Sasuke Has a Fever!
By now, you already know that I don't own Naruto or any of the characters in Naruto. Masashi Kishimoto, however does. I wonder if he ever considered partnership…
CHAPPY 4!
Even though Naruto's mind seemed not the brightest, he knew that it was ludicrous to have 11 different people taking care of one guy who could probably take care of himself. He also wondered why Sasuke was getting such attention when Naruto only got a card drawn out in crayon from Kiba when he caught the flu last year. When Team Gai showed up at the door, that was the last straw for Naruto. 'Tomorrow, I gotta check with old lady Tsunade about this! It doesn't make the least bit of sense…'
While Naruto was in such deep thought, Lee, Neji, and Tenten just stood there now, waiting for Naruto to realize that he was in a deep thought and letting them in when they came to the door.
"Aren't you going to let us in?" Neji finally spoke up, tired of standing out there where he could clearly see the crazy guy on the roof of the apartment complex mooning the village.
"Oh!" Naruto's mind snapped back to reality as he saw the three older Genin waiting impatiently. Lee with the same dorky look upon his face, Tenten constantly checking her watch and constantly shouting at that crazy guy, and Neji clearing his throat for the 40th time.
Naruto backed away from the doorway, gesturing that the three could now come in. As Neji looked around the apartment, he noticed Kiba and Shino, but Hinata "mysteriously" disappeared. He didn't care that much to look for her, so he just found some place to stand.
Lee instantaneously found Sakura. His eyes lit up in the way they usually do when he sees his precious Sakura-san. She slowly began to back off into another room, but Lee was too quick for her.
"Sakura-san!" He began with much youth in his voice. "It was fate that brought us together once again! We must be together forever! Please be my girlfriend! I promise to protect you with my life!"
Before Sakura could say "Ew! No way!" or at least something to that effect, Naruto interrupted, insulted that some fuzzy browed guy would barge into his rival's house and still his "girlfriend" like that.
"Hey! Sakura-chan is mine! How dare you come into Sasuke's house, trying to steal Sakura from me!"
"What?" Sakura was tired of dorky people liking her. She wanted some hotty (like Sasuke) to want her. She was definitely tired of Naruto claiming her as his girlfriend of future wife.
Trying to prevent a fight, and trying to get back on the REAL subject, Kiba interrupted. "So how are we all gonna do this? I mean we all can't hang around here 24/7."
"Kiba's right." Tenten sighed. She missed her favorite TV program for this. What injustice!
"So what are we going to do?" Naruto said, as if he was actually putting a considerably large amount of thought into it.
"Don't I get a say in this…?" Sasuke muttered under his breath.
"No you do not, Sasuke-kun! But this is for your youth and health!" The youthful Green Beast of Konoha spoke up again.
All Sasuke did was sigh and roll his eyes. This wasn't fair! How could that Tsunade! Forcing Sasuke to let these people into his house to take care of him through his sickness when he could be perfectly fine taking care of himself. Sasuke wanted to be an independent person. Not to mention he had to get stronger by training. Training helped him to his life goals which were defeating Itachi and making sure Naruto never got better than him. If Naruto should ever get better then Sasuke, this could lead to him acting like a big baby, picking fights with him and eventually leaving the village to some Michael Jackson wannabe. As you can see, Sasuke has priorities to his standards as well as Naruto.
Anyway, the 11 (10 because Hinata is in another room trying not to be seen by Neji) genin thought of how they were going to do this without crowding the apartment up. The apartment was a fairly large one, consisting 1 bathroom, 3 bedrooms (2 not needed unless used as guest rooms), a kitchen, a family room (not needed), and living room. So, it was a 7 room apartment. One might say that may be enough space, but Sasuke likes a lot of space to be vacant. Besides, with 12 people walking around, there was bound to be nowhere for Sasuke to get his privacy.
Anyway again, everyone thought and thought and thought some more until Sakura came up with an idea.
"Hey! Why don't we work shifts?" Sakura suggested.
"Huh?" The genins chorused.
"You know one team can take care of him for a number of hours and when that number's over, the next team can come in and take over."
"Oh!" The genins once again chorused in an understanding tone.
"Sakura-chan! How are we gonna divide the hours of the day between all of these teams?" Asked a tad bit confused Naruto.
"Well, I'd normally say each of us spends six hours here because four teams divided into 24 hours gets 6 hours per team… But who'd want to get up in the middle of the night to come over here?"
"Hey, we could just get one of the teams to stay overnight!" Kiba rang in, trying to be very helpful.
"True, true…" Sakura was now under the impression that she was some genius. Shikamaru was not amused!
"Who'd be willing to do that?" Tenten said, thinking to herself that she was surely not willing. She was pretty sure Neji wasn't either, but Lee… He'd better not!
"I figure our team should stay here with him overnight." Sakura stated, as if she was something to be intimidated by.
"Why you?" Sakura ruined Ino's plans again! Blasted Haruno Sakura!
"Because he's familiar with us more, right Naruto?" He had better answer!
"Yeah, yeah…" Naruto actually had no desire to stay with Sasuke overnight. Make some other poor guy do it!
"How about this…" Sakura began, assuming everyone would go with her plan now. "The first 12 hours of the day, we'll be here with Sasuke. Then, the rest of you could each spend 4 hours with Sasuke with squad 8 going from… 12:00pm-4:00pm. Squad 10 can stay from 4:00 to 8:00. And Gai-sensei's team can stay from 8:00-12:00."
"It doesn't sound too troublesome…" Again… "Troublesome" should tell you who said it.
"I'll miss my dinner!" Chouji gasped.
"We could go out and buy some barbeque, Chouji!" Ino said in a rush to shut him up.
"Hold on a sec!" Naruto butted in. He wasn't too thrilled with the idea of him having to spend each night with Sasuke. "How about we take turns with the 'spending the night' thing?"
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked, a little interested that Naruto was starting to think.
"Well… If we spend the night here one night, then the next squad 8 could do it. Then Shikamaru's team! Then Fuzzy Brow's team!"
"Today's Sunday…" Shikamaru suggested. "We could work some little rotation thing out for the rest of the week."
"That sounds organized." Said Neji, only trying to make some sort of an impact on the conversation. He hadn't said anything since he walked through the door!
The ninjas talked about this rotation plan for a little while longer before coming to a conclusion. Sakura predicted that Sasuke would be sick for about a week, so she made a chart for one week. It already a Sunday night, so she just started with Monday. The plan was a like this:
Monday
12:00am-12:00pm: Squad eight
12:00pm-4:00pm: Squad ten
4:00pm-8:00pm: Squad Gai
8:00pm-12:00am: Squad seven
Tuesday
12:00am-12:00pm: Squad ten
12:00pm-4:00pm: Squad Gai
4:00pm-8:00pm: Squad seven
8:00pm-12:00pm: Squad eight
Wednesday
12:00am-12:00pm: Squad Gai
12:00pm-4:00pm: Squad seven
4:00pm-8:00pm: Squad eight
8:00pm-12:00am: Squad ten
Thursday
12:00am-12:00pm: Squad seven
12:00pm-4:00pm: Squad eight
4:00pm-8:00pm: Squad ten
8:00pm-12:00am: Squad Gai
Friday
12:00am-12:00pm: Squad eight
12:00pm-4:00pm: Squad ten
4:00pm-8:00pm: Squad Gai
8:00pm-12:00am: Squad seven
Saturday
12:00am-12:00pm: Squad ten
12:00pm-4:00pm: Squad Gai
4:00pm-8:00pm: Squad seven
8:00pm-12:00pm: Squad eight
Sunday
12:00am-12:00pm: Squad Gai
12:00pm-4:00pm: Squad seven
4:00pm-8:00pm: Squad eight
8:00pm-12:00am: Squad ten
They assumed by Monday Sasuke would be better.
Sakura rewrote the chart 4 times for each team to take home so they could remember when their shifts started everyday. Everyone agreed that it was a fair compromise except for Sasuke who thought nothing was fair except for him being completely alone.
Sakura decided that squad seven would spend that Sunday there with Sasuke. Everyone else left the apartment to go to their own beds. Sasuke's torture has just begun.
R&R! Chappy five is coming!