Chapter 2
I woke up groggily. I felt hot. That's how it had been for the past day that I had been sleeping in here. I knew that I had fever. I could feel sweat on my brow and the cold cloths that was laided across my forehead. I could hear the soft talking of voices. I groaned. I wish they could go away. Orochimaru had been pissed about the fact that it was his fault that I had pneumonia. Apparently Kabuto had told Orochimaru that even if nothing showed up in the blood test didn't mean that whatever I had (a cold then) couldn't turn into something more serious. And it did, which meant it was Orochimaru's fault. My thoughts were interrupted by Kabuto.
"Are you awake Sasuke?"
I open my eyes and tilted my head to look at Kabuto. I could see Orochimaru in the shadows.
"How do you feel?"
"When did you start to care?" I said in a raspy voice.
"Just answer the question."
"I feel like crap."
"Well that is to be expected, though you should start feeling better soon."
"Hn"
"I am going to give you something to make you more comfortable."
I didn't respond. I just closed my eyes. I heard Kabuto shuffle away and him rummaging through racks of medical supplies. I open my eyes again and look over at Orochimaru. He gives me his sly look and truns to leave. I wonder what they were talking about. I suddenly felt like something was stuck in my throat and the very prominate need to get it out. I shoot up on the bed and doubled over as Orochimaru turns to leave. At my sudden movement he turns back around to look at me. By then I am to busy trying to get whatever is stuck on in my throat out, to worry about Orochimaru. It hurts and I feel so hot. I am dizzy to. The room is swaying back and forth. I hear footsteps and voices but I can't seem to hear what they are saying. There is a hand pounding me on the small of my back trying to help me cough up whatever is lodged in my throat. It hurts, the pain is so intense and my breathing is becoming more and more labored. There are black dots dancing across my vision and I suddenly have a hand on my chin. Orochimaru's face comes into view.
"Breathe Sasuke, you need to calm down."
I hear his muffled voice. He held fast to my chin and kept looking straight into my eyes. My breathing started to slow and so did the need to cough. Whatever that thing was that was stuck in my throat that had started this to begin with seem to go away slightly. It was still there but there wasn't the prominent need to cough up a storm any more. I felt myself sway a little on the bed and I was very lighted headed. Orochimaru seemed to figure that out and lowered me to the bed. Kabuto came around the bed holding a glass of water and lifted my head a little and pressed the rim of the cup to my mouth. I took in small amounts of water. It hurt my throat. I turned my head away after a couple sips, but Kabuto didn't seem to like that.
"You need the water Sasuke. You can't get dehydrated."
I didn't say anything. I didn't want to tell Kabuto that it hurt too much to drink the water. I still felt light head and I was cold to. I shivered. Kabuto seemed to notice my shivering because he sighed and put the glass down on the dresser next to the bed I was in and turned to pull the covers up to my chin. I closed my eyes. My body felt like it was on fire after he put the covers back over me. I suddenly wished he hadn't pulled the covers up. I was hot now, burning hot. I groaned. The cool cloth form before was back on my forehead.
"His fevers getting worse and he isn't drink water" Kabuto muttered
"Kabuto when he was coughing they weren't dry coughs." Orochimaru mummered.
Kabuto sighed. "They were wet coughs, which can only mean that he had infection in his lungs."
"He better get better Kabuto." The snake hissed.
Orochimaru tuned and left the room. I was still hot and the pain in my chest was there with a constant throb. I could hear Kabuto doing something in the background. I wasn't sure what, but I didn't care. I was so tired now. I let the ever persistent darkness close in and let sleep take me.
I felt hot and weak. I could feel my chest heaving with effort and sweat dripping down my face. My throat was dry. I cough and wheezed. My chest hurt so much with each cough. It was like the coughing was ripping apart my lungs. I could her faint voices.
"He's getting worse Kabuto."
"I know, we have to let the fever take its course. There isn't anything I can really do for him, but give him the medicine."
Everything was fuzzy and I felt so out of it. My body ached to.
"I am giving him antibiotics to for the lung infection. I have also put him on a drip, so that he gets the water he needs and the nutrients. It is really up to him. Sasuke has to want to fight the sickness."
I could faintly hear Kabuto walk over to me, but I couldn't move a muscle. I felt his cold hands on my face and then he was opening one of my eyes. Everything was blurry. I felt like I wasn't even there. Everything was so detached.
"His eyes are glassy and hazed over.
I suddenly felt a stabbing pain in my chest, worse than usual ache. My body seemed to be freeded from my temporary paralysis. I curled into myself and cough. I could feel a wet substance drip form my mouth. It tasted metallically. BLOOD. It was blood. I could taste the iron in my mouth. It hurt, it hurt so much. Please make it stop. I chanted the words over and over in my head. "Make it stop. Make the pain stop." I could feel another wet substance dripping down my face. I was crying. Me the great Uchiha was crying. But what I couldn't believe was the fact that I wanted Itachi. The man I hated and despised for killing our family was the person that I wanted to be here. I wanted his comfort. I wanted him to take care of me like when I was sick, before he killed everyone. It hurt. The pain was becoming worse and worse. I could faintly feel the touch of hands on my body. Turning me over and uncurling me for my ball. There was the prick of a needle and the pain seemed to slowly die down.
"I gave him morphine. It is the best that I can do. He has to fight. He will die if he doesn't."
"He was calling for Itachi. The reason he came to me was to get power to deft him. His revenge. "
I was calling for Itachi?
"It was subconscional. Most likely when he was little and sick his brother was the one to take care of him."
"I realize that Kabuto. I am not an idiot and he better fight. I did not put all the effort getting his body and training him, for him to die. Find a way to make him better, Kabuto, or there will be hell to pay."
"Yes Lord Orochimaru."
The morphine was making me drowsy and it was hard to keep listening. I wonder if what Kabuto said about me calling for Itachi was subconscioal? To be truthful with myself I did want Itachi here. I still wanted him here. I didn't want Orochimaru or Kabuto. I wanted Anki.
Everything became more and more challenging to focus on. The darkness at the corners of my sight was begging me to give in and sleep. So I let it. The darkness came and claimed me.
~~~~~~~~~ Far Away in an Akatsuki Hideout
"Itachi did you hear what Leader-sama said. He said that Orochimaru is really pissed and has doubled the people he sends to kill use because your little brother is dying."
"Hn"
"Is that all you had to say about. Boy you are cold Itachi. I thought you beating up you little bro and then putting in tsukuyomi was cruel."
Itachi didn't say anything to Kisame's last comment. Didn't bother to. It wasn't like he was going to tell Kisame how worried he actually was about his brother. He has to always keep his cold front up. Never let them know that everything is a lie. But I couldn't let Sasuke die.
"I am going to Leader-sama."
"Oh. Why are you going to him, Itachi? That is unlike you."
I didn't replay. I walked out of the bedroom that Kisame and I slept in and walk down the halls. I got the double doors and knocked.
"Come in." The voice boomed.
I opened the door and walked into the dark room. Leader-sama sat in the chair behind his desk as usual.
"Itachi why have you come." Leader-sama said in a more reasonable volume.
"I am taking a leave of absence."
"Oh?"
"Hn"
"You may, but is it because of Sasuke?"
I looked Leader-sama right in the eye. That was all the answer he needed. I turned around and walked out the door.
Well that is chapter 2 for you. Hope you like it. If you see any mistakes please tell me. Oh and I plan to update pretty often, many be every 3-5 days unless school becomes more challenging then the usual. Please Read and Review.
