Hi people! Just to let you all know, I am not dead yet and neither am I giving up on writing this story! Just some time constraints especially with school and exams. I sincerely thank you people for the patient wait and would like to apologize for the delay! Sorry, this chapter may be a bit short…
Disclaimer: I do not owe Naruto or any of its character.
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(Chapter 8)
Kakashi swore revenge on Tsunade. He knew something was wrong when he saw the evil grin on her face back then. Just when he thought he could finally get out from the humiliation for being an academy student, another problem came. There he was, with his new teacher, Yoake-sensei, and his new teammate, Hyuuga Hanabi. Not much about both of them though, rather it was the supposedly new shinobi's skills that he was required to learn.
"Arashi, are you listening to me?" Yoake-sensei asked as 'Arashi' jerked his head towards her direction. Hanabi let out a small giggle. He was caught daydreaming for the fifth time during lesson that day.
"It's very impolite of you when someone here is speaking while your mind wanders somewhere else, Arashi. You're going to miss out on a lot of important points and note plus…" There was the lecture again.
Kakashi let out a sigh of relief when the naggings were finally over, it's not that he didn't want to listen to her anyway, it's was the boredom of the topic that was killing him. And that's when Kakashi started his evils thoughts, namely 'Operation Godaime's Revenge', and that's when the 'daydreaming' incidents started occurring. His attention was diverted once more when the voice of his teacher sounded out.
"I still don't understand why Tsunade put you in this department… I mean, it's not like you're THAT weak unless maybe I'm wrong… but you certainly doesn't look like you belong to the weak kind."
"I have totally no idea too…"
"Anyway, let's continue on the lesson…" Yoake-sensei returned to her blackboard as Hanabi furiously took down what she was writing on her scrolls.
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(At Tsunade's office)
Tsunade raised the sake cup towards her lips as she took a sip of the wondrous drink that she had been craving for a long time. Shizune had taken most of her bottles of sake but fortunately, Tsunade had foreseen this situation and smuggled in a batch of them unknown to her assistant. Her peace was soon disrupted when loud footsteps could be heard stomping its way along the corridor.
"TSUNADE-SAMA!"
"Yes, Arashi?" Tsunade smiled lazily as she took her sake bottle by the mouth and started swirling it. She knew this was going to happen sooner or later.
"Why?!"
"Why what?"
"You went and placed me under medic's training of all things?!"
"And your point being?"
"Stop acting, you know very well that I have absolute no talent at medic's stuffs!" Kakashi shouted out. It was true. Despite being a genius as he was, everyone is guaranteed to have their own weak points and it seemed that Kakashi's was concerning the medical department. "The last time I tried my medic skills resulted in the whole hospital running wild just because of that one patient I've treated!"
"That's why I'm putting you under the medic department, Arashi." The hokage put down the bottle of sake and looked at Kakashi. "If I put you in other department, you'll most likely to excel and get promoted too easily. That's when people may get suspicious and who knows, maybe some individuals may recognize your fighting style and you know what that means…"
Kakashi stopped and thought about her words. It did make sense after all, especially for people like Gai and Genma who would instantly knew his identity just by his style of fighting alone. They are not call friends for nothing mind you. Seeing that there was no other choice, Kakashi silently resigned to fate.
"I trust that you can do it, Arashi, you are genius and trivial matters like this shouldn't be an obstacle to you." The blonde tipped the sake bottle and poured more of its contents into her cup till it reached the last drop.
"I hope things will turn out good…" Kakashi ran his hand in his hair, "Anyway, Sakura-chan wants a new file plus documents for my physical checkups."
"Let me see… I remember those things are kept somewhere in that room…" Tsunade stood up and walked out of the office, "Wait here while I go get the required materials." Kakashi obliged without any protest.
(After ten minutes)
"Here." Tsunade came back with a thin file and passed it to Kakashi, "You may want to start your physicals today… it's going to save more trouble of hunting you down in the future."
"Hai." Kakashi nodded his head and scurried off to the door.
"One more thing, Arashi, if any of the medics demand to check the sharingan, just tell them that it is under the Hokage's command that they are not allowed to check on that eye." The door slammed shut just nice at the moment she finished her last word. She shook her head before opening her side drawer and retrieving another sake bottle.
"Geez… Is he really that anxious to have his physical? I thought he hated it all along…" Tsunade mumbled as she drank the previous cup of sake before refilling it with the new one.
The reason dawned on her when she drank the current sake in her cup.
"WATER?! WHY THAT LITTLE BRAT…!" Tsunade took out the bottles that she had been keeping all these while and took a sip out of each one of them. To her horror, the once sake had now been replaced by plain water. There was a shout followed by some swearing that was heard throughout the whole of Konoha that day. Of course Kakashi didn't miss that as he let out a chuckle to himself. 'Operation Godaime's Revenge' was claimed as a success.
Kakashi hummed a tune as he walked towards Team seven training grounds… the place where he could rest without anyone interrupting his train of thoughts. Of course, he was going to ditch the physical without a shadow of doubt. But well, things sometimes do not go as one wish. Before he could even reach a kilometer away from his destination, he was stopped by his ex-student aka Sakura.
"The Hokage demanded to have you take your physical now, Arashi-kun." Sakura said, "And she permits me to use force if you're not willing to follow orders."
Kakashi gulped. Her strength was not something to mess around with… considering how many broken bones Naruto had the last time he tried peeking at the hot springs. But there's no way he's going for the physical either. He was trapped either way.
"Ahaha… I'm afraid I can't make it for the physical… how about arranging some other days?" Unfortunately for him, Sakura's eyes did not waver. Not even a single bit.
Time for Plan B.
Kakashi did a few hand signs and in a flash, he disappeared in a puff of smokes. He had to resort to jutsus for now even though he knew he may risk the revelation of his identity.
"Run for all you like, Arashi… I'll be able to find you no matter where you are…" Sakura let out a grin and disappeared too.
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"Am I safe now?" Kakashi thought to himself as he peeked out of the tree he's currently hiding in. He had been sitting there for the past few minutes and nothing had happened to him… yet. He sighed in relief and leant back against the tree trunk. He's a jounin after all; it's going to take a whole day for someone like Sakura to catch him.
"Found. You." a voice came from behind him, giving him a startle. He turned around to see none other than Sakura. Without warning, a fist flew towards him in which he dodged it in time and the punch landed on the tree behind him instead. He leaped into the air and did another teleportation jutsu. Before he could finish his hand signs, Sakura reappeared in front of him and grabbed his arms, flinging him towards the ground. Kakashi did a back flip, landing gracefully on the ground. He didn't imagine Sakura would come rocketing down and crashed into him.
"There's nowhere for you to run, Arashi-kun." Sakura pinned him down. Her hands were restraining his arms from moving at both sides of his head as her knees dug into his thighs. Kakashi could only lie still, grimacing in pain.
"When did she even become that strong?"
"Pain, isn't it?" Sakura whispered into his ears, her breath sending chills down his spine. She dug her knees deeper, eliciting a groan from the victim.
"Did I mention how good-looking you are?" her hands went up to his cheeks as she began to stroke it gently. Poor Kakashi could feel his face heating up as he tried desperately not to make the blush obvious. Of course, it failed since her face was inching closer to his.
"Who are you?! And what are you doing to Arashi-kun?!" A second voice popped out. The copy-nin could feel her pulling away as he craned his neck to see whoever his savior was. Much to his shock and surprise, the person who saved him was… another Sakura?!
Kakashi stared blankly at the two identical kunoichi ahead of him.
"T-Two Sakuras?" He managed to stutter out after much attempt.
The first Sakura started laughing as the other two just looked at her quizzically. She did a hand sign and smokes enveloped her within a second. The Sakura who attacked Kakashi so mercilessly finally revealed her true identity… standing right there, was Tsunade.
"Tsunade-shinshou! What are you doing her?! Shouldn't you be in your office doing your paperwork?" Sakura gasped as the copy-nin could only looked with wide opened eyes.
"An eye for an eye, I'm going back now." Tsunade smirked at Kakashi who now finally get what was happening at the current moment, "Don't forget to give him his physical, Sakura-chan."
Kakashi caught the hateful word as he once more tried to escape from the scene. His hand froze on the following words that were said to Sakura.
"I'm allowing you to use force against Arashi-kun if he is unwilling to cooperate… but I'm sure Arashi wouldn't escape from physicals, would you?" she cast a triumph glance towards Kakashi who was now pouting slightly.
"I won't." He said between clenched teeth. Tsunade let out a final laugh as she 'poofed' away in a cloud of smokes. From this, Kakashi learnt to never play pranks with Tsunade…
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"Mmm… Pulse… normal. Blood pressure… normal. No abnormalities other than some old scars and unhealed wounds… now left with the eyes." Sakura mumbled to herself while taking down notes on a paper.
"Lay down on the bed, I'll be checking on your eyes." She ordered. Kakashi did as told and laid on the bed patiently. He hated every moment of this… why can't everyone see that he's perfectly fine? He's not some young kid that bruised himself everyday. Whatever it was, he just didn't like it any one bit.
"You'll have to take off your eye patch for this, Arashi-kun."
"Tsunade-sama allowed me to deny access to my covered eye if I don't want to." He simply announced it out loud. For a moment, he swore a flash of disappointment washed over Sakura's face but was taken over by a smile in an instant. It seemed that her curiosity over his eye was still prodding her ever since the incident that day.
"If that's the case, I'll be checking your uncovered eye now." It was shortly followed by her placing her hand over his eye as chakra flowed out in thin threads.
Sakura allowed her chakra to flow through Kakashi's eyes as she tried to concentrate on every minute detail that she could picked up. Her free hand never seemed to be at rest as it continued to scribble down words on the piece of paper. Meanwhile, Kakashi tried his best to stay obedient and not ripped the hand out from whoever is sending the foreign chakra into his systems.
"Retina's okay… Iris's okay…" The medic's eyebrows furrowed when she sensed something more. It was familiar but she could not pinpoint out what it was. "The weird chakra signals… it's as if I'm treating Sasuke…only that Arashi's one isn't that strong…"
Dying to unveil the truth, Sakura sent her chakra towards the source but was violently repelled by an unknown force. The impact was so great that it caused her to recoil in pain as she grabbed her wrist, still trying to comprehend what had just transpired. Kakashi did not miss that as he sat up and look over to her with concern-filled eye.
"Are you okay, Sakura-chan?"
"I-I think s-so… a little tired I guess." She finally let go of her wrist when it was not hurting anymore, "That's all for now."
Kakashi was euphoric when he heard the last few words. Without even bidding goodbye, he dashed out of the room and of course, the hospital. His hatred towards the building was way beyond describable.
Back in the room, Sakura slumped down on her chair as she ran her fingers through pink locks. Although the pain was gone, her hands were still feeling tingly from the aftereffects. She heaved a sigh of despair, racking her brain for the logical explanation of the event.
"It's definitely not from Arashi himself since he had no idea on what had happened and definitely not my imagination. If that's the case then what is it?! It felt like his body had it's own mind or something… And those weird chakra signals…"
"S-Sakura-chan?" A timid voice came from behind her. Sakura swirled herself to see Hinata coming into the room, "A-aren't you going home?"
"Just some things to ponder about… you can go back first if you wan- …" Before she could finish her words, an idea struck her as she immediately turned her focus towards Hinata. Sakura's eyes were gleaming with excitement as a plot hatched in her mind.
"Hinata-chan, can you do me a favor?!"
"S-sure…"
That was all she needed before she pulled the Hyuuga closer and whispered her plans to her. Hinata occasionally nodded her head as she hears what Sakura had to say. It took quite a while, but nevertheless, the discussion ended and they walked in different directions towards their house. Both could hardly wait for tomorrow to come…
"This is definitely going to solve all the hidden mysteries under Arashi-kun!"
TBC
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