Why Can't I do Anything?
Don't Give Up, Even if it's Hard

About: Sakura, one of the best Medical Ninja of all, is faced with the largest problem ever. Something even the strongest Ninja couldn't protect himself from. Something so small you can't even see it. When a strange virus breaks out causing even the strongest ninja to fall at its hands. Sakura takes up the challenge to break the code of the virus and create a anti-virus. Can she do it?

Disclaimer(only putting this once!): I don't own Naruto, BUT I do own the deadly virus:P

Rated: T for language and (yes) character death
Takes place in its own time, obviously after time skip

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"Bring in the next one!" A familiar pink haired kunoichi yelled. Her face was dotted with sweat; her breathing jagged and tired. Her skin was paler then normal and her hands shook as they created a green light, that was slowly sputtering itself out as she ran out of chakra, "Hurry!"

Another familiar blond haired kunoichi stormed up, "Sakura! Enough, you're pushing yourself too far!" she yelled and grabbed her friends wrist. "Please, you can't help anyone in this condition."

Sakura shook her head and pulled her wrist free, "Ino I have to help these people, it's the only thing I'm good at!" She was near hysteria.

"Sakura, you are such an idiot, even now!" Truthfully, Ino didn't want to see anything bad happen to her friend. "Please just take an hour or two to rest," She begged.

Sakura shook her head, "Damn it Ino! I have to do something! I hate just sitting around and watching people die!"

"Haven't you noticed Sakura? Even what we are doing now is not helping at all! Even Tsunade's attempts aren't even working!" She hated to yell, but she felt she had to.

Sakura looked away, "some… have survived…" She stated.

"Yeah, but for how long?"

"Long enough for me to find the cure!" Sakura said quickly and turned to walk to another patient, then collapsed. The last thing she could hear was her friend screaming her name, then everything went dark.

In the past week, a strange virus was spreading quickly threw Konoha. It all started when a group of unknown ninja wondered in, of course they were quickly dealt with but not in time. It started out small, but it was complicated. The virus seemed to attack different places at random times. It had Tsunade stumped and Sakura continuing to look for a cure. In just a few days the Konoha hospital was swamped with hundreds of people and Shinobi alike. Just that day they reached one-thousand people. On top of that almost half of the people who came in died within minuets of there 'treatment' others died later that day or the next.

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Sakura woke up, she was tucked into a bed in the hospital, her body ached from the strain she put on herself and her head throbbed with each beat of her heart. She felt cold and to her expectations she was covered in a thin layer of cold sweat. She glanced around, trying to get her bearings of the room, when the door opened.

Ino walked in, a tray of food in her hands, "Oh thank god you're awake." Ino's relief was quickly extinguished though.

"How long have I been out?!" Sakura yelled shooting up and looking around, now understanding what happened.

Ino frowned, "Sakura! Rest, its because you worked so hard this happened!" Ino sat the tray down on a table and took her friends shoulders forcing her to lay down.

"How. Long. Have. I. Been. Out?" Sakura asked again, enunciating every word hard.

"You don't have to be a bitch about it…" Ino sighed grabbing the tray, "Eat this okay?"

"I still haven't gotten my answer…" Sakura mumbled taking the tray and eating slowly.

"I'd say about three days."

"T-three days?!" She yelled and nearly choked on her rice. She shot up again and started to get out of the bed.

"Whoa, now you just wait. You have been out for 3 days Sakura. You should give yourself time to rest!" Ino stood in front of her, "Please rest."

Sakura sighed, "Fine…" She ate silently for a few minuets that stopped, "Ino… What is the status now?" Ino was silent, "Ino? What's wrong?"

"Naruto… he was checked into the hospital this morning." She said softly.

Sakura, once again, almost choked on her food, "No… not Naruto… please not him." She was near tears.

"Sakura, please calm down, he's okay right now," Ino smiled. "He's breathing is normal, his functions are normal. He's even good enough to complain."

That made Sakura laugh lightly, "even when he's hurt, he is always happy."

Ino gave a fierce nod, "now you eat up! Okay?"

"Okay." She smiled eating her food. The two friends chatted up the hours until, that is, another medic burst into the door.

"Ino-san, Sakura-san!" He yelled in a huff, his face red from working all day.

"What is it?" Ino asked with a glare. "What's wrong?"

"Choji has been admitted into the hospital. He's in the I.C.U right now. Please hurry," He said and turned running off to deal with more things.

Ino nearly collapsed in shock. Sakura steadied her with a hand then sighed, "lets go. With us two working, he will make it." She pulled the covers off and swung her feet over the side, pulling on her boots.

Ino nodded, "Yeah…" Her voice was tinted with disbelief though.

"Believe." Sakura whispered and then ran out the door. Ino nodded and followed behind her.

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When they made it to Choji's room, he had already lost a lot of wait, another side-effect to this strange strain of virus. Ino ran up to the side of her friend, "Choji! My god, Choji hold on. Sakura start an IV." Ino looked around, it was just them two.

Choji looked up at Ino, "I-Ino… am… I going to… to make it Ino?" he whispered hoarsely, wincing with each word.

Ino nodded, "Yes, just don't give up my friend. I promise" She took his head painfully, praying he would make it.

Sakura quickly graved an IV pouched and inserted a needle into Choji's arm, "Ino, what now?"

Ino took a breath, "Lets figure out where the damage is happening." She said quickly checking his pulse, it was slower then she liked.

Sakura nodded, she inspected Choji quickly as Ino was checking out vital organs. Choji grunted and his pulse fluctuated for the bad. Ino gasped. "Choji! Don't give on me now!" His pulse weakened in response, "Choji!" She yelled automatically putting her hands at his chest using chakra to try to keep it beating. But it was waisted, his pulse never changed, for the better that it, his breathing worsened to short painful gasps. "Choji!" She screamed, now crying.

Choji's eyes were barely open anymore, "Ino…" He mumbled, "Thanks… for trying."

"No! Don't say that." Ino smiled slightly. "I will save you, I promised"

"Don't worry… I'm just sad I… couldn't eat… more before this happened." He mumbled.

Then the pulse was gone. Ino wasn't ready to accept that, pumping more chakra into his dead heart. "Choji! Wake up! Choji! Choji!"

Sakura walked over to her friend, "Its to late Ino." She whispered putting a hand on her shoulder. "He's gone."

Ino shook her head. "No! He can't be. He's not. We can still save him. We can!"

Sakura shook her head again. "No, its too late, Ino. Please calm down. He's gone." She said again.

Ino fell to her knees, clutching her dead teammates hand, sobbing painfully. "Choji! My Choji! Why? Why did you have to die? You never deserved this!"

Sakura knelt beside her friend, also crying. "Its going to be okay Ino." She whispered. "Everything will be okay."

"I wasn't able to do anything. I was useless. He's dead Sakura. He's dead. Choji. Dead." Ino couldn't believe it still.

"I know, Ino, I know." I couldn't do anything either… I'm just as useless as I was when I was younger. I'm a failure. Why can't I do anything? Why?

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Okays! That's chapter one. I know some things sound blah, but deal with it.
(also I have no idea what color chakra is... in one episode its green and the other its blue... so yeah x.x )