Sakura hummed to herself, glancing at the clock and smiling. It was 5:55PM, in five minutes she could leave the hospital, and maybe have dinner with Naruto. Or if she felt like eating something other than ramen she could go visit her parents. She hadn't seen them in a few months, and would no doubt be getting a summons from them soon.

Sakura frowned, something was wrong. She couldn't help but shiver as she sent her chakra out to examine for any threats. Normally she only got this feeling when battle was about to break out, and she knew that something big was about to happen. Sakura thought wistfully of her bed, and how nice it would have been to stay in it and sleep all day, avoiding her uneasiness.

Suddenly there was a commotion in the emergency room, and she could hear Naruto screaming for her.

"SAKURA!!! SAKURA WHERE ARE YOU?!?! NEJI IS INJURED!!" She could finally make out what he was saying as she reached the entrance to the room. And there on a stretcher was Neji, bleeding from multiple lacerations and still conscious though barely. She could tell he was fading fast.

"NEJI!" she screamed and rushed to him, forgetting that her shift was almost over as she rushed past Naruto. "I need the hokage, now! Neji has taken hits from chidori, and he has some internal bleeding. I need him in surgery, like yesterday! Move!" Abruptly everyone was in motion, nurses rushing to take care of the new arrivals. "Naruto, I need you to go to get the hokage I need her help with the surgery. MOVE!" and then he was gone, leaves floating to the ground where he had been.

"Sakura?" the whisper brought her attention back to the injured man. She hadn't truly spoken to him for years but still she hoped that he would be alright.

"Neji? Stay with me neji, can you hear me?" he closed his eyes forcing her to lean in to hear what he whispered next.

"Sakura…" With that said, he passed out.

"Where am I?" Neji reached for a kunai, only to find he was weaponless. Looking around he saw he was in a room full of mirrors. No not mirrors, for they didn't reflect him, but rather were those memories of his life? There was a memory of his father training him, laughing with him when they were alone. Sneaking him off the compound to get him ice cream for a job well done.

In the next mirror he could see himself crying, he had just been told of his father's death. Then there were no more smiles, and he saw only his blank face training and training. He saw his days in the academy, then on his gennin team, with Tenten, Lee and Gai. He saw the chunnin exams, and his fight with Naruto. Afterwards the letter from his father.

Then the mission retrieving Sasuke, his time in the hospital and finally the fateful mission with Naruto, Shino and Shikamaru in sound. Then he saw Sakura's face in the hospital, and all else faded to black but her face, worried for him. She was beautiful he realized, taking his first good look at her since the chunnin exams all those years ago. She was no longer the awkward little girl she had been but a mature 17 year old. An experienced ninja. He realized that he must be unconscious from his injury from Sasuke. Damn chidori, he had caught them by surprise. It was suppose to be a recon mission only. It had been pure chance that they had been caught.

"Is this my life rushing before my eyes because I am dying?" He wondered. Unexpectedly the mirror room was filled with green chakra that warmed him at the same time as it pulled on him.

"Neji its time to come back to us. You are needed here. Come back. Please." What was Sakura's voice doing in my head? Then everything went black and the next thing he knew was…

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Beep…beep…beep…

'Heart monitor' Neji thought sleepily. Slowly he opened his eyes, and saw that it must be afternoon. He thought he was alone and sighed; it would have been nice to wake up with someone there to tell him how long he had been out.

He looked down and realized his first assumption was wrong, he wasn't alone. There was a girl resting her head on her arms on his bed. A girl with pink hair. Sakura? What was she doing here? 'She must be my physician. It's quite unprofessional to fall asleep on a patient's bed' he thought frowning.

"Sakura wake up. Now. Please." He figured he should be polite so she would tell him what time and day it was.

"Neji?" she whispered sleepily, her hair tangled and mussed, he figured she must have been there for a while. When she saw his questioning look she went on. "How are you feeling? You took a lot of damage to your internal organs from Sasuke's chidori. It was pretty touch and go for a while but I finally stabilized you around 10, approximately four hours after being rushed into surgery. You have been unconscious for 5 days."

"You stabilized me?" He blinked; he would have thought that his injury was much too severe for anyone but the Hokage and maybe Shizune to heal. And five days? His uncle would not be pleased.

"Yes, you see….welllll… your chakra was still hostile and wouldn't allow anyone to heal you but me. It seems that you were poisoned so that your chakra would react violently with chakra it didn't recognize. Hinata even tried but her chakra was rejected as well." Neji frowned, he had never heard of this before.

"Then how did you heal me, if I couldn't even accept Hinata-sama's chakra?" he longed to put his head in his hands and grimace at the pain building in his head, but unfortunately years of Hyuuga training prohibited this.

"We aren't sure. But your chakra just stopped reacting when I tried to heal you. Only me though. Neji…there are certain…complications." She paused knowing he wasn't going to like this at all.

"Complications?" Neji narrowed his eyes, his full attention on Sakura for the first time since he woke up.

"We don't know how to neutralize the poison yet. This means that I will have to continually heal you, and I'm the only one who your chakra will accept. The thing is we aren't sure how often I will have to heal you; it could be every few hours or every few days or even weeks. And it could vary. The thing is Neji, the healing that I am forced to do is very…invasive to your mental state." Sakura had not once looked away from his eyes and he found that unnerving. He knew that he was glaring at her, a glare that made even Lee and Tenten falter when they saw it. He searched her eyes, and found only sympathy, none of the fear he expected.

"And if I refuse to let you invade my mind then what?"

"You die."

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Authors Note: Hey! This is my first fanfiction, so be nice! I probs spelled things wrong, and if I did feel free to correct me. This story kinda just happened so if its not good tell me and I will pull it. Dont be to harsh though! Oh and I don't own Naruto.

Morgan