Disclaimer: I don't own 'Naruto' and I'm not making any profit out of this story.

-Horizon-

Summary: Life is a cycle. After a nightmare you wake up and day will come, then the sunset and dark and nightmares. Sometimes, you'll find yourself gazing out there to find something (anything) and you just hope, hope with all your heart, that you'll find it.

Rating:T for cursing, blood and suggestive themes.

Gender:Adventure – Drama – Romance – Angst – Hurt/Comfort – Family – Humor - General

Pairings: Multiple pairings. NaruHina, NejiTen and others.

Warning: Contains Own characters (OCs). May contain yaoi and/or yuri couples, don't like don't read.


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The alarms awoke them at 4:15 am. Stretching and yawing they had opened their green eyes. And the two of them flopped back to the bed, not really wanting to wake up. The alarm clocks went off at 4:30, this time more noisily and annoying. One of the two devices was hurled towards the wall, smashing into pieces. Almost crawling, they went to the bathroom. The shower was soon filled whit steam and hot water. One of them was humming and applying lavender scented shampoo. The other still yawing and covered in strawberry shampoo. Turning off the water tap and wrapping their bodies in fluffy towels they went back to the bedrooms. Long, bright, blond and lavender-smelling hair was neatly pulled in a high ponytail. One of the pair of green eyes was outlined with soft brown eyeliner and black mascara. Both of them dressed in the same white uniforms. A quick breakfast, a kiss in their mothers (who were more sleep than awake) cheeks and they were out on the streets.

Ino Yamanaka and Sakura Haruno arrived at the same time at the 'Konoha Hospital' blue gate. The clock was near five am. They locked eyes, sparks flying between them. Narrowing their eyes they began walking, not breaking their eye contact. They reached the nurse station, where a scary looking woman held in her arms a stack of folders. Still glaring at each other they began grabbing the folder and placing them in one arm. Both of them grasped the last folder.

"Let go, Ino-pig!"

"In your dreams forehead girl!"

The dark aura spread around them. The folders they had in their arms flung around the room. Ino and Sakura both grabbed the folder whit both hands, pulling it. The Head Nurse loomed over them. Her presence even more scary than the two angry teenagers. Both of them froze in their place, their hands still clutching the folder. Slowly their turned their head towards the woman. The vein in the Head Nurse's forehead was popping.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!" The teenagers flinched and opened their mouth trying to explain. "YOU MADE A MESS AND SCARED THE REST OF THE STAFF!" Ino and Sakura looked around the room. The files and the papers were scatter around the floor, the medical checkups, laboratory analysis, photos and certificates were all mixed up around the floor. Two nurses were in a corner, looking pale and holding each other for dear life. The girls sweat dropped. "You are going to clean this mess, and when you finish you'll go and check that patient." She said, pointing to the folder the girls were still holding. "Together. No excuses. Now go!" they nodded and began grabbing files and papers.

Finally the folders were neatly placed on the desk again. Ino sighed. The clock was near 9:30, they had to re-organize all the files again. It took so long. Sakura had a serious expression on her face while she placed the last file in the desk. Ino sighed again. Sakura had that expression again, the expression of determination. She always has it, every since they were 13, every since they had left. Now, with 15, almost 16, and two years away from the incident the expression was becoming firmer and firmer. And sometimes Ino noticed that Sakura was tired, even exhausted. Ino just knew, she was her best friend after all. Sakura missed her team. They should be here, but they weren't. Ino would ask herself quietly where were the boys, why did they left Sakura? But no one answered and Sakura seemed more tired every day. So Ino tried to help and would often invite Sakura, convince Hinata and dragged Tenten out for a girl's night out, that often was a girl's lunch out- And in the hospital they'll both work hard, Ino kept alive their friendly competitions to distract her. She sighed internally.

"Hey forehead girl" Ino said placing a hand in her hip and leaning into the counter. The pink hair girl looked at her, a frown setting in her face. "Let's see who our patient is, 'kay?" Sakura nodded and took the folder. Her expression became confused as she looked inside.

"Eh… this looks so weir…" Sakura said. Ino stood upright and looked over the shoulder of Sakura. "It looks like an ANBU file" Ino's eyes turned towards her friend.

"You had an ANBU as a patient?" She asked incredulous.

"Hai… but look at this!" She said motioning towards the folder.

The card was almost empty. It had a photo, a name and the date of birth. There wasn't even a last name. Everything else was blank. No clan or family, the 'contact' space didn't have a name. But more confusing was the spaces and words covered whit dark ink. The ninja rank, the date of graduation, the type of chakra, the squad, everything was covered. There was nothing, making it nobody. The kunoichis frowned.

"Yes, it's… well nothing." Ino complained. Sakura nodded.

"It's not an ANBU" Green eyes locked. The blond rose an eyebrow, confused. "It has a name and a photo not a codename and a mask" both of them looked at the file again and sighed. They had nothing to work from. Ino leaned back into the counter and let out another sigh. Sakura was looking at the file again, reading it quickly and muttering under her breath.

"…a torso wound and one on the hand… first visit to the hospital… 14 years old… mission injury… stayed overnight… no complications… blood loss…" She began walking down the hallway. Ino hurried to catch up with her. The hospital was now filled whit nurses, doctors, patients and families. It was bursting with activity and noise.

The room they were heading was 197. A private room they noticed. Sakura went for the door handle when Ino interrupt her. She shook her head and knocked the door softly. A voice answered shortly allowing them to enter. Ino opened the door and step in, at the same time that Sakura. The two girls were stuck at the doorframe. Glaring at each other, they tried to move, twisting and pushing their way inside the room. They squeezed out and fell into the floor.

"Excuse me, is everything right?" A soft voice called them. Sakura and Ino looked up towards the bed and quickly jumped towards their feet. Apologizing and smiling. The room was private, yes but really small. There was a bed, next to it a bedside table and on the other wall a cabinet. There was also a window. A pale girl with gray eyes and pale blond hair was sitting on the bed, next to the window. Amaya had been gazing outside before the two medics came to her room and was now gazing at them patiently.

"Hi, you are Amaya-chan right?" Ino said, taking the folder from Sakura's hands. Amaya nodded softly and looked at the blond girl. "Kay, my name is Ino Yamanaka and the one there is Sakura Haruno." The grey eyes glanced towards the pink hair girl, who waved cheerfully.

"Nice to meet you." Amaya said bowing her head. Sakura walked towards her.

"Let's take a look at your injuries." Sakura said. Amaya nodded again and placed her bare feet on the floor. Carefully she lifted her shirt, exposing her stomach and the bandages that covered it. Sakura looked at the bandage and carefully poked the body. "It seems ok, there's no bleeding. Does it hurt?" Amaya looked at Sakura briefly before answering.

"No Sakura-san." Her voice even and soft. Sakura nodded approvingly and then pointed to her hand. "And that? I don't seen any bleeding." Amaya nodded and lift her hand for Sakura. The pink hair girl carefully re-wrapped the hand of Amaya after cheeking the wound, which was slowly healing. Sakura made Amaya flex her fingers, the blond 'tch' sound of discomfort. "You might want to take it easy, we had to reconnect some muscular tissue and mend the bones that connect two of your fingers. Is this your main hand?" Amaya nodded at that and Sakura made a noise with her tough. "Sorry, just take it easy to avoid more damage." Amaya sighed and nodded. Ino appeared next to Sakura.

"Amaya-chan your patient card is missing a lot of details we need to fill them out. Do you mind?" Amya shook her head and both medics smiled. "First height and weight." The blond said cheerfully, guiding Amaya out of the room, Sakura right behind them. The hallways were green and grey and somehow light. The three of them dressed in white clothes, hospital white. White and clean and so sterile. Amaya was looking ahead, waiting for the hallways to open and listening Ino and Sakura chatting of different and outside and everyone together.

Soon, they reached a small clinic. Still white and clean. Ino was looking at Amaya carefully. The empty spaces and the cross out information was the beginning, it made them wonder who she was. Seeing her didn't help them, at all. She was pale and young, polite, awkward and almost fragile. But she couldn't be fragile knowing it was the first time she was in the hospital. Ino absentmindedly scribbled the information Sakura told her, 154 centimeters, 44 kilograms (she was thin, need to ask her how), AB blood type, no allergies and no diseases. And that was all.

"So… who do we put on the 'contact in case emergency'?" Sakura asked. Amaya looked at her and sighed.

"No person." Sakura was surprised by the answer. Ino frowned.

"You are alone?" The blond asked. The pale girl nodded. "You live by yourself?" she nodded again. "Do you have a team?" The youngest now sighed and kept quiet and still. "What you normally do? Training and missions?" Amaya nodded "Do you do something aside from the missions?" Amaya shook her head. "Dear kami, ever kissed a boy or been on a date?" Amaya looked at her amused and shook her head.

"No. Why would I? I am fine with solitude and shinobi ways." She stated with a small smirk in her lips. Ino shook her head dramatically.

"No way! You need to get out and live!" Sakura laughed at the exchanged between the two blonds. Ino hit her hand with her fist, a determinate fire in her eyes. "I know! We got a girl's lunch out today, come with us! We'll introduce you to the rest!" She said exited. Sakura smiled brightly.

"I'll consider it an option, but I'm still on the hospital." Amaya said between amused and wary.

"Oh! Don't worry! You are fine. We are medic ninjas after all." She said and Sakura nodded. Amaya blinked. What did just happen? Ino and Sakura continued chatting about outside, of alive days and warm days, and Amaya just looked out of the window.