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I growled as I felt the pain rip through me over and over again. How could I have been so stupid in the first place? Ugh, I think I might die from this pain than from old age, or a kunai through the heart like I always thought I would end up dead as. I had managed to change into some grey sweat pants and a black long sleeve shirt and my black ninja sandals before poofing into my shisou's office. Hopefully she could tell me what was happening with me.
When I had arrived outside of her door I saw Shizune walking by. When she saw me she dropped all of the papers she was carrying and ran into my shisou's office. I could tell she was in a meeting due to the snippets of conversation that I had caught before falling to the floor, unconscious from all of the pain. The last thing I heard was my named being screamed by a male and someone saying something about a change in my appearance. Whatever it was, I really wanted it to end.
When I woke up, I heard a beeping sound and smelt the smell of a hospital room. How would I know this? I work in a hospital, duh. Anyways, my head felt like it was ready to explode and my whole body was screaming in pain. Even when I was hooked up to machines and probably check by Tsunade shisou and Shizune, I was still in pain.
I opened my eyes and and all I saw was blackness, which freaked me out since I didn't really like blackness like this. It was as if I was in an endless dark pit with no light coming to help me get out anytime soon. Many thoughts were running through my head, but I shook them away since ontop of an oncoming head ache, my head was still throbbing painfully.
I heard the door open and a gasp being made. I heard the heels, probably from one of the nurses here, turning away from my room. They probably had went to get Tsunade shisou or Shizune. Man, I was incredibly stupid and this pain was certainly the worst punishment I could ever receive, hopefully.
"Sakura." I heard my mentor call out.
"Shisou, why do I see only black? My head...hurts and I feel as if I'm...dying." I choked out. I wouldn't be surprised if I was dying.
"Tsunade-, Sakura!" I heard Shizune say.
I only whimpered as another wave of pain racked my body. Ibet this was worse than what the Inuzukas have to face when they are in heat for the first time. I'd rather be in heat for the first time than go through this. Man, how many times will I have to think this? I whimpered once more, this time I kept my eyes shut tight since it did me know good keeping them open.
"I'm scared." was all I managed out before blacking out completely once again from too much pain.
~ NORMAL POV ~
Tsunade and Shizune looked down at the pinkette who was now peacefully sleeping. The two women, plus a few other nedics, had worked two hours non-stop to stable Sakura's condition. Tsunade had an unopened bottle of sake in her hand and she hadn't taken a sip from it yet, surprisingly. She was too worried about her student who was like a daughter to her.
"I wonder what happened to Sakura." Shizune said.
"I don't know, but if this is the doing of someone then they will be finding themselves wishing for mercy and begging to be killed by Madara instead." growled Tsunade. She finally opened the sake bottle and began doing the contents like their was no tomorrow. "Sakura would have died from the pain instead of the blood loss if she hadn't come to me immediately. Did she just get back from a mission?"
"Hai. Her and Team Gai returned this morning, twenty minutes prior to when Sakura came to the Hokage's tower. The mission was a success, although they ran into some trouble along the way." Shizune answered, reading from the file that was in her hands.
"Tell Team Gai to meet her ASAP. I need to listen to the full mission report. One with more detail than they usually give, something isn't right here." Tsunade said. If her thoughts were announced true, then she would be needing to see the eldest Uchiha in her office and give him a beat down.
Team Gai had arrived about ten minutes from when Tsunade sent Shizune to go and retrieve them. Apparently they were sleeping and gaining back their energy that was lost on the mission. Tsunade was analyzing them as she stood in front of Sakura's hospital room door. She noticed that Tenten had a cut on her cheek, which she would get Shizune to heal in a few minutes. She also notced that Neji, Gai, and Lee looked really tired, as if they were running away from the biggest explosion of their lives, which could have happened.
"Team Gai, before you give me a more detailed version of the completed and successful mission, I have to show you something. And I advise you to not speak too loudly, or to tell anyone of this. If word gets out, then bad things will happen." Tsunade said, authority was evident in her tone.
Team Gai only nodded tiredly as they followed Tsunade into the hospital room. After she closed the door she heard Tenten holding in a gasp, Lee gasp, Gai's jaw dropping in shock, and Neji going bug eyed. That was how quiet it was when they entered. Even the monitors in which the pinkette was hooked up to weren't making a sound.
"A few hours ago, Shizune found Sakura barely conscious in front of my office while I was in a meeting. Apparently, she was suffering from pains that ripped throughout her boyd, making it hard for her to calm her chakra system down. When my staff and I were in the emergency room, I spotted many deep wounds that nearly destroyed many vital organ systems." Tsunade explained. "After we healed as much as we could, without harming her any further, I noticed a strange mark on the left side of her neck. Guess what the mark was."
"What?" Tenten was the only one who found her voice after seeing the pinkette in such a state. When they had gotten back to the village only mere hours ago, she didn't look this bad. She looked as if she only had a few wounds, but nothing to serious.
"It was the same mark that Orochimaru had given Sasuke, but only a level higher. What sparks my curiosity is that why would Orochimaru do this to her." Tsunade looked over the team in front of her, then to her sleeping apprentice. "Or was it someone else who did this behind Orochimaru's back. Whatever the case is, I want to get to the bottom of it. So I am handing your team a few missions to take at the same time."
"One of them...is to protect Sakura, look over her and make sure that the curse mark doesn't make her do things Sasuke did." Neji said, he had finally gotten over the shock, though he winced very visibly when he looked once more at the pinkette. Unknown to everyone, besides Tenten, he admired Sakura and had started to develop an interest in her over the last few seven months that the team and the pinkette have been hanging out together.
"Yes, that and I want you to find more information about this. No one will be told of this and it will not be discussed unless I bring it up. Oh, and she needs to live somewhere other than her apartment, which I am thinking of selling since I don't like the land lord much."
"Well, Gai sensei did have this one suggestion a while ago." Tenten said. "He was thinking of buying a rahter large house so that Team Gai could live together until we decide to branch off to start our own lives. Maybe we could use his idea and allow Sakura to come and live with us. I'm sure that none of us wouldn't mind."
"Yosh!" Lee said, though he was more quieter than usual. "We shall buy us a youthful house and allow the lovely pink blossom to stay with us!"
Tsunade smiled. She was glad that her apprentice was getting over the few deaths that had happened over a year ago. She was also glad that she chose this particular team to bond with, since they obviously care for her as if she was always a part of theri team. The blonde Hokage looked at Neji, inwardly smiling. Maybe she could find a new love as well.