Iruka walked into the staffroom. Inside, Tsunade, Kakashi, Gai and Kurenai were all sat around on some dark grey sofa's discussing their patients.
"Hello Iruka" Tsunade said as Iruka walked in, she didn't turn around to face him as she was still listening to Kurenai's interesting story.
"Hello Tsunade, I have something to ask regarding Naruto" he said as he sat down next to Kakashi. Kakashi placed an arm around his shorter boyfriend and turned to comment on something Gai had said about Lee.
"What is it?" Tsunade asked, motioning for the small group to be quiet and listen. Iruka took a deep breath.
"I would like to start off by saying, in the past few months Naruto has made a miraculous recovery. He has managed to sleep for a full night every night for just over two months I believe, and judging from the potition he was in when he first arrived this is the work of a god. Due to this information I am sure you are already aware of you and Shizune will have already started reducing his dose from the total limit, to slighly less. And yes I do understand that he is still far from recovery based on the dosage issue, but at this rate he will be at a low enough dose to be released in say the next few weeks if we really push the limit. This means that Naruto will soon be able to go home to his parents and live a normal life which is great, but there is one important factor that you aren't taking into context which I have, personally, been tracking. The factor is Sasuke. Now I am completely aware that I cannot pin Naruto's whole recovery on the presence of one person, but if you think about it in a certain way, Naruto's insomnia developed due to the loss of his brother who he treasured and adored, so it would be an equal amount of sense given his insomnia is getting a million times better because he has found someone else who he cares about as much as Kurama. So, the point I'm making is to keep Sasuke in mind when Naruto is released, I don't want him coming back in here because he has realised he is nothing without Sasuke Uchiha. I'm also not saying to let Sasuke out prematurely, I'm just asking if it would be a possibility to releaze the two at the same time" Iruka finishes.
Tsunade listened intently to what Iruka was saying, she nodded at the points he made and once he finished speaking she thought to herself.
"I cannot make any promises, Iruka" she said, "especially since I am aware you will be slightly influenced by the young love given yourself and Kakashi, but I will monitor Sasuke's condition very closely and if, by the time Naruto is recovered, Sasuke's condition is stable enough I-"
Tsunade was cut off by Kiba bursting through the door, panting and trying to get his words out.
"Iknowimnotmeantobeinherebutsasukestriedtokillhimselfpleasecomeandhelp" he shouted ,
"woah woah woah Kiba calm down" Kakashi said and walked over to him, Kiba was jumping around on the spot, obviously in complete panic. "Whats happened?"
"Sasuke's tried to kill himself please come with me" Kiba shouted once more, Tsunade shot Iruka a glare as the staff ran after Kiba down to Naruto's room.
Tsunade burst through the bathroom door inside Naruto and Sasukes room. Inside, Naruto was lying on top of Sasuke. There was blood everywhere, Sasuke had tried to patch up the hole in his wrist with some sort of fabric and Naruto was crying on his chest. Tsunade ran over and pushed Naruto out the way.
"He's not conscious, call the medics" Tsunade shouted and Kakashi ran out the room, Tsunade grabbed the fabric from her uniform belt and tied it around Sasuke's arm. She picked Sasuke up and ran out the room, followed by Naruto.
Tsunade ran into the nurses room and placed Sasuke on a table, "he's lost a lot of blood we need to stitch up that wound and transfer some blood fast" she said as she attached a heart monitor and placed a needle in Sasuke's arm. Shizune nodded and began transfering blood. The rest of the staff were outside watching and soon enough the rest of the medical crew joined them in the room. Once there was no longer any need for Tsunade she shot Iruka a look and said, "we need to talk. Now!"
Back in the staff room Tsunade was pacing around a chair Iruka was sat in. "Did you know this would happen?"
"of course not"
"is this a game to you? Trying to make me consider releasing patients who don't even seem slightly more stable?"
"Tsunade listen to me, I'm begging you" Iruka pleaded, he had a point he just needed her to listen to him,
"what?" She snapped, obviously panicked from what just happened and was obviously taking it out on Iruka.
"Please just hear me out, Sasuke tried this because he was scared, because he thought Naruto was going to leave him. There is nothing more scary to someone who once tried to kill themself because they lost their parents then fearing you're going to lose the love of your life" He said, "Sasuke needs to know that Naruto is going to be there with him, and he won't lose him. Chances are if we release Naruto without Sasuke, Sasuke will try this again and succeed. Please. Just give me a week to prove this, if something goes wrong you can fire me, I'm that confident about this" Iruka said. He never put his job on the line, losing his job meant he would lose Kakashi and that was one thing Iruka never wanted to lose.
Tsunade looked at him, despite the fact this was the stupidest idea anyone had ever suggested to her he had a point. She sighed and placed her hand on her forehead, "one week, got it? And if they both haven't shown a drastic improvement you're gone."
I am so sorry for the late chapter, and the short one at that. Fanfiction is currently not allowing us to update stories for some reason SO IF YOU'RE A WRITER I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE SOMETHING THAT WORKS! Write up your chapter, email it to yourself and add it as a document using the app. It worked for someone else and worked for me so thankyou so much to that person. Next chapter will be longer as I wasn't sure this would work. Thank you for reading.