Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Naruto.

So I've been a little busy this winter break and all from school. I've been doing volunteer work in my mom's office, but now it's just turned into kidnapping -_-"

Anyway. I hope that you all enjoy this chapter! I have the next to chapters of my other story all typed up so I'll spend some time on this one now. I also hadn't worked with it in so long that I had to go back and re-read some parts of it to remember. I'm such a horrible author :# FORGIVE ME!

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Sasuke woke up the second he felt her Chakra signature enter the house, but he didn't want to go see her yet. He decided to just go back to sleep since she was home like she promised she would be. However when Sasuke woke up several hours later he looked over to the other side of the bed and not only were the sheets cold, but untouched. There wasn't a single wrinkle in them.

"What the hell?" he grumbled rubbing his eyes sitting up and looking around, "Did she even come home last night? Or was I hallucinating?"

Sasuke stood up out of bed and stretched yawning while walking towards the kitchen in his boxers. He found that there were open medical texts on the coffee table that weren't there before. He narrowed his eyes with a "tch"

But he got even more upset when he saw a stick note on the counter.

Sasuke,

I know I promised I'd be here before you woke up, and I was. I just had to stay late, and then Tsunade cam into my office drunk, which hindered my work, and now I have to go work an early shift. Don't worry I feel fine. Take care.

Sakura.

Sasuke clutched the note half angry and half worried. She constantly over worked herself and this was no exception. She was going to pass out if she wasn't careful. It was one thing to get no sleep and just lounge around for two days. It was another to constantly be rushing around with no sleep. Sasuke decided he would wait until something important happened before he took action. Sakura was rushing around the ER and as much as she didn't have time for it, she brought Megumi with her. The little girl was desperate to help her, and for the first hour, she did. After that she simply told Megumi (who was out of chakra) to carry supplies to nurses and doctors and to do clean up as much as she could. There was constantly blood on the floor and walls of all the rooms. It was the ER after all.

"I need assistance!" Sakura yelled as she tried to restrain one man whose chest cavity was open.

Sakura was pretty sure the poor guy was a gonner, there was no way to reseal the chest cavity so she just numbed him so he wasn't in pain in his last moments. Megumi watched the sad scene from the hallway before Sakura walked out and saw the girl's confused reaction.

"Some people are beyond saving" Sakura explained, "So it's better use of your chakra to help them not be in pain then try and uselessly repair the damage while they're in pain and die. It's a hard concept to grasp, but you'll understand some day."

Megumi nodded as the little girl followed Sakura out of the ER. Sakura had a twenty minute break before she had to go back in there and she spent it filing paper work and then slipping some soldier pills in her pocket. She knew she'd need them later, but it was dangerous to use them on a lack of sleep while exerting innumerous amounts of chakra. But she had to get through the day and they had more gruesome near death patients coming in than usual, almost all of them Anbu. She was suspicious to start out with, but as the day went on she planned on making a trip to the godaime before the day was through…

Sasuke was training with Naruto out on one of the training fields and both were giving it their all. Sasuke enjoyed having Naruto to spar with. He was the only challenging opponent in the village that could help him get stronger. He could just about flatten everyone else. He was starting to get distracted again when the pinkette came to mind. To say he was worried would be an over exaggeration, but he was concerned. The second he lost is focus is the second Naruto landed a solid hit on him in sage mode. Naruto didn't expect Sasuke not to dodge and it was too late for him to pull back the punch. Naruto was upset when Sasuke feel to the ground grinding his teeth in pain. It was obvious that Sasuke's entire right side was damaged. He could see Sasuke's ribcage where Naruto had side swiped him and ripped it open.

"Holy shit teme!" he yelled, "why the hell didn't you dodge that!" he grunted as he slung his friend's arm over his shoulder and poofed them both into the hospital.

Sasuke was taken immediately on a stretcher to the ER and at that point Naruto was confident his friend would be fine. Sakura should be working the ER shift and the only person better than her was Tsunade.

(Play Sound of Madness by Shinedown)

Sakura was scrambling around from patient to patient and the one she saw next almost made her pass out. There was Sasuke groaning on the hospital bed with blood spilling from his side over the bed and dripping onto the floor.

"Get me blood pills!" she screamed in a shrill pitch she never used.

Her adrenaline was running through her system as she scanned his body for further injuries and nearly lost it. The organs on his entire right side were failing.

"Fuck…" she cursed harshly under her breath.

She quickly shoved a blood pill down his throat and then started to patch up his side. The fact that she could see the bones of his ribs and his right lung rising and falling didn't comfort her at all. The worst part was when blood started coming out of his mouth.

"No… no…. no no no no NOOO!" she started screaming as tears rolled down her face while trying frantically to pour chakra into his system even faster.

She was alarmed when it was running out and reached for the last soldier pill in her pocket. Sasuke grabbed her wrist scowling before she could get it in her mouth.

"How many of those have you had already?" he hissed while coughing up more blood.

Sakura sneered back at him, "That's irrelevant."

"Are you trying to kill yourself?" he glared at her.

Sakura slapped his wrist and barked, "Shut up and don't move!"

She popped the pill in her mouth and poured as much green chakra into her hands as she could. The chakra was almost visible causing her hair to float around like a gust of wind was blowing up from below her. Sasuke wasn't happy with this at all. She was putting herself in danger. There were plenty of people who could pick up the handy work where she left off. There was no need to keep pushing herself like this. He felt his chest cavity close up, but his organs were still damaged.

"Get him to the sealing room, now" she hissed at her completely flabbergasted staff standing in the doorway.

Sakura hardly ever lost her wits treating a patient. However they did as she asked and took him to a dimly lit room and laid him onto the middle of a labyrinth of writing on the floor. The seven other medic-nins took their places around the circle and Sakura immediately walked in tossing scrolls to all of them. She knew this was going to hurt, but it was the only way to save his organs. She knew it was dangerous to keep pouting out this much chakra, but she wasn't going to let him die on her so easily. He looked at her with the blood coming from his mouth like she was crazy.

All the people around the circle made hand signs in unison then smashed their hands down on the scrolls. Each scroll had a separate set of instructions for the different organs. Sakura of course chose the two most important, the lungs and heart. It was hard to endure Sasuke's yelling. He hardly ever gave an obvious sign of being in pain. She knew this must feel like a thousand knives ripping through him, but she had no choice. It was the only way to salvage his damaged organs. As soon as she was done Sasuke was out like a light, and Sakura was drained. The nurses took Sasuke to a room to recover and Sakura went to go talk to Naruto who was in the lobby.

"What the hell happened!" she shouted at him leaning against the wall for support breathing incredibly hard.

Naruto looked guilty as he said, "We were sparring."

"We're you trying to kill him!"

"No…" he grumbled, "I expected him to dodge like he always does but he spaced out and I couldn't pull back in enough time. I'm sorry…"

Sakura just wiped a hand over her face before saying, "Never mind I have to go file paperwork and figure out what the hell I'm going to do with you two."

Naruto put a hand on her should after she turned around but before she started walking then said, "You need to go home Sakura, you don't look good."

Sakura brushed his hand off her before hissing, "I'm fine."

Naruto backed away defensively like he was agitating a lion before walking out of the hospital. He just wanted to make sure Sasuke was ok.

"Where's Sakura?" were the only two words the Uchiha kept saying every time someone asked him to do something.

Eventually the staff got tired of trying to get through to him and decided to go get Sakura. However the second the nurse walked out the door she screamed. She saw a collapsed, dilapidated body on the ground with a mop of pink hair.

"She's on the floor!" shouted the nurse.

Sasuke didn't care how many IV's they'd put in his arm, he ripped them out as well as all the other medical equipment they'd attached to him. He sped off down the hallway with his bare feet sliding on the tile when he tried to stop next to her where she was. Instinctively the first thing he checked was her pulse. At first he felt nothing, which scared him but he waited just a bit longer to hear one single beat of her heart.

"Go get Tsunade!" he yelled.

This was bad.

The godaime didn't waste any time in transporting to the hospital to figure out what the commotion was about. She saw her pupil in a hospital bed Shizune scrambling around. Tsunade saw the EMT machine it was blank for a moment but then Tsunade realized her heart was beating once every ten seconds. Any slower and she'd die.

"She overdosed!" Shizune was shouting, "I can't keep the soldier pills' toxins from spreading through her body! Her heart is slowing down!"

Tsunade scowled before walking over and placing a hand over Sakura's forehead and rushing chakra through her whole system and made it all go to her stomach then initiated a rush of bile causing Sakura to throw it up all over herself.

"That's a little harsh don't you think?" Shizune asked while trying to find clean cloths for Sakura.

"No" Tsunade answered calmly, "The poison was too set in to remove it with water infused with chakra. It would have messed up her circulation and stopped her heart completely. I had to concentrate it to her stomach and make her throw it up. Make sure she doesn't get out of bed and keep every kind of medicine out of her reach. I don't care what it is."

Shizune nodded then bowed before Tsunade walked out of the room. The godaime planned on having a little 'chat' with that work-a-holic knew there was nothing he could do for her other than carry her to a hospital bed and hope Shizune could keep her alive until Tsunade arrived. No doubt that she'd overdosed on the soldier pills. That was dangerous, and very hard to fix. Sasuke was unable to stay in her room though. Shizune threatened him and made him go back to his own room. He still needed some healing on his chest cavity as well as gastro-pills to help his severely damaged intestines.

When night fell however, he couldn't stop himself from wandering to her room and crawling in the hospital bed with her. She had an oxygen mask on as well as an EMT and other equipment. Sasuke saw how slow her heart beat was, but he was glad she was still alive, even if it was barely. He didn't expect anything to happen, but he touched her face softly and ghosted over her skin. It was still soft despite the way she worked herself ragged. But he jumped because the second he touched her skin her heart beat sped up to normal. He heard the beeping and then chuckled to himself. He guessed that she was familiar with his touch, and was still excited by it. Even though she would deny it, the EMT didn't lie.

HOPE YOU LIKED THIS! TOTAL DRAMA HOOPLA!
anyways. I probably won't end this one for several more chapter sadly. My other one is turning out that way to. I just can't think of a fitting ending that isn't "stereo-typical" if I may say so.

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