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Chapter Three: 1+2= Chapter 3

When I woke up, a Medic nin was examining my chest area, to see if there was anything wrong with my lungs or heart. Gaara wasn't there, since he was pushed out by a fuming Temari, saying that he 'shouldn't see a naked woman untill he was married.' And yess, my shirt was off, since the cloth would've gotten in the way of the of the amatuer nin. Temari was there, along with the female doctor's assistant. "How are you feeling?" Temari asked, breaking the awkward silence between the doctor, her assistant, me, and her.

"Oh I don't know. How would you feel if you woke up everyday, only knowing that you have to cough and throw up later? Brilliant? Wonderful? Or just plain great?" I asked the four ponytailed blonde sarcasticlly, glaring at her with my tired and sickness filled eyes. "Oh. Heh heh. Okay, I get that was the wrong thing to ask," Temari said, sweatdropping a little. We sat in silence a little longer, the nin finishing up her examination.

After having Temari help me put a new and clean shirt on, I allowed the assistant and doctor explain what was wrong with me. "Uchiha-san. I'm sorry to say this but... you have a very severe case of the flu. We, unfortanatly, do not have a strong enough medicine to help you recover quicker. So you'll have to stay here and rest, drink lots of water, eat healthy, and I'll have my assistant prescribe the weaker medicine for you. But you have to stay in bed, no matter what, so you can feel better. You can leave to do other personal things such as using the restroom, showering, and changing into a clean pair of clothes, but nothing else. Understand?" the medic nin said, writing down the name of the medicine before handing the peice of paper to her helper to write the officail paper.

I nodded, inwardly groaning for staying in bed and not relaxing outside in the sun and swim in onw of the public indoor pools. The doctor left then, to tell the frantic red head on the other side of the wooden doors leading to my room. "How is she?" I heard him ask, before the door closed, making the voices muffle. "Now what?" I asked miserably, painfully moving my arm so it could cover my eyes. I did not want to see anyone right now. My body's sore, anything I touch feels wrong, like if I touvhed something cold, the nerves in that body part jolts and it does not feel like I'm walking on sunshine!

"You get better. I'll message Hinata, your teammates, and that other guy. You know. The one that has those bugs. Shiki? Shilo?" Temari said, raking her brain for my friend that I made over the years. "Shino," I corrected, not liking her rambling a whole lot, since it started to hurt my head. Shino and I became friends over the years, when he and I went on a mission to the Hidden village in the Mist, to give the Kage there a rare scroll of forbidden jutsus. Later, we had to stay since we had to give our own leader something that the Kage there had to give. Something dangerous. On the way there, we were attacked. I was cut dangerously, like in the prelimanaries, and Shino helped me heal.

I was very thankful to him, since if it was anyone else, they would have let me die, since my family was kinda looney, and anyone I met was super dangerous. So to repay him, I asked to become his friend and do good deeds to repay my dept. But enough about the past. Back to the present. Gaara stormed in after a few minutes of silence on my side. Later, I asked him why he 'stormed in', and he said he didn't. He walked loudly into my room. And he didn't answer my question either.

"I am so sorry that you won't have a good vacation, but I promise to visit you everyday. Okay?" Gaara said, sitting down on a chair next to my bed, and taking ahold onto my free hand. I grimaced. His hands were freezing! "S-Sorry," he said, letting go quickly, but not entirely. I gripped his hand, gritting my teeth as my nerves went haywire. I hate this feeling, but I can handle it if it's for the red head I'm in love with.

We sat in silence, Gaara rubbing his thumb around the back of my hand, while I waited with my eyes closed in the darkness, waiting for a restless sleep to take over for the next few weeks. I hate being sick...

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Back in Konaha, a few weeks later, a loud blonde was running around looking for teammates for his next mission. Passing by a hodded figure, he kept searching untill he heard a voicce call out from the hidden boy in the hooded jacket. "Hey Naruto," it said, and it turned around, showing the blue eyed boy a nose, a half hidden face, glasses, and a leaf head band. "Sorry, do I know you?" Naruto asked, turning to the figure, a questioning gaze fixed into his ocean blue eyes. "Yes. We were gennin together. Don't you remember?" he asked, and you could see an eyebrow being quirked above the dark glasses.

"No. I don't beleive I know you," Naruto said, getting even more confused. Before the blonde boy could continue searching, the hooded man said his name. "I'm Shino Aburame," the guy in the green jacket said, frowning. But the blonde didn't notice, since the lower part of Shino's face was covered by the big coller of the coat. "Oh! I didn't recognize you from that coat of yours," Naruto exclaimed, surprise set in his clear blue eyes.

As Shino was about to speak, a bark could be heard from behind them, and a brown haired boy, with red triangles on his cheeks to mark what clan he was from, came up to them riding a big white dog. "Kiba? Is that you?" Naruto yelled in surprise, looking at the older looking boy riding the huge Akamaru. "Of course. You recognize him," Shino muttered, looking away and towards the tree. During the next few minutes, Kiba and Naruto talked, Naruto asking Kiba to join his team for a mission, and Kiba declining, saying that his own team already had a mission.

Then Naruto appeared in front of a blushing and shy Hinata, who was hiding behind the white fence a few feet awy from the trio of boys. But before Naruto could continue his search for teammates, he heard Shino say to him," By the way, Naruto. A few weeks ago, Uri became sick. It's really bad, you know. Just thought you'd like to know." Naruto froze, his best friend on his mind, along with the new mission. But he continued foreward, wondering if he should just stop and visit the hospital, or do the mission in honor for her. After all... it was her boyfriend that was in trouble.

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When Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi, Sai, and Temari, who was in Konaha for the Chunnin exams, arrived in Suna, she led the small group to the hospital, where the female blonde's brother was resting with poisen running through his veins. Naruto was still thinking about Uri, thinking that she was in Konaha instead of the village that they were in.

In the hospital, while Sakura was making the concoction, Temari was explaining to the remaining Team 7 and Sai about what happened and had a little help with Granny Chiyo, who heard more about what happened then Temari did. "Oh. But I have a question for you, Temari-san," Kakashi said, who was looking at the smaller woman in front of him. His eye was still covered with his headband, to hide his Shirengan from the world untill it was needed in battle. "Yes? Shoot," the blonde answered, crossing her arms in restlessness. "How's Uri doing? I heard from Ren that she became sick here," the silver haired man asked, looking concerned for his sister's student with his one showing eye.

This phrase made Naruto confused. He thought that his white haired friend was still in Konaha, and that she promised to see him when he came back from his training. "What? She's here?" Naruto freaked, running franticlly inside his mind. The rest of the group just ignored the energetic blonde, and Temari answered the only mature man in the group. "She's not getting any better. And when she heard that Gaara was kiddnapped, she worsened in health. Everyone's worried. Even the people she's never met," Temari said, looking down at the ground, shuffling her nin shoes.

"You mean that she might die!" Sakura yelled in surprise, as she finished with her main job. She gave it to the main doctor, and he gave it to Kankuro, who earlier fought one of the men breaching the protection of Suna. "We're afraid so. If she doesn't get better, everyone's gonna lose hope," Temari sighed, but continued on with the mission to save her youngest brother.

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When I heard that Gaara was kiddnapped, I just lost hope. If he didn't come back alive, I couldn't live my life any longer. Sure, losing my entire family from a crazy older brother was sad, but I got over it, since I still had my other sane one. And when my sane brother became insane too, and went to join the circus with a snakey man just to kill another insane man, I was okay with that too, since I did have my friends and boyfriend. But if my boyfriend, the one that wasn't insane with power and took care of me in a way I hadn't been taken care of in a long time, I would finally crack and just hope to fade away from the world that was cruel to me. I didn't do anything to it!

During the next few days, I felt worse. I was restless too, and so I disobeyed the medic nin's orders. I went outside of my room, and into the Kazekage's office, sitting on the couch that I sat on during my first day in Suna. And I sat there, staring off into space, coughing roughly every few minutes, and trying to hold in my vomit and trying to not black out.

When the door opened, the familiar people that I left in Konaha and in Suna. I got up stumbling a bit, and stumbled over to the red head. He seemed surprised to see me out of the room. I swung a fist at him, stumbling again, and missed. That shocked him even more. I fell over, tears spilling out of my oynx eyes, and he caught me in his hands, trying to shush me out of my tears. "How could you," I mumbled, sobbing a little. "I mean, I understand you trying to protect the village, but you left me in a moment of weakness, making me worry soooo much," I sobbed in harder, making Gaara sit down with her and hold her in a hug.

"It's okay. And I'm so sorry. Just go to sleep, and I'll take care of you. I promise," he whispered in my ear, nuzzling his face into my hair, the parts where it was completely dry. "I promise..."

So how was it? It took me awhile to write this, and I had this idea in my head for awhile. So tell me what you think! Oh! And thanks for reading and keeping up my spirits about my writing. I appreceate it sooooo much! :) You guys help in spelling and encouragment.