"This isn't good enough!" Tsunade yelled as she pounded her fist on her desk, "He can't give up! Stupid brat!"
"We can't push him any more," said a calm Kakashi as he stood next to Gai, "His could kill others in the state he is now, or worse, himself"
Jirarya stood close to the door listening about what had happen to his one time student and the condition that he was in. He was angered, but not as his student or the Uchiha, but his once teammate, Orochimaru. This whole reason is, because of him and his power hunger self.
"Well, then there is no hope," Tsunade said in a solemn voice, "Our only chance is in severe condition and almost close to death if we hadn't act quickly."
"How long will it take him to heal?" Jirarya asked, speaking for the first time since this meeting has started.
"Doctor say it might be months, but he seem to be healing quickly," Gai said with a sad smile, "The kid has a lot of spunk and stamina that will never give up."
"Then, I'll see him," the toad sage said.
"You won't be able to," Tsunade said, "No one is allowed in the emergence ward. I'm sorry, Jirarya."
Jirarya simply smiled and left. Soon Kakashi and Gai were dismissed to attend to their teams. Tsunade sat at her desk with her fingers rubbing her tipples. Shizune walked in with their pig following behind.
"What brings you here?" Tsunade asked impatiently, not really in the mood on seeing anyone after that stressful meeting with Team 7 and Gai about Naruto.
"Maybe there is a better out look on this, my lady," Shizune said as she laid a flier on the hokoga's desk.
At the gate's of Konohagakure, stood a girl who was probably no older than sixteen that wearing a tan tank top and a pair of green cargo boy shorts with two swords upon her back, each either in a white or back sheath. She stood at the gate with her hands on her hips, staring out in the distance to the mountain with the faces of the hokoga. With a sigh, she walked pass the gates and into the village. The girl wondered around, staring at buildings and people walking by. She soon happened upon on a group of girls standing outside a hospital with glooming faces.
"Hey," she called to them, "Anyone of you, dopes, know where I can find a Tsunade."
She soon earned glares from two of the four girls.
"Hey, who you calling dopes, you little punk!" called a blonde girl.
"What gives you the right?" cried the pink haired one.
"It got your attention, didn't it?" the girl replied with a "don't care" attitude, "I'll ask again. Where can I find a Tsunade? She called for me to catch a little brat that ran way. Don't quite remember the name she used, something that started with an S or other."
"Sa…Sasuke?" the pink haired one said as she stared at the short hair punk like she was a ghost.
"Yeah, that's it," she replied, "So any of you going to tell me where she is or do I have to find someone else."
None of the girls said anything. The four of them stared at each other as if they could read each other's mind. What did Tsunade want with this girl? How did she know about Sasuke? How was she going to bring him back? There seemed to be nothing really special of this girl expect she had a smart mouth and looked restless from her long journey.
"You have any proof?" the girl with buns in her hair asked. With a smirk, the girl returned into one of her pockets of her cargo pants, pulled out a letter that looked official, and handed it to the girl with the buns. She read it and gave it to the blonde headed girl.
"It's from Lady Tsunade," she said as she passed it, "It can't be a fake."
The pink haired girl named Sakura studied the strange girl in front of her. She then noted the black bandana around her neck. With a gasp, she drew her kunai and held it close to the stranger's neck.
"You can't trust her. She's an outcast," Sakura said.
"Do you really want to do that?" the girl asked her with a smudged look on her face. And with a simple push, Sakura fell to her knees and the girl was holding her kunai to Sakura's neck while she held the hand that once held the kunai. The girls stared in awe at her strength.
"So, where's Tsunade?" she asked once again.
Naruto slowly woke from his long sleep with the feeling of his skin burn. He tried to lift himself up, but he couldn't move anything. His eyes were the only things he was able to open to find Tsunade, Jirarya, Kakashi, and Gai standing in his room.
"So, you're awake," Jirarya said with a smirk and brought the attention of everyone else.
He tried to speak, but his throat burned and sting when he tried.
"Don't," Kakashi said, "Your body is still trying to recover from your last run in with Sasuke,"
Then everything made sense and soon hit him like a brick wall, but he couldn't quite what remembered what happened after he became enrage with his once teammate. The demon must have taken over him at that point and left him in the dark. He sighed. He had to get Sasuke back for it was his promise. Soon there was a knock at the door dragging Naruto back from the memory of that day. Gai answered it to find Sakura, Ten Ten, Hinata, and Ino with some strange girl he had never seen before.
"What is your business, ladies?" he asked
"She," Sakura said nodding towards the girl, "has to see Lady Tsunade."
Once she heard her name, she finished up her check up on Naruto and left with the new stranger. Sakura walked in and smiled sadly at Naruto.
"How do you feel?" she asked.
"I've felt worse, but I'm getting better by the minute it seems," he smirked, "How have you been?"
With that Sakura slowly broke down and cried at his bedside.
"Sakura, don't cry," he said