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Chapter 4: Vulnerable.
"Ugh..." Sasuke turned over in his bed, clutching at thin sheets. He felt his legs freezing, his chest freezing, his arms... "When the hell did it get so cold?" Sasuke looked for his comforters through hazy eyes, just to find them on the floor in a messy heap.
He stayed there for a while, thinking about yesterday. How mentally weak he felt when he saw Kiba and Naruto... Why? Well, ever since he stopped seeing the rambunctious 'enemy' of his, he'd been feeling unwell and moody.
Sniffling, Sasuke threw his legs over the bed, hugging himself. "So freaking cold," he muttered to himself hoarsely, pushing thoughts aside, as to not feel worse. He reached lazily at his dresser beside his bed, tugging a drawer open and getting a long sleeve black shirt, which carried his family's symbol on the back. (It looks like a pokeball on a stick!)
As Sasuke was about to throw himself in a nice, warm shower, his eyes widened when his sight met the face of his clock. It read 10:08.
"Shit! What the hell? Did my alarm not go off at 9? Oh my gawd, I'm late for training by 38 minutes..!" Faintly he thought he remembered slapping it to shut up, and sleeping again. That never happened; especially not to Uchiha Sasuke.
Hurriedly, he decided against his white shorts because the sudden cold front, and pulled on loose black pants, with a few straps hanging off them with fashionable eyelets lining along them.
To add on to his sickness yesterday, he now felt like he had a cold. Great. He openly blamed Naruto in his mind for making his feel like that.
Cursing to himself, sniffling more, he dashed out the door, but ran into something.
No, wait. Someone.
"Teme! Watch it, would you? Owww," an ever-so-familiar voice complained. Sasuke had completely fallen over, and it made him realize how the strength in his body was indeed slowly slipping away in his current state. He leaned up on his elbows, rubbing his chin where it fiercely hit Naruto's forehead. He knew it hit there because Naruto complained about his head now.
'...wait, Naruto? What's he doing here?' Sasuke stared almost disbelievingly at the angry dobe, nervousness running through his body now. It made him feel uncomfortgably warm, yet... Safe?
"Where are you going in such a hurry? You should be resting, stupid!" his rival growled.
"What? What do you mean?" Still applying pressure to his chin, the clueless boy sat up completely, seeing the blonde do the same.
"I heard you were sick. Eh? Teme? Hellooo?"
Sasuke was staring at the boy's face. Oh, Naruto was beautiful... His whiskered cheeks were framed by soft, golden strands, accented with contrasting, wild blue eyes...
"Uchiha..?" The Uchiha's fingers trailed over Naruto's cheeks, following the path of his scars... "UCHIHA!" When the blonde yelled, Sasuke was startled back into reality. He saw that his fingers were not actually upon the gentle face of Uzumaki... almost to his disappointment. He blushed deeply, looking down shyly. Wait, what? When did this blonde ever make Sasuke shy?
"For the love of..." Naruto trailed on colorfully. "Get the hell in bed, teme!"
"What? But... But what about training?" The teme looked at him curiously, trying not to get caught in another trance...
"Kakashi cancelled, because you're sick."
"How... how did he know?" Sasuke blinked, and finally stood up weakly, but just as quickly nearly fell over.
"Jesus, Sasuke..!" Naruto had to catch the sick boy's arm over his shoulders, grunting, holding him up. "One of Kakashi's friends told him." Naruto found himself blushing, being so close. And his hand was dangerously close to Sasuke's, holding his wrist to help support him. Slowly he started sliding it along, closer to those thin, but strong hands...
"Probably the Ichiraku ramen manager..." Sasuke mumbled, head slumped down. Naruto snapped out of his own daze softly, and then looked at the boy more closely. Sasuke had dark lines forming under his eyes, which were half closed in exhaustion. His gold eyebrows furrowed in worry, and he pat Sasuke's back lightly.
"You should take a warm shower then go to sleep," Naruto said softly. Sasuke felt his heart throb at the kind tone Naruto used, blushing more fiercely, and suddenly feeling fainter. "Hey..!" The blue-eyed boy nearly fell over when Sasuke became limper... then laughed some. "You lazy teme."
When Naruto laughed so lively... Sasuke became a light-headed, full-blown fan "girl," fainting completely.
Kekeke, I made Sasuke so girly... Sorry. X3 Hope you enjoyed! Thank you so much for your encouraging reviews!
