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Chapter 2
Sakura woke up to the sound of birds chirping.
She didn't know where she was at first until she rubbed the sleep from her eyes and saw Naruto laying on the bed in front of her.
The nurses had come in a few times during the night but they usually didn't say anything and just left silently.
She noticed there was a blanket around her and wondered if one of the nurses had put it on her while she was asleep. Her eyes were sore from all of the crying she had done the day before and even though she had promised herself to stop crying so much she didn't regret those tears.
She heard the door open behind her and saw Lady Tsunadae walk in with the tiger masked ANBU behind her. The ANBU agent turned towards her
"Did you sleep comfortably? I came in here and saw you shivering in your sleep and put a blanket over you, I hope it helped"
Sakura had always thought the ANBU were all scary and yet this one was polite and kind.
"Thank you for the blanket"
The tiger ANBU nodded his head
"You should have covered yourself up before you fell asleep as it gets cold in the hospital during the day much less at night"
Sakura smiled a little finding his concern comforting
"I'll make sure to cover up tonight"
The tiger ANBU nodded his head with a new entry through the door as a white haired man in a ponytail and red sleeveless jacket and a large scroll on his back walked in. Sakura was sure she had seen this man with Naruto before and as she thought about it she was for sure she had seen a picture of him in the academies text books before but she couldn't place his face.
The man looked at her for a moment before turning his head back to the Hokage.
"What's the news on his condition Tsunadae?"
This confused Sakura as she was sure the man could see how bad it was, unless there was new information
Tsunadae taking a look at Sakura's expression decided to speak
"I came in here a few hours ago with some other medical ninja and we ran some tests and I recently received the information from those tests"
Sakura was desperate for any information but she felt like Kakashi should be there.
"Lady Tsunadae shouldn't Kakashi Sensei be here?" she asked
"Normally he would be but I had an emergency mission and he was the only one available to take it, he should be back in another day or two" she said turning back to the two faces in front of her
"Alright heres what we know, Orochimaru's curse mark was an attempt to create an artificial Sage Mode by forcing Nature energy into the users body and combining it with their chakra and Orochimaru's chakra that is in the seal. Now Nature energy itself is not evil and actually avoids evil people so when it is forced into the seal a corrupted version of nature energy and chakra is created which I have dubbed 'Dark Chakra'." Tsunadae paused making sure that everyone was keeping up with her before continuing
"When Sasuke hit Naruto with his Chidori" she said not mentioning that it was the second time he was hit that had done this next part "The Dark chakra was sent through his body causing massive damage to him and his chakra, as we don't know a whole lot about this 'Dark Chakra' I can't make a certain diagnosis of what this will do to him. For instance, we know that most of the damage was done to the right side of the body, so he may lose the use of his right arm and if he doesn't he'll probably need physical therapy to get it back to normal, however he will probably never be able to weave hand signs due to the damage in his arm. That means no more shadow clones and transformations"
Sakura felt her heart sink at the thought of Naruto never being able to use his favorite jutsu again, she also knew that being able to use hand signs would be a serious handicap for even the best shinobi. She listened to the next part of what the Hokage said.
"Although he should still be able to use the Rasengan and other jutsu that do not require seals and he could even learn to use the summoning jutsu without hand signs after enough practice, and the Uzumaki were famous seal masters so he could learn that as well and he will still be able to use Taijutsu"
Hearing that actually helped Sakura feel better as she now knew that it wasn't all over for Naruto yet, he could still achieve his dream!
"Now on to the part where the damage was the worse, his lung." She paused at this as if trying to think of the best way to say this.
"Quite frankly his lung, while healed enough that we were able to patch it up, is still heavily damaged and he will probably never be able to push himself to the limit again without risking destroying his lung again. If he wakes up he'll have to take it easy for a while as he will become out of breathe easier and he'll have to have someone with him and watching over him every day because we all know he tends to overdo things daily"
Looking over at Naruto's still form she said the next part quieter than before
"That is if he wakes up and if he does he'll have all those scars from the burns and a nasty one from the chidori he received"
It was quiet for a moment
"He WILL wake up"
All three of the adults in the room turned towards Sakura, who had a determined look in her eyes
"After all he still needs to become Hokage"
At that everyone could only smile
1 WEEK LATER
Sakura's parents had stopped by and tried talking her into going home but she had insisted on staying. Although she wasn't just sitting around staring at Naruto
For one that would be creepy
And second, she couldn't get the thought out of her head about how if she had been stronger she could have gone along and helped Naruto.
So she had taken to training whenever anyone was free to teach her. There was an open training room in the hospital that she would go to.
When Kurenie was free she would learn Genjutsu.
Kakashi had taken to teaching her strategy and Kenjutsu.
Gai would stop by and tutor her in Taijutsu remarking that her desire for self improvement was 'youthful' and had said that once Naruto recovered he would train him in Taijutsu too
Sakura liked how Gai said WHEN not IF, it gave her the feeling of someone believing just like she was that Naruto would get through this
But what she trained in the most was Medical Ninjutsu, which was mainly because she was in a hospital and even Tsunadae and Sizune would teach her when they had time.
Their friends would come by and visit with Shikamaru and Iruk being the most common, the Ichiraku's would even bring her some Ramen every night and see how Naruto was doing and the Konohamaru squad would come by every day after school to check on 'Big Brother' Naruto, Konohamaru would even talk to him and tell him about all the things they could do together when Naruto woke up, before getting teary eyed and saying goodbye, which made Sakura want to cry too. She wondered if Naruto knew how many people cared about him, she hoped he did.
Sasuke, after recovering from his injuries and his blodied and bruised face Sakura had given him, had been moved to the Konoha Prison for holding under ANBU guard until they could determine whether or not Naruto would wake up or not, if he didn't then that meant that he would eventually die and one of the charges against him would change from attempted murder of a fellow Konoha Shinobi to murder of a Konoha Shinobi along with the charge of treason and conspiring with known enemies of the leaf village. But as long as the question of whether or not Naruto lived or not hung in the air they wanted to wait before setting a trial date as Naruto would be a key witness.
Here a week later she was still camping out in Naruto's hospital room, but she didn't care, she knew he would wake up and when he got better she would show him how much she had improved and she would help him become Hokage
1 Month Later
Sakura had grown her hair out some more and had began to wear it in a pony tail, originally she was going to cut it, remembering how it had been a target during the forest of death, but kept putting it off. Then a female sword specialist had been admitted and told Sakura that she had face the same problem but had began to put hers in a pony tail as a dare to her enemies and when they came out of hiding to try and grab it she would cut them in two.
Sakura liked the sound of that and had begun to grow her hair out to see if she could use it to her advantage.
They had taken the breathing machine off of Naruto when his lung got strong enough to breath on it's own
But now Sakura was asleep with her head on Naruto's bed, Gai had made her run 50 laps with weights on and she couldn't remember ever feeling this exhausted before.
Suddenly she awoke to the feeling of someone's hand on her head
Her head snapped up in surprise as jade green met bright blue
"Hi Sakura"
She felt tears fill her eyes
"Naruto" and before she knew it she was hugging him
"I knew you would wake up!"
She got back up and wiped her eyes
"I'm going to get Lady Tsunadae I'll be right back"
All of her exhaustion forgotten she took down the hallway with a smile on her face that let every nurse and doctor she passed know what this meant.
Naruto Uzumaki was awake
That is a chapter finished!
Thank you for reading and I left somethings open ended in case you want me to continue and if I do continue what do you want to see? This is a NaruSaku as that is one of my favorite pairings and I'm sad it didn't happen, but I also didn't want Sakura and Naruto to just end up together at the end of this chapter but Sakura is definitely seeing Naruto more for who he really is now and is looking at him in a new light and if I continue I will show them growing closer as Naruto deals with everything and all of the new problems in his way.
Now for reviews!
Thor94: Kabuto mentioned that he sent healing chakra to that exact spot for that attack and it cost him most of his chakra. Naruto's chakra heals his injuries around his body allowing him to heal from multiple injuries while Kabuto only healed from a single one and was mostly powerless afterwords, while Naruto can heal from multiple injuries at once and keep going for hours. I hope this answered your question.
MakiYuno: I might continue it I'm not a hundred percent sure yet let, me know if you still do and what you would like to see
Wyle: I think the fast paced bit kinda helps it in a way as in actual emergency situations the individuals loved ones will be there for hours but it will seem like a short amount of time to them. I actually meant to add more detail to the Sakura and Sasuke interaction but forgot to go back, sorry. But thank you for pointing out those mistakes and I tried to avoid them as much during this
Razgriz: I sortened your user name a little so I could get to your comment faster hope you don't mind. I hope you liked the chapter and please let me know what you think
Ivan Meza: Thanks and lease let me know what you think of this chapter.
Thedarkpokemaster: Thanks for the complement and it always bothered me that Sasuke got off at the end with no punishment even after all the things he did and all the people he killed.
On a personal note, and this is going to be going on all my other Fanfics on the site, could you all please refrain from swearing in the reviews as I have seen it get out of hand on other fancies where the reviews will have the worst language and I want to keep that from happening on my stories and I'm actually posting this after have removed a review on one of my other Fanfics witch was filled with horrible language and I want to be respectful to the readers if you want to insult me that is fine, however there is no need to feel it with horrible language. I appreciate people pointing out my mistakes such as Wyle.23 did but if your just going to hate a story and insult every little thing in a rude way then you do not need to read the fanfic.
Sorry for that last bit but I felt like I needed to get that out there!
Thank you all for reading and please review and have a nice day!
