Long time no see, I've been really busy with school and all, and I'm really sorry, but for some time I lost interest in this story. Oh well, no matter.

A person from the past arrives and he has news about a new enemy. WTH?!

Disclaimer: not own Naruto I do

Chapter 15.

"Naruto dear, have you slept anything at all?" Hinata asked the blonde man sleeping beside her in her bed. He was staring at the ceiling. His dark blue eyes indicated that he was mad, no that wasn't the right word, furious was more like it. She snuggled closer to him and stared up at the ceiling as well.

"I couldn't." He said and closed his eyes halfway. Hinata sighed.

"You see her face?" She asked.

"Yeah, I do." He turned his head and kissed her nose lovingly. Hinata smiled and kissed him.

"You have to go to work dear." She whispered and handed him his Hokage cloak. Naruto sighed and sat up in the bed.

"I destroyed Sakuras life. Sasuke seems to be unstable, but Tsunade sent him home anyways, Kakashi has been acting strange. Tsunade never got that much of a rough start did she?" He asked Hinata. She laughed.

"You whine more than a seven year old, just get up and shower, you kind of smell." Her voice was cheerful, but underneath it all, she felt sad for him. It was a rough start when he couldn't be there for his friends like he used to. He had other responsibilities now, more important matters than personal issues.

Naruto headed to the bathroom and soon she heard the steady stream of water. Hinata dressed in her own ANBU outfit and waited for her man to come so they could walk to work together.

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Sakura woke up in alien sheets, and a smell that she didn't really recognise at first. She looked around, everything was so clean and tidy. It almost seemed like noone had slept here before her.

"I never really use my room all that much." A male voice said and Sasuke came into the room, when he saw that she was awake. He brought a large cup of tea. He sat down on the large bed beside her and smiled sadly at her and gave her the cup.

"Drink this, it'll make you feel better, I promise." Sakura forced a smile.

"It hurts to smile doesn't it? Listen, you don't have to put up an act for me." Sasuke said.

"I'm sorry."

"Don't apologize."
"I'm sorry…I'm sorry." She whispered faintly. Sasuke sighed and reached out his hands and drew her into a warm embrace. Sakura relaxed and hugged him back.

"I think… I love him." She whispered silently, making Sasuke squeeze her harder to him.

"Yeah, I thought so." He murmured into her hair, stroking her soothingly. Sakura felt tears well up inside her again, but she bit them back.

"This is the second person I love who doesn't love me back." She said. Sasuke felt something grab his heart and squeeze.

"I'm sorry, I should have realised sooner."

"It doesn't matter now, surely I'll survive."

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Kakashi woke up from something tickling his nose, he opened his one eye and saw a fly sitting on his nose. He blew upwards and scared it away.

Immediately he felt that something was missing, in his mind he thought about the fly, but in his heart…

He stood up, realising that he had fallen asleep on the couch again, sighing he threw a casual glance at the bed which was empty, as empty as he thought it would be. Slightly slumped he walked into the kitchen and poured himself a cup of coffee from the day before.

He sat down by the kitchen table, everything went like in slow-motion, and he just waited for Sakura to waltz in the door with breakfast and the today's news.

Sipping on his coffee, he started realising that what he had done had been terribly selfish. He looked outside, and saw that it was a grey and rainy day, reflecting his own mood pretty well. It was silent, no Sakura that tried to small talk or trick him into a stupid discussion about nothing. How could he be so heartless, she had been trough so much, and then he had to push her away because he himself was…afraid.

Yeah, that had to be it didn't it?

Kakashi had loved one woman, Rin, and she had turned away from him. She had loved Obito, understandable that was though. Obito was the better mach after all, kind and helpful and cheery all the time, until he had died.

Why did everything have to hurt so much every fucking time? He was getting angry with himself now.

Kakashi had survived and seen so many terrible things in his life, he had lost many people in war, but no loss had ever hurt so much as when he now lost Sakuras friendship. She was still alive, but that piece of his heart she had cut loose and brought with her was way too painful.

"It doesn't matter anymore, you have to go on." He muttered into his cup and decided to go to Naruto and ask for a long term mission so he could get away from this village for a while.

"Come in Kakashi." Naruto called from inside his office before Kakashi could knock on his door. Kakashi smiled, there was a reason Naruto was the new Hokage after all.

"Sit down. How's Sakura doing after what happened?" Naruto asked and started digging trough a bunch of papers. Kakashi sat down slowly and smiled uneasily.

"I'm not really sure. I kind of don't know where she is." This made Naruto stop what he was doing and look up, his eyes were red but with normal round pupils. Kakashi sighed.

"We kind of argued, or something." He said. Narutos eyes narrowed dangerously.

"I told you to look out for her. Anyway, I have a mission for you, you look like you need it." Naruto murmured and gave Kakashi the sheet. It was an s-rank mission. A solo mission.

"Be careful on this one right? It could get dangerous, even for someone like you. It's said to be a new version of Akatsuki, but they're pretty unorganised still, we have to stop them getting organised. Are you with me? Oh, yes, one more thing, it's confidential, only you and I know of them yet, you are to consider if they are a threat to us and ours." Naruto asked. Kakashi lingered by one word on the sheet: " Akaikaze" red wind.

"Yes, Hokage-sama." Kakashi whispered and tucked the sheet inside his west, hiding it from interested eyes. Naruto nodded.

"Don't get distracted, we know nothing of their ability so you got to be careful." He said.

"By distraction he means one certain pink haired woman." Kyuubis voice came from Naruto, and Naruto smiled vaguely by the comment. Kakashi sighed.

"I'll never get used to that." He said before disappearing out the door.

Kakashi headed home, packed down a few Itcha Itcha books and a spare of clothing, some money and then he headed out the door without looking back. If he had been tempted to look back, it would only depress him to see his cold apartment, missing the cosiness it used to hold. That was before Sakura came and left again though. He had never noticed the coldness before she came, but she had seemed to lighten up the whole place, and when she left, he could see how grey his home seemed without her.

It sounded goofy and cliché in his mind, but he couldn't help it though, it was the truth.

When heading towards the Konoha gates he fished out the sheet and read trough facts and his assignment once more.

Six people had been seen wearing a cloak similar to the Akatsuki cloak, only that it was copper red and with black spirals on the ends. Only six were recorded seen, but there could be more of them. The people that had been seen were all male and missing-nin from the mist. One of the survivors from the Akatsuki had also been seen wearing this copper red cloak. Kisame Hoshigaki from Kirigakure, one of the seven swordsmen from mist, the shark man whom used to travel with Uchiha Itachi was the one. He was one of few surviving Akatsuki members. Kakashi didn't know him well, but he knew that Gai and his team had fought against him once. What Akaikazes goal was wasn't known, but they had no good intentions. Red cloaked men had been involved in several murders the last few months, but still they were only located in the land of water and keeping inside the boarders.

Kakashis mission was mostly asking around and evaluate if Akaikaze were a threat to Konoha. It was a boring mission in theory, if he kept out of danger, but he knew himself too well to know that he would not keep out of danger, rather the opposite.

He reached the gate and stopped by the guard house and knocked on the window. A young genin girl peeked out at him and opened the window.

"Signing in for duty?" She asked sweetly. She was cute, couldn't be more than eleven years old with fiery red hair and chocolate brown eyes. Kakashi smiled, she reminded him of how Sakura had looked like when she was twelve.

"Yeah, Hatake Kakashi, three weeks, Kirigakure, solo." He said and saw her writing it down in the book, when she was done, she gave him a nod.

"Write down food, supplies and hotel expenses, and they will be covered when you come back." She said it automatically like she had said it a thousand times before, and she probably had as well.

"Thank you." Kakashi said and walked towards the forest, slowly.

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Sakura had walked around town all day, looking for a job, but she had no experience in handling money, making food or helping customers. No wonder, she had never had a job like that before. Sakuras dream had been to open a café where villagers and shinobi could meet without feeling the difference in social status. But she had not enough money to buy those houses which could work with her purpose. The only house she could find and afford was an old shack a little outside the centre of the village. It could have been nice if it had looked like it could hold itself together, but it seemed too much to ask for from this shack.

It was depressing looking at houses she couldn't afford, and thoughts about Kakashi didn't make it any easier for her.

She had thanked Sasuke for being a good friend when she needed it, and she was pretty sure that he understood what she meant by that. The two of them would never be anything more than friends. The Sasuke Sakura ship had sailed the day he left her unconscious on that bench.

After a while looking at houses and finding none of them cheap enough, she just walked aimlessly around town, but the rush hours were starting so the streets were crowded. She made her way out of the centre of the village and suddenly got a strange urge to take a walk around Konoha. She had used to walk around Konoha with her parents when she was younger, before the terrible accident.

Thoughts flowed comfortably trough her mind, even though the thoughts weren't comfortable, as she couldn't get herself from thinking about Kakashi, her own statement and what she was to do next. The revenge on Rayuu had been shoved into the back of her mind as she had no chance against him now.

The sandals felt uncomfortable, so she took them of and held them loosely in her hand; she stood still, just feeling the sensation of moss between her toes. So soft and innocent.

Suddenly she felt the urge to run, and she did. Her hair flowing behind her, her muscles contracting every time she made contact with the ground. She still was strong. Training trough years had built up her muscles, and even without chakra she was a fast sprinter.

It felt good to be free, all her thoughts and worries leaving her, no, she left them behind, and felt only the joy of running under the trees.

Her joy was short lived though, and she came to an immediate halt when she saw him, standing there, leaning on a tree, watching her curiously, casually.

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She stopped when she finally noticed him. He had watched her run for quite some time. It was amusing how this normal girl could find joy in running trough the forest like a maniac. But she had found joy in doing such an incredible unnecessary thing, he was good at reading faces, and hers had been bathed in pure joy. Though he himself couldn't understand such a feeling, as he never really had experienced joy, not even as a child.

She was a strange girl though, with pink hair, which seemed real enough, and emerald green orbs. She was what most men would call beautiful, he thought she looked ordinary, special, but ordinary. Not that he had any interest in conversing with this girl at all, he had a different mission completely and she would only waste his time. It was interesting though, to see her reaction, see if she knew who he was. He still was an s-class missing nin after all, and she seemed old enough to know about him.

"What are you doing here?" She had a strong authorial voice and put extra emphasis on the "you", not what he had expected from a regular citizen. She wasn't even shinobi, how dared she talk like that to him?

"I need to speak with your Hokage. Uzumaki Naruto." He said, not bothering with her rude tone. Her eyes narrowed dangerously, and she seemed somewhat familiar. Strange that was though, as he never usually mixed with regulars.

"Naruto don't have time for murderers and traitors." She spat venomously. His eye twitched, how dared she insult him in such a manner, hadn't his brother told these stupid citizens what the real reasons for his crimes were? And then there were the casual way she addressed her own Hokage, even though he was new in the job, regulars usually treated their Hokages like gods.

"But if you have a message I could evaluate if it's of importance or not, and I'll bring it to him if it is." She snapped saucily.

"What would a normal, insignificant citizen know of important or not in the shinobi world, little girl?" He asked acidly, growing impatient with this woman.

"What would a traitor know of me being insignificant if I dare ask, oh wise one?" She mocked, but a new fire had been lit in her eyes now. The comment about being insignificant had hit home obviously. He smirked.

"What's your name woman?" He asked, truthfully interested in knowing who this fierce girl was. Her face softened somewhat when he asked.

"Haruno Sakura." She said. And everything fell into place. Of course he had heard of one of Konohas greatest medic nins, only second after the Godaime Tsunade of course. And a former team mate of Uzumaki Naruto, which explained the informalities when she spoke of him. She had all the right to be fierce then. But what he did not understand was her closed chakra channels, it was almost like someone had closed them on purpose.

Suddenly he felt the presence of someone familiar nearing, this time a strong shinobi. He turned around a saw a silver haired man coming their way.

If he remembered correctly his name was Hatake Kakashi. When Kakashi came closer he could se a plain face and in his hand he held a small orange book.

A gasp could be heard from the girl standing a few steps behind him, she obviously did not want to meet her former sensei, maybe he had been the one to close her chakra channels.

"Hatake Kakashi." He greeted the somewhat older man.

"Uchiha Itachi, what are you doing here, this is Konoha land." Kakashi asked coldly. Itachi smiled.

"I have some information on your new enemy in Mist, and I think the Hokage would like to hear it." He said and glanced over his shoulder at Sakura. Kakashis one eye followed his glance and his eye landed on Sakuras worried face.

"Hello Sakura."

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