Sasuke felt someone stroking his hair. He turned into it and then the sensation was gone. He opened his eyes in an attempt to find the soothing sensation again. What he saw was Iruka on the bed, sitting next to him with a small smile on his face. He could hear a few men mumbling behind the teacher, and Hinata was at the foot of his bed.
"Hey you, how do you feel?" Asked the teacher.
Sasuke grunted and made to sit up, his heart sped up and he felt a rise of panic in his throat. For a moment he thought they were all in Sakura's house but when he saw the white walls and bareness of the room he calmed. Sasuke looked over at the group in the doorway, Shikamaru, a doctor, Naruto and Kakashi. Shikamaru was the first to notice his gaze and he tapped the doctor, who turned to look at him.
"Oh! Mister Uchiha! It's good to see you awake!"
Sasuke glowered at him and then looked to everyone else. They looked back and Iruka began to pat his back lightly. Hinata pulled a hankerchief from her pocket and moved to dab at his eyes. Sasuke hadn't even known he was crying. Hinata let him have the neatly hemmed bit of cloth to wipe his eyes with as she looked over to Shikamaru who looked at Kakashi and Naruto. The male ninja nodded and disappeared from the room.
The doctor left the room and in a moment Shizune walked in and sat in the chair next to Sasuke, "Hey, I think you should stay with someone for a while, Sakura tried a few times to come see you here, and tried breaking in the window."
Sasuke didn't want to stay with anyone, but he knew this also came from Tsunade, whom he couldn't ignore. When Shizune asked if there was anyone that he wanted to go stay with in particular, the raven was at a loss. Hinata offered him a place to stay, but he wasn't close enough to them, so he politely refused, Iruka said that his place had a spare room, but Sasuke didn't want to stay with his old teacher if he didn't have to, so he told him he would have to think about it.
The four of them sat there and thought for a moment before Shizune grinned, "You're going to stay with Naruto. And if you say no, I'll get Tsunade to make you." And with that, Sasuke was stuck bunking at Naruto's.
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Naruto knocked on the door of Sakura's apartment. And when she didn't answer he kicked the piece of wood out of his way. Hinata appeared by Shikamaru just as he was walking in and told him that Sasuke was going to stay with Naruto, then she returned to stay with Sasuke.
Shikamaru told Naruto and the three of them each grabbed a garbage bag from the kitchen to gather his things in.
There was still no sight of Sakura.
The nin worked quickly and quietly, getting anything that was Uchiha related out of the apartment. Kakashi checked the bathroom and saw the old, bloody clothes that Sasuke had taken off four days ago and glared at them. He took them and put them in the trash. Naruto scoured the bed room and Shikamaru cleared the rest of the apartment. They walked out, leaving the door on the living room floor.
Sakura met them at the bottom of the stairs, she was drunk and stumbling around. She had been at a bar down the street, and when she saw them she rushed to them, begging to know what was going on with Sasuke, and when he would be coming home. Naruto pushed her away from him, disgusted with her, "He's going to go home soon, but he's never coming here again."
Sakura sat on the ground, crying as she watched them walk away.