The girl with Pink Hair

Chapter Forty Seven

Time seemed to give Kakashi space, leaving him be as Kakashi remained unmoving by Sakura's side. He reached out and closed her eyes, the lifelessness swirling inside them was too much for him to bare.

"Hey-!" An annoying voice threatened to shatter the small bubble Kakashi huddled inside, a bubble where he could still reach out and see Sakura. To him, it almost felt like she was just simply sleeping. "-Kakashi!" Naruto called out sounding tired.

"Dude where did you go?!" Raiden added annoyed, "I got your iced tea!" Kakashi reached to his neck and pulled his dark mask over his face. Sakura was the only person to ever see his exposed face, and that was how he wanted to keep it. Kakashi lightly brushed his fingers down her cold face and over her white lips.

"I think it's time my love." Kakashi breathed, reaching under Sakura's body lifting her close to his chest as he turned and numbly began to walk on jelly filled legs. Kakashi fought himself, forcing the tears to settle in the back of his eyes until he was alone again.

"There you are!" Raiden spotted Kakashi walking between two scorched buildings.

"We have been looking for you two for an hour!" Naruto shouted, holding his arms out seeing Kakashi holding Sakura. The masked shinobi ignored the growing group as he walked towards the open stretcher sitting off to the side. The medical shinobi of the leaf were now scouring the village for the injured and dead, so these stretchers were placed everywhere.

"Is she knocked out?" Carver wondered following Kakashi who remained silent.

"She had to have used like all her chakra!" Raiden laughed, "She fucking took down Malachite! The Reapers should now crumble by themselves since they don't have him anymore!"

"Yes." Carver agreed it was a good feeling that swirled around inside his chest, it felt like this long chapter of their lives was finally coming to an end. His team could move on and finally have normal lives, they fought so hard and for so long, it almost didn't seem like this moment would ever come.

"She was able to heal herself?!" Tsunade questioned as she came running towards Kakashi, he was to busy gazing down at Sakura's face, brushing his fingers through her hair to notice people were beginning to gather around.

"Kakashi-Sensei?" Naruto furrowed his eyebrows seeing a distant look plastered inside Kakashi's one exposed eye.

"She's gone." Kakashi whispered, never removing his eyes from her resting face.

"Who's gone?" Raiden wondered, "Where did they go and when will they be back? We have a lot of clean up to do here and I will not be the only one getting stuck-"

"Raiden." Carver rolled his eyes. "Kakashi what-"

"No." Tsunade breathed, covering her mouth with her hand as her eyes instantly watered. "Your lying!" Tsunade mindless stumbled her foot.

"Huh?" Raiden raised an eyebrow turning to Carver who shrugged feeling just confused.

"I'm not." Kakashi closed his eye, "She bled out."

"How-Wh-Wh-" Tsunade gasped as she quickly rushed to Sakura's side, searching for a pulse with shaky hands.

"Wait..." Raiden looked from Kakashi and then to Tsunade. "She's just sleeping...right?"

"No...!" Tsunade cried, hot tears steamed against the cooling dawn sky as she failed at finding a pulse on Sakura's wrist and neck.

"Sakura's...just sleeping right?" Raiden lightly laughed as Naruto moved to Kakashi's side, his heart rate spiked staring at the pinkette laying in the stretcher. Naruto's ears begged for someone to answer Raiden, to confirm his question; Sakura was just asleep!