Stitched with love

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Sakura sighed. Sure, she loved her job at the hospital, but she was getting a bit tired of doing the same thing over and over again. Get to the hospital. Check in at the front desk. Get a cup of coffee. Check on all of her recovering surgery patients. Go to lunch. Check on recovering patients once again. Check out at the front desk. Go home…

She was starting to wonder if it was worth working at this particular hospital… She thought that maybe if she moved to a big city, where accidents were bound to happen, she would get to have some action everyday! Boy was she wrong…

"Good morning Sakura-sama! You look wonderful this morning!" the newest intern, Kabuto, shouted, his grey scrub's identical to his natural grey- almost silver- hair.

Sakura smiled and tucked part of her pink hair behind her left ear. "Ah, good morning to you too Yakushi-san! Thank you." She watched as the young intern wrinkled his nose.

"Please, Sakura-sama, just call me Kabuto!" He gave her a sweet smile and pushed his glasses up higher on the bridge of his nose.

"Ah. I forgot, forgive me," Kabuto smiled at her again, and opened his mouth to say something more, but was cut off by Tsunade, the head of Surgery, shouted after Sakura.

"Sakura! Come quick! There's been an emergency next door at the apartments!" Before Sakura could say goodbye to Kabuto, she was gone, rushing out of the hospital in search of the emergency.

Not only was she going to finally have a break from her boring every-day same old same old routine, she would be able to help someone. That was the whole reason she wanted to become a doctor- a surgeon.

Rushing out the automatic doors of the right wing of the hospital, the ER, she found a group of interns and nurses surrounding a stretcher.

"Alright people, what happened!?" she shouted over everyone, getting their attention. Making her way over to the stretcher, she noticed a handsome tan-skinned man, about her age, with an oxygen mask over his mouth. He seemed fine from what she could see, other than there was a small line of blood falling from near his dark brown, maybe black hair.

Then, she looked under the warm thick blanket they had placed over him, and blanched in shock and horror.

The poor man had long cuts and scratches all over his body; she was surprised that he hadn't already bled to death!

"Oh god, get him inside ASAP! Shizune-san," she called out to one of the nurses who had just arrived, "Please get room 104 ready for surgery now! Make sure everything in there is clean and ready for a patient!" The dark-haired woman nodded her head vigorously and ran into the building and raced down the halls.

Sakura stayed with the man and started to check his vitals and anything and everything she could think of to check, then she looked over to a scared nurse, who was helping push the stretcher into room 104.

"Hyuuga-san, please, do you have any identification of this man, or know what happened to him?" she asked in a calm tone, surprising herself.

The young nurse nodded. "W-We found his wallet on his person. His n-name is K-kakuzu (I'm making up the last name) Inaho. The p-people in the apartment complex said he was p-pushed out of one of the top f-floors windows…" Sakura nodded gratefully at the nurse and pushed the patient with renewed vigor.

When she knew a patients name, it always motivated her. She told herself this person was a friend of a friend, and pushed herself more to save this persons life. "Let's hurry this up! Hurry and move him onto the clean gurney! On three! One, Two… Three!" All of the nurses picked him up and plopped him down gently on the new gurney, compliments to Shizune, and placed him from there to the operating table.

"Someone get me the anesthetics, Propofol if its close enough! Shizune-san, please get Tsunade-sama in here. I need her to set up the equipment!" she barked out, she was going to make sure this man lived, no matter what…

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Sakura was ready to collapse. This was exactly what she wanted… A hard case, and one she would be able to complete, and boy did she ever.

She was able to stop the bleeding on some of his deeper wounds with a Kelly clamp, and was easily able to sew all of his wounds together, save some of the minor cuts and scratches.

She was still surprised he was able to make it through. Sure, none of the cuts were life threatening, but when he had about twenty of them, you might have a big problem there…

Sighing, she looked over the man once more. She walked over to his bed and pushed the covers down some. Much to her surprise, there was hardly a scratch on him from waist down. His shoulders and forearms took the most damage. She ran an arm over his tanned skin and traced the marks of his many stitches.

She then looked to his face, she had to admit, he was the handsomest patient she'd ever had. He had high cheekbones, and a nice rounded chin. His hair was some-what short. It was a bit shaggy, but cute. It fell over his ears, but also fell into his eyes, either way, she found it went with his tanned skin rather well.

Then her unnecessary inspection fell to his closed eyes. Quickly glancing behind her, she decided it was safe to look at his eyes once more.

'It's not like I'm molesting the man…' she chuckled softly and lifted his right eyelid and stared at his bright green eye… Not only was it a rare hair-color, but due to the small cuts on his face, blood had seeped into his eyes, causing his sclera to turn a dark black… It was beautiful.

She found herself lost, staring into his eye, when she heard him groan. She froze and stared at him all the harder, more out of fear now.

"Ah, damn… What happened?" he deep voice asked softly, his voice scruffy from lack of fluids.

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YAY! I'm starting a Sakuzu… I don't know if that's what it's called, so for those who are confused, like me… a bit at least… It's Sakura and Kakuzu… (The pairing…)

But I actually got inspired for this fic. by uninspirable who made the fic. 'Twists and Turns.'

This is to you, if your reading this… I should probably send you a message… I'll do it later if I'm up to it, lol.

READ AND REVIEW IF YOU LIKE THIS! If I don't get enough reviews, I'm going to quit this one 'cause I have about three others I'm working on. If no one wants this one, I'll delete it and focus on the one's people actually like, lol.

So…. R&R if you want!

M-Mello