𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨. || 𝐊. 𝐇𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 [Editing]

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MOURN

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IT COULD BE SAID THAT NO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND THE PAIN OF MOURNING UNTIL YOU'VE LOST SOMETHING PRECIOUS. To Kakashi this was true and all Florence's remorseful words towards him were labeled as fake.

Yet for some reason he continued to listen to her. Perhaps it was because he didn't want to be alone anymore. Well, he did but, at the same time didn't.

It was more of the fact that Kakashi felt happiness was undeserving of him, that he should wallow in despair for eternity. So, maybe he didn't want to be alone but, to find redemption he had to be.

"Kashi" she was eleven now, her birthday past a week ago. However her and Kakashi had only been sitting together for a couple of months.

He shook his head at the stupid nickname she choose to call him by, "what". His words were short and irritable, just like that name.

No matter how many times he told her to stop she didn't. Instead she claimed as his friend she had to give him a nickname.

"I'm going on my first mission!"

Florence continued to ramble on in excitement, about how she was going to go with her older brother and father and how she was a strong ninja and all.

Kakashi only seemed to tune her out, frozen. Was she going to war? Was she going to die?

This green haired girl was the last person left in his life, the fourth Hokage was gone and busy, Rin and Obito were dead. Florence, even if she wasn't a close person to him, was there. In blood and flesh she sat by him.

"Kashi? Are you listening?" She peered at him with those large almond eyes, her long hair sliding down and over her shoulders.

"No" he rasped.

Florence pouted, turning back to the name ridden stone in silence. That night she left without a goodbye and Kakashi sat longer in the darkness. Silently praying to any God, if one even existed that she didn't die too.

Everyday for the next week Kakashi waited for her to stumble into the clearing and plop down next to him. The silver haired boy lost hope a little more each day.

His stomach and heart fell heavy with tegret, he had taken her for granted and now the girl was probably dead.

A week later Florence stumbled back to him. Kakashi could cry from the relief he felt, but the boy bit thre inside of his cheek instead.

He didnt look to her as she came up to him and sat down. He didnt want to see her, he knew she was hurt.  The boy could smell the metallic scent of blood.

"How was your mission?" Kakashi stuttered out.

She stayed silent and from the corner of his eye saw her burrow her head into her knees.

Florence choked on a sob burrowing her head in her knees.

Finally Kakashi turned to look at her. He grimaced at the girls bloodied sight. In a poor attempt to comfort her the silver haired ninja trailed his hands through her tangled strands. Though his fingers got stuck on the knots of blood and dirt. What had happened?

Feeling his gaze she lifted her head to meet his eyes.

Kakashi sucked in a wheezing gasp, her face. A angry cut licked up from her right jaw and up into her eye, stopping just above her eyebrow.

Silently he took his sleeve and dabbed the oozing blood away, she only grimaced. Kakashi noticed the other light cuts and newly forming bruises.

"You should go home" his voice was quiet.

She shook her head, "I dont want to, it's not the same". Her words wobbled with tears and her head dipped to her knees once again.

They sat in silence for a while. He looked to her, hating himself for feeling relief. How could he feel this when she was in so much pain?

After a while she spoke "I'm sorry".

"What for".

"Before I tried to understand your grief".

"Its okay" he looked to the stone.

"They're dead. Both of them. They died because I was too weak". She sobbed as Kakashi laid a comforting hand on her head.

She was no longer bubbling with a child's optimism or energy.j

Kakashi didn't try to speak words of comfort. He didn't try to say everything was going to be okay. He understood how she felt, he was there too. So together they spent the night in the cold air with only the sound of her weeping to fill the silence.

The book will be less sad soon.

Bear with me yea.

Thanks for reading 🌟🌟

Edited 8/18/20