Snake with a Fever - BoruMitsu Fanfiction

3rd's POV

"Boruto!"

Sarada yelled as she saw the boy slip on the high branches, she began to run but didn't make it in time. He cried out as he saw his body weakly falling to the far too cold water below him. Konohamaru was setting up their tent that the team was going to camp out in on the mission, so he wasn't near the three genin while the snow was growing heavier by the minute. A little girl roughly the age of 6 was drowning in the water, and Boruto thought it was a good idea to save her by throwing a rope from a high tree, but, he didn't realise just how weak the branch he was on really was. It snapped below him and sent him falling. Mitsuki, who was observing the two stood up and he froze.

'Boruto…' he thought. Then his eyes widened and suddenly he felt no control over his body. "Boruto!" He yelled out and jumped out to catch the blonde just before he fell into the river, they both crashed into a small boulder to the side of the water from the impact. The blonde winced at looked at the blue haired male in front of him in shock. Without a second thought, Mitsuki vanished into the water to save the girl himself despite his influent movement in water. He immediately came out after a few moments with the small brunette in wrapped in his extended arms. They splashed onto land and Sarada ran over.

"Mitsuki! Are you alright?" she asked and began lifting the young scared girl up. She turned to Boruto who also had a couple scratches, she began to heal them. "Yeah.." he panted and took his wet robe off and wore only his long sleeved black shirt, there was a visible bloody mark on the back of his neck from hitting the boulder. Though, the male didn't want to make it obvious, he could feel the red liquid sitting at the back of his head seeping into his shirt, he covered it with his palm, thankfully it didn't seem too deep or serious, but the blood was a problem. He sat down in the snow next to the blonde, and realised the boy was knocked out cold.

In no time, the three awake children took the blonde to their sensei and decided that was enough for the day, Mitsuki also found a small scarf to wrap around him so his neck would stop bleeding ferociously. The next morning Boruto was perfectly fine again, though Mitsuki was just starting to feel his doomed aftermath, when he woke up in his tent his head thumped with the pressure of the outdoors. No one noticed his cut either. The male did a very good job at keeping this away from his team, and planned on sleeping when they got back. Afterwards, they headed back to the Leaf Village...

"Hey Sarada what do you think our next mission will be dattebasa?!" Boruto excitedly said.

His team were about to go on their next mission & Boruto couldn't wait. He's hoping that one is going to be even more challenging than last time to the blonde male. The two waited down in the centre of the village as per usual, they waited for their sensei & teammate.

"Baka," she fiddled with her glasses. "You ask me this every time we get a new mission, I don't know!" Sarada said in her usual annoyed tone. It was true that Boruto did ask Sarada that every time, but he never cared. Instead he just asks a bunch of other questions to do with the mission to push her even more.

"Hey!" Konohamaru said jumping down from a small building.

"Oi, Konohamaru-sensei! What's our mission?" Sarada asked sounding like she was about to scream from Boruto's questions.

"I'm not quite sure exactly, when Mitsuki arrives we'll go over to the Seventh's office to find out 'kore" He answers. Sarada groaned. 'If that Baka Boruto decides to ask me one more question I'm going to slap him!' Sarada thought. Thankfully Boruto stopped asking questions as the look on the raven girl's face wasn't very pleasant, and so the 3 just stood around waiting for Mitsuki.

"To be honest it's not like him to be late" Sarada spoke up starting to get worried. "Yeah, he's usually here before I arrive" Konohamaru said agreeing with Sarada. Boruto nodded. 'I hope nothing happened to him from a few days ago…' he wondered.

It really wasn't something Mitsuki would do unless it was intentional, he would never miss a day accidently so something must be wrong. They stood there in silence for a few minutes when finally, the blue haired boy jumped down in front of them.

"Sorry I'm late.." He panted. He did seem pretty restless compared to usual but the three just ignored it.

"Well what happened 'ttebasa?" Boruto asked wondering why their snake friend was late for the first time.

"Slept in, I'm fine" He answered with his cheery smile. He didn't really look fine but none of them questioned it. "Alright then, shall we go now?"

"Hai!"

"Lord seventh, we would like to receive our mission please?" Sarada asked in her most formal tone. Boruto rolled his eyes, 'this better be a good mission stupid old man!' He thought.

"Alright then, Team 7 will be scouting the areas inside the Land of Rivers by boat, we have been told there is a hideout which a few rogue ninja have decided to take place at.. We are not ordering you to kill them, that would make it an A rank mission which you're nowhere near ready for," Boruto mumbled something under his breath. Naruto continued. "Instead your goal is to gather as much intel without getting caught," The hokage finished.

'It's not the greatest, but it's better than our other ones…' Boruto thought analysing the mission his father gave the team. There was a short moment of quiet discussion as the group got more information on the mission, but that was broken when Mitsuki fell into a coughing fit, he turned to the side and was trying to gasp for air.

"Mitsuki!" Boruto yelled turning around to find him hacking. He and Sarada ran to him to try and get his breathing back, however Mitsuki didn't stop choking. 'Don't tell me.. Is this because of the mission a few days ago?' the blonde widened his eyes. His face fell guilty and Sarada looked at her teammates sympathetically. Mitsuki shivered.

"Mitsuki?" Both Naruto and Konohamaru stood there in shock while Shikamaru was trying to find something in the small drawers next to him. He found a small book called 'Illnesses And How To Treat Them' and immediately opened it.

"This isn't good.. Mendokusai," He sighed to himself and began to flip through multiple pages. "When did this start 'ttebayo?" Naruto asked looking concerned as he watched the boy struggle to get his breathing back. "He was later than usual to come meet us, however he seemed fine, just a bit tired," Konohamaru answered still shocked. Eventually Mitsuki caught his breath and straightened back up again.

"I'm okay-"

"Don't make Mitsuki do the mission!" Seems that Boruto wouldn't take that as an excuse. Mitsuki turned to him & looked confused, suddenly a sharp pain shot his head and he clenched it tightly. "Naruto, can we put the mission on hold?" Konohamaru agreed with Boruto's statement & Sarada nodded.

Naruto sighed. "Yes, take him to a doctor or to the hospital for faster results, maybe get Sakura-chan to look at him," He said ordering the team. He was concerned and wanted Mitsuki to be checked immediately, even if he was Orochimaru's son.

"Hahh'ShToo! But I'm fine.." Mitsuki sneezed into his robe, not getting anyone to believe him. He tilted his head in confusion. 'Why am I so weak all of a sudden...?' he grimaced to himself.

Team 7 walked to the hospital in search of Sakura, since Sarada thought that was the best option that Naruto gave. They strode down the village's busy streets in a concentrated silence. Mitsuki was still confused and best thought Boruto would give him an answer. "Why are we doing this if it's no big deal Boruto?" Mitsuki tried persuading his team again. It wasn't working.

"Because," a small stab of guilt went through the blonde's body. "We can tell you're obviously sick dattebasa, you don't have to keep hiding it," Boruto answered calmly trying to help Mitsuki give in, as well as trying to keep himself contained from the increasing shame growing inside.

The blue haired male surprisingly, turned multiple shades paler than what he already was when the blonde finished his sentence. Mitsuki didn't like the word sick. Sick made him think of diseases and death, because those were the only types of sick illnesses he knew that his father had told him of. He had never understood how the cold or flu system worked either, so Mitsuki could only believe he was dying. A small bead of sweat rolled off the side of his face. He still tried to keep his cool composure. 'Even if that was the case, I guess it wouldn't matter either way' He pondered.

"Something wrong Mitsuki?" Boruto asked seeing as the male looked uncharacteristically worried. "Nothing," was the reply he got back, with the same neutral smile he would always give his friends.

"Mama?" Sarada opened the door to where she'd usually find her mother working. "Yes Sarada? Oh, hello you guys! What's the matter?" Sakura turned around from her desk to find each of them standing in front of her.

"Mitsuki's sick and Naruto told us to bring him to you to check if he's alright," Konohamaru replied.

"I see... Well come over here will you Mitsuki? Let me check you," Sakura warmly allowed Mitsuki to come to her. Mitsuki almost flinched when he began walking over. Boruto leaned against the white wall and watched the male walk away from the team with a small look of shame, then he realised a large red mark on the back of the male's neck. His blue eyes widened. "Mitsuki your neck!" he blurted out suddenly, he could feel his body becoming more anxious as he realised just how much trouble he really caused Mitsuki the previous days. Sakura turned around and everyone in the room looked straight at the golden eyed male. The women saw the cut straight away, "Oh dear, we're going to need to do something for that quickly.." she sighed worriedly.

The boy put his arm at his neck again to stop the cut from being visible. Sakura then rushed him into her office. The boy turned around just enough to see the hurt look on Boruto's face. His eyes scrunched up for a moment and was about to turn around, until Sakura guided him into the other room.

'I can't let Boruto see me weak like this… The moon shouldn't bother the sun..' The male felt guilty for acting how he was. Sakura brought Mitsuki into another room and sat him up straight in a hospital blanket on a small bed. She put a small stick into Mitsuki's mouth, the light blue boy stared at it almost completely dumbfounded. Not even Orochimaru had shown him such a common trivial item. "Whts tis?" He muffled with the stick resting in his mouth. Sakura slightly chuckled at his unusual confusion.

"It's a thermometer which checks your body temperature to see if you have a fever or not," she answered kindly, and couldn't help but smile at the boy's completely lost looking face, needless to say she almost enjoyed seeing the boy less composed and more open than his normal self. Though, she also scolded herself for thinking about her patient like that. She then stared at his injured neck, and immediately went to grab bandages from her desk draw. She walked back and gently placed it around his neck to his collarbone. "This should be enough for now, as long as we change it every few hours,'

"Hai..h" he answered. "Hh...hahh'tshoo!" then sneezed, he managed to keep the thermometer in his mouth. He flinched ever so slightly when it buzzed. Sakura gently took the stick out of mouth and read it to herself - 39.8.

Although he's Orochimaru's child, there's no doubt that he has a high fever.. Her concern grew.

She frowned. "Mitsuki, do you have ideas on why you're like this?" she asked concernally. The male looked at her and thought for a moment. "Last mission, Boruto was saving a young girl from drowning but, he was about to fall into the almost frozen water, so I decided to go for the girl instead and save him," he paused.

"My body moved on it's own I guess,"

Sakura looked at him for a moment shocked, it reminded her of her two certain teammates and how they were many years ago. She snapped out of her daze. "Ah, I see.. Mitsuki are you able to cough for me?" Sakura asked. The boy looked almost hesitant at first, but gave into her instructions. He forced a rattled, painful sounding cough that made him grimace afterwards. "Is that okay?" He asked quietly. Sakura sighed. "That doesn't sound too good, can you try to breathe deeply for me?" Sakura asked again while getting a stethoscope from her desk. The boy actually knew what that item was so he untensed a bit more. He tried inhaling a full breath when she was about to the cool item on his back, but ended in a bunch of painful coughs.

"Well..." Sakura started sounding even more concerned. "Mrs Uchiha?" Mitsuki sniffed and rubbed his nose with his robe for what seemed like the hundredth time to him. He frowned as soon as he felt his nose begin to run right after. 'This is frustrating..'

"Yes Mitsuki? Something wrong?" Sakura asked turning around from where she was looking. He looked at her uncharacteristically with a deeper, worried look. "Will Boruto dislike me..? I don't want to be bothering him..."

The women paused for a moment and looked at him with a small sigh. She sat down on the bed beside him and gave him a comforting smile.

He sighed along with her feeling as though the answer he was going to recieve was what he originally expected. Except.

"Mitsuki.. Have you ever gotten sick before?" She turned her head to him with a smile as she could tell what he was going to say. The male looked confused.

"No? Isn't it meant to be rare and harmful?" He asked thinking it was a normal answer. It was true, because of the immune system Mitsuki had, it was very rare and almost impossible that he would get sick. It was really his first time so the sensation he felt made him on edge. Sakura giggled warmly.

"If anything, that Boruto.." she sighed to herself with a smile thinking about it. "That mischievous boy would be almost jealous, I've had Hinata need to bring him in countless times and it was obvious even in an ill state he loved the attention he received and hated it when he got better," She answered with a giggle as Mitsuki stared blankly into the green eyes in front of him. 'Jealous? Of course, Boruto would really act like that,' He just sighed in relief and calmed down. There was a small silence. "What is wrong with me then?" Mitsuki asked as the nervousness started to build itself up once more. Sakura saw that and decided to explain it simple.

"So far just a chest infection, I'm sure you'll be fine,"

Except, he still tensed more and a bead of sweat rolled down his cheek. "Sorry.. can you explain why 'infection' is in it?" He asked, hoping the word doesn't play a huge role. She look at him and wondered how to explain it briefly, and also wondered why he wasn't as aware of as many illnesses as she thought. "Well.. It's like a cold, you cough a lot and sometimes get fevers if it's bad. If you rest enough you'll be fine and I'll tell your team you can go on missions again,"

Mitsuki nodded and sighed, still unsure on how the cold/flu system worked he untensed from the calmness of her tone. A short silence filled the room until Sakura spoke up with a warm motherly tone. "You know," He looked at her waiting for what she was going to say. She smiled.

"What you did for Boruto was amazing Mitsuki,"

Sakura then remembered one of her first team 7 missions back in the hidden mist village. She sighed, relieved that everything ended well. "Don't ever think you did anything wrong, once this is over I'm sure you two will be able to talk things out," she looked at him with a face that was clearly understanding of what he felt. Mitsuki could see this, he nodded once more. She then guided him out to where his team was in the waiting area.

"So what's wrong Mama?" Sarada asked with a kind smile as Mitsuki to seemed to have calmed down a lot more than earlier, she also took note of his wrapped up injury. "He just has a chest infection with a fever, should be fine if he rests but he can't do any missions for the next few days or he could get worse," Sakura said while looking at the blue haired boy calmly. Mitsuki rubbed his nose again in his robe.

"Mrs Uchiha, can I stay here?" Mitsuki asked. He wasn't really looking forward to staying in his small apartment with no one around him he hoped she might offer him somewhere else. Sakura noted this. 'He probably lives alone now that I realise it.. And that cut on his neck shouldn't be left untouched..' she pitied the boy.

"You can stay here in a hospital bed if you like, I'd prefer it since citizens aren't allowed to be loud near here, it'll help you sleep better,"

"Hospital please?"

The four followed Sakura into a cozy room with various hospital beds. Boruto & Sarada both helped Mitsuki to walk down the row as his strength was almost depleted. The boy was too weak to even produce his snakes. Other people were either asleep or watching them walk in as a source for commotion to rid of their own sick misery. A large window of the village was at the end of the room. They followed her right down next to the large window, a nice single bed was there with folded hospital clothes on the end, a couple of books and small bedside table. Mitsuki nodded and gave an appreciative smile.

"Thanks" Mitsuki said great fully and slid into the rather comfortable bed. Sakura nodded and left to greet other patients shortly after waving goodbye. He then smiled mainly at Boruto to stop the blonde worrying about him.

"Do you want to still do the mission? I'm fine here," Mitsuki said as he looked at his team. Secretly, he was looking forward to going on the mission but he also knew there was no point to protest.

"I'd rather not, you're a important member of our team and even Lord Seventh already said we should cancel it anyway," Sarada answered while her eyes were resting on his. He nodded calmly. "We'll visit you tomorrow, try to get better fast Mitsuki 'ttebasa!" Boruto grinned. Mitsuki chuckled, though resulted himself into coughing. He sighed. Then a thought entered his mind. 'I guess this is almost, kinda fun,' he smiled to himself and went to sleep straight after.

"Onii-chan welcome home!" Himawari ran to her brother and gave him a tight hug, Hinata poked her head through the living room, "Welcome back home Boruto-kun," she said and walked over to him give her son a hug also. The blonde accepted but a small frown still rested on his face. 'If I never tried to use that branch then…' He mentally began to punch himself. The boy felt sick to his stomach from shame.

'Then..'

"Is something wrong Onii-chan?" His sister looked up at him worriedly, Hinata took a look at the boys expression and also waited for an answer. He saw their looks and decided to not worry either them with his problems, so the blonde covered his face with a fake grin. "Ah nothing, just thinking dattebasa," he sighed and began walking upstairs.

"I'll be up in my room," with that the male finished walking up and went straight to his bedroom, closed his door and fell on his bed. The two midnight blue haired girls looked at each other concernally.

Boruto looked downwards on his bed. He closed his eyes for a moment. He began to revision what happened.

"Alright I'll be able to show the locals around here who is the awesome one dattebasa!" Boruto yelled happily as he began running up the branch to attach the rope. As he pulled the material tight against the wood he felt the branch under him begin to crack, it was then the blonde realised just how high up he was. His eyes darted for an escape route but there was almost completely no time to move...

He began to fall.

"Boruto!" He heard Sarada cry and start running towards him. He closed his eyes painfully and got prepared for the impact into the water. But, as he was inches away from the river he saw a light and dark blue blurred figure fly directly into him.

'Mitsuki!'

Boruto mentally yelled to himself, then opened his eyes gently to see the male before him flash into the freezing river despite his poor fluency in water, to save the girl alone. Boruto shut his eyes right after, his body was too tired from what had happened. 'Thanks Mitsuki…' He thought, there was a pause as he felt his energy becoming more and more drained. He winced to himself quietly.

'Please.. Did I say that out loud dattebasa..?' He fell unconscious.

"Why did I have to do it? Can't I just throw my pride away!?" Boruto yelled to himself, but was sure to not let his mother or sister hear downstairs. The male grabbed himself as he felt guilt begin to consume him. He looked out the window to see the sun setting slowly. "I don't even know.. if I damn thanked him!" He moaned, then paused to sigh.

"...If I sprang away in time then nothing.." He took a moment to grimace at a mental picture of his too sick to move alone teammate. "Nothing would have happened!" He continued to groan at himself for awhile until he was out of breath, he layed back down on his bed.

'It's just not fair for Mitsuki's sake dattebasa!'

After a few more hours of silently sleeping Mitsuki woke up and looked out the window to the burning orange sky with the sun slowly setting. He smiled to himself at the very pleasant and beautiful view he was gifted with, but then he frowned. 'I'm sorry I bothered you Boruto… I hope you won't dislike me..' he thought. Speaking of pleasant, the boy then realised the ever so 'pleasant' feeling of being blocked. His nose tickled & quickly made the boy pull his robe sleeve to his face before a sneezing fit began.

"H...Heh..H'tshoo!" "..ah..hhH'shoo! ..h..H'TcxnT..!" He winced a little at the last one, he noted the awful feeling in his sinuses he got afterwards, and mentally put that into the list of things he hated. 'What is this feeling? It makes me feel useless..' He thought with a grimace. After a small breath he continued. "Heh..ha..h'Tshoo! Hahh..h'ESHOU!" He tried catching his breath again. The tickle hadn't stopped which annoyed Mitsuki.

"hAhh..hE'TSHOO ahh.." The male sniffled multiple times to stop his nose from running uncontrollably, it didn't work well. "haa..hh..he..h" the final one was stuck and the boy knew it would hurt his chest like literal hell. With his fogged mind he lifted his head up and had his nose point to the roof weakly, without knowing what he had just brought himself into his body entered a forceful fit.

"HhHe'TSHEUO!.Hnxx't Hnxx't hahHET'SHUnxtt!" He panted "HET'SHUU hetnnxTT!."

"Hunxxt.. Hahh'HETSSHUU ah..hhh" The fit went on for five long minutes of itching sneezes. When it was over he grabbed his chest tightly at the pain inside of him became unbearable, he began to cough numerous times as a result of the sneezes.

That was something he'd definitely never wanted to experience again. He sighed to himself in relief that it was over. Never had he felt so sick and he definitely never wanted to be sick again. His nose continued to run madly, so he pulled some tissues and blew out everything, a ever so small tear subconsciously burned through his eyelids. A small pile of used tissues began to build at the end of his bed. His chest burned. It felt like it was being poked with thousands of needles, he winced. Not to mention his cut, that stung everytime he leant forward.

'Is this what Boruto and the others have gone through? It's pretty uncomfortable..' He thought. A shiver went down his spine and he felt much colder than earlier. How he wished another nurse would come and give him a third sheet, but that was too much for him. After he coughed painfully a few times, the boy then remembered he had to change into the hospital clothes. Something his tired body wasn't in the mood for. Never had he expected to feel so uncharacteristically, utterly, miserable.

He sighed and grabbed the clothes, walked to a bathroom to get changed out of his robe. When he walked back out Sakura managed to spot him and ran over. "Mitsuki! Slow down are you alright?" She asked and looked at the miserable state he was currently in. "Hai.." He answered and broke into more coughing. "Come on let me help you back to your bed, do you need anything?" She asked while putting his arm over her shoulder like a worried mother. He nodded tiredly. "Another blanket?" He asked.

She nodded and went off to find one in the storage rooms, she quickly made her way back and helped the boy into bed. She also cleaned up the small tissue pile at the end. The pink haired women checked his fever one last time and sighed. "I guess you'll be staying here a small while.." She said gently. He nodded and tried to sleep straight away, too tired to get his body to say thank you. He then clutched his neck in pain.

"Oh sorry about that, let me quickly rewrap it," Sakura said and ran off to get a new bandage, she then wrapped his neck once more and discarded of the old one. Mitsuki laid in his bed tiredly, trying to find strength to show his appreciation. It didn't matter too much, Sakura knew he was grateful either way, she walked away with a sympathetic smile. The sun finally set, and Mitsuki fell asleep with it.

The night felt like it would last forever to him, but at least when he woke up from his restless short hour sleep he found out it was morning, and felt better. His chest still hurt unbearably but he didn't feel cold or shivery, even a little energy came back. On the bright side he noted that his cut wasn't as sensitive as the day before either. Though, instinctively he shot up and tried to fight the urge of another coughing fit, he failed miserably and began to hack his lungs out. It took a long minute for him to regain his breath once more, the boy grimaced.

He looked out the window, and surprisingly, a certain blonde nin was sitting just outside on the window seal, but there was a look of pity and shame resting on his face. He hid it with a grin after realising the boy was staring at him from his bed.

"Good Morning Mitsuki! Do you feel any better dattebasa?" Boruto asked. Mitsuki smiled slightly. He was more than happy to see a friend visit him, especially the blonde. Mitsuki smiled at the company given by his sun.

"B-Boruto..?" Mitsuki fully woke himself up, his voice wasn't as raspy as the day before.

"I'll be fine, thanks," He answered finally letting joy into his voice after the previous day of pain. "Great dattebasa, when do you think you'll get out of here?" Boruto asked sounding much happier at his teammate, completely unalarmed at the nuisance he was making to other patients looking at him in the room.

"Maybe two more days, I'll have to ask somebody," Mitsuki said and also asked himself that question. Boruto nodded and turned around to jump away, he grinned one more time. There was a small awkward silence. Enough to make anyone go insane. It was broken by the blonde looking down shamefully and sighing, 'Talk you fool!' He yelled at himself. Mitsuki tilted his head waiting for what the boy was going to say. There was another mind tormenting silence for even longer than before, even the people nearby in their beds eavesdropping could feel the tension in their conversation - until finally the blonde spoke.

"...Sorry Mitsuki.. If I didn't slip none of this would have happened.." Boruto admittedly spoke and sighed. Just as caring as his father, he would never forgive himself for getting his teammate hurt or ill, or even both. Boruto didn't know anymore. Mitsuki looked at him and smiled. This was just something he enjoyed too much about his sun. "Don't worry, I'm glad I'm the one like this instead of you, it's perfectly fine," He comforted the boy, then he frowned as well.

"I'm sorry I'm useless right now… You shouldn't to see me like-"

"No Mitsuki! Please don't apologise to me dattebasa!" Boruto cut him off. "I should be thanking you…" he sighed and spoke quietly looking downwards.

"Yet here I am carrying on.."

He clenched his fists into a ball. "..So thank you Mitsuki, and I'm still sorry for what happened.." He paused. "I owe you one dattebasa," Mitsuki looked at him with a weak smile and nodded. "Once again it's not a problem," he answered. The blonde looked back with a small smile yet his mind still felt shame. 'I took to long to own up, sorry' He thought mentally. He then got snapped out of his thoughts when the ill boy spoke up again.

"Teammates are suppose to have each other's backs right?" He asked sympathetically. Boruto looked at him shocked for a moment, then realised the male was right. He exhaled with a smirk. The blonde jumped down from the window into the large hospital room, patients looked at him with slight disturbance. The blonde didn't care and stayed with his friend anyway.

Boruto pressed on the pale boys chest dominantly which alarmed Mitsuki below him; gesturing him to lay back down from his sitting position, then brushed some of the hair away from the male's forehead. The blonde rested his palm on his ill teammate's brow for a moment, the sick male enjoyed the feeling of a cool hand, closed his eyes in pleasure. He was still very warm, but definitely not as bad as the day before when he was with the team. Boruto rested a small smile on his face towards Mitsuki. "Right," he spoke gently.

Then after some amusing silence, the blonde realised what he just uncharacteristically did out of nowhere and began to cover his flustered face. Mitsuki looked at him with a small smirk, enjoying his sun's reaction. "Hm?" he pushed. Boruto pouted jokingly and covered his light pink cheeks.

"S-See you later dattebasa!" He leaped onto the window then away into more trees down to the centre of the village. 'The hell is wrong with me!?' Boruto pondered and looked at his hand, taken back from what he did. Even so, a smile managed to creep onto his face...

Since Mitsuki had nothing better to do that morning, after a small stare at the pleasant sun, he rested his hand on his chest where the blonde had put his other hand earlier. The light blue haired male looked at it with a small chuckle. 'I should really be thanking you, Boruto,'

After a long train of many thoughts, the boy was brought back into reality to a nurse's kind voice & a small fold-out table resting on the bed with some broth.

"Hello.. Your name is Mitsuki right? We're going to need you to eat something if you want to get better, take your time in case you're not too hungry right now, but at some stage today you need to eat it all if you want to get better fast," The nurse advised him calmly with a motherly smile. Mitsuki nodded and slowly sat up at the site of food. "Thank you Miss, I will," He said and smiled. The brunette nodded and smiled back. "I'll also quickly change that bandage of yours.." she showed him a new set of white material and he nodded, leaning over so she could replace them. After she had finished she left him with his broth.

Mitsuki stared at the warm liquid in front of him. He noted that the look of it wasn't amazing, but tasted it anyway. A satisfied smile rested on his face. The warm taste it gave his throat into his chest was perfect. He finished the bowl quickly and sat it on the small table beside him, almost wishing he had more left to free him from the aching.

'I wonder what remedy they put in these…' He thought. After a couple minutes he sighed from boredom. The blue haired boy turned to the bookshelf that had was placed beside his bed. Stretching his arm from the bed, he took a comic book and stared at its title, he smiled. 'I heard Boruto likes this stuff, I might as well give it a try.' He began to read.

Surprisingly, he did really enjoy the story and after finishing 3 volumes of the series Mitsuki's eyes couldn't stay open any longer. He took another long nap. Though he wasn't expecting to open his eyes to a new morning.

Mitsuki then fully woke himself to check for more improvement. His chest wasn't really bothering him that much, and all he had was a little cough and sneezing. He was on the brink of normal at last. The blue haired boy noticed Sakura walk over to him. "Good morning Mitsuki, how are you feeling?" She asked warmly with a kind smile. The boy mentally scanned himself and looked up at her with a smile.

"Much better, my chest isn't aching, I only have a light cough," He answered. Sakura's eyes gleamed happily. "Okay then, follow me!" She said and helped Mitsuki out of bed, she brought him into her office just like two days ago. The boy was clearly able to stand on his two feet once more.

"You said you have a small cough, can you show me please?" Sakura asked. In return she got a little raspy cough, it didn't sound anywhere near as painful the last time she checked. Nodding to herself, she put the thermometer into his mouth. Mitsuki stared at it until she pulled it back out, that time 36.5. She then turned to the back of his head, gently removed the bandages to find his cut. It was much less fierce as a few days earlier, a scar was beginning to take its place.

'He seems much healthier…' Sakura thought. She grinned. "Mitsuki I think you're a lot better now, I'll tell your team you're leaving while you get changed out of those clothes," Mitsuki nodded with a relieved look on his face. He left the room to change back into his robe.

Once he finished he walked outside to find Sakura standing with his team. Mitsuki smiled and walked over to them.

"Mitsuki!" Boruto and Sarada said in unison while running over to him. Sakura told Konohamaru the details and then she walked back into the hospital, she waved one last time and her patient with a smile, the boy did the same back.

"If you were going to be any longer I was ready to jump in there and pull you out dattebasa!" The blonde said playfully, he pulled Mitsuki into a warm tight friendly embrace. The male looked dumbfounded at first but then gave in to it. "Boruto?" He quietly asked.

"At last 'ttebasa.." The blonde whispered, Mitsuki smiled again with a small chuckle, how he adored his sun.

Sarada with them watched and smiled gently, she did not mind that they were having a moment. "Well, I guess now we can relieve the mission huh?" the Raven asked. Boruto and Mitsuki turned to her and Konohamaru looked back to his team. They all nodded.

With their snake boy in the middle, the team walked back to the hokage office. The morning sunrise teased another bright day for missions. With tall brave shadows behind their backs they were ready to fight once again. Boruto shut his eyes and grinned.

'I really owe you one Mitsuki! Dattebasa!'

After a few hours of travelling, the team decided to take a small break before going on the boat.

But, their break was in the same snowy forest as the previous mission..

…..

"Boruto!"

The snapping of the branch was loud enough to hear from all around the river, another girl managed to also drown.

'I won't let it this happen again!' He thought quickly. His eyes darted fast to a smaller branch. He hooked his kunais onto the rope and threw it, his hands were tightly grasped to it as he was slowly swung onto the safe branch. He looked downwards and watched the log crash into the water. Sarada looked upwards and sighed, she adjusted her glasses with a smile.

"Baka…" She lightly spoke.

Mitsuki watched the boy as he observed in his normal spot. He smiled. "I guess Boruto really does get better at things overtime," he stated coming out from his spot over to Sarada. "Got that right," she answered. He turned to him with a sly grin.

"You know, it looks like you and Boruto have a thing going on between you two," she teased jokingly at the blue haired male. He looked at her with a shocked face. He paused and put his hand up to his chin to think. He put his arm back down and smiled.

"You can say that," he said blankly, which wasn't the reaction the Raven was expecting. She flinched and widened her eyes, then exhaled with a smile. The raven giggled quietly. "Whatever, just don't become a Baka like him," she said with a warm smile on her face. Mitsuki smiled and nodded. "Hai" they looked at each other until they heard some rustling from above them.

Boruto was resting on the snowy branch up high not looking at the two. His face was a deep red, and he squealed inaudible murmurs. Sarada and Mitsuki looked up at the tree then looked at each other. They smiled and winked, then went back to their spots.

Suddenly a silence fell between all of them, then they snapped and looked at the river.

"The girl!"

.

.

.