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Kakashi's P.O. V

The genuine Sakura had 'poofed' in front of me about two minutes after that strange earthquake. Of course, the quake was not unusual to me at all. Once I felt it, I knew I'd be seeing my favorite pink haired student in a matter of minutes.

Sakura is famous for many things- especially her medical talents and uber scary super strength, but what most people do not know, is how much chakra control she has. It is hard for even I, the great copy-nin, to even begin to fathom how much control she contains. That is how Sakura is able to perform such jutsu as she just did. My hypothesis is that she releases a perfect amount of chakra which spreads itself across a certain amount of area. The more land you wish to cover, the more chakra you must use.

It was an amazing gift; chakra control I mean. I first noticed her talent when I was still her sensei. Our mission was to the Land of the Waves with Tazuna. When I took the team out to train, it was then I noticed her potential.

Yet, I was a biased person. I refused to believe that a women could out do any man in anything. Back then, I wasn't wrong because no one could prove it. That is until a certain women with a huge bust size came into the Hokage office. After I saw Tsunade's strength, I forcefully changed my mind just to avoid any squabbles I may have ran into if I wouldn't have.

Now I wished I would have changed my mind sooner and given Sakura an equal chance in her search for power. And maybe, just maybe if I hadn't have been so negligible towards her, she may have had the strength in heart and body to stop her one true love from leaving.

Sakura's P.O.V

I located Sai and Kakashi within a few minutes. I sent a replica of myself out to retrieve Sai as I embarked on the epic journey of fetching Kakashi.

After I sent out my unique wave of chakra, it was easy to discover where Sai and Kakashi were…concealed. It was a facile job to find them after that. My chakra waves are very original. Kakashi may think it is as easy as releasing my chakra, but he is not fully correct. My chakra is directly connected to my brain cells. The chakra I send out informs me of everyone within the premises that I set according to how large the city or town is. Once my chakra seeks out the certain signature I am attempting to accommodate, it reverses its direction and the signal is stronger than the rest because it is my chakra re-entering my body. Therefore, I never use a bit of my chakra.

I had been led to a very picturesque area. The moon shown brightly overhead and the stars emitted an eerie, incandescent glow from behind the clouds. Dew lined the jade grass at the heart of the valley where a man laid; silently contemplating something. His serene face presented him as if he were some sort of celestial being and his lackadaisical attitude only accented that in his favor.

If I could have loved someone, it would have been him right then and there. He was a mystery to me; something I hadn't explored. I had always been an audacious person: fascinated by the unknown. Kakashi was simply one more risk that I was willing to take.

As soon as Kakashi was conscious of my presence, I snapped out of my undetected observing.

Kakashi stared at me with a somewhat esoteric look in his eye. Mine however, were as inane as ever.

A moment of silence passed between us. It wasn't unbearable at all, simply peaceful. The silence didn't end either. Kakashi merely outstretched his hand and gestured me towards him.

I gingerly stepped to him and took my seat down next to him. Kakashi hesitantly placed his arm around me and drew me into his chest. The movement was not demanding, but it presented a sense of authority.

When Sasuke had left, he hit me unconscious and curtly laid me on a bench to stay for the night. Izumo may have been the one who found me, but Kakashi was my second father, my moral support. Everyday he would come to wake me for training. Then he would take me out for breakfast when the sun rose. Our relationship continued to grow until that fateful day.

Yet even thought I had lost all means of any affection or emotion towards him, he continued to care for me as if he was my father or brother.

We were never lovers; simply in a relationship where I was the younger sister and he was the older brother. We may have had a few questionable moments where people may have queried or actions, but it never served any other purpose other than our sibling relationship.

As I sat beside Kakashi in his now suffocating embrace, I began recalling all the times we spent together and all the times we were separated…

Flashback

I was the age of fifteen…and I was a fresh jounin. The occasion was my first mission on that specific level. The least you could say was that I was exhilarated. This mission was to be excruciatingly hard, and after Sasuke left, I was literally dying for a challenge.

My team was top of the line rookie jounin. It consisted of all those I trusted dearly. Yamanaka Ino, Uzumaki Naruto(who was still a chunin at the time), and the superior of the assignment, Hatake Kakashi.

My knowledge of the mission was limited because of the insufficient briefing given by a drunken Tsunade. I soon unearthed that the amount of data we were given on the mission was contingent on the Hokage's current mood.

I was hardly surprised when I spotted Kakashi lazily leaning against Konoha's gates with a file in his hand.

I was already aware that I was semi-early. That was my plan. It seemed to work perfectly too. I had my fingers crossed that Kakashi wouldn't be late so he could fill me in on the parts and pieces the Hokage 'accidentally' skipped over.

Not knowing what to say, I silently trotted over to Kakashi and stood next to him. As he always did, Kakashi formally greeted me with a small nod and began a far to protracted conversation: one I never wished to even speak of…ever.

"So Sakura-cha, are you excited?" Kakahsi began half-heartedly.

"Oh yes!" I said applying a bit more emphasis than needed.

"I'm sure you are, but do you think you can handle the emotional stress this will put on your mind?"

I knew of what he spoke. This was to be the most recent search and rescue mission for Sasuke. This was around the fourth or fifth one Tsunade had sent us on. I'm not positive why the mission I am tending to now was not of the same category, but my theory is that Uchiha Sasuke has become much to threatening to be left alive. His mind is unstable; there is no telling when he could pop, but in this mission, he was still being offered a second chance.

This question did not surprise me one bit though. Ever since we were given the briefing, people have been interrogating me on how I felt about attempting to capture my past love. Was I truly that weak in everyone's eyes? Did I need to be counseled by all of my friends every time we received a mission that hit close to home? I couldn't answer those questions then, all I knew was that I was expected to answer Kakashi question some time today.

"Don't worry sensei!" I said with a nonchalant voice while my mind was screaming something completely different. "All of us together can definitely defeat Sasuke and bring him home!"

"Sakura," Kakashi growled in a dangerously low tone. "You know what I mean."

And indeed I did know exactly what he was implying, but I selfishly refused to appear weak in the vision of yet another person.

"Of course sensei! I know what you mean!"

Kakashi glared at my relaxed façade. At that moment it felt as if I was transparent to him; he could distinguish all of my lies and grasp the hidden truth that I kept buried inside. And it was exactly at that moment, that I broke down. I would have collapsed if it wasn't for Kakashi's quick reflexes which caught me.

As I sat in Kakashi's arms. I was angry at myself. I had promised that I would contain my emotions to some extent, but when I heard Kakashi's mellow voice filled with concern; there was nothing left that I could do.

In the past, I had never pictured Kakashi as being a caring person, but today, he never ceased to amaze me. For the whole five minutes I was sobbing, he remained in the same position; cradling me in his arms and cautiously stroking my hair as if there was some boundary he had just crossed.

In all truth, Kakashi had crossed a boundary. We both knew it too. The teacher student relationship was strictly the teach and learn strategy. No more or less was expected. It was a written law; it was simply frowned upon. At that time in my life, I could not comprehend that sort of subject and believed strongly that a person should be able to love anyone the had feelings for without any consequences. Of course, back then my dreams were unimportant, just as the would be now.

Kakashi began to become more comfortable with our position and started to pull me closer, His action not only calmed me down, but they also displayed to me just how much I could trust Kakashi.

Our serene moment ended abruptly when we both heard a loud screeching male voice. The two of us could already describe that person from their distinctive voice We could explain what mood he was in and why. We could even take a pretty accurate guess of who was with him by the tone he used, but none of that was important. The only thing that we needed to know was that Naruto was coming to brighten up the mood.

Once he saw us, he did exactly what we were expecting: he called out to us loudly…Luckily, Kakashi and I had already separated.

You see, back when I was thirteen, Sasuke, Kakashi, and I had made a pact never to speak of any treacherous secret to Naruto; for if Naruto knew, so did everyone else. to this very day the same rules apply, except we had to change it a bit. If Naruto knew, everyone AND their grandma's knew.

"Hi Sakura-chan! Are you ready for this?

I rolled my eyes and released a breath I didn't even realize I was holding. "I already told you I was yesterday. Don't worry about me, I'm stronger now."

"Ok, Sakura-chan, whatever you say."

"Thank yo-"

"HEY! FOREHEAD GIRL!" this annoying stuck up, high pitched voice screamed directly into my ear; robbing me from any hearing that remained from Naruto's loud entrance.

"HELLO, INO-PIG!" I answered back with my voice reaching the same volume as hers. Needless to say, everyone sweat dropped.

Now before Miss Pig could spit out another comeback, Kakashi intervened, "Of course I would love to sit and watch your useless ranting, but some of us do have a mission to tend to."

After Kakashi's short tirade. I began to notice everyone else had already arrived. Apparently so did Ino. We both became silent and began our long trek to Otogakure.

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I had fallen behind the group while I tried to sort through my thoughts. Memories came back involuntarily and tears began to gather in my the folds of my eyes. It burned my soul just to even picture him. I was beginning to doubt that I could handle this; until I sensed a presence beside me: a presence which held a very certain book in his hands.

"Sakura-chan, we're almost there. You should really be paying more attention."

"I know sensei. It's just…all of the memories are starting to flood back." I whispered to where he could hardly even hear.

Kakashi hesitated to answer. He waited so long that I began to lose hope of him replying, but right before I began to shut him out, he spoke.

"Memories need to be shared Sakura-chan, but they can't if you have no one to trust."

End Flashback

As I sat in that enchanted valley recalling Kakashi's last words of advice regarding me, I soon remembered why I was there.

I peered down at Kakashi as I stood. One look into his midnight color eye told me he had had the same flashback. The glimmer in that dark eye of his spoke to me somehow. It explained what Kakashi was praying for.

He had always hoped to regain my trust and I was exhausted of seeing him in this weak state. Therefore, I shattered all of his hope.

"I trust no one, Kakashi-san."

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