Chapter 7

Sakura looked at Sasuke. Sasuke looked at Sakura.

"Well, aren't we going? Are you going to miss your dear village?" he sneered.

"Do you get sea sick?" she asked suddenly

"Huh? N-noo..."

"Oh good. Or else in a few minutes it's going to get messy." Sakura raised her arm and snapped her fingers and in an instant, they were at the front entrance to the Village of Sand. Sasuke was a bit dizzy but was more astonished by her.

"H-h-how did you do that?" he muttered. Sakura looked at him.

"Long story, we need to hurry." Sasuke nodded. They quickly made it to the Kazekage's office only to find Baki in Gaara's seat.

"Baki" acknowledged Sakura. Baki looked up and sighed in relief.

"Sakura-sama, your speed still manages to amaze me." Sasuke looked at Baki strangely. Did I just hear right? Sakura SAMA?! When did she get such acknowledgment?! He was returned to reality when he heard Sakura's voice.

"Where can I find Gaara?"

"Right to the problem" Sakura nodded. Baki smiled in gratitude.

"In the infirmary" Sakura nodded again and turned to leave. "Uchiha, you can sleep or do whatever you like. I don't really care. Don't get in the way." With that she left. Sasuke clenched his fists.

"Uchiha, your room will be this way."

"Wait" Baki turned around.

"Give me all the clues or information you have on this case." Baki looked surprised.

"Y-yes of course" He reached for a file on the desk and handed it on him. Sasuke took and asked him

"So where is my room?"

*With Sakura

Sakura walked into the infirmary and the head medic came up to her.

"Please help the Kazekage!" she pleaded

"I need everyone's cooperation so please make me in charge." The head medic nodded in understanding. Sakura looked up at the medics treating Gaara. Her eyes then narrowed when she saw a medic holding an antibiotic injection and was about to give It to Gaara. Gaara looked like he had a date with death. He had lost a huge amount of weight. In an instant, Sakura was next to the medic and had snatched the injection and flung it away.

"Hey what do you think you're doing?!" yelled the medic

"I'm stopping you from ruining your Kazekage's body"

"What?! Who do you think-"

"The woman in charge, my name is Sakura Haruno, perhaps you've heard of me." All the medics started at her. They have all heard of the Sakura Haruno. She was one the greatest medics and ninjas that are found in the Land of Fire. She was trained by the great Godaime herself and has said to have surpassed her a few years ago.

"From now on you will do what I say or you will be a risk of making his condition worse. Is that understood?"

"Hai" they all answered.

"S-S-Sakura...is t-t-that y-you-u?" Everyone turned to Gaara who spoke or more like choked out. Sakura looked at him with kinder eyes. She knew that talking hurt for him so she hushed him.

"Don't speak. Tell me where it hurts." Gaara looked at her with relief. He gestured to his throat, hands, feet and his abdomen. Sakura narrowed her eyes. She reached out for a spare clipboard with some paper and wrote down something. The medics looked at her list. It said

Burning oesophageal pain

Burning pains in the hands and feet

Cramps

The medics looked at the list and then her. Just from a few gestures, she managed to make those observations.

She gestured for some more paper and gave it to him. He looked at her, confused.

"Communication" was all that she said. The medic before swallowed his courage and asked

"He has Gastritis doesn't he, why did you knock the vaccination out of my hands." Sakura looked at him as if he was complete idiot.

"If he did have Gastritis then the antibiotics would have taken affect the FIRST time you gave it to him. But it didn't, since you gave it to him, it would have killed the bacteria in the gut. I mean the good bacteria. Gaara-san when was the last time you took a dump?" Gaara looked at her in embarrassment. Even if he looked like death you could clearly the light blush that appeared on his cheeks. The medic stared at her.

"Y-y-you, how dare you act so disrespectful towards the Kazekage?!"

"This is all part of my questioning. Please tell me Gaara, write on the paper and only show me if you are embarrassed." Gaara quickly scribbled something down and showed her. It read Yesterday. Sakura let out a sigh of relief. But her brain was trying to piece everything together. Her brain then thought of something which frightened her.

"When was his fight?" They all looked at her with surprise.

"I've forgotten ok?!" she said with a bit of harshness in her voice.

"Um...it was 8.30am this morning. We sent a report straight after we retrieved him back." Sakura clenched her fists.

"Schedule an examination in a few hours. I need rest so I can concentrate."

"Um... we can schedule it tomorrow morning if it you want so you can rest." Suggested a medic

"No" she growled, she blinked and calmed herself, "Sorry, but no time isn't on our side, we need to examine him as soon as possible."

"We have examined him, he has an inflamed stomach" Sakura glared at the medic which silenced him.

"Please set up the MRI for an examination for the kidneys. That will be all" and then she disappeared. All the medics looked at each other, thinking of whether to follow her orders. The head medic looked at them all and yelled.

"Well, get cracking!"

When all that was happening, Sasuke was in his room looking through the files that Baki had given him. In the file were a piece of cloth and some documents of surrounding witnesses. Sasuke smirked. This is going to be a piece of cake he thought. I'll show you Sakura, I am not weak. You are the one weak. Thinking that he had no worries, he went to bed. Sakura's room was right next to him. When he heard her door open, he went out and knocked on her door. Sakura opened it and found Sasuke there. She sighed and walked back into the room, leaving the door open. Sasuke just stood there. After a few minutes of standing, Sakura spoke.

"Do you plan to stand there for the whole time?" Sasuke blinked and entered the room, closing the door behind him. He then clearly saw what she was wearing. She was wearing her pjs (mentioned in Chapter 6) Sasuke tried not to blush but it obviously didn't work as Sakura was looking at him unimpressed.

"So what did you find out of the evidence?"

"What? How did you find out?"

"Baki told me"

"Are you talking to me again?" he sneered. Sakura raised an eyebrow.

"I only wanted information on the mission that we were assigned. Even if I hate your guts like hell, you are still my mission partner. So let's try and work together until we return to Konoha" Sasuke was taken back at how professional she was.

"Ah...ok" Sasuke muttered. "It's going to be a piece of cake. A piece of cloth was retrieved. By the way...how was Gaara?" Sakura's eyes narrowed at this. She moved her chair next to her bed and motioned for him to sit on it. He did and then sakura sat on her bed with the blankets covering her legs.

"His condition was terrible. He has lost a lot of weight." She said. Then Sakura started mumbling "He had burning oesophageal pain, burning pains in the hands and feet and cramps...but why...why...why..." Sasuke blinked as he didn't catch it.

"Do you have a theory?" Sakura's head snapped up. Her eyes were clouded with what seemed like worry.

"Yes but I need more evidence. Sorry Sasuke I need you to leave. I need some rest before my scheduled examination with Gaara which is in 2 hours." She slipped under the covers and said, "Please close the light and door when you're on your way out." Sasuke smirked at her actions. He got up and did exactly that. It was only after he returned to his room he released something

...She called me Sasuke...

Ok a word to all the readers. PLEASE CUT ME SOME SLACK IF I UPDATE LATE! Cuz this mission is completely thought up by me. It's a brand new mission. So the technology is modern but it's still the ninja world... Do you guys get it? SO EVEN IF I UPDATE LATE PLEASEW KEEP ON READING!