This one has been sitting around for several weeks on my hard drive, I just finished the scene out. Sorry if it seems disjointed.

Naruto stared at the woman glaring down at him from the foot of his bed, his hospital bed. It wasn't that he minded the bed rest, or even the woman at the end of the bed, but it was the room. It was suffocating him. He could feel the sweat breaking out on his forehead, and knew that the walls would be closing in on him soon, and yet he couldn't do anything to get the woman to let him out.

"Come on Sakura-chan," Naruto pleaded, his usual smile growing slightly nervous. "Just let me go outside for some fresh air, even just a trip into the hall would be fine!"

"No Naruto," Sakura countered her emerald eyes hardening as she pushed his back down into the bed. "You are not going anywhere until Tsunade-sama okays your release. She gave me the duty of keeping you in this bed until she got here, and you're staying. That. Is. Final."

Naruto let out a whimper of terror as he looked over at the clock. He'd only been awake for five minutes, but already he could feel the walls closing in, the tightness in his chest was making breathing difficult. He had to get out of here; he had to do something, anything to escape the prison-like confines of the hospital room. Go somewhere with trees, and flowers, and wind, and dirt, and sky, and wind... and WIND! He couldn't make a move to run without risking hurting Sakura though... maybe if she were to open the window he could relax, at least the wind would help distract him.

"Hey Sakura-san... if I promise not to move while you're over there, could you open the window please?" Naruto pleaded, trying a new tactic. Something in his voice told Sakura was up, that and the shaking he'd developed shortly after the sweat started beading on his forehead. "Please... I... I just need some air Sakura-san..."

Sakura frowned down at Naruto, he wasn't acting his usual self. In fact he seemed to be acting like he was stuck in class again, especially that one where Miyuki-sensei had bound and gagged Naruto into the closet. She couldn't figure out why Naruto was acting like this, but he wasn't going to trick her into escaping like that. "No Naruto, Tsunade-sama should be here soon, and then you can go. You did do a lot of damage to your body this time..."

Naruto collapsed back onto the bed, trying to stop his hands from trembling by clutching the sheets under them. "I swear to you Sakura, that if I get up off this bed while you're opening the window, I will give up ramen for an entire year. You know I never go back on my word, so please... just open the windows... just a little bit... please?"

Sakura picked up a rag and wiped the sweat off Naruto's brow. Something wasn't right, but she couldn't place her finger on it. Naruto wasn't acting like himself, but she had strict orders that he wasn't to leave the bed. Looking out the window she let out a sigh and shook her head. "I'm sorry Naruto, it's raining out..."

Before Naruto could reply Tsunade walked into the room, "Naruto, you're free to go af..." she began before an orange blur zoomed past in front of her. "...ter you get dressed..." she finished blinking slightly. "What just happened?"

"Lady Tsunade..." Sakura answered quietly, "What do you know of odd behavior? I mean in a person..."

"Not much I'm afraid..." Tsunade began sitting down on the bed and sighing. "Psychology, or the medicine of mental problems is something no ninja have ever studied, why?"

"Because Naruto was panicking about being in this room..." Sakura answered worriedly as she rubbed the still warm spot on the bed. "He's done it before in tighter spaces, but never in a room as large as this..."

"That's odd..." Tsunade intoned curiously, "Maybe it's something we should have someone study that branch of medicine... it might help the village as a whole..."

Sakura stood up and walked over to the window, looking at Naruto dancing out in the rain, celebrating something in his own mind. "Ino's family uses various jutsu for the mind... don't they? Maybe they'd be the best choice..."

"I'll ask if they're interested..." Tsunade offered as she looked down at the boy she thought of as her son. It was the best she could do right now. And that was a sad fact in her opinion.