Alright. First fic, hope you like it.

-start chapter one-

Monotony. Complete and utter Boredom:

This is was the typical life of Haruno Sakura, Konoha medic-in-training. She spends her days dealing with minor injuries, the kind that can really be avoided if people were just paying more attention to what was going on. Heal, next patient, heal, next patient…It was a tiring cycle. She was hoping that she would be training under Tsunade right now, but unfortunately for Sakura, she is also the Hokage, and needs to take care of that business first. In the meantime, she was stuck "practicing" in "real-life situations." While tired of her daily life, she was not physically tired; in fact, she was pretty restless most of the time. None of the things that she had to do were really intense, so she still had plenty of Chakra. She wanted to be healing injuries of shinobi who actually needed her help. While she was pondering these miserable circumstances, she walked down to the next patient's room and let out a heavy sigh.

She'd been doing that, sighing, a lot, ever since she had to come to the terms that neither of her teammates were coming back anytime soon. Ever since Naruto left, about a year ago, Sakura realized how much she needed him to keep her life interesting. Sasuke, who left about half a year before Naruto, hadn't left Sakura's memory completely – she still thought about him every now and then, but she didn't really like to. When she thought of Sasuke, she thought about how demented she was being. She didn't hate Sasuke for that; rather, she was mad at herself for acting so pitiful. She was just happy that she was able to turn into a decent shinobi after he left.

Lost in her thought, she didn't realize that her patient, who she only just now actually looked at, was already healed. With another small sigh, she left the room dismissing the patient with a simple two words: You're done.

Walking back to her office to file the papers she was carrying, she was soon lost in her brooding thoughts once again. She got to her office and dumped her papers onto her too-neat desk.

"I suppose that this is one of the effects of not having a social life…" she thought to herself bitterly, noticing how meticulous her office was.

She sat down, about to fill in some forms for the patients she just dispatched, when a nurse came in, handing her yet more patient files. Sakura inwardly cursed these people for being so careless, as well as Tsunade, for making her the only person this shift that would take care of all these minor cases, as an unpaid volunteer as well... She flipped through the files, looking to see if there was anything particularly interesting. Not too surprised, she didn't see such a thing. Dismissing all the cases as equally boring, she just went to whatever room was closest and worked from there.

Three hours later, she neared the end of her once-long list of patients. Looking at the file, she was surprised to see a familiar name. Although not surprising to see his name as a regular patient in the hospital, newly-appointed Jounin Hyuuga Neji was rarely in the hospital for minor injuries. Checking what he was there for, she walked in, her eyes scanning the file. All it said was that he got hit by a kunai in the shoulder. Seeming kind of pathetic for such a mighty ninja, Sakura figured that there was some kind of complication.

While embarrassed that his medic just had to be a big-mouthed acquaintance of his, although calling Sakura his acquaintance was a huge overstatement, as they hadn't shared more than a word, that being in the hospital and strictly professional, he was also alarmed at hoe utterly lifeless she looked. It seemed that, although his injury wasn't directly from a mission, the effects from a mission were the cause of his condition. Mostly due to fatigue, Neji had failed to sense a kunai approaching him during training with Tenten, and now he had a kunai sticking out of his left shoulder. Only having seen her a couple of times, mainly being the two Chuunin exams (the second of which they had both passed), he did not know how she would look if not with some kind of emotion, whether it was happiness, anger, or concentration. Thinking she was just trying to act professional, Neji just waited for Sakura to ask how he got hurt in such a silly way, or just laugh at the stupid injury. While she was working, he tried thinking of some excuse to tell her, so that the whole village might not know of his blunder. Only having heard about Sakura's medical training, he was surprised at her efficiency, being healed in no more than a couple of minutes.

"Alright, you're done," Sakura dismissed him.

Surprised at her lack of questioning, he looks at her carefully, as she writes something down in his file. He looks at her eyes and finds himself perplexed at their emptiness. Suddenly, she looks up at Neji, who had averted his eyes quick enough to not be detected.

"Are you okay?" she asks, clearly worried if she somehow messed up.

"No," he states, and quickly leaves the room, leaving Sakura with her papers. Confused at his behavior, she shrugs it off and puts it out of her mind. She quickly returns to her office, noting the time. Thankfully, it was time for her shift to end, and she was looking forward to being able to leave the incredibly boring hospital. She quickly finished her paperwork when a nurse comes in once more, this time panic in her voice.

"It's Hyuuga, come quick!"

Wondering why she was being called for such an emergency, when she is only qualified for minor tasks, she soon forgets as she lays eyes on Hyuuga Neji, seizing right outside of the hospital entrance.

-end chapter one-

Spellcheck fails:

Haruno - Haroun

Sakura - Samurai

Konoha - Konrad

Tsunade - Tsunami

Hokage - Homage

Chakra - Chara

Shinobi - Shin obi

Naruto - Narrator

Sasuke - Sapsucker

Jounin - Jouncy

Hyuuga - Hyundai

Neji - Nedi

kunai - Kunming

Chuunin - Chumming

Kinda boring intro, yeah...But, this boringness was the mood I was trying to set. =P

It will pick up next chapter. It should also be longer. I'll probably update in about 2 weeks, but usually on Wednesdays, because I write during work, which is on Wednesdays...

Questions, comments, criticism, even flames welcome: JUST REVIEW. I want to know what you guys think.