Kakashi's Blood Line Limit

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A/N: Thank u very very much for the reviews 'cuz u know they are what keeps me going and I'm sorry for the delay( school and stuff)and I had my first criticism and it's about my spelling(do u believe it!) I really don't know how to feel, is my spelling really that bad? T-T, anyway as promised this chapter is truly long and yeah, Thx for the advices, Enjoy!

One more thing, sorry if Itachi is a bit out of character, that because I thought that he was a very bad guy but not until I read the manga. (R&R)

I don't own Naruto.

Chapter Twenty one

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The copy ninja tried as much as he could to compose himself and hide his shock from the three ANBU members that were standing in the corner of the room. He knew better than to show his emotions in front of them since he himself was one of them, he knew that they could predict his movements and actions even read him like an open book if they were to see a trace of emotion in his eyes.

He looked at them furrowing his brows and steadying himself on the cold bed, studying each one of them, he saw a familiar mask but he couldn't remember where he had seen it. Of course he had seen it in the HQ before when he was still in the ANBU but he couldn't remember to whom it belonged.

The familiar mask had a cat shape with four green lines on each side two above the eye on the side while the other two were placed near the mouth on the side, it also had two half red circles on the eye side. The rest of the ANBU, one of them had a falcon mask while the other had a boar mask on.

As he recalled what they had told him about going to the HQ, a lot of questions popped in his mind and the most important question was: why?

He stared at the familiar ANBU, clearing his throat from any trance of emotion and wearing a blank expression with cold eyes "What business do you have with me?" he asked not breaking the eye contact while waiting for the answer.

"We are not obliged to say anything further," he simply replied as if talking with an enemy not with a fellow shinobi.

"I'm not coming until you tell me the reason," Kakashi wasn't about to go with them not without some answer. He knew that if he was wanted for an ANBU mission -although he was no longer in the ANBU after all no one can just leave the ANBU- they would just send one ANBU not three, three meant trouble and meant that there was something seriously wrong.

And he wasn't about to go unless he received a reasonable answer but he knew better, they wouldn't tell him anything since ANBU orders and missions are classified and no one should know anything about them, but still, they should tell him since whatever their mission was or their orders involved him so he had the right to ask and to be answered and not be ignored.

"If you are not coming silently then we'll have to result into using force," Kakashi was startled from his thoughts when he heard the ANBU wearing boar mask say that.

Since when do ANBU use force with a ninja who's in the same village as them. They can use force with a fellow shinobi only when he had committed a crime or had done something wrong but he didn't recall doing such a thing. He was training since he returned to village almost all the time to control his blood line, however, there they are, here threatening him to use force against him if necessary when he hadn't done anything wrong.

"Force? What did I do to have such an honor?" he asked clearly amused.

Suddenly, tension filled the air and fighting intentions were being emitted from the three ANBU members as they had their hands on their katanas that were located on the their backs, gripping on them ready to pull them and attack in any minute.

The silver-haired jounin sensed the sudden change and knew better than to keep the amused act on. He narrowed his eyes at them then sighed a heavy sigh. "If this how you want it then so be it," he said while running his hand through his messy silver hair.

However Kakashi had no intention on going without knowing the reason after all the HQ wasn't a pleasant place where he would go just for fun or for a quick visit and he had no desire to go there after leaving it. It was a place where all a shinobi's horrors and nightmares would come true.

He quickly and unknowingly for the ANBU before him, started checking himself for any signs of still unhealed injuries, calculating the odds of him running away successfully to try and figure out what's going on.

He found that he had regained a quite amount of chakra and that his body was in a good condition which would allow him to fight but not for too long therefor he decided to go for the running away plan to avoid fighting and all, since it was still dark outside and still raining heavily, he would be able to at least lose them if just for a little amount of time until he regains his full power and then maybe forcing them to tell him the answers of his questions.

Kakashi didn't want to result into using his blood line not with the Konoha ANBU, he didn't want to cause them any serious damage or fatal injuries or he'll be committing a serious crime and that would lead him into becoming a missing nin just like Uchiha Itachi and his foolish little brother Sasuke, that's the last thing he wanted to do.

The former ANBU captain noticed that the ANBU still had their grips on their katanas "Relax, it's not like I'm going to fight you or something," he tried to assure them that he wouldn't do anything that would make them fight or draw their katana.

"But...I'm not going to go with you either," Kakashi smirked as he said the last words. His smirk oblivious since his mask was no where to be seen.

Quickly, he jumped of the bed taking his black sandals with him with cheer speed putting them on and heading to the window. He broke through the glass since the ANBU locked his window just in case he tried to escape, shielding his face by putting his hands in front of him so as to make some sort of a shield from the flying glass.

Rain started drenching him as it poured on him heavily the moment he broke through the window. Luckily enough, his room wasn't on the second or third floor, it was on the first so he didn't find any trouble in landing swiftly on the muddy ground.

Once on the ground, he started making his way through Konoha's streets. The ANBU nodded to each other and soon they were on his trail. Seeing the ANBU getting closer to him and the one with the familiar mask almost next to him, Kakashi had to hold back a smirk.

The copy ninja assumed that they were barely able to keep up with him in his state and him without using chakra so what will happen if he decided to use his chakra in order to increase his speed? They would for sure use their chakra too, but the question was: will they be able to keep up with him?

Kakashi was snapped from his thoughts as the ANBU wearing cat mask started speaking "Kakashi-sempai, stop right now," he ordered the smirking copy ninja. The silver-haired jounin glanced at him then looked back at the road before him "What if I don't. I can see that you're barely able to follow me so why don't we raise the challenge a bit," he said trying to hide his sarcastic tone as much as he could.

The ANBU merely had a chance to answer as Kakashi started using his chakra and took off with cheer speed. Still under shock, the ANBU noted to his two partners to use their chakra as well and so the hunt for the copy ninja started.

Kakashi noticed that even when he used his chakra, the ANBU were able to keep up with him, maybe he shouldn't have underestimated them and challenged them. Now they seemed more cautious and alert and he had to become serious or they'll catch him and take him to that place like hell.

That place held too many sad memories and he couldn't risk returning to it, after all, he left it because he almost had a mental break and he didn't like the thought of remembering those dark times. They held too much agony and despair.

Now, that things didn't seem to go in his favor, he had to think of a plan. He couldn't risk using too much chakra, he had just got out of the hospital and he didn't want to go back there with chakra exhaustion problem because he knew that he'll have to stay there for along time if he was to face that problem again.

After taking a deep breath and evading another tree, he decided that it was time for some maneuvering, that is if he wanted to get rid of them without a fight. Suddenly, without a warning, he jumped to a roof top and continued leaping from one to another.

The ANBU saw that and followed, however, this time they increased their speed by increasing the amount of chakra that they were using to catch up to him. The ANBU with a cat mask used more chakra so that he could be exactly next to Kakashi.

"Don't you ever give up," Kakashi sighed then rubbed the back of his neck. He had to come up with some plan to get them away from him. He noticed that the roof he was running on was coming to an end and that's when an idea popped into his mind.

Ever so quickly he made the necessary seals, when he was about to jump to the other roof, a clone of him appeared and instead of him continued running on the roof tops while he changed his route and started running on the poorly lit streets.

However his attempt partly failed as the familiar ANBU saw through everything and kept on following the copy ninja. At least he managed to reduce the number of his pursuers to one which was considered a good thing in his case.

"I'm sorry, but you know us. We don't give up that easily," the man wearing a cat mask said while trying to be as much as apologetic as possible. The silver-haired jounin looked at him as he took another sharp turn so now he was running in a dark alleyway.

"Very funny," the sharingan user said sarcastically. This time he had enough, they just wouldn't leave him unless he was with them and that wasn't going to happen until he knew the reason that made them chase him all this way. It had to be something important or they wouldn't be chasing him all this time.

Just when he was out of the alleyway and was about to jump to another roof top, he was pulled down by his leg with something he couldn't quite verify in the dark night making him fall down, face in the mud. He stayed like that for about a second until Kakashi started mumbling curses under his breath of how mud got into his mouth and how much he wished having his mask back.

He stood up facing the ANBU who did that to him, then looked at what was holding his leg and not letting him move, his face changed to hold an expression of shock. There was a kind of robe made of wood holding at his leg. He looked up at the masked man and it hit him, his mask belonged to his buddy back in the ANBU.

It was Yamato's or to be more specific Tenzou's.

Kakashi stared at him, emotion playing in his eyes, a feel of betray and shock washed over him as he kept his eyes locked with the one who thought of him as a friend. He sure was still his friend but not until he explained himself.

As the copy ninja was still in a shocked state, he didn't notice the two ANBU that were standing behind him as one of them took out a white piece of cloth saturated with anesthetic, he quickly placed one of his hands on Kakashi's throat as to hold him in place while the other with the piece of cloth used it to cover his mouth and nose so as to make him breathe into it and inhale the hypnotic substance to make him lose his consciousness.

Kakashi tried to free himself from the grip that was holding into him from behind when did those two come? He thought. he couldn't get himself out of his grip, his eyes widened as the other ANBU appeared in front of him and punched him in the stomach hard enough to make him lose his strength and give up on struggling away from the grip.

The last thing Kakashi saw before slipping into the dark was the face of his once so called friend and he had a look on his face that told him that he was sorry and that it wasn't in his hand to do anything therefor Kakashi couldn't hold anything against him because he knew all about the ANBU, to know how things go there.

Then he fell to the wet ground without another sound, rain was like a sheet of water falling down heavily on the unconscious copy ninja as he was lying on the drenched with rain street as another roar of thunder cut through the silent night.

Slowly, Yamato made his way through the muddy street to where his friend was lying silently. He took one of his arms and put it behind his neck as to support the unconscious copy ninja and gestured for the other members to do the same and help him with carrying the former ANBU captain to the HQ.

The place where all the ANBU whether they were former ANBU or not must go to eventually and there was no escape from it for varied reasons; to go on ANBU missions or for interrogation or for something wrong they had done and other reasons. But that all didn't matter, as the reasons were many but the place was one.

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The sun has finally shined upon Konoha and the night was gone. some birds were chirping happily in their nests while others were flying in the blue sky.

"Shut up!" yelled a very angry Sakura as she was awaken by the sounds of the birds singing next to her window. She moved her hands around the bed while her head was still buried under her smooth pillow searching for another pillows. Once she found one, she quickly threw it at her window, startling the birds and making them fly.

"Serves them right," she mumbled under her breath. "Sakura, wake up and come eat your breakfast!" her mother called out for her from downstairs.

"Great!" she said to no one. She sat on her bed for a couple of minutes to try and adjust her vision to the light that was coming from her window. She stood up making her way to the bathroom while mumbling how she couldn't get enough sleep in this house.

Sakura wasn't a morning person, besides she needed to get some sleep, because all of yesterday's events took a toll on her. She entered the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror "I look like hell," she said to no one in particular and striped of her clothes to take a quick bath before meeting up with Naruto at Ichiraku as always.

Once she finished, she wore her ninja clothes which were a red sleeveless top with a white circle which was placed on her back with a dark white skirt under it, was her black shorts for training and of course she didn't forget to put on her headband. In a hurry she went downstairs and ate her breakfast then kissed her mother good bye and made her way out of the house in a hurry.

As expected, she found her blonde friend sitting in his usual seat at Ichiraku ordering different kinds of ramen. "Sakura-chan!" shouted Naruto while waving his hand at the pink-haired medic.

Sakura made her way to where her friend was sitting and seated herself next to him "Good morning Naruto," she smiled at him. Naruto gave her his trademark grin and continued on eating his ramen.

While waiting for Naruto to finish his food, Sakura drifted into the old memories of team 7, how everything was going great and perfectly fine until that one day came. When Orochimaru decided to give Sasuke the cursed seal. Then their problems began.

Since that day Sasuke had completely changed and started getting angry by Naruto's constant success and then when his brother came to the village, it was like a snap for him to get stronger which eventually led him into abandoning the village and seeking Orochimaru for power. Since that day, their lives changed and were concentrated into bringing him back.

How Sakura missed the old days when they all sat together in Ichiraku eating ramen together because of Naruto's constant insistence. When Sasuke was always bickering with Naruto and how she always tried to make them stop by knocking some sense in them -in Naruto- while their sensei would just either ignore them or laugh at them and sometimes he would just simply stare at them.

When Naruto finally finished eating, they silently walked side by side to no place in particular not until Naruto broke the silence "Sakura-chan, don't you think that we should pay a visit to Kakashi-sensei, after all you said that you got a bit serious yesterday and hit him quite hard," he said while holding back a chuckle afraid that the pink-haired kunoichi would be angry at him if he were to make fun of her.

Sakura blushed a little and stuck out her tongue at her blonde friend while rubbing the back of her head nervously "I did that to save you, you know," she explained "You're right, we should visit him," and with that Naruto raised his hand and shouted "Let's go! Last one to get to the hospital is an old hag," and with that Naruto sprinted with all he has to the direction of the hospital.

Sakura didn't expect him to challenge her into a race "Naruto! Wait, you cheater!" she shouted at him but he didn't pay any attention to her so she quickly picked up her pace and was soon following him to where they assumed their former sensei was.

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Kakashi slowly tried to open his eyes but his eye lids were too heavy to open, he kept them close for a minute trying to concentrate at hearing any familiar sounds but all he got was complete silence and that made him try harder at forcing his eyes open.

He managed to crack them open, just enough to see that he was alone. He moved his head to study his surroundings better. And what he found made his heart clinch a little, he found himself in a closed dark room with only one source of light which was the lamp that was dangling from the ceiling above him.

The silver-haired jounin tried to move his hand but for his surprise he found that he couldn't, he tried to move his legs however the result was the same. Suddenly, he felt that his chakra was being drained as he felt a sudden wave of tiredness and dizziness overwhelming him.

"Don't move a lot," he heard someone talking to him so he moved his head to where the owner of the voice was standing. "What's happening to me?" Kakashi demanded, he tried to make his voice loud enough to be taken into consideration that he wanted an answer but his voice betrayed him as it only came out as a whisper.

"I see that your chakra has already been drained," the strange person stated as he walked over to where the copy ninja was lying. Kakashi was lying on a table on the middle of the closed room, where there was no window and only one door.

"What do you mean?" Kakashi wondered while trying to keep his eyes on the walking man.

"You see, your arms and legs are restrained with a special rope that sucks your chakra and only leaves you with a small amount of chakra so you wouldn't die," the man said while showing an example of the rope to Kakashi.

The copy ninja tried to see the man's face but he couldn't as it was covered with an ANBU mask "So what do you want from me?" the silver-haired jounin asked impatiently waiting for an answer, a real answer.

"We are going to seal your blood line limit," with that the ANBU member disappeared in the darkness of the room, Kakashi heard a click so he assumed that the ANBU had left him and went out.

Seal his...what?! Kakashi's eyes widened. He just lay there, shock written all over his face. After he finally recovered from his shock state, he knew that he had to get out of here and quick. He is so not going to let them do that. After he finally mastered it and got the hang of it.

No, not after rays of hope lit his future of no more pain and sadness.

Now, he saw everything crumble before him. He couldn't let them do that, he wouldn't! How dare they try to do that? As he tried to calm him self, he realized something, ANBU didn't do anything not without a direct order from the Hokage and Tsunade is the Hokage. How could she do that to him? She knows about his training with Jiraiya so why was she doing this?

As he tried to move a bit, he remembered the restrains. Dammit his luck was just getting worse. He focused a little trying to draw chakra so he at least would be able to remove those annoying restrains, but every time he tried, they would just suck it and leave him with a lower amount of chakra.

After giving in to the situation he was currently in. He heard the door click open announcing that it's time to say goodbye for the hope that didn't last long. It felt good to believe that he could change something.

Four members of ANBU came in, two of them stood next to the wall while the other two who one of them was holding a silver tray with some equipments in it while the other was holding in his hand a needle walked towards him.

"So you really are going to do that?" it sounded more like a fact than a question. The masked man closed his eyes as to rest them a little. However, his eyes didn't get much rest as they were shot open when the needle struck Kakashi's left arm.

He grimaced in pain as the liquid inside the needle invaded his system and ran through his body then his face softened a little as the ANBU took the needle out.

Suddenly, Kakashi felt something wrong with him, he felt a pain a strong pain that he had never experienced before. He shuddered to try and ease the pain a little but that only made things worse. What did they put in me? Was the only thing Kakashi could think about as the pain got worse.

It felt like nothing before, like there was something crawling under his skin, he winced as it got unbearable. He started to shiver as he suddenly felt cold, colder than ever that he started even feel like he was burning from being cold. He felt sick from the bottom of his stomach as he finally couldn't take it anymore.

Kakashi screamed in pain which actually startled the ANBU "What's happening to him? Is this supposed to be happening?" one of the ANBU asked a bit of worry escaped to his voice.

"I-I don't know. It wasn't supposed to be like this!" the one who injected the copy ninja answered with a horrified voice. It seemed that it wasn't supposed to be like this. Hell, they didn't know how it was supposed to be, they have never actually tried to seal anyone's blood line before.

It was the first time ever. For the first time the ANBU were speechless and they didn't know what to do to stop whatever was happening to the silver-haired jounin. One of them decided to bring the Hokage herself to see for the matter. He quickly got out and rushed to where he thought Tsunade was.

Kakashi felt himself fading into darkness as his screams turned into low moans, panting and trying to get as much air as he could but he couldn't for some reason, he couldn't breathe properly. As his power was fading too, he couldn't keep his eyes open any longer, giving in to the darkness that was threatening to envelope him. He closed his eyes and lost himself in it.

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Naruto and Sakura finally, reached the hospital. It was still early so no one had checked at the patients there yet therefor the disappearance of the silver-haired jounin hasn't been discovered at least not yet.

They entered the hospital eager to see the how their sensei was doing and to ask him if he finally got the hang of his blood line. Maybe they would offer to spar with him later just to test how strong their sensei had become and how much they would last against him.

The pink-haired medic asked for the number of Kakashi's room, and when they reached it. They first knocked the door...however they got no answer so they knocked it again, waiting patiently, they still got nothing, so they assumed that he was still sleeping.

Quietly, Naruto reached for the door's knob and before he could open it, Sakura hissed "What do you think you're doing?" she asked him, ready to hit him at any minute.

"Relax, we are just going to wait inside until he wakes up, meanwhile, you could do a quick check up on him, what do you think of that Sakura-chan?" Naruto grinned widely while waiting for his friend's answer until she finally nodded and let him open the door.

They peeked inside, to only find an empty bed. They had a horrified expression on their faces until they regained their composure and within a minute, they were both boiling with anger. "Great! Now Tsunade-same will make us go and find him again," Naruto thought.

They both yelled in unison "KAKASHI-SENSEI!!" and quickly ran towards the Hokage tower to report this...unpleasant event to Tsunade.

Upon their arrival, they noticed an ANBU running towards the door that will lead to the Hokage's office. They both had the same thought weird ! Since when ANBU used the stairs and not just poofed like their sensei always did?"

The ANBU beat them to the office and opened the door with "I'm terribly sorry for my rudeness--" until he stopped talking all of the sudden. The two teammates hurried to see what was up with him. They reached for the door and peeked inside only to find an empty office again.

"What's up with everyone disappearing like that? First, Kakashi-sensei and now granny," the blonde jinchuuriki said with clear annoyance.

The ANBU looked at them knowing full well that he had to find the Hokage and quick.

"Tsunade-same don't just leave her office like that, at least not without Shizune-san and we just ran into her at the hospital. There must be something wrong," Sakura concluded then nodded to Naruto who got what she was getting at.

"Then let's go and find her!" he said while running to no place in particular.

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To be continued...