Chapter 6
She disregarded the medic’s command to stay in bed and moved to his side, pumping chakra into his form. So much that she didn’t notice the hospital was being evacuated as the Anbu swarmed in; clinging to Lee’s bedside in a healing green bubble.
It was only when Lee awoke and began shaking her with his good hand that she snapped out of it and felt the exhaustion.
“Sora! Enough!” Lee shouted in a panic.
She looked up at him in a daze.
“Sora, you’ve used almost all your chakra!” Lee said in a panic as her gaze finally focused on him.
“Oh,” she said and collapsed.
She woke in a hospital bed a week later to find the Hokage dead and team seven gone in search for the suna jinchuuriki and his siblings.
Lee had been moved to physical therapy as his limbs had been healed enough to attempt it, and Jiraiya had been sent out to find the Slug sannin for further treatment and to take the place of Hokage, or at least interim Hokage.
Naruto apparently did some major stuff and managed to defeat Gaara in his possessed form, by ultimately knocking their heads together? Who’d have thought that would actually work?
The Suna nin had fled to lick their wounds, but her sand bracelet had remained. It became a comfort to her, she rubbed it when she was feeling anxious, stroked it when she was needing comfort or feeling lonely and rubbed her face against it at night. It remained soft against her skin, never course nor pebbly.
Sometimes she got odd looks, but most just assumed it was a normal bracelet as it didn’t look like an attachment to the sand. Naruto knew, however, having watched it appear in the presence of the one-tail. He didn’t say anything about it. For once in his young life being discreet.
He understood and appreciated any effort to connect to a jinchuuriki, he thought it would help ground Gaara.
Whenever she would brush her fingers across the sand he would grin at her approvingly.
His father was dead. Had been dead for months. He was glad, the man had been trying to kill him for years. But also sad, he had been his father. The sand was also struggling. Not only had they lost their Kazekage, they were on the brink of war with the much stronger Konoha as they had really pissed the village off. It was only because the leaf was suffering internal turmoil having lost their Hokage and a significant amount a ninja that they weren’t in actual war. He realized that Suna would have been completely decimated if they had been at war, not that the council of elders was willing to admit that.