I drew one breath and felt the pain stab right down my body. There was definitely a cracked rib in there somewhere. Wincing, I collapsed on the ground at an awkward angle and fell on my back. Unsure if the blood covering my front and legs was my own. Guess it didn't really matter anymore, anyway.
The ring of bodies around me lay motionless, somewhere, a survivor was groaning in pain. I had no idea where all these nin had been hiding, how they could even fit inside this tiny complex was a mystery.
Ten of them, no problem. Fifteen, a little difficult. Most chunin would have fled or given up at twenty. I lost track after sixty.
Me and my excellent chakra control had easily taken care of them. But me and my recklessness had let the life threatening injuries stack up on the other. When you can freely heal yourself you start to loose a grasp on dangerous situations. Or welcome them, in my case.
Funny, I never pictured going out like this. In the middle of a massacre, in some backwater, half forgotten village near the Land of Waves. Closing my eyes, I almost felt at peace. As close to peace as possible, knowing that I was about to devastate all of my friends and family.
Some would miss me more than others. Some, not at all.
Huh, that sounded a little bitter in my head.
I slowly closed and opened my eyes as my vision began to see stars. Coming and going like my consciousness.
There was a small creak on the floorboards from the other room. My eyes flew open and I strained my ears to listen. There was nothing but silence echoing back where there had been carnage.
C'mon Billboard Brow, just heal yourself. It'll take less than a few minutes!
I let out a small sigh and it took all of my strength to raise my hand to my side where the biggest, open wound was freely bleeding.
Uh oh, close call, I chuckled to myself then winced. Another minute and I probably wouldn't have been able to do that.
I let my hand clunk back to the ground loudly with an audible gasp. My nerve endings felt like they had been set on fire, then gone completely numb. Gravity felt like it was teetering back and forth, so my blood loss had probably been too much for my body to handle and I was for sure going into shock.
There was another creek and the other chakra signature in the room finally registered to me. They weren't even trying to hide it so my perception was completely out of the window. At this point, I was just making one rookie mistake after the other, wasn't I?
I turned my head so I could at least have a view of the doorway. That's when the last person I ever expected appeared there, dressed in his favorite tones of black and blue from head to toe. His emotionless face spotted me laying there immediately.
Sasuke fucking Uchiha.
He crossed the space between us in the blink of an eye. I wanted to yell at him to just leave me there but when he fixed me with his stare the look in his eyes nearly paralyzed me.
"Sakura, what are you doing?" He asked quietly as he bent down.
"I was... getting to it." I wheezed as he began to perform basic healing techniques I had shown him. He was just fixing the scrapes and bruises really, but my chakra had already begun to kick into over drive, and was working on the internal injuries. He just frowned silently. I knew I'd hear about it later.
I slid my eyes away from him, back up to the ceiling, until the beige color began to blur and run together. I passed out then from the sheer exhaustion of the situation.
When I came to again later I fully expected Sasuke to be gone again. Or maybe I had just imagined the whole thing, I thought to myself as I stretched my legs and winced as I sat up. But no, he was still there, sitting next to me in the forest clearing as if he had been waiting patiently for me.
He even patiently waited for me to say something.
I let out an irritated huff as I jumped to my feet and took several wide stomps away before vertigo set in.
"Shit-!" I cursed as I tumbled and caught my self. I glanced over my shoulder and the stoic dolt was just sipping on his tea, unmoved and unbothered.
"I can't help if I don't know what I did." He said after a pause.
"Ugh! Of course you don't!" I snapped.
"If you're going through something, letting a group of basic nin nearly kill you is a pretty pathetic way to go about it." He said bluntly as he got to his feet. He simply scooped me back up with his one arm despite my wriggling and thrashing, and drug me back to the warm fire. I pouted the whole way and glared at the snapping wood as he settled back down next to me.
He tried to hand me a cup of steaming tea. I just crossed my arms tightly so he placed it next to my knee.
"I'd just like to ask before you start your rant that you refrain from doing that again. Seeing that, thinking that... I don't like it." Sasuke's voice had a rare hint of emotion to it. I closed my eyes and let out a long, slow, breath. Of course the most selfish man I had ever met was making me feel like shit.
No, he wasn't selfish... just...oblivious.
"Sometimes I do things and don't think about you. It happens." I said as I loosened my aggressive body language. He just side smirked at me for brief second before composing himself.
"Sometimes. But you were, I know." He said with a smug assuredness.
"That's not fair, I was thinking about everyone! My body was going into shock!" I insisted, turning towards him with the flush of my skin. He didn't even react, just fixed me with a blank stare. Really, arguing with him was like arguing with a rock. I just wanted to throw him several feet sometimes.
"You need to rest some more. Also, double check your injuries. I tried to do what I could." He grumbled, still not comfortable with being unskilled at something.
"We're going to talk about this later." I huffed right back as I snatched up the now lukewarm tea.
"Sure. I'm going to get us something to eat." He said and did what he did best, just straight up disappeared.
clearing out my docs and found this in a folder. decided to post b/c i always thought it was a fun concept. i have a few other fics that ive been juggling, but its nice to write more light hearted things and i think they have a weird yet interesting dynamic as a couple. leave a review if you wish, ty