I added/changed some stuff in chapter 12 mainly I rewrote that "three weeks
later" thing and added stuff at the end so you guys just might want to know
that!
I do not own Naruto or anything else pertaining to Naruto and Kishimoto- sensei's works but I do own my original characters for that matter but then again why bother taking credit for a character that doesn't really exist except for in this story.......................but then again this is a pre-Naruto fanfic thus these character's could have been real and you just don't know it...................yeah
This is chapter 13! And today March 7, 2004 is my birthday! And I turn 17! Woohoo!!
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Hari-chan: I'm sorry it took so long to update but I hope you enjoy this longer chapter as a gift to all you guys on my birthday!
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Sausweet: I rewrote the "three weeks later" tidbit in chapter 12 and added stuff at the end so make sure you reread it! I am sorry about straying form the plot and the rating and I hope that this chapter isn't disappointing either and I also hope you enjoy the scene that you asked for because I put the Hokage asking Iruka about his relationship with Kakashi in here so enjoy!! And I love the fact that you review twice because that means you some back to say more!!
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Chapter 13: I Didn't Do It For You
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No one ever questions why something good happens to them. They don't try to understand or find out why; they only go with the flow and live on contently. That is until something bad happens.
Why is it that we as humans are easier to question when something goes wrong than when something goes right? When someone is diagnosed with an illness usually the first question that pops into people's heads is why? When something is lost of great value no one just continues on like nothing happens they always take a moment to ask why they lost it? Why can't it be found? Why them?
And when someone dies...............no matter who the person is the people who was left behind always ask why?
The teenagers dressed in black by a river watch their friend light a candle and place it in a boat to be set of in the current of the waters, they ask why did this happen to him?
The smaller teen with a scar across his face cries as he holds his lover torn between the death of a friend and the safe return of another.
The silver haired teen allows his lover to cry because he is unable to. He watches his closest friend put the boat into the water and is torn between guilt and sadness.
As the teen places his candle with a boat in the river representing what he lost he cries. He doesn't notice how the clouds have rolled in as the boat makes its way down the river and out of his life. All he can do now is ask why. Why did it happen? And why couldn't he have been there to stop it?
All the teens stand there watching the light fade off in the distance not noticing the fact that it has been raining all day and not caring that the sun will come out tomorrow.
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"Good morning Hokage-sama." Iruka smiled as he entered the Hokage's office and sat down in one of the chairs in front of the busy man.
"Good morning Iruka how are you doing today?" The Hokage pulled the pipe out of his mouth and took a break from the scroll he was writing to avert his attention to the young teen in front of him. "I hear Hitomi is leaving today to return to her village to give them the big news."
"I'm doing good and yeah she is really excited but I'm starting to get annoyed about how her and Gai are all over each other all the time. I mean me and Kakashi don't act like that and well.................we've been together.......................longer and stuff." Iruka blushed shyly as he thought of Kakashi.
"So how is your relationship going with Kakashi?" The Hokage smiled as Iruka's eyes widened and then the teen's face grew a very deep red color. "I take it by your response very well then?"
Iruka nodded as the Hokage laughed. Iruka was always so bashful when it came to certain things and that just made the boy seem more innocent towards the world, and the Hokage for one wanted that innocence to remain.
"Hey Iruka I was wondering how you felt about Gai and Hitomi's engagement?" The Hokage looked over the scroll that was in front of him before looking back at Iruka.
"Oh! Well I am very happy for them. Kakashi was telling me last night that he thought they were moving a little quick but he was still happy for Gai." Iruka smiled with a small blush on his cheeks.
"Last night?" The Hokage gave Iruka one of those 'just-got-caught-sneaking- out-of-the-house-at-night' looks.
"Oh.........well........." Iruka blushed as he looked down. How do you tell the closest thing to a parental figure in your life that you have a lover at the age of 15?
"What is your relationship with Kakashi in one word?" The Hokage raised an eyebrow as Iruka's face turned a deep crimson and the chunin refused to make eye contact. "Iruka you don't have to tell me if you don't want to, I was just being curious."
Iruka gave a small sigh. He didn't have to tell the Hokage because well his personal life wasn't the Hokage's responsibility unless it would affect missions or the village, but then again the Hokage was always there for him even when his parents were alive. The Hokage was probably something remotely close to a favorite grandfather Iruka thought but being in a ninja profession centered village not many children got to see their grandparents long.
"Iruka?" The Hokage snapped Iruka back into reality as the chunin realized he had gone off in his own world.
"Oh sorry Hokage-sama." Iruka smiled as the Hokage nodded back. "I guess I would say we are lovers."
The Hokage dropped his pipe on his desk and stared at the surprised boy. Iruka hadn't been expecting that reaction, he didn't know what reaction he was expecting, but Iruka knew he wasn't expecting that one.
The Hokage just stared at Iruka for a few moments before regaining his composure and relighting his pipe.
"You're only 15." The Hokage stated as he smoked his pipe.
"Yeah I know." Iruka smiled shyly as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Well just make sure your ready Iruka. That's the only advice I can give you, a ninja's life is never predictable and to get so close at such a young age.........."
"I'll be fine Hokage-sama." Iruka interrupted the Hokage with a small grin and bow. "I might be young but I know the world and I know the chances I take."
The Hokage did a small nod as he held his pipe. Iruka was always mature for his age but the Hokage still didn't want the boy to get hurt.
"I love Kakashi and that's what really matters right Hokage-sama?"
"You are right Iruka-kun." The Hokage smiled at the young teen as Iruka did a bow and headed out of his office.
Maybe Iruka was right and love was all that mattered, but at the same time the Hokage couldn't help but feel a little worried about the boy, but then again he worried about everyone in his village.
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"I love you!"
"I love you too!"
Iruka and Kakashi sighed as they tried to break the couple off each other.
"I can't wait to tell my family about you." Hitomi squealed in joy as she kissed the blushing Gai another time.
"I wish I could go with you." Gai hugged her as the couple embraced each other.
"Can you please hurry guys, I am only taking this small escorting mission because you asked me to Gai but I swear if you waist anymore of my time I'll let someone else take her." Kakashi growled as he looked at the sun. They were already three hours behind schedule and Kakashi was never to fond of spending more time than he had to with Hitomi.
"Be safe Kakashi." Iruka whispered to the jounin with a small blush on his cheeks.
"Not you too Iruka?" Kakashi complained afraid that the boy would start in the drama. "Guys we will be back in one week, this is a simple trip to a peaceful village."
"Your right Kakashi." Gai smiled. "Thanks again for doing this favor for me."
"Your welcome now can we please go before the sun goes away!"
"Oh I forgot something!" Hitomi jumped up and grabbed Iruka by the arm. "I left my scarf at your house can we go get it real quick?"
"Sure, we'll be right back ok!" Iruka grabbed Hitomi's hand and took off running in the other direction. It wouldn't take more than five minutes by how fast they were moving.
Gai and Kakashi stood there in silence for a while until Gai jumped back in a fighting stance and grinned at Kakashi.
"You want to have a quick round?" He struck a few poses as Kakashi shook his head.
"I will face you right when I get back." Kakashi waved his hand at Gai and curved his only visible eye.
"Thanks again for escorting Hitomi, I know you would rather be doing other stuff while you have the time off." Gai smiled as Kakashi just nodded. "I really appreciate this I mean I wish I could go but the Hokage said he wanted to go over some things while Hitomi was talking to her family and..........."
"Gai it's cool, don't worry I understand and plus I think I owe you a few favors right?" Kakashi sighed as his rival broke into tears and struck a pose.
"You are so cool Kakashi! And that is why you are my rival!"
"Yeah yeah." Kakashi looked up at the sky. What was taking Iruka and Hitomi so long?
"I know she will be safe as long as you are escorting her." Gai smiled as Kakashi gave him another glance. "Please be careful though I mean there are rumors of criminals wandering around so........."
"Gai it's going to be fine! You said it yourself she will be safe and I will protect her so don't worry! I'm a jounin so relax! This is a simple mission that even a genin could do." Kakashi sighed in annoyance until he saw Iruka and Hitomi. "They're back."
"Sorry it took so long." Hitomi did a small bow towards no one in particular and then smiled at Iruka. "Thank you once again Iruka-kun. If it wasn't for you I would never of been able to be this happy, I will find a way to repay you for this one day even if I spend the rest of my life waiting for the opportunity I will repay your kindness."
"It's okay Hitomi seriously. I don't need anything in return just make sure you and Kakashi have a great trip and come back soon okay." Iruka smiled as Hitomi nodded and turned around to give Gai one last hug and kiss before they left.
Iruka and Gai waited till the gates closed and then turned around to go on with the day. Kakashi and Hitomi walked into the forest not really talking just enjoying the silence as the past out of the safety of Konoha.
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"Soooooooo..............." Hitomi sighed as she watched Kakashi set the fire for camp.
"So?" Kakashi gave a defeated sigh and started the fire before Hitomi let out another loud sigh annoying Kakashi enough to glare at her. "What?"
"Why are you so anti-social?" Hitomi glared back as Kakashi ignored her and returned to working the fire. "Are you always like this?"
Kakashi sat back against a tree trunk and watched the fire he had built consume the wood with a small smirk on his face. He was proud of his work.
"I have no idea what Iruka sees in you.........." Hitomi mumbled loud enough for Kakashi to hear as she crawled into her sleeping bag.
Kakashi just paused for a moment before he let out a small chuckle causing Hitomi to turn over a look at him with a confused expression on her face.
"What's so funny?"
"I have no idea what he sees in me either." Kakashi smiled under his mask as he rested his head against the tree.
There was a small moment of silence before Hitomi sat up a bit and stared at him from the other side of the fire.
"How did you two get together?"
"Hn?" Kakashi stared at Hitomi confused for a second. Was she trying to make conversation?
"I wanted to know how you two got together." Hitomi stated again as Kakashi grinned under his mask.
"I guess in a way I fell for him as I watched him grow older even though I am only three years older but then jealousy............a lot of jealousy helped the whole situation." Kakashi shrugged and then looked at Hitomi in till their eyes were locked. "It was more of fear on my part."
"Fear?" Hitomi stared at him in disbelief, didn't this guy have one at least one romantic bone in his body? "Fear as in not love? Fear and jealousy...........Geez I swear Kakashi you have a way with words."
"Well you asked and it's not like it was all jealousy and fear, no, love was there and that's what was to be afraid of." Kakashi looked up at the stars and smiled. "You know it might have been a long time ago but I was scared that day, and I am still scared whenever I see Iruka."
"Scared?" Hitomi didn't try to hide the doubt in her voice as she laid back down in her sleeping bag. "Why are you scared Kakashi-san?"
There was a small silence as they listened to the noises of nature before Kakashi finally spoke up.
"As a ninja............it's hard...........it's very hard to sincerely express your emotions. We as shinobi are train from the day we enter the academy that expression can be our downfall and we are never to show it but then what about love? Shinobi get married everyday in the Leaf and nothing is wrong but at the same time many shinobi don't get married because well..............well..."
"They see it as a weakness?" Hitomi interrupted Kakashi showing him he still had her full attention.
"Yeah." Kakashi watched how the starry sky slowly became covered in clouds. He didn't know if Hitomi was still waiting for him to continue but Kakashi wasn't one to open up so easily. Yeah he had already started somewhat of a conversation but that was just for his own musings.
"Love doesn't make you weak ya know." Hitomi whispered interrupting the silence of the night before she yawned and made herself comfortable seeing as Kakashi didn't look like he was going to continue. "Love is the most powerful force in the world or so I've heard, so sometimes I think that love for a special someone can also make you stronger.* It isn't a weakness."
"Heh." Kakashi smirked under his mask. Hitomi sounded a lot like Gai for a second maybe these two were made for each other.
"Well?" Hitomi snapped Kakashi out of his musings as he looked at her.
"Well what?"
"Do you think love makes you weak?" Hitomi sat up in her sleeping bag so she could look at him as he just sighed.
Love?
Such a strong yet meaningless word.............and yet how complicated is has gotten in these short few minutes of Kakashi's life.
Anyone can say I love you.
Kakashi narrowed his eyes at the thought. He loved Iruka didn't he? Iruka loved him back right? But then why is there that voice at the back of his head complicating things? So what if they were so young right?
Iruka was 13 when he confessed his love for Kakashi whom was 16 and returned the feelings. What if it wasn't love and just teenage hormonal attraction? Kakashi berated himself for ever doubting Iruka; the chunin never did anything unless his whole heart was there but what about Kakashi?
What is love anyway?
"You don't deserve Iruka and I mean that." The sharp tone caused Kakashi to look over Hitomi who was glaring at him.
"Where do you get off saying that?" Kakashi replied harshly.
"I'm just saying the truth, here I have given you several times to express what you truly feel about Iruka and every time you stall or have some disappointing answer. Where do you see your relationship with Iruka going? I mean seriously you've obviously haven't given it much thought." Hitomi plopped down on her bag and let out a huff trying to make her point.
"Maybe your right about me not giving it much thought but I do care a lot about Iruka and would easily give my life up for him. I might not know where we will be in a few years but where we are now is fine with me. If we are together still in the future then way to go us right?" Kakashi spat out harshly remembering all the reasons he didn't like the girl on the other side of the fire.
"Oh I am so sorry Kakashi-san." Hitomi said with sarcasm dripping off her voice then glared intently at Kakashi. "I know you CARE a lot about Iruka- kun but what about love? Do you love him is what I am asking and what is with IF? If you are together? Where you are now might be fine for you but what about Iruka?"
"If Iruka isn't fine with our relationship than he can do something about it. This is none of your concern so could you please do me the favor and drop this subject?" Kakashi threw some wood into the fire and glared at her as she glared back.
"Touchy aren't we Kakashi?" Hitomi sighed. "But you do make Iruka happy so I'll give you that because though I don't know Iruka as well as you do...."
"No you don't." Kakashi spat out interrupting Hitomi.
"Well as I don't...." Hitomi glared at Kakashi. "He is still someone who has been a great friend to me and I see the way he smiles when he's around you, like someone who is truly happy."
Kakashi didn't say anything as Hitomi slowly went to sleep and the tension in the air died down. What was he doing? He didn't even try sticking up for himself in front of that girl. Maybe she was right.........maybe she had a point.
Kakashi sighed and prepared himself for guard duty. He wondered what Iruka felt about their relationship?
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"Oh good morning Gai!" Iruka smiled and opened his door to let the jounin in. "What brings you here so early?"
"I just figured I could come by since your house is on the way to Hokage- sama's." Gai did a small bow and smiled as Iruka smiled back.
"Wasn't the Hokage going to go over some scrolls with you?" Iruka sat down at the table after he poured Gai some tea. He really enjoyed company whenever Kakashi was gone.
"Yeah I had come across a few forbidden jutsus on my last mission and he just wanted me to clarify some things. And not to forget I have to get Hitomi's citizenship for the Leaf ready so we can get married without any problems of where I will be living."
"Well it seems like everything is working out for the best don't you think?" Iruka was about to continue when they heard a small breaking noise coming form Iruka's bedroom. Both ninja were I there in a flash to see a picture frame had broken.
"How weird." Iruka picked up the picture to see it was one of him, Hitomi, and Kakashi. (Gai was the person behind the camera.) "Why do you think it fell over?"
"I don't know.........none of your windows are open and it wasn't an intruder because we both would have sensed it........." Gai thought about before he looked at the picture seriously. "Maybe it's a bad omen?"
"A bad omen?" Iruka gave a small grin. "I think those are just things parents tell there kids about to keep the children in line whenever they see a crow or dead grass*."
"Hitomi said that people just label the unexplainable as superstitions but that doesn't make it any less of a truth. This could have been an omen."
"Let's not worry about it Gai, come on I still have tea in the kitchen." Iruka waited for Gai to leave the room before he turned the picture over to see he had been ripped in half between Hitomi and Kakashi. What could that mean?
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Kakashi and Hitomi walked in silence for the rest of the next day in trip until Hitomi accidentally hurt her foot when she tripped over a root.
"You didn't have to laugh." Hitomi mumbled as Kakashi wrapped some bandages around her ankle.
"Well we were going to pull an all nighter and get to your village early in the morning but I guess we can camp here and just make it there tomorrow afternoon." Kakashi finished the bandaging and got up to unpack some of the camping stuff.
"I'm sorry."
"Why are you apologizing it's not like I've failed the mission?" Kakashi turned around to face her with a small grin under his mask. "We are just going to be a little late."
"Not about that I mean I'm sorry I was so rude to you last night." Hitomi glared at him with a small blush on her cheeks. "You and Iruka are happy together and I hope I didn't say anything to make you think otherwise because I promised Iruka to repay his kindness and I don't plan on doing it by breaking you guys up."
Kakashi lifted his hands up as if to show no harm. "No need to apologize, in fact I should thank you because you made me think about some things."
Hitomi gave Kakashi a look of doom and laughed. "No don't worry me and Iruka are still together unless he chooses someone else but until then I still faithfully belong to him."
Hitomi nodded and started helping setting up camp.
"I'm going to go get some fire wood so stay here." Kakashi ordered as he walked off into the forest.
Hitomi sighed as she looked around the camp. She wasn't some little kid that needed to be taken care of.
Hitomi spotted three red water containers used for putting out the fire and crawled over to them. They were empty. Hitomi looked around and slowly stood up; her ankle was fine just a slight sprain but she could walk fine with a small limp. She picked up the three containers and headed in the opposite direction Kakashi had left in remembering he mumbled something about a stream not to far off in the west.
Hitomi didn't walk too far until she heard the noise of running water and smiled. At least she was going to be of some use to Kakashi after all she would have to make a better friendship with the jounin since he was Gai's rival (a.k.a. best friend in her mind) and Iruka's boyfriend both of which were the closest people she knew at the leaf which in a few weeks would be her new home.
"Hey pretty girl." Hitomi turned around quickly to see a man in a large coat smiling at her. He didn't have the traditional light shinobi garbs but she could tall he was a ninja by the headband he wore but for some reason there were markings on it.
The man wore his headband around this forehead but had wild long hair that flew everywhere is seemed until it came to a messy ponytail in the back. He had very dark eyes and paint on his face of tears. He was wearing a large heavy black jacket that covered his whole body and almost his feet but Hitomi could see a few toes from under the shadows.
"Hello." Hitomi did a small polite bow to the man. After all most of the shinobi she had ever met were very nice people if they weren't paid to kill you. The man gave a huge grin.
"What are you doing out here all by yourself?" He chuckled lowly sending an uneasy chill down Hitomi's spine but she continued to be polite.
"I am just getting some water for camp."
"And with a hurt ankle?" The man clicked his tongue as he looked over her body.
Hitomi trembled a bit. The man had noticed she was hurt even with the bandages covered up by her usual stockings. The man gave her a smug grin before he started to approach her but Hitomi backed away.
"Why are you afraid of me?" The man laughed as Hitomi tried to hold back the tears that were coming. This man was scary and she didn't like how he was looking at her, maybe she should have listened to Kakashi and stayed at the camp.
"If you don't mind sir I would really like to be left alone. I have to make it back to camp before my friend does." Hitomi turned around to head off for the stream to get the water when she ran into another man who had been standing right behind her.
"Hello." The dark figured smiled at her as her eyes widened in shock. What was she going to do now?
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"Gai are you okay?" Iruka walked up to his friend who was looking very disturbed.
"I'm fine Iruka-kun no need to worry." Gai gave a fake grin before Iruka frowned at him.
"I know I'm not your best friend Gai but I am still a friend so if there is something troubling you then you should tell me." Iruka sat down next to Gai.
"I know Iruka but you don't really believe in omens so..........." Gai trailed off as Iruka smiled shyly at him.
"Actually Gai I do believe in omens it's just I didn't want to say anything yesterday because I was afraid you might get worried but don't worry Kakashi will keep Hitomi safe." Iruka patted Gai on the back ignoring the worried feeling that was rising up in his chest.
"I know Kakashi will protect her it's just that...............that something weird happened this morning and now I can't seem to do anything without being scared that something has happened to them." Gai looked over at Iruka with a genuine scared expression. "Everything she had touched in my house broke, everything and that mean glasses, vases, furniture, even the sweater I let her barrow was found with a large rip through it."
Iruka stared at Gai in disbelief. Everything she had ever touched?
"The picture frame she bought be shattered and then the roses that she had dried for decorations looked more like dried popery, it's weird because I would have known if anyone had came into my house last night since I was there and no one did and then the fact that I didn't hear anything break..........."
"Have you told Hokage-sama about this?" Iruka looked at his friend questionably.
"No because what am I supposed to say? Hey Hokage-sama I don't think Hitomi is safe with Kakashi right now and I think that something might of happened because I have a lot of broken crap at my house?" Gai started to play with his hands subconsciously.
"Well that's a start Gai." Iruka got up and pulled Gai over. "It's not like there is a major demand for missions right now so maybe the Hokage can send someone just to check or maybe find out if Kakashi has made it too Hitomi's village yet, I'm sure everything is fine but it would hurt to check right?"
"Yeah Iruka your right." Gai stood up and headed for the Hokage's office after all there is nothing unusual about checking on your fiancé is there?
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"Hitomi?" Kakashi was about five meters away from the camp and he already knew she was gone. He sighed in defeat as he made to the camp and threw down the logs.
Kakashi noticed that the water bottles were gone so he assumed she had went to go refill them but maybe she needed some help because those bottles could get heavy after a while. Kakashi made his way into the woods silently and started to get disturbed.
Kakashi looked at a tree that had slashing marks all up and down the tree that someone had to have made recently. Kakashi took off towards the tracks Hitomi had left as he noticed the slashings seemed to be following her as well.
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Kakashi climbed up a tree so he could get better seed jumping from the branches until he made it up to the river. His eyes widened in horror.
Hitomi was trembling on the ground trying to cover up the parts of her clothing that had been ripped and she had blood running down her face to show that she had been beaten.
Kakashi appeared in front of her ignoring the two men that were staring at him as he helped her stand up. Kakashi needed to get Hitomi out of this place before he started a fight where her life could be in danger.
"Can you move? Are you okay? Did they do anything to you?" Kakashi whispered to her as she realized he was there.
Hitomi gave a small smiled as she looked at him with some of the blood blocking her vision.
"Yes I can move, I'm as okay as I look and besides getting banged up they didn't do.........anything to my body." She whispered back as her voiced cracked.
Kakashi looked at her as she continued to shake on the ground and the glared at the two men. He couldn't move her without getting the risk of being attacked when they moved.
"Hitomi stay here and don't move." Kakashi ordered as he prepared himself to fight.
"Oi! Look here Saya-sama we have a hero, I think he has come to save the girl." The man with paintings on his face laughed.
"Yes you are right Tama-san, and look at his headband he is from the Hidden Leaf. It's been a while since I have killed a shinobi from the Hidden Leaf." Saya laughed as Kakashi studied them.
The two men were from the Hidden Waterfall which was a small shinobi village compared to the Leaf but not the weakest. Kakashi couldn't place it but there was something about the man Saya's description fit.
Tama was first to attack, as Kakashi was able to counter every move without his Sharingan. This guy had to be a joke Kakashi decided as he took mention of the other man watching the battle smugly.
With a kick to the side Tama went flying across the small river and into a tree as Kakashi turned to Saya.
"I wouldn't fight Saya-sama if I was you." Kakashi ignored the beaten shinobi behind him and got ready to attack. "Saya-sama has a bad fetish with pain very bad."
Saya..................and then it clicked.
Kakashi stopped his attack and flipped over the dark ninja as his eyes widened. Saya was an S-class criminal for slaughtering a neutral village during the war. It was believe he tortured the women and children in front of their families right before he killed them off.
Kakashi gritted his teeth as he thought of the best way to attack. As a jounin of the Hidden Leaf and a former ANBU it was his job to make sure he at least tried to fight this guy as long as he and Hitomi made it out alive in the end.
With a quick flash that battle began and the man smiled as he pulled out a sword from under his jacket that Kakashi countered with a kunai. It didn't seem like anything was going anywhere besides a few cuts and scrapes on both parts before Kakashi pulled out his Sharingan.
"Why if it isn't?!?!?" Saya stopped in his tracks with a smug grin on his face. "I knew that you were good Kakashi of the Sharingan eye but I must say your legends have disappointed me since you haven't beaten me yet."
"But the fight had only begun." Kakashi replied coolly as he did a few hand seals.
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Iruka woke up to a loud crashing noise in his room as he jumped up from bed with a kunai in his hand. He noticed it was that picture again that had fallen and slowly crawled over it.
Iruka had taped the picture together after it had ripped in half but this time a piece of glass was stabbing into it which was weird since the picture frame had fallen flat so how did the glass get like this? Iruka eyes widened as he saw where the glass was stabbing until he heard a noise outside and looked to see a crow fly off in the distance.
Iruka trembled lightly as he stood up and quickly put on his shoes. He had to find Gai; this was getting to creepy especially since Kakashi hadn't made it to Hitomi's village yet. Iruka grabbed the picture and ran out of his door as he looked at it one more time.
Hitomi.
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Kakashi dodge another attack as he ran over to Hitomi and picked her up while running to the woods. He needed to rethink his plans; this wasn't going well at all.
Hitomi cringed at the sudden pressure around her waist but didn't struggle or make it harder for Kakashi; she was already as useless as could be. She looked over at Kakashi to see blood pouring out from his arm and stomach. He must have gotten cut.
Kakashi suddenly stopped and placed Hitomi on the ground where she could support herself with a tree. He sighed inwardly this wasn't supposed to happen! Why had he let his guard down?
Kakashi ignored the pain in his stomach, as he made sure she was okay and then thought of a plan.
S-class criminal!
Saya was apparently only joking with him at first and as he battle heated up Kakashi found himself on the receiving end. If things didn't change soon they were going to.........
Saya appeared from the trees slicing Kakashi's body in half only to watch it turn into smoke. The man smirked as he looked around. Where did they go?
Kakashi checked on Hitomi one more time before he head towards Saya who was only a few yards away. As long as Hitomi stayed there she should be fine so if Kakashi failed this battle she would still have a chance to live.
Kakashi ducked the sword as he kicked Saya in the stomach performing a few hand seals causing the leaves to wrap around the two figures.
Hitomi opened her eyes slowly as her head hurt. She hadn't even realized Kakashi had put her down the way her head was spinning. She was so weak compared to the Leaf shinobi but then again she wasn't a ninja just a girl in love with one.
Hitomi forced herself to look around her surroundings hiding the fear in her gut. She heard noise to the left of her and quickly moved herself closer to the tree so she could pull herself up and see what was happening.
She watched as the leaves fell to the ground showing the figures fighting. Kakashi had blood all over his uniform and Hitomi started to tremble as she saw the red eye. That's why he always wore the headband tilted?
Hitomi saw Kakashi go flying into a nearby tree as he received a kick to the stomach causing his blood to run faster. Her eyes widened as Saya appeared before him and swung his sword.
"Kakashi!"
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"Gai!" Iruka ran into the watchtower as he saw his friend sign off from duty.
"Hey Iruka is something wrong?" Gai face was serious as he saw how out of breath Iruka was. The chunin looked like he had been running all over town.
"You need to come with me to the Hokage right now! Something happened!" Iruka yelled trying to hold back the tears forming in his eyes. "All I know is something bad happened with Kakashi and Hitomi. Apparently they Kakashi is at her village now!"
Gai just nodded and took off for the Hokage's office as Iruka quickly followed.
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Kakashi opened his eyes to see a small figure in front of him. It took him a second to register the cloths and the bloodied hair as he saw a sword sticking through the stomach.
"Hitomi?" Kakashi whispered as he moved himself around to see Saya was stuck in her grip.
Kakashi eyes widened as he saw Hitomi standing there holding on to Saya as the man's sword went through her.
"Let go stupid woman!" Saya coughed up some blood as he tried to pull his sword out of her.
"Don't hurt..........Kakashi." Hitomi gave a pained growl. "I don't want to see Iruka cry!"
"What?" Saya glared at her but finally pushed her body away leaving him without a sword. "Stupid girl!"
Kakashi watched Hitomi fall to the ground frozen. Not again! Not another person dieing for him!
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"Hokage-sama Iruka and Gai-san are here to see you." An ANBU announced to the older man as the Hokage nodded allowing the entrance.
The Hokage's eyes saddened as he watched the two friends enter. Gai not showing how he was feeling yet Iruka was trying to hide the fact he was worried but it seemed to only make it worse.
"Hokage-sama? You asked for us?" Gai did a polite bow as the Hokage sighed.
This was too sad for someone so young to go through even if the young man was a jounin and had seen many deaths this was a different level.
"Gai-san I'm afraid I have some bad news." The Hokage did hide the somber expression in his eyes as he lit up his pipe and brought it up to his mouth.
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"Hitomi hold still this is going to hurt." Kakashi said softly as he removed the sword causing her to scream in pain as tears rolled down her face. "Stupid girl you.........you........."
"Saved your sorry butt." Hitomi cough as blood spilled from her mouth.
Kakashi stared at the dieing girl in front of him. She was going to die, she had lost too much and the cut was too deep there was no way............Kakashi felt his eyes burn as he saw the ring still on her left hand. Gai.
"Hitomi why?" Was all Kakashi could say. "Why did you save me?"
"I didn't do it for you jerk." Hitomi spat out harshly trying to spit out the blood gathering in her mouth. "The last thing I thought............my last thought when I saw you were going to die was............that with you gone I would never see Iruka smile like that again. He has a great smile you know?"
"But what about Gai? You need.........you have to stay alive Hitomi." Kakashi slowly tried to pick her up before her body tensed.
"I love Gai." Hitomi let the tears roll down her cheeks. "But I owed Iruka for everything.............tell Gai I will watch him from the clouds please..............oh kami I loved him so much let him know that."
"Hitomi you..........." Kakashi didn't finish his sentence as Hitomi's breathing slowly came to a halt. "Hitomi..."
Kakashi sat there frozen in his spot at the still body in front of him. He looked over to the side to see the dead body of Saya not too far from them as his Sharingan flared. But there was nothing he could do, Saya was already dead and so was Hitomi.
Kakashi made himself get up and pick her body up. He still had to take her to her village. He promised Gai he would.
Gai.
What was Kakashi going to do? He had failed Gai.
Kakashi only took Hitomi's stuff with him and Saya's head as proof the criminal was dead. Another person had died protecting him in his life and it was someone who should never had done it.
Kakashi narrowed his eyes as he remembered Heidaki. Why were people so willing to die for him? Kakashi cursed at himself as he ran to Hitomi's village. He would probably get there in five hours at the pace he was going and so Kakashi sped up.
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"Kakashi?" Kakashi's body tensed as he heard the soft voice above him. "Kakashi?"
"Hn?" Kakashi mumbled as he slowly opened his eyes so see Iruka over him with a small smile. "Iruka what are you-?"
"Your back at the Leaf." Iruka tried to keep the small smile up. "You apparently passed out from Sharingan use when you made to Hitomi's village so Hokage sent some people to bring you back here so you could wake up at one of our hospitals."
Kakashi stayed still as he heard the sad voice of Iruka. So Iruka and everyone knew now...........Kakashi squeezed the bed sheets that were over him before he quickly got up only stumbling a bit.
"Kakashi? You need to stay down." Iruka tried to push the jounin back into the bed but Kakashi was quickly dressed and already heading out of the door before he could put up much complaint.
Kakashi felt sick. His stomach was tightening up as he walked down the hallway. Hitomi was really dead and he was really back at the leaf. Kakashi turned the corner to see the one person he knew he wasn't ready to face.
Gai was sitting down in a chair obviously worn out as he stared at the ground. Kakashi was stunned; if it wasn't for the fact of how the man was dressed Gai wouldn't have been recognized as Gai. He looked like a broken man.
This made Kakashi's chest hurt. He had done this to his rival and it was his entire fault.
Kakashi stuck his hands into his pockets as he tried to think of what to say when he felt a small circle. Kakashi pulled out the small item and stared at it.............it was Hitomi's ring.
Gai was staring at the ground when he heard footsteps approach him. He sighed outwardly as he turned until he saw who it was. Kakashi was staring at him holding his hand out as if he had something to give Gai.
Gai stood up and hugged Kakashi. He was glad his friend was okay. "Kakashi I..........."
"I'm sorry." Kakashi interrupted Gai as he placed the ring in Gai's hands letting his rival see it.
Gai stared at it before tears formed in his eyes and he just nodded at Kakashi before he turned and walked the other way.
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The three friends dressed in black finally get tired of the rain falling on their shoulders before the one who stood in the river turned around to face his two friends.
The younger one tried to hold back tears the best he could while the other looked down at the ground in regret.
Gai walked over to them until he was right beside Kakashi and looked at his friend who didn't bother looking back.
"It's not your fault Kakashi." And with that Gai left the two friends as he walked home remembering his lost love.
Kakashi just sat there for a few more minutes until it turned into hours and he noticed Iruka was still sitting with him though no longer crying. The chunin was going to get sick if they stayed out hear any longer.
Kakashi got up and helped his lover up as they walked home together side by side. They both stared at the ground and just let the rainfall on their silent walk home not knowing what to say to the other.
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K-chan: *cries*
P-sama: "dang it stop already"
K-chan: *still crying*
P-sama: "stop it stop it stop it"
K-chan: *growing hysterical*
P-sama: *sighs*
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1st *: This is part of Gai's definition of love in chapter 7.
2nd *: Crow usually meant death and certain doom of yourself or a certain loved one while if you found dead grass underneath you it meant that you were going to die.
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Well?????? *waits for response* It was really hard to write this chapter believe it or not and the whole fighting scene was probably crap but I still hope you enjoyed it! It was weird writing this story too because I had read Azu Manga Daioh so was in a good mood and it's hard to write this kind of stuff in a good mood or so I thought because I was actually still in a good mood after I finished this....................yeah enough about that..............
This chapter is longer than my usual chapters and I hope you enjoy that and I hope that everyone has a great week because I turned 17 today!!!! Woohoo!
Well this chapter is kind of angsty so you know what that means!! Some really sad chapters are coming up even if they aren't the next chapter! This is the calm before the storm people!! *laughs* Okay well maybe not that bad because this chapter was really sad and I hated writing everyone so sad because it made me sad............well just a little bit but my twin almost drowned me in her tears.............sigh...........
See you next chapter!
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I do not own Naruto or anything else pertaining to Naruto and Kishimoto- sensei's works but I do own my original characters for that matter but then again why bother taking credit for a character that doesn't really exist except for in this story.......................but then again this is a pre-Naruto fanfic thus these character's could have been real and you just don't know it...................yeah
This is chapter 13! And today March 7, 2004 is my birthday! And I turn 17! Woohoo!!
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Sausweet: I rewrote the "three weeks later" tidbit in chapter 12 and added stuff at the end so make sure you reread it! I am sorry about straying form the plot and the rating and I hope that this chapter isn't disappointing either and I also hope you enjoy the scene that you asked for because I put the Hokage asking Iruka about his relationship with Kakashi in here so enjoy!! And I love the fact that you review twice because that means you some back to say more!!
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Chapter 13: I Didn't Do It For You
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No one ever questions why something good happens to them. They don't try to understand or find out why; they only go with the flow and live on contently. That is until something bad happens.
Why is it that we as humans are easier to question when something goes wrong than when something goes right? When someone is diagnosed with an illness usually the first question that pops into people's heads is why? When something is lost of great value no one just continues on like nothing happens they always take a moment to ask why they lost it? Why can't it be found? Why them?
And when someone dies...............no matter who the person is the people who was left behind always ask why?
The teenagers dressed in black by a river watch their friend light a candle and place it in a boat to be set of in the current of the waters, they ask why did this happen to him?
The smaller teen with a scar across his face cries as he holds his lover torn between the death of a friend and the safe return of another.
The silver haired teen allows his lover to cry because he is unable to. He watches his closest friend put the boat into the water and is torn between guilt and sadness.
As the teen places his candle with a boat in the river representing what he lost he cries. He doesn't notice how the clouds have rolled in as the boat makes its way down the river and out of his life. All he can do now is ask why. Why did it happen? And why couldn't he have been there to stop it?
All the teens stand there watching the light fade off in the distance not noticing the fact that it has been raining all day and not caring that the sun will come out tomorrow.
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"Good morning Hokage-sama." Iruka smiled as he entered the Hokage's office and sat down in one of the chairs in front of the busy man.
"Good morning Iruka how are you doing today?" The Hokage pulled the pipe out of his mouth and took a break from the scroll he was writing to avert his attention to the young teen in front of him. "I hear Hitomi is leaving today to return to her village to give them the big news."
"I'm doing good and yeah she is really excited but I'm starting to get annoyed about how her and Gai are all over each other all the time. I mean me and Kakashi don't act like that and well.................we've been together.......................longer and stuff." Iruka blushed shyly as he thought of Kakashi.
"So how is your relationship going with Kakashi?" The Hokage smiled as Iruka's eyes widened and then the teen's face grew a very deep red color. "I take it by your response very well then?"
Iruka nodded as the Hokage laughed. Iruka was always so bashful when it came to certain things and that just made the boy seem more innocent towards the world, and the Hokage for one wanted that innocence to remain.
"Hey Iruka I was wondering how you felt about Gai and Hitomi's engagement?" The Hokage looked over the scroll that was in front of him before looking back at Iruka.
"Oh! Well I am very happy for them. Kakashi was telling me last night that he thought they were moving a little quick but he was still happy for Gai." Iruka smiled with a small blush on his cheeks.
"Last night?" The Hokage gave Iruka one of those 'just-got-caught-sneaking- out-of-the-house-at-night' looks.
"Oh.........well........." Iruka blushed as he looked down. How do you tell the closest thing to a parental figure in your life that you have a lover at the age of 15?
"What is your relationship with Kakashi in one word?" The Hokage raised an eyebrow as Iruka's face turned a deep crimson and the chunin refused to make eye contact. "Iruka you don't have to tell me if you don't want to, I was just being curious."
Iruka gave a small sigh. He didn't have to tell the Hokage because well his personal life wasn't the Hokage's responsibility unless it would affect missions or the village, but then again the Hokage was always there for him even when his parents were alive. The Hokage was probably something remotely close to a favorite grandfather Iruka thought but being in a ninja profession centered village not many children got to see their grandparents long.
"Iruka?" The Hokage snapped Iruka back into reality as the chunin realized he had gone off in his own world.
"Oh sorry Hokage-sama." Iruka smiled as the Hokage nodded back. "I guess I would say we are lovers."
The Hokage dropped his pipe on his desk and stared at the surprised boy. Iruka hadn't been expecting that reaction, he didn't know what reaction he was expecting, but Iruka knew he wasn't expecting that one.
The Hokage just stared at Iruka for a few moments before regaining his composure and relighting his pipe.
"You're only 15." The Hokage stated as he smoked his pipe.
"Yeah I know." Iruka smiled shyly as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Well just make sure your ready Iruka. That's the only advice I can give you, a ninja's life is never predictable and to get so close at such a young age.........."
"I'll be fine Hokage-sama." Iruka interrupted the Hokage with a small grin and bow. "I might be young but I know the world and I know the chances I take."
The Hokage did a small nod as he held his pipe. Iruka was always mature for his age but the Hokage still didn't want the boy to get hurt.
"I love Kakashi and that's what really matters right Hokage-sama?"
"You are right Iruka-kun." The Hokage smiled at the young teen as Iruka did a bow and headed out of his office.
Maybe Iruka was right and love was all that mattered, but at the same time the Hokage couldn't help but feel a little worried about the boy, but then again he worried about everyone in his village.
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"I love you!"
"I love you too!"
Iruka and Kakashi sighed as they tried to break the couple off each other.
"I can't wait to tell my family about you." Hitomi squealed in joy as she kissed the blushing Gai another time.
"I wish I could go with you." Gai hugged her as the couple embraced each other.
"Can you please hurry guys, I am only taking this small escorting mission because you asked me to Gai but I swear if you waist anymore of my time I'll let someone else take her." Kakashi growled as he looked at the sun. They were already three hours behind schedule and Kakashi was never to fond of spending more time than he had to with Hitomi.
"Be safe Kakashi." Iruka whispered to the jounin with a small blush on his cheeks.
"Not you too Iruka?" Kakashi complained afraid that the boy would start in the drama. "Guys we will be back in one week, this is a simple trip to a peaceful village."
"Your right Kakashi." Gai smiled. "Thanks again for doing this favor for me."
"Your welcome now can we please go before the sun goes away!"
"Oh I forgot something!" Hitomi jumped up and grabbed Iruka by the arm. "I left my scarf at your house can we go get it real quick?"
"Sure, we'll be right back ok!" Iruka grabbed Hitomi's hand and took off running in the other direction. It wouldn't take more than five minutes by how fast they were moving.
Gai and Kakashi stood there in silence for a while until Gai jumped back in a fighting stance and grinned at Kakashi.
"You want to have a quick round?" He struck a few poses as Kakashi shook his head.
"I will face you right when I get back." Kakashi waved his hand at Gai and curved his only visible eye.
"Thanks again for escorting Hitomi, I know you would rather be doing other stuff while you have the time off." Gai smiled as Kakashi just nodded. "I really appreciate this I mean I wish I could go but the Hokage said he wanted to go over some things while Hitomi was talking to her family and..........."
"Gai it's cool, don't worry I understand and plus I think I owe you a few favors right?" Kakashi sighed as his rival broke into tears and struck a pose.
"You are so cool Kakashi! And that is why you are my rival!"
"Yeah yeah." Kakashi looked up at the sky. What was taking Iruka and Hitomi so long?
"I know she will be safe as long as you are escorting her." Gai smiled as Kakashi gave him another glance. "Please be careful though I mean there are rumors of criminals wandering around so........."
"Gai it's going to be fine! You said it yourself she will be safe and I will protect her so don't worry! I'm a jounin so relax! This is a simple mission that even a genin could do." Kakashi sighed in annoyance until he saw Iruka and Hitomi. "They're back."
"Sorry it took so long." Hitomi did a small bow towards no one in particular and then smiled at Iruka. "Thank you once again Iruka-kun. If it wasn't for you I would never of been able to be this happy, I will find a way to repay you for this one day even if I spend the rest of my life waiting for the opportunity I will repay your kindness."
"It's okay Hitomi seriously. I don't need anything in return just make sure you and Kakashi have a great trip and come back soon okay." Iruka smiled as Hitomi nodded and turned around to give Gai one last hug and kiss before they left.
Iruka and Gai waited till the gates closed and then turned around to go on with the day. Kakashi and Hitomi walked into the forest not really talking just enjoying the silence as the past out of the safety of Konoha.
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"Soooooooo..............." Hitomi sighed as she watched Kakashi set the fire for camp.
"So?" Kakashi gave a defeated sigh and started the fire before Hitomi let out another loud sigh annoying Kakashi enough to glare at her. "What?"
"Why are you so anti-social?" Hitomi glared back as Kakashi ignored her and returned to working the fire. "Are you always like this?"
Kakashi sat back against a tree trunk and watched the fire he had built consume the wood with a small smirk on his face. He was proud of his work.
"I have no idea what Iruka sees in you.........." Hitomi mumbled loud enough for Kakashi to hear as she crawled into her sleeping bag.
Kakashi just paused for a moment before he let out a small chuckle causing Hitomi to turn over a look at him with a confused expression on her face.
"What's so funny?"
"I have no idea what he sees in me either." Kakashi smiled under his mask as he rested his head against the tree.
There was a small moment of silence before Hitomi sat up a bit and stared at him from the other side of the fire.
"How did you two get together?"
"Hn?" Kakashi stared at Hitomi confused for a second. Was she trying to make conversation?
"I wanted to know how you two got together." Hitomi stated again as Kakashi grinned under his mask.
"I guess in a way I fell for him as I watched him grow older even though I am only three years older but then jealousy............a lot of jealousy helped the whole situation." Kakashi shrugged and then looked at Hitomi in till their eyes were locked. "It was more of fear on my part."
"Fear?" Hitomi stared at him in disbelief, didn't this guy have one at least one romantic bone in his body? "Fear as in not love? Fear and jealousy...........Geez I swear Kakashi you have a way with words."
"Well you asked and it's not like it was all jealousy and fear, no, love was there and that's what was to be afraid of." Kakashi looked up at the stars and smiled. "You know it might have been a long time ago but I was scared that day, and I am still scared whenever I see Iruka."
"Scared?" Hitomi didn't try to hide the doubt in her voice as she laid back down in her sleeping bag. "Why are you scared Kakashi-san?"
There was a small silence as they listened to the noises of nature before Kakashi finally spoke up.
"As a ninja............it's hard...........it's very hard to sincerely express your emotions. We as shinobi are train from the day we enter the academy that expression can be our downfall and we are never to show it but then what about love? Shinobi get married everyday in the Leaf and nothing is wrong but at the same time many shinobi don't get married because well..............well..."
"They see it as a weakness?" Hitomi interrupted Kakashi showing him he still had her full attention.
"Yeah." Kakashi watched how the starry sky slowly became covered in clouds. He didn't know if Hitomi was still waiting for him to continue but Kakashi wasn't one to open up so easily. Yeah he had already started somewhat of a conversation but that was just for his own musings.
"Love doesn't make you weak ya know." Hitomi whispered interrupting the silence of the night before she yawned and made herself comfortable seeing as Kakashi didn't look like he was going to continue. "Love is the most powerful force in the world or so I've heard, so sometimes I think that love for a special someone can also make you stronger.* It isn't a weakness."
"Heh." Kakashi smirked under his mask. Hitomi sounded a lot like Gai for a second maybe these two were made for each other.
"Well?" Hitomi snapped Kakashi out of his musings as he looked at her.
"Well what?"
"Do you think love makes you weak?" Hitomi sat up in her sleeping bag so she could look at him as he just sighed.
Love?
Such a strong yet meaningless word.............and yet how complicated is has gotten in these short few minutes of Kakashi's life.
Anyone can say I love you.
Kakashi narrowed his eyes at the thought. He loved Iruka didn't he? Iruka loved him back right? But then why is there that voice at the back of his head complicating things? So what if they were so young right?
Iruka was 13 when he confessed his love for Kakashi whom was 16 and returned the feelings. What if it wasn't love and just teenage hormonal attraction? Kakashi berated himself for ever doubting Iruka; the chunin never did anything unless his whole heart was there but what about Kakashi?
What is love anyway?
"You don't deserve Iruka and I mean that." The sharp tone caused Kakashi to look over Hitomi who was glaring at him.
"Where do you get off saying that?" Kakashi replied harshly.
"I'm just saying the truth, here I have given you several times to express what you truly feel about Iruka and every time you stall or have some disappointing answer. Where do you see your relationship with Iruka going? I mean seriously you've obviously haven't given it much thought." Hitomi plopped down on her bag and let out a huff trying to make her point.
"Maybe your right about me not giving it much thought but I do care a lot about Iruka and would easily give my life up for him. I might not know where we will be in a few years but where we are now is fine with me. If we are together still in the future then way to go us right?" Kakashi spat out harshly remembering all the reasons he didn't like the girl on the other side of the fire.
"Oh I am so sorry Kakashi-san." Hitomi said with sarcasm dripping off her voice then glared intently at Kakashi. "I know you CARE a lot about Iruka- kun but what about love? Do you love him is what I am asking and what is with IF? If you are together? Where you are now might be fine for you but what about Iruka?"
"If Iruka isn't fine with our relationship than he can do something about it. This is none of your concern so could you please do me the favor and drop this subject?" Kakashi threw some wood into the fire and glared at her as she glared back.
"Touchy aren't we Kakashi?" Hitomi sighed. "But you do make Iruka happy so I'll give you that because though I don't know Iruka as well as you do...."
"No you don't." Kakashi spat out interrupting Hitomi.
"Well as I don't...." Hitomi glared at Kakashi. "He is still someone who has been a great friend to me and I see the way he smiles when he's around you, like someone who is truly happy."
Kakashi didn't say anything as Hitomi slowly went to sleep and the tension in the air died down. What was he doing? He didn't even try sticking up for himself in front of that girl. Maybe she was right.........maybe she had a point.
Kakashi sighed and prepared himself for guard duty. He wondered what Iruka felt about their relationship?
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"Oh good morning Gai!" Iruka smiled and opened his door to let the jounin in. "What brings you here so early?"
"I just figured I could come by since your house is on the way to Hokage- sama's." Gai did a small bow and smiled as Iruka smiled back.
"Wasn't the Hokage going to go over some scrolls with you?" Iruka sat down at the table after he poured Gai some tea. He really enjoyed company whenever Kakashi was gone.
"Yeah I had come across a few forbidden jutsus on my last mission and he just wanted me to clarify some things. And not to forget I have to get Hitomi's citizenship for the Leaf ready so we can get married without any problems of where I will be living."
"Well it seems like everything is working out for the best don't you think?" Iruka was about to continue when they heard a small breaking noise coming form Iruka's bedroom. Both ninja were I there in a flash to see a picture frame had broken.
"How weird." Iruka picked up the picture to see it was one of him, Hitomi, and Kakashi. (Gai was the person behind the camera.) "Why do you think it fell over?"
"I don't know.........none of your windows are open and it wasn't an intruder because we both would have sensed it........." Gai thought about before he looked at the picture seriously. "Maybe it's a bad omen?"
"A bad omen?" Iruka gave a small grin. "I think those are just things parents tell there kids about to keep the children in line whenever they see a crow or dead grass*."
"Hitomi said that people just label the unexplainable as superstitions but that doesn't make it any less of a truth. This could have been an omen."
"Let's not worry about it Gai, come on I still have tea in the kitchen." Iruka waited for Gai to leave the room before he turned the picture over to see he had been ripped in half between Hitomi and Kakashi. What could that mean?
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Kakashi and Hitomi walked in silence for the rest of the next day in trip until Hitomi accidentally hurt her foot when she tripped over a root.
"You didn't have to laugh." Hitomi mumbled as Kakashi wrapped some bandages around her ankle.
"Well we were going to pull an all nighter and get to your village early in the morning but I guess we can camp here and just make it there tomorrow afternoon." Kakashi finished the bandaging and got up to unpack some of the camping stuff.
"I'm sorry."
"Why are you apologizing it's not like I've failed the mission?" Kakashi turned around to face her with a small grin under his mask. "We are just going to be a little late."
"Not about that I mean I'm sorry I was so rude to you last night." Hitomi glared at him with a small blush on her cheeks. "You and Iruka are happy together and I hope I didn't say anything to make you think otherwise because I promised Iruka to repay his kindness and I don't plan on doing it by breaking you guys up."
Kakashi lifted his hands up as if to show no harm. "No need to apologize, in fact I should thank you because you made me think about some things."
Hitomi gave Kakashi a look of doom and laughed. "No don't worry me and Iruka are still together unless he chooses someone else but until then I still faithfully belong to him."
Hitomi nodded and started helping setting up camp.
"I'm going to go get some fire wood so stay here." Kakashi ordered as he walked off into the forest.
Hitomi sighed as she looked around the camp. She wasn't some little kid that needed to be taken care of.
Hitomi spotted three red water containers used for putting out the fire and crawled over to them. They were empty. Hitomi looked around and slowly stood up; her ankle was fine just a slight sprain but she could walk fine with a small limp. She picked up the three containers and headed in the opposite direction Kakashi had left in remembering he mumbled something about a stream not to far off in the west.
Hitomi didn't walk too far until she heard the noise of running water and smiled. At least she was going to be of some use to Kakashi after all she would have to make a better friendship with the jounin since he was Gai's rival (a.k.a. best friend in her mind) and Iruka's boyfriend both of which were the closest people she knew at the leaf which in a few weeks would be her new home.
"Hey pretty girl." Hitomi turned around quickly to see a man in a large coat smiling at her. He didn't have the traditional light shinobi garbs but she could tall he was a ninja by the headband he wore but for some reason there were markings on it.
The man wore his headband around this forehead but had wild long hair that flew everywhere is seemed until it came to a messy ponytail in the back. He had very dark eyes and paint on his face of tears. He was wearing a large heavy black jacket that covered his whole body and almost his feet but Hitomi could see a few toes from under the shadows.
"Hello." Hitomi did a small polite bow to the man. After all most of the shinobi she had ever met were very nice people if they weren't paid to kill you. The man gave a huge grin.
"What are you doing out here all by yourself?" He chuckled lowly sending an uneasy chill down Hitomi's spine but she continued to be polite.
"I am just getting some water for camp."
"And with a hurt ankle?" The man clicked his tongue as he looked over her body.
Hitomi trembled a bit. The man had noticed she was hurt even with the bandages covered up by her usual stockings. The man gave her a smug grin before he started to approach her but Hitomi backed away.
"Why are you afraid of me?" The man laughed as Hitomi tried to hold back the tears that were coming. This man was scary and she didn't like how he was looking at her, maybe she should have listened to Kakashi and stayed at the camp.
"If you don't mind sir I would really like to be left alone. I have to make it back to camp before my friend does." Hitomi turned around to head off for the stream to get the water when she ran into another man who had been standing right behind her.
"Hello." The dark figured smiled at her as her eyes widened in shock. What was she going to do now?
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"Gai are you okay?" Iruka walked up to his friend who was looking very disturbed.
"I'm fine Iruka-kun no need to worry." Gai gave a fake grin before Iruka frowned at him.
"I know I'm not your best friend Gai but I am still a friend so if there is something troubling you then you should tell me." Iruka sat down next to Gai.
"I know Iruka but you don't really believe in omens so..........." Gai trailed off as Iruka smiled shyly at him.
"Actually Gai I do believe in omens it's just I didn't want to say anything yesterday because I was afraid you might get worried but don't worry Kakashi will keep Hitomi safe." Iruka patted Gai on the back ignoring the worried feeling that was rising up in his chest.
"I know Kakashi will protect her it's just that...............that something weird happened this morning and now I can't seem to do anything without being scared that something has happened to them." Gai looked over at Iruka with a genuine scared expression. "Everything she had touched in my house broke, everything and that mean glasses, vases, furniture, even the sweater I let her barrow was found with a large rip through it."
Iruka stared at Gai in disbelief. Everything she had ever touched?
"The picture frame she bought be shattered and then the roses that she had dried for decorations looked more like dried popery, it's weird because I would have known if anyone had came into my house last night since I was there and no one did and then the fact that I didn't hear anything break..........."
"Have you told Hokage-sama about this?" Iruka looked at his friend questionably.
"No because what am I supposed to say? Hey Hokage-sama I don't think Hitomi is safe with Kakashi right now and I think that something might of happened because I have a lot of broken crap at my house?" Gai started to play with his hands subconsciously.
"Well that's a start Gai." Iruka got up and pulled Gai over. "It's not like there is a major demand for missions right now so maybe the Hokage can send someone just to check or maybe find out if Kakashi has made it too Hitomi's village yet, I'm sure everything is fine but it would hurt to check right?"
"Yeah Iruka your right." Gai stood up and headed for the Hokage's office after all there is nothing unusual about checking on your fiancé is there?
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"Hitomi?" Kakashi was about five meters away from the camp and he already knew she was gone. He sighed in defeat as he made to the camp and threw down the logs.
Kakashi noticed that the water bottles were gone so he assumed she had went to go refill them but maybe she needed some help because those bottles could get heavy after a while. Kakashi made his way into the woods silently and started to get disturbed.
Kakashi looked at a tree that had slashing marks all up and down the tree that someone had to have made recently. Kakashi took off towards the tracks Hitomi had left as he noticed the slashings seemed to be following her as well.
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Kakashi climbed up a tree so he could get better seed jumping from the branches until he made it up to the river. His eyes widened in horror.
Hitomi was trembling on the ground trying to cover up the parts of her clothing that had been ripped and she had blood running down her face to show that she had been beaten.
Kakashi appeared in front of her ignoring the two men that were staring at him as he helped her stand up. Kakashi needed to get Hitomi out of this place before he started a fight where her life could be in danger.
"Can you move? Are you okay? Did they do anything to you?" Kakashi whispered to her as she realized he was there.
Hitomi gave a small smiled as she looked at him with some of the blood blocking her vision.
"Yes I can move, I'm as okay as I look and besides getting banged up they didn't do.........anything to my body." She whispered back as her voiced cracked.
Kakashi looked at her as she continued to shake on the ground and the glared at the two men. He couldn't move her without getting the risk of being attacked when they moved.
"Hitomi stay here and don't move." Kakashi ordered as he prepared himself to fight.
"Oi! Look here Saya-sama we have a hero, I think he has come to save the girl." The man with paintings on his face laughed.
"Yes you are right Tama-san, and look at his headband he is from the Hidden Leaf. It's been a while since I have killed a shinobi from the Hidden Leaf." Saya laughed as Kakashi studied them.
The two men were from the Hidden Waterfall which was a small shinobi village compared to the Leaf but not the weakest. Kakashi couldn't place it but there was something about the man Saya's description fit.
Tama was first to attack, as Kakashi was able to counter every move without his Sharingan. This guy had to be a joke Kakashi decided as he took mention of the other man watching the battle smugly.
With a kick to the side Tama went flying across the small river and into a tree as Kakashi turned to Saya.
"I wouldn't fight Saya-sama if I was you." Kakashi ignored the beaten shinobi behind him and got ready to attack. "Saya-sama has a bad fetish with pain very bad."
Saya..................and then it clicked.
Kakashi stopped his attack and flipped over the dark ninja as his eyes widened. Saya was an S-class criminal for slaughtering a neutral village during the war. It was believe he tortured the women and children in front of their families right before he killed them off.
Kakashi gritted his teeth as he thought of the best way to attack. As a jounin of the Hidden Leaf and a former ANBU it was his job to make sure he at least tried to fight this guy as long as he and Hitomi made it out alive in the end.
With a quick flash that battle began and the man smiled as he pulled out a sword from under his jacket that Kakashi countered with a kunai. It didn't seem like anything was going anywhere besides a few cuts and scrapes on both parts before Kakashi pulled out his Sharingan.
"Why if it isn't?!?!?" Saya stopped in his tracks with a smug grin on his face. "I knew that you were good Kakashi of the Sharingan eye but I must say your legends have disappointed me since you haven't beaten me yet."
"But the fight had only begun." Kakashi replied coolly as he did a few hand seals.
"WATER STYLE DRAGON MISSILE!"
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Iruka woke up to a loud crashing noise in his room as he jumped up from bed with a kunai in his hand. He noticed it was that picture again that had fallen and slowly crawled over it.
Iruka had taped the picture together after it had ripped in half but this time a piece of glass was stabbing into it which was weird since the picture frame had fallen flat so how did the glass get like this? Iruka eyes widened as he saw where the glass was stabbing until he heard a noise outside and looked to see a crow fly off in the distance.
Iruka trembled lightly as he stood up and quickly put on his shoes. He had to find Gai; this was getting to creepy especially since Kakashi hadn't made it to Hitomi's village yet. Iruka grabbed the picture and ran out of his door as he looked at it one more time.
Hitomi.
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Kakashi dodge another attack as he ran over to Hitomi and picked her up while running to the woods. He needed to rethink his plans; this wasn't going well at all.
Hitomi cringed at the sudden pressure around her waist but didn't struggle or make it harder for Kakashi; she was already as useless as could be. She looked over at Kakashi to see blood pouring out from his arm and stomach. He must have gotten cut.
Kakashi suddenly stopped and placed Hitomi on the ground where she could support herself with a tree. He sighed inwardly this wasn't supposed to happen! Why had he let his guard down?
Kakashi ignored the pain in his stomach, as he made sure she was okay and then thought of a plan.
S-class criminal!
Saya was apparently only joking with him at first and as he battle heated up Kakashi found himself on the receiving end. If things didn't change soon they were going to.........
Saya appeared from the trees slicing Kakashi's body in half only to watch it turn into smoke. The man smirked as he looked around. Where did they go?
Kakashi checked on Hitomi one more time before he head towards Saya who was only a few yards away. As long as Hitomi stayed there she should be fine so if Kakashi failed this battle she would still have a chance to live.
Kakashi ducked the sword as he kicked Saya in the stomach performing a few hand seals causing the leaves to wrap around the two figures.
Hitomi opened her eyes slowly as her head hurt. She hadn't even realized Kakashi had put her down the way her head was spinning. She was so weak compared to the Leaf shinobi but then again she wasn't a ninja just a girl in love with one.
Hitomi forced herself to look around her surroundings hiding the fear in her gut. She heard noise to the left of her and quickly moved herself closer to the tree so she could pull herself up and see what was happening.
She watched as the leaves fell to the ground showing the figures fighting. Kakashi had blood all over his uniform and Hitomi started to tremble as she saw the red eye. That's why he always wore the headband tilted?
Hitomi saw Kakashi go flying into a nearby tree as he received a kick to the stomach causing his blood to run faster. Her eyes widened as Saya appeared before him and swung his sword.
"Kakashi!"
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"Gai!" Iruka ran into the watchtower as he saw his friend sign off from duty.
"Hey Iruka is something wrong?" Gai face was serious as he saw how out of breath Iruka was. The chunin looked like he had been running all over town.
"You need to come with me to the Hokage right now! Something happened!" Iruka yelled trying to hold back the tears forming in his eyes. "All I know is something bad happened with Kakashi and Hitomi. Apparently they Kakashi is at her village now!"
Gai just nodded and took off for the Hokage's office as Iruka quickly followed.
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Kakashi opened his eyes to see a small figure in front of him. It took him a second to register the cloths and the bloodied hair as he saw a sword sticking through the stomach.
"Hitomi?" Kakashi whispered as he moved himself around to see Saya was stuck in her grip.
Kakashi eyes widened as he saw Hitomi standing there holding on to Saya as the man's sword went through her.
"Let go stupid woman!" Saya coughed up some blood as he tried to pull his sword out of her.
"Don't hurt..........Kakashi." Hitomi gave a pained growl. "I don't want to see Iruka cry!"
"What?" Saya glared at her but finally pushed her body away leaving him without a sword. "Stupid girl!"
Kakashi watched Hitomi fall to the ground frozen. Not again! Not another person dieing for him!
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"Hokage-sama Iruka and Gai-san are here to see you." An ANBU announced to the older man as the Hokage nodded allowing the entrance.
The Hokage's eyes saddened as he watched the two friends enter. Gai not showing how he was feeling yet Iruka was trying to hide the fact he was worried but it seemed to only make it worse.
"Hokage-sama? You asked for us?" Gai did a polite bow as the Hokage sighed.
This was too sad for someone so young to go through even if the young man was a jounin and had seen many deaths this was a different level.
"Gai-san I'm afraid I have some bad news." The Hokage did hide the somber expression in his eyes as he lit up his pipe and brought it up to his mouth.
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"Hitomi hold still this is going to hurt." Kakashi said softly as he removed the sword causing her to scream in pain as tears rolled down her face. "Stupid girl you.........you........."
"Saved your sorry butt." Hitomi cough as blood spilled from her mouth.
Kakashi stared at the dieing girl in front of him. She was going to die, she had lost too much and the cut was too deep there was no way............Kakashi felt his eyes burn as he saw the ring still on her left hand. Gai.
"Hitomi why?" Was all Kakashi could say. "Why did you save me?"
"I didn't do it for you jerk." Hitomi spat out harshly trying to spit out the blood gathering in her mouth. "The last thing I thought............my last thought when I saw you were going to die was............that with you gone I would never see Iruka smile like that again. He has a great smile you know?"
"But what about Gai? You need.........you have to stay alive Hitomi." Kakashi slowly tried to pick her up before her body tensed.
"I love Gai." Hitomi let the tears roll down her cheeks. "But I owed Iruka for everything.............tell Gai I will watch him from the clouds please..............oh kami I loved him so much let him know that."
"Hitomi you..........." Kakashi didn't finish his sentence as Hitomi's breathing slowly came to a halt. "Hitomi..."
Kakashi sat there frozen in his spot at the still body in front of him. He looked over to the side to see the dead body of Saya not too far from them as his Sharingan flared. But there was nothing he could do, Saya was already dead and so was Hitomi.
Kakashi made himself get up and pick her body up. He still had to take her to her village. He promised Gai he would.
Gai.
What was Kakashi going to do? He had failed Gai.
Kakashi only took Hitomi's stuff with him and Saya's head as proof the criminal was dead. Another person had died protecting him in his life and it was someone who should never had done it.
Kakashi narrowed his eyes as he remembered Heidaki. Why were people so willing to die for him? Kakashi cursed at himself as he ran to Hitomi's village. He would probably get there in five hours at the pace he was going and so Kakashi sped up.
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"Kakashi?" Kakashi's body tensed as he heard the soft voice above him. "Kakashi?"
"Hn?" Kakashi mumbled as he slowly opened his eyes so see Iruka over him with a small smile. "Iruka what are you-?"
"Your back at the Leaf." Iruka tried to keep the small smile up. "You apparently passed out from Sharingan use when you made to Hitomi's village so Hokage sent some people to bring you back here so you could wake up at one of our hospitals."
Kakashi stayed still as he heard the sad voice of Iruka. So Iruka and everyone knew now...........Kakashi squeezed the bed sheets that were over him before he quickly got up only stumbling a bit.
"Kakashi? You need to stay down." Iruka tried to push the jounin back into the bed but Kakashi was quickly dressed and already heading out of the door before he could put up much complaint.
Kakashi felt sick. His stomach was tightening up as he walked down the hallway. Hitomi was really dead and he was really back at the leaf. Kakashi turned the corner to see the one person he knew he wasn't ready to face.
Gai was sitting down in a chair obviously worn out as he stared at the ground. Kakashi was stunned; if it wasn't for the fact of how the man was dressed Gai wouldn't have been recognized as Gai. He looked like a broken man.
This made Kakashi's chest hurt. He had done this to his rival and it was his entire fault.
Kakashi stuck his hands into his pockets as he tried to think of what to say when he felt a small circle. Kakashi pulled out the small item and stared at it.............it was Hitomi's ring.
Gai was staring at the ground when he heard footsteps approach him. He sighed outwardly as he turned until he saw who it was. Kakashi was staring at him holding his hand out as if he had something to give Gai.
Gai stood up and hugged Kakashi. He was glad his friend was okay. "Kakashi I..........."
"I'm sorry." Kakashi interrupted Gai as he placed the ring in Gai's hands letting his rival see it.
Gai stared at it before tears formed in his eyes and he just nodded at Kakashi before he turned and walked the other way.
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The three friends dressed in black finally get tired of the rain falling on their shoulders before the one who stood in the river turned around to face his two friends.
The younger one tried to hold back tears the best he could while the other looked down at the ground in regret.
Gai walked over to them until he was right beside Kakashi and looked at his friend who didn't bother looking back.
"It's not your fault Kakashi." And with that Gai left the two friends as he walked home remembering his lost love.
Kakashi just sat there for a few more minutes until it turned into hours and he noticed Iruka was still sitting with him though no longer crying. The chunin was going to get sick if they stayed out hear any longer.
Kakashi got up and helped his lover up as they walked home together side by side. They both stared at the ground and just let the rainfall on their silent walk home not knowing what to say to the other.
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K-chan: *cries*
P-sama: "dang it stop already"
K-chan: *still crying*
P-sama: "stop it stop it stop it"
K-chan: *growing hysterical*
P-sama: *sighs*
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1st *: This is part of Gai's definition of love in chapter 7.
2nd *: Crow usually meant death and certain doom of yourself or a certain loved one while if you found dead grass underneath you it meant that you were going to die.
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Well?????? *waits for response* It was really hard to write this chapter believe it or not and the whole fighting scene was probably crap but I still hope you enjoyed it! It was weird writing this story too because I had read Azu Manga Daioh so was in a good mood and it's hard to write this kind of stuff in a good mood or so I thought because I was actually still in a good mood after I finished this....................yeah enough about that..............
This chapter is longer than my usual chapters and I hope you enjoy that and I hope that everyone has a great week because I turned 17 today!!!! Woohoo!
Well this chapter is kind of angsty so you know what that means!! Some really sad chapters are coming up even if they aren't the next chapter! This is the calm before the storm people!! *laughs* Okay well maybe not that bad because this chapter was really sad and I hated writing everyone so sad because it made me sad............well just a little bit but my twin almost drowned me in her tears.............sigh...........
See you next chapter!
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