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A/N - Hey all its me again, So ya I recently read a YondaimexSakura fic and thought, hey what the heck, lets try it! So here it is, tell me what you think. Its an odd pairing but, trying new things are fun! So R&R please. I was going to make a second chapter anyway, w/e.
How To Save A Life
A stormy night wasn't too common in the village of Leaf…especially in the summer. Thunder clashed and lightning lit up the cloudy sky. The village was asleep, lights off and nestled tightly in their beds.
All except for Tsunade and the council, who stood dumbfounded in the Hokage's tower, gaping at the sight before them. Eyes of all of the surrounding individuals widened at what had just stepped through the front door. Gasps were heard around the room as another flash of lightning lit up the room.
"This isn't possible…" one said
"How can this be?" said another
"Is it a jutsu?" and another
Finally the being in the door way tried to walk toward them, something none of them expected. Tsuande was too shocked to even attempt to comprehend anything that was happening. One council in particular spoke. "So you have returned…Yondaime…?"
The shadowed had spoken, "Some welcome committee…" he said before collapsing.
Snapping back to reality Tsunade rushed to the fallen Hokage, along with Shizune. Quickly finding faint vital signs, she yelled to one of the members of the council.
"Bring me my apprentice, his wounds are fatal, Shizune and I won't be able to handle them all! Bring me Haruno Sakura!"
One disappeared directly after her last word.
"We need to get him to the hospital now; he's losing too much blood!"
Shizune started to pour chakra into the main open wounds, trying to close them, but her fear of hurting their newly arrival more then helping him made her lose concentration.
Minutes past before they were able to finally get him into a hospital bed. Tsunade started to mold her healing chakra into his wounds while Shizune hooked him up to the monitors.
The Yondaime started to tremble from the chakra intake he was receiving. Soon the trembling started to increase into a non stop shake. More blood started to pour from his wounds then originally, which made Tsuande started to panic.
"He's rejecting my chakra! Where is Sakura?!" Shizune seemed to go into a panic her self as she tried to apply pressure to the larger of his wounds. With that he let out a painful shriek. His eyes shot open, than just as quickly snapped shut. Gritting his teeth, the heart monitors in the background seemed to go haywire.
'Damn it all…where is she? I'm low on my chakra now, I can't keep this up!"
As the thunder kept on, a curtain pink haired kunoichi slept very unsoundly. Tossing and turning in her bed, she shot up at the sound of a loud knock at her front door. Uncharacteristically she tumbled of her bed and scrambled to the door, hitting a few wall, chairs and any other objects in her way.
Unlocking and slowly opening door so not so much rain would under her humble abode, a large hand stuck to the back side of the door. Gasping, she saw their face as the lightning lit up the village with bright intensity. She new the face of the little less then happy visitor, it was one of the council members of Konoha, but why where they at her home?
"Haruno Sakura?" he asked in a grumbling voice.
Slightly frightened she nodded slowly, but before she could say a word, he threw his had at her as they both were engulfed into a thick cloud of grey smoke. The door swung open and swayed back and forth with the massive wind that passed, as thunder deafened the temporarily silent night.
With another giant puff of smoke, Sakura found herself in the chaos of the hospital. Trying to take in the moment, she felt a shove from behind, telling her to go to room
A 212 in a hurry and that Tsunade needed her help.
Without another moment of hesitation, Sakura ran as fast as she could to the room she was told and entered swiftly. Upon entry she found a very bloody and tired Tsuande, applying more chakra to a man, as Shizune applied more pressure to the wounds, which made him yell again in pain.
"What's going on!" she yelled over the commotion of the monitors.
"I'll tell you later, right now we need to save this man at all costs and it isn't looking good! I'm running low on chakra and he seems to be rejecting it, every time we apply pressure to his wounds it gives him more pain!" she yelled back.
Nodding in understanding, Shizune stepped back, letting Sakura take her place. After assessing the situation a light bulb lit up in Sakura's head.
"Tunade! I have an idea! Inner Sakura can go into his mind and calm him down; maybe he'll trust her and take in my chakra! I can use the technique Ino uses, the mind transfer, I can still heal here while Inner Sakura is in his mind!" she said very quickly.
But just as quickly, Tsuande nodded, "That just might work, go and hurry up, he is still loosing blood, I don't know how long he can last."
Taking in a deep breath, Sakura made some hand seals and transferred Inner Sakura into the man's mind.
-Inside the mind of the Yondaime-
Inner Sakura walked slowly on the invisible barrier between were she stood and the dark depths of his mind below.
"Hello? Sir? Are you here? Sir?" she tried
Silence…
"Sir, please if you can hear me, please answer, I'm not here to hurt you I promise!" she tried a little bit louder.
Silence…
Walking again she noticed a particular part of the invisible ground looked shattered. Walking closer to it, she stared down into a bit of black.
"What in the world…?"
The same moment, the barrier she stood upon cracked between her feet, as the floor gave way, sending her down. As a last resort she reached up to catch the ledge, but on contact it ripped through her hand like glass and sent her to fall again.
After moments of freefalling she finally landed on cold, hard ground, which wasn't too good to her rear end. Rubbing her bottom she stood up and searched her surroundings. She was actually very surprised when she found the reason why she went there. Inner Sakura found the man.
She ran to him, almost as if her life depended on it. "Sir?" she stopped before him. He was shadowed in the darkness of his mind, the aura around him told Sakura that he was scared or hurt, or maybe both. As she reached out to touch him a chakra barrier surrounded his body.
Inner Sakura recoiled before it could touch her, with her pulling back, the barrier dropped.
She felt an itchy feeling down her hand and glanced down. It was bleeding from when she fell, but she paid no mind to it.
"What's your name?" she asked kneeling in front of him. She could see his shocking cerulean eyes stare at her then down at her wounded hand, oh how she wish she could see the rest of him, she wasn't even paying attention to what he looked like when she entered his mind.
"You're…hand….its……..bleeding…" he said slowly
She blinked and smiled warmly and started to heal it, thinking it might upset him, but when she began nothing happened. Frowning, she tried to heal it again, but nothing happened. Then realized. 'I'm in his mind, I can't heal myself!'
Smiling again but sadly to him she spoke. "I can't heal myself here, only you can heal me, in here, we play by your rules."
He slowly lifted his eyes to her again. "Only…I can…save you?" he asked shakily.
'Save me? This wound won't kill me…hmm…but maybe…if I say he can save me, he'll try to heal me, giving himself more confidence.' she thought.
"Yes only you can save me…will you?" she said, lifting her bleeding hand to find the barrier rose slightly.
Silence…
After moments of an awkward nothingness, he nodded and gently took her hand in his.
He frowned a bit, knowing he was never really trained properly in the art of medical jutsu.
"I…don't know what…to do..." he murmured. Sakura blinked then giggled a bit, "Ok, concentrate some chakra into your hand, think about what you want to do and wait until the chakra surrounding your hand turns a very pale green."
He nodded and closed his eyes, trying to concentrate putting chakra into his hand. Inner Sakura could see that the shadow he was shrouded in started to dissipate into nothing, and she could finally manage to see him.
What Inner Sakura saw shocked her. 'Naruto?'
She felt a warm sensation tingle on her hand and looked down to find that he was healing the wound. "Like this?" he asked.
Nodding numbly, she raised her eyes to meet his again. 'He looks like an older version of Naruto…but different at the same time…well he's very handsome, I'll give him that…but his eyes, they seem so…I don't know I can't put my finger on it…maybe relieved?'
"M-my name is Sakura…what's yours?" she asked cautiously but tried to smile.
She could see a faint blush cross his face, which made her smile even more.
"Arashi…" he whispered almost silently. Inner Sakura noticed him still holding her hand, though it was fully healed, 'He's pretty good for a first timer, there's not even a scar!'
"Arashi…that's an unusual name, but I like it." She smiled to him, seeing the blush he had growing, then changing her tone, to a more serious note. "Listen…you probably already realize we are both in your mind, what I don't know if you know is if you realize that your body is very badly injured. The Hokage has been trying to heal you but you keep rejecting her chakra, if I heal you, will you reject my chakra too?"
He shook his head. "I have a pain every time someone pressures my right arm, there is a shuriken inside one of the wounds, but its deep, I don't think they know…" he mumbled.
Inner Sakura gasped, 'So that's why he was screaming!' "Its ok, I'll help you, just keep holding my hand, this might hurt ok?"
Nodding again, he watched her close her eyes.
'Hey Saku-chan! Can you hear me out there?' Inner Sakura spoke to Outer Sakura
'Loud and clear, what's taking so long!'
'Sorry, listen there is a shuriken in the wound Shizune kept attending, its way deep inside, that's why he was yelling, he agreed to not reject our chakra, so hurry up!'
'Ok, on it, thanks.'
Inner Sakura opened her eyes to find Arashi staring at her, "Don't worry everything is fine, why don't you tell me about what happened, how did you get hurt so badly?"
He squeezed her had a little, "I rather not…can we talk about you?"
She frowned slightly which was unnoticed by Arashi, but nodded. "Well as you know, my name is Sakura, Haruno Sakura. I'm nineteen years old and I'm a top medic and kunoichi in Konoha. Yes my hair is naturally this color. I'm still training a little under the Hokage, but I'm mostly surpassing her."
Arashi blinked a little. "You don't dye it?" she shook her head, 'Why does my hair color always get everyone!'
"If you're a kunoichi, why are you wearing that?" he said glancing down at her décor.
Inner Sakura looked down at her self with total embarrassment, she was wearing her two sizes to small white tank top and matching short-shorts. "Uhh…well I was sleeping, then I guess I didn't change when I was brought here to help you, but no I'm not some slut if that's what you're thinking…"
"Oh…so they dragged you out of bed, to come and save me?" he asked almost saddened. She noticed his grip on her hand lessen. "What! No! Well sorta, but its not like they did it against my will, I came here because I wanted to help you!" she gripped his hand again.
Smiling to him made him smile a bit to, "I've never seen a pink haired kunoichi…you're very…beautiful…" he turned red which was contagious because Inner Sakura did as well. "T-thank you, Arashi."
After a long while Inner Sakura asked, trying to break the silence, "So, how old are you?"
Arashi glanced up at her, "Twenty-two I think…"
"Wow, really? I though you'd be older!" she gasped
"Do I really look that old?" he grimaced
"What? No! Its just you don't look a day over eighteen, usually people who look young are a lot older…well at least all the ones I've met! Does that make any sense to you?" she sweat dropped.
"Oddly enough…yes, I've met people like that." He laughed.
A silence passed again, but one more comfortable. Arashi just stared into her emerald eyes, almost traumatized by their color.
'Hey! It's time to get out of his mind, everything is fine!'
'Really? That was kinda quick."
"The wounds healed quickly with my chakra, good job keeping him preoccupied."
"Thanks, I'll be bright there!"
"Alight, just hurry up, I'm exhausted."
Inner Sakura nodded, then turned to Arashi.
"Hey, its time for me to go, and time for you to wake up, you're all better, thanks to Saku-chan!"
"Your…leaving?" he saddened.
"Mhm, but don't worry, I'll be there when you wake up, though you might just go back to sleep again." she sweat dropped again.
Nodding to her, she said goodbye to him and disappeared. Arashi could still feel her hand in his, though she was gone. A bright light overtook him as see started to gain consciousness.
-End Arashi's Mind-
Many noises were heard, beeping, talking, doors opening and closing. He was so confused, opening his sapphire eyes, he saw only two things that interested him.
1. The ceiling, which seemed to entice him to no degree.
2. A pink haired, green eyed woman in white, smiling down to him, a light seemed to glow around her….though it could have just been the lighting in the hospital room.
Squinting a little, Arashi managed to find her hand, and grabbed it, which startled her.
"Are you a guardian angel?" he asked huskily
Tsunade watched the scene unfold, as she sat in a chair next to the bed, drained.
"Well, I'm no angel, but if you want to think that, I can be your guardian angel, if you like…?" she whispered.
He nodded and fell unconscious. Sakura let go of his hand and walk around to Tsuande.
"So what was that about?" asked the blonde haired woman.
"I'm not sure, maybe he's still trying to comprehend the pink hair, not many people on earth have it, he must have thought I was a higher being or something…" she concluded, "But if saying I was his guardian angel will comfort him then I say let him think that, plus, its nice to be thought of that way." She grinned.
The Hokage laughed, then smiled, "You know Sakura, you just saved a very important person today, when no one else could, we are all very grateful."
"Glad I can be of assistance, but Tsuande…who is he?" she asked
"We'll talk about that tomorrow when he wakes up again, also I want you here bright and early for when he does wake up, I think he'd feel a lot more at ease if you were around."
"Eh Tsunade, it's almost four in the morning…maybe I'll just stay here incase anything happens then?" She tried, she was way too tired to walk all the way home; she doubted she'd make it out of the hospital doors.
The Hokage pondered this, then nodded. "I'll go and get you some new cloths, you just stay here and rest; you did your job, so you deserve a good rest."
"Hai Tsuande!"
Sitting up from the chair, the blonde woman walked out of room.
Sakura slumped in the chair her sensei left for her and glanced at the sleeping man.
'He is soooo hot!'inner Sakura cheered, 'Yeah, but I have a feeling he's not on the market, and if he is, he isn't going to have a relationship with anyone anytime soon, from how everyone seems to make him out to be, he seems really important.'
'I don't know I think he likes us! He was blushing like a cherry in his mind!'
'Well, I don't know, let's just see how things go…I'm so tired the last thing on my mind is if a hot stranger thinks I'm cute."
'But you admit he's hot!"
Sakura smiled to herself, 'Of course what normal girl wouldn't?'
'Ha, you're right, well goodnight!'
'Goodnight, and thanks for helping me.'
'Ah no problem!'
After that Sakura soon fell into a sleep, 'Sleep tight, Arashi.'
TBC
Interesting couple...