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Chapter 10

You have done it before, so why do you get angry when they say you did it? Don't you understand that YOU built that reputation YOURSELF? I don't see why they should have to apologize.

Two weeks later I was lying in bed dreading the idea of having to get up. For some odd reason I had been waking up all night-not from insomnia-from dizzy spells. I would sit up and clutch my head as the room would spin around me, or maybe I would hide under the covers, cussing under my breath for it to stop. They would wake me up, drag me into that stupid, f*cking training room and I would pass out. I knew I would pass out. This has happened before. Did I remember it being this bad? No, I didn't remember that. This hasn't seriously happened since I was about four years old. What caused it when I was four…?

"Chiro, it's time to wake up," Nova's voice rang through the room as my door was opened. I groaned, and I could tell that she rolled her eyes because of the tone in her voice when she spoke again. "Chiro, you know you need to wake up. Now, don't fight with me and just get dressed. You are going to lessons with Gibson first today." I groggily sung my legs over and onto the ground and Nova turned on the light as she left the room. I shielded my eyes and found that I had absolutely NO will to stand up. Once I took a deep breath and practically jumped out of bed I stumbled across the room. I needed to lean against the wall as I dressed myself and my stomach made me feel as though I was going to throw up!

As I walked down the hallway I needed to stop every few seconds to catch my breath. I am NOT going to like today. Anger overwhelmed me when I thought about them pushing me so hard. Pushing is all they did. I don't care WHAT I did to them-or to anyone-or WHAT I had already lived through. I cannot take all of this! It's wearing me out too much!

I finally made it to the kitchen and tried to act cool. If they were going to weaken me like this AND try to get something out of me, then they will have to try REALLY hard.

"Are you ok, Chiro?" Otto spoke first. "You don't look so good." And that is when it hit me: I probably look like sh*t!

"I'm just peachy," I said with my normal morning sarcasm. "How are you?" Otto looked from me to Antauri. None of them bought it? How…these guys just make NO sense to me ONCE SO EVER!

"Chiro, do you have a fever?" Antauri asked as he put his hand on my forehead. I snapped my head back and growled at the black simian.

"Don't touch me," I hissed. Antauri blinked, but he didn't say anything to me. He turned to Gibson, instead.

"Gibson," he spoke. "Go get a thermometer. He's not acting like he usually does. If he wasn't looking sick he would do more than just hiss and growl at me to not touch him." I was mentally stunned, but I made sure that the shock didn't show on my face as I crossed my arms and waited for Gibson to get back with the thermometer. These da*n jerks…HOW ARE THEY ABLE TO READ ME SO EASILY!

Once Gibson finally came back with the thermometer he took my temperature.

"Oh my word," Gibson gasped. "Your temperature is 105! You need to go back to bed."

I did not argue as Gibson and Antauri walked me too my room. I didn't argue when they ordered me into bed. I was too tired to back talk or cuss them out or do…anything. This may have been what freaked them out the most, and what freak ME out the most. I lay down in bed falling into a peaceful sleep.

Antauri's POV

I stayed with Chiro as he slept peacefully. He seemed very innocent as he lay there breathing deeply. The boy also looked extremely sick. Gibson had said something about how he was sick because we were pushing him too hard. But, this was when we were walking down the hallway with the boy and I wasn't really paying attention; I was trying to make sure Chiro wouldn't fall. I don't think Chiro was paying attention ether because he was quiet…unusually quiet.

I never and may never understand why he talked back as much as he did, but it seems to me it may be because he's always alone…he was ALWAYS alone. No one seemed to care about the boy very much, this I could tell. Chiro might just be hardened for good now. We may just have to find out.

"Ahh," Chiro suddenly moaned. "No…" I went closer to the raven haired boy as he was breaking into a cold sweat. "No…don't hit me again." I blinked at this and watched as his face went into distress. "DON'T TOUCH ME! DON'T HIT ME! THAT HURTS! NO! LEAVE ME ALONE!" Chiro was now squirming in his bed like something was out to get him. I tried to calm him down, but when I touched his head oh so slightly, he jumped and his eyes opened to show wide and horrified sapphires. The sickly boy fell to the floor, but was up against the wall in seconds. He was looking at me like I was the black plague and just stared at me as he shook.

"Chiro," I said softly. "Are you ok?" Chiro didn't answer. He just kept staring at me. I took a step closer and he tensed. He did this with every step I took until I was in front of him. He looked absolutely TERRIFIED of me. "Chiro, I just want to help-," As I placed my hand on his leg he punched me right in the face. When I looked back up he was crying, which surprised me more than the fact that he hit me. He was baring his teeth at me.

"I'm NEVER going to let you touch me, do you understand?" he shouted. "Never again will I let you abuse me! I'm NOT that little three or five year old. I know how to fight now. I know how to bring you down. So don't you ever think you can touch me again!"

I was in shock, and it was more over what he had said then the blood coming from my mouth. Then, Chiro blinked and he seemed to calm down anger wise.

"A-Antauri?" spoke Chiro with a shaky voice. "W-what happened to your face?" It was then when it hit me- Chiro was delirious from his fever. But…his anger and fear was too much for it to JUST be an illusion…

"That's nothing you need to worry about, Chiro. You need to go back to bed." Chiro was shaky as he nodded and stumbled back over to his bed. Once he hit the bed the poor boy had fallen asleep.

Annime: There you go!

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