The flashback in this story is somewhat long, but it's kind of important….Just wanted to tell you.Oh yeah thanks for being so patient!! I would have updated sooner, but the stupid uploader -thingy-ma -bob wouldn't work!!

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Inner Sakurabold
Kakashi thoughtsbold


An onyx eye clashed with emerald ones. Kakashi locked gazes with Sakura. "Sakura, what happened when we were ambushed?" Kakashi lazily looked up at the tired kunoichi, his eyebrow raised. Sakura sighed. Both her and her inner self wished that Kakashi did not bring up the topic for their mission. It brought back painful memories for her. She knew that a shinobi as perceptive as Kakashi would want to know everything. With a slight frown, Sakura looked down at Kakashi, her fingers ripping another tiny piece of meat from the large rat. "Kakashi-kun, I really think you should eat and regain some movement of your limbs before you hear everything. Don't you think?" Sakura's mocking voice had and underlay of seriousness.

With a slight huff, Kakashi commented, "If you really think that thing will give an exhausted grown man enough strength to move, I really think that you should retake your medical exams and get your common sense back from Naruto." "That is also why I brought some fo---… Oomph" A dumb-founded look came upon Kakashi's face. Sakura just viciously stuffed food in his mouth and interrupted him. He stiffened and returned his gaze back to Sakura and slightly flinched. Her face, contorted in such anger, scared him. He quickly started to chew and began to think. Meanwhile inner sakura was giving her other-self hell.

'What is that buffoon thinking?! We do not need to retake the medical exams and how dare he compare us to that ramen-addicted idiot! Shannaro! That man is going down! Let's not tell him about the mission and let him think-!' inner Sakura was interrupted when Kakashi started to speak again. "Was the mission really that-" Kakashi stopped and his eyes widened and then suddenly closed in anger. In unison, the Sakuras rolled their eyes back, 'Now he figures it out, so much for the famous copy-nin with the magnificent Sharingan…' Inner Sakura snidely said.

Sakura looked at Kakashi and looked at the food in her hands. She ripped a piece for herself and put it in her mouth, chewing the food slowly letting it travel down to her awaiting stomach. She would have to hunt for more food as soon as she finished telling Kakashi the details. It was still sprinkling outside 'I don't want to get wet.' Sakura violently cleared her throat to catch her teammate's attention. Kakashi started not daring to reach Sakura's eyes. "As you have just figured out the Akatsuki stole the forbidden scroll when they ambushed us." … "Technically, it was my fault since I was the one carrying it." She was answered with silence again. She knew that it was a disgrace for Kakashi to fail a mission as important as this. 'But Tsunade-sama said that it was an S-class mission, so you had to expect many difficulties' inner Sakura commented.

"As I was saying, Akatsuki ambushed us and we were separated. You were fighting Itachi and I was fighting Kisame." Sakura stopped; Kakashi seemed to hang on every word that she uttered. "Things were going terrible, we were both loosing." Images of the battle between Kisame and herself flashed through her mind.

Flash-back

Sakura slowly moved her hand toward her back and stopped, she forgot, she did not have her massive axe with her. Instead, she smirked at Kisame, reached into her pocket, and took out the steel knuckle guards that Tsunade gave her for her sixteenth birthday. These would be of great use because it added more strength to her punches. "Hoshigaki Kisame, one of the legendary seven swordsmen. I knew that we were going to have major difficulties in this mission. I expected you, so I brought one of my favorite weapons along." Sakura sweetly said, blinking her eyes innocently. She tried to butter Kisame up, make him underestimate her, and then she will land a surprise hit. Hopefully, she would be able to escape with Kakashi back to Konoha. She did not think that she would be able to win a battle against him without help.

Kisame only replied by unwrapping his Samehade and muttering something about a stupid kunoichi. They stood poised ready to fight. A slight breeze stirred the brown leaves around the ninjas. The tension was thick in the air. Suddenly, they lunged toward each other. Sakura aimed an already enhanced chakra fist toward the fish man's face but had to swerve to the left when the gigantic sword came whistling, just missing her head.

Sakura turned in the dirt making streaks where her feet dragged the dirt. From past information from people who fought him, she knew to avoid his sword. The sword was a leech for chakra and it did not slice like ordinary swords, but shred. She could already feel the loss of a little chakra that the sword took. Kisame decided to take the initiative to underestimate her and got in the range of her 'fists of terror', but Sakura missed the hand signs that he made.

She smirked, gathered chakra into her fists, and violently punched the ground making a small fissure. It caused chunks of the earth to spew from the ground. The earth looked like gigantic nails that dropped from the sky. When the dust settled, Kisame was nowhere in sight. Before she could react, Kisame was breathing down her neck "Did you really think that a weak attack like that could injure me, kunoichi?" He swung his sword toward her abdomen. Sakura moved in time to miss the blow to her front but caused her to receive the hit to her left leg. Sakura slid and rolled on the ground making a line of dirt where she fell.

She hunched over the wound trying to lessen the pain by trying to heal it, but Kisame would not let her. Before she could determine how much damage was recieved, he was on her, his sword high above his head, ready to slice her in two. She quickly rolled away, wincing in pain when pressure was applied to her injured leg. The sword crashed next to her, letting out a shower of rocks and dirt. Chakra was absorbed from her body from the closeness of the sword. She clumsily jumped away on her uninjured leg as Kisame wrenched his sword out from the ground and sped toward her.

The sword was about to connect with her body but the commanding presence of Itachi stopped Kisame. Itachi walked closer to the paused battle. She could see splotches of blood scattered across his cloak "The scroll isn't with Hatake-san" not blinking once as he turned his gaze from Kisame to the panting Sakura. Their eyes connected. She panicked. What happened to Kakashi! Inner Sakura flinched telling her to avert her eyes from Itachi's Sharingan. But it was too late; Sakura was trapped in the genjutsu.

She stood in the middle of the battlefield not able to move as Kisame walked to her and searched in her pockets. All the while Itachi's gaze never left her. When the sword wielder found the forbidden scroll, he signaled to his partner that he was ready to go. Itachi released his gaze and joined Kisame in the canopies of the trees, disappearing from sight. Rain started to pour from the sky as Sakura fell to her knees heaving. The rain seemed to reflect how she felt. She tried to collect herself from the fear that struck her moments ago.

Her hand was shaking fiercely as she calculated the wound. Her left thigh didn't look recognizable. Her flesh was ripped from her thigh and she could see a little of her bone. It was still gushing blood. She began to heal it sloppily, too worried about Kakashi to heal herself properly. She finished with herself, only stopping the blood flow and repairing the skin. She quickly went to search for Kakashi, not minding the pain that radiated from her thigh.

end flashback

"I found you unconscious facedown. You didn't seem to be injured badly. I was glad. I didn't have enough chakra to heal you after healing myself right after a battle. I suspect that Itachi either did a genjutsu on you or he used the Mangekyou, but since you just woke up right now I don't think he used the Mangekyou."

"How long were we here?" He paused. "Where did you hurt yourself?" Kakashi lazily asked.

"We have been here for at least a day or two and I injured my leg" she replied quietly. "I wish I had some more food to feed us with so I don't have to hunt for more." She hung her head dejectedly. Inner Sakura's stomach rumbled.

"Well Sakura, if you didn't stuff my mouth I was going to offer you some food." Kakashi held two onigiris in his hand.

"Kakashi…You had food this whole time and you didn't tell-... You can move your arms!" Kakashi blinked. "I have been able to move my arms for a few minutes now I was wondering when you would notice." Kakashi raised his eyebrow and grinned failing to mask some of his fear for the now angry young woman as she started to reach into her pocket for her steel knuckle guards. Thankfully, for Kakashi she decided against it. 'He probably moved his arms or something when you were thinking.' Inner Sakura grumbled.

"Give me that!" Sakura snatched the food away from Kakashi greedily eating it. Kakashi watched in interest, slowly eating his own onigiri. Sakura finished eating her food and cleared her throat. "Thank you." She avoided his eyes and blushed. Kakashi chuckled, "There's no need to thank me Sakura. I should thank you for giving me such an amusing show of how a starving kunoichi eats."

Sakura blushed from indignation and embarrassment and hit Kakashi on the head "Baka! I am the one who saved your butt and you thank me this way!" Kakashi recoiled in pain raising his arms to his head. "You didn't save my butt, you just woke me up." Kakashi sarcastically commented. Sakura did not reply but stood up and limped to the entrance of the cave. A sad, depressed aura permeated the air around her. Kakashi became nervous. Did he hurt her feelings or was it a female problem… 'I really hope that I didn't hurt her feelings' he sighed 'I might as well apologize to her. You never know what's on a women's mind until you ask.'

"Sakura, I'm sorry did I hurt your feelings?" Sakura twisted her head and changed her position from the entrance to look at Kakashi. She was surprised that he would think such a thing. Sakura smiled in her mind 'how sweet'.

"Kakashi you don't need to apologize. You didn't do anything. I'm just thinking how Tsunade-sama is going to act when she finds out that we failed the mission." Sakura hated to disappoint her shishou. "She didn't tell us anything regarding to the scroll. Tsunade-shishou would normally tell me some basic things about the scrolls, especially if they are forbidden, but this time…This has caught my interests. Do you understand, Kakashi?"

He nodded his head, "Tsunade-sama didn't tell me anything about the scroll so naturally it caught my interest."

Out of the blue Kakashi asked, "Do you by any chance know any summons?" Sakura blinked and chuckled. "Kakashi you are looking at The Hokage's best apprentice and you think I don't know any summons?" Kakashi looked unfazed by her unusual pride in her voice. Inside he was berating himself. He remembered hearing Sai mutter to himself. 'Ugly got a summon that looks like her'.

"Well Sakura, I was wondering if you could send help over to us." Finally looking her in the eyes.

'Why didn't I think about that' Sakura smiled at Kakashi. Positioning herself so she would not loose her balance, she breathed in deeply, calming herself. She needed to make sure that she could get the correct amount of chakra for her particular summon. Swiftly making the hand seals that were needed, she bit her thumb in a smooth practiced manner. Slamming her hand on the cave floor, she muttered "Kuchiyose no Jutsu." A loud poof erupted from the cloud of smoke in front them. When the smoke started to drift an image of a slug came in to view. From the tip of its eyeball to the ground, the slug stood at three feet. Its unusual magenta color clashed with the red, cherry blossom shaped hat that it wore. Kakashi looked on with amusement. If Sakura were turned into a slug, it would definitely look like the one in front of him.

"Hello Sakura-sama! How may I help you?" The slug unmistakably showed its enthusiasm with its high squeaky voice.

I'm really sorry if it doesn't meet any of your standards!! I tried to continue with this chapter but I found that moving on to chapter 3 would be a better idea

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