Fairytale
By: RoseWaters
Chapter 3: Sew
Let's sew ourselves back together again; discard all those things that slow us down.
Let's put ourselves back together, stitch by stitch.
Let's weave the perfect story, stitch by stitch.
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He could hear his heartbeat in his ears; feel the thick air as he breathed it in slowly. Mismatched eyes so incredibly focused on the entrance to the hospital.
Kakashi could literally feel the weight of everything pressing against his lungs. He remained perfectly still as pieces of the hospital fell to the ground. Crumbling, bouncing, and falling into nothingness.
It was slow, deliberate. His eyes shifted to the right as he felt the light touch of her finger tips on his shoulder. His whole body went stiff, the cool metal hanging so dangerously close to his neck. His eyes shifted down to the Kunai in her hand. He felt his lip twitch up as he realized it was one of his.
He felt a wave of nausea wash over him as her breath whisper softly against his ear, her upper body pressing against his back.
"Don't be so stiff. I wouldn't stab you in the back."
He took a shaky breath as his eyes looked away from the sharp tip of his kunai, his voice forcefully monotone.
"Is that a snide remark to Kohoha's decision to execute you?"
He stood perfectly still as her fingers brushed lightly over his shoulder as she silently slipped around him. Her green eyes meeting his, her expression carless as she nonchalantly slipped his kunai through her fingers.
His eyes washed over her for a moment. It left him uncomfortable. Perhaps he had expected her to look different, so when he saw her, when he saw Sakura, looking so entirely the same it was disturbing. Her eyes flashed in his direction and he looked back up to her face, her fingers flicking the kunai back so that it stuck into the ground at his feet.
His eyes lingered on his kunai, and then took note of her. She had no equipment attached to her, no armor. Nothing. He refocused on her face as she took a step forward, her hands behind her back. Her eyes soft as she smiled at him, her head slightly titled to the right.
"Are you playing coy with me Kakashi-sensei?"
He felt his hand shake as he watched her; her every gesture so incredibly familiar. How was he going to do it, he squeezed his fists as his eyes looked down unable to meet hers, his mind and heart conflicting.
"I don't want to kill you. I don't think I can even watch someone else do it. Sakura, run away, become a missing-nin again."
He watched her take a step back, a wave of confusion spreading over her face.
"Once you, Naruto, and Sasuke run away I'll become hokage. I will cancel the hunter-nin's mission of finding you. You can all start over and live normal lives."
He watched green eyes shift left and right, her sharp mind calculating the outcome.
"They won't forgive us, Kakashi- sensei. We murdered the council; I murdered the council and the hokage."
He took a step forward his eyes looking past her; he could see the way her head shifted down. He watched her bit her lip, it was a habit she had developed later in her teens. It showed just how scared she really was.
"It won't matter, Sakura. I promise; I'll protect you, since I couldn't from the start."
He watched her eyes look into his, that washed out jade color observing him from a short distance. It was sudden, and it sent a shiver down his spine.
"I missed you so much, Kakashi-sensei."
Her broken desperate tone twisted his insides. She was so young, so pretty, and so terribly broken. He moved a few steps closer to her, his body and hers only an arm's length away. He carefully let his guard down, his arms relaxed at his side.
"I missed you too."
She looked up at him, a strangled smile across her face. She moved so quickly it was frightening. He felt her in front of him her arms wrapping around his waist as she dug her head into his chest; the warmth of her tears seeping into his shirt.
The fingers of his right hand slipping down into his weapons pouch.
"I'm so sorry Kakashi-sensei. I never really wanted to do it. We just didn't know what else to do. The hunter-nin's just kept coming. I….I see them in my dreams killing Naruto and Sasuke. Kakashi-sensei. I can't sleep. I can't sleep. "
The words he had told her ringing through his head. 'Insanity and insomnia go hand in hand'
He pulled her head closer into his chest with his left hand, his fingers brushing through soft pink tresses. His right hand holding a sharp kunai as he slowly slid in up the side of her waist; hovering quietly near her abdominal.
Her sobs filling his ears, his hands shaking so much it was impossible to hide. Her words were soft and shaking; her tone low and so filled with pain.
"Kakashi-sensei, am I lower than trash?"
His eyes widened suddenly, the phrase echoing through his ears. 'Am I lower than trash?'He pulled her chin up to look into his missed matched eyes, the gift from the boy who taught him that important lesson. He watched as her jade eyes shimmered, tears streaming down her face.
Her eyes widened as he shoved the kunai into her abdomen, her mouth slightly agape as she stumbled back a step, her shaking thin fingers hovered around the Kunai. Blood seeping out, coloring her black shirt a slightly darker shade and the metallic smell overwhelming his senses.
Kakashi pulled her back into his arms wrapping them tightly around her body; her knees were buckling as she gasped inaudibly. His eyes narrowing, face twisted in frustration. He shut his eyes as he hugged her tightly, his chest twisting in pain as he swallowed the burning sensation in his throat.
"No, Sakura. I'm the only one lower than trash."
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Naruto's blue eyes wandered around the hospital. The now mostly destroyed building losing the cleanliness it once had. Yet the silence that only a hospital can have still making it horribly uncomfortable.
His mind wandered to what exactly Sakura planned to do just outside these walls. Was she really planning to simply go out and take on whatever group of ninja's was out there? His eyes narrowed in thought as he stared up to the now missing ceiling. There were no sounds of a battle yet, and he knew if Sakura had intentions of fighting head on there would be noise.
She was incredibly fast and incredibly strong. Her only downfall would be her lack of both chakra and stamina. Then again those were his only good point, what she lacked he had, and what he lacked she had. Yet Sasuke had an even amount of everything.
On that note his eyes wandered over to Sasuke. His dark grey eyes lost in thought. Silence their only companion.
It was a surprisingly comfortable silence, considering that at some point a battle would ensue. Naruto took a deep breath, as he walked over to the receptionists counter. His eyes looking over all their discarded equipment, like its existence was mocking him, literally showing him the weight of their sins. His fingers wrapped around the hilt of Sasuke's blade, lifting up the piece of perfectly crafted and cared for metal.
He simply stared at it, then at his surroundings. All white even in destruction. The words Sakura had told him once playing in his mind. 'White is most suited for death.'
His eyes looked up the side of the gleaming metal.
It wasn't until Sasuke spoke that Naruto refocused and a conversation spread out over the silence.
"Sorry."
Naruto's blue eyes stared into the distance, blond spikes hanging limply with added length; face perfectly even.
"You know what bastard; I always wanted to tell you 'Fuck You'."
Sasuke turned away, a small grin across his features.
"Didn't you already do that?"
Naruto's head turned quickly blond hair swaying at the sudden movement, his deep blue eyes catching Sasuke's profile; disbelief written in both his features and tone as his voice rose above a whisper.
"When?"
Sasuke looked back, his ever present poker face perfectly intact.
"When Sakura said 'yes' to your proposal."
Naruto's deep laugh echoed off of every surface. His soft smile turning surprisingly cold as his head fell into the palm of his hands; a soft inaudible cry shaking his shoulders and voice.
"Hey bastard, don't apologize. It's fucking creepy."
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Kakashi let go of her, his eyes watching as her body fell to the ground unmoving. Pink hair spreading over the ground with a certain kind of ordered chaos.
Blood pooling around her small frame; pink hair staining into some muddled copper color. His mind unable to pull his eyes away from her motionless body that lay across the ground in a heap. The thumping of his heart resounding in his ears, deafening out his surroundings while the shaking of his hands rendering them uncontrollable.
He could hear the words repeating over and over again in his head.
"You killed Sakura."
"You killed Sakura."
"You killed Sakura."
"You killed Sakura."
His shaking hands suddenly clasped over his ears in an attempt to silence a voice that didn't exist, his eyes still staring at her body. Limp, unmoving, DEAD.
He needed to calm down.
He felt the sensation before he knew what was happening. His eyes lingered on the ground as his body collapsed hard against the stone ground. His eyes lingered on her unmoving body pink hair obscuring her face. He felt a wave of silent panic wash over him. He mentally told himself to move his right arm only to have his head jerk roughly to the right.
He had no control of his movements.
He could feel the short stab of pain against his right rib cage as his limp body was kicked over. His eyes took in the sight of grey murky skies before he caught sight of her legs as she bent down, her fingers wrapping around the kunai that he was once holding.
It all came together in that second as her body straddled his. She had put him in a genjutus and used Tsunade's technique to fuck of his body movements. His voice came out passive as he stared into her blank expression.
"How did you trap me in a genjutus with the sharingan activated?"
Her eyes stared into his.
"Sasuke told me how to, he said to place the genjutus on the eye itself."
He looked her over best he could from his immobile position on the ground, her slim small frame straddling him a kunai hovering right above his neck. He was going to be killed by a 100 pound pink haired woman, there was something emasculating about it.
"You don't have to hesitate, I didn't. I had full intentions of killing you."
He watched her smile, something in her grin sending a shiver down his spine.
"What a low way to do it Kakashi-sensei. Did you really think I would give a shit? Did you think I would feel bad for getting my revenge? Did you think for one second that I would believe anyone in this village would save me?"
He watched her passively taking in her words. Noticing just how screwed up she really was. He wondered when she lost it. After all Sakura was the best liar of his entire squad, she used to be so good at controlling her actions and expressions during missions.
Her voice was suddenly loud.
"Are you going to let all these ninja watch you die? How many are there Kakashi? 100, 150?"
He continued to watch her, his mind testing and memorizing body parts.
"Something like that."
She pulled back the kunai her body still straddling his as she stared up into the sky.
"All those shinobi and not a single one is coming out to help you. You know I just saw Shikamaru and Ino before you came. Well I only saw them briefly; Sasuke is so fast to attack. I don't even know if there is anything left of them after the explosion that you caused. Oh, but I am sure Konohamaru's body can still be buried. I only ran him through with a sword. What a waste, it was my good one, but I just didn't want to deal with pulling it out."
His eyes watched her as she stared into the sky a smile across her face as she reminisced.
"You killed Shikamaru, Konohamaru, and Ino?"
Her voice was off handed, "I didn't kill Shikamaru that was Sasuke."
It was the first time in a long time that Kakashi felt a sense of fear.
"Oh but it was all me for the council. Do you have any idea how they begged and graveled at my feet for forgiveness as I cut them to pieces. It was so much fun taking off their legs first, watching them crawl around on the ground like the dogs they are. I was laughing so hard as that old Hyuuga bastard begged to forgive him. He just kept crying 'let me see my grandson before I leave this world'."
He watched as she laughed deeply.
"Wasn't the Hyuuga clan supposed to be known for their pride? The old bastard pissed all over himself before I slit his throat."
It was so fast he nearly missed it. Neji leap through the trees arm out stretched as his fingers wrapped around her throat there two bodies sailing through mid air. He could see the rush of green and pink, Lee's and Tenten's voice at a high screech as they screamed for Neji to stop.
His upper body was lifted up and he could hear Anko's voice as his eyes found the fight. He had missed something in that slip second. Sakura was skillfully avoiding Lee's kick as Tenten kneeled before a bleeding Neji who was sprawled across the ground and struggling to get back up.
He could hear Anko's panicked voice, "Everyone attack her! Take her down before the other two show up!"
The noise was suddenly intense. He felt the ground beneath him shake and suddenly rocks the size of small houses were raining down. He watched as Shino skidded to a stop next to them. His cool composure unable to hide his lethargic movements. Anko's commanding tone catching his attention.
"Where is Kiba? We need him to track down the rest of team seven!"
He watched as Shino turned his head towards them.
"He never showed up. I couldn't find him; perhaps he decided to stay with Hinata. I think they both still feel team seven is in the right."
Anko's shrill voice echoed around them, "Fuckin' bullshit! Did he ever think that maybe none of us want to do this either? Did he ever think that it's fucking necessary at this point? He's being a fucking bitch!"
Kakashi watched as Shino stood up, and calmly brushed himself off, "I will call the medic over."
He felt Anko's grip tighten on his shoulder as Shino disappeared into the chaos.
"Fuck, I said too much."
Kakashi would have held her hand if he could have.
"Work on you language. No women should sound like that."
Her eyes were on the distance, she was clearly searching for the medic as well, as if she doubted Shino's words.
"Go fuck yourself while you read your books Kakashi."
She moved and he could feel the bark of the tree against his limp body. He meet the eyes of a stuttering medic, his hands glowing with Chakra as he shakily examined him. He slowly found Anko's gaze, her curved figure looming above him, a childish grin across her face.
"That is the last set of students you ever get."
And just like that she was gone. His eyes meet the medics.
"How long is it going to take you?"
The young boy refocused.
"30 seconds, she only detached a nerve in you cerebral. If she had gone for the spine it would have taken a week and about four medic of a higher level."
He was about to ask a question when it happened. That loud booming sound that crashed around him as the hospital crumbled to pieces.
He stared on in silence as the looming shadow spread out across the horizon. His body lay slumped against the tree trunk his eyes taking in the sight of the nine tailed fox. That sickening demonic chakra wrapping around everything; sending a wave of silence across the battle field; he barely whispered the command.
"Hurry up."
His eyes lingered on the looming figure as the dust and debris began to settle. Kakashi stared ahead as the two figures in the center of the hospital became clear. His head shifted in her direction as she screamed his name in a tone of voice that brought back so many memories.
"Naruto!"
He watched as Sakura ran forward, pink hair spreading across grey sky in what seemed like slow motion. He could hear the desperation in her voice, and see the panic in her movements.
There stood for all to see, Sasuke with his sword embedded in Naruto's heart, his blood clumping to the ground in hurried waves. The kyuubi standing tall and ominous above the scene, something about it strangely ironic.
It was so sudden, so unexpected. The way Sakura suddenly stopped her body perfectly still. Kakashi saw in that moment what no one else did.
It was the way Naruto only saw her, like everyone and everything between them was gone. He watched in silence as he read Naruto's moving lips, a forced smile stretching across his young tired features. It was in those seconds, those few lingering seconds that the world came shattering down around him.
He watched quietly as Naruto's body hit the ground, the way Sasuke took a small step back his head down, black hair covering his face from view. It was so obvious yet it seemed impossible.
All eyes looked on in stunned silence as the Kyuubi agonizing roar shook the entire village.
Naruto was dead.
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A/n: Such a long chapter! But I definitely want it done by the next one. Oh and btw, characters are gonna be dying, hahah "gonna". So for the weak of heart; DON'T READ THE END! Oh and Naruto is really dead. Seriously, no one expect him to come back.