Another short one, I'm sorry. But I suck at writing such angsty/depressing stuff, so short chunks are all I can handle at the moment. Would someone mind giving me some feedback?

Note: "Idiots don't get sick" is an actually saying in Japan, believe it or not. I dunno why, it just is :P

"HEEEEEY! I CAN WALK, YOU MORONS!!!"

Sasuke sighed, smirking to himself. Naruto was obviously here to see him if the steady stream of noise coming towards his room was any indication… why the little brat always had to cause an uproar was beyond him, though. He folded his hands behind his head and closed his eyes, fighting to keep the smirk from evolving into a smile.

He heard the door open. Naruto immediately shut up. Suspicious, Sasuke opened his eyes.

He was definitely not excepting what he saw. Naruto was there all right, but he was sitting on a hospital bed. Only patients got hospital beds…

"So moron, what did you do this time? Overdid it fighting the war that you were banned from again?" Sasuke's smirk slid off his face when Naruto didn't come up with some stupid comeback. "Hey, Naruto?" he questioned, keeping his voice neutral.

"…ah, it's nothing, you bastard! I am WAY too good to get hurt in a stupid war, it's just a dumb cold! But Granny Tsunade stuck me here with you…I don't believe her!" Naruto pouted, crossing his legs and arms simultaneously.

Sasuke felt relieved. He'd almost got worried there.

"Hey baldy! Snap outta it!"

Yeah, Sasuke decided, nothing was wrong with this stupid blonde. Idiots don't get sick.

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The papers… they… no…

"Naruto, I'm so, so sorry," Tsunade was saying. Naruto hardly registered the words. The test was positive… it wasn't possible… was all of Team 7 doomed to disease?

Sasuke had cancer… but now he, Naruto Uzumaki, had AIDS. How the hell was that possible?

…wait, that's right. It wasn't possible. The ninetails would have dealt with any virus. Any. Even AIDS. Excited, he opened his mouth to reassure the Fifth.

"Nah, Granny, you've got it ALL wrong!" his laugh sounded too loud. "I can't have AIDS! I've got to become the next Hokage and win this war for Konoha! And I've got the fox! I never get sick, I can't! I don't go back on my word, it's my way of the ninja! Remember?"

When he re-opened his eyes, Tsunade was crying.