Answer to Nickule; 'I love cliff hangers too! That why I sometime end the Chapters with a cliff hangers... But I don't know if I succeeded this time... *lol*. hehe... I was quite excited to began with this chapter (so I only began with half of the Doujinshi, god what I have anxieties over that...). Anyway, will probably put Chapter 20 out sooner then this one. Until next time, Take Care! ^-^'

Answer to TeamTHEFT; 'Glad you liked it! ^-^ I know it is a bit late, but I will put Chapter 20 out a bit faster as a compensation... Until then, Take Care!'

( Disclaimer: I Don't own NARUTO! They belong to His Highness Masashi Kishimoto! )

Chapter Nineteen - Two Is Better Then One

"Am I not right, Hatake Kakashi...?!"

`No... NoNoNO...! Baka Sensei!´

Sakura glanced at the silver haired man with shock and terror in her emerald eyes. This was not happening. He couldn't been caught. Not him.

"Are you sure Shinkou-Sama...? Because this man is Hitohira-Himes brother..." a black haired man (beside a naked red haired woman) said.

"Of cours I'm! Do you question me, Neikan...?!" Shinkou growled.

"N-No... O-Of cours not..." Neikan said and glanced at the woman beside him.

"Good... Well, we can only be sure it is him, if we take off his eyepatch..." Shinkou said with a smirk. "However... Is he your brother, slut...?!"

Sakura winced by Shinkous cold voice and looked towards the kneeling silver haired man, whos eye already told her what to do.

`Forgive me, Sensei...´

"No, he is not my brother... I met him on my way her to this village. He asked me to play his younger sister. I didn't ask why..." Sakura told them. "I just wanted to do im a favour, because he saved my life..."

Shinkou looked pleased and turned his gaze back to the silver haired man in front of him.

The silver haired man looked at Sakura. He wanted to tell her how proud he was over her and tell her that she was the greatest Kunoichi he ever had met. But he would save her and take both out of this place. After all he was that famous; Hatake Kakashi.

`I will get us out of here... Just hold on a little bit more...´

Kakashi locked his dark grey orb with Sakuras beautiful emerald eyes, that showed tears of regret. It didn't suit her and Kakashi was determinate to stop her tears.

So he did what he always had done. He crinkled his eye at her, in away of telling her to not worry and that everything would be just fine.

Sakura blinked away a invisible tear and saw how Kakashi eye crinkled. He had always done that to them in her days as Genin. To tell them to not worry and everything would be okay.

`Not to worry?! How can be be so calm, when he is about to get killed!´

Shinkou was a bit surprised. The man in front of him had constantly stared at that slut. Even in a way that Shinkou recognized as a look of pure affection and even a bit of lust. Why this man looked at her in that way, he didn't knew.

Shinkou let go of Kakashis mess of silver hair quite forcingly and began to reach out for the eyepatch.

Sakura was about to open her mouth to say something, but Kakashi shook his head slightly. She closed her mouth and watched how Shinkou ripped of the eyepatch from Kakashi left eye.

Shinkou looked down to Kakashi and he was shocked. The orb that met his was not what Shinkou had expected. Instead of the blood-red Sharingan, his gaze met two identical dark grey eyes.

"Wha-What's the meaning of this!" Shinkou growled.

"I-I don't know Shinkou-Sama..." Kyouaku piped beside the door.

Even Sakura was surprised at this.

`He must have put a Hengen on himself...´

Kakashi smirked up to Shinkou behind his mask.

"Well, just so you know... You have been fooled..." Kakashis calm voice said and he disappeared with a 'poof'.

"A-A Bunshin!" Neikan said surprised and Sakura hid her smirk.

`That old dog... Got me scared for nothing...´

Screams could then be heard out in the hall and suddenly a big water drageon crashed in to the room, causing panic and chaos.

Kyouaku fleed in to the room, but got carried away by the water dragon who shortly after disappeared.

It was at this moment Sakura saw her chance. She used her brutal force to free herself from the ropes and turned around to Neikan who looked shocked down at her.

"Yo-You!" he stuttered like he suddenly remembered her.

"Take this, bitch! Shannaro!" Sakura yelled and her Chakra covered fist met Neikans stomach, making him flew in to the opposite wall with a loud crack.

Shinkou glanced at Sakura, who charge at him with her Chakra covered fist. He jumped away from her and looked down at her with narrow eyes.

"You..." he growled.

"Are you surprised?" Sakura said with a smirk on her lips. It felt good to be back as the Sakura who would kick everyones ass if they messed with her. "That I got you wrapped around my little finger, so easly..."

She couldn't tell if Shinkou looked surprised or just really pissed. But maybe he was both.

Suddenly the silver haired Jounin jumped down beside Sakura and he looked down at her.

"MaaMaa* Sakura, I think you should dress yourself..." the Jounin said and took up the dressing gown from the floor and gave it to Sakura. "It's never wrong to have some clothes on when you are in a battle. Even if it's just a dressing gown..."

Sakura snorted at him and swept the dressing gown on her, with a light flick with her hand and tied the band around her waist.

"Well, I thought Konohas Biggest perv liked naked womans who is about to battle..." Sakura smirked at him. "Or have you lost your perv sense, Kakashi...?"

Kakashi glanced at her and a smile tugged on his mask covered lips.

"You know... I think I'm starting to like you..." Kakashi said and Sakura blushed and looked away annoyed.

"Don't try anything, perv..." Sakura told him when he pressed his back at hers. She could tell that he was smirking at her.

`That perv...´

"Well Well... Such strength... You remind me of that old hag..." Shinkou suddenly said. "Tsunade The Slug-Princess... Are you that sluts child? Well, that would be fitting if you were, you are one too..."

Sakura glared murderous at Shinkou.

He could insult her how much he wanted, but insulting her beloved Shichou, was unforgivable.

"None... None insult Tsunade-Sama in front of me!" Sakura roared and began to charge at Shinkou who watched with an amusing smirk on his lips.

"Don't..." Kakashi suddenly said and he was in front of her, holding his arm out to stop her. "You will only dig your own grave if you just charge blindly..."

Sakura looked at her Senseis back. Had she just done something that only Naruto would done.

"Gomen..." she mumbled and Kakashi took out a Kunai from his waist pouch.

"Apologize later... We have a Ninja to kill..." Kakashi said and steadied the Kunai in his grip. "Ready...?"

Sakura nodded and clenched her fist.

"I will kill both of you!" Shinkou growled. "Suiton: Ja no Kuchi!*"

A spinning column of water appeared and it formed in to a snake with gaping mouth. Kakashi glanced at the water snake that came towards them.

"Hold on to me, Sakura and don't let go!" Kakashi told her and she gripped the back of his jacket. "Doton:Doryuu Heki!*"

A big wall came up from the floor and the water snake crashed in to it, making the water flush at their feets and drift away.

"Grip my waist!" Kakashi said to Sakura who looked up to him.

"Wha-!"

"Just do it!" he felt how she flung her arms around his waist tightly and he pulled her closer to him. He glanced at the water that had began to reform to that snake and it was about to attack again.

Kakashi jumped with Sakura (who held a hard grip around his waist) and they landed on the other side of the wall Kakashi had made. The snake crashed in to it once more.

Kakashi panted slightly and looked down to Sakura who still held his waist like she would die if she let go. He saw how the water ebbing away and he sighed.

He knew that Shinkou wouldn't try to do that Jutsu again, due to the Chakra consume (just keeping the water flow and then performing that snake took a lot of Chakra and if it missed it was just waste of Chakra).

Kakashi let go of Sakura (who too released her grip) and began to think of his next move. He needed to end this fast and he didn't want to use his Sharingan to much or use the Mangekyou.

"Suiton: Chichuu Kachuu!*"

Kakashi felt an enormous trembling beneath their feets and he jumped away, just in time to see the floor gave in and a big underground whirlpool appeared.

"Sakura?!" Kakashi looked around and saw to his horror, that Sakura was being dragged down by the whirlpool. "Hold on Sakura!"

Kakashi run to the edge of the hole and reach out his hand to her, but the water was to slippery on her hand so she couldn't grab his hand.

"Kuso!*" he growled and looked at the struggling Sakura. She looked like she was about to give up. "Doton: Sekichuu!*"

Sakura tried to swim against the torrents, but it was no use. It was to strong, even for her. Suddenly her back hit something hard and she glanced back to see what she had been running into. It was a stone pillar. It had stopped her from being sucked down and she could see more stone pillars came out, both above and beneath her. In the end it was enough stone pillars to make the whirlpool less effective, until it disappeared.

Sakura climbed one the 'stairway' made of stone pillar, until she came up from the hole and stood on all fours.

"Are you okay...?" Kakashi asked her and laid a hand on the wet, panting and coughing Kunoichi on the floor. She nodded. "Thank god..."

Kakashi leaned in to her and hugged her tightly.

"Eh Sensei... I-I don't think this is the right time for a reunion hug..." Sakura said blushing.

"Ah, Warui*..." he bumbled and let her go.

Sakura glared at Shinkou, who smirked down to them.

"You... I will kill you!" Sakura growled and raised up and Kakashi grabbed her arm.

"Calm down, Sakura... Didn't I tell you to not dig your own grave..." Kakashi said to her. "Don't start to act like Naruto..."

"Well it's not like I will go Kyuubi or something like that..." she told him.

"I know that... But being unreasonable will only get us both killed..." Kakashi told her with a firm voice. "So please, calm down and listen to me..."

Sakura looked at him and she felled back to his side.

Since when had she began to be like Naruto?

"Pathetic whore... Didn't you want to kill me, slut?!" Shinkou yelled. "Or do your whore to boyfriend think you are to weak?!"

Sakura snapped. He was so going to die.

"Don't you dare insult him in front of me!" Sakura growled and clenched her fist. "He is more man then you ever going to be!"

Kakashi looked at her with big eyes.

`Did she just... Did she just compliment me?´

Kakashi knew that Sakura always had been loyal to her friends. But he did never thought that she would 'defend' him like that. He was a bit moved.

"Kakashi-Sensei... Can I get your permission to kill him now...?" Sakura said, almost in a way that sounded like Naruto.

He looked at her. He didn't want her to fight Shinkou, because he was much more experienced with Ninjutsu then she was. Sakura only had her inhuman strength and Taijutsu to rely on, that wasn't enough to take him down. But in the same time he wanted to prove Shinkou wrong. That Sakura was strong.

"What are you waiting for...?" Kakashi said to her and Sakura forced some Chakra to her fist. "You shouldn't be so cocky... Shinkou..."

"Shouldn't I...?" Shinkou smirked and lifted his finger and pointed it towards Sakura who was on her way towards him.

A loud snap and then a thud could be heard and a womans cry in pain echoed in the room.

"SAKURA!" Kakashi called and took one step forward.

"One move and I will kill her..." Shinkou said with an amusing smirk on his lips.

Kakashi stopped. What was Shinkou up to? And how had Sakura got her leg broken?

Sakura tried to move, but nothing happened.

"...Hurts..." she moaned in pain and Kakashi looked at her helpless.

"She can't heal herself, if that was she is up to..." Shinkou said and he was amused to see Sakura in pain.

"What... What have you done to her...?!" Kakashi looked down to Sakura.

"Well, she is mine after all... So I do what ever I want with her..." Shinkou said.

Kakashi looked from Sakura to Shinkou.

`The seal...!´

"Let her go... If you want to kill someone, then kill me! My life is worth nothing..." Kakashi said and let his arms hang down, surrendered at each side of his body. "Just don't harm her..."

"Se-Sensei... Are you... Stupid...?!" Sakura groned in pain. "Just... Just kill him..."

Kakashi glanced at Sakura, who had putted her palms to the floor to support herself.

"Don't you fucking dare to throw your life away..." Sakura growled between the pain.

"Sa-Sakura..." Kakashi looked at her. She was so like Godaime in so many ways it was scary. She wouldn't give up. Not in this life time and not even in the next.

Kakashi smiled down at her and dropped the Kunai to the floor.

"See you in the next world... Sakura..." Kakashi said with a smile and Shinkou charged at him.

Shinkou pushed his Kunai in to Kakashis chest, making Shinkous hand and the floor bloody.

"NO!" Sakura yelled and watched how Kakashi with a expressionless face, fell to the floor with a thud.

He couldn't be. He couldn't be dead. She wouldn't accept that.

`He... He died to protect... me...!´

Shinkous laugh sounded in the room. An evil laugh that gave Sakura a cold shiver down her spine.

"I-I will kill you..." she growled and looked at Shinkou, who turned a careless look at her.

"You? Kill me?" he said with a smirk. "You must be joking..."

Sakura pushed herself to stand up and her legs wobbled under her, due to the broken leg.

"Just die already..." Shinkou glared at Sakura, who suddenly began to cough up blood.

"Wha-What are you doing to me...?" Sakura panted and cought up more blood.

"Well, as a medicnin you should know..." Shinkou told her. "I'm destroying your body and I have began with your organs..."

Sakura looked at him in horror. Was he even able to do such a thing without even touch her?

"And know you wonder how I could do this to you..." Shinkou said and saw how Sakura fell to her knees still coughting up blood. "That seal you have on your arm is how I do it... It's my own Jutsu and it works like a poison, even if it require Chakra... That mean I can kill you even without touching you directly, killing you slower or faster..."

Sakura panted heavily. She could tell that her body wanted to give up, but her will to live was the only thing that still was strong.

She fell flat to her stomach and the light was almost disappearing from her eyes.

`Am I about to die...? It feels like that... I am sorry... That I couldn't be with you a bit longer, Naruto... Kakashi-Sensei...´

Shinkou looked down to the red haired Kunoichi, whose life almost was to an end.

"Tsk... Such a waste..." he mumbled with a smirk. He turned around to look at the silver haired Jounin on the floor. "Humph... I can't believe that the famous Hatake Kakashi would fall so fast..."

"And he didn't..." a voice said behind Shinkou and Shinkou could feel the cold steel from a Kunai at his throat.

The Kakashi on the floor vanish with a poof and instead a log appeared.

"A-A Kawarimi..." Shinkou said in surprised.

"Aaa... What kind of Ninja doesn't check their prey after it gets killed..." Kakashis harsh, but yet calm voice said and a sound like electricity could be heard. "Your mistake is what will kill you..."

"Heh... Guess I underestimate you..." Shinkou mumbled and Kakashi raised his lightning covered hand.

"Raikiri!" Kakashi forced his hand into Shinkous chest and Kakashi could hear the ribs brake and the blood splatter down to the floor. "That was for Sakura, you son of a bitch..."

He dragged his hand out of Shinkous chest and watch him feel to the floor with a thud. Kakashi glanced at Shinkou with disgust and then he closed his Sharingan eye and turned his face towards Sakuras body on the floor.

Kakashi limped towards her and kneeled beside her. She was just a mess. Her dyed red hair was covered with her own blood and it was still damp. Her eyes was shut, her lips was partly open and her face was pale, more pale then usually.

"Chikishou!*" Kakashi burst out and slammed both his fist to the floor, making the stone floor to crack just a little. Kakashi wasn't the man who cried and would never do so, but today he couldn't held back those warm and salty tears that escaped his eyes and sliding down his cheeks.

Why was it always like this? Why couldn't he have those he cared for close to him, without fearing for their lifs. Obito had been the first one to get killed because of Kakashis own stupidity and stubbornness. Then Rin along with Minato-Sensei and now, his beloved Sakura.

"I'm sorry... so sorry..." he mumbled and laid his face against her chest to hid his tears.

It was then he felt it. It was faint, but he could still feel it. A soft throb from a weakening heart.

Author note:

Bad guy dead, an emotional Kakashi and a half dead Sakura.... This is what I will left you with, for this time... :)

It may contain some spelling errors...

And some notes;

When I writes the text 'like this' it means that the person in question is thinking. When I writes like thisthe person emphasis just that word and when I writes like this that means flashbacks.

Mini Japanese dictionary and Jutsus (this time);

MaaMaa* = My,my

Warui* = Sorry

Chikishou!* = Damn it!

Kuso!* = Shit!

Suiton: Ja no Kuchi!* = Water Release: Snake's Mouth

Doton:Doryuu Heki!* = Earth Release: Earth Style Wall

Suiton: Chichuu Kachuu!* = Water Release: Underground Whirlpool (Note: This Jutsu is something I came up with. Because I couldn't find something similar to what I wanted)

Doton: Sekichuu!* = Earth Release: Stone Pillars (Note: Also a Jutsu I came up with. I just wanted some damn stone pillars, no spears that could be deadly)

This is the second time I try to write this Chapter (the first one my PC crashed and I who was so happy with the first one T~T), anyway I hope that you will enjoy this Chapter.

Do still feel free to ask me if something is bothering you.

And thank you all for your reviews! I also want to thank everyone els who read this and fav it! Thank you! ^-^

Take care!

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