Stranger things have happened.....or maybe not.

Broken

Sakura woke up two days later in a hospital room with a teary eyed Naruto next to her yelling at her to not go towards the light. He had continued this until Sakura promptly hit him fairly hard upside the head. Later she asked the nurse about it and he had apparently been yelling things at my unconscious form the entire time. She knew Naruto was smarter than people gave him credit for but sometimes that kid was just stupid. After Naruto left, the nurse leading him out the door Sakura quickly jumped out of bed after she located her clothes on a chair in the corner of the room. She changed and grabbed her weapons and scrolls putting them in their rightful places feeling her face to confirm that her wrappings were still in place she nodded to herself in approval. Checking over herself again so she wouldn't have to come back to get anything she walked over to the window.

Hearing the door to the hospital room open she turned her head as she slid the window open and creased her eyes at the raging nurse before jumping out of the window. (Which just so happened to be on the third story) Once she landed gracefully on her feet she heard the nurse yell something out the window about her being a mini clone of Kakashi, To which she scowled at. Sakura was currently very angry at him and did not really want to be compared to him at the moment, or any moment really. Sakura sighed as she walked through the streets of Konoha, it was already mid afternoon so she couldn't really think of anything to do. She was still going over the events that led her to be in the hospital in the first place. She had no idea who the heck that was saying she couldn't save everyone but she didn't really care, even though it irked her to be so completely lost about something. Another sigh escaped her lips and she realized that she had been sighing a lot lately, like and unnatural amount. So then and there she decided that with only four more days left of the chunnin exams she would give herself much needed time off. So she found herself walking towards a hill in one of the training grounds and plopping her exhausted form down on the soft grass.

It was nearly night, the sun had disappeared over the walls of the village letting the dark blanket cover the quiet streets. All seemed calm and well with the world at that moment. Sakura let a sigh of content exit her mouth as she let her eyes slide shut. That was when she felt a very familiar chakra signature approaching her. They were still halfway across the village but as she felt another appear next to the first she let an exhausted smile go to her face. She knew as soon as she recognized the first signature that her planned day of relaxation had just been crushed, but for some reason she couldn't find it in herself to care. So once she heard the footsteps near her head and the two very different greetings she let a full blown grin travel to her lips. Sakura motioned for the two to join her as she lay beneath the stars that quickly began dotting the sky. She felt her hair being ruffled and two forms lay on either side of her as the previous worries in her mind melted away.

"Glad you two could make it." Sakura reached a hand over to her left side and ruffled her 'who she dubbed as her adopted brother's' hair. The boy stiffened under the kind touch but made no move to push her hand away which she thought of as a plus.

"There was no way I'd miss the chunnin exams of the brat who kicked my ass." Sakura chuckled.

"You guys got a place to stay?" Sakura asked as she looked to the two mist ninja.

"We'll get a room at an inn or something." Zabuza replied with a shrug.

"Yeah sure you will, I have more than enough rooms in my house, you'll be staying with me." Sakura declared not really caring what the two thought about her decision. Zabuza chuckled and it once again became silent as they stared up at the star lit sky. An hour or two later Zabuza found himself caring Haku in his arms like a baby and having Sakura sitting on his shoulders struggling to keep awake as she directed him to her house. As they got to her house Sakura dropped her key in Zabuza's hand and promptly fell asleep on his shoulders. Zabuza sighed as he struggled getting the door open while carrying Haku and making sure Sakura didn't fall off of his shoulders. Once he got the door open he set both Haku and Sakura on the couch so he could look for a room to put them in. He searched the house and quickly found Sakura's room and two guest rooms. Placing Sakura in her room and Haku in one of the guest bedrooms he put some seals around the house for protection out of habit and walked into the other guest room. He noticed that the guest room he was standing in looked a bit lived in but decided that if someone did live here then they could wake him up and make him move, but right then he was too tired to think more on the matter. Zabuza kicked off his shoes and plopped down on the bed quickly falling asleep.