Chapter 2
Sakura lay on the branch for close to an hour attempting to catch her breath. She couldn't which meant she was bleeding internally. And being as far from Kohona as she was that was a very bad thing.
"Alright girl, get yourself moving, if you sit here you just die."
She started out strong but she faltered quickly, within ten minutes she had to drop from the trees and run along the forest floor, five minutes later she was no longer able to run despite her considerable chakra conrol. So as night fell she was still five miles from Kohona. Her options were grim, keep walking through the night, or camp and hope a search party found the ambush site and picked up her back trail. She chose the latter option rather than chancing a fall and further injury in the dark. After pulling herself into a tree she drew a kunai and went to sleep.
Not two hours later hitae-ate wearing pug spotted the kunai Sakura had drawn, it was lying on the forest floor below her, the small knife had fallen from her hand as she slept and she had failed to notice due to her weakened state. Pakun could smell the blood, had been able to for the last three miles. "What happened to you Sakura?" the pugs normally lazy voice held a tone of fear and comasion Sakura wouldn't have believed. Pakun let out a long howl to tell the other ninja dogs to get Kakashi, he didn't want to leave the kunoichi in her condition so he jumped onto the branch and sat on her stomach curling up into a ball to wait for Kakashi, he hoped that the Copy-Nin would show up soon because he didn't think Sakura would last to much longer. Sakura began to stir ten minutes later, instantly going for the kunai that was no longer in her hand.
"Calm down Sakura. It's me, Pakun." The woman relaxed some her eyes began to flutter open.
"Its been awhile hasn't it Pakun? Hows Kakashi-sensei? I need to get out of here, Sasuke didn't fully heal my kidney, its still bleeding." Sakura said with a weak smile.
"Don't worry Sakura, he'll be here soon."
"I wouldn't count on it, he's always late, lets get moving, I think we can make it to the village by moning."
"No Sakura, you wouldn't make it a mile, there's no moon and its cloudy. In your condition you'd probably brak your leg and then what's poor Pakun to do?" Said the famous masked ninja as he landed on the branch beside her. He quickly lifted her in a far to familiar way it was how he had carried Naruto back from his fight in the final valley, at least she was conscious. "And as for being late, I was to late to stop the fight... Just like before."
With that said he took off for konoha, hoping she would remain consious the entire trip.