Bring her back

Chapter 16

"What?!" Kakashi grumbled as his fists clenched so hard they started shaking.

"I found dried blood on her inner thighs and bruises on her waist," Tsunade said in an angry tone. "But that's not enough for accusing someone of rape. I'll have to examine her when she wakes up." 

They both went silent and stood there still. He was looking at Sakura with a mix of worry and fury while Tsunade was looking at him.

She was confused about the whole situation. All the evidence was against Kakashi, but she couldn't picture him possibly hurting Sakura ever. He was always protective and caring towards her. Why would he rape her and seduce her with a genjutsu? That's not like him at all.

"Listen Kakashi...all the evidence is against you." She stated with furrowed brows. "But I just can't see why would you do that to her." She said hoping for any kind of explanation.

"I didn't do it. But I know who did." He answered calmly with his eyes still resting on Sakura.

"Please tell me." She said as the sparkle of hope lit in her eyes.

"It was Ren." Kakashi looked into the blonde woman's eyes. Surprise ran through Tsunade's face but she remained silent to let Kakashi talk.

"He's been abusing her for the last few months, mentally. I noticed the signs, so I tried to get her to talk about it. She finally opened up about it last week...she told me everything. He controlled her, destroyed her self-esteem, made her feel worthless and threatened her every time she wasn't acting according to his will...she was completely terrified." Kakashi explained more and more angrily as he recalled the memories of the shattered Sakura.

"That explains the intention somewhat. But still not clears you. Tell me your side of the events of yesterday and today." Tsunade demanded as her fists clenched in anger.

"She was with us on the training fields celebrating her birthday with a picnic around noon. She told us, that Ren will only come back on Friday afternoon from the mission and that she must come to the hospital in the afternoon and today. So she left and that was the last time we saw her. Today we were training with the guys when Naruto got injured so we came in to get someone to heal him. That was when you told us that Sakura hasn't come in yesterday nor today and Ren told you that she's sick. It made us worried because it was too suspicious, that she mysteriously disappears after his early comeback. So we rushed to her house and found her in her bad cold as ice with a low pulse. Then Ren's clone appeared in the house and admitted that he was the one who did this to her because of revenge. Naruto's shadow clone was heading towards the hospital with Sakura while we tried to get him to speak when the real Ren appeared and stole Sakura from Naruto. " Kakashi explained.

"Why does he want revenge?" She asked after a few seconds of silence.

"Because he thinks that I slept with her."

"He told me that too." She answered with a glassy look as she was comparing the two story's in her mind trying to find out the truth.

"To be honest, your story is much more believable. There are just a few things I don't understand." She said. "Did she really spend Saturday night at your place?" She asked him

"Yes. We were both drunk, so since I couldn't walk her home I offered her to sleep at my house."

"That's understandable. I've been there too a lot, so I really get it." She answered

Kakashi looked at Sakura who was shivering and was paler than ever. He frowned his brows worriedly and Tsunade followed his gaze.

"She'll be fine. That jutsu weakened her body to the edge that's why she looks like that. But she'll be okay, don't worry." Tsunade told him

"I don't think it's a genjutsu," Kakashi said

"It can't be anything else." Tsunade argued

"Sasuke and I are the only ones who have the sharingan and neither of us did it." He looked into her eyes firmly. "What kind of jutsu is it anyway?"

"It's used for seduction. It puts out the one who's the jutsu used on for a few days, while a brainwashing seductive dream repeats in their mind about the person that used it on them. It weakens their body, so when they wake up, the genjutsu user has to take care of them. That helps the process of falling for the person to finish because they'll feel gratitude for being saved."

"I've never even heard of it." Kakashi said surprisedly.

"She'll wake up soon. If she'll be in love with you I'm sorry but I can't do anything else than call you the guilty one." Tsunade closed her eyes in sadness.

"Couldn't it be some kind of poison?" Kakashi wondered out loud as he was sure of his innocence.

"Poison, as if...-" her breath stuck and her eyes opened up. She ran to a bookshelf filled with medical books and threw them on the ground one after the other. She finally stopped with a book in her hands and ran through it madly looking for something.

"How could I be that stupid?!" She yelled as she snapped the book and went to a drawer filled with medicine "It is a god damn poison that can only be made in Iron Country because of the ingredients!"

Kakashi walked up to Sakura and took her hand into his while Tsunade was running water into a bucket. Her hand was so cold and it shook so hard that it freaked him out.

"Can you heal her?" He asked in a dying voice

"Yes, but it'll be painful since we don't have much time left."

"What?!"

"That poison is lethal." She said quietly as she turned around with the bucket full of water.

Kakashi's body went numb by her words and he froze. He saw her coming to Sakura and her lips moving but couldn't hear anything. It felt as if he was underwater.

"Kakashi!! Did you understand?!" Tsunade yelled and shook Kakashi.

"You need to hold her down!" She explained and pulled his hands to put on Sakura's arms.

Kakashi shook his head to get himself together and did as Tsunade said and pinned Sakura down.

"I have to pull out the poison with the help of the water, but it will be extremely painful for her. Hold her tightly!" Tsunade demanded.

Kakashi nodded and secured his grasp. Tsunade started the procedure and Sakura screamed in extreme pain immediately as she tried to sit up, but Kakashi held her down with all his force.