Shout

[58] Safe

Tsunade stares quietly at the unmoving girl in front of her. She just administered the last of their antidote and Kagami hasn't reacted yet. The woman stands absolutely still, waiting for something, for anything. She curses as nothing changes, the machine doesn't beep, her breathing doesn't start again and her skin continues to slowly get paler.

"Ten minutes. That's how long we have until the antidote has taken effect. After that, we've lost her. I will stand by." Tsunade makes her way out of the theatre, slowly and silently.

She looks over at Naruto, who is slowly being fed ramen by Kakashi so he stays awake. She looks back tot he two families sitting silently, waiting for an update. "We have to wait, ten minutes. The antidote will take effect and Kagami should wake up."

"Should?" It slipped from Shikaku's mouth before he could stop it.

Tsunade nods lightly, "Should, there is always a chance that she might not make it."

Kakashi falters for a second, but then continues feeding his student, having faith.

"Naruto, eat this." She passes a few chakra pills to the boy. She makes sure to survey his injuries. "I may as well start you off while we wait, keep ourselves busy."

The woman places a hand on the boy's shoulder as he crunches into the chakra pill, almost immediately feeling better.

"Tell me Naruto, how did you run out of chakra? It's practically impossible for you."

Ino turns to the woman, surprised with her talking casually about the Nine-tails. Naruto shrugs, still chewing.

"When Kagami came, she had some sort of silver chakra around her. It stopped mine." He straightens his back a little as his wounds close up and his body starts to stop aching.

"A silver chakra that suppressed yours?" Tsunade's brows knit together in curiosity. She hadn't heard of another tailed beast being around.

"That was me!" Masaru comes panting into the room, obviously hearing their conversation and panicking. "That was my chakra, I tried to suppress the Kyuubi. I didn't want the fox taking Naruto over and having a repeat of the Sands attack."

"Tsunade-sama! It's been seven minutes and we are still having no responses!"

Tsunade rushes forward immediately, leaving the group to themselves once again. Silence ensues. Ino takes a seat next to Shikamaru and grabs his hand, holding it between hers.

"I'm sorry Kakashi-sensei." Naruto's stares at the ground, his fingers fidgeting.

"What are you apologising for, you did nothing wrong." Kakashi tries to keep a smile on his face, but in reality, he is losing hope with every minute that passes.

"I couldn't get Sasuke back, but I also couldn't help Kagami-chan."

Kakashi sighs, "Naruto I don't blame you. Sasuke is hardheaded and Kagami knew exactly what she was getting into if she chose to head towards you. Everything fine now, you had no casualties."

He tries to ignore the fact that Kagami is technically dead right now.

"Everything will be fine, you did your best." He looks to the side, "you too Shikamaru, don't beat yourself up."

s.h.o.u.t

An hour. That's how long Kagami's surgery was. It didn't take long, just as Tsunade had said. She had come across the poison before and knew how to combat it, the only trouble was if Kagami would react to the antidote or not. That's what took the most out of everyone, the fourteen minutes and thirty-seven seconds that Kagami Hatake was pronounced dead because her body had no reaction to the only know cure.