A/N - Please forgive me if this turns out to be really, really, crappy, but this is the first time I've written a KakaSaku fanfic.
Drowning
Chapter One: I'm So Sorry Sakura
Naruto, and Sasuke both stood on the bridge in Konoha that their Sensei, Kakashi, had told them to meet him. They had been told to get to the bridge by 7:30, and they had gotten there on time, and were still there an hour and a half later. Their Sensei still hadn't shown up, yet, but, also, Sakura. Sakura the last and final member of Team Seven hadn't shown up, at all, yet.
Naruto was getting worried, he looked over at Sasuke who seemed to be thinking along the same lines as he was, that there may be a chance that Sakura was in trouble, and needed help, now.
"Sasuke?" Naruto started, not exactly sure how to bring up this particular situation.
"No," Sasuke said, without waiting for Naruto's question.
"What? What do you mean, 'no'?" Naruto asked.
"She probably just slept in, that's all," Sasuke said.
"This is Sakura we're talking about, she never sleeps in," Naruto shouted, angry that Sasuke wasn't showing any care for their 'missing' teammate.
"Don't be stupid, Naruto," Sasuke said, "We can't leave anyway, we have to wait for Kakashi sensei. Remember the last time we left when we were suppose to meet Sensei?"
Flashback…
"That's it!" Naruto shouted, jumping off the railing of the bridge; Sakura and Sasuke looked at him in puzzlement.
"What are you talking about, Naruto?" Sakura asked in an annoyed voice. "I'm leaving!" Naruto announced; Sakura and Sasuke stared.Sakura shook her head, and pointed a finger at Naruto, "You can't leave we have to wait for Kakashi sensei."
"No way," Naruto disagreed, "Iruka sensei even told me not to come today because of me being sick yesterday, he'll talk to Kakashi sensei for me."
"He can't do that, Naruto," Sakura said, "He's not your sensei, anymore."
"So what?" Naruto said, and, with that, he took off through the village of Konoha."Um…" Sakura started, looking at Sasuke, who shrugged, then followed Naruto.
Sakura gawked, but, it being Sasuke who had just left, she followed suit.
Later…"When I tell you to wait, I mean wait, and I don't care how long you have to wait!" Kakashi half-yelled, his one eye that showed was looking at the three ninja's angrily.
All three had their heads hanging in sadness, as their sensei lectured them.
"Why do you get so mad at us?" Naruto said, looking up, "You're never on time!"
"That doesn't matter," Kakashi said, "I'm you're sensei, and like I said once before, my word is law."
Naruto huffed, and turned away from his Sensei with his arms crossed.
"We're really sorry sensei, please forgive us," Sakura spoke up, bowing to their sensei slightly.
Kakashi paused for a moment, and looked at Sakura's bowed body before him. He could see it shaking slightly, and he had a feeling that she was scared, and he knew it was him who had made her so scared.
Kakashi stared at Sakura for another moment, then sighed, "Well, I guess, I'll let you guys off, this time. Just don't do it again, okay?"
Naruto nodded, then said, "Then don't be late again."
Everyone, including Sasuke, laughed at Naruto's request.
"Hello," A lazy voice rolled into the conversation.
Naruto and Sasuke looked to where the voice had come from, and saw their Sensei Kakashi standing on the arch above the bridge.
"And where might our cherry blossom be today?" Kakashi asked, noticing the absence of the pink-haired chounin immediately.
"We don't know," Naruto explained, "I wanted to go look for her, but Sasuke said that you would of gotten mad if I did."
"That's true, I told you not to leave the meeting place, so, Sasuke was right," Kakashi told Naruto.
Naruto gawked at Kakashi in disbelief, "What? Are you serious?"
"Yes," Kakashi said, nodding lazily at Naruto.
Naruto glared at Kakashi angrily, "But she's our teammate!"
"Yes," Kakashi agreed, but then added, "But she's more than likely just sick or something along those lines."
"Yeah, right," Naruto said, then pointed at Sasuke, and said, "I don't think there's any sickness in the world that could keep her from this ass!"
Sasuke glared at Naruto, and Kakashi laughed, "I suppose that's true. Well, then, let's all go look for her, now, shall we?"
"Don't trouble yourselves," An unfamilar voice said, "I've already found her.
Kakashi, Naruto, and Sasuke, looked towards the source of the voice, and saw a man with black hair, and redish eyes, he had a dark red headband tied around his forehead, and was wearing a black outfit, with a dark red scarf. He was standing in the middle of the river, that came up past his knees. One of his arms were around the waist of of a pink-haired chounin, and his other hand was covering her mouth as she tried to scream.
Sakura, who was still in her night things, a barely-there night-gown, tried, and tried to free herself for the man's grasp, but to no avail. She wasn't strong enough to.
The man glanced at her, then rolled his eyes at her worthless atempts to get free, "You're pathetic! And you're a student of the great Kakashi? Ha!"
The man moved his arm fromSakura's waist to her neck, as he began to grip it. Kakashi tried to jump at him to intervene, but, for some reason, he couldn't move, and Kakashi guessed that Naruto, and Sasuke, couldn't move either.
The man didn't even stop at just strangling Sakura, he pulled his hand away from her mouth, but, before she could scream out, he used his other hand around her neck to force her head under the freezing river water.
Sakura was now completely freaked out, she struggled hard against the man's grip, but failed miserably.
Sakura was loosing oxygen, and fast. Sakura started to close her eyes, that she had kept open to try and aim an attack at her kidnapper. Sakura tried hard to look through the water to the man's face, but her eyes couldn't take the icy coldness of the water anymore. She closed them, but soon became even more afriad as darkness greeted her. She was falling, falling away, she didn't know what was happening, nor did she care. She just wanted the darkness to go away, far away.
Kakashi, and the others,watched in horror as Sakura's arms flailed around, and soon, lost their strength, and fell into the water with a splash.
Kakashi was getting mad, really mad. Then, he figured it out, it was a freezing jutsu, used by mist ninja's. It enveloped the victum in an invisible sheet of ice. Kakashi started to gocus his chakara throughout his entire body, make it heat up.
Slowly, he could feel his body becoming more, and more, mobile. Once it was melted enough, Kakashi struck out with his fist, and broke through the remaining ice.
Kakashi quickly shot heated balls of chakara at Sasuke, and Naruto, to unfreeze them. Then, Kakashi dashed forward, towards the man, and his precious drowning Sakura.
How dare that piece of crap try and drown my Sakura! Kakashi said in his mind.
Kakashi struck out at the man, who had been paying to much attention to the look of fright, and pain, on Sakura's face through the water that he never saw Kakashi coming. Kakashi's fist collided with the side of the man's face, he could hear his jar break, as he flew backwards.
Serves you right you asshole!
Kakashi landed in the water between Sakura, and the man. He quickly turned to face Sakura, who was now floating, lifeless, in the water. He knelt down and turned her over, her face looked pale. Kakashi got a sharp pain in his chest at the sight of her dead boby in his arms.
No, she...she may not be...Kakashi thought, and he placed two fingers on Sakura neck to feel for a pulse, he repostioned his fingers a couple times, until, there!
It was weak, but it was there, Kakashi could feel the small pulse of her body, under his fingers.
"Kakashi sensei! Look out!" Naruto shouted from the bridge, pointing to a spot behind Kakashi.
Kakashi turned quick to see the man coking at him, mouth bleeding, a kunai in his hand. Kakashi, keeping one arm around Sakura, heused his other to pull out his own kunai and throw it at the attacking man's chest. It struck him, in a burst of crimson blood.
The man screamed in agony, then he looked to Kakashi, "I'll die, but I'll make sure that yopu never find her!"
With that the man aim some kind of attack striaght down at the water of the river, when the attack hit, it sent large waves in both directions. Waves that cascaded over the edges of the riverbed. The wave crashed into Kakashi, who wasn't able to react in time. He was knock over by the strength of the wave and, flew backwards. Kakashi's grip on Sakura slipped, and she flowed with the power of the wave down the river.
"Sakura!" Kakashi shouted, as he was enveloped by the water, then he shouted at Naruto, and Sasuke,"Sasuke! Naruto!"
They got the message quickly, and jumped off the bridge to the riverside. They then started to run in the direction Sakura had been taken.
Kakashi regained his footing, and stared at the limp body of Sakura's attacker, "Bastard!"
Kakashi, having said his peice, took off to help Sasuke, and Naruto, look for their cherry blossom.
"Sakura!" Naruto shouted.
"Sakura!" Sasuke echoed Naruto's words.
Kakashi couldn't find his voice to call for Sakura, he just used his senses to try to pick up on her chakara. Kakashi suddenly stopped, and focused on what lay at the end of the river they were following.
A waterfall! No, she couldn't, she didn't, Kakashi prayed looking at the water tummbling down over the edge of the cliff that was up ahead.
Kakashi dashed forward, and stopped at the top of the waterfall, and there, in the middle of the pond at the bottom, was Sakura, floating, face down, in the water.
Kakashi, could of swore his heart stopped, he quickly jumped down into the water with a splashless dive. Then swam to Sakura's body.
Naruto, and Sasuke, seeing this, dash to the spot where Kakashi had seen Sakura from, and looked down.
"Ahhh, Sakura!" Naruto cried out, as he watched Kakashi take hold of Sakura around the middle, and swim with her towards the riverbank.
Sasuke looked as though he was in some sort of shock, but he quickly snapped out of it. He gave Naruto a light whack on the arm, and flicked his head towards the path that led down to where Kakashi, and Sakura, were, "Come on."
Sasuke, followed by Naruto, ran down the path, and by the time they got to where Kakashi and Sakura were, Kakashi was listening to Sakura's chest.
As theywalked towards him and he strighten up to look up at them, his face was solemn, "She's not breathing."
"WHAT?" Naruto shouted, "Kakashi sensei, you have to do something! Anything!"
"I'm not a medical-nin," Kakashi explained, "I can't-"
"What about that CPR crap, I heard about it once," Naruto inturrupted, "Do you know how to do that?"
"Well, um...yes." Kakashi answered.
"Then do that!" Naruto shouted at him, "Before it's too late!"
"Um, well..." Kakashi tried to say something that would get him out of touching his lips to Sakura's, but it was no use, "Alright."
Kakashi brought his fingers up to Sakura's neck to see if that weak pulse he had felt before was still there, come on...where are you?
"She has no pulse," Kakashi informed Sasuke, and Naruto.
"What does that mean?" Naruto shouted, "Can't you bring it back or something?"
"I...I can try," Kakashi said, and with that he brought his hand up to the mask that covered his mouth and pulled it down until he could tuck it under his chin.
Kakashi then tilted Sakura's head back to clear her airway, then brought his mouth down on hers, and breathed into her. When he pulled away, he took his hand and placed them on the spot between Sakura breasts, and pressed down six times, then went back and breathed into her once more. He reapted the process over and over. Everytime he repeated it, he began realizing more and more, that it was his fault that this had happened.
Kakashi pressed his mouth to Sakura's once again, for what seemed like the hundredth time, and breathed into her air. There was beads of sweat on his forhead, though his ninja headband soaked most of it up.
Naruto had fallen to his knees, and was holding his forearm to his eyes, as he sobbed, uncontrolably. Sasuke's eyes were wide, in a way that said that he wasn't believing what he was seeing.
Kakashi, once again, went down on Sakura's chest. He eyes were on the ferge of tears,which had never happened before.He bent down to breath into her, once again. When Kakashi got about an inch from Sakura face, however, hegot water spat in his face.
"Huh?" Kakashi said, shaking his head, then his one black eye, met with a confused emerald one.
"What...happened?" Sakura spoke in a hoarse voice, that was rough, and raw, "Where...cough...am I?"
"You're..." Kakashi started, his eyes now sparkling with relieved tears.
"ALIVE!" Naruto shouted, his cheeks were streaked with tears, but he had the brightest smile on thatKakahsi had ever seen.
"Alive?" Sakura repested, then she clued in, "You don't mean, oh my gosh, I almost..."
"Sakura, calm down, you fine,"Sasuke said, trying to calm his teammate down. Who he knew was growing frantic at the fact that she had almost been taken from this world.
"But, I...I could of..." Sakura said, but she didn't finish the statement, she sat up slowly, and wrapped her arms around her body, and started to tremble.
Of course, Kakashi was having his own problems, he was trying to fight the tears in his eyes from falling. Plus, he was trying to make sure that Sakura was okay, now.
Kakashiscanned Sakura's body, up and down, he couldn't see any really serious wounds. He only saw hand marks on her neck, and that hercheeks, now, resembled Naruto's. Stained with tears.
Tears? Kakashi thought, and he then realized that Sakura was sobbing uncontrolablyas she hugged herself tightly.
Kakashi, already having trouble with his own tears, was now gripped with a pain deep inside his chest, at the sight of Sakura's tears. She was usually so strong, but at the momment, she looked as though she was as weak as a five year old. She seemed so scared, and fragile.
Kakashi, suddenly, couldn't take it anymore, he reached out with his hand and took one of Sakura's; Sakura jumped slightly, then looked into her Sensei's face. Her eyes widened slightly, when Kakashi pulled slightly on her hand and pulled her into a warm embrace.
At first, Sakura was completely shocked, but then, she heard Kakashi whisper the samething, over, and over in her ear.
"I'm sorry," Kakashi's voice apologized; and, to Sakura, it sounded as though Kakashi was crying, though she couldn't see his face.
"I'm so sorry, Sakura," Kakashi whispered.
A/N - Hope you liked this chappie! I promise to update soon! As long as you guys review! See you in the next chapter!