Chapter 29

"Minato found a bomb in your office. What we just heard was it blowing up. That was meant to kill us just now."

The CEO's face paled and she bit the inside of her cheek and turned away and ran into the walk-in closet.

"What do we do?" his voice cracking as he spoke.

"We need to leave right now, Kakashi." she spoke as calmly as she could in that moment as she pulled out a large duffel bag, "You need to change out of your suit. Put on anything besides your work clothes, I already have an evacuation plan."

Kakashi was next to her a second later, all but ripping off his suit while she did the same with her own work clothes.

"Just tell me what I need to do and I'll do it." while they carried the bag to the front door.

"You have that safe in your office with some quick cash, right?" she spoke quickly as they ran back down the hall, "Leave your phone and all credit cards behind, but grab all that money. I'm gonna go grab something. Meet me back at the front door ASAP."

Kakashi just nodded as he started typing in the code to his safe as she left the room. Sakura was in her old room a second later as she went into the walk-in closet and grabbed the heavy duffel bag that she shoved into the back of the closet the day she moved in and heaved it over her shoulder. She met up with Kakashi in the hall as she left her room.

"Okay, I grabbed all the cash that was in there. There was $10,000." he revealed as he held up a thick envelope, "Mostly fifties and hundreds."

Sakura whistled low as they got to the front door.

"That's perfect, more than enough. Please carry that bag, lets go. Follow all my instructions from here on out, okay?"

Kakashi nodded quickly as Sakura wrenched open the door and the two security officers that usually stood guard outside were gone.

'Where the hell did they go? No. This is good. The less people to see us, the better.'

"We're taking the service stairs. The elevators are too dangerous, we don't know if they have been rigged or if there's been any damage done from the explosion."

Kakashi just silently obliged and followed her deftly down the steps. He was currently scared shitless as they zoomed down flight after flight of stairs. His flight or fight response was on overdrive. Flight was the only thing on his mind.

Sakura suddenly opened a door and they walked into a part of the building he realized he'd never been in before. They jogged down a hallway that resembled a hospital almost with it's bare and stark white halls.

"Where are we?"

"It's one of the service floors. The HVAC system and servers for the entire security system are on this floor." she told him as they entered a room filled lined wall to wall with servers and monitors.

He saw various images on the screens of parts the building and loads of people running about on them in panic. He watched as Sakura pulled a switchblade out of nowhere and started cutting random wires and the images on the screens cut out into static and servers shut down as she quickly progressed along the wall.

"What are you doing?!" he called out.

"I don't want us to be seen. We don't know if we're being watched from this system. I'm taking every step necessary to ensure your safety!" she shot back as she finished up and the last monitor and server cut out, "Come, let's go, we're leaving the building now."

Sakura grabbed his hand and all but yanked him out of the room and down the hall to a different set of stairs. They spent the next fifteen minutes zigzagging down various flights of steps and halls as the slowly descended the building. They oddly never ran into a single person as the made their way down the skyscraper. Sakura pushed open an exit door and the two of them found their way onto a rooftop and into the bright sunlight.

"Just this way now. We're taking a fire escape down to the alley. Once we walk out onto it keep your head low, okay?"

He just nodded once again as they reached the fire escape and quickly made their way down.

'I have to trust her. I have to trust her! I can't mess up this time. She knows what she's doing! She's the real deal, damn it! Believe in her, you fool.'

The sudden sound of a gun firing and the responding sound of the bullet hitting the door they just exited ripped Kakashi from his thoughts.

"Son of a bitch." Sakura bit out as she dropped her bag and dragged them between two air vents as she pulled her gun out.

Two more shots rang through the air and he watched as Sakura braced herself before quickly stepping out into the open and firing back a handful of times and stepping back into cover.

"What do we do now?" he asked when he finally found his voice.

"I need to take him out as quickly as possible because we don't need to attract anymore attention with an unnecessary gun fight…" she mumbled as she peeked around and jerked back when another bullet fired back, "We need to get out of here, but he has us cornered."

Kakashi watched Sakura with admiration as he watched her work out their course of action.

The CEO felt a hand landed on his shoulder and pull him back. He jerked around and came face to face with a dark haired man raising a gun. As if on instinct, he threw himself at the gunman and grabbed his wrist that held the gun and twisted as hard as possible and caused the guy to wince and cry out as he fell back.

"Argh!"

"Like hell I'm going to let you hurt her!" he shouted as he pinned the gunman under him.

Drawing back his fist, Kakashi threw his entire weight into it as knuckles connected with a nose. The sound of the man's nose breaking and his head bouncing off the ground confirming a successful hit. He quickly reached and grabbed the hand gun from the now unconscious man and stood up.

When he turned to face Sakura he found bright green eyes staring at him in awe.

"You took him out in one hit." she said in disbelief.

He just shrugged and half smiled at her then.

"I wasn't going to allow anyone to hurt you."

She regarded him warmly before she gave him a cheeky wink.

"I guess me training you has paid off, eh?"

Before he could reply another bullet shot over head and ripped them out of their little world.

"I need you to help me now that you have that gun." she said as she stepped past him and around the air vent.

"Wa-wait, what?"

"Don't worry, you're just going to distract this other idiot. When I say when, I just need you to stick your hand out and empty your clip in the direction he's been firing from. It'll distract him enough for me to come from this side and hopefully hit him. You don't need to aim or put yourself out there, I just need you to make an opening." she explained.

Kakashi took a deep breath as he absorbed this plan.

"I won't let you get hurt, darling. Trust me." she added quickly.

He looked up and met her gaze and furrowed his brow as he gathered his resolve and nodded at her.

"Okay. I can do that. I trust you."

She smiled big at him as they positioned themselves. When she gave him the signal he swung his arm out and did as instructed as he repeatedly fired into the direction of the other gunman. He heard three more shots come from his right where she had stepped around and the sudden scream of a man.

'She hit him!'

"Let's go!" heard her from behind him.

He turned and gasped when he watched her stand over the guy he had knocked out earlier and fire a single shot into one of his knees.

"What the hell?!"

She quickly walked past him and grabbed her duffel bag she dropped and motioned for him to follow her. He quickly glanced back at the man before he grabbed his bag and jogged after her.

"Don't worry, I didn't kill him or shoot him to bleed out. I just needed to make sure we won't be followed. Do you still have that gun?"

He handed over the weapon and watched her tuck it into the band of her jeans and holster her own gun. As they got to the fire escape, they came across the other gunman and found him writhing in a small pool of blood.

"Please! Don't kill me!" he cried out when they came into view.

Sakura walked over to him and grabbed the discarded gun and stood up and regarded him with a sad smile.

"I'm not going to kill you, but I can't let you go anywhere either. Who's your boss?" she said quietly

"Kill me then because I'm not telling you." he spat back as he held his bleeding arm.

He watched her raise the gun and aimed and Kakashi closed his eyes and looked away in time and only flinched from the gunshot and as the man screamed in obvious pain.

"Sadly, I can't ask anymore questions." she bit out, "I'll let the police deal with you then."

She tucked that gun next to the other one he had given her and walked away.

"We need to get out of here before the police find us." she whispered as she climbed onto the fire escape, "There's been too much gun fire for my liking…"

Kakashi remained silent as he followed behind her.

'She's so ruthless. I knew this, but it feels like she's a different woman right now…'

When they stepped out of the alley he turned and saw countless police cars parked around the building a few blocks away. Sakura had purposely lead them to where they avoided running into anyone and any interference that may otherwise hindered their escape.

Well, except for those two she left wounded on the roof.

'She's a damn genius.'

Keeping true to his word, he dropped his head as they walked as fast as possible into the crowds and chaos of the streets and away from the building. Another thirty minutes passed before she grabbed his hand and stopped him.

"Okay, we're safe. Sort of." she informed him as she half stepped out onto the street and rose a hand, "Taxi!"

Not even ten seconds later a car screeched to a stop in front of them. Together they crawled into the back of the cab and crammed the bags between them.

"Konoha International airport, please! There was a crazy explosion in some building back there! We were in the hotel right next to it when it happened! We wanna get out of here! I think it was a terrorist attack or something!" she told the driver and the man quickly nodded and sped away down the road.

'The airport?!'

Kakashi shot her a bewildered look and she stared hard back at him. He realized that she was trying to get him to play along with her cover story. He gave her a sad smile and nodded.

"I can't believe this is how our vacation ended up. I'm so sorry, darling." he spoke low to her.

"It's okay. We'll be home soon. I hope everyone is okay though, that explosion sounded so scary! I pray no one got seriously hurt." she said back as she reached out and took his hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze. He knew she was talking about Minato and anyone else who was near the explosion. They had no way of knowing who got hurt and who is okay.

The next thirty minutes where spent in a tense silence as they taxi driver took them away from the Hatake International building and towards the airport on the western edge of town. Once they arrived, Kakashi quickly paid and left a hefty tip to the driver and together him and Sakura began walking down the sidewalk towards the entrances.

"Are we really flying somewhere?" he asked cautiously.

"Nope." she quickly replied, "Oh, perfect there's the free shuttle."

Kakashi just stared after her in confusion as they made their way towards the bus.

"Does this take us to the car rental place?" she asked when they boarded.

"Sure does, ma'am. First stop once we depart in five minutes!" the older gentleman informed them.

"Ah, perfect! Thank you so much, mister!"

'She's thought this plan out thoroughly. She's attempting to make our path nearly untraceable it seems?'

Twenty minutes later the van pulled up to the small car rental service that was next to the airport and the couple and a handful of other people exited and made their way to the building. Fifty minutes later they threw their bags in the back seat of a silver SUV as Sakura took the driver's seat and zoomed away. He was surprised that she pulled out a fake ID of herself to use to get the car. He couldn't believe how prepared she was in any situation. When she saw his questioning look she quickly explained that Senju Securities created a fake identity for her to use in situations like these and he made a mental note to discuss that piece of information with Tsunade when he next got a chance.

"Where are we going?" he asked tentatively after they drove for about ten minutes in silence.

"Somewhere we can't be found for a little while, while things settle down here."

Sakura suddenly pulled off to the side of the back country road they had been on and got out and started prying open the dashboard under the steering wheel.

"What are you doing now?" he asked while he watched as she pulled out her switchblade again and cut something out.

Sakura held up a some square looking object that looked like something like a flashdrive.

"GPS tracker. I was curious if this car had one even if it was a lower end and it did. Like I said earlier, I don't want to be followed." she told him as she walked to the front of the car and pitched it into the rice field they were next too.

She got back in the car after that and did a complete u-turn and drove away.

"We're driving back to the city now?" Kakashi asked her next.

"Sort of, but we're not entering the city. We're gonna travel north for a little while, grab some supplies, then go south east to the safe house. I've pre-arranged a place for us to stay. Only you, I, and two other people know about it." she explained her motives.

Kakashi half turned to look at her.

"Pre-arranged? How could you pre-arrange for something that you didn't know was going to happen?"

Sakura just took a deep breath and sighed before she turned and looked at him briefly.

"I had a hunch about a couple things. I wanted to have a back up plan in case anything happened and we needed to get out fast. That's why I made those ready bags and got this safe house for us."

"What hunch?" he asked next.

Sakura remained quiet for a few moments and contemplated whether she wanted to tell him now and settled on sooner rather than later. He deserved to know at least some of the information in this moment, she thought.

"I have a hunch on who has been attacking you." she revealed.

Not missing a beat, Kakashi let out a startled noise.

"What? You've had a hunch for a while now and figured it wasn't worth my time to tell me?!" he angrily shot out, "When did you get this damn hunch?"

The bodyguard just pursed her lips to stop any unfiltered comments from coming out. She knew he'd probably react like this when she told him.

"I decided not to tell you because it's just a hunch." she replied calmly, "I've only recently began putting the pieces together."

"Who is it, Sakura?" he snapped next, "Who do you think is trying to kill me?!"

She didn't reply as she gripped the steering wheel harder and pushed down the gas pedal and sped along the highway faster.

"Sakura!" he shouted loudly.

"Tenzo! I think it's Tenzo, damn it!" she yelled back.

Silence filled the air for a while as she took a couple deeps to even out her breathing.

"What… Tenzo? Why would he try and kill me? He's been trying to protect me!"

Sakura groaned slightly as he bombarded her with more questions.

"I don't know why he's targeting you yet, that's why it's a hunch. I wanted to confirm all my facts and gather evidence to prove it was him before I told you!" she bite out with more venom than intended, "That's exactly why I didn't tell you!"

Kakashi remained silent and they drove the next two hours in silence. Sakura remained focused as she took various exits and back roads as they travelled north. Now that things have come this far in her plan, she had to start figuring out the next steps for them to take. Soon she pulled into the parking lot of a rinky dink grocery store with an attached gas station.

"We need gas and we can get some supplies while we're here." she spoke quietly as she turned off the car and looked over to her boyfriend.

The silver haired man sighed before he turned to look at her.

"Alright. I'll pump while you head in and start getting stuff." he replied back as quietly as he pulled out his wallet and handed her a handful of bills, "Let me know if you need more."

Sakura just smiled weakly down at the cash as he began to get out of the SUV.

"Kakashi." she called out to him and he paused and turned to look back at her, "I love you."

A soft smile came to him as he regarded her warmly.

"I love you too, Sakura."

Over the next hour, they stocked up on food and basic supplies to last them for a while. Sakura picked up a cheap disposable phone as well. While they stood in line to check out, Sakura noticed the small TV playing behind the counter. She saw that it was a local news station and a live feed of a reporter with the Hatake International building in the background. There was a red banner at the bottom of the screen that read "Breaking News: Bombing inside Hatake International. CEO Kakashi Hatake whereabouts unknown."

Sakura rolled her eyes and scoffed to herself as she watched the screen.

'That means I did my job well if he can't be found.' she thought with pride.

Once they loaded up the trunk, they were back on the road and started heading south east.

"How much longer until we get to this safe house?" he asked after another stretch of time passed between them.

Kakashi felt awful right now. Felt awful about the way he lashed out at Sakura earlier. She had remained calm the entire time and he let his emotions get the better of him. He didn't know how he could apologize to her right now.

"Uh, we'll we've been driving for like thirty minutes now? I think we'll arrive there in a few hours or so depending on traffic." she told him.

"You really amazed me today." he mumbled out loud without thinking, "I don't know how you can do it."

There was a pause before she replied to him.

"I compartmentalize."

The CEO just closed his eyes as he nodded at her curt answer.

'She's definitely still pissed off.'

He just clamped his mouth shut and rode out the remainder of the drive. It was safer to remain silent at this point. There was no need to get their emotions worked up anymore than they already have. They had been on the road for hours at this point and he could tell they were both growing exhausted.

It was well after dark when Sakura pulled off the road and drove up a long dirt driveway and finally up next to a small building.

"We're here." she spoke up for the first time in nearly three hours.

Kakashi peered out the SUV window and frowned that he couldn't see anything since there was no outside lights. Not even the building to their left had any light coming from it. Sakura suddenly got out and he quickly followed suite.

"Here as in where?" he asked as he grabbed the duffel bags and stared wide eyed down at the one Sakura had carried earlier. It was heavy. Oddly heavy for a ready go bag.

'What the hell is in here?'

When he looked back up and didn't find Sakura next to him. He heard a door open and he turned and saw pink hair as it entered into the building.

'She's still upset.' he internally groaned as he followed her inside.

"You can take those bags into the bedroom." she told him as she flipped a switch by the door and two light bulbs lit up in the room then moved into another room, "It's through here."

Kakashi just followed her as she turned on a switch in the bedroom and another single lightbulb lit up and showed the queen sized bed in the corner of the room. He dropped the bags onto the bed and stepped over to her.

"Where are we?" he asked again as he reached out and grabbed her hand and gently tugged her towards him.

Sakura gave in then and let herself be pulled towards him. She let out a soft sigh as her head fell against his chest.

"Some place I haven't been to in over eight years." she whispered before she pulled away and walked over to a fireplace and squatted in front of it.

'Eight years? Wait. That's before… That's before they died.'

He turned and watched as she started a small fire with some kindling wood and threw a couple logs onto it.

'Why does this place seem so familiar? I've never been here before.'

He realized that the fireplace was double sided and he could see the other room and it dawned on him then that he in fact knew this place. Sakura had told him countless stories about it before. The sound of her standing up and walking back over to him brought him out of his thoughts.

"Sakura… Is this your family's cabin?" he asked when their eyes met.

She just nodded once, the exhaustion clear as day as she whispered her answer.

"Yeah."

A/N: Oh jeez, oh man. My bbys are under attack and I don't like it. Everything was so perfect and I just had to screw it up. Anyways, bombing, fighting, running away, and hopefully safety? A LOT happened.

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