Kakashi POV

I walked down the dirt path with the bridge builder near me and the kids were walking in front of me. I was keeping an eye on Sasuke as Naruto walked in front of scouting for the enemy as he put it.

I rolled my eye and watched Sakura talk about something and for once Sasuke didn't brush her. I smile a little maybe he was starting to grow as a person. I turn it look at the bridge builder he as drinking and looking at me I sighed and smiled at him but I don't think that he could tell with my mask on.

"What is it?" He looked at me unsure if he should ask his question but then thought about it. "Nothin just do you think that these kids are really going to be enough." I looked at him there was something of about him and I looked at the kids as Naruto was carrying on. "Yeah, they should be enough for simply muggers and stuff like that why is there something that you need to tell me."

I look at him and he sighed heavily at me. "I got him." "Knock it off, you idiot." I looked up to see that Naruto had thrown a kunai at a white tile bunny. Which was odd they didn't come out until winter. "Great this is the type of joker that is going to protect me maybe you should be paying me not the other way around."

I sighed heavily as Sasuke glared at him please let this not be another one of his outburst "You such a joke are you sure you are in the right program. I mean really you would be the dumbest ninja in the world"

He smiles at him and I saw Naruto starting to get irritated. "Sasuke!" My voice was stern but I made sure that it wasn't a stern than usual. Jeez, this line between parent and teacher is pretty thin. He looked back and me but he thought about to keep going.

"Excuse me for a moment" I look at the bridge builder and smile at him before walking up to Sasuke. "Sakura I am going to steal him for a minute." She nodded her head and looked at me worriedly.

I grabbed Sasuke by the arm and pulled him back so that we were walking with the bridge builder. He growled under his breath as we walked away well it was more like me dragging him.

"Are you done?" I looked at him and he sighed heavily "I can't stand the kid it's going to take more than a stern talking to, to get me to be nicer to him." I glare at him "That's duly noted now knock it off."

I don't get what his problem is Naruto has done nothing to him and yet he continues to look down on him. Well, there one that thing with the Uchiha massacre but I thought that was resolved.

I could see this frown starting to form on his face as he glared at me like I was the one that said something wrong and not the other way around. "What is your problem now?" My voice was a low whisper so that Sasuke was the only one that could hear me, his large opal eyes stared daggers at me as he shifted his head towards Naruto.

"Its bullshit this loser is acting like a fool shaming the village and I am the one in trouble. You're being a dick, mom would have taken my side." That was such a low blow and he knew it. I could have said something but I knew that he was going to be in a bad mood no matter what I said. I

really didn't have a choice but to let him walk back to Sakura. When he did she smiled wide at him and he tired of return it but I am pretty sure I put him in a sour mood.

I could hear the bridge builder laughing as he looked at Sasuke and then me and there was something in his eyes that told me that he knew something. He kept his voice down when he spoke. "I didn't know that you were allowed to be in charge of your son's team."

I turned to look at the bridge builder and there was this amused look on his face and confusion in his eyes. "I'm not hence why the other on the team don't know so if you could keep that to yourself that was be greatly appreciated." He laughed slightly but looked at Sasuke this amused look on his face.

"He's got a good head on his shoulders knowing that you are his father makes me feel better about this mission." I don't know what he meant by that but I decided not to say a thing I just minded my business. There had to be something wrong something that I was missing but what could it be.

After a while, we made it the boat and slowly crept in to make sure that there was no problems or noise made that would alert the attention of someone else that wasn't supposed to know about us.

The fog swirled around the boat as I looked at the one black water. The boat rocked slightly as the kids chat amongst themselves. When I looked over Sasuke has this frown on his face as he moved further back into the boat so that he was seated with me and the Tazuna.

But there was something strange about his posture that made me worry. "You okay?" I kept my voice a low whisper so that the others couldn't hear us. He frowned and looked at me. "I just feel like we are being hunted. Maybe it is the fact that mom and the clan died today but it is strange that is all."

As he said that I watched his shoulders drop for a moment and this cold chill went down my spine. The poor kid I'm sure that this is the last thing that he needed to deal with right now. When the boat landed on the shore we all got off and I felt more at ease when the sun broke out past the fog.

We talked for a while and I stepped in a puddle and look down at it for a moment before looking back up in time to switch out my body for a substitution. I watched the attacker go after the kids, Naruto was stunned but Sasuke and Sakura both went into action. Sakura ran to protect the bridge builder while Sasuke attacked the enemy ninja.

He was able to pin one to the tree but the other move too fast for him and went straight to Sakura. He ran in front of her to protect her from the blow. My mind rush with the possibility of what could happen to him. In the end, my body acted without my consent. I look at the both of them and they stare at me shock as before look at the wooden chunks of the wood block. "How did you know?"

I look at them and then at Naruto who was shaking. I sighed heavily "The rabbit was white and that only occurs in the winter and there was a puddle when it didn't rain at all. You were sloppy." I walked towards Naruto "we will have taken you back to the village and get you healed up there is poisoned in that wound."

I looked at him and he was in shock, Sasuke walked over to us and stood next to me. "He is so useless I told you that we should have left him in the village when he first started acting like a fool." He spoke under his breath and I looked at him and growled: "What did I tell you about that attitude."

A frown grew on his face as Naruto stabbed himself in the hand and Sasuke scoffed "He is such an idiot you're going to bleed out now." He mumbled it under his breath and I sighed heavily and walked over to him and wrapped his hand "You got the poison out but you lost a lot of blood." I look up and turn it look at the bridge builder and sighed.

"We will finish the mission but I think that you need to tell us the whole truth." I look at him as we started to walk. "There is a man that does not want us to build the bridge and he has been hiring thugs to stop us and that is all you need to know."

"We are going to talk more about this when we get to your house. I want the truth this time 100%. I watched him as we continue to walk. I looked at Sasuke he was talking cockily to Sakura and Naruto was sulking next to him and looked at me. "What the hell is your problem." I sighed and looked at Sasuke as he looked at Naruto but he didn't do anything instead he went back to talk to Sakura.

I sighed and watched them for a little bit longer when mist rolled in in heavy, thick layers of it came in blocking the gray sunlight and making it impossible to see anything that was in front of my face. "All of you protect the bridge builder." I could hear them moving their feet following the order I gave to them. "Kakashi!" Was that…

I could hear blood-curdling screams coming from the end of the hallway, though it shouldn't be shocking with what tonight is. I rolled over onto my sd chance a glance in the dark. Hoping to find Mikoto there but she wasn't there. Her soft blue hair isn't falling down her face as her kind raven husband eyes weren't staring back at me.

I know that it might sound horrible but at the moment Kurnai felt more like the second place prize that I never wanted. Sure I love her but at a times like this, I hoped that I would wake up to see the warm body lying in my arms was the love of my life. Not the women that I managed to fall for after I lost the most important thing to me.

Even now as I lay awake looking at the ceiling hoping that the screams were apart of my dream I knew that they weren't when I second chorus roused in the air. The left side of the bed felt empty as a soft voice tired to cook Sasuke. But I could still hear his low whimpers as he spoke in a horse and whiny voice. "I want my daddy!"

So I got up without a single thought my video move on impulse as the thought of my crying son was all alone in his bed. My heart pound in my ears as I got closer and closer to the door that was slightly ajar. A slight glimmer of light stared back at me as I quickly and utility made my way into the room.

Only to find a wife and alert Sasuke staring at me, fresh tears streaming down his face as his alabaster skin seemed to glow in the moonlight as he began to turn flush. I rushed to his side ignore the fact that Kurna was there. After the horrible thought that ran in my head, I wouldn't have felt right looking at her and seeing all the love that had filled them. Instead, I focus on my crying 8 years old.

Brealey coping with the fact that tonight w the anniversary of the day that his life went to shit. All I could really o was hold him as his burning hot tears hit my bare chest as he snuggled ever closer to me. Grasping at my neck as drowning person grasps at the water hoping for air. When will this nightmare be over?

I had passed out I don't know when but I could feel a wait on my chest and something wet his my chest what was? I open my eyes slowly to see that the light was off and I was in some room. When I look down at my chest I saw a raven-haired boy asleep tears in his eyes and it broke my heart what the hell happened.

When I look around the other two weren't here where the hell could they be. I went to sit up but I felt a tight pain in my chest. "Dad" I looked up and Sasuke starting to wipe his eyes they were red with the tears he must have been shedding when I was knocked out. I tried to lift up my arm but moaned out in pain "Where are we?"

I look at him and he rubbed his eyes a little more and looked at him "The bridge builders house, we made it, but you passed out on the way here. You sure that you are okay to sit up." I smile at him gently and sat up a bit I started to fall back and he caught me before I could have the chance.

When I looked him in the eyes there was something about him that seemed broken almost like that same look he would get in his eyes right after his mother passed. The I'm all alone and I don't know how to move on a look, it filled me with such grief that I made him feel this way.

He looked so small when he got like this and I was the cause because I had to be reckless. I should have turned us around the moment I knew what was going on. "I'm sorry I'm sure that this brought up some painful memories for you."

He shook his head and I watched as some tears pooled into his eyes. "It's fine I was just happy that you weren't going to leave me alone. I can't lose the only family that I had left" I wanted so badly to hug him but I could barely move. "I would never leave you I love you."

I felt my eyes slide close and then the door to the room open and as my eyes close I could see the feet of my other two students.