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Sakura worked well into the night, her hair was pulled back and her mind focused as she worked. Nothing could have her faltering as she worked to make the second antidote and to keep the symptoms at bay for these victims. She could feel Sasuke watching her from his corner but she ignored him while she worked.

"Dr. Haruno, what are you thinking?" a doctor finally asked.

"It's a mixture of poisons, that's the only explanation for these particular symptoms, but the only question is what kind of poison mixture. I've broken down the bacterial poison and we find a cure for that, now they are displaying symptoms of a rare disease," she said as she looked at all the scans of the patients she had. Biting the nail of her thumb she stepped back and looked over all the information and compared it with everything she knew off the top of her head.

"Doctor?" the other doctor looked at her.

"It's not a poison, it's a disease, we've been looking at this all wrong!" she finally concluded. "The bacteria probably carried a virus, and when the bacteria was purged from the patients' systems with the antidote the virus was released into the body," she said as she tilted her head and thought about this. This was all very elaborate no matter how it was sliced but it was better that it was a virus than a bacteria making these people ill.

"What does this mean for the patients?" the doctor asked.

"Well, it means that if we can keep the stable and comfortable we might be able to cure them, you tend to them, I'll be looking for the cure," she said. "I need blood from every patient, I need a lab and I need time, if any of them get worse call me, I'm summoning Katsuyu again. We'll use my chakra to keep the patients stable."

"Alright," the doctor said, she sliced her thumb again and summoned the slug.

"Katsuyu will please go keep watch over the patients," she kindly ordered and then walked towards a lab with one part of Katsuyu in her pocket. Quickly Sakura started writing everything down and received the blood samples she had asked for. Starting work on those she settled in for a long night of work when she felt his presence over her shoulder.

"You don't need to stay," she informed him.

"Hn," he grunted and she looked over her shoulder in time to see him make himself at home in a corner with her blade propped up on his shoulder and his head resting against the wall. He was clearly far too used to this in her mind.

"You know I'm going to be here all night, right?" she asked as she started prepping the blood for the tests she wanted to run; finding the virus was going to be the most important part of this little mission tonight.

"Aa," he nodded as he closed his eyes and she sighed.

"Suit yourself," she grumbled.

Sasuke left her to work alone and he decided to rest in a state that wasn't quite sleep but he was not awake. It was somewhere between the two because he was alert to everything around him and he was just silently resting. Everything had been going smoothly on the 'date' if it could be called that and he was certain that he'd be able to win her over in a little while. It wouldn't be that hard to prove to her that he cared, he'd just have to make more of an effort at it than he had been.

His ears tune to her movements and he slowed his breathing as he settled his body and cleared his mind. It wouldn't do to be unfocused while he rested. He didn't really care to be groggy, and had perfected this method of resting years ago. Mostly so Orochimaru or Kabuto couldn't sneak up on him and try to steal his body. And yes, despite his promise to Orochimaru of 'I'll hand my body over if you get me my revenge', he'd lied. He had no intentions of ever handing his body over, he had just needed to bide his time and take all outwait them all. He was patient and good at waiting and planning.

Sakura snarled a bit as she worked but he wasn't roused by her grumblings. He wondered if she knew she was noisy and annoying even when she was focused and working in her lab. Perhaps there was a valid reason for everyone to fear her now, she snarled like she was a dragon or lioness. He didn't think she had done that when they were genin unless she was yelling at Naruto in which case he'd always wisely stand back.

Sasuke had never wanted the wrath of Haruno Sakura on him because the woman had a temper which made Kurama look like a fluffy fox cub, which was saying something. The girl had been terrifying, however the woman… well, she made the Tailed Beasts look tame in comparison. Sasuke would do just about anything to avoid having her wrath turned upon him.

"Damn it!" she shouted and his eyes flew open to look at her back then he shut them again. There was some clunking around but he ignored it until she snarled like a tiger and then he opened his eyes to watch her.

She was working diligently but then saw her turn on him and her brilliant green eyes narrowed.

"What would you do if you were going to poison an entire shinobi team? How would you do it?" she asked him.

"Their water?" he guessed. Sakura blinked as she sighed then.

"See, I tested that and it isn't how they were infected, I'm thinking it was not ingested." She looked discouraged.

"Their sleeping bags," he shrugged. She stared at him with wide eyes.

"Uchiha Sasuke that's fucking brilliant!" she darted over and kissed him hard and then she was gone as he sat there stunned. What had just happened?

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