Sakura woke at the crack of dawn the following morning, coincidentally Mifune, Okisuke and Urakaku were awake as well "Well this is quite the surprise" Mifune commented as she stepped out of her hotel room to prepare things for the morning.
"Perhaps Mifune-dono, but we need every spare hour that we can to help reform that hospital into a proper one that doesn't rely on archaic techniques to save lives" Sakura grimaced, having been sorting through records on successful body amputations to save a patient.
Mifune raised a brow but then understood what she meant "They still amputate" Mifune hazarded a guess and Sakura cringed at the mental imagery but nodded, then she moved swiftly past them, down the hall to the kitchens.
Nearly an hour later she was back, Sasuke awake by this point so they roused the other medics, fed them breakfast and then headed for the hospital "Great here we thought we had imagined things yesterday" the medic who'd given them lip yesterday groaned.
"You sure you want to complain in front of her" Sasuke pointed to Sakura, who'd crossed her arms, tapping her foot while giving the idiot a look that sent shudders down others spines, he hurriedly shut his mouth.
Relieved that he wasn't going to say anymore Sakura flashed through the hand signs "Everyone will carry around one of my summons at all times, now get to work on cleaning the rest of this hospital and everything in it" Sakura barked.
Looking around to make sure everyone had a smaller version of Katsuyu on their shoulder before stalking off, "Gods she's scary how do you even handle her" Yahiko shivered, rubbing his arms as he followed after Sasuke.
Because he was stuck with the Leaf Shinobi for his own safety even if he was rather useless "Lucky for me that's not my job, I'm her teammate and friend, but there is someone who can handle her, her boyfriend and betrothed" Sasuke chuckled lightly.
Thinking on Shino fondly, while wishing he'd gotten to come along "Boyfriend, betrothed, the hell" Yahiko frowned, just a tiny bit disturbed at what he'd just been told, Sasuke slanted him a look however as they found an unclean area of the hospital and started cleaning.
Iryo and Herasu following his lead quickly "Ugh this is a pain" Iryo groaned after a short time of scrubbing and it didn't look like the blood was coming off the wall at any point but he kept at it until finally the dark splatter finally started disappearing.
Being wiped away until it was all clean so they moved on, halfway around the hospital they spotted Sakura "What is she doing" Yahiko asked cluelessly, peering into the two-way window, watching as the pinkette stormed up to the medics.
They must have just missed her entering the room actually and then Sakura lay into the medics spectacularly her words piercing into their ears "THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU IDIOTS ARE DOING, AMPUTATION IS ARCHAIC AND OUTDATED" Sakura yelled.
Shoving the moronic medics away from the boy on the operation table "B..But Sakura-san how else are we to heal an injury such as that" the medics questioned, cowering before her as she glared at them furiously.
"Just watch Yahiko-san, this is why the Hokage took Sakura on as her apprentice" Sasuke smirked as Sakura's hand glowed the brightest green and she placed them on the child, healing him of the rather deep cut he had.
When the glow around her hands faded she marched up to the medics "Next time I catch you idiots attempting an amputation I will punt your asses out of this hospital" Sakura snarled, making sure her words were reverberating in their heads before stomping out of the operation room.
"Oh hello Sasuke" Sakura did a 360 as she smiled brightly at Sasuke for a moment then continued on past them, Yahiko pressed himself against the wall in order to not get in her way and breathed a sigh of relief when she was gone from sight.
Sasuke shook his head "Sakura in a nutshell she's as loved as she is feared" Sasuke said, continuing on his way, helping to heal patients here and there now that it seemed that the cleaning was coming to a stop.
The hospital smelling and looking much better than before as they all grouped together for lunch no patient needing their immediate attention thank the kami "So now that the hospital and everything in it is cleaned, what's next" the Head Medic questioned.
Pausing briefly to ask that before eating some more "Good question…patient records, no your dealing with that aren't you Sakura, so that leaves, re-training you" Sasuke grimaced in realization this was going to be the hardest part of reforming the hospital.
It was completely disorganized, the medics were still using outdated techniques and it was overall a giant pain in the derriere "Sasuke you handle that, Iryo, Herasu, you'll join the others healing new and current patients, I'll help with retraining as soon as I'm done with records" Sakura announced.
Clapping her hands for effect and as soon as they were done with lunch, Katsuyu was re-summoned, Sasuke rounded up all the medics besides the ones that they'd brought and headed off for a large meeting room while Sakura hurried to the records room.
Half an hour later she got an unexpected visitor "Ah Sakura-san there you are" Mei poked her head into the room before entering it fully, seeing as she had a bit of business to conduct with the girl and she thanked her lucky stars Sakura was alone.
"Mizukage-sama what brings you here to the hospital today, did something happen" Sakura panicked suddenly, Mei shook her head in assurance, a tiny bit amused at how the girl had reacted to her presence.
Usually it would mean something bad but not today "I merely wished to speak with you, first, how are things coming along, do you think you'll manage to completely reform the hospital in just a few weeks" Mei inquired.
Resisting the urge to cross her fingers in hopes that it wasn't to much for the chunin and their team to handle "Absolutely, Mizukage-sama, while it will take awhile, a week at best to completely suppress the need to perform archaic techniques, the medics learn quickly" Sakura smiled.
Sounding completely certain of herself "Good, good, now Sakura-san tell me something, Shisui Uchiha seemed to care about you quite a bit, why is that" Mei questioned, having a myriad of questions she wanted to ask and get answers to.
"That huh, well, I met Shisui when I was five, we bonded and he became my best friend, then later on he was practically an older brother to me, I am what I am today because of Shisui" Sakura declared, before making a frustrated sound in the back of her throat.
Because the patient records weren't alphabetized "How is it you all learned that he was alive after his supposed death back when the Uchiha Massacre occurred" Mei prodded and Sakura winced in remembrance to that godawful day.
"Shizune-sempai, Tsunade-shishou's attendant saved his life right after he tried to commit suicide and he washed up on the bank of Naka River, then he decided to just go around with them for four years, never letting anyone now he was alive" Sakura huffed lightly.
Obviously still a little sore about that, knowing would have saved her from a lot of heartache even if she didn't get to see him, he would have still been alive which would have been enough for her "So the mission you were sent on, you came back from, was it difficult" Mei asked after a moment.
Letting Sakura sort through some more paperwork first "Very Mizukage-sama, I'm lucky to have even made it back alive with only a bruise" Sakura shuddered, not saying anymore than that because she couldn't, mission details were classified.
Mei pouted a little "I see, one last thing, have you thought about marriage perhaps" the auburn haired woman inquired, Sakura froze and looked at her warily though, mind probably thinking up countless scenarios.
Then in her most politest tone "Mizukage-sama I regret to inform you that I'm already in a formal betrothal contract and that I've already established a relationship with him, my apologies" Sakura stood and bowed, expressing her apologies properly.
"Pity, well I had to try, you'd have been perfect for Chojuro-kun, but thank you for not flying off the handle at me like Tsunade-san would have and thank you for talking with me, I'll let you get back to work now" Mei shrugged with a little giggle.
Before leaving the hospital and heading back to her office "Did you ask Lady Mizukage" Ao questioned once she was sat behind her desk again working on her own paperwork, curious to see if the woman had accomplished the goal she'd set out to complete.
"Unfortunately I'm a little to late in asking, late by how long I have no idea, but late nonetheless Ao, she's already betrothed to someone and in a relationship with that person as well" Mei sighed, more than a little upset over the matter.
There was little she could do about it though "Must be someone her age then if their in a relationship, perhaps that Uchiha brat or it could be Shisui" Ao commented, both guesses wrong though he didn't know it.
Back at the hospital just when Sakura thought she was making progress "Sakura-chan, there's a sort of problem in the training room, one of the medics is unable to even use the mystical palm" Katsuyu interrupted.
With a sigh Sakura reluctantly shoved the patient records away from her as she stood and hurried to the training room, bursting her way in with a loud bang "Sakura" Sasuke grimaced, having wanted to avoid her having to get involve so soon.
"Out with it which one of you can't even heal" Sakura demanded, tapping her foot impatiently because she really needed to sort through all the patient records and freaking organize them, it was proving difficult because of all the interruptions though.
Not wanting to face her wrath, everyone pointed to the idiot who'd given them lip yesterday and that morning as well "Let me see what your doing wrong" Sakura ordered, plopping a melon down in front of the man and stepping back to observe.
Sasuke activated his sharingan to watch on a more internal level as the guy went through the hand signs but nothing happened "Are you even concentrating" Sakura snapped, only to have Sasuke put a hand on her shoulder.
Helping her calm down some "I don't think that's the case Sakura, he simply doesn't have the talent for it, we could put him in pediatrics instead of simply removing him from the hospital" Sasuke admitted, making a suggestion.
That the man clearly wasn't happy with "Look it's either pediatrics or you'll have to find another form of employment that doesn't involve healing" Sakura narrowed her eyes so the man grudgingly relented.
Hours later with barely anymore progress being made Sakura, Sasuke and their chosen medics trudged back to the hotel for dinner "Was it truly that bad in there" Okisuke frowned not liking the exhaustion on their faces.
Even the adults of the team looked exhausted "Oh yeah nothings organized at all and Sakura-san's temper is crazy" Yahiko chimed in the only one who got to stand around and do nothing for the most part since he was no medic.
Urakaku looked dubious at that since he hadn't witnessed Sakura's temper for himself yet, nor had Okisuke, their leader however simply looked amused "Yes she does seem to have quite the temper, but her heart is in the right place so you don't have to worry Yahiko-san" Mifune chuckled.
Yahiko eyed him warily "Sure" Yahiko said slowly, walking after the others now as they headed for the cafeteria to eat dinner and then probably go to bed, reforming a hospital wasn't easy in the least as far as he'd noticed.
~Three Days Later~
Sakura got another visit in the patient records room "Knock, Knock, you in there Sakura" Jiraiya called out, poking his into the room like the Mizukage had three days before hand and she gestured him in with a smile.
"Thank kami your here, I think Yahiko-san's going stir-crazy" Sakura grinned, obviously suffering from the same thing herself, who wouldn't be, being cooped up in a dust old room, sorting through and organizing the abomination known as patient records.
Jiraiya shook his head in amusement "Are you sure it's not you that's driving him crazy, I mean we all know what your like after all Sakura" Jiraiya teased, knowing the girl could get a little crazy sometimes.
In response Sakura glared at him "Pretty sure Jiraiya-sama, anyway he's down with Sasuke where he's re-training the medics, helping them improve their mystical palm and such, I'll take you since I had to talk to him about something" Sakura huffed after a moment.
Grabbing a file to take with her as they headed down to the meeting room, when the doors opened Sasuke paused in the middle of instructing the medics on how to draw poison out of a wound and looked up "Jiraiya-sensei" Yahiko breathed from beside him.
Already heading towards the Sannin in question feeling like he was a kid again and about to burst into tears "Hey Yahiko, do you think you could ever forgive me for not coming to help you when you all needed it most" Jiraiya asked, voice thick with regret and guilt.
Yahiko didn't have to think for very long instead simply nodded "Your here now when I need you most and together we can get Nagato and Konan-chan to stop being idiots, their the bad guys if you can believe it" Yahiko groaned.
"I was already beginning to suspect as much, but don't worry Yahiko, we'll make them see that their in the wrong" Jiraiya assured, not entirely optimistic about it, but he was damn sure going to try and get his old students back to the way they were when he knew them.
During this reunion Sakura had marched over to Sasuke "Found a discrepancy of sorts in past funds the hospital has received, what do you make of it" Sakura whispered, dragging him away from the medics in retraining to show him the file she'd found.
Pointing to where she'd spotted the discrepancy "Hmm odd, I suppose this calls for a sort of internal investigation, try to see if you can find anymore discrepancies like that, then go to the Mizukage and ask who she hands over the funding to" Sasuke suggested.
"Lovely, right, well we aren't shinobi for nothing if we don't use our investigative skills for something then we might as well be useless when it really matters" Sakura snapped the file shut with a long suffering sigh.
Heading for the doors of the training room, Jiraiya gently snagged her arm as she passed by "Hold on, I'm going to be hanging about for awhile if you don't mind, I think it's safer if I escort you back to Konoha when your mission is over" Jiraiya explained.
Releasing her arm almost as quickly as he'd grabbed it "That's fine Jiraiya-sama the more the merrier" Sakura shrugged lightly, rapidly disappearing after that to that records room, where she dug through more folders to find more discrepancies.
There were many of them she found out two days later after having emptied four whole drawers, reorganizing as she went, so with her evidence in hand Sakura went straight to the Mizukage "Whats the hurry Sakura" Jiraiya an unexpected tag-along.
"Someones been embezzling funds from the hospital for years, over 40,000 ryo has vanished over a twenty year time period, I suspect the Head Medic, he's easily over forty and has been around since the time of the Fourth Mizukage, when Kiri was at its worst" Sakura explained.
Extremely annoyed that she was having to work so hard "But your not sure, hence the reason your going to talk to the Mizukage to find out who she sends the funding to, so they can use it for the hospital to get new equipment and uniforms" Jiraiya mused.
Impressed "Yeah, cause the discrepancies are weird, every few months without fail some funding just disappears about 2,000 of it" Sakura sighed, having searched until her eyes ached from reading so much, whoever the culprit was they were smart, but not smart enough thankfully.
"Need something girl" Ao raised a brow when she appeared before him holding a stack of files in her hand, odd enough within itself but Jiraiya the Toad Sage was stood behind her, Sakura nodded solemnly.
Already not liking this "I need to speak with Mizukage-sama about an important matter Ao-san, I found evidence of someone embezzling funds from the hospital" Sakura informed clearly, looking grim at the same time.
Deciding that it was an important matter Ao knocked on Mei's office door sharply "Come in" Mei called from the other side, working on her own paperwork, the two shuffled in quietly, waiting patiently until she addressed them "Is something wrong" Mei asked after a time.
Sakura marched up to her with grim determination "Someone's been embezzling funds from the hospital, over a twenty year time period, 40,000 has been taken in that time, if you could tell me who it is you give those funds to, to use for the hospital it will help" Sakura announced.
Being as professional as possible "Oh, are you sure Sakura-san, because I give that funding to the Head Medic Yoru" Mei's eyes widened in horror over what she had just learned, Sakura nodded grimly in answer.
"All of the evidence I compiled Mizukage-sama, you can see for yourself, it probably is Yoru-san but I'm going to investigate a bit more just to make doubly sure" Sakura placed all the files she had on the woman's desk with a barely there wince.
Jiraiya pressed his lips together and followed after Sakura silently on their way back to the hospital "So how are you going to conduct your investigation Sakura" the Sannin asked once they were well enough away from the Tower.
Sakura looked up at him with a forlorn expression "I'll plant spiders on all the senior staff, study their behavior, note down any suspicious actions for starters then eliminate those who are innocent until all that's left is the suspect" Sakura admitted.
Flashing through hand signs "Good thing there's not many medics on the senior staff huh Sakura" Jiraiya nudged her gently in the side as she finished summoning her red-legged spiders, twelve of them to be precise.
"True, right let the investigation begin" Sakura grimaced, entering the meeting room and swiftly planting her spiders on those of the senior staff discretely, before heading to the front of the room, Sasuke raised a brow at her.
Having seen her actions but she shook her head "Later then, so I take it the patient records are organized" Sasuke questioned, seeing her beginning to instruct the medics on how to use the more difficult techniques of the medical trade.
Really pushing them until the lot of them were sufficiently exhausted, though before Sakura could vanish to her hotel room Sasuke dragged her into his, Samurai, Jiraiya and Yahiko on their heels "Whats going on" Yahiko frowned.
"Care to explain why you planted spiders on those twelve medics earlier" Sasuke demanded to know in the next moment, not understanding yet even though he should already know the reason it was escaping him at that particular moment.
Sakura rolled her eyes tiredly at him "One of them is the culprit embezzling funds from the hospital, it could be the Head Medic but I'm not sure, so I planted my spiders on them to watch for any suspicious behaviors or actions so that I can single out the culprit" Sakura explained with a sniff.
Moments after this admission Yahiko clutched his head with a groan "Ugh talk about a migraine, you are the most infuriating person I've ever met and I thought Konan-chan was bad" Yahiko scowled.
The Samurai simply looked amused "Will you be able to find the culprit though Sakura-san and if you do what will you do with him" Mifune chimed in, curious as to what she would do once she had caught the criminal.
"Probably interrogate him to see if we can get back the funds he's been embezzling, hard to see him using all 40,000 ryo after all, then turn him over to Mizukage-sama, because he will certainly not be allowed to work at the hospital any longer" Sakura said.
Before popping up from the bed Sasuke had made her sit on "Such a strange child" Okisuke shook his head as she bounded out of the room to her own so that she could get some rest, all the medics on the team were pulling their weight four times over after all.
"Indeed" Urakaku nodded, leaving everyone to get some sleep for the night since they were still only in their first week on the mission, with over two more weeks to go and the hospital was still in the beginning process of being reformed.
Luckily however since Sakura was finished completely organizing and alphabetizing things, the medics improvement rate shot through the roof and at the end of the first week, they were ready to start the next step of the hospital reformation.
Dividing the hospital into individual wings, assigning medics to specific patrols and wards which was an even bigger pain in the ass than retraining the medics ever was "Do we have to do this, I thought you were going to put me in pediatrics" the guy who kept complaining, complained again.
Sakura rounded on him, fist raised threateningly and he quickly shut his mouth "Like I'd put you in charge of children, your bedside manner is atrocious, so I'm putting you in charge of geriatrics" Sakura scoffed.
The man narrowed his eyes at that "In charge means that you'll be the one dealing with adding new medics to the ward, assigning patrols and the like, if it makes you feel better" Sasuke explained a lot more calmly.
Just a little amused at how Sakura seemed to get crankier as the days went by "Oh well I guess that's not so bad and I suppose the elderly will be a little easier to deal with instead of children who want to be rowdy" the medic finally relented.
As they arrived at their stop, getting the ward set up properly, Sakura and Sasuke barking orders left and right ~Sakura-sama, Irome noted something unusual, one of the medics on the senior staff has left the hospital when it's not his break~ Shiruki piped in suddenly.
Only heard by Sakura though Sasuke noted her distraction immediately he kept ordering the medics that had been assigned geriatrics around "Which one Shiruki-chan" Sakura whispered to her summons, pulling out a notebook as well.
~Hirata-san, Irome is on him and he seems to be heading towards the village gates~ Shiruki informed, Sakura pursed her lips, gave Sasuke a look who nodded in understanding then she was gone, hot on Hirata's heels.
Masking her presence expertly as she followed along behind him to the gates, watched him sign out, scribbled that in her notebook under suspicious behaviors, met Ao's gaze who simply allowed her to exit the village without signing out to avoid getting caught.
The man didn't even suspect that he was being followed as he headed straight to a dilapidated hut, scanned his surroundings warily, before entering, Hirata emerged fifteen minutes later, dusting off his clothing and started heading back to the village.
Sakura waited until he was gone then dropped out of her hiding place, spying a glint of silver out of the corner of her eye she knew the hut was booby-trapped so she made her way carefully to the door avoiding setting off any of the traps.
Before warily pushing open the door that was falling off it's hinges, it swung open with an eerie creak but she entered it anyway, ducking on reflex when an axe tried to chop her head off "Well, well what do we have here" Sakura smirked.
After lighting the area up with a lamp she had on hand to unveil, the smirk dropped off her face to be replaced with a horrified expression "Gross…well we certainly stumbled onto something criminal in nature" Sakura grimaced.
Closing her eyes for a moment then she gathered up the evidence, of amputated parts, there was no telling what Hirata was using them for, sealed them in a storage scroll, reset the axe as it was before then hurried back to the village.
"Is he your embezzling culprit" Ao asked when she stopped in front of him, at his question Sakura shook her head, looking sick to her stomach, making him wonder at what she'd found when she'd followed that medic of earlier.
Who'd returned thirty minutes earlier "No, unfortunately he's much worse I believe, he was hording amputated parts in a run down hut fifteen minutes that way if you want to send someone to check it out, here's the evidence" Sakura passed him the scroll with the parts sealed in it.
Features hardening at what she was about to do she body flickered in a flurry of sweet smelling cherry blossoms to make it back to the hospital in record time, in the nick of time to as she luckily overheard Hirata complaining about her.
"And that little brat is ruining everything, I've been selling those parts for years and now suddenly we're no longer allowed to amputate just because it's archaic according to her" Hirata ranted furiously unaware that the person he was ranting about was listening.
Scribbling down everything he was saying, the confession, everything even his partner in crime another senior staff medic Nejire "Regardless of what Lady Mizukage wants, I say we chop her into little pieces and sell her, that hair of hers will fetch us a great price" Nejire chimed in.
Sakura shook her head in disappointment "Unfortunately neither one of you will have the chance, Mibojin-sama tie them up in your webbing please" she requested, rounding the corner and throwing her spider summons at the two schemers.
Understanding and horror dawned on Hirata and Nejire at that moment as they realized Sakura had been listening to everything "By the way I followed you and found your stash of body parts, your sick" Sakura informed.
Looking at the duo coldly just as Mei burst her way through the front doors "Mizukage-sama that girl is insane, she's accusing us of something awful, we're good people, we've done our best for the village and this hospital, help us" Nejire started begging.
Thinking that just because the Mizukage was soft they'd be let off the hook "I don't think so, Sakura-san's been updating me and five minutes ago Ao gave me this, I have never been more disgusted in my life, take them Ao, they won't be seeing daylight for years" Mei decreed.
Nejire and Hirata yelled profanities the whole way out of the hospital as they were dragged by Ao to jail cells, Mei nodded in grim satisfaction that at least an illegal business had been efficiently and brutally shut down, then she turned on her heel and left the hospital.
With that Sakura headed back to the geriatric ward "If your looking for Sasuke-san, he took the medics to start setting up pediatrics" Yojo informed, barely looking up from the list of medics under his command, assigning patrol and shift times.
Pleased that the man had calmed down she turned on her heel and hurried off to pediatrics "You move fast Sasuke" Sakura gave him a half smile when she finally caught up with her teammate in the midst of all out chaos.
"Not going to tell me again are you" Sasuke sulked when she remained tight-lipped about what had made her leave so suddenly earlier, though he did take note that two of the senior staff was missing from the hospital.
Sakura shot him an apologetic smile, promising to explain later and so she did "Hirata and Nejire were running an illegal business selling amputated parts, they even entertained the thought briefly of chopping me up" Sakura informed with a disgusted snort.
"Quite the brutal child aren't you" Yahiko grimaced not sure how she could stand exhausting herself day after day like she was, even Sasuke threw himself into work until it seemed like he couldn't move another muscle.
Both Sasuke and Sakura nodded at his statement making Jiraiya chuckle "Nah, Sakura's a good kid, just serious about her profession is all" Jiraiya rubbed his knuckles on her head gently, extremely fond of the girl.
Who would lay her life down for anyone who mattered "How'd they entertain that thought briefly if I may ask" Mifune was curious about what she'd said about two of the medics entertaining the thought of chopping her up, briefly she'd said.
"Oh well Nejire mused out loud that they should chop me up and I rounded the corner a second later, so his idea had only just come into mind and then he and Hirata were dragged away, hence the reason it was only a brief thought" Sakura snickered heartlessly.
Mifune shook his head lightly in amusement "On that note we'll leave you to get some rest" Urakaku bowed following after his leader as they headed for their separate hotel rooms to get some shut eye for the night.
Only to repeat for another four days "Alright that's it, hospital reformation complete mostly, hmm I wonder if we should set up a program between the academy and hospital for seniors to learn how to be medics if they wish" Sasuke mused out loud.
Seeing that the hospital was in working order now "We could try that in our village as well, it could be like a part of the graduation exam, in their last year once they'd learned all the essentials, if they passed they can work at the hospital part-time and be field medics" Sakura grinned.
Excited at coming up with a new idea for the academy curriculum 'Come on then lets go talk to Mizukage-sama" Sasuke shrugged letting Sakura take the lead again while leaving the others of their team in charge of making sure the hospital was run properly.
"To what do I owe this visit, hopefully it's not to tell me another one of the hospital staff is running some sort of illegal business" Mei asked once the two chunin were stood before her, having been waiting patiently for ten minutes.
They both cleared their throats at the same time "We'd like to set up a program of sorts" Sakura and Sasuke said in unrehearsed sync before looking at each other with laughter clear in their eyes at the ridiculousness of it all.
Mei was slightly amused but gestured for them to continue "For students in their second to last year at the academy, any of them who wish to become medics could learn under a medic at the hospital and take the licensing exam when he/she's ready to graduate" Sasuke continued.
Alone this time "That's quite the idea you two, how'd you come up with it" Mei raised an auburn brow at the two chunin, wondering at how their minds worked sometimes because she'd never even thought to come up with such a thing herself.
"It was Sasuke actually" Sakura chimed in, giving her teammate the credit he deserved, since he had actually come along way since stating his desire to become a medic alongside her, with that Mei gave them the go ahead and soon that to was set up.
There was only one thing left that bothered her "I still haven't caught that embezzler" Sakura grumbled a few days before they were to return home, mission completed, no one knew what to tell her really.
Jiraiya was also rather disturbed at the lack of evidence "Maybe you'll get lucky like with Hirata, so don't worry your head about it to much Sakura" Jiraiya ruffled her long pink hair which was down that day instead of the braided bun she usually kept it in.
What he would never ask though is how much her weights weighed nowadays it would probably give him a heart attack to be honest "Or you could ask innocent questions and watch how everyone reacts to your questions" Okisuke suggested.
Yahiko snorted in response "Everyone would know then and the guilty party could try to run" Yahiko scoffed before his eyes widened in realization, the one who ran would be the guilty one, there catching the embezzler.
"For now lets just enjoy ourselves a little bit Sakura, seeing as we've pretty much been cooped up in the hospital, hotel, Mizukage's office and academy we deserve a little break" Sasuke pat her hand gently intent on getting some souvenirs.
So Sakura let herself be dragged around at Sasuke's whim for the day and returned to the hospital the next day only for the lot of them to overhear a most curious conversation "It seems those leaf bastards are leaving in a few days" Yoru said quite loudly to someone in his office.
The Samurai, Jiraiya and Yahiko listening in just as intently, no one answered him and no one sensed a second chakra in the office "Once their gone I'm going to disregard all their rules and take all the funds for myself and leave this place in shambles this time" Yoru cackled.
"Well if that's not a confession I don't know what is, seems you were right Sakura-san" Mifune frowned, wondering how someone so awful had come to be in command of the hospital, not that he was going to go around asking.
Sakura nodded then with a sigh threw open the head medics office door, it slammed into the stone wall with a bang, scaring the ever living hell out of Yoru who was in the midst of hiding a thick wad of ryo in his desk.
Caught he made the ultimate mistake by lunging at Sakura and wrapping his hand around her neck, squeezing it tightly "Move out of the way if you don't want me to break her neck, cause I will" Yoru demanded.
"Kafu bite" Sakura ordered tonelessly and the spider that she'd had planted on Yoru this entire time before he could tell her about the mans suspicious behavior, bit down as commanded and Yoru let out a scream of agony.
Clutching his neck as he released her, Yoru doubled over his trashcan and started vomiting violently into it "Did his venom get stronger recently or something" Jiraiya asked curiously, not remembering that quite a violent reaction to someone getting bit by Sakura's spiders.
Usually it was Shiruki doing the biting of enemies though "Yeah they all got bigger recently, soon I'll have to start summoning littler spiders in order to just simply incapacitate people so I don't accidentally kill them" Sakura nodded.
Brushing her clothes off before summoning Mibojin "My pleasure Sakura-sama" Mibojin didn't have to be told twice or even told what to do at all as he simply covered Yoru in his webbing so that the man couldn't escape.
"I thought you had slug summons" Yahiko asked in the aftermath as Sakura injected Yoru with some of her anti-venom, then rummaged around in the mans desk, finding a scroll which when unsealed reveal about 34,000 ryo of the missing original 40,000.
Then she heaved Yoru over her shoulder like a sack of potatoes before answering Yahiko "You would be correct, I do have Slug summons, but I also happen to have spider summons" Sakura informed with a smile.
Cuddling Mibojin against her chest with her free arm as they marched across the Mist Village to deliver the embezzler and nearly all of the missing funds "Ugh" Yoru groaned still reeling from the venom he'd been subjected to.
Mei was all to happy to throw the man in a jail cell right alongside Hirata and Nejire, grant Sakura permission to select a new more trustworthy Head Medic for the hospital and use the funds that had been found to upgrade equipment, get new beds, hire and train new medics and much more.
Before they knew it was time for all of them to head home "Well we thank you for allowing us to accompany you on this mission Sakura-san but I do believe it is time we got back to Iron before my absence is missed much more" Mifune said.
Right as they'd signed out of the village, proposal for the treaty between Mist and Leaf in Sakura's pouch, which sported a new ambassadors badge with Mists signature on it, Sasuke also had one "It was nice having you along Mifune-dono" Sakura smiled kindly at the Head Samurai.
Ever polite "Make sure you come visit Iron sometime and learn how to wield a sword our way" Okisuke reminded, he was curious to see if she could master their swordsmanship style and it seemed like she was interested as well.
"As long as you don't mind if I tag along to learn as well" Sasuke chimed in, seeing as he hadn't had much time to wield the sword Shisui had gotten him long ago for becoming a Chunin that Sakura had given him once he'd been promoted.
Sakura grinned but remained on the alert at the same time"Of course not Sasuke-san your more than welcome" Urakaku relented to the request seeing no point in exempting the boy as they traversed the marshes and swamps to leave Kirigakure.
Until they were on the mainland again two days later it's where the Samurai decided to head in a different direction than them, Leaf Shinobi watching them go "So what do you think will happen once we get to Leaf, to me I mean" Yahiko questioned.
Feeling nervous all of a sudden "Not a whole lot probably, you'll be assigned an anbu watch, placed with a capable Jonin or someone higher and that's about it" Jiraiya mused, just marching along.
And then all of a sudden Sakura was missing "Hold up where did Sakura-san go" Herasu noticed the girls absence immediately, before they could truly investigate the matter, a smoke bomb filled with sleeping gas went off, knocking out their entire group.
When they finally came to, the only thing to signal that something had happened was a scroll that Sasuke snatched furiously "If you want to see her alive and returned, you will not send anyone to retrieve her or attempt to infiltrate, signed the Tsuchikage" Sasuke read off.
So it was with heavy hearts they continued their trek home "Where's Sakura" Tsunade asked when she didn't see her apprentice, Sasuke reluctantly set a scroll on her desk that she took achingly slow and read three times just to make sure she wasn't seeing things.
"I'm sorry Tsunade, I let my guard down and she paid for that mistake, we all should have been paying better attention really" Jiraiya apologized in a voice filled with regret, he really cared about the kid and this was the last thing he wanted to happen to her.
Tsunade inhaled, then exhaled before a furious snarl erupted from her mouth and she slammed her fist onto her desk shattering it into pieces "Ohnoki you just fucked with the one person you didn't want to fuck with" Tsunade raged.
Miles away with an unconscious Sakura cradled in his arms Kitsuchi shuddered getting the feeling that his Father had, had him do something absolutely unforgivable but he had a mission to complete regardless of his feelings so sped up in order to reach Iwagakure sooner rather than later.