Her head was pounding, she was nauseous, her limbs felt like jello, and on top of that there was an annoying beeping sound. She hadn't even opened her eyes and she could tell that it was going to be a bad day. Maybe if she kept them closed everything would go away; the pain . . . the goddamn beeping. As the beeping sped up Sakura finally gave in and opened her eyes, and then closed them immediately. Bringing her hands to her eyes she began rubbing them in an effort to adjust to the light, while noting the pain in her shoulders. After a moment she dropped her hands from her eyes and cracked one open, finding that the evil light was much more tolerable.

Still lying down, she let her eyes wander the room, and the realization hit her; she wasn't in her room, she was in the hospital. Except this was most defiantly not Konoha's hospital. Taking a deep breath Sakura studied the room and tried to remember what had happened and just like that everything came rushing forward. They were at war; she had been at the medical camp helping Shizune when Naruto's clone had disappeared. In an effort to find out what had happened she had returned to the front lines to find Kakashi, only he hadn't been there and neither had Gai. It had taken hours of healing wounded, while searching for her sensei to find what she was looking for. Kakashi and Gai had rushed to Naruto's aid, in his battle against the masked man. It had been another hour after that before she had been able to sneak away to find her boys.

Of course nothing was that simple. There had been obstacles, rouge ninja that had joined the kill for all that was called war. They had slowed her up big time but were no big challenge. When she had finally reached her destination her boys looked like hell. The masked man lay dead with a bleeding Kakashi sitting next to him. Gai sat a few feet behind him, a silent support. Naruto and Bee were huddled together each sporting wounds of their own. Naruto's skin was burned from the amount of chakra he had used, and from the way he was breathing she would guess that he had at least three broken ribs. Bee's arm was torn up pretty badly and had a gash in his leg.

Making an executive decision Sakura went to Naruto and Bee first. Naruto greeted her with his usual smile, though it was more sad than normal, and bee just stared at her, one eyebrow rising at the sight of her. Sitting down next to Naruto she had hugged him before getting to work. Green coated hands worked quickly healing four broken ribs; damn she had been one off before moving to his hands where the burnt skin gave way to fresh pink skin, she had then wrapped them in bandages. She then moved to Bee's arm knitting the skin back together, before bandaging that as well.

Having given Kakashi all the time he could afford Sakura moved towards him, stopping right next to him. Kneeling beside him she wrapped him in her arms as she watched tears fall. After a few minutes of labored sobs Sakura moved in front of him, taking his vest off followed by his shirt. Two broken ribs and a rather large gash later Sakura wrapped bandages around his upper torso only slightly worried about his chakra depletion.

Kakashi had once again survived, and he would get through it, she would make sure of it. But for right now he needed time to work through it. Moving on to Gai he gave her a small smile as she inspected him. His leg was broken from most likely a rough landing; he was covered in cuts and bruises and had less chakra than Kakashi but would be fine after some R&R.

After that she had led Kakashi over to Naruto and Bee while supporting Gai on his weak leg. No one said anything for what had to be two hours. The silence was only interrupted when Inoichi had made an appearance in their minds. Telling them that Madara had been sealed but Tsunade was in critical condition. Sakura hadn't even hesitated, giving a quick order to the boys to stay put until the medics came for them, and then threatening Naruto with an unscheduled trip to Kiri she had left rushing to her Shishou's side.

Her chakra having risen back to forty percent or so during her rest period she had kept Tsunade alive until Shizune had come then they had stabilized her and then she had fainted . . . damn.

Finding the will to move despite the pain Sakura sat up, feeling a slight tug in her arm from the IV.

"And what do you think you're doing girly." Sakura's head whipped to the side, much to her neck's protest in the form of a shot of pain down her spine. What she found had her eye twitching, a little old man with an abnormally large nose sat in the hospital bed next to hers a shogi board in front of him.

Forcing the twitch to stop Sakura answered his question with one or two of her own "Where am I and who are you?"

"Mind your tongue little missy, I'm the Tsuchikage so show some respect and you're in the hospital. I'd think you'd know that since you seem to know your way around the human body. Or maybe all Konoha shinobi are just that dense."

The twitch was back, this old coot was the Tsuchikage, seriously? Clenching her teeth Sakura replied "I know I'm in the hospital, what I meant is which one?"

Turning back to the Shogi board he turned it around and moved a piece before answering her "Then be more specific, specifics are what keep things from becoming jumbled."

Trying one more time Sakura asked "Which village are we in." The look on her face would have sent any number of Konoha shinobi running, Naruto and Kakashi included.

"Kumo and before you ask Tsunade is in Suna. Farther away from the fighting since there's no way of telling how long she'll be out. But she's alive . . . thanks to you."

Relaxing at those words Sakura threw her covers aside and began the work of taking out her IV and the monitors which sent Oonoki in to a sputtering mess "Just what do you think you're doing."

"Going back to the front lines, my friends need me."

"You're hurt you'll be of no help."

Sakura rolled her eyes before flashing through the signs to heal herself except no chakra came forward.

AN:

Well than everyone give a big warm welcome to Oonoki. I don't know why but I thought I could have some fun with him. I also think he'd be in the Kumo Hospital because he's low on chakra but still awake and able to defend himself . . . plus he's old so I don't think he would have been able to hold on much longer so it was this or kill him . . .I was partial to this. Also we found out what happened beforehand. More than likely this will not follow the series, Kishimoto is all over the place and well I'll do what I need to do. Anyways reviews make me happy and they happen to make me update quicker. So until next time

-UNCPanda