"5…6…7…8" Sakura mentally counted as she began her compressions. Her hands were beginning to turn a deadly shade of red and she was becoming conflicted on what she need to be doing. His heart had stopped, she needed to continue the compressions in order to pump the blood through his veins, but with every compression she performed more of his chrisom blood drip from a gash on his side. "26…27…28…29…30" Once she hit her mark she quickly leaned down, tipping his head back while pinching his nose, her warm lips meet his cold ones and a new sense of panic was quickly developing in her gut. The medic in her knew just how bad this was, his heart no longer working, if not for the steady push of her hands, he would have already perished. But damnit that wasn't an option! She had already lost to many, she couldn't lose him to. Her hands glowed a brighter green, trying to repair the damage cells from the contact on his chest.

"Sakura is he-" Naruto left his thought unfinished, unable to bring himself to ask if he was dead. The blonde hair shinobi fought back tears as he saw the grass bleed to red. He felt so helpless. He had been to late, and now all he could do was step back and protect Sakura as she fought like hell to save him.

"Naruto, I need you to reach into my back pouch and pull out my pills containers. I need one red and one blue pill!" Sakura order but Naruto was still frozen in place. It should have been him, that was the only thought that was processing. "Naruto!" Sakura called to him, and he snapped his attention from his face to hers. "I can't stop what I am doing, I need your help." She almost begged.

Naruto quickly knelt down next to her, his hand slipping into her back pocket to receive the pills. He opened the container and looked at Sakura for instruction. "Break each pill in half and place them in his mouth. One is a solider pill and the other is a blood pill." The pills were quickly broken and poured into his mouth. Naruto watched as sweat ran down her face and he could feel her charka level rise and fall dramatically.

Sakura bent down once more and blew life into his mouth, as she tried to fight back tears. This mission had been fucked up since the start. The client had lied about the dangers, and now her team, her family was paying for it. Naruto was covered in cuts, and it was getting harder to ignore the deep cut on her back. She hadn't seen their other teammate in the last twenty minutes, and while she could hear the sounds of battle a couple miles from her, she couldn't look away from the broken body that laid in front of her.

A loud explosion goes off and Naruto cruses under his breath as he sees the black smoke rising in the distance. He didn't want to leave Sakura, but he couldn't leave his other friend to fight the enemy all alone.

"Go" her command catches him off guard, "he needs your help more than I do, the pills should be kicking in any second now."

"But Sakura what if-"

"GO!" He didn't have to be told twice, he was already rushing toward his best friend. They had over estimated their enemy, and they couldn't risk one member taking on the entire enemy squad. "How did we allow this to happen?" Naruto questioned as he ran into the clearing, Kunai and senbon littered the forest floor and some of the trees in the surrounding areas were catch on fire.

"Dobe," Sasuke called out as he landed next to Naruto, each boy turning their backs to one another. "Sakura okay?" It had all happened to fast, he hadn't been able to stop it. One minute they were walking down the road about to drop of their client when all of a sudden, he pulled a weapon on Naruto, if he had been one second slower it would have hit the jugular and it would have all been over. Form that moment on it had been absolute chaos. Everyone taking hits left and right, while Sakura tried to jump between the three men to heal as much as she could as fast as she could.

"Fine, but we need to end this as soon as possible" Sasuke nodded in response and the two boys switched their focus to the twenty men in front of them.


"27…28…29" Sakura had given up counting in her head. The rhyme was becoming harder and harder to perform as her chakra drained from her body. The progress was to slow, at this rate it wouldn't do any good. With Naruto gone she was on her own, there was no telling when they would be back, and she could feel the enemy making their way closer to her. Having no choice, she quickly bit her thumb and began weaving hand signs. A clone appeared across from her, already working on healing the gash on the side, while the real Sakura continued compressions.

When she noticed the wound was beginning to heal, a small sigh escaped her lips. It was progress and while she had never attempted this type of healing technique before, she was willing to give anything a try. She paused in her movements to lower her ear to his chest, and the feeling of relief washed over as she heard a faint heartbeat. He wasn't out of the woods yet, but it was a good sign.

"Just in time it seems." Sakura took a breath and centered self. "Come out, there is no point in hiding."

"Beautiful and strong, what a deadly combination" their so-called client hissed as he walked out of the tree lines. "Through I have to admit I'm glad your alive, it would have been a pity if one of my men had gotten to you before I did."

Sakura didn't like that one bit. She had a bad feeling about the guy since they meet in her master's office. The 33-year-old had taken special interest in her and hadn't become happy the night before when she threatened to cut off a very important body part, if he had not stopped touching her. Sakura continued with her compressions as the man started to circle her.

"What a shame, through he did seem a little old to still be playing ninja." He laughed, and Sakura had to bite her tongue to keep from pointing out that he was in fact older than her fallen teammate. But Sakura knew better, and it was better to keep the man talking than it was to have to engage in battle. "Why are you even trying, he was killed the minute the blade sliced his skin?"

"Why's that?" Sakura tried to humor him, the hard part was almost done, he was almost safe, she just needed a little more time.

"The poison might be slow acting at first, but once it reaches the heart it is quickly spreads throughout the body. There is nothing you can do for him girl." At this Sakura started laughing. Had this idiot not done any research on her team? They were the famous Team 7, surely, he knew about the last Uchiha, demon-fox and miniature Tsunade. The poison had been one of the first things Sakura had detected when she started healing Sasuke. It was a simple poison, that was deadly if not treated right away, but luckily for the boys Sakura knew poisons like the back of her hand and created a solution within minutes.

The man's face darkened, obviously not liking being the butt of the joke. He gripped his sword tighter and spread his stance. "What do you want form us? Why attack us?" Sakura asked once she was done blowing another breath into her comrade.

"That's none of your concern. Now you have two choice, either come with me or die." Sakura could only stare at the man in front of her and think what the hell was this guy on. When the mission was first requested everyone thought this man was a close friend of one of the lords in some small village between Fire and Sand. He had request protection because he claimed he was carrying classified documents that could devastate the small village's trade routes if they fell into the wrong hands. He was even willing to pay double the price if he was given one of the better, and since Team 7 hadn't been given a mission in a while, Tsunade had assigned them this one in an attempt to shut Naruto up. On some level Sakura was thankful they had been given this mission because if a Genin team had been assigned they would have likely been killed along with their team leader. Though as she looked down at his bloody face, she was really wishing they were all back within the safety of the village walls.

When her eyes fell back of their "client" she tried to scan her memories of the Bingo Books. He was about 6" 4', 230 pounds, long arms and tone legs. His eyes were a honey color and his hair a very dirty shade of blonde. His clothes gave no clue as to who he was. He wore no headband and apparently had torn of his traditional robes, and now stood wearing black pants and long-sleeves. Everything about him now screamed threat and Sakura was mentally beating herself up for not noticing the danger sooner.

Sakura blew another breath into her team lead, never once taking her eyes off the enemy. Sasuke and Naruto were nowhere near, and there was no guaranteed that their battle would be over any time soon. "What will happen if I come with you?" She continued her compressions, feeling his heart rate growing stronger and stronger. She only had to stall a few more minutes then this piece of shit would get her full attention.

"You caught my boss's eye. Our job is to turn you over to him." He took a step forward his smirk growing. "But he never said I couldn't have a little fun with you before we give you to him." His eyes drifted down to her covered chest and Sakura had to fight the urge to attack first.

Sakura's hands slowly stopped glowing green and she stood. She could feel her blood run down her back, but she had already cut the nerves around the gash, it wouldn't get in the way of her flighting. Oh, how she wanted nothing more than for her fists to connect with his face. Her clone was still working on her comrade, and now that his gash was closed, she could focus on his chest. Sakura took a few steps closer to their client, while her charka was dangerously low, she wasn't going to let him touch her teammate and her chakra flared as she got ready to attack.

"I'd like to see you try" she shot back and then she attacked…


"Granny I think he is finally waking up!" A voice shouted in the darkness.

The sound of heels hitting the tile echoed in the small hospital room as Tsunade made her way over to the bed. If he was finally waking up, she didn't have to be worried any longer. The past four days had been very difficult not only for her, but for the remaining members of team 7 as well. Naruto was tapping his foot against the floor, trying to fight back the urge to approach her patient and wake him up. Her hands glowed a bright green and began scanning his head. His eyes flickered open for a split second before they closed again.

Pain. Pain was the only thing he felt as he began to regain his consciousness. He tried to move his hands but found himself unable to. The fuzziness in his head was starting to clear and he started to hear noises around him. The sound of beeping was the first thing he recognized, the second was the smell of bleach and disinfect. What happened? He didn't understand where he was or how he got here. The last thing he remember was fighting in the woods, but the woods didn't sound like this, smell like this.

A sense of panic washed over him and he fought to open his eyes. Slowly his eye lids opened, and while pain caused his colored eye to close, his other remained open. Tsunade flashed him a warm smile as she helped him move into an up position.

"How long?" He asked, through it came out ruff and quiet.

"Four days." Tsunade answered as she held a cup of waters to him and pulled down his mask, so he could drink. Her back blocked Naruto's view but he didn't try to sneak a peek. It took all his will power to remain seated, he had so many questions he wanted to ask. He wanted to understand what the hell had happened.

He downed the entire contexts of the cup before he tried to speak again, but even now his head wasn't understanding everything. "What happened?" He somehow managed to ask.

"You don't remember what happened?" Tsunade asked with confusion. She was hoping Kakashi was going to be able to explain exactly how her number one jounin and number one student ended up in the state they were in. She took his silence as his answer, "what's the last thing you remember?"

"Dropping off a client and then a flight breaking out." Kakashi sat up a little further and glanced all around the room. Members of his team were missing, and if he was in the hospital where were the others?

Tsunade must have been able to read the slight panic in his eyes because she chuckled. "Relax. Sai and Yamato returned from their mission this morning, and Sasuke is with Sakura." Kakashi took a deep breath at the realization that his team was at least safe within the village walls. His eyes locked on Naruto and found that he was uninjured.

"You don't remember what happened to Sakura-chan?" Naruto questioned, as he got up from his chair and moved closer to the bed.

"What happened? Where is she?" Kakashi snapped. He tried to recall what had happened, but all he could remember was a sharp pain in his chest, and a warm feeling on his lips.

Before Naruto could even attempt to explain what had happened shouting could be heard in the hall.

"Get the hell out of my way" the voice was aggressive by not loud. Naruto shot out of his chair and went to the door.

"Please you should be in bed resting!" The nurse cried.

"Move out of my way, I am fine!" The voice got louder and Kakashi finally understood who was throwing a Tsunade size fit. The heart monitor grew a little louder as his heartrate increased. "Thank goodness"

The hospital door was thrown open and Sakura all but stumbled inside, leaning against the door frame for support. Sasuke stood behind her, a pissed off look on her face, but ready to catch her regardless. Naruto moved to her aside and tried to put his hands on her waist to support her, but she quickly smacked his hands away from her.

Everyone's focus was on Sakura, but the only thing she was focused on was Kakashi. Slowly she let go of the door frame and walked toward the bed. Both boys followed, but neither tried to stop her from her objective. They both understood what had happened on that battle field. Both understood what she was feeling at the movement.

The nurse inside Tsunade wanted to scream at Sakura to sit down, to make her stop any movement. She had taken so much damage, and the fact she was up and walking around meant she could damage her body even further. But she remained silent and stepped aside to give Sakura room, knowing her student well enough to know no words were going to stop her.

Kakashi hadn't realized that he was not breathing until his lungs screamed out for him to take a breath. Once Sakura walked in bits and pieces flashed quickly before his eyes and while he didn't remember anything, he remembered enough to know he shouldn't be alive right now. Before Kakashi could even begin to start to lecture Sakura for her actions, he is smacked hard across the face.

"Sakura!" Tsunade shouted and moved to catch her arm but halted in her movements when she saw Sakura shake.

"You bastard!" Sakura screamed but made no move to hit him again. "How could you just give up like that?! How could you put that on me! Do you honestly think so little of me, that you thought I would have followed your order!" Sakura's body trembled with every word, and while tears gathered in the corner of her eyes she refused to let them spill.

"Sakura I-"Kakashi tried to explain, even though he didn't completely understand. But his mind was still moving too slowly. He was just now recognizing that something was different about Sakura. She had something that she didn't before.

"I don't want to hear it!" Her cold eyes shifted from Kakashi to Tsunade. "Is he in any further danger?"

"The only threat on his life at the moment is you."

Sakura nodded and turned her back on Kakashi. "Then I leave him to you, my work is done." Sakura didn't even stop to see if Sasuke was following her when she left the move. Just as quickly as she had come into the room she was gone, leaving Kakashi at the wrath of two young men who looked ready to slit his throat.


Sakura barely made it back to her room before the tears started falling. How could he think I would follow that order? Sakura looked down at her hands shaking and muttered a cruse under her breath. Kakashi had been the one to teach her that those who abandon their friends are worse than scum. How could he expect her to abandon him? Regardless of how hopeless it seemed, did he really think she would give up on him before she even was given a chance to try and save him?

"Fucking moron." She balled her fists and shock her head trying to stop the tears. She took a deep breath and counted to three and by the time she exhaled she had control over her emotions again. She looked around the hospital room and noticed someone had been nice enough to bring her a change of clothes. Very carefully she stood from her hospital bed and made her way over to the clothes. Each step she took sent waves of pain up her right leg and she knew that her leg had been fractured. She slowly removed her hospital gown and with every second she was becoming more and more aware of her injuries.

When she had woken up her only thought had been to make it to Kakashi. Her only focus had been making sure he was okay, but now that her adrenalin was coming down and her morphine wearing off, she was starting to feel the side effects of her battle. The headache brought on from charka exhaustion was causing her head to throb and while she could tell the gash on her back had been treated it also meant that the nurses had reconnected the nerves.

She was still dressing when the door opened and Sasuke walked inside. His eyes widened slightly, clearly not have expecting walking in on Sakura undressed. She had her shorts on but was struggling with zipping her shirt.

"Would you mind zipping me?" Sakura hadn't bothered to turn to look at him. She hated showing any sign of weakness and the fact she couldn't do something as simple as put a shirt on was pissing her off more than she would like to admit.

"Hn," was his only response as he walked closer to zip the shirt. His chakra flaring when he noticed that her back was ugly colors of black, blue and yellow. A white banged had been applied over her left shoulder blade to the middle of her back and her right leg had a black brace around it. Their "client" was very lucky Sakura had already killed him because if he had lived Sasuke would have killed him slowly for what he did to her.

"I'm okay Sasuke. It looks worse than it feels." She tried to assure, feeling the killing intent rolling of off him in waves.

"What are you doing?"

"Leaving." She turned to look at him in the eyes. "Care to come with me." She smiled and that was all she had to say before Sasuke stepped forward, placing his arm around her back and flickered them out of the hospital.


Tsunade's chakra slowly healed the damage down to Kakashi's check. After the Uchiha glared at their team lead for several minutes he left to go after Sakura. If Tsunade knew her student was well as she thought she did, Sakura would be getting ready to leave the hospital any moment. A slight chuckle left her lips as she felt Sakura's and Sasuke's charka signature disappear from the room a couple yards away. Her apprentice might love working in the hospital, but she couldn't stand to be on the other end of it. She made a mental note to send Ino later to check on Sakura, but for now she would give her the space she wanted. The Uchiha wouldn't let anything happened to her, she was safe for now.

"How hurt is she?" Kakashi asked once Tsunade was done. Naruto had sat back down in his previous seat, but he was refusing to make eye contact with his sensei.

"Pretty bad. Her right leg has a tibial shaft and fibula fracture. She already went through one surgery to repair some of the damage, but she'll be on crutches for a week or two while it finishes healing."

"English Granny." Naruto crossed his arms over his chest, leaning back further into the chair.

"The tibia is the largest bone in your lower leg. It is reasonable for supporting most of your weight on that leg. The fibula is the other main bone in your leg and it is a very painful break." Tsunade explained slowly hoping she wouldn't have to explain herself twice. Naruto remained silence, so she assumed he understood. "She also suffered charka exhaustion and has charka burns on both hands. A couple of ribs are broken but luckily none punctured her lungs or kidneys. She also had a gash on her back that required 27 stitches, that will be sensitive for a couple days. She'll be in some pain and be comfortable for a couple weeks, but everything is expected to heal properly."

The two boys remained silent for a long time. Naruto has still beating himself up over the fact that he left her to defend herself and Kakashi by herself, while Kakashi couldn't believe she had been able to walk into his hospital room. She looked so upset. But he couldn't blame her. He had asked her to do something that went against every fiber of her being, and he hadn't trusted her abilities. No that's not true. I trusted her…I just didn't think my life was worthy enough to risk her's.

"Tsunade" Kakashi spoke after several long minutes passed in silence. "Why is she still injured if she awakened her yin seal?" The purple diamond hadn't gone unnoticed.

"Because she gave you all her charka." And with that Tsunade walked out of the room allowing her words to sink into the Great Copycat Ninja.