Title: Healing
Hands
Challenge: Healing Hands
Un-Bonuses: No
blonds, green, water, or noodles.
Words: 200
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Sakura is a med-nin; she is her team's healer. She counts each pulse of blood through the artery in Naruto's neck, measures the expansion of Sai's lungs every time he breathes, and imagines the artery cut, the lung pierced. This is normal, she tells herself as she mentally performs the repairs, her hands half-forming the positions of the healing-jutsu. I can't be unprepared.
What is not normal, Sakura is sure, is imagining causing that damage. She punches Sai when he insults Sasuke, but it would be easy (so easy, her mind whispers) to extend her chakra as her fist connects and cause his brain to swell and press against his skull. No one expects an attack from their healer. The thought repulses her almost as soon as she has it. She doesn't hit him again.
Team 7 returns from their mission and Sakura goes straight to the Hokage's office. She's still not ready, she says. But Tsunade shakes her head and tells Sakura that this, like everything in else, has a hidden meaning. When Sakura doesn't understand, Tsunade smiles sadly and says she failed Orochimaru long before he betrayed her.
Sakura is a med-nin, and she is her team's control.