Chapter 19: Trouble in the village
Sakura and Kiara were woken from a knock on the door, grumbling Kiara rolled out of her bed and opened the door. Behind the door was Ryu, with an older woman by his side. Kiara smiled at the woman and gave her a hug. While they were saying their good mornings Sakura wobbled out of her room while rubbing her eyes.
"Sakura-san, meet the head of the hospital and my mother Rika," Ryu introduced as Sakura began to wake up. Sakura's jade eyes then widen like she had finally had snapped out of a trance and extended her arm to say good-morning. The gang then head straight to the hospital where there was already breakfast. The breakfast was bacon and scramble eggs and Sakura enjoyed every bit of it. Kiara then turned to Ryu and asked, "So where is Naruto?" Ryu took a sip of his water then replied, "He and the Lord went out to meditate." Kiara groaned at his reply as Ryu juts nodded in agreement. Rika then began to laugh and said, "Those two just loves to meditate. They say it keeps them from stressing themselves." And that was the only subject they talked about the entire morning as Sakura just stayed quiet and listened. After breakfast it was time to work. Kiara's job was to take care of the infants, while Rika showed Sakura around the entire hospital. Ryu on the other hand decided to hang around the hospital as well since his training partner was out meditating.
The morning went by fast for them as they helped around the hospital. It was now break time for them and they were definitely enjoying the break. Ryu wanted to help out Kiara with the infants, but that took a turn for the worse, because he was now in a different set of clothes because his other ones were covered in puke. As for Kiara it was the high light of her day she just couldn't stop repeating the story to his mother and Sakura. What got them actually laughing was when Ryu mumbled gruffly, "I will never have children." As they were laughing someone barged in the room panting heavily and his eyes were wide in fear. Ryu stood up rapidly and asked him what was wrong.
"Dr. Netto is here!" he yelled as the rest of the hospital began to panic. Sakura turned to Kiara and her eyes were terrified. Her father was here and everyone is afraid of him? She then grabbed her arm and asked, "What is going on here? Why is everyone afraid of your dad? Why is he here?"
"My father is an obsessed scientist wanting to become ruler of all demons. He is here for the demon scroll."
"Well where is it? We have to go and protect it!"
"I don't know Naruto was the one who hid it. He said he kept it very hidden."
"Let's go get Naruto then and-
"No, we can't Naruto and Lord Kyubbi are meditating. When they meditate their minds are gone deep into their souls. No one can stop them, they do not hear, see, or feel anything. They will stop meditating when they are done," Ryu interrupted Sakura as he looked through the window trying to find Dr. Netto. "So the best thing we can do is just protect the village. Kiara you go to the south, Sakura the North and I will go to the east while the others will go and spread out everywhere else." They nodded then jumped out of the windows. Sakura was jumping from roof to roof when she saw demons fighting off against…robots? She swooped down to get a better look at them and confirmed it. Kiara said that he father was a scientist so he must of built these by hand, besides it has been three years ago. These robots were firing bullets, rockets and electrocuting the poor demons. Sakura was about to jump in until she heard a scream for help. Sakura ran towards where the scream was coming from and found Riku running away in her demon form. The man was in his fifties with gray hair and a devious grin and insane stare. He was in a metal like suit filled with many gadgets. It was pretty obvious who he was... Riku continued to run with tears were pouring down in fear. Sakura then jumped in front of Riku picked her up and jumped on top of a roof. Riku morphed back into her human form and wrapped her petite arms around Sakura's neck.
"Hey leave her alone!" Sakura ordered as she held her tightly. Then the man began to laugh hysterically and replied, "But dear she has something that belongs to me." This confused Sakura until she felt the cool metal of Riku's necklace on her collar bone. Naruto is the only one who knows where it is he said that he kept it very hidden. The scroll was in Riku's locket! Sakura then put Riku down and stood into a defensive position. Dr. Netto then laughed once again then shot out a kunai from his suit. Sakura picked Riku up and dodged the kunai. Sakura then set Riku down and whispered to her sternly, "Stay behind me." Riku nodded as Sakura s stood her ground. Dr. Netto smiled sinisterly and shot out another kunai, but at Riku. Sakura then turned her back on him and covered Riku. The kunai sank deeply into her leg.
"Sakura-Chan!" screamed Riku in fear, but all Sakura did was smile at her sweetly and whisper to her that she was fine. She took out the kunai and threw it right back at the demented inventor. It hit him directly at his shoulder, but did not faze him. Before she could blink he dashed right in front of her punched her right in the face. Then he grabbed her by the collar and hissed in her ear, "Too bad you can't be as strong as my daughter." He kicks her on her side with a sharp metal on the side of his metal foot and deeply wounded her. "You are too weak!" Sakura snarled at him and yelled out, "Is this weak?" She grabbed on to his wrist and broke the metal off. This did surprise Dr. Netto, but it also angered him and stuck another kunai on the other side of Sakura then threw her to the ground. Sakura then fell on her side and let out a painful gasp. Riku tried to walk up to her, but Sakura hissed telling her to stay back. Dr. Netto then began to snicker and pick Sakura up again by her neck.
"You know I can help you to become stronger. Wouldn't you like that? I bet you Naruto would, maybe that way you won't always fall behind."He began to grip her throat tighter and Sakura was losing her breath. She then fixed her eyes on his chest where it was completely unprotected besides the suit. Sakura then tightened her fist and put all of her chakra into her fist then slammed her entire fist into his chest. This caused him to let go of her neck and tumble backwards through a building. Dr. Netto then came out of the building with daggered eyes and fuming ears. For the first time in this fight Sakura actually got a bit scared. He began to walk towards her and as he walked his left arm began to spark brighter and brighter. He then stopped about a foot in front of her and aimed it and her face. Sakura stood still waiting for him to strike, thinking of a plan to get out before she could get it. At the last second Dr. Netto turned to Riku's direction and shot at her. What he shot was a huge lightning shaped like a circular blade rotating rapidly. Riku screamed in fear and closed her eyes, but nothing happened. She felt no pain. She opened her eyes and found Sakura's back in front of her. Drops of blood were coming from her abdomen and she fell on her knees.
"Sakura-Chan!" Riku yelled once again, but this time she knew Sakura wasn't fine. She hugged her tightly and began to cry. Dr. Netto then strolled towards her happily and yanked her necklace off her neck. At that moment Riku didn't care, all she cared about was that Sakura was hurt. Dr. Netto chuckled at the poor little demon and stated, "She is fine. See she is still breathing. Sakura is just tired. I will be on my way now." After that he left and Sakura began to stand up while wobbling. Riku gripped on to her tighter, but Sakura then crouched down once again to pick her up.
"Sakura-Chan what are you doing?" Riku asked frantically "You are hurt!" Sakura then smiled softly at her still wincing at the pain and replied, "Don't worry I am a medical ninja. I can heal myself, but I am taking you to the hospital its safe there." Riku nodded as Sakura limped to the hospital. Once they got to the hospital Sakura healed her stomach so she would stop bleeding and went back out to find Kiara or Ryu as Riku stayed with Rika so get checked out. Sakura looked around the village until she found Kiara sitting down against a wall panting in exhaustion and pain. Sakura then sat down as well a building away from her, but Kiara knew she was there and turned her head to smile.
"My father and his robots have retreated."
Sakura smiled back and closed her eyes wincing once more. As Sakura began to fall asleep she heard a faint voice calling out, "Kiara!" She opened her eyes and saw Naruto kneeling in front of Kiara.
"Aww what a cute couple," Sakura lightly jumped and saw Dr. Netto beside her with that sinister grin on his face. "Look at how Naruto cares about my daughter. Do you know why he cares about her so much? Because she is a stronger than you, you were the strongest girl he knew until he found Kiara." Sakura tensed as she looked back at them. She noticed the way Naruto was looking at her so intensely with care and worry.
"I can make you stronger Sakura. You know I can. I promise you if you come with me your life with turn out better. Naruto will love you again," he continued to persuaded her and as she continued to look at Kiara and Naruto she began to give in more and more.
"Think about it Sakura. If you do want to become stronger you can find me on top of the tallest mountain. I'll be waiting." Sakura knew that he left, but she continued to look at how Naruto was acting towards Kiara. Soon he saw a huge slash on her arm and hugged her whispering over and over that he was sorry that he wasn't there to help her. Sakura finally got tired of how he was showing how much he cared for Kiara and tried to stand up. Sadly, she began to make a lot of noise and Naruto looked up to see her. His eyes widen in fear at the sight of her. She was cut up badly everywhere and there was this huge blood stain in the middle of shirt. She was in a worse state than Kiara. Naruto stood up and dashed towards her, forgetting the fact that he was mad at her. The only thing he was thinking was every single wound that was on her.
"Sakura are you ok?" he asked as he placed his hand on her shoulder. Sakura didn't even look at him and shoved his hand off her shoulder.
"Go back to Kiara, I am fine. You don't need to worry about me," she sternly said as she began to wobble and held on to her stomach.
"No, Sakura let me help!" Naruto argued as he tried to pull her in, but she shoved him away and replied no once again. She was hurt and she didn't want Naruto to think that she was weak. Just look at how she was compared to Kiara. She was a mess, maybe Dr. Netto was right. Maybe Naruto did fall in love with Kiara because she was now the strongest person girl he has ever known. Sakura began to walk away from him again, but she then began to shake. The next second she coughed up some blood and fell on her knees clenching her stomach in pain. Both Kiara and Naruto ran to her side in fright. Sakura was coughing harder now and her abdomen began to bleed again. She could still feel the static running through her veins from the attack, it was painful. She coughed once more and fell unconscious, but before she fell to the ground Naruto had got her into an embracive hold.
"Naruto we have to get her to the hospital and fast! I think she needs to go into surgery." Kiara ordered as Naruto's heart stopped. The image of Sakura in the hospital bed for her heart surgery popped into his head and that gave him the motive to sprint towards the hospital. Whispering to the unconscious kounichi over and over, "Stay with me Sakura-Chan."