AN: Here is the next chapter. Enjoy!


Mystery Revealed

The three looked at Kakashi less then thrilled about there current situation.

"You might as well have seat." Kakashi said walking into the living room.

Sakura followed taking a seat at one end of the dusty couch as Naruto took a seat at the other end. Sasuke slowly followed taking a seat in the chair across from the couch.

"So who would like to tell me what happened?" Kakashi asked sitting down in the only empty chair left next to Sasuke.

There was silence between them; as far as they were concerned they had nothing to say to each other.

"We can sit here all night or we can…."

"You have no right to treat us like children; anything that happened between us is none of your concern." Sakura said sternly sending Kakashi a death glare.

"Hm, I will quit treating you like children when you quit acting like children. Now whether you all like it or not we are stuck here together for the next eighteen months and I…….."

"It was not my choice to be stuck here with them, if I would have known I would have never accepted such a mission." Sasuke interrupted.

"What makes you think I wanted to be stuck here with you two?!" Naruto yelled jumping to his feet.

"Was I talking to you!?" Sasuke yelled back also jumping to his feet.

"No you weren't because you don't know what talking is!" Naruto yelled now face to face with Sasuke.

Kakashi rubbed his temples. 'They really haven't changed all that much have they.'

"That's it; I have had it with you two." Sakura yelled jumping to her feet. "It is because of you two that our team was destroyed. If you two would shut up and quit pointing fingers, placing the blame on everyone else this would have never happened." She huffed now angry that she had to yell.

"Well if I remember right it was because of you we were arguing in the first place." Sasuke said glaring at Sakura.

Sakura narrowed her eyes at the Uchiha. "I never asked for either of you to have any part in my life." She said and stormed out of the room. A door to one of the two bedrooms was heard being slammed hard.

"Why the hell did you have to bring that up for?" Naruto said pushing Sasuke.

"How was I suppose to know it still bothered her that much?" Sasuke pushed him back.

A growl was heard coming from both men. 'I better stop this before they……oh too late'

Naruto was slammed into the wall by Sasuke. Naruto quickly kicked Sasuke sending him the floor, where he jumped on him and started an all out wrestling match.

"Would you two give it break?" Kakashi said rubbing his temples. He was just about to get up to pull them apart when Sakura appeared grabbing each man by the collar and throwing into wall on either side of her.

"I have had with you two" She said.

The three men were now staring at a very pissed off kunoichi.

"If I remember right Sasuke, you were the one that left me" She said glaring at him. "And as for you Naruto, you left too so that kinda puts you in the same boat doesn't it. Whether either of you were there for me or not when it happened it does not matter anymore. So just get over it. And as for you Kakashi…" She said now glaring at her former sensei.

"What the hell did I do?" He asked confused.

"You just showed up whenever you wanted to, but when I really needed you, you were never there so that puts in the exact same boat that those two are in." She turned away and walked to the front door swinging it open.

"And I swear if I hear another word about it from any of you, you'll go back to the village in a wooden box." She hissed slamming the door as she left the house.

The three men sat in silence and stared at the door where Sakura disappeared out of, finally Kakashi had to ask.

"So is this all because we left her behind?" Kakashi asked looking for answers. He may be a genius, but when it came to his three former students he gave up trying to figure them out. He was a little taken back by the look he was getting from Sasuke and Naruto now.

"You really have no idea do you?" Sasuke asked

"So I am getting old enlighten me."

"Did you ever hear anything about that mission six years ago, the one where only one came back alive." Naruto said now staring at the floor.

"Yes I think I heard something about it. What does that have to do with this?"

"Well, Sakura was the lone survivor, barely even alive at that." Sasuke added still focused on his ex-sensei.

Kakashi eye went wide. "You mean."

"Yeah, she suffered because we failed her, we should have been on that mission with her."

The room fell silent again. Kakashi heard about the mission from fellow shinobi's, he was amazed anyone could survive such a thing, he heard they were tortured, interrogated, and even raped by the enemy and held captive for weeks.

"Yeah well, if wasn't for stubborn ass over there we would have gone with her." Naruto hissed directing his glare to Sasuke.

"You thought the mission was a waste of time too bastard" Sasuke hissed back.

So now Kakashi finally understood part of what was going on. He vaguely remembered Sakura coming to him a few months after he heard about the mission. But he had just returned from a mission himself and just wanted to go home and sleep. He remembered telling her he didn't have time and left her there. Now that he knows what happened to her, he grew sick to his stomach of how he just turned his back on her. 'She came to me and I just pushed her aside.'

"Whatever I have nothing more to say to you." Naruto said disappearing down the hallway.

Sasuke soon disappeared down the hallway as well, leaving Kakashi alone to deal with Sakura when she returned. 'I should have stayed in bed' Kakashi thought as he rubbed his throbbing temples yet again.


AN: There was the third chapter. Please R&R