Genma POV
IthinkGaikilledthelinepeople
I knew that Kakashi was sick. All the Jounin knew. We're the ones who have been on missions with him,
who've taken him out drinking when it all seems too much.
All of us saw the decline. We saw him grow from pale to translucent. We saw him go from slender to skinny.
If those that hold him as a "special person" didn't know, then it's only because they didn't want to see it.
Why didn't we tell them? That's easy. We all die. Every mission, we die a little bit more.
We've seen friends and family die in droves, our lovers and sometimes our children taken from us without
warning. In the life of a ninja, there are very few who actually choose how they will die. I thought that if
Kakashi chose to die from this disease by not telling anyone, then that's his decision.
I think that all of the Jounins respected him enough to keep silent.
So why didn't you go to him in the hospital? is probably what you're thinking. Again, simple answer. He
wouldn't want us to. Kakashi has always been a proud person, and he would hate it if anyone saw him as
helpless. Dying because you couldn't wake up would be just about as helpless as you could get.
As I look over at Raidou, I don't think I'd want him there if I was going to die that way.
I think even Gai has that mentality. Or so I gathered from the cries of "My most Respected Rival, how Dreadful
you should Wither in the Winter of Unyouthful Stillness, only guarded by a Demon of Unyouthful proportions.
I shan't Demean your Worthiness as my Closest Rival and Mourn your Passing into the Ice and Snow!"
I sometimes wonder if Gai comes with a decoder ring. A translator? Oddly enough, I think that only Kakashi and
Lee were ever able to decipher what he was saying.
And now I'm hearing rumors that Kakashi didn't die. That he's awake again.
Tough old bastard.
They say he woke up fighting. That Tsunande had him tranquilized.
I wonder what she said to make him pissed. Probably laid into him for not telling her that he was sick.
I'd be pissed if the greatest medic nin ever to live missed signs of serious illness, assigned me S class missions,
and then bitched at me after all was said and done. That's not an act that inspires manic loyalty in one's leader.
"What are you thinking about?" Raidou says while sitting next to me.
"Nothing," I can't keep my smile out of my tone. Raidou always cheers me up.
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