A/N: Yay, chapter 2...

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Sasuke's room was a complete mess, not somthing I would expect from him, but he was sick so I can't really blame him. Across the room I could see the rapidly rising and falling lump in the bed's blankets that was Sasuke. I ran over to him and pulled the blakets down a bit. His whole body was flushed, and he was trembling slightly. There were faded marks on his cheeks that showed that he'd been crying earlier. He must have been in a lot of pain...

He seemed to be deep in sleep, so I, as gently as I could, brushed a strand of hair behind his ear, but I must not have been gentle enough, because is eyes snaped open as soon as I made contact with him.

"Naruto...?" Sasuke said in a rasped voice. He clearly hadn't said any thing the whole day.

I'd never seen Sasuke look this...pitiful. He just looked so helpless.

"Hey, how ya' doin?" I said quietly, trying as best I could to smile, although I wanted to cry just looking at him. He reshut his eyes after confirming it was me. I sat down on the bed next to him, and began stroking his hair. He rolled over to face me and sort of nuzzled into my thigh. I felt myself blush again.

"So, are ya felling any better, Dattebayou?"

He said nothing but shook his head slightly. I contiued stoking his hair and gazed around the room. He mumbled somthing into my leg, but I couldn't hear it.

"What?"

He lifted his head out of my leg.

"It hurts, Naruto!" He said, with tears streaming down his face, before sobbing into my leg. I wrapedd both my arms around him and held him as close to me as I could. His trembling got more violent, and heat was radiating off of his body. I could feel his hot tears soaking through my shirt.

"It's okay, Sasuke," I sad, rubbing his back "I'll stay here as long as you want me to." He stopped sobbing and nodded. He contiued to cry, but it wasn't as loud as before. I sat there rubbing his back for another 10 minutes until he stopped crying. But it kept nagging at me that this was so akward. I mean, this is Sasuke we're talking about. If anyone was to do this to anyone, one would think it would be me doing the crying. But that's no reson not to comfort him.

And then a thought popped into my head.

"Hey, Sasuke? Have you seen a doctor yet?" I said.

He thought for a second and nodded, pointing to a slip of paper on his nightable.

"Sakura-chan called a doctor on the second day I wasn't feeling well, and he left that paper for me." He said, his voice still shakey from crying.

The word were really tiny, and alot of them were to big for me to read, but I could understand enough of it to know that Sasuke had a blood diease that requiered a transfusion from a close family member, or somone with the same blood type as Sasuke.

Great. Nobody close enough to Sasuke had the same blood type as him, and the only close (not to mention alive) family menmber of him was Itachi, and I was sure that he'd be less than willing to transfer some blood to Sasuke.

"Have you read this yet, Dattebayou?"

"Yeah, the Doctor said that if I don't get a transfusion soon, I might get blood cancer, or..." He paused

"Or what?"

"...Or I might die."

My heart skipped a beat, then sped up.

"D-Die?"

He nodded. I'm the one that wanted to die right there. My legs began to tremble, as the thought really began to sink in. "Die? But what has Sasuke done to deserve that?"

"And there's nothing else they can do?!" I said, practicly screaming

He shook his head. "Unfortunatly, no.."

Tears began running down my face. I was about to protest once more, but Sasuke said somthing first.

"Naruto,"

"What?" He looked like he was embarassed about somthing, kind of regretful too.

"Will you..." He paused again, and grimaced, as if the words themselves tasted bad.

"What? What is it?

He sighed and began again.

"Will you stay with me tonight?"

My eyes widened a bit. He must've really felt sick, but what kind of friend would I be if I denied? so I nodedd.

I held Sasuke aganst my chest, as he slept, that night. I on the other hand didn't sleep a wink. I stayed up, hoping, wishing, praying to god that in the morning, Sasuke would be better, and all of this would just go away.

Ha! I finished this in one day! Go me! Okay, I'll try to get this finished by the end of tomorrow, but time will tell...

-KW