(Okay here's my second take on SasoSaku this is horror, sorry if I go OOC at all)
"Sakura-sama we have found something!" one of the Konoha Nin reported to Sakura. She was healing an injured ANBU member. Zetsu didn't go down without a fight. After months of searching and eliminating Akatsuki a team of Konoha Nin managed to find and destroy the renegade with few casualties.
Naruto looked up over hearing the report as Sakura finished up and turn to face the man. "You wouldn't believe what we have found here illegal items, gold and many things we cannot identify have been found in a hidden catch. It could very well be where Akatsuki keep there valuable supplies. We disarmed some of the basic traps but before we go any further we a medical Nin to be there and to help identify items," the Nin explained.
Sakura shook her head asking him to lead the way as Naruto followed. They where lead to an open room filled with piles of random materials. At first glace it was hard to tell whether or not it was all junk. Sakura moved with caution followed by a trap expert sifting through the mass of items trying to find any thing useful or at lest sort it all out. Sakura moved away from the group moving towards a table covered with a black shroud. Curios to see what was under it, she first checked to make sure it wasn't trapped then gently pulled it off.
Naruto and the rest of the grope where alerted when Sakura let out scream before she raced out of the room. They rushed to her aid thinking a trap must have sprung on her. The found Sakura outside leaning against wall with her arms wrapped around herself, she looked okay, though very distressed. After reassuring everyone no trap had been sprung and that she was fine Naruto asked her out of concern "hey what happened back there?"
Sakura shook her head at herself saying "sorry I stumbled onto something I would have much rather have forgotten." Naruto looked confused but accepted what she said. She looked at him asking "hey would you mind taking care of the stuff in there I'd just rather not deal with it right now okay?"
"Sure Sakura-chan," Naruto said always willing to do something for her. When he returned to the room he looked around for what had distressed Sakura so much. Didn't take him long to find the table with shroud pulled back. He walked up to it and looked down on the remains of Akasuna no Sasori preserved perfectly looking just like the first time he ever laid eyes on him.
The Hokage looked through her report while Sakura awaited her reply. "Hmm well I like how you handled the situation we have one less Akatsuki to worry about and I'm sure what you've found will no bout prove useful. However we found something that gives you some personal discomfort, are you sure Sakura that you wish to examine the remains of Sasori given your history with the um…subject?" Lady Tsunade asked.
Sakura nodded her head she felt a little ashamed how she reacted over seeing the nightmare puppet's remains and she wanted to make up for it. "Yes I'm fine sides the way he used his prosthetics maybe we could learn to mimic that a bit hopefully improve our use of prosthetic limbs and such maybe even replace damaged organs," Sakura explained.
Tsunade looked at her before deciding "okay the…remains are yours I guess I'll let you pick a team and you can research at your leisure." Sakura stood up and bowed thanking her for letting her do this.
"Ya sure I'm not sure how much help I'll be but sound interesting," Ino replied to Sakura's invitation. Sakura managed to recruit three other medical staff to her research team who where eager to examine Sasori's remains and see what could be learned.
"But um Sakura are you really okay with this I mean after fighting that zombie Kakuzu I did not want to examine his remains after he was dead-dead the people from Akatsuki where just….unnatural," Ino said shuddering with memory of facing the man they had to kill five times over.
Sakura brushed her comment off "I see well as a true medical Nin the body of any decease shouldn't mean anything," she replied touching on their old rivalry. Ino scowled and promised herself to out do her, but a part of her was worried for her friend.
Sakura stared at bit at the puppet body before her. Her breathing was fast and she had to remind herself that he was truly dead he wasn't going to reassemble himself and keep coming at her with nightmarish poisons and contraptions. "Sakura….where ready to begin," a male medic told her breaking her out of her trance.
"Um right okay lets disassemble the body I want each of your to take a limb and study how the parts relate to the heart, as for the heart piece it's self, Ino you and I will examine it see what we can do with it, okay people you know what to do," Sakura ordered.
Ino and Sakura got right into their work. Sakura was interested to learn how he preserved his heart as well as managed to chakra within it. After a few days the two women figured out how Sasori stored his living chakra inside that small piece. It was amazing his only weakness, if only he knew how to store chakra was well as create it within an inanimate bject he would have been truly unbeatable, the flesh was simply used as store house and chakra manufacturing nothing more.
"Sakura do you realize what this means how we could use this if we could fix his problem transfer a dying person chakra into an inanimate object, we could heal there dead body then transfer them back in alive," Ino exclaimed ecstatic over their findings. Sakura had to admit this could be a real medical breakthrough.
It took a week of steady work of find a way to transfer chakra into special chakra absorbent wood. After some success they felt ready for a true test. Their was a faint glow of chakra in Sasori's preserved heart he was by all means dead but would always remain a bit alive so his heart piece would be the perfect candidate to see if this could theoretically work on humans.
After setting the test up one of the medic attached some chakra strings to the lifeless heart piece to the scroll of chakra paper. He preformed some hand seals while the rest watched and waited. After his final seal the strings flowed to life as the faint traces of chakra flowed to the waiting scroll. It all looked well but the strings faded in and out before they called it quits.
Sakura wiped her sweaty brow with the back of her hand she guessed she had been too hopeful. "Okay guys that's a wrap we'll have to try something different later I have a mission coming up and we have been at this for a whole two weeks good work every one well put this on hold till I get back I need a rest and I'm sure you all do too," she told her team.
Every one nodded in agreement turning to leave. The male medic volunteered to clean up, a Sakura didn't want to leave it all on him but he waved her away. "Ya I was happy to be this much help but I need to do something else anyways I'll be leaving to go to the sand village going to trade some medic herbs and hopefully learn something useful there….ya don't worry I'm fine I'll clean up and go tomorrow I'll see ya in about two, maybe three weeks and I'll work with you again k?" he explained.
Sakura nodded and followed the rest of the staff out. The medic cleaned up the parts organizing them on a table, gathering the pieces. Many parts of the puppet had been totally dissected to see how chakra flowed through it causing many parts of the puppet to be irreversibly damaged. He set the scroll down along side the pile of puppet parts and set out with pen and paper to label the pieces before he left.
As soon as the scroll touched the table it began leaking chakra out into the wood till I reached a few of the puppet pieces. The medic stopped his work hearing something he scanned over the lifeless puppet pieces. He shrugged thinking he was hearing things he finished his work and turned to leave.
He let out a gurgled cry as Sasori's intestinal spear impaled him through the back and out the front of his chest ripping a whole through his heart along the way. He stood there looking through the piece of bloody metal sticking out of him helpless and dying. The spear tugged back dragging the dying man to the table. Last thing he saw was wooden hands reaching out for surgical equipment before his life fled his body.
