I DON'T OWN NARUTO OR STEALING HEAVEN THEME BY ELIZABETH SCOTT

When I get to the hospital I am finally able to see Mom. She is the ER all dressed-up and ready to go. Yeah, I know she bounces back fast. I'm sure that she is even trying to sneak out of here, but she is not about to pull the wool over my eyes. She has a smile on her face. She stands up and hugs me. "Not so fast," I say as I hug her "I want to speak to the doctor." She puts on an innocent look. "I sound better don't I?" She asks me. "That's not the point and no you don't." "You try to sound normal after you had a tube shoved down your throat." She says laughing. I pull away from her. "Mom, they said something about cancer and they ran some more tests." Mom looks around and in a hush voice she says "We need to go before they figure out we don't have any insurance." "Mom, they already know." I tell her. For once she actually looks shocked. "Don't worry about it I called Blaken and he handled everything." She shakes her head and before she can say anything the doctor comes up to us. "Am I interrupting?" She asks. Mom shakes her head, but I can tell her look she is giving me she is not happy. The doctor explains to her everything that I already know. Until she gets to the result of test they ran. "I'm sorry, but it's cancer."

She shows us some x-rays of Mom's lungs and there are some black spots on it. not one, but multiple. And for the next two days Mom stays in the hospital. She won't even talk to me. She just flips through magazines ignoring my presences. The doctor comes sometimes to check-in on her. She always puts on a face saying that she is doing fine. It isn't the doctor tells me to join her outside for a minute. "Don't worry about her. All patients have a different way of adjusting to this sort of news." She says with a reassuring smile. "Nah, that's just Mom being herself." I say with a small smile. She gives off a small laugh and she opens Mom's file. "We looked at some more test and well, it seems that its spreading." "What exactly is spreading?" but I know the answer I just want to hear it from her. "The cancer. We need to start her on aggressive treatment." I bite my lip. "In other words chemotherapy." She nods her head. "She needs to agree to this." I nod my head fully understanding what she is saying.

I go back to Mom. Even though she is probably still mad at me she glances at me and then goes back to the magazine she has been reading. Try as she might pretending that she is ignoring me she has been on the same page for the past half hour. I sit down next to her. "I just talked to the doctor," She continues to ignore me. "She says-"Mom cuts me off quick. "You know what I hate about being in hospital? The nurses and doctors thinking they can help people with a lost cause. Always asking me the same damn questions. Even those damn residents and you. How I'm feeling, do I need anything, or do I understand what is going on? Do I look like a damn child? Do you think I want to spend day after day, night after night in here?" I feel tears forming in my eyes. I shake my head. She rubs my cheek. "Sakura, don't look like that. I just want to be away from this place. Im like a caged bird. I also want you to stop writing checks every second they find out something else. I don't want this. "She breaths and I can hear this rattling sound coming from her. "And I know I need chemo, but I cant do it here." She looks around the room.I bite my lip. "How about we go somewhere else?"

Her eyes suddenly seem to shine. "I mean, we can go to another hospital. A better one even." She gives me a broken smile. "Then you will be writing more checks than necessary." She says. "We have the money." I argue with her. She takes my hand and holds it. "Sweetie, that's for the future. Not for me to sit here and read stupid magazines. Not for a room that's about a dull as the color gray." I can't believe what I'm hearing. "Why don't you want this?" I say. I feel a tear roll down my face. "Because." She says. I feel her wipe my tear away. I close my eyes. I feel her place a hand on my head and taps on my ear. The same signal as we used when I was younger. Only this time I don't follow this signal. "Please Mom! For me, I already lost Dad I can't lose you too." I cry. I hug her tight. The same way I did when I was younger when she came home from the hits. She is quiet, but I can feel her rub my hair. "Alright. My little Cheery Blossom." I open eyes and give her a smile.

I end up calling Gaara that night. I don't know what compels me to. I stand outside the front door and take out the note he left on the door. It's not until how he sounds when he answers the phone how late I realize it is. I can see it dark and late enough for the stars. I didn't even see them. "You're asleep," I say. Well no duh, I think to myself. "You know forget it. I shouldn't have called. I'm sorry." I stumble around words. "Sakura?" He asks. "Yeah." I hear him sit up over the phone. "I thought so. Where are you?" He sounds more awake now. "I'm at the house. Mom's asleep and I thought I'd call at-" I look at the clock on the wall inside. "three in the morning. Oh jeez. I didn't even know. I'm sorry." "Don't be. Let me just-ow!" I hear the sound of something falling. "You heard nothing." He said. "Are you okay?" "Well this is embarrassing, I fell out of bed." I can't help, but laugh at him. "I should have been known you would like that." I can hear the smile in his voice. "Well of course…Um, how did you know it was me?" I say. "Maybe it cause you didn't say hello or the fact that you just started talking, which is very you by the way. I'm shocked you didn't even start off with a question. But the real reason is because I know your voice no matter what." I'm speechless. I really don't know what to say, but Gaara does. "I'll see you soon." "Okay."

I know this chapter was a bit of a downer. I tried to lighten it up at the end, but after rereading this I still felt depressed so I decided to update two times today. So, lets you and I get out off this funk and go to the next chapter . And yes im realizing this is becoming more than three last chapters :P. Review me!