In Konoha, Naruto lies down

The Hokage was very busy, and even though Sakura was Tsunade's apprentice, she couldn't possibly put everything aside to watch over Sakura all day. Besides, there was nothing wrong with Sakura's body, she just couldn't wake up for the time being.

Faced with such a difficult and complicated disease, even Tsunade had no good solution in the short term and could only observe for a while.

"Then we can only wait?" Naruto was a little surprised. He didn't have any good ideas as he didn't know the cause and effect.

"There's nothing we can do now. Wait until we wake up," Tsunade said. "Just wait. It won't last long."

"it is good."

Naruto continued to massage Tsunade's shoulders vigorously until Tsunade no longer needed it, then he slowly left the Hokage's office.

Outside the Hokage Building, Naruto squinted his eyes as he looked at the bright and dazzling sunlight on the road.

Sakura's matter did concern him, but the current situation was the same as Tsunade said. He could only wait and see and wait for Sakura to wake up on her own.

With a slight sigh, he walked towards Konoha Hospital.

The three Sunagakure siblings had been discharged from the hospital long ago, and they had probably signed some kind of agreement with Konoha. In short, Konoha recognized Gaara's identity and treated him seriously as the future Kazekage.

There is no other reason, the Tailed Beast Jinchūriki is irreplaceable.

The accident that happened some time ago was nothing more than a conspiracy against Gaara, but conspiracies will always be unraveled one day, and the other senior officials of the Sand Village are not fools.

As long as they use their simple brains a little, they can figure out the importance of Gaara to the Sand Village.

When the shadow of things passes, the Sand Village will automatically start to eliminate those high-level forces in Sand Village who attacked Gaara like white blood cells. This is to cut off the tail in order to survive.

The tailed beast Jinchuriki of their own clan is staying in Konoha's territory. Every day he stays there will be an additional hidden danger to the Sand Village and even the entire Wind Country.

Konoha Hospital.

Naruto carried a bouquet of flowers and walked upstairs as if he was familiar with the place. He passed through the corridor filled with the smell of disinfectant and finally stopped in front of a ward.

He didn't knock directly, but instead looked inside. Usually, there would be someone watching at this time, either Sakura's parents or the seniors in the medical team.

Even though Sakura had been transferred from the medical department, the ninjas in the medical team were very impressed by her diligence. Since Sakura was hospitalized, they almost took turns to take care of her.

Yu from the medical team was sitting on a chair by the wall catching up on his sleep, while Sakura was lying quietly on the hospital bed receiving an IV drip, and her condition seemed to be no different from the previous few days.

Pushing the door open, the medical ninja Yui woke up immediately.

"Oh, you're here?" Yu saw Naruto, yawned, and stood up. Before leaving, he patted his shoulder and said, "Just watch over it. Call us if you need anything."

"Okay." Naruto agreed.

He didn't have many connections with the medical staff, just a familiar face. Most of the time, when he woke up in the hospital, it was Sakura he saw.

After changing the flowers on the table, Naruto sat in the seat where Yu had sat.

I yawned and night fell in the blink of an eye.

Seeing patients is a very tiring job. He has learned from Yu that Sakura's parents have asked them to take care of her for a day, and someone will come tomorrow morning.

Looking at the night scene outside the window, he decided to just wait until morning.

As the night deepened, everything around became quiet.

The ward was brightly lit. When he stood up to get some water, he suddenly heard a muffled groan. He almost couldn't hold the cup steady.

Woke up?

He didn't even bother to get the water. He just put the cup on the table and walked to the bed in two steps.

As expected, Sakura's brows were furrowed, and she was making some inexplicable noises in her throat, as if she was about to wake up. Naruto felt a surge of nervousness and turned to call the medical staff on duty.

As soon as he turned around, the corner of his clothes was pulled out in the next second.

Sakura looked a little confused, her small hands tightly grasping the corner of Naruto's clothes, as if grasping a life-saving straw. Naruto suddenly became less anxious, and his eyes stared into Sakura's eyes.

"Sakura?" he asked.

"...Yeah." Sakura looked a little weak, and she also stared at Naruto for a long time before recognizing him, "Naruto, why are you here?"

The tone was so familiar that Sakura woke up.

I don't know why, but Naruto had been thinking that it didn't matter who woke up. Both Pink Sakura and Black Sakura were nice to him.

But when that moment finally arrived, he felt a pang of disappointment. Only when the scales tipped did you see the difference, and his balance was clearly leaning towards Hei Ying.

He liked the girl who said she would wait for him there, and she would stand there motionless, her slender figure like a weed. But she was not a weed after all, she was a living person.

After coming to this world and seeing it firsthand, she knew what was normal, and only then did she realize she was abnormal. After seeing others happy, she realized she was just a substitute.

This is not fair. If a person is deprived of the right to suffer, then life is worse than death.

He had hoped that Hei Ying could be preserved, but it was a pity that he could not convince himself until the end. But he did not dare to think whether Hei Ying had the right to choose.

Even though it was all Sakura, nothing seemed to have changed.

But Naruto knew, but it was precisely because he was the only one who knew that he felt a slight bitterness in his heart. The moment Sakura opened her mouth, he understood the meaning of what Black Sakura had said.

She is so smart, too smart.

Naruto remembered her completely, in a painful way that only he could feel. This pain did not come from loss, but from the sadness of not being able to find such a person.

Just as Kuro Sakura had said to him before, if she disappeared, no one would remember her. Now, Naruto knew that she really existed, but he couldn't tell anyone.

He alone will remember it forever, until his death.

"Naruto, I want to drink some water." Sakura curled up and said weakly.

"Oh, okay!" Naruto suddenly came back to his senses, as if a small wound was torn in his heart. He walked to a corner of the room and brought the glass of water over.

At the moment he handed it over, Naruto was slightly lost in thought. Suddenly, a slight pain came from the tip of his right index finger.

Naruto's pupils dilated slightly.

Chapter 219 Welcome home

What you see is not necessarily what you believe. Vision can deceive, sound can lie, but touch is real.

Through the water cup, Naruto vaguely saw a pair of eyes. The face was extremely weak, but there was a faint smile in the eyes. The smile flashed by, like a drop of water sliding on the windshield.

"What are you doing?" Naruto asked.

Sakura asked as she seemed to have returned to normal, sitting up and taking a sip of water.

"what?"

"Did you just bite me?"

Naruto held his finger up to the light and examined it again. He could indeed see a circle of bite marks. The other party seemed to have used considerable force, leaving a faint mark.

His tone was neither hurried nor slow, indicating that he was not easily emotional. He had a calm personality and would not have big emotional fluctuations no matter what happened.

"No." Sakura drank the water calmly, "I'm a little hungry."

"That being said, it's the middle of the night, I'll try to find something to eat." Naruto glanced at her strangely.

"Let me go to the medical department and get someone to check you out."

I still can't fully understand what's going on. The moment Sakura woke up, her eyes and her mannerisms were all like Pink Sakura's. It was all too familiar. However, the tone of her second sentence was somewhat like Black Sakura's.

Anyway, let's get someone to check it out first.

He was about to leave when his clothes were pulled back. Sakura stared at him with a burning gaze.

"Wait a moment."

"Ok?"

"Shall we kiss?"

"Ahem! Are you crazy? Sakura." He swallowed and subconsciously wanted to take a step back, but was held back by Sakura.

"Hehe, I scared you." She had a smug smile on her face.

He was so weak, yet he insisted on acting strong.

Naruto froze for a moment, but he had already guessed the result. Sure enough, it was just a false alarm, just a coma, and the personality hadn't disappeared?

"So you're okay?" he asked. "Um... that thing won't go away?"

"I don't know." Sakura loosened the corner of his clothes and thought seriously for a long time before continuing, "Maybe it's healed now, or maybe it will never be healed."

"What do you mean?" Naruto frowned.

Sakura didn't say it directly, but stared at Naruto for a long time before saying.

"Give me your hand."

"hand?"

Naruto extended his hand, but Sakura grabbed it, and her fingers naturally intertwined with his, crossing their fingers.

"Like this." Sakura said slowly, "I won't reject it. On the contrary, I'm very happy."

"If you go a little further." She lowered her head and took her index finger in her mouth, licking it like a cat and biting it with her silver teeth, "I'll be very excited."

"But she would be very embarrassed. I could feel her presence when she was doing something like this." Sakura let go of Naruto's hand and pointed to her head.

"I'm still controlling her body, but now that she's awake, she'll be able to feel it if it's too stimulating."

One soul, two personalities.

Naruto asked in a daze as he was slightly surprised.

"So you two shared a body, and she was the first to start waking up, right?"

"Yeah," Sakura said, "but memories are shared. If you want to talk to her, you can do that. Do you want to?"

"Well..." Naruto hesitated and forced a smile, "You are still weak, maybe next time."

"Okay." Sakura's smile widened, "Naruto-kun, are you concerned about me?"

"I guess so." He turned and glanced outside the door. "I'll find someone to check you out. I can't understand the data on your physical condition."

"No need, I can understand it." Sakura said with a smile, "Seniors are also very busy on duty, why don't you help me check it."

"Me?" Naruto swallowed, "I can't?"

"It's okay, I know the process, it's very simple." Sakura comforted, "I'll teach you, just do as I say."

"There aren't any weird parts, right?" he asked suspiciously.

"No." Sakura shook her head in denial.

It was just a simple heartbeat and temperature check, but Naruto was still terrified.

"What's the result?" he asked.

Late at night, there were only two people in the quiet ward.

"I'm hungry." Sakura said.

"I mean the result." Naruto sighed. It really took some effort to deal with her.

"It's okay, everything is fine, but I'm hungry." Sakura said seriously, "I want to eat something, in exchange I will tell you a secret."

"I'll find you something to eat now, forget about the secret." Naruto waved his hand, turned and walked out of the ward.

Sakura looked normal until Naruto came back with food.

"That's all we have right now," he said a little embarrassedly. "Everything outside is closed in the middle of the night, so we'll just have to make do with this."

"Okay." Sakura nodded.

Hearing that familiar "OK," Naruto felt a little numb in his heart, and inexplicably felt a little comfortable. Having an obedient teammate still felt... awful.

After eating and drinking, it was already four o'clock in the morning.

It was still dark outside the window. Naruto felt a little sleepy, his eyelids drooping as he looked at Sakura, who was leaning on the hospital bed and slowly wiping her mouth. Sakura glanced at him and said gently.

"If you're sleepy, go back. I can handle it alone."

"Forget it." Naruto yawned, "Ah~, it won't be long before daybreak anyway, I just have to hold on a little longer."

"Well, you're always like this anyway." Sakura said with a smile. "To be honest, I never really thought about doing anything before. Those words were just to scare you."

Naruto pointed at her, "You better be."

But he laughed after he finished speaking. He didn't care about those words at all. He was not a eunuch. He just roughly guessed that Sakura's words were half a joke and felt it was troublesome at the time.

"What about now?" he asked. Usually when he mentioned the past, he would always mention the present.

"Now." Sakura pursed her lips and stared at Naruto for a long time before she spoke, "I think I really like you."