Sakura: Hope you liked the first chapter!

Naruto: No! What happens to Pervy Sage? You had to leave it on the chance that he might DIE! Sakura-chan you can't make him die! Are you going to?

Sakura: That's just something you have to find out in the next chapter. The next one is about Tsunade trying her hardest to save him! And sort of realizing that she needs him or she doesn't make sense.

Chapter 2 – Worth saving me?

The toad sage wore his usual red robes, but they were so deeply stained with his blood, they appeared to be brown. His long, white hair was streaked with red, but his skin was unusually pale. The cocky grin that usually graced his face wasn't present. As the medical nin still left in the room saw her they parted to let her through, although another horror came to her eyes: several ninja were leaving with what appeared to be five long spear-like objects that had apparently been pulled from Jiraiya's back. Medical ninja were now sealing him up again as best they could, then slowly laid him on his back again.

As tears distorted Tsunade's vision, Jiraiya seemed to sense her presence, for he looked up, and for a split second he seemed to have a whisper of a smile.

"Ah, well if it isn't the old lady coming to pay her last respects to a dying man." He was half-smiling now, wincing as he did so.

"Stop it! Don't talk like that! You're not allowed to die on me. First Dan, I'm not going to lose you too! I forbid you!" She rushed to the bedside, wiping irritable tears from her face. "Doctor, I need his chart!" grabbing the chart then looking to the nearest medical ninja, "You! I need blood, AB negative, go now!"

Jumping slightly, the ninja quickly ran from the room.

Averting his gaze from the Hokage's, Jiraiya sent his eyes to the floor, "Tsunade, it's no use…"

"Shut up! You will not die!" Tsunade snapped, looking over the chart.

"Even I know it's over." Jiraiya croaked barely able to breathe.

Ignoring him, Tsunade raised her hands to his chest and throat preparing her chakra. She closed her eyes trying to clear her mind and see how bad his internal injuries were; after all there was only so much you could learn from a chart.

The image of Jiraiya's wounded lungs full of blood came into focus. Her chakra gripped the blood in his lungs and pulling it out through his mouth, while her other hand's chakra closed up the hole in his lung.

"Cough Jiraiya!" she ordered.

His attempt was feeble but at least it worked. He coughed up the blood that she was trying to remove from his lungs. Several other medical ninja were around him too, one wiped his mouth of the blood, some were injecting him with adrenaline to keep him from passing out, and the others were fixing his more minor injuries.

Now to start on his other organs…

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