Iruka POV

wholikessonicadventures?

I can't believe that this is actually happening. Hatake Kakashi is the Great Copy Nin. Someone who, if they die at
all, dies in a battle for the good of the village.

Who does this help?

Friends and acquaintances of mine have certainly died before (we live in a ninja village) but none of them had their
probable deaths planned.

None of the people who knew them had time to gather and witness their deaths. To even prepare for the possibility.

So why is it that there are so few people here?

You'd think that a grown Jonin would have some ties to the people around him; a family, or even a group of drinking
buddies. Instead, it's just myself, Sakura, Naruto, and Tsunande.

Not even Gai showed up. (And in truth I'm only here because of Naruto)

I have to wonder if I would want to wake up if I knew how few people cared for me. What an empty existence.

But all of that is about to become moot (or not) in a few moments. I see Sakura is moving to remove the breathing tubes.

I hope that he breathes without them.

I can't imagine being in Sakura's shoes right now. Instead of a patient that she has little or no attachment to, she has to
kill her former sensei. Isn't she only supposed to make these decisions when she's older? Finished her teen years, at
least.

Or maybe he'll live. But what happens when Kakashi breathes…

but doesn't wake up.

…She's removed the tubes.

becauseilikesonicadventures

Awyr here. Evil, ne? So…

Should he live? Or die?