She looked down at Sasuke, who was sweating profusely and currently whimpering in some kind of pain. He had stopped screaming an hour ago, but it was obvious he was still being affected by whatever Orochimaru had done to him.
Sakura turned her attention over to her blond teammate who seemed to be having far more problems, he was sweating a lot, grunts of pain and occasional shouts escaped him, almost like he was locked in some kind of struggle. What was worse was his cursed seal, it was pulsing and a vile purple chakra was leaking out of it. Added onto that was the large stab wound he had suffered, she bandaged it up as best she could but she was no medic. She looked at the now soaking red bandages that covered his surprisingly muscular torso, had she not been so worried by the wound, which had gone all the way through his back she would have blushed at the compact yet tightly muscled body.
I'm going to need to change his bandages again.
As she watched Naruto he began to trash around, yelling and shouting in pain and fear. Sakura was forced to literally hold him down so he would not hurt himself any more then he already had. She waited for it to subside before getting off him.
What's going on with him? She wondered as she began wiping some of the blood that was trickling down his mouth due to him biting his tongue as she continued to watch him her thoughts went back to the battle he had gotten into with Orochimaru. A part of her still could not believe he would go so far to protect her and Sasuke.
"I may not get along with these two very well, but there still my teammates! The only way you're getting the teme is over my cooling corpse!" Naruto declared, shocking his teammates and amusing Orochimaru.
That he would so willingly fight an S-rank criminal he had no chance of beating just so we could escape… Sakura felt guilty for all of the times she had berated him now. He had risked his life for her, knowing the chances of victory were nil and she repaid him by yelling at him and trying to abuse him. Not that she could hit him anymore when she tried but that was not really the point.
Seeing his strength and Sasuke's afterwards made her realize that they were getting farther and farther away from her in terms of ability.
She was forced to hold Naruto down again as he began thrashing around and shouting in pain.
"Did you hear that?" asked a black-haired kunoichi as she turned to her partners after hearing the shouts of fright and pain. "Do you think it was the Uchiha?"
"No, it sounded like that blond-haired kid." Replied the bandage faced shinobi. "Sounds like he was injured, I'm looking forward to paying him back for kicking me."
"So we should attack them now?" asked the kunoichi.
The bandaged shinobi shook his head. "No let's wait until the pink-haired one falls asleep. We'll attack at dawn to make things easier."
"Aw c'mon Dosu, that chick doesn't look like she can even take on one of us," the spiky haired Genin complained. "Hell, I doubt she could even take on an academy student."
"I agree with Zaku. I mean, look at her."
"I would rather not deal with any unnecessary conflict," Dosu snapped, "I don't care how weak she is, I would rather just run in, and kill them without trouble. And even though she does look weak, I want to do this when she can't even put up a fight."