The Doctor's Apprentice
Chapter #2
Sasuke layed in discomfort on the warm bed. He was sweating abominably and yet freezing fiercely at the same time. He didn't find the strength to get out of bed, recognising this as Dysania. He rarely ever felt this much discomfort on his own bed. He attempted to move, but his unusually sore muscles protested and he just layed back down. He sighed for the first time that morning, with bitter knowledge that it certainly wouldn't be the last.
Sakura Haruno was confused, very confused in fact, even a bit concerned.
She was at her office, well… the shared office between her and her employer, who, strangely was nowhere in sight. She had learned of her boss's absence when she questioned the matter to the front desk.
"I'm afraid that Dr. Uchiha has called in his absence today," the secretary, Aoi, mourned. "Looks as if he's come down with a cold. Oh! Yes, Sakura-san, you are relieved of your duties for today, it's Saturday anyway, I was just going to put an 'office closed' sign up."
Sakura had nodded and returned to her section of the cramped office to gather her things. She didn't really want to go home. It'd be such a waste.
She had immediately dismissed all mention of party and shopping that Ino and other friends had invited her to earlier in the week, she knew she had work. She had found it especially difficult to refuse a trip to the river with Naruto and the rest. They were going for the weekend, meant to leave at nine sharp.
She glanced with little hope at the small desk top clock, which marked the time to be eight thirty. Her shoulders slumped in disappointment. There was no way she'd be able to taxi over all the way across town in less than two hours, if she was lucky.
In half an hour they'd be on the road. Naruto's words echoed through her mind, "Sakura-chan, you can call at any time if you change your mind!" She shook her head, if she called now she's set them completely off track. She wouldn't do that, Naruto had been anticipating this trip for weeks prior; she surely wouldn't take that away from him.
She thought over her options, finding scarcely any. She really didn't want to go home and waste time doing nothing. She wanted to work. She loved doing it, after all. But without superior command what was she to do?
"Wait, that's it!" She smiled as she voiced her thoughts.
She'd just pay a visit to her boss at home, surely he'd need help anyway, he'd had to have been extremely sick to have to call in and cancel work. She hummed happily as she hastily packed her things.
And extremely sick he was.
Sasuke moaned miserably as he tried for the millionth time that morning to get out of bed. Yes, it was that bad. He really wanted to sleep, but he knew he had responsibilities. He had to feed his kittens and wash his car and shit.
He blamed his sickness pointedly on his dobe of a best friend. After Naruto had personally made it his business to interrupt Sasuke and his apprentice, he brought news that his girlfriend was unwell, and desperately needed immediate attention.
Sasuke naively believed his best friend's report to be serious and hustled over to Naruto's home, where he was annoyed beyond repair to find that the girl had only the common cold. Whereas Naruto behaved as if she was dying. With little treatment, she was up on her feet again. Hinata was fine now but Sasuke seemed to have caught a much worse version of the stupidly contagious illness.
But alas, as much as he wished to fully blame Naruto for the morning's happenings, he knew deep down that it was his fault really. He truly overworked himself to the point of obvious exhaustion, but still, he stubbornly persisted.
He struggled to reach the phone on his nightstand and ring his secretary to relieve her of work for the day. Then he remembered his pink haired intern. He smirked. He informed the secretary that she was to also relieve Sakura of her duties. He scoffed; she'd be like a lost kitten without his instruction. Speaking of kittens, he really should get up. Itachi and Pain were cranky bitches when not fed.
He stretched his arms out and lifted his body up out of bed, not easily, but he eventually got it done. He walked, albeit groggily, to his bathroom to do the essentials. He had finally reached the bathroom door, ding, ding, ding!
Sasuke turned and glared menacingly at the front door. Of course. Of course something would go wrong and stall him in his attempt to relieve himself. He sighed. Fuck it.
He turned again to go into the abyss that he so wanted to enter- ding, ding, ding!
He cursed. He walked over to his front door, slow and sick as he was, and flung it open, angry faced, ready to scream at whichever poor soul that even dared to stop him from using the toilet- when he caught sight of pink hair.
He only knew one person with pink hair.
Oh shit.
Surely enough, two big jade green eyes stared up at him in amusement. It was aggravatingly sexy.
"Sakura, what the fuck are you doing here?"
She pouted cutely. Sasuke had only known the girl for a little over a month; he simply could not understand why he found her so attractive.
"Well boss man, you called in sick, and being your trusty intern I felt it was my humble obligation to come be your personal nurse."
Sasuke just couldn't prevent the dirty thoughts from entering his mind.
"No."
She pouted again. "But Sasuke~!" she whined. He just stared at her.
She sighed. "Fine, I'll be up front with you. I don't have anything better to do. Plus, wouldn't this be a good 'end of month assessment' to see how far I've come under your teachings?"
He actually considered it for a moment. It would be nice to have somebody take care of him for a change. He sighed.
"You're not going to leave no matter what I say are you?"
She shook her head happily. He rolled his eyes and opened the door a bit wider to let her in.
"Okay, so, what do you need help with?" she asked.
"Well, I needed to run to the grocery, my car could use a good washing, Itachi and Pain need to be fed-"
"Itachi and Pain?"
"My kittens."
Speak of the devil, there was Itachi now, chasing a lizard through the living room! Itachi was a fluffy black Siamese cat, with a white tipped tail and one white spot under his neck, with also sparkly green eyes.
Sakura yelped at the sight of the slimy, frightened lizard. Hearing a foreign voice, Itachi froze, lizard in mouth, startled. Sakura took one step towards him, and then he scampered out the door. Sasuke watched in amusement. "Not good with cats?"
She sighed. "Animals in general."
"They say that when animals don't like you, it's a sign that you're a good person."
"Oh, har de har Dr. Uchiha. Just give me my chores."
Author:
Omg, I was so compelled to write on! . But I knew I had to leave something for me to work with next chapter xD Lol, yes I know I'm evil. And yeas, it's short, but expect the next chapter in a few hours xD I feel guilty, as if this wasn't much of a chapter but rather an introduction into one :'(
R&R!