Tsunade, the school's nurse yawned and checked the clock again. She couldn't believe that she still had another four boring hours before her until she could go home for the day. She drew a pack of cards from her green jacket's pocket and began to shuffle the cards lazily. Her gambling addiction had made Tsunade an old hand at card games of all sorts and as she shuffled her brown eyes roamed the room for some one to play with, since Sae was late.
"What do you think, rummy or poker?" she asked Kuroneko-sama, the black cat that usually hung around the school and who was sleeping in the opposite chair.
Kuroneko-sama opened a single green eye and responded with a simple "Nyaa" before rolling over and going back to sleep with her back to Tsunade.
Tsunade's face fell slightly and she cursed under her breath, "Friggen cat"
Suddenly the door to the nurse's office flew open and Sae burst in. She was in such a hurry; she tripped over the door jam and sailed through the air. Both Tsunade and Kuroneko-sama watched with the same expression of disbelief and surprise as Sae crashed onto a table, which fell over spilling several pill bottles and sending a tray of scalpels flying. Tsunade tilted her head slightly to avoid being hit by one of the scalpels without acting to surprised. This was what she had come to expect from Sae, who was willing but clumsy.
"I'm so sorry I'm late Tsunade-sama." Sae said getting unsteadily to her feet. "I lost track of time."
"Well you didn't miss much." Tsunade said with a shrug, "It's just been me and Kuroneko-sama here for the last hour of so. There's no rugby today, so we probably won't be too busy, always assuming of course that the karate team doesn't try to pick a fight with the kendo team again. I tell you, this job has gotten so much more troublesome since the school board started allowing K-fights."
Several minutes and six or seven games of cards later, (all of which Tsunade lost) someone opened the door to the nurses office opened and Professor Haruhara entered carrying what appeared to be an unconscious Keitaro Urashima.
Professor of music and also baseball coach, Haruko Haruhara, was dressed in a light pink long sleeve shirt covered with a padded red vest, black pants and her signature white boots. She had her Rickenbecker bass on her back in its case and had wrapped a white scarf around her neck. Her wild pink hair stuck out from underneath a helmet with goggles on them.
As they entered Tsunade raised an eyebrow. "Do I want to know?" She asked placing Keitaro on one of the beds and removing his square glasses to better see into his unconscious eyes.
"Er… I was backing my Vespa up…" Haruko said nervously shifting her gaze from side to side guiltily. "And I accidentally hit him… twice."
Haruko began to fidget and diverted her gaze away from Tsunade's bemused look. Two boys walking by the office glanced in and as they walked down the hall the people in the nurses office could clearly hear them saying one to another, "Oh my god, they've killed Keitaro!" "Those bastards!" Haruko hurried to the door and skidded into the hall.
"I did NOT!" She yelled after the two boys and then more to herself, "I wouldn't have bothered bringing him here if I thought he was dead."
Tsunade was in the process of checking Keitaro's pulse as Haruko returned closing the door behind her.
"Well, he's pretty banged up" Tsunade said standing, "But he'll be fine in time. This guy comes in here a lot for wounds like this. He may not look it, but he's pretty durable. But seriously Haruko, you need to be more careful with that damn Vespa of yours, this is like the third accident this semester you've had with that thing."