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Day 5 – Blood, Sweat and Tears (SSM17)

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The absurdity of the situation did not escape him.

He was a goner – for that he could be sure. Separating from his group; not intentionally but even so, the horde that attacked meant that he could no longer see either Kakashi or Naruto within his sight after the worst of it had passed.

Three days ago had he lost his team.

He’d travelled during that time to find them.

That is, until he had been cornered, without any weapons. He’d fallen through what turned out to be an unstable portion of the building he was scouring.

The noise of his fall attracted those monsters.

Had it not been for her – he’d be dead, or worse.

“Sakura,” he whispers, not really believing his sight.

She stands before him; ragged, out of breath, and with adrenaline coursing through her veins – after all, she had just decapitated three of those monsters before his sight.

She turns back; her face is marred with blood, whether or not it is her own blood or not cannot be said. “Can you walk?” she asks.

He looks down to his left leg. The fall did not do him any favours, “I’ll manage,” he says.

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She
has found shelter within an old hotel. The aesthetics of a haunted
house aside, the place is good enough, and structurally sound enough
to spend the night. “Hold still, please,” Sakura mumbles as she
begins to tend to his wounds.

She patches him up, he is quiet throughout until she remarks, “okay, that’s all I can do for now. Best to rest, I’ll head out on watch”.

He grabs her wrist before she can leave, “I thought…” he needs to think this through, “we all thought you were dead”.

She stops, and bends down once more, “well, I’m not”.

“Naruto told me–”

“Sasuke,” she interjects, gently placing her hand upon his shoulder, “just rest for now, you’ll need it”.