Chapter 18: Kakashi & Sakura

Not again, this really can't be happening again. I can't breathe, I can't see. I can only hear the ringing of my ears with the thud of my heart pounding in my chest. Sakura thought to her self as she ran through the forest.

"Sakura! Sakura! Wake up! Please wake up! Come on! Wake up!" Kakashi was yelling in her ear. She shot up, her head hitting Kakashi's nose. The mask he wore began to get soaked with blood.

"Oh, my god Kakashi! I'm so sorry! I am so very very very sorry!" She said while rubbing her forehead, and walking over to him. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, so just go get in the car. Everyone else is waiting. Actually wait a second, I have to talk to you about that dream you were having. It sounded bad."

"Oh um, it was nothing. I don't really have anything to say about it."

"Sakura you can't keep stuff like this inside for ever." He said as turned away from her and took off his mask and replaced it with a clothe that would have to substitute for a little while. "Now my mask needs washed."

"I really do apologize Kakashi. I didn't mean to head butt you and break your nose. Really it was an accident."

"I know, I was just saying that my mask now needed to be washed."

"I'll wash it." She said as she walked over to him and took the mask out of his hands and headed to the sink in the bathroom. Her steps were quiet and light. He observed her from the distance in which he stood. She turned the water to the normal temperature a washing machine would be at. She grabbed the soap from the side of the bath tub and began to scrub the mask until the red was fading into a dark blue, almost black color. She put a little more force into the cleaning and the blood came out, only slower then Sakura wanted. "Here your mask is now blood free."

"Thank you."

"Your welcome."

"Let's get going."

"I want to drive today!" She said when she got to the car. Hinata got out of the passengers seat and let Kakashi climb behind them. Naruto hesitantly handed over the keys. "So um, question. How far are we going today?"

"As far as we can in the direction we came." Kakashi said.

"We're going back?" Sakura nearly exploded with the question.

"Yes, Tsunade said that it was safe to come home."

"I can't wait!" She exclaimed and turned the key over as the car's engine started quickly. "Naruto I love your car."

"Haha thanks?" He said while scratching the back of his head.

"Don't do that it make you seem like you're trying to be Kakashi."

"Maybe I am."

"That's a little creepy Naruto." Kakashi said as he sunk low into the side seat of the car.

"I didn't mean it I was just messing around."

"Sure you were."

"Listen as soon as we get back I'm going to sleep in my nice, warm comfortable bed. So I won't be bugged tomorrow." They drove into town to see a bloody massacre had accord. Sakura began to get irritated. "What happened Tsunade-sama?" She yelled as she ran into the woman's arms.

"Sakura it's nothing for you to worry about." She stroked the pink-headed girl's hair.

"It's because of me isn't it?"

"I said it's nothing young lady."

"Tsunade the streets aren't streets anymore their pools of blood and bodies. I need to know what happened. I need to stop this. It's happened since the beginning. I'm not a piece to a puzzle any more. And I want it to stop. So help me and let me know what happened."

"Fine sit down Sakura. The rest of you can either leave or pay very close attention." They all sat down immediately. "Okay, Sakura, you were the chosen princess but after you were born the people you knew as your parents were your kidnappers. They aren't your actual parents. The people who have been following you around destroying the places you've been looking for you are in fact your birth parents. This necklace you wear constantly is the last thing your parents gave you. It is the last key to the castle. Well it's the piece everyone has been looking for also. So Kakashi and I made a pact with your birth parents that if we found you then we were supposed to keep you from everyone."

"Including them." Kakashi butted in.

"Shut up I was getting there." Tsunade said as she smacked him. "Well we weren't allowed to tell them where you were and when they came here to check if you had been here, and realized that Kakashi had left. They had gotten irritated and destroyed the town. Your birth parents hadn't been able to leave. They are standing behind you."

"Hello Sakura." A strong voice said behind her, her skin crawled.

"Sakura there you are! Thank god we've been looking for you all over and now we've finally found you!" A more femine voice said.

"So my entire life has been a lie. Everything about me has been a lie. All that I know has been a lie. You didn't tell me!" She got up yelled in Kakashi's face. She doubled up her fists and started hitting him in chest. Tears streaming down her cheek. "I can't believe you would keep a secret of my life from me. It's my life and you didn't tell me about it! How could you?" She hit his body harder. He didn't even seem to mind. She punched him harder. He finally grabbed her wrists and held them above her head.

"Sakura calm down. We really need to talk." He said, he bent down close to her ear. "Sakura I can't let you go with them."