Week 3: Sleep — May 18: cuddles / sleep talking | prompts by KakaSaku-Haven on tumblr
She was entering hour 10 of her 8-hour shift at the hospital when Kakashi was rushed in, pale as a ghost and slung over Genma's shoulder, unresponsive. Sakura reached them first, immediately reaching out to Kakashi to send her probing chakra into his system for triage. "Get me a gurney, now!" Sakura shouted toward the nurses' station.
Once she hauled Kakashi off Genma and onto the gurney, she stilled at what she saw. Finally able to get a good look at the state he was in, Sakura almost wished she hadn't. He was shirtless, but it wasn't immediately obvious as he was completely covered in blood and his skin was in ribbons. Muscle and, in some memorable places, bone partially exposed and protruding.
"I swear to god, Genma, if you don't start talking right now about what happened…" Sakura's threat peters out as she looks at Genma's bloodless face and terrified gaze. She tries again, "Genma, hey, look at me." When he manages to focus his eyes on her, she sends him a slight smile, all she can muster, and continues softly, "it's going to be okay. You got him here, and we've got it now. You just need to tell me what happened, okay? Assailants using any poisons that you're aware of? Was Kakashi hit with any jutsu?"
Genma cleared his throat, trying to find any moisture in his bone-dry mouth with which to answer Sakura's questions. While he struggled to swallow, he shook his head and finally rasped out, "No, don't know of any poison or jutsu. Just looked like an Iwa nin with a knife play predilection."
Nodding, Sakura began pushing Kakashi's gurney towards the double doors leading to the operating rooms. "Thanks, Genma, go home, take a shower, and get some rest; I've got Kakashi."
When he next saw Kakashi, he thought he must have hit his head at some point, because he was clearly seeing things. Rubbing his eyes for good measure, Genma stepped further into Kakashi's room to take in the scene before him. Kakashi-Copy-Ninja-Hatake was curled up on his side, arms wrapped around a comically large fox plushie, cuddling it to his chest with his head nestled into its bright red faux fur.
"Naruto beat you here. And he's adopted a new policy of always bringing something to remind the hospital-bound of him. Hence the fox." Genma hadn't even noticed Kakashi's other visitor and turned his head sharply at the sound of her voice. Sakura was settled into a hospital chair by the window with a medical journal opened on her lap.
Genma raised an eyebrow before replying, "I didn't take Kakashi for a snuggler."
"To be fair, he was barely conscious when Naruto gifted him that...thing. I'm sure he'll be mortified to learn how human he is when barely cognizant of his surroundings." Genma thought the look she gave the copy nin spooning his fox was equal parts tender and amused exasperation.
Genma was about to reply when there was a shuffling from the bed. Kakashi turned over, snuggling the fox more firmly, and murmuring something that sounded suspiciously like "Kurama-plushie-sama" and "tickles" before letting out a decidedly disturbing giggle.
Genma slowly swiveled his gaze to Sakura; catching her eye, they shared an equally appalled look. "That sound coming from that man is just...wrong," Genma said as a shiver ran down his spine. "I would be excited for all the blackmail material here, but I actually don't think I'd survive revealing any of this to Kakashi."
Sakura nodded solemnly in agreement, as if she'd had similar thoughts about the man, "He would straight up end you."