Sakura woke up the next day, more energetic than the previous night. The previous night, she said to herself. Kakashi. The hairclip. Sakura turned to her bedside table and put on the hairclip. It suited her since her name meant Cherry blossom.
Sakura tied her long hair in a ponytail, put on the konoha forehead protected on top of her head and changed into her ninja outfit. Sakura walked out of the door and locked it. She remembered what she was supposed to do today. sweet revenge.
Sakura stepped out of the house and ran to the only place Naruto could possibly be, Ichiraku ramen. She had invited Ino for a meal there, where she would do the exact same thing Naruto had done to her 2 days before.
Sakura rushed down the stairs to meet her friend. "What took you so long?" Ino Yamanaka's voice sank into Sakura. "I was preparing breakfast," Sakura lied. Ino looked blunty at Sakura. "Where did you get that hairpin?" Ino asked. "Oh erm.. my mum.. bought it for me," She lied again.
"It suits you." Ino commented. "Thanks." Sakura said. "You know I heard about the Kakashi incident." Ino started another subject. "That was purely an accident," Sakura said, blushing. "Come on. I'm sure even if it was, he must have been hot under that mask huh?" Ino nudged her. Sakura turned away. "He's typical," She protested. "Yeah right." Ino laughed.
"Fine. He was pretty hot." Sakura admitted. "Do you want to kiss him again?" Ino asked. "OF COURSE NOT!" Sakura said quickly. Ino couldn't help but laugh. "You know, almost every single girl in this village would kill to at least get a glimpse of his face. You got to see his face & KISS him!" Ino nudged Sakura.
"It wasn't a big deal!" Sakura said.
"It so IS a big deal." Ino laughed.
The girls reached the Ichiraku ramen bar. Naruto and Sasuke were there as usual. Sakura stood behind and in between the two boys. "Hello. GUYS!" Sakura placed her hands on both of their chairs. The two boys slowly turned around, eyes in a schocked anime style.
"Oh my, look at the time!" Sasuke said. "Isn't it time for training?" Naruto said in a lame excuse voice. The two try to take off, only to be grabbed on the collar by the strong pink haired jonin.
"Not so fast, I just want to treat you two to another bowl of ramen! After all, I should control my temper right?" Sakura said, pulling the boys back to their seats. "Ino's here to join us as well," Sakura added, taking a seat away from Naruto. "Sit down Ino," Sakura pointed to the empty seat next to Naruto. Ino smiled and sat down on the chair.
Sakura smiled to herself. Everything was going according to plan.
"Thanks, Sakura," The boys said. "No prob," She grinned. Sakura started her plan.
"Hey!" She called. The three other ninja turned to Sakura. "Is Tsunade Sama stripping herself in the window without closing the curtain?" Sakura asked, pointing to the hokage window.
"I can't see it since Naruto's BLOCKING ME!" Sasuke said. "Shutup!" Naruto pushed Sasuke. Sakura laughed to herself softly.
Before she knew it, Sasuke pushed Naruto, and...
the scene scrolls up to all the trees with the birds flying happily and then.... "NARUTO@)!&@#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" sending the birds flying away.
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Sakura couldn't help but keep laughing as she walked back to her apartment. She was about to die of laughter. People starred at her tihnking she was drinking.
Sakura walked up the stairs, giggling. Naruto was suffering from Ino's torture. The more Sakura thought about it the harder she laughed.
BUMP!
Sakura held onto the staircase reilings. "Ohmygosh, Sensei!" Sakura blushed. "It's erm. Okay. You were drinking?" He asked suspiciously. "Nono! I don't drink. It's just erm.. I got my erm... i Mean,.... Naruto kissed Ino by accident." She explained. Kakashi smiled.
"Anyway, I really like the clip you gave me last night, it's very nice.. suits me a lot." Sakura said. "No problem. Just a sensei-to-student-companionship-gift." Kakashi said, blushing. "Well, I'd get going back to my room now.." Sakura said. Kakashi nodded.
Sakura couldn't help but look at the tatoo on Kakashi's hands. She felt warmth all of a sudden. She looked up at Kakashi. He placed his fingers on her hair, tucking a little of it behind her ears, then tapped on the clip. "Don't loose it, okay?" He said. Sakura nodded.
He walked out of the place. Sakura sighed and walked up the stairs. She had noticed some funny sound coming from her shoes. She decided to ignore it until she had reached her apartment.
Sakura sank into her bed. She laughed to herself thinking of the Naruto and Ino case. Sakura remembered to check her shoes. She took off her shoes and turned them to the sole. There was a picture stuck on it. Sakura pulled it out of the shoe. "Great. I stepped on gum. No wonder I had a hard time walking back," She thought to herself.
"wait a second." Sakura held up the picture. There was a girl who lay on the soft grass along the garden. Sakura couldn't help but marvel at the girl's beautiful appearance. Her hair was the exact colour of a deadly red rose. Sakura marveled more at the fact that the girl's eyes were gold in colour. She had never seen anyone whose eyes were gold, maybe a dark yellow, but never gold.
As Sakura's eyes traced the picture, she noticed the girl was looking at the trees, and she noticed Kakashi sat in one of the branches, waving at her, smiling. "Who's that girl?" Sakura mummbled. Sakura could tell that Kakashi was in the ANBU during then, since he had the strangely shaped tatoo on his left arm. The other tatoo on his hand wasn't there. Sakura felt confused, especially when she caught sight of a clip pinned on the girl's hair. The exact same pin that Sakura had put on.
Sakura turned the picture around where there was a big drop of dried blood on it. "What is Kakashi hiding...I really don't know about his past at all.." Sakura said to hersself. An idea sank into Sakura's head. She suddenly had the urge to find out: 1. where Kakashi's tatoo on his hand came from. 2. who that girl was. 3. why kakashi had given her a clip that girl was wearing.
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1 good thing about this apartment was that Sakura knew many people who lived there, Kakashi stayed a few units away from her's. Naruto was 2 floors down while Sasuke lived on the ground floor.
Sakura used a jutsu that teleported her into Kakashi's apartment. Sakura looked around his apartment. Despite being a guy, he kept his place neatly. Sakura opened a drawer and fell over anime style. Wrong drawer. That drawer contained Kakashi's boxers.
"So he wears boxers," She laughed to herself after getting up. "WAIT! I can't believe I just said that!" She knocked her head lightly. She walked around the room. She felt herself trip over something. She got up, rubbing her head. A sweat dropped down her head as she notices an Icha Icha paradise book on the ground. She kicked it under the bed.
"I need to find more pictures..." She said to herself, walking to the table, she checked around all the files. He had a heap of them.
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Sakura felt like fainting after surfing through his stack of files for hours. The moon had surfaced in the sky. Sakura got fraustrated when all she found was torn papers. She threw a file across the room. It knocked on the wall, and a book slipped out of one of it's pockets. Sakura ran to the book. She held it up. It was a plain looking book, black leather cover without any patterns. Sakura flipped through it. There weren't anymore pages.
She got fraustrated. Then she noticed that she had found torn pages and a book without any pages. She ran to the torn papers and connected them into the book. She then noticed most of the pages were blank. There was a single piece of paper with scruffy writing written on it. She knew immediately that it was Kakashi's handwriting. Her heart raced as she read the words. The paper seemed old. This was Kakashi's diary!
in scruffy and broken handwriting it read: "I couldn't save her... i promised i would.. i failed. she's gone. she's gone. she'd never be back. I promised i wouldn't let anything happen to her..."
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Kakashi stumbled across the town, taking small but heavy steps. He had drank a little too much. He knew that drowning his sorrows in beer wouldn't help but he just had to this time. He slumped himself against a wall nearby. He slowly sat down, forehead resting on his palm. "I'm such an idiot.." He said to himself.
He starred at the sky. He could feel a single tear drop from his right eye. "I won't repeat that mistake again..." He said softly to himself, before slowly standing on his feet and taking the stairs up to his apartment.
He placed the key into the keyhole when he noticed rummaging noises coming from inside his room. He quickly opened the door and grabbed his kunai. He dropped it on the ground as soon as he saw Sakura.
Sakura turned around in shock. "Sensei!" She said suprised, hiding the book behind her back. "Sakura? Why are you in here and what exactly are you doing?" He asked calmly. Sakura could tell by the look in his eye that he was drunk. Kakashi fell on his knees.
"SENSEI!" Sakura ran to stabalise Kakashi. "Are you okay?" She asked as he stood up. He headed for his bed in small steps. "I'm perfectly alright.. I only had 5 heinkens.." He said, like as if beer caused him happiness.
"5 HEINEKENS??!!!?" Sakura shrieked. "Yeah.. and about 7 tigers.." He added. A sweatdrop dripped down her head. Sakura ran to him. "You had heinkens and Tigers?" She asked. "Yeah, you know the beer?" Kakashi said. "Of COURSE I know the beer!" She said, grabbing him by his arm.
"You're NOT alright!" She said. "I'm fine." Kakashi said. He slipped out of Sakura's grip and landed on the ground.
He had a last few seconds of conciousness as he saw Sakura look at him in shock and shouted his name.
He closed his eyes.
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Chapter notes: for those people who read kakashi's golden rose.. u might find a trivia when u read the story along the ending. just to confrim, this story is an alternate universe. So iyuki wasn't found then.