I Do Not Own Naruto

Healing

Sakura grinned when she dressed in something akin to a hazmat suit and gathering up the clothes and sleeping gear she brought them into a separate lab and started examining them for traces of the poison and smiled deviously.

"I got you, you son of a bitch!" she declared happily as she she took a sample and returned to her lab and resumed her work on the poison. Sasuke hadn't really moved but she knew he was fully alert to everything that she was doing as she worked. Sakura was humming in her delight as she worked on the poison.

Breaking it down she then started listing all the ways to cure this and she grinned to herself as she worked. This was going to work. Quickly she started making the antidote and cure for this poison. It was tedious work but she was figuring it out when she finally tested it and smiled as the poison disapated.

"Alright, the supplies for the village will help mass make this antidote," she said softly as she worked and then she looked up to one of the Suna doctors and he just blinked at her.

"Here's the breakdown of the antidote, make it in these proportions exactly, there is no room for error here, and when you've completed that started giving the antidote to the patients," she ordered as she started working on making more of the antidote and she nearly cried in delight at having won this battle against the poison master.

Sasuke watched her bustle around the patient room then as she distributed her antidote and he felt relieved that this was working. The sooner they finished up here the sooner they could return home and the journey home was going to be the time he figured out Sakura. that was his promise to himself as he watched the pinkette move around. How did she have all this energy?

It was like she had a never ending supply of energy as she moved from patient's bed to patient's bed asking them all sorts of questions. Sasuke was just relieved that this was working, he didn't think he'd ever be able to be a medic if this was how invested they all got with their patients.

Looking up he noticed Gaara coming to stand beside him.

"I think everything will be alright now," Gaara said softly as they both stood there watching.

"Aa," he nodded.

"You know you are lucky she always forgives you," Gaara said and he nodded in agreement as they both watched the pinkette.

"Do not ever take it for granted again," Gaara said firmly and Sasuke blinked as he slid a warning look to the Kazekage. "Friends should never be taken for granted," Gaara said firmly.

"And why would it matter to you how I treat my friends?" Sasuke asked darkly.

"Because, we have shared that same look in our eyes before, I know the pain you've felt and I understand you," Gaara said simply. "I hope you realize that you have friends who care about you."

Leaving them alone Gaara walked to his office and hoped for the best for the Uchiha and he knew that stupid infatuation with the pinkette was over. There was no way he'd ever get her, she was the Uchiha's and he knew that.

He smiled to himself as he remembered the first time he had seen her and admired her.

Sakura had leapt between him and Sasuke with a look of pure determination as she defied her obvious fear. He had admired her for that courage, he had not ever met anyone willing to do what she had done for the Uchiha. It was a dangerous thing to do get between him and whatever the demon had wanted to devour but the pinkette had done it and though he had crushed her, he had admired her for that. It was admirable.

But now it was time to send the message to Naruto that they were once again on good terms with one another since that seemed to be Naruto and Kakashi's biggest concerns. He understood why though, when they had arrived it was like dealing with two spitting cats honestly. Sitting at his desk he wrote the missive to Kakashi and sent it off as he leaned back in his seat. He was pleased with their ability to now be in the same room and not be at one another's throats. It was probably a good beginning.

Shorter than normal but it's all I've got for this so...

That's all for now folks!

Enjoy Only Tears! =)