Blinded...by love? (A SasuNaruGaara fanfic)

Ch. 21

Recap:
I groaned out and hunched over in pain, holding my abdomen. Gaara heard me and glanced at me to see why I groaned out. When he saw how I was, he immediately dashed to my side and bombarded me with questions, his voice laced with concern.

"Naruto! Are you okay?! What's wrong? Do you need to go to the hospital?" Gaara asked me.

"I'm fine babe, just need a breather." I cheekily smiled reassuringly. Another twinge of sharp shooting pain in my gut and I was on the ground with Gaara screaming for help. The next thing I know, I blacked out from the pain.
To be continued...
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Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
'What is that?? Is that a heart monitor?' I thought to myself. I felt myself coming out of my sleepiness.

I groaned and slowly turned my head, fluttering my eyes open slowly as I woke up. As my eyesight caught up to my head, I saw that I was in a hospital room. I felt a hand squeeze one of my hands lightly, and I turned my head to see that it was my boyfriend, Gaara. He was looking at me, smiling.

"Gaara?? Where are we? Why am I dres-??" I was about to say before "people" i.e nurses, doctors, my old and new Sensei's, Iruka and Kakashi, they all started rushing in to the room. I got confused and scared. My heart-rate started rising and Gaara sensed that I was getting overwhelmed with the amount of people coming into the room.

"Can we only have one doctor and two nurses please? Naruto is getting overwhelmed...as you can tell by his heart-rate." Gaara asked loudly, so that everyone could hear him. He looked over to me as he said the last part to emphasize his point.

"I'll need your help Shizune...and you too Sakura. The rest of you can go." I heard the booming voice of none other than old granny herself, Lady Tsunade. When she said that, everyone but Shizune and Sakura briskly walked out of the room.

"Now that your awake, how are you feeling Naruto?" Lady Tsunade asked me.

"I'm fine for now, but may I ask what happened and why I can't move my lower body without being in excruciating pain?" I asked old granny herself.

"That's good to hear that your feeling better. We don't know what happened to you yet and as for the body pain, we're thinking it's correlated with the nine tails." Old granny Lady Tsunade dumbly explained to me, because knowing with the way I am and with my condition right now the way it is, I wouldn't be able to comprehend anything that she said in the first place.

"Oh...." That's all you heard come from my mouth before I heard Kurama's voice booming inside my head.

"For one, I have nothing to do with your pain. Two, tell them that next time they shove a needle into any part of your body, I'm going t-.....I'm gonna stop there. That's all I have to say." Kurama stated before leaving my head, but not before I  caught a glimpse of a feeling that Kurama had given me. A warning.

"The nine tails or Kurama as they like to be known as, said that my pain isn't correlated with them." I stated, not telling them about the warning Kurama gave me to tell them.

"How would yo-?...." Lady Tsunade, with a confused look on her face, was about to ask me before her facial expression on her face turned into one of shock. "You and the ni-....Kurama have become one I see?...." She stated before giving off a scuff and smirking at me.

Everyone in the room besides old granny grew wide eyed. Even Gaara seemed shocked that I became buddies with the nine tails.

"Well then....I sure wasn't expecting that to happen. To be honest, I was thinking quite the opposite...." Someone said, the voice coming from the door of the room.

Everyone looked at the door to see a tall, black opal eyed, raven black haired teenager who in my defense wasn't really needing to be present at the moment, but whatever....standing in the doorway, leaning against the doorframe with his arms crossed in front of his chest.

"Sasuke." I said in a hushed tone before everything started going downhill. My heart rate went up, my vision started to blur, stars began to appear in my vision, my body started feeling like it was on fire....then everything went black.

"Well, looks like our secret is out Kit..." I heard Kurama state out loud. "...And really??! Passing out again? This time because of seeing some mere person, one such as that of an Uchiha and especially the only one who looks out for you, within the confines of the shadows...not to mention, the only one who truly, deeply cares and loves you, and understands the real you. Since, you two WERE on a three-man squad as a matter-of-fact. Don't get me wrong Kit. You and Gaara do make a good FRIENDLY couple, it's just that Gaara doesn't seem like one who you would spend your whole life with, side by side..." Yelling at first, Kurama then went into a "matter-of-fact" tone of voice just to point out something that has been staring at me right in my face.

"Thanks Kurama for pointing out the obvious and your caring thoughts, but right now, if I were to cut ties with him in terms of the type of relationship that we have, I don't know what would happen to our friendship and to our villages. I know that we would still be there for each other if something were to happen to each others villages and help each other out with supplies and such, but I just don't know if we'll ever be the same if the relationship comes to an end..." As I poured out my feelings and thoughts to Kurama, I started to get teary-eyed. Hiding my face as I was wiping the tears from my eyes, I smiled. "...So that's why I need more time."

With a shocked expression, Kurama, at first didn't know what to say, but as my words started to sink in, Kurama looked into my eyes hesitantly, looking to see if there was any way to make me change my mind on the matter. But after a long few minutes, Kurama then sighed and told me something that I never would have guessed Kurama saying.

"I hope you know what you're getting yourself into, and when it comes to that point in time, what to do when the occasion arises, Kit..." Kurama then "helped" me get back to my conscious self and also, with my permission, took over my body for a few minutes just to explain to everyone that I was fine, and that I just needed some alone time, to sort out things mentally. I even told Kurama at one point to tell the others that if they have any questions that had to concerned Kurama, that Kurama would personally answer them and that I gave special permission to Granny Tsunade, that at any time she wanted to ask any personal questions, to come and ask them at anytime of the day, no matter how tired Kurama and I were.

After Kurama answered most of everyone's questions, he then asked if everyone would be willing to leave for my sake, since I was getting tired and all. Once everyone was out of the room, I sighed out loud once, and let the feeling of sleep overcome my body, making me slip into the darkness of sleep just as easily as it is to run and breathe.

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A/N: Hey guys, sorry for the wait....had to deal with some things that needed some dealing with lately, so yeah. But anyways, here's the chapter you've all been waiting for. Hope you like it. Vote, comment, share, what not. Thanks and see you all....IN THE NEXT CHAPTER!!