Disclaimer - I don't own Naruto

A/N - Ok heres the second chapter, if u like then i'll continue, the first chapter wasnt enough to make a decision off of.

Confusion To The Highest Degree

The morning light slid through the sheer drapes in the hospital room. A faint but harmonizing beeping sound from the heart monitors woke up a sleeping Sakura.

Blinking a few times, she glanced around the room, trying to figure out why she was there, until the events of the morning before flooded back to her. Finding the wall clock hanging slightly crooked on the pale wall, the time said – 10:34 A.M.

Taking in a breath, Sakura forced her head to her left, to see her patient still sleeping. His blonde hair strayed unto his face and eyes, giving him the effect of a child. Smiling at the scene, she stood up and found a set of fresh clothing on the table on the other side of the room. Walking across the cold tile, she picked up the clothes and made her way to the door.

After seeing Arashi stir, she quickly opened the door, "I'll be right back." She whispered, and stepped out.

Upon the door closing and click gently, the young Yondaime opened his deep blue eyes to an empty room. He glanced at every corner to find no one, but only the sound of the monitors beeping. 'I'm alive?'

He tried to sit up, but was too weak, though that didn't stop him. Wriggling under the heavy covers me managed to move slightly. Huffing, he finally gave, it was took much work.

After about fifteen minutes of sitting in his bed staring at the 'interesting' ceiling, a small clicking sound was heard near the door. Glancing there, he could see the odd shaped door knob turn counter clock wise. Almost in slow motion, the pink haired medic entered in her uniform, holding a tray of a very large amount of food.

His eyes grew at the sight of her, 'So she wasn't some girl from my dreams! But what normal person has hair like that!'

Sakura smiled with surprise to find him awake, but walked over to him, setting the heavy tray of food on the table next to him.

"I hope you like fruit!" she cheerfully as his eyes seemed to stare into hers, but shrugging it off she continued. "Usually they don't give this much to one patient, so I took some extra, since you were such a brave little boy this morning!" she using her little kid voice.

He sweat dropped from the way she seemed to act as though he was some five years old. Glancing at the tray of food, his eyes popped out of his head, "I-I can't eat all that!"

Sakura looked down at the mountain of apples, oranges, peaches, grapes, pineapple, bananas and strawberries, then waved her hand at him, "Eh…I'm hungry too so we'll share."

He nodded as they sat in an uncomfortable silence for minutes, while she started to cut up some orange.

"So…where are you from?" she asked out of the blue.

"I…uhhh…I'm from here I guess you could say…" he murmured

"Really? I haven't seen you here before, did you just come back from somewhere?"

"Err, yeah, sorta."

Sakura eyed him, but trying to ignore his short answers, she pushed a piece of orange near his mouth, "Ok, open up Blondie."

Arashi stared at the orange in the girl's hand, and kept his mouth shut.

"Come on open up, here comes the kunai…!" she moved orange like it was an up coming kunai.

Still he shook his head, "I've had bad experiences with oranges."

Sakura lifted an eyebrow, "What do you mean?"

Sighing to himself, he smiled at the memory, "A friend of mine, dared me to see how many oranges I could swallow without chewing at once, after the third one got lodged in my throat, they had to take me to the hospital before I choked…"

Sakura frowned, "What kinda friend would dare something so stupid!"

"Ha-ha, we went way back, his name was Kakashi."

She dropped the orange onto the sheets with a sense of wonder on her face, "You knew Kakashi-sensei?!?"

Arashi jumped a little, "You know him too??"

"Of course, he's my ex-sensei!"

"Sensei…wow…that's so ironic…" he said with a dazed look.

"Huh?"

"See I was Kakashi's sensei and now he's yours, or was yours!"

"You were Kakashi's sensei?? That can't be, you'd be so much older then you said you were!"

He started to panic, not knowing how to answer her.

"Oh…I get it…"

Looking up he saw amusement play on her face, "You do?"

"Yup, you use that forever youth technique the Hokage uses!"

Arashi started to sweat, 'I still wouldn't look that old!'

Laughing she picked up the orange again and shoved it into his mouth, "Ok, now chew then swallow!"

Rolling his eyes, he did as he was told, both of them ate in peace, exchanging words every now and then.

A half hour past until Tsunade entered the hospital room cheerfully. "Good morning Arashi, have a good sleep? I see you've gotten properly acquainted with Sakura, yes?"

Nodding he smiled to Sakura, as she returned the favor and smiled back.

"Sakura, could you please deliver these scrolls to Kakashi and Jariya?" asked Tsunade

The candy haired woman, nodded and went to retrieve the two scrolls, "Eh, I'm pretty sure I know where Jariya is, but where will I find Kakashi-sensei?" she whispered

"Hmm, its 11:21, try that ramen place you always go with Naruto." She whispered back.

Nodding Sakura, went to the door then turned back, "He'll be fine right?" "Yes, he's under my care now, just deliver those scrolls and you can go home."

"Hai, goodbye Arashi, Tsunade." Both Hokages waved, though one sadder then the other.

She walked through the hallways of the hospital totally exhausted, down the elevators and out the door. Feeling the breeze on her face she pondered a moment, 'Ok, whose closer, Jariya or Kakashi-sensei?' As she walked a few stepped, she thought again, 'Well I know Jariya isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so to Kakashi then.'

It took a few minutes to fight through the crowed, than find the colorful ramen stand that her best friend loved so much. In her relief and luck, Kakashi was still there, talking to Naruto. 'Probably about something perverted.' She thought.

As she finally made her way to the seat next to the two men, she poked Kakashi on the shoulder from behind. Turning around, she shoved the scroll in his hand, "From the Hokage, read it now so I can go home." Her cranky voice coming out.

"Eh, Sakura, what is that?" asked a curious fox boy

"It's probably about the guy I healed this morning, I don't know why she wants Kakashi-sensei to know but I don't care, I just have to give this other scroll to Jariya then I get the rest of the day off."

Kakashi glanced at Sakura then the scroll, and opened it. While he read it, Sakura and Naruto were talking about the 'guy' she healed.

"So some council member just poofed you to the hospital? Just like that??"

"Yeah, I was so confused, but he told me to go to the room and to help the Hokage."

"What was wrong with the guy?"

"I don't know what happened to him but he was badly injured, and he kept rejecting the Hokage's chakra."

"If he rejected her chakra, then what could you do?"

"Well I send that annoying voice in my head into his mind, using Ino's technique. After awhile she found him in there, and he started to trust her enough to let me heal him."

"Wow! You're so cool Sakura! If anyone could save someone like that it's you!"

She rolled her eyes, "Well anyway, he's really odd, oh by the way Kakashi-sensei..." she turned to him as he still read the scroll. "He said he knew you from way back."

Kakashi glared up, telling her to stop talking, but she didn't notice his look as she tried to continue, "Yup, he said something about oranges and a dare or whatever, his name is—"

"Not important." Kakashi cut her off.

"Eh?" both blonde and pink questioned.

"Give the other scroll to Jariya, Sakura." He said poofing away.

"Alright…?"

"Weird…" Naruto mumbled

"Well I need to get this to Jariya, bye Naruto!" she yelled half way away

"Bye Sakura!"

Not wanting to waste any more of her free time, she took the easy way across the village…the roofs.

'Ok, turn here, go down this weird color roof, jump down a level, turn right then left, jump again, keep going strait, make one more left and there!' A pale red building in yellow letters stood saying 'Kunoichi Bath House'

She jumped down behind him, 'Nasty old pervert…' "Hey, hermit, didn't the Hokage give you a restraining order from this place?" Sakura said changing her voice a little, to scare him. Jariya threw his hands up, without turning around.

"Ah! Um…I was just making sure the building was sturdy!" he said in defense

"What? You wanted to see if I'd last after the beating you're going to get from all the women in there?"

"Err..." he had nothing, but he could see Sakura's reflection in the small class window he was looking through. When he turned around, she was gone, but the scroll was dropped at his feet. After questioning her get away, he picked it up and started to read, moments after, he disappeared.

-At the Hospital-

"So, mind explaining what your doing alive, sensei?"

"You know, you'd think, my old student would welcome me back with something a little more then an interrogation…" he sighed.

"He's right though, you're supposed to be dead." Jariya cut in.

"Ah and now my sensei is ganging up on me too!"

"Arashi, what happened? How are you here?" asked Tsunade

"I don't remember, one minute I'm dead, next I'm alive fighting missing nins."

"That's all you remember? Nothing else?"

"Would you give me a break, I've been dead for what, almost twenty years?"

"Sensei, there has to be something you remember, dead Hokages just don't pop up from their grave!"

"Well I guess I'm special then!" he rolled his eyes.

"What did the missing nins look like?" Jariya came in again.

Arashi took a moment to think, "I know one had red hair and carried around a dummy, then another one was blue, looked like a fish if you ask me – haha!"

The room went silent.

"We'll talk about this tomorrow, for now, we need to find you a place to stay." Tsunade changed the subject.

Arashi glanced at Jariya and Kakashi who both sweat dropped. Though the copy cat ninja spoke first.

"Sorry sensei, but I don't have any room at my place."

"Eh neither do I, to tell you the truth I don't even know where I live…"

All eyes averted to the old hermit as though he was crazy. Kakashi piped up, "Can't he stay with Nar—"

"No!" both Tsunade and Jariya yelled.

"Eh…what about Sakura? She seems nice…" Arashi asked blushing a little.

"Ah that's my old student!" Jariya yelled proudly. While both Tsunade and Kakashi twitched.

The 5th thought about it for a moment, "Actually that's not a bad idea. Incase you have any injuries, she'll be able to heal you, since your body seems to only like her chakra," she glared, "and she won't take any of your perverted crap, plus to add the cherry on top, Sakura does have an extra room in her house, ever since her parents left it is quite empty there. What do you think Kakashi?"

To tell the truth, It didn't seem at all like a bad idea, but knowing Arashi as the pervert he was and probably still is, he didn't feel very comfortable, but on the other hand, Sakura would make sure he'd keep his mind out of the gutters, at least with her around. He nodded, then glanced at Jariya who seemed to be in a girlish daze.

"Ahem…Jariya…?"

"Man…I'd like to put a cherry on top of that blossom…" he said drooling.

Tsunade hearing this punched the old man out the window.

"Ok then, I'm sure Sakura would be more then happy to take you in, Kami knows she's alone in that house day after day."

Arashi nodded, as Kakashi pulled Tsunade to the side to whisper to her.

"Sakura as a lot of pictures of team seven and Naruto, do you think this is wise?"

"He'd probably wonder about his son sooner or later, what we don't want is Naruto knowing, at least not this early." Both nodded and turned back to Arashi.

"Well, Yondaime, we'll get you prepared and ready to be set off to Sakura's house!" the Hokage said happily.

"Wait, did you even ask her if it was ok?!?" he freaked out

"I'm the Hokage, everything is ok!"

"……."

When Sakura arrived home, she quickly changed into her old pajama top which went down to her middle thigh. Being too tired to find the bottom, she jumped onto her cushy bed and fell into a deep sleep, well almost, before she could go to sleep, the phone rang.

Riiiiing

Riiiiing

Riiiiing

"Grr hello?" she picked up

"Hey forehead girl! I heard you saved five people this morning !" Ino yelled from the other line.

'Five people…grr Naruto!'

"No Ino, it was only one."

"What happened?"

"I don't know, he was seriously injured, Tsunade need help."

"So it was a guy? Was he hot?"

"Ino!"

"Well was he?"

"Yeah…kinda, but my job isn't to determine if dieing patients are cute!"

"Well, what ever, so what are you doing?"

"Goodbye Ino!"

"Hey-!"

-Click-

Aggravated, Sakura threw her face in the pillow and fell asleep.

Night fell at the hospital, and still Kakashi, (a hurt) Jariya, and Tsunade stayed with the 4th.

"Here take this, it will make you sleep." The blonde woman said giving two pills to Arashi. He nodded in thanks and took them. About ten minutes later he fell into a deep sleep all his own.

"Ok, Lets sneak him into Sakura's house, I'm to busy tomorrow to bring him." Tsunade frowned.

Seeing that look on her face meant one thing – don't argue. "You never did ask did you?"

She shook her head, "Let's get this over with."

As they all took hold of the sleeping Yondaime, a grey cloud covered them as they disappeared.

Few noises were made as all three adult broke into the Haruno house hold with a sleeping man in their arms. Slowly making there way to the furnished spare room, they set Arashi under the covers and left as quietly as the came.

The next morning, sea green eyes opened to the bright light that shined through the glassy window, The sleepy kunoichi made her way to the bathroom, then after, to the kitchen to make breakfast.

Now blue eyes opened at the sound of a coffee maker grinding. Groggily, he noticed, he wasn't in the hospital room, he had come accustom to anymore. Confused he slowly sat up and out of bed, though his healing wounds cried to stay in bed. Ignoring the pain, he made his way to the hallway, very, very slowly.

The wall had become his support at that point as he came closer to the room where the sound came from. Soon he found the pastel haired girl, in what seemed to be nothing but a top covering her, with her back to him. Gulping loudly, he knew where he was now, but oh how he wish he wasn't.

Seeing her turn around, his face turned crimson. And that second, all could be heard was a high pitch scream and a mug crashing on the floor. Hearing her scream, he screamed to, then he watched as her eyes cross as she fainted.

'Damn…'

TBC

I made little shortcuts with the Jaryia scroll and when she wakes up...sorry