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Yo! Here's the next chapter! Monster shifts at work this weekend, so I might not update as fast as normally. Sorry to the reviewer who wanted a little ShikaxIno, but I need to see more TemarixShika out there. They're gonna end up together in the long run, so I figured I stick to the manga. Plus, I don't like to steer too much off the main plot of my stories. Thank you though, I appreciate your ideas!

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My Personal
Assistant Uchiha

Chapter 6: Impalement

Sakura and Sasuke worked for three hours with patient check ups and paperwork which he needed to learn to file correctly. "Know the difference between ingoing and outgoing. Sometimes I just need to sign and sometimes in have to read them, so you need to figure that out also." Sasuke listened to her drone as he sat back in his desk chair, idly wondering when lunch was.

She left him at three o'clock to do some work on her own and the man from the electronics store brought the new computer. Sakura figured the man could show Sasuke how to use it better than she ever could so she felt no reason not to leave.

"Sakura!" she turned and spotted Tsunade. Oh shit…

"Hey," she mumbled as the Sannin stepped up before her, assets and all. "I have to know..."

"Huh? Kn-know what Tsunade?" she asked and shifted feet guiltily.

"I have to know where you bought those heels you wore the day before." The Sannin said, some what desperately. "There's going to be a formal banquet at the gambling hall and it's my job as Hokage to be there." She saw Sakura's dull look and shrugged. "You just don't understand my pressures."

"Oh I think I can see exactly what your pressures are." The pink-haired medic said. "Anyway, since you need them so much, I bought 'em at the little boutique down town."

"You mean with the peach paint and-?

Suddenly a siren erupted and a flashing red light had them both looking up. "Incoming!"

Sakura ran forward just as the paramedic ninja were rushing through the double doors of the hospital's emergency entrance. "Concussion and impalement, Haruno!" Iyashi the head paramedic said.

She looked down and her heart skipped painfully in her chest.

A tiny boy, no older than five years old, was struggling to breathe and trembling against a severed pole imbedded into his chest.

"God! Get him in the nearest Chakra room!" Her medics ran to get the boy to the nearby room and Sakura ran after; Tsunade, reluctantly, stayed where she was, knowing her girl could handle anything she could.

"You better not over do it, Sakura!" she yelled after.

Sakura barked orders and shouted to her fellow medic as she ran with them to the Chakra room. "What happened to him, Iyashi?" she asked as she looked over the boy's body, looking for an outlet to quickly remove the deadly object.

"Well, the kid was trying to help his father paint the walls of their house when he climbed the ladder after his dad and fell when he lost grip. He fell backward onto one of those polls that act as a damn mile marker. We had to wait to break the metal poll to free him. We couldn't possibly have lifted him off it. The pain alone would have killed him."

"Oh, god…" Sakura whispered and laid a gentle hand on the boy's face as they entered the Chakra room. They laid him in the middle of the circle of seals as gingerly as possible.

She quickly rose her chakra as the other medics seated around the circle slapped their hands down and held the boy stabletried; to keep him alive until the object was removed and they could all heal him together.

Sakura worked quickly and concisely trying to get the pole out of the poor child's chest. He was so strong, but his body was failing his spirit. She had to get it out without doing more damage and the only way she knew how was to use put her collected jutsu into play.

She hovered above him on and laid her hands around the poll. She began pulling; mentally withdrawing the pole, inch by painful inch from him as she equally healed the flesh that had become free.

She could feel his heart speed up at the impossible pain he was unconsciously feeling.

No!

"Stop his blood loss, Iyashi. Slow his heart." Sakura said calmly. She could feel the boy forced calm by her partner's soothing chakra and she, too, relaxed as the child did.

Finally, after many minutes of worrying and working her chakra and mind to exhaustion, she had closed his chest by replacing loss flesh, muscle and organ tissues that had been sliced away by the pole.

She laid a cool hand on his head as he lay sleeping. She sighed as she felt an arm on her shoulder. "Well done." Iyashi said from beside her. She knew the circle was safe to move now that he'd walked across to her and she rose.

"Thank you. But I'd do anything to help him; especially seeing him impaled like that. Get him to a bed, alright?" At his nod, she grinned.

"And now the parents…" she said, playfully dreading the tears and shrills of joy from the patient's loved ones.

She turned and lifted her hand to her forehead, her fingers slightly separated. Through them, her eyes rose to see Sasuke watching her with an unreadable expression on his face. He looked dangerous, like he was somehow angry.

Sakura looked away as one of the medics asked her to sign a sheet of paper. "Oh, sure." She said and was about to grab the pen, but the child's blood still stained her hands and she jerked.

"Oh, damn it. Sorry."

The female medic laughed it off. "No, that's fine. Just stop working so hard. You're losing your sharpness."

Sakura frowned, knowing the woman hadn't meant it as an insult, but saying her mind was basically dulling heavily bothered her. "Oh. Sure."

She nearly stomped over to the sink as she hung her head and washed her hands. She felt Sasuke step up from behind and hand her a towel. She accepted and wiped her hands dry, then looked surprised as he held out the clipboard and pen that the medic who'd insulted her had been holding.

"Oh, thanks." she said and looked up. "When did you get here?"

"About the time you pulled that post from the kid's chest."

"Yeah." She mumbled and looked over to him as the medics lifted him gently onto a stretcher. "His surgury was difficult. More so because he was so young. Now I have to see the parents. You don't want to be there for it."

Sasuke said nothing, but he followed her out of the Chakra room and to the waiting area where some people were sitting, but a certain couple was looking more devastated and withdrawn than the rest.

Sakura stepped forward, professional and serious. "Mr. and Mrs. Misturo?" she said and he saw the parent's heads shoot up so fast he thought he heard tendons snapping.

"How is he?"

"Is my baby alright?!" the mother sobbed and Sakura set a hand on the woman's shoulder.

"The procedure was a difficult one, but your son is all closed up and will survive. He'll be back to climbing ladders in a week or two."
"Oh!"

The parents had broken into hysterical sobs and cries and Sakura waited for one of them to compose themselves.

"Can we see him?" the father asked.

"Yes, but you mustn't touch him just yet." The medic said, and smiled. "In a day you will be allowed to touch him. A nurse will be by shortly to take you to him."

"Oh, thank you! Thank you!"

Sakura bowed and left the parents alone as she motioned to Sasuke to follow. "Intense." He said simply and she nodded.

"It can get very bad. I'm just glad that I had good news for them."

Sakura went back to her office to file a report about the surgery to Tsunade while Sasuke worked in his own area.

After a long time, she completed the report and looked up at the clock. It was well past their dinner time, but she didn't have the chance to get up. Hinata knocked and allowed herself in.

"I heard about the little boy." She said softly, knowingly. "I was difficult for you wasn't it?"

"Yes." She breathed. "He was so tiny and that fucking pole pierced clean through one of his lungs..."

Hinata nodded, sympathetic. Her first patient was a child also, and she'd lost her. "Well…I am so happy you could save him, Sakura-chan."

"Thank you, Hinata."

"Um…I spoke to the girls and they said we should get together tonight."

"Oh, sure thing!" Sakura cried. She was excited by the idea and stood up. "Now can we wear the dresses we bought, for the real reason. We did look pretty damn good. Sexy doctors…" she smirked as she saw Hinata giggle.

"Yes…N-Naruto wants me to wear it again. Oh! You need to talk to Ino over the phone. She wants to ask something."

"Oh, sure." Sakura said and waved as Hinata left. She reached over, plucked the phone up and dialed Ino's number. She lazily stuck it up to her ear and listened to the dial tone drawl until the receiving end picked up.

"Sakura! I am so angry right now!"

Sakura sighed and knew what was coming. "What is it Ino?" Though she knew exactly what was up.

"Sai! That bastard hasn't returned my phone calls!"

"Maybe you should stop calling him? Have you tried ignoring him?"

"Huh? Ignore him? He's not the type of guy that comes crawling to women, Sakura! He'd never come after me."

"Well, maybe he's not worth it then. If he won't come to you, how can you expect him to stay loyal, or be there for you when you need him?"

It was oddly quiet. "Uh…M-maybe you're right, Billboard…I'll think about your advice."

"I mean it Ino. He needs to come to you. Not the other way around anymore. Let him get interested for once instead of you initiating it every time." Sakura enjoyed Ino's shock at just sitting still in the relationship; for once.

"Uh...I guess I'll take your word for it. Thanks Sakura. I'll see you tonight at ten."

"Alright. See you then." Sakura hung up the phone and leaned back in her chair to stretch. She couldn't wait to get home for once.

In fact, she even picked up the phone and called Tsunade. "Hey. Yeah it went…well enough. Yeah, kids are always the hardest….Well, I was wondering…Could I, maybe, leave early today?" Sakura swore she heard Tsunade grin.

"I've been waiting for you to ask that for a while."

With a smile, Sakura hung up the phone and turned off her computer. She grabbed her papers, turned off her coffee machine and grabbed her coat, hit the lights.

Happily, she trotted out of her office and shut the door. "I'm leaving early." She nearly sang and she saw Sasuke look up from the computer.

"Whatever."

"Did Hinata show you what to do?" she asked and walked over to him. She blanched as she saw what he'd done. The documents on the screen were great; perfect even. "Ah, good job." She said, not wanting him to get too cocky.

"I'm going with the girls tonight. I won't be back until…um, I don't really know. But I got a day off tomorrow and I'm gonna drink!" she said, excited. "Then I guess whenever I wake up I'll take you to get some more clothes and food."

Sasuke looked and saw a little bit of the old Sakura as she'd become excited about her night. "Sure. It's your house you know."

"Of course it is. But you are going to be home to yourself for god knows how long. Maybe you should call Naruto? He'd be willing to take you somewhere fun."

At Sasuke's look, she smirked as she gave him a key to her house and the password to the condo. "Suit yourself then. I'll see you…mm, tomorrow morning some time."

As she walked out, hips swaying with her carefree excitement, he sighed and looked at the in-box and how full it was. God fucking damn it…He'd be there all night long.

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