'it' happened Gaara has lost control over himself quite a few times, so Kakashi has sort of become an expert in dealing with Gaara's 'outbursts'. Not that I couldn't deal with it alone its just wiser to have Kakashi do it."
As they came up to a tree Sasuke noticed his old sensei sitting against the tree reading a certain orange book. ' I guess old habits die hard.'
" Hey! Kakashi we need your help!" yelled Naruto to his former teacher who just ignored him and kept reading his book.
"Look Kakashi, I don't have time to deal with this right now. I know your still mad at me for what happened, but this problem involves Gaara so get off your fat ass and come help me!" Upon hearing Gaara's name Kakashi perked up, closed his book, and stood up.
"Ok let's go." and he started walking towards Gaara's current residence. Sasuke gave Naruto a questioning glance, but Naruto just shrugged him off and started following Kakashi down the road.
"...ok..." and then he also followed after Kakashi.
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' This is all so strange. Naruto is the Hokage, Kakashi is acting like I'm not even here, Gaara is a raving lunatic, and Sakura...Sakura is gone. I've missed out on a lot and for what, some silly revenge plan that backfired on me. Oh boy Sasuke, you really are a screw up, heh.'
"Oi! Naruto, can you tell me what it was like when Sakura became the Hokage." Naruto and Sasuke walked next to each other a couple feet behind Kakashi. As soon as Kakashi heard Sakura's name he stopped and with his back still facing Naruto he said," Look Naruto I'll meet you over there, I'm going on ahead." Then he poofed away.
"What's wrong with him?" Naruto didn't look at him but just kept walking. " Well, Sakura is a sensitive subject for Kakashi. I've learned its best to not mention her around him, he can get a little testy. Do you remeber when I said that Kakashi is upset with me, well its because of Sakura."
"What are you talking about Naruto? Why is he so upset over Sakura? And how does it concern Sakura? Were they involved somehow?"
"Goddamn Sasuke, you ask a lot af questions, but I guess its only natural seeing as you've been gone for, what- 14 years? You sure as hell missed a lot of important things, haven't you? But fine, I'll answer your questions to the best of my abilities. Well as for Kakashi, it might surprise you, but he loved her...and it wasn't your typical teacher/student love.Atleast for him it wasn't . Its true that she didn't return his love or anything and I guess the rejection got to him. But he still loves her and he still can't cope with the loss of his love even though it wasn't returned. And he's helping us as a way to somehow express his love for her by protecting all that she held dear.
"Everytime Gaara has his 'episodes' Kakashi is always there to help as a way to make it up to Sakura, at least that's what I've gathered so far. I don't know how far Kakashi's love for Sakura runs, but she must have had a strong hold over him for Kakashi to put up with this for so long...but all of this is a story for another time. Now you wanted to know what it was like when Sakura was Hokage, right?"asked Naruto after avoiding the other questions.
"Mm-hmm." mummbled Sasuke still wondering how Kakashi had fallen in love with Sakura, though he knew it wasn't a hard thing to do and sometimes it couldn't be helped.
"Ok, but I'll have to tell you of the events that lead up to Sakura becoming Hokage, well lets see...a little after she got back from Suna, when she was like 16 I guess, there was an attack on Konoha by the Akastuki...
Flashback
The night air was crisp as an ominous fog seeped onto the empty Konoha streets. The sleeping citizens unaware of the impending danger that would soon befall them. Some shinobi were in a light sleep, always prepared incase of attacks and some awake on guard duty or unable to sleep.Soon everything became eerily quite as if the whole city were holding its breath anticpating the next move that was to come. In a flash about 20 blurs sped through the Konoha streets into the heart of the city.
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"Shizune! Bring me more sake! These papers aren't going to sign themselves, you know!" yelled the Godaime Hokage to her assistant/apprentice while reading over some last minute papers for the night. "Jeeze! Tsunade-sama, why don't you just use coffee to perk you up instead of alcohol like normal people?" asked Shizune while bringing her sensei a tray full of sake bottles. "Because Shizune, if I had coffee I would actually be clear-headed enough to know what I'm reading and signing and this way I save time since I know I couldn't read them anyway... I think."
" That does't make any sense!" "Well that's the logic I've used and its always worked for me so far, so I'm stickin' to it."
" Right...ok!" And then Shizune left the Hokages office to get back to her work.
Then the whole tower shook with a great tremor. There was a bright light and the smell of smoke drifted through the air."Tsunade-sama!" Shizune ran back to her sensei's office only to find that when she opened the door the whole office was gone. If she had taken another step into the room she would have fallen atleast 3 or 4 stories.
"Tsunade! Where are you!" She ran back insde and down the stairs all the way to where the rubble that had once been the Hokage's office lay.
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" Ugg...What the hell!" Yelled Tsunade as she pushed her way through all the rubble and debris that had once been her office. As she stood she noticed that the major pain that she felt was from the spot where her arm had once been. Now she noticed that she was missing her entire left arm from the elbow down. She screamed bloody murder and clutched the arm stub to her body as she managed to calm down enough to search for her severed arm. Being the great medic-nin she was if she found her arm in time she would probably be able to reattach it.
Through pain and sobs she managed to find her arm only to see it had been mostly crushed under a giant fragment of concrete. There was no way she could manage to reattach it now, so she did the best she could to save what she had. She healed her arm so that the stub would stop gushing blood and then she tore her shirt into a makeshift bandage to mend to her arm.
Then she heard Shizune screaming and saw her running up to her. When Shizune started inspecting her, she also noticed that she was covered from head to toe on cuts, scrapes, and bruises. "Tsunade-sama what happened? Are you ok?" asked a worried Shizune as she observed her mentor's missing arm. Then she started yelling frantically. Getting tired of all the damn yelling Tsunade slapped Shizune with the arm that had once been attached to her body, affectively leaving a bloody handprint on Shizune's face, which freaked her out even more.
"Damnitt Shizune, shut the fuck up! You're not making this any better with all of your damn screaming!" ordered Tsunade to her pupil.
By now all of the commotion had drawn an audiance of Konoha shinobi." Excuse us Hokage, but we are under attack right now." stated one of the ANBU members." Don't you think I know that by now! My freakin' arm just got blown off, I think that was a big warning sign that we're under attack! What I want to know is who is attacking us and what we're doing about it!" yelled the Hokage waving her severed arm around for emphasis. The ANBU winced as some of them were sprayed with blood from the Hokage's severed arm as she flung it in the air.
"We have confirmed that the Akatsuki are attaking and most of our shinobi are already engaging them in battle." said the same ANBU as before.
"Alright, now bring me Sakura and any of the rookie 9 and team Gai that you happen to find along the way while I look for a suitable temporary office!" commaned Tsunade as she started walking toward the Ninja Academy with Shizune following behind.
"Hai!" and then the ANBU poofed away to search for Sakura.
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Meenwhile in another part of the city many Akatsuki members were fighting against some of Konoha's elite shinobi, some of which included: Kakashi, Gai, Lee, Genma, Neji, Hinata, Hiashi, and other Hyuuga clan members, aswell as some members of the Akamichi, and Inuzuka clans and some other elite shinobi. The Konoha ninja were fighting hard, but it seemed that the Akatsuki had tha upper hand in this situation. It seemed as if the Akatsuki were prepared to fight these particullar ninja, they knew how to counter the Sharingan, the Byakugan, and the specific taijutsus and genjutsus familiar to some of the clan memebers and other ninja.
In more simple terms the Konoha-nin were gettin' their asses handed to them by the Akatsuki. But even if it seemed that they were fightig a losing battle the Konoha-nin were proving themselves a worthy challange.
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The ANBU that was sent by the Hokage to retrieve Sakura was speeding across the rooftops dragging a half-asleep Sakura to the Ninja Academy followed by Naruto, Ino, Shikamaru, TenTen, and Shino. Upon ariving,Tsunade was there to meet them.
"Were these the only ones you could find. Well its not much, but it'll do, I guess." With that Tsunade walked back into the building where there were many other shinobi gathered already. Among them were now Kakashi, Lee, Gai, Neji, Hinata, Kiba, Choji, and some other random ninja, who were all coverd in scratchs, wounds, and bleeding from various places.
"Ok, I assembled you because you are the best and most capable in your own particular fields and we're going to need most of you to take down the Akatsuki," said the Hokage with confidence then added, less confidently ," or at least make them retreat."
" Well that was a real confidence booster." replied Kakashi to Tsunade's little speech, which ticked her off so she decked him. "Ok I'm going to need Sakura, Shikamaru, and Neji to stay with me. The rest of you will pair off with someone who you are capable of fighting alongside with, there is no room for mistakes here. I don't really care who you choose aslong as you complete the mission and come back alive, am I understood?" the shinobi paired off, responded "Hai!", and dispersed.
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Shizune, Sakura, Shikamaru, and Neji stayed behind awaiting further instructions from Tsunade. "What are you planning to do now, Tsunade-sensei?" asked Sakura, getting even more nervous by the minute. " Ok, Shikamaru, you are to stay with me at all times. Shizune and Sakura will round up as many medic-nin as possible and go into the battle areas and keep our shinobi going as long as we can. Those are your instructions for know, got it?" All of them nodded. Shizune and Sakura headed out to complete their mission.Neji and Shikamaru stayed behind to hear Tsunade's last instruction.
"Neji, I have a special assignment for you. I have an ominous feeling I'm not going to get to see tomorrow's sunrise. If I don't make it, it is of upmost priority that you inform the future Hokage of her new status. Your mission is to protect the new Hokage by any means possible, do you accept? "
"Hai.."
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The battles raged on and many lives were lost, some of who belonged to very notable people. The majority of the threat that had once been the Akatsuki was destroyed, some of the members had retreated, including Itachi. It was almost garunteed victory for Konoha. The only obsticle left was the mysterious Akatsuki leader, who was engaging in a battle with Tsunade, per her last request. Tsunade had fought long and hard along with the rest of her village, but this was her final moment and she knew it, so why not go out with a bang?
"Godaime Hokage, it's an honor to be the last one to fight you. I hope to not dissapoint." said the Akatsuki leader honestly. Even though he was the leader he had not come out of combat unscathed, and this would most likely be his last battle aswell. "The feelling is mutual, I assure you."
Both respective leaders got into their prefered stances, preparing to do battle.
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The few who witnessed their final battle could have sworn it was like watching ancient titans clash. The final match did not dissapoint as both went down in a blaze of glory, delivering eachothers final blows simultaneously.
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Once news spread that the Hokage and the Akatsuki leader were both dead the village went into a frenzy of panick. Without their leader the village would fall into despair unless they found a competant new Hokage soon. Among the havoc a battered and bruised Neji calmly walked up to a distraught and confused Sakura.
He stopped before her.
Kneeled to her in a regal manor and in a composed voice asked.
" What are your orders, Hokage-sama..."
