Hello everyone! I'm back! Please cut me some slack as I work on this one, I'm packing for two moves this summer and its... a fucking task. I've also been playing Apex Legends, and let's just say... I'm less trash than I was when I started (I've never played FPS. Ever.) Anyway, here's the next chapter. Keep in mind that this story is technically about Kakashi (with some KakaSaku.) I also had to remind myself of this. As always, leave some reviews to let me know what you think!
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The Crossroad
"Ow! You motherfu- Kakashi!", Sakura yelled as he tagged her right arm while they sparred. "Goddamnit, I told you not to bruise me! Pig will kill me if I show up to the wedding with big ass bruises!"
Kakashi chuckled and rubbed the back of his neck. "Sorry, Sakura. You aren't paying attention, and the teacher in me wants to remind you to do so. What's up?"
Sakura sighed and walked in the opposite direction.
"Not only has Lady Tsunade forebode me from using chakra, she did it on the weekend that I'm spending being Pig's bitch!" Sakura then dramatically collapsed under a large tree.
"How is that any different from every other day? Sakura, I'm joking, it's a joke!" Kakashi laughed even harder as Sakura rolled out of her face plant in the grass to strangle Kakashi- they both knew she didn't need chakra if she was angry.
"I hate you. I hate Orochimaru. I hate Shizu-"
"That's a lot of hate, Sakura."
"It's not enough, if you ask me."
Kakashi moved to sit behind Sakura so he could wrap his arms around her to console her. He kissed her forehead (much to her chagrin) and leaned his chin on her shoulder. "It's temporary, you know that. I don't have enough lives left to see you pass out like that again."
Sakura thought back to the day that she was storming out of the Hokage's residence. After yelling at Kakashi the final time, she stopped because her chakra flow suddenly became erratic. She turned to Kakashi with fear in her eyes.
"Sakura, what's going on with your-"
"It's not me, I don't know…", then Sakura proceeded to drop to the floor like a ton of bricks. Literally. There was a Sakura sized hole in the floor.
Kakashi rushed Sakura's unconscious body to the hospital where Tsunade was walking out of a meeting with Shizune. " Lady Tsunade!"
She quickly turned at the urgency in Kakashi's voice. "What the hell are you doing here? Why are you carrying… why are you sweating… what's going on with her chakra?"
"I don't know, she lost control of it then lost consciousness at my house. When she fell, she left a crater in the fucking floor!"
Tsunade rushed over to the pair and quickly realized that he was sweating because Sakura's chakra was weighing her down significantly. "I've got her. How long ago?"
"Four minutes, thirty-nine seconds. I was afraid to transport her."
"Shit, I'll have to get a Hyuga here to disable her chakra points. Shizune, go find Hinata. I believe Naruto said they were having Ichiraku for dinner, Gods help them." Tsunade rolled her eyes as Shizune ran out of the hospital. "Was she doing anything out of the ordinary before it happened?"
"She threw me into a wall-"
"So, no?"
"Today is the first time she's used Chakra since you released her from the hospital."
Tsunade stopped walking, then quickly sped up to the room she sought. "How is that possible? It's been six weeks!"
"She's been in the poisons lab with Shizune, as far as I know. Shizune formally requested that Sakura be relieved of healing duties until everyone affected had eight weeks without chakra use. Unfortunately, she also asked me not to mention it to Sakura because she's unreasonable and can't be trusted not to disobey direct orders."
Tsunade's jaw tensed as she realized that Shizune and the Hokage had put their ninjas in possibly fatal scenarios. She placed Sakura down on one of the heavier duty tables just in case her chakra began to exert more pressure. "I can't treat her until we get a look at her chakra points. Her vitals are fine, so that's good news."
"Lady Tsunade!"
Tsunade turned to see Shizune, Hinata, Naruto, and oddly Sauske rushing down the long corridor.
"What happened to Sakura? I thought she was okay!"
"Naruto! Do not yell in my hospital. Hinata, please examine her chakra points before we disable them."
Hinata nodded and got to work. "Byakugan! Oh my!"
"What is it, Hinata? What do you see?" Naruto rushed to Hinata's side and put his hand on her shoulder.
"Shut up, Naruto. That is my final warning. What are you seeing?" Tsunade asked as she walked towards Hinata with her hands on her hips.
"Well… I can't see her chakra points... at all. It's like they're gone!"
The room got suddenly silent as they all evaluated what that meant.
"Are you saying that her chakra points… have been destroyed?!" Tsunade asked against her better judgement.
Hinata shook her head. "No, Lady Tsunade. It looks like she doesn't have any at all. Like… she never had any."
Tsunade had to restrain herself from putting a hole through the wall.
"Find Ino and prep Orochimaru for interrogation. Hopefully I won't kill him before I get the information I need."
Shizune turned suddenly towards Tsunade.
"Lady Tsunade, you don't mean-"
"Yes, Shizune. This was probably an additional effect of the poison. An effect you predicted and kept from me and another medical professional that endangered her life, but I'll deal with you later." Shizune gulped as Tsunade glared at her.
"With all due respect, Lady Tsunade, I took this through the proper channels. You are no longer the Hokage, and the Hokage approved this."
"That doesn't mean shit to me, just like your actions prove you nor the sixth Hokage give a shit about the girl lying in this bed or the other ninjas facing the same fate.", Tsunade said as he prepared to transport to the interrogation's unit. She then stopped and turned towards Kakashi.
"Everyone out!"
Everybody moved except for the man she was turned to. He then put a chakra seal on the room.
"Do we have the time to do this now?", Kakashi asked quietly. "Isn't Sakura at a precipice-"
"This is Orochimaru's bargaining chip. She'll be fine once I figure out what he wants. That's not to say that I won't be killing him after she's conscious again."
"Lady Tsunade, that's not an option at this time."
Tsunade slowly walked toward Kakashi deceptively calm, and they both knew it.
"Was this a mistake? Naming you Hokage? Should I have just trained Naruto and given it to him in five to seven years?"
"I thought Shizune was being cautious, not that she knew-"
Tsunade finally gave in and punched the wall beside Kakashi's head, although she did it without chakra to prevent the building from collapsing.
"That is not what I fucking asked you. Did. I. Make. A. Mistake? Do you think I'm dumb enough to believe you would have put anybody other than her or the rest of that fucking team on glorified leave for any other reason than you wanting to protect them? There's no way in hell Sakura should have been in the poisons department for six weeks when runs the children's wing! Do you know how quickly shit goes south for those children if something goes wrong?"
"How would allowing her to work have changed anything? This would have just happened-"
"Six weeks ago! I don't know what the fuck Orochimaru has done to this girl's body! For all I know he put a fucking curse mark on her! A Hokage must be able to think objectively in situations like this- and you fucking failed. So, I'll ask for the final time- did I making a fucking mistake naming you Hokage?!"
