Promise

"Naruto! Sakura! Sasuke! Enemy two-a-clock!" Kakashi started sprinting towards that direction with the now reunited team 7.

Kakashi watched as his three students, now jounin and true shinobi, chase down an S-ranked fugitive. He felt a sense of pride wash through his veins.

"Obito, Rin, Sensei… they are just like you…" he thought as they made their way into a dark cave.

"MUAHHAHAAHA! Once I get the black crystal it'll be all over for you meddling ninja!" the criminal laughed as his voice echoed in the darkness of the cave.

" Black crystal? What's that? Oh No! ..." Kakashi remembered and suddenly realised where he was.

"Naruto! Sakura! Sasuke! We have to stop him!"

"Like Duh sensei, this mission will be easy!" Naruto exclaimed.

Just as Kakashi was about to voice out his concern a sickening cackle echoed through the pit.

" You're too late! I have the black crystal! The crystal that the Great Demons Hikuryo and Seibaha died to seal away! Their power will be mine!"

" No way! Rasengan!" Naruto shouted as a blue orb of swirling chakra started forming in his hand. He dashed towards the man in full brute force.

"NO! Naruto stop!" Kakashi shouted but it was too late. The orb of energy had collided into the shocked ninja's belly. The Black Crystal that glistened in his hand flew through the air.

As if in slow motion, the crystal smashed into the hard cold floor, shattering into a million pieces. Naruto's eyes were in shock, his bright blue eyes widened at the sight that was in front of him.

Silence, it was deafening. Cold, it made the ninja's shiver.

Screams, wails, pain, hate, evil, greed, revenge. This was it.

Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke stand in shock as the giant black creature appeared from the broken crystal. It's smoky dark form seemed to be in screaming in pain and anger. It had two bottomless dark pits as eyes, staring into the young shinobi's souls. It was hungry, trapped from reality, longing for young souls to replenish its own lifeless being.

Just as quick as it appeared, it vanished, dispersed into the damp cave air. In the dust, a mighty white wolf stood. It was snarling, its fur was shiny, with hints of red and black flames covering them. It looked ghostly, as its fur danced in an unearthly light.

"No…" Kakashi rasped, his breath was uneven, shock had penetrated his mind, and he stood there staring at the beast as it leaped at the Copy Ninja's. The wolf's ghastly body went in Kakashi's masked mouth. He couldn't breathe. The air in his lungs was replaced with the wolf's chakra. Kakashi doesn't realise but he screams in agony, hands clutching his throat as his leg buckle and he falls to his knees. His eyesight is blurred at the sight of the mist entering his mouth. In an instant it ends, the wolf now inside his body. He welcomes the darkness as it provided comfort to the pain that now pulsed through his entire body.

The three ninja, rush to their sensei's side, adrenalin from the events that occurred still pumping.

"KAKASHI-SENSEI!" they shouted, worry hinted in their voices.

" He's unconscious! Naruto! Sasuke! We need to get him back to Konoha! NOW!" Sakura blurted out orders. The two boys started lifting their lifeless sensei's body, hurriedly rushing towards their home. Each of them kept silent, wondering what had happened to their sensei.