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Chapter 4: you are found

Days went by and you just got worse. You were sleeping more then usual, and you felt dying when you shivered. Please...Just Let me Die. You said to yourself. You begin to cough, as you had been doing for the past 4 days. Sometimes you had trouble breathing. I can't go on like this. you found a large amount of shrubbery and sit your achy body down behind it (not wanting to be seen). You curl up and rethink your life. You feel a tear stream down your face and hit the cold ground below you. This is the first time you had cried since you were 6 or seven. Crying had almost always gotten you in trouble. So you stopped after your parents had yelled at you for being unworthy of life. You then feel a light sprinkle of snow on your shaking body. Not now you thought. You thought of going somewhere where there was shelter from the snow. You tried to lift yourself off the ground but you are too weak. So you just drop and fall out of it. You were still conscious, but your eyes were shut and you could barely move.
Footsteps came running down the street where the bushes that you are laying behind are. You open your eyes a slit to see a blurry, orange figure with yellow on the top come next to you. You shut your eyes again. hopefully it will go away you thought. "Are you hiding from Sasuke too?" asked the blur. You found yourself too weak to answer. The blur pokes your shoulder. But you didn't move. "It's a dead person!" shouted the bur and ran out and hugged a boy who had black hair and was wearing a blue shirt and tan pants. "Get off me you loser." said the boy. "But Sasuke! There's a dead person behind the bushes!" said the blur. "dumb ass! that's a hobo." said the boy called Sasuke. You heard the footsteps running away from you.
"Kakashi sensei! There's a dead person behind the bushes!" shouts the orange blur. "I think you used up too much chokura...Are you sure your not hallucinating Naruto?" asked Kakashi. Kakashi was a man with silver spiky hair, which was slanted. He also wore a blue mask that covers the bottom of his face. His left eye is also covered by his blue headband. "I am not hallucinating!" shouted Naruto dancing around with frustration. Kakashi took out his copy of Make out Paradise and begins to read. "Is that all you can do! Read your stupid henti book?" shouts Naruto frustration getting the better of him. "I like to think of it as sophisticated men's literature. And no, that isn't all I can do." said Kakashi so calmly that it makes Naruto angry. A pink haired girl walks alongside Kakashi. "Sakura You'll believe me won't you?" shouts Naruto. "What do you think?" asks Sakura sarcastically. "Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..." says Naruto angrily. Kakashi and Sakura keep walking. Naruto runs up to the bushes wear Sasuke is waiting and were you are laying behind. He pears over to see you still laying there in the snow. Naruto rubs his blue eyes and looks back at you. "Its dead!" says Naruto in horror. Kakashi keeps his slow calm pace, but Sakura runs up to Naruto to strangle him. "SHUT UP NARUTO!" Shouts Sakura. Then her eyes fall on you. "Oh god...I think she is dead..." said Sakura." Probably on drugs..." said Sasuke. "Then Sakura's eyes go to Sasuke." Yeaaaaaaaa..." she says dreamily. When Kakashi arrives his lazy eye widens. "What a sight..." he says." Sure looks like a hobo, but that's no reason to leave her there." said Kakashi looking at Sasuke. Who shrugs off Kakashi glare. Kakashi goes behind the tall bushes and squats down next to you. "Is she alive?" asks Sakura. "That is what I am trying to find out."

She's got a pulse." says Kakashi sounding happy. "But she's barely breathing." "What will we do?" asks Sakura. "You three can walk back on your own, i presume...?" asks Kakashi expecting the answer, Yes. "Well, i don't know about Naruto, but Sasuke and I can. "Heeeeeeey! I can walk on my own!" says Naruto strutting a few strides before Sasuke. "Well obviously he can." says Kakashi while picking you up. You notice that you are being lifted. You try to push away whatever is carrying you, but it turns out you only manage to twitch your arm towards Kakashi. You open your eyes a bit but only enough to see a grey blur above you. You figure it no use to fight Kakashi. "She's shaking..." says Kakashi. "Well, I better get back home" says Kakashi. Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura start walking back the way they were headed in the first place and they soon disappear behind a corner. "So, who are you?" asks Kakashi. But you don't answer. "I see." says Kakashi as if he thought you could hear him. He walks swiftly, with your light body in his arms. You are very underweight for your height and he knows it. Kakashi walks until he comes to a small brick building, one of the 3 story ones you passed while on walking. He unlatches the gate outside it and goes to what looks like a basement. He takes some keys out of his pocket and unlocks the door to the apartment. In side there is a medium sized room, with a fairly large TV and speakers. There is a leather couch that Kakashi lays you on before getting some blankets. When he arrives back with a large pile of blankets there is a tall man standing by the couch. "Why did you put a hobo on the couch?" asks the tall man. "Because unlike you, I'm considerate of others." says Kakashi plainly. "What's wrong with her?" asks he man. "She looks sorta dead." "That is what I am going to try and find out." says Kakashi, coming closer to the couch. He lays all of the blankets on you. Kakashi runs into the small bathroom in the apartment and grabs a thermometer out of the cabinet and shakes it wildly before running back into the living room and placing it under your tongue. "Think she'll be okay?" asks the man, trying to sound like he cared. "We won't know until we get some more clues as to what is wrong with her." says Kakashi as if the man could only understand him if he talked slowly. A minute or two went by and Kakashi took the thermometer out of your moth and held it up to the light. "Holy shit..." said Kakashi under his breath, he meant to say it to himself but instead he said it loud enough for the man to hear him. "What?" asked the man. "104.3" says Kakashi shaking the thermometer and putting it back in the case and setting it beside the couch. "We have to take her to a doctor, Sano..." says Kakashi says to the man. "We can't afford something like that!" said Sano. Kakashi sighed. "What do you think is wrong with her?" asks Sano sounding interested. "Judging by the fever, conditions she was in, and how she's breathing like that, I'd say pneumonia." "We'll have to find some way to make her better." says Kakashi. "I think I'll call you Dr. K from now on." says Sano sarcastically. "Sano?" asks Kakashi. "Yea?" answers Sano. "Are you still friends with that Black Market guy?" asks Kakashi. "Yea...Why?" asks Sano suspiciously. "Well...I thought maybe he could get something" Kakashi is cut off by Sano. "Oh, no...They don't sell medicine...they sell more like old poisons and junk like that." "Can you at least try?" asks Kakashi. "Yea, but you are gonna have to talk to him." says Sano. "Fine." says Kakashi.

Later That Night

"Can you call now?" asks Kakashi. Sano gets up from the big arm chair he was watching TV in and walks lazily to the telephone. He dials a number and asks for, Clerk 764. "Hey! its Sano. Look, I was wondering if you could o me a favor, well actually my room mate a favor." asks Sano casually. "Hold on..." says Sano walking towards Kakashi. Kakahsi takes the phone and puts it to his ear. "Hello? Mr. 764." I was wondering if you had any medicine..."

"Fake Medicine? Or Real medicine?" asks the man.

"Real..." says Kakashi.

"Oh, Yes." says the man. "We have tons of it."

"Do you have anything for pneumonia?" asks Kakashi.
"Ohhhhhhhhh. Yes. we have 1.But pneumonia medicine isn't usually wanted from the Black market.So it's a fairy low price." says the man.

"And how high islow?" asks Kakashi, his usually lazy eye widening.

"$70." says the man.

"Can you hould on?" asks Kakashi.

"Certainly." says the man.

Kakahsi puts his hand over the speaker and says to Sano. "Were on earth are we going to get 70 dolors?"

"Just tell him ok!" says Sano from accros the room.

Kakashi gets back on the phone. "We'll take it" he says.

"Good. Now if you don't mind I would like Sano back." says the man.

"Yes, yes,..." says Sano.

"How long will it take it to get here?" asks Sano.

"2 buisness days." says the man.

"I don't think we can wait that long." says Sano glancing at the couch.

"If that's too long you come get it." says The man.

"Ok, well can you hold it for us?" asks Sano.

"Of caurse." says the man and he hangs up.

"What did he say?" asks Kakashi. "He said that it will take 2 days for it to get here." says Sano. "But" starts Kakashi. "Unless you want to go get it." says Sano. "I guess I'll have to." says Kakashi. Sano runs into his room and comes out with a black credit card. "When you get there, show this to them. They'll give it to you free." says Sano. "Thats conviniant." says Kakashi taking the credit card. "When do they close?" asked Kakashi. "I think...10 or 10:30." said Sano. Kakashi looks at the clock on the shelf in the room. it said, 8:58. "How far away is it?" asked Kakashi. "A couple miles." says Sano. Sano runs into his room and grabs a map. He returns and gives it to Kakashi. "That is how you can get there." Says Sano. Kakashi glances at the map and nods. He puts the map and the credit card in his pocket and leaves thanking Sano on the way out. Kakashi runs a little while and comes to a boat dock. He takes out the map and looks at it. Take a boat to the other side of the River. it said on the map. Kakashi puts the map back in his pocket and take out what money is left in his pocket. He pulls out just enough to pay the man that drives the boat. He went over to a man and said, "I need to get accross the River." "The man nodds and points to what looks like an old boat. Kakashi gets in slowly and the man gets in after. When the riverbank is in arms length Kakashi pays the man and jumps out thanking him. Kakashi glances at the map one more time and keeps walking. It says to go streight untill you hit a private property sign and then go left until you hit a big building. Kakashi did as the map said and he soon found himself infront of a large building. He looked at the map agian and it said that he had to go under the building. went down some stairs that looked like they were for workers that put boxes in and out of the building. When he got down, the place was covered in cobwebs and dust. There was a door that led to another room. The door was old and looked somewat medevil. Kakashi aproached the door slowly. He gripped the knob and twisted. The door creeked open an there was a counter with a man in the window. The man's face was in shadows but Kakashi saw that he was wearing a suit. Kakashi walked up to the counter and the man pushes a minilla envelope out from under the window. Kakashi takes the envelope just before the metal plating covering the window shut with a loud clank. How the hell could medicine fit in here?Kakashi asked himself. He undoes the envelope and looks in. There are 2 sheets of paper inside. One is white and one is yellow. Kakshi stairs at them for about 30 sec. untill realizing that they are prescriptions. At the top there are a bunch of medical tearms. and on the bottom, there is a signarture by a "doctor". Kakashi begins running. He takes the exact same route he did to get there. He has just enough money to get back on the boat and get to the other side of the river. Running. He ran all the way back to the front of the house he shared with Sano, before realizing he had made a mistake. He couldn't just waltz in and make you better by giving you the prescription. He had to get to the Pharmacy. He looked at the watch on his arm. It said, 5:00. The pharmacy closed at 5:15. Kakashi started running at full speed, into town. When he got there it was 5:12. He ran into the pharmacy and demanded to the man that he get the medicine. "I'm sorry sir...we're closing now.You will have to come back tomarow." said the man. "I'm sorry to bother you...But I need this medicine." said Kakashi plainly yet firimly. The man took the paper from Kakashi almost grabbing it. no need to be rude. said Kakashi under his breath. The man throws the prescription in a pile of papters and hands Kakshi a bottle of liquid with a packet of directions. Kakashi takes the bottle, thanks the man, and runs out of the store. Kakashi runs makeing sure not to drop the bottle. He is finally at his house and he bursts in the door. It took a long time, but it's here." he said.