Everyone who was apart of the surgery, except Sasuke, was in the room Itachi was going to have his transfusion in. Sasuke was not allowed in the room until Itachi was under anesthesia because there is no way Itachi would accept taking Sasuke's blood or his eyes, so he is still relatively in the dark on what is happening. Itachi lay in the center of the room, sanitization and healing medical seals were surrounding him. I was kneeling beside him, his hand gripped tightly in mine. His eyes were more gray than ever and his breathing was coming out if puffs, it was now or never.

"So Shizune-san is going to give you a shot that will knock you out and then right after Jiraiya-sama will seal off your chakra flow. Then Sasori and I will start by slitting through your ulnar artery and let your blood flow out to have the disease extracted before the transfusion." Itachi squeezed my hand as I went over everything I could to ease his mind, more so easing my mind as I went through everything for what was probably the thousandth time this week. Shizune directed the needle right into his bicep, quickly forcing the light blue drug into his system.

"Relax Hinata-hime, everything will be ok." Itachi spoke softly, his fingers still delicately tracing over my palm. He had that damned smile on his face, he was at death's door and still smiled just to make everyone else at ease. His eyes closed, he couldn't keep them open any longer. His hand squeezed mine one more time before it went limp.

"He's out, his heart is weak but it is steady." Shizune informed and I motioned to Ino. She opened the door and escorted Sasuke to his place near Itachi. His dark eyes looked over Itachi in worry, his tense body only relaxing slightly when he saw his chest rise and fall.

"Ready duckbutt?" I had Sasuke lay down flat and his eyes met with mine, they were filled with worry but they also held confidence, he believed I could do it too. The rest of his face was deceivingly blank until his lips barely shifted into a half smirk.

"Hn. Lets just get this over with." He looked at the needle and I could see his muscles flex and tense as Shizune gave him the shot.

"Pussy." (A/N: I really hate this word for some reason but it fit so well I had to do it) I muttered low enough that only he could hear, his face twisted slightly with annoyance at how I noticed his discomfort with needles, that was definitely new and something he'll never live down.

"Freak." He slurred out, fighting the urge to succumb to sleep. I smiled down at him before flicking him in the head and he finally went limp, the tense muscles in his face relaxing to the point he looked peaceful. His hair splayed out behind him, the spiky-ness of the back of his hair was flattened by the ground. I brushed his bangs out of his face and took a deep breath, calming my mind to do this properly. As Jiraiya painted Itachi and Sasuke with their chakra suppressant seals, I washed my hands and slid on latex gloves. My hair was pulled back into a french braid to keep everything out of my face and work area and I was dressed in basic medical scrubs.

"Jiraiya-sama, please activate the seals." With a burst of chakra flow into the seals around the room, the white light was replaced with a blue glow from each seal activating and purifying the room continuously. Jiraiya has to keep adding chakra to the seals so they can't shut down. I could immediately feel the difference, the air was slightly colder and each breath was like breathing in for the first time. "Sasori, begin your the bloodletting, only do his right arm. I'll start extracting Sasuke's blood. Ino be ready with a plasma pill and don't miss his vitals even for a second. Tsunade-sama, as soon as Sasori and I officially start removing Itachi's toxins, do the transplant."

Everyone got into position, I carefully I put myself in the space between Itachi and Sasuke as Sasori made his first incision with his chakra scalpel. Blood slowly began to pour out of the wound, one of the seals surrounding him was to slow the flow of blood so Itachi wouldn't bleed out too quickly. I activated my Byakugan and stuck the needle in Sasuke's right arm, hitting the vein on the first try. 

The other end of the needle went into Itachi's left arm but I kept the flow switched off, if I let Sasuke's blood into Itachi's system now it would become infected. I looked over at Sasori's incision, the cut was long but shallow and just barely cut open the artery, it was perfectly done. Tsunade began her extraction of the eyes but I was too focused on my task to pay attention.

"Ino when I tell you, switch the flow to on."

"Got it." I placed a hand on the center of Itachi's chest and forced my chakra into his bloodstream. It was difficult, his body itself was fighting my chakra invading his system and even worse was the virus, it was attacking my chakra to try and force me out so it could continue living it was fighting me so hard I lost concentration and I was forced out with a burst and my hand burned from the attack.

"Brat, relax, breathe, get out of your head. Stop being idiotic, you're chakra is stronger than the virus, if you want Itachi to live you have to fight it. We've been over this." Sasori's cold voice broke me out of my panic, he was right. I took another breath and relaxed, focusing my vision solely onto the veins running through his body. Once again I let my chakra forcefully push it's way into Itachi's bloodstream and fought against the cells trying to destroy my chakra. 

I had to weave my chakra into the tiniest of net's to capture the virus, my hands were shaking and it hurt to breathe but I focused, netting the fibers of my chakra in his veins, making sure as I forced it through his bloodstream, the infected cells were getting caught and forced through his veins out through the bleeding artery. 

Sasori used his chakra as a block between each time I forced more of the virus out in the open, doing that prevented the infection to spread back through his open wound. He also kept his chakra flowing to Itachi's organs to keep them from shutting down while they had no blood flowing to them.

I started at his left hand and worked my way from there, clearing just the veins and arteries in his hand took over 15 minutes. It was like a tug of war, every time I would pull, the toxins would pull against me, trying to stay in his body. Once his hand was completely clear, the harder part came. My body was shaking, my eyes burned from focusing the Byakugan on something so small for so long.

"Hinata, he needs the blood now, block his blood flow with one hand, nothing can be allowed through or this will all have been a waste of my time."

"Ok...Shizune-san tell me if Sasuke or Itachi's vitals fluctuate too much."

"I will, everything is ok now, Itachi's heart rate is slightly slower but nothing to worry about." I nodded and focused on Itachi's hand. I used my free hand to make a barrier, forcing every drop of blood from the area and making a dam, no blood could come through my chakra wall. Once I was sure it was steady I started forcing the net through the rest of his still flowing blood, pushing out the toxins. focusing on doing both at the same time was more difficult than any other healing I'd ever done. 

It was like looking left and right at the same time, forcing my chakra in each hand to do something different was always a struggle and I could feel it in the way my body felt like it was straining so painfully.

"Ino, start letting Sasuke's blood flow." My voice was tense, strained but Ino nodded and turned the nob. The clear tube was suddenly filled with a deep red, slowly flowing its way into Itachi. Where we were removing Itachi's blood, Sasuke's was going to fill instead. It was not quite a transfusion, more like draining a water balloon of hose water and fulling it up with distilled water, they couldn't mix or the water wouldn't be distilled anymore. Completely draining somebody of their blood would kill them, but since Itahci and Sasuke share such similar blood and we are simultaneously draining Itachi and filling him at the same time, it is the only way to remove the disease from him and keep him alive. 

Though it is untested and might not actually work. Sasuke's blood slowly filled the veins of Itachi's hand, bringing it back from its graying state. As I worked, the barrier between their blood was slowly moving up his arm, forcing the blood from there so Sasuke's blood could take its place.

"Hinata go slower, Itachi's body had to get used to the blood, his heart rate is spiking." Shizune spoke calm but I almost panicked, right before I lost control of my chakra, I stopped forcing the toxins out and focused my full attention on the block, making sure nothing got through. The blood was like two forces, one a raging ball of fire trying to burn it's way through my chakra and the other a giant wave, slamming against the rocks. I had to make sure one force couldn't overpower the other and break through all while attacking the disease and keeping it from forming or spreading to anywhere else. 

Ino force fed Sasuke a plasma pill, replenishing some of the blood lost, it was a short term fix, plasma pills cannot be used often because they will be ineffective but using them once for this surgery would have the desired effects. Tsunade was carefully placing Itachi's eyes in Sasuke's sockets, her chakra mending the detached optic nerves so that they would connect to Sasuke's brain function and work properly. Sasori and I was a little over half way done when all hell broke loose.

The door to the room was slammed open and a masked Shinobi was thrown across the room, slamming into the wall and slumping over. I glanced at the entrance for a brief second, the amount of chakra being flared and the massive number of masked ninja fighting against Shisui and Genma was astounding. I didn't have time to focus on them, one slip up would be fatal for Itachi so I had to stay focused, that didn't stop my entire body to go rigid. 

The only consolation was that Shisui and Genma seemed to be doing ok...I just wondered how they got past someone like Kisame. They came, I feel like Tsunade picked the worst time to tell Danzo, what the fuck was she thinking.

Glass shattered and I flinched, Shisui was shoved out the window with Genma, their bodies crashing into one another. Tsunade finished wrapping around Itachi's eyes and shot up, hitting one of the Root members and sending him crashing through a wall. If Shisui and Genma were forced outside at least we have Tsunade to fight now. One second Jiraiya's chakra was being pumped into the sterilization seals and the next, like some knock off kitty pride a Root member grabbed onto Jiraiya and phased through the floor. 

His chakra in the seals stopped and I cursed...loudly. This is bad, really bad. The seals keeping things clean and away from invading and harsh environmental factors like unwanted chakra are down, that makes the risk of the transfusion that much more risky.

While Tsunade was stuck fighting, and not being able to break the walls since it was a hospital, other members tried to attack Itachi but with ease, Sasori was able to produce chakra threads from his chest container and stopped them, sending them right back at the attachers without even blinking.

"Hinata focus." Sasori snapped.

For the first time, my 360 degree vision was more of a hinderance than anything else, there was just so much going on around me, too many things to focus on. With a brief flare of chakra, I forced my Byakugan to zone in only on Itachi's body. I didn't like feeling so at a loss, it was horrible to have my senses restricted when there is such a threat looming. Sasori was immensely calm, his chakra didn't waver in the slightest. 

He didn't even look slightly exhausted for using his chakra continuously for so long. I on the other hand was shaking, using mystic palm usually I only get a bit of fight before their body allows me in but Itachi's is continuously fighting me back making me use a lot more chakra in a healing than I'm used to, combining that with all the other added stress, I was struggling.

"If we can't kill Itachi directly, kill the Hyuga, if she dies he will too." A deep husky voice ordered and almost immediately after there was a searing pain spreading through my right side. I cried out in pain but couldn't do anything else, my chakra wavered for a second but I kept it intact just enough to keep the blood from merging. 

My eyes watered and my hands shook. There was a Kunai sticking out of my back, just above my kidney and to the right of my spine, any lower and it would have been a lot more problematic, but this spot was just painful as long as I don't start bleeding too much.

Ino put another plasma pill in Sasuke's system before pressing her hands into a series of seals.

"Mind Distruction Jutsu." She cried out and 5 of the Root attacked one another to the death. Sasori's threads stuck to one of the dead bodies, using it as a puppet and having it take the barrage of Kunai aimed at us before sending the zombie to attack, keeping his eyes on Itachi's bleeding artery all the while.

"Sasori keep some of them alive." Tsunade called out, dodging a Tantō swiped at her head and sending the woman flying with a kick to the sternum.

"They are trying to kill us, I will kill anyone who gets in the way of this surgery." He replied with annoyance laced in his monotone voice. Tsunade huffed but relented, she kept some alive for this reason. Jiraiya was gone but she had no doubt he was still alive, Root were strong but most of them couldn't hold a candle to the likes of Shisui, let alone Jiraiya.

"Ino stop the valve." I grit my teeth through the pain as a stray kunai found it's way into my tricep. I couldn't give up now, not for anything. Sasuke's blood flow stopped for a second. I was on the hardest part, the heart. The entire system had to be stopped and drained of every last drop of blood before Sasuke's can go through it, but it had to be quick because having his heart stopped for so long, especially now after receiving such minimal blood flow, will kill him. Plus afterward, I have to get the heart started again and prevent any blood to mix with any of the still tainted pathway of veins. With a powerful shock to Itachi's chest, his heart beat once erratically before stopping.

"His heart is stopped, work quickly." Shizune informed me. My chakra instantly flooded the chambers and I infused my chakra with his blood, forcing the thick liquid to manipulate the same way I would with water. I had my chakra overwhelm the diseased blood and forced it out of the chambers of the heart with one powerful burst, directing it all into his ulnar artery and then blocking off three chambers, letting Sasuke's blood flow into the left atrium to be pumped through the heart and into his body. I shocked his heart, waiting for the confirmation from Shizune.

"Nothing, do it again." I sent another burst of chakra to start his heart and waited.

"Nothing, do it again." Three more and nothing. I glared down at his heart.

"Dammit Itachi, stop being difficult." With as much force as I could muster, I wrapped my chakra around his heart and pumped it manually, the blood circulating but not because of his heart wanting to work.

"Hinata, I..."

"No stop, don't say anything." Sasori was focused on making sure Itachi didn't bleed out while fighting necromancer style but I was only focused on Itachi's lifeless body. I didn't see the fire jutsu's or weapons slashing, I didn't see the bodies going down or the styles I've never seen be used by the masked root. I didn't see the final member be struck down by Tsunade. I didn't see Shisui return, bloodied but alive. Nothing, I could only see Itachi. The only thing I could hear was the flatlining of the monitor, the only time a beat would start was when I forced it to. I was crying but I didn't stop. Even with the blood dripping down my body, I was numb to everything. 

"Dammit Itachi. Fight. You hear me you idiot. Fight. Please, Please don't do this! You can't give up! fuck, fuck, fight Itachi. Just make your stupid heart work. PLEASE!" I screamed at him, my voice cracking. Ino was crying, Shizune looked sorrowful, Sasori just stayed still. I slowly let my chakra release the organ and the heart started pumping blood.

I smiled, he did it. Finally, after making sure his heart was good enough, I finished pushing out his toxic blood and Sasuke's filled Itachi's entire system, Sasori sealed up the wound and made sure no blood got back in. I did a once over, there was no disease left. Sasuek's blood was being pumped through his veins and I waited. His body had to accept the blood before anything else. When finally, there was a homeostasis and his body accepted the blood willingly, letting it be his own.

I cried tears of happiness, it worked. Itachi just has to wake up, he will be under supervision but his body seems to be doing fine. His heat pumped on his own but then his body started shaking, blood came out of his mouth, Sasori held him down. It was like the world slowed, my chakra was low, my body hurt, we'd been at this for over 12 hours, and this was just getting worse and worse.

"He's seizing, the overload of healthy blood is making his body freak out, it's not used to this after being sick for so long. He'll die if this continues."

"Fuck fuck fuck fuck." I did the last thing I could think of. I released the seal on my forehead, letting the added chakra flood my system, I pulled the Kunai from my arm and back, the skin stitching itself back together like nothing happened. Black markings covered my skin and before they could stop, I stretched them, pressing my hands to Itachi's shaking body and letting them cover him too, wrapping around his body, intricate designs forcing my chakra into his cells, forcing them to heal and accept the new blood.

 I coughed, blood dripping down my lip, I could feel my life force amplified yet draining at the same time. Itachi was going to live, fucking hell, there was no way I was going to let the hardheaded asshole die after making it this far. Danzo wasn't going to get his way, Sasuke was going to have a brother, Shisui would have a best friend, I was going to get to spend more time with Itachi, no fucking way. 

His body stopped seizing, the heart monitor slowed to a steady rhythm and only when I was sure, I stopped the seal, the leftover chakra moving back to store on my forehead.

Everything hurt, my chakra coils were grating against one another, dry. My hands were cold and trembling, my vision was fading in and out and I slumped over, Sasori catching me and letting me lean against his body.

"Brat."

"Hmm" I murmured, letting the darkness overtake me so I could rest and not feel like a truck hit me. As my eyes fluttered closed, my heart soaring at the fact that Itachi made it through the worst part of it, I was hopeful he would push through the rest and make it through rehabilitation.

***

I woke up exhausted, my head felt like there was a construction sight going on inside my skull, rattling around painfully. My limbs felt like they were heavy, a lot heavier than normal. At least my chakra coils weren't dryer than Suna anymore, it was no longer painful to live. God, chakra exhaustion is like the worst hangover combined with the feeling of dehydration. It was all worth it, even landing myself in this godforsaken place. I was in the hospital, the smell of antiseptic burned my nose unpleasantly.

Hanabi shifted slightly and I moved my arm to help keep her on the bed. She must have come to sleep beside me, I smiled and brushed a hand through her hair. I slid down onto the bed and rested my cheek atop Hanabi's head. She smelled like Jasmine and honeydew, the same as mom. Her arms tightened their hold around me and I laughed lightly. Dad was in a chair beside my bed. His head was lolled to the side, his eyes shut and the deep frown lines on his face were softer than usual.

There was a murmur and a muffled shout and I sat up once more, finally realizing the extra bed in my room. It was occupied by a shirtless blonde, thrashing around in his sleep. One second he was on the bed and the next, he swung a kick and thumped to the floor. One cerulean eye opened barely, looking around in confusion. His fist rubbed the sleep from his eyes and he finally settled on looking at my amused expression. 

He shot up from the floor, completely uncaring of his lack of clothing, and opened his mouth. I put a finger to my lips, pointing between Hanabi and my dad, he got the message and didn't yell out like he was prepared to. He rushed to the foot of my bed, eyes eager to hear more.

"Hina-chan! I came as soon as Iruka-sensei told me both you and Teme were in the hospital. What the heck happened dattebayo? Neither of you woke up for a full day." He whispered loudly, fluffing his hair as he tried to piece together the limited information he was given by Iruka. I explained everything start to finish, some parts were blank, I remember freaking out when Itachi's heart was failing but I kind of glossed over some of those details. 

Once I put everything together, I was angry, extremely so and when I was finished explaining to Naruto, he was fuming as well. "How could Grandma Tsunade do that! Is she crazy, she almost got all of you killed." Naruto growled in frustration, struggling to keep his voice low. "Dammit, I'm going to go to talk to her right now!" He was dead serious

"Don't. I'm the one whose going to say something, she put my entire surgery at risk for no reason. Besides, you showing up naked won't help anyone take you serious." He looked down at his bare chest and spluttered, crossing his hands over himself to hide his exposed abs. Naruto shot up from his seat and ran out of the room, before the door could shut, a pale hand gripped the wood and kept it open.

Sasuke slipped into the room silently, he looked terrible. His eyes had deep dark circles under them and his skin was the palest I had ever seen it...losing that much blood even if replenished was taxing on his body for sure. He walked slowly, like any movement would give him a headache. Even as a walking zombie, he didn't look sad or angry so I was hopeful that Itachi was ok. Clad in black sweats and a gray shirt, he drank from a can of tomato juice, the straw never leaving his lips as he sat on Naruto's bed. Everything I was going to say flew out the window as I stared at him in disbelief.

"You know when I told you to drink juice after you woke up...this is not what I meant."

"Hn. It has sugar in it." Sasuke shrugged bored, like my questioning was stupid. Sure having a sugary drink like juice was good but adding sugar to tomato juice is not at all what I meant. His weirdness knows no bounds. Oh my gosh, what even is he. I grimaced as he took another sip, seeming pleased with the flavor.

"That' disgusting. Drinking the equivalent of ketchup is not at all similar to drinking a juice just because 'it has sugar in it'. Go get normal fruit juice dumbass."

"Hn." Whatever, let him heal slower. I paused with bated breath, Sasuke had something to say and I was waiting for him to formulate the best way to word things. "The two ANBU on the mission died, Raido is out of commission, Shisui has a concussion, and Genma has a broken arm."

"Kisame?" I questioned, I had faith he was ok but if somebody like Danzo actually showed up to fight and Kisa didn't back down, the outcome would be catastrophic.

"Hn, he took no damage, the guys a monster." Sasuke was both impressed and weary of Kisame, his eyes shining at the though of the shark man. I took in a breath, other than the soft sound of Hanabi and dad's breathing there was no sound. The air was tense and with a soft whisper I asked the most pressing one.

"And 'tachi?" Sasuke's eyes were distant, I wanted to see the sliver of hope but he'd always been a pessimist.

"He is stable, though he's in a coma and they don't know if he'll wake up. Everything is functioning but he won't wake up." He composed himself, dark eyes cold and calculating. "They say its up to him now." His fingers tightened their hold on the cup, his pale skin turning more white from the grip. Sasuke was clearly the most worried, though he hid it, he was distraught at the thought of Itachi not waking up, to come so close yet be so far. Sasuke didn't want to lose his brother again.

"He'll wake up. He said he was going to fight so believe in him." Sasuke barely spared me a glance as he got up, his mind whirling as much as mine was. He was spiraling again, Itachi needed to get up and fix his brother.

***

As soon as Hanabi left to go to school and father left for work, I jumped out the window of the hospital. If there is one thing Team 7 taught me over all else, it was how to escape a hospital. That and how much time I spent there learning and healing others, I knew all the escape routes. Perfect for when I needed to keep hardheaded ninja in the hospital when they believed they were fine to return to duty. The glee I got when escaping the hospital was almost nonexistent. I was worried and even more than that, I was pissed.

I stormed into Tsunade's office, slamming the door open almost tearing it off it's hinges. She was conversing with a group of Chunin but as soon as she got a look at my face she dismissed them. She crossed her fingers together in front of her and leaned back, watching and waiting.

"What can I help you with Hinata-chan." I stalked forward, my hands gripping onto the back of a chair, splintering it under my touch. Her eyes hardened just slightly, understanding I was mad at her.

"I am grateful for everything you did for me yesterday but if you ever put a patient of mine at risk like that while I am treating them again, those shitty root members will be the least of your worries." Threatening the Hokage and someone I care highly for was stupid but I was mad and I was lashing out at the person who caused me so much problem yesterday. Tsunade met my furious eyes, her were stony yet understanding.

"Do not talk to me like that. I am your Hokage above all else, my word is law and you have no room to question it." Her voice was firm, commanding and any other time I would have backed down from her.

"You put not only Itachi at risk, you put the lives of Ino, Sasori, Sasuke, Jiraiya, Shisui, Kisame, yourself, and me at risk all for some stupid idea on getting evidence to catch Danzo. There is enough evidence to put him away already. What the fuck were you thinking!"

"He has more sway than even me over the council on matters like this...we needed absolute proof of his misdoings. The word of Sasuke and Shisui would't be enough. Danzo isn't stupid, he would only attack when he felt it would be most beneficial and end in his favor so that is why we picked now, it was the best chance of getting him to strike. As Hokage I do not want to put the lives of my people on the line, but this is not just about you, this was for the misdoings he caused the Uchiha clan as well as the safety of the village. 

I have to make the hard decisions and sometimes they are not the most favorable but you have no right to question what I have done when everything ended up in our favor. You were the one to want to catch Danzo in the first place so you should not be in my office creating such a ruckus." I was ready to fire back at her harsh yelling but she raised a hand, gaining perfect composure once more.

"Before you say anything else, just know this wasn't my plan. Your beloved Sasuke came up with it, I went along with it on his request." I was speechless, Sasuke really was willing to risk so much just to catch Danzo, joining root should have gotten enough to take him down. Actually, no, that is exactly something Sasuke would do. No matter how much he has changed, he is still himself and will go to wild lengths for revenge.

"You still authorized it, you were the final say." Tsunade stood up out of her chair, gripping my shoulder and pulling us so we were eye level, barely any space between us. "Stand down Hinata or I will put you on probation until you are older than Kakashi." She released the tight grip on my shoulder and sat back down, her fingers pinching the bridge of her nose. She reached under her desk and pulled out a bottle of sake, taking a swig from the bottle. "Just get out. Now." I turned on my heel and left, thinking of so many ways I was going to shove my foot up Sasuke's ass. The first step out of the room, Ino was there smiling brightly. She grabbed my hand and squeezed it, I felt more calm already.

"Itachi is awake. I can't believe it Hinata! You did it, you really did it." I breathed out, feeling like I hadn't really been breathing since the start of yesterday. No way, he was awake. Time to see if everything really worked, hopefully he would have new eyes and after a long recovery, maybe he'd go back to being a shinobi again.

"I couldn't have done it without you." I was grinning, my impending kicking of Sasuke's ass had to wait. I rested my head on her shoulder and we walked to the hospital together.

A/N: You guys begged me and begged me so here it is! Itachi lives, Danzo is in custody, Hinata and Tsunade are fighting, Sasuke is in deep shit. This chapter was so hard to do...especially because everything on the surgery front is impossible so yeah..that part wasn't my favorite but what happens after I really liked her telling off Tsunade and learning Sasuke is still somewhat himself. Plus him drinking tomato juice made me laugh so hard, it was too perfect to pass up. I have some cool stuff next and I can't wait to do it.