Chapter 35

AN: Kishimoto owns all except my characters-Kiminari, and Kimiko, and later characters. Also I'm probably not going to follow any of the story line except a few small things. I may take the characters outside their natural personalities, but that's because it's my story, and it'll add to it. Another thing: since I'm not following the story line of the series- All main (good) characters will start out the same age as they should be, but even though the Akatsuki will be around, the war will not happen until later; if it does at all. Again this is because I'm making up my own story line; it gets kinda boring when nothing has changed and, you readers would be able to guess what was going to happen all the time. So, enjoy, and please comment, review, rate, whatever you wanna do. :D

P.S. I don't like to go into detail to tell you things most of you already know, and if you don't already know them, then it's best I don't tell you.

When we had finally made our way to the hospital, I ushered Kazuma into a small room with four beds, then assisted Kakashi in placing Haru on one of the other beds. While we were doing this, I was sending out chakra, searching for Sakura or someone else of high standings. As soon as I was sure Haru was in a safe position, I told Kakashi where I had found Sakura and Lady Tsunade together helping a young medic, and sent him off to get them.

After he left I asked Kazuma to keep an eye on Haru's condition while I went across the hall to get the things we'd need to bandage his wounds, although they were very minor. I had just returned to the room when the hokage and her apprentice came in.

"Lady Hokage." I greeted nodding a quick bow. "We don't have time for an antidote to work; I need your help to extract it." She nodded and had Sakura find the source of the injection while she talked to me.

"These aren't Akatsuki are they?"

I shook my head. "No, the cloaks must have been Ibiki's pass-time; I would have known if they were real." She nodded, accepting what I said easily. "Kazuma will be fine once we've healed his wounds. Ibiki broke his wrist, and I think he may have a torn muscle in his right leg, but I'm not sure where yet." I said, gesturing in his direction.

"We'll worry about him in a bit." She said tossing him a bottle of pain killer. He nodded in thanks. "Right now we need to worry about..?"

"Haru." I said, to answer her. She must have seen the way I looked at him, because she placed a comforting hand on my shoulder.

"Well, Sakura. Did you find it?" Sakura nodded, then pointed out the place we were to extract it. Once Lady Tsunade was beside her, she left. In an exasperated tone, Tsunade said to me, "I don't know what her problem is, but I guess you're going to have to help me with this." I gulped. I hope I don't mess this up.

She had me use my chakra to hold Haru down, saying, "He'll probably start to wake up once I get most of it out. That'll be a good sign, but he may make it spread faster if he struggles too much." I nodded climbing up to sit on his stomach. Lady Tsunady looked at me questioningly.

"He's stronger than he looks, and has quite a low pain tolerance." I chuckled a little at the last part. I tucked his left arm between his body and my leg, but left the right out so she could extract the poison, using only my left knee to hold it down near his shoulder. Then I wrapped my right foot over his legs behind me, focused my chakra to keep him pinned to the bed, and gave her a quick nod; she began.

At first, it was simple enough, but when he finally began to wake up, it was worse than I'd imagined. I had to use my hand and chakra to keep his mouth closed, so he wouldn't scream, but eventually I needed two hands to hold him down. Haru, if you're OK after this, I'm going to give you the worst time about your pain tolerance; and there's no telling how much Kazuma will have to say. I chuckled mentally.

"Kakashi!" I called. He came over to stand on my right. "Open one of his eyes for me. I can get him to calm down; he won't even care at this point." He nodded and lifted one of Haru's eyelids as I activated my Sharingan. Haru still seemed to be incoherent, as his eyes didn't move. Once I had him in a genjutsu, I mentally whispered soothing things to help him calm down; I was successful.

Haru's P.O.V.

All I could feel was pain. I had tried to tell Kazuma that we should have just snuck in, but he insisted on playing full innocence. I knew his leg was injured -though I didn't yet know how bad- and I, apparently, had a poison equivalent to one of sasori's being forcibly extracted. I knew I should be thankful to whoever was doing this, otherwise I'd be dead, but all I could focus on was…

The next thing I knew, I was under a genjutsu by the Sharingan. I'd trained enough with Kazuma and Kimi to know how to get out, but when I heard a familiar voice I stopped fighting it. I listened for a moment.

"It's OK, Haru. I'm here with you. Stop fighting, you'll only make yourself worse; you're in really bad shape." I recognized that voice; I stopped. I couldn't feel any more pain, so I tried to focus on placing who it belonged to. Then it clicked: my Kimi. She must have heard about us and come to find us. Thank you so much, Kimi. You've just earned yourself a big surprise as soon as I wake up. I thought, relaxing completely and just enjoying the sound of her talking to me.

After a few more minutes, she released the genjutsu and I could once again feel pain, though barely any. I could feel something heavy on top of my stomach. "Did you get it all out?" I heard Kimiko question someone.

"Yes." Came the response. "He may have to stay in bed a few hours though; we need to keep a close eye on his condition."

I felt the weight on top of me shift slightly and realized Kimiko must have had to hold me down; damn low pain tolerance. As she moved to get down, I reached up to hold her down. I hadn't forgotten my promise.

Kimiko's P.O.V.

Haru had not fought my genjutsu long; I assumed he knew it was me. Lady Tsunade had finally stopped working, so I asked, "Did you get it all out?"

She nodded, responding, "Yes. He may have to stay in bed a few hours though; we need to keep a close eye on his condition." Then she moved across the room to help tend to Kazuma's leg, while Kakashi left to try to find Sakura and figure out what was wrong.

I breathed a sigh of relief and began to get off the bed, but Haru seemed to have other ideas. He must be awake. I thought, blushing madly as he held me down at my hips. I tried to work my way out of his grasp, but he wouldn't let me. After a moment or two of my struggling, he let go with one hand. I thought it was going to be my chance to escape, but then he used that hand to push himself up. The next thing I knew, his lips had crashed onto mine. I froze; the hand he had used to prop himself up made its way around my waist. For a moment, I didn't have the slightest clue what to do, but I eventually gave in and kissed back, wrapping my arms around his neck.

Kazuma let out a wolf-whistle. "Nice one Haru. Just be sure to get a room before you take it any further." He joked, earning him a light smack on the head from Lady Tsunade, saving me the trouble of trying to find and throw something at him, and earning a loud 'ow'.

We both pulled away, and I continued hugging Haru, who in turn hugged me back. After a few moments, we heard Kakashi coming back down the hall where he had been talking to Sakura, but before he came in, I quickly moved so that, although I was still hugging Haru, I was sitting beside him in what Kakashi would deem and 'unprovocative' postion.

He entered the room and smiled at us. I knew he would want a formal introduction for Haru, so I pulled away and began. "Kakashi, you already know Haru. Haru, this is Kakashi Hatake; I've told you about the man who raised me after I moved to Konoha." I reminded him. He smiled and nodded. "Well, this is him." I smiled as the two exchanged the usual formalities.

Now all I needed was to find a way to get my 'Uncle' Obito, and my father back, and my family would all be together.