Hi everyone. Sooo, this is my first story ever published so please don't be mean. Also English is not my first language so if you see any mistakes, let me know. Okay, about the story: They are 18/19 here. I won't make anyone weak and that shit. Especially someone like TenTen who in my opinion had very little character development. Also I don't think I will be killing of anyone. I can promise that Neji will stay alive. His future was already been taken from him, so I ain't gonna do that again. This story will contain death, just not of main characters (hopefully) and I'll try to make it as easy on heart as possible. All deaths in Naruto left me depressed so in my opinion there is no need for that here(at least in this story). Of course I can't guarantee anything, I'm just letting you know what you could expect. If you are looking for angst, this story is not for you. No mean and offensive comments and no bashing. Suggestions and that stuff is always welcome, as long as it doesn't offend anyone. Okaay, that's all for now. Hope you like it!

P.S. As you might have guessed, I do not own Naruto, unfortunately.

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She should be used to this. She is a medical ninja. Death is something she faces more than many people, unfortunately. But death is something you can never get used to, especially not in times like this.

On the operating table before her lays ANBU captain and her close friend Neji Hyuuga. He has his body covered with bruises and deep cuts, but that is left for other medics to deal with. What makes her stomach turn with worry is the fact that he was stabbed in one vital point and really close to another. She is a medic. She activated her Yin seal at age of 17 and had a year after that to work on her skills. Many say she has surpassed her master, which she doubts but can't deny that she is one of the best medical ninjas in all Five Shinobi Nations.

And still she can only hope that she can save him. His heart rate is slow. So slow you could literally miss it of you don't pay extremely close attention. She can only do one thing at this point. Try out new technique that she has been trying to develop in the last 6 months as a privilege of her seal. She has her Byakugou activated as she is pouring abnormal amount of chakra into him. Her ultimate goal is to pour enough chakra into him that she has control over it while it's in his system as well. The problem is time.

He is chakra deprived so she first needs to fill his reserves and than more so he has spear chakra to manipulate. And bear in mind he is chakra powerhouse. If it was a genin or a civilian with small amount of chakra she probably wouldn't even need her Byakugou. She never used this technique. Only in theory it could be done. She did manage to do it on smaller animals but she remembers all too well that she needed 2 months after healing fish to be able to preform simple healing on human body. But she didn't have time. Not to practice and surely she didn't have any now.

His heartbeat was becoming weaker by the minute. On the good side she filed his reserves and now she is pouring manipulating chakra into him. It's the same principle as the Ninja God, Hashirama, used as well as Naruto. They have large amount chakra at their disposal and they can manipulate it without waving signs. She is trying to do the same for Neji. Only difference, she will manipulate that chakra for him. Well, try. That's what she is trying to do now. Successfully manipulating chakra from his reserves while still pouring some into him, she can see the two wounds closing. All other medics are done and they all are watching, sending silent prayers that he survives. Sakura's eyes widen as she sees the wounds closing. It's working. Her technique is working. As the wounds close one medic's rushes to his side to check him.

Sakura only stops pouring chakra when she hears words that medic spoke: "He's stable".

Silent tear of joy and relief slips down her pale cheek as she collapses to her knees holding hands over her chest. More tears come down as she lets all emotions settle in. He is okay, he will survive. After she composes herself she notices other medics in the room are clapping. She smiled as she started to wipe her tears and slowly stand up, afraid her legs would give up on her.

"You did it Haruno-san!"

"Your technique worked!"

"Tsunade-sama is going to be so proud"

At the mention of her master's name she remembers that she went to heal others who were injured and that all her friends are probably waiting outside. In an instant she rushes out of operating room. As she exits all her friends stood up. Hinata gasped as she put hands over her mouth, tears pouring out of her eyes. Kiba has one of his hands around Hinta's shoulder and you can see that he slightly squeezes her as his eyes widen in shock. Lee, Ten Ten, Ino and Naruto have same expression as Kiba. Choji and Sai, whose hand is in cast because he, as well as Shikamaru, was on the same team as Neji, are silent. Shikamaru is standing there, hard expression on his face but you can see hurt and concern in his eyes.

His and Sai's clothes were bloody but no wounds visible. Tsunade-sama did the excellent job healing them. They had also been hurt badly when they were brought in. Sakura only than realised why they are looking at her like that. She has blood all over her clothes, her eyes probably read and puffy from crying. Sakura was about to speak when she was interrupted by her master who was approaching fast, Shizune, hot on her tail.

"Sakura?" was all that she said, but her voice was stern and Sakura understood that meant 'don't beat around the bush whatever the outcome is'.

Sakura smiled weakly "He is stable. He will survive."

Hinata started crying harder, tears of relief now flowing down her cheek as she snuggled her head in Kiba's chest while he patted her back. "Thank goodness" came from Ino as she hugged Sai while he put his head in the crock of her neck, relief visible on his face. The rest of them sat down, some sighing in relief, some putting their hands over their heats.

"How?" Shikamaru asked, it came almost as a whisper as his eyes were widened in shock "He had two fatal wounds, he was chakra deprived. He could not have survived those wounds". Sakura opened her mouth to answer but was interrupted once again by Tsunade who was smirking:" Sakura has been working on modifying 100 Healing seal so that she can transfer its effects to her patients by pouring huge amount of her chakra into them and than manipulating it so the wound heals itself, for the past few months" She averted her gaze to Sakura "but I didn't think it would be possible, especially not in the short amount of time she has been working on it. Congratulations Sakura."

Everyone looked at Sakura who was blushing slightly. "Thank you shishou"

She smiled sweetly when she heard running footsteps and felt someone hugging her stomach. She looked down only to see Hanabi hugging her, her eyes same as Hinatas. She looked up and saw Hiashi standing in front of her with soft expression on his face. Sakura didn't even notice them being here. "

Thank you, thank you, thank you" Hanabi said between sobs. Sakura looked down again and gently patted Hanabi's head.

"That's why I'm here for" She smiled as Hanabi raised her head to look at her, her face puffy from crying. After she moved away Hiashi moved closer and hugged Sakura, much to everyone's surprise.

"Thank you Sakura-san. We will never be able to thank you enough. If you ever need anything don't hesitate to ask". He moved away and nodded at her.

"Thank you" Sakura answered, courtly nodding in return. "Sakura-chan you are so awesome!" Naruto yelled in very 'Naruto' way. Sakura chuckled.

"Thanks Naruto" He shoot her his best grin.

"Really forehead, that technique is amazing, why didn't you tell me about it?"

"Sorry Ino, but I didn't think it would be possible so I didn't want to speak about it until I was certain it could work"

"Of course it worked, it was your idea my youthful cherry blossom. It's true springtime of youth for you" Lee cut in as he put up his thumb and smiled so his teeth were visible.

Sakura just smiled.

"So when will we be able to see him" Ten Ten asked, worry still present in her eyes. She and Neji have been dating for 2 years so Sakura could only imagine how frustrated and scared she was.

"Well he is still unconscious, but I don't think it would be that long until he wakes up. I have refilled his chakra reserves and all his wounds have been healed. Maybe there are few small cuts left but they will heal in a week tops. You should be able to see him tomorrow. I'm just gonna get cleaned up and than I will check on him. I will notify you as soon as he wakes up."Sakura sent Ten Ten reassuring smile.

Hinata silently approached her and hugged her, quietly whispering "Thank you so much Sakura" like she was afraid her own voice would let her down. Sakura just hugged her tightly, saying everything will be alright.

"Okay, now that we know he will be alright, everyone go home and rest." Tsunade-sama ordered.

"But Baa-chan, we don't want to leave in case he wakes up earlier" Naruto whined.

"You will only be in way Naruto, Sakura will notify you. Now I want everyone out in 2 minutes. Sakura and everyone has a lot of work to do." With that she turned around followed by Shizune who congratulated Sakura before catching up with Tsunade-sama.

"Okay, then we'll be leaving you to do your magic, Forehead. Don't forget to call us immediately when he wakes up" Ino almost scolded Sakura.

"Don't worry, it'll will be the first thing I do, Pig" Sakura smiled and everyone started to leave, with Hyuuga's thanking her ones more.

When they all left Sakura fell onto one of the chairs, finally able to catch her breath. She was really exhausted. She used up all her chakra, plus she had to use it from her reserves as well. It's going to take some time until it refills.

"You look like hell" Sakura jumped slightly, she didn't know anyone was still there.

"I can say the same thing about you, Shikamaru" she said with a small giggle. He just smirked as he took seat next to her.

"I thought everyone left. Do you need your wounds checked up or something?" she looked at him questionably.

"I'm good, I wanted to check on you. By the way Tsunade- sama was shocked with the success of technique it's easy to see that you invented an S level technique. Those usually come with side affects, especially if you use them for the first time." he looked at her with concerned eyes. "So, how are you holding up?"

Sakura couldn't help but admire his intuition. No one else thought about it. Not that she blames them, their best friend almost died. She probably wouldn't even thought about it if the roles were reversed.

"I'm fine, just feeling exhausted. It took a lot of chakra to heal him, but that doesn't matter." Sakura just smiled. It couldn't be described how relived she was that he survived. They are best friends, almost like brother and sister. Ever since she became Tsunade's student the Hyuuga elders have invited her to dinners multiple times. She only managed to attend few times since she has been too busy in the hospital. But that brought Sakura, Neji and Hinata much closer.

She looked at Shikamaru only to see him looking at her with his calculating eyes.

"You are more tired than you let on, aren't you?"

"Shikamaru, I'm fine. Really. Go home and rest. And I need to go and take shower. I have more patients waiting." Sakura smiled sweetly. Shikamaru gave her lazy smile.

"Fine, but be careful. You still don't know side affects"

With that he got up and headed towards the door. Sakura just looked after him. With a sigh she stood up slowly, her legs slightly shaking. Her overworking is taking its toll on her.

She walked down the hall, made few turns, walked into her office and took her spare clothes that she always has with her. After picking everything up she continued her journey to bathroom. Once cold water touched her body, she saw blood dripping from her hands. This event shook her to her core. It brought back some rather unpleasant memories. How Shikamaru felt thorn when Asuma died. How she was shattered when her parents died after Orochimaru attacked village during chuning exams. If it wasn't for Kakashi-sensei, Naruto, Ino, Tsunade-sama and her other friends, who knows what would have happened to her.

When Sasuke left her, her heart had mixture of hate and love. She still loved him but couldn't forgive him for leaving with the monster who was responsible for death of her parents and many others. She couldn't stand the thought. That along with possibility that they could attack again made her sick. She also knew that she wouldn't be able to fight Sasuke. Not really and that would result in her death. It was reason for her to become medical ninja. If she couldn't fight to protect she would aid those who could. But as time passed she slowly started to understand why he did it. She also wanted to kill Sannin. She trained day and night because of it. As for Sasuke, his whole clan was killed by the person he admired the most.

Later he killed Orochimaru for her and after learning the truth about the Uchiha massacre Sasuke came back. She welcomed him back, but only as friend. Betrayal she felt when she was 13 was too big for her and she couldn't see him as anything more. He left to atone short after but they stayed in touch. He usually informs them about the Akatsuki movements. It has been over a year since they started collecting Bijuus. According to him they have collected 6. Although they are missing 2 tails, so they can't extract the rest. He is currently tracking her to try and hide her, maybe bring her to Konoha. Thanks to this news, Naruto was sent to learn how to control Kyuubi's chakra with Killer Bee, Jinjuricki of 8 tails. When Naruto came back almost 4 moths ago, he has become unbelievable powerful. He has also become really close with the Sand siblings, as did she. After saving Kankuro and Gaara, the Sand has become closest ally of Konoha.

What she finds really interesting is that Temari and Naruto became close. Like closer than friends. Despite their totally different personalities. Sakura connects their 'friendship' as they call it with the fact that Naruto saved Gaara. That probably helped Temari see him as more than a knucklehead. And Sakura is happy because of that. Naruto found someone who will keep him on the ground when he has his outburst. They make a good team, in every way possible.

With those thoughts she finished showering and put on fresh clothes. Shower was supposed to help her wake up but in some strange way she only felt sleepier. She made her way to her office once more to leave her dirty clothes that she will probably bring home tomorrow after she is done with hospital. It was much harder to walk than she would like it to be. After leaving her clothes she proceeded to make slow movements towards room Neji was in now. She had to help herself by holding onto the wall. She was never this tired. She felt as if all energy was sucked from her. It's probably side affect of her new healing method. As an answer to her question she started seeing black dots. She tripped over herself and with last of her strength she braced herself for the fall but it never came. Last thing she felt was something soft and warm wrap around her before it all went black.

A/N: Thanks to the reviews, I payed closer attention to my grammar and spelling. I also divided paragraphs better. I hope it's better now. Thank you for reading. xx