Naru sat in the small room where she was to be examined with a sense of unease.

Thanks to the fact that Tsunade had more or less ordered her to be here she could only assume that Jiriaya hadn't bothered to tell the Kage about some of her...internal changes when he had been filling her in on some of her other changes.

Like the changes in her organs and their placement in her body, her soft tissues, and such. So when Sakura walked in with Shizune, Naru was feeling more than a little bit skittish about this whole affair. But since she knew that she had no choice but to go through with it, she folded her hands in her lap and decided to grin and bear it to the best of her ability.

"Hello Naru!" Shizune said cheerfully as she walked over to her and gave the younger woman a hug before moving away leaving her sitting there with an uh-huh sort of look on her pretty face as Sakura pulled out some things that she would use to conduct the physical before saying.

"Okay. Naru you've been through this before so you already know the routine. So try to relax and let me do this so I can get you out of here as soon as possible."

Easier said than done. Naru thought darkly as her heart stuttered and stopped in her chest as Sakura pulled out a stethoscope and put the ear pieces in her ears as she walked across the room and stopped in front of Naru and placed the instrument against her chest and waited several heart beats as Naru looked away nervously and waited for the inevitable explosion.

Which happened barely two seconds later when Sakura let out a shriek and pushed Naru flat on the narrow little table/bed thingy and fairly shouted. "Her heart's stopped! She's coding! Get a machine in here now!"

Naru lay on her back staring up at the ceiling with the same nervous look on her face as Shizune went tearing out of the room while Sakura leaned over her and put an oxygen mask over her nose and mouth and started babbling.

Oh...dear... She thought wearily, unsure of what she could do to get herself out of this situation since her heart only beat a few hours per day now. Leaving her infinite chakra to convert itself partially into blood and push itself through her body to carry oxygen where it needed to go while her heart took a rest to keep from over working itself.

She supposed that to get out of this she would just have to let Sakura and Shizune try to restart her heart. And when they failed, well she could always play dead and escape the morgue via one of the windows.

Of course even if she did that to escape there were draw backs. One of which was her friends would be informed of her 'death' which meant that there would be a lot of people shocked, surprised, and stunned by her miracle resurrection.

Not only that but some people might think she's an enemy trying to blend in and learn the village secrets by taking her own identity. Which meant that she would be risking being attacked...

Hm, choices, choices. Oh well. As much as a problem as it was, she didn't see any other choices.

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Tsunade was momentarily distracted from her urge to smack Kakashi upside the head for his latest act of defiance when she heard a series of shouting and yelling going on and peeked out the door just in time to see Shizune running by, her face ashen, pushing a dephib machine.

She might have asked what was wrong but figured that she'd find out sooner or later if someone was hurt when she finished with Kakashi and started her rounds. So she closed the door and turned her attention back to the infuriating, unco-operative man sitting on the exam table with his arms crossed over his chest. His mismatched eyes glaring at her.

"Hatake, we've been over this. You need to go through will all of these tests to make sure that your really healthy." Tsunade growled.

Kakashi looked less than impressed by her explanation as she picked up the plastic cup and again tried to hand it to the him. He looked at it like it was a bug.

"Tell me Tsunade, you only do this test from time to time so that you could store away some of my seed in case I was killed in the line of duty. So who exactly ordered this test to be done every week for the next month?"

"The council-"

"Is over stepping their bounds. My sex drive and semen count are no one's business except for mine and my future wife. And if those old fools keep pushing, my lady-" He snarled, surprising Tsunade with his venom. "Then not only will I refuse to marry but I will also refuse to sire offspring until the council and everyone on it are cold in their graves."

Tsunade gaped at him and was about to order him to do as she told under penalty of death or something when they heard shouting coming from the room down the hall where Naru was supposed to be.

Kakashi jumped down from the table and walked over to the door and opened it and nearly ran into a hysterical Shizune when he started to peek out. Automatically he moved away from her as Tsunade finally managed to pull herself together enough to growl. "What is going on?"

Shizune stuttered out the words 'Naru' and 'heart isn't working' which was three words more than either the Kage or Copy nin needed to hear before the exchanged a look and went tearing out of the room to see what was wrong with Naru just as Sakura came out of the room down the hall, crying, while a gurney was wheeled out of the room with Naru on it.

Both Kakashi and Tsunade came to a stop as they looked first at Sakura then at Naru.

Naru looked exactly as she normally did aside from the look of horror on her face and her unblinking stare. Although Kakashi found it a mite odd that her face and lips were tinged blue as one of the other nurses walked up and pulled the blanket covering her from feet to chin, up over her face like she was dead.

"Sakura what's going on here?" Tsunade demanded as Sakura sobbed out the whole story from beginning to end. She had been trying to listen to Naru's heart beat but it hadn't been there, then she had noticed that Naru seemed to be having trouble breathing, like she was in distress, then she had started to turn blue then they had lost her.

Naru was dead.