WARNING(S): Mild description of injuries

A/N: This one is a little short, but ah well. I wanted to do something different besides "person A is a werewolf and person B is their partner/prey/etc".

"Code blue! We've got another code blue!" She could still hear the nurses yelling as they ran past her room, seconds before the intercom came to life with the same message. "Code blue."

Sakura heaved a sigh, or as deep a sigh as she could manage with how weak she still felt. Her wounds were no longer a sharp, rippling pain, but now a dull ache through her bones and muscles. She hadn't been able to look into a mirror, but judging by the wrappings and gauze she felt on her face, it probably wasn't pretty.

Turning her head, she looked at the teenage boy in the next bed. He'd gotten here a little after she had, another casualty of the attacks. His eyes were wrapped tightly in bandages, keeping him sightless, and there was a large ugly gash going from nostril to chin, passing through his lips.

Whether he was awake or not, she couldn't tell. All she could see was his chest rising and falling, the teenager seeming very fragile in that large white bed. He'd had a few visitors now; a couple that were apparently his parents, his mother fraught with worry, and a man who claimed to be his older brother who sat at his bedside until the nurses gently told him to go. Despite all of that, he never said a word, or gave any indication he heard them.

Shifting in her bed, she let out a tiny grunt of pain as her wounds pulled. The bright lights of the room were starting to sprout a headache.

"H… hey…" her voice rasped. "You're awake… right?"

For a moment, the boy in the next bed remained silent. Then, quietly, he answered, "I've been awake for a while now."

Sakura smiled weakly and reached for the water jug at her bedside table. "Do you… do you remember what happened…?"

The teenage boy's brow furrowed, creasing the wrappings.

"The last thing… before I got knocked out… was my house being destroyed…" Sakura took a moment to sip some water. "And then I wake up here…"

"I don't remember much," the boy admitted. "But… I remember being hit… by one of them. Dammit… I hope I haven't gone blind."

She sipped more water, looking at the window. The sky was still dark with the night, and luckily the full moon had waned since the attack.

"So…" He began almost awkwardly. "I'm Sasuke. Did they… seriously put me in the same room as a girl? I don't know how to feel about that."

"Why, you nervous around girls or something?" She joked with a wheezing laugh. "I'm Sakura."

He hummed, thoughtful. "Not nervous, just… curious. I wouldn't expect them to put us together, considering."

She giggled again, her throat a little less painful. "I suppose between my injuries and your blindfold, the nurses won't have much to worry about."

The amused expression that flickered across his face made her smile grow. Maybe her stay in the hospital wouldn't be so bad after all.