Author's Note: Thank you all for your nice words, everyone! I'm sorry about the wait! Sorry that there isn't a lot of interesting stuff going on right now, but don't worry, it'll start getting interesting soon. Thanks for reading so far! I love hearing what you all have to say! There will be a poll later on about the couples but right now I'm trying to get a bit of interaction with all three of the potential love interests. Madara hasn't had much of a turn yet, but perhaps that'll change in future chapters. :D Let me know what you think! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I own nothing!

Warnings: Nothing much, maybe language.

Word Count: 6,754

Sakura is standing in a wide open field, wearing a long, heavy kimono. It weighs down heavily on her shoulders. Sakura isn't used to wearing a kimono yet for some reason it feels comforting on her. It protected her from the cold breeze that ruffled her long hair. Sakura looks around the large field at all the bright colors of the grass and the flowers. It's cold enough to hurt the tip of her nose, but yet the flowers around her still live. She exhales and her breath comes out like fog around her mouth. Sakura begins walking toward the trees that circle the wide field she was standing in.

As she drew closer to the trees, she realizes that they are covered in snow. She turns back around slowly, looking back at the field, to see that the field is now covered in snow. Sakura found it odd on the inside, but for some reason, she was unable to react on the outside. She just turns and walks through the forest, slowly. She steps over protruding tree roots and drags the back of her kimono across the ankle deep snow.

Sakura isn't sure how long she was walking, just staring forward, ignoring the world around her until she reached a large, half-frozen lake. Sakura walks to the edge and looks out over the ice-cold water. There was no noise around her, everything was white and brown. And when she looked down at the water at her feet, seeing the Rabbit Goddess staring back up at her.

Sakura flies up in her bed, heart pounding. A hand flies up over her chest, trying to slow down her erratically beating heart. She looks around the room, searching for the Rabbit Goddess, but her mind quickly pulls her back to her new present. She hasn't met her yet in this time period. Nor does anyone even know about that... woman here. She's nothing to them and for some reason, that relaxes Sakura a bit.

Sakura lowers her hand a bit and looks around the familiar, bland hospital room. She looks down at her change of clothes, she's in a simple white yukata with her hospital garbs folded up neatly next to her. Sakura smiles, knowing that it had to be Salma's doing. She bathes quickly and changes into her new hospital yukata before heading out of the room, looking up at the sky.

It's bright and blue with puffy white clouds of all shapes and sizes. Some are bigger then buildings while others are merely wisps in the sky. It also appears to be late afternoon, early evening. But now that Sakura is thinking about it, this is the best she's felt in a long time. Even with passing out the night before, Sakura's feeling a little bit better since before the war started.

But she's still in the past, and in her future, there is still a war going on.

That sank Sakura's mood quickly.

She slips her shoes on and immediately heads around back to get a late start on her day of healing people. She was just sending out the second person of the day, a young woman with a twisted ankle, when Salma slipped into the tent.

"You slipped out when I was away," She says, reaching up and running her hand through the tail of her trapped hair. She has a plate of rice balls and some tea. "How about getting some food in your stomach?" She smiles kindly, offering her the food and the tea.

Sakura takes the tray and drink. "Thank you, Salma, would you like to sit and eat these with me?"

Salma looks a bit surprised, and then smiles, nodding and taking a rice ball. "Thank you, Sakura-san."

Sakura takes a sip of her green tea, sighing in content as the warm liquid slides down her throat. She leans back against the medical table, looking over at the long brown haired young woman. "You're older than me, Salma. Just call me Sakura."

Salma smiles, nodding and chewing on the rice ball. She swallows it and looks over at Sakura with light green eyes. "Very well, Sakura-chan." Sakura rolls her eyes which makes Salma laugh.

They eat in silence for a few minutes. After Sakura finished her third rice ball, Salma finally turns to her, looking amused, "So, I heard a very interesting rumor while I was doing laundry this morning..." Salma says slowly, looking over at Sakura from the corner of her eyes.

Sakura arches a dainty pink eyebrow. "Oh?" Sakura mumbles, reaching over to grabbing another rice ball ad taking a bite.

Salma nods, leaning against the table next to Sakura, their shoulders touching. She's almost a head taller than Sakura. Sakura huffs a bit under her breath at Salma's assets. She's tall and beautiful and she speaks kindly. Unlike Sakura.

"Yes," Salma says. "Apparently there is miracle healer that is both angelic and demonic. Kind and wonderous if you obey, but deadly and fierce if you go against her will." Salma laughs, covering her mouth with her hand before looking back over at Sakura. "That's you, isn't it?" she asks, already suspecting the answer to that question.

Sakura blanches at the brown haired woman's words. "I am not demonic, those bastards! It's their faults that I have to hurt them," Sakura growls, glaring out the flaps of the tent. "If they do stupid things, they should expect to get hurt because of it. It's the law of nature. Well, you know what? Fine. They can call me demonic all they want, I'll show them a real demon!" Sakura clenches her fist, laughing evilly.

Salma laughs, tilting her head, looking as though she half believes that Sakura is lying. Sakura settles down, eating the rest of her rice ball before drinking the remainder of her tea and laying it down on the plate.

"Thanks for the food, Salma," Sakura says, reaching her hands up above her head and stretches, raising up on her tip toes. "That was good," she continues, relaxing and heading to the tent flaps, glancing over her shoulder at the brown haired woman. "I going to keep helping out. The faster we clean this place out, the faster we can make proper accommodations for future injured." An actual working hospital, Sakura thinks, letting out a quiet sigh.

Salma nods, grabbing the plate and following Sakura out into the early evening sun. "That sounds like a great idea, Sakura-chan. I'm looking forward to it. Good luck and try not to push yourself too hard, okay?" Salma tilts her head cutely, smiling. Sakura waggles her fingers at the tall, brown haired girl before heading off, looking around for the next person to help.


Kana is seriously getting on Sakura's last nerves.

Kana Uchiha is the woman that has been hounding Sakura in the medical tents since she showed up. It's nearing night time now and Sakura's patience has run thin with the woman. She has beautiful long black hair with large black eyes, surrounded by thick, dark lashes. She's very pale and is tall and elegant. Sakura has been watching her the last two hours intently, trying to figure her out.

She's got good chakra control and is competent as a medical shinobi. No, she takes that back. She's a shinobi with some medical abilities. She is no medical shinobi. Just thinking about comparing the two makes Sakura feel sick. She's annoyed with her. She has passion, but she's stuck in the past. She seems to be more concerned with helping out Uchiha born than Senju.

Sakura supposed that it was natural, they did just get out of a war with them and Kana certainly wasn't the only one showing the that sort of tendency, so Sakura couldn't blame her. But she's the one that's literally been fighting Sakura at every twist and turn. It's nothing big. It's little things, comments here and there, looks of the like. It has really begun to grate on her nerves, so she tries to put as much distance between herself and the annoyed Uchiha, trying to focus solely on just helping people. But since the entire village is expanding, and rapidly, there are injuries here and there. Hashirama can't build all the buildings.

Sakura walks passed a sanitary tent, a lot better constructed than the others. It's meant to try and keep as much bad air out. It's usually meant for people with diseases. Sakura grabs a passing nurse.

"Who's in there?" Sakura asks, nodding toward the tent.

The Senju woman looks at the tent for a moment before sighing. "That's Kaido Senju. He was... um, burned pretty bad on his right side. His arm and most of his shoulder by a fire style jutsu. It was an accident. He appeared out of nowhere and got caught in the crossfire. Poor thing." She looks over at the tent with sad, light blue eyes. She sighs again and looks over at Sakura, suddenly looking interested. "Are you going to go in there?" she asks. This woman, though her name eludes Sakura at the moment, is one of the few around here that Sakura can stand easily.

"Yes," Sakura says. "How long ago was it since he was burned?"

"This morning," she says, pushing a strand of blond hair from her face.

Sakura pulls back the tent cover and steps inside, heading into the dome part of the tent to see a man, in his late twenties to early thirties, laying prone on the table top. The nurse, who followed Sakura in, wasn't stretching the truth. His arm was badly burned and across his stomach, chest and neck is a bit of chakra burns. Sakura washes her hands and then walks over to him, letting her hands hover over his arm, sending healing chakra to her hands.

The nurse, Rika, Sakura recalls, leans in a bit to get a better look. "Can you heal him?" she asks, after an entire minute of silence from the pink haired girl.

Sakura's hands finally roam down to his hand when she jerks back, eyes wide. "It's still alive!" Sakura gaps, stepping closer again and sending more healing chakra into his arm.

"What is it?" Rika asks, leaning in closer. "What's alive?"

"There are cells in his hand that are still alive," Sakura says. "That's a miracle," she mumbles, more to herself than to Rika. "Okay, I need you to get some things for me," Sakura says, pulling away to face Rika.

The girl, about Sakura's age, nods, straightening up. "Yes ma'am. What can I do for you?"

"First," Sakura says, "how is your herbology?"

Rika gives Sakura a so-so gesture. "Ehh."

Sakura rolls her eyes. "Okay, find someone who knows herbs and anyone who's free and get them to help get what was on the list. And a lot of it," Sakura says, immediately listing off a bunch of herbs. "Can you remember those?"

Rika nods, running out of the tent. Sakura takes a moment to look back at the unmoving man on the table before following her out. Sakura brushes her pink hair from her face, looking around a bit lost.

"Can I help you find something?"

Sakura jumps and turns sharply to her right to see Tobirama standing there with his intense look as usual on his face.

"Tobirama-sama," Sakura says, putting a hand over her heart. "You scared me. Um, yes, actually. How well do you know this land around here? I'm looking for some herbs."

"Well enough," Tobirama says simply. "What are you looking for?" His facial expressions didn't change at all with Sakura's list. After a moment of her staring at him, waiting for a response, he orders, "Come with me." Then turns on his heel and begins walking.

Sakura obeys, following him away from the small, make-shift village. As they are walking, Sakura realized what his silence was about and when they found the first herb Sakura listed she knew she was right. He had taken that moment to strategically plan out where all the herbs she mentioned were and made a clear path to all of them that would eventually circle them back to the village.

"What are these for?" Tobirama asks once Sakura got the last herb on her list. "A remedy?"

Sakura shakes her head. "No, it's for me." At her words, Tobirama stopped and turned to her, staring down at her with intense red eyes.

"Explain."

Sakura blinks rapidly, wondering how much Tobirama knew about the herbs she gathered. Normally, she would assume nothing, but perhaps he learned a bit of herbology from Hashirama or something. The history books don't go into great detail with their lives

"Oh, sorry," Sakura says, looking down at the collection of gathered leaves, roots and flowers. "It's a chakra stimulant. It'll help me boost my chakra back up. I'm getting ready to attempt a very gutsy repair job on a burn victim and I'm going to need as much of my chakra returned as possible." Sakura pauses, looking down at the herbs. "Kami, I hope this is enough."

"A chakra stimulant recipe?" Tobirama says, seemingly interested.

Sakura nods, looking up at him. "Sure. I've made a bunch before. I've been told on multiple occasions that they taste like shit, but they are the best. Well, not this one. This one is just to help a bit. It's the simplest, least prep-work-needed recipe. It won't go from zero to a hundred or anything, but it'll be a nice boost." Sakura shrugs her shoulders. "I just need to mix this up, there should be enough for two," Sakura glances up at Tobirama. "Do you want one?"

He looks a little surprised. Then thoughtful. "Won't you need it?"

Sakura smiles. "Plan on using up a lot of your chakra?" she asks teasingly. But before she can answer - Sakura's not sure that she wants to know the answer for that - and continues, "No, I don't want to know. Anyway, I don't think so, but if I do, I can just get it back, right?" She smiles. "Come on, I'll show you how to make it, it's really easy and it could be helpful."

Sakura follows Tobirama, who didn't reject her offer of her showing him how to make the later-to-be-named soldier pills, back the village. Once they get to the medical tents she leads him to an empty one and shows him how to mix the ingredients together. Tobirama watched mutely with that intense look that he seems to always have on his face. Once she finishes she offers one to him.

"As I said before. It tastes horrible, but it'll help boost your chakra a bit. I suppose I should properly explain what it does, the herbs encourage chakra regrowth of your body. This type will only return somewhere from fifteen percent to forty-five percent depending on how good the herbs are, and those looked pretty good to me so it should be closer to the upper end of the margin. A nice kick if you suddenly need it," Sakura says, winking at him before holding it up a little bit higher for Tobirama to take.

He does, looking down at the small medical ball for a moment before looking back over at Sakura, holding the little ball in his hand. "This type? There is more?"

Sakura nods. "I'll tell you about them, sometime, if you like. They can be really useful in a pinch."

"Sakura-san?" Rika's voice can be heard outside the tent. "Has anyone seen Sakura-san?"

The pink haired girl puts a respectful distance between herself and the one-day Second Hokage. "I guess that's my cue. Are you going to come watch? If so, you'll have to stand in the corner, okay? It's a delicate issue and we'll need as much room as we can."

"Understood," Tobirama says. "But it sounds like your doing some form of major operation. Are you?"

Sakura nods, tucking a lock of pink hair behind her ear. "Yes. A Senju name Kaido was burned this morning by a fire style jutsu, yes?" Tobirama nods.

"He was badly burned. What are you going to do?" Then, as soon as the words left his mouth, his eyes widened. "You're going to heal him," he states more than asks, looking a mixture of disbelief and wonder.

Sakura shrugs. "I'm going to try. I've dealt with a case like this before... sort of."

Tobirama suddenly doesn't appear to be convinced. "Sort of?"

"The burn wasn't this extensive, but if I start working soon, then maybe I can save his arm," Sakura says, narrowing her eyes and looking out at the light filtering in through the parted tent flaps. "I need to go now. Feel free to come observe." Sakura slips passed him and out of the tent. "Rika, did you get everything?"

The Senju girl nods, rushing over to Sakura. "It's all in the tent, ma'am. What else do you need?"

"Anyone who can be spared, water, bowls and grinders for the herbs," Sakura says, following the taller girl toward Kaido's tent.

Rika smiles brightly, her hands shaking with excitement. "Got it all, ma'am. Even the people. Everyone who could be spared."

Sakura grins up at the blond. "Atta girl. Okay, well, let's get this started. Come along." Sakura heads for the tent, going inside where five other nurses have gathered, looking around at the herbs and the unmoving man on the table. Sakura glances over her shoulder to see that Tobirama didn't follow her, which was both a relief and a bit of a disappointment. It's flattering to be the center of attention for such a legendary shinobi, but it's also really scary too. All of her moves, her words, her looks are analyzed.

"What are we doing here?" Kana Uchiha, literally the last person Sakura wanted to see right now, asks, crossing her arms over her chest.

You to leave, Sakura thought bitterly, but didn't say that. She's smarter than that. So, she ignores the bitchy Uchiha and focuses on what they are here for. "I'm going to need one person, who's good at dealing and mixing herbs to come with me while I explain what I need."

"I suppose that's me," another Uchiha woman says, following Sakura over to the buckets of herbs. There was a bunch of them. Sakura is honestly impressed with whoever picked all of them. In such a short time, too. Sakura makes the first batch, adding all the ingredients into the bowl and adding water, which she was quick to note that they would need more of. Rika, gitty and ever eager to please, runs off to do just that.

"Can you do all that?" Sakura asks, looking at the Uchiha.

She nods. "I got it." She ties her hair back and sets to work.

"Once Rika returns with the water, I'm going to need someone to be running back and forth to make sure I've got a lot of water, so that'll be Rika. I need two people to hold down his legs and the left half of his body," Sakura says, straightening up from where she had crouched down to sort the herbs, and looks around at the remaining nurses. They look amongst themselves before Kana, much to Sakura's chagrin, and another Uchiha woman, step forward.

"That looks like it'll be us," Kana says, adjusting her weight from one leg to the other, staring at Sakura with half lidded eyes. Almost like she would rather be getting each of the nails on her toes and hands pulled than be here. Sakura wished she was too.

Sakura grabs the sample she made and a bowl of water, holding it to one of the two remaining Senju. "Make sure I have water by me at all times and you," Sakura looks over at the other Senju, "make sure that the medicine is by me too." Both of them nod. "Alright," Sakura says, tucking more hair behind her ear before making walking over to the prone man on the table. "Let us get started."


It was about an hour into the operation - if it can be called that - that Sakura realized that Tobirama had slipped into the tent quietly, as promised, but not alone. Hashirama and Madara were with him, all interested in seeing this supposed 'miracle'. Even some other nurses came in to observe or just offer their help. Sakura turned no one away and the observers were quiet for the most part, thankfully, so Sakura didn't really notice them.

"What is this suppose to do?" Kana asks, narrowing her eyes. "I see no difference in his skin."

Sakura looks up at her with a blank expression, wanting to reach over and backhand the snob bitch across the face, but manages to restrain herself. "Watch," Sakura growls, turning her focus back to the Senju. She has spent the better part of the hour thoroughly rubbing the remedy into his burnt flesh, and healing the residual chakra burns.

"Okay," Sakura says, more to herself than the people in the room. She reaches her hands into the bowl of water, using her chakra to grab hold of the water and pull it out, emptying the bowl and places it over the edge of the burn on his arm. She looks at Kana, who's holding down Kaido's left side, and the other Uchiha woman who was at his feet. "You two get ready. Even sedated, he'll need to be held down. The pain may pull him from his sedation." The other Uchiha woman nods while Kana sighs, but obeys.

Sakura pushes the chakra and water into the burns slowly. Kaido's body jerks and a groan of pain slips through his clenched teeth. Sakura smiles, pleased.

"What is it, Sakura-san?" Rika asks, by Sakura's shoulder.

"He feels pain," Sakura says simply, focusing intently on the wound.

"Sadist," Kana mutters under her breath, probably not intending for Sakura to hear.

That irks Sakura, making her glare at the woman across from her. "Obviously you know nothing about medical arts, because if you did, you would know that that means that the pain receptors in his shoulder is still working. My sadism only extends to patients who don't listen to me about taking care of themselves and nurses that enjoy back talking me while I'm trying to help someone," Sakura says, staring at Kana. "Before I get too far into this, I might as well make something clear. You have two options. Either you shut down the attitude while I'm operating on a highly sensitive case so I can focus, or you continue to be a condescending bitch, but do it outside, those are your options."

Sakura looks down at Kaido, not caring about her answer. Her focus has to be on Kaito. She owes him that. In a weird way. He's part of one of the founding clans of her home village, she has to try and save his life. Or, in Kaido's case, his arm. But for a shinobi, that is their life. So Sakura supposed it was the same thing.

She tunes out the rest of the world and focuses solely on Kaido, slowly working the water and healing chakra into his arm, focusing on healing the damage of everything. All the muscles, skin, veins and arteries, and chakra points. One of the other nurses that came in moves closer when Sakura quickly glanced up in her direction.

"I'm suppose to do what, again?" she asks, nervously.

"Guide the chakra into his arm and out. I've left a tiny piece of the vein closed so that the blood won't circulate into this arm yet. I need you to move the chakra so that the skin starts coming to life," Sakura says, looking back down at Kaito.

"Yes, ma'am," she says slowly, letting her hands hover of Sakura's. "Are you sure this is going to work?"

"What's your name?" Sakura asks, looking up at her.

She seems surprised by Sakura's question. "Oh, um, Miya Senju, ma'am."

"Miya," Sakura says, "do you know Kaido?" She nods, mutely, not knowing what that had to do with anything. "Then as both medical shinobi and the people that are working to save his arm, we have to believe that it will. If we don't believe that it will work, than why in the world would we expect him to? This is his life that we are dealing with. A shinobi's hand is their life. We owe it to everyone and anyone as people in general to do what we can to help. It's the job we've chosen."

Miya nods, looking a little more confident. Her hands steady over Sakura's. "I'm ready."

"Here we go," Sakura says, pulling her hands back. She can feel the room shift inwards to get a better look.

"Kami," Kana gasps, eyes wide looking down at the pink flesh beneath Sakura's fingers. "It worked." There is more gasps and murmurs of amazement.

Sakura shakes her head, trying to force her hair from her face. She deposits the bad water back into the bowl and the woman rushes off to get the next one ready. Sakura takes this moment to throw her head back and shake her hair behind her head before focusing again. She accepts the next bowl of water placed next to her, placing her hands into it and pulling the water out to continue the process.

Three hours. It takes three more hours for Sakura to work her way all the way down to the hand, healing his fingers. Sakura took the soldier pill an hour ago and can already feel it wearing off. Thankfully she timed it right and hopefully there won't be any sudden issues that she'll have no chakra to deal with. Sakura pulls her hands away, depositing the last of the used water, before bringing her hands back up to his shoulder. The pained look on Kaido's face faded a while ago, either he got used to the pain or passed out again due to the pain.

Miya pulls her hands away so Sakura has access to his entire arm. She uses her shoulder to wipe away collected sweat on her brow. Sakura opens up his veins fully and begins to lead it through his arm, closing her eyes to concentrate. Slowly, but surely, she leads it down his arm, to his finger tips and then back up his arm again, making sure that the blood is clean. Then she puts a hand over his heart, counting to sixty quietly, still not opening her eyes, to make sure no dirty blood got to his heart before opening her eyes and looking down at Kaido.

She moves her hands over his temples and pulls him slowly to consciousness. He opens his eyes slowly and looks around, half drugged. He blinks slowly, barely able to keep his eyes open. He mumbles something incoherent.

Sakura reaches across him and grabs his left hand. "Kaido-san, can you hear me?" She asks softly, watching his face intently.

He nods his head, minutely. Once again mumbling something that Sakura couldn't hear.

"I need you to try and squeeze your left hand for me as hard as you can. Can you do that for me, Kaido-san?" she asks. His hand twitches at first before closing slowly around hers, giving it a little squeeze before relaxing again. She pulls her hand back and moves it over to his other hand and grabbing it. "And the other hand, Kaido-san?"

He opens his eyes a bit, looking around, half seeing. Sakura leans in close over his face so he can focus on her face. Her pink hair hangs in the air between them, a bit of her long bangs tickle the side of his face, making the corner of his lips curl up a bit, eyes drooping closed again.

"Kaido-san, can you squeeze my other hand?" Sakura asks softly, looking down at the Senju beneath her. "Kaido-san?"

"Are you an angel?" Kaido asks, his voice is slurred as he slips closer to slumber again.

"If I say yes, will you squeeze my hand?" Sakura asks softly, getting a better grip on his new pink hand. The Senju smiles faintly, probably only half listening.

"Yes..." He says softly, opening his eyes for a moment before they slip closed again.

"Then yes," Sakura says, shaking her head slowly, trying not to blush about this. It's not the time. "Now, squeeze please."

Sakura pulls back a bit to look down at his hand, pink with new skin, completely unblemished like a new born's. Sakura's hand is small and pale wrapped as much as it can around the Senju's. His fingers twitch a bit before starting to kind of curl around around Sakura's, trying to do as she asked, but is unable to manage even a weak fist, just the minute curling of the fingers.

"Can you feel the heat of my hand?" Sakura asks softly. Kaido hums deep in his throat, nodding his head a little.

"You have small hands," he murmurs.

Sakura rolls her eyes, scoffing playfully, pulling back a bit to straighten up. "I know. I got midgit hands, there is no need to point it out. Not all women are beautiful amazons like Uchiha and Senju women."

"Sorry," Kaido says, smiling faintly. He didn't sound all that sorry, which was fine, because Sakura wasn't all that angry anyway.

"Don't worry about it," Sakura says dismissively. She pulls her hand from his, bringing both of them to the sides of Kaido's head and gently nudges him back into unconsciousness with her chakra. "Rest for now. We can talk later."

Sakura waits until his breathing has leveled out before sending healing chakra to her hands and running them up and down his arms, making sure she didn't miss anything. Sakura turns to the buckets of herbs and kneels down, making one last remedy. She mixes it up and adds a bit of water to makes it more cream-like and slowly massages it into the new skin on Kaido's arm. She makes sure she doesn't miss an inch of the affected area; the crook of his arm, between his fingers. Sakura was thorough and was thankful that no one tried to speak to her yet so she could continue to focus.

"Someone grab me some wrapping. The skin is going to be sensitive for a while we are going to want to protect it from the sun as much as possible for the next couple of days," Sakura says. She's so used to just explaining herself that the words just slipped out. Rika gave her the wrapping, looking like she's practically glowing with pride. "Thank you," Sakura says, smiling at the excited Senju before turning back to Kaido and begins wrapping up his fingers, then his hand, wrist, arm then shoulder.

Sakura looks over at Kana. "Do you think you can support his weight?"

If Kana wanted to give Sakura any lip, she was too shocked to do it. She wrapped Kaido's arm around her shoulders and then reached her free arm behind him to hold up his upper body, looking surprised. Sakura makes quick work on wrapping his chest up too to add support and get the entirety of his shoulder protected by the white tape. Sakura helps lower him back onto the table, supporting his head, before pulling back to look at him.

"Alright, I've done all that can be done for now," Sakura says wiping some sweat from her brow. She pulls her hair up a bit and fans the back of her neck, wishing that they were in the conditioned air of the hospital she's so used to. Konoha's heat can be unforgiving. Truly. "As far as I can tell there is no lasting damage. He'll need to go through extensive rehabilitation for his right arm but I see no foreseeable issues," Sakura says, letting her hair back down. "Let him rest. And when he wakes up, get some good food in his belly, he'll need it to start regaining his strength. I need to go now."

Sakura turns around and walks out of the tent, keeping her posture straight and poised. Not really knowing where else to go, Sakura heads for the mountain that will one day be adorning the faces of the future Hokage. With what remains of her chakra, Sakura climbs up to the top and sits on the smooth surface, looking out over the growing village. It's only been a few days and the village is already starting to grow into... well... a village. It's kind of amazing watching the pieces of the village falling into place. Watching the village become what it will be, is kind of strange. And awesome too.

With her feet dangling over the side, she lays down backwards. Looking up at the dark night sky, watching the stars twinkle through the thick clouds. It's starting to cool down now. The nights are only going to get cooler as winter draws closer and closer. The Land of Fire's winters are short, cold and with hardly any snow most of the time. The rock beneath her is cold to the touch, seeping into the back of her thin kimono.

But Sakura doesn't mind, slipping her eyes closed, just listening to the noises of the night. She lays her hands onto her stomach, using the heat of her core to warm her cooling hands. Sakura's not sure how long she was laying there before she felt the presences right on top of her. She opens her eyes to see Hashirama bent over at the waist, looking down at her, his long dark hair slipping over his shoulders to dangle in the space between them.

"Sakura," Hashirama says, eyes twinkling in the darkness, "you are amazing!"

Sakura blinks a few times, mind in a bit of a fog. She must have dozed off a bit. "Oh? What did I do?"

Hashirama makes a face at her words. "Please don't tell me you did that entire thing while unconscious. I don't think many egos will survive that one," he says teasingly.

"Oh," Sakura says, sitting up slowly. Hashirama straightens up too, still smiling. "No, I was awake. It's just no big deal."

Hashirama crouches down, tilting his head to the side. "How can you say that? I've never seen anything like that before! The way you used both herbs and medical ninjutsu, that was amazing! You have to tell me how you did that. Was it something you learned in your village?" He asks, crossing his arms over his knees.

Sakura nods. "It's a little bit of my own knowledge coupled with remedies taught to me by my master."

"Your master must have been truly amazing," Hashirama says, eyes widen.

Sakura smiles, nodding slowly. "She is. Or... was..." Sakura didn't fail to notice that whenever she spoke about her home, more often than not she spoke as if it was still there. None of them have probably mentioned it out of respect for Sakura's anonymous fallen village. In a way, that felt wrong. Sakura knows that she has to lie to them, or at least stretch the truth as much as possible.

Sakura looks over at Tobirama who was at her opposite side, just staring down at her with that same intensity that he seems to always have on his face. Sakura waggles her fingers in greeting toward him and was pleasantly unsurprised when he just stared back at her. The clouds in the sky part and the area lights up. Sakura turns her head toward the light, feeling a painful churn in her belly to look passed Hashirama to see Madara, bathed in the moonlight, staring at her with intense eyes not unlike Tobirama's gaze.

The moon dyes his hair a moon-light gray and casting shadows across his face. The only thing that could make the situation worse would be the bright red that accommodates the sharingan.

Sakura scrambles to her feet, looking up at the full moon glaring down at her. In her mind's eye, she can see Madara's silhouette against the bright full moon in the sky. Obito's version of the moon-eye plan that threw Sakura and Naruto into the strange alternate universe where everything was backwards, flashes onto the moon, making Sakura's knees tremble.

Sakura shakes her head, looking down at the weathered stone, wrapping her arms around herself. "I don't care if we talk, but can we talk somewhere inside?" Sakura asks, turning to look over at the village realizing just how close she is to the edge again.

"Are you okay?" Hashirama asks, leaning over so that his face could block her view of the village. Sakura jumps, blushing a bit at his closeness. He was so much like Naruto, no personal space. That's not so much a bad thing, Sakura decides.

"Yes," Sakura says, rubbing up and down her arms, trying to create friction and warm herself. "I just have a really bad irrational fear..." at two identical intense looks and one inquisitive look, Sakura looks away, "...of the moon. I'm scared of the full moon." It feels so embarrassing to say that in front of people, especially in front of the person who's one of the main reasons that Sakura has such a fear. "Don't laugh, okay? I forgot about the moon for a while and just came up here impulsively. Can we please go down now? I'm so stupid and I think I'm panicking a little bit."

Sakura hated the rapid beating of her heart and her inability to look up at the moon, wishing the clouds would just float back over the moon again for her.

"It's okay," Hashirama says kindly, putting a hand on Sakura's shoulder. "Everyone has fears. There's no need to panic. Let's go down and talk, that'll make you feel better, yes?"

Sakura nods, feeling a bit relieved. "Thank you, Hashirama-sama, and I'm sorry. If you're worried about Kaido, it's okay, he'll be fine."

"I'm not worried," Hashirama says, smiling. "I was watching the whole time, so don't think that. I just want the four of us to sit down and talk about some important things. But perhaps tonight is not the night. Why don't we walk you..." he squints, looking at Sakura embarrassed, suddenly. "Okay, so how about a proper place to live?"

Sakura's mind, now having something to focus on, hones in on it. "That's a good idea. That room needs to be opened up so someone like Kaido can be moved in there. It's definitely a better accommodations for someone in his position. Better protection from the sun and don't get me started on how it feels to just have a bed instead of a table beneath you." Sakura began rattling on and on about the proper way patients like Kaido should be treated. She mentions ideas about a hospital that would better suited for the injured. Talking about helping Sakura's patients often pull her from any dark place her mind may travel.

Hashirama nods, listening intently, leading her down the mountain with Tobirama and Madara following.

For the Reviews:

1. dreadwings: Thank you so much! There is a little more "ooh! Sakura is so amazing!" in this chapter, but I wanted to add a bit of conflict between Sakura and Kana. :D Thank you!

2. animefan36: I know! I wanted to make that familiar connection for Sakura so that it would be easier for her to get comfortable with Hashirama. Yes, in this chapter there is a little back handing for some unruly nurses. :D Thank you! I didn't want Madara and Tobirama to just be like, "yeah, she can stay" and then fuck off to who knows where. I want it to appear like Hashirama, while he's intrigued by her, primarily wants to help her because he's just a nice guy, whereas both Tobirama and Madara want to keep an eye on someone who has these strange skills and strange way of talking and living. I don't know, I hope it comes off like that. Thank you!

3. Guest 1: I hope you liked it!

4. AkatsukiRaven92: Aww! Poor Tamaki! I love that show! Yes, I kind of imagined the same thing! Haha!

5. Otakugal: Thank you! :D

6. Guest 2: Yeah, I'm starting to like them too! I hope you liked it!

7. silverwolfighter00: There is a little bit of drama, and more to come! I love adding a bit of humor, so I'm glad you're getting a laugh. ^.^ Thank you so much! I'll try hard not to take too long between updates, but unfortunately, I can't promise anything! But at least I've got the next one up! :)

8. ChoA: Yeah, I kind of like putting in a bit of conflict. No pairings yet.

9. Mameha: I know, the more I write about them, the more I like them. I like the Sakura-centric stories too. XD

10. Lyndseydan: Thank you. As for you question, I'm not so sure yet. I have to think about it for a little while longer.

11. olliebaz9: Oh, thank you! Yes, I was thinking of a little Mito jealousy too! To what extent, I don't know, but the thought was already there. XD

12. Vorazlov28: Thank you. I know there is no pleasing everyone, but I want to try and make this story as good as I can. T.T I know, thanks for the input. Yeah, I was thinking something along those lines for Tobirama. I wanted it to be more, like he was watching her out of suspition. She's still a stranger and those intense red eyes aren't going to leave her until he's satisfied that she's not a danger to the village or it's people. Yeah, I was wondering if someone would notice that in the beginning. That would be pretty heart breaking for him, wouldn't it? I was thinking the same thing, Sakura is going to become something to the Leaf, slowly but surely. Yeah, Hashirama's shady as fuck. Hahah. XD

13. RedGoddessEclipse: Hahah. I'll see what I can do. Thanks!

14. kaoru-pretty: Thank you!

15. LoonyTuned: Haha, thanks. I was thinking that I wanted some kind of connection to her past for later chapters. *wink* I still have to think about pairings. I don't think Tobirama married in the manga, but if anyone knows, they should totally let me know. (subliminal messaging) I know right? Madara is so gorgeous that it's a shame. T.T *looks at you suspiciously* Are you certain you aren't Orochimaru in disguise? Yes, that will definitely be exciting. Sakura kicking the shit out of people. XD Hahaha! Thank you for the dedication to this story! Yeah, I am notorious for long stories! XD

16. k: Thank you!

17. NarutoxHonoka: Thank you!

18. K: "Tobirama hotness"? I'm not sure which fanfic you were reading but I don't think it was mine. Haha. XD

19. ShatteredGreen: Haha! Thank you very much! I haven't decided on a pairing yet, but I will let everyone know what I start deeply considering it. Currently, the last thing on Sakura's mind is looking for a man to be loved by. XD

20. CheeseBrainGirl: Well, for you, this was a short wait! :D