Promise 10

"WHAT!" Tsunade slammed her fist onto the desk.

The ninja's stood in front of her, saddened at the loss of their team mate. Tsunade shut her eyes tight, trying to fight the tears from coming.

"It's all my fault! If I wasn't so weak and helpless, Kakashi sensei wouldn't have…"Naruto shoved his way through the crowd and made his way through the door, he was sobbing madly.

The ninja's stayed silent, how could so many of them fail their comrade?

Kakashi woke up to the piercing cold. His body was numb with the sore aches from his wounds and snake bites. Kakashi slowly opened his eyes, his mind still groggy from awaking. Was all that a dream. The room he was in was bare, the floor was plain rock. Kakashi squinted his eyes to see where he was but it was too dark to even see the tip of his nose. He tried moving his arms and legs but realised that he was chained to the walls. He turned his head to see the chains around his arms.

Just then, a searing pain burnt through his neck. A chakra collar. It was sucking the life out of him. He grunted as he hung his head.

'CLINK CLANK'

The sound of metal bars echoed in his dungeon. His eyes looked towards the sound. He shuddered as he saw his worst nightmare.

"Hello Kakashi…"

"Naruto…" Jiraiya whispered as he approached the boy. Night had fallen and the boy sat on the bench, much like the time when the legendary sannin had passed away.

"It's my fault. If I hadn't gotten caught or had been stronger I'd have been able to save Kakashi-sensei." Naruto sobbed.

Jiraiya didn't know what to do. He didn't even know how to deal with a depressed Kakashi after the death of his blond student because he himself was in the same sadness.

He sat next to the blond boy. The boy cried into his shoulder.

"Ero-sennin… there's no way Kakashi-sensei is a…" he couldn't finish his sentence. Jiraiya stared at his apprentice sadly.

"Why would he lie to us? He could have at least told us why!" he sobbed uncontrollably.

"I don't know Naruto, I don't know…"

"That can't be true… there is no way Hatake Kakashi, a jounin of the village hidden in the leaf, the copy ninja can be a demon!"Tsunade screamed as her fist pummelled the desk. Her face was unreadable, sadness, anger; disappointment and worry were all jumbled together.

The ninja's in the room silently wondered just what was going on.

"That couldn't have been Kakashi!" All eyes were now set on the black spiky haired boy in blue. He pulled up his orange goggles and wiped the tears in his eyes.

All the ninja's wondered about their friend. What had become of him?

"AHHHHH!" Kakashi screamed in pain as the figure broke his legs. The sounds of the bones cracking would have made any person feel like destroying their sense of hearing. Both legs were broken and useless. His arms were sore from being chained in such an uncomfortable position for so long. Kabuto had made long cuts with his scalpel on Kakashi's arms just for torturous fun. Glass shards had been shoved into the soles of his feet.

"That should prevent you from escaping."

"That was a little harsh… don't you think?" Kabuto said with a smirk.

"Don't you dare question me, we made a deal…"

"Of course, I bring you Kakashi and you give me some of your dark chakra. That was the deal, am I right?"

"Hn."

"Now then, let's get down to business…" Kabuto hissed.

"Alright, this dark chakra is extremely dangerous. Your mission is to retrieve Kakashi Hatake from Kabuto's hands, the faster the better. Dismissed!" Tsunade ordered.

"Hai!" The ninja's before scattered.

Tsunade rubbed her temples as she gazed down from the hokage tower.

"Tsunade…"Tsunade turned her head to see her sensei.

"I know things are stressful, but you have to have faith in your shinobi." Sarutobi advised her. Tsunade kept quiet, it had been a long time since she heard the old man speak and give advice.

"Don't worry, with Naruto on the team, I'm sure things will turn out fine." The man said with a smile but was a little worried himself.

"I hope you're right, Sensei…"