whee 2/3 done! As in: I will finish this before the end of the year, and reviews are lovely ^^

He carries her.

He holds her in his arms and he carries her home, through the forests and trees. Over the hills and there they go.

He's bandaged her best he could, and healed her best he could, but he doesn't know if it's going to be enough. The wound won't kill her, he thinks, but infection might and bleeding out certainly will.

Kakashi reaches Konoha and yells for a medic, yells for the Hokage who comes running when she hears that it's her apprentice who is injured by the gate.

He sits in her hospital room. He doesn't leave.