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"Talking"

'Thinking'

Past thoughts

Warning:Manga Spoilers


'I must have been insane when I agreed to this!' Sakura grunted, in an un-lady like manor, as she rolled around in bed for the fifth time. Sasuke had insisted that their child be brought home to the Uchiha manor after his birth; Sakura didn't really care if he was brought there or the apartment that he was conceived in, just as long as he was healthy... but Sasuke and his damn ego! So he hounded the carpenters and lady Tsunade to get everything done before the birth next month. (Note: So in case you don't know it's June people).

Well he even became too impatient with that, so he moved them into the finished house in May; the grounds were the only thing that needed to be finished at this point. But one major problem with the house was upsetting the Uchiha matriarch... it was June and the hottest summer on record so far and there was no air conditioner! Not the best thing for an eight month pregnant woman, "Sasuke!" She knew he was hiding from her since this morning, he felt guilty she was suffering like this; but he couldn't do much because the units themselves took a while to finish and wouldn't be finished till late August. The hokage had also ordered her to bed rest a few months before, ever since she almost passed out at the hospital in April; she's done nothing since then and was bored out of her mind.

The male Uchiha appeared in the door way a few minutes later, "Hn?"

She was getting quite tired of that grunt, she sharply sat up in bed and pulled the sheet up to cover her exposed chest. "Don't get me that 'hn' would it kill you to buy at least a fan for this oven up here!?"

He stood there for some time just staring at her, which only pissed her off more. "I'll see what I can do," was his response, no anger in his voice; he then walked over to her and kissed her forehead.

Her temper quickly deflated at his caring jester, "Thank you Sasuke-kun."

"Get some rest, you didn't sleep well last night." She nodded then laid down, but didn't pull the covers up because she was still too hot. He noticed this and went to the bathroom that connected to their room, and brought back a wet rag to place on her forehead to cool her down.


Sasuke left the room only to be met by Naruto down stairs, "Dobe, what are you doing here? You know it's illegal to break into someone's house?"

"That only is in affect if you don't know the person, and what I've go to tell you, you'll forgive me."

"Well?"

"It's about Kakashi-sensei."

Sasuke motioned to the newly furnished dining area, he wasn't going to ask what was wrong with their ex-sensei, he waited for the blond to start talking. "A team found him on their way back from the land of rain... he was barely alive. Grandma Tsunade said he's probably not going to make it through the day... she wants us all there."

"No."

"Sasuke come on, he was our sensei! He taught us a lot, he taught you the chidori! If he hadn't shown you that then you would not never perfected it!"

"I know... you and I will go, I will not allow Sakura to see him like that; it will only cause stress for her and put the baby in danger."

"Oh... I guess you're right, I'm sure he would understand that."

"Sasuke... could you come up here please!?"

Sasuke sighed, leaving a snickering Naruto to go up and tend to his wife. 'She's got him wrapped around her finger.'


When he got up to their room, he was expecting her to be in bed, where he left her, but she wasn't in the room, "Sakura?" She came out of the bathroom with one of his white shirts on, and her hair was pulled up off her neck. "Are you alright?"

"Yup! Is Naruto downstairs? Why are you guys being so quite?"

"You should get back in bed, the hokage said strict-."

"Bed rest, I know... and since when do you listen to authority figures? Besides when they hand out missions."

'Yeah well, when it involves you or the baby's heath, I'll stand on my head if she told me too.'

"And don't think I didn't notice you avoided my question," she sent him a playful glare as she got back in bed. "Okay, I'm in bed as you ordered now why is Naruto here?"

"It's nothing you need to worry about, he's just bugging as usual."

"I don't believe you, if he's here to bug he would have been up here rubbing my stomach and talking to the baby... it's something else isn't it?"

"You were sleeping, I wasn't going to allow him up here to disturb you."

"It's not like he's never done it before."

"Just go back to sleep, we have to go out, the hokage may have a mission for me."

"Sasuke-kun... you never were a good lair," she saw him tense up, but didn't push the matter farther; just got comfortable in the bed again.


Once he was sure she was had fallen asleep again he returned to where Naruto was still sitting, "Let's go before she wakes up, she knows something is going on."

"Why didn't you just tell her?"

"If she's stressed or upset she could go into premature labor, that's not good for either of them... the hokage told us that after she collapsed in the hospital two months ago," Sasuke answered Naruto's unspoken question. But before the blond could start a game of 20 questions, the Uchiha was already heading for the door.

Now if you thought it was hot inside... it was an inferno outside, the sheer heat of the sun could cook an entire breakfast on the street. 'Sakura would have passed out the moment she opened the door.' But despite the heat, the boys made their way to the hospital to visit their teacher and the man that taught them what it was like to be a team. The swoosh of the automatic doors drew the attention of the entire staff that was in the lobby.

"Sasuke, Naruto... what are you doing here? You didn't bring Sakura out in this weather correct? She is okay isn't she?" Shizune asked while approaching them.

"Shizune we're not dumb! She's at home resting," Naruto smiled, trying to show that he wasn't a complete idiot.

Sasuke rolled his eyes, 'You're the one that wanted to bring her here you moron.'

"We're here to see Kakashi-sensei," a depressing aura hung over all members present in the room at the mention of the copy nin. Sasuke tried to push away the feeling and the look of pity the hokage's assistant was giving them.

"Oh... I see... Lady Tsunade is up with him right now, but I'm sure she wouldn't mind," she guided them through the hospital to the room with two anbu outside. The hokage was standing next to the bed checking the status of the patient. Naruto ran over to her side to look at his sensei, "How is he Grandma?"

She noticed the other boy moved across the room to look out the window, "He still hasn't woken up since he was brought back... I'm afraid it won't be long, all the others have already stopped by so you shouldn't be disturbed. Just as she said that the door burst open, relieving the two oldest members of the village. "What are you two doing here!?" Tsunade glared, feeling Sasuke's chakra shoot up.

"We knew that Naruto would come here, and bring the Uchiha." The two elders weren't happy with Tsunade's ruling nearly 2 years before, they felt he should have been put to death for plotting to attack the village and kill them. (Note: Haven't finished reading the manga yet, so we don't know if Sasuke actually does kill the elders... but for now he didn't.). They were even more upset when Sakura agreed to marry him, and that she is carrying his child; Sasuke would always smirk seeing the disgust on their faces... they didn't even bother trying to hide it.

Tsunade stood in front of the seething young man, "This is not the time for this, both of you leave immediately!" Both old prunes didn't seem to want to listen, but the hokage would have none of that; she approached and quickly pushed them out, leaving the boys and their sensei alone.


"What the hell is their problem!?" Naruto blurted out, killing the silence in the room. Sasuke didn't feel like answering his question, just turning back to the window again. Naruto looked to the man in the bed, for being gone for nearly a year... he could hardly recognize him. "I don't get it... Kakashi-sensei is the best shinobi I know he was sent on a scouting mission; how did he get like this?"

Sasuke turned and leaned against the glass, "He wasn't on a scouting mission."

"What do you mean?"

"The clan killed in the Mist village, he did that."

"What?... But why?"

"I think the clan had a dangerous kekkei genkai. From what I understand they could the hear the thoughts of other people a short distance away. A mist shinobi was spotted leaving the forest surrounding the village, black ops believe he obtained valuable information about the leaf. They were able to stop him from reaching his comrades and passing the information on. The elders wanted the clan taking out," it hurt the utter the last part of his statement, because he left he was describing the fate of his own clan.

"So they sent Kakashi? It they were killed, then who did this?"

"Jyro."

"W-what!? Jyro... the one that kidnapped Setsumi and lead the group under Orochimaru's orders?"

"Yes, on my trips to the Mist, I've seen him, but I can't tell if Orochimaru had gotten to him yet."

"Well, we have to stop him! That bastard will be after your kids!"

"I know that idiot! Don't you think I want to do something? But I can't leave Sakura alone, not when it's so close to the baby being born."

"Well after that then."

"It isn't fair is I leave her alone with the kid, he's just as much my responsibility as hers... I need to protect them until he's a little older then I can go."

'He's afraid he'll lose them just like his family.' "Sasuke... you ain't going to lose them. I won't let that happen!"

"Naruto..."

"You shouldn't be fighting right now," the new voice in the room caught both boys attention. Sasuke vaguely saw the older man standing at the door, something was familiar but he just couldn't place it.

"Yamato-sensei! What are you doing here, I thought you were back with black ops?"

'Sensei, who the hell is this guy?' Sasuke was trying to get a better look at the brown haired man, but with the sun going down most of the room was in shadow; so it was near impossible to get a clear view.

"I am Naruto, but I heard about Kakashi-sempai and his condition; I knew you would come. It's nice to meet again Uchiha-san, on friendlier terms I hope."

'It would help if I actually remembered you.'

"Grandma Tsunade said he wasn't going to make it."

"Yes I know, she told me some sort of virus is attacking his body from the inside out."

'What? But that can't be right, in the future Jyro killed Kakashi... unless.' Naruto's words from a few months ago rang in his head, 'Well you never know... you could have messed up the future.' 'In the future that we went to Kakashi was sent to kill Jyro's clan, which he did. Orochimaru stepped up and played with his head just like he did me, only instead of the curse mark he experimented on him and turned him into that beast. Then he killed Kakashi in cold blood, not letting him survive like this, and Orochimaru's plan was already in motion. But this time it's different, Kakashi still killed his clan, but Jyro didn't attack him... Orochimaru got to him first! He's first experiment was on Kakashi to see if the fusion would work, that's what's killing him. Orochimaru must be starting to put his plan together right now, damn-it!'


"Hey Teme, where you going!?" Naruto noticed the other man bolted out of the room, he looked to his 4th teacher, silently asking him to stay with Kakashi; then he ran after his best friend. (Note:Naruto's teachers in order: Iruka, Kakashi, Jiraiya, then Yamato.). 'Damn he's fast!' Naruto chased the Uchiha all the way to the hokage tower, when he got to her office he was surprise to hear Sasuke yelling.

"You need to put him in isolation!"

"You keep saying that yet you're not saying why, I will not put forth your orders until you explain your reasoning."

Sasuke took a deep breath to calm his anger, "Orochimaru did this to Kakashi."

"What?"

"That's impossible! You said so yourself he was dead, did you lie to me Uchiha!?" Tsunade's booming voice caused the few items on her desk to shake. Naruto caught on to Sasuke's reasoning quite quickly, "Teme didn't lie Grandma Tusnade, he did kill Orochimaru, but Kabuto fused some of cells with his own. I witnessed his part transformation when we went after Sasuke after hearing of Orochimaru's death."

"So if he is still alive, what does he have to with Kakashi?"

Naruto looked to Sasuke to explain where this train of thought was going, "The kids that were sent here over a year ago, were sent to be protected from him. The shinobi that were sent to retrieve them were under the snake's control, they were his new batch of experiments. Shinobi fused with the cells of animals, to produce a stronger form of kekkei genkai."

"That bastard finally did it!" Tsunade was in complete disbelief.

Naruto shook his head, "It's not what you think Grandma, yeah there traits give them a big chakra boost, but if they use it for to long the animal consumes the human host and they become crazed monsters; they eventually die though."

"And you say this is happening to Kakashi right now?"

"Yes, his body is so badly beaten up that he is unconscious and can't fight the beast in the state he's in; it's taking over faster. He needs to be in isolation before he kills someone," Sasuke was on the verge of pleading at this point, all he could think of was his wife alone and unprotected at home.

"Shizune!"

The woman in question ran into the room, "Tsunade-sama we hav-."

"Place Kakashi Hatake in restricted isolated lock down immediately, black ops around the clock!"

"But that's just it my lady... Kakashi Hatake isn't in his room any longer."

The 3 other people in the room paled, "What do you mean Shizune!? Where is he!?"

"Something happened to him, he just woke up and attacked Yamato, then as he was leaving the room he killed the anbu outside; he's somewhere in the village."

"It's the beast, it's taken over... he won't stop until he is killed or someone else does it," Naruto stated remembering older Sasuke killing that rain shinobi.

"Get all black ops into the village and find him before anyone else gets hurt now!" Tsuande screamed raising from her chair.

"Of course my lady."

"Shizune wait! What about Yamato-sensei?"

"He was badly hurt Naruto, but I think he should make it," she said before leaving to give the orders of the hokage.

"Naruto, Sasuke... I want you out there looking too, you know what we're up against. But you must remember, if what you said is true, then that is not Kakashi anymore; do not hesitate. I'm ordering you to stop him!"

"Grandma Tsunade, how could you ask us to do that?"

"I don't have a choice Naruto, the village is in danger."

Sasuke didn't wait to be told twice, but he had other things on his mind as he left the tower and headed into the night,'I've got to get to the manor before he discovers Sakura is alone and can't fight him.' He had a sicking feeling in his stomach, the same feeling he had the night his clan was murdered, 'I can't let it happen again... I can't lose Sakura too.'


Note: Wow, so as you've noticed Orochimaru used Kakashi as his first experiment with his new technique, and he's loose in the village. Will he go after Sakura? Will he hurt her? Will Sasuke make it in time? Will the boys be able to stop Kakashi before he hurts anyone else? Wonder what animal he is... find all that out next chapter! And sorry for such a later update.

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