Tobirama POV

It was a starry night and the buzzle at the camp slowed down as the people prepared for rest. Relaxing as it was, minds still keep on returning to the topic of war. The death toll was still rising and many of the bodies were not recovered. Some can't even go back to battle due to critical injuries and trauma.

I don't know how long we can last but we will fight until the bitter end, or in my case, until I return back to the dead. That kind of rest does not sound appealing when I rest in peace alone. I keep on telling myself, "She still has a lot to live for."

Looking at the sky, I pray that may tomorrow bring more hope to these people.

*:. . o(≧▽≦)o . .:*

Sakura POV

Akasuna no Sasori, a name I despised more than I should have. On that fateful battle where Chiyo-baa-sama and I defeated Sasori, everything went downhill from there. We may have impaled his life source but the thought of only his grandmother dying did not soothe his mind, he wanted more damage. And that damage came from a certain poison only he knew.

It was a poison that corroded the senses after a certain amount of time has passed. If the poison was not cured or taken out of the body in time, it may lead to deaf ears, becoming mute, etc., but I gained blindness The worst part of it all was I didn't know w hen he injected the poison or that it was circulating in my veins all that time.

It was hard, being a medic should have let me know that something was wrong, that it wasn't only stress and fatigue that's wearing me down quickly with all the stamina I had. Even my eyes were starting to fail me .

Tsunade-shishou noticed my out of character slouch and immediately conducted a diagnosis after the debriefing of the mission. What was found was as expected, 'not good'. Well, nothing good comes out of feeli ng like a handicapped person. I'm just thinking about it but maybe... I really was. A sample was gathered and sent for examination.

After a few days with no word from the medics working in the lab, I woke up to darkness. At first I thought it was still night time but... I can feel the warm sunlight on my face which woke me up every morning. I can feel the sunlight but I can't see... even the hand that I'm waving in front of my face.

By then I screamed and kaa-chan ran to my room to see what was wrong. Nothing was out of place as she checked my room. I think she was going to lecture me but the blank look in my eyes stopped her. It's unnerving how everything went silent.

"How many fingers am I holding up?..."

I did not answer as I reached out to where I heard her voice come from. I could have felt for her chakra but distress would not let me do that. My action was what made her shout for tou-san. Tou-san came and carried me as we left for the hospital.

*:. . o(≧▽≦)o . .:*

Tsunade-shishou barged into hospital room as my parents were fussing over me. "Please stand aside, Haruno-san," was all it t ook for my parents to go to the side and seat on a spare bed. "I can't find a trace of the unkown substance left in your body... Haruno-san if you can kindly leave us, we have urgent matters to discuss."

"If it is urgent then-" "Please, kaa-chan... I'll talk to you later."

There was silence then I heard kaa-chan sigh and tou-san ushering her out with him. The door closing was the only sound that can be heard as I waited for shishou to speak.

"The sample gathered a few days ago just up and vanished while under micro-testing earlier this morning. It was as though it evaporated before their very eyes."

My eyes widened in shock. The poison was not in my body, the sample was gone, there was no way to find out what it was and... I might actually be blind for real.

"I'm sorry, Sakura-chan... the damage in your eyes can not be undone. The poison targeted your body, critically harming the process of your internal respiration... After some time, it could have circulated around the nearest organ from where it could have initially entered."

She grabbed my shoulder.

"Do you remember being hit in the face or the sides of your head?"

Shishou... shishou's voice broke at the end... I was still in shock... I couldn't answer even if I wanted to. The shock prevented the impact of my blindness to connect.

And when it will... It will not be pretty.

*:.。. o(≧▽≦)o .。.:*

"AAAAHHH!" I screamed as I woke from the same nightmare I had ever since that day, so much for getting some z's tonight.

It was actually pretty sad for me to only see the faces of my precious people when they're contorted in pain in my nightmares. I really cursed my blindness for situations like these.

Maybe I deserved this blindness for being pathetically weak on that particular battle. I should've known that he wouldn't accept defeat without severely injuring both of us.

TBC

AN:
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