(WARNING! Mentions of suicide. Please read with caution.)

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The water looked...So nice. It flowed smoothly, lightly hitting the rocks in it's way but always jumping over it. It reminded her of herself. Always jumping over a problem only to run into the next, but without giving up.

She was tired of it.

And here, right now, she could end it all.

All is would take is one step. She wasn't crying anymore. She was so numb to the pain that all she wanted was to feel it once again. Maybe jumping off could do that? She could feel Kurama slashing and yelling, telling her not to as she pushed down his attempts to take over.

Kurama could feel tears in his eyes. His friend, his master, was about to kill herself. The first person to ever treat him correctly was going to die, and he had to watch it. He couldn't do anything!

For the first time in his long and painful life, Kurama begged for help silently, begging for someone -- Whether it be some human or dog, he just wanted Nakano to be saved! 

He watched as she finally started leaning forwards, preparing to take a step and he felt himself almost lose all hope.

'Help her!' He begged. 'Please, help her! Someone, please! Just this once, I beg of somebody to help me!'

Kurama whimpered as she took the step, and he closed his eyes to at least decrease the pain of watching his only friend leave him while he was useless.

"Nee-Chan!" 

His prayers were answered. 

Shisui tackled her before she could fall down, falling on top of her and quickly retracting with tears in his eyes as the hokage had sent him after her. Nakano didn't even flinch. Her eyes were cold and dull, yet full of pain and sorrow-- She looked like she was begging to be freed from her endless pain. She wanted to stop this mask of false joy and just return to how she was before.

*SLAP!*

Nakano blinked, staring at the ground next to her as her face had been turned to the side from the force of the slap. Shisui grabbed her collar and lifted her up, allowing his tears to fall down and onto her more paler than usual face.

"What do you think you're doing?!" He yelled. "You can't just leave! How do you think everyone would feel about it?!"

"I'm a burden." She replied with little to no emotion. "A burden with strong powers."

"Bull!" He slapped her again, but she didn't even flinch. "Snap out of it!" Shisui wondered what would have happened if he wasn't here. He wondered how heartbroken his little cousins would look and how many missions he would have to miss while he mourned her.

"How do you think Itachi would feel?" She flinched this time. "Or Sasuke?" 

"Or Kakashi-San?" He watched as her empty expression screwed into more of a pained one.

"O-Or me?" He clenched the fabric of her collar once again, allowing a glare to settle on his face.

"You can't leave!"

"What do you understand!?" She grabbed his wrist and glared back, but her tears refused to show. "You don't understand my pain! No one does!"

"No- Maybe I don't!" He admitted. "But I want you to help me understand-- To talk to someone about something. Just seek help!"

"I want to!" The water finally dripped down her cheeks. "I want help so so bad, you don't understand! But for-for some reason, I can't!" 

He finally released the fabric of her shirt and slowly got off from the position he was straddling her in. Nakano sat up while he stood up and watched her hands cover her face while she sobbed.

"I just want the pain to end..." 

"..." Shisui pulled her to her feet and slowly pressed her head to his chest, embracing her tightly while her sobs died down just like his own.

"It will." He promised. "Just please don't ever try that again."

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Kakashi freaked out.

Hearing the love of his life had tried to kill herself, was not what he was expecting.

"I-Is she alright?!" He immediately asked. "Where is she? What happened-!?"

"She's fine..." Shisui sighed. "Physically, at least. Mentally, she's not alright one bit."

"Where is she?"

"She's in a room- I'll show you. But I think it's best if you don't try and push her to talk too much."

Meanwhile, Nakano was chuckling bitterly at the white walls surrounding her.

"Makes sense..." She sighed and frowned a little at her bound hands, wanting to at least scratch her nose. 

"Honestly, I've been waiting for them to stick me in one of these for  years.  Should've realized I was crazy."

Just then, she winced a little when the heavy door slammed open and a frantic Kakashi was revealed. He frowned upon seeing her state and approached her slowly.

He didn't miss the way she backed up from him, despite her legs being bounded. She really did look crazy, but it's not like they had a choice. The strongest was trying to kill herself.

How would they stop her!?

"Why would you...?" He brought his hand up to slowly caress her cheek, frowning even more when she turned her head away from him. He brought his other hand up, firmly pressing them on her cheeks and turning her head back. 

Nakano clenched her eyes shut so she wouldn't look at his expression of annoyance or anger.

"Open your eyes, love." Hearing the small word made her slowly open her hard clenched eyes, revealing the smallest amount of tears gathered in them. Her lover leaned closer and slowly attached his lips to her forehead.

Kakashi leaned back, showing his look of utter concern and maybe the slightest anger. But it definitely wasn't because of her.

In a soft voice, he quietly whispered three words to her, and hoped to god that she would comply.

"Talk to me."

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Kay, now I wanna kind of hug her. From this chapter and on, Nakano wont be very playful anymore. I'll reveal why in next chapter.