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Kakashi's POV
Kakashi had been out on a mission for the past month. He'd been away from the village, blaming himself for getting so close to people who would only leave him. He didn't know what else to blame himself for, to make sure that even his subconsious knew it was his fault.
Not Shikamaru's fault, because Shikamaru kept saying that if he hadn't left Hikaru, Hikaru wouldn't have gone missing. Kakashi had different views.
He should have been there. He should have realized Hikaru was in danger, and now one of his best friends was more than likely dead because it's been six months, and they were so close to calling it.
So he laid in bed at night, adding another name to the collection of people who grew on him and died. It made five, or six, or seven and he didn't even know.
He blamed himself the most. Kakashi had been the one to witness the carnage Hikaru left behind, which was at least 40 Kumo and Kiri nin dead and a very few injured in a way that would never be recovered.
He'd been a few moments too late. Just a few, because if it were any more than that, Kakashi would hate himself even more.
He stared blankly at the ceiling of his apartment.
It had been six months since he'd seen Hikaru- he missed the rare smiles and the color of his eyes, and the attitude the other had. He missed and longed for another chance, just like he had with Rin and Obito and everybody he'd ever lost.
Kakashi had learned to live with grief, but somehow, now it was thicker than it had been. He supposed it was because he'd been closer to Hikaru than he was with his teammates.
His eye drifted shut, and he sighed softly.
It was then he felt it.
A flicker of warm, familiar chakra with no signature that brushed outwards somewhere in the village. Kakashi's first thought after he'd sat up was that it was Hikaru. His next thought was that it was a figment of his imagination. He'd had it happen before with Obito, so why wouldn't it happen now?
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He stood at the memorial stone, glaring at the newest names that had been added to it- Hikaru's wasn't one of them. It had been a solid two days since he'd got home and Tsunade had put him on required rest for the next two weeks.
Kakashi supposed it was fair, considering he'd been gone for a month, but he still despised it. He needed to move, he needed a distraction because the one thing that was keeping him up at night was in the hospital.
He couldn't bring himself to go. He couldn't, therefore he wouldn't. Simple as that.
If he saw Hikaru right now he would break down in tears, and Kakashi had pledged to never let anybody see him like that again.
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Kakashi stood in the waiting room. He didn't know why exactly he was here, but his students had looked so happy after they'd left Hikaru's room that he couldn't not be here. And then Ino had walked out, teary-eyed.
Kakashi had told himself to wait a day.
It ended up being two.
Kakashi strolled up to the receptionist and asked for the room number of Hikaru, and once she gave it to him he lazily strolled up the stairs. Well, as lazily as he could seem, visiting someone who he thought was dead dead dead-
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