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Chapter Four – Atop

The steady beeping of the machines was a soothing backdrop as she stared down at the younger version of her sensei.

It was quite the mystery, how he'd come to be here. Was he from the past? An alternate dimension? Sakura knew that T&I had already checked him out, but she didn't have access those results. Well… she could find out if she really wanted, her position in the village would allow it. And she was sure her old sensei would let his favourite student take a look. But until then, all she could do was wonder.

Sighing, she looked down at his chart, which she'd been updating. He was going to wake soon, her last check up on him with diagnostic chakra had shown that he would. It could be any second now, or in an hour. He was completely healed, physically, at least, so once he woke, he'd be ready for a debrief and secondary interrogation. They'd need to talk to him to make sure everything they'd gotten while unconscious matched up.

Sighing, Sakura went back to updating his chart, noting the improvements in his heartbeat, his chakra flow, and such. Once that was done, she settled back into the chair that was sat beside the bed, opening a medical manuscript and sipping on coffee to wait away the time. After all, someone had to be here with him all the time until he woke. An understandable precaution all things considered.

Finishing jotting down everything she needed to, she looked back over to him. And frowned. Getting up from her seat and stepping closer to the bed, she reached over and hovered her hand over his forehead, hand glowing green. Quite suddenly, his eyes snapped open, he grabbed her wrist, pulled her down onto the bed, sharingan blazing as his hand found her throat. Sakura quite deliberately avoided that eye.

His grip was hard, bruising her wrist and choking on her throat, his weight pressing her down to ensure she didn't escape. Sakura could feel every inch of him that was against her, and it made her feel uncomfortable to be in such a vulnerable position.

"Who are you?" he demanded in a harsh rasp. "Where am I?"

Infusing and distributing chakra into her hands and through the necessary muscles, Sakura pushed him off her and scrambled off the bed, flaring her chakra lightly to let the right people know that he was awake. "You're in Konoha's hospital," she told him. "Do you- Do you remember who you are?"

He glanced up at her forehead, no doubt noting the absence of her hitai-ate, which she tended not to wear when she was on hospital rotation theses days. "Konoha," he repeated, his body shifting slightly into a less aggressive stance, but still on guard. "I can't be… It's gone."

Sakura raised an eyebrow at that. "We're all still here," she told him. "And so are you. So… Do you remember who you are, or not?"

He gave her a 'look' that was a cross between the most serious look she'd ever seen on that face before, and when Sasuke would look like he'd swallowed something unpleasant, usually in dealing with Sai, these days. "Hatake Kakashi," he said eventually. "Oh-nine-seven-two-oh. Jounin, ANBU Captain. Who are you?"

Sakura smiled. "Haruno Sakura," she told him as the door opened behind her and an ANBU entered the room on the heels of a Yamanaka interrogator. "Please sit, Kakashi-san. We have a lot to discuss."

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