Sasuke Has a Fever!
By Sacred Star
Summary: When Sasuke suddenly falls victim to a fever, who's there to help him rather than his faithful friends of the Rookie Nine?
DISCLAIMER: Sacred Star unfortunately has no rights to Naruto… or sniffle SASUKE :(
Chappy #1
An ordinary day… Sakura and Naruto wait at the usual bridge for the usually late sensei of theirs… Kakashi. As well as Kakashi, they were wondering what exactly happened to the third genin of the team. Sasuke usually was the first or second one to arrive. This especially bothered them when Kakashi finally arrived two hours later and Sasuke still wasn't there.
"You're late!" Naruto and Sakura chimed in together. It irritated them everyday when Kakashi arrived late for the almost daily missions.
"I stopped a couple of bank robbers and saved an innocent girl. Then we went out together." Kakashi always had to make up some lame excuse for being late… Only God knows what he really does though.
"LIAR!" Naruto and Sakura's voices sang in an angry harmony.
"Calm yourselves…" Kakashi said coolly, "Hmm? What's this? Sasuke appears to be missing today."
"Oh yeah!" Sakura recalled thinking about his absence earlier. "Why do you think he's so late, sensei? I hope he's alright…"
"Who cares?" Naruto pouted as he crossed his arms behind his head in his usual fashion. "He's probably dead. If he is, then it's suddenly the best day of my life."
"Naruto!" Sakura shouted, obviously angered. "Sasuke's just fine! He's only running a bit late. We all have our days…"
Half an hour later, Sasuke finally showed up, his face paled, his hair messy, and his forehead protector on up-side-down. To sum it up, Sasuke looked your basic mess.
"Sasuke! Are you alright? Why were you so late? What's with your forehead protector?" Sakura began to fling questions at the young Uchiha. Sounds annoying, doesn't it?
"W-what's the mission?" Sasuke asked. It appeared that he put great effort into coming out for a mission. Sasuke usually wasn't the kind of person who needed to put much effort into anything. He was always so strong and gifted, nothing seemed like it needed any effort to him, however, he found it hard to just wake up that morning. In fact, he didn't. It was already past 1:00 when he woke up. His muscles seemed so weak; it was hard for him to get out of bed. He didn't feel up to eating a late breakfast and his mind was way too foggy to even fix his hair or put his forehead protector on right. It was unlike Sasuke to admit that he wasn't feeling too great so he just came along anyway. Getting stronger was the top priority in his standards, so he would come out for training even if he was sick.
"What is our mission, sensei? I'm tired of waiting!" Naruto was getting fidgety from the wait. Becoming Hokage and being better than Sasuke were Naruto's top priorities in his standards, so he was dying to get on with the mission. "It better not be something stupid like what we've been doing. I want to do something extreme like… like capturing missing ninjas…!"
"I hate to break it to you, but you won't be doing many things such as that as long as you're still a genin. For now, you'll just have to stick to the Rank D missions for now. Maybe one day (in the far, far distant future) you'll get past genin leveled missions." Kakashi really didn't see Naruto ever making it. He even thought it'd be a long hike for Sakura and Sasuke. Especially Sakura since she seemed to be the worst of the three genin.
"Aaaw… Then what is it that we have to do? It better not be anything like picking up trash or whatnot… Besides, what does that have to do with being a ninja anyway?" Naruto was really disappointed.
"At least you're able to do something, Naruto, so quit your whining and get over it." Chimed in an irritated Sakura.
Sasuke, who was usually quiet, seemed a little bit strangely too quiet. He'd usually say something to Naruto (when he was acting annoying) addressing how much of an idiot he is. It'd usually be to instigate. He simply leaned on the deep red painted railing of the bridge, his head towards the sky and his eyes closed shut. He seemed as if a psychic couldn't tell what was in his mind. He was drifting away from his surroundings into deep thought and exhaustion. He began to realize how hot he was feeling, even though it was a cool October afternoon.
He felt pretty tired and he also didn't feel like having any arguments with Naruto. Only minutes later, he snapped back to reality when Kakashi called his name for the 1000th time because they were leaving to get started on that Rank D mission, in which Naruto hated so.
"Sasuke, don't get left behind." Kakashi called out, half a good distance away from Sasuke.
"What're you doing, sleeping!" Naruto joked. He just loved to see Sasuke get humiliated, which was another priority in Naruto's standards. Sasuke's humiliation.
"Shut up…" Sasuke managed to mutter under his breath. He began to follow his teammates off into their mission.
They arrived at a farm. They're mission was to help this farmer out because most of his staff weren't showing up for work.
"This has got to be the dumbest mission ever!" Naruto whined. "Kakashi! Why do we have to do such a thing?"
"Because it's your mission. Now get to work." Kakashi coolly walked into the shady barn house to read an issue of Icha Icha Paradise. He took trust in his pupils to get the job done without him. Either that or he didn't want to be bothered with kids at the moment.
Though it was Autumn, Sasuke was scorching like it was in the midst of July. He often felt dizzy and often felt like he was blacking out while he was working in the fields. Bending down to pick potatoes, his eyes would close sometimes and his head would almost fall to his chest. He'd catch himself before completely passing out, yet Sakura and Naruto never seemed to notice that he was going through a lot of difficulty. Soon, he was feeling as if he'd just landed on the sun. And couldn't stay awake during the time the three spent in the barn house tending to chickens, cows, and horses. He laid on his only resource, a pile of hay. He didn't mean to fall asleep. It just crept up on him and no one still seemed to notice until the work seemed too hard for Naruto. As soon as the work seemed hard to him, he began complaining about all of the effort he had to put forth and all Sasuke did was snooze on a haystack. This of course, caused Sakura to turn around to see her crush fast asleep on the haystack, just as Naruto said. She could of sworn he was lying at first, but she saw it with her own eyes.
'My gosh, what's wrong with him?' Sakura thought to herself. "Sensei, Sasuke's fallen asleep."
This caused Kakashi to look up from the perverted book he was reading and to look over at his snoozing student. Like I said, he didn't mean to. He was just so tired and he planned to just be there for a moment or two. A feeling just came over him, putting him to sleep. Kakashi had already had a bad feeling about Sasuke since earlier that afternoon when he came late and seemed to be a lot different for the lack of a better word.
"Make him work like us, Kakashi-sensei! He shouldn't be able to sit back while we slave our butts off!" Again, Naruto began to pout. Another one of Naruto's top priorities was making sure Sasuke never got the easy way out while he had to take the hard way.
Instead of listening to Naruto's complaining, Kakashi put his hand on the other boy's forehead to check if he has a fever. And the verdict…
"He has quite the fever…" Kakashi stated coolly and rather calmly. "That explains quite a bit."
"Like why he came so late." Sakura butted in. When it comes to Sasuke, she'll butt into things if she has to.
"You two hurry up and finish here. In the meanwhile I'll take Sasuke over to his apartment and maybe Tsunade can do something." Kakashi took the young Uchiha and left the barn house with Sasuke suspended on his back.
"You actually believe this?" Naruto was getting angry. "He's obviously faking to steal Sakura's attention away from me! He's just jealous because she likes me and she wants to marry me one day!" It appeared that he was talking to no one because Kakashi was already gone. However, Sakura heard.
"WHAT? What kind of nonsense is that!" Sakura nearly screamed her lungs out. "I'd never like OR want to MARRY you! Sasuke-kun would never fake an illness like that AND DON'T EVER SAY HE DID AGAIN!" With that, she gave Naruto a well deserved and awaited punch right up-side the noggin.
"Ow…" He whined.
"You're so annoying! Let's just finish this mission so I can check on Sasuke before the day has ended."
"Fine" He pouted once more and continued to see to every order the client had made.
YEPPIE! CHAPPY 1 IS FINISHED! Please be patient for chappy 2 even though I'll probably have it up later on today. I'm such a frequent worker!