Kakashi closed his eyes as his husband leaned forward. The kami in black coat was there, next to the vampire who was slowly fading away. 'The vampire knows,' he thought. After all, vampires are the only intelligent creature that do not belongs to the kami in black. The vampire must have seen and urged them to join as one. He hesitated, but decided to cherish the last kiss that they are going to share. The warm lips that he would, for sure, missed most. It was as if yesterday, the day when the red haired shibo told him that she was pregnant, the day when the blond was born and hence to the death of his precious sensei and shibo… the day when he first became the boy's mentor, catching the blackboard duster from the doorway… the day when the boys, both Sasuke and Naruto were back then, demonstrated teamwork… There were so many memories that he wanted to cherish, but now, fading away, rolling into the shingami's journal.
"Naruto. Aishiteru."
Seldom, rare, but he shed his last tears, letting the droplet to slide down his eyes to the pillow. The last breath that he has, and he was glad to share with his love one.
An looked to his side, and softly nodded to the figure in black, who began to show his presence more vividly as he rolled the silver hair man's memories with his long, slim, gloved fingers.
"I don't expect you to be here, Sasaki An."
"So do I," the vampire acknowledged. "But you just reinforced my prediction, of ways for me to go back."
"Another colleague of mine told me that he has seen the absurd openings in our travel paths, you have committed something that consider not to be completed."
"If you kami think that locking Medusa up is unwise, then maybe you guys can take care of her? Sure enough you have enough "manpower" to do so, under us, we have only a limited of people, and they all are my family."
"When Sasaki An would talk about Family?" The shingami smirked coldly as he countered. "The human has weakened you. You collect the unwanted people and converted them into vampires. They could be your playing puppets, but not your family. It is a shame that you tartan your own blood line like this. After all, you have one of the noblest blood apart from the God and Kami(s)."
"I am surprised that you could do as much talking as you have just made," An waved off the offenses softly. "But you are wrong, the only reason that I have the noblest blood apart from the gods, was that I tested on myself and from the bloods that I collected. I have refined my bloodline, more than any clans that are walking on this world."
"You're so called the Scientist," the shingami stated in monotone, though his expression changed, even it was a fraction of a second, he looked disappointed. "Noble means pure, not tainted by anything unworthy. These," he lifted the roll of films, "some worth slightly more than other, like this one, but they are arrays of rolls at our libraries at the end of the day, if they were not good enough to be chosen. You're taking the bad apples away from the goods that we have selected."
"You can interpreted anyway as you wish," An open his right hand, "if this is not good enough, can I have it then?"
"No." The kami placed the roll in his briefcase. "Not under my watch." He then clapped his hands, casting the vampire away from the world that he monitors, away from the sorrow blond. "Your target is not me, Sasaki An, remember who you are first, before setting yourself against this world." He clapped his hands again, releasing the seal from Kurama's mouth.
"How dare you," the nine tail fox roared.
"You know too much, fox," the shinigami answered calmly, waving the fox roar. "I would not you tell the truth that you learnt from your other clones. He has to find out the consequence of choosing unwisely on his own. Then he would have known why even Lucifer-san could fall this easily," the shinigami ended with a rather cold smirk.
The fox remained silent as he turned his head away from the kami. 'Master's mother was a difficult one, but this shingami was even worse than her…," he thought. 'Especially when he has an odd form of hate in his tone towards the vampire….' he sighed softly, felt concern for his master's old friend.
As they talked, the time in the room slow down, even though Naruto was not aware of it. He was engulfed by sorrow. He could not believe that he has just let his lover slipped away from him. He could not see the kami who just collected his lover's life, but his attention drew back to the reality as the silver chains that were tied on the vampire dropped, the metal got hold of his attention. Nothing left, but the silver chains with warm droplets by the wrist area. The room was cold, when nothing alive, apart from him. He could not sense Kurama either. The first time ever, since his birth, he felt this alone. No matter how rough relationship that he and the nine tail Kyuubi has, he has some formed of company. He panic, not even feeling at the edge this badly when he was in war. He should have summoned his ANBU, but he hesitated. The loneliness creped under his skins and some form of anger gathered up. Cold, loneliness began to engulf his conscious, nothing he could think of. Nothing mattered. Kakashi's shy smile after they first joined as one wiped every sense that he has.
Orange charka built up around his skin, as he was drawing the energy from Kurama unconsciously, for which, the said fox could not prevent the action, as he was silent by the death god. He stood there, looking down, seeing his lover who was lying dead on the hospital bed through his cross shaped pupil. Tails were revealing one by one, until the fifth where wood dragons shoot from the ground rapidly, clamping the tails down with the dragon teeth.
3 ANBU in white show up. The one in cat mask held up his right hand, palm facing the Hokage, controlling the dragons. The paler one took out his ink brush and scroll, prepare to add the last stroke on his drawing; while the remained reviewed his crimson eyes, looking cautious, as he approached their Hokage. "Naruto, he called. "Look at you." He grabbed the man's collar, forcing the blond to face them. "Look at us, who are we?" Although the man turned the blond by force, the latter's sight never leave the dead man. The burning pain that was sent from his hands angered the man. "Naruto," he snapped. "I have no intention to be your ANBU nor even letting you be the Hokage, if you cannot move forward and control your emotion." He shook the man violently. "Do you want to destroy the village that Kakashi protected?"
"No…" tears slid down as the orange charka withdrew. "No…Sasuke… No…" He dropped onto the chair weakly as the latter let go of his collar. "How can Kakashi leave me…" he murmured.
Sasuke sighed as he turned away from their Hokage. "A week," he slid the door open with his foot, "Sai, let's go. I will let Shikaramu and the rest to have holiday this week, we'll have to act on behalf for the Hokage, and ask team Ru to cancel their leave. Dobe," he turned to look at his friend again, "I will see the usual dobe by the end of this week. Yamato, I relied your decision." Without letting the older buntaicho to reply, the Uchiha stormed out of hospital ward, almost bumped into his pinkette team mate.
Sai tapped the blond softly on the shoulder and bowed deeply to the body of their mentor before hugging his girlfriend who already shred her tears as she checked their sensei. Yamato sighed as the wood dragons withdrew, wiping his sweats near his face protector. He grabbed the white hospital blanket and held up the corner. The pinkette nodded softly, with her face dug into the paler ANBU's chest. "Please do, Yamato taicho."
Yamato covered the silver haired man's head with the white fabric and then bowed deeply just like Sai. The rest were sad, but he guessed the man's death would hit the blond and himself most. After all, he thought after surviving their ANBU eras, bringing up three, no, four, talented jounins, his senpai was one of the longest serving jounin in the village. He remained bowed, as his tears dropped, wetting the tile that he was standing on. Leaving the Ne after the Kakashi's assassination mission was assigned to him, joining the ANBU force and hence took up the squad leader as the man left ANBU for jounin mentor, the silver haired man has been the key figure in his life, even more than their Hokage.
Author's Note
_ well, finally, managed to "kill" Kaka-sensei... *face covered in tears* BUT good news is that, I have typed out the whole story, so for sure this would end, gradually when I have time to upload, and that the end is not that far away either! It has been more than 2 and a half years and I am truly, seriously appreciate for your supports, hope you like the rest of the chapters that I am going to put up soon.
Prescripto13: Yup, thanks for your support. That's why I decided to put this one at the last minute, never thought of the purpose nor the marriage... XD
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Yanvi