I Do Not Own Naruto

Summoning Focus

Sakura went straight to the lab. Her hair was pulled back as she examined the poison and worked off of what she knew to be true and focused on saving people rather than wallowing in her self-doubts of dating Sasuke. She was not a weak little genin with a stupid obsession over a boy who'd sooner stab her in the back than save her. Haruno Sakura was no longer that girl.

She was the Fifth Hokage's disciple, she was the only other woman to get the Strength of a Hundred Seal, and she was a war hero.

Haruno Sakura did not obsess over boys anymore nor did she dream about stupid girly things like dates.

This is what she was telling herself as she worked on her antidote for this poison. It was not easy today, she was actually annoyed with how today's quest for the antidote was going. The poison seemed to be deteriorating before her eyes and it was annoying. Mostly because it was like a bacterial infection.

It invaded, destroyed what it needed to destroy and then deteriorated before anything could be helped. Leaving the damage already done and the victim was already on death's door. Pulling away for a minute she pinched the bridge of her nose as she inhaled sharply and tried to think of a way to counter act the damage of the poison. Her only solution was her own seal but she didn't know if that would work. It would probably help give her time but at the cost of a huge amount of her chakra. Sakura sighed as her head fell back and she bit her thumb while thinking this over.

It wasn't much of a loss, and she was a medic here to save lives rather than let them go. She closed her eyes and pondered this for a moment, and then she straightened up as she walked out of the lab then. Ignoring Sasuke she walked outside into the devastating heat of the Suna desert, she felt the Uchiha follow her and she squared her shoulders as she bit her thumb for blood and slammed her hand to the ground.

"Summoning Jutsu!" she shouted. The slug emerged then, and Sakura smiled at Katsuyu.

"Sakura, how can I help you?" the slug asked.

"Katsuyu, please report to the medical bay, I have patients in there," Sakura said calmly as the slug broke up and went right into the hospital. She followed as she walked past Sasuke and went to work with her insane idea of how to give herself some time and to save the patience while she figured out how to make the antidote. After the antidote was made she had no doubts that everyone was going to be fine. And she was close, just frustrated, but she was close to making the antidote.

"Sakura what are you doing?"

"Buying time," she answered coldly as she then sat and focused all her chakra through her as again she broke her seal.

Sasuke watched her as the seal broke and another pattern wrapped around her body as she focused. He remembered when she had used this in the war, when Madara had stabbed her in the gut and she was unaffected. What the seal did fully he wasn't certain but he watched again as Sakura focused on healing those around her.

Truthfully, he had never expected to see her do this again after the war was finished. But here she was, and again he watched around him as the victims of the poisoning began to stop their writhing and slowly relaxed. He guessed that this was a good sign, he wasn't entirely certain because he didn't know what this poison was doing exactly. However, since Sakura was not yelling at people to save the patients he guessed it was good as a few nurses hurried about him.

"How is she holding up?" he looked over to the Kazekage then and nodded a greeting.

"Well," Sasuke replied as he turned his attention on the medic who was focused on her work while she sat there. Sasuke couldn't look away from her, he wanted too but he couldn't. Strange as it was he had never bothered studying the pinkette. He was amazed to see she had grown up into a beauty, she had grown into her forehead and eyes, and with the seal on her brow she looked… complete. Her lips though rarely curved lately, were full, and her nose was pert which fit her face.

Sasuke could freely admit she had grown up. He had seen her body and knew she was a woman; a very attractive woman, but he hadn't bothered to study her face before now. She had grown up, he rather liked how she had turned out, she was just his type of woman too.

"Alright," Sakura's green eyes opened as she stood up. "They'll be fine for the time being, I'm going to finish up that antidote and then we'll proceed from there. For now, they should be out of the worst of it, but I'm leaving Katsuyu with them and I'll monitor them through her."

"Do you need anything?" Gaara asked her.

"No, for the time being just keep the nurses on hand for the patients and keep that poison master out of here." Sakura walked off in a brisk business walk which had him watching her closely.

"Has he said anything?" Sasuke asked once he knew Sakura was out of ear shot.

"No, but we have our interrogators working him over, we will know soon enough what he was after." Gaara watched where Sakura had disappeared and continued then. "When was the last time she slept?"

"Last night, she won't leave the lab tonight though," Sasuke said as he then walked after her because his mission was to guard her. He knew Sakura didn't really need the guard but he was doing this because it was asked of him and he needed to know she was safe.

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