Yachtzee: Thank you for you advice on both of the previous chapters of one and two. I made chapter one the way it was so that I could update everyone one all of my characters lives. If I hadn't done it that way then it would have made another story. If I get enough requests then I might write it, but at the moment I'm having enough trouble with this one so if I were to do that then it would be after I finished this one.

kApiNkcOw: I did that for the reasons listed above. And if you would like a story on that then you can let me know. Thanks for the review.

yin vs yang: Well, here's my update. Sorry it's a little later than what I said it would be. The only thing I can say is that I was being lazy.

ligice76: I know I loved that part too. Over the past eight years Sasuke has changed, Sakura too, but I won't get into that too much because you'll see as the story progresses. I'm sorry about Kakashi as well, I love him, but for the story to start one of the members of team 7 had to die and the only logical option was him.

AddictiveJon: Thanks for the nice review. I'm sorry about Kakashi, but as I said before it has a pupose.

Thanks for all of the nice reviews. I hope to see more. To make up for the wait. I have a really long chapter.

'Thoughts' "Speaking"

Sakura-Girl 2005

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Chapter 3: The Funeral

It was 12:30 when Sakura left to go to the service. 'I'm glad I've got everything done for this' she thought walking down the road.

When Sakura got there it was 12:45. Sasuke was already there sitting in the front row with two empty chairs next to him. The seats were reserved for her and Naruto. Sakura took her seat next to Sasuke. About five minutes later Naruto arrived. He sat on the other side of Sakura.

"Just like the old days huh?" Naruto said.

"Yeah we arrived in the same order." Sasuke replied.

"Now it's just like we have to wait for Kakashi to show up three hours later with some lame excuese, b-but he's n-not going to b-be here." Sakura said the last part on a sob.

Both young men put their arms around the sobbing girl. By this time everybody was there and the service started.

Tsunade was the first to speak. She walked up to the podium, and began, "Hatake Kakashi was the teacher of the three best shinobi that his village has ever seen. The achievements of this team shows what kind of man he was.

At first he didn't want to teach, but as time went on he became attached to his team.

One day he told me that getting to teach these three," she pionted to Sasuke, Saskura, and Naruto "was the best thing that ever happened to him. That they made him feel like he had a family again.

Other that his team he was well known for three things one of them was his sharingan eye, which I'm sure everyone in this village is great full for. The second was him always having a Come Come Paradise book in his hand. The third, which incidently drove me nuts, was the fact that he always arrived at least one hour late for everything.

In spite of all of these things he was a man of great loyalty, honesty, and humor.

Kakashi, you will be missed.

I have asked the members of Team 7 to say a few things. If they wish to do so, now is their chance" Tsunade sat down.

Then Naruto stood up and walked to the podium. "I remember the first day waiting for Kakashi to show up. Little did we know that that would become the norm.

Anyway, we were sitting in the classroom waiting for him to show up and I got bored. So, I placed aneraser in the doorway to fall on his head.

It did and all he did was smile and tell us to go home a meet at the bridge the next morning at six am sharp, and not to have breakfast. He then dismissed us.

We were there on time and we waited for like three hours.

He finally showed up and had us follow him to a field where we were to train.

Our mission was to get the two bells from him.

We all tried different things, and none of them worked.

I was the first to get caught, much to my dismay, because he had told us earlier that he would ony train those of us who got the bells.

Anyway, Sasuke and Sakura got them.

While I was tied to a tree, he left giving Sakura and Sasuke lunch saying not give me any because if they did he wouldn't train them. I thought that this was extremely unfair because I hadn't had breakfast and I was starving.

Eventually, they fed me thinking that Kakashi was gone. Of course he wasn't, and he jumped out of one of the trees telling us that we all passed his test, that he would train us, and to meet him at the same time and place as that day.

It was only later that we realized that he wanted to see if we could work together at all as a team.

There was this other time I recall where we all really worked as a team.

I insisted that we should know what was under Kakashi's mask . At first we tried separately, that didn't work. Then we tried to get him to eat ramen. That didn't work either.

We went on a two day mission and there were these three guys trying to kill Kakashi, these guys were the epitome of idiot. We got rid of them in about two second.

Anyway none of our schemes worked. So, as we headed back to the city gate Sakura asked what was under his mask and you know what. It was another mask. Man, was that disappointing.

Those were just a couple of things that made me love Kakashi. He was the father that I never had. I will miss him, but will never forget him." Naruto sat down.

Sasuke got to his feet and walked to the podium. He looked around and started his speech.

"I remember all of those things Naruto said, but that's not the thing that I remember the most about Kakashi.

What I remember the most is all of the extra time and effort he made towards training me.

I remember the first time I took th chunin exam. It was the month during which we were waiting for the final part of the exam. He taught me his chidori.

That's just one example of how dedicated he was to us and me.

Before that even, just after the preliminary matches he sealed, or more contained, the curse seal that Orochimaru gave me.

I remember another time after the chunin matches and the whole thing with Itachi and his sharingan. After I was healed by Tsunade-sama, I was so angry at Naruto because he was so much stronger than me, he save Sakura and me. I was thinking that I was so weak compared to him. I was supposed to be the best on our team. I was the number one rookie. Boy, was I a power-hungry jerk back then.

Anyway, I challenged Naruto to a fight and chose to fight then and on the roof of the hospital. Naruto was going to use his Rasengan and I was going to use the chidori.

We were flying at each other and Sakura was running in between us. Trying to get us to stop. We almost killed her, had it not been for Kakashi we would have. He broke us apart.

Later he told me that the chidori was never, NEVER to be used against a friend, teammate, or any Konoha ninja, or citizen. To this day I have followed those words.

I will miss him. He was the father I needed.

Kakashi you were the best man I ever knew or will ever know." Sasuke left the podium and took his seat.

Sakura waited about thirty seconds to get up. She then walked behind the podium.

"Well, I had a whole speech prepared, but it just doesn't feel right. So, I guess I'll just say what's on my mind.

I have so many memories with my genin team, some good, some bad, some happy, some sad, most of them highly stressful, and others highly embarrassing. Out of all of these missions that I have had in my life only two seem like they happened yesterday.

One of them was our first 'real' mission. We were to escort a man, Tunza, back to his home. It was supposed to be a simple C-ranked mission. It turned out to be a very difficult B-ranked mission.

The thing I remember most is Kakashi fighting to protect us with his life, if necessary.

Zabazza came at us and the three if us tried, but he proved to be way more than we could handle as genin. So, Kakashi jumped in. That was when we finally found out why he was called the copy cat nin. All three of us were shocked to find out that he had the Sharingan.

We were amazed with the skill that he showed. Up until that point we thought that our sensi was a lazy, no account, useless ninja, who nobody could find a job for so they made him teach. Oh, were we wrong. That day he earned our respect.

Later on that same mission we fought Zabazza again as well as his companion, Haku, and the last thing Zabazza requested that he lay next to Haku one last time. So, Kakashi fulfilled a dying man's wish, who happened to be our enemy. That day he became a man to admire and love, at least in my eyes.

Kakashi took the place of my father when he died. Although looking back on it, Kakashi was more of a father to me than my real father was.

The last thing that Kakashi said before he died in my arms was that he thought of Team 7 as the children that he never had.

We always had the most tragic team with Sasuke, who lost his family, Naruto who was an orphan, and finally Sakura, who lost her parents during the Second war.

Kakashi I thank you for taking us in under your wing. Loving us like your own children and being a father to me when I needed it . I love you and will always miss you." Sakura finished with tears streaming down her face.

Tsunade then got up and put an arm around Sakura, and they both placed their white carnations on his grave. Naruto and Sasuke followed. Then the rest of the village placed one, for each person, on his grave.

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Thanks for reading this chapter. I don't have the next one written yet so it may take a while for me to update. Please Review.

Sakura-Girl 2005