CHAPTER THREE:

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Sakura hurried to down the long hospital hall way. Her shift had ended hours ago. One of her nurses called in sick and they were already short on staff as it was. So she got stuck picking up some extra work and seeing as many patients as she could.

A group of Anbu had just came back from a vigorous mission in the land Of snow, and two were in critical condition, but the others were in the waiting room, they were lucky enough to come out of the mission unharmed.

She flipped through a clip board as she heard the sound of someone cursing very loudly.

She traced the source of the sound coming from inside a nearby room. She made her way to the door and turned the handle and opened the door to find a group of nurses trying to surpass a very pissed off looking Sai, trying to wiggle free from the nurse's grip, insisting he was fine.

Blood trickled down his face, and sakura also spotted several deep gashes.

"Get off I'm fine." he said pushing away the nearest nurse.

"Sai could you please stop harassing my staff dammit!" yelled sakura as she threw a pin at him, which he grabbed in mid air, a few inches from his face.

"Hey ugly, it's not nice to throw things at patients." he said as he struggled to sit up, his cloths torn left and right.

"What happened to you? Did you come in with that group of Anbu?" she asked as she walked over to the table in the room and picked up his charts.

"Yes but I'm fine, I don't need help." he said as he averted his gaze from her. "Lets see...Internal bleeding, 4 broken ribs, 17 deep wounds, head trauma, and you tested positive for Salbergluthite, a very serious poison. If we don't remove the poison you'll die. Oh yeah sai you're fine." said sakura sarcastically as she read out loud his medical charts.

Sai flinched slightly. Because of his broken ribs it hurt him to even breathe.

Sai felt as if he was going to die any second. "Leave us, I can take care of it from here, go check on the other Anbu." she told her nurses, they looked up at her for a second but followed there Superior's orders none the less.

Sakura picked up sai's bag from the bedside table and pulled out a kunai and used it to tear open the shirt the rest of the way, and tossed the kunai over her shoulder.

Sai struggled to sit up. "Sai I'm sorry but I have to knock you out to do the procedure." she said as she pulled out a long syringe from her little medical hand bag. "Don't!" he said stubbornly.

"Sai, it's OK. I am a medic nin, and your team mate. You can trust me." said sakura, sympathetically. Sakura felt his muscles relax after a few moments.

She then focused her chakra to her hands, as they glowed green, healing and mending the inside and outside of his body, trying to be careful not to make it worse.

It took her twenty minutes of focusing, before she finally pulled her hands away and sighed deeply.

Sai looked down at himself and examined himself.

He could not find one scratch left. "Well I see you're getting better, as a matter of fact, I think you suck a little less." he said as he plastered on his fake smile, earning a smack from sakura upside the head.

"Yeah sure piss off the girl who just healed you. You're such an ass." said sakura as she poked a needle full of blood thickener to replace the blood he had lost, and then stomped out of the room, frustrated, fighting the urge to throw something.

Sakura was so relieved when another doctor had punched in, and had taken over the rest of the shift. She was so tired and hungry.

She was looking forward to going back to the Hyuuga compound, getting something to eat and retiring early. She changed out of her scrubs and changed back into her street cloths, and opened the entrance door to the hospital when she felt herself slam into something.

She looked up, only to find Sasuke standing there, staring down at her, through those dark onyx eyes of his. "Watch where you're going!" said sakura coldly as she stormed past him.

The last thing sakura needed was for Sasuke to make her already horrible day worse. It had been several months since Sasuke had returned to the village of konoha.

Sakura could never forgive him for leaving her on a bench and breaking her heart. She had spent so many years looking for him, she had thought that if he had come back, everything would go back to normal and her feelings for him would return.

But when he finally came back and showed no remorse for hurting her or Naruto, she found herself loathing him more than Orochimaru himself. She was bitter and heartbroken; she didn't want anything to do with him.

She didn't want to go through all the pain of falling for him, and him turning her down again. She just wanted to move on with her life.

Sasuke whipped around and grabbed her arm, lightning fast. "Sakura I need to speak with you." said Sasuke in an emotionless tone. Sakura yanked her arm out of his hand. For a moment she thought she saw a flash of sadness on his face, even though it only lasted mere seconds.

Before sakura could even react, Sasuke had pulled her into a tight hug, pulling her close to him. Sakura's face mere inches from his face. "W...what are you doing?" asked sakura, her face a light shade of pink as she felt his breath on her face.

"Sakura...you were the only person who stuck by my side as children. I remember I used to call you annoying when you spoke too much, but in reality I held on to every word you ever said, your voice was so soothing to me. You were the only person cared about me at all. Even long after I had left you on the bench, you still continue to search for me. You and Naruto are like family to me. "Said Sasuke, as he looked directly into her eyes.

Sakura had waited almost her entire life to hear him say that, she had imagined this happening when she was little, her child hood wish had come true, but she wasn't a child anymore.

She didn't wish for this now. "Sasuke, when you left the village I lost all hope of us every being together. I'm not going to play your mind games anymore. If you're that desperate for love, then go out with one of your fan girls. I'm done with all of this drama!" She screamed, as tears spilled down her face as shoved him away from her.

Sasuke lunged at her and pinned her to the ground. "I DON'T WANT A FANGIRL DAMMIT! EVERY WHERE I GO THERE ARE ENDLESS FANGIRLS! BUT THERE'S ONLY ONE YOU!" Sasuke said, screaming at the top of his lungs.

"GET OVER YOURSELF YOU PHYCOTIC WEIRDO! AND GET THE HELL OFF ME!" screamed sakura, anger flowing through her like wild fire.

She tried to push him off of her but he grabbed her hands so she couldn't punch him. Sasuke picked her up and lifted her up over his shoulder.

Before Sasuke could even react, someone had kicked him in the ribs and grabbed sakura from him. Sakura cracked open her eyes to see a pair of pearly white eyes looking down at her. "N...Neji...?'' said sakura amazed. She was not expecting him.

He smirked at her. She looked down and noticed he was carrying a bento box full of food.

"Neji what are you doing here?" she asked, confused.

He held his arm out with the bento box and handed it to sakura. "Hinata-sama told me you were working overtime and she asked me to bring you some food that she had made, because you missed dinner. It's a good thing too that I came." he said as he turned to Sasuke, who was struggling to his feet.

"She said no, you sad excuse for a man." said Neji, as a look of pure disgust came over his face.

Sasuke glared at them. "Sakura, you do love me and you will come to your senses sooner or later, and when you do, We WILL get married. I need to repopulate my clan sakura." he said, as he clenched his fists.

"SCREW YOU AND YOUR FUCKED UP CLAN!" screamed sakura, as she focused her chakra to her hands and punched Sasuke in the face with such force that he went flying backwards, disappearing in the dark night sky.

"That guy is seriously disturbed." said Neji as anger filled him as he thought about how he had dared to treat HIS sakura.

"No doubt." said sakura before she took a deep breath, trying to calm herself. Never in her 17 years of life had she ever been so pissed as she was now. She turned to face Neji. "Thank You Neji...if you hadn't come when you did, I don't know what would've happened. You saved me." said sakura as she smiled from ear to ear.

Neji's face turned a soft pink color as he heard him thank him. "You deserve better than Uchiha." he said in an almost sad voice as he adverted his eyes. Sakura put both her hands on his face. "I think I have someone in mind." she said as she leaned forward and pressed her lips against his curse mark on his forehead that seemed to gleam in the moon light. Neji's face turned even pinker.

He wrapped his hands around her waist. He had never in his life felt this strongly for anyone. Neji would never admit it out loud, but this was the first time anyone had ever kissed him before.

She pulled back and wrapped her hands around her right arm. "Come on, Neji-kun. Let's go home." said sakura as she led him forward. Neji's heart skipped a beat, as she called him Neji-kun. No one had ever called him Neji-kun before. He loved the way it sounded when she said it. For the first time in his life, he felt blissful.

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Well I think I'm getting better at this story thingy...or at least I think I am. o3o;