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Chapter Twenty Seven – Kill This Love
Six years ago-
Kakashi had rushed back to Konoha as fast as he had gotten the news.
Apparently a group of white Zetsu' had attacked a civilian district as well as the newly rebuilt hospital, causing minimal damage to the buildings, but causing more damage among Konoha's people.
There were some casualties and some people needed to be hospitalized due to serious injuries.
One of these people was his destination as he entered the hospital.
"I'm looking for Haruno-san," he said to the young woman behind the reception desk and she looked up to him and then down into the clip board in front of her.
"Haruno- san... Haruno-san... Ah, she is in the red ward, room 4," the young woman said after having flipped trough the papers on the clip board. "That's on the third floor and the west wing, the intensive care ward. If you have brought flowers then you have to leave-..."
"I didn't bring any flowers. I'm here on business," Kakashi told her and she began to blush.
"Of-of course. Just walk through dose doors and then the elevator to the left."
"Thank you," Kakashi said and continued his walk towards his destination.
He finally arrived outside of room 4 in the red ward and he felt how his throat began to grow thick.
He didn't know how bad things was and the paper he had gotten didn't mention anything about it either.
But standing here at the intensive care ward, made him think of the worst possible thing that could have happened. He just hopped that he was wrong about it.
Opening the door to room 4, he stopped in the doorway when he saw the person in the bed was hooked up to various machines.
Feeling how his hands began to shake slightly, what he believed was due to what they had done to her, but he gathered his courage and walked forward to her, closing the door behind him.
Sitting down on the chair beside of the bed, he saw how she moved her head towards him, her normally lively eyes had lost all of its shine and the dullness of them told him more then he needed to know.
"I didn't think that you would come," she finally said and Kakashi's eyes softened.
"I'm not as cold-hearted as many thinks I am," he told her, bringing a small smile to her broken lips.
"You may be many things, but cold-hearted is not one of them, Hatake-san. That's what I believe at least," she said, her voice raspy as she spoke and Kakashi saw with grief why.
Following a tube from her throat with his gaze, he saw how it stopped at a machine that he was far to known with.
A respirator.
He felt how his heart clenched slightly and he looked down to his hands that was laying helplessly in his lap.
Feeling how she took his hand in hers, he looked up to her and met her blue eyes.
"Haruno-san, I-!"
"What have I told you about that. Misora, is fine," she told him. "I think we have know each other long enough, don't you think?."
"I'm sorry..."
"Don't apologize," Misora said and looked away from him. "I hope you did what I told you to do."
"I did, even if I fail to see for what reason. Your note was very short after all," Kakashi said, watching her gazing up to the ceiling. "But now I can see the reason to why, even if I think she should be here instead of me."
"Sakura is needed out in the front there she can make a different. She shouldn't be here watching her own mother fade away," Misora told Kakashi with her raspy voice.
Kakashi was about to open his mouth, but Misora was faster.
"The only thing that is keeping me alive is that machine and even if I know that Sakura is a very capable medicnin, Sakura could fail and I know that she would never forgive herself it that would happen," Misora told him. "Just like she blamed herself with that Uchiha boy..."
Kakashi felt a stab in his gut and it was not only guilt. It was something else that he couldn't put his finger on yet, but it had started around the time after Sakura had gotten attacked by this Uchiha boy she held so dear.
"If there is anyone to blame, that should be me," Kakashi finally said. "I should have done more then I did back then. Then things would have been different now."
"Maybe or maybe not. No one can know what difference it would have made if you had change what you did," Misora told him and Kakashi looked at her. "If it hadn't been for that, Sakura or Naruto wouldn't be those persons they are right now and neither would you."
A sudden silence hit the room and Kakashi felt that he wanted to leave this room as fast as he could.
For some reason, he had never been able to have a "normal" conversation with Sakura's mother and what Sakura believed was due to her mothers obnoxious way of always asking him about Sakura's training, was not true.
Well, maybe a little, but it was mostly because Sakura's mother always had been able to read him like a open book and that was what had scared him the most every time they had seen each other.
And that scared him even now.
"Honestly I'm quite happy that things turned out the way they did," Misora suddenly said and made Kakashi look at her questioningly.
"I'm sorry, but I don't quite get you," Kakashi said and Misora smiled weakly to him.
"As any mother you want your children to be safe and have a happy life with who ever they choose, but Sakura as any other girl her age, always looked at the dark, handsome and mysterious boy," Misora continued and Kakashi began to rise his eyebrow to what she told him, even if he understood who and what Misora meant, he still couldn't understand why she told him this.
Something he already knew about, but he noticed the bitterness in her voice.
"We will bring Sasuke back and I know that Sakura will be glad to have him back. She loves him deeply after all," Kakashi told Misora and it was hard to keep away the grimness in his voice.
"Is that what you are telling yourself," Misora told him, making Kakashi to raise his eyebrows even more. "Sakura is not a little girl stuck in her childhood fantasies anymore. She is a grown up woman and she knows what needs to be done, even if that means killing someone she cares for."
Kakashi glanced down to the woman in the bed and she looked suddenly so much older then she had done before and suddenly it struck him.
"You don't approve that Sakura has an interested in Sasuke," Kakashi suddenly said and Misora looked surprised at him.
"I don't," she finally said with a sight. "I wished that she could have liked someone else that was less dark and could give her the love she deserve. Maybe someone like you..."
Kakashi looked shocked down to Misora and she gave him a yet again a small smile.
"Wa-What do you mean?"
"Well, you have been there for my daughter even when you didn't have to and I'm not only talking about the time after Sasuke attacked her," Misora told him and Kakashi felt how he wanted to pull away from this conversation, but he didn't know how.
But it was her last words that felt like he had been hit in his head by his own raikiri.
"Oh, stop pretending you don't know what I'm talking about. You obviously like my daughter more then you are willing to admit."
Yet again the room become quiet and Kakashi felt how the air had somehow become a bit thicker.
Bending his head down to look at his hands that was hanging between his legs, he sighted with resignation.
"What if-... What if I told you that I do like your daughter a bit more then I should do. I mean, I'm her captain, I shouldn't feel that why for her. It's not natural."
"You can't help who you fell in love with," Misora said kindly and smiled softly at Kakashi who was about to have a break down.
"It's not love!" Kakashi told her stonily. "It can't- It can't be love..."
"What ever it is, you can't deny that you actually are feeling something for her," Misora told him calmly.
"And you are okay whit that? You are okay whit someone like me have an affection for your daughter?" Kakashi asked Misora who looked up to him.
Sighing she looked towards the window that showed nothing more then grey sky's and even if it was the end of July, those grey clouds was bringing in a bitter coldness that only she could feel and she guess the man beside of her could feel it too.
"My daughter need someone who will show her affection and kindness, she doesn't need a boy who have lost his way in life," Misora told him. "If you are willing to give my daughter dose things, I don't see a reason to why I should deny your feelings for her. But in the end it's Sakura's chose and we can't tell her what she should do."
Misora suddenly began to cough and the machines began to peep slightly, but calm down the same time Misora did.
"Should I fetch someone?" Kakashi asked concerned, but she shook her head in a negative.
Sitting yet again in silence, Kakashi watch Misora looking out through the window, observing the grey clouds that foretold that a storm would be on its way.
"You understand that I have to send them away to find him," Kakashi suddenly said and this made Misora to look at him with a frown.
"What will you do when or if you find him?" Misora asked Kakashi, who turned his gaze away from her.
"We will take him to Konoha and hopefully Naruto will make him see the right path," Kakashi told her, but Misora could hear the doubt in his voice.
"Both of us know it's not how it's going to end and so does Naruto," she said.
Kakashi couldn't ignore the respect he felt for Sakura's mother, she was as perspective as Sakura if not more and that was a reason to why he didn't have to go into details with everything, but in the same time he also feared it.
"You can't let Sakura go with them," Misora finally said and Kakashi looked back to her.
"Sakura is a part of team 7, she would go rampaged if we didn't let her go with them," Kakashi told Misora who looked firmly at him, even if she looked tired while doing so.
"I don't care if she go rampaged and destroying the village in the process! You can't let Sakura go with them!" Misora had began to half rise in the bed, eyes ablaze, her voice hoarse and cracked as she lashed out at him.
While shocked, Kakashi tried gently to push Misora back in the bed, hearing how she began to cough violently and the machines began to yet again to give away a more frequently peeping sound.
"Misora-san, please calm down!"
"You can't let her go! If she goes-, she won't comeback..." Misora said between the fits of coughing. "You know that, don't you. She will die protecting him-!"
She cough more violently than before and Kakashi looked alarmed down to the white blanket that was spotted with red, as he tried his hardest to calm Sakura's mother down.
"You have to calm down!" he said more firmly and was meet by more coughing and blood that splattered his silver tresses and face.
"She is my only child-... Please-..."
The frequently peeping sound ceased and was replaced with a flatline, a sound that always had giving him a cold shiver down his spine and this time it was no difference.
"Nurse!" Kakakshi called as he pushed the alarm button, trying his hardest to bring life into Sakura's mother. "God damn it! Someone please!"
In what felt like hours, but it had only gone seconds, nurses and doctors rushed into the room, pushing Kakashi out of the way and stood bent over Misora's lifeless body.
"Someone take Hokage-sama outside!" a doctor called from the bedside and suddenly an older nurse appeared beside of Kakashi.
"Please, this way Hokage-sama," she said and Kakashi, still in shock, followed her quietly out of the room and than the door was closed behind him.
He hated to wait like this and in the same time he knew he would just be in the way if he stayed, so he waited and waited what could have been hours, but was certainly less.
As he stood leaning against the wall outside of the room, arms crossed over his chest, he heard how the door finally opened and a doctor emerged slowly.
The doctor's white coat was covered in blood and his stony face expression didn't even change as he approached Kakashi's side.
"Don't think me as rude for asking this, Hokage-sama, but what connection do you have to Haruno-san?" the doctor asked.
"Why dose that matter?" Kakashi asked.
"It all depends of your answer, Hokage-sama..."
"In that case, I'm a very close friend to the family, especially to Haruno-san' daughter," Kakashi told the doctor.
"I see."
Feeling a bit impatient, Kakashi glanced down to the doctor's name tag.
"I see what you are getting at, Kimura-san, but what of Haruno-san. Will she be fine?" Kakashi finally asked.
Kimura suddenly looked a bit more sober and Kakashi didn't like the way Kimura's posture suddenly had changed.
"I see no reason to drag this out any longer, then I already have," Kimura said. "Haruno-san's injuries was very sever when she came to us. She had damaged to her lower spine, crushed beyond repair I should probably say, making her unable to move her lower body.
"She also had a numerous of other fractures, most of them was centred around her chest, puncturing both of her lungs and causing a massive internal haemorrhage. She was very lucky to be still alive even after that. We did what we could to fix the bleeding and the fractures, but..."
"But what?" Kakashi asked, his impatient shining through.
"You have to understand that she had all the odd against her from the beginning, it's a miracle that we could save her, but miracles only happen once.
"We did all we could for her, but she had ripped up new as well as old wounds. We couldn't stop the internal bleeding in time..."
"So she is..."
"She has passed away, Hokage-sama, I'm sorry," was Kimura's finally words and it was those words that had made Kakashi to lose his breath, like he had been punched in the guts.
"If you excuse me," Kakashi finally mumbled and like a thick fog in front of him, he fumbled forwards until he came out of the hospital.
The rain had started to pour down on him and he pushed his palms to his face, like he was trying to hide away from the shame and guilt he felt.
He, himself had killed her.
A presence behind him, brought him back from his stupor.
"Hokage-sama?" the voice said behind him and Kakashi turned around to see the boar mask of an ANBU. "We have some proof that he was behind some of the attacks in the village. What's your order, Hokage-sama?"
Looking away from the ANBU and up into the rainy sky, he closed his hands into fists.
He couldn't wait any longer.
"Bring them back to Konoha..."
~oOo~
How cliché it may have been, it seemed to always rain on days like these, Sakura thought as she placed a bouquet of double petal cream-pink peonies on her mothers grave.
It was her mothers favourite flowers and Sakura had walked through her mothers garden picking the last standing flowers that gave away a pleasant smell and still did.
Sakura remembered that Ino had gone through a lot of troubles just to get the flowers to Konoha in one piece and Sakura herself had paid with what she had left in her wallet, but it had been worth it. It had brought a smile into her mothers face and less talk about the war that hadn't started yet.
Something Sakura had been very thankful off, but it had only lasted for a while, until Kakashi had come along with Nara Shikaku to tell her about her dispatch order.
Felling suddenly a gentle, but strong hand on her shoulder, she gazed around to see it belonged to the silver haired man who had come with the heartbreaking words to her.
She hadn't believed him at first, but when it finally had sunk in she had cried into his chest and he had stayed by her side, even after her tears had dried up and all that was left was a wet patch on his chunin vest.
But he hadn't said a word about it, even how embarrassed she had been about it and he had just continued to stay by her side like a comforter until she had told him that she was fine.
But she wasn't and she guessed Kakashi had felt it, but he hadn't began to argue about it and had just left after telling her that he would be around if there was anything she needed.
She was really grateful to have him in her life as a friend and she hoped it would stay like that as long as she lived.
"Sakura," she heard him say, his voice deep, but soft as he spoke.
"Let's go," she told him, looked up at him and then towards the seven other who stood behind her on her day of grieving.
Naruto, Sai and Yamato had followed with her back to Konoha on Kakashi's command, but she knew they would have followed her even if they hadn't been ordered so.
And then it was Ino, Hinata, as well as Kurenai and her son Aisoku.
Ino had been the one to force her way to go back with them and Sakura had been thankful that she had, even if Sakura had said that she didn't have to come.
Hinata had followed with them as well. She had been called back to Konoha by her clan due to businesses with them, but Hinata had felt that Sakura needed all the support she could get, thus her clan had to wait.
The most surprising one had been Kurenai and her son. Sakura hadn't expect them to be there and show their support, even if Aisoku was too small to understand, but never the less she was grateful to have them there.
It had warmed her heart to see all of them with her, as her mothers funeral had proceeded on in the cold summer rain that fell on them.
As Sakura walked passed Kakashi she suddenly stopped and furrowed her brows together.
"What are you doing here?" Sakura suddenly snapped and eight heads turned in Sakura's direction.
An elderly woman in a black silk kimono walked towards them and it was easy to see that she was among the higher up in the society.
Her silver grey hair was pulled tightly into a bun on top of her head and she had a stern look up on her face.
Sakura then glanced to a younger woman who was holding an umbrella over the older lady's head and Sakura looked with diastase as they advanced towards them.
"For the same reason as you," the older lady told Sakura and she looked disproving towards the group behind of Sakura. "And I fail to see the reason to why does people behind you are here..."
"They have more reason to be here then you have," Sakura growled.
"I don't see how that can be? At least I'm of the same flesh and blood as your mother. That give me more reasons in my eyes," the older lady said coldly and Sakura could see in the corner of her eye how Naruto was about to open his mouth, but was stopped by Yamato.
"The same flesh and blood you abandoned!" Sakura retorted with a growl.
"My only child and heiress to the family business, well your mother, choose to abandon her duty and run of with someone of less "value" and then he left her when she was pregnant with you," the old lady told Sakura sharply. "And I can't say that I didn't warn her about this, but as they say love makes you into a fool..."
Gritting her teeth's, Sakura glared murderous at her own grandmother and felt how her eyes began to sting.
"Ten years have past since last time I saw you and you haven't changed at all," Sakura told her, as the elderly lady walked past her. "You are still as cold as ever..."
"As cold as ever, you say? And here I was about to offer you a place in the Haruno clan as the next successor out of kindness, after all, you are a Haruno," Sakura's grandmother told Sakura, who was still glaring daggers at the old lady as she walked by. "But then of course you need to stop your life as a ninja, that's just how it works."
"Then your offer doesn't interest me," Sakura told her and turned her head around to look at her grandmother, who had stopped in her track and turned slightly towards Sakura.
"That was sad to hear, but we don't need people like you in our clan anyway," she told Sakura and turned away from her. "Goodbye..."
Sakura watched how her grandmother continued down towards her mothers grave, but stopped suddenly when she had walked past Kakashi and looked up at him with a stunned expression on her face, but it was gone as fast as it had come and was then replaced with a scornful look.
"Watch your tongue, whelp," Sakura's grandmother hissed low at Kakashi. "Your father should had at least learned you some manners before he so disgracefully past away..."
And with that she had turned around to continue her walk towards Sakura's mothers grave and Sakura began to wonder what Kakashi had told her grandmother that apparently had upset her pretty much.
XxX
Kakashi who still stood behind Sakura, watch as the old lady in front of them was pouring her many years of dislike of Sakura's father on Sakura herself, who of course didn't know the real reason to why, and her mother Misora had kept it like that.
Kakashi was probably the only one yet alive who knew of Sakura's real father and had met him when Kakashi still was very young in ANBU.
And Kakashi remembered Sakura's father as slightly strict and even if he had a smile that everyone said was the smile of the devil himself, Kudo Ryuunosuke was a very kind man who always was looking out for the new ones in the ANBU corps.
Even if Sakura had gotten her mothers hair colour and eye shape, the rest was from her father, the fair skin along with those penetrating emerald orbs.
Kakashi remembered clearly how terrified he had been the first time he had met the man who had a hunted look on his yet youthful looking face and how his dark purple hair had framed his face in such away that made his emerald eyes to almost glow in its sockets.
He could understand why Sakura's grandmother had loathed that man from the beginning Misora had laid her eyes up on him that stormy night 21 years ago.
And Kakashi still recalled Haruno Wami's words to Yondaime shortly after, that he should keep his sort of folks in check and force them to keep their pants on while on mission, because it was not suitable for a young lady to be engaging in such outrageous behaviour with a mere servant.
All Yondaime could do had been to apologize, because he knew that the old Haruno clan was important to Konoha, due to Haruno's silk industry and when Wami had left, Minato had turned to Ryuunosuke and asked him if he was serious about the young Haruno heiress and if he understood that their "outrageous behaviour" had to be kept away from the public eye.
When he said that he was and that he understood, Minato had smiled and told him to be careful and take good care of the girl.
Because that's what Misora still was, just a girl, compare to the 11 year older man she had fall in love with.
"Then your offer doesn't interest me..."
"That was sad to hear, but we don't need people like you in our clan anyway. Goodbye..."
Kakashi who was brought back from his thoughts by Sakura's grandmother's voice, watched as Haruno Wami came closer to him and as she was side by side with him, Kakashi turned his head slightly towards Wami.
"You should treat your granddaughter with more respect, because when the war reach Konoha, you will not be first on her list to save from the flames," Kakashi said in a distinct whisper to the old lady beside of him, who looked up at him with a stunned expression on her face, but it was gone as fast as it had come and was then replaced with a look Kakashi was far to know with among people like her.
"Watch your tongue, whelp," she hissed low to him. "Your father should had at least learned you some manners before he so disgracefully past away..."
And with that she had turned around to continue her walk towards Sakura's mothers grave and Kakashi felt how his blood began to boil inside him, it was few people who mange to make him feel like this, but Sakura's grandmother was one of them.
A light touch on his arm made him look to his right and saw Sakura looking up to him with a concern frown.
"I don't know what you told her, but I guess it was bad enough for her to insult you," Sakura mumbled, clearly ashamed of her own grandmothers behaviour. "Kakashi, I'm sorry-..."
"Don't need to apologize for a person who is still stuck in the past," Kakashi told her while placing his hand on top of her head and Sakura looked up to him with a surprised look on her face, making Kakashi acknowledge his mistake. "Your mother told me about your dad and why your grandmother behave the way she dose..."
He had told her a small lie, but Sakura had just nodded in understanding and he sighed silently in relief.
Kakashi wished that Sakura's mother would have stayed alive long enough for her to tell Sakura about her father, that he wasn't such an ass-hole that she had been told that he had been, but Kakashi felt that this was not his call to tell the truth about her father, Ryuunosuke.
So Sakura would be forever kept in the dark, until the time she would find it out herself.
"Sakura, shall we go?" Ino suddenly called out. "If we stay in this rain any longer, we will all get sick..."
"Yeah, you are right Ino. Let's go back," Sakura said and all of them began to move back towards Sakura's home.
Kakashi who was walking last, had his mind focused on the road ahead of them, when he suddenly felt how someone was leaning on his left side, surprised that he hadn't noticed her walking beside him and confused that she was seeking comfort with him.
But he did what everyone would have done, he laid his arm around Sakura and didn't let go until they arrived at Sakura's home.
~oOo~
Sakura was glowering as she stood at the village entrance with Ino and Hinata to wish Naruto, Yamato and Sai good luck to find Sasuke.
"Sakura-chan, I'm sorry that it have to be like this, but Yamato told me to not push Kakashi-sensei about it again," Naruto said and looked really sorry down to Sakura, who was still glaring down to the ground. "But Sensei is right, we need you here, because who else will patch us up when we comeback?"
Naruto's bright grin was blinding and it didn't help the bitterness she felt in her chest.
"Sakura, I promise, this time I will bring him back," Naruto told her seriously, but none of that mattered to her anymore.
"Naruto, don't keep promises you don't know if you can keep," Sakura finally said and glanced up to him. "Just-... Just promise me that you, all of you, will comeback alive..."
Looking slightly taken back, Naruto putted his hand on her shoulder before his face turned a bit softer.
"Of course we will! So don't worry too much about it, Sakura-chan," Naruto told her and turned towards Yamato and Sai. "Taichou, Sai! Let's move!"
Sakura looked towards Yamato and Sai, who was nodding there heads in agreement, as Naruto left her side to join up with the other two.
She suddenly felt lonely as she watch Hinata take her shy farewell of Naruto and saw how Sai who for once didn't show a fake smile towards a person she least had expected, even if Sakura wasn't surprised that her best friend had snared the person with an emotional understanding of a rock, yet still she couldn't understand what Ino really saw in Sai.
She had to remember to ask her about it later.
"Not saying farewell to your captain? That's very rude of you..."
"Yamato!" Sakura gave a surprised look to the man who was walking up to stand in front of her. "Well, I haven't said bye to Sai either, you know..."
"Heh, though he seems to only have eyes on your friend," Yamato said and Sakura rolled her eyes, while her face turned sour. "What's up with that gloomy face?"
"Well, you of all people should know that."
"Well, I do, but you also know the reason to why and that won't change his decision," Yamato told her and she sighted.
"I told him that there are plenty of medicnins who could take my place, but he still wouldn't listen!"
"Sakura, you and Shizune are the only ones who are as skilled as Tsunade-sama, losing one of you and especially now when Shizune are still treating Tsunade, wouldn't gain anything for us in the war and that's the only reason why I agree with Kakashi-senpai to not let you go with us," he told her and she looked down to the ground like she had been betrayed. "But never the less, this is Kakashi-senapi we are talking about and he would never betray a promise made, so I feel there is another reason why he won't let you go..."
"Another reason? Like what?" Sakura asked Yamato, who shrugged his shoulders.
"Yamato-taichou, if you don't hurry we will leave you behind!" Naruto suddenly called out and Yamato told them he was on his way.
"Sakura, Kakashi always have a reason to every decision he makes, even how unfair things seems to be and I believe it was his own feelings that change that promise," Yamato told her before he joined up with Naruto and Sai again, rubbing his neck in an apology sort of way.
Sakura watched as her three team mates left the gate and her hearth felt strangely empty as she watch them disappear, only to return when they had found Sasuke.
If they found him, Sakura reminded herself and in a sort of silly girlish way she really wished they would find him so everything could be as it was before, but she knew it would never go back to how it was before and especially not after what he had done to her.
"Hey, forehead, let's head back!"
Sakura acknowledged her childhood friend with a glare and Ino put her arm around Sakura's shoulder.
"Cheer up, Sakura, they will be back before you know it," Ino told her, believing that Sakura's sour pout was due to her team leaving, well it was partly that as well. "Right, Hinata!"
"Ye-Yeah," Hinata said with a modest smile towards Sakura, who knew that Hinata was probably the most worried of them all.
When the street ended in a fork, they said bye to Hinata who went to the right, while Sakura and Ino continued straight ahead.
As they walked towards Ino's home, Sakura was suddenly thinking of what Yamato had told her about Kakashi and for what reason he hadn't let her go with the rest of her team.
Could it possible be his own feelings towards her, that had been the biggest reason and not only because she was a medicnin?
"Ino..."
"What is it, Sakura?"
"Can-, Can someone's concern be because the person like or love you?" Sakura asked her childhood friend, who looked at Sakura with a raised eyebrow.
"Well, it can be, but it doesn't have to," Ino told her, pouting her lips in a musing sort of way. "The only way to find that out is to ask the person about it, then you will know for sure."
"But-But I can't ask him a question like that! It will be to oblivious," Sakura said, blushing a bit.
"Oh, look like someone have a crush on the guy in question," Ino teased and Sakura huffed at Ino.
"He have been kind to me, that's all," Sakura mumbled. "And..- And I don't want him to think that I'm-... wired..."
"Then you have to be careful of how you will ask him about it. I guess you know him better then me, so you have to figure it out by yourself."
"Wow, thanks Ino. That really helped me a lot," Sakura said rolling her eyes.
"Stop being so sarcastic! At least I tried to help you," Ino told her.
"Is not that I'm ungrateful," Sakura assured Ino, as she suddenly gave Ino a small grin. "So pig, what's up with you and Sai by the way?"
Flinching, Ino looked at Sakura like she couldn't believe her ears.
"What- What do you mean with that? Nothing is going on between him and me," Ino said in matter of fact and Sakura gave Ino a glare.
"You can try to fool me as much as you want, but Sai's smile gave you away," Sakura informed her and Ino sighed. "So how long have you two..."
Sakura wanted to say being 'Fuck Buddy's', because that had unfortunately being Ino's way of handling this war, but her way of acting when Sakura had talked about Sai and her, made Sakura think that it maybe was something more.
"Only three months, tomorrow it will be four," Ino said with a sighed and Sakura understood that sight as worry and concern, if ever Sai would comeback alive. "I really want this to workout between him and me, Sakura. He is something special."
"Yes, he is. A guy whose emotions is that of a rock and you, my best friend, who could get any guy she wanted, chose a guy like him," Sakura said stony and Ino gave her a glare. "I'm not saying that he is a bad person. Just a bit-... odd."
"Maybe he is a bit odd, but he is very kind and caring, almost in an innocent way," Ino said and Sakura smiled at Ino's description of Sai.
Even if his emotional understanding still was that of a teaspoon, Sakura knew that Sai was working hard to fix that and maybe Ino was the last piece he needed to fix what Danzou once destroyed.
"Are you happy then?" Sakura asked and Ino looked a bit confused. "I mean, is Sai making you happy?"
"Yes, I think so," Ino said after awhile and Sakura nodded her head in acceptance, but stopped suddenly and looked at the road in front of her. "What's the matter, Sakura?"
"Nothing, but I think I need to go and take care of something," Sakura suddenly said and Ino looked questioning at her, before her bright blue eyes shone up.
"Oh! Are you going to 'confront' your crush?" Ino asked and Sakura looked a bit baffled, but didn't say anything that would give her away.
"What!? No, I'm not!" Sakura told Ino firmly, who rolled her eyes at Sakura. "I just remembered that I need to take care of-... my mothers stuff..."
"Can't that wait?" Ino asked, concern showing in her voice.
"I just want to pack everything down and move on," Sakura said with a sight. "It will be easier that way. Especially now, when we are at war."
Looking with sadness at her friends face, Ino knew that Sakura didn't expect to survive the war and even if she did, nothing would be the same anymore.
"Anyway, I need to talk to Kakashi-sensei before I go back to the house," Sakura told Ino and began to walk towards the Hokage tower.
"I will see you later then!" Ino called after Sakura.
"Yeah, sure!" Sakura called back with a smile and continued her way to the tower.
xXx
Filtering trough some scrolls and papers, before he would leave Konoha to yet again enter the battle filed, he sighted and rubbed his neck with the thoughts of a certain pink haired young woman in his mind.
He really wanted to go and see off Naruto and the others, wishing them "good hunting" and a safe journey, but knowing Sakura also would be there, he knew it was best for all of them if he stayed away to not provoke the fury of Sakura any further.
A sudden knock on the door made him look up from his muddle of scrolls and papers on the desk and he called out it was fine to enter, feeling a bit glad that someone would distract him from his current work.
The door opened to reveal a person he least had expected and he wished now that someone would have prepared him of her arrival.
Standing in front of the door she just closed behind her, she had a kind of get to business look on her face and Kakashi was not sure how he would handle this pink haired woman from a hell he himself had created.
"Are you busy or do you have time to talk?" she asked and looked a bit nervous down to him.
"Well, I'm a bit busy, but never too busy to have a talk with my favourite student," Kakashi said and looked back to Sakura with a small smile under his mask. "So, what's on your mind?"
"I- I don't know why, but I have a feeling that there is another reason to why you don't let me go with them to find Sasuke," Sakura began and Kakashi leaned back in the chair with a sight.
"Sakura, you know what I told you yesterday and that won't change," Kakashi told her and saw how Sakura began to frown at him. "Naruto will need your help when they finally come back, but now we need your skills to win this war and you know that you are the only one who have the same skill as Tsunade."
"That's maybe true, but I think you are hiding something from me and I think I deserve to know what that is," Sakura said and walked closer to Kakashi who was looking calmly up at Sakura. "So I will ask again, what is the real reason to why you won't let me go?"
Kakashi sat quietly and just watched Sakura, who was studying him closely, while waiting for a replay that would satisfy her and prove her right.
"I honestly don't know what you are talking about and as I told you, you were already given your chance with Sasuke and it almost cost your life," Kakashi told her and he suddenly raised up, making Sakura to surprised jump away from the desk and the silver haired man in front of her. "No man is worth to die twice for."
"No, not all men are worth dying for, but some men are worth to protect even if it cost a life and I'm not talking about Sasuke now," Sakura said softly and took a step closer again. "I just don't want to be left behind and you promised that we would take back Sasuke together and if I die, then I at least tried to be of use! So please let me go!"
In a blink of an eye Kakashi was in front of her and towering over her surprised form.
Sakura could feel his warm breath against her face and saw how he looked down at her with his intense charcoal coloured eye.
"Don't you dare throw away the life I swore to your mother to protect!" Kakashi suddenly barked out with a thick voice, eye still boring into her emerald ones.
Both looking to each other with astounded looks.
Kakashi, because of what he had just barked out to her and Sakura, because she had never heard Kakashi using that kind of tone with her before.
"Wh-what?!" Sakura finally stuttered, back from her stupor.
"Sakura, I can explain-,"
"You don't have to explain anything and you don't need to protect me anymore! My mother is dead, so what ever you promised her to do, just stop it," Sakura told Kakashi who still looked down at her.
"It isn't that simple," Kakashi finally said and turned his gaze away from her. "I promised your mother some time ago to keep you safe and out of respect for your mother, that's a promise I intend to keep even if I die."
"That's not fair to me, Kakashi! You know better then anyone what I can do and the way you lied to me, that the only reason you didn't want me to go with them was because of my feelings for Sasuke is just crude!"
"It was not my intention to hurt you in anyway, Sakura..."
"Maybe not, but I trusted you to not lie to me and yet you do it again! God, how could I be so stupid to even think that you really lo-," Sakura stopped in mid-sentence and ran her palms over her face in a frustrated way. "I should go..."
Turning around she walked towards the door and grab the door handle, when Kakashi grabbed her wrist.
"Sakura wait!" Kakashi said, still holding his hand around her wrist. "Don't go..."
"I honestly thought and believed that you were different," Sakura began and glanced at Kakashi, while pulling her wrist out of his grip. "But I was wrong, you aren't any different then him..."
Looking shocked at the door that was closing with a loud slam, all he could think off was that Sakura had compared him with a man that had caused her a heartache that would last for a lifetime and that didn't sit well with him.
But looking back to the mess, that had started the day Naruto and Sasuke had tried to kill each other on that rooftop and he had told Sakura that everything would go back to normal soon, made him think that maybe he wasn't any better then Sasuke at the moment.
Mulling those thoughts over and over again in his head didn't help to lessen the guilt he felt of knowing that everything up until now was his fault.
Sakura hated him again and he who began to believe they where moving on at the right direction again.
Sakura's mother would probably move in her grave if she knew what a fucking mess he had made of the situation with Sakura and Sasuke.
Glaring down to the scrolls and papers covering the desk, trying to make out what it said and fail terribly at it, it was yet again another reminder what Sakura's hatred towards him did to him.
Pulling a hand trough his messy hair, he heard the clock on the wall chime nine times and he frowned down to the scroll in front of him.
He had been way to distracted by today's event, that he had missed that he should have left Konoha 2 hours ago.
Figuring that reading all the scrolls and fill in all the papers was not such a great idea when his mind was filled other things then the task at hand, he decided to give up and get his ass moving out of Konoha to rejoin the others at the battlefield.
As he was about to move away all the papers and put away the scrolls, a timid knocking on the door could be heard and Kakashi wondered who it could be at this hour.
Never the less, he called the person in, hopping it wasn't yet another genin begging to join the war.
"Kakashi-sensei? May I enter?" he heard from the half opened door.
Feeling how his mouth began to open slightly in surprise, he urged the person inside.
"Sa-Sakura, I didn't expect to see you again, well at least not this early," Kakashi said and watch from the chair how she closed the door quietly. "And if you come here to talk to me about before, I will not change my mind and I'm also sorry..."
Looking at her he saw a glint of confusion in her emerald eyes, but it was gone as fast as it had come.
"I'm- I'm not here to talk about that. I'm here for other reasons," she told him and began to walk closer to him, making eye contact all the time.
"And for what reasons are those?" he asked and felt how he almost drown in her intense looking eyes.
The pink haired young woman rounded the desk and stopped in front of him, looking down at him like she was about to devour him whole and then she leaned forward, close enough that he could feel her breath on his face.
"For this," she suddenly said and pushed her lips over his clothed lips.
Looking at her with a wide eye of shock and confusion, she pulled away from him, noses barley touching and she looked back at him with heavy lidded eyes.
"Sakura-," Kakashi breathed out still in shock, but he didn't have time to say anything else because her hands was suddenly pulling down his mask and her lips crashed yet again on to his lips.
Her tongue licked his lower lip, seeking entrance to his mouth and he finally gave in to her request, his head too clouded with arousal to even care that this was awfully wrong in all kind of aspects.
Sakura leaned closer into the kiss and Kakashi lifted her from the ground and placed her in his lap. He groaned into her mouth when she grind her hips, pushing her core closer to his clothed semi-erection.
Her hands found his messy silver hair and she pulled lightly in it, making the silver haired man growl low in pleasure.
He traced his hands along her thighs and began to advance up along her hip, pushing his hands under her red tunic.
Feeling her flushed skin against his fingertips, he traced his fingers further up her waist, there he suddenly stopped on his tracks and heard how she moaned disapprovingly.
Kakashi abruptly pushed the pink haired younger woman away from him and she looked questioningly at him, eyes still in a aroused haze.
"You almost got me there," Kakashi said and looked up to the woman, who looked back to him with raised eyebrows.
"Oh, is that so? How come?" Sakura said with a slightly sultry voice.
"This," Kakashi responded shortly and traced his fingertips of his right hand along her left side of the waist.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"You, or should I say the real Sakura, are suppose to have a scar around that area. You on the other hand, has nothing there," Kakashi continued, making the pink haired woman on his lap to frown at him. "Then my question is, who are you and what are your intentions?"
The woman on his lap leaned away from him and looked cocky down at him.
"Well, I did almost trick the greatest shinobi that are still alive," the Sakura on his lap said, but her way of speaking was not Sakura and with a 'poof' a cloud of smoke appeared.
As the smoke cloud vanished, the shoulder length pink haired woman was replaced with a slender woman with an hourglass shaped body and slightly smaller arsenal then Tsunade. She flipped her sleek waist long purplish black hair out of her face and bored her deep purple eyes into his lone charcoal coloured eye.
"I could have guess it was you," Kakashi mumbled annoyed to the woman that was still occupying his lap. "And for what reason did you even considering the idea of henge yourself into her?"
"Well, after nine months of border control, I wanted to make a great comeback to the village entrance to great my Hokage and to give him my reports," the woman said dramatically and gave him a grin and Kakashi frowned at her.
"So what you really are saying is that you were bored and thought it was a great idea to mess with me as my student?" Kakashi said calmly and the woman gave him a devilish grin.
"Well, let me see. Um, yes, that's totally accurate. How do you even do it?" the woman said with a fake curiosity to her last sentence, but didn't give him time to respond to it. "But I didn't expect you to respond in that way you did. Something you wanna share with your old friend?"
Seeing how he turned a hue of pink, her grin broader slightly.
"No, there is nothing, Wakana," Kakashi assured her and pulled up his mask. "Now, didn't you have a report to turn in?"
"Uh-uh, you are not getting away that easily," the woman Wakana told him and she could see the aggravating look on his face. "So what's your relationship to your student- what's her name again-..?"
"Sakura..."
"Ah, yes, Sakura! So have you-... you know... deflowered her yet?" Wakana asked and leaned closer to him, her dark purple eyes big as saucer matching his own.
"Wh-What!?"
"You know! Deflower, popping the cherry or what ever you call it," Wakana said, as he still tried to hide the blush that had crept up over his cheeks.
"I know what you mean, I was just exclaiming my surprise of what you were saying," Kakashi told her still a bit pink on his cheeks as he pushed her away from his lap, watching how she took a seat on the desk instead, crushing some of the scrolls and papers with her hind. "And our relationship isn't like that either..."
"Hmm, I can't believe it. Not after what you did," Wakana told him and tapped with her fingers on the desk in a steady rhythm.
"I'm a man, as you know and I was more then surprised by what happened," Kakashi defended himself with. "Any man would."
"So what you are saying is that you find your student attractive?"
"I would be lying if I haven't. She have grown up to be a desirable woman, any man would be lucky to have her in his life," Kakashi told her and moved the chair a bit further away from the woman in front of him. "But our relationship is just platonic, as it always have and should continue to be..."
Wakana looked at the silver haired man in front of her and she saw a hint of sadness and regret crossing his eye and as far as she have know this man in front of her, he had never showed any kind of emotions.
He had kept them looked behind the mask he had worn every since she could remember and never once let them out for others to see.
That had always been the scary and inhuman part of him, that still was mentioned among the older ANBU's and Kakashi was lucky to have been given a chance to escape the hell of ANBU and she figured that she too wanted the same thing Kakashi now had.
Someone to care about.
"So, how are you doing?" Wakana suddenly asked moving away from the earlier conversation, breaking the tension that suddenly had erupt in the room.
"Well, I'm still alive, but until when is the million question," Kakashi answered her and saw how she looked worried down at him. "Leaving ANBU for a year and you have already turned into a softy. Did you already forgot everything I taught you?"
"As I would," she snorted and crossed her arms. "I think that question should be pointed at you and not me."
"You are right, it should be," he said with a chuckle, making Wakana to smile slightly at him. "I'm getting old..."
"You are still young, Kakashi."
"Maybe, but I have seen too much already..."
"Stop making yourself older. How do you think I feel if you say those kind of things!"
"How long have we known each other?" Kakashi suddenly asked Wakana and she looked at him.
"Hum, I think since I was thirteen and was forced into ANBU for my own protection," she said and tried to hide the bitterness in her voice.
"So fifteen years then," Kakashi hummed and recalled that day the woman in front of him had walked inside the gates of Konoha as a young girl, still chunin, covered with blood top to toe.
What he had heard from the other ANBU's who had interrogated her (which meant with the use of the Yamanaka clan), her team had been ambushed by a gang of low ranked nukenin's.
She had been forced to watch how they tortured her two male team mates and how they raped her female team leader, before killing all three of them in front of her and as the apparently gang leader was about to do the same to her, everything went dark and the next thing they saw in her mind was the gate of Konoha.
So they question that everyone asked was;
If the blood was not from her or her team, then where came all the blood from?
Kakashi had been one of the six ANBU's to locate the place to bring back the Konoha ninjas and figure out what had happened there.
But what they found would make even the toughest ANBU to squeamish.
The blood on the ground was high enough to reach there toes and the source of all the blood on the ground was from the two dozen of ripped apart bodies littering the ground.
If the girl had gone in to a shock, she could have killed them while being under a blacked-out, but that would mean she was more a monster then a girl.
Due to this news, Sandaime had hide the scared and confused 13 year old girl in ANBU, with a cold hearted 18 year old, traumatised beyond repair, young man as caretaker until he was told otherwise.
The young man, who was Kakashi himself, couldn't understand why he was forced to babysit this young girl and watch her heal while he crumbled apart, but he later figured out that he had received an observation mission of the girl, which made him broad on without a word.
Some years passed and Kakashi had taught the girl everything she needed to know to work as an ANBU operative and nothing had happened that could explain the issue with the nukenin's, until just a month before Kakashi would quite ANBU, to take on the task as a teacher, on a mission that had turned bad to worse the girl finally showed her "true" colours.
All Kakashi could explain was that she had a split personality that would manifest if she was emotionally pushed over the edge in anyway similar to what happened to her when she had been thirteen.
And Kakashi wished to never see her like that again, or his dreams would be forever hunted with the image of a young girl hovering over the bloody corpses like a bloodthirsty animal.
"Kakashi?"
Looking up to the woman who was still sitting on the desk in front of him, he suddenly put his hand out towards her and she glanced down to it.
"What?"
"Your report," Kakashi said and made a motion with his hand for her to hurry up and give it to him.
"No way, I told you that I wouldn't give it to you until you have explain what's really going on with you and your student," Wakana said and leaned away from him, crushing more papers and scrolls that was located on the desk.
"And as far as I see it, I did explain it to you," he told her shortly. "Now, give it to me."
Seeing that she wouldn't win this battle, she gave in and handed him the report scroll and watched him unseal it.
She waited patiently as he read the report and then she broke the silence.
"What have our 'friendship' in years, to do with you and your student?"
"Ah, I'm glad that you still see us as friends," Kakashi said with a small smile.
"After today I'm not so sure anymore," she muttered and watched how he still smiled under his mask. "Well, are you going to tell me, or do I need to beat it out of you?"
"Well, I do see us as good friends and I trust you with my life," Kakashi began and saw how Wakana's interest peeked up a bit. "That's why I will release you from boarder control duty and send you closer to the front."
"You mean it? Will you really send me that close to the war?" Wakana asked sounding a bit concern. "You still remember what can happen to me, right?"
"Of course, that's why I thought to send you to the medic headquarters as a guard," Kakashi told her. "It's close, but not too close. I know that you can handle it, in worse case-..."
"In worse case I will be shot down like a wild animal, because that's what I really am," she told him and Kakashi sighed.
"You know that won't happen, Sandaime sealed that power away so it wouldn't happen," Kakashi told Wakana.
"It's not a power, it's a psychosis," Wakana muttered and turned her gaze away from him.
"What ever it's, it will not happen as it did in the past," Kakashi told her finally, making her sight loudly. "So don't worry about it anymore. You can head out tomorrow towards the front."
"So that is your way of dismissing me? Without even a word about the real reason to why you send me the to the medic headquarters?" Wakana told him, but she already knew the reason and he knew that she knew it too.
"Why even tell you, when you already have figured it out?" Kakashi sighed and handed her another scroll.
"Because I wanted to hear it willingly from you, not forcing it out of you, but you are as stubborn as ever," Wakana told him and accepted the scroll he gave her. "If you don't tell her how you feel, it could be too late you know or is it really that bad to finally find someone you care about?"
"If your name is Hatake Kakashi, it's bad and at the moment she wish to erase me out of this world," he told Wakana with a carefree smile under the mask before he took a more sober look.
"Kakashi, just think about it at least-..."
"You know what to do with that scroll..."
And with that Wakana knew it was the end of their discussion.
xXx
Sakura had finally cleared out all of her and her mothers belongings out of the house and placed it in a storage place in the Hokage mountain and she was grateful that she had both Ino and Hinata's help, otherwise she would never have been able to finish before her leave was over.
The only thing left in the otherwise empty house was the futon she now was sprawled on top of, which Ino's mother had promised to take care of along with the selling of the house.
So this will be my last night here, Sakura thought as she tried to keep her emotions in check.
Even how much she loved this house, she could never live in this big house by herself and not to mention all the memories this house still held, but then again Sakura didn't expect to survive this war.
Turning her head to her side where she normally would see her drawer and her favourite picture of them all; Team seven, were she still was a little naïve girl, with hopes and dreams about a perfect life with her perfect man, and then everything went hells way.
How she had cried and cried every night after he had left, feeling weak and miserable and suddenly it was like she had been hit with a ray of light and she finally saw clearly.
If she wanted him back, she needed to be stronger so she could prove to him that she wasn't weak anymore and in her mind it made perfect sense that he would comeback to them and to her if she was strong enough.
But as the year passed, she saw and heard more and more, that he wasn't longer the Sasuke she had fell in love with and neither the Sasuke Naruto so desperately wanted to save.
Sakura had made up her mind and her decision back then was the result of why she was strangling the pillow in her arms.
If she hadn't failed back then, she wouldn't lay here and feeling all those feelings she now felt for this certain man that had invaded her space and mind.
Even if this man had unintentionally, made her feel special and somehow loved, he had never thought of her as girlfriend material and it had stung more then she would admit.
Damn Yamato for leading her on to believe that Hatake Kakashi actually had feeling for this little pink haired young woman that was still strangling the pillow in her death grip.
The worst part of it all was that she, with the help of Yamato and Ino, had finally understood her own confused feeling for the silver haired man was Love.
Something she had hoped he felt too when she was around him.
Who was she kidding? Of course he wouldn't feel anything like that towards her. A young inexperience woman, who would die a virgin.
"Sounds really appealing," Sakura muttered to herself as she muffled a silence scream into the squashed pillow.
If she only could find away to kill this love she harboured for a man she thought she knew.
The more she thought of all the ways to stop loving him, she figured it was the most easy part, considering how long she had known him and his more annoying sides, but it was also the hardest.
Because those sides was also why she liked him from the beginning, but if she had to choose, it was the way he had lied to her about the reason she couldn't go with Naruto.
That he had let her mother decide what she could and couldn't handle, when she believed he knew her well enough to see that she had grown a bit since her last encounter with Sasuke.
It made her sad that he rather listened to her mother, then to listen to his own shinobi sense and she was angry with herself that she had been too naïve to understand his kindness wasn't love.
At least not that kind of love that Sakura was looking for and it made it more obvious to her that her former Sensei and now captain wouldn't be interested in a girl much younger then him, a girl he had know since she was 12 years old.
As she laid on top of the futon, still thinking of ways to make the silver haired man less attractive in her mind, she didn't notice the slide door slowly open, letting in the slightly chilly summer breeze into the room.
It was only when the goosebumps on her legs and arms made itself know, she noticed that the slide door was open.
Figuring that she probably hadn't closed it well enough before, she raised from the futon to close the slide door when she suddenly felt it.
But before she even had time to react to the intruder, she was pushed down to the floor by two strong hands holding her wrists and pinning her body down with its own.
Feeling the breath of the intruder oozing with the smell of liquor, her first thought was that maybe a drunkard had taken the wrong house, but when she finally recognized the intruders chakra, she was more annoyed then relief.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Sakura finally asked the person on top of her, that seemed more interested in her lips that asked the question then the question itself.
"Have your- Have your lips always been that colour?" the person asked in a drunken way, making Sakura to look like she had been hit by lightning.
"Yes, and you are drunk, so you should go back home, Sensei!" Sakura barked irritated and tired to push him away from her.
As she pushed her body more closer to him, a sign to tell him to move the hell off her, she felt something to her devastation around his lower areas.
Ok, Sakura. He is a man and he is very drunk, so he has no control of anything now, she told herself feeling how her faced heated up more and more.
"Please Sensei, could you move the hell off me?" Sakura said, frustrated that the medic in her had totally blown out trough the window, leaving the insecure young (still virgin) woman behind.
Looking up into his face, she saw how it came closer and closer to her own and somewhere back in her head the little insecure girl took over and her head literally exploded and all sense of right went with it.
"I told you to move the hell off me!" Sakura growled and with all her force she ripped her wrist from his grip and hurled her fist straight into his face, making him flew away from her to land hard onto the wooden floor.
Breathing heavily she glared down to the silver haired man, who glared shocked back to her, like he suddenly noticed where he was and what he had been doing.
She noticed, as he slowly and very unsteady raised himself from the floor, that he was bleeding slightly from a cut on his left eyebrow.
A cut she was responsible of.
He wobbly walked toward the slide door, holding hard onto the frame to steady himself.
"That's it? You are leaving without even an explanation?" Sakura asked him, holding in the anger she now felt.
"I'm sorry..." was all he could manage out, before he was out of her room, falling down into the rose bushes below the balcony and was then gone as fast as he had come, leaving Sakura to stare into the darkness.
"Fucking coward!" Sakura finally called out into the night, but her words was muffled by her own cries of anger and disappointment towards a man she had always seen as the greatest man alive.
Next Chapter: Strangers
Mini information;
I know I told you guys that I would dedicate two chapter in this story to pre-Ajiouhyougen and Koigokoro, but I felt that I had a bit more to tell you. So duh-duh-duh... I will make one more chapter, so if I have done my math correct this story will end with 30 chapters in total.
When this story is finished, I will edit Ajiouhyougen and this story; Koigokoro, no big changes, mainly fixing errors.
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