Well do to the fact that I'm not making any skits anymore, I am taking this space to request people to please vote so far Ouran High School is in the lead with one vote…So please send in those votes! And you know all the legal stuff so I won't bother with it. And just ignore the flame, hehehe first flame I ever got. Enjoy!

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It's been eight months now since Konoha was under attack, but now its winter time again and as the snow gently falls to earth it feels as if everything is finally back at ease. Even Mar who had been injured by Gaara, was finally coming out of the hospital soon. However there was still something bugging Kim, her feelings for Kakashi. She had to tell him sooner or later, before it was too late.

The snow seemed to cover everything in the distance, giving it a calm, pure and lovely appeal. Children laughed as they tossed snow balls at each other or began making snow angels and snow men in the crisp white powder.

Naruto looked around the peaceful village with his usual grin, for today was two for one at Ichiruka Ramen. "Hurry it up Kim! I want to get there as soon as I can!" The eager blond shouted as he raced across the street, just to wait for his friend to catch up then run again. "I want to get some ramen!"

Kim simply sighed as she kept walking in her dazed state. There was just so much she needed to know, and so much she needed to say to Kakashi. What if he doesn't feel the same way as I do? She thought as the noisy blue-eyed boy began yelling at her for not hurrying it up. "Geez Naruto, if you're in such a hurry then go yourself!"

"But then who will pay for my ramen?!" Naruto panicked as his friend gave him a blank 'you're-dragging-me-with-you-just-so-I-can-pay?' look. Then on second thought she could just ditch him and look for Kakashi, maybe she could get these feelings off her chest once and for all.

"I think Kit might be there, if you want you can keep him company." Kim replied as she turned around and began to head for Kakashi's apartment. "I'll be there in a little while-I just need to take care of some business…"

Naruto simply blinked but then shrugged off his confusion-he didn't want to miss out on some ramen.

Naruto was surprised as he entered the stand. It had seemed Kim was right; her twin brother Kitsune was sitting there happily eating a bowl of ramen. "Morning, Creepy Clone!" Naruto grinned as he plopped down in the chair next to him and ordered a bowl of ramen. "How's the chunin life treating ya?"

Kit simply gave him an annoyed look, since the short boy kept calling him a clone Kim made that didn't turn out right. "Naruto, I told you a million times. My name is Kitsune, and the chunin life isn't so bad. I get to visit you guys all the time so it's always good." Kit smiled as he took another bite out of his ramen.

"Ah, I'm just kidding ya, Kit!" Naruto laughed as he grabbed some chop sticks and got ready to eat. "Itadakimasu!"

Kitsune simply laughed and continued on eating his ramen, enjoying every bite. "Hey Naruto," Kit asked, making the short boy turn his head to look at him as he still had a large mouthful of ramen in his mouth. "How's Mar doing? I heard she's getting out of the hospital tonight."

Naruto thought about it for a moment then swallowed his ramen. "Yup, after being stuck in that weird smelling place for eight months, she finally gets to go home!" Naruto shouted with his largest grin, but it soon turned into a frown as he turned back to his ramen. "I kind of thought Kim would be happy when she heard Mar could finally come home. But instead she seems more distracted then usual."
Kit thought about it for a moment, but by the looks of things it was pretty obvious what was going on. "Well, you have to take her feelings into consideration, Naruto." Kit explained as the boy next to him kept eating is ramen while listening. "Kim really likes Kakashi, but if he doesn't feel the same way…then she might just end up dying of a broken heart."

Naruto looked down at his empty dish, maybe this was something he shouldn't get involved with. He was just about to order another bowl of ramen when a cute little voice came from behind. "Excuse me, are you Uzumaki Naruto?" Naruto turned around to see a cute little girl with big purple eyes looking at him with a shy smile.

"That's right! What can I do for you?" Naruto grinned as the little girl pulled out a pen and a piece of paper.

"Can I have autograph?" The little girl asked with a cute little smile as she gave him the pen and paper.

"Of course you can, I'm always glad to give a fan an autograph!" Naruto laughed as he pushed the pen down on the paper, releasing a large amount of smoke. "Hey! What's going on?! Kit, are you ok?!"

Kit couldn't answer, he inhaled too much of the smoke, forcing him into a deep sleep. Naruto tried not to inhale the smoke, but no matter how much he tried to struggle he was knocked unconscious too.

Jiko, did you apprehend Kyuubi? A voice rang through the little girl's ear as she tapped at the transmitter in her ear and smirked.

"Yes Itachi-sama, I have apprehended Kyuubi."

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Kim could feel her heart pounding in her chest. She tried to get to the point of why she had come to see Kakashi, but every time she tried getting the words right, something distracted Kakashi or a sudden noise would stop her trail of thought. If this keeps up then this whole visit will be pointless. Kim thought as fiddled with the crystallized cat's eye Kakashi gave her awhile back. "Umm Kakashi-Oniichan, what I've been meaning to say is…"

But before she could finish, Kakashi cut her off when he saw smoke through the window. "Kim, you'll have to hold that thought." Kakashi quickly said as he lifted up the window and called out to a woman in the street. "What's going on?"

"I think there's a fire at Ichiruka Ramen." The woman shouted loud enough so that Kim could hear her from the inside of the apartment.

Kakashi turned to look at Kim; it seemed the same name had crossed their minds at that instant. "Naruto!" They both shouted as they grabbed their coats and raced out the door towards Ichiruka Ramen.

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"Boy this kid is heavy!" A man with purple eyes and black haired grumbled as he kept pulling Naruto through the forest-he was about to take a rest when a group of barking dogs blocked him off in all directions.

"You know, even in the snow, dogs can tract down any scent." A voice explained from behind as Kakashi came out from behind the tree. "That's what makes them such loyal hunting companions."

"Shit, I didn't expect Sharingan Kakashi to come after me." The man panted as he looked around for a way to escape. "Maybe an anbu member or two, but not the infamous Sharingan Kakashi."

"Trust me, they'll come soon enough." Kakashi replied in a calm icy tone as he walked up to the man. "Now if you'd be so kind to hand over my pupil; that would be great."

The man took a few steps back-the plan wasn't suppose to go down like this. All he had to do was grab Kyuubi and run for it. "Hi" The man heard a voice say from behind, nervously making him turn around to face Kim. "Where are you going with my friend?"

"I-I was simply taking him for a walk." The man stuttered as he began to panic, he was surrounded.

"Ow…my head…" Naruto grumbled as he sat up and looked around, this wasn't Ichiruka Ramen! "Hey! Who pulled me away from my ramen?!"

The man felt a surge of panic rush through him; he was completely surrounded by dogs, a legend and two kids that appeared to be ninjas too. All of this was just too much for him, so without warning he fainted.

"Well that was easy." Naruto laughed as Kakashi walked over to the man to make sure he was really unconscious.

Since the problem seemed to be solved, Kakashi picked up the unconscious man and was about to soon leave when an eerie surrounded him. "Look's like you fell right into my trap Kakashi…" a dark voice whispered, causing Kakashi to quickly face his opponent and stand guard. But when he looked into his opponents eyes he stood there in shock.

"Itachi…" Kakashi growled with a bit of a hiss. "You're trying to get Kyuubi again aren't you…?"

Itachi gave a quick look at the two children behind Kakashi then back at him. He was after something much bigger then Kyuubi. "Not today, I'm afraid…I've come for a bigger prize, and for my luck you brought her right to me." Itachi mumbled as a look of shock came across Kakashi's face. Itachi wasn't after Naruto, he was after Kim!

"Kim! I want you to take this man and run to Konoha as fast as you can. When you get there tell Tsunade that Itachi is within our borders." Kakashi ordered as both Kim and Naruto's eyes grew wider at his request. "This is an A rank mission, where you must reach the village A.S.A.P."

Kim stood there in shock; Kakashi wanted her to leave him here with a highly dangerous shinobi? She couldn't, she wouldn't! She wasn't going to run away while the man she loved got hurt! "But Oniichan, we can't leave you here! 'Those that disobey the rules are trash but those that leave their comrades to die are lower then trash.'" Kim shouted as the pain in her heart swell up.

"Forget what I told you!" Kakashi yelled as he turned his head to face her. "Forget everything I told you about leaving your comrade behind and listen to me for once!"

Kim could feel her heart breaking-she didn't want to leave him, but if she stayed he'd just keep yelling at her till finally he did who knows what. She couldn't take anymore of it and took off with Naruto while carrying the man who tried to kidnap Naruto.

When they finally got a good distance, Naruto looked back and spoke up. "Kim, why are we running?!" He shouted as Kim just kept looking forward, trying not to listen to him. "We have to go back and help Kakashi-sensei!"

"We can't Naruto, he ordered us to get to Konoha as fast as we could." She whispered in a cold depressed tone.

Naruto couldn't take it anymore, he just couldn't. He'd have to do this the hard way. "I thought you loved Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto shouted, forcing Kim to stop. "What about what Haku said?! When he asked you who that special someone you wanted to protect was. You said without fail that you wanted to protect Kakashi-sensei!"

Kim could feel tears swell up in her eyes; she wanted more then anything to protect him, even if it meant he'd hate her for the rest of her life for doing so. Without thinking twice, Kim placed the man down and ran back as fast as she could-if something bad ever happened to Kakashi, she would never forgive herself.

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"Did you really think you could beat me Kakashi…?" Itachi whispered as he looked down at the fallen shinobi. "I could easily finish you off now…but I wouldn't want to cause a bigger uproar already." Itachi was about to take his leave when he sensed a familiar presence and blocked a kick from the eager Uzumaki Naruto.

"I won't let you get away with this!" Naruto shouted, but Itachi simply glared at him and tossed him aside. He was planning to come after Kumotama some other day, but if she was sitting there completely helpless he might as well take her.

"Kakashi…please wake up..." Kim whispered as she gently shook him, but he wouldn't respond. She could feel more tears coming out of her eyes as he laid there. Was he really…dead? "Please Kakashi…don't leave me…" She gently rested her head on him, hoping he'd soon wake up.

"He'll be awake soon enough…" Itachi's dark and eerie voice whispered as he grabbed her by the back over her neck and flung her onto his shoulder. "But we'll be long gone by the time he does come around."

Kim could feel tears stream down her face as his words echoed in her mind, why did he want to take her away from Kakashi? But before Itachi could move another step, a weak hand grasped onto his ankle. "I…won't…let you…" Kakashi weakly whispered as he struggled against himself to not pass out. Itachi didn't think very much of this and simply kicked him off as he continued on his way.

Kakashi could feel his eyes close as that special someone's screams for him began to fade away from his mind.

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He's eyes felt like weights, thousand pound weights that just seemed to try and close themselves again. "Kakashi-sama, are you awake?" a black haired nurse with blue eyes asked in a concerned tone as she watched him try to open his eyes. "You have a visitor." Kakashi finally got his eyes open to see a tall man that wore the anbu uniform with autumn orange hair and mossy green eyes.

"Good moring, Senpai" The man greeted in a kind matter as he simply bowed at the silver haired man in the hospital bed who didn't seem to pay much attention to him. "It's a bit cloudy outside but I'm sure it will clear up soon."

"…." Kakashi didn't reply, instead he sat there looking at the foot of his bed, lost in thought.

"We sure miss you down at the force-Jyeko-senpai and Isha-senpai still rant on about the good old days when you were still an Anbu." The youth smiled as he walked over to the window and began to glance at the people on the street. "And Hiroshima-sama is still a great Tactician as always."

"Why are you here…Hikaru…?" Kakashi finally questioned in an indifferent tone, making the youth's energetic smile turn into a look of pain. "Always straight to the point Kakashi-senpai…The truth is, in the past three days that you've been unconscious; Tsunade-sama has had us locate Itachi. Unfortunately, this was the only thing we could find."

"…" Kakashi stayed in the same position as Hikaru walked up to him and placed a small marble on the string that he knew to well into his hands, the crystallized cat's eye…

"I'll let myself out, Kakashi-senpai." Hikaru mumbled as he took a final bow and left the room, walking passed a blond haired nurse.

"Nurse…" Kakashi mumbled, startling the green-eyed woman as she came in.

"H-hai, Kakashi-sama?" She nervously stuttered as she placed some blankets down on a chair.

"Can you tell the nurse that's in charge of the visits…that I would like to be alone for awhile…?" Kakashi whispered in the same indifferent tone.

"H-hai, Kakashi-sama." The nurse replied as she stepped out of the room and closed the door behind her.

Kakashi looked at the small grey sphere in his hand-it reminded him too much of that day when his father gave it to him, telling him to give it to the person he wanted to be with. It also took him to the day he gave it to Kim. It was then his mind collapsed. He never had the courage to cry at his father's funeral, or the day Obito died, or when Rin died and his dear teacher the Yondaime (Kim did it for him). When he thought he had lost the special someone forever he let it out in rage towards his enemy Zabuza, but now it seemed all he could do was lay there and watch as Itachi took her away from him. All these thoughts came to Kakashi as pulled down his mask and rested his head on his raised knees-he wasn't strong enough to protect her. And for the first time in his entire life, Hatake Kakashi lowered his face into arms and cried.