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Chapter 10: My Light

Kakashi stayed sat on the ground, still speechless and numb with the cold rain drops on his body. He stayed stationary as he looked at a small square worn out paper that showed his time with Yuuri. Holding hands and looking happy in the photo, it felt like a dream.

He hasn't smiled whole heartedy for a couple of years now.

Still he stared at his younger self in the photo, was he smiling from the bottom of his heart then? Or did he just cover his emotions behind this wretched mask of his for the sake of it?

Drops after drops trickled down his bare dull, lifeless face. He didn't care nor did he realize the wetness of the rain, he had been sat there for several hours now. Yet it felt like minutes of just recollection and self-pity.

Idly he raised his head up to look at his comrade who has been eyeing him like a hawk for several minutes now. "Did you come here to gloat?" he asked roughly, not speaking for a long period of time made his throat rough to the bones. "...Itachi?"

His right hand man smirked before he leaned on the tree bark with his arms folded, "That's not my style Captain, you of all people know that. Gemna and Tenzo are on guard but you have them worried."

"They're grown men, I'm here to order them not babysit them. If that I was job, I would have signed up in a nursey!" he shouted, glaring at Itachi with a such dark ora building up.

Itachi looked at Kakashi with a plain look, his emotionless eyes met those angered bloodthirsty mismatched eyes. Tension started escalating by the seocond, yet the blood spilt hasn't been cleaned up between them. "This isn't you to lose yourself. Collect yourself together, if you still want to live."

"And what if I don't?" more venom was injected in his tone. "Are you going to kill me?"

"If it means it will get our mission done. Yes."

Kakashi stood back up and inserted the picture in his back pouch before he took out a kunai. He gave Itachi one more look before he took slow steps towards him, his foot sinking in the wet soil in the process. "Do it." he challenged, offering the kunai, "Go on." It became more of a taunt now.

Itachi shook his head slowly before he took the kunai off his hands, "Captain... I never thought you were this broken."

He shredded a faint, fake smile before he lowered his head slightly. "Well no one did. Everyone thought I was the happy man that expected everything to turn out like a fairytail in the end." he gave a deep laugh at the end. "But you see, that was never me. Never, not since I lost Yuuri."

"Your Light?" Itachi arched an eyebrow. "I believe that's what you metaphorically called her."

Kakashi lifted the bangs of his hair before giving a loud sigh. "Light... I lost that light a long time again."

"And yet you've reclaimed it." Itachi replied, offering the kunai back, "She's in Konoha right now. That person is your light, we both know who it is."

With a slight hesitation, the silver-haired shinobi took the kunai back before biting his lip. "She's not my light, just a distraction. Nothing, she is nothing." he bitterly whispered as he placed his hand on his shoulder before walked past him, "You should have killed me Itachi. It would have been for the best."

Itachi wore a face of stubborness before looking over his shoulder. "So you wouldn't admit that you in fact grew soft around her? Don't act so weak, Captain. If she's right, you should not hesitate and grow further away. It'll make everything more complicated. For the both of you."

Kakashi shoved his hands in his pockets before he decided to walk away - leaving the conversation unfinished.

"Hime, wake up... Come on." Dan cooed as he crawled on his bed onto Tsunade. "Wake up..." he kissed her neck lightly.

"Morning..." she groaned, shifting slightly to look at Dan with her drowsy eyes, "What time is it?"

Dan rested his chin on her arm and pouted cheekily. "It's time for you to wake my love." he stroked her hair lazily, making her smile brightly.

"You sure are sweet today."

"Captain! Ambush, take cover!" Gemna shouted, jumping behind a huge boulder. "How the hell did they know?" he shrieked.

Kakashi wielded his sword and walked calmly towards Gemna, staring death in the eye. "Give me your sword." he ordered. "Now."

He nodded and gave him his own ANBU sword, "What do you plan to do?"

The ANBU Captain gripped the swords before his red eye slowly turned into the mangekyou state. "Annihilate them seems to be the only option." he looked out at the enemies, "Get Tenzo to capture two enemies and you must not let anyone get out of this zone. Team up with Itachi."

"Consider it done."

Kakashi walked out to the open and faced the enemies that were frozen to their feet. Slowly he angled his face to the left before he gave a low growl. "Iwa nins... Huh?"

They all took a step back, "It's the-the... SHARINGAN HATAKE KAKASHI!"

Everything became silent, Kakashi's chakra ripped throught their flesh and dugged into their spine. Fear conquered and helplessness. Slowly, Kakashi pointed his sword out at them with such control and power. "Why are you here? What do you want?" he asked.

"Tch! I am Sakurga of the First Platoon! I will kill you, Hatake Kakashi. " The blue eyed man stared at the ninja of the Leaf.

Kakashi gave a small smile. "Hmp! Let's see you try." he taunted.

Sakurga took a step back before he shot his right arm up. "Attack!" he shouted, desperation sunk in. "Kill him and his accomplices! Find and Kill!"

"Rock release: ground crumbling jutsu!" all of the Iwa nins slammed their hands on the ground in synchronization.

Kakashi didn't look fazed with their attack, instead he watched the ground crumble towards him. 'Mangekyou sharingan' His body slowly wrapped away in a windmill effect.

Every single Iwa nins were left befuddled with his disappearance. "Wh-Where did he go?"

Itachi watched from afar, seeing they were exposed and vulnerable he weaved signs quickly. "Katon fireball jutsu"

Gemna saw the queue for him to do his own jutsu. "Water dragon jutsu!"

The enemies looked around them as they heard some rumbbling sounds and a hungry predator after it. Sakurga looked around him, to look for the sounds. "What the...?"

A big water dragon blazed through the trees while a big fireball made its way done to them in the opposite side. "Jump up!" he ordered, setting the example.

His platoon nodded and sprung up into mid-air. Not long after, there was a big explosion that created mist down below. Sakurga grinned, 'Heh... Missed.'

Reaching down on the ground, sheer screams of terror occurred. The Captain looked around in the mist, confused and speechless of what was happening.

"Stay close..." one ninja whispered to his friend. Just as his companion was about to reply, a quick glimpse of an unusual sharingan weaved past, slicing their stomachs in the process. Running in the mist made him invisible and untouchable, that was one of the main advantages. Well, those were the main advantages.

Kakashi ran in the mist with a dual sword stance in pure stealth as he sliced each and every ninja - except the Captain .

Seeing that he has cleared all of the ninjas, Kakashi channeled his lighting nature to the left hand sword before stabbing it in the ground. "Raikiri Stream!" Immediately it tackled the mist and blew it out to the atmosphere, revealing all eight corpses on the ground. The remaining ninja, looked at Kakashi in fear before he started to make a run for it. Before he could get away, a long slender strand on wood wrapped around his body. "N-Nani?!"

Tenzo jumped out of the bushes with a gleeful smile on his face. "Caught him senpai."

Gemna and Itachi jumped down behind Sakurga and examined him from head to toe. "Not very skilled are you?" Gemna spat.

Itachi stretched his arm out, "Why would there be an amatuer patrolling around this area for us if they aren't skilled?"

Kakashi walked past Gemna and dropped the swords on the ground before giving a slight nod to Tenzo in releasing him. Receiving the orders, Tenzo withdrew his jutsu and watched the Iwa Captain try to run again. Being sick of games, Kakashi slammed Sakurga's body down to the muddy surface before pressing his face down to the mud, "Now you're going go tell us what your real purpose is. Don't screw around."

"Nee-chan!" Nawaki ran to Tsunade before giving her a loving hug. "Oh..." he looked at her lover. "...Dan-sama." he said, plainly.

Dan crouched down and ruffled Nawaki's hair before giving a cheeky grin, "How are you today, Nawaki?"

Tsunade looked at her brother's stern facial expression towards Dan - he was never like this. Never. She looked around for some kind of distraction, and thank god she found one. "Wh-Where's Father and Mother."

"In the back." Nawaki replied, pointing to the back door that leads out to the back yard. "They're outside, relaxing or something."

"Oh..." Tsunade grabbbed Dan's hand and led him towards the backyard, leaving Nawaki in the living room.

The brown-haired Senju folded his arms before leaning onto the wall. 'When is Kakashi nii-san arriving?'

"Spit it out and maybe I'll spare your life!" Kakashi shouted, pressing his foot down on his head. "Hurry up!"

Sakurga tried to stand up only to have the force on his head increase. In defeat he let his face bury in mud, slowly he gave a thumbs up to show he's about to talk.

Kakashi raised his foot off his head and eyed him as he got up. "Well?"

The Iwa Captain wiped all of the dirt off his face before he took a deep breath, "...We're nothing but decoys..." he breathed, "...You aren't our objective."

"So...?" The silver-haired ANBU arched an eyebrow.

"As we speak... a four-celled team is on their way to kill the..." he cleared his throat for a moment. "...Senju family."

Kakashi's eyes widened as his mouth gaped open. He was speechless. It felt like a deja vu moment. 'This... can't be..!' In anger, he shoved Sakurga to the nearest tree before pressing his arm on to his throat. "Why are they doing this?!" he gave a bigger force, "SPEAK!"

"It was a man of the-" His words trailed off as his eyes slowly closed. Kakashi was shocked with his behavior - he didn't kill him. No. Carefully he withdrew his arm out and watched Sakurga's body slop down to the ground.

Having sympathy grow on Kakashi, he reached out in his pocket and he got out a white handkerchief, just as he was about to drop it on the dead body, crows happened to fly past. Looking up his soul's rage slowly became tame. 'Tsunade...' He looked back down to the dead Iwa Captain, his eyes softened before he dropped the handkerchief on his body. "May you rest in peace. Sakurga."

Gemna looked around the woods carefully. "Who would have possibly killed him?"

"Beats me." Tenzo replied, folding his arms. "Whoever it was they didn't want us to find out. But why didn't they just kill us, right here?"

Itachi rubbed his temple before giving a sigh, "Can't you just be thankful that we're in fact alive."

Kakashi turned to his team with a shattered look he had a couple of years ago. "Go and proceed with the mission. I need to go back to Konoha and stop this assassination." He lowered his head slightly. "I'm sorry if I haven't been the Captain you all know and respect, but I'm sure you all understand."

Tenzo nodded before he looked at Gemna. "Don't worry senpai. We know and we understand."

"But... why can't one of us go with you! You can't handle them by yourself!" Gemna protested, eager to tag along with his Captain. "Please let me come with you!"

"No." Kakashi coolly replied, "..Neither one of you are going with me. You need to stop this, all of this. I'll try and prevent the event that's going to occur in the other side. Don't worry." he smiled at the end.

Itachi smiled back. "Well, that's your choice Captain. All we can do now is to hope you succeed."

"Ah. Now go through this mission without fail!" He balled his hand before slamming it on his chest in respect. "For Konoha."

"For Konoha!" The three repeated as they repeated his action.

Turning around, Kakashi grabbed the two swords that has been embedded on the ground before he decided to embark back to Konoha. The three ninjas looked at him until his body was no longer traceable for the human eye.

"All we can do is believe." Itachi whispered.

"Heh... no matter how hard we try to stick with him, he's always ahead from us. He's always unreachable."

'I've got to hurry!' Kakashi jumped from branch to branch in hopes he would make it in time before any blood would be shed in Konoha. He gripped the swords in his hands desperately as he gritted his teeth.

'Kakashi!' she smiled, "I love you!" Those sweets words he hasn't heard for years are now replaying in his head like a broken recorder. His eyes tightened before it started shedding tears.

"Shut up!" Those words sounded so bitter and so spiteful. 'She's gone... long gone. I've got to accept that. I can no longer go through the days without accepting she's dead. Gone. Six feet under the ground.'

'STOP IT! YUURI GET OUT OF HERE NOW!' Kakashi shouted with his arm stretched out.

'Kakashi... I Love... you.'

His eyes flew wide open making his tears steak down on his face, jumping to another branch Kakashi slammed his body onto the the tree branch - speechless and frozen. "Yuuri... thank you for everything. But..." his tears stopped, "now I have sworn to protect someone else without fail. Wait for me, my love on the other side. For now though, I need to protect my new light."

Having some recollection and clearance, Kakashi resumed his way down to Konoha.

'Tsunade wait for me... I'll protect you.'

A/N: Hrm... this is getting quite dark now... But the "sun" will soon shine here... Hopefully. I want Kakashi to be right on track now (character wise) so next chapter, no... I don't know. Kakashi will be now right on and now OOC. So yeah. Forgive me if there are any error! I'll correct them later on. :)

Oh god. Drama has never sat well with me but I'm trying to do my best!

See ya'

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