Sorry if the characters act OOC, especially Sasuke. I can't write his personality very well. :/ Anyway, I forgot to put this last chapter but I DON'T OWN K OR NARUTO! If I did, Sarumi would be real and Mikoto (and most likely Tatara) would be alive. And Neji. Neji wouldn't have died. Also, I didn't make this clear last chapter but the rookie nine are sixteen and team guy is around seventeen.

'Thoughts'

"Talking telepathically"

"Demon talking"

"Normal people"

_-Timeskip-_

-Flashback-

Sakura smiles at Sasuke and grabs his hand, pulling him closer to her. She gives him a soft kiss before pulling away and dragging the stronger ninja towards the tallest nearby building. Sasuke chuckles. "So, why did you want me to meet you here tonight?" He asks. Sakura turns to him with a pout.

"You don't remember? Today is the day we got mar- together!" Sakura reminded. Sasuke frowns playfully and makes a grunt like he's thinking about it.

"No... I'm pretty sure that was yesterday." Sasuke drawled. Sakura punches Sasuke's shoulder lightly.

"No, it's-"

"Tomorrow?" Sasuke guesses, cutting Sakura off. Sakura sends a playful glare at her boyfriend, all the couples having un-married since they're sixteen. Again. Sakura crosses her arms and walks stiff-leggedly over to the door of the building she had been leading Sasuke to, pretending to be mad at him.

"Fine, be like that." Sakura grunts. Sasuke rolls his eyes and opens his mouth to reply, but a gunshot rings through the still air at that. Both ninja tense up and in a second are flying up the stairs of the building the gunshots had come from. Surprisingly, it had been the very building they had been heading to. As they passed the halfway point, another shot broke the tense atmosphere. Sakura pushed chakra to her legs and used her aura to go nearly twice as fast as she had been going before. She crashes through the door with a chakra-infused punch and races across the roof faster than a non-ninja could see, and even the faster ninjas would have a hard time keeping track of her. She skids to a stop next to a teen slowly soaking the ground in his blood. Sakura drops to her knees soundlessly, putting her hands over the boy's wound. Without taking her concentration off getting the bullet out of his chest, she calls out to Sasuke.

"Call a hospital and then get the rest of the clan here in Shizume. I think we found our war starter." Sakura orders, tossing a metal shell covered in blood away from the boy. Focusing on her medical ninjutsu, a green glow covered her hands. The wound slowly healed until it was nothing more than a red mark on his chest. Sighing in relief, Sakura leaning back onto her toes and wiped her forehead. She gives a dry laugh. 'I'm out of practice if this tires me out.' Sakura sighs and grabs the boy's shoulder, shaking him gently. "Hey. Hey, open your eyes. I need you to eat a pill to help replenish the blood you've lost." Sakura says kindly. The boy winces and cracks open an eye. Sakura smiles at him, ignoring the sound of people racing out of the stairwell. She looks through her pack for the blood pill, addressing Sasuke while pulling one out.

"Sasuke. Keep them away, this guy needs some space." Sakura commands, helping the boy into a sitting position. He smiles at her- it came out more like a grimace, and opened his mouth to speak. Sakura glares at. "If your going to talk, I swear to Kami I will leave and let you die of stupidity. That bullet nearly hit your heart. Your lucky to be alive." The pink-haired girl growls. The boy pales, an impressive feat with him already being nearly white from blood loss. Sakura smirks and holds out a pill from him to eat. The boy takes it and swallows. Sakura smiles at him and lays him back down before standing up and tuning back into the world around her.

"-go! Let me see Tatara!" An unfamiliar voice yells.

"Sakura's a medic. He'll be fine if we do as she says and she says he need space." Sasuke snaps. Sakura grins and turns around, walking up to her boyfriend who is holding some kid with chestnut hair, a black beanie, hazel eyes, a white shirt, red sweatshirt tied around his waist, and green shorts. He looks pretty short. Sakura puts a hand on Sasuke's shoulder.

"It's ok. Let him go. What did you tell the hospital?" She asks. The Uchiha lets the guy drop to the ground, and he immediately rushes over to the guy who had escaped death. The third guy on the roof quickly joined the shorty.

"I told them I found a pale guy covered in blood." Sasuke says. Sakura nods.

"Good. When's everyone getting to Shizume?"

"Naruto estimated around two days from wherever he is and the others should get here by nightfall. Also, Naruto says he found out something that all of should know. He said that when he got back, he would tell us." Sasuke explains. Sakura nods and turns back to the three unknown people. She walks over to the eldest looking- a blonde guy with tinted sunglasses and a cigarette. The man turned to her thinking she had something to say. Sakura smiles at him before stealing the man cigarette and dropping it on the ground, stepping on it to get rid of the smoke.

"Sorry but that boy," Sakura points at the boy still covered in blood. "Can't breath in anything harmful because he's still pretty weak." The medic explains. "I'm Sakura Haruno, by the way. May I have your names?" The man blinks before giving her a short nod.

"Thank you, for saving him. I'm Izumo Kusanagi, that's Misaki Yata, and the boy you saved is Tatara Totsuka. Is there anything we can do to pay you and your friend back?" The man, newly named (for Sakura) Izumo, asks. Sakura smiles and waves Sasuke over. Her boyfriend walks over to her lazily, resembling a certain Nara.

"We wouldn't mind a few free drinks and some food, we don't earn much. Enough to make a living but... well... I want to make sure we use as little money as possible." Sakura says with a laugh. "This is my boyfriend, Sasuke Uchiha." Sasuke, in response, gives a short wave and his infamous 'hn'. Sakura rolls her eyes. "He's not very social." Izumo chuckles.

"Well, I think I can live with your demands. I do own a bar." Izumo says. Sakura nods.

"Where is it? We'll show up tonight. An ambulance is coming, and I don't like hospitals very much- neither of us do -so we're going to get going as soon as possible." Sakura explains. Izumo nods in understanding.

"Alright. It's the HOMRA bar, do you know where that is?" Izumo asks. Sakura nods. 'It's the base of the red clan.'

"Isn't HOMRA a gang?" Sakura inquires. Izumo smiles nervously, he had witnessed the terrifying glare the medic nin had used on Tatara. He nods and rubs the back of his head nervously.

"Yeah, we're all part of it." Izumo explains. Sakura hums in understanding and waves off Izumo's worry. She turns and grabs Sasuke's hand, dragging him after her.

"Bye! Hope we don't meet like this again!" Sakura says, waving bye and dragging Sasuke down the stairs. The moment the roof was out of sight, both used chakra to bound quickly down the stairs. When they reach the bottom, they slow to a walk and quickly glance around, checking that there's no civilians- or worse, Scepter 4 members. They saw no-one around, except the ambulance further down the road. The ninjas blurred into motion again, racing away from the crime scene. The headed to their house so Sakura could change into something without blood on it and so they could hang around until this evening.

_-Timeskip-_

Sakura smiles at her boyfriend. It wasn't a nice smile or a loving smile. No, it was a smile that said 'if-you-don't-do-this-and-act-nice-about-it-I'm-going-to-punch-you-into-tomorrow'. A feat she could probably accomplish. Sasuke puts on a nervous smile and Sakura drags him into the HOMRA bar. She immediately went over to the bar counter, where she saw Izumo. She slid onto a stool, ignoring the stares of the people in the bar she had yet to meet. Yanking Sasuke over to the stool next to her, Sakura smiled brightly up at Izumo. "Hello there again! You wouldn't happen to have some sake I could have?" Sakura asks. Izumo was about to say 'yes' when he saw Sasuke shake his head.

"Do not, whatever you do, give her sake." He warns. The glare Sakura leveled at Sasuke, however, was enough to shut him up. Izumo sweatdrops and gets Sakura a bottle of sake and a glass. "Thank you. So, is Tatara ok? It's been awhile since I healed anyone so I want to make sure he ok and didn't give him breathing problems or a heart murmur or anything." Sakura says, pouring herself a glass and taking a few sips. Izumo doesn't answer, he merely smiles. Sakura eyes him suspiciously, finishing off her glass.

"Thank you for saving my life!" A voice says cheerfully, sliding into the seat beside Sakura. The medic glances at the person, seeing Tatara up and alive, if not a bit pale. Sakura grunts in reply, sounding very much like Sasuke. She pours herself another glass of sake.

"I'm a medic. If I hadn't saved you, or at least tried to, I wouldn't have been able to live with myself." Sakura says bluntly. Tatara smiles.

"Well either way, thanks! Oh and um, I wanted to ask if you wanted to join HOMRA?" Both Sakura and Sasuke look at Tatara when he says this. Sakura swirls her drink and sighs before taking a sip.

"No can do, sorry. I can come here every once in awhile though." Sakura pauses before looking Izumo straight in the eye. "Are you looking for Tatara's shooter?" She asks. Tatara answered.

"They are, no matter how many time I tell them it's not needed!" Tatara pouts. Sakura and Sasuke both chuckle.

"That's just how family is." Sasuke mutters, a small smile gracing his lips.