As the once per a chapter gratitude to my editors I thank them for helping me with this chapter and for also telling me to update the version of this chapter. I also apologise for the late chapter update I didn't have internet for a while.

Sasuke sighed as he packed everything he used for self training, there had been a messenger saying that Kakashi had called the emergency team meeting at their usual training ground and would very much like him there. In that exact wording.

It's not like he didn't know what it was about but at the same time he didn't want to go. Instead he walked around the long way around to the training grounds.

There was a few weirdos that had been walking around on their hands and shouting encouragements to each other that he made sure to fully ignore. They were probably clanless ninja in the first place.

Along the way four separate counts of shop and stall owners that he had never talked to before, and a few females from his academy class stopped him to give him the 'news'. It was just 'Have you heard?' or 'Have you seen her?' over and over again. It was worthless and stupid and it took everything he had not to shout at them to leave him alone.

He had dragged his feet to the area, knowing that he had a few hours in the least before Kakashi arrived as well.

The woman who had apparently showed up claiming to be his relative, he knew that she had been whisked by higher ranked ninja by various witnesses but he...he didn't know if he wanted the woman to be real. He had been told that she wasn't even related to him, that she had only been in for it for the prestige.

However a chance of a family again.

Sasuke curled his lips up into a sneer.

It made him want to hit something.

It should make him feel something warm but instead it left him feeling angry instead, he knew he shouldn't be feeling like this but he did. There was probably something missing that he had. He knew he had it but it wasn't working.

It wasn't and he knew that it wasn't working but couldn't tell how to make it work again.

It was too soon and yet not soon enough when he arrived at the training ground that they usually used. He picked his usual tree and leaned against it. It didn't take long for Sakura to show up and try and start small talk. He tuned her out when he realised that she didn't actually have anything important to say. This is what he gets for trying to actually listen to a teammate.

Shaking it off he made a mental list of things to practice after training. There were a few more chakra exercises that he wanted to have a closer look at again since some of the examples that they gave were odd. He was beginning to suspect that he had to use the sharingan on them to see the examples for them or something else that he had lost.

Eventually he got bored of thinking of more training and only so much anger he can hold. There was only so much training you could think about before you realised you couldn't do any of it because you were waiting on your teacher to show up who doesn't show up.

It felt like hours of waiting for Kakashi. And Naruto. It was odd that Naruto wasn't at the training ground already. Sakura had gone silent a while ago. He'd rather prefer her like that. It meant that he wasn't annoyed by her and could think for once without having to avoid her and every girl around his age.

If Naruto had been there then at least he could get some light sparring or an idea of a trap to set for their teacher. They were late. Kakashi, it was normal, in Naruto it was wrong unless he had something off or overslept.

It would be just like the dumbass to oversleep on the day of an 'important' meeting.

Sasuke had chosen to watch the way the sun hit the leaves on the ground. It was calming and why haven't he watched the passage of the sun before? He found out quickly after the first few minutes.

It was because it was mind numbingly boring.

Nothing changed, apart from maybe a few leaves changing places thanks to a light wind. He was half tempted to set a minor fire ball to the leaves or just leave and get some more weaponry from the blacksmith, at least that would be a better use of his time.

Sakura tried to get his attention a few times more but he tried to pay her no attention. He hoped if she didn't get any more attention she'd just leave him alone or become useful.

So she ended up sitting in the grass grabbing handfuls and just tossing it around her and plucking small flowers and trying to make flower crowns. It wasn't working and she ended up tearing it apart when it didn't go her way.

There were a few sounds of twigs breaking and footsteps, enough to make Sakura get up from her little patch of land. He could see Kakashi long before he saw the man's face, his hair too distinctive not to be Kakashi. There was something else behind him.

Naruto and Kakashi arrived together.

As in Kakashi was walking and Naruto was looking downcast next to him. It was weird. Like the sky was green or cherry tomatoes would taste super sweet every time you bite into one.

Sasuke heard Sakura mutter to herself, "Is the world ending?"

To make sure Sasuke looked to the sky. The world was ending. It wasn't even noon yet and Kakashi had arrived. Naruto was late, Kakashi was early and Sasuke was deeply confused. Not that he would show it on his face but still. It wasn't going to be a good day at all.

"Ah! My cute little team, you may have wondered why I called you here for an emergency meeting today. Well, Naruto-kun has something to tell you guys before you hear it from anyone else. Naruto-kun."

Kakashi pushed Naruto to the centre of the group. He looked nervous and possibly scared but that couldn't be Naruto. Naruto was never scared or nervous. He was always annoying and cheerful beyond what could be possible.

Sasuke activated his sharingan to search for a possible infiltrator. It couldn't be Naruto.

"I-er, I did a stupid thing," Naruto looked to Kakashi who just nodded, "I pretended to be Sasuke-kun's relative." It was Naruto.

It was god damn Naruto all this time.

"And?" asked Kakashi staring holes at Naruto.

"And I got caught?"

"And?"

"Oh! I'm sorry Sasuke-kun for using your clan name and pretending to be part of your clan and that he can punch me if he wants to, dattebayo!" Kakashi rolled his one eye and sighed like he doesn't even care that Naruto pretended to be a member of his clan.

"YOU IDIOT! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO SASUKE-KUN! YOU SHOULD BE PUT AWAY FOR THE CRIME!" shouted Sakura waving her arms in a threatening manner causing Naruto to wince and hide behind his arms.

It was Naruto who did that stupid thing. Who took away his chance at a family with a stranger. Who pretended to be related to him. This clanless idiot was the cause of his problems.

He couldn't advance because of this idiot. He couldn't avenge his clan because of this idiot. He couldn't have a family again because of this idiot.

Everything was Naruto's fault.

There was a bubbling feeling that came maybe from his chest or maybe from his stomach or maybe just from every part of him; he couldn't tell and didn't care to tell where it came from.

All he knew was that it was a good feeling, it lit every part of him up. It was almost indescribable but if he had to give it a name it would be rage. Rage felt good. Better than what the hollowness felt.

Walking to Naruto, he stood right in front of him, Naruto scrunched his face up, all eyes closed as well, as he tensed. It was stupid looking and made Sasuke want to punch his face even more.

Naruto made a confused sound as he opened an eye before his whole body seemed to uncurl and become loose again.

It was really more like watching the whole thing in 3rd person. He saw himself ready the punch but it didn't click that it was him getting ready to punch Naruto.

He wasn't even in proper form like how the Uchiha clan did things or even how the academy taught them how to do things. It was stupid. Why was he doing something stupid?

Naruto was still staring at him, slowly as if he was in water.

Distantly he knew that he should at least pull his punch.

He didn't want to.

Instead he put everything that he had into that one punch.

Just one punch will do.

Then everything sped up.

There was a crack, a orange blur, shouting, and everything swimming irregular way.

He could barely see. Breathing in a calculated way he could start to see again.

Bit by bit.

There was still shouting going on, he distantly realised that it was Sakura. Screaming about why would he do that and that he didn't need to do that and Kakashi-sensei let go.

He was going to have to thank Kakashi later. He'll go along with his stupid schemes as a thank you and not complain about the next d rank mission.

Naruto was in a pile next to a tree. There was a few leaves on him and he was ass up on the ground. The tree looked dented in a way that suggested a lot of splinters on the thing that hit it. Sasuke felt vaguely proud. He did that. He was strong enough to do that. His rage was strong enough.

Naruto groaned as he pulled himself up, half his face was a wreak. There was already a deep purple, almost black, bruise along his cheek and his nose was twisted to the side in a way that said it really shouldn't be able to do that. There was also blood coming out of his mouth, not drops, but a small trickle that was still coming out and a large river of blood from his nose.

He looked terrible. Sasuke heard Sakura whimper from next to Kakashi. Naruto groaned again, struggling to stand up. There were probably splinters in his jacket.

"Why didn't you roll with the punch?" Sasuke heard himself shout. It didn't sound anything like him at all, it had too much anger and confusion, something he usually only gave to that Man. All this anger of this stupid idiotic inferior waste of space! The other being didn't even deserve his anger!

He struggled to breath, the only thing he could see was that idiot and he couldn't hear a thing, it was tiresome, he had to concentrate on breathing, actually concentrate on it!

He took shallow breathes in, to make sure that nobody could tell that he lost control of his own body, how embarrassing would it be if Kakashi knew that he lost control like this? He might not even teach Sasuke any new techniques for weeks!

He was starting to feel hollow again. Hollow was good, hollow was safe, nothing but rage could touch him when he was hollow.

Naruto just groaned in reply. Kakashi walked over to him and started to touch his face and check him over. Sasuke knew that he should be punished for releasing his rage on a fellow ninja but couldn't feel within himself to care.

"Well, he has a broken cheek bone along with severe bruising, internal mouth bleeding , and a broken nose, maybe even a concussion. I don't think he should be talking for a while. I'll consider this Naruto-kun's punishment instead of the one I was going to see so I'm not going to punish Sasuke-kun for punching Naruto like this but if it ever happens again I will punish him, the both of them," Kakashi picked Naruto up from the ground and started to dust him off, "Naruto-kun, you're not to impersonate people from different clans ever again. Sasuke-kun, you're not allow to harm another Konoha ninja like this again."

Sasuke wasn't going to protest to this. He got a free punch to the loser, enough to damage him for a while, and get away with it.

"Kakashi-sensei, why did Naruto-kun impersonate a member of Sasuke-kun's family?" asked Sakura, slowly getting closer to the duo near the tree. Sasuke followed her, to see the damage that he caused closer, his hand was throbbing and he didn't want to see the damage that he did to it.

"Mah, that's a bit of a difficult question. I guess I could say that he has a record of it."

"A record? As in a criminal record? Naruto-kun is a criminal? Why is he even allowed to be a ninja if he's a criminal?!" Sakura looked panicked like Naruto was going to up and murder all of them right there and then. Naruto wouldn't do that, Sasuke refused to believe that Naruto was a criminal. It didn't fit his image of the loser yet again it didn't fit his view of that Man.

"A minor criminal record. The way the civil court system works is if you're training to be a ninja then any minor crime that you've done becomes null unless you fail you're genin exams or drop out. If you pass your genin exams then any minor crimes that you've done get swept under the carpet so to speak. If you've done a major minor crime like something important stolen from the Hokage's tower-" Naruto winced notably, probably from a splinter in his side, "- you could get a note in the your file that you could be quite good at things like infiltration or rescue and recover missions."

"How could you get a major minor crime from stealing important things from the Hokage's tower?" asked Sakura dubiously, obviously trying to think it over. Sasuke was quite interested as well if it could push his career further then he would steal something from the Hokage's tower.

Kakashi did his annoying one eyed smile, "Well I'm glad you asked that. The answer is circumstances like if you return it," Sakura looked dubious and Sasuke was pretty sure that he looked that way as well, "but also if you commit the crime while in the academy. If you tried the crime while as a genin you'll be charged for treason against the Hokage and the state for stealing important documents. So all the minor crimes that you can be charged with is best to do while you're still in the academy while you can't be charged."

"How does this apply to Naruto-kun? I doubt he stole anything from the Hokage's tower. He only does stupid pranks against the academy teachers and the Hokages' Rock." Kakashi chuckled a bit and hummed in agreement.

"Mah, Naruto-kun has a criminal record for various minor things, of course he was caught many times for them but in this case it was impersonating a clan member, which was on his record, but his MO was different this time and none of the clans have pressed charges so they end up being classified as only minor crimes. Naruto-kun wasn't charged this time since he didn't end up buying anything or truly doing anything bad before he was taken away to be interviewed to see if he was a real Uchiha."

"So you're saying that I could get Naruto-kun charged with impersonating my clan?" Naruto gulped and winced as he looked nervous again.

"You could but since you already punched Naruto-kun that would be rather overkill wouldn't you agree?" Kakashi said everything sweetly, too sweet. There had to be a hidden catch there but he couldn't see it. Why can't he see it? He was an Uchiha, he had to be able to see underneath the underneath.

"So on behalf of Naruto-kun since he can't talk currently, would you not sue him?" asked Kakashi. Sasuke didn't actually want to say yes or no so he clicked his tongue instead earning him that annoying one eyed smile from Kakashi. Was it his imagination or was that one eyed smile super annoying this time?

"When are we going to do training?" he asked, eager to just stop thinking of the fake family member and just get stronger. It didn't matter to him anyway.

"Well, how is your hand?" Sasuke froze, not that it showed but he froze internally. His hand had gone from the hot throbbing that it did to a full out pain during the span of the chat. He knew if he looked down at it that it would probably be red and the knuckles would also have minor patches of blood along where the skin has split.

Sasuke didn't reply. Sakura looked like she was star struck all over again, he tried his hardest to ignore it. Kakashi chuckled. Again.

Kakashi walked towards Sasuke, he tried not to flinch he succeed, of course since he was a Uchiha, but he was still was annoyed that he felt like flinching.

"We'll train," Sasuke wanted to cheer, internally of course, "but after you and Naruto-kun go to the hospital."

"But I can train!" His hand really did hurt but it was the principle of the thing. One day training lost would mean one day lost to avenging his clan. He couldn't do it.

"A good ninja knows when to step down and get treatment. You're no use to the village if you are too injured to do a mission. You let down your teammates, your mission and your village if you do that."

Sasuke wanted to protest but perhaps he could use his gratitude towards Kakashi on this instead; to forgive him for making him go to the hospital. Sighing through his nose Sasuke started to turn towards the hospital. Kakashi beamed at him, there was no other way to describe it. It made Sasuke want to punch Kakashi.

He could hear Sakura trailing after him, talking about whatever her mind lead her to, and a shuffling that caused Kakashi to turn around more than once that told him Naruto was also following. Good. The Uchiha clan was meant to lead people and stand tall above everyone else as was their due.

The hospital was just as he remembered it when he was seven; many people with too much time on their hands and a clinical smell that surrounded the building like a personal defense.

Sasuke could feel his breathing increasing and mentally scolded himself for his body's reactions. He was an Uchiha, he could do anything. Walking through the doors of the hospital there was a few people around, some of them are civilians including a pregnant woman and several ninja. It was obvious which was which considering there was a segregated area for civilians and ninja, unofficial of course but it was still there.

Kakashi walked forward, "Stay along the waiting area, I'm going to talk to the receptionist." and went to go talk to someone at the front counter while the rest of them waiting in the ninja area.

Sakura sat down first, a few seats away from one of the ninja, followed by Naruto who just sat down, if you could call it that, like his legs just gave up on him. Sasuke decided that he could stand, he didn't need to sit down like the clanless idiots that he had to put up with.

There was something odd going on. Sasuke had noticed that while they were in the hospital nobody had come up to them, he was pretty sure if a medic saw how injured Naruto was then someone would usually go up to them to at least see what was wrong and there were medics around. Instead they had a wide berth around them, even other ninja in their section had moved slightly away from them.

He didn't know what was going on. It couldn't be Naruto, because while Naruto was an idiot he shouldn't be able to get a reaction like this, and it couldn't be Sakura because it's Sakura. It must be him. He hasn't done anything yet to warrant this type of behaviour.

Did they think that he had gone to the hospital because of that night? Did they think that he was weak?

Sasuke clenched his fists into balls and stood tall and proud.

He wasn't weak. He didn't need to be in here. He was only doing this for his dumb teammate and gratitude to his teacher. Nothing was wrong. He was fine.

Sasuke could see Kakashi lazily wondering back to the trio. He really tried hard to remember that he owe gratitude to the guy.

"Hey, my cute little students-" a ninja within hearing range snorted, "-we're right down this way." Kakashi pointed to the stairs and each of them groaned before moving to where he pointed. He made them walk up two flights of stairs before they reached where they were going.

"Okay!" Kakashi clapped his hands, "Sasuke-kun, you're in room one hundred and fifty-one," Kakashi pointed to the room nearest to the stairs, "Sakura-chan, make sure that you follow him into the room. Naruto-kun, you're with me in room one hundred and fifty-six." Kakashi grabbed Naruto and walked him down the corridor to Naruto's room.

Sakura knocked on the door before Sasuke grabbed the handle and just let himself in. It wasn't like the doctor wasn't expecting patients. Inside it was white walls and charts of the human body with odd cabernets on the wall with a white plastic divider.

"Come i-well I guess you're already in. The doctor isn't in just yet, he left to go to the toilet," said a young man, more of a teenager then anything. He had light grey hair like Kakashi, maybe a bit darker than Kakashi's hair, and very dark grey eyes with round glasses. He wore a friendly, inviting smile.

Sasuke stared at him suspiciously, he looked young, too young, "Who are you?"

Sakura made an odd sound behind him and was probably fretting.

"I'm the doctor's assistant," the man smiled in a self-depreciate way, "I'm Yakushi Kabuto, I'm in training to be a doctor so I have to watch his cases and what he does to learn from him."

"Wow! You must be very smart to be a medic-nin!" exclaimed Sakura as she walked closer to Yakushi.

"Not at all, I just couldn't think of anything else that I would rather be. It's in my family. Do you mind if I try to diagnose what is wrong?" Sakura blushed faintly before nodding for Sasuke.

"If you aren't the doctor then you can diagnose what's wrong with Sakura-chan than me." Sasuke crossed his arms, ignoring the pain the shot up from his hand and successfully resisted the urge to hiss.

"Well, if that is your decision then I can't do anything about it since I'm only an assistant and not yet fully trained. Sakura-chan, right?" he waited and smiled patiently until Sakura nodded, "may I try to diagnose you?"

"Oh but I'm perfectly healthy!" exclaimed Sakura.

"Please? At least it would help with my training." Yakushi looked at Sakura with earnest eyes until Sakura nodded her consent and was lead to the bed near a table. She got up on to the bed, faintly swinging her legs as she waited for Yakushi to grab files and pens off of the table and sit in the chair next to the table.

"Do you mind if we pretend it's an actual doctor's visit?"

"Not at all,"

Yakushi flashed her a cheerful smile before telling her "thanks."

"So what's your full name, age and rank."

"My name's Haruno Sakura, I'm twelve and I'm a genin on Team Seven."

"So what seems to be the problem?" Sakura look startled, her mouth soundlessly echoing the question and a faint frown placed itself on her face.

"I don't think I have anything wrong. I mean I'm getting a few headaches but I thought it was from the diet that I'm trying." Yakushi looked closer at Sakura when she mentioned the word 'diet'.

"Diet?"

Sakura nodded, "Yeah, I got it from my aunt. She told me that to get thinner you should eat twice a day with small serving proportions and every time you feel hungry you take a nap." What a stupid thing to do.

Yakushi smiled warmly at Sakura, "Do you often try diets like this?"

Sakura nodded happily. Sasuke could barely keep the disbelief off of his face. He was surrounded by idiots, he knew that Naruto was an idiot but he was never too sure about Sakura fully but this cemented it.

"Do you mind if I do a check up with my chakra?" the warm smile on was still on his face, it was starting to get annoying. Sakura nodded again. Yakushi got up from the chair to walk next to Sakura and flash through several hand signs, his hands flashing green.

"This may feel weird, it's normal." Sakura hummed as she watched the green chakra touch her chest with one of his hands on her forehead, releasing a small gasp mid way through. Sasuke shifted his stance a bit, in case it was an attack.

"Okay, I'm stopping now. You may feel a bit of a loss," Yakushi stopped the chakra to his hands and slowly went back to his table, "I think you may have a iron deficiency from the dieting so add a few more pieces of red meat to your diet but I'm not sure so you better get a check up as well when the doctor comes back. Otherwise you're in good health, I'd also recommend changing your diet to something with a more balanced diet with bigger serving proportions. Your body needs more nutrients to go stronger and taller, worry about thinning diets later on in life."

"Thank you," said Sakura but in a tone of voice that she normally used on Naruto; the one that indicated that she didn't believe anything he said and flashed Yakushi a doubtful smile as she got off of the bed and practically skipped to Sasuke. Yakushi wrote something within the file he grabbed before getting more paper from the table.

"Oh! Here's a little note for a diet that I'd recommend for you. It's a balanced diet for young women when they're growing up." Sakura looked startled by the fact that Yakushi practically sneaked up to her to give her a piece of paper. Yakushi had silent feet, probably years of being a chūnin. She gave it a brief glance before stored it in her weaponry pouch, folding it neatly to make it fit in her pouch.

Yakushi looked around for a second, eyes lingering at the clock on the wall, "The doctor is rather late; it's very unusual. I'll just go get him, shall I? Please wait a moment," before he walked slowly out the door like he was trying to delay when the doctor was to arrive.

"He's a very friendly doctor isn't he?" said Sakura trying to make small talk.

Sasuke made a non committal gesture with his arm looking around the office more. It was very impersonal. No photos and no paintings but medical posters littered the office.

There was a few minutes of silence. Sakura shuffled while Sasuke wondered around the room, checking the scrolls and books but they were all titles like 'Medical deduction' or 'Major chakra points'. Sasuke flipped through some of the books, nothing catching his attention. There wasn't any personal photos either.

The door opened again as Sasuke had just placed back the book he had been flipping through.

"Uchiha Sasuke-kun? I'm Matsuoka Akira-sensei. What seems to be the problem?" Doctor Matsuoka said in a way that was almost rude but not quite, just bordering in a way that could almost start another ninja war.

One of the first things Sasuke noticed about Doctor Matsuoka was that he was a stocky, almost fat, short man in his thirties with noticeable balding maroon hair and long brown eyes. The next was his lips downturned and brows wrinkled as if waiting for the bad news to happen at any moment. There was a faint scar that crept from underneath black turtleneck in a diagonal fashion just shy of reaching his mouth.

He was also carrying a file.

"Kakashi-sensei wanted my hand checked out." Doctor Matsuoka didn't look offended by Sasuke's brisk words but instead walked with the pace of a man who had better things to do and didn't have to be here but was here so you better be worth it. It was the type of walk Sasuke hoped he could obtain.

"Get on the bed. I'll have a look in a moment." He went over to his desk and frowned, moving pens and papers until they were lined up to where he wanted them. He placed the file on a metal folder divider that held four other files.

"Kabuto-kun, did you mess with my desk?" Yakushi looked startled before looking resigned.

"I was looking for the paper on the Tsutsui case. I'm sorry about the mess." Yakushi bowed to Doctor Matsuoka but Doctor Matsuoka didn't even look at him.

"How many weeks have you been working for me?" Yakushi lost his smile and started to open his mouth but before he could answer Doctor Matsuoka continued on, "You've been here long enough to know where all the pens and papers go on my desk. You've also been long enough at the hospital to know where papers on cases go. Leave."

Yakushi muttered a weak "Sorry." before walking over to the table where Doctor Matsuoka held up a file and left the room with it.

"I'm sorry you had to see that. He's useful to have around as an assistant, never doing anything extreme but also not particularly outstanding. He's good but I don't know if he's medinin quality, he'll be a good doctor though. He just lacks experience."

"I'm sure he's not going to be that-" protested Sakura but Doctor Matsuoka merely waved her concerns away before he focused on Sasuke.

"Name, age, rank and what hand is the injury on." Doctor Matsuoka's eyes stared deeply into his, it was disconcerting but Sasuke wasn't going to show weakness. Sasuke heard a pen click 5 times, it almost could caused him to blink.

"Sasuke Uchiha, twelve, genin, left hand." Doctor Matsuoka gave him a tight smile that looked more like a grimace before reaching for his hand with the end of a pen to lift it up. Sasuke allowed since it really was painful by this point and clenching his fists so much probably didn't help matters.

Doctor Matsuoka poked his hand a bit with the pen while Sasuke held his hand up trying not to grimace whenever the pen poked a rather painful part. He stared at Sasuke's face as he did so. Whatever he saw in him made Doctor Matsuoka stop poking his hand.

"Keep your hand straight towards me. I'm going to check the extent of the injuries through chakra." Sasuke did so and when the chakra reached his hand from the pen he struggled not to gasp. The chakra was rather cold and nice feeling against the heat of his hand but very isolated.

It wasn't anything that Sasuke had seen before. Doctor Matsuoka worked in total silence and was practically still as a log as he worked on Sasuke, Sakura hovering in the background.

"Tai fractures, dislocated knuckle as well. I'll heal what I can so it isn't a couple of weeks without your dominant hand but you'll still need to take time off and not use your hand for a few days." If he had known punching Naruto would have had resulted in him not training for a few days he would have had never punched the idiot.

"Er, Matsuoka-sensei, what's tai fractures?" asked Sakura hesitantly, obviously seeing that Doctor Matsuoka didn't care for idiots.

"It means he punched wrong and is now paying for it." Sasuke resisted the urge to growl at the guy and shout; only dogs, kids and the Inuzuka clan do that. Sakura made a soft "oh" sound before becoming quite again.

Doctor Matsuoka concentrated on his hand for a bit, going through hand signs, over and over, and placing his chakra into his hand, his hand hovering over his own. Sasuke tried not to scream as he felt the bones in his hand shift and move back into their proper place. It wasn't like your hand just suddenly shifting to make room; it was your chakra coils shifting the bone to where it was meant to go.

The act of your own chakra coils moving from where they're meant to be to move other things was extremely painful. Chakra coils weren't meant to move like that or be manipulated like that either but they were and they did.

Sasuke was pretty sure that he was panting. He wasn't quite sure. He was also sure that Doctor Matsuoka had said something as well. Everything was moving rhythmatically and there was a cold feeling against his forehead that felt great.

The cold bliss was everything he ever wanted and needed in his life. It felt like hollowness.

Someone had their hand around his arm, urging him to get up, to leave. They wanted him to leave the coldness.

Too soon he came to his senses. He realised he wasn't cold any longer.

Sakura had a hand around his arm to stabilise his arm while Doctor Matsuoka was wrapping his hand in gauze to make sure that Sasuke didn't use his left hand. He was careful not to touch him.

The doctor had a very steady hand as he wrapped the cotton around using his chakra, not too tight but not too loose. It was an experienced hand. The edges of the cotton met each other just perfectly where they overlapped. It was slow work being that meticulous. Sasuke continued to watch the man wrap his arm in content silence until he was done and had attached the butterfly clip to the end of the cloth using the barest amount of touching possible.

"I have a prescription for you, to help with the hand to help it heal faster. Take the pills three times a day with meals until they're done. Make sure you take it with water. Don't take it if you're taking other medicine. Don't overdose. Come back a week after you're fine for a check up, tell Kakashi-sensei to come with you. If you see Kabuto-kun when you leave make sure you tell him to report back to me." Sasuke nodded mentally making sure to cut the dose of sleeping medicine that he was taking in out of his life temporarily in order to take the prescription. Doctor Matsuoka went back to his desk and grabbed a piece of paper that he wrote on, his pen clicking again.

Sasuke got out of the bed and took the prescription that Doctor Matsuoka had held up in his hand. The characters were neat and precise. Doctor Matsuoka paid them no attention afterwards as he grabbed the file he came in with.

Sasuke nodded to Doctor Matsuoka, "Thanks," before leaving. Looking at the prescription he saw something called Blood-Chakra pills and Bone-Shina pills, both of which he didn't recognise.

"Thank you, Matsuoka-sensei," whispered Sakura, her voice polite as ever to authority figures, as she trailed after him leaving Doctor Matsuoka to himself.

They met Kakashi and Naruto outside the door. Naruto was looking much better, and not like he had been punched with six years of internal rage that had gathered. The fact that he was now smiling with his annoying grin said so.

"Well since we can't do training today due to the injuries I guess I'll have to call the training off. Such a shame, here I was hoping to train you guys something special. Looks like personal training for everyone, well apart from Sasuke-kun. I guess I'll have to get someone to look after you." Sakura shot up straight and tall staring at Kakashi like he had said he had a gold mine, Sasuke stared at Kakashi as if to say anyone but her. He wasn't too sure Kakashi got the message from the one eyed smile that he gave.

"Mah, mah, since it was technically Naruto-kun's fault that Sasuke-kun and Naruto-kun were hurt I guess Naruto-kun will have to do it, don't forget to get the prescriptions," Kakashi gave another cheery one eyed smile, "Now I need to get to the mission office. I need to give a mission to tell them that I have had the food of Ukanomitama-sama and now need to fulfil my destiny by looking for my one true love in a desperate fit of passion worthy of a novel."

"Liar!" shouted Sakura and Naruto while Sasuke stated it.

"There's no way that Ukanomitama-sama does that, datte-!" Naruto made an ugly wheezing sound like he was almost dying causing Sakura to move two steps away from him in an exaggerated motion, "Everyone knows that they're the Kitchen God not some love god!" Sakura stared at Naruto before hit Naruto upside the head and started to yell at him, apparently okay with catching whatever terrible sounds he was making. Sasuke liked Naruto better when he was quiet. Much better. How was he going to survive with Naruto helping him for the next few days?

Sasuke tried not to be too miserable for the next few days coming. It wasn't working.

Fun fact from Naruto: Konoha is apparently about the size of Spain.