Hey guys. So this is my first major story. Well I was watching a movie; it was about a disease that attacks certain people. But the line of the plot was a bit tricky, it started in the middle the nearing the end and when the movie was about to end the beginning was revealed. So that's when my muse pay a visit and the inspiration arrived. I hope you like it and tell me what you think about it. Enjoy :D

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters

Whispers To The Heart

Ch. 1: Dancing With Your Shadow

[The Village Hidden in the Lilies, Kami No Tengoku Inn, room 13]

"Teme!"

"Dobe"

"Temeeeeeeeee!"

Oh yes, it was another day just like any other. The good old team seven antics. Naruto and Sasuke fighting, Kakashi reading his porn and Sakura just watching them. For any outsider who was acquainted with team seven it was a normal behavior, except they were on a mission and the two best friends couldn't stop bickering - even when it was about the planning of their strategics to accomplish the mission and return home.

"Stop you two" Ordered their sensei "We will follow the plan. Is that understood?"

"Yes kakashi-sensei" said Naruto

"Hn."

It may look normal - even to themselves - but something was happening to one of them. Their female member to be more exact, the Cherry Blossom of Konoha. She was sick. Although she was a medical ninja, and she knew that self-diagnose was a wrong thing to do. She supposed she had a cold and didn't made any fuss over it. But as time progressed the symptoms of her cold weren't getting worse and the fever just wasn't coming she assumed that it was a fleeting cold. But the truth is that her sickness is way worse than she had thought. Even when the only effect that her cold had was the lost of some weight she hadn't thought about the effect it would have on her chakra. So far she was fine.

After spending five days in the Village Hidden in the Lilies plotting and monitoring the schedules of the guards they had set a plan and that evening the said plan will be into motion.

It had been a few years since Sasuke had return to Konoha - well more like Naruto dragged him back. Their broken bond was mended, their intricate relationship was stronger and things were going good for the members of team seven. After Sasuke's sentence had been dictated - nine months of house arrest and two years on probation - the three of them, two more willing than one, rebuilt their friendship, their trust, their bond.

At first it was really awkward it was full of tense moments and pregnant silences, and the most difficult thing to change was the moody Sasuke who was constantly brooding and his anti-social tendencies. But thanks to the determination and persistence of Naruto and Sakura the relationship between them it was better than the one their shared when they were twelve.

When they were sent on their first mission as Team Seven - that was the real trial by fire - it was an espionage mission in which they had to infiltrate a high level man state and disable his criminal network from the inside. And to do this they had to go undercover, Naruto and Sasuke posed as new guards - personal guards for this man - and Sakura posed as his new personal geisha while Kakashi posed as a seller of ammunition. And because Naruto screw up their cover they had to face a huge battle. And after Sasuke proved himself thing went back to normal.

And for normal we meant Naruto and Sasuke bickering and their friendly rivalry, Sakura separating them when things went out of hand, Kakashi's tardiness and porn reading. Even when they had matured some things just didn't change, like Naruto's positivism and overall joy, Sasuke's aloofness and anti-social tendencies, Kakashi's relaxed attitude and Sakura's temper. But what changed was Sakura fangirl behavior towards Sasuke even when she still was deeply in love with him she just didn't make a big scene of it, she just kept it to herself and was trying to maybe start to think about forgetting him. But despite everything they still were the Team Seven.

[The Village hidden in the Lilies, midnight, outside the Ancient Scroll Vault]

Team seven was ready to finish their mission. It was a simple plan, get inside the vault and recover a scroll that was stolen from Konoha and then return home. Infiltrating the vault was quite easy. Sasuke and Naruto took hold of the guards while Sakura put them in a chakra induced coma - it will wear off eventually - and then they went searching the scroll separately.

Sakura was searching for the scroll in a shelf that contained scrolls from other villages. Her sickness was starting to show new symptoms and she was concerned that slowly her body was weaker and weaker. Her breathing was becoming deep and rapid, she was getting dizzy and her vision was blurry there was a pit in her ears and suddenly she was falling. Everything stilled - for her - and slowly she felt her body make contact with the floor. Her eyes frantic search for any blur that may be the form of one of her teammates.

"Sakura-chan? Are you okay?" she heard Naruto, but it seemed he was far away.

"Naruto... " she tried to tell him what happened but words were not working for her.

"Kakashi-sensei, Sasuke! Sakura-chan is down!" Naruto yelled so his teammates would come to help. He was getting more hysteric every second and Kakashi might know what to do. But Sakura started to writhe in pain clutching her stomach.

She was bewildered, she didn't understand why she was feeling so bad, she was supposed to have only a fleeting cold this were not symptoms of common cold. And just as suddenly as her other symptoms a strong abdominal pain hit her, and her nausea heightened and she was vomiting her guts out. At this point she was freaking out inside because as a medic-nin she knew that a person could die choking in her own vomit, and it was just so frustrating that she couldn't move her body so she was hoping Naruto would somehow arrange her body in another position so that she wouldn't choke.

That was when Kakashi and Sasuke arrived. The scene they encounter was a horrid one, Sakura lying on the floor clutching her abdomen for dear life and vomiting and Naruto starring too shocked to even move. They stood still for about a second before Sasuke shouted "Lifted her up!" that's when Naruto composed himself and took Sakura in his arms and put her in a more comfortable position.

When she heard Sasuke's scream and suddenly being lifted her panic subsided a little, at least she wasn't going to die choking in her own vomit but other concerns arise in her, like she was ruining the mission, and what was going on with her. Suddenly exhaustion hit her and slowly her body began to shut out and she found herself falling into unconsciousness.

"Kakashi-sensei what should we do?" asked Naruto. Sakura stopped vomiting and now was unconscious. He was really worried, and hoped that Sakura will be just fine.

"Let's take her back to the inn. Sasuke you found the scroll?" Kakashi said in his alert mode.

"Aa" said Sasuke. Truth was that he was scared but he didn't show it; unless you took a close examination to his eyes then you would notice he wasn't blinking which meant in Uchiha language that he was shocked. He didn't understand what was going, a few minutes ago his Sakura was just fine and now she was writhing in the floor.

"We can't risk to be discover and ruin the mission" Kakashi ordered "Sasuke you take Sakura back to the inn and wait for us there, Naruto and I will clean here and then prepared to go back to Konoha"

[The Village hidden in the Lilies, Kami No Tengoku Inn, room 13]

Sasuke had arrived with a still unconscious Sakura to their room the inn and was pacing not knowing what happened to her. Sure all male members of Team Seven had noticed Sakura's loss of weight but didn't made any of it and because she told them she had a cold but Sasuke never expected something like this and him not knowing anything about medicine he was really concern for his Sakura.

About an hour later Kakashi and Naruto arrived; Sasuke had everything ready to return home. Now the only concern was get Sakura - if she didn't wake up - and go back. Kakashi was getting last minute plans in order in case someone would identify them or if Sakura has other crisis, Naruto was washing his arms and Sasuke was monitoring Sakura. She looked really pale and thinner than she usually was.

She stared to stir, and behind her eyelids he could see her eyes moving, her breathing began to quicken. Sasuke was worried that she might start to throw up again but she open her eyes and he saw her normally green sparkly eyes now dull and cover by some sort of murky white layer.

"Sakura?" He asked her, maybe she couldn't hear him "Sakura are you alright? How do you feel?"

"S-Sasuke?" She said in a tiny voice that resembles more a whimper than anything else "Where are we?"

"We are at the inn, How are you feeling?" he asked her, "What happened?"

"I don't feel very good my abdomen hurts, and I see blurry I don't think I have a cold anymore" She said and her voice was little by little decreasing, fearing that she was going to pass out again he shook her.

"Sakura, stay with me. Don't close your eyes" he demanded exasperated fearing that if she falls into unconsciousness again she might no come back.

"I can't feel my arms" She complained "We should go back to Konoha" and slowly she fell into unconsciousness.

"Kakashi!" Sasuke said desperately "We need to take her back to Konoha now" he ordered and surprisingly his two teammates heeded him. "If we hurry we can be in Konoha by tomorrow noon".

And so the boys took all their bags and move as fast as they could to take their Cherry Blossom back and figure what was wrong with her, and as time passed all the boys were more concern with the fact that Sakura was still unconscious and was cover in a layer of cold sweat but this only served to make them run much faster.

While they were running the only thought in Sasuke's head was 'please don't leave me'. This fear inside of him was too much, not knowing what was going on and Sakura lying limp in his arms was making everything seem so dreadful, and like they were sinking in a hole that sucked everything good that was in his life - and by everything good he meant Sakura.

[Konoha Hospital, afternoon, room 315]

It's been three hours since the boys arrived to Konoha and took Sakura to the Hospital. Tsunade check her and when she couldn't make a diagnosis she decided to put her in a room and prepare her for tests.

Sakura awoke a few minutes ago and was feeling good, no nausea, no abdominal pain, her eyes were good and she could move all her extremities. This, of course, makes discovering what she had caught more difficult. Sasuke and Naruto were there with her while Kakashi was delivering the report of the mission and the scroll; after all they had completed successfully the mission.

They did some tests but the results were inconclusive, so Tsunade decided to keep her under observation in case the symptoms were to recur or worsen.

"The first 24 hours will be crucial to find out what kind of illness is afflicting Sakura" Said Tsunade and made sure that her apprentice will be monitored all night.

Naruto headed home, after all he had to meet Hinata at Ichirakus, but said he will be back, and Sasuke stayed in the Hospital with his Sakura. It was after midnight - the clock read four thirty eight in the morning - when some weird noises woke Sasuke up. Making his way to Sakura's bed he realized that she was twisting in pain.

"Sakura?" he said, as nurses started to fill the room "Call Tsunade!" he roared.

But suddenly Sakura went still, fearing that she might have pass out, he caress her cheek and she looked at him and a small smile formed in her lips. "I'm alright now Sasuke-kun" she said sounding very tired.

"What happened?" Tsunade asked going straight to her student bed.

"I had a sudden headache, but it's lessening now" Sakura said.

"Okay. That is not normal, are you sure that nothing happened in this mission, that you might have caught a bacteria or something?" Tsunade asked.

"No, we shared the same environment during the entire mission. I don't know what it's going on; all the symptoms are too sudden. What do you think sensei?"

"I'm not sure but now we're going to perform a physical check okay" she said, "Sasuke leave"

"What? I am not leaving" He stated.

"You are not her husband and you aren't a medical ninja so you can't stay for the examination" She said in a strong voice "And if you don't leave I will kick you out myself"

"Hn." that was all he said, but nevertheless exit the room.

[Konoha Hospital, morning, waiting room]

The clock marked 9:15 in the morning and Sasuke was waiting for Tsunade to tell him what the results were. Around seven in the morning Naruto arrived - who could imagine that the boy could wake up so early on his own - accompanied by Hinata - as soon as she was in Sasuke range of view he knew why Naruto was up so early. So he told them what happened with Sakura and they wait for Tsunade to tell them something.

When the clock marked ten in the morning Tsunade appear with a folder in her hands. She looked at them with something in her eyes - uncertainty - and proceed to explain what the results were.

"The physical examination revealed a fever of 38.5°C and blood pressure of 140/80 mmHg. Cardiopulmonary auscultation and abdominal examination were normal. On neurological examination Sakura was alert and oriented, with preserved language, mobility of limbs symmetrically and with strength and sensitivity preserved, tendon reflexes were present, showed no ataxia or limb differences, the pupils were reactive to light symmetrical but showed a loss of vision in both eyes with horizontal nystagmus"

"What's that suppose to mean?" Naruto screamed, after the words didn't sink in because all he understood of that was that Sakura has a fever.

"It means that the normal body processes such as moving joints and limbs are working properly. Likewise neurological processes, so we conclude that this disease has not yet affected her nervous system. Fever and blood pressure indicate that her body is trying to fight this disease. What alarmed us most was the loss of vision in both eyes" - when the boys heard this Naruto was ready to question so Tsunade rushed to answer - "She is not blind, it is only a small loss of vision in both eyes. To have occurred so suddenly leads us to conclude that this disease is more dangerous than anticipated. That is why we will conduct blood tests and a review of her chakra network to rule out whether or not this affects her manipulation of chakra and possible side effects that this illness could bring."

The boy were more preoccupied now this means that the medics are taking precautions with her that this thing might leave sequels on her.

"You can go see her now" Tsunade said. But none of them moved she asked "Anything else?"

Sasuke was the one who broke the silence "You still don't know what is wrong with her? And apparently there will be no answers soon, am I wrong?"

"Yes you are right we don't know - yet - was wrong with her"

"But baa-chan what are you going to do about it?" Naruto asked.

"We will keep her monitored and we hope to discover what the disease is"

"So that's it we wait" Said angrily Sasuke, surprising a few people that were passing by the waiting room.

"Yes we wait" Tsunade said in a soft voice that sounded more terrible than if she had yelled.

So there you have it chapter one. Please be good and review :D