Naruto sprinted to find Sakura. She would definitely come, right?
"Sakura!?" He shouted. The sky was getting darker by the minute. The sun had already set. "Saakkkuuurraaa!" He suddenly ran into someone with ginormous...
"Granny Tsunade!?" He looked up and saw her scowling fiercely at him. He cowered, she was worse than Sakura!
"And what do you think your doing!?" She rumbled. Naruto smiled innocently.
"Well you see... I was just lookin' for Sakura... Cause you know we were going on this date and ya know..." He trailed off as he realised she wasn't buying it. To his surprise she put a hand on his shoulder and said;
"I know that your upset and want revenge. This is exactly what happened when Jiriya died but-"
The mention of Jiriya made Naruto bubble with anger.
"No! No it's not!" He looked down and said quietly at first. "I couldn't save Pervy Sage... but when he died he helped us win the battle... He died like a ninja should. But... I can still save Kakashi sensei. He didn't even die honourably. He acted strange and collapsed, from a timed jutsu probably put on him by one of the old Akatsuki! I CAN save him!"
Naruto took a step back. "Alone if I have to!" He took off and she planned to follow him when she felt a tap on the back of her head.
She turned to look around angrily but all that happened was that a leaf fell into her hand. She looked round herself incase there was someone there hiding from her but she sensed no presence.
She looked down at the leaf to see a pattern. It was the seal the Fourth Hokage had put on Naruto to keep the Nine Tails in check. She then saw one sign of the Sharingan beside it.
She studied it for a moment before she understood what it meant.
"... Kakashi...?" She looked up in front of her. "... How did you..." She frowned. "What are you planning?" She backed off and put the leaf in her pocket.
! ! !
Kakashi woke up in the same white room.
"Ugh... Ack... What happened?" He looked up and realise where he was. He winced at his memories and got up slowly. He saw the hole in the wall still there so he walked over to it and saw familiar tree's poking out. Konoha. He sighed.
"... What? Guy?" His eyes widened as he saw his black haired, over emotional and stupid best friend. He was crying of course, but after he told his student Lee to go.
Kakashi sighed and decide he'd try and communicate with his friends like he had done with Naruto and try and get them to stop looking for him. They'd only get themselves hurt!
Sending messages from him would signify that he was watching them and that they could live in peace.
His connection to Guy would be his battles and he immediately thought of them. He chuckled quietly at them and suddenly felt something move in his hand. He jerked his hand opened an saw a leaf there. Again.
"Ironic..." Kakashi said, as it WAS ironic that as a shinobi of the Village Hidden in the Leaves, he would use leaves to communicate with people on earth.
The numbers inscribed on the leaf were his and Guy's final scores. Kakashi was in the lead of course. Kakashi almost smiled and decided to just jump through the wall.
When he opened his eyes he was perched on a tree branch above Guy. He looked down.
He was close enough to tap him on the head if he really reached. So he did and as he did he let the leaf drift down onto his face. Guy looked at the Leaf confused for a second. Then he realised what it meant and Guy started to talk to him. Looking up to the sky.
Kakashi smiled at his words but didn't catch the last ones as he travelled back. Back to that white room.
! ! !
"Why won't anybody listen to me!?" Naruto growled to himself. "What's wrong with them!?" He reached the village gates and realised he'd have to get past the guards first.
They were both sat in their usual place. Naruto walked calmly ahead.
"Naruto?" He heard one of them say. "Why are you out so late at night?"
Naruto stopped and looked at them. They don't know?
Naruto grinned his usual grin and said nervously, "Oh... Heh heh... About that..." Then he ran for it. The two shinobi guards shot up and tried to chase him but were stopped.
Naruto had noticed that they'd stopped chasing him and looked over his shoulder.
He saw a green figure with a shiny black bowl-cut hair style, he had two shinobi out-cold at his feet. Wait is that...?
"LEE!" Naruto grinned.
"Naruto. I could not just leave you to go all by yourself." He carried the sleeping guards back to their chairs. Then he rushed over to Naruto and smiled.
"I'm breaking the rules..." Lee said. "But I will help you get your sensei back like you would help me get mine. And if we do it we might not even get in trouble."
Naruto nodded and they headed off down the path together. At least he'd have company.
As they were running Naruto turned to Lee.
"So why didn't, Sakura come?" Naruto asked through pants.
"I... Do not know." He looked down.
Once they were definitely out of sight, Naruto stopped and looked at Lee.
"Lee. Why didn't Sakura come?" He repeated firmly. Lee looked down.
"She... I over heard her talking to Shikimaru after you'd left. She said that she thought there was no hope..." He said nervously. Naruto clenched his fists.
"I..." He started but decided against it. "Lee, let's go a little farther then camp for the night, ok?"
Lee nodded and grinned. "Of course!" He said, always over-enthusiastic.
*** A couple days later***
"They're over there." Naruto heard Lee's voice whisper beside him. They had known there were enemy ninja's following them for quite a while. They were only a quarter- maybe even less than that- of the way to the border of The Land Of Fire. Naruto had no idea where he was supposed to be going.
Naruto and Lee hid behind a oversized rock to spy on the enemy's camp. Convenient that they camped there and at that time as well.
Naruto narrowed his eyes. Too convenient. He heard a rumble in the distance and before he realised it he shouted;
"Bushy brows! Duck!" They both ducked behind the rock in time to see and feel a fireball fly over there heads. But... Usually only Uchiha's have the fire jutsu technique. Unless you were Kakashi of course, who also had the Sharingan but wasn't an Uchiha.
Naruto immediately jumped up in hope but all he faced was another fireball.
Lee watched in terror as it engulfed his friend.
"NARUTOOOOO!" He screamed, tears pricking his eyes. His friend was but a pile of ashes. He shouted and screamed and cried. Lee stood and took off.
Running through the forest until he heard something.
"Hey is that you? Guy you idiot!" He heard... Kakashi's voice. But it was a little higher than before. He turned eyes gleaming with hope and there he saw him. It was Kakashi!
"KAKASHI SENSEI!" Lee cried and ran over to him in floods of tears. He collapsed at Kakashi's feet. "I'm sorry I was too late! Too late to save Naruto..."
"Um..." Kakashi took a step back and took out a kunai. "How do you know my name?!" He turned defensive.
"It's me! Rock Lee!" Lee exclaimed, standing up and taking a good look at Kakashi. Was there something different?
"Oh... Your a leaf ninja." Kakashi relaxed a little when he spotted the headband. "I've never seen you before. Sorry, you looked a lot like Guy from behind." He turned to take off then stopped. "Wait... Why did you call me sensei? And... Who's Naruto? Isn't that an ingredient for ramen?"
Rock Lee gaped at Kakashi. This wasn't the Kakashi he knew at all. This Kakashi was 16 years old.
"I... Um... How...?" Lee stammered.
"... How what?" Kakashi narrowed his only showing eye.
"You... I'm sorry Kakashi-senpai. I thought you were... Someone else. Naruto was a friend of mine..." Lee acted as well as he could though it didn't help as the memory of Naruto being killed so easily came flooding back.
"You... Lost your friend?" Kakashi looked down. Lee looked up in surprise, he nodded and swallowed his sadness.
Kakashi appeared at his side in lightning speed. Lee blinked when he felt a hand on his shoulder.
He looked behind him to see Kakashi, his height and looking sorry.
"I know how you feel." He nodded friendlily. "Don't dwell on it, my friend." He took his hand off his shoulder. "I'm sorry but I have to go and complete my mission." And with that he disappeared.
Lee fell to his knee's in disbelief. Kakashi's 16 again, Naruto's dead? He buried his head in his hands. What's happening? What on earth is happening?
OMG EVERYTHING'S HAPPENING SO FAST! :O (I'm kidding) So basically I decided that since I write all these stories on my iPod (there are gonna be a lot of typo's) that I'd just write ahead and stop being so slow. So I've written most of the story and I'm nearly finsihed actually XD But I'll still upload like this so I can annoy you awesome people who review and follow my story! I'll reply to you guys soon enough but you're awesome, m'kay? ^_/
