I do NOT own Naruto, *muttering spoilers* If I did, Sasuke wouldn't have even left and Neji… Neji! Sniff.

Sorry for some errors!

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They stayed in each other's arms for a while longer, not a few minutes later though, the front door slammed open. The sound, made the two teens jump away from one another, a light blush adorning Sasuke's face as he turned away from Sakura who was blushing twenty shades darker than him.

They heard the adults' distant chatter getting closer to them and then his room's door was kicked opened. However, they're attention wasn't on them at the moment; well not technically.

"How could this happen?" Tsunade said, being the first through the door.

"As far as I'm concerned, there really isn't anything that could happen to her body when she returns," Kakashi tried to reason.

"There's still the matter with her dad," Itachi said plainly, "We can't go back right now; there was some bug in the transporting system. Death had told everyone to return at once for the rest of the night."

Tsunade groaned, "Why doesn't he ever tell me these things? I have to be aware of everything here."

"Nice job on that Granny," Naruto muttered with Neji and Shikamaru at his side.

"Naruto," she growled.

Kakashi was the first to sigh, turning his head away from the small tensed group of people at the doorway. He saw the way the two had placed some distance between them, however the fact that they themselves held some sort of stress in their faces was obvious to his carefully watching eye.

"So what do we do about this do you suppose?" he said to Sasuke.

He didn't look up from his sitting position as he spoke, "She has to get back as soon as possible," when Sakura looked like she was going to oppose the raven haired boy gave her a side look that only made her look down at the ground.

Kakashi watched, a strange feeling of déjà vu washed over him. He knew full well where this feeling came from, so did the two other adults in the room; neither of the two could actually understand though the emotional pain he had to go through all those years ago. He didn't let the emotion, though, show on his face.

"We have to be patient," Kakashi said stiffly, "We can't risk any of us getting damaged by the transporting system."

Sasuke nodded slowly, but the grey haired man noticed the way his eyes drifted to Sakura for a moment before setting back on the ground.

"Well, then," Tsunade began, "Not that I don't trust the two of you," she motioned to the two Uchiha, who the home belonged to, "but I think it would be better if the girl stays with me."

"If you insist Tsunade," Itachi answered for the two, noticing how Sasuke was keeping himself from answering.

She nodded before motioning Sakura to follow her. She took a quick glance to Sasuke before permitting her feet to move forward walking right behind the blond woman.

Shikamaru and Neji took a step away from the doorway allowing the two women to make a quick exit.

Itachi stared intently at his little brother, he noticed how his shoulders slumped further down the second Sakura had exited the room. He was almost positive that the others noted it too, especially Naruto. He knew he had to clear things up with him. He wanted to be there for Sasuke, like he used to be. Before this whole mess had happened, Sasuke praised his help, he would become the talkative person he was as a child, of course that was only to him.

He turned his head, earning the glances of the four men that remained in his brother's room. Knowing what that stare meant, the four slowly made their way to the Uchiha's living room.

Sasuke knew that his brother would be the first to say something about this. He'd been right after all. It was all because of Sakura, he'd admit it now. It had been her fault… but he'd never say it in a bad way… he'd say it as if he was given a blessing from further above. She was that glow that his heart had been missing, after all, while he was with her he regained his old persona, the one that wanted to gain the attention of every girl out there, except that now, it only emerged for Sakura and in her world.

Now he looked up and met the stoic gaze of his older brother. He didn't want to fight anymore... not with him at least, for the past twenty years he had been all he had.

"Sasuke," he began, taking a deep breath, "I'm sorry."

Sasuke's eyes widened, had he heard right? There couldn't possibly be a reason for his brother to be apologizing to him, he should've heeded his warning sine the beginning, he should've remained at Erolith when he heard her fear filled screams. His brother was there after all.

"For what?" was all he was able to say at that dumbfounded moment.

"I hadn't taken into account your feelings about this whole thing," he said muttering to the ground, "I should have thought about everything, before I made such a rash decision."

Sasuke sat there in disbelief, his brother… apologizing to him… for something that was clearly his fault…

"You have no reason to apologize," Sasuke stood, "I should've obeyed you, I should've listened to what Kakashi told me," his hands clenched into fists, "Things like this never end well."

"Is it safe to assume that he didn't tell you why he knew that?"

"I never really thought that there was a reason."

Itachi hummed, "I don't really know if I should tell you this…"

"Then allow me to."

Both brothers turned towards the door where Kakashi stood with his arms crossed. His only visible eye looking as plain as ever. Itachi knew better though, after all he'd known the man the longest.

"What happened?" Sasuke asked.

Kakashi took in a deep breath before he fully took a step into the room and closed the door behind him.

"About forty years before you arrived here," he pointed at the pile of books and scrolls beside Sasuke's bed, "All of those rules and details about Erolith, didn't exist."

"I could kind of figure that for myself," Sasuke muttered his eyes still on the pile.

"Not many, except for the selected few, know the reason behind the sudden appearance of the rules. Well, now I can tell you that all of that was because of me."

Sasuke didn't need to think long before he could come to the conclusion, "What did you do?"

Kakashi sighed, "Somewhat of what you're doing," he walked over to sit on Sasuke's desk chair, "Falling for a human girl."

"I d-"

"Don't deny it Sasuke it doesn't do you any good," he gave the boy a hard look, when Kakashi saw that he wasn't going to say anything he continued, "It happened some time after I arrived here…"

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100 years ago

"Come on, Let's go, You Lazy Reapers!"Tsunade yelled out.

Kakashi yawned, walking into the descending stables."It's a bit early to be loud, Tsunade." He said as he approached his according stall.

She huffed, "Just get running already, you have your assignment?" she asked as Kakashi was mounting his white horse.

He reached in his black coat pocket, retrieving a small square letter, "I don't always forget it, you know."

"You've been here for three months already, you should've gotten used to it by now." She walked over to the entrance of the stables, "Get going, you're the last one to leave again."

"I'll be back then." Kakashi said as he rode out.

It's only been three months since he arrived in Erolith. He had gotten used to the nightly horse rides into the human world; however he still seemed to be adjusting to the new responsibilities being a death reaper inquired. While alive, Kakashi had recently inherited great wealth from his father, a well known noble. His death had been very sudden and unexpected, and like most of the souls that exist in Erolith, he didn't exactly follow the lighted path. He was welcomed by Tsunade, and was very impatiently told about how his afterlife will be from then on. Which brought him to tonight.

The horse finally galloped into the human world and he set off to find his target for the night. He dusted off his coat and adjusted scarf, which covered his nose and face, when he climbed down from the horse. He pulled out the letter from his coat pocket and scanned it thoroughly before he looked up and waited. The roads were empty at this time of the night. From the information he received, his target was an alcoholic man who favored pestering women in bars. He heard chattering in the quiet roads and that's when his eyes fixed onto a lighted wooden cabin. However, the light inside wasn't what drew him towards it. It was the commotion occurring to the side of the cabin that caught his emotionless eyes.

A clearly intoxicated man hovered over a frantically flailing woman beneath him. Kakashi saw the man's hand trying to hitch up her long, thick dress. The woman continued to fight the man off only to receive a loud smack to the girl's dirty stained face. With a sigh, Kakashi stepped forth and very casually placed a hand on the shoulder of the drunken man. He felt the man stiffen, and for the sake of the woman, he pulled the man off her. When he side glanced at the man on the floor, he noticed that it was his target. Letting a smirk adorn his covered face, he took out the letter and crossed out the man's name, and just like that the letter burned away.

"Mister."

His gaze fell to the woman on the ground. He had almost forgotten about her. Her face held a burning red bruise on her left cheek; her shoulder length hair was tousled and full of dry dirt. Finally his eyes met with her dark, glistening, brown eyes… that was when a thought finally crossed his mind.

She spoke to him.

He began to back away from the woman on the ground. "W-wa- wait, sir," her eyes pled him.

As if under a spell he stood his place.

He waited, for who knows why, as she collected herself. During that time, was when he began to assess the situation; he didn't cast a single shadow in the space they were in, nor was it anywhere close to dawn.

"Sir, thank you very much, for saving me," The woman bowed to him.

He watched her, she seemed very grateful. "Is that all?" he spoke plainly.

Her eyes widened at the sound of his velvet, yet stern voice, "I – I would assume so." Her face flushing, increasing the red on her cheek.

"Then may I ask you some questions?" Kakashi took a step forward.

"As long as I'm permitted to ask my own," she replied.

"I thought a 'thank you' was all you wanted to say."

"That was when I was under the impression you were in a hurry to leave," she spoke with confidence, her chin raised high, despite the fact that a dead body was laying right next to her, "So shall I begin or shall you?"

This woman, the fear she might have had moments ago was nowhere to be seen, "How are able to see me?"

"Well I guess you'll start," she muttered under her breathe, "Am I not supposed to?"

"No, no you aren't," he stated matter-of-factly, "Have you suffer some sort of head trauma?"

"Not that I'm aware of," she said while touching her head on reflex.

"Then how is it?" he examined her closely. She seemed like any ordinary human of the era; however, he had to admit she was more appealing than the other females he had come across.

"Well, this seems like a good time for my turn to start," she said while smoothening her still dirty dress, "Why am I not supposed to see you?"

His dark eyes continued to scan her, no one said anything about telling humans that were able to see them, "I am a… Death Reaper."

She eyes didn't faze, "A Death Reaper?"

He gave her a curt nod.

"Is that a new kind of gang?"The woman inquired, only to have the white haired man lift an eyebrow at her, "Well?"

"I've already said what I am."

"Do you take me for a fool?" her arms crossed, "Death is done by God himself, more than that, I wouldn't be able to see some Reaper out in the open."

"God shouldn't have to be burden by Death," he spoke calmly, "And like I've implied, you are not supposed to be able to see me," he took another step toward her, "I have died a while ago, I am simply a spirit who descends onto your world and takes the life of the living."

"You expect me to believe that this man here," she pointed to the body on the ground, "is already dead, simply by your touch?" her voice was in an angry whisper.

"You can check if you wish, however there would be no point to it," he took a step back.

Her eyes went from the man before her, to the man on the ground, her eyes heated with disbelief. Until she finally sighed, and looked back at the man towering her, noticing how his figure held no shadow against her.

She finally met his eyes again, "Despite that then. Thank you all the same," her face smiled up at him, and for a brief moment he felt his long dead heart pinch in his chest.

"Now, if there is nothing else Miss, I mu-"

"It's Rin," he looked baffle for a second, "Rin Nohara."

"Well then, Rin," he tested her name, "I must be going now." He bowed his head slightly to her.

"Before you go, its customary for someone to return the gesture of a name exchange," her sweet smile still plaster on her face, but it was obvious she was trying her best to display a form of patience, "Unless you're name is Death."

He smirked under his scarf, "Its Kakashi, Kakashi Hatake."

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"After that Kakashi was completely drawn to the woman," Tsunade said to listening Sakura, "He found people near her city to visit her every night. They grew quite close to one another. Soon, he stayed behind in the human world by accident," her eyes looked down, "And that's when a lot of things went wrong."

Sakura watched the woman's eyes sadden, she didn't know Kakashi at all but he shared something similar to her and Sasuke.

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"That one day, I spent in the human world, changed everything for me as well as Rin," Kakashi said, his one visible eye closed reliving his memories.

"What happened?" Sasuke said still taking in the information he was just given.

"After that day, two weeks afterwards," So that's where it led to. "She found out that she was pregnant."

So many thoughts went through his mind at that time. But the only question that managed to escape his lips was, "H- How?"

"Well, when a man and a woman feel strong feelings towards one another they-"

"Not that!" Sasuke glared at the man, "How could she get pregnant with a dead man?"

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"Lady Tsunade," Sakura began, "That doesn't make any sense. Kakashi is Death Reaper, isn't his whole body just dead?"

"We thought the same thing, until we realized something back then," Sakura watched her intently, "Once a Reaper is left behind in the world of the living, the become a living human for that period of time."

Realization came to her face, it could just be that I'm living again so then so are my taste buds was what Sasuke had said, "So then, because of that everything that had to do with his body."

"Was alive again," Tsunade finished for her.

"So… Rin was expecting a child…"

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"Death found out," Kakashi spoke, "He wasn't pleased at all."

Sasuke noticed how he as well as Itachi went grim at the mention of this, "What happened?"

With a sharp inhale he continued, "The town's people found out about her pregnancy. It didn't look good; a twenty-six-year-old single woman suddenly gets pregnant, without a name to go with it," his eyes saddened, "That time era was a cruel one, she was six months pregnant when she was hanged; that's what I heard at least."

Sasuke didn't know what to say, pushing aside his shock he asked, "What do you mean, that's what you heard?"

"After that incident," Itachi spoke for Kakashi, "Death placed Kakashi under his wing. He was supposed to continue as a Death Reaper after they were informed that Rin had passed, but he decided to continue his training."

"So, Rin followed the light?"

Kakashi nodded, "She never turned her gaze as she went up," his eyes went to Sasuke, "Our point is that these things happen, and these rules exist now so that this doesn't happen again."

Sasuke stood, "Kakashi that was a different time period, things have changed since then."

Kakashi's eyes hardened, "The child, it didn't make it into heaven Sasuke."

"… What do you mean?"

"That child within Rin's womb was growing into a demon, therefore it wasn't qualified to enter into Heaven and it was rejected from entering here," Kakashi stood above Sasuke, "When we get involved with humans, longer than we need to be, we only cause harm to the innocent."

Sasuke stood then, "I respect you Kakashi, but I won't allow you to choose for me."

"From what I observed, it seems like you've already given Sakura up."

"That was then. Kakashi you could've gone when she died, she could've found her way here, but you didn't."

"There wouldn't have been a point in bringing her-"

"Did you love her?!" Sasuke interrupted.

Kakashi stiffened. Sasuke glared at his senior, he didn't waver for a second, he was determined and he wanted an answer, "More than you can ever know."

"Then that's it," Sasuke spoke calmly, as he began to head towards the door.

"Sasuke what are you doing?" Itachi called out.

"Sorry nii-san, but now, I can't give up on Sakura, nor can I listen to you anymore," he gave the men over his shoulder, "I'm going to fight for Sakura… for me, and for you and Rin." With that said he ran out of his house, passing the other Reapers that waited patiently outside.

He didn't slow down even as the others began to call after him, he was met with stares from the other Reapers that still roamed outside, his breathing was loud but he still refused to stop. Tsunade's house came into view, and almost on cue he spotted a patch of pink that he knew all too well. From the look on her face, she hadn't noticed him running at her. With a smirk placed on his lips, he lifted the startled girl into his arms, a small squeal escaped from her before she realized who it was that had lifted her. Without a moment of hesitation, he fully placed his lips against hers.

It only took her a second before she responded to his lips' movements. Sasuke's arms tightened around her waist, and hers found their way to enclose around his neck. Each relished the way their body's fit perfectly against each other, how it felt like their mouths were being starved from the other.

Once apart, they didn't speak, they only looked at one another, before getting into a warm embrace; Sasuke laid his check against her soft pink hair, both their eyes closed as they continued to joy their moment.

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Ira: And there you go.

Sasuke: *Clearing throat* Just so you know she wanted to add more, but like always… it'll be till later.

Sakura: What more could you add to this, you ruined me!

Ira: Shut it, I'm not proud of this either, however, I've been feeling guilty seeing this half done for the last something months in my USB thingy.

Sasuke: It's something *looking in the ground* Just do the usually, and maybe she'll finish this story quicker.

Sakura: Please!