alrighte! If i don't update tomorrow, i wont be updating for about 1 1/2 weeks - sorry, but i have to attend a fieldcourse and theres not internet access sobs

I hope you enjoy this chapter and its not a let down, as always let me know

(ps, sorry about the mistakes in the alst chapter, i was half asleep writing it)

The sun rose, spilling its beams across the harsh sands of the desert, across the rocks surrounding the village of the sand. Briefly caressing the face of the people stood there. Then the light became harsh, causing Naruto to shade his eyes.

The prisoners stood, seven bearing backpacks and heavily clothed. Their families had not accompanied them; some showed marks of being struck, or not sleeping.

"Seraya Hadaki – step forward"
"Hai" she stepped forward, dressed in sturdy boots, tough trousers ad robes, she looked ready to face her punishment.
"This man will take you and deliver you to the quarrymaster, go with him"
A stout driver with a whip by his side carefully tossed the young girl into the back of his cart, the oxen grumbled as they drove out into the cool morning, she watched from the back as it drove away to the North.

When it could no longer be seen Gaara spoke again "Mokono Simbi, Hadai Doushid, Metena Touyip, Sazora Touyip, Gettari Mouyit, Derwa Groyat and Rashouli Daia"
They stood in a line as a man walked forward.
He pulled Mokono to wards him, and pulling out a quill began to write on her face "Mokono Simbi" Gaara said as the man finished and formed a seal, she gasped in pain for a moment, Naruto gasped too, blood ran from where the man has written, for a tattoo sat in its place "Exile, leave my village"
"Hadai Doushid, Exile"
"Metena Touyip, Exile"
"Sazora Touyip, Exile"
"Gettari Mouyit, Exile"
"Rashouli Daia, Exile"
"Derwa Groyat…" She fought the man, trying to scratch his face, he dropped his quill grabbing her hands, and a guard grabbed her around the waist. "Death" Gaara said as she kicked out at a guard

The guards immediately dropped the woman, backing away, as fast as possible; she crouched, not hearing her sentence.
"I WILL NOT BE EXILED!" she yelled
"Sabaku Kyū no jutsu" Gaara said, sand poured from his collapsed gourd enclosing the mad woman.
"In addition to your previous crimes, resisting exile, attempting to harm my guards are added, death is your sentence"
"You can't do this!" she screamed
Gaara looked at her a moment before speaking "Sabaku Sōsō no jutsu"
The crack of her bones were audible in the stillness of dawn, the sand, more conscience of surrounding people now, buried its victim deep within the ground before returning to swirl around its manipulator.

"Zerawa Bretagm, Helana Waqur and Jeraya Youga" They were all dressed in white robes, "death together of apart?" he asked wearily, killing wasn't hard, stopping was.
They embraced one another "Together"
Their bodies were laid to one side, covered with cloths to stop the flies that had been attracted to the smell of blood
Gaara suddenly realized what had been bothering him all morning, Hoika was not in view
"Gaara-sama!" someone yelled running and screeching to a halt before them, it was a younger guard, dressed in grey streaked with sweat. He panted
"Kiray weren't you sent for Hoika?" the blue sashed captain asked.
"She's….not….there" he panted "her….father…..he's dead!"
Where would she run to? He tried to sense her using his sands, he couldn't, not even in the surrounding desert, he could feel her fathers cooling blood in their home, but not her she couldn't have gotten far, he suddenly remembered the only place devoid of sand in his village "Sakura!"
In the stillness of morning the hospital was silent, hospital staff changed shift in the cooler temperatures. Most patients were asleep, including a pink haired woman in room 56, floor A.
For security and patient safety the hospital was as far away from the gates as it could be. Gaara ran alongside Tsunade, his siblings and the other leaf ninja's for as long as he could bear it. Angry at the slow pace he finally ported himself to the hospital doors.
"Well…..they healed you up quickly didn't they" Hoika had blood down one side of her face and across the pure white dress she wore.
A katana was balanced in one hand.
"And you're all asleep too…..how convenient" she said with a mad glint raising her sword "If I can't have him - some foreign bitch cant!"
The sword stabbed downward into Sakura's sleeping body. Blood fountained into the air, the heart rate machine went crazy, alarms sounded, calling for medical attention. Hoika laughed as she stabbed repeatedly at the body, hacking it into pieces.
Gaara slammed through double doors, wondering desperately why floor A was the furthest away. Porting jutsu were dangerous in hospitals, he knew better then to use one, though he desperately wanted to,

---quick note on my version of Suna hospital, its got 6 floors above ground 6 below, started off with 2, but when they expanded it they renamed all the floors, hence why floor A is the top floor----

As he reached floor B, he could smell blood, Fresh blood, he tried to run faster, but tripped in his fatigue.
A scream rang out
"NO!" he yelled, pulling on his Chakra to form a sand cushion to drag him up the 3 flights of stairs and to the 56th room.

"Your sword technique could do with some work" a voice said beside her ear
She screamed and swung the sword around, chopping the persons head from their shoulders. Or rather would have, if said person wasn't hanging from the ceiling, as such a few stray hairs drifted down as Hoika stared between the woman stood there, and the blood soaked sheets.
"You're dead!" she cried
Sakura smirked "Ditto" and rammed her fist into the woman's face.
"But, but…" Hoika stumbled backwards blood running from her nose "I killed you!"
"No" Sakura flipped downward landing catlike
"I DID!"
"Kai" the room warped and changed, the bed was clear, no blood visible anywhere.

Hoika's eyes widened as she felt hot breath on her neck "How do you like having your mind messed with…Hoika-san?"
She shrieked and swung her sword around again only to meet thin air, chips of wood flew from the window frame as she wrenched it free.
"Slow today, aren't you?" Sakura said sat in a chair nearby "or are you slower when you're fighting an actual opponent rather than picking on a chakra sick shinobi?""
The white dressed woman howled with rage at the insult, charging towards Sakura, she didn't move and the sword swung down in its deadly arc.
Sakura easily caught the blade between her palms.

Hoika tried to force it down as Sakura stood, however as she saw sakura stood at full height she tried to wrench it free, to no avail."What are you!" she shrieked as her blade began to steam
"I am Sakura Haruno, and I am a kunoich of the leaf" she said eyes focused on the woman before her as the blade sizzled and melted, dissolved by acid.
"I am your death" Sakura snarled as her palm covered Hoika's face, the other hand around her neck. She didn't let go until the screams stopped.

Gaara wrenched open the door of the now silent room, the air had an acidic tang to it. Inside what he saw made him pause.
Sakura stood, holding onto someone, they weren't moving, when Sakura dropped the corpse he saw why.
It was unrecognizable, the face, hair and skin had been dissolved from the head.

Sakura swayed.

Gaara was quick enough to catch her, though he could feel her trembling. Tears fell freely from her closed eyes
"Sakura" he said quietly
Her eyes flew open "Gaara! I, I…" she began
He knew what she was trying to say and spoke "Hoika-san tried to kill you, she escaped from our execution this morning, yet it appears she met her doom here instead"
"Hai…" Sakura looked down shuddering she peeled her gloves off; strips of flesh were attached to the Black leather.
"Gaara?" she asked
"Hai?" he said gently sitting her up
"Can you move? I'm going to throw up"