A/N: And chapter 11...I'm going to be perfectly honest with you lot. I never expected to get this far in my fic. And yet, I'm in the home stretch. This fic is nearing its completion. Maybe three more chapters or so. So stick around. This one's here for the long haul!

Oh, before I forget. Someone sent me a private message asking how old Hanabi is supposed to be. Well, I know she's actually quite a bit younger than Hinata, but for fanfic purposes, she's 13, just one year younger than her sister. I just can't see an 8-year-old going around trying to murder people...

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"Look, miss", the bored-sounding receptionist told Tayuya. "We can't admit any more patients until the source of the disturbance is discovered. Some patients escaped and are running through this place like lunatics. So unless you need immediate surgery to live, you have to wait here. We have your friends stabalized, they'll be fine for the time being..."

"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN "STABALIZED"? MY FRIEND'S ARM LOOKS LIKE IT WENT THROUGH A FUCKING WOOD CHIPPER!", Tayuya all but exploded.

"Your girlfriend is so gracious", Kabuto whispered to Kimimaro. "It makes me wonder how I managed to go without one for so long."

"Because you like guys." Kimimaro stood up and stretched.

"Do you have proof I like guys any more than I like girls?", Kabuto asked, a smile that looked both cute and creepy on his face.

"I guess not, but don't be so quick to judge Tayuya. She's just nervous. She doesn't know how to express nervousness like a normal person. Is your pain really bad?"

"Not so much anymore. I could really use a cup of water, though."

"I'll see if I can get one for you. That's the least they can give us. Do you want a drink, too?", Kimimaro asked Sasori.

"Nah. I'm alright", Sasori replied, pulling the thin blanket the nurses had given him tightly around his shoulders.

Twenty minutes in the waiting room, and that was all the help they'd been given. Paper dressing gowns and thin blankets that provided absolutely no insulation. Oh, and they had given Kabuto a shot of something to ease the pain in his arm, but hadn't bothered to wrap it. Stabalized his ass. He and Deidara would freeze to death and Kabuto would get some sort of horrible infection and wind up getting his arm amputated. He wondered if hospitals would hire a doctor with one arm.

Sasori sighed as he listened to Tayuya continue to badger the receptionist in vocabulary more colorful than a Picaso. He knew she ment well, and wanted to see them get the help they needed, but her language probably wasn't the best way to do it.

"Uggghh...Not so loud, whoever's yelling, un...", Deidara moanded beside him. The redhead shifted his attention to his boyfriend, whow as struggling to pull himself upright in his chair.

"Just relax", Sasori told him gently. "You don't have to get up if you don't want to."

Deidara stopped trying to sit straight and let himself remain slumped in the chair.

"The killer got away, un?", Deidara asked tiredly.

"I'm afraid she did...You don't remember anything after I pulled you from the water?", Sasori asked worridly.

"I remember crying, un. And punching Kisame in the nose, un..."

Sasori chuckled and gently brushed Deidara's bangs from his face. He frowned at the warmth of the skin underneath and the cut his fingers brushed against. "You're running a fever already."

"So? You've probbaly got one, too, un."

"Yeah. We're gonna die of pnemonia before we get in there..."

He looked up at Kimimaro, who was walking back over carrying not only a glass of water, but some cups of coffee, and two cups of hot tea. He stood up to help the younger boy.

"Here. Take the tea cups. The nurse said for you and Deidara to drink it. It'll help warm you up," he said.

Sasori took the tea cups from him. "Thanks."

Unfortunately for them, Tayuya picked that exact moment to give up her fight with the receptionist and come back to the group. She collided roughly with Kimimaro, knocking the cups out of his hands. Ice water and hot coffee splashed all over them. Sasori was only grateful he'd managed to get away before she'd knocked into him.

Kabuto bolted up from where he was dozing off and Toby and Sakura turned to stare as Tauyua screamed "fuck" at the top of her lungs. Kimimaro clapped his hand over her mouth and dragged her to sit by Kabuto.

Dispite himself, Sasori laughed.

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"What do you mean Sasuke Uchiha isn't in his room?", Itachi demanded angrily. Kisame placed his hand on Itachi's shoulder.

"H-He m-must h-h-have l-left", the nervous-looking female nurse stammered.

"He's in traction...how the hell is a kid in traction going to get up and leave?"Itachi never once rose his voice above a loud whisper. He didn't need to. He was terrifying enough without screaming.

"Maybe he was taken for an X-Ray or something", the nurse said, sounding a little calmer.

"Or something...this is great. This hospital looses 14-year-old boys..."

"Itachi...", Kisame said softly. He was frightened. He'd never seen Itachi like this before.

Itachi ignored him. "Why don't you run along before someone steals a baby from NICU."

The woman looked ready to cry.

"Itachi, hurtful words aren't going to get Sasuke back here. We need to go look for him."

"I'm sorry, boys..." the nurse was trembling. "You can't look for him. We're under lock-down. A patient escaped and is causing trouble. You'll have to go back to the waiting room..."

Itachi threw his head back and laughed. "I am going to find my brother."

"You...Can't..."

"Just try and stop me", Itachi said, crossing his arms over his chest.

Kisame nodded. "We are not going back to the waiting room".

"I'm afraid you have to..."

Itachi nodded to Kisame and they bolted pasr the girl, into the nearest elevator.

She raced after them, but they were quicker and managed to get the door closed before she could reach them.

"Well, we are officially criminals now. We're basically breaking and entering in a hospital", Kisame said lightly.

"When I find out who kidnapped my brother, I'm going to become a real criminal", Itachi's eyes flashed dangerously.

Kisame found he almost felt sorry for Sasuke's kidnapper.

Almost, but not really.

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"I want to stay with my uncle", Gaara told the paramedic as they reached the hospital.

"Sorry, kid", he replied. "This gentleman is going straight into surgery. You and your friend will have to wait. Is there someone you could call to pick you up?"

Gaara considered a moment-Temari was at TenTen's house and Kankuro...well, he wasn't sure where his brother was truthfully. He knew Gai would be more than willing to come get them, but as Lee was asleep and it was his call...he really didn't want to be picked up by him. Gaara shook his head.

"Well, you'll have to stay in the waiting room then. Don't worry, your uncle is in good hands. After this blood transfusion, we'll get that bullet out his leg, and then when he heals he'll have some therapy and he'll be good as new."

Gaara privately thought the fact that the paramedic knew his uncle was a man was a good sign.

"So just cheer up, Kid. Everything will be alright."

Gaara nodded. He just wasn't in the mood to argue.

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"I think...we finally lost her", Naruto gasped. He was leaning up against a wall, breathing hard, his tanned features flushed."

"Thank god...You keep banging my leg into door frames."

"Are all Uchihas whiny, or are you the exception?", Naruto asked, pushing himself off the wall a little.

"I don't know. Are all Uzumakis braindead morons, or is that pleasure all yours?", Sasuke retorted.

"Don't know. I don't have parents to compare myself to", Naruto replied. "I've been with Jiraiya since I was a baby."

"Oh" Sasuke lowered his gaze to the floor. "I'm sorry", he murmured, a pink tinge crossing his white face.

"Eh. No biggie", Naruto replied, flashing his boyfriend a huge grin.

"So, now what do we do? Stay here until one of the nurses finds us?", Sasuke asked.

"Hmmm...I guess. We could make out", Naruto suggested.

Sasuke started to wheel himself to the door. "So I will be outside waiting for Hanabi to find me"

Naruto grabbed the wheelchair. "Ease-up, Sasuke-Bastard. I was just kidding..."

"Good. For a minute I thought you went Neji-Hoe(1) on me", Sasuke said.

Naruto came up behind Sasuke and started gently massaging the boy's pale shoulders. "I could never be Neji-Hoe...Hey, cool! Vending machines!"

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "We're in the hospital's physical fitness center. They have a pool in here. Why wouldn't they have food?"

Naruto hurried to the vending machines. After careful debating, he came back with a can of cola and a bottle of water.

"Here, since you hate sweets", Naruto said, pushing the bottle of water into Sasuke's hands.

"Do you think it's a good idea to stay in one spot?", Sasuke asked, unscrewing the cap off the bottle and taking a sip.

Naruto chugged half his soda before replying. "Just relax. You worry too much."

"And maybe..." a voice said from the doorway "You should start worrying..."

The boys turned around in horror as they heard something being thrown into the room. A few seconds later, the room was filling up with fumes and it was getting hard to breathe. Hanabi had tossed knock-out gas into the room. Where had she gotten it...

Naruto ran to the door, his shirt pulled over his mouth.

"We're locked in!", he cried.

Sasuke's eyes went wide and he clamped both his hands over his mouth in a vain attempt to keep from breathing in the stuff. If he lost consciousness now, it was all over.

Naruto continued to bang on the door in the hope that someone would hear him. Finallyhe slipped against it, coughing. He fell unconscious.

Sasuke struggled to push himself to Naruto's side, feeling dizzy with each shove of the wheelchair.

The urge to breath finally became too much for him to bear. With a thud, Sasuke fell out of the wheelchair and landed by Naruto's side.

Damn it he mentally cursed before he, too, lost consciousness.

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"Welcome to the make-shift mental ward", Toby said, smiling as Gaara walked into the waiting room, a sleepy Lee in tow.

Lee rubbed his eyes and glanced at them blearily. He was ready to just curl up in a chair and sleep for, oh, maybe ten or twelve years.

"Shut the fuck up, Toby! You are the absolute most annoying little fucker on the planet!"

Deidara crossed off the 94 he had written on a paper plate and wrote 96 next to it.

Sasori glanced at him curiously. "What are you doing?"

"I'm writing how many time Tayuya says the f word, un", Deidara replied.

"You'll need more paper soon", Kimimaro told him.

"What the fuck was that?", Tayuya demanded.

"You are a wonderful person", her boyfriend replied.

"Damn straight", the redheaded girl replied, crossing her arms across her chest.

Gaara looked over to the door and wondered if it was too late to call Gai to come get them.

Lee seemed to have the same idea as Gaara, because he pulled his cellphone out of his pocket.

"NO CELLPHONES!", the receptionist yelled.

Lee and Gaara sighed. They were stuck. Trapped, with no way out.

They where going to loose their minds.

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A/N: Sorry if it seems a bit short. I'm running off a chapter outline. Anyhow, this is being submitted now since I won't be here Sunday. Enjoy the read. Please hit the little review button on the bottom. I will die of happiness if I manage to reach 100 reviews.