Chapter 14: An Intent to Kill
Kakashi munches on his granola bar, lazily. He glances up at the clock without moving his head. He sighs, Two hours till she comes home. What to do? He looks at the calendar. Two months till her birthday. Might as well throw her a party. The Copy Nin pulls his mask back up and gets up from the table. He makes his way to his bedroom and pulls his favorite Icha Icha book off of the shelve. How about a walk Kakashi? He asks himself. He leaves the house, forgetting to lock the door as usual. He opens the book to his favorite portion and begins to read as he walks towards the hospital.
"Give it back Konohamaru!" He hears Naruto scream. Konohamaru runs in Kakashi's direction. Without looking up form his book, Kakashi slides his legs apart wider, and the black haired genin slides through his legs. Before Naruto can do the same, he collides into Kakashi, who poofs into a log. Naruto scrambles up and continues his pursuit. "Konohamaru! Give me back my free ramen ticket!" He screams. Kakashi continues down the road unfazed.
"Konoha Senpu!" Rock Lee screamed performing a whirlwind kick right past Kakashi to a ready Neji. His leg just grazed the top of Kakashi's shock of hair. "Kaiten!" Neji called out deflecting the youthful Lee, who was smashed back and almost collided into Kakashi, who stopped walking, letting Lee fly past. He continued to walk towards the hospital, his nose never leaving the pages of his book. Interesting day. Kakashi thought to himself.
"Ahh finally!" Sakura sighed. She had just finished taking care of the last patient suffering from a torn muscle in their quadriceps. She clocked out and walked to the main lobby. She was slightly startled to see a shock of silver hair behind an orange book. The Pink Haired Kunoichi ran over and hopped into the jounin's lap, avoiding his book as to not totally disturb his reading. Kakashi did not look up, he just kept on reading. "Good evening Kakashi." Sakura sang. He didn't respond. She put her lips to his ears. "I love you, Sharingan Kakashi."
"I love you too." A voice came behind her. Sakura jumped and screamed. The Kakashi's who's lap she was on poofed into a cusion. The real Kakashi was sitting on her left hand side.
"Hey! That scared me!" She yelled.
"Never let your guard down, Sakura-chan." Kakashi chastised.
"Hai, sensei." She said putting emphasis on the last word. Kakashi chuckled and stood up. He held out his hand, which Sakura gladly took. They walked out of the hospital and down the long route home.
"What the fuck?" Sasuke said to himself standing outside the hospital. He watched as Sakura and Kakashi walked away with their fingers interlocked. The hate swelled inside of him. He felt betrayed and abandoned. She's in love with himHe said to himself in disbelief. Sasuke clenched his fist and followed them through the trees.
"I bet you look really ugly underneath your mask." Sakura said teasingly.
"For your information, Ayame-chan thinks I'm a real heartthrob." Kakashi said amused. Sakura pouted.
"How come you won't let your own girlfriend see your face?"
"Because you haven't really tried to remove my mask yet."
"Let me take it off then!"
"Nope. You have to actually try."
"What do I get in return?" Kakashi stroked his chin in thought.
"How about if you get this mask off, I'll give you a kiss." He said with a smile, pointing to his mask. Sakura grinned and vanished in a whirl of Sakura petals. "Hn?" Kakashi said in surprise. She modified the teleportation jutsu. Kakashi's eye widened as he sensed two kunai come straight for him. He caught them between his fingers and turned to see a third kunai curve a full 90 degrees, aiming for his temple. He caught this kunai with his other hand. Sakura darted straight towards him with lightning speed. She had chakra charged in her right hand. Kakashi's eye widened. How the fuck did she learn that? He almost lost his concentration as the hand flew to his abdomen. He caught her wrist, and sprawled on her back, causing her to fall flat on her face. Kakashi flipped her over and held her hands above her head. "Sakura where the hell did you-" He cut himself off as he saw in shock that Sakura had Sharingan ablaze. "You're not Sakura." Kakashi said pulling up his hia-ate. "Who are you?" His sharingan was spinning. The fake Sakura smirked and poofed out of his grip. She appeared behind Kakashi and thrusted her palm into his back. Kakashi let out a scream and closed his eyes as the pain soared through his body. Kakashi panted as he watched the imposter walk around to face him. "Kai!" She said. Sasuke appeared before him. Kakashi looked up confused.
"Keep your hands off Sakura." He said, his sharingan still ablaze. "Tsukuyomi!" Kakashi fell into the illusionary world. He was being crushed by a giant snake. His bones cracked and popped out of his skin. Before his mind broke from the pain, he was suddenly released from the genjutsu. He came back to reality in middle of the training fields. Sakura was standing next to him with her hand on his shoulder. She was circulating her chakra through his body to help interrupt the genjutsu. Kakashi drew his kunai to Sakura's throat thinking it was Sasuke. Sakura froze and had a frightened expression on her face.
"Ka..Kakashi?" She stuttered. The Copy Nin realized who it was and pocketed his kunai. He fell on his knees and panted, trying to block the pain from the illusion of pain from his body. Sakura embraced him and buried her face into his flak vest. "What happened? I remember being put in a genjutsu where I was lost. I released myself and found you clutching your head in pain." Kakashi remembered the giant snake crushing his body. He remembered the eyes on that snake. It had Sharingan eyes just like his own.
"It was Sasuke." He breathed.
"Sasuke?" She responded puzzeled.
"Yea. He found out about us, and tried to kill me. Obviously, he just wanted to make a statement, because that chidori he used on me would've killed me if he hit me just an inch more to the left." Sakura looked shocked at the gaping burn on Kakashi's back. She immediately began to heal the wound. After a few minutes, the skin looked good as new, and now all that remained was a hole in his flak vest. The pink haired kunoichi helped the silver haired jounin up and began walking him back to their house. Sasuke was perched on a branch nearby looking at the scene. If I go to Tsunade about this, she'll have them separated. But Sakura would hate me even more. Why did I do that? Sure I love Sakura, but now she must hate me. I have to apologize. God what did I get myself into.
What are you talking about little brother? Itachi's voice went through Sasuke's head. Sasuke froze.
No you're dead.
Yes I am physically dead, but don't you remember the battle? Sasuke thought back to when his brother's hand was sticking out through his abdomen. The moment before you killed me, I used the last of my chakra to infiltrate your mind. After I died, that part of me stayed here. Sasuke's eyes widened in horror. Unless you die, I'm still alive in your head little brother. Sasuke smirked.
Then we will just have to get along now won't we? Sasuke activated his own sharingan. He was inside his own thoughts now. He was standing in his old house, in the same room where he found his parents dead at the hand of his older brother. At the far end of the room was his brother sitting where his father usually sat.
"So why are you going soft all of a sudden Sasuke?" Itachi asked.
"They are my friends, I don't want to lose them again."
"Friends will get you nowhere. Trust me."
"Because you had no friends, you lost the battle."
"Did you forget already? As long as I am here, the battle has not finished. Though I can't do much here, I just kick back and listen. I have observed many things about you and your friends. I can safely say that your friends do not care about you. They are too absorbed in their own lives that they couldn't give a care whether you are hurt or content with their affair." Sasuke clenched his fists.
"So what do you suppose I do?" He asked through gritted teeth.
"Keep up your intent to kill. You had it when you trained to fight me. Now it's their turn to feel your wrath, Sasuke." Sasuke's eyes widened at the thought of killing his two best friends.
"No. You killed your best friend, and turned out to be a monster."
"Am I the one who turns into a winged beast or are you?" Itachi said impassively. Sasuke's eyes narrowed. "I told you that you will never be as strong as me unless you kill your best friend." Sasuke began to realize what his insane brother was saying.
"You're right." He said quietly.
"Then go. Prepare for your attack." Sasuke deactivated his Sharingan and reappeared on the same branch he was perched on.
"In two months Sakura and Kakashi, you will die." He poofed out of the trees in a swirl of leaves.
"I can't believe Sasuke." Sakura said to Kakashi. They were at their house talking over some nice cups of jasmine tea. "He seemed okay with me being with somebody else."
"Did you tell him that you were seeing me?" Kakashi asked her.
"No I didn't mention you."
"Then that's the reason. He would've been okay if you were dating Naruto or Shikamaru, but I guess he believes I'm taking advantage of you." Sakura scowled at the thought.
"He's become frustrating. I'm going to yell at him tomorrow when he comes by for his check up." The two were silent for a bit, sipping their tea.
"Your birthday is in two months." Kakashi spoke into his cup, breaking the silence.
"Yea I know." Sakura said with a bit of happiness in her voice.
"So what do you want for your birthday?"
"Nothing. Just you." She said with a smile. Kakashi chuckled.
"Obviously I'll be there, but how about a party." Sakura thought about it.
"Hmm, maybe. But don't go to so much trouble for me."
""It's your 18th birthday and I love you, Sakura. I want to do something special." Her face turned as pink as her hair.
"Well, alright, but nothing too big okay?"
"Okay." Kakashi said, his eye curved in a smile. "Oh!" He said slapping his forehead. "I forgot we're supposed to have dinner with Naruto and Hinata. Evidently the two have been dating for about 3 months now."
"Really?" Sakura asked with awe, "She actually asked him?" Kakashi nodded.
"Yep. I only found out about it a couple of months ago."
"Why didn't you tell me then??" Sakura asked in a whiney voice.
"It didn't occur to me at the time." Kakashi said sheepishly.
"Well we better get ready!" Sakura said dashing from the table. Kakashi got up slowly and lazily made his way into their room. They kept his room as a guest room now. "Hmm do you like this or this?" Sakura asked holding up two dresses, one pink and one yellow. Kakashi lazily gazed at the kunoichi.
"If it were up to me I'd say go as you are now." Sakura looked down and realized that she was in her under garments.
"PERVERT!" Sakura screamed covering her private areas.
"Hey you asked and I told." Kakashi retorted impassively. He went to his closet and got out another jounin shirt and flak vest without holes in the back. He unzipped his vest and emptied the contents onto the bed. He removed his shirt, revealing his attractive pattern of rippling muscles and rock hard abs. Sakura was lost in a trance as she watched Kakashi move topless around the room. "Umm, Sakura." Kakashi asked, breakingthe kunoichi from her trance.
"Wha..what?" Sakura asked blushing furiously.
"Why are you staring at me like that?" Sakura walked over to her lover and put her hands on his muscles. She ran her fingers over the ripples and to his masked face. The mask was basically attached to a mid-cut tank top that was made of spandex so it clung to his body.
"Because I realized that I'm in love with the hottest jounin in the village." Kakashi looked mock hurt.
"Only in the village?" He asked fake pouting.
"Mhmm!" she nodded. She then passionately kissed his masked lips. "Just kidding." She said between breaths.
Boy are we going to be late Kakashi thought to himself.