Chapter 10: A Little Reunion

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"How the world does die. Life never seeming to last. But we continue on, until trumpets blast.

Now step lightly and don't be late. For the world is failing. Hear the people crying and wailing.

Angels of life and of of dark sky. Take away the hate."

Mother, oh mother. How I wish I could join you, but sins have grown in my heart," the song that was song would fill any worried heart with joy. Even though the words were sad, the voice was soft and filled with kindness. Kakashi didn't want to wake from the dream. He was afraid he'd find himself covered in rocks, Sakura and Naruto dead. But what he finally opened his eyes to was much different.

First there was the light. It was dull in the room. The only light in it just had to swing over head. Nothing but plain cement walls made up the room. It was cold and a little damp. Kakashi blinked and slowly turned his head. On one of the walls, a row of bars made a door. A key hole had been made to the right. A flat piece of metal in the center of them. The hallway was the same as the room. Dark and nothing but cement.

Then he noticed a dark figure. It was standing in the corner. It seemed to be the shape of a man. It came closer. The man laughed his deep laugh when he saw the shinobi's eye widen in surprise. "Misha!" Kakashi could barely speak. His throat was hoarse and dry.

Misha smiled and picked up a pitcher of water. He poured some into a small tin cup. Kakashi sat up; he had been laying on a slab of cement attached to the wall. Misha sat next to him as he took a sip from the cup. While Kakashi was rubbing his throat, Misha spoke, "They brought you in last night. You should have seen the faces they wore. You never told me your whole village thought you dead!" he let out his cheerful laugh again. "So tell me, how did you get here?"

Cough, cough, "I guess they must have attacked Ishida's hideout and found, kuh, amongst the rubble."

"Master Ishida! How is he?"

"I don't know. Misha," Kakashi paused, how do you tell a man that the person he had respected had killed his brother. "About Kuzu... he's dead."

"What?" Misha rose to his feet. His arms spread wide and then slapped on his forehead. "How?"

"He challenged Ishida." With that, Misha's face calmed and sat down again. An expression of saddness crossed the man's face. It took several moments of silence before either one of them spoke. Misha being the first.

"It was expected. In secret he always told me he would take down Master Ishida one of these days. I warned him not to. No, he never listened. So many times did he become insobordinate. I knew it was only a matter of not if, but when." Then silence again reined over the two. Misha would stand up and pace around the cell. Kakashi just looked at him occasionally. Then a slight pain was in his side. It wasn't as bad as it had been before. But it was there. More of like a prick of pain. Then he lifted the side of his shirt and checked the wound.

It was nothing more than a scar now. Apparently they had healed him before dropping him off in the cell. Then the one question Kakashi wanted answered most, he may never get a chance to ask. But instead of waititng for someone, he decided to see if Misha knew anything.

"Misha," the man turned around, "did they bring anyone else in?"

Misha's face brightened up. "Ah! Yes, they did. Well it was more of they followed you in. Two young kids. A pink headed girl, and a blonde boy. They kept on insisting you be taken to a hospital. But no, in their book you were a criminal. So, here you are. A small prison. I think they are going to transfer us sooner or later." Misha smiled as he saw a look of relaxzation in the jounin's eyes.

"We have to see him!"

"I know, but we can't just bust into that jail cell. Do you know how much trouble we'd get in for releasing a... for releasing Kakashi-sensei." Sakura pointed towards the Hokage tower. Underneath there was a room where their teacher was being held. All they knew was that he was breathing last night. "Don't worry, they will let him go."

"I know," Naruto looked away and towards the gentle sky. When the roof had collapsed in Ishida's hideout, two ANBU members had grabbed them just in time. But they had no idea that Kakashi was there. So he was left for twenty minutes until finally they found him. Knocked out with several rocks about to crush his head. A rib had been broken. There were several bruises on his body as well. Sakura did all she could on the spot. Then she ordered the ANBU members not to fuss over her Naruto but to get their teacher home as soon as possible.

From their, Tsunade had met them at the gate. She quickly made sure Naruto and Sakura were alright, then she took care of Kakashi. Saving his life by a hairline. At first they were going to keep him the hospital under heavy guard. Yet, new spreaded fast about Hatake Kakashi rising from the dead. A crowd of curious people and fellow shinobi gathered. It was too much. Tsunade had him transfered to the prison cell. Her reasoning was that he took part in the raid and had killed several shinobi.

Sakura said she had forgiven him in her heart. Naruto fought along side her and tried to keep their sensei where they could take care of him. The Hokage would have none of it. So that was that.

Sakura placed her hand in Naruto's, "Naruto? We can see him later. Tsunade-sama said so." But her soft words did not change the blonde's mood. So Sakura leaned in to his ear and whispered, "Stay strong." Naruto looked at her and smiled.

"How long until we can speak with Kakashi-sensei?"

"A couple hours; why?"

Now his grin spread, "Wanna grab something to eat?" Sakura didn't have to answer as Naruto pulled her hand and ran to the ramen shop.

There was a shuffle and a couple rocks fell. A hand shot up out of the rubble. A rock was grasped in it's hand. There was the sound of air gathering, then a small black flash. The rock insingrated. "Ahhhhhhhgh!" All the large blocks and rubble around the hand disappeared into dust. In the middle of the dust there stood a young man covered with sand from head to toe. Underneath the layer of dirt there was a flash of red. Then what were to be eyes, turned into a deep black color. Yet they seemed to glow with anger. It was one thing to kill him. But they left him to die. With a yell of rage, he spun around and created a whirlwind of the dust. When the dust finally settled, Ishida was gone.
"So, how did he die?"

"Hmm?" Kakashi looked up from his hands. His head began to hurt something terrible. "Did you say something?"

Misha once again took his seat next to Kakashi. "Kuzu, how did he die?"

The jounin thought for many minutes. There was no exact way to describe it. But he chose a set of words that Misha would understand. "He died in pain, from the wrath of Akira Ishida." The forgiener nodded. The wrath of Akira Ishida was well known through out the lands. The younger generations didn't know much about it though.

Ishida had learned to use his powerful dark chakra. It had grown so strong, that it made the atoms in an item go nuts and explode at a single touch. But there was a more infamous use. Those that were lucky to see it and live, told many stories of it. Alas, most of them were lost. For no matter what, anyone who saw the wrath of Akira Ishida would soon die from the terrible memories.

What Ishida did with the chakra was a mystery except to Misha and Kakashi. The black chakra was continuosley seeping out of him. But since it was a small amount at any given time, no one could die from just standing next to him. Yet still it was dangerous even in that way. For if it was in your blood stream or crawling on your skin, then the Dark User had complete control over you. Control as in your life. The black chakra only listened to him. And at any time, Ishida could command it through his mind. Causing pain, suffocation, even the stopping of blood flow. What made it worse was that the black chakra, even if Ishida wanted to be a quick death, would take its victims slowly. Stretching out the suffering.

When they had first stood in front of the Hokage tower, the sun had just risen and a cool chill was in the air. Now the sun was directly above and the ground hot. Causing the air to be stuffy and a little sticky.

Again the two genins stood there. Many hours had passed. Now, they would be able to see their teacher. "Shall we move on." Sakura didn't wait for Naruto's reply, but instead started her walk. The blonde caught up and ran past her to the doors. She smiled and blushed as Naruto opened the doors and bowed.

"Ladies first."

"We really should be more serious about breaking our sensei out of jail," they stared at each other. The thought just seemed too wierd to them to understand. Soon smiles cracked their lips. Yet they somehow managed to stop themselves from laughing.

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The person at the desk saw the two walk in and knew exactly who to call. Before they reached the desk, Tsunade was waiting there standing. "We'd like to see Kakashi-sensei." Naruto stated and stepped forward holding his stance. Sakura stood behind him with a determined look on her face. She already had an argument ready in case they were denied to see her teacher.

But the Fifth just smiled at them, "No, I have a mission for you two. It concerns your teacher." Her voice and expression went back to sternness. "I need you to find out as much as you can from. About Akira (Dark User) Ishida. You have no choice but to accept. Please compromise and everything will return back to normal a lot faster."

"Nothing can ever go back to normal life again," Naruto stated remebering the words of his sensei in the hospital. Tsunade shook her head and urged them on.

They followed her down the hallways. Soon it grew dark. The air became musty, lights were little, small puddles of water covered the floor. Grey flat cement was the only thing in the entire place. No rooms or doors led away from the hallway. But up ahead, there seemed to be an opening in the wall.

Finally they reached it to discover bars. Behind the bars there was a cell room. It was poorly lit and so it was hard to see in there. But the two genins could recognize two shapes. One was standing against the wall, another sitting on what was perhaps a bench. Yet they were only blurrs.

Tsunade walked past and quickly said to them, "Remeber, and only twenty minutes. I'll come down after then." Then all that was left was dead silence as the sanin's footsteps echoed down the hall. After staring at her, Sakura and Naruto stared back into the dark cell.

"Kakashi-sensei?" the pink headed girl asked to one of the shapes. It was the sitting one. Slowly it rose and walked to the bars. But it seemed bigger than the size of their sensei. Whent he face finally came into the light, Naruto almost jumped with surprise, and little bit of excitement.

"Misha!" the man behind the bars laughed. Sakura winced at the memory of Kuzu and how much alike the two were. "Misha! Sakura-chan, this is Misha Toshibu. Kuzu's twin."

"I realized that," she said not facing either of them. Not wanting to stare into the eyes of someone who seemed to be dead. Then the man spoke. He sounded nothing like Kuzu. His voice was not arrogant and a little self-centered. But it was kind and happy. There was a slight sorrow hiding away, but hardly an accent.

"Naruto! Tell ya the truth, I felt a little sad to say goodbye to you back then. I guess then, it good to see you!" his laugh rang through the hallway. "Now, what buisness do you have here."

Naruto let Sakura stay in her gloomy mood. Right now he had to speak with Kakashi. "Is Kakashi-sensei here?"

"Kakashi-sensei!? I never knew he had you as a student. All Master Ishida told me about him was that he knew you a bit, and he was a jounin from Konoha." After saying this, he leaned a little closer to the bars. His voice went to a whisper. "Something's the matter with him. I asked him how did Kuzu die, then a shadow passed over his eyes. It's like he's stuck in another world. Probably just lost in thought."

The blonde looked beyond his friend into the darkness. The figure against the wall didn't move. The boy caught a movement out of the corner of his eye. Sakura had turned back to the cell. Then her voice echoed over the room, "Kakashi-sensei? Naruto's here..." there was no reply, "Are you alright Kakashi-sensei?" Then Naruto noticed as her fear turned to anger. "Damn it! Say something."

"It's no use-" Misha began. Then he was interrupted as the figure fell over. "What the..." Misha walked over. "Well I'll be!" Naruto and Sakura thought their hearts would stop when Misha picked up the figure and tossed. It clanged against the bars.

"Ah!" Naruto yelped in surprise. Sakura just stood there. Her face expression as she realized what her sensei was.

"It's only a dummy, dummy." Yes it was. One of Kakashi's. It even had his hair. But on the face was the usual drawn expression. "After all his name does mean 'scarecrow.'"

"Then where is he?" Naruto moved back in and crouched down. His arm reached out and touched the scarecrow. Then again he was startled, for a voice came from above.

"Right here." Kakahsi dropped from the ceiling and right in front of him. Naruto went to hug him, then he thought other wise. 'There's only so many times you can hug your sensei.' But Sakura wasted no time and hugged him. For her worry was much more than Naruto's. Yet hers was a quick one. For this, Kakashi was grateful.

"How did you get out?" Misha demanded to know. He had walked over to the bars and was now staring at his new found friend with astonishment. All Kakahsi did was smile and put his hand in his pockets. Out he pulled a ring of keys. Misha eyed him wearily.

As the jounin opened the door cell he began to explain, "I waited until you were distracted and tired. Sorry for not telling you, but if both of us left, then there would be a greater chance of us being discovered. Plus, I didn't think Tsunade would come down." Just then the door clanged open. Misha stepped outside. Naruto looked up at him. The man was bigger than he thought. He was only an inch or two taller than his sensei, but many more times larger.

Sakura sighed, "Let's go." Her teacher nodded. And before long, they began to move. They ran in a certain order. Kakashi, Sakura, Naruto, and Misha. This was so that no matter what happened, Naruto and Sakura would be protected from harm.

The stars came out, one by one. The moon cast shadows upon the ground. Street lights came on. Several shinobi ran on roof tops. Every now and again, there was an ANBU memeber. Twenty minutes were up a long time ago.

After the time period, Tsunade had made herself down the hall. Not to too much of her surprise, Naruto, Sakura, Misha, and Kakashi were gone. Immediately she sent out teams to search the village and a couple of groups out of the borders. They couldn't have gotten far, and she was right.

All the comotion had caught the silver headed man's eye. He ripped the mask that was on his face, in order to expose the sharigan. They had made their way along the streets of Konoha all the way up to the Hokages' faces carved in the mountian side. There they went up to many of the hidden rooms. So far no ninja team had come that way. Several were close, but Kakahsi knew what he was doing.

As he stood watch by an open window, Naruto and Sakura had fallen asleep on the ground. It almost hurt him, what he was planning to do. Misha saw that Kakashi had turned around. When the jounin turned back to the window, he walked over.

"Are you sure you want to leave."

"It would only hurt them more if I stayed. Believe me, no one wants a criminal for a sensei."

"They do." Misha put his hand on the side of the window. The village was busy as little figures jumped all over. The moon shone in and lightened up their faces. Then something really caught Kakashi's attention.

Outside the village, in the trees, there was a sudden flash of chakra. Then he felt his heart race as the shadows grew darker and even more sinister. Misha realized what it was as well. He ran to the student's of the jounin and aroused them. "Get up! We must get out of Konoha!"

"It's too late! The Dark User is here."

This chapter is longer than the others. I hope that everyone liked it. Please let me know if you were disappointed with anything.

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