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Chapter 6: Past Reflections
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Kakashi watched the rain hit the window then begin its path down the glass. Aside from the rain and the beeping of the heart monitor the infirmary was as silent as the grave
The silver haired teen looked back at the dark haired boy lying peacefully on the bed.
As peaceful as you could get with tubes sticking in you that was.
It had all been his fault.
"Kakashi, it's been three days…." A stern voice entered the room placing well manicured hands on the teen's shoulders, "I told you Obito will be fine."
"He's dying." Kakashi mumbled under his breath feeling Tsunade squeeze his shoulder at this.
"He's sleeping." She corrected with a sigh before letting go of the teen and walking back to the door, "He will wake up, you just have to have more faith in him."
"Have faith in this idiot?" Kakashi forced a smirk at the lifeless form.
He had known Obito since they were old enough to actually retain memories, they grew up together, went to school together, even Obito applied to the same private high school as Kakashi claiming it would be a shame to separate before college.
Obito was stupid and failed the entrance exam twice before finally getting accepted. They weren't allowed to room together but their dorms were only a floor apart and even though Kakashi spent most of his time picking on Obito everybody knew that they were friends.
Then the idiot had to get sick.
It was their junior year and Kakashi and Asuma were planning a huge prank for GaiObito had declined because he had a small fever. Kakashi didn't think health should be used as an excuse and forced his friend to come under penalty of death.
Death.
Kakashi stared at Obito listening to the beeping of the monitor.
He wasn't dead yet.
He could be -would be- absolutely fine.
Kakashi remembered the group making their way to the pier at 4 in the morning. It had been a cold December day and Gai had managed to get him with a snow ball before they made it to the lake. Asuma and Kakashi were celebrating Gai's defeat of Kakashi in their chemistry finale by dying the lake green.
Although they hadn't really considered it freezing over night.
Laughing at their mistake and with Obito cursing them for dragging him out of bed for no reason they all made their way down the pier until they were in the middle. Asuma suggestedthrowing the dye in the snow so that when it melted the lake would still be green (as opposed to its natural clear blue color) and no one would be able to track them since it would take a while.
Gai attempted to walk out on the water but upon hearing a small cracking noise hurried back to the pier.
Kakashi laughed as hard as he ever had as Gai and Asuma started throwing snow at each other. He glanced up to Obito to try and get him to join in the fight
But Obito was not there.
Kakashi remembered the unreal panic that swept his body as he stared at the empty space he knew his friend had stood in before catching Asuma and Gai's attention and walking to where Obito had been. The air had been stilled and the trio were surrounded by an eerie quiet.
Until Kakashi saw the broken ice.
Obito had fallen in.
Kakashi jumped before he even though about what he was doing. He ignored the screams of his two best friends and hit the broken ice and frozen water like a log. The pain was unbearable. The lake was shallow and Kakashi was grateful because he knew that if it had been any deeper he would have died looking for Obito.
Grabbing his friend's body and pushing himself up as hard as he could he was able to break through another thin layer of ice. He felt hands grab them and drag them out of the freezing water. Asuma was yelling and Kakashi knew Gai must have taken off towards the school.
Obito's heart wasn't beating by the time they made it to the nurse's office. Tsunade had done the very best she could to get it started again and warm up the young man's body and everything seemed like it was going to be okay.
Except Obito wasn't waking up.
Kakashi hadn't even gotten sick from his jump into the frozen waters yet his friend was lying there unconscious!
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Iruka yawned as he opened his eyes to the ridiculously bright room.
Where was he?
Iruka stretched slowly as he felt every muscle in his body ached. He turned his head to the right to see several empty beds; he was in the infirmary of the school. Iruka blinked a few times trying to remember what had happened before he turned to his left and sucked in a deep breath.
Why was Kakashi sitting with his head down on Iruka's mattress?
Iruka twisted when he heard the door click softly to see a tall lean man walk in before smiling at him. Gai looked tired but lifted his finger to his lips telling Iruka to not say anything as he motioned towards Kakashi.
Iruka just nodded as he glanced back down at the silver haired teen.
"C'n hear you trying to be polite, Gai." A harsh mutter made both teens realize Kakashi was awake. Kakashi sat and ran his hands through his hair glaring at Gai while making sure not to look at Iruka.
Iruka was about to say something when he turned to Gai. To see Kakashi's friend with such a somber expression was weird. Gai was always happy and berated Kakashi for acting 'cool' all the time, not at all like this silent man staring at Kakashi with some hidden truth in his eyes.
Iruka looked back and forth from both the teens realizing neither were going to look at him anytime soon and decided to start with the basics.
"How did I get here?" His voice hurt a lot worse than it should as it came out raspy and soft.
"You passed out in class." Kakashi stated finally looking at the long haired teen who gave out a sigh.
"Sorry for the trouble." Iruka felt his face flush up as he smiled apologetically at Kakashi. He might despise the bully but Kakashi did seem to care about his classmates, and that was respectable.
"You're not any trouble Iruka!" Gai seeming to morph back into his normal self, smiling brightly and giving a thumbs up. "We're just glad you are okay!"
"Speak for yourself." Kakashi stood up and knocked over the seat behind him as he glared at Iruka who looked affronted up at Kakashi. "What in your right mind made you go to class when you were that sick?"
"What?" Iruka gaped.
"Any idiot would have gone to see the nurse but not little Iruka, no! Iruka had to go to class even though he knew he had a fever, Iruka had to pass out in the middle of a lab, Iruka had to get carried all the way to the-"
"Well, I'm sorry for being such a nuisance!" Iruka yelled suddenly getting his voice back as he shoved the covers off of him and hopped out of the bed.
"You should have been smart enough to not be one in the first place!" Kakashi crossed his arms as if he was scolding a child.
"Kakashi!" Gai started before the door to the infirmary swung open as Sandaime, Tsunade, and Yamato walked in, staring at the group.
"I didn't ask to get sick you know!" Iruka yelled ignoring the audience. He had apparently just passed out and now he was getting yelled at for being a nuisance by the guy that had been the bane of Iruka's sophomore year so far.
"Oh you like the attention, spoiled brat. Don't tell me you miss your mom and dad already, we're only two months into school…." Kakashi was about to continue before the look on the principle's face told him to shut up.
He looked back down at Iruka who was glaring daggers up at him, then to Gai who was looking at him with some sort of pity.
"If you guys are done with your little spat…" Both teens spluttered and were about to say something to Tsunade when she glared at them. "As I was saying, if you are done, we're glad to see you are feeling much better Iruka."
Iruka's face softened at this as he turned and bowed deeply towards Tsunade. "I'm sorry for the trouble!"
"Trouble? You give yourself too much credit; you were dehydrated, and had a fever of 104.3…." She smiled as if it was something she fixed in her spare time, "For a second I thought I was going to have something thrilling to solve."
"You watch too many television shows…' Yamato muttered before apologizing to Iruka, "I really should have made you come straight here when you woke up."
"Yes, you should have." Kakashi mumbled but everyone ignored it as Iruka smiled.
"Sorry Yamato, guess I owe you some chores?" Yamato just nodded as Iruka turned to the principal who was smoking his pipe.
"Just glad to see you back in good health. I suggest lots of juices for the next few days, can't have one of the smartest kids here bringing down the scores just because he has a cold." Iruka grinned, pleased, and glanced at the clock.
12:41 a.m.
"I've been in hear for almost 12 hours?" Iruka looked back at Tsunade who just shrugged. "What about my classes?"
The look on everyone's faces told Iruka that he had asked about the wrong thing, they all probably thought he was still sick. Who in their right mind was sad about missing classes?
"Ebisu and Mizuki took notes for you in your other classes so you should be fine, my friend." Gai patted Iruka on the back before yawning. "But it seems it is my time to go…"
Gai glanced at Kakashi before leaving the room along with everyone else, but not before telling Iruka he had to stay the rest of the night in the infirmary. Iruka sighed as he glanced at the older boy that still hadn't left even though they were alone. Looking around a bit trying to think of something to say, Iruka just sighed and turned off the lights so that when he woke up again they wouldn't be glaring at him.
Iruka made his way to his bed and slid under the sheets looking at Kakashi who was just standing there looking at the door.
"You can leave…if you want..." Iruka added the last part trying to not sound rude.
Kakashi blinked a few times before sitting down and laughing sadly. He leaned back and looked at Iruka.
"You really scared the crap out of me." Iruka didn't make a comment.
"First time I've seen someone pass out in front of me since..well, back then….didn't really think I could run that fast." Kakashi continued wryly.
"Thanks." Iruka smiled politely and sighed.
Kakashi was nice, mean, cruel, a jerk, funny, and sometimes decent. There was no way getting around it, he was a somewhat okay guy.
"You didn't have to yell at me." Iruka pouted before looking towards Kakashi to see the silver haired teen smiling at him.
Iruka blushed; Kakashi usually had a frown on his face whenever he wasn't covering it up so this had been the first time he had seen the silver haired teen actually smile. Iruka had known Kakashi was a good looking man the first time he had met him, and this only verified the fact more.
"I wish people would yell at me more." Kakashi sighed still staring at Iruka with a goofy smile.
"I yell at you all the time!"
"But you are cute when you're angry, so it doesn't count." Kakashi retaliated.
"Cute! I'm not cute!" Iruka huffed feeling his face grow hotter.
"See that's cute too, it's dark in here yet you're blushing so bad I can see the red." Kakashi chuckled a bit before he reached out and slowly let his hand touch Iruka's cheek.
Iruka froze and looked at Kakashi as the mismatched eyes stared back at him.
"You're still warm." Kakashi caressed Iruka's cheek then leaned forward so that he could place a soft kiss on Iruka's lips.
Iruka stared at Kakashi as the taller teen back away and studied Iruka's face again in the dark. Iruka opened his mouth to say something but once again found himself speechless.
This didn't feel like Kakashi was teasing him.
No, Kakashi seemed like he was very serious at the moment.
"Well, I should let you sleep…" Kakashi stood up and was about to start walking towards the door when Iruka hit him hard in the arm.
"How the hell am I supposed to sleep after you kissed me like that?!" Iruka yelled, blushing harder when he realized how dumb he sounded.
Kakashi just quirked an eyebrow at the teen before grabbing Iruka's chin and this time pulling Iruka up so that the smaller boy's lips met with his. Iruka opened his mouth in protest as he grabbed Kakashi's shoulders but after Kakashi shoved his tongue in Iruka's mouth the long haired teen couldn't seem to find the point in fighting.
Kakashi ran his hands down Iruka's back pulling the teen even closer to him to deepen the kiss as he felt Iruka's face heat up even more. The kid was blushing again. Iruka sat on his knees in the mattress and as uncomfortable as he was he still held his mouth open to the invasion as his hand's clung to Kakashi's shirt.
They parted and stared at each other wide eyed as if lightning had just struck them. Kakashi slowly released his grasp on Iruka.
Iruka sat back down on the bed and stared as Kakashi mumbled something and left the room. As soon as the door clicked shut Iruka brought his hands to his lips and traced them, feeling the swelling.
What a day.
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Asuma turned over in his bed and stared at the ceiling.
Kakashi was an idiot. As silly as it seemed Asuma felt that he was just now able to realize the truth in that simple sentence. The stupid idiot was off worrying himself about some the little sophomore. Asuma was honestly afraid.
Kakashi hadn't freaked out like that since Obito, and Asuma did not want that to happen again to his friend. Kakashi could only take so much in his life.
Asuma rolled over again and stared at the very empty dorm room with a smile. He had actually started thinking that Kakashi might have some ulterior motive for picking on the long haired teen, but he shook his head quickly, Kakashi would be the last person in the world to go after boys. Taking another breath Asuma sat up and stared at the clock, he wondered if Iruka had woken up yet or if Gai had finally decided to go check in on Kakashi and the boy before he pulled himself out of bed.
Asuma shoved on a pair of pants but ignored the shirt as he made his way into the courtyard between the dormitories and smiled as he pulled a cigarette out of its casing and reached in his pocket to for the lighter.
It was gone.
Asuma sighed as he tried to think of the last time he had the lighter in his hands before he heard a familiar click behind him and turned around to see Shikamaru staring at the fire boredly before letting go so it would go out and turning his gaze to Asuma.
"Looking for this?"
"Thanks..." Asuma took the lighter from the kids hand with a smirk, "What are you doing up?"
"…." Shikamaru glared lazily at Asuma then turned his head towards his dormitory and looked up until he saw his window. "I heard Kakashi sent a kid to the infirmary..."
"Rumors already?" Asuma sighed and shook his head, of course there were rumors. "You believe them?"
"At first maybe..." Shikamaru nodded his head, "But when Naruto showed up I figured it was false since the only kid I have ever seen Kakashi hit is Naruto."
"Good point." Asuma nodded this time before taking a long drag from his cigarette.
The wind gave a slight nudge towards the east making some of the smoke get in Shikamaru's face. The teen grunted, wiping his eyes as he tried not to cough and slid round to the other side of Asuma.
"I don't see how you can do that." Shikamaru drawled as Asuma smirked at him.
"HEY!" Both Asuma and Shikamaru jumped at the sudden scream and turned their heads towards the other side of the courtyard to see a figure stomping over to them. "There is no smoking on campus and everyone is SUPPOSED to stay in there dorms after lights out…"
A young man with messy brown hair stopped when he entered the light and sighed as he looked at Asuma, "It's just you…"
"And hello to you Kankuro..." Asuma raised his cigarette up with a smile. "Sorry but my bad habits get the best of me sometimes."
Kankuro just snorted before turned to Shikamaru, "And whose dorm are you in?"
"Kakashi's..." Shikamaru yawned, "What are you? The watcher of Konoha high?"
"I'm Kankuro, and it just so happens I have watch tonight." Kankuro gave them a smile. "I'll be on my way so ya'll can be in peace but can I have one?"
Shikamaru saw the teen point to Asuma's hand and Asuma chuckled as he pulled a cigarette and handed it to the other teen. "Smoking isn't a good hobby for the swim team captain."
"Smoking isn't a good hobby for anyone." Shikamaru stated as he glared at the two idiots.
"I've had a bad week." Kankuro glared at Shikamaru, daring the kid to say something, but when Shikamaru didn't he continued, "I had some idiot try to drown himself in my pool, Gaara got a tattoo on his forehead and Tenmari won't stop riding my-"
"Akamaru!" Everyone stopped and turned their heads to see Kiba running around the building screaming on the top of his lungs. "Akamaru!"
"Speaking of idiot….SHUT THE HELL UP YOU WASTE OF SPACE!" Kankuro bellowed, surprising Kiba to the point where the teen fell down to the ground. Shikamaru looked around to see some of the lights in the dorms flick on before flicking back off again.
Kiba pulled himself off of the ground and ran over to the group. "You're such a jackass! I lost Akamaru. I was taking him for a walk when he just ran off."
Kankuro sighed before looking at Asuma, "You think you could help looking? You know this campus better than anyone."
Asuma opened his mouth to reject the idea but looked at Shikamaru who was glaring at him lazily. Why not?
"Sure, me and Shika will take the woods and lake area and swim-boy and Kudo over there can take the campus." Asuma flicked his cigarette to the ground and mashed it under his boot.
"My name is Shikamaru."
"My name is Kiba."
Both boys said in unison so it sounded more like Shkibamaru which made Asuma smile.
"And I never said I was going to help." Shikamaru added but before Asuma could say anything Kiba grabbed the teen's ponytail and pulled it.
"If anything happens to Akamaru I will kill you." The young teen threatened as Shikamaru glared at him.
Before Shikamaru could say anything back Asuma grabbed the teen and pulled him off to the woods just as Kankuro grabbed Kiba and pulled him off in the other direction. Shikamaru continued to glare as Kiba made throat slicing motions with his hand.
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"Why did we have to take the woods?" Shikamaru growled as he stepped over another root and was almost hit by yet another branch.
"So I could have my way with you and no one would be able to interrupt." Asuma pulled out another cigarette before turning to the teen behind him seeing that Shikamaru stopped. "I'm just teas-"
"You could have just dragged me to your room and locked the door, you live by yourself right?" Shikamaru gave Asuma a bored glance before he started walking again.
Asuma on the other hand just stared.
"You serious?" Asuma took the cigarette out of his mouth in amusement.
"Are you?" Shikamaru retaliated with a smirk as he finally caught up to Asuma.
There was a pause and Shikamaru decided that the conversation must be over as he took another step before feel two hands grab both his arms and shove him into the nearest tree. Asuma smirked as he towered over the young teen and Shikamaru stared lazily up at him.
"Are you hitting on me?" Asuma let one of his hands trace Shikamaru's jaw line. "Cause if you are, that's kind of turning me on."
"And if I'm not?" Shikamaru shivered a bit as the finger traced its way down his neck.
"But I think you are…" Asuma smirked. "Don't tell me our little mishap on the roof made you fall for me."
"Who said anything about falling?" Shikamaru turned his head so that he didn't have to stare Asuma in the eye. "I might have been joking. You are straight.. aren't you?"
"Straight?" Asuma laughed as he placed a kiss on Shikamaru's neck before grabbing the teen's jaw and forcing Shikamaru to look at him. "People are people, Shika."
"And I suppose sex is just sex?" Shikamaru closed his mouth suddenly as though suddenly wishing he'd kept quiet and Asuma smirked.
"If you want it to be…"
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"Thanks by the way…" Kiba mumbled as the older boy in front of him stopped and looked back at the shorter teen like he was an idiot. "For you know…saving my life…and, uh, for helping me find Akamaru…"
"I already told you the only reason I save you was because I didn't need your body floating in the middle of my pool while swim practice was going on." Kankuro sighed as if he was talking to the most annoying person in the world.
"I already told you I wouldn't have been running if I had known it was the pool building…." Kiba tried to think of some way to defend himself. "If they had signs on the door or something..."
Kankuro stopped in front of a door and pointed at it as big letters were printed on it.
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"That was not there the other day!" Kiba yelled at the sign feeling his face flush with embarrassment.
Kankuro just rolled his eyes muttering 'freshmen'. The older teen push the door open to reveal the smooth pool of water; glistening against the moon light showing through the window near the high ceiling of the building.
"I don't think Akamaru is in here…." Kiba stopped when Kankuro pulled him in the empty room and shut the door behind them.
"You're dog will show up sometime, let's have a quick swim." Kankuro started kicking off his shoes and grabbed the hem of his shirt and started to lift it when he saw Kiba staring at the water. "Hurry and undress, unless you want to get your cloths wet?"
"Umm…" Kiba started as he glanced back at Kankuro who was already half naked and currently pulling down his pants.
Kankuro kicked off his pants so that he was only in his boxers and saw that Kiba was still fully clothed. With a growl the older teen marched over to Kiba and grabbed the smaller teen's shirt and roughly shoved it over his head and off his body.
"Why are you acting like such a pansy?" Kankuro was about to continue before Kiba growled at him.
"I'm not a pansy you jerk!" And with that Kiba stripped down to his boxers and shoved Kankuro out of the way before jumping in the water.
Kankuro smirked as he watched the younger teen jump with a splash. He made his way over to the water and looked down to see Kiba touching the bottom of the 14ft deep pool.
And still touching.
Moving his arms a bit as if swimming but remaining in the same location at the bottom.
Kankuro growled, "Ah, shit."
Kiba swam and swam and swam but it didn't seem to do anything. The faster he moved his arms the more of the bottom of the pool he touched.
Great.
He really was going to die by drowning.
Akamaru would laugh at him.
Kiba tried to open his eyes but found that chlorine hurt too much and so he squeezed them shut hoping that Kankuro would realize he couldn't swim.
He probably should have said something about that.
Two arms wrapped around Kiba's torso and pulled the younger teen up. Kiba felt the oxygen he had left escape his lungs before the finally breached the surface.
"Thank GOD!" Kiba yelled as he flailed his arms about, trying to stay afloat even though the arms still around him were the things keeping him up.
"I might not be God but I can swim." Kankuro snapped at Kiba before pulling the younger teen to the edge of the pool so that Kiba could hold onto the ledge. "What is your problem?"
"I can't swim." Kiba stated as if it was a fact that everyone knew about him.
Kankuro glared.
"And when were you planning on informing me of this? Before or after you drowned?"
"Well hopefully before…" Kiba smirked before he got hit in the head causing him to release one of his arms from the death grip on the ledge to rub his sore head. "Sorry, I just didn't want you to make fun of me."
"Well don't think I won't make fun of you now." Kankuro frowned, "You could have said something, a lot of people at this school don't know how to swim."
"Really?"
"No, but I thought it would make you feel better." Kankuro smirked as Kiba pouted.
"It doesn't."
"Well…d'you want to learn?" Kankuro pushed off from the ledge so that he was in the middle of the deep end and smiled as Kiba clung closer to the wall, "I promise to be nice..."
"Like hell…" Kiba was about to continue before Kankuro swam back to him and grabbed both of his arms causing him to let go of the wall. Suddenly Kankuro was dragging him out to the middle of the deep. "HEY! I didn't say yes!"
"Lesson one is floating." And with that Kankuro let go of Kiba and watched the poor boy sink.
This was going to be a fun night.
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Sasuke hopped out of his bed and made his way around the room divider to see Naruto sitting up staring out of the window.
"Can't sleep either?" Sasuke smirked as he sat down at the edge of Naruto's bed.
"Have you ever been so tired you can't sleep?" Naruto smiled as he laughed softly. "I wonder if Kakashi's back..."
"Probably not or we would have heard someone come through the front." Sasuke yawned before he laid back on Naruto's bed and stared at the ceiling. "Do you mind if I stay here for a while?"
"…" Naruto shook his head with a blush and scooted over closer to the wall so that there was room beside him. Sasuke sat up and scooted over so that their arms were touching and they both stared out the window in the corner.
"I wonder where he got that scar…" Naruto whispered.
"Who Kakashi…or Iruka?" Sasuke glanced beside him as his right leg brushed against Naruto's and the blond smirked a bit.
"Both…I mean, those scars are rather unusual don't you think?"
"I heard Kakashi's was self inflicted." Sasuke made a motion of cutting his eye out that made Naruto make a nasty face. "And Iruka's was apparently some accident with one of his parents..."
"Do you know everything?" Naruto looked at Sasuke as if he truly was dumbfounded.
"Just more than you." Sasuke smirked as they glared at each other.
There was a noise in the other room that made both teens guess that Kakashi was back as it was the faintest click that neither were really sure they heard it. Naruto was about to say something when the door to their room cracked open.
"You brats still awake?" Kakashi whispered as he peered in to see that Sasuke's bed was empty. He let himself in and moved to the other side of the room to see Naruto and Sasuke sitting in Naruto's bed.
"Yes." Sasuke answered boredly as Kakashi sat down at the foot of Naruto's bed.
"Iruka woke up not too long ago. He's full of energy so he'll be as good as new in the morning after he gets some rest." Kakashi stated looking over at Naruto as the blond smiled brightly.
"Good, 'cause I really missed him at lunch today."
"That's because he's the only person willing to put up with your company." Sasuke stated ignoring the glare he received from Naruto.
"You two seem rather cozy for two people who hate each other." Kakashi stated as he stared at the two who were sitting side by side in a small twin bed.
"Who said we hated each other?" Sasuke glared at Kakashi as Naruto turned red and looked away.
"Hey, Kakashi, how'd you get your scar?" Naruto blurted out trying to change the subject as Sasuke scooted a little closer to him. When was the last time he had contact with another person like this?
Kakashi and Sasuke blinked at the obviously rude question Naruto just asked before Sasuke turned his stare to Kakashi who just blinked again.
"My scar?"
"The thing over your left eye?" Sasuke didn't bother hiding his sarcasm as he smirked when Kakashi glared at him.
"Why do you want to know something silly like that?" Kakashi sat up and hopped off the bed dusting his pants for a bit before he looked at the two teens who stared back at him. "I tried to kill myself."
And with that the silver haired teen was gone and Naruto looked at Sasuke who stared back at him. Naruto grabbed Sasuke's arm as the dark hair teen shivered a little before he smiled reassuringly.
"I'm not going to follow in his footsteps and try to off myself by cutting out my eye if that's what you are worried about." Sasuke pulled his arm out of Naruto's grasp and leaned against the pillow behind him. "Even though I had heard it from someone else, it's kind of a shock to have Kakashi say it."
"I wonder why he wanted to kill himself." Naruto muttered before looking at Sasuke.
"I'm sure he had his reasons." Sasuke stared back before grabbing some of Naruto's covers and pulling them over him so that he could warm up a bit.
"I also wonder what your reasons are," Naruto added in a whisper as if he almost didn't want to say what he had but the look on his face made Sasuke frown. "But I'm not going to force you or-"
"My brother killed my family." Sasuke took a deep breath before he continued, "I came home after school so see everything, everyone dead lying on the ground, their blood was everywhere…..he stood there as if nothing happened and by the time I was finally able to realize what happened he had gotten away.."
Naruto's mouth was open but no words were coming out as he just stared at Sasuke in shock.
"The day before school started I heard that my brother had killed himself in some cheap hotel off of the coast, that's why I wanted to do it." Sasuke felt dead as he spoke the words. "What's the point in me being alive?"
Naruto grabbed Sasuke and pulled the dark haired teen into a hug. Sasuke made no motion to get out of it but Naruto trembled as he held onto Sasuke.
Stupid dobe was probably crying, he thought bitterly before sighing and nudging Naruto off of him to see that indeed, the other boy was sobbing quietly.
"I'm not going to kill myself now or anything, I was just saying that was the thought process at the time." Sasuke tried to sooth the blond by rubbing his shoulders though it came out like more of a poke.
"I see now why you are such a prick." Naruto wiped his nose as Sasuke glared at him, "I'm so sorry!"
"It's not like it happened yesterday..." Sasuke yawned before he finally plopped down on one of Naruto's pillows. "You're weird….you know that right?"
Naruto sniffed as he nodded his head up and down with a smile.
"I never knew my parents and most people in my hometown really don't like me. I do play a lot of pranks but I mean….in a small town; what else is there to do? When I got accepted here no one in town would believe until the principal came and gave me all of my information…it was really exciting." Naruto smiled as he plopped down on his free pillow and smiled at Sasuke.
"This is the worst conversation I think I have ever had." Sasuke stated with a smirk.
Naruto just smiled again with a laugh before he curled against the wall so that Sasuke would have more room and closed his eyes.
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Kakashi bolted when he heard the heart monitor flat line. He watched from a distance as the nurses and doctors who had been taking care of the sick unconscious boy ran around and did everything they could to get that machine beeping again instead of this incessant buzzing.
"Kakashi! You need to go into the hallway!" Someone yelled but Kakashi just stood there.
The minutes seemed like hours. Kakashi stopped breathing when he saw the doctor put down the paddles that he had been zapping Obito's chest with, he saw the nurse point to the clock and saw the doctor name a time.
Obito was gone.
Kakashi ran out of the hospital ward that they had put Obito in after he hadn't woken up
Three weeks.
Kakashi's friend was unconscious for three weeks before he died.
Obito was dead.
Kakashi ran out of the hospital and coughed at the fresh air that hit him. He blinked around his location before spotting a diner across the street and running straight to it. He didn't know when he had started crying but he did know one thing.
He wanted the pain in his head to stop.
He was practically sobbing by the time he had slammed open the diner doors scaring everyone inside of it as he made his way to the counter. Kakashi placed his hands on the cool marble and wished the pain would leave him.
The cook was asking him something.
Someone was calling the cops.
The knife had made its way to his hands and Kakashi did the only thing he could think of at the time.
He made the pain stop.
He would wake up three days later with a scar that he didn't believe he was capable of making. With an iris that was permanently red due to the blood loss and damage. With two friends who were so angry and sad that they didn't know what to do.
With Obito still dead and the pain still there.
Kakashi didn't know how long he had cried after he woke up that time but he knew that they had to give him an IV so that he wouldn't dehydrate. He had sworn off all visitors though Gai still managed to get in there every once and a while.
They released him after a week and the second Kakashi stepped out of the hospital he felt free. The numbing pain in his head vanished as he stepped back onto the grounds of Konoha High and he managed to go back to normal.
Gai and Asuma had their doubts but they were happy their friend was back. As long as no one mentioned Obito Kakashi was a friendly person to be around, and after that, the school seemed to forget anything had happened.
But Kakashi still remembered everything.
His scar reminded him and Kakashi was grateful for it.
He was going to be a better man because Obito would have been a great one.
He was going to be the best friend he could be because Obito had never let him down.
He was going to live because Obito was unable to do so.
Kakashi was going to live.
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I originally didn't want to end the chapter on a sad note but hey, no point worrying now since I got it done.
Other news is SCAD has started finally but that also means with a full school schedule and full time job that my free time is none existent cause I want to sleep.
Other than that nothing new.
Have a great weekend and please review! I love feedback!