He woke up to the clatter of a plastic tray against the speckled linoleum floor. Slightly annoyed, but without showing anything he raised his head from the pillow to look at the source of the disturbance. Of course it had to be a certain pink-haired medic-nin, who had the most amusing look upon her face. Her eyes were as wide as could be… and probably a little wider. It seemed like all her jaw muscled had gone on strike, because her jawbone hung loosely from its ligaments, slightly askew. The hands, which had previously been holding the tray, now hung limply by her side; the tray in question spilling most of its contents upon the clean floor.

He was about to smirk when he stopped himself. For one, that would be showing emotion, and that's simply something he doesn't do often, or this liberally. The second reason was that he was in a way more precarious position than her, considering the fact that HE had been SLEEPING in PUBLIC. It was unheard of, some people even doubted that he slept at all, and that was no exaggeration.

Then he realized something even more… potentially disastrous; he was not alone on the bed. He had realized that as he fell back onto the lumpy, cheap hospital mattress. The sudden movement or the backlash of the fall had made something move on his chest… something that moved rhythmically. He peered out of the corner of his eye to see what could possibly have been on his chest, but the sight of twin messy buns that looked like they were going to fall apart and a delicate hand rising and falling to his breaths assaulted him before he could figure it out.

'Shit, shit, shit, shit…' he repeated in his mind, sometimes becoming more creative and colorful, but mind you, the authoress has to keep a good rating, and what he came up with is definitely not for kiddies. Of course he kept his neutral façade, the only hint of his internal trauma being the terror flashing through his eyes. Now the medic-nin's look was fully acceptable, and not funny in the least.

Regaining his calm and suddenly realizing that he always had the option of escaping the village and becoming a missing-nin if things got out of hand, she looked back towards the medic.

"You wanted to see her?" he asked, internally cringing at the pure stupidity of the question. Of course she wanted to see her! That's why they were all in a hospital after all. The medic simply nodded, still too shocked to actually formulate a response; it wasn't everyday that you found an icecube sleeping on the same bed as a kunoichi.

Slowly shaking her head, and coming back to Earth from wherever her mind had escaped, the medic-nin exclaimed with a shaky voice, "Don't worry, I can come later!" Of course he ignored her, and proceeded to waken his… teammate? Well, no matter what she was at the moment, he wanted his leg back, and prying her off had lead to no results as of yet.

"Mmm?" the newly awakened member of our story asked, looking at the source of the incessant kicking, shaking and poking… well everything short of screaming.

Yeah, he wanted her up that bad.

Because he had woken her up so suddenly when she had been having a very nice dream, and because she simply wasn't a morning person, she decided that it would be fun to push him off the bed. And so she did, sending our poor little victim flailing over the edge of the stainless steel frame and onto the floor. Then she sat up and stretched her arms in the air, like absolutely nothing had happened.

By now, the Sakura had no idea what was going on, but she might as well so what she had come here to.

"Tenten-chan, may I replace your bandages?" the confused girl asked, still within the vicious jaws of bewilderment.

Tenten simply shrugged and said, "Might as well. You did come here specifically to do that, after all."

"Then, Neji has to leave the room…" the medic said, her voice quivering slightly at the fact that Neji was in the room with a girl… SLEEPING!

"Already taken care of, he ran away the moment I pushed him off." Tenten said matter-of-factly, surprising Sakura, something she no longer thought possible, with her nonchalance. She made it seem like he had never even been in the room.

"Oh" was all Sakura could manage, her brain still not accepting the fact that Neji had been sleeping with Tenten. At least she hadn't walked in on something more… She shuddered at the thought.

"Sakura-chan? Are you okay?" Tenten asked from her seat on the edge of the cheap bed.

"it's just that…" Sakura said, shaking her head in an attempt to think straight. Tenten raised her eyebrow in the traditional 'what are you trying to say?' look. "You're not even fazed about all this!"

"Huh? Well, you are freaking out enough for the both of us… why should I be freaking out too?" Tenten asked, sincerely wondering why. Sure it wasn't a normal sight… but it wasn't the first time she had seen him sleep… or wake her up like that. True those times were all on missions and she was a deep sleeper, but what made this so different?

"Nevermind, please take your shirt off…" said Sakura, forcing Tenten to remove the large blue shirt she had on and reveal a black sports bra and enough bandages to put a mummy to shame. "How did you guys fall asleep like that anyways?" Sakura asked as rebound the kunoichi's shoulder.

"Hehe… about that…" Tenten mumbled, suddenly uncomfortable. "Plus I don't know how he fell asleep, I was asleep first."

"Okay, then why did he run away?" Sakura asked, trying to rid the room of the uncomfortable tension the previous question had created.

"He probably left to hide in a corner so that no one will find him when the entire of Konoha finds out what happened. I think I might need to hide too… I give Gai-sensei about five minutes before he starts praising one of us about our youthfulness… most likely me since I'm stuck in this room."

"What makes you think that?" Sakura asked, amazed at the fact that Neji 'left to hide in a corner.'

"Well the noise your tray made when it fell attracted the nurses and one of them must have seen what happened. Then she ran off to tell her friends, who in turn did the same. Soon everyone will know that the Hyuuga prodigy was here, and they'll all be rushing over to ask me a load of annoying questions that never end." Tenten explained, hoping that she had covered everything.

Suddenly some one screamed in the lobby of the hospital. It was soon followed by the voice that everyone dreaded…

"SORRY, BUT I MUST GO SEE MY YOUTHFULL STUDENTS NOW!" exclaimed the devil incarnate, followed by his little demon sidekick who found it to be the perfect moment to scream out "YOSH! I AM SO PROUD OF THEM!"

"Damn it, they didn't even need that much time… Anyways, here is where I leave you," Tenten exclaimed as she grabbed her shirt and back flipped out through the window and into the open air. "I'll get someone to finish this for me!" she screamed back towards a once more bewildered medic-nin, pointing to the bandages as she ran off into the distance.

Then the green abominations barged into the room, spouting their proclamations of youth, stopping only to ask where their lovable students/teammates had gone.

Sakura then deemed it a perfectly worthy time to take a break and run to Ino. Maybe she would know what to do with all of this… situation.