#30:
Blood
-Sunpies-
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto et, al.
The first human patient Sakura ever has to treat is a Hyuuga woman who has miscarried after a mission that went awry. Normally nobody would ask Sakura to help with anything yet, but they're running low on people (everyone is flying to different parts of the hospital to get this group stable) and there's nothing that can be done for the baby anymore anyway.
At least that's what Tsunade tells her. And then yells at her, when Sakura can't make it past the door because the blood is everywhere. It doesn't seem to stop. It's trickling from between the woman's legs onto the hospital bed to form a pool on the floor. There are messy smears of it along the curtain where the woman grabbed with a hand that's missing a finger.
"She's bleeding out, Sakura, move it or she dies!" Tsunade screams at her and there's panic well hidden behind anger in those brown eyes.
Sakura nods dumbly but doesn't move. The woman is screaming and screaming about her baby. Half of it isn't even coherent. In a moment of weakness Sakura thinks that maybe if the woman weren't screaming so loudly, she'd be able to get herself together. Because really, only one of them can freak out at a time!
Another medic shoves past her, too busy to be disgusted with her lack of help, and it's the shove that Sakura needs. Suddenly she's at Tsunade's side, channeling a steady flow of chakra to the older woman like they've practiced a thousand times.
When it's all over, Tsunade closes the curtain and only then does the tension leave her shoulders (it's like her whole body visibly sags and Sakura doesn't think she's ever seen Tsunade look this old before). "I didn't think you'd be able to do it, for a moment there." And the statement sounds a lot like regret and sadness even if she's smiling with relief when she says it.
"I was just a little shocked, that's all." Sakura admits shakily with a smile of her own. Tsunade doesn't seem convinced. She places a hand on Sakura's shoulder and it's heavy enough to ground her and stop the room from doing that awful spinning thing.
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When she goes home that night Sakura dreams of the pale Hyuuga getting whiter and whiter and whiter as blood pours out in torrents onto the floor.
#30:
Blood
-Sunpies-
For Lady Silvamord
