Chapter 4: I miss the sound of your voice

The water flowed silently underneath the red bridge in Konoha. Occasionally the fish would come to the surface, to figure out what was sticking in the water. It never did move when they nipped at it, but it never left, so they left it alone.

It was a nice bright day today. But the person sitting on the bridge didn't care. He was staring at the water hoping it would somehow engulf him and end his thoughts. It had been a year since Naruto and Sasuke had died. After that he only had Sakura. Kakashi thought that both of them were getting better as the days went by, but it turns out he was just hoping for the best, even when he knew Sakura was having it hard.

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After 6 months Sakura wasn't getting any better. He wanted to think that she was but it never did come true. Tsunade saw what he was missing and took her off of missions and hospital duty, saying she needed some time off. But her first mistake was to take her off of duty while he was gone on a 2 week long mission.

*FLASHBACK*

He had just finished off his opponent and was heading back to the little village he was staying at when a white slug appeared out of nowhere in front of him. He knew immediately that is was Tsunade's. He was hoping that she just wanted an update on the mission but not tell him something happened back in Konoha. But things never did go the way he wanted them to.

"Hatake-san, something has happened…" the slug started. That was all he heard he took of back to Konoha as fast as he could hoping that he wouldn't collapse on the way.

It took him 3 hours to get back to the village. He saw the gates coming closer but there weren't any sounds of an attack going on. Did I misunderstand the message? I'm sure she meant something happened to the village. As he stepped through the gates and looked around the slug reappeared in front of him.

"Hatake-san. Now that you are back in the village, Tsunade-sama would like to speak with you." He noted that the slug was using a defeated tone. That's never good. He thought.

"Hai." He said disappearing in a puff of smoke only to be at the Hokage's tower the next. "Hokage-sama." He said bowing to the lady that was standing at the windows looking out at the village.

"Kakashi…" she whispered. She turned around. Kakashi saw that she was gripping a headband tightly and she had her eyes shut.

"What is it?" he had no idea what was going on. But now that he was back in the village he wanted to go check up on Sakura. When he left she was having some problems and he didn't want to leave her but he had no other choice.

Tsunade came around the desk and held out the headband that he noticed earlier, to him.

He took it gently and noticed it didn't have the same blue fabric around the metal. It was a darker red. He looked up at the Hokage and saw that she was crying now. "Where's Sakura?" he asked quietly.

"I didn't know…I didn't think…she…would…why?" she rambled on finally asking a question looking at him. He gulped. This wasn't sounded too good.

"Why what, Tsunade-sama?" now he was completely lost. What happened? Why was he headband here? And not her?

"Why would she do it? I thought she was getting better until recently, so I took her off of duty for a while so she could take some time and recover. But I never thought…she would do that. When I found her I put it all together. You were gone and it has only been a few months….I should have known." He didn't want to hear any more of it. His world came crashing down on him then. She was no longer here.

*END FLASHBACK*

That was a few weeks ago and he still couldn't get over it. He can't hear her voice everyday now. He only has the memories now. Not the real thing. She wasn't here to scold him on being late to everything. She was here so he could hear her laugh on the rare occasions. Everything was gone now.

"I miss the sound of your voice."

this was a different song than "Halo" that i was using for the other chapters...Come On Get High by Matt Nathanson =)

ok so im sure everyone hates me for doing that but im srry i really am! i wanted something to happen...and this is what i came up with lol

hopefully everyone understood what i was intending....if so then i shall stop here.

Evil-Angel