Genma tossed the tent flap aside with his shoulder as he walked inside. The medical tenet had only two long stretchers side by side, both sheets were stained red from previous wounded shinobi's. The dim light that hung over head creaked slightly as the gently wind blew through the opening.
"Anyone home?"Genma called.
"I was able to walk, you know."Kakashi's low whisper barely made a sound.
"Get over yourself."Genma snorted and laid his friend on the nearest bed, alittle harder than intended as a grunt of pain escaped Kakashi's lips as a result.
"Thanks."He mumbled as his hand rested over the deep wound that had been inflicked into his stomache.
Kakashi looked up and saw a younge women approch the bed where he lay, at first blurry then his eyes come to ajust as she neared. He looked up threw his eyelids which were half shut as he struggled to keep awake, he saw a women at least 25 years old. She had short vibrant red hair and pale green eyes. Wow, she looked a lot like Sakura. The hair was darker and shorter and the eye's were lighter, but over all she could very easyily pass for his wife. And it reminded him of how much he missed her and sent back the constant thoughts of was she ok? How long has it been, really?At least month since he last saw her.He missed seeing the way her pink haas she slept in her arms. He missed the warmth of her body which everynight was pressed into his as they slept. But most of all he missed the way her soft lips against his could make time itself stop.He always did wonder if she really knew the effect the she made on him.
"Well hello there Lutienate. How are you feeling?"She smiled sweetly at him, even though he saw her eyes were deepy troubled and very tired.
"Like I've been stabbed."He replyed, allowing the woman to chuckle for a second."Actualy, I've been worse."
"I can't see how how."She picked up a kunai from a nearby medical table and skillfully cut threw Kakashi's vest and t-shirt without so much as touching the skin that lay underneath, or even making him move."My name's Mako by the way."
"Nice to meet you, Mako."Genma spoke up. She glanced over at him as he flurtatiously winked at her.Kakashi rolled his eyes.
"Can't we go anywhere without you trying to get laid?"He mumbled.
"Sorry can't help it, old buddy. When I see something I go for it. It's the way I've always been."He smiled at Mako once again. She smiled and turned back to the wound. Focusing her chakra into the palms of her hands and immediatly a blue ora appeared around her hands. She calmly placed them over the wound and shut her eyes in concentration.Kakashi did the same.
Suddenly she gasped, and the healing ora left her hands. Genma and Kakashi looked up to seen a kunai sticking from the flesh over her heart. Her green eyes went completely blank and she fell over.
Genma swore and grabbed his kunai from the pouch on his waist, and skillfully blocked the army of Shuriken that were sent attacking him.Kakashi's only option to dodging the weapons was to roll off the bed to the floor.He landed to the hard floor with a painfull thud, and a silenced cry of pain that threatened to escape.His arms strained to push his body up, after he managed to with great struggle, Kakashi sat with his back to the stretcher, leaning heavily on the surface.
"Genma?"He called and with great effort leaned forward to check the pulse of the nurses body which lay motionless infront of him. He sighed when his bloody fingers felt nothing but a cold surface.She was dead.
"I don't believe it.."Kakashi heard his surprised response.
"What is it?"He grunted
"You have to see this, Lutienate" Genma whispered.Kakashi gathered his chakra and pushed himself to his feet. Struggling to remain there as a severe light headedness hit him. He staggered towards Genma and fell over to lean heavily on the medical trunk next to him. He too gasped when he saw what Genma had first discovered.
There on the floor, Genma had severly knocked out a shinobi, but what shocked the two was the fact that the man was not of Sand country.
"Stone?"Kakashi whispered in disbelf. Suddenly another wave of shuirken flew threw the already shredded tent. Genma once again began to block the weapons with miminal ease, but Kakashi immediatly spotted a major flaw to Genma's defense. He looked up to see a figure desending from the opening at the top of the tent.
Kakashi swiftly leapt and pushed Genma aside roughly and without grace to block the shinobi's knife with his forarm. The blade stopped mere inchs from Kakashi's left eye. Without a second to spare, Kakashi grabbed the wrist on his forarm and used the momentum to toss the figure to the ground at his feet. Wincing as the movement stun the deep wound that had been inflicked previously, but completely ignoring it as the focus'enemy' was burned into his head and his whole being began consentrated on the battle.He twisted the arm, threatening to snap it like a twig if the shinobi tried anything.
"Alright,. I need answers. Why are stone and sand after Konoha?"Kakashi replyed ina purely serious tone even though he was in tremendous pain.
"He won't tell you anything."Kakashi's gaze sharply turned suddenly to the voice that entered the tent. There he saw a tall younge man, no older than Naruto, with short spiked whit hair. Extremely unrealistic to the obvious younge man that didn't appear a day over 26. But the evil stare and cocky grin on his face proved him not to be a normal Shinobi, for Kakashi later saw Genma unconscience on the tent floor. He turned his gaze back and noticed that the man too wore a head band over his left eye."I've conveniatly removed his tongue to prevent such slips of words."Kakashi's eyes narrowed as he swiftly knocked his oppoinate unconcious with a blow to the neck.
Not wanting to show any weakness, Kakashi remained totatly calm and appeared completely able to take his enemy on.
"But I see you haven't yet removed your own."He relpyed as he took the man's kunai from his limp fingers.
"You entend to engage battle with a severe wound such as the one embeded into your stomache, Hatate Kakashi?You and I both comrehend that in your present cirumstances, pulling off a win would be totatly out of the Question."
"Cocky aren't we, Stone?"Kakashi replyed.
"The name's Koji, actually. And it would be wise of you to not underestimate me. Also, be not alarmed if my name becomes very well known to yourself and your wife.."Koji grinned. Kakashi's eye's narrowed dangerously at the mention of Sakura escaping the enemies lips.
"And it would be wise of you to not discuss my wife while the battle is strictly between you and I. Leave her name out of this."He hissed, his voice dangerously low and possibly very well spliting out the very posion that it held.
"But I'm afraid, Sakura is far more involed within this war then you have expected."Koji replyed as he began to walk towards Kakashi who grabbed the kunai in his palm harder and leapt off to the side not wanting to involve the unconious shinobi in the battle. Landing on the medical bed, he watched as Koji knelt beside the man.
"Useless."He whispered.and with a swift motion, brought his kunai down into the man's head. Kakashi gasped in surprise and terror. Koji looked up to meet Kakashi's."If one cannot win, then one does not deserve to live. Don't you agree Kakashi?"When Kakashi didn't respond, Koji once again rose to his feet. At which time Kakashi gribbed his kunai, ready for battle."I unfortunatly must be going at this time. I will be sure to be seeing you soon, you can count on that. Oh, and one last thing. Say hello to Sakura for me, I'm sure she will be most happy to hear my name.Bye."Koji disappeared.
Kakashi's mind began to rapidly progress koji's words immiatly after he could no longer sence the strange mans chakra. What had he meant by Sakura was more involved in this war than he thought? Sakura had absolutly nothing to do with this war, but he did know one thing. Sand and Stone are no longer allies of Leaf.
Kakashi moved quickly to Genma's fallen form, he inhaled a deep breathe and with a mightly tug threw Genma over his shoulder. Grunting as an emence pain shot thre his abdoman.