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Note: In later chapters that will be marked the rating will be rated R but for now is just Mature.

Another NOTE: PLEASE READ this is taking place WHILE Sasuke is still with ORO in that time setting.

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Sorry this has taken me so long…. I am going to start this up again!

Chapter 15: I need you alive.

"Sakura?" A voice came a little distant. Sakura lifted her head from the bed and looked around her a little disoriented. She looked at Sasuke then over at the nurse who called her from the door way.

"I brought you some food." She said Sakura nodded and stood unlinking her hand with Sasuke's and walked towards the nurse.

"Naruto is also here…he has been injured and requested you I told him…that you were busy."

"I will take care of it thank you." She said the nurse nodded and she walked to the side setting the food down and felt her eyes well to the brim as she touched Sasuke soft pale skin and sniffed and smiled.

"I remember when you told Naruto not to be a cry baby and here I am…crying…I am so sick of crying…" She said closing her eyes and stood up right and headed to the door.

"I will be right back." She said then made her way from the room and headed toward Naruto's room. "What did you do?" Sakura asked smiling but a tear slipped in the process he caught it but didn't say anything as she made her way over to him.

"Well in the process of running towards Hinata… I fell into the pond at her families place and then continued to fly off the rocky side to a cliff like backyard and well I guess that explains why my leg is wounded and arm is broken.

"Well I can't heal your broken arm…and the leg well I don't have the strength right now to do it, but if you can wait a few hours I will eat something and get some sleep.

"Sakura…I am here because I can see you as my friend not really as my doctor, plus Hinita thinks I should stay inside for a couple days, I guess her dad took the news pretty bad."

"About you falling in?"

"No about me asking her to marry me." Sakura smiled and nodded. "That is- great news Naruto" She said then nodded.

"Well when Sasuke wakes up I will have them bring you into his room you two should talk." She said Naruto looked at her and she giggled and shook her head.

"He was your best friend I figured you two should talk and not just fight."
"We will see" He said she nodded and walked to the door. "Really Naruto it's great that you asked her to marry you."

She walked down the hallway and headed inside Sasuke's room again and sat down in her chair picked up his hand and leaned on her free hand and watched him. She was half expecting him to wake up and say something like 'stop staring' or something unlike him. She hasn't been in this position before so who know what he would say.

Three hours passed…

Five hours passed…

Ten hours passed…

"Sakura why don't you go home freshen up I will keep an eye on him." Ino said as she sat there reading a book to keep Sakura sane in this small room.

"I am okay I left an hour ago to take a shower…" She rasped her throat dry from not talking.

"Well I should be getting back, I need to make sure Shikamaru is okay with the baby."

"Yeah thanks for the reading too." Ino smiled and left the book behind for her.

Ino left and Sakura waited till she left to start reading it was only a few minutes before she was reading to Sasuke aloud hoping it might bring him back to her.

It didn't.

A day…

Two days…

Three days…

One week…

Sakura was fast asleep again her pink stands of hair slid to her face as the sun started to go down again. Her rhythmic breathing was calming to Tsunade watching from the door. She silently shut the door and smiled walking towards Naruto's door and walked inside.

"She is sleeping so I didn't want to wake her up" Naruto nodded and Hinata looked at Naruto and smiled he was worried about her.

(Sakura)

"Sasuke!" Sakura yelled running towards him he seemed to grow farther and farther away from her as she continued to run.

"Sasuke!" She cried once again running as fast as she could her limbs growing tired and starting to give out. She was almost there but she stopped coming face to face with Oro.

"He is mine! I wont give him up!" he laughed running a blade through her chest pushing her backwards and she was falling into a black pit of darkness.

Sakura gasped and looked around but her hand was gripped tighter as she tried to calm her breathing. She turned and looked over at Sasuke who gave her a small smile and she took a deep breath of relieved that he was awake and what she had just seen was a dream.

"How are you feeling?" She asked he took a breath hesitantly and closed his eyes for a moment. "I have felt better…" he said lowly.

"Want to talk about why you would do these things to scare me?" she asked he reached up but winced and his arm fell back to the bed. Her eyes filled with tears but she wiped them away and reached down to his hand raising it up to her face and pressed it to her cheek.

"Don't cry," He said coughing and sighed closing his eyes.

"Why?" She whimpered trying to control herself.

"I hate to see you sad, it makes me think I have hurt you…" He said. She shook her head when he opened his eyes.

"These aren't those tears, these are tears of happiness that you are one: alive and two: are in decent good spirits." He chuckled a bit but stopped and went silent.

"Sakura…" She stood up leaning over him looking at his charts but felt his hands searching for hers again.

"Hang on…" She said pressing the morphine button and smiled.

"Go to sleep Sasuke, I will be here no matter what." He nodded and she crawled into the bed with him careful to avoid his wounds rested beside him and snuggled against his shoulder his hand slid to her thigh where it resided through the night.

(Mission abjection: Fast, quick and deadly)

"It's a little odd that you are here Sakura I figured you would stay at the hospitable with Sasuke!"

"I did too to be honest! I was told I had to leave."

"Tsunade?" Shikamaru asked Sakura laughed and flipped to the side to another branch.

"I was ordered by another party!" She said Ino laughed and leapt over to the side landing on the matching branches with Sakura.

"Sasuke told you to leave; hard to believe seeing how you're his doctor!" Ino said lowly.

"He said it would be good for me to do something other then worry about him! He is being a baby." Sakura said then landed gracefully in the sad and looked at Ino and Lee who landed beside her then looked at Shikamaru who landed beside Ino.

"So mommy sent you out for some exercise? You are getting fat?" Ino asked Sakura laughed and shook her head and together they started into sand village to meet up with Naruto and Gaara.

(Sand village)

"Relics have been taken?" Ino asked crossing her slender legs Shikamaru was leaning against the wall behind her watching the group.

"Yes, we had recently discovered them but… we weren't able to discover what they were for before they suddenly went missing. I bother me that someone would go so far, not to mention…how they even got into this village makes me concerned even more."

"So you asked for Naruto to come out and help out but why the team?" Shikamaru asked Naruto leaned on the table looking at Gaara who sighed his dark eyes closing for a minute before reopening.

"Three men have died already. Each night another is murdered. We don't have enough resource to pull a search team and keep the people here safe. We are stretched thin as it is!" he said lowly then stood from his chair.

"We recently took a good hit from the south fighting with the latest enemies of Konoha, but they seemed to think we are you. I hate to admit we are a little over our heads right now."

"We are glade to help you out." Shikamaru said Gaara nodded and rubbed his forehead.

"We do appreciate it." He said the all nodded and fallowed him out.

(night)

"What do you think is doing it?" Lee asked looking over to the side as Sakura and him walked through the village streets.

"I don't know it sounds off, not on our side but theirs, I don't know. Why would they want something unless they would have a way to get it out of the village?" Sakura asked.

"We are headed up east block." Lee said into his com around his neck.

"We are near the west wall." Naruto and Gaara's said then nothing from Ino and Shikamaru.

"Shikamaru?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah, sorry we found something over here on the went end at the main entrance, head over here."

The crew headed over meeting Ino and Shikamaru who were still examining something and looked up when the group arrived.

"Three bodies were killed while we were over here… nothing not even foot prints were left behind…we talked to these men not four minutes ago!" Ino said Shikamaru bent down to their level and looked at the blood which bubbled with a yellowish color.

"I will take a sample of this, see what I can find out." Sakura said bending down beside Shikamaru who was examining the body. "You know when I take a look at what happened to the body if your not squeamish a fresh pair of eyes would be beneficial." Sakura said to Shikamaru who looked at her then nodded. Ino looked at the body and bent down pulling a black thin sheet of what looked like burnt paper from the man's vest.

"Sakura doesn't this look like that seal from this corner up?" Ino asked Sakura looked at her tilting her head slightly and finished tying the bag around the man to carry him back. Three other medical Nin had just arrived.

"Gaara has a weird about of unsolvable cases come up around here?" He shook his head.

"Not until recently with the ruins missing." He said lowly Sakura nodded and they all headed back.

Little did they know that standing in the shadows behind them a set of cruel brown eyes watched them depart. Jackson walked from the shadows and dusted his hands off and smiled moving away from the shadow and went off into the night.

(( momentary pause for explanation: The man just mentions "Jackson" is the man who joined Oro and Sasuke in the last couple chapters I couldn't remember if I named him something else and I am a lazy person by heart so I didn't check JACKSON is his name or new name))

"Well according to the reading this is the seal, but it is changed, different then the first ones." Ino said walking into the room with Shikamaru looking through the clothing and Sakura examining to body.

"How so?" Sakura asked without looking up.

"It would seem it is twisted into a whole new…thing, it does the same thing for the purpose of an argument but it is fast reacting not slow like the strand we had in Konoha." Sakura nodded and spread the skin she had just cut where the yellow ooze was secreting from.

"His organs…are…gone completely missing." She said Ino and Shikamaru looked up and came over as she continued to spread the skin which was like rubber in the sun too long. It too was melting.

"Where are they?" Shikamaru asked.

"Did they melt?" Ino asked looking around.

"No they were taken…stripped look at this." She said pointing to the ends of the heart tubs which should have been feeding into the heart's valves.

"This looks like they were cut, severed straight from their place." She stood back for a minute looked at her friends. "This man was still walking when you talked to him their body parts couldn't have functioned without the vital organs like heart, lungs, stomach etc. He would have been dead underground."

"Four minutes isn't enough time?" Shikamaru asked.

"If I had an open body like this I could remove them all clean in a fifteen minute period maybe more depending on the chakra flow of the body and muscle mass. But this," she shook her head, "would be impossible to do." They all looked at each other in horror and then looked back to the body.

Something was killing people without them knowing what was happening to them.

Tada I am here with the lovely chapter for you! Enjoy my twisted little games and horribly weird events!

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