Here For You - Kakashi Hatake x OC

Chapter 11: Heartbreak

We crept through the forest quietly. I glanced at today's team. Kakashi, me, Ayumi, who was a medical nin, and Itachi Uchiha, who was very young, yet a prodigy and capable of many things. I had spoken to him before, whenever we were placed on a mission together. He seemed like a good kid, very intelligent and strong. Today's mission was another assassination. We ran through the trees until I suddenly stopped, sensing somebody else's chakra. I held my finger up to the mouth of my mask, and I led them to the place where I sensed the chakra. We reached our destination and I saw that there were three chakras right in front of the place where the person we were ordered to assassinate. They were probably guarding the entrance. They were standing still. I motioned this information to my team and they nodded. We jumped down, but it seemed like they were ready for us. Ayumi and Itachi were fighting two of the guards, and something felt wrong. I couldn't sense the third nin anymore. I looked over at Kakashi, who stood completely still. I tried to focus my sensory abilities more, but I was interrupted my something smashing into my face, my mask cracking and falling off.

It was Kakashi.

He seized my throat tightly, not allowing me to breathe. "Kashi", I gasped at him, I fell back and he fell on top of me still strangling me. "STOP!" I yelled even though I understood it was pointless. He was being mind-controlled. Ayumi and Itachi were still busy with those two nin, I clawed at Kakashi's hand until I finally got loose. I saw his Sharingan shine through the eye slit in his mask. I backed away frantically as I saw him reach for his katana. That same katana I had given him all those years ago. My best friend was going to kill me. I was panicking slightly, but I raised my kunai. I blocked his first attacks, but he was too strong for me to stand against. His katana knocked away my kunai. It felt like everything was moving in slow motion as I watched the katana I gave him so lovingly pierce through me.

I spat up blood. I had never experienced pain like this before.

"Kashi..." I sputtered before I fell into his arms. Everything went completely black.

*Kakashi's POV*

I felt confused. The last thing I remembered was Katsumi signaling to us about the guards. The rest was blank. I shook my head and saw her in my arms. What was going on? Wait... She wasn't breathing. "Katsi?" I panicked as I placed her onto the ground and I saw a katana sticking out of her chest. My katana. I suddenly realized that I had been under mind control. I quickly removed the katana and threw it aside. My hands were covered in her blood. I had killed the woman I have loved for the majority of my life. My voice got stuck in my throat. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I leaned my head against her chest, hearing a slight heartbeat. I pressed onto her wound, she couldn't afford to lose any more blood than she already had. I fumbled at the chain on my neck. I saw that her chakra was still there, but it was very faint. I suddenly remembered piercing her with my katana, her face as she said her last word. "Kashi."

My blood was boiling. I was going to kill the whole lot of these guys. "Ayumi, get over here, heal Katsumi, now!" I yelled at her as I activated my chidori, taking care of the nin she had been battling. I killed the one that was battling Itachi, too. There was no stopping my rage now. I shot through the trees at a maddening speed, my Sharingan frantically searching for the nin that had made me kill my beloved Katsumi. I was shaking with anger and disbelief. I finally saw him, perched on a high branch, looking down at my teammates. I killed him off quickly, before he could get a moment to look at me. "Fuck you," I spat at him, venom filling my voice. I never cursed, but this seemed like a situation to do so. I deactivated my chidori and ran to Katsumi's body. I angrily ripped my ANBU mask off and threw it to the side. Ayumi was kneeling over her, her hands glowing a bright green. I fell to my knees next to her. "Can you help her?" I asked quietly. She looked at me through her mask. "The wound went straight through her. She had lost an immense amount of blood before I got here. It's a miracle her heart is still beating. I'm trying my best, but we need to get her to a hospital immediately. I nodded, leaving her to heal Katsumi, as Itachi and I went to find the target of our mission. Quickly finishing what we had been ordered to do, we rushed back to Ayumi and Katsumi. "We have to be fast," Ayumi said. I nodded and picked her up into my arms. Itachi's Sharingan blazed behind his ANBU mask. I wondered what he felt. We started running back to Konoha. I ran, faster than I have ever ran. I needed to help Katsumi. I couldn't bear to lose her as well, the only light in my life. I began wishing for us to have never taken the mission, although I knew wishing was really stupid at this point. I ran faster still. I look down at Katsumi, my dear, sweet Katsi. Even close to death, she was so beautiful. I wished I could see her bright blue eyes once again. Tears fell from my eyes onto her lifeless body. I could see Konoha coming into view.

I rushed to the hospital, Itachi and Ayumi close behind me. The doctors and nurses immediately realized what was happening, they moved quickly, taking Katsumi from my arms, placing her on a gurney and rushing here away to the ER. I wanted to stay by her, to never leave her side, but I knew they wouldn't let me. I needed them to work fast and save her. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if she died. Especially like this. By my own hands. I never got to tell her how I feel about her. I ran my hands through my hair as I watched the doctors work at keeping her alive. The monitor that registered her pulse showed that she was fighting for her life. Please, Katsumi, stay with me, please, I prayed silently in my head. I sat down and took the chakra stone into my hands. Her chakra was still there, pulsating, fighting to stay. Tears streamed down my face as I stared at her chakra. I lost myself in my thoughts, I felt guilty for having been influenced by the mind control, I stared at my hands, the hands that had stabbed her with the very katana she had given me so long ago, and I had cherished it for all this time. Her chakra was still present in the stone, and I held onto it tightly. I closed my eyes and hoped she would be alright. Itachi and Ayumi were sitting next to me, saying that everything would be fine, that Katsumi would be fine, that it wasn't my fault. But it was. I had given into the mind control, I was the one who almost took her life.

Time dragged on as I continued to sit there for what felt like an eternity, when a doctor finally approached us. I shot up onto my feet. "She's stable," He told me, "But she lost quite a lot of blood. It was a miracle that we were able to stabilize her at all. It might be a while before she wakes up. You can visit her now, if you want, she will be in room 304." I nodded and thanked him. Itachi, Ayumi and myself made our way to her room. I wanted to cry more as she came into view. Her frail, wounded body laid on a white hospital bed, an IV and breathing mask hooked up to her. I was happy she was still alive, even if she was in a coma. Ayumi looked sad. Itachi looked as if somebody had stabbed him. I took her hand into my own, her cold, pale hand. "Please, come back to me, Katsi, please," I whispered to her, pressing my lips against her hand.

Please come back.