"Um, Sensei, shouldn't you have shoes on? And possibly your headband?" Sakura asked her eyes directed to his bare feet.
"Hm? I suppose that I should," he said while getting up. He walked back toward the house. He reached for the doorknob at the front door and - was knocked off his feet, the side of his head bleeding. He fell onto his side and didn't get up.
The students gasped as they saw their teacher fall and looked around for whoever had done it. Without success.
"W-what should we do now?" Sakura asked shock obvious on her face.
Naruto, looking just as shocked, stared at her horrified. He wanted to run to his teacher's aid and take him into the house to get help but his feet were glued to the ground. Tears started to well up in his eyes unexpectedly. He slowly regained enough control to think. But it was too late.
Sasuke stood up at that moment and decided to take control of the situation himself. "Naruto and I will go after the person responsible for this. Sakura, you go help him," he said lifting his head toward their down teacher. Sakura nodded and headed off toward Kakashi.
Naruto scowled at Sasuke but quickly changed his expression to sorrow while he gave a last look at his wounded sensei with Sakura bent beside him, examining his head. Naruto nodded at Sasuke and they headed off into the forest.
Kakashi regained consciousness a few hours later. His head was bound by a fresh white cloth was a large blood stain on the left side. He gently touched it with pain waking him completely. He saw that the window was open and a slight breeze lifted and lowered the curtains. The breeze brushed his cheek and felt cool against his lips. He couldn't remember the last time he had felt such a sensation.
He sat up quickly realizing why the realization was so unfamiliar. Too quick. His rewarded was a horrible dizzy spell which made him fall back onto his pillow. After the spell passed he started to laugh out loud with child-like joy. He felt almost free with his mask off. Like when he was a small child before his father's death.
He smiled despite the pain in his head and held on to his memories of him and his father together before his death.
"I'm gonna be just like you one day, Daddy!" a 4-year-old Kakashi told his father from atop his shoulders.
His father chuckled and looked up at his son. "Of course you will! But you'll be even better and stronger than your old man."
Kakashi and his father laughed talked about their future all the way back to their home.
Have I really gotten stronger than you? he thought to himself wishing very much to see his father's smile again.
At that moment, Sakura walked in with a pan of water. "Oh good! You're awake," she said with a smile on her face. He quickly pulled a makeshift mask over his face. This struck yet another memory for him of someone just like her.
Kakashi awoke in a bed at his in the hospital. He had been injured during his last mission. It wasn't anything serious but they wanted to keep him overnight just to be sure.
Suddenly, a girl of 14, like himself, walked into the room with a grin working its way across her face.
"Good! You're awake," she said. She took a seat beside him and pulled the chair as close to the bed as possible and laid her arms on the bed to hold his hand.
"It's nothing life threatening, Rin. You didn't have to come you know," Kakashi said with sarcasm in his eyes.
"You know that I would still have come," she said, her grin broadening.
Kakashi grinned as well. "Of course you would have." He squeezed her hand and leaned forward a little. She did likewise and reached for the top of his mask. She slid it to the tip of his nose when suddenly another boy his age burst into the room.
"YOU!" he yelled thrusting a finger in Kakashi's direction. "Hatake Kakashi! From this moment forth we shall be eternal rivals!" He then strode out of the room slamming the door behind him.
So that's when (and why) he started hating Gai. Why had he forgotten about that?
"Is everything alright, Sensei?" Sakura asked concern spread across her face.
Kakashi sat up slowly with her help. "Yes, everything great," he said smiling in the joy that his memories brought him. Sakura returned his smile and slowly started to remove his bandages. It hurt but he showed no outward sign of it. Sakura cleaned his wound with a wet cloth then put new bandaging around it.
When she was done she took the pan and the cloths to the door.
"Wait, where are Naruto and Sasuke?" Kakashi asked curious.
She froze, her hand inches from the doorknob. She didn't want to worry her teacher so she quickly came up with a lie.
"Oh, they went into town with Tazuna. They left about an hour ago and won't be back for awhile," she said turning to him with a fake smile.
Right then, Tazuna walked into the room. "Good, you're up. You certainly weigh a lot even though you have no fat on you," he said in his gruff tone.
Sakura looked as pale as a ghost and was becoming paler by the second. Kakashi looked sternly at her, his brow knit.
"Where are they really, Sakura?"
Naruto and Sasuke had been running for half an hour and they still hadn't found anyone. They were about to give up when a shadow appeared in the distance turning to the left. In a fluent, they turned left and picked up the pace.
The figure got closer every second and they were almost upon them. When they were close enough Naruto leapt onto the persons back with a few clones to weigh the person down.
"Oof," the person muttered as Naruto and his clones landed on their back. They tumbled down a small hill and once they came to a stop, Naruto and his clones were holding him down by his limbs and one clone sat on his back.
"Alright, tell us everything starting with your name," Sasuke demanded.
The stranger lifted his face from the ground slowly and stared Sasuke in the eye.
Sasuke gasped and took a step back. "You're a Uchiha," he whispered.
The dreaded cliffhanger. (dun dun duh) Well, it makes people lose sleep at night trying to find out what will happen next so I'm satisfied. XD Kidding. Anway please review! Critisim helps me figure out more of what you guys want. And compliments help my self-esteem. XD