Man...I suck at this. Don't own. If I did own, it wouldn't be as amazing as Naruto is!

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-Don't look at me, you won't like what you see-

If the total carnage hadn't disturbed Kakashi, then the screams of Sharaiya had. He was sitting tensed, hunched over staring at the damn same cracked tile that faintly reminded him of Jaraiya's face.

He was forced to leave her and take a shower, but it had been a quick one. The only thing clean in his apartment was his tight fitting ANBU shirt and sweatpants. The nurses stared at his rippling muscles as he tried to calmly breath. That was useless when she screamed again, "Kill me!"

Sharaiya's form had been shifting, turning dark in one place and light in another. Her body twisting and turning, trying to get away from the poison in her body. It was slowly reforming her organs and killing her. The pain was enormous, stabbing and soothing then ripping and tearing. Nurses healed here and there as soon as one spot was healed another split open, blood spilling and skin falling apart. Hokage and Sakura mixed quickly trying to counteract. The assistants were shocked, Shizune commanded them back to the task in hand.

"500 g of devil's root!"

"2 mg of lavender!"

"1 clove of garlic"

"8 mg of citric acid!"

"8 mg of sulfur!"

On and on the list went, calling and mixing, smashing and stirring, all the while Sharaiya begging to end it. It took an enormous amount to crack a ninja.

"We have to save her, if not, the countries will be thrown into war again. Stupid politics. That's why we're only saving her." One little male nurse said. He was slammed up against the wall by Tsunade.

"Don't you ever say that again." Was all she said before letting the shivering cretin go.

It took ten hours. Ten hours of screaming and mixing, of waiting and praying, of crying and holding breaths before it was done.

Sakura turned off the surgery light and walked outside the doors. Kakashi stared up at her, his knees too weak to move. Sakura smiled tiredly and nodded. Kakashi was up in a flash. She lay there weak and barely breathing but breathing. Her hair which was once beautiful chocolate was pure white, almost emitting a light. He sit next to her in a squeaking chair but did not care as he held onto her thin hand. She opened her eyes and stared, pushing him again and ducking under the covers like a scared 5 year old during a thunder storm.

"Don't look at me! Please don't!" She pleaded, ashamed of her looks. The covers were slowly stripped away and suddenly she felt his lips on hers. It was a needy kiss, one that conveyed all the pain and fear he had endured for the past 18 hours, during the battle and the wait. He pulled away and his mask was back up. Her eyes were still too blurry to see his face. Kakashi looked deeply into hers, they were multi-colored, shifting from blue to green to red in a heartbeat. She was even more stunning. He still leaned in close to her.

"Don't ever scare me like that again." He commanded. She leaned in closer closing her eyes and pulling down his mask and kissing him longer than the first. She pulled away again and pushed up his mask.

"Boo."