Tora's P.O.V.

I turned over on the bed trying to pull myself deeper into the covers. 'Something smells good…' I thought. I opened my eyes and shot up quickly when I realized I was in Sasuke's bed. I looked at the clothes I was wearing, they were the close from yesterday, and I remembered what happened the day before. "Why did I fall asleep like that?" I asked looking around. When I didn't see Sasuke around I almost jumped up in joy as I realized the jutsu was no longer in effect. I walked into the kitchen to find Sasuke placing two plates of food on the table he looked at me and went back into the kitchen. "One of those is for you." He said pouring a glass of juice. I went to the table eyeing the food carefully. "What did you do to it?" I looked up at him as he came back to the table sitting on the opposite side. "Nothing." He said beginning to eat. "I don't believe you." I said sitting down. "Don't believe me, I don't care. You can starve if you want."

I grabbed my fork picked up some egg and put it in front of Sasuke's mouth. Unwillingly he at it. "Happy?" I smiled at him. "Very!" and began to eat.

I stopped eating. "If you made me breakfast because you feel sorr-" Sasuke interrupted me.

"Feel sorry for you?" He shook his head. "Not possible." He smiled mischievously. "It's a gift for finally being free of- Owww!" I kicked him hard under the table before he had the chance to finish the sentence. "Trust me no one is happier than me." I grabbed his glass of juice and began drinking it; he quickly took it away from me. "If you want you can get up and get your own." I stuck my tongue out at him. "Hey, maybe now you can go out and date one of your fangirls that like you so much or whatever it is you do with them." I mocked.

"The only one I want to like me…" Sasuke mumbled the rest and I wasn't able to hear completely. Part of me wanted to know what he had said but I wasn't going to embarrass myself by asking.

I was almost done eating when I got the urge to throw up. I got up and ran to the bathroom throwing up everything I just finished eating into the toilet. When I was done I went to the sink and rinsed out my mouth. "This is happening too soon…" I whispered looking at my pale expression in the mirror. "Are you ok?" Sasuke asked standing in front of the door. "I'm fine." I pushed Sasuke out of the way and left the house.

At the rate I was going my death would happen sooner than it was supposed to. At the very least I would have a year to find someone to bond with but throwing up… that was supposed to be one of the last things that happens to me.

"Tor!" I turned around to see Shikamaru running up to me. "Hey, how are you feeling?" he asked putting his arm around my shoulders. "Like crap." I said removing his arm. "I can tell…" he smiled making me give him a dirty look. "I heard you were in the hospital yesterday is everything al-" I interrupted him. "I'm fine, it was just a fever." I lied. "Though I am kind of disappointed that my best friend didn't come to visit me."

"Sorry about that I was on a mission and when I finally had the chance to come see you they said you left." He paused for a second. "I was really worried… Tora are you sure you're ok?" He stopped in front of me placing a hand on my forehead. "Your pale and cold as ice-" I moved his hand away making him feel hurt for rejecting his touch for a second time. I just didn't want him to realize how bad I really felt. "I'm fine so stop worrying." I smiled. "I have to go meet my team in a little while, I'll see you later." I said waving at him and heading off.

Once I met with my team at the bridge we went off on our mission, which if you ask me were jut chores no one wanted to do.

"Tora are you ok?" Sakura asked me as we pulled out weeds from an old lady's yard. "I'm fine Sakura." I said continuing to pull out weeds even though I was clearly fatigued doing so. "Let me help." Without another word Sasuke appeared next to me to help which surprised me. Normally I would protest but I was too tired to do so. Seconds later Naruto went nuts and wound up getting punched by the old lady. We were about to leave to go on another mission when Kakashi stopped me.

"Tora, you're not looking well. Why don't you go home and get some rest?"

"No amount of rest is going to help me, I'll just-" Kakashi interrupted me.

"Tora…" It was obvious the Hokage told Kakashi what was going on with me and arguing with him was pointless. "Fine." Without another word and ignoring Naruto and Sakura's questions about where I was going I left.

I was lying on my bed for about an hour now trying to get some sleep but it was useless, no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get to sleep. I gave up on sleeping and decided to do the Hokage and Ebisu a favor and search for Konohamaru. I was wondering around the streets when I heard Naruto yelling and Konohamaru whimpering, when I rounded the corner I saw a sand genin drop Konohamaru to the ground. "Naruto!" Konohamaru cried running to hide behind Naruto as the sand genin tried picking a fight with Sasuke. My kekkei genkai activated when I sensed another ninja. Seconds later, he appeared upside down on the tree Sasuke was in. "What are you doing, Kankuro?" Everyone especially the sand ninja froze in their place. I grabbed my temples as I began to hear everyone's frantic thoughts.

'Tora concentrate!' I told myself as I began to concentrate on the one person whose thoughts I couldn't hear, Sasuke's. Little by little everyone's thoughts began to fade but my kekkei genkai still remained activated. The redheaded the ninja appeared next to his team members that looked totally scared and told them to leave but not before he asked for Sasuke's name.

As I walked past the sand ninja I stopped in my tracks as I heard the thoughts of the redheaded. It was as if two minds, two voices were fighting for control. Then suddenly when our gazes met his thoughts were blocked from me. Without realizing what I was doing I went closer to him. Listening to this team members thoughts, I found his name. "Gaara?" I inch closer about to touch his face. "How are you able to-" I saw sand start to come up around followed by the smell of blood. I quickly moved away from him to stand beside Sasuke. "Are you insane? No one ever gets that close to Gaara." The blonde girl named Temari said in surprise. "Not unless you have a death wish." Kankuro added. "Maybe I do." I moving away from Sasuke and turning my attention to Konohamaru. "Konohamaru!" I grabbed his ear. "How many times have you been told not to run off?" I scolded.

"T-Tora! Tora!" He whined as I pulled him harder. "Wait, you don't understand!" He protested.

"No excuses. The Hokage is angry at all of you," I said looking at his friends. "For skipping out on training!" I began walking pulling Konohamaru by the ear. "Come on." I told his friend so they would follow me.

I brought Konohamaru and his friends back to Ebisu at the Academy and went to eat Ramen.

"Do you honestly have a death wish?" Sasuke asked as he joined me walking to Ichiruka's.

"What do you want Uchiha?" I didn't really want to be bothered by him today. "Answer the question." He insisted.

"No, but since I'm already dying I figure I have nothing to lose." I said as I entered Ichiruka's and ordered a bowl of Ramen.

"What were you doing anyway?"

"You really can't leave me alone can you?" I asked, rhetorically, but he answered anyway. "Does it bother you?" I gave him a duh stare before I answered him. "Yes." He smiled. "Then no, I can't." I went on to answering his original question. "The red head 'Gaara' I could hear his thoughts and then I couldn't."

"Like me?" Sasuke asked as I took a bite of my food. "No." I put my chopsticks down when I began to feel nauseous. "You're different; I can't hear your thoughts at all. It's one of the things I like about you." I felt like slapping myself for telling him that. He just stared at me.

Feeling like I was going to throw up again I quickly paid for my food, running out to the bushes and empting what little content my stomach contained. When I was done I moved over to rest under a tree laying my head on my knees. I heard a twig snap. Without looking up knew that Sasuke had followed me. "I swear Uchiha if you ask me if I'm ok I'll follow through on my death treat."

"I wasn't" I gave him a questioning stare. "I just thought you'd want some company."

For the next hour we didn't speak a word to each other but it felt comfortable to have someone around me even if it was Sasuke.