A/N: I don't think I managed to describe the scene in the beginning of the organ samples and stuff…slightly grosteque. Not grosteque enough for me. Skip the beginning description if you are one of those with the bad combination of really weak stomachs and great imaginations…
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, FMA, the "Red Water" idea (that belongs to FMA), Sakura Haruno, or Subaku no Gaara. TT
Sakura Haruno sat in her stool, peering into her microscope. On her glass slide was a tiny drop of blood, taken from an infected ninja. There didn't seem to be anything wrong with it. There were red blood cells cluttered among the clear fluid, giving it a pinkish red tint. Sighing, she stood up and walked to the other side of the lab, where labeled jars were stacked up to the ceiling. The jars contained specific pickled organs of the dead that had agreed to donate to the cause of medical advancement. It was an eerie sight; oddly shaped lumps floating around in greenish water, bobbing up and down, slightly reflecting at the small amount of light given off by a desk lamp. The young kunoichi selected a jar from the shelf that was labeled 'lung', containing a small fragment of the main channel of a person's infected lung.
Haruno pulled on some rubber disposable gloves and an air mask. Tucking the jar under her arm, she walked over to her research desk. Opening a cabinet under the table, she carefully selected the right tools for dissection. Using a pair of metal tongs, she lifted the sample of lung (complete with bits of flesh protruding off of it) onto the plastic tray.
Inner Sakura-YAY! CUTTING! This is gonna be KEWL!
Sakura-You have a seriously sick mind…this is gonna be DISGUSTING…
Inner Sakura-Humph, you're no fun…
Rolling her eyes are her inner self, Haruno got to work. She carefully took the thin knife and made a small slit. The thing made a disturbing squelching noise. Bracing her self, she made another slit, now with a sickening crunching sound, this time piercing in to the lung, instead of grazing the surface. To her complete distaste, a reddish gas started to come out. Quickly fumbling with her cabinet, she found a small plastic bag. Holding the opening over the piece of lung, she let a small amount of the gas into the bag before sealing it.
Placing the sealed bag into a plastic box, which was then placed into her cabinet and locked, she decided that she was in for enough disturbing scenes for the day. Opening the locked door to her room, she headed for the shower.
Half an hour later, she pulled on some clothes (with more fishnets) and decided that it was time to report to the "Kazekage-sama". Rolling her eyes, she headed out the door. Being tired this time she took the elevator to the top level. Once again, she paced the large hall, searching for the office. Finding it, she knocked on the door.
No answer.
Knocked again.
No answer.
Knocked once more.
Still no damned answer.
Now slightly pissed, Sakura decided that she should just OPEN THE GODDAMN DOOR HERSELF.
The moment she opened the door, she was greeted by an unpleasant stench.
'What the hell is that? Ugh, DISGUSTING!' Holding her nose, she entered the room once again. And what did she find?
The Kazekage lying on unconscious on the ground. Of course, that was the first thing she noticed. The second would be the all-too-familiar red gas floating around in the room. Working quickly, she dragged the Kazekage out of the room and shut the door…
Subaku no Gaara woke up to a rather unpleasant headache. Coughing slightly, he forced himself to sit up. A quick scan of the surrounding area told him that he was in the hallway just outside his office, with Sakura Haruno sitting on the carpeted floor before him.
"Ne, what happened?" Gaara muttered. Sakura sighed. This was gonna be a really long explanation…
"I was in the laboratory dissecting a lung sample. And when I cut it open, some sort of…reddish gas came out. I managed to get a sample of it before it drifted away…anyway, I came up here to tell you about the discovery, and I walked into your office to find you unconscious. So, what the hell happened?" That would be putting it blunt.
"I was in the office, facing the window. And when I turned around, there was this strange red stuff in the air. Dunno anything else…" Gaara muttered.
This information got Sakura wondering. Gaara said that he was facing the window, which was on the other side of the room. Then, when he looked back, there was red in the air. But the gas couldn't have got into the room through the door, or else it would be in the halls too…So the only other way would be…the air conditioning system…
Sakura told the Kazekage what she had inferred, and he agreed that it was the only way the gas could have come in.
"But there's several factors we need to consider…the furnace and the air conditioning mechanism is way below the Kazekage's tower. And by way below the tower, I mean hundreds of feet. And the pipe leading to my office is separate from the rest of the pipes. It was 'supposed' to be a safety precaution…" Gaara seemed deep (er) in thought (then normal, if that's possible…). "One other thing, there's only one stair case leading to the furnace and pipes, and that one's extremely unstable…"
As said by Ino Yamanaka, 'Billboard Brow's' forehead wasn't there for just nothing. Behind it was a VERY big brain capable of calculating, with precision, the perfect plans (at least in theory).
If the pipes were hundreds of feet below the surface, then it was HIGHLY possible that the red gas was some sort of toxic substance that resided in places like wells and mine shafts.
Later that day, Sakura Haruno and Subaku no Gaara were descending the steps to the furnace. Gaara was holding an oil lamp, and Sakura was doing her best at keeping hold of her wits. The place was so dark that it looked like it could be the steps descending to the pits of Hell it's self. Gaara, being lost in his own world (as usual) didn't even bother to notice the kunoichi's obvious discomfort.
The two reached the moist, earthen ground below, walking ahead into the dark abyss, before…
Sakura cursed her overly large forehead for the millionth time in her life. The "billboard brow" had collided with a piece of wood jutting out of the dirt wall.
"SHIT! Ahhh, PAIN!" the kunoichi howled as she rubbed the growing bump on her head. Gaara wasn't exactly paying attention to said kunoichi's shrieks. He was alittle more interested in the wood that she had walked into.
The fact was, that there was a rather limited supply of wood in the village of Sunagakure. All except the richer upper-class citizens of Suna lived in sandstone buildings. Even the people who could afford more costly homes lived in sandstone buildings, just with wooden interiors. No one would waste something worth so much in Suna by burying it six (hundred) feet under.
Gaara focused his chakra into his sand, forcing it against the loose dirt wall, before grinding the sand into the dirt. Pulling the sand back into his gourd, Gaara narrowed his eyes at what remained of where the dirt once was. Well, that explained the wood that Sakura had so idiotically knocked into. It was a huge shelf of dusty looking books, their pages yellowed with age. Gaara pulled one out. It was titled:
"An Introduction To Alchemy"
MY THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO REVIEWED I decided, I'm gonna write something back to the reviews in the bottom on the stories (right here).Silver Element- O.O are you kidding me? I suck at writing, this is my…2nd story I ever wrote. You are one of my FAVORITE authors. I love your series! Thanks for the review! I can't wait for the next chapter of your story! Update soon! - my happy bat chibi face
Kyoluver- Thanks! I'm glad peoplez are actually reading this! my happy chibi faceSlaymyheart- nuuuuu, as u can see, I DID NOT kill Gaara off. I'd have to be a heartless cruel btch to do that. Well, I actually am going to do that, but not in this series. I was thinking about another series I'm gonna do. It's gonna be romance/tragedy/angst. Don't worry, I'll try not to do any more character deaths (besides Naruto and Sasuke) in this series. . my freaky AND happy chibi face
LOLZ ph34r my SKILLZ! Heh, I used a DIFFERENT CHIBI FACE FOR EACH OF THE REPLIES! OH YEAH! Hah…I'M EBIL! NOT EVIL, BECAUSE I'M BETTER THEN THAT! I AM EBIL! EBIL EBIL EBIL EBIL EBIL EBIL EBIL!(K, I'm done being random…)
Sorry if this chappie took longer then intended. I just didn't wanna get off my lazy ass…