Prompt: Handwriting
Pairing: Pein/NagatoXSakura
He noticed that her hand writing wasn't the stereotypical scrawl of most doctors, not that she was like any other doctor he had met. She was pushy, demanding, in his face about every little thing. All though he supposed he deserved that after nearly destroying her village and nearly killing everyone she cared about, but still he had so far been spared and she had volunteered for the position of his care taker, at his fellow disciple's request. Nagato sighed he should have listened to Yahiko all those years ago about Madara.
Currently the pink haired woman was out of the room, tending to the other injured. Nagato felt the need to dry heave again, but repressed it as another presence made itself known. Nagato cursed under his breath, he barely had the strength to feed himself right now, much less defend himself against an attack, and his enemy knew that. It was why he wasn't concealing his presence. Sure enough a moment later he appeared, a mask identifying him as a root operative, and for a moment only hate stirred inside the man as what they had done to Yahiko came back to him. He squashed the feelings as soon as they stirred, remembering Naruto's words. That the only reason he wasn't dead right now was because of the boy.
Still the situation wasn't looking good, with that tanto in the man's hand, or perhaps it was a flat chested blue haired girl? "By the orders of the rokudaime, Danzo Shimura you are to be put to death for your crimes against Konoha." Nagato cursed again, everything Jiraiya and Naruto had worked for would go to hell if that man was Hokage, and staring at the figure in front of him Nagato swore he wouldn't go down without a fight. Struggling to sit up he watched as the man flew towards him, and as he waited for impact of the sword and the perfect moment to kill the man and take the operative with him, it never came.
Opening his eyes he saw the operative on the floor, not breathing, behind him was Sakura a syringe in her hand. "It's a poison that will make it look like natural causes, though I doubt that he had any family. They really do underestimate me, even if I have been keeping a low profile all these years I was trained by Tsunade Senju, one of the best medics ever and the godaime. Then again Danzo underestimates anyone with the will of fire; he had also planned on taking care of you himself when he returned from the Kage summit, but he won't be coming back from that either. It seems he's been wrong quite a bit lately."
"Who told you that?"
Sakura approached him and slipped an arm around his back lowering him back to his pillow as an anbu operative appeared in the room to take the corpse away. "Naruto, he went to ask the Raikage to spare Sasuke, some of our friends went after Naruto to tell him it was time to let Sasuke go. They found out that Sasuke had killed Danzo."
He watched her fiddle with his IV "Sasuke was your other teammate?"
She didn't look at him "Yes."
"You want him dead?"
She turned to look him in the eyes and shook her head "No, but its time he did. He's caused so much hurt and he's lost, and because of that I'd kill him if I ever saw him again."
"Why didn't you go?"
"I'm needed here."
"You love him?"
He watched her smile, it was grim and held no happiness and for a moment he couldn't help but think that she should never have to smile that way. "Loved, as in past tense. I was thirteen and ruled by my emotions. I'm a kunoichi now and I'll do what I have to in order to protect those I care about, and Naruto, Kakashi and Sai are my family and they matter much more than some stupid crush I had when I was thirteen."
Nagato smiled as she wrote down that he had gained some weight and had sat up on his own, in his chart. The hand writing was as clear as the emotions she wore on her sleeve. And as she smiled at him and told him that she would be back soon he couldn't help but want that in his life.
AN: So a guest asked for a pein/Nagato and Sakura story and this started to write itself (I am really liking writing these things!) Truthfully I think people underestimate Sakura. Once again thank you to everyone who reviewed. Speak up about who you'd like to see Sakura with tomorrow, I'm going to be nice and even give you tomorrow's prompt: I saw mommy kissing Santa Clause. That's right I'm going to be cheesy. Personally I'm leaning towards A, but my mind can be swayed, so speak up.
