AN:/I did not read this over and edit it in any way-not that such a thing is any different for anything I put out, but I'm a lot more conscious of this sort of thing now and want to apologize in advance for the mistakes. Also this has a heavy dosage of KimiSaku for the third place winner of my Sakura December oneshot challenge. Clap for G A B S Lubs H I M! She wanted to see Kimi kun get some love.
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Warning/ Lots and lots of OOC in this story. There will be no one in character at all throughout this story...'cept maybe Dei kun and Naruto.
Chapter Sixteen
Coils and-pardon my French-shit.
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recap
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"Sakura chan! Sakura's chan what's wrong?" Itachi cried out siddenly.
Everyone's attention turned back towards the female who had gone limp in Itachi arm, her skin a now deathly shade of white as a small sliver of blood snaked out from her parted lips and down her jaw. She wasn't moving, and Itachi could barely feel her breathing. "Sakura!" he tried calling again.
"What's wrong with her?" Deidara asked, coming up on the pair, his jealousy now forgotten. Only Sakura's well being was on his mind now. "What hapened?"
"She just went cold and fainted in my arms. She's like a freaking corps, Deidara give me your jacket! She needs warmth!" Deidara did as Itachi told him, and slipped of the jacket he had found in Sakura's house that morning to set it over her and wrap it around her arms. He brush one of them with his knuckle and pulled away as if burned. She was like ice.
Once again with his perfect timing, Orochimaru came into the room, wearing a light blue and green checkered apron, his expression frantic. He soon spotted Sakura in Itachi's arms, cold and limp with blood leaking from her lips. "Move, he ordered once he was at her side."
Both boys did as he wished, watching as he examined her. His eyes widened when he felt her small chakra coils buckling under extreme pressure within her body. This was bad. "Kimimaro, call Tsunade chan. Sakura's coils are in shock!"
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"Coils? But how could Sakura have something like that? I though no one on this side had any," Sasori asked, trying to keep his voice as calm as possible even though it ended up coming out in a frantic tone.
"Sakura's grandfather by blood was from your world remember, so both her and her mother have chakra coils, though neither of them know how to use them." Orochimaru growled as he probed her insides with a purple light that seeped from his fingertips. "Damn it, they're really fried like this. It would have been better if they weren't so delicate. They're ripping apart like tissue paper."
"Will Sakura chan be alright?" Deidara asked meekly.
"No."
A collective gasp sucked the air right out of the room, leaving the atmosphere stale and unbearable.
"But she will live. She's strong, a born fighter just like her mother, we just need to wait till Tsunade gets here. She's the ony one that can put these sort of things right. I can prevent a bit of...no-only some further damage like this, but I can't fix her coils."
"What do you mean, further damage?" Itachi asked, still holding onto his beloved's hand.
Orochimaru didn't reply at first, too absorbed in what he was doing. "There is....still someone drawing out her chakra."
The males all exchanged looks of knowing. It could be none other than the few males who were yet to be accounted for. Pein and Hidan probably weren't ones to do something so stupid, since they got the blunt of the explanation. Those younger kids still didn't know. Because they didn't pay attention, Sakura was suffering the pain she was.
Orochimaru cursed, his expression darkening. "I'm holding her coils together, but if I wasn't here, they would have ripped right apart by now. Some of you need to go out there and find the others and make sure they stop using chakra. I won't be able to hold Sakura together like this forever, and if they take too much out at once it won't matter what I do!"
With a something that sounded like a strangled moan, Itachi pried himself away from his beloved's side and dashed out the door. Sasori knelt by her side and kissed her shivering face before following after the Uchiha. Deidara seemed to most reluctant to leave. He took Sakura's hand in his and held it there, kissing the knuckles more than once as he watched her breath in and out shaken breaths that sounded lest than pleasant for his most treasured woman.
"Wait for me Sakura, I'll protect you," he whispered, before folding her hand across her chest and turning to exit at speeds most would deem dangerous.
Kiba growled at the retreating form of Deidara, but quickly turned his attention away. "W-wa-wait? I don't get what anyone is talking about. What are coils and chakra and why does Sakura have them. I thought she had a small artery mutation at birth, and that was why she was so unhealthy. Is that what this chara, cha-chakra thing is? Is that's what is hurting her?"
"Yes, it is," Orochimaru said, answering Kiba's question. "These coils are a mutation. Her mother has them, but if they don't activate they are of no harm. Sakura's are active and brittle. Is those men don't do something soon about the outtake of chakra, Sakura will die."
Kimimaro reached out for Sakura's hand on reflex at the D word.
Kiba cursed and punched the ground. "Damn it, this is all so confusing. I don't know what the hell is going on and I have no freaking idea how I can help her!" Orochimaru looked over at his adopted son and sent him an apologetic, understanding look before returning to his work. Sakura was equally precious to him as well, and so he knew what Kiba was feeling right now.
Sakura winced again and coughed up some blood, causing Kimimaro to jump a bit, his fragile heart beating ten time faster than normal.
Kiba punched the ground again.
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Deidara ran like a drunk mess throughout the mall, hitting signs and running into people and jumping over benches to get where he was going. To tell the truth, he had no idea where the hell he needed to be or get to in order to find those boys, but figured if he ran fast enough he would eventually find one of them somewhere along the way.
Climbing to stand on the top park of a metal bench, he looked out among the crowd, squinting his eyes to see if he could spot any of the suspected criminals. Ever since coming to this world, his vision in his one eye-the one behind the bangs- had been terrible. He wasn't as bad as Itachi, mind you, because he still had one very good eye, but it annoyed him to have to turn his whole head around in the mass of bodies to find one stinking person. Yeah, cause if he found one of them he would find the rest of them.
"You see anything?"
Deidara looked down and saw Sasori standing next to the side of the bench, not looking up at his partner but behind his partner at the mass of people. "No, Sasori, I don't see anything. What about you."
"I bear the same fruits as you, I am afraid. I thought you would be the one to find them with your eye though, being so used to heights after all."
"Well I'm not very high up as it is. Maybe if I could bring my bird out it would make a difference, but that would only hurt Sakura chan more and I can't stand the thought of her being in any more danger than she already is. God, my chest is going crazy with just the thought of her leaving us."
"Don't speak that way. Sakura will be fine. That man will heal her and we will find those brats and make them stop so just you keep looking, damn it," Sasori instructed turning around and walking off with a hurried spring to his step.
"I am, I am. I don't need you to tell me something like that. You go in that direction and I'll take the other way." Deidara didn't even bother to look and see that his friend had already departed in the opposite direction.
On the other side of the mall, using the best of his non-chakra powered abilities to track down and find the perpetrators, Itachi followed the hoard of young woman rushing this way and that, obviously looking for some fresh young boy was a flash of yellow and then a poof followed by smoke.
'A freaking shadow clone, damn that fox brat. It's no wonder my princess is dying back there. He can't use his chakra sparingly to save his bloody life!' Itachi though, rushing as fast as he could toward the mess.
"Naruto!" he shouted, hoping he would be heard by the right person. "Get out here!"
Not a thing happened.
"Naruto come out here right now or I'll kick your ass!"
Still nothing.
"I know you can hear me. If you don't come out I'll burn all your ramen!"
He thought he saw movement, but fear won over in the end and Naruto stayed back-hidden from the ladies. Hey, some of them were old enough to have children his own age, and if he was going to be asked he wouldn't deny seeing some white haired grannies caught up in the mix.
"If you don't come out now I won't show you where Sakura is!"
There was a hurried zip and then suddenly behind his legs Itachi felt the back of a younger shiobi. "J-j-j-j-ju-just t-take me to where S-Sakura chan is," he stuttered, his face pale as a bed sheet and his eyes wide as dinner plates.
"Not so fast, I never said that I would show you where my Sakura darling is as soon as you came out, did I?" Itachi sneered, Grabbing Naruto and hauling him off by the scruff of his neck while taking care to not be seen by the mass of ladies.
"No fair-you cheated!"
Itachi slammed Naruto up against a wall and beat him hard in the gut. His eyes were spinning red now and the Uchiha blood was never more evident that it was at that very moment. "No, you listen here. If ever there was a cheater I'm holding him right now. What the hell did you think you were doing back there-using your chakra. Dumbass, don't you know anything?"
"What's wrong with me using my own chakra to stay alive?" Naruto shot back, choking a bit at first from the punch.
"Where do you think your chakra is coming from? It's not in your body anymore."
"I don't know, the other side maybe. Ecstasy the book could be leaking it."
"Asshead!" Itachi hissed, slamming Naruto back up against the wall, not caring that his insults were beginning to mix and blur. His fists were shaking and the rest of his body faintly trembled in rage. "Sakura is the one who has your chakra!"
Naruto blinked. "Sa-Saku-ra? What's so wrong with that?"
"Don't you know anything? Sakura isn't like us. She doesn't have the same body, the same coils, the same flow of chakra, but she is still holding it all inside her. She is going through enough shit just to keep us here but because of you and the others she has slipped into critical condition. She can't deal with so much of your chakra slipping out of her at once. She's going to rip apart at this rate and it's all your guys' fault!"
The little color that had started to come back to Naruto's face all but disappeared. "What? You...., you said Sakura is hurt?" The words were broken and hushed.
"Damn right. If that creepy snake guy hadn't been there to keep her safe she would have been dead already. Hell, I don't know if she's even still alive seeing as how my brother and Gaara are still using their chakra."
Naruto looked like he was about to throw up and from the look on his face he was fighting to hold back his cookies. "How could this have happened?" he mumbled to himself, his hands shaking at his sides and his skin a light ashen gray.
"Enough of your self loathing and pity," Itachi commanded, dragging him up the wall before setting him back down on his feet. Naruto barely managed to remain standing on his own. "If you want to do anything about this, you need to help me find Sasuke and Gaara. If not Sakura could be in worse trouble than she already is."
Itachi turned away, ready to run when Naruto grabbed a hold of his arm. "What are you going to do about Sakura? Aren't we going to go see her?" he asked.
"Not until we stop those two."
Naruto's eyes narrowed and his face flushed with new color. "How do I know that you're not just trying to trick me into staying away from Sakura chan? I want to go check up on her and make sure you are telling the truth."
"Not now, there's no time," Itachi hissed, tugging on Naruto's arm.
Naruto jerked his arm away and broke free. "I'm not going with you. I'll find Sasuke and Gaara on my own and then we're going to find Sakura, and she's going to be just find-chakra or not."
Itachi's eyes widened when he heard the threat. Naruto didn't believe the truth about Sakura's illness and was going to go on using his chakra because of such an unbelief. He couldn't let the blond do such a thing. Sakura's life was at stake and if there was anything more important than her well being, it surly wasn't Naruto's health. If force was what it took to shut up the bond and protect his most treasured princess than he would gladly bloody his hands in such an act. He only prayed he could finish everything quickly before Naruto had another chance to use his chakra.
"You better not be serious fox brat."
"Maybe I am."
The hum of chakra was gone, but the speed was still magnificent in which Itachi toppled the blond brat.
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When Pain and Hidan stumbled upon Sasuke using up his chakra in a henge, they hadn't really thought so much about the possibility of Sakura being in danger because of this. None the less, both males thought it would be entertaining to gag the youngest Uchiha and tie him up while they scoured the rest of the mall.
Sure there was a crowd of women swooning over them, but now that they were done smiling and busy frowning/fuming/grumbling/glaring, none of the females were brave enough to approach. No, those older boys were the kind that you admired from afar.
Being the taller and broader of the two, Hidan had Sasuke thrown of her shoulder with only one arm wrapped around the Uchiha to keep him form running off. Neither of the two males seemed happy about the situations they were in. Sasuke for obvious reasons, and Hidan because he didn't want to be carrying around a boy on his back like he was his freaking mother. He looked like he was carrying off the younger to a dark alleyway to rape him or something. God, what did these young girls think about these days? Sick bitches.
"Hidan, stop," Pein comanded, pausing himself.
"Hidan took another two steeps and turned around, not quite pausing. "Why should I?" he asked.
"Sakura is close by."
Hidan stiffened and his face turned red. He frowned and looked away, trying to appear as if he didn't care. "L-like I c-care about s-something like that?"
"If you don't, that is fine as well. I will pursue her, however."
Pein turned away from Hidan and started walking off in a different direction, following the unseen trail of chakra that tumbled out of a dojo. It was a bright white and unlike anything he had seen before. It was like a infant's chakra before it had settled and formed within the user's body. He didn't know who the chakra belonged to, but there was more than one fog of such home like magic coming from such a place, so he decided it was best he cheek there first. It couldn't hurt.
"Ch-c-cchh," Hidan hissed, trying to look cool as he turned and followed the shorter man with as much dignity as possible while being the one who followed. "How do you know where Sak-uh-that is where she is?"
"I don't, but I have a good feeling about this," he answered, stopping outside the dojo. "Naruto is here though, and that should provide some entertainment."
"How do you-"
"His chakra is raging from inside," Pein cut off before pulling open the door and entering.
Hidan pushed his foot out and caught the door before it swung shut and entered after the former leader of his favorite criminal organization. (Not that there were a lot of criminal organizations he like, but the one he was a part of was the best just because they had him.)
There was only space enough for Hidan to take one step forward before he crashed into the back of a stone still Pein.
"Shit, you fucker, what the-." Hidan looked around to see what it was that had caused Pein to stop dead and stiffened. Sakura was on the ground in the arms of a white haired boy. Another such youth said beside her while a man who was all too fimiluar hovered over her sickly body, his hands glowing with purple. "What the hell?" he hissed. "What the hell happened?"
Only the one boy with brown hair looked up to glare, the other was too busy holding her hand and keeping his eyes on her. He looked to be in physical pain as he watched her heave and gasp in pain as breath fought to make it out of her lungs. Her coils were burning up and making the rest of her body mess up in their daily functions.
Pein was a bit more calm about the matter, but showed worry non the less. He dropped Sasuke like a sack of potatoes and hastened to Sakura side, getting on his knees before the golden eyed man. "Orochimaru san, isn't it? What is wrong with Sakura chan?"
"Her coils are tearing up. We don't know who, but some of the boys that came through Ecstasy must have been using their chakra too much at once. Since Sakura is the one that called them here, their chakra is stored in her body. She can't let too much out at once, do you understand?"
Pein looked over his shoulder and glared at Sasuke who was still wildly dizzy from being carried and dropped and kicked by Hidan, there was even foam at his mouth for whatever reason. He was lucky he was passes out so that he couldn't feel the pain.
"You said several people were using their chakra, who were the others?"
"I don't know," Orochimaru replied. "Aside from you two, Itachi, Deidara, and Sasori, I don't know who is left."
"Sasuke split up with Naruto and Gaara, so those two are probably the ones using their chakra. Hidan!"
The foul mouthed male looked up from kicking Sasuke in the side. "What?" He looked paler than normal and Pein noticed that when Hidan caught a glimpse of Sakura he had to look away for some reason. Maybe the sight was too painful.
"You and I need to head back out and search for those who are using chakra still."
"What if I want to stay with Sakura?"
"You wouldn't be able to do any good. The only thing you can do to help is get to those boy before they further harm her." Pein tuned back to Orochimaru and addressed the snake man. "How is her condition now? Is she any better without Sasuke drawing his chakra out of her?"
"She is, she's not as frayed on the inside and her coils have cooled down, but she is still in danger because of the other two. If Tsunade doesn't get here soon to fix this up she could suffocate."
Pein didn't wait around to ask how her coils were screwing with her lungs or heart. One moment he was there in front of her, kissing her free hand, and the next he was out the door, dragging Hidan by his ear. He didn't bother to look back-he was gone too fast for something like that.
Kimimaro's insides were a mess as emotions raged behind faded jade eyes. He couldn't believe he was watching his favorite girl suffer and writhe in pain for something he still couldn't understand. Sure he knew a bit about what he and his step brother were, what chakra was-that was the reason he was sickly at times after all. Until today he had no idea that Sakura had been messed up in anything much like what he himself had to deal with.
He glanced over to catch a glimpse of his step brother. Kiba was looking away, a deep frown carved on his lips. He probably couldn't stand the sight of his childhood friend in pain. Kimimaro knew Kiba loved Sakura, but the love he had wasn't the romantic kind of love. No, it was more of a brother sister type of feeling, though sometimes it strayed further.
"K-kimmy...?" The called boy looked down anxiously, seeing as how Sakura was recovering enough to call out his name.
"Sakura? Sakura, can you hear me? Tell me you're doing fine."
She mumbled something that sounded like a "I'm" before coughing up more blood. "...B-better. I'm better."
Kiba took something out of his back pocket and unfolded it. It was a white handkerchief, he used it to wipe away the excess blood, keeping his eyes unfocused as he preformed the task. It was still hard for him to see her in such a state. He didn't understand what she was going through, but Kimimaro did.
"Ha," Kiba dryly chuckled. "How can you say you're feeling better when you're chucking blood and guts all over the place?"
"Sor-rr-ry..." her body-lungs especially- pitched and shook as she said that. There was silence for a while until Sakura looked down at Orochimaru's hands over her stomach and asked about them. "What's happening to...e-mmm-me oro kun?"
"Nothing too serious, don't worry. I called Tsunade so she should be here soon," he reassured, trying his best to appear calm and reserved. He did a wonderful job at putting her at ease.
Kimimaro looked over at his father and frowned. He wanted to ask, he wanted to know if what he experienced with the coils in his body was anything like what was happening to Sakura. Since he and Kiba were both summoned out of The Book by Orochimaru by force rather than by will, his chakra had to stay in his own body-and it hurt like hell sometimes. Kiba didn't get the sickness since his coils vanished, but Kimimaro still had his, so he had to experience pain whenever he let go of that invisible door that held it all back. If what Sakura was experiencing was what he had to go through, times the number of men who were using their chakra, he didn't want to think about what she was really thinking.
'Those bastards...how can they do something like this to her. And they not grateful for all she's done for them thus far. Housing them and feeding them? I'd gladly die to be treated in such a manner by Sakura for only a day, and yet they take it for granted! I wish what father had told me about them wasn't true.'
There was the sound of struggling outside, a scuffle, a push, and then the doors rattled open to let a tuff of blond roll in. Itachi followed in after Naruto, huffing and looking pissed beyond belief. Both shared bruises and dirt marks from a fight. Naruto growled, wiping the corner of his moth while glaring up at the man with blood red eyes.
Itach kicked the floor right in front of Naruto, making it look like he was really going to strike the blond. "Fox brat, fear your rotten eyes and the misery you have caused. I should have just finished you off and spared the rest of us the competition."
Naruto's eyes grew wide and he turned around to-for the first time- see where he was. The first thing, and probably the only thing, he saw was Sakura's limp and collapsed form, soaked with a thin layer of sweet. Her head was turned to the side and she was staring at Naruto with half dead eyes. The blood that had spewed from her lips had been wiped away by Kiba, but a trail of loose droll slipped out from the corner of her mouth and it was colored with some of the blood that stayed on her tongue.
"Sakura?" The shock displayed on his face was expected. "Wh-wh-why is she...I didn't mean to-I didn't know!"
Kimimaro's eyes were like green coals of fire against Naruto. "You damn, fucking Bastard," he hissed in anger. Kiba blinked in surprise, not used to hearing his soft spoken brother say anything so cruel. "Don't you dare look at her like that. Not when it's all your shitty fault!"
Kiba tried to help. "Hey Kim, it's okay, you don't need to blow up like this in front of Sakura, she'll be fine. This isn't anyone's fault."
"I don't care, that doesn't make it right! Sakura was hurt because of him! He should have known!"
"Kimimaro!" the boy turned to look to his father, but his expression was no less fierce.
Before anymore words could be exchanged a loud banging sound came from the backroom and all of a sudden Tsunade was there along with Jiraiya. She didn't bother to ask what was going on, she just shoved the boys out of her way and took Sakura from Kimimaro's hold, her hands replacing Orochimaru's.
"Where are the others?" she asked, her hands glowing white and then green as she began the healing process. Since she had to grow her own coils her chakra output was slow but steady. There would be no error, but the process would take a long while.
"They should be here soon." Orochimaru replied. He looked up towards Kiba and sighed, knowing his son was lost with everything that was happening. "Kiba, please go out and keep watch. I don't want anyone stumbling in on this."
Without a word, Kiba nodded and turned to leave. At the door he paused to look back at Sakura only once before exiting.
"How is it, Tsunade?" Jiraiya asked, worried for his little girl.
"She's doing well. She's going to make it through, but her coils are going to really suffer unless I can insert chakra into them to flatten out the rips. So much has been coming up it has pulled up bits of the coil and curled them. That needs to be fixed soon, but I can't insert any of my own chakra, and if the boys tried using theirs it would only be counter productive."
"Then what can be done?"
The older woman made a face. "I'm going to establish a contract between Kimimaro and Sakura."
All eyes turned towards the white haired youth and a collective, What, sounded off in unison.
"How are you going to do that?" Itachi asked, glaring at Kimimaro and trying to keep his tone level. Did a connection mean he would be a part of their group and have to stay with Sakura? There was enough competition for her as it was, they didn't need any more.
"I'll preform the process and in essence we will be killing two birds with one stone. If Sakura is the host for his coils, Kimimaro will be free of his sickness. Oro kun, I need your help for this since you are the current host."
"Of course."
Kimimaro felt his hands being gripped by his father and placed over Sakura's chest. Before he could protest his mind was spinning and Sakura was shaking beneath him, gurgling blood.
There was black and white and then he couldn't really tell what color he saw because it was one he had never seen felt like his whole body had been shattered into a million tiny pieces and swept away by a wave of water. He was traveling, being carried by a force grater than himself. He couldn't really move, but even if he did have that ability, he wouldn't want to use it, since he felt perfectly calm and peaceful where he was.
There was warmth everywhere, and it wasn't the sort of warmth that came after a long day in the guy, but one you feel from another body when your own is much colder. It was absurd, but he wanted to say the feeling he was experience was one he would perfectly attribute to Sakura, her presence and the effect it had on him.
When they were little, they had often vacationed up in the mountains and played in the snow whenever it was available. Sakura and him had gotten lost on the side of the mountain for an hour once and the small girl of only six was so scared. Kimimaro felt convicted because he wasn't scared at all of never seeing his dad or friends again like she was. He was too selfish for that. He just wanted to stay with Sakura forever and ever. It was getting so rare that they ever saw each other anymore.
'Why did I think of something like that?'
Then there were more memories, rushing over him and drowning him in the emotion and feeling they carried within them. Kiba stealing Sakura from his during freeze tag, the three of them at the swimming hole, just him and her visiting the beach and setting off fireworks when other people should be asleep. Him and her, her and him. Sakura and more of Sakura. That was all his head was filled with. Did this mean he was going to loose her? Was this the last he would be able to have of her before the transaction worked?
'No!'
Then there were other images and memories flashing before him, but they were not ones that belonged to him. He wasn't in any of them, and he knew he was nowhere near Sakura during some of the scenes. He saw her in class, he saw her reading her novels at home and saw her watching TV with that fuzzy pet weasel of hers. 'Whatever happened to that guy?' He saw her hiding in a closet, crying, choking for air and falling from lack of air. Those images scared him, but then he saw one of her in her underwear and he almost had a noose bleed. Oh how she had grown.
Then there was black, and with it came a new set of scenes. Sakura, much older, in her home stood with a frozen expression of shock and disbelief as two men sat before her, an empty book between them. More of he boys came for her, he saw them all at the fair, at her school, back at home, at the aquarium, and then back home again to harass her. The one with the long black hair and the red eyes even had the balls to force a kiss on her without her freaking permission. And he wasn't the only one.
Something worse rose up in his chest as he dedicated a part of his life to squashing these foes of his most treasured person. 'They won't be alive for long. Not if I can help it.'
The wave he was riding crash and the shattered pieces of himself scattered and fell like gravity would commend into a mold. It stung at first, but then it was over and he was back in the real world, awake and alive. Sakura was right in front of him, her hand wrapped around his as they lay side by side on a bed somewhere he wasn't quite familiar with.
His ears went red and his eyes shied away from her perfectly shaped bow-tie lips and long, closed lashes. It wasn't fair for some people to be so alluring. His heart was jumping in his chest like crazy and he felt like he was high off of something from Will's Wonky land. Funny, he didn't remember being this enamored with her. To be sure, he was always somewhat secretly in love with Sakura, but now it seemed like she was just driving him crazy with no effort at all.
"You awake?"
He looked up and saw Tsunade looking over him and Sakura. "Y-yeah," he whispered, not wanting to wake Sakura. "Where are, where am I?"
"My place. Everyone else is outside. I couldn't let them go far for reasons you will soon discover. Sakura is rested enough, it's been eight hours so she should get up."
"Is it okay to wake her?"
Tsunade didn't say anything, but lightly shook the younger girl. Sakura stirred and opened her eyes, but didn't appear to be fully awake as she shifted into a limp sitting position. She yawned and Kimimaro just about lost his heart with how freaking adorable she seemed to him. This was the first time he had woken up in bed with her, after all. (Wow that sounded so nice).
"Where?" she asked, her voice light and cracked.
The older woman had a glass of water to offer Sakura, and the younger took it gratefully. There was blood still in her throat, it would seem, since she choked a bit and coughed like there was a cave in her chest....a really, really deep cave with bats and other cave crap.
Once Sakura was done, she was ushered out of bed along with Kimimaro and led out of the room, down the hall, and into the downstairs living room. (There was one in her loft area as well.) Kimimaro was still holding onto her hand all this time, least she trip or fall from fatigued like she very well could at any moment.
Once the trio emerged in the living room, there was that annoying blond with the whiskers who tried to jump Sakura, like everything was okay and nothing was his fault. "SAKURA CHAN!" he yelled, springing up. Someone from behind grabbed him by his shirt and yanked him back down... violently.
There were a few other faces Kimimaro did not recognize, the one with blue hair and black around the eyes, until he recalled the memories he had stolen from Sakura. His heart hardened towards the group, recalling their filthy, devious, perverted, action. And Sakura lived with these men? What was the world coming too?
"Sakura, are you alright?" Gaara asked.
The green eyed girl yawned and rubbed her face with one hand. The make up was gone so it didn't smear, but her face was still a bit red from the action. "I'm fine," she said followed by a sigh. "What the hell happened back there?"
Sasuke, Gaara and Naruto all bowed their heads in shame while Tsunade explained the earlier events. Sakura took them it all in with an unblinking expression until the end, when she yawned again. There was stillness and a heavy hush draped over every individual in the room till Sakura spoke again.
"Ah, so what is to happen now? You fixed it right."
"Yes, but it is still dangerous for you to be letting this sort of thing slide."
"She's right," Jiraiya added, eyeing the boys.
Sakura waved her hand in the air and turned around to set herself down on a opposing couch. "I think they are beaten up over it enough as is. They won't do it again. What I want to know is what exactly is it that you wanted to discuss in such a large grouping? There is a reason, isn't there?"
"Yes, it's a side effect from such an extensive coil healing and alteration."
"Is it harmful?" Pein asked, his dread masterfully masked.
"Potentially...I can be if not treated properly."
"What the fucking hell is it then?" Hidan barked, earning a stern glare from Sakura. He was starting to like those glares.
"All of you are connected to Sakura via your chakra, he holds it all. But after the heeling her coils are undergoing their natural repair and can not be disrupted. If this only meant you couldn't use any of your chakra that would be easy enough, but what this means is that you all," she paused to breath. "Can not stray a certian distance from Sakura least her coils go into shock again. For some like Kimimaro, this means he won't be able to go into the next room without Sakura. This is only for a day, two at most, but still..."
There was more silence before Sasori spoke up. "Then that means he has to sleep right next to her?"
"Yeah, probably."
"Shit."
AN2: KimimaroSakura sweet and fluff by the truckload, baby, so fall in fucking love with it! (I had a long, long, long, week.) Now I'm going to fall over and sleep for eight hours if you don't mind.
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-Vesper chan