Slipping Away

Disclaimer: I do not own the Naruto characters or the lyrics I use in this story YET muwhahaha. Just kidding I wish I did.

This is my first Kaka x Sakura fic pleas R& R enjoy very good the end of this chapie is a little sad though at first pleas enjoy and tell me what you think the beginnings a bit clichéd so do not be afraid Enjoy.

- Mako-chan

"Slipping Away"

By: Moby

All that we needed was right
The fresh hold is breaking tonight

Open to everything happy and sad
Seeing the good when it's all going bad
Seeing the sun when I can't really see
Hoping the sun will at least look at me

Focus on everything better today
All that I need and I never could say
Hold on people that slipping away
Hold on to this while it's slipping away

All that we needed tonight
Are people who love us and like
I know how it feels to meant
Oh and we leave here, the seas

Open to everything happy and sad
Seeing the good when it's all going bad
Seeing the sun when I can't really see
Hoping the sun will at least look at me

Focus on everything better today
All that I need and I never could say
Hold on people that slipping away
Hold on to this while it's slipping away

So long
So long

Open to everything happy and sad
Seeing the good when it's all going bad
Seeing the sun when I can't really see
Hoping the sun will at least look at me

Focus on everything better today
All that I need and I never could say
Hold on to people that slipping away

Team seven was finally back together and things where finally almost back to normal. Sauske had almost gotten back the respect of the entire village due to his willingness to take life threatening missions and sakuras many attempts to get him reinstated into the Ninja order and his former rank and glory.

Naruto his now best friend had been gone for several years in search of him and in the meantime sakura had matured into a young woman. She had filled out since she was a love obsessed little girl and slowly gotten over the small part of herself known as dark sakura.

Kakashi on the other hand had stayed the same or at least he looked the same acted the same and overall was still the same even down to the perverted hentai book known as Icha Icha paradise As usual team seven was there waiting for there team leader for this mission none other than the infamous Hatake Kakashi As usual the silver haired jounin was late by almost and hour and his former students where getting a tiny bit antsy.

"Jeez" growled the ever annoying ninja in orange.

" Could he be on time or god forbid early for once in his life time?"

"hn" was all Sauske would reply. Finally they all sighed as they sighted the familiar and distinctive hair of Kakashi.

"finally baka-sensai decided to show up "remarked Naruto as Kakashi showed up

"only an hour late" remarked Sauske.

"you owe me twenty dollars pay up orange".

" Be that way baka-teme" he muttered pulling out a bill from his pocket. In all those years neither had changed bit.

" Yo" said the masked jounin as he walked up

" Ok I'm here no more betting on the Kakashi clock got it"?

" Yes Sensei". They all replied in unison.

They had been camped at one of leafs border for about 3 days as they had been sent for border patrol for 6 days because of a recent appearance of a gang of bandits terrorizing the countryside and life had been running pretty smoothly well if you could call Naruto and Sauske's constant bickering and Sakuras unusual quiet as smooth than yes everything WAS smooth or so they thought until the 4th day.

" You ass" yelled Naruto.

"You didn't have to say that to her you know she didn't need to know yet and calling her weak when you where at it makes me begin to think that your not really as smart as everyone thinks." Yelled the distraught shinobi.

" Everything's fine" muttered Sauske in a monotone.

" She's probably somewhere nearby sulking in a tree she will get over it soon."

" It's been 2 ½ hours Sauske and she haven't come back yet that's not in a tree sulking that MISSING!" yelled Naruto almost to the point of snapping and beating the bloody pulp out of the black haired uichia.

" Boys boys calm down" came calm and relaxed shout from the other side of the camp identified a none other than Kakashi.

" Now tell me what's the problem and I will help you." he said.

" Sauske was a bastard and told sakura about the jounin exams In 3 months and told her we where signing up and he didn't want her to because she was to weak and now she has been missing for almost 2 or 3 hours at this point and I'm worried especially with those thugs around we NEED to find her!" said a desperate Naruto in one breath and to the point of hysteria

" I agree that if she really has been gone this long that something must be wrong Sauske you go south downwind and Naruto you go West I'll take the N.E direction if you don't see her in half and hour out report back and if you do bring her back at all costs!" said Kakashi Waller handing out communiqués and putting one in his own ear.

They all set put at breakneck speed each in the hope of finding the young kounichi before anything dangerous could find her. After about 15 minutes in his direction and no sign of her Kakashi quickly slit his thumb and pressed it against the dirt ground summoning Pakkun in the blink and eye he whipped out a ripped piece of bandage that he still had from recent training with her and had the dog sniff it and proceeded to tell Pakkun who he needed to be found. The dog instantly shot of in the northern direction extremely sure of the unique scent he was following about half an hour later Sauske and Naruto checked in with no success looking for the girl Kakashi told them to go back to camp and settle themselves down he was hot on her trail and would bring her back. About 15 minutes later Pakkun stopped and growled.

" I go no farther there is much bloodshed happening up ahead and that is not my purpose she is there I go now"

"Thank you Pakkun," said Kakashi as the dog disappeared into the shrubbery.

Doing a quick Justsu Kakashi closed his eyes and had clear picture of what was happening up ahead the scene he found was not pretty. About 10 men were strewn across campsite-like clearing in different ways some incapacitated and some dead and 3 men where still alive leaning over

something or someone laughing. "Not so tuff now little ninja girl!" jeered one pulling the limp figure of what he recognized as Sakura to her feet. Her right arm he noticed was at an odd angle and she wasn't very well oriented yet she managed to his something through her teeth he couldn't make out but the lead thug heard and harshly slapped her. The man pulled a kunai from one of the nearby body's and proceeded to tell her something.

"You should never have messed with the Moshe gang your gonna regret it your gonna die by your own little weapon you little bitch but it's gonna be a slow and painful death just for you haha." With that he proceeded to slit the back of her uniform open exposing her thin torso still wrapped in her training bandages.

Suddenly wrapped in an all consuming rage Kakashi's vision was clouded by red how could they do this he wouldn't let them he would stop them and save Sakura! He ran forward at a breakneck speed for the next 5 minutes and when he arrived at the camp he didn't even waste time casting any Justus or anything he was just filled with an all consuming rage. He tore into the camp like a tornado his vision filled with red and his heart filled with bloodlust and hate of what they where doing to sakura. He quickly dispatched two waller he had surprise on his side than faced off with the gang leader he attacked and quickly did a side step as the leader attempted to punch him and took the leader out with a spinning dragon roundhouse kick to the head and was done. As the red cleared from his mind as well as his eyes he noticed Sakura lying on her stomach in the dust with her hands behind tied behind her back and her eyes cover by her headband she was unusually limp and when he checked her breathing it was faint lines of blood crisscrossed her back and other parts of her body where hurt as well but he didn't have time to look.

Gently taking her limp and unconscious body in his arms he set of as fast a he could carefully cradling her in his arms as though she where a porcelain doll. The next 15 minutes passed in silent contemplation as he leapt through the trees after little thought he radioed ahead and orders the boys to get fresh bandages a medical hit and a bowl of scalding hot water and to ready his tent by setting out the bed all the while carefully cradling his precious cargo in his arms.

About 25 minutes later he arrived back at the camp holding Sakuras limp form. Naruto immediately went into panic mode and started running around like mad and Kakashi walked up to Sauske who was shaking his head quietly.

" What happened?" asked Sauske quietly.

" No time for questions," wheezed Kakashi heading for the tent.

" Is the supplies and bed ready?" he asked.

" Yea and Yes," replied Sauske coming up behind him with the bowl of steaming hot water.

" Good do not disturb me until I tell you," said Kakashi and disappeared into the tent

As he sat sakura down on the bed Kakashi began to inspect her wounds after taking his gloves and vest off and dipping his hands in the scalding water to clean them, she had dislocated her shoulder which was pretty easy for Kakashi to fix by popping the bone into place. He had expected a scream or some kind of reaction but the shinobi on the bed was silent, this worried him even more he quickly went on to her back and started channeling charka into her back so as to heal the slices 'they are gonna leave a heck of a lot of scars' he thought to himself.

Quickly moving on and bandaging up her legs which looked the least hurt but still pretty bad. She had remained completely silent through all this removing her shirt from her side he found out why. She had ascertained a huge gash in her side and had been loosing blood rapidly from it. He quickly checked her pulse it was slow and small almost gone he had to hurry he checked her breathing it was thin and shallow coming quickly. He was starting to panic to he quickly started to channel charka into her body with all the force he could closing up the wound and reproducing blood cells she was falling and he couldn't stop it he could feel it her heart slowing her breathing barley detectable now how could this be happening the girl who had been so full of life just hours ago was now here dying before his very eyes she had opened her eyes now just barley awake and on the brink of life and death she was staring at him at his masked face at the tent walls at anything he could see the life slowly seeping away from her from her eyes from her body he channeled charka faster and faster building blood cells healing the wound but her was running out of charka now he could also feel his conscious slipping fading leaving this couldn't be happening this was not how it was supposed to end he saw her face him lift a hand with all her will power and stroke his face quietly softly she hooked two fingers on the edge of his mask slowly sliding it down his face till it rested at his neck she finally got to see him one of the only people ever to see Kakashi and she was happy though she didn't know why ' why me' she softly mouthed before loosing conscience he could feel her now fading leaving this couldn't happen he wouldn't allow it to happen he wouldn't let it happen "No" he whispered fiercely no this would not be her fate he wouldn't let it happen but he could feel it her soul was slipping away sliding like a bar of soap from life's hands she was fading barley there now he cried out a cry of sadness and futility this couldn't be happening he cried out with his whole being his very soul he latched onto her remaining life and took hold of it with his every being he began to pull with all his might tearing her soul and life from death tearing and pulling with his every being and trying his hardest. He could see it now forming in front of him or so he thought he was losing conscience now and couldn't hold on any longer. He was gone now fast asleep passed out beside her. A single tear fell from her closed eye to fall against his cheek pressed to hers and a single tear fell from his eye to land on her cheek mixing together the tears formed a small pool at the crevice between there cheeks before being reabsorbed by there skin.

Thanks for reading pleas tell me what you think I like constructive criticism and if you have ideas pleas tell me I love reviews also tell me what you think of it and if you like it and if so if you want me to continue it because if I don't get enough people who want me to continue the story I'll just discontinue it ok.

Thanks

- Makoto Silvermoon

Aka (mako-chan) you can call me that. Hehe.