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Chapter 16: Never say Die

"His organs…are…gone completely missing." Sakura said in horror. 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.

After a couple minutes Lee came in with Gaara, and Naruto. Sakura explained what their theory was again and looked over at Gaara.

"Do you have any records of any sand members who had medical ablities?" He nodded but shook his head after, "It would make sense Sakura but the last time you were here, when I was taken, was the last time anyone new had entered." Sakura nodded and sighed.

"Sakura what about the doctor that was curing that No faced man?" Sakura looked up and looked at the body.

"The No face man?" Gaara, Naruto and Lee asked at the same time.

"It is possible we didn't have anything on him either yet he was here without any papers and worked in our hospitable." Sakura said resting her hand on hip her other rubbed her chin in thought."

"What about the other bodies?" Shikamaru asked Sakura who looked up and walked over to the other two and proceeded to do the same things with them.

(Sasuke)

"Your wounds seem to heal faster then we thought." Tsunade said rewrapping a harsh wound on his chest. She tugged tight making him wince and glare at her as she stood up right and marked her check up on Sakura's chart.

"You're lucky she is a good and through doctor I wouldn't be here to take care of you if you were still in horrible shape." She said Sasuke looked away from her. She left the room and shut the door behind her smiling wanting to laugh and walked away. Sasuke looked at the door and sighed closing his eyes and faced the window opening them again.

He was kind of hoping Sakura would have been back already…Tsunade wasn't so nice with wounds… not to mention he was under stick order by her to stay in bed. Oro would start to notice he was missing…then again it was his fault he was in this condition. He knew the technique was near impossible to pull back once it was created but he was fighting against his new pet and was forced to pull the massive amount of Chakra back into his on body.

He managed to hold back the inner blows till he reached the gates but beyond that his body caved and essentially exploded in weak points in his body. Chest, stomach, shoulders etc.

He clenched his fist tightly then swore reaching up and held his arms as the muscle became tight like a knots. He sighed and leaned back against the pillow.

(Sakura)

After searching the city again nothing turned up, anything but their own foot prints. Sakura was sitting at the entrance staring at the horizon as the sun began rise.

"I thought thinking up plans was my idea…" A voice behind her came. She turned and looked over at Shikamaru who came and sat besides her lighting a smoke and placed it loosely between his lips.

"You wouldn't have a plan would you?" She asked he took a long drag and shook his head slowly. "I can't think of a good safe one unless I have a little more information."

"That is where I am too." They were silent for a couple more minutes when Shikamaru spoke again.

"A jutsu?" Sakura looked up from the sandy ground and looked at him.

"Is there a Jutsu that would take the organs?" Sakura stood and grabbed her bag.

"Shikamaru stay here with the group and try to think of a plan to capture someone who goes after people. I will leave the details of how to do that to you. I need to go back to Konoha; Tsunade might have a book on a Old Jutsu the Anbu used to use to take the organs of those who pass away and their secrets to fuel another being. They thought it would replace on their kind if they replaced all the organs into another's body." Shikamaru rubbing his chin in thought.

"I will do my best," He said Sakura nodded clapping his shoulder. "Please be careful I will return as soon as I can. Digging up old files and books take time!" He nodded and Sakura smiled leaping off the edge to the sand and took off into the desert.

She made it to the village that night exhausted and weak. She went to Tsunade first only to find she wasn't in her office. Traveling to her favorite drinking hole she found out her master had retired early after several drinks with Ero-sensei. She sighed walking into the library careful to look around. Ever sense the last event that had happened last time in here she was weirded out to come in here alone at night.

Hours after digging through the books she found three thick and very worn books. She pulled them into her arms and headed to the hospitable to check on her favorite patient and to study.

She reached Sasuke room and walked in silently seeing he was asleep she made her way to the window setting up a low light and flicked it on, it was barely enough to light the are let alone the room. She walked over to the charts and smiled seeing Tsunade kept her promise even if she thought Sakura was being reckless. She made her way over to her spot and sat down and started to read the first book.

Turning the first frail page she read the words that were old and hard to understand, if she hadn't been trained in the medical area this would have been difficult to do.

She was up well past her body's capacity and ended up dozing off into slumber as the sun rose the fallowing day. Sasuke opened her eyes and raised a brow slightly spotting Sakura leaning back in her chair a book over her face another on her lap.

He smiled looking at the book covers and sat up getting up carefully making sure he wouldn't reopen anything he moved towards her slowly and removed the book from her face and looked at what she was reading and almost laughed. The Jutsu had never been perfected what was she doing reading this?

He removed the other and set it down on the window seat. He scooped her up ignoring the pain that was sent throughout his body and carried her to the bed setting heron the soft be and pushed her pink bangs from her face and covered her up then walked over to the window so he could watch the sin light outside.

Sakura didn't wake up till evening, it was already dark by that time and Tsunade had already been in several times to make sure the village fugitive hadn't bailed. She looked at the bed she was in then sat up quickly spotting Sasuke sitting in the moonlight.

"Sasuke!" She said he looked over and her, he looked dark and mysterious in the light that was shinning in, not like the normal Sasuke. Then again normally Sasuke wasn't wounded like he was now. She got out of bed and walked over to him touching his wound on his chest and smiled as he winced away from her.

"Sorry, making sure you are real." He sighed and looked out the window she sat across from him in the window pulling her legs up to her chest.

"Why are you reading these?" He asked pointing to the books.

"Oh, I haven't finished but I think I know how it works." He stared at her now waiting.

"Gaara has been having an issue with a good body count lately, bodies dropping out of thin air with no organs in them. I could have sworn there was a jutsu that allowed another to take them and put them in another body. The more I read the more concerned I got. If someone with that kind of power was taking bodies then they could already have an army, they could continue to make the army!"

"Oro." Sasuke said lowly she looked at him touching his leg he looked away from her to her hand gripping her fingers raising them to his lips kissing them softly.

"Sakura I don't want you messing with him again, let me handle him."

"Sasuke he can't know that your defending me, I wasn't the one who picked a fight with Oro last time I went after Kabuto, he is one I know who can bring this army alive. I didn't consider him till now."

"He maybe skilled but he isn't able to use a technique like that…" Sakura nodded.

"Any other potential vessels?" He looked at her like she had spoken a weird language.

"He always has others wandering around but their intact still, well were when I saw them last."

"I wasn't implying they were empty." She said winking then stood up.

"I need to get back to Shikamaru and the others I was hoping to get back sooner then this but it would appear I needed sleep." She leaned over to his face kissing his cheek then moved away.

"Wait." He said she turned back to him as he stood grabbing her arm. He pulled her willing body back to him and kissed her deeply full of need and longing. She wrapped her arms around his neck gently lest disturb his wounds. She broke the kiss but snuck one more before moving away.
"I need to save the world lover boy." He tucked her hair behind her ear then let her go. She walked towards the door hoping he would call her back so when he called her name again she turned.

"Then I suggest you be careful. For me Sakura don't do anything reckless." She smiled her heart swelling with joy that he wanted her to be safe. She nodded and headed out. Sasuke looked at the books beside him and sighed he would have to tell Tsunade to put them back now. He is going to look like he enjoys medical books now…

Well sorry this took so long and its short but well busy busy busy! SO I hope you enjoyed it I am sorry it took a couple days!

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