After the pain

Disclaimer: I still don't own any of these guys but Sasuke and Naruto would definitely be joining Kakashi if I did.

CHAPTER TWO

"Where is she?" Gaara growled as he glared out the window of his office.

"Tamari's not due back until this afternoon." Kankuro reminded him. The puppet master knew something was wrong with his brother.
Gaara had been getting up to look out his office window every twenty minuets all morning. For the red haired Kazkage, that was considered pacing.

"Go find her." Gaara's voice was quiet and for a moment Kankuro wasn't sure he had heard him right.

"Why would I want to do that?" He asked. Their sister was never late so why couldn't Gaara wait three hours?

"Take two teams." Gaara instructed. "Spread out and find her."

Puzzled Kankuro did as he was told and left the office. He knew better then to argue with his younger sibling.
What could be so important he wondered that they needed Temari back home sooner then scheduled?

Gaara of the desert waited for the door to close behind Kankuro before allowing the worry to show in his aquamarine eyes.

Something was wrong, he could feel it in his gut. His older sister was in danger, The sand nin wasn't even sure how he knew but the day before he had gotten a strange feeling of foreboding and for someone who rarely felt any sort of emotion he had taken the warning seriously.

'Perhaps I am over reacting, I don't believe in trusting ones emotions when making decisions.' Even telling himself that didn't help, he was still worried. His sister was the most important person in his life, He didn't know what he would do if anything happened to her.

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Naruto was glad that Tsunade and Sakura had forced him to learn some healing jutsu's. Temari would never survive being moved.
Her chakra, or what was left of it, was draining. She would be dead in a matter of an hour, tops.

Careful not to over do it, he gently rested his right palm on her chest and focused his chakra, directing it into her body.
After getting her a little more stable he went to work on her injuries, her face first then slowly worked down her body.

Thanks to the Kyubi NO Yoko inside of him the blonde had an unlimited amount of chakra to draw from. Hence the reason for Tsunade insisting on his medical training.

Fractured cheek, broken jaw, multiple cuts and bruises, cracked ribs, internal bleeding.

"God Temari, you should be dead." Naruto muttered as he took silent inventory of her injuries.

As he worked he removed the last remnants of her clothing, none of it was usable any more. Turning her over started to heal the gashes in her back. Easing her down so she was once again laying face first on the leaves he used both hands in order to work quicker.
The slices were long and deep, in some the bone was showing threw.
Finally the ugly wounds were merely red stripes, they would still need time to completely heal but there wouldn't be and scaring.

Satisfied that all the major injuries had been addressed he continued down her back, buttocks and legs.

'Nice ass.' as soon as the thought popped into his head, he wanted to knock himself out.

'Damn it Naruto, your supposed to be checking her injuries, not checking her out!' He berated himself.

'Works done, time for a little reward.'

'Not in your life!' He had a sneaking suspicion where those thoughts were coming from, but it couldn't be, he hadn't talked to the demon trapped inside of him in years.

Focusing only on his hands he came across a pulled tendon in her left knee, the left ankle was sprained and her big toe was broken.

'You put up one hell of a fight Temari.' A smile touched his lips as he worked back up her body. Focusing deeper to make sure he hadn't missed anything.
That's when he discovered the extent of internal bruising and trauma done to her by her attackers. The mingling scents told him that there had been at least four of them and knowing Temari's skills they had to have been Shinobi in order to get her in this kind of a position.

And if he was any judge he would say they had done everything that was humanly possible to her.

"Man, I have got to quit hanging out with Jiraiya." He muttered under his breath as images flashed in his brain.

'It's normal, you haven't been with a woman in over a year.'

'Shut up.'

'Hey, just telling it like it is man, she's a looker even in the condition she's in.'

'That's true.'

'Thank you.'

'Who ever did this is so dead when Gaara finds out.'

'Damn, she's Gaara's sister!'

'Ya, brain dead who did you think she was?'

'Shit! Stop looking at her right now!'

"Man, I wasn't in the first place. You brought it up.'

'I was just trying to point out that it's been a wile since you've had some fun. I'm your conscience, It's my JOB.'

"Great! I have a Jiraiya in my head.'

Tearing himself away from the ridiculous argument he was having with himself.
Naruto slipped off his backpack and pulled out his bed roll, which he opened and spread over the unconscious woman.

Deciding he needed to find a water source so he could get her cleaned up he slipped the pack back on and after carefully wrapping the sleeping bag around Temari he lifted her into his arms.

Naruto had seen the desert nin fight and had even spared with her a few times over the years, so he found it a little disconcerting when he gathered her body tightly to his chest and realized just how small and fragile she was.

So there you have #2 After this the chapters should be a bit longer.
But at this time it's a mood thing.