Why?
Genre: General
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Author's Notes: Warning: Character death.
Yet again this story doesn't make much sense. I should be doing h/w. Procrastination is fun.
If you squint hard enough you just /might/ be able to make this a Kaka/Gai story. Though that was definitely not my intention. /shrugs/
Please R&R…Thanks! (Really, please review/begs/)
Remember, I'm taking requests too. Requests on /anyone/. That means /any character/. Not just Kakashi.
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In the end Gai would wait.
And everyone knew that, and no one understood why.
Or maybe they did. Maybe they just didn't want to admit that they understood because understanding means accepting and accepting is not always considered "right" or "correct."
Gai was not a Genius.
Kakashi was.
Together they make the perfect rivalry; the Genius vs. the Dropout.
No one knew when it started, not even the two involved could remember. It was never planned, it just sort of "happened" so to say.
As a child Gai never understood that he wasn't suppose to be able to beat Kakashi. As a child Kakashi was just another kid to him, just another road block.
Kakashi never meant for a friendship to form between them.
Some say that becoming friends was Gai's plan from the beginning, others disagree. Because in the end; who would willingly be friends with Kakashi?
No one expected them to protect each other; no one expected them to save each other. But they did, they found solace in each other's pain. Even though they were so different they were the same, in one way or another.
When Gai was going to die, when Gai couldn't protect himself, Kakashi stepped in.
Kakashi fought when his rival could not.
Though he was close to death himself Kakashi still saved Gai, because that's what Genius' do.
And no one understood why.
Or maybe they did, maybe they just didn't want to admit that they understood.
Because in the end; Kakashi died.
And Gai survived.
That was not the path their lives were supposed to take.
And no one understood why it happened that way. No one knew why Kakashi gave his life.
Because in the end; Kakashi was more valuable then Gai.
And Gai would wait.
For what, no one knew, not even Gai himself.
They buried him underneath the apple tree.
And no one knew why.
They carved his name into the Memorial Stone.
And no one knew why because Kakashi never wanted his name on the Memorial Stone.
In the end, it just seemed right.
But no one knew why, because they never knew why.
Life never explains why.
In the end, Kakashi was dead and Gai was not.
And that's all there was to it.
And no one understood. And no one cried because Kakashi does not cry, in life or death.
Or rather, no one admitted they cried. Admitting meant accepting.
And Shinobis don't accept.
But the sky cried, the sky cried for them all. And they accepted its tears, and they welcomed its tears.
Wet, cold, salty: the sky's tears hid their own.
And no one cried.
Kakashi was dead.
Gai was not.
It was not how it was suppose to be.