Okay, so Slyvia here again!

I actually love Sai, he's really funny!

So him and Sakura i think are cute together.

This is just something i wanted to do.

It's somewhat a downer but read and review!

"Hey ugly!" Sai called as Naruto, Yamato, Kakashi and himself walked up to Konoha's front gate.

"Sai?" Sakura whispered as she shakily walked through the gate clutching her side.

"Sakura chan!" A blond blob ran past his teamates and tackled Sakura.

"Naruto!" Yamato yelled realizing the blood pooling at Sakura's feet while Kakashi eyes widened as she coughed up blood.

"Sakura chan!" Naruto yelled running towards her.

"Oi Dickless, stop!" the artist nin yelled as Yamato ran after him.

"Naruto," Sakura whispered.

The last thing Sakura saw was Yamato and Kakashi running towards her. She heard Naruto's screams and Sai calling her name as her eyelids drooped.

"Naruto…Sai…" Sakura whispered as she fell forward.

"Sakura!" Kakashi yelled as Yamato caught her in his arms.

"Sensei…" she whispered as more blood oozed from her wounds.

Her back was littered with kunai and shuriken sticking out from the flesh. In her side, a long katana stuck through her body, plastered with her sticky dried blood. Dirt mixed with dry blood stuck to the back of her legs as her body shook with convulsions.

Yamato cradled her body in his arms as he tried wrapping his arms around her form to reach a wound in her chest. A gaping hole over her heart gushed with blood. The dried dirt caked around it as the new blood washed over it.

"Sakura!" Kakashi yelled as put both of his hands over the wound in the left side of her chest. Her heart.

"Sakura wake-" Naruto started only to be stopped by Sai.

"Naruto, get Tsunade," his voice cracked as he put his hands over Kakashi's, trying to stop the bleeding, "Hurry up! Go!" he yelled as Sakura's body shivered.

"Sakura, come on!" Kakashi said frantically trying to keep her body from going into shock.

Her eyes shook behind the eyelids as Yamato and Sai silently cursed.

"Sakura, stay with me," Kakashi called as her chest rose erratically.

Gasping for breath, her arms trembled as her eyes opened, rolling from side to side.

"Sakura!" Sai called as her body started to slow its movements, "Sakura! Wake up! Come on, stay with me, stay with me!" he yelled trying to catch her eyes.

'I can't lose my teamate, no, I can't lose her,' Sai thought as he continued to scream at her.

Her eyes fluttered from one side to another as Sai continued to call.

"Sakura, come on, don't die!" he called, pushing harder on her chest.

'Come on, don't do this, don't die, not now, not like this,' Sai thought.

She couldn't die, no, not on a solo mission. Not like this, no, she had to stay around. Someone needed to punch him every time he called her a derogative name. She needed to be there to pester him about why he never gave any of his art a name. He needed her, without her, their team wasn't complete.

Slowly he could feel his voice going raspy with each petrified shout. He didn't know what the emotion he was feeling but, he couldn't lose his friend. If he ever got the chance, he'd ask her what he felt. If he got the chance.

"Sakura come on," Sai yelled again, "….I've got a new painting. I wanted to show it to you when you came back, it's different…." He trailed as Kakashi and Yamato looked up at him.

"….I think you'll like it, come on, you have to see it!" he yelled as blood seeped through his fingers, "I want you to see it! Come on, don't go, don't go!" he pleaded.

"Kakashi! Sai! Yamato!" Tsunade thundered as she ran past Naruto, followed by Shizune, Neji, Shikamaru, and Ino.

"We have to get her to the hospital!" Ino yelled, "oh God, forehead, oh God…." Ino repeated as Neji stepped beside Naruto.

"There's no time," Tsunade yelled sitting down next to Sai and Kakashi.

"But Tsunade sama…" Ino stammered.

"If she isn't healed now, she'll die," Tears glistened in Tsunade's eyes at losing her best student and friend.

No. No, just plain and simple no. She wasn't going to let Sakura go, no, she was going to be alright. She wouldn't let another loved one die in her arms, no, not this time.

"Sakura, hang on, just hold on a bit longer," Tsunade whispered.

"Neji!" she yelled as the pensive Hyuuga stepped forward, "Use your byakugan to keep watch over her heart rate and chakra levels. If any-"

"I understand," Neji cut her off, activating his byakugan.

"Shikamaru!"

"Yeah," Shikamaru stepped forward beside Neji.

"It's a lot but," she breathed shakily, "but you have to use your shadow bind. She won't stay still with this kind of healing."

"…Right," Shikamaru nodded.

"When I tell you…" she nodded to the shadow user as he readied his jutsu.

"Shizune! Get ready!"

"Tsunade, what can I do?" Ino asked, frantically shaking.

"If either Shizune or I need it, you'll have to replace us!" Tsunade bellowed looking down at her pale student.

"…but…hai.." Ino settled as Shikamaru shot her a sympathetic glance.

"Grandma Tsunade!" Naruto called, "What-"

"Hold her down, even with Shikamaru's jutsu...it won't be enough," Tsunade whispered.

"Right," Yamato shook with his teamate in his arms.

"Understood," Kakashi drawled as Sai only nodded his head absent minded.

"Okay, everyone get ready…." Tsunade towered, "Shikamaru, now!"

"Shadow possession jutsu," he called as his shadow spread over her body.

"Keep her in place!" Tsunade screeched, "Yamato, remove the kunai from her back! Shikamaru, be ready!"

"Yeah," Shikamaru winced as Yamato slowly pulled each shuriken and kunai embedded into Sakura's skin as Shizune rushed beside him, healing the bloody mess.

Shikamaru groaned and cringed, hearing Sakura scream. Even the stoic Hyuuga trembled when her chest raised sporadically. Her mouth spurted blood as her lungs withered in her chest.

"Neji!" Shizune yelled.

"…her lungs are closing," he stumbled over his words, "she can't breathe."

"Sakura!" Naruto yelled, trying to run towards him before Tsunade stopped him.

"No! Just wait for my command!"

"Tsunade, all of the kunai are out of her back!" Shizune declared as Shikamaru groaned.

'Good,' Shikamaru inwardly sighed with relief. Still, if he had felt that much pain not even having the kunai in his own body, he couldn't believe the amount of pain Sakura was in.

Her body started shaking violently as Shikamaru struggled to hold his jutsu.

"Hurry up Tsunade! I can't keep this up!" Shikamaru declared, using more chakra to try and hold her in place.

"Kakashi! Sai! Naruto! Hold her down!" Tsunade declared as the three shinobi held her arms and legs from thrashing around.

'Sakura, please, fight!' Sai pleaded as her lips turned blue.

"Sakura, come on…" Tsunade whispered as she placed her glowing green hands over the hole in Sakura's chest.

"Sakura chan! Sakura chan!" the blond ninja yelled as Yamato placed new weight on her right side.

Naruto and Kakashi held her lower body and Sai held her left side where Tsunade was working. The artist nin's eyes glistened with unshed tears as Sakura started to choke on her own blood.

Her gaggling noises alerted Neji as he watched her heart beat rapidly and her lungs constrict, one even failing to move at all.

"Shizune, you need to heal her lungs! She can't breathe!" Neji called, pointing to her chest.

Helpless. That's what they were. Tsunade knew it. Shizune knew. Even Ino could tell Sakura wasn't going to make it. There was too much damage, too much for them to handle.

Sakura. The beautiful pink haired woman walking out of Konoha was the last anyone saw of her for a month. The mission was only supposed to last two weeks but, complications arose and Sakura had to stay longer.

Sakura's mid back length hair fluttering in the wind as she gave a one handed back wave to her teamates was the last image they had of her. Her back leaving them. Now, her back was faced to them again. She was trying to leave again, but this time, it'd be for good.

'No, you're not leaving us like this,' Sai angrily thought, he wasn't going to lose someone he cared for. Someone he loved, no, never again.

"Sakura! Tsunade…she's…" Shizune shook with fear as Neji directed her to Sakura's failing lungs.

"No! She's going to make it! She's strong, she's not…" Naruto trailed as he felt Sakura stop thrashing beneath him. Scared to look down he looked over at Kakashi and Yamato, his two sensei's noticed the same thing and they loosed their hold on her body. No. He refused to believe them.

He looked over to Ino who cried, falling to her knees beside Shikamaru. She screamed for Sakura to fight and be strong but, her cries fell on deaf ears.

No.

Naruto still refused to believe that. She'd fight, she was Sakura Haruno after all, she'd never be left behind.

He looked over to Shikamaru who solemnly looked back at him. He knew. His shadow possession jutsu fell back as Sakura's body stilled.

Neji, he had to still hold out hope.

His last chance, they Hyuuga. Naruto looked into his bright white eyes. No, the same fear and pain Ino, Kakashi and Tsunade's eyes held, his held. He still kept his byakugan activated but, he just looked over her body mechanically. She was leaving them. She was going to die.

No, he wouldn't believe it. Naruto wouldn't believe them.

Sai.

The artist ninja, yeah, he had to still hope.

Hopeful yet, somewhat, expectantly he looked over to the usual emotionless ninja.

Surprise. Sai's eyes held determination, he continued to hold Sakura down with all his strength.

'Sai…' Naruto thought sadly.

"Sakura, no! You're not getting to die, no!" Tsunade yelled as she and Shizune continued to work on Sakura's body.

Every ounce of chakra they had, every inch of strength and power they held went into Sakura. Everything.

"Sakura…" Sai whispered, breaking everyone from their trance, "Sakura….I want you to see it."

"Sai…" Kakashi whispered.

"This one, it's different…." Sai repeated his words about his new painting, "Sakura, I want you to see it…no….you have to see it! I won't let you go, not now…." He yelled as he slightly shook her body.

"Wake up Sakura!" Tsunade yelled trying to reattach the skin and flesh above her heart.

"Sakura….I gave it a name…." Naruto stopped. Sai never gave his painting names, he never found it worthwhile.

"You have to see it…..I made it for you….." he pleaded for her to stay, for her to get up and smile. For her kind lively face. He closed his eyes hoping that when he opened them she would sit up and smile. Smile, one smile, that's all he wanted.

After all, she taught him how. A real smile, he learned that from her. Her beautiful and kind features broke through his brainwashing of 'no emotions,' slowly, he rekindled most of them.

He still didn't know most or all but, he knew he felt them. He didn't know them by name but, he could feel them. His heart beat with each time she smiled at him. Each time she asked to see his paintings. Each time she looked at him.

"Please, don't leave; just come back to us…the team…me…" Sai whispered.

Kind of sad, i don't know, what do you all think?

Think i should coninue it?

Well Review,

Slyvia :P