RECAP: Ppl died

The nurses had pulled Sakura off of Sasuke's body. She was hysterical and they had to sedate her right next him but before she was out she made sure the nurses kept working on him no matter what or they were all fired. After that they put her in her own bed. The sedative would keep her out for a few more hours.

MEANWHILE

Naruto could hear the nurses slowly giving up on Sasuke and continuously charging him. There was nothing more they could do but they'd all be fired if they didn't do anything. Naruto stayed with Gaara for a very long time waiting for him to get cold. After about an hour Tsunade walked in. Naruto ran up to her sobbing and pushed her out of the room.

"Naruto!"

"Get out! This is your fault!"

"...Naruto..."

"Go!"

"Naruto I can help!"

"He's dead! How can you help that?...You killed him..."

"Naruto, rigor mortis hasn't set in. I can help."

"What can you do? There's no cure for death!"

"The best I can do is get him in a coma but he'll be alive."

"That's the best you can do? A coma?"

"That's the best I can do without sacrificing my own life. It sounds selfish but I can't die. This village is not in a position where the Hokage can die so yes a coma is the best I can do."

Tsunade started inspecting him.

"...He was suffocated...and...what's this...that cut in his chest...whatever was in there perforated his diaphragm. I think I'll be able to fix it but not now. I'll get a breathing tube."

Tsunade got his breathing tube in and started working and slowly Gaara's heart started. It used almost all of Tsunade's chakra and Gaara's heartbeat was extremely weak and slow but it was there. Naruto was overjoyed but still couldn't talk to Tsunade easily.

"Is he going to stay alive?"

"...I can't be sure yet."

"You might want to look at Sasuke..."

Tsunade went down to Sasuke's room and found nurses charging him over and over again. She saw the four main wounds on his torso and the many other all over his body. She had to use all of her chakra and most of the nurses' chakra to make a slight heartbeat. She placed a breathing tube and multiple blood bags and IV's and went to go rest. The nurses gave her Sakura's room. She laid down in the bed next to Sakura's. Sakura woke up a few minutes later and jumped out of bed still weary and ran to Sasuke's room. Not even a strong sedative could keep her down, she'd woken up at least and hour and a half too early. She was still weak as she stumbled to Sasuke's room. His heartbeats were so far apart she first thought he was still dead. Tsunade followed her into his room.

"It took a lot of chakra but nothing's impossible."

"...Can he breathe?"

"Yes, breathing tube."

"I meant by himself...can he think?"

"...There's a possibility that he's brain dead but we've only done preliminary procedures."

"...How high's the chance?"

"...Well it's hard to-"

"Lady Tsunade! I am the best medical ninja aside from you. I don't need you giving me the dead patient speech, I know that speech backwards and forwards and I don't want to hear it from you about my Sasuke! How high's the chance?"

"Alright, you want to hear it you'll hear it. It's almost impossible that he's not brain dead. I have no chakra left to examine his brain. I don't want anyone else doing it, the nurses here could further damage his brain. We'll know once I've rested."

Sakura started crying again.

"Well what do you suggest I do until then?"

"Sleep, heal, change your clothes, you reek of blood, your clothes and skin are covered in it. Take a nap, take a bath and rest."

"I'll rest once I know."

Sakura stormed out holding back tears. Once in the hall Tsunade heard her yell-

"WHERE'S MY LEG PATIENT"S ROOM? IF I GET IN THERE AND THE STITCHES ARE DONE I'M FIRING SOMEONE."

Tsunade had never seen Sakura so upset. She sat in the chair next to Sasuke and started talking to him.

"I'm sorry Sasuke. If you're dead I'll take care of her. I'm so sorry."

Sakura walked into Kankuro's room. The nurses still terrified of her, her clothes and arms still extremely blood stained, and tears rolling down her face. Kankuro was awake at this point. The nurses had given him back the blood he'd lost. She sat on her stool and started unwrapping his leg's gauze.

"Sakura...what happened? Is everyone OK?"

"Don't worry about everyone else worry about your leg."

"I don't want you stitching me up if you're upset-"

"Sasuke's dead. Tsunade tried to fix him, he has a heartbeat but it's almost once per minute. On top of that the chances that he's not brain dead are, well lets just say it's a miracle if he's not. So yeah, maybe I'm a little upset but I'm the most qualified doctor in here so unless you want a scar that looks like crap I suggest you let me stitch you up."

"...Sasuke's dead..."

"I assume Tsunade did the same thing with Gaara."

"Gaara? Gaara's dead!"

Kankuro started getting up and Sakura restrained him.

"You walk on this leg and you'll lose it. I've already taken out three staples."

"You have? I didn't feel it."

"Of course you didn't. This is a hospital, we have anesthetics here."

"...I need to check on Gaara."

"You don't want to see him like this."

"He's my brother!"

"And he'd want you to keep you leg now stay still."

"Well hurry up then."

Kankuro watched as Sakura put stitched all down his leg. A few minutes into stitching Naruto walked in.

"Sakura how's Sasuke?"

"...Naruto let me stitch your chest up."

"Later."

"OK as long as it gets done."

Naruto started talking to Kankuro.

"Hey, how's your leg?"

"How's my brother?"

"...Tsunade did her medical stuff, he has a heartbeat and a hole in his diaphragm."

"Has a heartbeat...he died?"

"Mhm...Matsuri gave him CPR then I did and I don't know if it helped but technically he's alive."

"...Wow...this is not...this whole thing is just shit...sucks all around..."

"Yeah it does. I'm going back...hey Sakura?"

"What?"

"The ninja Sasuke fought...he knew where his vitals where and he hit them. The less experienced ones...the one that got Kankuro went for my inner leg and arm, what kind of training is that?"

"...Something unique to the mist maybe?"

"...No, they aimed for important arteries. They tried to drain our blood, that's what they've been trained to do- Oh my god!"

"What, what is it?"

"Those ninja that we picked off real easy. They're used to the mist because they live in the mist not because they fight with it. They only had one skilled ninja with them. The only one we couldn't beat, the one that killed Sasuke. There were three that were good the two we killed were at our level and the one that got away was higher, much higher."

"Naruto what are you getting at?"

"Sakura look at Kankuro's leg. OK they had three real, trained ninja. The rest were simply loyal to those ninja. They needed they're protection for some reason. The only people trained to drain blood like that is a farmer. I think they were rogue ninja. With loyal farmer followers whose training they failed to finish...but what were they after?"

"You figured out all of that from Kankuro's leg?"

"I have to tell Tsunade."

"You do that."

Naruto left and Sakura finished Kankuro's stitches.

"Thanks Sakura. Now can I see my brother?"

"...Fine, since he's a jinchuuriki he might be healing faster than Sasuke but that doesn't mean he looks good."

"I don't care I want to see him."

"Alright, let me get you a wheelchair."

Sakura and some nurses helped him into a wheelchair and set it so his injured leg was sticking straight out. Sakura then wheeled him to Gaara's room. Even Sakura was shocked to see Gaara the way he was. He was left in his bloodstained pants and was shirtless. His chest had been carelessly stapled together and he had a very thick breathing tube in. He had a slightly faster heartbeat than Sasuke but not by much. Kankuro had his elbow resting on his wheelchair's arm and his hand supported his head and covered his mouth.

"...Sakura, he looks dead."

"I told you he wouldn't look good but he's not completely dead."

"...Sakura-oh man what's that smell?"

"Um...could be the antiseptic or just the general hospital smell."

"No it's smells like iron. You and Naruto smell like iron."

"Kankuro look at me, I'm covered in blood."

"Go shower Sakura."

"No!...not until I know Sasuke's OK. I need to be there if something happens. The nurses here will let him die."

"Sakura, you're tired, you're clothes are slowly becoming armor with all that dried blood and you look like you're going to faint. Did you lose blood?"

"No I didn't get cut."

"Turn around."

She did.

"Maybe you didn't notice but you have a gash in your back. Did you get anything in it?"

"I carried Sasuke on my back..."

"Well if you to don't share a blood type that might not be fun later on. Go get clean. I'll watch Sasuke for you."

"Tell Tsunade to watch him."

"Alright. And while you're at it tell Naruto to do the same and sew that cut up on his chest it bled all over me."

"Thank's Kankuro. I'll take you to Sasuke's room Tsunade should be in there soon."

"Alright."

Sakura wheeled him into Sasuke's room. Kankuro thought Gaara looked bad but this was awful. Sasuke's shirt had been taken and he'd been lazily covered with a blanket but his chest was exposed as were his half healed wounds and many more wounds were also visible. There were multiple rectangular burns on his chest from where they'd defibrillated him without the protective skin pads. His breathing tube was even thicker than Gaara's. He had multiple bags of blood hanging and multiple IV's going. The blood was going in two needles in each arm and he had two IV's in his hand. His heartbeats were rare things. Kankuro could barely look at him.

"...Alright Sakura, go get rested."

Sakura smiled and kissed his cheek and left to get Naruto who had just explained to Tsunade what he'd found out.