Episode 9

Sasuke moaned painfully. His felt like he had been run over by a truck and then dragged 3 miles to a hospital. He couldn't move any part of his burning body. He weakly opened his eyes and tried to adjust his vision. His surroundings were blurry but he managed to see two blurry figures leaning over him. There was a blackish blob and a pinkish one.

"Sasuke? Sasuke? Are you alright?" Sasuke was sure that the voice belonged to Sakura.

"Oh no! Why? Why? Why did this have to happen to my Sasuke?" The second figure wept loudly. Without a doubt Sasuke knew that the cry belonged to his brother, Itachi.

Sasuke let out another painful moan. "Sakura? Sakura…I'm…fine…" Sasuke managed to choke out with a cough. But it was quite obvious with his coarse voice and endless coughing that he wasn't.

"Well if you're fine then I'll leave! I mean I do still have to find Lee! Bye!" With that the pink haired ninja hurried left the room.

"Sakura…uh…wait…" Sasuke tired calling out to Sakura but he was interrupted by an eruption of coughs. He even tried to get up from his bed, but he didn't even get up a few inches and his tired body fell back to the bed.

"Sasuke! Don't try to strain yourself!" Itachi cried. He quickly made his way to his brother's side. Itachi continued to cry hysterically. "Sasuke, why didn't you tell me you were dying?" He softly whispered.

Sasuke opened his mouth to make some rude, nasty comment but the only that came out was another fit of coughs. Why exactly did Sakura make him drink? But he didn't blame Sakura; she was only trying to help. Sasuke blamed Itachi for almost choking him to death.

Finally Itachi seemed to stop bawling. He smiled weakly at Sasuke and exclaimed. "Sasuke, since you're dying and I called some people to visit you."

Sasuke didn't even get time to react and the door of his bedroom burst open. "Sasuke! Sasuke! Why are you dying?" A booming voice cried. A figure leaned over Sasuke and continued to sob. "Sasuke do you recognize me? This is your uncle Kisame. Oh no, the poor boy doesn't even remember me!" Kisame continued to weep.

"There, There." Itachi comforted Kisame by patting him lightly on the back. "I mean it's not like I'm losing my brother or anything…" Itachi couldn't take it anymore he too started to cry again.

Kisame and Itachi hugged each other and sobbed wildly. "Why? Why did it have to be our Sasuke?"

The room was silent except for the low sobbing of Kisame and Itachi and Sasuke's heavy breathing. Then another voice spoke from the door. "I had to see if you really were dying, Sasuke-chan."

Sasuke froze. He knew exactly who that voice belonged to.

Somewhere near a panting paranoid boy…

"Uh, Hinata…bye…grains and fields…hehehe…got to go…" With that Naruto quickly left a confused Hinata before he could embarrass himself anymore.

Naruto ran behind a wall and caught his breathe. Why did he have to such an idiot? Why couldn't he just tell Hinata what he felt? Why?

"Having some girl problems are we, Naruto?" Naruto looked up to see who had just spoken to him.

"Leave me alone, Lee." Naruto replied weakly. He didn't want anyone witnessing his woe.

"Well if you really wanted I could help you. I could you know teach you everything I know about girls. I mean a lot of girls do like me you know." Lee offered calmly.

Naruto's face lit up. "Do you really mean that Lee?"

"Yeah, Of course I mean it." Lee smiled. "Welcome to Lee's Hunka Macho Lessons."

Meanwhile…

Gaara, Kiba, and Kankurou stood at the door of Kankurou's bedroom.

"It was right over, under that bed." Gaara squeaked as he pointed to Kankurou's bed. Kankurou fearfully hid behind his brother. Kiba smiled brightly as he stared at the bed.

"I'll just check it." Kiba exclaimed calmly as he headed towards Kankurou's bed. He lifted up the corner of Kankurou's bed and stuck his head in. Suddenly he was engulfed by the bed.

Gaara's eyes widened as he stared in horror bed. Kankurou closed his eyes and hid behind Gaara. What were they going to do?

Gaara was just about to call for help when Kiba called from under the bed. "Hey guys its ok. It's George. It's George my sharp fanged, red eyed, invisible chicken." Kiba giggled and laughed under Kankurou's bed.

Gaara and Kankurou sighed with relief. Then after a few more moments Kiba emerged from under the bed holding air. "Gaara, Kankurou meet my chicken George." Kiba held up his empty hand to show the invisible chicken.

Before Gaara didn't even have time to react and George gave out a ferocious growl and attacked Gaara. George bit Gaara's pants leg and brought him to the floor. Gaara screamed his head off. "Oh no! Please! I'm going to die again!"

Finally the red haired ninja managed to shake off the angry chicken. "Aaaaaaahhhhhh!" In a panic Gaara ran out of the room waving his arms like crazy and screaming.

"Gaara! Wait for me!" Kankurou yelled and ran after his brother and the crazy chicken.

"George!" Kiba yelled and ran after Kankurou, Gaara, and George.

"Please! I don't want to die!" Gaara shrieked like a madman. In his fright Gaara didn't see the 15 foot red brick wall in front of him.

"There you are George!" Finally Kiba managed to catch his chicken the exact moment Gaara ran straight into the brick wall.

"Gaara!" Kankurou cried in terror, running to his brother's side. "Gaara, Gaara, are you alright?" He tried to wake up his unconscious brother.

"Huh? What?" Gaara opened his eyes.

"Is he alright?" Kiba called to Kankurou. He stayed a good distance to make sure that George didn't get another chance to attack Gaara.

"Are you OK? How many pancakes did Temari have for breakfast? What is the speed of light? What color is my underwear? Gaara, are you alright?" Kankurou asked hysterically.

"Two; one blueberry and one chocolate chip, 299,792,458 meters per second or about 186,000 miles per second, and purple with green dinosaurs." Gaara answered weakly. "Gaara? Who's that? Where am I? Who are you? Who am I?"

"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" Kankurou yelled.

"What is it?" Kiba called, as he petted George from a distance.

"Gaara has…Gaara has…Gaara has appendicitis!" Kankurou cried.

Gaara has appendicitis? Who is Sasuke's unknown visitor? Will Lee's Hunka Macho Lessons help Naruto?

Tune in next time…