Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Lessons in Shinobi Love ❯ Lesson 5: To Sacrifice ( Chapter 5 )

A/N: Here I am with another chapter. But first, I am going to answer some reviews. (from Fanfiction.net)

 

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Lessons in Shinobi Love

 

 

Lesson 5: To Sacrifice

 

 

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“Mission, Find The Missing Pet, Accomplished.”

 

 

There they were, Team 7 back at the Hokage's to be assigned yet another D-Rank mission. As the old man read off a list of repetitive and otherwise boring chores, compared to what most ninja missions were Naruto protested, as usual, with the pink haired genin getting irritated at his complaining, which, eventually earned him a punch in the head by Kakashi.

 

As the Hokage began to explain the routine of how the missions went and the levels of A, B, C, and D rank, a lone eye went to that of a certain pink haired genin, and Kakashi began to ponder to himself for a while.

 

Did she really think that he was that bad? Knowing his luck, he had managed yet again to deter her, as he had done others in the past. Come to think of it…Why did he feel as if he should even get close to someone? He had never wanted to before. His survivor's guilt (1) always kicked in before he could even think twice about reconsidering someone's friendship.

 

He didn't want to come off as cruel, but simply as distant. The less people that got to know him, the better for his psyche. The jounin had always seemed to put some hex of death on anyone who wanted to be friends with him. Everyone he had ever known had let him down in some way.

 

So, what was so different about Sakura?

 

To tell the truth, he didn't really know…

 

“Are you listening?” Was the question that brought him out of his senses as he also heard Naruto's voice, ranting about what type of ramen he was going to eat for the day.

 

Kakashi sweat dropped to himself and put an arm behind his head. “I…I'm sorry.”

 

As Naruto began to argue with Iruka and the Hokage yet again, Squad 7 were finally assigned an upper ranked mission, shocking the three members, minus the blonde, who was ecstatic that he was finally going to do some “real” ninja stuff.

 

As the Hokage introduced their client, an old man came sauntering through the door, chugging down the last of his beverage. Though as he came through the door, the insults came from his mouth, and the blonde became irritated when he figured out which “imbecile” he was referring to and lunged forward as Kakashi let out a sigh and grabbed the back his collar as the child below him flailed around.

 

“Wrong. No killing the old man you've been assigned to protect.”

 

Things didn't get any better as they exited Konohagkure. Tazuna seemed to roll off even more insults at Naruto, especially after his boast of potentially being the new found Hokage, and his teacher had to yet again grab him by the collar and tell him the same sentence as before.

 

As the range of insults exploded from every which angle, Sakura looked at Kakashi and pondered to herself. The green eyed girl wondered what the events of their survival training was leading up to and couldn't help but to wonder what Kakashi's sentences were all about.

 

She looked back at Sasuke, with a look of confusion. For once, the kunoichi in training couldn't help but question her love for the stoic boy. Green eyes went back to the silver haired jounin, who was looking exasperated with the blonde and sighing to himself.

 

There was something about him that the pink haired genin couldn't place. The more she gazed at him, the more she began to notice the small things about the jounin that most people wouldn't normally notice.

 

The way the lighting seemed to amplify his silver hair, making it an array of different shades and tones, ranging from an almost pitch black, to an angelic white. She, like all of his other students in the past, had wondered what he had hidden beneath that mask of his and began to wonder the options and possibilities.

 

Maybe he was really good looking…

 

Sakura blushed to herself.

 

Had she just thought that about her teacher? She mentally slapped herself for thinking such a thing, but as her meadow gaze went back to the jounin, she found him interesting in a way.

 

Green eyes softened as she stood there, gazing at her sensei as they walked.

 

Then she could hear the sounds of chain echoing through her head. The pink haired girl swiftly turned to see her sensei caught off guard by an attack from two rouge ninja. Panic, worry and sorrow shot through her green gaze as she looked in fright upon her sensei being bound by the two ninja.

 

Eyes then widened in terror as she saw what she though to be her sensei being ripped to shreds by the chains.

 

“Kakashi-sensei!” The pink haired girl yelled, looking on to see nothing amongst the smoke as one thing struck her brain.

 

`A ninja must see through deception…'

 

`Yeah, that's it.' She thought. `See through deception. He's not dead. He can't be dead.'

 

The pink haired girl looked about her to see her team mates being attacked, as Sasuke ran in to battle against the two ninja. No doubt his skills were impressive. Sakura only wished that she could fight as well as Sasuke as the gnawing thought of Kakashi's possible death went through her mind for a split second before noticing that Tazuna was left unguarded.

 

`Kakashi-sensei…' The pink haired genin thought to herself as the vivid image of her teacher being torn to shreds ran through her mind, `Gave his life to protect us…' A determined flare crossed through her emerald eyes. `I won't disappoint him! I'll protect Tazuna, even if I have to follow him!'

 

The girl got in front of the old man. “Stand back, sir!”

 

Sakura gripped a kunai knife, ready to go down fighting when Sasuke appeared in front of her to take them on further.

 

“Huh?” Was the confused noise emitted from the girl. `Sasuke's…protecting me?'

 

Then, in a flash, the two ninja were clothes-lined by Kakashi. The dark haired boy looked just as surprised as Sakura did.

 

`Kakashi-sensei…You're alive.' The green eyed girl's face lit up with happiness and relief, upon Naruto noting that he used the Replacement Jutsu to escape.

 

`I'm so glad you're alright, Kakashi-sensei.' Sakura smiled.

 

Emerald eyes looked upon her sensei, who was standing there, straight and tall, holding his enemies with the pride of a hawk that had just snatched an unsuspecting fish from the water.

 

`Kakashi-sensei…You saved our lives…You really are...'

 

Her thoughts were cut off by her sensei's words, questioning Tazuna's motives now that he had made an intelligent observation of who the shinobi's true targets were. The jounin had also noted that, due to that attack, this mission was far beyond that of ninja of their level.

 

A look of worry crossed Sakura's face. If that particular incident happened once, it was sure to happen again. This specific type of mission was out of her league, out of their league and intuition told her that they should turn back.

 

There was no way that low-level ninja like them could carry out a task like that. She could barely protect Tazuna from that rouge ninja, much less be prepared to face other ninja who could possibly be of the jounin level.

 

She pondered to herself…

 

That would be like them, fighting a team of nothing but Kakashi.

 

She couldn't even handle him in training, and he was just playing around with them. Sakura could only imagine what it would have been like to fight him going at full force.

 

She had faith in him, no doubt he would have done more then just shoved his fingers in Naruto's butt. Her sensei has the potential to kill them all, and perhaps Sakura was one of the few people to see that factor.

 

No matter how much of a porn reading, slacker Kakashi was, she could see a glimpse of the true potential of the jounin at the few times he had been serious and even through his words of advice.

 

“This…could be troublesome.” The girl heard her sensei mutter as she looked over to see what they should do now.

 

They were far into the mission, and she doubted that they even could turn back now.

 

Then something completely random and self sacrificing came from Naruto's direction. He had stabbed himself in his wound to drain the poison, earning a look of shock from the entire team, even Tazuna seemed shocked at his rash, yet bold move.

 

A move that he later regretted once Kakashi had noted that he may bleed to death now that had had inflicted that wound.

 

Naruto, of course, flailed around in panic as the pink haired genin reminded him that he needed to stay still or he would loose more blood then he already was loosing.

 

As the blonde settled down, their sensei told him to let him see his hand. Naruto handed the injured limb over to see if Kakashi could assess the wound.

 

As the silver haired sensei took his hand, a serious and contemplative look passed over his features, and upon noticing this, the blonde began to feel uneasy and a little worried.

 

`Kakashi-sensei looks so serious. I hope I'm not going to die…' the child thought to himself for about five minutes, before finally speaking to his teacher.

 

“Um, you're scaring me. Why do you look so serious? Am I going to be alright?” He asked, a nervous tone laced his voice.

 

“You should be fine.” Kakashi noted, after pondering to himself.

 

Sakura noticed the look on her sensei's face and wondered to herself what exactly he was thinking while bandaging Naruto's hand.

 

The sunlight danced in Kakashi's hair, playing with the shades and hues of gray. The shimmer danced around within the silky threads as he arose.

 

Green eyes stood happily on his form, and wondered if he was pleased with the way she was willing to sacrifice herself to save Tazuna and her friends, and to follow him faithfully to the world beyond this one.

 

Though now she's glad that she didn't.

 

 

 

 

TBC

 

Notes:

 

Survivor's Guilt: The death of loved ones often leave the survivor thinking, "Why was I spared? I should have died too." An immense amount of guilt is associated with surviving when all your loved ones are gone. Sufferers of survivor's guilt are often unable to form close personal relationships, fearing that feelings for anyone new is a betrayal to those who passed, or fearing that they too will die. The survivor may also feel he does not deserve to be happy and as punishment would avoid a relationship which would mitigate his feelings of guilt and pain.

 

A/N: This chapter is not beta read. I'm working on beta reading something at the moment, so I am posting this chapter as what it is. Forgive me for the bad grammar in parts. It'll be beta read in a couple of days. Sorry for not posting this earlier. I was dealing with a plagiarist known as LovelyHendersonon fanfiction.net. If she/he is not taken down, expect this chapter to be under their name as well.

 

*sigh* What can I say? I'll keep posting no matter who steals from me. I've been plagiarized 10 times now, what more could it hurt? I just hope I don't get accused to being a plagiarist by someone who read LovelyHenderson's work before mine and didn't read the reviews.

 

Guess I'm being pretty nonchalant about the whole ordeal…

 

Ah, anyway, please review and don't forget to check out my other stories. I have two other KakaSaku works.