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Strawberries and Cyanide.
By Xx_Sakura_Blossom_xX.
Chapter Two: Missing.
Wakai Taisei had been a doctor at Konoha Hospital for over fifty years. He was one of the most celebrated medi-nin to graduate the academy and had seen more than his fair share of broken bones, cuts, bruises and burns. The patient he was currently helping was in a situation that had only happened twice. At least, it was only recorded twice. One he had delt with himself and the other was overlooked by his predecessor, Ootori Megumi.
A strange person with unexplained wounds to the chest and arm, a piece of jewelry that had welded itself to the wearers skin and pale white veins that bulged around the jewelry. Twice something like this had happened. Each happening had been thirty years apart. Thirty years ago a young man with injuries like these appeared in the forest surrounding Konoha. Thirty years before that an old woman had mysteriously shown up. Both had died from their injuries. Taisei wasn't going to let it happen a third time.
The young girl had been found bleeding heavily from two wounds, one large, one small and she had gone into a shock induced coma. Her body had been discovered by a small group of civillians who had been camping near the area. They reported hearing a scream and when two of them went to investigate they had been shocked to find the body of a young girl. The civillians had initially thought she was a boy and Taisei had to admit that her looks were rather androgynous. Luckily there had been a civillian doctor camping with them and he had managed to stem the bleeding before bringing her to the hospital.
She was still in a coma though Taisei had managed to heal her physical injuries, when he had gotten a Yamanaka to preform a mind walk to know the extent of her wounds the woman had told him that her mind was blank. There were walls keeping her out but the child was not responsible for the blocking. It was the ring on her finger. Taisei had tried to take the ring off but the girls body had reacted violently and he hadn't attempted it again. But he knew now that the ring was sentinent. He and Megumi hadn't gotten a chance to properly examine the jewelry on the other bodies, the bracelet and necklace seemed to have lost all sense of 'life' when its wearer died.
The Yamanaka had been able to glean somethings from the girls mind. Her name was Asakura Ruri, she was seven years old and had previously lived with her grandmother Asakura Moira.
She went to a civillian school and had two close friends. Her favourite colour was green and she loved sweet things. The most important fact retreived from Ruris mind was privy only to Taisei himself, Yamanaka Kikyo and the Sandaime Hokage. Ruri came from an alternate dimension, a different world existing paralell to their one and aparantly the ring on Ruris finger had brought her between the worlds.
Since that startling revelation Taisei had done a series of tests on Ruri, with the Hokages consent, of course. It was unfortunate or fortuante, depending on who you were, that Ruri was not awake to give her consent. The blood tests had shown that her blood was not completely human. It was mixed in with something not quite animal, almost like the dried, condensed blood of corpses and it was a dark, dark red in colour. Almost black and it showed through the veins in her wrists and neck. According to Kikyo she should be waking up soon, today in fact so Taisei was heading down to her hospital room to check up on her.
He walked briskly down the sterile corridor and nodded at the two chunnin guards outside Ruris hospital room. One of them, a short black haired girl, Uchiha by the looks of it, made as if to stop him from entering. Taisei sighed and held up his wrist so she could see the seal engraved there. It identified him as the chief doctor of Konoha hospital. The Uchiha looked it over slowly, flashing her sharringan. Taisei tapped his foot irritably and the Uchihas partner, a brown haired boy with a lip ring, rolled his eyes and waved him on. Taisei smiled wryly at him and stepped inside the room.
The young girl was lying on a hospital bed in the middle of the room. A machine monitoring her heart bliped every few seconds and an IV was connected to a bag containing clear fluid, the bag was half empty and Taisei made a small note on his clipboard to bring some more soon. Ruri was pale but that was because of her odd blood. They couldn't give her a transfusion so they had to wait for her blood to replensish naturally. Her eyes moved beneath their lids and her lips were pulled taunt, no doubt she was in pain, the anestetics didn't work on her either. Taisei sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose as he pulled up the visitors chair from the corner of the room and sat down. He would have to wait until she woke up.
Hours passed and the sun dipped lower in the sky, Taisei stood up and switched on the light and just as he turned around Ruri made a small pained sound and opened her eyes. Quick as a flash Taisei was beside the bed. Emerald eyes stared up at him confused and then closed as the gurl winced and shuddered. Taisei checked her pulse and the heart monitor, nothing was wrong with her just the pain from her injuries. The doctor frowned and gently shook Ruri, her eyes fluttered open again and she coughed weakly.
"Wh-who are . . . where a-am I, wh-whats g-going on?" she asked her voice was almost too soft to hear and she stuttered over the words. Taisei patted her shoulder comfortingly. "Its okay Ruri-san. Your okay, we've fixed up your injuries and now that your awake you can recieve visitors." Taisei murmered and the red head nodded slowly. "So I'm i-in a hospital?" she asked and Taisei smiled down at her. "Yes, but now Ruri-san you need to rest. I'm going to get the Hokage and then we'll talk okay?" he said as he turned and went to open the door. Ruris eyes widened as he left and she half sat up in the bed, ignoring the pain in her chest. 'Hokage'?. When another wave of pain spread form her chest Ruri looked down to see bandages wrapped around her torso, blood was leaking through the material and the red head swayed a little woozily.
Taisei walked back down the corridor with a slight bounce in his step. Now that Ruri was awake he could get the Hokage and they could interrogate her and find out all about her alternate dimension. He didn't notice the black haired Uchiha girl slip into the room, or the fact that her compainion was slumped oddly against the wall. Uchiha Mitsu walked purposfully into the hospital room. Glancing at the young child sitting up in the bed, suspicious green eyes followed her as she picked up the clipboard hanging at the end of the bed, the childs name was Asakura Ruri.
"Okay Asakura-san. I am one of your guards while you are staying here in the hospital, I may be asked to follow you after you have been released so I would like to introduce myself, I am Uchiha Mitsu and I am a chunin of Konohakagure no sato." Mitsu said and Ruri gaped at her. "Uchiha? Chunin? Konoha? WHAT?!" Ruri yelled before choking and coughing, the monitor beside her bleeped rapidly and Mitsu swore. "Shhh, relax Asakura-san. You are currently in Konoha General Hospital suffering from major injuries to your chest and arm. You have been in a coma for the past week recouperating." Mitsu said and Ruri apeared to relax, even though she was anything but calm. The red heads mind was reeling as she took in the new information and idily she though about whether or not to tell the Uchiha that her wound had re-opened.
She was apperantly in Konoha and was being guarded by a chunin Uchiha. That gave her a time frame, it was before the massacre at least. Ruri looked hesitantly up at the older girl and said. "Prove it." the black haired girl blinked in surprise. "Excuse me?". "Prove it, prove your an Uchiha and a Chunin, and no, your headband does not count. You can but those for a fiver a piece on Ebay." Ruri deadpanned and the older girl snarled at her before narrowing her eyes slightly. Ruris own eyes widen when she saw the once black orbs of the girl turn crimson and two little black commas apeared in each eye. "Cool . . . " Ruri breathed.
The Uchiha nodded smugly."I'm just saying all this so if you see me following you outside that you don't get alarmed, I'm just doing my job." Mitsu said and she looked around quickly and put the chart back at the end of the bed. The Uchiha nodded at Ruri and slipped out the door. Ruri heard a boy yelling. "Ow, what the fuck happened Mitsu?!" and the Uchiha replying in a deadpan tone. "You fell asleep dumbass." Then she heard the sound of two sharp sets of footsteps and a murmered "Hokage-sama" before the door to her room was opened again and an old man wearing white and red robes entered, behind him was the doctor from before. The doctor smiled when he saw she was still up and gestured at the Hokage.
"Now, Ruri-san, Hokage-sama is just going to ask you a few questions, please answer truthfully okay?" he said in a soothing tone, kind of like he was talking to a baby. Ruri decided she didn't like this doctor at all but she agreed all the same. The Hokage started to ask her normal stuff, like what her name was, her date of birth, her favourite colour and then he would throw in the odd 'Does your world have shinobi?' or 'What is the name of your country?'. Ruri was exhausted and found it hard to ask some of the questions. After and hour or so the Hokage smiled warmly and thanked her before leaveing and the doctor, whos name Ruri learnt was Taiseu hooked another bag of fluid to her IV. A few seconds later she was asleep.
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When Ruri woke up again she was in a lot less pain also the bandages around her chest were new and clean, no blood. She ran a thin hand through her hair and grimanced at the knots, tugging them out with her fingers. She looked around the room irritably, her green eyes narrowed as she glanced out the window. Yep, there it was, the Hokage mountain in all its four faced glory. So she was really in the Narutoverse, it was amazing, brilliant and also very scary. What would happen to her Nana know that she was here and would she ever be able to go home. The ring on her finger pulsed a little and Ruri unconsciously patted it.
She sat up and hopped out of the bed, swaying woozily from the sudden vertigo and leaning back against the bed. The IV tugged painfully at her arm and Ruri scowled, she hated needles. With a decisive nod she pulled the needle out of her arm and wrapped a tissue from a box on her bedside table around the bleeding puncture. She tiptoed over to the door and quietly listened to see if the Uchiha and the other boy she'd heard were guarding her. Nothing sounded form outside so Ruri pushed open to door to see an attractive brown haired boy of about fifteen slumped against the wall, his breathing slow and even. The Uchiha was no-where to be seen and with a sly grin Ruri shuffled down the corridor to explore leaving the door to her room wide open.
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"Yes Fugaku-sama, from what I've gathered she is important. Her chakra is odd and her wounds have healed remarkable fast. It could be a kekkai genkai of sorts and it warrants looking over." Mitsu said respectfully bowing her head when her clan leader fixed his piercing black eyes on her. He nodded and frowned at the report in his hands.
When he had heard from Uchiha Tama, a civillian doctor that a young girl had been found badly wounded in the forest with no indication of how she got there and why, his interest had been piqued. It had been no problem to get one of his spys guarding the girl and it appeared his suspicions were true. This girl could be of use to the clan. With another nod of his head Mitsu disspeared in a swirl of smoke and leaves back to the hospital.
She smirked, it was too easy to drug the other guard, Kain. He was such a dumbass he never even realised he'd been drugged even after he'd woken up. Now with this information she'd be in Fugaku-samas good books and start getting good missions and decent pay. When she poffed back into the hospital the corridor was thankfull empty, she didn't need to explain to some do-gooder nurse where she'd been when she was supposed to be guarding.
She blinked in surprise and looked at the still sleeping Kain and then back at the open hospital door, she cursed and ran into the room to find it empty. With eyes wide Mitsu could practicaly see her promotion flying away she dashed back through the door and down the corridor looking for her missing ward. She was going to be in soo much shit for this.
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Finally second chapter up!! Please read and review and let me know what you think!
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