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Dark eyes looked around the hospital room trying to remember… How did he get there? Where is 'there' to be exact? These and other things were the many questions that Sasuke was having and dying to ask.
The hospital room he was in was very familiar. It wasn't too big. It had two small desks on either side of the bed. From the window that it had, you could see an incredible Konoha. Now he remembered, this hospital room was the same one he was in after suffering an encounter with his brot- I mean Itachi. Suddenly the door opened to reveal no one other than the Hokage herself. Oh boy, was he going to get it.
Sasuke sighed and then looked up from his bed sheets to stare straight into anger-filled eyes. Those amber eyes looked like they were going to swallow him alive… and he didn't like that feeling at all.
-"Sasuke Uchiha" she said rather bitterly as she went to sit down at a chair that was next to the bed.
-"Hn" he replied as if to acknowledge the fact. Tsunade burst with this response and glared at him.
-"Is that all you can say? After all this time you've been gone, you decide to return and all you have to say for yourself isn't even a word of our vocabulary!" she burst out screaming at him. Looking as how his stoic face still didn't show any emotion at this, she sighed and tried to calm down. "Did you accomplish your goal?" Tsunade said feeling as though she didn't have to expand on the question because Sasuke knew perfectly well what it meant.
-"No" he said, his voice sounding as if he was going to choke because he asid such a word.
-"Why did you come back then?" she said with an annoyed face.
-"Orochimaru couldn't give me the power I was looking for so I left him to come back to Konoha."
-"What makes you think we'll accept you back? We don't like traitors here in Konohagakure at all. Actually, we kill them."
-"The fact that I'm in a hospital bed recovering from my wounds and that they took the time to heal them, is good enough reason for me to believe that you'll have me back." Sasuke said with a smirk rising from his perfectly stoic face.
-"For your information Uchiha, I healed you. The only reason I did this is for you to give me the information I desire. What happened to Orochimaru, because I don't think he'd let his precious pupil leave him? After all, you were supposed to be his new container." At this statement Sasuke snorted. Like he would ever let that slimy snake touch him.
-"I escaped sound and if your question is if I killed Orochimaru, then yes, I did." Tsunade looked shock. How did this brat get so strong as to be able to kill one of the three legendary sannin? 'Well I shouldn't be this surprised because both Sakura and Naruto can pull it through if they wanted to' she thought rather bitterly.
-"Well Uchiha, seeing as though all my questions have been answered, I'll be leaving. Your trial will begin as soon as the council decides it so." Tsunade said as she got up from the seat and left the room closing the door behind her.
Meanwhile this was occurring, a certain kunoichi had appeared through the hospital doors. Quickly, the nurse seeing who it was came forth to help Sakura.
-"Sakura-sama, how may I help you?" said the nurse with a worried tone.
-"Calm down, I need someone to come and heal my wounds. I don't have any chakra left so I had to come here. The wounds aren't that deep except the one on the back of my right leg." She said with a stoic and calculating expression. The nurse quickly nodded and went about showing Sakura the way to a room. Inside the room, were several medic-nins that came to her aid in a flash. Sakura is the best medic-nin and everyone knows her and respects her. She has her own office in which she does the paperwork. She's one of the top doctors and has bested Tsunade's medical skills four years ago.
After the medics healed her, she nodded in gratitude and left the room only to find Tsunade in the hall. Of course, Sakura being smart and all knew that Tsunade only came to the hospital when it was an emergency because she already had too much paperwork (that most of the time would end up on Sakura's office somehow) in her office to be able to take care of the hospital as well. She decided to see what was up at the hospital that was so urgent. She went up to Tsunade.
-"Hello Tsunade-shishou, I came back from my mission a while ago. Here's the scroll with the information about it." Sakura said as she gave Tsunade the scroll and a fake smile. Tsunade looked at her ex-pupil (Sakura doesn't train with her anymore because Tsunade said she didn't have anything else to teach her) and smiled at her with a little nervousness. 'Should I tell her that the Uchiha is back? Well she is going to find out sooner or later… but maybe in this case later is the best thing' Tsunade thought. 'Well it's better if she knows it so here I go'.
-"Sakura, there was an emergency here at the hospital I needed to attend to."
-"I thought as much when I saw you here in the hospital." Sakura said in-a-matter-of-fact tone.
-"Well the special case about this emergency was who the patient was." Sakura looked at her with an eyebrow lifted and curiosity seeping through her pores.
-"Who was it?" Tsunade breathed in heavily hoping this wouldn't hurt Sakura as much as she was imagining.
-"The patient I treated was no one other than-"
-"Sakura-chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, teme came baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!" Naruto said as he entered the hospital with Hinata, heading towards Sakura and Tsunade. He had obviously cut Tsunade sentence, but like always, he didn't notice. Sakura looked shocked at Naruto and then went to look at Tsunade, wanting the blonde haired sannin to explain further. Tsunade seeing that as her cue to continue her sentence took in another chunk of air.
-"Sasuke Uchiha came back to Konoha and is here in the hospital recovering from his wounds. This is what I wanted to tell you before Naruto cut in." she said sighing after she let it all out. Naruto grinned at Sakura while Hinata fidgeted with her fingers trying not to show how nervous and scared she was about Sakura's response to this statement. Sakura looked from her ex-sensei to Naruto and then to Hinata. She didn't know how to react. Sasuke… THE SASUKE UCHIHA was back in Konoha. She felt sad, happy, mad, but most of all… hurt? Sakura looked at Tsunade once more. Reading what the pink haired kunoichi was trying to ask her she sighed once more. "Number 316" she said with some sadness in her voice. Sakura nodded at her and left through the hall of the hospital. Naruto seeing this as his cue, he grabbed Hinata by the hand, said bye to Tsunade and left towards Sakura's direction.
