It wasn't long before Alex was ripped out of her own little world by Kiba standing her up on her feet and staring at her with a look of his face which told her that he was being serious.

"Alex, you need to help him. Worry about everything else later but help Sakura"

Alex's eyes searched him for a hint that this was all a joke and Shino would get up at any moment, but there was nothing.

"I can't!" She stuttered before glancing over to Shino's lifeless body with the sick feeling washing over her again.

Her mind was fighting against itself, if she helped heal Shino, she would be putting herself in danger but there was no way she would let her comrade fall. It wasn't until Sakura and Kiba yelled at her that Alex pushed down her feelings for Shino and for herself and nodded. It felt as if she was being put back into the war. Nothing made sense and all she knew what to do was follow her orders to save lives. The memories washed over her and she felt herself being put back into the war.

"Alex! There's another injured Shinobi, he's loosing a lot of blood" Screamed one of the medical ninjas from the Sand.

"On it!"

With dried blood smeared over her forehead and over her white cloak, she began to heal the groaning shinobi that was laying in front of her. His moans of pain were enough to make her want to walk away and the smell of iron from the large amount of patients that were scattered around the battlefield made the urge even worse. However after spending time in this position she had built up a resistant to the urge.

With a fake smile Alex looked down at the shinobi. "Bare with me, this may hurt"

As she quickly pulled out a blade out of his body, he screamed loudly in agonizing pain.

"I'm so sorry" She kept repeating, whether it was for herself or his, she still wasn't sure but all she knew was that she had to save his life.

When she had stopped the bleeding and made sure he was in a stable condition, she set her self down on a chair, staring at her blood covered hands. When she first became a ninja she knew that there would be times that would determine life and death but she never imagined. at the age of sixteen she would have so many people's blood covering her hands due to war.

It wasn't long before she heard Choji running into the tent and staring at her with wide eyes.

"Alex! Your needed on the front lines, it's time for you and Kiba to use -that- jutsu!" It was clear he could see the fear on her face. Front lines? No, she didn't want to go there. She had been there once but only to heal the fallen and it was awful. However she wasn't going to let her own fears stop her from protecting those she cared for.

"Coming!" She yelled back with a slight crack in her voice and with one quick swipe her medical cloak was off and she whipped off her headband off her waist and tied it round her head for the first time. Her actions surprised Choji but he knew this meant Alex was taking her duties seriously.

The front lines were worse than Alex could ever imagined. The smell of death was worst here than back in the medical core tent.

"Alex! It's time!" With those words from Kiba, Alex placed her hands together slowly before creating multiple hand signs continuously.

Kiba had done the same and it one solid movement they had joint hands, their fingers intertwining before they spoke in unions.

"Collaboration Technique: Scared Earth Manipulation!"

As the last syllables left their mouths a wave of lava washed over their enemies, but before Kiba was able to protect her from the incoming attack, Alex had blinked and looked down at her chest. It took a few minutes for her to register what had happened but she was soon blacking out from the chakra blade in-bedded in her chest.

It wasn't until Alex was inside the hospital that she realized she must off been half conscious during her memory, however it was Sakura who snapped her back to reality as she shoved Alex into her medical gear.

"Come on, Alex. Do you want to save Shino or not?! He matters doesn't he?!"

Alex eyes began to narrow at her words before she nodded and pulled on her gloves. Without a word they both entered the room and began to treat Shino. It came to their attention early on that he did indeed received a head injury, however it wasn't severe. The thing that Alex noticed was the purple patches over his arms. As she inspected it closer, it was clear he had been poised. It seemed that Sakura had also noticed this and motioned Alex to help her extract it. All of Alex's problems disappeared as she used her chakra for the first time in two years. The searing pain that ran through her body was as if her organs had been set on fire but her need to save Shino over powered the intense pain that was steadily becoming stronger as she continued.

Half way through the extraction Sakura looked over at Alex who looked as if she was going to pass out and suddenly remembered that her friend shouldn't be doing this.

"Alex stop! I completely forgot you shouldn't be doing this!"

"No" Alex said calmly as she extracted some poison.

"Shino needs me, I won't let him down"

Although Sakura was yelling at her, Alex selective hearing had come into play and nothing was going to change her mind. She would save Shino's life no matter what the cost, even if it killed her she would save him. Her own live didn't matter to her if someone she cared deeply for was dead. As she glanced at Shino's face, she could feel the pain trying to take over her body. Alex knew she was putting her chakra network under intense pressure that would only be doing herself more harm the longer she used it. As she pulled out the last drops of poison, she fell to the floor. Alex was gasping like a fish out of water and it was as if she wasn't getting enough oxygen into her body and the searing pain continued to attack her from the inside out.

Alex tried to fight the pain but it was no use. The burning sensation made it's way through her body until it was concentrated around the wound from the war. It wasn't until she let out a loud scream that Sakura realized that it was a bad idea to push Alex to use her medical jutsu but there was only one person Alex care about surviving today and it wasn't her.

It was the creepy boy that spent his life thinking no one would see him any other way.

The boy she loved.