Sakura stood just outside of Yuki's hospital room patiently waiting for Naruto to show when she finally saw him and...Gaara? walking up. "Finally. You're here." The pinkette groused as her friend walked up to her and gave her a blank look. "I swear you walk around the village as if you were ancient or something." Sakura said playfully as she waved to Gaara and got a small smile from the Kazekage in return as Naruto finally said,

"Maybe I wouldn't walk around like I was ancient if your bastard husband would stop trying to rip my damn head off every time he sees me."

Sakura snickered knowing that Naruto wasn't actually upset about such occurrences. In fact the last time he and Sauske had sparred, he had been the one to actually attempt to rip something off of Sauske. And he had partially succeeded too. Her poor husband was still walking with a slight limp from what Naruto had done to him.

So the fact that he was attempting any sort of revenge even in the smallest of ways was more than a little bit understandable. But that didn't mean that she was going to let Naruto's little jib slide.

"Well maybe my husband is trying to pay you back for giving him that nice limp of his."

"Still on about that, huh."

"Mm-hn."

"Never going to let me live it down?"

"Nope."

"Then I should have killed the teme while I had the chance." Naruto said, wise to her little game. Sakura gave him a look that bespoke of terrible things happening to his person. Things that even Sauske wouldn't do to him, but he knew good and well that Sakura would if she caught him walking alone in the village anytime soon.

Scrunching up his nose a little bit as he walked past, he heard Gaara whisper. "You should have done what you always do, this time around, and simply pretended that you had tourette's."

To which Naruto muttered in response, "Who's pretending?"

Gaara blinked at Naruto's back and whispered a little louder in shock, "What?" To which he heard Naruto parrot back the word as if he had lost him somewhere along the conversation or something. Sakura merely looked at the two of them as she entered the hospital room and rolled her eyes at the two.

Honestly between Naruto's 'fake tourettes' habit and Gaara's pretending not to have a sense of humor, she could write a book on their dysfunction. She could call it, Which Kage is which? A possible biography of two weirdos. Or something. Hell if all else failed then she could simply ask her husband to name the book.

But knowing him it would be something along the lines of, Even dobe's put their pants on one leg at a time. A dummies guide to doing just that.

Come to think of it, she could write one and Sauske could write the other. She was sure that between the two of them they would make millions world wide.

Naruto stood by Yuki's bedside taking note of various things. Things like the paleness of her skin, the fact that she looked almost...skeletal from being unconscious and unable to eat. As well as the feeding tube pumping a light blue substance straight into her stomach.

"Sakura, should she look like this?" He asked with a slight frown.

"No," Sakura said as she came over to the bed and looked down at the girl. "To be honest apart from her wounds finally being healed, this is why we need to wake her. Between the feeding tube and mine and Ino's chakra being pumped into her periodically- she should have only lot two or three pounds. Instead we've recorded that as of yesterday, she's lost almost eleven. We need to wake her so that she can start regaining some of the weight before she literally wastes away to nothing."

"How long do you think that will take?" Naruto asked.

"Not long. I've recruited some help from Teuchi and Choji's mom. I've specifically asked the two to work on a few high calorie dishes that are easy on the stomach. Both have already come up with five dishes apiece that have been tested and seem to be working for the people that they were tested on. So...I have fairly high hopes that she should regain about five or more pounds before we release her as long as she eats the stuff that was made for her."

"How long?" Naruto asked again causing Sakura to sigh at his single mindedness.

"A week would be pushing things a bit. Especially since once the feeding tube is removed her stomach may be a bit off for several days. So maybe a week in a half to two weeks. After which she will have to come back every other day or so to do physical therapy." Naruto looked at Sakura funny for a moment as she went on to explain. "She's going to have to be in a wheel chair for a little while Naruto. Just until she can work on her muscles since they are very weak."

"Oh." Naruto said as he turned his head to look at Gaara who seemed to understand what Naruto wished and nodded his head in understanding.

Yeah, he was staying for a while. And no- he had nothing better to do.

Would he help his friend fix up his apartment to make it more wheelchair friendly? Of course he would, in fact, why was he just standing around the hospital? He should be going to buy boards and nails and a hammer or two. Especially since Naruto would likely join him once he left here.

Curiosity satiated for the moment, Gaara began to plan as he patted himself down and froze up when he found his wallet missing.

Being mere moments away from backtracking (and planning the possible demise of many, many possibly innocent people in the process) he was about to say something when Naruto held up his hand, with his wallet in it. Blinking his aqua eyes, he turned his head to look at his friend with a slightly puzzled look on his face as Naruto said absently.

"I took it last night because you have a habit of losing it."

"Hn." Was the only thing that the red head could manage to say since Naruto wasn't exactly wrong about that. Still...that wasn't an excuse for his friend to pick his pocket. Even if he was only trying to help. So, yeah... A punishment was in order here. And Gaara had just the perfect one.

"I hope you know that I'm cooking today." He said in a miffed tone causing Naruto blanch a little bit and turn his head to stare at him in utter horror before looking over at Sakura and making a whimpering sound that was just so utterly pathetic for the hero of the known shinobi world.

Which was perhaps what Sakura found so funny as she said, "Fix him vegetable's Gaara. He's been avoiding them again."

"Oh I fully intend too." The red head growled as he took his wallet from the panicking blond and then stormed out of the room to go buy some stuff. Leaving Naruto behind with the laughing pinkette.

The Kazekage must have gotten half way down the hall before he heard Naruto's voice practically shout, "What the fuck Sakura? Are you trying to get me killed?"

"His cooking isn't that bad." Sakura said between fits of hysterical giggles.

"Not that- Not that bad! Sakura, his cooking is like one of Orochimaru's science experiments! Only with food. It's terrifying the things he can do in a kitchen!"