" Come Together"

Chapter 13 " Something In The Way"

Sakura opened her eyes the next mourning and shut her eyes again in an instant. Something wasn't right. All of the sudden she had the urge to throw up and she quickly got up from her bed and began to walk out of her room and into the bathroom and quietly closed the door behind her.

Naruto woke up from his peaceful sleep with a huge hangover that made him awaken. He looked to his side and saw Hinata resting comfortably next to him and smiled at her precious face but then all of the sudden, he needed to use to bathroom, really badly. He got out of bed in only his yellow shirt and boxers and walked over to his door. His mind was still a little hazy from the night before so he wasn't in the right mind frame. He opened up his door and walked a few feet to the bathroom. He noticed it was closed but he wasn't thinking right and he needed to use the restroom right then and there so he opened up the door and began to walk in when he saw Sakura laying on the ground, with blood everywhere on the floor.

" Sakura?" Naruto asked softly in a state of shock when his friend lifted her head and looked at his for a second, only to have her head returned to the floor and blood gushing out of her mouth.

" Sakura!" Naruto yelled out as he rushed to her and got a towel and tried to wipe the blood off of her mouth but she kept throwing up more blood.

Sasuke suddenly opened his his eyes when he heard Naruto's voice yelling out Sakura's name. He sat up and noticed that the bathroom light was on and the door was opened. He quickly got up from the couch and walked towards the bathroom. When he got there, his heart sanked when he saw Naruto holding onto Sakura's body while blood was surrounding them.

" Naruto, what's wrong with Sakura?" Sasuke asked in a panic as he went into the bathroom and kneeled next to Sakura.

" I don't know. She won't stop throwing up blood."

Naruto said with tears coming down his face. He was scared, he had never been in this situation before and the urge to use the bathroom had faded the moment he saw her.

" We should take her to the hospital."

A female voice was heard and both males turn their heads and saw Hinata standing by the doorway. She was also woken up by Naruto's yelling and had crawled out of bed to see what was going on outside of the bedroom.

" You are right Hinata, Sasuke do you think you could carry her?"

Naruto asked and saw his friend nod his head and picked up Sakura and the three walked out of the apartment. They reached Naruto's yellow car and Naruto got into the driver's seat with Hinata on the passenger's side while Sasuke got in the back with Sakura, having his arms cradle around her. Naruto started the car and started to drive to the hospital. While Naruto used his cell phone to get in touch with Sai, Sasuke was comforting Sakura in the back with his arm wrapped around her shoulder and her head laying against his chest while her half open eyes was looking out the window.

" Sasuke."

Sasuke looked down at the pink hair girl who softly spoke his name looking up at him with her sick looking eyes. The site alone made his heart crack a little bit. They had finally became friends again but something had to get in the way. Why now out of all times and he wanted to know if what she said last night she was serious or was it the alcohol talking. But the conversation about what they were was going to wait until this mess was over.

" Sakura... it'll be okay. We are almost there at the hospital."

Sasuke said as he picked up his other hand and gently started combing through her hair with his fingers. Her pink hair felt like silk to his hand. He watched her as she closed her eyes and sigh peacefully, knowing that his action was calming her. She opened her eyes up a moment later and gave Sasuke a weak smile while he was still looking down at her.

" Sasuke... I" Sakura began to speak but was cut off when one of Sasuke's fingers was gently placed infront of her mouth, causing her to stop talking.

" Don't talk, you need to save your strength." Sasuke told her as he removed his finger and stroked one of her cheeks with his hand, causing her to close her eyes again. Sasuke averted his eyes from the girl he adored so much and looked ahead of him and noticed Naruto hanging up his cell phone as he turned into the hospital's parking lot.

" Dobe, did you get a hold of Sai?" Sasuke asked.

" No but." Naruto was cut off by his ring tone and looked down and saw it was Sai calling him back so he picked it up immediately.

" Sai!" Naruto yelled out into the phone.

" Dickless not so loud, did you call me?"

" Yeah you need to come to the hospital right now! Somethings wrong with Sakura!"

" What? What's wrong with Sakura?"

" I don't know, I woke up this mourning and found her in our bathroom throwing up blood everywhere."

" Fuck! Where are you?"

" We just got to the hospital so you need to get your ass over here now."

Naruto said as he then closed his phone without saying goodbye and parked his car. Naruto and Hinata rushed out of their seats while Sasuke got out of the car and carried Sakura in his arms as they quickly went into the hospital. They got inside the hospital and one of the regular nurses immediately saw Sakura's body and rushed over to the teens.

" Oh my god. What's wrong with Sakura? Liza, contact Dr. Tsunada immediately." The nurse said as the other nurse called for Dr. Tsunada. Naruto went over to the desk with Hinata to fill out information while Sasuke explained to the nurse what had happened with Sakura. Within a few moments later, Tsunada among with two nurses with her and a stretcher ran over to where everyone was. Tsunada saw Sakura in Sasuke's arms and went to them immediately.

" We have no time, Sasuke, please put Sakura down on the stretcher. We have to get her in the emergency room immediately." Tsunada ordered the male and he nodded his head in response and carefully put the female down then watched Tsunada and the other nurses run off with Sakura's body without saying anything else to anyone.

' Sakura... please be okay... don't leave me...'Sasuke thought to himself but then he suddenly heard another voice that snapped him back to reality.

" Dickless!"

A voice was called out and everyone turned their heads to see Sai rushing towards them.

" Sai, they already took Sakura into surgery." Naruto told his friend as he nodded in response and Sai went to take a seat beside Sasuke.

" Do they know what's wrong with her?" Sai asked.

" No, they haven't told us anything yet. God I swear if anything happens to her I'm going to destroy this place!"

Naruto yelled out and Hinata patted his back for comfort. She knew they were close and it hurt him seeing her like this whenever she got sick. Hinata raised her head and noticed one of Tsunada's nurses who was with her when they took Sakura was coming towards them.

" Excuse me, you guys are here for Ms. Haruno?" The nurse asked and everyone around her nodded their head.

" We have an emergency here, she had lost a lot of blood and she needs a blood transfusion as soon as possible. By any chance is any of you have the blood type O?"

Right after Sasuke heard the nurse he closed his eyes up, hating to hear that the girl he cared for was losing too much blood but when he heard her mentioning blood type O and a blood transfusion, he opened up his eyes again and stood up immediately, causing everyone around him to stare.

" I have blood type O. Tell me what I need to do." Sasuke demanded in a cold tone of voice, he didn't mean to it was just he was too upset over Sakura to care about anything else.

" Right, follow me sir." The nurse said and walked away from the scene with Sasuke following her while the others stayed by the waiting room.

" Shit did you hear the nurse? Sakura lost a lot of blood! That means she could die!" Naruto said.

" Naruto, calm down... Sasuke has her blood type so hopefully they can save her in time." Hinata said while still comforting her boyfriend.

" Hinata is right dickless, don't give up hope on Sakura, she is a very strong girl and will get through this." Sai said as he glanced to where Sasuke and the nurse had vanished to.

" Oh by the way... did the plan work of getting Sakura and Sasuke getting back to talking to eachother again?" Sai asked as he raised an eyebrow towards Naruto.

" Oh yeah I completely forgot about it! Well... I don't remember I got so drunk last night I completely forgot the whole thing." Naruto said while laughing to himself while placing his hand on the back of his head.

" I think it went pretty well, when we came out of the club last night, they were holding each other and he slept over at the house last night." Hinata explained to Sai since she remembered what had happen because she usually doesn't drink that much.

" Sweet hopefully thoses two made up. They really are good for eachother. I haven't seen Sakura that happy whenever she was with him for a long time." Sai said and Hinata agreed.

" What? Sakura is happy whenever she is in my company." Naruto began to whine.

" Not that happy dickless." Sai stated causing Naruto to bow his head in disapointment.

" Well at least I make Hinata happy." Naruto said as he wrapped his arm around Hinata and she gave him a kiss on the cheek, agreeing with him.

The nurse lead Sasuke in a small room where he sat on a stool, watching the nurse take out her supplies so she could get his blood.

" How's Sakura doing?" Sasuke finally spoke up which cause the nurse to jump slightly and looked over to him then shifted her eyes to the ground and shook her head.

" Not good, she lost way too much blood. If it wasn't for you, she definitely wouldn't make it. We have been short of supply for blood lately and we don't have any blood type O since it's so rare so if we go to another hospital for a transfusion, we wouldn't be able to make it back in time."

The nurse explained as she put her gloves on and prepared Sasuke's arm.

" Do you know why she was losing all of that blood?" Sasuke asked.

" Well Dr. Tsunada thinks she wasn't taking her pills that she is supposed to and she was suppose to have a check up on Thursday but she never showed up, which is probably the reason why her body is falling apart right now. Her monthly check up consists of tests and injections so that her body will continue to work properly. If she doesn't get her treatment then her body slowly falls apart and her not taking her pills caused her immune system to shut down."

The nurse said as she began to inject the needle into Sasuke's arm, taking out his blood. Sasuke looked down at his arm while remembering the first time he ever met the pink haired girl.

Flashback

It was a Monday mourning and Sasuke walked towards his locker when he noticed a girl with long pink hair was standing next to his locker, fixing up her own locker. He got to his locker and started opening it up but couldn't help but keep glancing at the girl who was standing beside him, not even caring that he was in her presence.

' What's with her? I haven't seen her around here before. I guess she's new. But why isn't she drooling over me

like all the other girls?'

Sasuke thought as his eyes shifted back to his own locker when he heard her locker door being closed and looked back to her direction and noticed her looking through her things while he noticed a group of girls walking over to him.

" Hi Sasuke!" Ashley said in a cheerful tone of voice.

" Sasuke, you look so hot today!" Another girl yelled out.

Sasuke hated fan girls and completely ignored them and looked around and noticed the pink haired girl had walked off to her first class of the day but couldn't help but keep his eyes on her back as she walked away.

When the nurse was done taking his blood, he got up from the stool and walked out of the room with her.

" Sasuke, you can go back to where your friends are in the waiting room while I give theses to Dr. Tsunada, she will come talk to you all when she gets a chance to."

The nurse said and walked quickly to where Sakura was at leaving Sasuke behind. Sasuke couldn't help but follow the nurse when she was out of sight. He just had to see where they had taken Sakura and he wanted to see her so badly. He quietly followed the way the nurse had went and finally saw her going into another room. Sasuke walked up to the door and saw Sakura's body laying on the table with doctors and nurses surrounding her. He couldn't really tell what was going on but when he looked up at Sakura's face, he couldn't help himself but pushed himself away from the door and walked away back where everyone else was waiting for her.

Naruto and the others were sitting down waiting for any news to come back when they saw Sasuke approach them.

" Sasuke! I'm so glad you came back. Did you hear any information about Sakura?"

Naruto asked in concern but noticed Sasuke's bangs were covering his eyes with his head down and he took a seat away from everyone else and put his face in his hands and started to cry. Sasuke was even freaked out because the last time and only other time he had ever cried was when his parents were killed. Ever since then he buried all his feelings and wanted to feel no emotions but ever since he met Sakura, all of his emotions came flooding back to him. He hated it. He hated how he was able to feel again but he would rather feel pain and be with the woman he loves then nothing at all.

" Teme answer me! You do know something about Sakura don't you?" Naruto yelled out and stood up with anger. He had never seen this side of Sasuke before. For all of the times he had known him, he was the kind of person that didn't have emotions so seeing his best friend cry made him extremely nervous. He knew something bad must had happened.

" The nurse doesn't know if she is going to make it!" Sasuke yelled out as he took his face from his hands and glared at Naruto with the most evil look that he had with tears still coming out of his eyes.

" She is still alive right?" Hinata asked Sasuke and watched him nod his head in response.

" Yeah but I followed the nurse after she took my blood and I saw Sakura in the emergency room, her face... her face looked so lifeless." Sasuke said as he wiped the tears off his face with his arms.

" But she is alive so don't give up on her." Sai said as he watched Sasuke turned his head and looked at him but then put his head back down to his hands.

" I'm going to go call the others and let them know what's going on, I'll be right back."

Hinata said as she got up from her seat and gave her boyfriend who was still standing up a peck on the cheek then left the room. Naruto sat back down and gave out a heavy sigh.

" Sai you seem pretty calm in a situation like this. It feels like you have been through this before."

Naruto said in a calming voice and looked over at Sai and was expecting him to respond to his remark but instead he saw Sai lower his head like he was hiding something.

" Sai?" Naruto asked but he still got no response from his roommate. He was going to start asking him again as he heard someone walking towards the group and looked up to see Tsunada walking up to them.

" Dr. Tsunada, how is Sakura doing?" Sai asked as he got up from his seat and walked up to the doctor. Sasuke lifted up his head to look at the doctor while Naruto stayed in his seat, all three of them waiting for her reply.

" She is stable at the moment but that can change at anytime. Sasuke I greatly appreciate all that you have done. If if wasn't for you, she wouldn't be alive right now."

Tsunada said as she glanced over at the raven hair boy and he nodded in response. She could tell that Sakura was important to him, he had stopped crying but she could tell that was what he was doing before she showed up.

" Now with that being said, Sai had she been taking her pills like she was suppose to?" Tsunada asked him and he sighed.

" I don't think she was taking them this week." Sai confessed but then was slapped in the face by no one other than the doctor, which shocked Sasuke and Naruto.

" Sai you know what happens to Sakura when she doesn't take her medicine. It was bad enough that she skipped out on her check up appointment but you were the one who was suppose to make sure she takes her medicine! Did you think it was going to be different from last time?" Tsunada yelled out as Sai lowered his head.

" Dr. Tsunada, what do you mean by last time?" Naruto asked.

" I think Sai should be the one to explain that, I have to go back and check up on our princess but you guys can ether leave or stay here." Tsunada said as she walked away from the three boys. Sasuke stayed in his seat and looked up at Sai while Naruto got up from his seat and walked up to his roommate.

" Sai, what did she mean by last time?" Naruto demanded as he watched Sai walk over and took a seat.

" Well this isn't the first time this has happened to Sakura." Sai started to speak.

" The other time this had happened was a few months after her mother died and she went to live with me and my parents. She was always going out to clubs and wasn't taking her pills and didn't go to her doctor's appointment then one day at school, she started getting really sick so mom took her to the hospital and she had the same symptoms as she does now." Sai explained,

" What the fuck man! Why weren't you making sure she was taking her pills? You know how depressed she gets around this time!" Naruto yelled out.

" Shut up Naruto! I wasn't with her 24/7, I would give her the pills whenever she would go out with Temari and she would always take them whenever I was around. The only way I found out she wasn't taking them was last night when I was talking to Temari at the club and I asked her if she was taking her pills and she said she never saw her take them and by the time I had found that out, you guys had already left!" Sai yelled back at his friend.

" I am always there for Sakura, I pay for everything without asking for anything back because she is like a sister to me so don't you dare blame this shit on me. Sakura is a grown woman and knew what she was doing. Where were you this week Naruto? Oh yeah you were hanging out with the guy who broke her heart. No offense Sasuke." Sai said.

" Hn." Sasuke responded. He knew Sai wasn't mad at him, he was just making a point so Naruto would shut up.

" Dobe, shut the fuck up it's no ones fault so just drop the subject." Sasuke said and watched his friend closed his eyes for a moment then opened them back up.

" Hey guys."

Everyone turned their heads and saw Hinata walking towards them.

" Hey Hinata, did you let everyone know what was going on?" Naruto asked his girlfriend.

" Yeah, they are on their way up here now." Hinata said.

" It's great and all but it won't be much good for all of us staying around here, waiting for Sakura to wake up." Sai said.

" Your right, hey Hinata can you call them back and tell them not to come and we will meet them at the apartment?" Naruto asked.

" Yeah so does that mean we are about to leave? What about Sakura?" Hinata asked because she wasn't around during Tsunada's talk.

" Sakura is stable but we are not out of the woods yet. Dr. Tsunada said we can go ahead and leave if we want. She has my number in case anything happens." Sai said as he got up from his seat.

" Okay, let's go to the apartment and eat some food and we will come back later on this evening to check up on her." Naruto said as they all started to walk out but he stopped when he realized someone was missing. He turned around to see Sasuke, sitting in his seat with his arms crossed looking in the other direction.

" Hey Sasuke, are you going to come with us or stay here?" Naruto asked his best friend but when he saw him make no movement, he got his answer.

" Okay Sasuke, call us if anything happens." Naruto said.

" Hn."

Sasuke turned his head to watch his friends leave. When he noticed that they had all left the building he shifted his face back to the direction where Sakura's room was and took in another sigh. He just couldn't leave knowing that Sakura was in the building fighting for her life.