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Chapter 2: The Hospital
As Sakura started to regain conciseness, the first thing she noticed was the smell, the sickly clean smell of a hospital. She didn't even try to open her eyes, instead she listened. She could hear people walking about outside her room (she guessed that the door was propped open), from outside she could hear the hushed mummer of voices that were trying not to disturb other. Closer to her door she heard two women talking, one of which she presumed was a nurse.
"Will she be ok?" A soft, motherly voice asked.
"The injuries she sustained were horrible, to say the least. But she should be fine, with enough rest and the help of our medical staff."
Sakura guessed that the two women were talking about the mother's child. She heard one set of feet start walking away from the conversation. That set of footsteps was quickly followed by the second as Sakura heard the mother's voice call out softly, "May I see her?"
Both footsteps stopped as Sakura heard the nurse answer, "Yes, you may. But don't expect her to wake up any time soon; she just went through a major healing so she'll probably sleep for at least three more hours."
"Thank you." The mother's voice said kindly as the footsteps of the nurse began again. Sakura then expected for the mother's footsteps to take her away from her room, but they didn't. Instead her footsteps got closer and closer until they must have entered her room. It was then that she started to wonder who this person was.
As the woman sat down, Sakura remembered that Tsunade had said that getting the small scroll to the Hokage was to be her first priority. Until she had spoken with the Hokage she was to tell no one anything about herself other than her alias, and even that, only if they asked.
Sakura was debating whether or not to try and open her eyes when she heard the motherly voice croon softly, "The poor little girl, who would do such a thing. She's only a child…"
Suddenly she heard a light, young male voice state, "She's not that much younger than me." The voice surprised her, she hadn't heard anyone else come in, he must be a ninja, and a high leveled one at that.
'Hold on a second,' Sakura thought, 'he said he wasn't much older than me, and they probably think I'm eleven, so who do I know of who was at a high level at a young age."
Sakura didn't have to think all that hard, and when she found her answer she groaned mentally, or she had thought she had groaned mentally; but she must not have because she heard the woman gasp and stand up, hurrying over to her bed, followed by the almost silent footsteps of the boy.
Sakura knew there was only one thing to do, she 'woke up'. It was harder than she thought it would be, her eyes just did not want to open. She struggled for what felt like forever, and when she finally got her eyes to open, everything was blurry. Sakura sighed as she concentrated on bringing her shaking hand to rub her eyes. That was also hard, but she got her hand to do what she needed, and her eyesight cleared. She let her hand drop back to the bed, unable to sustain the effort it took to hold it aloft.
The woman's face swam into view, somewhat long black hair swung forward as her jet black eyes silently questioned her, 'are you alright?' Sakura tried to smile, but she wasn't sure if she had succeeded until the woman's face backed up, content showing in her eyes and a small smile on her face. Sakura then turned her eyes from the woman to the boy. She wasn't surprised when she saw a miniature version of Itachi; after all, that's who she figured it was.
Sakura turned her eyes back to the woman, who had begun to speak, "I can't believe you're awake already. The nurse said you'd sleep for a couple more hours still. How are your feeling?"
Sakura opened her mouth and was glad that her voiced worked, though it was a lot quieter than it should have been, "I'm fine." The woman's face filled with relief, but Sakura had to continue. She had been assigned to get the small scroll to the Hokage before she did anything else, so that was what she meant to do. "Please, I need to see the Hokage right away."
The woman's eyebrows rose in surprise, but it was Itachi who spoke, "I have just returned from the Hokage's office. He would also like to speak with you, but not now. He said he wanted you to rest until the medics say you're healthy enough to be discharged from the hospital."
Sakura blinked a few times in confusion before she asked, "How did he know that I was here?"
"My son," began the woman, gesturing vaguely towards the boy, "Itachi, and his squad members were on their way back from a mission and found you in the forest."
Itachi picked it up from there, "We brought you to the hospital. Then we went to the Hokage's in order to report on our mission as well as report on having found you." His voice made it seem as if he was unconcerned with what he was saying, but his eyes never left hers.
It was Sakura who broke the eye contact by closing her eyes as she figured out what to do from there. Finally she opened her eyes and spoke in her unusually quiet voice, "Very well, I will speak with him th--" Sakura was cut off as the nurse entered the room with a loud gasp.
The nurse rushed to the bedside as she questioned, "When did you wake up…how did you wake up?" She didn't wait for an answer, instead she shooed the Uchihas out of the room saying, "Visiting hours are up, please be on your way."
Once she had gotten rid of them, she turned all her attention to Sakura, "What's your name, little girl?" she reached for Sakura's wrist and felt for her pulse.
Sakura's quiet voice rasped, "Sakura…" The nurse wrote something down on her clipboard as she motioned for Sakura to give her last name as well. Sakura paused for a moment, then shrugged, "Sakura Hoshi."
The nurse, who had been writing when Sakura gave her last name, suddenly froze, looked up astonished, and then quickly returned her gaze to the clipboard and her hand to writing.
If Sakura didn't know any better, she'd have thought that the look the nurse had given her was a look of awe, pure awe.
There were no more surprises during the rest of her long interview. She answered what she could with the alias she had been assigned by Tsunade, the rest she just said she wasn't willing to answer until she had spoken with the Hokage.
Sakura was starting to have a hard time keeping her eyes open after an hour and a half of constant questioning and little heath tests. The nurse noticed this and said gently as she turned off the light in her room, "That's enough for today. You need your sleep. If you're lucky, you'll be out of here in a week." She then closed the door, leaving Sakura in the room.
It wasn't long before Sakura fell asleep with a knowing smirk on her face.
Sorry if that seemed short, but there was only so much I could do without getting off the subject of her being in the hospital.
Also, I would like to point out that most stories have Itachi and Sasuke find Sakura and bring her directly to their home. But when I thought about it, how many people would be willing to bring a complete stranger, who they found lying unconscious and injured on the ground, directly into their home? Not many. It would be more likely for them to bring her to the hospital, so that's what I had happen.
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I've gone back through and re-edited this chapter.
