Fallen Leaves (Formerly Kakashi: No Regrets)
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Naruto › Yaoi - Male/Male
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Adult ++
Chapters:
19
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9
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Mangekyô
DarkAngelJudas: Thank you! I did put this one on the back burner to work on the request fic and on my more popular story. As you can clearly see, I’m working on it, just for you! Don’t ever think I don’t appreciate you guys!
Short chapter.
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Sasuke was nearly healed and asked his team to allow him to wonder out alone. Karin conceded knowing she could keep watch on him with her sensor ability. Sasuke wondered into the woods.
Despite how much Sasuke had railed against his brother, vowing revenge and plotting his death, Itachi’s death had rattled him. He was grieving. The kind loving brother he remembered was truly dead. And what did Kakashi’s words mean? Itachi was furious he’d gone to Orochimaru? Did Itachi still care for him?
Filled with conflicting emotions and confusion, Sasuke broke down. His entire family, every last one of them, was dead. Sasuke should have felt some relief from his brother’s death, his revenge over, but it left him empty and unbearably sad.
The death of Itachi brought about something not even the death of his clan could not. He felt a searing pain in his head, in his eyes. His grief had driven him to the ground, now the pain made him writhe.
Karin saw Sasuke’s chakra going wild. “Something’s wrong.”
Kakashi was the first out the window and headed in the direction Karin had been facing, assuming that was the direction Sasuke had gone. He found Sasuke clutching his head, but no longer writhing.
“Sasuke!”
Sasuke looked up and Kakashi stopped, tried to back up away from him, and tripped.
“Your eyes,” Kakashi said.
Sasuke looked around. There was something different. “What is it?”
“It must be the Mangekyô. Yours is different from Itachi’s.”
The others arrived behind Kakashi. The overlapping elliptical star and the blood seeping down his cheeks stopped them. Sasuke forced his Sharingan to retreat.
“Truly being the last of your clan must have brought out your Mangekyô,” Kakashi said. “It might be best to replace your eyes soon.”
“The rest of you go back; Kakashi stay.” The other three hesitantly obeyed. Kakashi remained crouched where he was. Sasuke felt a thrill of power at the fact he had complete authority over his former sensei. It saddened him however; like seeing a wild wolf suddenly tamed.
“What were Itachi’s feelings for me?”
“Hard to say. He didn’t hate you. I got the feeling he cared about what happened to you. He was . . . I don’t understand him, I never did.”
“Neither did I. I feel safe here. We’ll do the surgery and leave once I recover and go after Kisame.”
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Karin had training in medical ninjutsu from the master, Kabuto. Sasuke wasn’t sure who was better, Kabuto or Tsunade. She performed the procedure to replace Sasuke’s eyes with his brother’s. They stayed in the inn while Sasuke recovered. Kakashi was never more than two yards from Sasuke the entire time. Suigetsu eyed Kakashi skeptically, but Kakashi didn’t seem to care. Karin’s attention was on Sasuke, as was Juugo’s, but whereas she was in love with him, Juugo looked to Sasuke like an obedient dog.
Sasuke was no less imperious while blind, but he was more so in manner than in instructions at the moment. He hardly spoke at all. One night when only he and Kakashi were awake, Sasuke told him, “I can feel Itachi’s power.”
“I know. I can feel it. You’re giving off an aura very much like Itachi’s in addition to your own.”
“I guess you would know.”
“I fought him twice and I spent some time with him,” Kakashi understated.
“Was he more powerful than you?”
“By several magnitudes.”
Sasuke smiled for the first time since Kakashi arrived. “I don’t think I could lose, even to you, with these eyes.”
Sasuke couldn’t see how much that hurt Kakashi, to have Sasuke speak about Itachi’s eyes like that, as if Itachi was nothing, just powerful raw materials. He swallowed his anger and remained still.
Short chapter.
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Sasuke was nearly healed and asked his team to allow him to wonder out alone. Karin conceded knowing she could keep watch on him with her sensor ability. Sasuke wondered into the woods.
Despite how much Sasuke had railed against his brother, vowing revenge and plotting his death, Itachi’s death had rattled him. He was grieving. The kind loving brother he remembered was truly dead. And what did Kakashi’s words mean? Itachi was furious he’d gone to Orochimaru? Did Itachi still care for him?
Filled with conflicting emotions and confusion, Sasuke broke down. His entire family, every last one of them, was dead. Sasuke should have felt some relief from his brother’s death, his revenge over, but it left him empty and unbearably sad.
The death of Itachi brought about something not even the death of his clan could not. He felt a searing pain in his head, in his eyes. His grief had driven him to the ground, now the pain made him writhe.
Karin saw Sasuke’s chakra going wild. “Something’s wrong.”
Kakashi was the first out the window and headed in the direction Karin had been facing, assuming that was the direction Sasuke had gone. He found Sasuke clutching his head, but no longer writhing.
“Sasuke!”
Sasuke looked up and Kakashi stopped, tried to back up away from him, and tripped.
“Your eyes,” Kakashi said.
Sasuke looked around. There was something different. “What is it?”
“It must be the Mangekyô. Yours is different from Itachi’s.”
The others arrived behind Kakashi. The overlapping elliptical star and the blood seeping down his cheeks stopped them. Sasuke forced his Sharingan to retreat.
“Truly being the last of your clan must have brought out your Mangekyô,” Kakashi said. “It might be best to replace your eyes soon.”
“The rest of you go back; Kakashi stay.” The other three hesitantly obeyed. Kakashi remained crouched where he was. Sasuke felt a thrill of power at the fact he had complete authority over his former sensei. It saddened him however; like seeing a wild wolf suddenly tamed.
“What were Itachi’s feelings for me?”
“Hard to say. He didn’t hate you. I got the feeling he cared about what happened to you. He was . . . I don’t understand him, I never did.”
“Neither did I. I feel safe here. We’ll do the surgery and leave once I recover and go after Kisame.”
-----
Karin had training in medical ninjutsu from the master, Kabuto. Sasuke wasn’t sure who was better, Kabuto or Tsunade. She performed the procedure to replace Sasuke’s eyes with his brother’s. They stayed in the inn while Sasuke recovered. Kakashi was never more than two yards from Sasuke the entire time. Suigetsu eyed Kakashi skeptically, but Kakashi didn’t seem to care. Karin’s attention was on Sasuke, as was Juugo’s, but whereas she was in love with him, Juugo looked to Sasuke like an obedient dog.
Sasuke was no less imperious while blind, but he was more so in manner than in instructions at the moment. He hardly spoke at all. One night when only he and Kakashi were awake, Sasuke told him, “I can feel Itachi’s power.”
“I know. I can feel it. You’re giving off an aura very much like Itachi’s in addition to your own.”
“I guess you would know.”
“I fought him twice and I spent some time with him,” Kakashi understated.
“Was he more powerful than you?”
“By several magnitudes.”
Sasuke smiled for the first time since Kakashi arrived. “I don’t think I could lose, even to you, with these eyes.”
Sasuke couldn’t see how much that hurt Kakashi, to have Sasuke speak about Itachi’s eyes like that, as if Itachi was nothing, just powerful raw materials. He swallowed his anger and remained still.