I guess I was so overwhelmed by how many people like the story already (about 7 story subscriptions/alerts! 3 KEEP IT COMING) that I couldn't resist writing another chapter today...Even though it's the day before midterms. Consider yourselves lucky that I'd do this for you. Or just consider me pathetic. XD

Forgot this before:

FAN - an enthusiastic devotee, follower, or admirer of a sport, pastime, celebrity, etc. [i.e. ME]

FICTION - the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration [i.e. THIS STORY]

So yeah, I can't possibly own it.

-start chapter two-

While very shocking, the sight of Hyuuga Neji seizing was also quite haunting: his eyelids fluttering madly, body shaking violently, and limbs contorted. This very sight will be the very one plaguing Haruno Sakura for days on end, the sight that will star in more than a few nightmares. Not actually being experienced enough to treat him, Sakura was in charge of getting the supplies for his treatment, while more competent medics began to treat him.

She slammed open the supply room door, quickly grabbing an assortment of gauze bandages and ointments before slamming the door shut with equal agitation, before running to the ER, supplies in hand. Arriving at the ER, where Neji was taken soon after she was called, she scanned the room, out of breath: quickly identifying the corner bed as Neji's, mostly due to the cluster of medics surrounding it. She made her way to his bed, and noticed that the wound she had just healed was reopened. Not actually knowing what to be doing in the situation, Sakura merely stood there awkwardly, until a medic told her to move. She waited outside this little circle of medics until the situation was under control, and they were no longer needed to work immediately on the young Jounin. Once she saw that he was back to normal, Sakura sank to her knees, letting out a huge sigh of relief, grateful that everything would be calm now.

That was, until a nurse came yet again, this time calling Sakura for the Hokage, summoning her to visit her master's office. She made her way there calmly; very different from the way she was running from the supply room to the ER. Trying to forget the whole ordeal that just happened, she forced herself to contemplate other issues.

"Hmm…I wonder if I should cut my hair again…It's been getting kinda long," she thought, fingering her exotic-colored hair, which now reached a couple of inches below her shoulder blades, "I liked it longer, but it's way more convenient when it's shorter…"

Thinking deeply upon this issue, she realized that she had already reached the Hokage's office. Knocking lightly, she wondered why her master was summoning her.

"Tsunade-shishou told me that I wouldn't have anymore training until at least next week…So then, I wonder what it is?" she thought, curious of her teacher's intentions.

Upon hearing the command to enter, Sakura stepped into the office cautiously.

"Yes, Shishou?" she asked the tired-looking Hokage, surprisingly without her beloved bottle of sake beside her.

"Haruno Sakura," Tsunade started, her use of Sakura's full name an indication that her business was one of a serious nature, "do you know why Hyuuga Neji began to seize uncontrollably, right after being examined and treated by none other than yourself, when he has no previous history of seizure or epilepsy?"

"Not at all…" Sakura answered truthfully, "I was actually wondering that myself…Do you know why it happened?"

"Yes, I happen to have a very clear understanding of how it occurred: it was because you had not treated him fully and correctly. The cut went far deeper than you treated!"

Sakura froze at the revelation. It was…HER fault? SHE was the reason that Neji was so creepily spazzing out?

"Tell me one good reason why I should even continue to teach you, after you nearly killed one of the most skilled rookie Jounin in all of Konoha!" Tsunade snapped at Sakura's silent pondering, "Your negligence nearly lost us the shinobi with the most potential to eventually become the top ANBU chief in less than 2 years!"

"I…I…didn't…know…" Sakura began to stammer weakly, still in denial that it was her fault that Neji was in such a critical condition. Her eyesight began to blur as Tsunade reprimanded her, all the while the Hokage's voice slowly rising until it was nothing but a deafening roar. The tears threatened to spill, but Sakura tried to resist it: she would not be the same crybaby that she once was.

Tsunade noticed her expression and immediately began to shift from strict master to kind mother.

"Well…it's not entirely your fault. I mean, you haven't actually learned to heal wounds that deep just yet. It also pierced his chakra nervous system, which you won't learn how to fix for a good half year or so…Not to mention, it was actually REALLY close to where he got his before, during the…fight with the sound ninja, Kidomaru…" Tsunade reassured her, sneaking around the use of Sasuke's name while her student was already under such an emotional burden.

With the reassurance that she was not entirely at fault, Sakura began to recompose herself, calming down at the fact that her master was no longer scolding her.

"Although…he will still need some extensive care…" Tsunade began to think, "He's going to probably need to take it easy for a while…Temporary suspension from ninja duties. Almost constant supervision from a medic in case the wound decides to hemorrhage. Someone to make sure he doesn't over-do it. Damn."

She suddenly had a brilliant idea, and smiled inwardly.

"So, Sakura, how about I teach you some new healing techniques…So something like this won't happen again?" she began, clearly plotting something. However, Sakura was too eager to make up for her inadequate performance before, and was willing to go along with her master's crazy schemes if it meant that she was no longer in trouble.

"When?" she replied, giving in, against her better judgment.

"How about…now?" Tsunade replied, wanting nothing more than to set her crazy plan into action as soon as possible.

And thus, Sakura is roped into a series of events, the effects of which she could not have had any idea of its impact on her life.

-end chapter two-.

Spellcheck fails:

Shishou - Chisholm

Kidomaru - Tidemark

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