YAY! It's in! Before the week is up! Now I can escape this accursed prison once and for all(?)! W00t!
Right...ahem...
Should the chapters be longer than they are? Maybe I'm just being a self-conscious teenage girl but seriously, are they too choppy?
The disclaimer: Confucious say I don't own it. I've done some deep thinking and meditation (while drinking herbal tea) for the past week, trying to get out of the state of confusion. Must have kinda jumped into the state of confucianism. Not much but still an improvement.
Chapter 6
Sakura pondered over this. It was certainly unusual for him to actually ask for help, but she shrugged the suspicions aside. She wanted something in return for saving him last night (and helping him out of the hospital, if she managed to do it), although it wasn't like she didn't want to save him. She was ordered by the Hokage to heal him, and she didn't really care where it was done, as long as it was done properly.
"I'll heal you at your place if you teach me some ninjutsu afterwards." She decided that since the Fifth Hokage was so inebriated, she'd need someone to train with, and who better than 'Copy Ninja Kakashi of 1000 jutsu'.
This would also give her a chance to figure out his address.
Told ya. You loooooove him.
No one asked you.
So you do admit that you are attracted to him. Her inner cackled maliciously.
Mind your own business.
But the point is, it is my business. Come on, you finally know it too.
Shut up.
"Alright. Any plans on how to get me out?"
"I…don't know…"
"I thought you'd help me out."
"You've probably gotten out of the hospital several hundreds of times, 'kashi-sensei. I said I'd help, not do all the work."
"…"
"…"
"That is true…" he said, pondering on the concept.
"Huh?"
"No, I meant the number of times I've gotten out of the hospital...more like out of, though."
"What? How old are you anyways, forty?"
Kakashi glared at his former student. It wasn't like her to mess around with him, even if she knew that no harm would come from him.
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"Hai, hai. Silver, not gray."
She did know him too well.
"Twenty-six." he lied. He was no saint either, though.
"Sensei, that 'thirty-two' sounded suspiciously like a 'twenty-six', which, by the way, you were six years ago. I'm eighteen now, not twelve."
As if I need yet another reminder…
"Why'd you ask for my age if you already knew it?
How does she know my age, anyway? Right. Medic nin, medical records which are probably on that clipboard now. Damn it, it's blocking my view...
He felt his conscience disown him. It was saddening but he enjoyed the benefits nonetheless. It was a wonder why it had been with him. He figured it had to do with the fact that the kunoichi that he was shamelessly, albeit covertly (He didn't have a death-wish, thank you very much) ogling had been his student.
Something to do with taboo, maybe.
"No…it just felt like you've come to the hospital way more times than me, and I work here."
"…well, I was doing A-ranked solos since I was 14."
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"…"
"…"
"…whoa…that's awfully young to be doing A-missions." Sakura's jaw dropped dangerously close to the ground.
Meh, I'll ask him more stuff later…
Yeah! Later at his house if everything works out!
You guys do not even have a plan. Nothing can 'work out' if there is nothing TO 'work out'.
Well now, you seem to want to go there so bad. Why don't you come up with a plan?
Not the time…but then again, when is it ever a good time for these two to be arguing?
We are not arguing. We are having a formal debate. At least I am.
Riiiiiight. I SO believe you. Hypocritical ass.
She was beginning to think that her conscience was not turning out to be as much of a 'goody-two-shoes' as she'd originally thought.
Hmm…when you're trying to figure out whether you love your teacher or not?
He's my FORMER sensei.
So we have made progress. You totally love him. Yo, conscience, get back down here! She's finally figured it out. Shannaro!
No, by former, i meant that...oh, nevermind. Just be quiet.
Frankly dear, I don't give a damn.
BE that way, you and your little books, and your little films, and-
I will have you know, it is one of the best-
SHUT UP!
"What's so unusual? You had an S-class when you were 14."
"But that was different. It was the Kazekage no Suna, first of all. Just dealing with him may count as an S-class in and of itself, although he has changed from what he was six years ago…anyways, I had Naruto and you and...Chiyo baa-sama. I was just…"
"The person who, with her insane strength, busted open the boulder to actually get to Gaara?"
"Team Gai got rid of the barrier."
"You still beat your Akatsuki. If memory serves, he was the stronger of the two."
"It was mainly Chiyo baa-sama that guided me and it wasn't quite right at the end. It looked like he wanted to die. And Chiyo baa-sama did die."
"They made their own choices. Don't kill yourself over it."
"What do you know about other people killing themselves or-" she blurted out, then realized what she'd just said, and clasped her hand over her mouth. She didn't know the real story behind his Sharingan or anything else about him, for that matter, but she knew from the one fact that he visited the memorial religiously that he had loved and lost.
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean what I said. Forget that I said anything. I-"
"It's okay, Sakura. I'll…tell you…some other time…"
He's always so full of secrets…
That's what you love about him, too.
It is true. You do have a fixation towards mysteries.
Like that heartthrob of an Uchiha!
Oh, shut up. I make a perfectly normal comment and you lump my friends into it.
I'm sure that you want to be more than just friends, though...
He sighed, "How do you think I feel about that whole misson? I lost my cool at just the sight of Itachi, let my Akatsuki, the weaker of the two, get away, lost consciousness, got carried by Gai, of all people, had to be hospitalized with a warning not to use my eye like I did, and missed out on meeting our friend, Sasuke-kun, when, if I remember correctly, he tried to kill you."
"He's...less homicidal, but Sasuke's Sasuke.
He noted the absence of the 'kun' that usually adorned the absolute last Uchiha's name.
"Well, any bright ideas on how to get out of here?" Kakashi changed the topic, scratching the back of his head.
"God, don't you have a teleportation scroll to your house, or something?"
"No, I'm not God, and no, I didn't think I'd need one."
"Any jutsu?" she suggested, ignoring his retort, and suppressing one of her own.
"Nothing especially to get out."
"How did you do it before?"
"I can't do it now, mostly because of the poison but also because of this leg."
"Yeah, you have a fever, which is probably messing up your chakra system, and the poison's still there. Damn…why don't you just stay here until you've healed?"
Kakashi glowered at his former student in a way that said 'Hell no'. It was amazing how much emotion a single eye could convey.
So THAT'S why he didn't go off this time. It's not that he didn't, rather, he couldn't.
…shut up.
Ooh, aren't we a little touchy…
Sakura ignored Inner Sakura and tried to brainstorm ideas for the getaway. She smacked her head.
Why didn't I think of that before? But should I tell him? He wouldn't run away, and I know for sure that he wouldn't abandon me, here. I still remember that whole 'I'll protect you guys even if it takes my life' spiel? But then…he likes his privacy…but he wouldn't just run off, either. The effects run out in a few hours and he'd need someone to heal him…
"Well…I do have a way to get out…"
A/N: ANOTHER CLIFFIE!!!
Err...hehe...sorry?
Kinda thinking of inserting random people to visit just before they leave…
Like Naruto or Sasuke. Random nurses. Gai maybe.
Iunno…