BONDS • k. hatake

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-3rd POV-

Kakashi and Kairi were a couple, Everyone knew that but for Kakashi.. it felt like a one sided relationship.

She loved him or maybe she loved the idea of loving him but he didn't love her.. at least not as much as he did with someone else.

He hated how he ended things with Akiara. He hated how much he still wanted her.

"Babe?" Kairi said. He looked up from his book lazily.

"You've been reading the same page for the last hour, is everything okay?" She asked, she was so sweet, so caring. He couldn't break her heart but would he sacrifice his own for her?

-Akiara POV-

The hospital was packed. Sakura was helping today, some sister bonding after all these years.

Within seconds, crashes and screams from outside filled our ears. I looked at Sakura and we rushed outside.

Pain was attacking.

Mothers, children and Jounin rushed in to get their wounds treated.

"CODE BLACK!" I yelled. The nurses nodded and started doing all the preparations for an attack code.

"Sakura, tell the others to mark the injured with ribbons. Red for urgent, yellow for the ones that can wait and green for minor." She nodded and took off. My heels clicked as I ran to occupied rooms.

"I'm so sorry but there's an attack going on and I'm going to have to move another patient with you." I related this until half of the rooms were open as well as the other unoccupied rooms.

"Sakura! Can you stay and heal? I need to go help the others." I said as I took off my white coat and transformed into my white fighting outfit.

I tied my hair back and walked out.

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I was mostly getting citizens to safety but then I was it.

I saw one of the pains, with Kakashi under rocks. I let of a loud gasp as Pain shot a bullet into his head.

I wanted to cry.

I wanted to run up to him, I wanted to save him but I wasn't his anymore.

I wasn't his girlfriend, I didn't own a ounce of his love anymore.

My heart shattered, more than it had the day after we ended, when I saw Kairi crying over his dead body.

If I couldn't say goodbye to him one last time, I would kill pain.

I grabbed the guns from my holsters and charged at pain. Tears streaming down my face.

"Is this your form of peace?! Killing people?" I yelled at him as we fought hand to hand. He threw me back into a wall, but I kept going after him.

"Peace is nonexistent as long as there are ninja living in this world. There will only be pain!" He threw be back and I landed in a rob that pierced the side of my back.

I was bleeding out and he walked away, thinking I would be dead in minutes.

I pulled myself off, immediately healing my sides.

I walked. I had to find him.

"Naruto." I whispered seeing him in sage mode.

I ran up to him.

"Akiara-chan!" He said. I saw the roads and the multiple pains looking at us.

"I thought I left you for dead." One yelled at me.

"You underestimate many of us." I said rolling my eyes. I activated my silver eyes, my one hundreth seal turning black. Dark gloomy skies were above us, a full moon shining down.

A black light covered my body as my pink hair turned black and the black lacy dress covered my body.

White light covered my hands.

"Ready?" I asked. He nodded. "I want the main one." I growled.

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Every pain was dead, Naruto went to the real one and I laid there in a pool of my blood.

After we thought they all died, one sent a rod after me. Naruto was long gone by then.

So I was dying. Slowly and painfully.

My breathing was getting strained and I felt my lungs filling with blood.

It was over.

The fight was over, everyone was coming back to life and I was dying, god at 21 I never thought I'd be dead.

I'd thought I'd be madly in love, with a man who'd love me forever and for years I thought it would be kakashi. I thought my sister would be my maid of honour at my wedding but that doesn't seem like it's going to happen either.

And I guess if I wanted to go, it would be going a death during a fight.

Tears rushed down my eyes as I felt my final moments slipping away.

"Onee-chan!" I heard, before my eyes slipped into the forever darkness.

"Goodbye.."

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-3rd POV-

Word had gotten around that not everyone came back to life.

There was one.

Few seemed to not care too much since it was an ex-criminal but the rest of the population did.

She saved their lives or their loved ones life and she didn't deserve that.

"Where is she? Where is she?" Kakashi whispered as he ran into the Hospital, frantically searching for the one person.

"Kakashi, calm down. Kairi's safe." Iruka calmed him down. Kairi rushed into his arms, he wrapped them around her but he didn't feel any reassurance. His eyes glazed over.

The third hokage, Who was in his battle armour slowly walked past Iruka.

"That was not the she he was looking for." He whispered before walking away.

Iruka frowned.

He still loved her so much and he and his other friends knew.. she did to,

But now he might not ever have the chance to say it to her.