Gawd this took way too long, when I finished the chapter I wasn't really satisified with the length of the chapter. So i really had to decide wether or not to add a part of the new chapter in it. Took me some time cause I just couldn't decide because I was happy with how the chapter turned out and didn't want to ruin it but anyway still added it.. Blah blah blah...

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Chapter 4. Hospital visit, emergency.


"So your saying we have to come up with a plan to drug him?" He heard Shizune say.

"We're in the hospital! It shouldn't be too hard." Sakura answered.

He heard some walking and ruffling in the office. "Okay, this is what we're going to do. You distract him and I'll try to drug him. Although I don't think it's going to work." Shizune said.

"How am I supposed to distract him?" Plus what if patients come in?" Sakura asked.

"Just take care of the patients and show him around! Leave the rest to me." He heard Shizune growl frustrated.

"Now go! He's waiting for you, if it takes too long he's probably going to be suspicious." He heard Shizune say and he immediately returned to where he stood earlier.

He waited for them to open the door, which opened a second later. Sakura gave him a thoughtful look. She shook her head, somewhere she knew this plan would go horribly wrong.

"I can show you around more if you want?" She asked, faking a smile.

"No, that is fine. I know the hospital." Itachi answered smoothly.

"Right, of course." She answered, feeling uncomfortable. How was she going to distract him.

The medics who were done with their night shift passed by.

"Sakura-sama." One of the waved. Sakura smiled and nodded in acknowledgement.

"I thought you didn't do any shifts this week until you were done with your mission." He continued.

"I know, Hidari-san. Something came up." She just answered.

"Well, it's good to see the head-medic back into the building. I mean Shizune-san is nice but it's too quiet without you around. Nice seeing you." He said and left. Sakura just smiled and waved him off.

Itachi stared at her, surprised that she was the head medic. This must mean that she was really a good medic. He had expected that Shizune would be the head-medic.

"Forehead!"

Sakura turned around and noticed Ino coming in, she gave her a glare at her nickname but smiled. "Ino-pig." Sakura said with a smirk.

Itachi inwardly frowned at their nicknamed, mentally shaking his head at their childish behavior.

"You just arrived?" Ino asked.

"I wish! We've been here for an hour already!" Sakura growled in annoyance.

"Why so early? Not much to do here that early or did an emergency came up?" Ino asked.

"Hah! I wish!" Sakura grunted.

"I woke her at four." Itachi stated monotone.

Ino, who had been ignoring Itachi, gave him a warily glance. "At four!? Wow! You must have felt her wrath." Ino said warily.

Too her relief Itachi didn't answer and she focused back on Sakura. Before she could say something some people rushed in.

"Medic!" One yelled as he dragged his teammate in.

Sakura and Ino immediately rushed to their side. Sakura noticed they were Anbu.

"Ino, get the stretcher, quick!" She ordered and Ino left her side.

In the meantime Sakura checked his injuries. A large slash was over his stomach to his chest, burn wounds on his leg and several broken ribs, which had punctured his lung. Itachi looked at him and knew he was a dead man, even he couldn't survive such fatal injuries. Shizune came running into the hall with Ino right behind her with the stretcher. Sakura and Shizune lifted him on the stretcher. "Ino, you and the nurses prepare the operation room at once! Shizune will follow you with him." She ordered.

A nurse helped Shizune getting him towards the operation room Sakura turned around and faced the other two Anbu. "You two." She started towards them.

"I need to know exactly what happened! What kind of opponent and if he or she was working with poison!?" She ordered.

"It was a he and we think he might have been using poison but we aren't sure, Haruno-san." One of them answered.

"Is anyone else injured?" She asked.

"Only some small scratches." He answered.

She gave a nod. "You two stay here." Then she looked at Itachi. "you come!" She ordered.

Itachi was impressed at how quickly she took control of the situation and slightly amused at how she ordered him around.

She ran to the operation room, quickly entering. She noticed everything was ready. "Shizune report!" She ordered.

"A large slash from his stomach to his chest, a lot of blood loss, broken ribs, one punctured his lung and burn wounds on his leg." Shizune started. "A lot of scratches probably from senbons." She finished.

"Shizune you the ribs, Ino the slash! I will heal his punctured lung!" She ordered. "Misa-san, please bind the burned leg." She asked to a nurse and she nodded.

They quickly started to work on the wounds, while Shizune worked on the rib, she quickly took a sample of the blood to check for poison. She checked it under the microscope and cursed.

"The same poison!" She muttered to herself. She would need to get that out as soon as possible.

"The ribs are back in place!" Shizune said, still healing, and Sakura nodded.

She quickly molded chakra to her hands and started to heal the punctured lung, she knew that breathing was hard for him, so this was first priority. Itachi watched everything from the sideline. He never really knew what it was like to run a hospital.

"The slash is done!" Ino said. Sakura nodded again, in concentration. "The burned leg now!" She ordered "Shizune when your done, make everything ready for poison extraction and take over from me!"

After some time Shizune was done and started to prepare for the poison extraction. "Sakura all done." She said.

"Okay you continue to heal his lugs as I extract the poison. Ino leave the burn wound for what it is, its not a fatal wound and help me with the bowls." She ordered.

Ino did as she was told changing bowls every time that Sakura threw the chakra ball, filled with poison in one bowl. Her brows furrowed in concentration.

"Itachi-san." Sakura started, not noticing she was calling him by his first name. "Can you do something for me? Please." She asked, never leaving her eyes from the patient, she was working on.

"Hn." He answered wondering what she could need from him at this time.

"Shizune show Itachi-san where he can find the herbs closet in the lab, he knows an antidote for this poison. If you have the herbs can you please make the antidote?" She asked.

Itachi gave another 'Hn' and left the operation room together with Shizune. Sakura continued to concentrate at the task at hand, forming another water ball between her hands. The operation went smooth and after two hours of getting the poison out she was done, sweat glittered on her forehead and she wiped it off with the back of her hand, while sighing. He wasn't out of danger fully but at least he was more stable now. She unwrapped his leg and started to heal the burned flesh, which was already partially healed. Ino cleaned up the bowls in the meantime.

"So, is your plan working yet?" Ino asked.

Sakura shook her head. "No, not yet." Sakura just answered, not really caring either.

A knock silenced them and Shizune and Itachi walked in again. "It's done." Shizune said. "We've made about five antidote for now." She continued.

Sakura just nodded, still healing his leg. "We're almost done, can you make a room ready?" She asked to Ino. Ino nodded and left the room.

Once Sakura was done she nodded to herself, again whipping the sweat from her forehead. "Okay, Shizune you take care of the rest here. I need to check up on his teammates." She said, as she took the antidotes and left the operation room, Itachi following her.

Itachi had noticed that she had called him by his first name but it wasn't the time to start about it. He followed Sakura to the two anbu who had been waiting in the waiting room.

"Haruno-san!" One of them said. "How is he?"

"Your teammate is stable." She answered to them and they both sighed in relief.

"I need to do a quick check up on both of you as poison was involved, after that you two can go." She said and they nodded.

She started on the first anbu member, gathering her chakra and running it into his system. She immediately noticed he had been poisoned and she drew her chakra back.

"You will need an antidote." She said and she moved to the other anbu.

It was exactly the same story with him and she sighed. She had expected it though. She quickly injected the antidote into them. "You will both need to rest for at least a week!" She stated.

"But Haruno-san..."

"No but! You will rest!" She ordered, anger visible in her eyes. "You can visit your teammate in the morning."

"Right, of course Haruno-san." They said and they both quickly left.

Itachi was impressed how she even was able to order the anbu's around. It seemed they were scared of her, he couldn't help but wonder why. From what he had seen there wasn't anything to be scared about. He also hadn't expect the anbu to survive though, he had been dying when he had been brought in here. So on that part, he had to admit that she did an amazing job.

Sakura gave him a glance. Because of the emergency they hadn't been able to go through with their plan. She gave a frustrated sigh when her stomach started to growl, reminding her that she didn't had any breakfast yet.

"I'm going to the cafeteria." She said.

Itachi nodded and just followed her. He admitted to himself that he was starting to feel hungry too. Once there they grabbed something to eat and sat down.
That's when Sakura started to think about the person attacking anbu. Whoever was attacking was doing it on purpose, meaning they must have a grudge against Konoha. Also, this person seems to have a liking to poison, which would only make things harder. The fact that the anbu had still been alive meant that they had been attacked close to Konoha, meaning more people could get hurt. She better make sure that there would be enough antidote's in the future. She was glad that Itachi had been there and knew the antidote. Without it, she wouldn't know how she would've pulled this off. She was glad she took him off that active duty list, with his bad eyesight he could've been an easy target for the senbon's and would probably have died in 7/8 hours.

"I'm glad I took him of the duty list." She mumbled, forgetting that Itachi was next to her.

"So it was you after all." Itachi said monotone.

Sakura's head shot up, shocked. She totally forgot that Itachi was next to her. She berated herself for being so stupid. She hadn't even wanted to say it out loud. She noticed Itachi was staring at her with narrowed eyes.

"Ehhh... Well..."She stuttered nervously.

"Well?" He questioned, holding his anger.

Of course he had known it was her, she needed to know not to interfere with his business.

"I had too... " She finally answered.

"You didn't have to." He answered monotone. "I am none of your business! You just took me off so you could try to seduce me." Itachi looked at her impassively.

Sakura paled considerately at that comment. "W...What d...do you m...mean?" She stuttered shocked, acting as if she didn't knew what he was talking about.

Itachi even more angered now, activating his sharingan. "You know exactly what I'm talking about, kunoichi!" Itachi said in a dangerous low voice.

Sakura stood up, her heart beating rapidly. She noticed they were the only ones in the cafeteria, which made her even more scared.

"I...I...I..." She stuttered again in fear. She took a deep breath, calming her nerves.

"You really thought that it would work on me? You really thought Shizune-san would be able to drug me?" She said. "She tried and she failed." He continued, his voice still dangerously low.

Sakura became completely white, as Itachi also stood up. He walked towards her, his sharingan still activated. Instinctively she didn't look into his eyes. Sakura walked back as he came closer. Suddenly her back hit against the wall, making her eyes wide with shock. He came closer and stopped in front of her, only inches away. She had known all along that he couldn't be trusted. His hand went around her throat and Sakura's eyes widened in fear, making the mistake to look into his eyes. He lowered his head until he was next to her ear.

"I advice you to stay out of my business! Remember who you are dealing with." He whispered. He noticed a faint smell of strawberries mixed together with the sterile smell of the hospital and mused that she actually smelled good.

Sakura's heart was on overdrive. She swallowed a lump feeling away in her throat. It wasn't her fault that she had to do this mission. She had known it was too much. He released her and took a step back. she knew she shouldn't push him any further but it was taking a toll on her she knew somewhere he was just trying to strike fear into her. Angered she looked at him.

"How dare you!?" She growled, trembling in anger, surprising Itachi. "Do you think I want to do this! You really think I would want to help a heartless bastard! Trust me I don't! I hate you! You destroyed Sasuke's life and our team with it! How dare you to threaten me! You're nothing but a murderer to me! Who killed his own family in cold blood!" Sakura shouted angry. "You should've stayed dea..."

Before she could finish her ranting she got pinned to the wall, his hand squeezing her throat this time. Sakura immediately reacted and gathered chakra into her fist and tried to hit him, he easily blocked the attack with one hand. Anger flashed into her eyes, as it was hard to breath. She gathered chakra again but instead of trying to hit him she slammed the wall behind her. It easily crumbled and she jumped backward out of his grip. She coughed, while holding her throat with one hand. She glared up at him, as he stood there as if nothing happened.

"You know what! I don't care no more! Become fully blind and die!" She shouted angry.

Shizune, Ino and some nurses appeared, coming to a stop in front of the hole. "Oh dear." Ino whispered.

Somewhere Itachi knew that she was right, that it wasn't her fault, this was a mission assigned to her. However something had snapped when she had cussed him out. Never before had someone dared to say such things to him. Of course most of it wasn't true, but she didn't know that. To her he was nothing more than a heartless killer and he wanted to keep it that way.

"Stop this at once!" Shizune shouted. "Sakura! You are the head-medic, you should've known better than to start a fight here!" Shizune yelled.

"I didn't start shit!" Sakura yelled back. "If he just stopped being a stuck up bastard! Then this wasn't even happening!" She continued angry.

Itachi clenched his jaw, not letting them know he was more angry then he appeared to be.

"Sakura, it's better if you leave... Right now!" Shizune said. "Go to Tsunade-sama!"

Sakura turned around without another word. She knew Shizune was right, she quickly went through some handseals and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Shizune sighed." Uchiha-san, go home." Shizune just said as she looked at the hole in the wall.

"I was wondering how long it would take for her to snap." Ino said, shaking her head.

Itachi left without a word. He probably shouldn't have threaten her but she had a way to make him angry. He never lost his cool like this and all he wanted to do now was strangle her. Whenever someone else had said those words he knew he wouldn't have bothered, so why was he bothered now. He didn't understand. Of course no one ever dared to disrespect him like she had. She also instinctively hadn't looked into his eyes, he guessed that she learned that from Kakashi. He had been surprised when she had hit the wall, he had expect a lot but not that. Destroying property of Konoha, while
being the head-medic herself.


Sakura arrived at the hokage tower. She stomped through the tower until she reached the hokage's office and knocked.

"Come in." Tsunade yelled from the other side of the door.

When she noticed Sakura entering she sighed. "Now what?"

"I destroyed the cafeteria wall in the hospital!" Sakura answered grumpy.

Tsunade raised an eyebrow at that. "And why did you destroy the wall?" She asked suspicious.

"Because that bastard of an Uchiha attacked me!" Sakura yelled.

"So he found out huh?" Tsunade said, shaking her head.

"Yes he did and it seems that he knew exactly what I was planning!" Sakura growled.

Tsunade frowned and shook her head again. "You should be more careful around him."

"You can put him back on active duty list. I don't care!" Sakura continued angry. "Actually I hope he dies!"

"Sakura that's enough!" Tsunade growled.

"I tried to help him! He doesn't want help, so I won't give him any!" Sakura just continued.

"So you want to fail the mission?" Tsunade asked.

"Obviously yes!" Sakura answered.

"Fine, you failed!" Tsunade growled annoyed. "You can go and Sakura, you will pay for that wall!" Tsunade continued.

"Why the hell do I need to pay for it!? If that Uchiha bastard hadn't attacked me the wall would still be intact!" Sakura shouted out.

"Because I say so. Now go!" Tsunade ordered.

Sakura left the hokage's office, still angry. Once she was home. she sighed and sat down on the couch. She had never failed a healing mission before, thanks to him she had her first fail, she hated it. She couldn't care less about his health though. She didn't want to think about it anymore and decided to clean the house to get her mind of things. After she was done, she decided to grab a bite and be lazy for the rest of the day.

The next day she got a note that her hospital shifts would resume. She smiled at the thought. She was glad to go back to normal work. She would get her normal routine back again and everything would get back to normal.


Itachi watched the note he was holding in his hand, he had to get it closer to fully read. It said he was put back on active duty list. Slightly surprised, he wonder of he had been too harsh on Sakura or that she really couldn't care less if he died. Probably the later, he assumed.


Two weeks passed quickly and Sakura fell back into her normal routine. She hadn't seen Itachi, luckily. Ino had asked about what had happened and when Sakura said that the mission was blown off, she had been disappointed. Sakura was happy it was blown off, even if it meant she had a failed mission. The hospital started to get busy again and she had a lot of work to do. Today she would be free this afternoon because Naruto and Sasuke would come back. Finally she could ask Sasuke the question she had been dying to ask him for the past two weeks. It had been Sasuke who had told her that Itachi hadn't heard a thing of their private conversation. She wanted to know if he had lied to her about it.

She shook her head out of her thoughts as she send the last patient to the recovery room and walked towards her office. She still had some paperwork to do. While doing so, she kept glancing at the clock which made it look like time went slower. When she just had an half hour left to go knock brought her out of her concentration.

"Yes?" She answered.

A nurse opened the door. "Uhm... Haruno-sama." She started.

The way the nurse gave a nervous look, she knew enough and sighed. "An emergency huh?" She asked as she stood up.

"Yes." The nurse answered. "But Uhm... Well... It's Uchiha Sasuke." The nurse continued stuttering.

Sakura's eyes widened. "What!?" She yelled shocked, as she ran outside her office. "Details." She ordered.

"They just entered the gate when Sasuke collapsed. The hokage was on his way to the hospital with him when he ran into Uchiha-San." The nurse explained.

"Wounds?" Sakura asked as they ran down the hall.

"No fatal wounds are seen. Just a stab at his shoulder and some scratches." The nurse answered.

Sakura just gave a nod. They turned around the corner and she noticed Itachi and Naruto standing in front of the operation room. She ignored them and walked in, Shizune was already there.

"I already healed the wound." Shizune said and Sakura checked it and nodded. She let her chakra seep into his body to check for any internal damage. She gave a loud curse.

"It's the same poison again!." She said angry. "Shizune get the prepared antidote's." She ordered.

She checked further and noticed his heart rate was already slowing down. How long did he had this poison in him, she cursed again. She walked out of the operation room.

"Sakura-chan! How is he, he's going to make it right?" Naruto said worried.

"How long has it been until the fight?" She asked, ignoring the question.

"Why?" He asked with a frown.

"Just answer now!" She yelled.

"Uhm... About seven hours, he seemed fine the rest of the..."

"fuck!" She yelled angry cutting him off. "Of course he seemed fine." She grunted.

Shizune came running back with the antidote and Sakura took it and rushed back inside, Shizune right behind her. She would need to inject this straight into his heart.

"Bring more!" She ordered to Shizune. "And fast!" Sakura shouted the last words as Shizune was already rushing outside.

Sakura quickly grabbed a syringe and filled it with the antidote, she let the air out and placed it on Sasuke's heart, she slowly pushed it inside and pressed the syringe empty. A second later Shizune was back with more and she restarted the process, now injecting him on more places.

"Shizune stay here and keep watch, all we can do now is wait. " She said and she left the operation room again.

Itachi noticed Sakura coming out of the operation room. She looked worn and tired.

"So how is he?" Naruto asked again.

"He was poisoned." Sakura started. "What happened?"

"We were on our way back from suna when we suddenly got ambushed by this guy. Sasuke and me fought him but only Sasuke got injured, when he noticed that I pulled Kurama out he got scared and made a run for it." Naruto explained.

"I see." Itachi answered.

"It was the same poison." Sakura said tired.

Itachi narrowed his eyes at this, this could only mean one thing.

"So the same person." He concluded out loud.

Sakura nodded. She didn't know how to tell that it might be to late for Sasuke, she tried almost everything. She couldn't do much more as today had been a busy day and she didn't have much chakra left. Now all they could do was wait. She stared sadly at the ground. Why did this had to happen just when everything turned out to be ok. Naruto had been able to bring Sasuke back and became hokage and now this. Something or someone always had to ruin it.

"Sakura...?" Naruto whispered seeing her sad face.

She swallowed a lump feeling away in her throat and tried to smile but failed.

"He..." She fell silent and sighed as a headache was forming inside her head, she inhaled deeply. "He... Might not make it." She whispered finally.

Both of the men gave her shocked expression. Itachi felt as if someone punched him into his stomach.

"What do you mean he might not make it! You're the best medic, Sakura-chan! You can do it!" Naruto shouted out desperately.

Sakura stared at the ground again as she felt tears started to sting her eyes but she tried to hold them down, she couldn't break down, not in front of them.

"It took you seven hours to get here after he was poisoned... It takes about seven or eight hours to make the hart fail." She whispered, taking another deep breath trying to hold her emotions.

"That's impossible. Sasuke won't die." Itachi stated, as if it was a fact.

Itachi couldn't believe this, he had sacrificed everything for Sasuke, so he would survive. He wasn't supposed to die, not like this. Not now everything was fine again. Not now he finally had his little brother back.

For the first time Sakura noticed some emotion on his face. He looked at her with disbelief. She felt more tears coming and she swallowed hard.

"I... I'm sorry.." She whispered. "All we can do is... wait."

She turned around and quickly left into the operation room. Shizune looked at her and gave her a hug.

"Sasuke is tough. I'm sure he will survive." Shizune whispered.

Sakura just nodded in her chest, letting her tears run free. " I... I just...Wish... I could do... More." Sakura cried.

Shizune hugged her tight not saying a thing. Just being with her was enough.

Itachi stared blankly at the closed door from the operation room. He knew that it was hard for Sakura as he had seen tears forming in her eyes. Naruto had slumped down against the wall with his hands on his face. Itachi still couldn't believe that there was only a small change that Sasuke would survive and that they could do nothing but wait. Suddenly a blonde woman ran towards them stopping in front of them.

"Naruto. I heard." She said with a sad look.

Itachi recognized her from the other time that she was in the hospital.

"I... Ino." Naruto whispered, his voice cracking.

"Where is Sakura?" She just asked..

Naruto pointed towards the operation room and she rushed inside. When Ino opened the doors he was able to give a look inside and saw Sasuke's unconscious body and Sakura Crying against Shizune, then the door closed again.

"Sakura!" Ino whispered as she took over from Shizune.

"It's that bad huh?" Ino asked to shizune.

Shizune just nodded.

Suddenly the monitor flat lined going from steady beeping into a flat piercing sound. Sakura pulled out of the hug immediately.

"His heart stopped! Hurry!" Sakura yelled.


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