Chapter 8
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Sakura immediately sat up. Her alarm clock had gone off. In a flash, she was dressed and out the door. It was time for Gaara's examination. Sakura literally ran to the infirmary, when she arrived she was relieved that all her equipment was set up. They went into MRI room. When she was all set, Gaara was scanned.
"I will now conduct an examination on the kidneys."
"Hai" And then the examination began.
*With Sasuke
It was afternoon and Sasuke was gotten bored of his room and when he was about to leave the room, Baki entered the room and said
"I'm sorry to bother you but the tracking team is assembling to start finding the attacker" Sasuke nodded and following him to a room. When they were walking to the room, they went past the infirmary.
All the trackers got in a circle for a discussion.
"Uchiha, Baki gave you the information and clues right?"
"Right. There is a piece of cloth in here which I presume is the enemies. Trackers just follow the scent." Sasuke smirked. This is going to be easy...
When all the trackers had caught the scent, they went off. It was about 2pm when they left. When the sky turned dark, they decided to camp for the night. Sasuke was lying in his tent when he realised something. These attackers must be powerful to attack the one-tailed. Then they should have known better than to leave evidence behind... But Sasuke shook it aside. He was just looking for problem in a perfect plan. He turned over and went to bed.
While Sasuke was tracking, Sakura was doing the examination on Gaara's kidneys. Sakura had checked if the antibiotics had been flushed out by the kidneys. Luckily she found the kidneys working fine. It was about 3 hours after the check-up. Gaara was currently resting. Sakura went to report to Baki in the Kazekage's office.
"Well?! How did it go?"
"His kidneys are working fine. The antibiotics have been successfully flushed out of his bodies."
"Eh...you had an exanimation to see if the antibiotics were out of his body?"
"Hai"
"WHY?! THAT PROVES NOTHING!"
"It tells us that he will now be able to take a dump."
"W-what?"
"If antibiotics is given to a perfectly healthy body, or there is no bad bacteria that needs killings off, the antibiotics will travel down to the gut and kill the bacteria in the intestines, meaning that he wouldn't have been able to go to the bathroom to do Number 2" Baki grimaced at her medical fact. Sakura's face then darkened.
"So we've come to a conclusion that Gaara doesn't have Gastritis...But then what does he have?"
"Do you have any ideas?" Baki asked, feeling a bit panicky. Sakura lowered her head
"I have a theory but that would contradict the kidney examination...Unless it hasn't reacted yet..." sakura started, mumbling to herself again. Baki stared at her. Sakura then looked up with her eyes filled with worry.
"I need more evidence. Please excuse myself for tonight"
"Y-yes of course, Sakura-sama" Sakura excused herself and stumbled into her room. She didn't even bother changing; she just flopped onto the bed. Darkness and relaxation swept over her.
*With Sasuke
*chirp
Sasuke woke up to the chirping of birds. He groggily sat up and went outside. No one else was awake. He made himself a cup of hot water. He was thinking about the case
I have a bad feeling about this mission...it's easy though...Sakura...wait...WHAT? Sasuke had just surprised himself.
When did she come in the picture?
Sasuke and Sakura sitting in the tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G
SHUT IT! Wait who are you?
You have no manners. Telling someone you don't know to shut it. I am you by the way
ME? No that's impossible. I'm me
-_- wow...
"Sasuke...Sasuke!" He was shaken back to reality when he heard Kankuro calling his name, "We're leaving"
"Hn" They started following the scent again. The scent led them to forests that were outside Sand. The forest entrance looked dark and intimidating. Sasuke narrowed his eyes and said
"Let's go"
*With Sakura
Sakura woke up, with her brain in a jumble. She needed to sort out her mind if she was going to think hard today. She summoned her training poles and created a pentagon around her. She got in a mediating position and focused her chakra. Her chakra strings lashed out and with her controlled chakra and sliced all of them in half at once. She was so focused that she didn't see that Baki had entered her room after knocking numerous times without an answer. He was staring at her with his mouth open. Sakura opened her eyes and stood up. With a snap of her fingers, the poles were gone.
"Baki, what's wrong?"
"Sakura-sama, quickly its Gaara..." he seemed out of breathe. Sakura narrowed her eyes and ran to the infirmary. She slammed the door open and found a load of medics attending Gaara. She pushed them out of the way and looked at Gaara's monitor. Sakura's eyes widened. His heart rate is dropping incredibly quickly!
"Quick! Hand me a shot of atropine!" She slowly injected the fluid into Gaara's blood stream. She checked his heart monitor again and was relieved to find that his heart rate had returned back to normal. Baki and the other medics were praying thanks to the gods that they saved Gaara but Sakura wasn't celebrating. While they were fussing over Gaara, she had also made a note of his condition. His hair is starting to fall. There is a fair amount of hair on his pillow, his skin is starting to swell and his weight has dropped again... all these were symptoms of THAT. She didn't like the chances of his illness being THAT. She still needed more evidence.
*With Sasuke
Sasuke and the other trackers had started following the scent in the forest. He jumped from tree to tree when he suddenly looked at one and said
That looked like a tree we passed before, it has that white mark on it... no way I must be seeing thing... he shook his head and continued. Since he wasn't paying attention, this shirt got caught in a branch and when he pulled free, a piece of his shirt ripped off.
*With someone (you'll probably guess though)
"Heh...Heh... soon all will be mine... Kabuto...is everything set?"
"Yes sir, if Sasuke and his pathetic comrades don't leave the Forest of enclosure in three days, they will spend the rest of their lives in there and since there is no food or water, when Sasuke has run out of energy we will kidnap him. ... "
"What about the one tailed?"
"There's no one that can save him now"
"Good... heheheh"
*With Sakura
If it really is that, then he doesn't have long to live. Sakura was currently in her room sitting at her desk with her head in her hands. His heart has already shown signs of failure. Her thoughts were interrupted as Baki entered her room.
"Sakura sama, the medics have informed me that Gaara's heart is starting to fail... is this true?" Sakura didn't move at all except for lifting her head so that it now leaned on her hands.
"You don't even trust your medics now?"
"N-no... it's just I don't want to believe it." Sakura closed her eyes again and sighed
"Yes, it is true" Sakura turned to face him and told him what she had in mind.
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