Wow! Only took me this long to write a thrid chapter? I'm awesome!...But seriously, guys, I'm sorry and I'm not just saying that. I compeletly forgot about this for awhile but now I promise I will write regulary for those of you who actually enjoy this. Bare with me kind human beings!

Beep! Beep! Beep!

"Is it mine or is it yours?" I sat up immediatly at the sound of my pager.

"It's mine! Mine!" Sasori sat up too rubbing his eyes and stretching for his pager. Suddenly his eyes went big. "It's a code blue in room 201. Stay here, you're not on this case." He got up still naked from last night and struggled to get dressed. After a few clumsy tries he finally had his pants on. Then he pulled his scrubs over his head messing his already messy hair and as he did so I got butterflies in my stomach. As he got dressed up I was still covering myself with the green sheets from the guard room we 'slept' in last night. What happened yesterday still haunts me. Yesterday a new life began for me.


As usual I was walking in the hospital to the front doors still tired from the last shift but somewhat in shape from the 4 hours sleep I got. Said hi to the front desk nurse, made a right in the locker room.

"Haruno! Nice of you to join us!" All my fellow interns were already there, in their scrubs with our resident, Sasori explaining something I didn't exactly understood.

"I'm not late." I wasn't late, I made of sure of that by looking at the clock right above the far left mirror, it said I was 3 minutes early.

"Actually, we were early so I suppose that makes you late somehow." Ino thought this was a good time to shower us with her surprising illogical logic. I stared blankly and walked towards my locker to start getting dressed. As I did so Sasori kept explaining. "Now that we are all here!" That being said with a special glare for me. "The pacient in room 327 hasn't been yet dignosed. His symptoms are random and indicate a series of serios but also banal diseases. Unless he is quite the unlucky fellow and managed to catch all of those, we need to find out what exactly troubles him. So! That being said, Uchiha you get the pit, Yamanaka you're on Dr. Yuhi's service, Uzumaki you get to follow Hatake around, Nara Dr. Sarutobi has requested you for his trial and that leaves little miss late helping me out with our mysterious patient. Understood?" We all looked at each other maybe confused, maybe scared. This was barely our 5th week here, things were still painfully new. I felt terrified! Not only was I supposed to pick a disease off of a long list full of those but I was supposed to work along side my boss with whom I've never worked with, only took orders from. The interactions we had were him screaming at me, him helping me do a central line and me flirting with him on my first day when I went across the street to Joe's bar, got drunk, flirted with him and he had to take me home. That was the most embarrassing moment of my life! Now, let's get this situation started! "Haruno, you done? You don't have to get all pretty to impress me!" Ah, boss! You and you're horrible sense of humor!

"I can't find my pager."

"It's in your pocket...or maybe you're just happy to see me." Honestly! Did he get laid or something? He's way too happy these days!

"We can go now." I announced. He nodded and got out of the locker room with a happy swing in his walk. I couldn't help but notice how nice he looked in those light blue scrubs. I don't know why but I had butterflies in my stomach.

I struggled to keep up with his fast walk for a few minutes. Finally we reached room 327 and I looked at my patient for the first time. Before we got in, Sasori stopped me and gave me a few more instructions. "I want you to treat this case like it's yours and yours only. I will be behind you watching your every move. If you need help you ask, but not in front of the patient. You have to look confident! If you look scared the patient will be scared. Do you understand?" Well...his funny moments are over. I wonder how he acts outside work.

"Yes! Shall we go in?" I caught myself looking at him for too long and I immeidatly looked at my shoes. I haven't got the smallest idea if he noticed or not.

"After you." I cleared my throat and walked in. First thing I did was put a smile on. Bed side mannars! In the room there was a bed and a nightstand, a TV that only had one channel and a couch right next to the door. The patient was the only person in the room. His face and arms presented a rash common with several diseases. Some bald spots which indicate hair loss. Maybe I can find out more from the chart.

"Hi! I'm Dr. Sakura Haruno and I'll be your doctor." I walked in, smiled, took his chart and started reading it. Hopefully I looked calm on the outside cause on the inside I was starting to feel like I lost my legs.

"Hi there. I hope I'm not too scarry." He was trying to make a joke, lighten the mood. I smiled and shook my head.

"Don't worry, I saw a lot worse things than that little rash." That is not true! The scarriest thing I saw was a broken penis, but I had to make him feel better.

As I was reading his chart I found out a few more symptoms: anemia, seizures, extreme fatigue.

"Is this your first visit? Do you have any other doctors' opinions?" A bit of a history might help me. Meanwhile my ass started sweating.

"Nope. This is my first visit." He was quite charming...young. Nice green eyes, blond-ish hair, maybe a light brown. He has a handsome face and a beautiful smile. I bet he's quite skillful with the ladies.

"I see. What, you saw the rash and thought 'this is perfectly normal'?" Joking was indicated. We used to practice this in college. I was barely holding back the need to breathe like a pregnant woman.

"Exactly!" He went along with my joke. I smiled again and somehow managed to see Sasori with the cornor of my eye. He was leaning agaisnt the wall with his hands crossed not looking at me. He was examining the patient with his eyes not exactly sure of what it was either.

"Very well! if you need anything you can push the call button and a nurse will come. We'll see you again in a few hours." I smiled, shook his hand and left the room. Sasori nodded and left after me.

"Any ideas?" He caught up. I shook my head confused. The symptoms were so random.

"I mean I have a few ideas, but is probably nothing you haven't thought of."

"Like what?"

"MS, Lupus, Fibromyalgia...I don't know! If we give him the wrong dignosis he could die. What should we do?" I look at my resident in distress. He's thinking too. We can't think of anything. "I'm going in the library, maybe I find something there."

"You do that, I'll go in the general surgey office. Maybe check on the internet." I nodded and went my way with my hands in my lab coat's pockets. The library was a small room that held mostly medicine books and a few religious ones for the ones who feel like they need help. I sat down with my back against a shelf and started reading. unfortunately it didn't last long. Ino came jumping right next to me with a sandwitch in her hand and an apple for me.

"What's up?" She bites cheerfully out of her sandwitch and throws the apple at me. I never saw her happy, I thought she wasn't able to feel happiness.

"I decided I'll quit the intership and stay here. You?" I say not taking my eyes off the book. I wasn't exactly paying attention to her.

"I have this kid with leukemia that discovered he'll be fine. We spent two hours telling jokes. That kid is funny!" Well, that explains it!

"Nice! My guy has some kind of weird looking thing. I thing this might be the zombie virus."

"Well, finally! I can't wait to be a badass and kill some zombies! Who would you want to kill?" Naruto comes in disturbing some of the praying families that are now glaring at poor Uzumaki.

"Hmm...maybe Sasori because he made me work in the pit...or that redneck that kept asking for more morphine. I had to call security." And there was Sasuke. I swear, sometimes I feel like they follow me everywhere. Or we find each other everywhere. Maybe we send signals like wasps...I wonder...

"Where's Shikamaru?" Ino was the one to notice. I still didn't pay much attention. The book wasn't helping me out either.

"I saw him at the front desk. He was about to scrub in with Asuma in a complicated brain surgery for their trial. Apparently they want to creat a bacteria that, when injected into a big tumor, slowly eats the tumor and makes it fixable. They were just going to try out the first version of the bacteria."

"That's awesome! How would you name a bacteria like that? I'd name it the Naruto gene."

"Well, you're an idiot!" That's the first sentence I said in 10 minutes.

"Hey Sakura! You free tonight?" Sasuke asked me out of the blue.

"Are you asking me out on a date?" I said not looking up.

"Nope."

"Free as a bird. What's up?"

"Funny! You're sooo funny...We're all going to Joe's bar to celebrate not killing anyone. Wanna come?"

"If I'm not going to kill anyone until then, I'm there." I closed the book and got up. "I have to go talk to Sasori. I think I might have a solution." I didn't wait for their responses, this was an important matter it couldn't wait anymore.

I ran. And as I did so something was happening in my stomach. A feeling, something that I couldn't quite understand. I decided it should be ignored, maybe it was just a weird stomach ache.

I saw Sasori at the end of the hall and started yelling.

"I think I know what to do!" He looked at me with wide eyes and I couldn't help but notice how beautiful they were. I shook it off though. This is not the time for this. "everything I ever read about MS eventually said that the only thing we could do to dignose it is to elminate every other option. What if we eliminate every single thing. We might end up with MS and one more disease and we'll see what to do from there. What do you say?" For some reason I started smiling. The solution was so simple and did exactly how much it was needed for the moment.

"I thought about that, I didn't know if it was the right thing to do but I guess there's nothing else. I'll take care of it you go do some hours in the pit." Of course he thought about it, he's briliant! I nodded and started walking towards the E.R. A bit of excitment will do me good.

The city was calm lately, no accidents. So the pit was just a pile of sutures, poisoning and other common household accidents like broken bones. Sasuke was here too being annoyed by a 16 years old girl that had a crush on him. "I swear to God if she doesn't stop following me I'm going to pump myself so full of morphine I'll start smelling rainbows." That's what he kept reapting while I was rolling my eyes. I decided that 2 hours in the pit were enough and that I should go check on my resident.

When I got there he was down to Lupus and MS. Quite a tough choice. But the odds are in our favor today.

"MS is not exactly common, if we would be looking at odds Lupus would be our smartest choice. I say we go with Lupus." I made my opinion clear.

"I don't know. I don't think odds are something to count on. It could be MS, it could be Lupus. I have no idea. It's your choice."

"You can't lean that on me!"

"Listen to me Haruno, being a doctor is not easy, these choicese will keep coming every day. This is merely one of the many obstocales you'll have to overcome. Now think! MS or Lupus?" I started thinking. What I said earlier seemed right to me. Everything was pointing towards Lupus, the problem is everything was pointing towards MS too. This is ridiculous! If you think about it, it all comes down to luck!

"It's Lupus." I finally decided.

"Are you sure?"

"...no.." He sighed and nodded.

"Start the treatment." I nodded and turned back to room 327 where my patient was waiting.

"Dr. Haruno! What's up?" He's quite a friendly fellow, isn't he. Too bad I might give him the wrong treatment.

"Call me Sakura." I smiled.

"Okay! Sakura. Found out what I have?"

"More or less. We managed to bring it down to 2 choices. Unfortunately MS and Lupus are quite similar, but starting you on the wrong treatment could be fatal. We've decided to treat you for Lupus seeing that, over the years, it has been more common. To start you up on the treatment we need your consent." I handed him the papers that basically said he accepts any medication we find fit for his condition and he signed them.

"Go right ahead." He gave me the conset papers back and I started injecting the treatment into his central line. "Hey, listen. I know I don't look my best right now, but I was wondering if, after I get out of here. we could get a cup of coffee together...like a date."Wow! Umm...I don't know why but that sounds appealing.

"I...I'd love to. Here you go. This should start working in a few hours, if you notice anything strange go ahead and push that red button, ok?" I smiled again.

"Got it. See you in a few hours." I nodded and got out of the room. All I wanted right now was to sleep and sleep until there is no more sleep left in me. I picked one of the stretcher in the hallway, closest to room 327 and slept right there just like Sasori does.

I had a strange dream. In it I was a mouse and for some reason I felt followed by an...owl. I had to choose between two paths. I knew that one led me to safety...I had no idea which one. Finally I picked, and I realised it was the wrong choice.

I woke up at the sound of my beeper. I checked it fast and I guess the shock didn't hit me yet. It said code blue in room 327. That means my patient is seizing! Something's not right!

I ran like crazy towards that room! When I got there, Sasori was already doing CPR, all I could do was stare.

"Where the hell were you?" He yelled at me over the commotion.

"I was sleeping in the hallway. Did you stop the Lupus treatment?" I started pusing nurses aside so I could get to him.

"Of course I did! Start ventilating." I picked up the tube in order to start the manual ventilation. Suddenly I heard a long beep. His heart had stopped. I froze! I was petrified! I saw him laying there and I just lost all the mobility I had.

"Sakura! Get the paddeles!" I heard Sasori's voice over the beeping in my ears. His voice woke me up and I streatched for the defibrilator.

"Charge to 300!" I yelled. "Clear" BOOM!...nothing..."Charge again! Clear!" Again nothing. "Charge to 350! clear!"...Nothing! He's heart's not starting! What should I do? What do I do? "Give me the scalpel! I'm opening him up!"

"No! Sakura! Stop!" He called me Sakura...he never called me Sakura.

"I have to! He's going to die! I can't let him die!" Sasori held me back as I struggled to get the scalpel.

"Sakura, he's already dead!"

"No he's not! He's not dead! Let me save him!" I felt hot tears escaping my eyes and suddenly I remembered my dream. I was the mouse, I chose the wrong path and now I was being eaten by the owl. I calmed down as I realised what had just happened. I stood there looking at his motionless body.

"You want to call it?" Sasori asked me. I looked at him then back at my patie-back at Jackson. The rash was still there. His fingers were purple, he must've been cold.

"...time of death...8:42p.m." I couldn't stay there anymore, I ran out!

I ran, knowing where I want to go. I've reached the main exit and pushed through the crowds of people that were waiting for help. I found a spot near an oak and I threw up! I..I just couldn't explain anyhing!

Sasori was right behind me, holding my hair. I cried. He helped me get into the locker room where I threw up again and when I finished I managed to get cleaned up. He sat next to me on the bench as the shock hit me again and again. I had just killed a man. It was all my fault! How could I have gotten the dignosis wrong? There were two choices! Just two! I could have gotten it right! I was so Goddamn close!

I felt two arms embracing me. I looked up and saw Sasori looking at me with worry in his eyes. I noticed the vibrant color is eyes held once again and for some reason I kissed him. He pulled back at first but changed his mind. We ran into the guard room and lost ourselves in passionate kisses and hungry touches. It just happened! It just did...