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Plot: Chaos erupted everywhere. The once quiet and calm forest was up in flames and the smell of human coming closer and fast filled the forest. Howls and orders were being shouted all around to every male in the pack. She looks around and sees her home being invaded and thinks if she didn't do what she did then she wouldn't have given those humans the way to the cave, her home. AU

Silver Skies

By: anime1angel

"I still get butterflies even though I've seen you a hundred times."

-Unknown

Chapter Two

The Clinic

Chaos erupted everywhere. The once quiet and calm forest was up in flames and the smell of human coming closer and fast filled the forest. Howls and orders were being shouted all around to every male in the pack. She looks around and sees her home being invaded and thinks if she didn't do what she did then she wouldn't have given those humans the way to the cave, her home, if she was thinking straight. Her mate looks down at her as he has her in his arms.

"It's not your fault Sakura, stop blaming yourself." Sakura looks up at him but she can't really see his face clearly but his scent and warmth is something that she knows too well.

"But…"

"No Sakura. Now I want you to go with the rest of females of the pack and go"

"But I can fight! You know that I am not weak." Her mate looks at her and sighs. "It's not that I think that you're weak Sakura. It's that you are strong enough to get out of here and lead the females out of here. My job is to protect you and the rest of the pack and how can I do that when I am worrying about you fighting in the battlefield. I want you out of here so I can rest assure that the both of you are safe ok." Her mate looks at her with a pleading look in his eyes and puts his hand on her growing stomach. Sakura looks at him and places her hand on top of his. She reaches up and kisses him, pouring out her love and her worries. They break apart and they stare at each other's eyes.

"Please be careful and come back to me love." Her mate steals one more kiss as he caress her stomach one more times and lets go. "I will, now go." Tears are threatening to fall as she walks back and turns her back towards him and starts to run to the rest of the pack as he watches her for a bit and then turns around himself towards the burning forest and he runs and transforms into a wolf and howls a call that is heard by the whole forest.

Sakura wakes up sweating and raddled up. She doesn't remembers the dream she just had but it wasn't good so she is kind of glad she doesn't really remember.

She yawns and stretches and gets out of bed. Her place is a nice and comfy place. When you enter, the kitchen is to your right with a table and everything to seat in there. The living room is up ahead while her bedroom and bathroom are to the left. She gets up and goes towards the bathroom to freshen up and get ready for the day.

A couple of werewolves from a neighboring pack would be visiting the pack today to get intel on the packs medical unit as there was a breakout of a virus that killed many and as well as to strength the bonds between the two packs.

Sakura will be greeting and teaching them alongside her mentor Tsunade. So after she's done, she makes her way to the clinic and straight to Tsunade's office. "Good morning shishou." Sakura says as she walks into the door.

Tsunade looks up and smiles. "Good morning Sakura, our guests will be here soon." Sakura walked in and sat on the chair in front of Tsunade's desk. Five minutes later the guest arrived to the office. Tsunade and Sakura both got up from their chairs to greet their fellow wolfmens.

"Tsunade! It's so nice to see you again, it's been a while." This middle aged men walked in with a couple of people behind him. He walks up to Tsunade and shakes her hand. "Matsumoto, it's been so long. Sorry to hear what has transcribed to your pack." Sakura watched this man Matsumoto, give a sad smile to her mentor. He is the short man who's about five feet tall.

"Thank you Tsunade" Matsumoto turns around to face Sakura. "And who is this lovely wolf next to me?" He greets Sakura with a smile and Tsunade turn to face the both of them. "Matsumoto, this is Sakura, my mentee, Sakura, this is Matsumoto, and old friend that has taught me a lot about this world when I was a pup." Sakura extends her hands to greet him. "It's every nice to meet you Matsumoto. Hope your stay with our pack is a pleasant one and that we can help your team of medics with anything we can."

Matsumoto smiles to this. "Thank you Sakura, you seem like a wondering lady. I can see why Tsunade choose you as she is very picky with who she teaches. Sakura blush and smile at the compliment.

One of the females from the neighboring pack coughs to get the attention back. Matsumoto look back at her and straightens up and looks at both Tsunade and Sakura.

"So sorry but this is the team that I brought with me. Tsunade, Sakura, meet Hinata, Karin, Hoshio, and Kana. Everyone meet Tsunade and Sakura. The best of the best of the medical werewolves." They all said hi and bowed.

"Alright everyone, lets head out and do what you came here to do" Tsunade said as she headed them out of her office and showed them around the hospital.

Sakura looked at the newcomers. Hinata seems like they would get along from the aura she was giving Sakura's wolf and the small interaction they had when they stepped out of Tsunade's office. They show them around the hospital and teach them a couple a procedures that they can bring pack to their pack. Throughout it all, Hinata has been by Sakura to see the procedures being done and asking her questions whenever she did not understand anything and Sakura was every understanding and liked that Hinata was paying attention because the females weren't really paying attention and seem very dishearten.

A couple of hours later they were finally free for the day and Sakura asked Hinata if she wanted to go and grab a bite together. So they both when to the eating hall that provided fresh meat that the hunting team catch that day. They grabbed their plates and got the food they wanted and went down to seat on an empty table that just got vacant.

"So how do you like your pack so far Hinata?" Sakura asked as she finishes her mashed potatoes. Hinata looks up from her food and smiles. "I love it Sakura-chan. It's bigger than my pack's and more advance. I can't believe there is so much more to medicine and how extremely fascinating it is to me now. I have learned so much today, so thank you." Sakura smiled at the female. "No, thank you for showing a very dedicated interest. I cannot say that to the rest of your companions and they were really there if you know what I'm saying….are they really your best medics?" Sakura thought back to the other females, mainly Karin and Kana she believed their names were. They gave off the aura that they were above it all and that they really didn't want to be there. And Sakura couldn't fathom how they can be that packs best medics if they were acting like that.

Hinata saw the confused face on Sakura and sighed as she played with the peas on her plate. "They're not but we are the only medics left. A lot of the medics perished when the outbreak happened and it's just us five left but Matsumoto-sensei is old and can't really do much anymore so it's really just us four. Hoshio just started months before the outbreak so she's still new. Karin and Kana are something else. They have been medics for a while now, two to three years if I'm not mistaken but they are not medics because they wanted that, they are because of the privileges they gain as being medics. And now that it's just us, that mindset has gone over their heads."

Sakura turns her head to see that Karin and Kana walking in and getting in line for food. If they were being medics for the benefits then teaching them anything would be pointless but Sakura saw that it was something that was unavoidable. Like Hinata stated before, they were the only medics left from their pack so Sakura felt bad for them.

Hinata stared at Sakura lost in thought and then started at her fellow colleagues.

While the two females were still in their thoughts, they failed to notice Naruto and Sasuke come in a few minutes later. Naruto was the blabbing his mouth off to Sasuke, telling him about this crazy dream he had the night before of how he turned in a frog and the crazy adventures he had. Sasuke looked like he was barely paying Naruto any attention to the crazy dream. He went up to the line with Naruto following him.

Karin and Kana looked behind them when they heard a loud month yapping off, they saw this beautiful mysterious man and couldn't help dropping their month from the site.

Sakura snapped out of her daze when she was that Naruto and Sasuke were there and that they were talking to Karin and Kana. The hair down her spin went up and her wolf started growling dangerously when she saw Karin caressing Sasuke's arm.

Hinata became alert when Sakura jumped from her seat a little. She went to look at the scene that Sakura was looking at and then back to her.

"He's your mate?" Sakura jumped again at the question and looked back to Hinata.

"W-wha-?" Sakura couldn't help but stutter. Hinata went on to point at Sasuke.

"The one next to the blond one. You look like you are about to claw Karin for touching your mate." Hinata gave out a little giggle at this. "You two must be close."

Sakura started at Hinata a bit then when to look back at Sasuke again to see that Karin still hasn't let go of Sasuke and that Sasuke still hasn't removed Karin's hands from him.

"I-it not like that Hinata. We're not…" Sakura said looking down at her hands.

'Oh come on now, stop denying it Sakura, even Hinata notices it and she hasn't even met him yet.' Growled her wolf.

"We're just close friends Hinata, nothing else." Sakura said sounding sad.

"Whatever you say Sakura-chan but I know this…no close friend would react how you did if you weren't mates. But I see that is complicated, am I right?" Eyes filled with concerned is what Sakura saw as she looked at Hinata.

"It is complicated. I don't know if I am his mate. He hasn't told me if I am or behaved like I am. It's just that we are close friends and that what I think he just sees that how our relationship is ever going to be but my wolf keeps telling be otherwise but how can I truly believe that if what I see is something else?"

"Your wolf is someone that knows and she is someone who has never let you down right?" Sakura nodded. "Then listen to what she is saying and believe that what she says is true because what she wants is to make you happy and be with who you are meant to be with." Hinata went on to squeeze her new found friend's hand for reassurance.

'I like this girl. Don't lose her as a friend.' Sakura's wolf replied.

While they were talking they didn't notice that Naruto spotted him and made his way to them with his companion.

"Hey Sakura-chan!" Naruto went on to sit on Sakura's left. Sakura went on to look at Naruto and then to her right when she hear the chair moving. Sasuke went on to sit on her right as Karin went on to sit next to him and Kana in between Karin and Hinata. Sakura's wolf started growling when she saw that Karin and Kana were sitting with them and that Karin went to sit next to her mat- friend, her friend.

"Who's this Sakura-chan?" Naruto looked at Hinata who started blushing that the attention.

"Naruto, Sasuke, this is Hinata, one of the medic wolves from the other neighboring pack. Hinata, this is Naruto and Sasuke. Two of my closest friends."

"Hi Hinata-chan! You have such a pretty name." Hinata muttered her thank you.

"So Sasuke-kun ever thought about coming over to our pack and you know…." Karin flutter her eyes at him. Sasuke looked at her for a second and then went into eating his food. For the next 15 minutes or so, Karin kept on starting a conversation with Sasuke that was mostly answered by Naruto. While doing so, she tried to touch Sasuke intentionally as well as pretending it was unintentional. Sasuke would do nothing about it and Sakura started to get upset about it. The only thing she saw was that Karin was up all over Sasuke and that maybe he was enjoying the touch because he wasn't doing anything to stop her and that was hurting her.

Sakura started to feel suffocating by it all and felt her heart breaking. She abruptly got up and left. She just couldn't take watching them anymore.

"Saku-" Naruto tried to call her as he got up but Hinata stopped him by putting a hand on his shoulder and shook her head.

As Sakura walked away, she didn't feel the pair of eyes that stared at her back as she left.

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