Unfriendly Reunion
A day after the shadow left, Sakura was in the hospital along with Shizune, desperately trying to heal Sasuke, who showed no signs of waking.
"I don't get it." Shizune said in exasperation, "His wounds aren't healing at all. It's like his body is repeling my chakra."
"That's exactly what it's doing." came a voice.
They both turned to see an old blind lady in a white robe walking towards them.
"Who are you?" Sakura asked.
"That's not important right now." she said moving towards Sasuke.
Her hand hovered over him for a minute, then thin strings of black smoke rose from his body and into her hands.
"What did you-"
"I merely took the taint He left in him, which is why it was impossible to heal him."
Sasuke gave a low groan.
"Thank you, but we don't know who you are." Sakura said with a bow.
"My students call me 'Blind One,' or 'Grandma' for I've been blind since birth, but I can see everthing through chakra, and I am the only adult figure they know."
"Oh, well thank you Grandma. Where are your disciples?" Shizune asked.
There was a commotion outside as they all moved to the window.
Naruto was facing off with a bald darkskinned guy. He was wearing a baggy black ninja suit and looked to be about six feet tall. He smiled at Naruto, who returned it with a glare.
"Who are you?" Naruto growled.
"None of your business maggot." he shot back.
"What are you doing in our village?" Shikamaru asked.
"Tracking Him down." the guy answered.
"Who?"
"I know that Shadow passed through here. My friends, myself and my teacher are tracking it down before it completes its transformation."
"What transformation."
"Something you don't want to be alive to see." a female voice came from behind Naruto.
He turned to see a girl with short black hair and dark purple eyes. She wore purple kunoichi gear and was standing with her hands on her hips.
"If we let Him transform, then we're all screwed. He likes to collect ninja known and noted for their power to absorb into his dimension. When He has enough power, then He'll break his seal and unleash damnation on the stars."
"Well what is his name?" Naruto asked.
"His only name is Shadow, but He is always referred to as Him,His,He, He's nameless."
"Well then who are you?"
"Since my bro is being a jackass, I'm Sarah, and he's Shawn." Sarah said waving an impatient hand at Shawn.
"How many of you guys are here?" Shikamaru asked.
"There are supposed to be more, but both of us came with our teacher and her granddaughter because they felt His presence here." Shawn said.
"Yeah he was definetely here. He took Grandma Tsunade and Pervy Sage too." Naruto said.
Sarah looked up at the hospital ward. "Looks like Grandma and Tasha have healed your little friend."
"What!" Naruto yelled running into the hospital.
Sasuke groaned and opened his eyes to Sakura's cheery green ones.
"Glad to see you're up Sasuke!" She said cheerfully.
"Get away from me." he said coldly.
He gave another grunt of pain.
"Perhaps it's best if you don't in that tone...or at all." a girl next to him said.
She had long black hair and was wearing a white kimono with sakura flower designs at the bottom.
She held Sasuke's arm in her hand, and he snatched it away.
"Don't touch me." He sneered.
She merely looked at him, her brown eyes met his.
He turned on his sharingan in an attempt to put a genjutsu on her, but was shocked to see that she also had a complete sharingan.
"Your clan wasn't the only clan with this gift." she said with a smile.
Sasuke gave a grunt of pain and looked at his arm, which was red and bleeding.
"The shadowmites that attacked you left you with a multitude of injuries. I was trying to heal you when you snatched your arm away." she said a soft, sweet tone.
Sasuke begrudgingly held his arm out for her.
As her hand slowly moved under his arm, a blue aura glowed from his arm and moved with her hand.
She moved her hand gracefully to his armpit, then down to his ribcage. She halted right there.
"I understand that guys like to keep that area private, so I'll let it heal on its own."
Sasuke didn't answer, instead snatched his arm back.
"Sasuke!" Naruto breathed bursting through the door.
"Oh, it's you." Sasuke said apathetically.
The three of them didn't exchange words for a while.
Everyone in the room knew what was setting the mood.
It wasn't until Grandma said "I think it's time we left. Bara, finish up here dear."
"Yes Grandmama, I'll be done shortly."
"No need to rush, we could really use your help right now." Shizune said.
"Well, shall we talk about it then?" Sarah asked, feeling uneasy in the room.
"Sure, come this way." Sakura said, a little hurt from Sasuke's cold attitude.
Naruto chose to say nothing and exited the room.
"If I may be so bold as to ask what they did to earn your disdain?" Bara asked.
"None of your business."
"I know why you're upset, Sasuke Uchiha." Bara said stopping.
"Hmph. You know nothing about me."
Bara gave a little smile, the pulled down the sleeve of her kimono to show a long scar that ran the length of her arm.
"Where'd you get that?" Sasuke asked with almost no concern.
"When my sister killed our clan, I tried to kill her, I almost succeeded too."
"Well what happened?"