Chapter I – I am not sick
[Another weird idea... don't ask me why. Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto]
Out in the middle of a training field, three Genin sat patiently as their teacher silently stood in front of them, watching them with his arms crossed over his chest. One of the three kids, a spiky blond boy, was a little more impatient and energetic as he stared back with expectant blue eyes at their Sensei. The next one was a pink-haired girl who was starting to get a little irritated from the waiting but kept quiet, not wanting to interrupt Kakashi's thinking. The last of the three young Genin was a cool- mannered boy who seemed not to be interested in Naruto's fidgeting or Sakura's glances. He sat there silently, looking off to the side in little interest about anything except wanting to get stronger. Fortunately, it was another one of those days where Kakashi would start giving them merciless training.
"Oi! Kakashi Sensei!" Naruto piped up. "Do we have a proper mission today?"
"Don't be foolish." Kakashi replied, uncrossing his arms. "I'm sure you three remember that bell exercise from the Survival Training... I've decided to see how much you've all improved..."
Naruto slammed a fist into his open hand and replied with an impish grin. "This should be simple!"
"You're not going to make us do this exercise on empty stomachs again, are you?" Sakura suppressed the urge to whine out that comment. She did not want to have the same situation repeat again.
"I wasn't planning to but since you brought it up..." Kakashi trailed off, getting dreaded looks from the Genin except from Sasuke. "I'm kidding! Though expect that in the future if I decide you three need more severe training. It's still morning and I'm sure that all of you had eaten something before you came here..."
Sasuke closed his eyes, feeling unusually sick to his stomach that morning. He remembered trying to eat his breakfast earlier and found it quite difficult. Firstly, he woke up feeling drained and with a slight headache that had still not completely disappeared. Next, he couldn't really get himself to swallow his breakfast. It just felt like it stuck to the back of his throat and almost caused him to gag a few times. When he had left his home, he was almost blinded by the sunlight. His eyes felt more irritated and it only annoyed him more. He muttered under his breath, as he didn't notice the awkward silence from the rest of his group or really feeling the odd looks that he was getting.
Naruto blinked a few times, wondering why his fellow Genin didn't look at least interested for the difficult training lesson. He crawled over on his hands and knees to the quiet boy, leaning in slightly and blinking yet again, getting curious. Sasuke finally opened his eyes and immediately reared back from the close encounter with Naruto. His eyebrow started twitching slightly at how close their faces were, dreadfully remembering that certain... ahem... classroom kissing incident. Never again did he want that to happen...
Sakura looked at the dark-haired Genin curiously. "Sasuke-kun, is something wrong?"
"Che... Stay out of my face, you moron..." Sasuke muttered as he sat back a foot from where he was originally sitting.
Sakura could only blink, staring at the quiet boy. She started to wonder if perhaps he looked a little... more pale than usual? Her attention was brought back to Kakashi as he cleared his throat.
"As before, there are two bells. Why, you ask? Well, the unlucky one of you brats is going to have a special task to do if you do not get a bell. Ready?" Kakashi asked, getting nods of reply from two out of three trainees. "Now get out of here. Go hide yourselves."
Naruto pointed at Sasuke almost accusingly, having the same impish grin as before. "You're not going to beat me this time, Sasuke! Every other time, I have gone easy on you!"
Sasuke clenched a fist slightly, barely hearing Naruto's boldness as nothing but an annoying rush of words and quite frankly... it especially was getting on his short nerves today. He stood up, his eyebrow starting to twitch more as Naruto continued the verbal 'assault'. Kakashi watched the boy with his uncovered eye with masked concern and wondered why he hasn't jumped off into the given challenge.
"Just shut the hell up already!" Sasuke snapped as he swung a quick punch right for Naruto's face, wincing as his throat felt like it was burning.
Kakashi took a swift leap forward and caught Sasuke's fist just barely inches from the blond boy's face, causing him to stop nattering on immediately. ' His fist is slack...'
Sasuke tried to yank his hand back but Kakashi held his fist in place, watching the boy more carefully at his slightly flushed face. The dark- haired boy was starting to get annoyed and he knew that his hand felt a bit weak but would have been effective enough to give Naruto a good hit.
"You can argue later." Kakashi said, finally releasing the boy's fist. "You three already know the objective of this training so figure out what you're going to do and come find me when you've figured it out... In the meantime..." He reached into his pocket and took out a book, starting to walk away as he started reading through the pages. "I have to know what happens next..."
Sakura sweatdropped heavily, not bothering to question why their Sensei had the nerve to read that sort of books when they were training to be ninjas. She just sighed and looked back at the other two boys, finding them glaring daggers at each other.
"You heard Sensei!" She said, stepping in between them. "Let's not mess it up like last time. We have to work together on this! Now, let's try sneaking up on him from different angles but not all at once or it will give us away."
"I'll go out first!" Naruto said overconfidently, jabbing a thumb towards his own chest. "I have just the thing to get those bells!"
"Don't forget about Sasuke-kun and I!" Sakura crossed her arms. "We'll catch him off-guard. Okay! Let's go!"
The three leaped off into different directions, taking hiding spots under bushes and in trees. Kakashi stood in a clearing, pretending to read through his book as he scanned the area with his uncovered eye calmly.
'So they've finally decided to show up...' He thought. 'Hiding in almost the same spots as last time...'
Sasuke stayed perched on a well-hidden tree branch and watched the target. His clothing felt strangely a little weighed down today and he started to wonder why it was so warm early in the morning... or maybe it was just him. He flicked his gaze around, wondering where Naruto could have been and if he was hiding well enough. Finally, he saw a flash of orange leap down from a tree and head straight towards Kakashi who seemed more interested in his book.
"Aha! I've got you now Sensei!" Naruto yelled as he made a flying lunge, only to slide face-first across the ground after Kakashi took a long step back.
Sakura certainly wasn't amused by Naruto's little stunt as she hid under a group of bushes, crawling forward a bit to have a better look around. 'He never knows when to be quiet... There's Sasuke! He doesn't look focused... I wonder if something is really bothering him...'
Sasuke gripped the tree branch more tightly as he felt unbalanced and didn't want to give away his position, the slight dizzy feeling making him more uneasy. He saw Sakura dart out as back up for Naruto to try to snatch the bells and he was the only one that was left. He hunched down slightly, taking out a few small shuriken out of his pocket then leapt out from his shelter into the midst of the training. He whipped the shuriken at Kakashi, finding that he dodged them quite easily and the three Genin took a leap at their Sensei one after the other. Sasuke had gotten close enough and his hand grasped one of the bells very loosely and it slipped out of his grasp as Kakashi bolted.
"Damn it!" He growled, feeling a bead of sweat slide down his face as he panted slightly. "Next time..."
'That kid is doing pretty well considering that this might be an off day for him...' Kakashi thought as he leaped into a tree, standing on one of the tree branches to resume his reading.
"Sakura! Naruto!" Sasuke hissed, keeping his eyes to where their Sensei had ran off to. "Both of you go around and stay hidden until I give you the signal..."
"Since when did you take charge?!" Naruto protested.
"You'll know it when you see it..." That was the only thing Sasuke said before he leapt off into the bushes.
"I'm sure whatever Sasuke-kun has planned will work!" Sakura said confidently as she ducked off in one direction.
Naruto sighed, scratching the back of his head then he ran off towards the other side to hide. Just above Kakashi, Sasuke managed to hide himself in the tree. He narrowed his eyes at his Sensei through the leaves of the tree and he quietly pulled out another shuriken. He raised his arm slowly and carefully as Sakura and Naruto watched him, figuring that was signal and stealthily made their way towards Kakashi.
'If I can just aim precisely enough without Naruto making him move...' He thought as he carefully aimed.
A wave of dizziness hit Sasuke more severely this time and he almost slipped off of the tree branch but ended up dropping the small throwing weapon as it hit a few branches and leaves on the way down. Kakashi raised his eye from his reading as he heard the shuriken fall to the ground and Sasuke's cursing.
Kakashi tucked the book back in his pocket and leapt onto the ground as Naruto made another flying leap at him. "I've got you this time, Kakashi Sensei!"
Sasuke tried to ignore the fact that he felt like he was boiling and attempted to keep his focus on his target below but looking at the ground amplified the dizzy spell. This time his knees and ankles actually gave out from weakness and he fell forward, crashing through some of the branches until he hit the ground and causing Sakura to scream.
"Sasuke-kun!" She ran over to his side, kneeling down and hesitantly touching the side of his face. "He's burning up!"
"I'm fine..." Sasuke muttered, pushing Sakura's hand off of his face.
"But-"
"I said I'm fine!" Sasuke snapped, putting his arm over his eyes for a moment. "It's just gotten pretty warm outside..."
"Baka! It's not even noon yet!" Naruto said as he ran over, followed by Kakashi shortly after.
"Sasuke, if you're fine then stand up." Kakashi stated, watching the said boy with his uncovered eye.
"But Sensei!" Sakura protested then stopped when Kakashi raised a hand.
"Well?" Kakashi waited again. "Sakura, don't help him."
The other two Genin students and their teacher watched as Sasuke started getting up unsteadily. The balance problem was obvious as Sasuke almost fell back as he stood up straight if he didn't catch himself doing so.
"There..." He answered more bitterly than he meant to.
"Hrm..." Kakashi leaned down, watching the boy's face sternly.
There was an awkward silence as he watched Sasuke and he knew that it was starting to get on the boys nerves. Kakashi flashed out a kunai right under Sasuke's chin, catching him off-guard as the boy gulped slightly but unintentionally.
Kakashi sighed, shrugging as he put the small dagger away. "Your reflexes are as slow as ever and you're in no condition to even do training."
"Che..." Sasuke looked away to the side, obviously bothered.
"Well, let's head back." Kakashi simply said.
The group started walking back towards the village and Sasuke hung back a few feet away from the rest of the Genin. He kept his head down and looked at the ground in front of him silently. He was extremely irritated from the fact that Kakashi had called it a day before noon just because he wasn't up to par with his reflexes. He made a mental note to himself...
'I'm not sick... they only think I am so I'll play along with their little game for a while... and get back to my own training if they are doing nothing else...' He thought bitterly.
He blinked for a moment, thinking of what could have caused him feeling weird. He scowled to himself, remembering that Naruto was trying to beat him at the special tree climbing once again a few days back. Naruto, being the clumsy hyper kid he was, he gotten ahead of Sasuke that time and lost his footing, falling back into the dark-haired boy and making them fall into a river. And if things couldn't have gotten any worse on that day, it started to rain as well and Sasuke refused to wear something to shield himself from the water.
Sakura, obviously concerned, looked back at Sasuke and noticed that he was looking worse than he had at the beginning of training. He started a small coughing fit and she watched with dread as Naruto hung back.
"Oi!" Naruto stood in front of Sasuke, blocking his path. "How come you didn't tell any of us that you were sick?"
"I'm not si-" Another coughing fit and Sasuke scowled. "Sick... I am not sick..."
"You are too!" Naruto accused, walking backwards to keep up with the rest of the group.
"No, I'm not..." Sasuke answered calmly again but was obviously getting more ticked off. "Besides, if I was sick, I wouldn't be moaning and groaning like you do for even the smallest thing..."
Naruto shot a glare at the other boy, still walking backwards. "At least I admit it and not try to get attention by pretending nothing's wrong!"
It was Sasuke's turn to glare at Naruto. "You're the one craving for attention from people and I'll admit nothing to anyone... especially not you..."
"Kakashi Sensei! Aren't you going to stop them from arguing?" Sakura asked, looking up at her teacher.
Kakashi only shrugged. "Nope."
Sakura blinked and looked back at the glaring boys. "But why not?"
Kakashi was about to answer but Naruto and Sasuke dashed right past him. "... Oi! You two get back here!"
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura called after him. "Naruto! Stop teasing him!"
"I can beat you blind-folded, sick boy!" Naruto glared at Sasuke beside him. "Eat my dirt!"
This time Sasuke had enough and replied quite bitterly as breathed heavily. "Go... to hell..." Then it hit him again.
Kakashi's gaze narrowed as he watched the boy hit the ground and slide to a stop. Naruto blinked and skid to a stop, looking back at Sasuke confusedly.
"Sasuke?" Naruto questioned, leaning down and poking the boy in the back and he got more nervous. "... Sasuke?"
He continued poking Sasuke more, finding that he didn't bother to get up or spit an insult at him. Kakashi and Sakura hurried over and his gaze still remained solemn as he watched Sakura attempt to tend to him.
"Sasuke-kun? Wake up! Sasuke-kun!"
[Once again, I leave chapters at weird spots. Was it odd? Or was it... well, not fun... yet... I've probably misspelled a few things as usual.]
[Another weird idea... don't ask me why. Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto]
Out in the middle of a training field, three Genin sat patiently as their teacher silently stood in front of them, watching them with his arms crossed over his chest. One of the three kids, a spiky blond boy, was a little more impatient and energetic as he stared back with expectant blue eyes at their Sensei. The next one was a pink-haired girl who was starting to get a little irritated from the waiting but kept quiet, not wanting to interrupt Kakashi's thinking. The last of the three young Genin was a cool- mannered boy who seemed not to be interested in Naruto's fidgeting or Sakura's glances. He sat there silently, looking off to the side in little interest about anything except wanting to get stronger. Fortunately, it was another one of those days where Kakashi would start giving them merciless training.
"Oi! Kakashi Sensei!" Naruto piped up. "Do we have a proper mission today?"
"Don't be foolish." Kakashi replied, uncrossing his arms. "I'm sure you three remember that bell exercise from the Survival Training... I've decided to see how much you've all improved..."
Naruto slammed a fist into his open hand and replied with an impish grin. "This should be simple!"
"You're not going to make us do this exercise on empty stomachs again, are you?" Sakura suppressed the urge to whine out that comment. She did not want to have the same situation repeat again.
"I wasn't planning to but since you brought it up..." Kakashi trailed off, getting dreaded looks from the Genin except from Sasuke. "I'm kidding! Though expect that in the future if I decide you three need more severe training. It's still morning and I'm sure that all of you had eaten something before you came here..."
Sasuke closed his eyes, feeling unusually sick to his stomach that morning. He remembered trying to eat his breakfast earlier and found it quite difficult. Firstly, he woke up feeling drained and with a slight headache that had still not completely disappeared. Next, he couldn't really get himself to swallow his breakfast. It just felt like it stuck to the back of his throat and almost caused him to gag a few times. When he had left his home, he was almost blinded by the sunlight. His eyes felt more irritated and it only annoyed him more. He muttered under his breath, as he didn't notice the awkward silence from the rest of his group or really feeling the odd looks that he was getting.
Naruto blinked a few times, wondering why his fellow Genin didn't look at least interested for the difficult training lesson. He crawled over on his hands and knees to the quiet boy, leaning in slightly and blinking yet again, getting curious. Sasuke finally opened his eyes and immediately reared back from the close encounter with Naruto. His eyebrow started twitching slightly at how close their faces were, dreadfully remembering that certain... ahem... classroom kissing incident. Never again did he want that to happen...
Sakura looked at the dark-haired Genin curiously. "Sasuke-kun, is something wrong?"
"Che... Stay out of my face, you moron..." Sasuke muttered as he sat back a foot from where he was originally sitting.
Sakura could only blink, staring at the quiet boy. She started to wonder if perhaps he looked a little... more pale than usual? Her attention was brought back to Kakashi as he cleared his throat.
"As before, there are two bells. Why, you ask? Well, the unlucky one of you brats is going to have a special task to do if you do not get a bell. Ready?" Kakashi asked, getting nods of reply from two out of three trainees. "Now get out of here. Go hide yourselves."
Naruto pointed at Sasuke almost accusingly, having the same impish grin as before. "You're not going to beat me this time, Sasuke! Every other time, I have gone easy on you!"
Sasuke clenched a fist slightly, barely hearing Naruto's boldness as nothing but an annoying rush of words and quite frankly... it especially was getting on his short nerves today. He stood up, his eyebrow starting to twitch more as Naruto continued the verbal 'assault'. Kakashi watched the boy with his uncovered eye with masked concern and wondered why he hasn't jumped off into the given challenge.
"Just shut the hell up already!" Sasuke snapped as he swung a quick punch right for Naruto's face, wincing as his throat felt like it was burning.
Kakashi took a swift leap forward and caught Sasuke's fist just barely inches from the blond boy's face, causing him to stop nattering on immediately. ' His fist is slack...'
Sasuke tried to yank his hand back but Kakashi held his fist in place, watching the boy more carefully at his slightly flushed face. The dark- haired boy was starting to get annoyed and he knew that his hand felt a bit weak but would have been effective enough to give Naruto a good hit.
"You can argue later." Kakashi said, finally releasing the boy's fist. "You three already know the objective of this training so figure out what you're going to do and come find me when you've figured it out... In the meantime..." He reached into his pocket and took out a book, starting to walk away as he started reading through the pages. "I have to know what happens next..."
Sakura sweatdropped heavily, not bothering to question why their Sensei had the nerve to read that sort of books when they were training to be ninjas. She just sighed and looked back at the other two boys, finding them glaring daggers at each other.
"You heard Sensei!" She said, stepping in between them. "Let's not mess it up like last time. We have to work together on this! Now, let's try sneaking up on him from different angles but not all at once or it will give us away."
"I'll go out first!" Naruto said overconfidently, jabbing a thumb towards his own chest. "I have just the thing to get those bells!"
"Don't forget about Sasuke-kun and I!" Sakura crossed her arms. "We'll catch him off-guard. Okay! Let's go!"
The three leaped off into different directions, taking hiding spots under bushes and in trees. Kakashi stood in a clearing, pretending to read through his book as he scanned the area with his uncovered eye calmly.
'So they've finally decided to show up...' He thought. 'Hiding in almost the same spots as last time...'
Sasuke stayed perched on a well-hidden tree branch and watched the target. His clothing felt strangely a little weighed down today and he started to wonder why it was so warm early in the morning... or maybe it was just him. He flicked his gaze around, wondering where Naruto could have been and if he was hiding well enough. Finally, he saw a flash of orange leap down from a tree and head straight towards Kakashi who seemed more interested in his book.
"Aha! I've got you now Sensei!" Naruto yelled as he made a flying lunge, only to slide face-first across the ground after Kakashi took a long step back.
Sakura certainly wasn't amused by Naruto's little stunt as she hid under a group of bushes, crawling forward a bit to have a better look around. 'He never knows when to be quiet... There's Sasuke! He doesn't look focused... I wonder if something is really bothering him...'
Sasuke gripped the tree branch more tightly as he felt unbalanced and didn't want to give away his position, the slight dizzy feeling making him more uneasy. He saw Sakura dart out as back up for Naruto to try to snatch the bells and he was the only one that was left. He hunched down slightly, taking out a few small shuriken out of his pocket then leapt out from his shelter into the midst of the training. He whipped the shuriken at Kakashi, finding that he dodged them quite easily and the three Genin took a leap at their Sensei one after the other. Sasuke had gotten close enough and his hand grasped one of the bells very loosely and it slipped out of his grasp as Kakashi bolted.
"Damn it!" He growled, feeling a bead of sweat slide down his face as he panted slightly. "Next time..."
'That kid is doing pretty well considering that this might be an off day for him...' Kakashi thought as he leaped into a tree, standing on one of the tree branches to resume his reading.
"Sakura! Naruto!" Sasuke hissed, keeping his eyes to where their Sensei had ran off to. "Both of you go around and stay hidden until I give you the signal..."
"Since when did you take charge?!" Naruto protested.
"You'll know it when you see it..." That was the only thing Sasuke said before he leapt off into the bushes.
"I'm sure whatever Sasuke-kun has planned will work!" Sakura said confidently as she ducked off in one direction.
Naruto sighed, scratching the back of his head then he ran off towards the other side to hide. Just above Kakashi, Sasuke managed to hide himself in the tree. He narrowed his eyes at his Sensei through the leaves of the tree and he quietly pulled out another shuriken. He raised his arm slowly and carefully as Sakura and Naruto watched him, figuring that was signal and stealthily made their way towards Kakashi.
'If I can just aim precisely enough without Naruto making him move...' He thought as he carefully aimed.
A wave of dizziness hit Sasuke more severely this time and he almost slipped off of the tree branch but ended up dropping the small throwing weapon as it hit a few branches and leaves on the way down. Kakashi raised his eye from his reading as he heard the shuriken fall to the ground and Sasuke's cursing.
Kakashi tucked the book back in his pocket and leapt onto the ground as Naruto made another flying leap at him. "I've got you this time, Kakashi Sensei!"
Sasuke tried to ignore the fact that he felt like he was boiling and attempted to keep his focus on his target below but looking at the ground amplified the dizzy spell. This time his knees and ankles actually gave out from weakness and he fell forward, crashing through some of the branches until he hit the ground and causing Sakura to scream.
"Sasuke-kun!" She ran over to his side, kneeling down and hesitantly touching the side of his face. "He's burning up!"
"I'm fine..." Sasuke muttered, pushing Sakura's hand off of his face.
"But-"
"I said I'm fine!" Sasuke snapped, putting his arm over his eyes for a moment. "It's just gotten pretty warm outside..."
"Baka! It's not even noon yet!" Naruto said as he ran over, followed by Kakashi shortly after.
"Sasuke, if you're fine then stand up." Kakashi stated, watching the said boy with his uncovered eye.
"But Sensei!" Sakura protested then stopped when Kakashi raised a hand.
"Well?" Kakashi waited again. "Sakura, don't help him."
The other two Genin students and their teacher watched as Sasuke started getting up unsteadily. The balance problem was obvious as Sasuke almost fell back as he stood up straight if he didn't catch himself doing so.
"There..." He answered more bitterly than he meant to.
"Hrm..." Kakashi leaned down, watching the boy's face sternly.
There was an awkward silence as he watched Sasuke and he knew that it was starting to get on the boys nerves. Kakashi flashed out a kunai right under Sasuke's chin, catching him off-guard as the boy gulped slightly but unintentionally.
Kakashi sighed, shrugging as he put the small dagger away. "Your reflexes are as slow as ever and you're in no condition to even do training."
"Che..." Sasuke looked away to the side, obviously bothered.
"Well, let's head back." Kakashi simply said.
The group started walking back towards the village and Sasuke hung back a few feet away from the rest of the Genin. He kept his head down and looked at the ground in front of him silently. He was extremely irritated from the fact that Kakashi had called it a day before noon just because he wasn't up to par with his reflexes. He made a mental note to himself...
'I'm not sick... they only think I am so I'll play along with their little game for a while... and get back to my own training if they are doing nothing else...' He thought bitterly.
He blinked for a moment, thinking of what could have caused him feeling weird. He scowled to himself, remembering that Naruto was trying to beat him at the special tree climbing once again a few days back. Naruto, being the clumsy hyper kid he was, he gotten ahead of Sasuke that time and lost his footing, falling back into the dark-haired boy and making them fall into a river. And if things couldn't have gotten any worse on that day, it started to rain as well and Sasuke refused to wear something to shield himself from the water.
Sakura, obviously concerned, looked back at Sasuke and noticed that he was looking worse than he had at the beginning of training. He started a small coughing fit and she watched with dread as Naruto hung back.
"Oi!" Naruto stood in front of Sasuke, blocking his path. "How come you didn't tell any of us that you were sick?"
"I'm not si-" Another coughing fit and Sasuke scowled. "Sick... I am not sick..."
"You are too!" Naruto accused, walking backwards to keep up with the rest of the group.
"No, I'm not..." Sasuke answered calmly again but was obviously getting more ticked off. "Besides, if I was sick, I wouldn't be moaning and groaning like you do for even the smallest thing..."
Naruto shot a glare at the other boy, still walking backwards. "At least I admit it and not try to get attention by pretending nothing's wrong!"
It was Sasuke's turn to glare at Naruto. "You're the one craving for attention from people and I'll admit nothing to anyone... especially not you..."
"Kakashi Sensei! Aren't you going to stop them from arguing?" Sakura asked, looking up at her teacher.
Kakashi only shrugged. "Nope."
Sakura blinked and looked back at the glaring boys. "But why not?"
Kakashi was about to answer but Naruto and Sasuke dashed right past him. "... Oi! You two get back here!"
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura called after him. "Naruto! Stop teasing him!"
"I can beat you blind-folded, sick boy!" Naruto glared at Sasuke beside him. "Eat my dirt!"
This time Sasuke had enough and replied quite bitterly as breathed heavily. "Go... to hell..." Then it hit him again.
Kakashi's gaze narrowed as he watched the boy hit the ground and slide to a stop. Naruto blinked and skid to a stop, looking back at Sasuke confusedly.
"Sasuke?" Naruto questioned, leaning down and poking the boy in the back and he got more nervous. "... Sasuke?"
He continued poking Sasuke more, finding that he didn't bother to get up or spit an insult at him. Kakashi and Sakura hurried over and his gaze still remained solemn as he watched Sakura attempt to tend to him.
"Sasuke-kun? Wake up! Sasuke-kun!"
[Once again, I leave chapters at weird spots. Was it odd? Or was it... well, not fun... yet... I've probably misspelled a few things as usual.]