Innocent: Eeep! I got reviews, thank you my lovely reviewers!!! Heehee! I was so happy when I read them, I'm glad ya'll like my story! Of course I have to re-edit chapter two..I re-read it and found all the mistakes I'd missed! I'm working on a christmas one-shot now so..hopefully I can get that up and posted soon!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto..once again. Check my room..I hardly own anything...-groan-
Chapter 3: Suprises
"Oh..my god this is soo fucking good!"
Laughter followed Azumi's squealed statement as she popped another black-colored berry into her mouth and closed her eyes savoring it. Azumi had been the first to try the food..no one had even made any moves to eat the strange looking food that the large round table held. The banquet was being served in their honor for aiding Suna.
Hinata watched as everyone began filling their plates and began making her own, she wasn't very hungry.
"Oh! Tequila!" Azumi purred and Hinata's eyes widened as she took a swig of her frosted glass.
'Oh no, not again!' Azumi plus tequila equaled..lots of things. Bad things. Hinata frowned...and she had to share the apartment with a drunken idiot!
"Have some it's yummy!" Azumi held the glass under her nose and she wrinkled, nose scrunching in distaste.
Last time this had happened Kiba had held her mouth open, Shino had held down her arms and Azumi had poured a little bit of sake mouth. Hinata had gagged and coughed and swallowed the disgusting stuff..she had no intention of drinking anything like it now.
"N..No thanks Azu-chan..." She tried pushing it away but Azumi brought it back with a vengeance.
"Aw come on Birdie! You cant be innocent forever!"
She shook her leaning her chair back to further escape the foul smelling liquid.
"Drink it..drink it, drink it!" Azumi brought up the full blown chant until practically everyone had joined in. Hinata sank into her chair.
"Come on Hinata-kun!" Kero had sidled next to Azumi, he didn't have a chance with her, Azumi hadn't even noticed his presence.
"N..no thats alright.." Her words were drowned out in the chanting and she sank lower into her chair until she couldn't sink anymore or she'd be on the floor.
No one had noticed the tall man enter the room until he was behind Hinata's chair glancing first down at the blushing girl then at the chanters, who had grown silent. Hinata oblivious to the Kamikaze slowly sat up in her chair and frowned at Azumi still blushing bright
red.
Hinata rose slowly and scowled at Azumi "You...are..going to..." She paused..wondering what everyone was staring at. Turning slowly Hinata made a noise between a yelp and a squeak and faced forward again face turning from light pink to bright purple in mere seconds.
"Now then." Gaara cleared his throat, if he was amused he didn't show it. "On behalf of Suna I welcome and thank you for aiding us in our time of need. Now Work starts first thing tomorrow at seven am sharp, no excuses. An outbreak of some sort of disease has broken out. It drains the person's chakra and shuts down vital organs. We haven't come up with a cure or have even located where the virus even comes from. All we know is that it's dangerouse..and it's spreading quickly. We have 67 patients being treated for this very disease and more yet are coming. We need the cure." He nodded at the solemnly.
"Now, Enjoy your dinner and get a good night's rest. Seven AM."
He was about to turn around but seemed to decide against it and instead, his sand seeped from his gourd and turned Hinata's chair until she, still red faced, was facing him. His non-existent eyebrows raised.
"Hinata Hyuuga. Didn't expect to see you here."
Hinata bit her bottom lip and shrugged slightly, not sure of what to say.
"Are you not supposed to be home..running the Hyuuga clan now?"
"I..I denounced the title Gaara-san."
He nodded then seemed to relax slightly..as if her being here in a room of strangers somehow comforted him. Hinata studied him as he studied her. He looked tired...the lines around his eyes darker then what they were supposed to be. Sea foam green eyes were red-shot and he didn't seem to be himself. She remembered last time she had seen him, a year or two ago. Naruto had invited her to eat with them at the Raman-Cart. She had sat in-between her friend and the Kamikaze hardly eating and chattering softly with Naruto, any attempts to put Gaara into the conversation failed. He hadn't spoken once. In fact his little welcome speech was the most she had ever heard him utter.
"You still have Byakugan?"
She blinked surprised at the question "Of course I do!" Hinata frowned..where was this going. She could feel everyone's eyes on her, burning holes in her back, her face flushed lightly.
Gaara gave her another nod and walked from the room, his sand turned her back around before retreating into his gourd.
Hinata stared at her plate until chatter rose up around the table again. Azumi leaned in real close and whispered lightly in her ear.
"What was that about?"
Hinata shrugged "I know him. He as in the Chunin exams when I was thirteen...he's a friend of Naruto's, I..I had l..lunch with them last year."
Azumi grinned "he's not so bad looking. Kinda rough ya know?"
Hinata turned a brighter red and 'eeped' "Azu-chan!!"
"Hmph." Azumi straightened herself and began eating again..not to mention..drinking...Hinata sighed.
It was going to be a crazy night...again...
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"WHAT TIME IS IT!?" Azumi screeched bolting from her bed.
"You have fifteen minutes to shower, get dressed and eat before we need to get out of here." Hinata grumbled from the door way.
"AHHH FUCK! WHY DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME UP!" Azumi was tangled in her motherload of pillows and blankets, she had issues when it came to bed-comfort. She had to have tons of blankets and pillows with her smack in the middle of her 'nest' as she called it.
Azumi's eyes were blood-shot and she was holding her head as she gathered an armload of clothes and barreled her way into her bathroom slamming the door shut.
"I tried to...you started groaning things about evil bumblebees! The you just flicked me off!" Hinata grumbled.
"Only fifteen minutes!" She called again and grinned as something heavy and hard hit the bathroom door with a loud thump.
"Gah! stupid, fucking, bear screwing, bee-baggering..." Azumi's curses were cut of by the sound of running water. Hinata retreated into the kitchen and fixed Azumi a cup of coffee and toast.
She was fully dressed, wearing the black skirt Azumi had given her and a pale pink tank top. Over her outfit she wore the uniform a white nurses coat she wore open with white tennis shoes on her feet. Her hair was tied into a loose ponytail and the white nurse's cap sat atop her head, red cross gleaming proudly.
In ten minutes Azumi ran into the kitchen hopping on one foot as she struggled to shove on a pair of blue flip-flops. She wore the same uniform as she herself did, but underneath the coat she wore a light blue sun dress. Her hair was dry(hardly) and shoved into a very messy thrown-together bun with strips of long hair falling into her face.
"Move move move!" Azumi yelped grabbing her breakfast and bolting from the apartment and into the hall. Before Hinata even made it to the staircase, Azumi was shooting down the street, pushing people out of her way and cursing angrily.
Hinata sighed and jogged after her friend.
'Azumi can run really fast when she wants too..'
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"I don't care, no excuses. If you are late again Az-UMI you will have to work the late shift, do you understand. Don't back talk me either!"
Azumi opened her mouth to say something when Hinata's soft hand was clamped over it.
"We're so..sorry Ayan-sama! I..it will never h..happen a..again.I promise!"
"never the less I expect you two here half an hour early for the next three weeks. Do you understand?"
Hinata nodded furiously and dragged Azumi off. As soon as the two rounded the corner she withdrew her hand.
"That fucking moron! It wasn't my fault i was late..the traffic this early is horrible!! You saw it! i swear that bitch has ha it out for me since..since I first began! You remember my first day..you were the one that saved me!"
"Dropping a pile of towels in the middle of the hall way isn't saving you exactly.." Hinata muttered and Azumi scowled at her.
"It gave her someone else to yell at!" Azumi kicked the wall then glared down at her clipboard.
"I got a Mr.Ito in room 5...I'll see you at lunch..." Hinata watched her friend stomp off angerly...shoving past Keno without so much as a second glance.
Leaning against the wall she looked over her own assignments for the day..
"Mr..Sansuno? Room 208..third floor..."
She frowned flipping through her papers until the hospital's map was found.
"Oh.."
Five minutes later she was reading door numbers aloud.
"207..208!"
She pushed the sliding door open and was instantly greeted by a young woman's face. The girl smiled brightly..too brightly at her then pulled her into the room shaking her hand then tackling her into a warm hug. Hinata blushed and pulled away.
"Uhmm?"
"I'm nurse Yuri! I'll be your Suna partner here at the hospital! Oh..and the rest of our little..'team' Thats Dr.Momoko and Dr Purin!"
Two men were bent over several medical charts and nodded.
"Thats your first patient for the day..Mr. Sansuno...he's got the sickness!" Yuri smiled brightly "So do your thing!"
Hinata blinked "uhmm..wait..what? i thought i was just..taking notes and things...what do you mean?" She stuttered biting her bottom lip.
Dr.Purin, a tall cold looking man with black hair tied into a tight ponytail and warm brown eyes smiled slightly at her.
"Don't mind Yuri..she acts like she's constantly on coffee..." He walked to wards her and shook her hand.
"Hinata-Kun..you are a Hyuuga yes?"
"Well yes..yes..but.."
"Then we need you to.." he made his eyes wide and wiggled his eyebrows. She blinked and stared.
"Byakugan?"
"But I'm just a nurse..I don't exactly..."
"You have more experience then us!" Mr.Momoko piped in leaning against the bed and frowning at the shaking patient.
"But your..docters?"
"Yes but we hardly attended med school."
"Oh..dear.."
"Oh dear is right! So Hina-kun..you don't mid Hina-kun do you? Do your thing Hina!"
She nodded..head spinning and activated Byakugan. She knew what she had to do but usually..it wasn't something she had to do! The doctors in Konoha knew how to treat and diagnose patients. She walked to the bed and leaned dover lightly studying first his heart..and gasped.
"I'm taking notes! Shoot!" Yuri said next to her holding a clipboard and pen.
"Theres a black bug on his heart..it's..latched onto it like a tick!"
"Uhm..latched..tick..heart.."
"What about the rest of the body?" Hinata paused and frowned slightly. they were like med students just out of school and being given their first jobs..full of questions! Hinata looked him over again.
"His bladder...his..pancrease..his lungs and..his brain..they.." She placed her hand on his head and pushed a bit of her chakra into him, doing a quick sweep of his chakra system.
"He's been poisoned! The bugs are a sort of..virus..man-made by the looks of it and they are designed to drain chakra and shut down the organs at a rapid pace. We need to get the patients all on antibiotics and..get a team up on a cure.."
Hinata de activated Byakugan. "And painkillers..get painkillers, they are doing some painful damage...They weren't kidding when they said you needed help, anyone could have figured this out!"
"What are you waiting for MOVE!" Hinata nearly yelled. she was furious, Konoha had sent them on a nearly impossible mission. With only nine qualified docters...this hospital needed more then just their small team, they needed to actual have their doctors schooled!
Yuri and the two doctors scrambled from the room muttering things like 'right on it' and 'yes ma'am!'
Hinata sighed picking up her clipboard and scribbling some notes. If anyone could whip theses people into shape it would start with Azumi...she always knew what to do.
Dr.Momoko returned with the medicine and handed it to her.
"Please tell me you know??"
He shook his head sheepishly. Hinata sighed and demonstrated how to fill the syringe then inject it into the veins.
"It inst hard at all. He'll need some of this every...I'd say four hours..everyone who tests positive for this poison should be on this. Get..get the Konoha medical staff on it..we can get the check-ups done in next to no time at all.." She sighed again.
'And to think..' Hinata thought watching Momoko scramble from the room 'This is the first day on the job!'
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Black creepy bugs." Azumi nodded. "I got the same response. the team I was assigned was absolutely clueless, the other nurse is sixteen..and she fainted when I injected the man with the antibiotics!"
Azumi poked at her food frowning. "This is impossible we need more help!"
"We should talk to the Kamikaze about this...it.there is something weird going on. Those bugs weren't accidentally contracted..it's a poison."
"Exactly. I overheard some of OUR doctors talking, they're putting all the infected patients onto the top floor and then keeping the fourth floor empty..in hopes of not infecting other patients. It's smart but the poison could be air born. This is crazy!"Azumi groaned banging her head against the table after pushing her food away.
"I've only trained to be a nurse and they had me doing things a doctor should have done..I was..I got so pissed!"
"They did the same to me." Hinata muttered.
"Yeah, I tried healing the patients I've had that were infected and got no response, even with my Healing Flood Jutsu it didn't work..this poison isn't in the blood its..just a thing..it's..arg!!" She hit her head several times and groaned. "It was done on purpose, there is no way it was an accident."
"Exactly what I was thinking." Gaara stood next to their table, arms folded and a slight frown on his face.
Azumi glared and stood from her chair "Kamikaze or not your a bastard!" She growled under her breath, eyes flashing angrily.
"Your medical staff doesn't just need help it needs schooling, no wonder your bloody city is getting killed off. This is a political thing isn't it? Which nation did you piss off?"
"Azumi!" Hinata protested standing up and placing a hand on her shoulder.
Gaara's face remained emotionless. "She's right Hinata. We have reason to believe that the Land Of Lightening has...poisoned food supplies..our main water-supply maybe even the sand itself."
Hinata felt anger stir up within her.
"So you get us set into an impossible mission?" she snapped..then clamped her hands over her mouth and blushed brightly.
"Actually I ...told Tsunada exactly who I wanted..you..were just and added bonus. Tsunada helped me pick out the best qualified for this job...she knew perfectly well what you were getting into."
Azumi looked a bit flattered. "I was chosen?"
"Don't get to full of yourself Miazuno-San..it's mostly for your Jutsu."
She glared at him again, he ignored her and instead his gaze fell onto Hinata. "We are evacuating all patients who are not infected into our arena...it's been tented over and has more then enough room and supplies to maintain a make-shift hospital. Suna is being put on a lock down...nothing foreign in or out, we are digging into our water preserves and taking precautions. Now that Konoha's medical team knows what they're up against your sole object is to figure out a cure..and where it is coming from."
Hinata blinked, and Gaara continued. "Your team and the infected patients are going to be working in the hospital. I will be there everyday to over see the work with our..special trained ninjas..for protection. Lightening Ninjas have beeen..coming onto Suna's borders unannounced."
"But without a guide.." Azumi scowled.
"Exactly. We have a traitor."
Hinata sank into her chair. "This is hopeless..we are only nurses and we know this is nearly impossible. Nine doctors and nine nurses are not going to have the experience to do this!"
Hinata shrugged glancing at the clock. "We're on shift. Come on Azu."
Hinata left the table not turning to see if Azumi was following , which she wasn't.
Azumi's eyes narrowed at Gaara. "You stay away from Hinata you understand me? Kamikaze or not..it's just a title, I'll still kick your ass if anything happens to her. I'm all she's got."
Turning on her heel she ran to catch up with her friend. Gaara watched them leave untill Temari appeared at his side.
"You know..that really wasnt the best way of gaining the Hyuuga's trust."
"We need her..she'll come around. Tsunada said so herself." Gaara replied "Start the evacuation and lock down."
Temari nodded. 'All this lying..Gaara what are you doing?'
Innocent: I am not so proud of this chapter. I need to do a little research in the medical procedure before I get another chapter up and running. I was debating on wether or not to just start chapter three from scratch again but..I ended up doing a bit of editing instead yet I still do not approve of it!!! ARG! I have tons of EOCT coming up and I've been sooo distracted with my studies that there has to be atleast a ton of paper sitting in my waste basket with "Chapter Three" written on the top then tons of writing..I had to look up some words..since my english isnt..all as fluent as I want.
The only reason I decided not to erase all of this is because the first parts are..well I like them it's just the whole getting into the first day at the hospitol and just jumping into the drama and plot...hmm. I swear my next chapter with be better!!