A/N: I need reviews to know if am doing this right… Anyways…I like Sakura so much, and I hope I'm doing her justice :)
"People are out, Here are the things you've requested, doctor." Naruto rushed to her side as he lends some things Sakura had requested. "This things were luckily at a convenience store, but...?"
"In certain cases of head injuries, we can't exactly move the body a lot…airway and ventilation must be prioritized first since major treatments for such injuries should be done in a hospital." She reaches for a book and then covered it in white cloth. "To regulate her breathing her head must be tilted at least 30 degrees." She puts it behind her head.
She retrieves the pen light and checked her pupils once more. "This is bad…"
"Huh? Why Doctor?"
"Epidural hematoma* could lead to cerebral hernia if I don't alleviate the blood accumulation immediately." Sakura palpated the bruise in her patient's head. "How long will the paramedics come?"
"Around one hour." A policeman said. "Some emergency came up as I've said, the other hospital's very far and it will take at least 45 minutes to make it here from there."
"I see…However, this can't hold on…She won't make it with that time." She glanced at the patient again and then held her wrist to feel her pulse. "Her pulse rate's dropping."
"Is there nothing we can do? Dattebayo!" Naruto asked exasperated. "We need her to uncover this mystery, we need to know if this is a homicide and she's the only one who can answer that."
"There is a way to save her." Sakura tensed. I can do that as a preliminary solution and that can make her hold up to an hour. "You'll need to get me a drill."
"W-what? D-drill? As in that tool that we use to put holes on hard surfaces?" Naruto asked, flabbergasted at Sakura's idea.
"Yes…I'll need to at least do a drain..." Sakura said "Cerebral herniation can be due to many things and can be treated by lowering the pressure on the skull, this is usually done by opening up her skull and removing some fragments but I can't do that here, however if worse comes to worst I'll need to do that." Sakura said as she reached for the things, though her eyes were on the patient.
She sees that the victim's breathing was getting irregular. "I need to hurry." Sakura looked through the things Naruto got, relieving pressure, huh… an iodine solution, saline, some micropore tape, liquid tramadol*, a turkey baster and a set of kitchen knives, This'll do.
She gets a white cloth, cuts a circle on it and then placed it above the head of the victim, then she chose from the set of knives, the slightly bigger one and then she gets the Iodine and splashed a generous amount on the side of the patient's head, She reached for the gloves. Sakura positions herself to make a cut on the victim until…
Naruto's hand held hers stopping her from her action. "W-what are you doing?"
"Officer, I am a doctor, I know what I'm doing." Sakura said with pride, if asked, she won't be happy to do this but she needs to save the victim, and right now time is against them. "Trust me." Naruto lets go.
"Are you sure this will help? Dattebayo."
"Yeah… At least this will prolong her life, if we wait for the paramedics, she might die." Sakura looked straight into Naruto's eyes and he nods, "Don't worry officer, I will not hinder any important evidence."
"Ok, Doctor."
Getting Naruto's approval, Sakura once again positioned herself on top of the patient and then made an incision, it was straight and a little amount of blood squirts out. Naruto watched as the incision was made carefully, "Officer please light up this area." A policeman went to light a flashlight to her side. "The drill?" her hand was held out and is commanding Naruto to give the drill. "You need to sterilize it thoroughly, splash it leisurely with the iodine and that will be enough for now, after all, it won't go in that deep anyway to cause internal infections."
Naruto breathes out and then did as Sakura instructed, he gives the drill to her and then she mentioned some of the officers to turn it on. Sakura held the drill and then directly plummets it on the incision she made. This isn't a medical drill so I should be careful not to put it deeper or else it will be game over for her, the adult skull is at least 2 cm* thick, so I need to drill that far.
Naruto and the other policemen watched as Sakura does the job with no hesitation and precisely, one officer puked when he saw Sakura do that, when she have made a hole, she requested the saline and then with the use of a turkey baster splashed it on the wound. "It's still shallow. Turn it on again."
"Ehhh? But you could get too deep, Dattebayo!" Naruto comments, and Sakura just raised an eyebrow at him.
"I won't, I know I won't." She stares at the one who was turning the drill again and gave a go signal, when the drill was on, she plunges in the wound again and then suddenly, blood spurts out.
"What the – " Naruto stood up.
"It's good, blood's coming out, basin!" Sakura bellowed and an assistant came with what she had asked for as a receptacle of the blood. Sakura looked at the victim, her breathing was stabilized, even Naruto saw the sudden change in her color. "She'll be fine now, I'll close her up."
Naruto watched in awe, he sees the victim's chest slowly rise and fall; Sakura secured the suture she made with some gauze and micropore tape, however she knows the patient's far from safe yet, however something bothers her, What could have been the reason for Kidney involvement…
When Sakura removed the white cloth, she decided to lift the victim's shirt. What in the world? This is…
The loud wail of the ambulance was heard, then a stretcher and some paramedics came out, they were all shocked when they saw the condition of the victim.
"Who made the first aid?" A paramedic asked.
"I did, I'm a doctor… She had epidural hematoma and I drained the blood before it causes cerebral hernia. " Sakura explained and told them some other details.
"Thank you sensei, If you will, can you come with us to the hospital? So that some detail regarding the operation can be explained thoroughly."
I really should've just went away…Sakura glanced at the victim, But I'm glad I was able to help her. "Yes, I will."
"Did you do the first aid, Doctor? It is actually well done…may I know who you are?"
"Sakura Haruno."
"That Dr. Haruno from Konoha University Medical Center?"
Sakura left the hospital remembering her conversations with some of the doctors in the hospital where the patient is sent, they all wanted to take her in when they knew she had resigned from KUMC, but of course, she's not interested, not anymore…
"Haruno-sensei?" She remembered that voice, she looked back and saw the blonde officer.
"Officer Naruto."
"Thank you for helping us, Dattebayo." He gave her thumbs up, and Sakura smiled at him. "However… after this…I'm afraid she'll end up in jail." Sakura looked at him, wide eyed.
"What? Why?"
"The victim, her husband, when lifted, it was found out that he was stabbed in the chest. Some clues were also found regarding the nature of the fall, also we have talked to witnesses, I can't really divulge everything to some citizens, so that's the extent of what I can tell."
"You gotta be kidding me, are you saying she pushed him? That is not possible." Sakura protested. We fell when he was trying to embrace me… That's what Sakura remembered.
"We'll work on that, like you…I'm trying to prove her innocence, dattebayo."
"But I saw some bruises on her trunk and some parts lower, I think she's suffering from marital abuse." Sakura said, "You can ask for tests, I think he's beating her for a long time because it went to the extent that there is presence of Kidney injuries."
"Well…If that's what you think…I can probably include you as a witness, tomorrow we'll talk to her husband's relative, I'll tell you some details at the police office."
"Ok." Sakura said and Naruto nods.
"Well…" Naruto scratched the back of his neck. "It's late, we'll take you home."
"No worries, I'm close by, I just live at Baka street."
"Really? It's close but, its still late and you helped us save a person, so we'll take you home." Naruto insisted.
"I don't really want to be a bother…"
"You're not."Naruto cuts her speech, Sakura sighed seeing she can't do anything, she agreed. "Haruno-sensei…"
"Sakura's fine." She grinned.
"Ohhh…Can I call you Sakura-chan, then?" Talk about overly friendly…
Sakura visited the victim, however she wasn't really allowed inside since she's still in ICU, she knew that her name is Moyano Kiyoko*, Sakura also noticed that a handcuffed was already placed in her hand and the bed rail.
"Sasori…Don't give up on me!"
"I really love you, Sakura…I'm so sorry…" Her white lacy gloves were now full of red stain, she was holding his wound but it won't stop pouring the red liquid, people in the church were all panicking and ambulance is not coming…
"At least I was able to tell you my vow…"
Sakura stared at the glass window and then wiped the tear from her eye. Am I doing the right thing…Sasori?
"Heh, so you're here Dattebayo." Naruto was behind her, she was surprised, after all they were supposed to meet at the police quarters. "We've talked to the family. I also got the reports from the doctors."
"Ok…?"
"It's bad… everything's leading to her, that's why they placed the handcuffs already." Naruto sighed. "I'm still an assistant so I can't probe in unless my superior instructs me, but I hate this type of cases where all evidence were pinning on one suspect."
I heard such things happens…where a homicide is being pin on one person whether or not he/she's the real culprit…Moyano-san, didn't look like that, but you can't really say…But it will be bad if her side won't be heard…I really need to know what caused those bruises. "I'll need to talk to the neurosurgeon who examined her, I just need to know something."
"Ok…I'll come with you for the records."
The two of them went to the neurosurgeon's office and asked about Moyano's case, the Surgeon showed CT scans, blood tests and X-rays. Sakura placed them on the light.
"Dr. Haruno, it is a pleasure meeting with you." The surgeon extends a hand which Sakura accepted. "It really is an honor to be working with a world renowned doctor."
"World renowned?" Naruto stared at Sakura, a surprise expression marred in his face.
"Ahh, yes…she was one of the selected internationally credited trauma surgeons, also she wrote some studies and researches regarding emergency medicine and general surgery, she's really famous in the medical world…"
"Really?" Naruto looked at her dubiously and Sakura brushed him off and points the spot she saw to the surgeon.
"This looked like a hematoma that's incompletely healed, see that on the temporal area." She taps the spot again.
"Oh yes, but that's probably due to her fall. After all, you can have multiple concussions in that type of fall."
"I don't think this was made the same time as that…this whitish part." She points at a blurry part. "This are probably glial cells that are acting on that hematoma, it means that repair is already happening, meaning she acquired this before that fall, so this is a possible case of…"
"Are you sure, sensei? But a case like that happens rarely and mostly on athletes."
"W-what case?" Naruto asked looking at both doctors.
"Second Impact syndrome…It's just a probability because we still need to hear a history from the patient." Sakura answered. "SIS happens when a second head injury happened with the first one not being healed yet, it rarely happens and at most cases causes death immediately."
"It's a good thing you acted fast, Haruno-sensei"
However, if SIS is possible…then the theory of Marital abuse is also possible, Sakura glanced at Naruto who's looking more grieved. "What's the problem, Officer Naruto?"
"Ahhh…well…I can't really understand, hehehe." Naruto scratched the back of his head. "All this medical stuffs getting into me, it's like Chinese…"
Sakura face palmed, she already explained in simple terms. Idiot… The two of them walked out of the Neurosurgeon's office. "Naruto…when you asked the relatives of the husband… may I know what they said?"
"The Moyano's are about to divorce." Sakura was surprised to hear that. "They say that Moyano Kiyoko-san doesn't want to divorce her husband but he was insistent because he doesn't love her anymore."
"T-that's harsh…and then?"
"Well, according to witnesses they were fighting really loud last night, and then they fell, the neighbour across them said that a woman was pushing him…"
"Pushing? Then how come they both fell?"
"Ahhh…that's what bothers me too, Sakura-san." Naruto sighed. "But Detective Nagato said something about the man pulling her also because of the stabbing, so they both fell."
"Have you seen the autopsy reports? I mean if he pulled her it will be possible for him to exchange their positions…or else, he could've been dead or unconscious even before he fell."
"That would really depend on the autopsy report…"
Suddenly they saw nurses running towards the ICU. Sakura and Naruto hurried too, in case that was Moyano-san, which really is. She has woken up and she was now panicking because of the handcuffs. She was given some tranqs, her doctor also gave permission to transfer her to a normal room now.
When she was transferred police were already guarding the room, Sakura was not allowed at first but Naruto showed an ID and takes Sakura along.
"Moyano-san…" Naruto said and the victim eyed at him.
"Officer…what is the meaning of this…" Slowly and weakly she raises her right arm, that was cuffed. "Where's my husband?"
"Mr. Moyano is dead."
"What?! No…No…No!" She cried and was trying to lunge forward but she was restrained. "You're kidding me! Where is he?!"
"He is dead." Naruto said again. "And you are arrested for the murder of Mr. Moyano…" He added the police mantra regarding silence and obtaining lawyers…" Right now, you are on hospital arrest until you are ready for trial."
"What? I didn't kill him! I love him, how can I do that?!"
"Stop this nonsense!" all fell silent when a red haired male goes inside the room. "We all know what you did."
"Inspector Nagato." Naruto said and Sakura stared at him.
"He's already filing for divorce… and also…We've just confirmed that he has another lover."
"No you're wrong!" Moyano cried. "I love him that's why I can't let him go…I love him despite him…" she didn't continue but Sakura was itching to hear it from her Was he hitting her?
"You stabbed him."
"No…I didn't…that was…"
"All your fingerprints were in that weapon." Nagato then adds. "A witness told us that you were pushing him, when you deliberately told us he was trying to embrace you…"
"But…" Moyano turned silent and she looked away.
"Once you get out of here a trial awaits you." Nagato said before he left, Naruto and Sakura went out of the room.
"That is insolent…" Sakura muttered. "She loved him and yet, he looked for another woman…I know for sure he's also hitting her."
"Well…everything's leading to her."
"Is that it? You won't extrapolate further?" Sakura asked angrily.
"You see… that's what I'm telling you...Ahhh!" Naruto suddenly exclaimed something. "In cases like this, I usually ask a friend of mine to help me."
"Ohhh? Is he a police detective too?"
"Ahhh…He's a chemical engineer…"
"Huh?" Sakura whacks him in the head. "How can he help us?!" suddenly Sakura realized, I hit a police officer!
"Owww… Well…he's a genius and believe it or not, he's already helped the police in many cases, but he prefers anonymity, so you won't know him. He lives in the same building as you actually."
"What?"
"Room 22?" This is the room of that pineapple haired guy…Sakura thought. Naruto knocked five times with a weird pattern.
"Oi…it's me, Naruto!"
"Naruto…Don't bother me!" She heard someone inside.
"I have a very important case! I need your help." Naruto yelled.
"I don't do that anymore!"
"Come on, dattebayo!" Naruto bellowed. "Some innocent woman's gonna face the consequence if you don't help me. Puhlease….." Sakura wants to laugh at Naruto's childish demeanor but she decided to remain professional about it, As if that will work… However, she was surprised when she heard the door unlock.
"Troublesome…" suddenly the lazy looking, pineapple haired guy appeared and slightly opens the door.
"Hehe." Naruto grinned and the lazy guy slouched and sighed then he glanced at Sakura, questioningly. "Oh yeah, she's Doctor Sakura Haruno, a world renown doctor."
"Naruto…" Sakura hated being called that.
"Sakura Haruno, Konoha University's Angel of the ER." The lazy guy said that slowly that caused her to glare more, that's the nickname she hated the most.
"Sakura-chan…He's Shikamaru Nara."
* Diagnosis of Epidural Hematoma is possible in hospital with proper imaging techniques however, in some cases with doctors who developed a technique called 'Clinical eye' just visually examining patients will tell them what he/she suffers (this skill is rare in younger doctors but oh well... Sakura's gonna have it here.)
A/N: some are facts and some are physics defying things hahaha, its hard to describe the full crime scene so I'm encouraging active imaginations from you…thank you this have some of CB DH touches (if you knew that Jdorama)