The girl with Pink Hair

Chapter Four

"Where is she!?" Tsunade stormed through the leaf village hospital. Nurses and staff scurried quickly out of Tsunade's blazing path. "Where is Team Seven?!" Tsunade yelled but didn't stop by the nursing station.

"Ro-Room 407!" A nurse answered, cowering down under Tsunade's distraught gaze. The leaf village Hokage quickly reached the room the nurse had said. Tsunade slammed open the door, inside the room Naruto, Kakashi and Sasuke sat around a bed. Naruto and Sasuke looked banged up. Tsunade's gasped, seeing the sleeping body in the crisp hospital bed.

"What the hell happened!?" Tsunade harshly whispered, trying to not stir Sakura awake.

"She saved me." Naruto's eyes were empty as he kept his sight off his team and his Hokage. He couldn't even bring himself to look at the woman who had just saved his life.

"That doesn't tell me anything!" Tsunade snapped.

"We were ambushed." Kakashi stepped in for Naruto.

"Ambushed?" Tsunade shook her head, not wrapping her head around those words. "You are my best team! How the hell did-"

"We don't know all the details." Kakashi remained calm, "But it seems there has been a rogue group terrorizing the south, where the Waterfall Village is located. Sakura has been dealing with them for years."

"I-" Tsunade sighed, rubbing her face and running her hands through her hair. "How could this of happened?"

"She saved Naruto's life." Kakashi answered, turning back to gaze down at Sakura who remained asleep. "She didn't hesitate to place herself between Naruto and that shinobi."

"It seems she has just become reckless." Tsunade huffed.

"Is she going to be ok?" Naruto asked quietly as guilt was eating him away.

"From what the doctors said, the wound is bad." Tsunade didn't sugar coat it. "Whatever the hell is in her system it won't allow us to heal her with chakra."

"Yeah, she said something like that." Naruto confirmed playing this his fingers in his lap.

"I have never seen anything like this, I can't reach Kaguya to ask her about this poison or if they even have an antidote we could use."

"Do we know how long she is going to be asleep?" Sasuke asked looking up from his phone.

"No idea." Tsunade sat down in the free chair by Sakura's side. "We don't know how long this stuff will take to cycle out of her system."

"Great." Sasuke muttered.

"You two-" Tsunade pointed to Sasuke and Naruto, "-I need you to get to the front gates and take over for second shift. We are short today since team nine is out sick."

"Seriously?" Sasuke groaned. "We just got back."

"I don't care, you two get to the gates now. You're lucky I haven't thrown you two out the window for screwing up your mission! Not only has the Waterfall's Commander been injured on our watch, we lost the land of whirlpools money and I had to pay them for bringing you four back here! Now go!"

"Alright." Sasuke sighed, getting up from sitting by the window. Naruto follows Sasuke without another word, but he did glance back at Sakura. Her light pink hair flowed around her; a few strands fell off the bed.

"Ugh." Tsunade groaned as her head throbbed.

Slowly, Sakura began to surface into her conscious. Sakura didn't like this she wanted to drive back down into the pit of sleep she had been lost in. She quickly regained control of her body, pain and all. Her head hurt as she tried to move it, her heart was pumping so fast in her chest.