Edit: I was being a silly monkey and forgot the disclaimer. I don't own Naruto. I also don't own the series. If I did, there would be more turtles and grapefruits in it.

Prologue

"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura yelled as she burst in through the door. She was lugging a medic-kit and a handful of scrolls. "Kakashi-sensei! Tsunade-shishou told me-" She cut herself off as she saw her former teacher on the makeshift bed. Her shishou had told her that his condition was bad, but Sakura never knew how bad it was. It was all that her junior, Moegi could do to keep him alive. Hand clasped over her mouth and fighting back tears, she got to work assessing the situation.

"We have to get Hatake-san to the hospital, Sakura-senpai" Moegi gasped out, "There's some sort of poison, and that leg…" Sakura knew Moegi to be a good medic, but poison was too advanced for someone of her caliber.

"Moegi, I'll take over. Just help me out here. Udon, you're the fastest, right? Report to Tsunade-shishou, and tell her that there's a poison. Looks like code-B. Konohamaru, get back to gate duty." She commanded. Udon sulked at being the messenger again, and Konohamaru clearly wanted to stay with his Moegi, but she gave them a glare that scared both chuunins out of the room faster than a passion-struck Gai. She cringed at the bad mental comparison. She also didn't like the leader role, but things had to be done, and as their senior, she was going to see them done. As she set to work removing the poison, she vaguely wondered if Kakashi felt like this when he was leading Team 7.

No, you guys were probably worse. Her inner replied to her thoughts.

Shut up

Sakura quickly coagulated the vital injuries. His blood now in check, she took her gloves off and started to focus chakra to her hands, looking for the poison. Using her chakra, she ripped his shirt off and started to force the poison out.

God he's hot, Inner Sakura drooled.

Shut up, She commanded her Inner self again.

But you know he is, too.

Can we discuss this some other time?

Great, now even my conscience is here. This is so distracting.

It was really a wonder how she ever became one of the best medic-nins in Konoha, what with all these voices in her head. She wiped the sweat from her brows. She was using too much chakra in too short a time, and her hands burned, but this had to be done fast; otherwise, the poison would spread.

What other time? You know you like him, now.

This was true. Her inner knew more about her than herself, and her conscience had better sense, both of which were somewhat depressing. Hell, they had found out that she liked the elite jounin, even before she did. She shook away the words.

Maybe sometime when he's not on the verge of death?

Her inner self and her conscience immediately became quiet.

Uncanny, she mused, how they do that whenever anything gets serious…

"Sakura-senpai, Do you need anything?" Moegi opened the medic kit and activated the kanji-filled scrolls.

"Yeah, anesthetic injection," Sakura kicked herself mentally for not paying attention to the matter at hand. "Then clean the leg wound." She winced as her eyes fell on the said wound. Whatever the weapon was, it went through all the ANBU gear, and left that much of a wound? It's impressive enough that there is a wound on him, the legendary copy-nin. Well, what's more extraordinary is how he ever did get to the main gates with the poison and this…

Focusing on the poison again, she put more pressure on the small incision, knowing too well that physical pressure wouldn't make a difference. Dammit, you can't die on me. I swear I'll get this out and heal you, even if it takes my life. She finally removed it. "The main part's out. I'm going to have to get an antidote in him sometime soon. Moegi, he's going to have a fever, so get ready for that." As Moegi prepared the antibiotic salve, she examined the poison. Not half as good as Sasori's, but it's still something. Probably some half-rate Mist poison that I might be able to counter with...

"Moegi, finish cleaning it up. I'll deal with it after." Sakura reassured. The pulse was finally normal, and after a series of hand seals, his breathing was more or less regular. She activated a small scroll, taking out an antidote syringe. She found a vein and applied the remedy. She sighed in relief now that the poison was finally under control, and went to work on the leg wound.

Moegi had done a neat job of sterilizing the wound. Sakura healed the bones first, and then moved onto the muscles. Damn, I'm running low. If only Naruto was here, I could use his chakra. Just a bit more, and I'll be done.

"Moegi, could you close up the wound? I'm almost out."

"Hai, senpai." Moegi started to work as Sakura slumped to the ground, feeling her energy drain out of her.

"Ano," Moegi turned around, "What do I do when I'm done?"

"Ointment, wrap it up, wait for Tsunade-shishou" Sakura muttered as Udon burst into the room. "Godaime-sama's coming, Haruno-san!" Sakura got up. "Gate duty, with Konohamaru," she ordered, checking over the wound. Moegi had done the bare minimum, using what was left of her chakra to regenerate the skin, but Sakura felt like she didn't want to leave it as it was. She could tell that the muscle tissue was still broken up under the skin and it would be painful to walk for a week. She let in a steady stream of chakra, regenerating the muscles.

There, Kakashi-sensei. You are so not dying on me. As her junior started to wrap the wound, Sakura felt her legs giving way under her. Oh, shit. I used too much chakra.

"Sakura! What's the situation?" The Godaime Hokage arrived just in time to see her young apprentice fall. "Are you okay?" She shook the exhausted medic.

Sakura murmured as she lost consciousness. "Sha…n…naro."