Prompt: Slippery Snake
Pairing: KabutoXSakura
Kabuto was a twisted SOB, but he was a twisted SOB who had medical knowledge and no conscience to keep him from carrying out his tests. So when Sakura was assigned the task of going through all the notes and files Ibiki's ANBU had recovered from Orochimaru's lair she had been more than a bit nervous. Then she had found out that it was all in code and if he had still been alive she would have hunted him down and then punched the man through a wall.
It took her and the decoding team three months to break the code, another month for her to memorize it and become comfortable enough with it to start translating it. She was pleasantly surprised to find everything beautifully detailed and not too gruesome. That is until an ANBU brought in tapes of Kabuto performing several surgeries. One of the ANBU heaved, Ibiki turned his head at one point; but Sakura forced herself to watch. The result was important to curing a lung disease that had plagued Hayate and Itachi. When it was finished she went over the notes again, and then forced herself to watch the video again. Nightmares plagued her for weeks, and more than once she had woken up in the arms of one of the many men who came in the black of night for treatment.
She was their medic, their girl; it hurt to see her wake up screaming covered in a cold sweat, but she persevered. Kabuto had been dangerously close to a cure and now she was determined to find it. In a way she became obsessed, so much so that even Ibiki, the biggest workaholic in Konoha, chastised her.
The day she made a break through and found out the last herb for the cure Konoha as a whole released a breath they hadn't realized they had held. The knowledge of all of Kabuto's notes ingrained in her memory, she gave the okay for them to be taken into the bowels of Konoha hopefully to never be seen again.
Kabuto may have been a slippery snake, but he had been one smart slippery snake.
I am exhausted, it's been a day and a half, and somewhere in the chaos my original idea for this couple went poof and this took its place. I apologize for nothing. Any who, don't expect updates for my other stories until Friday. Tomorrow and Thursday are going to be busy. Wish me luck and let me know who you want to see tomorrow.