AN: Yay for cliffhangers! Maybe you'll find out about Ino next chapter, maybe not. Maybe I'll do this entire story in Sakura's POV. Who knows? I'm unpredictable.

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Back to Surreality

Chapter Two- Power on this earth

Sakura was exhausted again. Looking around her though, she couldn't help but to smile. It was still august 2nd and the sun was shining brightly.

The noise of people in the streets leading towards her apartment was deafening in comparison to the quiet hole she had been stuck in for the last week, but just the presence of someone other than Kakashi made her feel so relieved she really didn't care.

Right now, she wouldn't care if Ino ran up and dragged her into a club for the next ten hours, or if Naruto came complaining that Kiba had fallen out of a tree again and broken half of the bones in his body. That wasn't sadistic; she just wanted contact with anyone that wasn't trying to win her heart or whatever it was he thought he was doing.

Now that the mission was over, she could finally relax, or more precisely, stop relaxing and get back to work.

Almost as soon as she had thought it, she came into contact with a spiky blonde head, forcing her to drop her bag. "Hey! Watch it!"

Naruto looked up at her with a sheepish grin, his hand scratching the back of his neck nervously. "Oh… um… hey Sakura. I thought you were on a mission"

"I was." she signaled to the bag on the floor "I just got back"

"Oh… I should have guessed. Are you coming back to the hospital tomorrow?"

"Actually, I'm going back now, as soon as I've had a shower. Why do you ask?" she swung the bag onto her shoulder and started walking again.

He began following her. "Are you sure that's such a good idea… I mean… you must be tired after that mission and everything."

"What is it Naruto?"

"Huh?"

"You don't say things like that unless you are trying to hide something. What is it?"

"Who says I'm hiding something?" he gave off a nervous laugh.

"Listen, I'm going there no matter what you say, so you may as well tell me what you've done now."

"It wasn't me. It was Kiba."

"Naruto…" she warned

"Chouji got out of the hospital this morning and we thought he'd be fine so we went off looking for Shikamaru again and then we remembered that he was on a mission so we went climbing instead and Chouji pushed Kiba off for payback after yesterday and he was perfectly fine because he landed on a soft hedge well as soft as they get so he only had scratches which were bleeding a lot but still no broken bones or anything so he said it was fine but then Akamaru got angry and bit Chouji again on the same spot as before and Kiba said that real dog bites were worse than his so they are both back in hospital again."

"See… that wasn't so hard, was it?" she smiled and kept walking.

"What? You aren't angry?"

"Nope. Nothing can break my good mood today."

"Did your mission go well then?"

"Dear Kami no" she laughed "The mission was horrible. I'm just glad to be finished with it."

"Whoa… what did you have to do?"

"There is no power on this earth that will ever make me tell you that."

"Why?"

She turned and glared at him, noticing that they were outside her apartment building. "Didn't you have somewhere you were running off to?"

"Yeah… I was looking for old granny Tsunade."

"Well, she'll be in her office or in the hospital now, if Ino's finished with her."

"Ok! Thank you Sakura!" He ran off in the other direction again, with a suspiciously green beast like thumbs up.

Sakura laughed again, before letting herself into the building.

Half of her expected that it would be a complete mess after the few days it was left with no attention, but then her common sense reminded her that in real time she had only tidied it about five or six hours ago. The room was boiling hot though, so she opened a few windows and took a very quick shower before changing into her medic's uniform and leaving the building again.

There's no point wasting time. The hospital will be chaos by now without me or Tsunade.

When she got there, she realized just how wrong she was. The hospital seemed exactly the same. Sure, the more advanced surgery was cancelled for the day, but with no national disasters occurring at the moment, it wasn't really needed. The cures that Sakura had developed over the last few years were easily administered by trainee and lower ranked medics, so there wasn't really a shortage.

No one even acknowledged her as she walked in, blending into the scenery by now and she walked right passed the reception, checking the room sheet on the way to see where Chouji was being treated. Or not according to the sheet. It seemed that no medic was assigned to him, probably because they were scared of Kiba, so she signed her own name up and made her way to the room.

When she got there, Naruto had already returned and was sitting on the chair between the two beds. Chouji was lying on one, holding his blooded bandage in one hand, while Kiba sat up on the other one, looking fine except for the cuts and bruises on his face and arms.

Naruto jumped up at the sight of her. "Sakura-chan!"

"Hey. Did you find her?" she asked as she stood by Chouji and began to check the wound.

"Yeah, but she was acting really weird. She had these tapes with her and was laughing with that weird examiner woman about them, but when I asked what they were she told me to ask you."

She didn't look up, but flinched at the familiar chakra signal she suddenly sensed in the room, trying to ignore it. "No power on this earth Naruto."

"Aww… come on Sakura. I won't tell anyone"

"Does this hurt?" She asked Chouji gently as she pressed a finger near the middle of the wound, ignoring Naruto.

"No" he replied, looking shocked.

"Ok. He's cut some nerve endings that is all. I can sort it but it will take a while to heal. You can't use your jutsu in this arm for at least a week." She carefully unwrapped the previous bandage and wiped the wound clean. Then she reached out a hand and poured in a little of her own Chakra to help it heal.

"Are you gonna be long Sakura?" Kiba moaned "I don't like leaving Akamaru with Shino for long. He always comes back with fleas."

"Just hold on a little longer Kiba. Your injuries are less severe than Chouji's, so he takes priority. I'll see to you the second I'm done, I promise."

"But mine actually hurts."

"That's good, it show's you are alive."

"Sakura…" he pouted "you're mean today."

"No I'm not. I'm practical." She finished off with Chouji's hand "Ok, I'll bandage that in a second."

"Yes ma'am." He smiled.

"Right then Kiba." She turned to face him "I need to know, are the cuts and things only where I can see them?"

"What do you class as where you can see them?" he gave her a sly smirk.

"Right now Kiba." She stressed. "Are they only in plain sight, right now?"

"No, but the worst ones are. I can sort the others myself. Unless you really want to…"

"No, that's ok Kiba." She quickly ran a precise, chakra laden hand over the injuries and they healed within seconds. "Right, you're done now."

"Thanks Sakura."

"No problem. Now that I'm finished though, would you mind answering one simple question?" She turned around to face the wall "What do you think you are doing Kakashi?"

AN: lol. Fleas. I'm so clever.

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