Sakura's emerald eyes lowered to look down at the floor for an extended period with unreadable expression. She wasn't convinced in her inner self to offer any help for them after they infiltrated the hospital with such vulgar manner. But she couldn't answer herself why she haven't knocked them to the floor yet and captured them. She found herself drowning into her thoughts but she finally decided to listen to their story until the end before taking a final decision. She took an inhale to refrain herself from deepening more into unnecessary sentiments and slowly started to lift her gaze off the floor to look at the black haired female in front of her but she suddenly blinked with a startle and opened her eyes widely as she glanced back at Kyuseishu surprisingly.
"!"
Katsumi tensed up simultaneously. Her furrowed eyebrows twitched as she shifted her gaze towards Kyuseishu almost letting a tiny gasp slip out from her lips.
"!?"
Kyuseishu fainted suddenly and collapsed backwards. A feminine foot wearing a black high heel landed onto the floor simultaneously. Katsumi's sensitive ears picked up the sound of the footstep but she quickly dashed towards Kyuseishu and held his both shoulders with her hands preventing his unconscious body from falling onto the floor at the last second. Her hazel eyes suddenly twitched as she heard the mysterious footsteps approaching from them.
"!"
It was out of question for her to shift her attention away from Kyuseishu at this moment because she wasn't quite reassured with Sakura's real intentions. The pinkette eventually narrowed her eyes watching Katsumi trying to use her own body to shield Kyuseishu from a possible assault comes from Sakura but Sakura didn't have time to waste until the upcoming person shows up and puts her in more trouble than she was actually in. She suddenly lifted her right leg high behind her as she leaned her upper half forward slightly before swinging her right foot forth, kicking Katsumi on her rear with the heel of her boot hard enough to send her flying along with Kyuseishu like two footballs towards the door of the nearby chamber.
Katsumi felt herself flying outwards with irresistible force that she hadn't even got time to feel the hurt of the hit on her butt but she wrapped her arms tightly around Kyuseishu, not letting go of him even when they eventually bumped into the door of the nearby room harshly, crashing it wildly in their way before finally landing onto the floor of the room face-first with a violent thud. Sakura simply sighed and calmy lifted up her head to watch a young female Nurse approaching her way. The nurse was wearing a traditional nurse uniform consisted of white knee-length apron, black leggings and a pair of black high heels on her feet. She walked slowly towards Sakura with a fainted smile adorning her round face before bowing her head a little as she stood away from her with fifteen feets. She was seemingly taller than the pinkette with mere inches when she lifted her head back up after bowing. Her dark brown eyes were widened slightly as she gazed forward at Sakura. She was holding a small notebook with her both hands.
"..."
The nurse stared at Sakura accusingly for seconds before continuing to walk forward with light steps closer from her while approaching the crashed door to her right side without actually looking inside the room.
"Excuse me... What just happened here?"
She murmured after clearing her throat softly. Sakura masked her irritated features with a soft smile as she walked up slowly towards the nurse while rubbing her arm sluggishly.
"Nothing... It's just a nasty flea landed on my toe, I flinched and my body acted on it's own so I kicked the door by mistake, err- so forget what you just heard. "
She explained and instantly felt the sting of the lie but she just realised that she is not bad on making fake smiles. The Nurse held down her notebook across her slim waist as she rolled her eyes to stare at the crashed door with awful look before looking back at Sakura, trying to mask her stunned facial expression with a fake smile of her own.
"I... I see... Is your foot alright anyways?"
She asked hesitantly and looked down towards Sakura's feet trying to observe any injury or bruise on them but Sakura giggled lowly with silly manner as she kept rubbing her forearm with her painted nails.
"Yeah, yeah of course. It's not a big deal, Worry not..."
Inside the room...
Katsumi planted the palms of her shivering hands down on the floor, trying to lift her upper half up. Her nose was squished against the floor. She whimpered faintly with desperated irritation.
"What the hell... Was she trying to kill us for real?! I can't even get myself up... Ughh... She kicked me right on the butt..."
A big sweat drop appeared on the back of the Nurse's head as she giggled lightly while covering her lips with her fluffy fingers trying her best not to chuckle.
"Uh-huh... Can I walk on in the room?"
Sakura rested her palm on the Nurse's shoulder as she recovered her serious expression. She stared at her firmly for a while before offering with slight eagerness.
"Listen carefully... I can't let you step in... I've decided to give everyone in the hospital a break today. Go tell the rest of the medical staff and the other nurses that there's no work for today!"
The Nurse's eyelashes twitched up as she blinked then she shook her head confusedly while observing Sakura's facial features.
"What!? W-why all in a sudden...?"
Sakura kept staring at the woman with fixed look, lightly scowling her pink eybrows. She felt it was unnecessary to list any of her motives behind the sudden decision she took because she actually didn't know herself any of her motives.
"Don't ask too much questions..."
She said and wove her hand carelessly before adding.
"Consider it as an order from me personally. Now go!"
The Nurse nodded her head and bowed again. She was curious to know what really happened and drove Sakura to take such a declaration out of blue but like she had any other choice but to obey?
"Alright!"
She whispered and turned around before walking off towards the hall's exit door. Sakura released a soft sigh through her lips as she eyed the Nurse walk away before she soon disappeared from her eyesight.
"..."
Back to the room... Katsumi gasped faintly as she knelt up on her knees while steadying her hands onto the floor in order to lift her upper half up a bit.
"Arrgh... Damn it! This was the most powerful kick I have ever received ugh..."
Her body was still shuddering lightly from the shock and all of her attempts to stand up failed. She even forgot what happened to Kyuseishu after the rocket-like kick she received while holding him. When She shifted her left foot a bit, she suddenly felt it caressing a lumped body behind her. she winced and looked back realising that it was Kyuseishu.
"... Kyuseishu!"
His body was lying on the floor onto his back right behind Katsumi. she instantly noticed that her right leg was thrusted onto his chest so she quickly pulled it away before turning to stare at his face... His pale eyes were closed and his coat was ripped away from him revealing the huge bandages wrapped around his body and his breathing pace was hardly noticeable. Cold sweat was covering his leaden face entirely.
Katsumi widened her eyes slightly and tried to spin herself around towards him to observe him better but she suddenly lifted her head and turned it in the direction of the door, fixing her eyes on the doorstep surprisingly. Sakura walked in with light steps and Katsumi's hazel eyes twitched simultaneously as she held her breathe for a moment and glared up at the pink haired woman.
"...!"
Sakura stared down calmy towards the grounded duo and folded her arms around her chest as she stepped closer from them slowly.
"... Now, we are alone."
She whispered and unzipped her white apron with hurrying motion before tossing it aside then walked closer from Katsumi with steady steps. Katsumi gulped nervously and glared at her anxiously as a sweat drop rolled down onto the back of her bare neck. She believed that she's going to get devoured now by that pink monstrous girl but she was in no condition to fight back.
"..."
Sakura stopped away from Katsumi with three feets and darted her emerald eyes down, eying the female sternly as she lifted up her right hand in front of her chest before murmuring slowly with toneless voice.
"Calm down... And remove your top."
She whispered. Katsumi narrowed her eyes confusedly but her anxiety started to fade away as she observed Sakura's facial expression more and reached to a conclusion that Sakura wasn't offensive like she had presumed.
"Wh-what do you mean!?"
She questioned, still not managing to refrain herself from shuddering. Sakura sighed softly as a ghost of a smile floated around her lips. Her right palm started to glow suddenly with green mysterious aura.
"Just do as I tell you... It's okay, relax. I won't hurt you."
Katsumi nodded as she moved her hand slowly with robotic motion and gripped the side of her ruptured shirt, slipping it off herself slowly. She wasn't wearing any bra and her breasts were small like two balls of frisbee. She kept her eyes attached to Sakura, cautiously watching the green aura flowing around her right hand.
'A healing Chakra...'
She muttered to herself. Sakura gave a reassuring smile and crouched down over the female before leaning closer from her as she held her glowing palm out towards Katsumi's chest slowly.
"Emmm, your wounds aren't that deep."
Sakura said and pressed her glowing palm gently onto the smooth skin of Katsumi's chest and soon all the bruises and scars started to close up almost immediately with a extreme speed and effectiveness Katsumi found them unbelievable.
"... But they are dilated and it's risky to keep them without healing."
Katsumi sighed lightly as she finally decided that she can relax. She eventually felt a strange shudder rolling within her whole body as she kept staring at her own wounds being healed thanks to Sakura's chakra. Her breathes started to return to their normal pace some by some.
"... Thank you..."
She whispered lowly and watched the blood on her sides and both arms vanish under Sakura's glowing hand with a extremely high speed.
'...Using only one hand... She simply seems to be very expert in her job as a medical Kunoichi... I wish we had talented Medical-Nins in Sunagakure as well... Well, She is not just expert as a Medical-Nin it seems, but in hand-to-hand combat as well... No wonder this is Sakura herself... She was the pupil of a Legendary Sannin after all...'
Katsumi took quick mental notes to herself. She kinda enjoyed the light tingling on her skin during the healing process thanks to Sakura's Chakra. The pinkette patted Katsumi's shoulder with her free hand as she slowly removed her glowing hand with the healing Chakra away from Katsumi's skin. She eventually smiled as her emerald eyes fixed on Katsumi's face.
"... So, Now tell me what happened with you both?"
Katsumi rolled her eyes to the side awkwardly, she hadn't expect to hear this question from her and so she wasn't prepared to answer.
"..."
She exhaled softly and eyed her own body only to realise that all of her injuries had disappeared like they were never there before but she felt that she was pathetic. She felt guiltiness towards Kyuseishu because she allowed herself to get healed up before him even when his current condition was more critical than hers. She glanced back towards him nervously across her shoulder, feeling that Sakura's fierce gaze was penetrating her at the same time. She was still in no condition to move even after she got all her wounds healed so trying to ignore Sakura's question wouldn't be a good choice.
"Actually... It's a Long story..."
She stuttered and looked downwards over her knees. She wasn't even feeling any embarrassment by sitting with her upper half naked in front of the other woman.
"But...how about him? Can you heal him? Please..."
Sakura stood up and rested her hands on her hips after dispelling the healing Chakra from her hand. Her facial features returned back to their seriousness as the temporary smile on her lips faded away and she ogled Katsumi with stern look.
"I am not going to heal him up unless you tell me what brought both of you into this condition!"
She said with expressionless voice. Katsumi's eyes widened with frustration. She tilted her head to look to the side as she gripped with her fingers nervously onto he remained piece of her skirt. Her tongue was betraying her to utter any word.
"..."
Sakura continued to stare down at her with rigorous eyes brimmed with sharpness. It was easy for her to read what's going on inside the younger female's head.
"If you don't tell me, I won't be able to offer my help anymore because I don't know what are you both up to exactly, however... It's been seven days since Kyuseishu abandoned the village and I believe he didn't return now with his free will... you know the meaning of that, Sand Kunoichi..."
Katsumi widened her eyes more with every word Sakura uttered. She lifted her head up and glared at the pink haired woman furiously. Her small cheeks were still flushing bright red from the mental pressure she was feeling.
"So everyone in the village already knows about Kyuseishu..."
She said with a heavy sigh.
"If you already know that then why did you agree to help us from the beginning?"
Sakura grimaced and crossed her arms under her chest as she kept eying closely the female who just forced her to face her inner motives.
"Not really...not everyone in Konoha knows about Kyuseishu yet. It's just I am an important individual in Konoha so I practically know about anything that happens within the village or around it even the small incidents like these..."
She said as a shade of a smirk appeared on her lips but she looked away through the glass of the closed window before adding with mysterious tone.
"But honestly... I loathe the current Hokage so I will keep what I saw today a secret... Kyuseishu has a brilliant future as a shinobi so it'd be a loss for the whole village if he gets captured in the Hokage's hands now... He will arrest him and throw him in jail after torturing him because that's the fate for anyone who decides to oppose the Hokage's will.."
Katsumi blinked a couple of times while raising her eyebrows a bit with concern as she stared up at Sakura closely.
"... Is that so... If you know that much then why don't you do something?"
She asked but she immediately regretted it. Sakura looked back at her and stared at her blankly for a moment before replying with a faint smile.
"Help me lay him down on the couch."
She whispered and crouched down over Kyuseishu's feet, glancing at his pale face closely.
"Hurry!
Hurry up! time is not in our favour..."
Katsumi nodded her head rapidly and stood up. She glanced at Sakura then back at Kyuseishu before leaning her upper half down a bit and grabbed his shoulders gently with her both hands to lift him off the floor.
"..."
Sakura grabbed Kyuseishu's ankles with her both hands and lifted his lower half off the floor carefully at the same time with Katsumi before laying him down onto the couch. Katsumi then stood upright beside the couch and stared at Kyuseishu's pale face deeply without lifting her hands off him.
"Is he going to be alright...?"
Sakura stepped forth near Kyuseishu's head and glanced at Katsumi through the corner of her eye as she scowled her pink eyebrows.
"Stay back because you don't need to see what I am about to do!"
She ordered and shifted her head back towards Kyuseishu then she leaned closer from him with her upper half before placing her both palms on his chest gently.
'His heart beating is weak..'
She murmured calmly to herself then she suddenly gripped the thick bandages wrapped around his body and ripped them off with one hand almost harshly.
"!"
Katsumi's eyes and Sakura's eyes widened simultaneously as some big blood trickles flung out from Kyuseishu's deep wounds and stained Sakura's pale face slightly. With her widened eyes, the pinkette observed shockingly the enormous wounds on his stomach, chest and arms.
"How could he survive such a fatal damage with his skinny body!? He doesn't even have fats do protect him."
She exclaimed and tossed the reeked bandages aside as she kept analysing Kyuseishu's body with her eyes in disbelief.
"He should be dead by now!"
Katsumi stepped back slowly while looking forward at Sakura with eyes filled with anxiety. she parted her shivering lips and proceeded to ask hesitantly.
"Can you heal him...? You're... You're the only hope left..."
The pinkette narrowed her greenish eyes while staring at the several injuries that filled Kyuseishu's body. She realised that some of his ribs were shattered inside his chest.
"... In all honesty ... I can't promise that he will get back to his normal health condition even after receiving my personal healing... His Liver and... One of his Kidneys are extremely harmed. Plus, his spinal cord is also damaged... I can't lie to you, healing him up completely is nearly impossible even for me..."
She said with a voice slightly above a whisper then she suddenly clapped her both hands together in front of her chest and almost immediately, her both opened palms started to glow with the same green aura, forming like a large sphere of channeled healing Chakra coated her hands completely in no time.
"Besides... I can sense a large amounts of sand inside his internal organs. I believe the sand had infiltrated his body through these wounds... Even there is some sand inside his Lungs which caused local bronchitis as well..."
Katsumi swallowed lightly her saliva as she eyed Sakura firmly while furrowing her eyebrows. She felt a shiver rolling down her spine as she listened to the facts that Sakura listed but she blinked, trying to convince herself with Sakura's reliability on resolving such a critical dilemma.
"... But there is still a hope, isn't it Sakura chan? I'm sure you can do it..."
Sakura sighed softly and took a deep breathe while closing her eyes slowly. Her both hands till the wrists were now completely surrounded with the green bluish aura. she approached them from Kyuseishu's bare abdomen slowly.
"I'll have to extract the sand out from his body first because the sand works as a poison filled with offensive Chakra to prevent the wounds from closing up from the inside... The person who used this Jutsu is quite smart and skilled in the techniques he uses but too bad for them 'cause they challenged the wrong person... Healing critical conditions like this is my job although this won't be an easy task, but fortunately I am at the highest level of my Chakra currently."
She said confidently which made Katsumi bite her lower lip nervously as the colours begun to fade away from her face slowly. Her cheeks twitched up lightly and she started to feel dizziness in the region of her stomach.
'How is she planning to extract the sand out from his body!? That sounds impossible even for her...'
She muttered to her inner self as she kept glancing towards Kyuseishu across Sakura's shoulder with a slight widened eyes. She felt that the words were betraying her again when she decided to express her thoughts. Sakura placed her glowing palms upon Kyuseishu's bare stomach, cleaning up the blood trickles on his skin thanks to her green, flaring aura that surrounded her both hands completely till the wrists... She preferred to work silently and forget about everything that might distract her concentration.
"..."
Katsumi picked up her ruptured shirt from the floor with one hand and folded it slowly around her chest, using it as a bra to cover her small breasts. She squinted and poked her head forward a bit trying to watch closer the healing procedure.
"..."
Sakura furrowed her eyebrows firmly as her aura kept wiping clean the blood and sand from Kyuseishu's wounds. Her face started to sweat as the Chakra sphere began to expand to an extreme size, covering Kyuseishu's upper half entirely.
"..."
Katsumi tilted her head slightly as she startled and widened her eyes, watching the green aura of Sakura absolutely surpass the ordinary range of any healing jutsu based of Chakra.
'What the hell is she doing! Something doesn't feel right...'
She muttered surprisingly and leaned her head forward more, noticing that the flowing Chakra had already coated Kyuseishu's body entirely.
"...!? That's... Incredible!
Outside the hospital, The wind breeze was blowing softly onto the pale leaves of the trees planted over the Hospital's backyard. The sky was clear, like an endless blue ocean...
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