My Final Goodbye

(I know I do a lot of Kakashi, but my friends love him... I'm Sorry)

We just finished off Zabuza, Haku, and the rest of the Seven swordsmen, but not without heavy casualties. I was standing by Sakura as she was healing Lee when the ground started to shake.

"What now?!" I was beyond frustrated with this bullshit. I was beyond done fighting people I once called a friend.

But as always, the world has different plans for me. A wooden casket was coming up from the ground,

"This could be anyone so don't let your guard down everyone!" I yelled across behind me. The casket stopped and stood still upright, the lid not opening.

"Come on out already!" Guy yelled standing up, getting in a fighting stance.

After what seemed like hours, the casket lid finally opened, and my heart sank into my stomach, my knees buckled and Guy caught me from falling down. Tears stung my eyes as she slowly emerged and stood tall be for us all.

"Y-Y-Y/N..?" I wishpered, the lump in my throat causing my breathing to become difficult.

"It can't be.." Guy breathed in shock, his eyes never leaving her.

"Kakashi, I thought her body was never found?" Sakura asked from behind me but came to my side and helped Guy pulled me to my feet.

"I-it wasn't.." My body shook violently, how was she able to be reanimated? Don't they need her body?

"Kakashi..?" Y/N's voice rang out hitting me dead in my heart.

"Where am I?" Her voice was so broken, so scared.

"You're in the Land of the living Y/N, you were brought back." As Guy was explaining it to her, she still looked so lost. This once strong, vibrant, woman was now lost and scared.

"I can't control my body. Kakashi, you and the others have to get away. I don't want to hurt you!" She yelled as she charged at me, Guy and Sakura. They jumped us out of the way as Y/N attacked the others.

"Who is this woman?!"

"Damn it she's fast!"

"She's Kakashi's wife! Y/N Hatake. The Dark Maiden from The Hidden Leaf."

Another Leaf Shinobi yelled as he fought off Y/N. My brain has shut down, for the first time in 3 years I didn't know what to do yet again.

"Kakashi- Sensei what do you want us to do?" Sakura asked holding onto my arm tighter.

"I'll fight her. Guy you be my back up, we both know how she fights and how to handle her."

"Right. I'll be right behind you."

"Everyone fall back!" My order didn't fall on deaf ears and everyone who could, ran away behind us and I took a step forward towards Y/N, she was standing there, blood already splattered on her ANBU uniform.

"Y/N. I'm your opponent now." I brought a Kunai up, ready to defend if need be as her eyes flicked from the blood on her hands to me, her eyes were still so lost, pure black pools stared me down.

"Kakashi..kill me. Please, I don't want to be here..like this. I'm scared.."

My heart keeps shattering into smaller and smaller pieces. The love of my life, who died three years ago, the one who I never got to say goodbye to, who I'll never get to hold again, start a family with, is scared beyond belief, and wants me to kill her, and I'm helpless.

"My Love, I don't know if I can.."

"You have to Kakashi, I'm not in control of my body, I just attacked fellow comrades even though I was screaming on the inside for my body to stop."

I grabbed my Kunai tighter, a single tear slipped down my face. Her body got ready to attack, but her eyes held sorrow and regret. Then, as soon as I blinked, she was in front of me her sword in hand.

Our weapons clashed and she pushed against me and jumped back only to charge me again. We clashed weapons again, only this time she had a hidden Kunai and cut me across my chest. I fell down with a grunt as she towered over me to stab me, but Guy came and kicked her away, sending her skidding off then ground.

"I'm sorry Y/N, but I can't let you kill Kakashi. Please forgive me." The in pain in Guy's voice was hard to hear, Guy and Y/N were friends before me and her ever met, they practically grew up together.

She stood up holding onto her side wincing as she breathed, but she smiled at Guy.

"There's nothing to forgive Guy, I would be protecting him too If I could." Blood dripped out of her mouth as she coughed, Guy kicked her harder than he meant to.

Y/N's smiled soon turned into a frown as a black and purple aura surrounded her body, her eyes went from all black, to black and white, she smiled darkly at Guy and me and cracked her neck.

"Kakashi, Guy, I'm losing myself, please, you to hurry and put me down. The best way is through the.."

She let out the loudest and most painful scream I have ever heard come from her lips, she threw her head back as the aura got darker and moved more violently around her. Her head snapped back to us, any trace her of from before gone, like it was ripped out of her, all that remained was the darkness that lived within her.

"Sorry about that. She slips out sometimes. Now, I'll show you all why they called me the Dark Maiden from the Hidden Leaf!" She disappeared, and then reappeared behind us and struck down five men with her shadow hand then disappeared again

This happened for 10 seconds and half of my remaining men were dead.

"Quickly everyone huddle back to back, don't let her get behind you!" Everyone followed my command, me and Guy stood back to back looking around for her to show back up.

She appeared in front of Guy, before she could even lift her hand, Guy punched her back, she flipped away and appeared in front of him again, slicing his arm and jumped up flipping in front of me. I stuck first, cutting her face, Smacking away her hand as she pulled up a shadow ball and I cut her chest, she jumped away and landed some feet in front me and held onto her bleeding chest.

"Guy I have a plan..but we both are going to hate it."

"Let me hear it."

I sighed heavily as I watched her shake in pain, the woman I loved in pain and all because of me.

"We are both going to engage her, you are going to have to get behind her, and take out her legs so she can't use them, and I'll deliver the final blow to her heart.."

"Kakashi, no let me do it, she was your wife."

"Is! She is my wife, which is why I have to do it. We have to try and find out how to free her soul so she can rest."

Guy didn't say anything, he understood what I mean, and he gave my shoulder a tight squeeze and stood next to me.

"Kakashi, you'd really try to hurt your wife? The woman who showed you how to love again after you killed Rin? The woman who did everything for you, even died for you? Now that's a shame, I really thought you loved me."

"What do you mean died for me?! We never found a body!"

She smiled and laughed loudly, "Of course you didn't find my body, Kabotu took my body. It was an ANBU mission gone bad, only me and one other ANBU were sent out, Madara was there, he wanted to know where you and Naruto were, but I didn't tell."

She lifted both of her hands, shadow balls growing in each one, she plans to destroy this whole forest.

"I begged for you to show up as I lay dying in the mud and rain, I begged for my life as Madara stood over me, telling me how he was going to rip you limb from limb slowly as he could to keep you alive longer and tell you how he killed me."

Guy was no longer beside me, he was sneaking up behind her, I have to keep her distracted.

"How did he kill you My Love? Tell me! I need to know!" My voice cracked as I started to cry once again, the pain of knowing she cried out for me to come help and I didn't know has destroyed me more than just seeing her now

"1000 cuts. He used the 1000 cuts Jutsu, and as I lay bleeding he laughed, he laughed at my suffering! He told me it was a pleasure to be the one who brought down the Dark Maiden, and Kakashi Hatake's wife!" Guy ran up behind her and kicked both of her knees, shattering the bone, I quickly did my lightening blade and ran to her.

It was all slow motion, her falling back, me running to her, Guy jumping away to avoid being touched by her shadow ball, as I reached her and stabbed her though the heart, she stabbed me in my stomach. We both coughed up blood on each other as she stared into my eyes, hers going back to pitch black.

"Kakashi..?" Her voice sweet voice was laced with pain as I pulled my hand out and fell to the ground on my knees , with her in my lap.

"I got you Love, I'm here." I stroked her (H/C) hair and held her close to me.

"I have so much *coughs up blood* that I need to tell you while I still can." Tears formed in her eyes.

"Listen I need to tell you something, I didn't even know you left on that mission, I was told nothing of what you were doing. I came home and you weren't there and Lord Third couldn't even tell me where my wife went, then our seal was broken and I couldn't feel you anymore."

She lifted her left hand and on her ring finger still, was the seal we made to feel each other's chakra, it was faded but still there, just like mine.

"I'm sorry I couldn't tell you my love. It wasn't supposed to turn out how it did. It was a simple Intel retrieval, but Madara showed up and-and.."

My tears spilled onto her face, mixing with her own blood and tears, she reached a hand up and stroked my cheek with her thumb.

"I love you, so damn much Kakashi. So much it hurts, I wished we had more time together, four years wasn't enough, I promised you a forever, but only gave you four measly years."

"And I'll cherish those four years for the rest of my life. I love you too, I always have and I always will." She smiled weakly at me, pulling off the glove on my left hand and touched our seal.

"I'm giving you some of my chakra, that way you can always feel me whenever you want." A light blue aura of chakra came out of her finger and into my left ring finger, the seal glowing blue and then fading as the seal became black and I felt her pain in my body.

"One more thing, I never got to tell you." She made a other seal on my middle finger, her smile getting bigger.

"I was going to tell you, when I found out but Madara told me before I could. In this seal I'm sealing some of our child's chakra in it."

"Our c-child?" My choked on the words child. My heart was no longer in my chest or even in my body anymore.

"Yes, our child, I was pregnant when I went on that mission and I didn't even know it..Madara told me right before he killed me. I'm so sorry Kakashi, I'm so sorry that you never got to hold our child.. I-I-I"

"Shh. No it's okay, I'll be okay. I'll see you both some day, I'll get to hold you both one day. Don't worry about me."

She nodded her head, "When this is all over, find my body, it's in Kabotus hideout not far from here in the Land of Waves, I'm kept in the basement, he preserved my body to extract my cells for experiments. Please take me home and lay me with our comrades, lay me to rest."

"I will. I love you, I'll bring you home."

"Good. I love you too, but I think I'm going to sleep now My Love. I'm so tried."

"Okay. Go to sleep, I'll be with you when I can."

She reached up and pulled my head down to kiss her one last time. Her lips were cold and cracked, I could taste her blood and the salt from our tears. We both put everything we had into that one last kiss, all our love, all our sorrow, all our regrets. Her hand slipped from my face as she took her last breath and her head fell back.

"My Final Goodbye.."

She disintegrated in my arms and I stood up, looking down at the pile of ash, pulling down my head protector for my eye and cried one last time, I cried for my wife, I cried for the child I'll never get to see, and I cried for anyone who dare gets in my way to Madara.

I looked at both of the seals on my fingers, and touched them. I could feel their presence and smiled, my family will always be with me until my final breath, and I will avenge them.