Prologue

"You desire most what you can not have," the shadow smirked, "We shall see about that."

"Sakura-san we have an emergency!"

The addressed girl looked up to find nurses bringing in two severely injured jounin.

"Bring them over here!" the pinkette motioned to the empty beds in the next room. She identified the male jounin as Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki, the gate guards. "What happened boys?" she asked as her petite hand glowed green over Kotetsu's abdomen assessing his injuries.

"We were ambushed," Izumo started. "We were on our way back and-" he stopped, holding his chest in pain.

"Don't strain yourself," Sakura stopped him, giving him a warm smile as she continued to send her soothing chakra through his partner's battered system. "I'll fix you guys up and have you outta here in no time."

"Thank you Sakura-san," Kotetsu mumbled with a pink tint on his cheeks as he stared up at the composed medic who was concentration on the damage of his body.

She smiled and moved on to Izumo, "You're welcome."

The girl healing these men was legendary to say the least. Know through all of the nations as apprentice of the fifth hokage and legendary Sanin, Tsunade. It was said that she had surpassed her in both medical skills and her amazing superhuman strength, all at the age of twenty. Along with her rigorous training her past experiences helped her excel in life.

Both of her parents passed away when she was sixteen when they were traveling in another country. She's still mourning their deaths but knows that they would want her to keep going even though they weren't around to watch her continue her path. The apparent 'love of her life' leaving her on a bench didn't really affect her performance in the long run. She got over him and it made her stronger.

'Thank you Sasuke Uchiha,' she thought.

'Yeah and another thing: fuck him! He's missing out.'Her inner thought striking a pose.

Her looks did change, as expected. She was in no way the scrawny girl she grew up as. Her pink hair was past her shoulders and she had bangs off to the side. She grew taller but she still couldn't compare to her male friends. Her body also developed nicely along the way. She had hips and a good sized chest, not to be compared to Hinata's, but people would say she had a body that girls would die for and guys kill to lay their hands on. The only thing that remained relatively the same was her stunning jade eyes that could hold fire and compassion at the same time and her desire to help those in need.

Sakura looked down at Izumo, as she finished repairing his ripped chest. The nurses were already at work wrapping Kotetsu's abdomen. He was stabbed in the stomach going all the way through. He also broke his elbow in three different places as well as more minor stab wounds throughout his body. Izumo's injuries were about the same seriousness. He had a total of three gashes across his upper torso, one of which almost went entirely through his chest, one broken shin and a dislocated shoulder along with other more minor scratches.

Sakura exhaled and pulled her glowing hands away, "I stopped the bleeding along with closing up all of the gashes and stab wounds you both had. Kotetsu I repaired the three broken bones in your elbow so take it easy. It'll be a while until you can start using it again. Izumo you're right shin was a clean break so I did what I could as to bone reconstruction so you'll have to keep off it for a little while until it starts to do its own internal repair. Some therapy might speed up the healing process once you can stand again."

"Thank you, Sakura-san!" they said in unison as they both gave her appreciative smiles.

"You're welcome, guys. Now Izumo, let me relocate that shoulder for you and you guys can be on your way," Sakura replied signaling to the last of the man's injuries. She popped it right back into place with only a pained grunt from the jounin.

"Okay, now I hope I don't have to see you guys back in here any time soon," She said as she put away their charts and made her way to the door. "You'll have to stay the night, but I'll check up on you in the morning at we'll see how you're healing as progressed at that point."

The rest of the day was just relative check-ups and academy kids who didn't really know how to use their weapons, which was usually how her slowest days went with a little added research and a trip to her medical greenhouse. But no matter who came in the always requested Sakura was the one to take care of them. She was Konoha's special cherry blossom and the village, along with everyone in it, meant the world to her.

As she packed up her belongings, and the few files she was planning to take home to sweep through, she made her way to the front doors of the hospital to take her leave for the night. She smiled and waved at the receptionist as she passed by the desk who replied with a polite good-bye as she left.

"Time to go home," she breathed out as she felt the night air play across her skin and sweep through her pink locks.

'I hope you're not forgetting that we have important plans to meet up with people tonight,' her inner self reminded her.

'Of course I haven't forgotten. What do you think has gotten me through this day?'

'Well then put your shit in gear and get your ass back to your apartment. You're already late! And there are attractive people there! Go already!'

A smiled played on her lips as she sprinted to her apartment to get ready. As she ran her inner chanted on about 'going to meet our favorite sexy men.'

Tsunade sat at her desk watching as the elders walked into her office, "Is there something I can help you with?" she asked with the least bit of interest possible as she shuffled through some of her latest paperwork.

"We are here to speak with you about the current status of the village," one of them stated as they stood in front of her desk. The other elder stepped forward, "There has been rumors about other villages being attacked by small groups of sound shinobis."

"What does this have to do with our village?" Tsunade inquired, as she dropped her papers onto her desk and rubbed her temples slowly, quite annoyed already with the elders.

"The thought has crossed our minds that they may consider an attack on our village as well," one replied looking to the other. "So we've been considering our weakest points," the other finished.

"And?" Tsunade lead on as she rotated their wrist in motion for them to continue.

"We only have one serious issue."

Tsunade groaned as she raised a blonde brow towards them, "And that would be?"

"Your apprentice."

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