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Chapter 5

-Hospital, part I-

And again Genma ended up lying in a hospital room in Konoha. Raidou had been discharged after a short medical examination and was already on his way home to get some rest. Morously Genma examined his room. Four beds were in this room, but currently Genma was the only occupant. Promised to be one of this boring hospital stays.

Unfortunately for Genma, he was ordered to stay for at least two days in hospital and under constant observation of the medics. Tsunade had just finished his treatment and now he was resting in his bed, staring absentmindly out of the window. He had a terrible headache, waiting obediently for the medicine that Tsunade gave him to kill the pain. He knew it would have terrible side effects.

Genma sighed. This time it had been a cloes one, too. Although the mission, like the previous one with Shizune, Iwashi and Raidou had been a success, they are a great team, again he ended up in hospital, and this time being even the only one. He must do something wrong...

Slowly, Genma started to hate hospitals. He agreed with their necessitiy, of course, but he just disliked them.

Suddenly, Genma was pulled out of his silent rest as the door was forcefully pulled open and Anko stalked into his room.

O no, peaceful silence is gone... the personification of troubel is walzing in, Genma thought resinged.

Anko, both arms set akimbo (What, such a word excists? Wow, what life´s got all in store...), and grinning down on him. "Genma, what is it with you and managing to get yourself into hospital all the time?"

Morosely Genma turned his head to the side, avoiding the look on her evil grinning face.

Anko put on her predator like smile. "Now I got it! You just like being fixed up by the cute nurses, right? You are a mischivous one..."

Genma sighed. "Its not..." But suddenly the door was opened roughly again and Kakashi, Iwashi, Kurenai and Asuma stumbeld in.

"Finally, everyone is there." Anko stated. She pulled out a bottle of Sake. "Ready."

Genma looked distressed from one to another. "You´re planning to drink this bottle in front of my eyes while I am bound to this bed and bannend from alcohol for the next days? Now thats what I call real friendship...!"

Anko nudged him jokingly. "Come on, Genma. The real reason we celebrate is of course that you were overpowered by your own and beloved speciality: the needle!" Theatrically she pulled a long needle out of her pocket, the others joined the fun and made an astonished "Ooooohhh" in time.

Genma looked offended. "Don´t you have other things to do?"

Ankos smile widened. "Well, actually today´s my name day. Of course I want to celebrate this with my dearest friends. And if they can´t come to the party, the party will come to them..."

Genma shook his head. "There won´t come a time when you can´t find a reason to drink, right?"

Anko slid an arm around his shoulders and waved with the bottle in front of his eyes. "Of course evertime I´ll find a reason to visit a good friend in hospital and to drink something with him. But because you, in this special case, are not allowed to drink anything, Kakashi proposed to kidnap you and inject the sake directly into your venes... by the way I agreed with this idea, but now that old hag Tsunade forbade it... I decided to invite some people to a little party here."

"How very nice of you." Genma muttered.

The others snickered, having made themselves comfortable with some chairs around Genmas bed.

And so they drank and were noisy. And of course it wasn´t just one bottle of sake that was emptied this evening.

Suddenly Shizune entered the room and stared surprised at the round of shinobis. "What are you doing here? Again one of these special hospital visits?"

"Shizune darling, don´t you want to join our little party." Anko shouted cheerfully and waved another bottle.

Shizune shyly glanced at Genma who was laying helplessly in his bed, being the only one sober. "Well, actually... Genma needs to rest, you know...?"

"Come on, don´t be so shy. Take a seat and have a drink with us. And don´t tell me you got more important things to do?" Asuma asked.

Shizune looked from one to another. "I have to watch after some patients and still have to do some paperwork. Perhaps another time. But first I have to check on Genma."

Then she passed through the wild, grinning and red faced bunch of shinobi and stepped to Genmas side. She checked on his blood pressure and pulse. Great howling emitted when she opened Genma´s shirt to check on the wounds on his chest, which were now barely visible.

She took some notes on her pad and nodded satisfied.

Commented by an disappointed outcry from Anko, Genma buttoned up his shirt.

Looking up from her notepad, Shizunes dark eyes searched for Genma´s, found them and she smiled warmly at him. "You´re progressing well, Genma. Don´t let them get on your nerves, you need rest." Then she looked at the others. "And don´t let yourselves get caught by Tsunade-Sama. She woun´t be that merciful."

With that she left the room and left the noisy bunch of visitors alone with Genma.

Iwashi was grinning brightly. "Yes, Shizune is definitely a cutie. I would love being checked by her..."

Kakashi nodded in agreement, dirty pictures already infiltrating his virgin´mind. "Yes, I like games of nurses and doctors, too..."

"Then you two should do like Genma." A voice sounded from the door. All eyes looked at Raidou who stood in the doorway, a bottle of orange juice in his hand. He waved with the bottle to his best friend. "Hey, thirsty? I knew the others woulnd´t bring something decent to drink."

Genma shrugged his shoulders. "What should one do?"

Anko leaned to Genma, a mischivious grin on her face. "But Raidou is right. Now that I consider it... Migth it be that in the end you are hurting yourself on purpose? Just to be fixed up by cutie Shizune? Hmmmm?" She nudged him playfully into the side. "You know, you can tell me..."

Genma rolled his eyes. "I don´t let myself get poisened on purpose, Anko! Thats ridiculous."

Kurenai sighend. "How sad. This would have been romantic..."

Anko laughed. "Yes, its sad. The way she checked on your chest ...it looked so familiar..."

A faint blush coloured Genma´s cheeks.

"Cuuute..." Kurenai and Anko cheered.

Kakashi snickered, the other shinobi joyning in.

All of a sudden everyone was silent and alerted. "I can sense danger..." Anko wispered.

The next moment the door was opened imperiously and a fuming Tsunade stood in the doorway.

Jo, tell me what you think. Every comment is welcome, prefered ones are constructive criticism. Thanks for reading.