Sakura hurried into the ICU to begin her scheduled check on the new patients. She was assigned to ICU unit 3, which was usually full of leaf genin hurt during the simplest of D missions, but this time the patient was a bit different.

The sand kunoichi exhaled heavily, clearly very irritated. In the corner of the small room stood Yamanaka Ino, looking rather smug.

"Look, all I'm saying is stay away from him! He's on MY team, and it's not as if he actually likes you anyways."

"Ooh, good point. He's on YOUR team. I bet you save his life a lot, being on the same team as him and all."

Temari replied with her usual sharp tounge. Before Ino could come up with a way to retaliate, Sakura walked in.

"Ino!" she exclaimed. "Ugh. I'm not in the mood for you right now." she sighed. "Besides-" she added "You're bothering my patient."

Ino opened her mouth to reply, then thought better of it, though she could not seem to resist one last jab.

"Remember what I said, sand-girl."

and with that, she stalked out of the room.

Temari rolled her head back against the pillow and groaned.

"What?" asked Sakura, bustling around the various tables set up in the hospital room. "Is your medication wearing off?" she asked, concern showing in her eyes.

Temari looked at her incrediously. "Are you kidding!?! That doesn't bother me. I'm just suprised one person can be such a bitch!"

"Yeah, well, thats kind of her 'special' talent." Sakura replied, laughing. "Anyways." she continued, an optimistic glint in her eyes. "Your vitals are good, and you're almost fully healed, so Tsunade says we can release you tomorrow!"

"Good." Temari said. "I'd rather not spend my time here stuck in the hospital, no offense to you." "None taken." Sakura replied. "Honestly, It can kind of get boring." she whispered, as if afraid of being overheard.

Temari's gaze suddenly shifted to a flashing light above the door. "Uh, Sakura?" Temari asked.

"Yeah?"

"Well, I'm wondering what that Green, now flashing light above the door means."

"What? Oh. That means you have a visitor." Sakura said, going back to her work.

There was silence as Temari stared at Sakura.

"So...are you going to let them in, or.....?" "Oh! you WANT a visitor? I figured after Ino came, you'd be pretty sick of them." "No, It's too quiet here, bring them in."

"Ok, if you're sure..." replied Sakura, opening the door.