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Gold Rimmed Cards Get Burnt

The Hokage's place was on fire…

By the time Iruka and Anko got there, the fire had spread it's way across a whole half the building.

Genma, Gekkou, Kakashi and Wanko were already there.

"Holy Shit…" Gekkou mumbled he watched the fire lick up the wood so easily.

"Damn it! What if Shizune's in there!" Genma yelled worriedly.

Genma was about to run in when Iruka grabbed him by the shoulder, "Genma! You can't go in there yet! We've got to put the fire out!"

Genma chewed his toothpick furiously and then said, "I'm going to get some water!"

"I'll go too!" Iruka yelled, following Genma and disappearing.

"Me too!" Kakashi said, apparently waking up from his drunken daze.

"Shit…how could this have happened?" Anko asked as the other ninjas stood helplessly.

"I think it started with that big board thingy…and then it must have spread across…" Wanko said, pointing at the remains of the calendar scoreboard.

"Oh shit, 'cough' Oh shit 'cough'…" Gekkou grumbled as the fire increased.

"Gekkou-kun!" A girl with purple hair and an ANBU mask called.

"Yugao! 'Cough'…" Gekkou shouted back, over the roar of the fire.

"Gekkou-kun! Get away from here! The smoke is making your condition worse!" Yugao screamed, pulling her ANBU cat mask down and looking into Gekkou's eyes worriedly.

"Can't 'cough'…I've got to 'cough cough cough'…"

"Gekkou GO NOW!" Yugao screamed, pulling her mask back down, "Me and the ANBU team will take care of this!"

Gekkou watched as his girlfriend and two other ANBU members vanished into the flaming building.

"Yu… 'cough cough'…gao 'cough cough cough'…"

Anko patted Gekkou on the back, "You don't need to be here, go home okay? Me and Wanko will be helping."

Gekkou nodded and dashed off into the trees.

The twins watched as ANBU members began carrying people out of the Hokage's building, "C'mon Wanko, let's see if anyone needs help!"

Wanko nodded, "Hai!"

Kakashi, Iruka and Genma returned with some buckets of water and when Kakashi used a special jutsu on it, the water grew and hit the building in big waves.

Iruka and Genma ran backwards and forwards as Kakashi continued with his special jutsu.

Kurenai, Asuma and Gai also showed up, helping Iruka and Genma with the water supply.

Anko and Wanko tended to the injured, moving them away from the chaos and calming them down as the medical team arrived to help.

Gekkou, should've reached home by now, but he hadn't even moved from the trees.

He was sadly watching as ANBU members carried out strangely naked Izumo, naked Kotetsu and many others of Tsunade's close helpers and workers.

Yugao dashed in and out quite a lot of times, when she brought a coughing Shizune out, Genma ran to her and they embraced in a warm hug as Yugao dashed back in.

"Damn 'cough' it…" Gekkou muttered, feeling utterly useless.

The flame was still spreading, the water was not doing much to it, the building was quickly being incinerated.

"Yugao…" Gekkou mumbled anxiously, when he realised she'd been in the building for more than ten minutes, "YUGAO!"

Gekkou flew from the trees he was hiding in and dashed past the commotion of ninjas and into the burning hell.

"YUGAO! 'COUGH COUGH' YUGAO!" Gekkou screamed frantically as he dodged falling timbers and raging flames.

"YUGAO! 'COUGH COUGH COUGH' YUGAO! WHERE ARE 'COUGH COUGH' YOU!"

Gekkou wandered deeper into the building, until he was practically trapped by a wall of flames, his throat was hoarse from screaming and coughing and the smoke was making him dizzy.

"Yugao?…" He mumbled as he stumbled over to a limp figure on the floor, "YUGAO!"

She had passed out, probably from inhaling too much smoke and was slumped under a furiously blazing ceiling which threatened to fall in at any moment.

"Yugao! 'cough cough' Yugao please…" Gekkou mumbled as he bent over to pick her up.

"Yugao…no…'cough'….Yugao…"

Gekkou lifted his unconscious girlfriend up into his arms and he stumbled blindly through the flames.

His vision was blurring, his body felt weak and he felt like he couldn't breathe, "Yugao…"

Outside the ninjas were severely panicking, the fire had almost consumed the whole building and a lot of people had been injured.

"Tsunade-sama's missing!" Shizune screamed at an ANBU member.

"Shit…Yugao's not out yet!" An ANBU member with a hippo mask shouted to another member, with a bear mask.

"She was supposed to get Tsuanade-sama…she's not back yet!" Bear mask replied.

"Shit!" Hippo masked said and they dashed quickly towards the building.

They were metres from the entrance when the whole building collapsed in…

"NO!" Shizune screamed, as Genma hugged her tightly, "Tsunade-sama!"

All ninja's froze; anyone who was still in the building would've been killed.

The ANBU members hung their heads, "Yugao…"

Kakashi narrowed his eyes, "What the hell do you think you're all doing! WE STILL HAVE PEOPLE TO SAVE!"

It was as if Kakashi's voice was the play button on a remote, everyone looked at him shocked at first, but then they sprang back into action and the ANBU members dived back into the debris.

Kakashi panted and wiped the sweat from his face, the fire was finally out, "C'mon guys lets go!"

Kakashi, Iruka, Genma, Gai, Kurenai and Asuma then followed the ANBU members into the rubble and they began furiously digging for survivors.

Iruka froze; there was a pack of gold-rimmed cards lying scorched near his feet.

"Gekkou?…" Iruka frantically dug at the mound of wood underfoot and screamed at the others for help.

The ninjas dug using jutsus and some, like Iruka, with his bare hands. Iruka dug at the debris until his fingers bled and many splinters injected themselves into his skin.

"What the?" Kakashi mumbled as a bright blue light shone up through the mass of charred wood.

KABOOM! The light grew brighter and blasted all the ninjas and a lot of debris flying in all directions.

"YAAAARGH!" Iruka screamed as he was sent flying into Kakashi.

The ninjas looked up in surprise, an angel was emerging from the rubble, surrounded by a bright blue orb of chakra.

Shizune hugged Genma tightly and grinned, "It's Tsunade-sama!"

Medical teams rushed over as the blue orb vanished and she fell limply onto two other unconscious figures.

The injured and exhausted were rushed to hospital the crisis was over.

Anko stood happily over Iruka's hospital bed, "Iruka-baby…"

Iruka smiled, "Anko-sama…"

Anko brushed his hair and Iruka moved his hands up to her face and she giggled, his hands had been thickly bandaged and resembled golf balls.

"Oh get a room!" Wanko yelled from Kakashi's bedside.

Anko ignored her sister and kissed Iruka passionately.

"Hn." Wanko grumbled turning to Kakashi, "Ooh Kakashi-kun! Shall we make out too?"

Kakashi blinked slowly, his chakra had been completely exhausted, his eyes turned into upside-down 'U' shapes.

"Um…Do I know you?" Kakashi asked.

"I'm Wanko! Remember?"

"Pfft! Wanko?" Kakashi chuckled.

THWACK!

"Ow…that hurt."

Gai laughed from the side of the ward, next to Kurenai and Asuma, Genma and Shizune.

"That's my rival!" Gai said cheerily, flashing his biggest smile and blinding everyone.

"Eh hem…" A medical ninja entered the room, "I'm sorry…but…Hokage-sama and the other two patients are in a critical condition…there is only a forty percent chance that they will survive.

Everyone in the room grew silent as the medical ninja left.

"Poor Gekkou…" Genma mumbled sadly.

"Tsunade-sama…" Shizune whispered.

And then everyone waited…

And waited…

And waited…

The condition of Tsunade improved…

The condition of Yugao improved…

The condition of Gekkou…

…Did not…

Heh... lil cliffhanger type thingy...suspense do you feel it? The air blowing over your back? ...oh wait...I think it was just Gai farting... O.O