Click click click
Back and forth the pen goes.
Click click click
A young medic sat on her desk with piles and piles of paper scattered all over the office. She scanned the documents over and over. Not missing a beat, not missing a word, not missing a punctuation.
Click click click
Her lips were pursed ever so slightly while her eyebrows furrowed together. She wrote her notes vigorously while her emerald green eyes would glance back and forth from the papers. Her elbow rested on a picture of a man with deep stress lines that had started from just below his eyes to the corners of his mouth. He facial expression stoic and cold, something that was almost too familiar to her. She inwardly shook her head every time she glanced over. The resemblance was almost uncanny, and it pissed her off more than anything.
Click click click
She ran a hand through her bubblegum pink hair and let the pen hang from her lips. Her eyes browsed through the CT and MRI scans of the patient she was assigned not too long ago. She studied the colors and the various readings until she could not deny the final conclusion. She then sighed and leaned back on her chair. Her aching hands and arms stretched out above her before resting by her sides.
"Kuso..." her lips murmured as her eyelids started to close. Sake sounds really good to have right about now.
This woman had seen things ranging from the common cold to organs that had been ripped apart to diseases that consume the body from the inside out. She had patients ranging from simple civilians to cold blooded assassins. She had visited flourishing and prosperous villages and homes that were not too long from falling apart. She had practically seen it all.
So she should know if she's got her hands on a hopeless case.
Yes she is the prodigy student of a world-class medical ninja. Yes she is the best Konohagakure could offer. Yes she had overcame many odds despite originating from a simple civilian family. Yes she had solved extremely difficult cases that even the great slug princess could not.
Haruno Sakura is many things. A kunoichi, a medic, a member of Team 7, a student, a teacher...
But...
She was not a miracle worker.
She rubbed her temple.
Many villages to visit. Many people to treat. Much research to be done and even more paperwork to finish.
So why the hell was she stuck with this case then? This man was as good as dead with eyes that were about to go blind and a heart that could give into cardiac arrest at any given second. He was beyond repair. He came too late.
She pinched the bridge of her nose. So why the hell is she stuck with him? When her time was too precious.
The answer is actually simple really.
Her patient is the murderer of the Uchiha clan. And the murderer of the Uchiha clan is dying.
