[closed] you give me hell but i'll make it

[chokuto]

WHO: Team Seven kakashi who
WHERE: Mainly the Gallows, Shadowlands, misc other areas
WHEN: Early to Mid November
WHAT: Sasuke went to jail (shocking), Naruto and Sakura bust him out; later, Sasuke and Naruto reconvene to have a very necessary conversation
WARNINGS: Event-specific CWs including blood, branding, captivity, violence

Comments

[craters]

（ that it's a serious matter was never in question given his manner of entry and the brusque dismissal of her patient, to say nothing of the (chakra burns, she identifies immediately) licked along his cheeks. days old, and barely healing. it's not a suspicion she ever wanted proven correct, and just as she's opening her mouth to say something, his next words make something unpleasant curdle in her stomach, and she meets his eyes with a barely perceptible nod.

but instead of replying to him in any verbal manner, she ushers her patient to her feet, pressing a tin of cream in her hands and giving her shoulder a reassuring squeeze. her doctor's manner stays firmly affixed as she gives the woman a warm smile. ）

Come back in three days, okay? Remember what we discussed about the shellfish.

（ the woman picks up her things and scampers out past naruto, skirting around him as if in fear. sakura is already peeling out of her long white coat and gloves. she taps out a message on her phone to ask someone else to swing by and supervise just in case, and then she takes naruto firmly by the arm and steers him out of the tent.

her mind is struggling beneath the hawk's cry of old panic and guilt and fear. disappeared... that could mean any number of things, but something capable enough of subduing sasuke beyond naruto's senses... she reaches up to rub her fingers across the byakugō, as if reassuring herself of the presence of its deep pool of chakra. ）

I should heal you first, before we do anything else — we'll need you at full strength.

（ she isn't going to ask about it, she doubts naruto's singular focus on the matter of sasuke would even drive him to answer her. but there'll be time enough for questions later. ）