Sleep didn 't come easy that night. Mebuki had developed a fever through the afternoon and Sakura, along with Tsunade and Shizune, had kept working to identify the cause ' her kidney had gotten infected ' treat it, and in general care for her and make sure to reduce her temperature until well into the night.

Even when Shizune and Tsunade left her alone for their own room, Sakura stayed awake for a couple more hours. She was fatigued, really, but the day 's events still had her on edge.

In the end, it was thanks to Inner 's chiding that she willed herself into a chakra-induced sleep, which in retrospect was much needed to relax her and refill her reserves. Sakura ended up waking up a couple of times during the night, due to drunken yells coming from the street in front of the inn, but she managed to sleep until half past nine in the morning. Actually, she only woke up then because Shizune had returned to check on her parents.