Here's the second chapter for double upload week. Hope you'll laugh on this one too :) I had fun writing this, but it's the next two chapters I REALLY loved writing.

Enjoy!

Chapter 13

It tastes worse than it looks...

Knock. Knock. Knock.

"Hatsuharu, would you mind getting the door boy?" Asuka covered her mouth and coughed violently, then sneezed into a tissue. She groaned lightly as she covered herself with her teal/purple checkered pattern comforter.

Hatsuharu answered the door and let him come in.

"Where's Asuka? She's late for training." Lee asked as he let Hatsuharu guide him to her room.

She coughed even more violently before seeing her visitor. "Oh, Lee, it's you." she smiled weekly. Her skin was pale and her eyes ringed red, her once soft silky smooth hair was now a fuzzy/matted mess. "What are you doing here?"

"Were supposed to train today, remember?" Lee asked as he advanced to her, sitting on the edge of her bed and moving the hair away from her sweat slicked face.

"Lee, I'm sorry, I don't think I can come out today." she blew her nose into a tissue as Hatsuharu brought her an icepack, placing it on her head. "Thanks boy." she patted her companion's head lightly; scratching the back of his ear, and making him wag his tail happily.

"But Asuka, youth doesn't take a day off just because their a little sick." he smiled happily, holding her hand and tried to pull her out of bed.

"Lee," she groaned, "I'm sick, I can barley move as is." she coughed more, pulling her hand back and burrowing into her comforter.

"Asuka-" Lee tried arguing, but Hatsuharu started dragging him away by his bandaged hand. "Hatsuharu, if she doesn't train today, she-" her companion gave Lee a stern look. He almost instantly shut up, letting Hatsuharu drag him out the door and slam it behind him.

Hatsuharu sighed as he went back to Asuka's side, bringing the bowl of soup on the nightstand closer to her.

She took it and sipped it lightly, "Thanks boy." she smiled weakly at him again before snuggling into her comforter more and going to sleep.

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Knock. Knock. Knock.

Hatsuharu answered it.

"Is Asuka home?"

He nodded and let him in, the little white dog jumped out of his partner's grey jacket and onto Hatsuharu's head, barking happily.

Kiba walked into Asuka's room, seeing that she's asleep. Hatsuharu entered his companion's room and took the melted icepack off her head and went back to the kitchen to replace the ice.

"She looks horrible, I think I can help though." Kiba sat on the side of her bed and felt her forehead. She's burning up and her nose is running. He felt her throat, looking for a pulse. A little bit faster than needed.

Her eyes opened slowly, blinking several times before seeing who it is that's touching her face. "Oh, hey Kiba." She smiled at him, trying to give him a warm smile, but she coughed violently and blew into a tissue before sniffling more, trying to breathe through her nose. "What are you doing here?"

"Well, I was just going to visit, but you look horrible." he stroked her cheek, and then moved to her hair. "And I'm not just talking about your hair."

She weakly punched his leg and let him mess with her matted hair.

"Anyway, I think I can help you, but first, take a shower. It smells like you haven't taken a shower in days." he covered his nose.

"Shut it, your part dog, so you can smell better than me, then again I'm the one with a stuffed nose." she smiled, trying to avert his attention away from her sent.

He pointed to her bathroom. "Shower first, and then I'll help." He ordered.

She sighed; Hatsuharu came back with her icepack. "Hatsuharu, help me to the bathroom." he put the icepack down and helped his partner to the bathroom, letting her take care of the rest.

The wolf looked at Kiba and barked happily.

"Ha, yah, she hasn't a shower in a long time has she? She usually smells like citrus." Kiba acknowledged.

Akamaru jumped back onto Kiba's head and went into his hood. The wolf barked lower at Kiba.

"Well I did say I was going to help didn't I?" Kiba got out of her room and went to the kitchen, looking through it and pulling out a soup pot and some ingredients. "Grr... she doesn't have some of the things I need." he pulled out a piece of paper and pencil then scribbled down some ingredients. He gave it to Hatsuharu and gave him some money. "I need you to go to the market and get these supplies, understood?"

The wolf let Kiba put the note and money in his satchel that was around his chest before doing as he said.

Kiba started making... whatever it was, it smelled horrible. But he was confident that it would help Asuka, just as it helped him when he was sick and his mother shoved it down his throat, no matter how horrible it tasted too. But Kiba was nicer than his mother and actually tried making it taste better.

Hatsuharu came back in a few minutes with his satchel filled with herbs, spices, and weird vegetables that the smart wolf had never even heard of.

Kiba emptied his satchel and got what he needed and put the extra in stored spaces. "Thanks Hatsuharu, just check and make sure Asuka is ok and I'll be in there when I'm finished." He went back to making his awful smelling soup.

He nodded his head and went into his companion's room, seeing that she smells a LOT better than she did half an hour ago, but she barley even tried to dry her hair. So her back was damp and cold.

She shivered. "Hatsuharu, it smells terrible. What is Kiba doing?"

Hatsuharu shrugged his shoulders and smiled.

She gave him a stern look. "You're not helping."

Hatsuharu just ignored her and climbed into bed with her, lying down behind her and warming her damp back from her wet hair.

She shivered more and turned around then hugged him. "Thanks boy." She relaxed a bit more and dug her face into Hatsuharu's soft fur and fell asleep once more.

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"Hey," Kiba shook Asuka's shoulder gently while speaking softly, trying not to startle her. "Sleeping beauty, wake up and take your soup like a shinobi."

She blinked several times before fully waking up to the horrible smelling soup near her face. She scowled and backed away, nearly falling off the bed. She looked back to Kiba and the soup. "Do I have to drink that?"

He nodded, "If you want to be better within a few days, I suggest you take it, or else suffer more from your sickness."

She groaned as Kiba sat at the edge of her bed and wrapping an arm around her shoulder, pulling her into his lap and tilting her head up, facing him with the bowl of soup in his other hand.

"Kiba, I think I'm strong enough to drink it on my own." she tried reaching for the bowl, but Kiba put it out of her reach.

"Believe me, you look a lot like me when I was sick, and if you are as sick as you look; then I need to feed it to you." she lowered her hands and let Kiba put the edge of the bowl to her mouth.

"If I do look as bad as you, then I must be butt ugly." she laughed weakly.

"Just shut up and drink it you idiot."

She gagged and Kiba pulled the bowl away and set it down. She was about to cough it back up, but Kiba held her nose and closed her mouth, making her swallow it.

"Gah! That tastes awful." She cringed and tried wiping the taste from her mouth with a tissue.

"I know it tastes horrible, but you need to drink this if you want to feel better." She sighed and settled back down into his lap.

He put the bowl back to her lightly chapped lips and leaned in closer to try to keep her warm, his face was only inches away from her, but she didn't mind, they've known each other for years now. He was like a brother to her.

She cringed more, but she choked the horrible soup down her throat, trying to ignore the awful taste as she saw how close she was to finishing the bowl.

"Done, is that all?" she asked happily as he got up and began to walk away.

"Actually, you need about two more bowls of this and you'll be done with this stuff for the rest of the day." He left her room to get more soup.

Asuka's face was dumbstruck. I have to drink two more bowls of that stuff?! Nuh uh, no way! She slowly got out of bed, carful not to make a noise; she slowly got to the window and opened it.

"Bark arf!"

"Shut up Akamaru!" she whispered/yelled. "I can't take that stuff, all I need is fresh air right?" She put a leg out the window, preparing herself to jump off the four story apartment complex.

"Hey! Get back in bed and drink your soup!" Kiba yelled as he put down the bowl and quickly grabbed the back of her night shirt. He dragged her back to her bed and tucked her in so tight she couldn't turn over.

She squirmed as she tried to unwrap herself. "Kiba, this isn't fair and you know it, that stuff tastes awful and you know it!" She squirmed more, but Kiba put an arm around her shoulder again and pulled her onto his lap.

"I don't care how awful it tastes, you need to drink this! At least I tried to make it taste better, my mother didn't even try, and it tasted five times worse than this! And you know that my taste buds are more heightened than yours!" she sighed again, letting him pour the soup down her throat.

Without a single complaint, she finished it and didn't try to escape when he left to go get the last bowl of soup. They got into their same position again and fed her.

"Asuka! Are you feeling better?" Lee barged in and went to Asuka's room, seeing only Kiba leaned over Asuka with his back to Lee. "Kiba! Are you kissing my teammate?!" Lee exclaimed with shock.

Kiba shot his head up and showed the empty bowl in his hand and looked at Lee. "What are you talking about? I'm just feeding her."

Asuka nodded in agreement. "Lee, it sounded like you're jealous... are you?" an evil smirk found it's way to her face.

Lee lightly blushed but shook it off. "N-no, of course not, I don't care who you kiss." he turned away, his back facing them now.

"Aww, Lee, you are jealous! How cute!" she smiled, feeling better already she attempted to get up; but Kiba shoved her back down.

"No, if you try getting up you might throw up." he gave her a stern look, knowing she might try again.

"Fine." she relaxed, snuggling into her comforter almost instantly falling asleep again.

Kiba slowly got up and gently laid her head onto her pillow. He put a hand on Lee's shoulder and looked at him with that confident look. "You are jealous, I could hear your heart beat from only feet away." He began to leave but stopped at the doorway, letting Akamaru jump into his jacket and faced Lee one last time. "Your too nervous, ease up." he left, leaving Lee with an asleep Asuka in her bed.

Lee looked at his teammate and brushed the hair out of her face. Her face wasn't as pale and sickly looking as it was, her eyes don't look as tired, and her skin wasn't hot to the touch. Kiba did good, feeding her that awful soup. Lee sighed, disappointed in himself.

Why was I jealous... we're just friends after all...

Why was he jealous? Hmm… you know why ;D… I hope. Just kidding.

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