Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Menagerie � A Collection of Naruto Shorts ❯ Home: Kakashi, Sakura, Naruto, & Others ( Chapter 6 )

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Enter standard disclaimer here. Nope, not mine, not mine at all…damn…

**note: mild 239 Kakashi Gaiden spoilers.

Menagerie - A Collection of Naruto Shorts

Story Six - Home: Kakashi, Sakura, Naruto & others

By - Wicked Innuendo

The warm white sea of infinitive clouds enveloped him like a mother's embrace. Tendrils of alabaster swathed his limbs, the downy softness caressed over his face in gentle touches. Peaceful, safe, warm; it was the childlike discovery of innocence found once again after decades of absence. It felt right here, it felt like coming like home.

Rin, Obito, Sensei, Hayate; he could make out their welcoming voices and see the outline of their silhouettes.

“Kakashi-kun, it's been so long. I've missed you so much, welcome home.” Rin greeted him, her long auburn hair spilled over her outstretched arms.

Just three more steps, two, and one more. They remained behind an orifice of pure white light, waiting for him.

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She pushed on his chest with her chakra infused palms…

One one thousand

Two one thousand

Three one thousand

Her small hands pulled down the dark mask, exposing his youthful face to her for the first time. She tilted his chin up, pinched his nose, and brought her mouth to his blue hued lips. Sakura blew lungfuls of life giving of chakra leavened breath. His chest rose and fell with each breath she gave with her medic's kiss of life.

“Damnit, Kakashi! Don't you give up. Breath, Kakshi breath!” she tenaciously pleaded to him.

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She extended her arms out, though her sandaled feet remained firmly planted. “I've been watching over you,” she sweetly smiled, her face forever that of a fifteen year old women-child.

A voice was cleared, “We've been watching over you,” Obito corrected Rin, nudging her side lightly. “And I have to say Senpai, you're early again. I thought you quit that early stuff years ago,” he chuckled and moved to stand behind Rin. Obito put his hands on her shoulders, letting his fingers glide over her bare arms to her fingertips and gently pulled her hands to her sides, away from Kakashi.

Kakashi watched, absorbing it all, too amazed to say anything.

Obito held Rin from behind and whispered into her hair, “It's not his time.”

“I know, but I've missed him.”

“So have I.”

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Naruto shook with fear for Kakashi's life and anger towards Sasuke for doing this to him. He felt helpless watching Sakura try to resuscitate Kakashi. He busied himself by cleaning Kakashi's superficial wounds with torn wrappings dipped in pungent sterile alcohol. His former sensei's injuries were genjutsu related and incurred as Sasuke held Kakashi helpless in his Mangekyou Sharingan, mentally drowning the infamous Copy Nin in a sea of blood under the crimson moon.

“Don't you die damnit!” Sakura commanded, her face streaked with tears as she continued rhythmic pushes on his chest.

“Sakura,” Naruto interjected, his voice choked and wavered, surprising him as it passed over his lips. “Let me try to help you.”

Naruto focused his chakra to his hands and placed them over Sakura's as she pressed over Kakashi's heart. He forced his chakra into her, blue at first then hues of amethyst to violent red, into Sakura, using her medical adeptness as a conduit for Kyuubi's chakra.

Chakra flowed from Naruto into Sakura, she molded it and pushed it into Kakashi the best she could, but it was overwhelming. The red hot fire of his Chakra seared her fingers. Sakura screamed, it hurt and burned, even as the tops of her hands began to blister from the scorching chakra that Naruto pumped into her, she continued with even more vigor in her pursuit to revive him.

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“Good-bye, Kakashi. Until, we meet again.” Obito half smiled and pulled his goggles down over his sleeping Sharingan eyes. A chorus of farewells sadly sang their adieus. The safe whiteness faded to painful black.

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The life giving exhalation passed from her lips over his pallet and into his lungs. The chakra kiss stimulated his lungs into spasms and he finally breathed, first in choked gasps and coughs then to steadier deep breaths.

“You idiot!” she sobbed, crystalline tears flowed freely done her cheeks, “don't you ever scare us like that again.”

She held him in her arms, afraid to let go. Naruto wrapped his arms around her as she held him, holding them both, thankful that they're former sensei returned home.