Rating: M (for swearing)

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

So sorry about the short chapter in chapter 16, I was running out of inspiration for that chapter, but I promise This one will be longer and Sakura's in this chapter OMG! What will happen? Also, please vote on my Poll as to what you would like to happen and if Naruto should forgive Sakura or not. Please, it's very important.

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Chapter 17

Chemo-prices and Choices

Naruto was so exhausted, by the next morning, he didn't want to wake up so early, but Tsunade insisted he had another chemo procedure, at five in the morning. Naruto was cranky he wasn't too happy about having to have a chemo so early in the morning, infact, he was so tired that when the needle began grinding and gnawing at his hip bone, he didn't cry as much. He felt too weak to do floor exercises with Yamamoto, he was even too tired to finish a conversation with Sasuke over the phone. Kushina and Minato were worried. They knew Naruto would feel drowsy and be mostly tired, but they figured with all the sleeping and naps he had taken, that he wouldn't be as tired as he was.

"It's mainly fatigue." Katsuya answered. "It's a comment side-effect with Chemos"

"Many patients go threw that, along with the common one Naruto experienced like: Hair-loss, pain and nausea; I'm sure he'll experience bladder problems, maybe be either constipated or have diarrhea. He may experience bed-wetting again, but he can't control any of that. With the more chemos he needs, the more we're going to be seeing this." Tsunade said.

Minato's head lowered. Guilt now flooded and washed away any hopes he had of Naruto getting better.

Looking at the little boy who would love to run and play all the time. The one hyper and giggling boy was gone.

He had already missed so much about that little boy, he didn't want to see his son slip away from him. Minato sighed, tucking Naruto in gently while Naruto slept-his fourth nap today.

Kushina bit her lip as the paperwork was delivered, promising bills, taxes and other tests Naruto needed, but they couldn't afford.

Kushina rolled up her sleeves.

"Let's do this." She whisered as her and Minato sat closer to their son, sorting papers, sinking slowly into poverty.

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Sakura's teeth chattered and he slowly walked and made her way to the parking lot of The Cancer center and she smiled with joy, her feet were numb, her who body shook and she was sure with what patches of her hair left, was indeed frozen. She wanted to run as fast as she could, but she thought for a moment, she couldn't just waltz right into the front doors. She had to have a good reason to be there, so she thought of somthing and smiled.

"Hello, I'm Sakura Haruno and I'm here to see my boyfriend, Naruto." she smiled, it had to work. She had used it before and it worked. She slowly walked up to the doors, standing in the warmth for five minutes to let her hair (head) warm up and to finally feel her fingers once again. She smiled and walked right up to the front lobby. A lady sipping tea looked at her.

"My, you look cold." She answered.

"Oh...um. Yes" She said. "I'm looking for Naruto's room." Sakura asked. The lady nodded and began to type at her computer.

"Alright, I have his room number, I need to see your ID"

"...ID?" Sakura asked.

The lady looked up. "It's for security reasons, every one who has family in our Cancer Center is given an ID to enter. For those who don't, have contacted us ahead of time to let us know they are coming"

Sakura felt her world shatter. She was angry.

"I...don't have one. Look, I really need to see him."

"Sorry Darling, no ID, no entering." The lady frowned. "It's policy rules."

"But...I'm just a kid!" Sakura said.

The lady raised her eyebrow. "Where are you parents at?!"

Sakura gulped, running past the front desk to an elevator, the lady qucikly screamed for security while Sakura pressed a button that brought her to the floor she remembered and hoped Naruto was on.

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Naruto was blissfully sleeping once again. Minato and Kushina fumbled with paperwork frustrated and confused. Minato didn't notice when Obito and Rin entered the room, neither did Kushina. Obito smiled at Rin, tiptoeing to Minato, tapping his shoulder, this made Minato jump in surprise and whirl around to see who touched him.

"Obito?" He asked in surprise. "What are you doing here?"

"Oh, nothing. Just came by to see how you guys were doing." Rin smiled. Kushina gasped.

"Oh, Rin!" She smiled, rushing over to Rin. "Your belly, you're starting to show!" Rin smiled.

"I know, I'm so excited."

While Kushina and Rin softly chatted away Obito helped Minato figure out the payments and bills.

"So, what are you actually here for?" Minato asked, slightly frightened.

"...Truthfully, I was worried. So I just came by to check on you. I mean you haven't been to work in like a week." Obito back away a little once Minato kicked his chair in anger. Obito frowned, sighing.

"Has...has Naruto gotten any better?" Obito said.

Minato's head shook. "Nothing but chemos from now until...I don't know, honestly. Kushina and I want to give Naruto the major bone marrow surgery that can treat lymphatic leukemia, but we can't afford it, not with this paperwork," Minato shoved a few papers into his floder and Obito nodded, pulling out his check book and a pen.

"How much?"

"No." Minato said. "No, you pretty much are already paying me to not work, I can't ask you for this, Obito."

Obito smiled. "We're family, though." Minato knew that was entirly wrong. No way was Obito or Rin related to him, Kushina, or even their children, by blood. But Obito and Rin had it in their heads that they were family to Minato and his family. Minato still shook his head.

"I...I can't."

"Why not?" Obito smiled. "Besides, I owe you-"

"You already did your "owing" I can't ask you to do this." Minato objected. Kushina looked up and Rin sighed, her husband was trying to pay for everything, once again.

"Obito, don't make Minato-sensei guilty." She said.

"Rin-darling, I don't care, Minato, if you don't let me pay this, you're fired." Obito smiled. Minato huffed and let Obito pay the surgery for Naruto.

"You don't have to do this." Minato said once again.

"Naruto and Kyuubi are my wife's god-children. I want to do this." Obito insisted. After Obito and Minato had finished the paperwork the adults sat around the room, talking quietly until Naruto woke up. Rin was the first to notice this.

"Hello, Naru-chan. Haven't seen you in a while?" She smiled.

Naruto thought for a moment. "Rin-san?"

Rin nodded. "Obito-kun and I thought we'd like to visit you." Obito walked up to Naruto's bed. "How are you feeling?"

"Been better." Naruto said. "Plus I've-"

"NAURTO!" Before Naruto could finish his sentance, someone has hollered his name and following that, there was a very loud bang and it startled everyone in the room. All eyes were at the door, and Naruto shifted his body to get a better look at what caused the noice.

Naruto gasped. At the entry way of the door stood Sakura Haruno, out of breath and tears in her eyes.

"S-Sakura?" He asked. "Wha-what are you doing here?!" He pointed at her.

"Naruto..." She huffed. "I need...to apologize."

"Tsunade..." Katsuya's gentle voice tried to confort Tsunade as Tsunade began to cry, hunched over he desk like a little middle-schooler and just cried. She felt worthless. The tests results came back from Naruto's morning Chemo and they wern't good at all. Well, no one thinks that Chemo tests are good, but this one was bad. Flat-out bad. Tsunade felt like utter shit, she promised Naruto that she wouldn't let anything bad happen to him, he promised him that he would live to grow old, but now, these tests proved her wrong.

She felt let-down.

Crushed.

Heartbroken.

Hopeless.

Katsuya reached out to place his hand on her back, put she slapped it away.

"Don't touch me!" She hissed, tears trinkled from her honey-colored eyes.

Shizune and Chiyo sighed. This was probably the worst day for Tsunade. It was hard on them too. Katsuya sighed too, turning to them and pulling Shizune out of the room to talk to her. Katsuya, as much of a professional he was, needed to calm down Tsunade before she goes either into a sucidal faze or goes to her liquor cabinet, he asked Shizune who he could call to talk secne into Tsunade. Shizune thought for a moment.

"There is one person...His name is Jiraiya." She grinned. "He's a very honest man, great with kids too."

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"Fuck you, you little brat!" Jiraiya screamed his thumbs going wils on the Xbox game controller. Kyuubi snickered as he began to blow up his god-father in Black Ops.

"I threw a frickin' gernade at you, how can you be alive still, but I'm dead?!" Jiraiya screamed into the head-gear.

Kyuubi smirked.

"One word: Hacked."

Jiraiya growled. "You little cheat-why I oughta'-" His ranting and screaming was interrupted by the phone ringing. Jiraiya answered.

"Hello? Katsuya? What's up-Wait...Tsunade needs me?!"

Kyuubi choked on the air he inhaled. Did he hear that correctly?

Sakura's back Holy-crap! What's gonna' happen?! Well, I'm gonna' let you all decide what you would like to see happen next in the next chapter of the story, it's easy, go to my polls and vote on what you would like to see happen to Sakura and Naruto in the next chapter. I'm so sorry that the chapters are either too short or too lengthy, I really need to find a balance for those chapters, because chapter 1 is like more than 4,000 words where as last chapter was barley 1,000. Yeah...gotta' balance.

Anyway, I know I don't have a beta, but that's because I can't afford one at the moment, spell check will have to Beta everything for now.

Anyway: Don't forget to review!

We are now, more than half-way threw the story, so exciting!

-The Un-wanted Angel