Really good job on this story and I just want to smack some sense into Sakura and make her tell how she feels to Kakashi. Assuming she knows everything, tchhhhhhh .

...I really don't think that Sakura is shallow though, at all, or entirely at least.

I will always remember how in the very beginning, Sakura cold shouldered Naruto, and then when Sasuke cold shouldered her, she wondered if that was how Naruto felt, and resolved to be nicer to him.

If anything, rather than being stuck being the little girl, she has grown past that, Part II Sakura had gone tooo far in the other direction, I guess that happens when she's tutored right under the Hokage, and dealing with the responsibility of the sick and the dying...I think Sakura had reached a point where she ends up identifying with much older people rather than people her own age, hence her extreme empathy with Chiyo-sama.

Sasuke is still the child avenger, and Naruto is still childish AND hopeful (I wouldn't say that hope itself is childish), ...and while I wouldn't say that it's Sakura's jadedness that has made her mature, she now has it in spades, she curbs her own passions now, she made the decision to kill Sasuke herself and not tell Naruto about it after all. That's kunoichi. I hope she doesn't end up making the same mistakes as Chiyo and Tsunade, *sigh*

Sakura was wonderfully in character. It's interesting to see things from her point of view, though I still fell bad for kakashi

That makes me kind of sad. Comparing this with Gai's POV, I wish she would tell how she feels about everything. Then maybe he wouldn't be breaking like Gai says. I like how you show more sides than one with these oneshots.

Huh...

Pretty deep.

Sakura's POV is such a great contrast to Gai's. I knew she wasn't breaking Kakashi on purpose...

oh wow, okay. Now I feel kinda bad about hating herso much...not enough to forgive her for what she's done to your kakashi, but a little. Again, well written and moving. Must read the kakashi one now.

Wanted to see the end of the story, so therefore I am reading and reviewing like a good little chicken XD Your review reply was very much appreciated, as I always feel I'm too harsh or something... So thanks n.n

In reply to your review reply first (because I enjoy a good debate): "I will admit that Gai is a little...extreme. Of course, his character's extreme, so I don't think it's so unreasonable that he'd think like that."

Extream perhaps in a different, weirdo way...? -shrug-

Now from your story I actually have some good things to say XD After my rather depressing review last time... The line: "After all, Haruno Sakura knows that no one can act as apathetic as Hatake Kakashi does if they truly felt the loss of the team." I particually love. If you look into Kakashi's perspective and reasons for being that way... Then it seems he is hideing behind the mask of indifference, because he can't possibly NOT care about the one team he believed in enough to pass his test XD As well as that, it shows how childish Sakura still is... In the sence that she can't see why kakashi would protect himself by pretending indifference, maybe even to himself. ...I think too much into things, I think lol

I like the characterisation of Sakura overall in this fanfic. It shows her as being young, but not totally ignorant ("Haruno Sakura was glad to find her calling, and she was glad to find a teacher who suited her.")

...No, I'm not a Sakura fan, actually, but I am a sucker for good characterisation, in any character -shrug- Anyway, I liked Sakura's view point.

-ajah (hurray for long reviews!)

Okay, here for the second round of reviewing!

From what you've written this time around, I get the impression that Sakura is similar to Kakashi here in that she herself is broken and bleeding still from the breakup of Team 7. It makes me wonder if Gai ever had to suffer from a lack of attention from HIS former Jonin sensei to the degree Sakura did. Lee may have had little talent outside of Taijutsu, but Gai doted on him consistently, so that would make up for it in some small manner.

Also, as I said in my previous review, because Sakura herself is inexperienced and almost as broken (it would seem) as Kakashi, then she lacks the insight to look 'underneath the underneath' when it comes to Kakashi. He obviously was scared out of his mind that she'd never forgive him for failing them and here she is thinking that the man can't possibly care about the status of their team because of his apathy on the matter or what SEEMED like apathy to her.

Also previously stated, Sakura's lack of noticing the lost weight and lack of Icha Icha SHOULD have been a red flag, since she knew of his reading obsession. It's a mark against her as a medic that she missed it, so she's partly to blame because of her inexperience with reading Kakashi to the point where she can see that they're both hurting something fierce, but she's so focused on her training with Tsunade that she misses it completely.

Another good fic, not as poignant as the first, but still very nice considering the character you featured. I'm certain MUCH controversy will be had on this subject, as we never really saw a lot of Kakashi and Sakura's behavior during the timeskip, so a lot of this is open to interpretation in several different ways.

Off to number three!

Well, that certianly explains why she doesnt talk to him... At least it's a good reason, though it's too bad she's misunderstanding him... I like the way you write these, the characters are done very well. Keep up the good work.