A/N: So this is an AU, and be nice to me because this is my first try for a medical/crime novel heheheh. I'm just a first year med so some things might actually be impossible but well, let me defy physics for a while.
"221B Baka Street…"
A certain pink haired lady read as she stood in front of the door of the place she just mentioned. She carries a trolley and a few bags.
She rang the doorbell once with no answer, she rings it again, this time a pale man around her age opened the door, he had this overly crafted smile on his face.
"Welcome, are you perhaps Sakura Haruno-chan?" he greets with a grin and his eyes were closed.
"Yes." She answers, as she tries to have a peek inside the house.
"Please come in." he moves away and motioned her to come inside. "When will your materials be arriving?"
"An hour or so." She answers.
"Forehead!" that cheery voice, she looks at her and she smiled immediately.
"Inopig!" she called and the blonde lady who called her pulls her into a tight hug.
"I missed you! Are you okay now?" Ino asked with concern glinted in her eyes.
"Yes I am."
"Awww…by the way." She moves beside the pale guy. "He's my fiancé, Sai."
"Oh?" Sakura smiled and held out a hand, and he gladly shook hands with her. "So you co-own this apartment?"
"Well…we're gonna own it together soon." Ino squealed as she slings an arm to Sai. "Anyway…aren't you heading to your room?"
"I'll be." Sakura answers, Sai offered to carry her luggage then.
"I'm sorry, Sakura…"
"No! No! Don't give up on me, please…"
"I'm so happy I've met you…"
Ino guides Sakura to her future room, they were at the second floor because she chose room number 27, the number that reminds her of the most important person in her life. Her blonde friend opened the door and gave her the keys.
"For a new start. Forehead." Ino said sadly as she squeezed Sakura's hand.
"Thank you." She mutters, while she surveyed the room, it was much little than the house she had previously, but she loved how the walls were painted green that freshens her eyes, the exactness of the size of the place, the color of the curtains, the rags and the sheets, its like everything tells her to move forward.
"So have you decided what to do now?" Ino asked as she sat on the sofa, already placed in the room.
"Yeah." Sakura answered as she places her laptop on the coffee table.
"What? Research?" Ino asks as she checks her nails. "Study again?"
"Nope… I think I'll make a novel."
"Ohhh… what genre?"
"That – Still haven't thought of anything."
"How about medical stuff? Autobiography entitled… what do they call you again?" Ino places a finger on the tip of her chin and pondered. "Ahhh… Angel of the ER!"
"Ino…you know how I feel about medical stuffs, I don't think I'm ready yet."
"Forehead…you're wasting that brilliant brain of yours if you don't come back."
"I don't want to come back."
"Ok…well how will you find inspiration?" Ino asks as she stands up. "Ahhh! Do you want to take a walk at the park?"
"Yes, but not now…maybe later? I still need to unpack."
"Oh yeah! And I have a date with Sai, I'll canc – "
"No don't…I can have a trip on my own, Ino pig… stop worrying."
"Sheesh…alright, I'll just check on some of the documents, I'll be downstairs, just call me if you need company or anything."
"Okay…" with a wave of goodbye, Ino went out and Sakura decided to unload her luggage.
Her other stuffs were delivered by the moving truck she rented, her things were few since she decided to sell her previous furniture. That's why it only took atleast 3 hours to finish putting them into place.
After a while, she gets a hold of her laptop and decided to start atleast an intro of the novel, but she can't think of anything.
Ever since I was a little girl, I've always imagined myself to hold a pen and write something that came up my mind, but I was really never given that chance up to now… before I continue on with this anthology I must introduce myself.
My name is Sakura Haruno – Akasuna, supposed to be, but my future husband or should I say ex-future husband left me in this world already. I can tell the details already, but let's leave it for later, anyways, 2 years ago I am known as a young, emerging brilliant ER doctor whom everyone idolizes, I believe and people say also that I am best at what I do – that is saving lives.
"I can't…" she mutters, her fingers trembling as she tried to write about her experiences, actually she had the shivers when she wrote her 'supposed-to-be' last name. She closed her laptop and soon afterwards, relaxed her body on the sofa, she closes her eyes and tried to breath calmly.
"Are you currently looking for a job?" a red haired male asked Sakura out of the blue, she was in the library calculating some of the debts she needs to pay.
"Ahhh…yes?" she answered.
"You had a nice and eye-catching hair." He said as he sits across her. "It attracts attention."
"Ok...?"
"I see that's a Mosby's medical dictionary, are you possibly a med student?" he eyed at her book. "That explains the need for a job."
"Excuse me?"
"Well…I'm looking for a model for my painting." He said. "Out of this crowd, you stand out most."
"Because of my hair?" she asks.
"Yeah…and…" he moves closer to her face. "You have beautiful eyes too."
"Thanks but, I'm not a model material." She moves away quickly before he gets too close.
"Hey! Isn't that Sasori Akasuna?" someone from her back gloated, she knew the name… that was the name of the famous young sculptor who works as an exchange professor for their arts department.
"Sasori Akasuna?" she repeated and he sighed.
"I was planning on knowing your name first, young girl…but well it seems I'm caught."
"Ahhh…" she gulps. "Thanks for the thought anyway, but I'm not a good model."
"Ohhh, are you challenging my artistry?"
"No. No, that's not it… It's just that I'm not that pretty and I have a huge forehead… I'll introduce you to pretty ones if you like?" she stands up and grasped her book.
"Your name?" he asked suddenly.
"My name? Oh… Sakura Haruno."
"Okay so miss Haruno… I've always wanted to create an eye catching and attractive painting… a painting that can capture anyone's attention because of its uniqueness… like how you stood out from the rest of the people here, I want my paintings to stand out that way. And also… people will always remember you right…"
"Ehh…well yeah, because of my pink hair."
"Yes…they will always remember Sakura, the girl with a pink hair… I want them to have the same standing about my work. So will you work for me, Haruno?"
That time, Sakura had a lot of problems, unending debts, pressure from med school a broken heart but it seems that when he held out a hand, his offer was the messiah she was waiting all this time. She was reluctant, but as she looked into his eyes, all of it seems to disperse; she takes the hand and nods.
"Alright…"
Sakura was awoken with her body covered with cold sweat, she must've fallen asleep, she checks the time and it was around 6:00pm, it was not that late so she decided to take a quick walk to clear her mind.
She gets her coat and walked out of her room. As she was out she almost stumbled to someone.
"Sorry – "
"It's fine… are you new here?" it was a black haired lady, maybe a bit older than hers. "My name's Shizune I'm from room 26."
"Oh Sakura Haruno, from here." She points her door. "Room 27, I'm new here."
"Ahh. That's why I haven't seen you. Well, if you need anything, I'm just next door." Shizune said and waved goodbye. Sakura stood there alone again before she saw blonde hair, momentarily, she thought it was Ino at first but when she saw the piercing and some weird smile, she was convinced it wasn't her 'diet queen' friend.
"Yoh? New gal?" he asked, the way he talks is a bit disturbing but she nodded anyway. "Deidara, from room 29."
"Sakura." she bowed, then he nodded, he kinda gives her the creeps.
"Nice name, Cherry." He said then walked off, he was immediately followed by another one. The first that caught Sakura's attention was his hairstyle, they're like the roof of Spongebob's house, he walked, slouching, and he yawned before looking at her.
"Hello." Sakura greeted, then he scratched the back of his neck and waved a hand.
"Hi." He said dryly, then went straight to his room, it's number 22.
He looked quite lazy for Sakura's liking, so she just went on her walk, she got an umbrella in case, since the weather is indefinite.
She just looked around memorized the surrounding and everything, she went to check where the grocery is, some near restaurants, laundry shop, other commodity shops and reluctantly a hospital but there was none just some clinics, everything's miraculously located near the apartment.
Suddenly, the loud "wang" of the police vehicle perpetrated her ears, she looked around and sees that it was heading on the other block. She didn't want to come and see an injured person, but somehow her feet must be accustomed to running and hurrying to a patient.
Sakura stops where the police are and saw that scene. She rushed to see the situation. It was already cordoned with a police tape, and she was with the crowd of people watching as the scene is called "Murder."
Sakura looked at the body from afar, the first one a male, blood coming from his mouth, it looked quite dark and his color was telling her that he must've been dead for a long time.
"Please clear out, dattebayo!" A blonde policeman said, apparently there are a lot of people watching. There's a woman with him, blood near the corner of her mouth, hugging herself tightly while crying. "Ma'am, Are you alright?"
"Y-yes…but my husband…" she sniffed, The blonde officer guides her out of the cordoned area.
Sakura looked at the woman and saw a big bruise on her forehead, it was really big and black, She must be having a close wound. She continued to observe her from the sidelines as the victim woman was guided near the police car.
"Can you tell us what really happened, ma'am?" the blonde asked the woman.
Sakura sighed, she doesn't want to involve herself in trauma medicine again, so she stepped back but the bruise was bothering her, she looked at the scene again, the window on the second floor was smashed and shards of it where near the dead man, then she glanced at the woman, she has some scratches and wounds on her arms, suddenly she bends her arms inward on the chest, hands clenched into fists, and then her legs extended and feet turned inward. That's a Decorticated position.
"H-he suddenly fell from that window while embracing me…then…then…"
So they fell together? Then that bruise must be… Sakura thought and suddenly while speaking the woman collapsed and the blonde guy was there to catch her.
"The wife collapsed! Paramedics?"
"There's another emergency near the subway so they'll be coming late!" a running police man said as he waved the phone, he probably contacted them already.
She saw the look of the patient, and knowing this place, there's no hospital nearby, just clinics that will not suffice in treating the woman. From the looks of it, she'll need to be done first aid immediately and the paramedics are later than usual.
Sakura's feet were rooted on her spot, that woman needs help, as a doctor, she made an oath to help but as she sees it, her heart was racing wildly, she doesn't want to be a doctor again… But she needs me!
"Excuse me." Sakaura needs to do this. She walks up to the blonde policeman. "Officer-san, that woman needs to be done first aid immediately, If you may I could help asses." She didn't want to say it but…"I'm a doctor."
"Oh? Thanks, Dattebayo. I'm detective Naruto Uzumaki." He said and then lifted the cordon to let her in.
Sakura squats near the victim and checked her pulse who was lying on a supine position. "Her pulse is 50." she opens her lids to check for her pupil dilation, flexes some of the woman's joints and muscles, then tried to assess the tenderness of her bruise. Just as I thought…Sakura bit her lip, there are no materials here. "Can you tell me how exactly this woman fell, officer?"
"She says she and her husband fell from that building, however when we found her she was beneath the man, dattebayo."
"I see. Her main problem might be a possible brain injury." Sakura then palpates something on her abdomen. "The right Hypochondric region is tender, one of her kidneys must've been involved…and…" Sakura sighed.
"What is it? Dattebayo?"
"Her eyes are not opening, slight moaning sounds and extension to pain, that's a glassgow scale of 5. " Sakura said "I think she might also have epidural hematoma. this is just an hypothesis though however her fall and with her husband's weight on top of her, must've caused some blood to accumulate on her brain. This needs to be removed within 20 minutes or else she would die and judging by the formation of the bruise we only have a few minutes left."
"Oh no…What should we do then?" Naruto said.
Sakura stared at the patient. I need to save her so that means I'll need to treat her, here and now . "Officer, I need you to do something for me."
