A/N: From here on the Updates will be irregular, explanation in Chapter 10
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Chapter 9: Being sick
March is the month where spring begins and the end of the 22 months is near only 7 are left now.
Despite the beginning living together was a bit different thing than simple dating, we again learned of other quirks of us in our daily routine.
He was an organized person, as long as her was working, on his days off he was a lazy person mostly as long as we don´t had anything planned and beside loving to sleep long he was a light sleeper who loves to cuddle.
He also likes to separate things, his from mine and private from work and yes like every couple we had our arguments over house duties, but these were part of living together it isn´t always lovely dovely and roses.
Living together showed me how he really worked, like a workaholic, I often enough pointed it out to him that I wanted more time with him and even going as far as to joke about him not marrying me because he was married to his work, at least that got a rise out of him.
And now sitting at the table before our dinner all alone while outside was a storm, I felt...alone.
"This must stop" I mumbled into my now cold tea.
Suddenly the door banged open and I heard some footsteps...more than from one person.
I rounded the corner and was met of Shisui holding a barely awake Itachi, he nodded to me and went upstairs to our room laying my boyfriend down.
"What happened? Is he alright?" I couldn´t hold the panic out of my voice moving to touch the forehead only to feel him burning up.
"We were at the hospital, he is sick and that is all, he didn´t want to stay there." Shisui told me and calmed me down in explaining it was a normal flu.
"Is it alright when I crash at your sofa?"
"Sure make yourself home, I will look after him" I got a bowl of water and a towel, dipping it into water, wringing it out I laid it on his burning forehead, I also got some extra blankets for him.
´His body must have finally crashed after overworking himself´
´I know, I hope it will be a lecture´
´Nah you know how thick-headed men can be´
Engrossed in my task I didn´t knew time flew by and suddenly I found myself drifting into sleep.
I heard my alarm going off and my hand seared blindly until finding the offending thing, smashed the silence button on it and cuddled back into the warmth of the bed. Ah groan on my ear got me finally out of dreamland, making my eyes flew open and remember the events from yesterday evening.
I shot upwards and turned wo my right seeing a rare sight, Itachi still in bed and sleeping.
Some when in the night he must have pulled me into the bed and laid on his side, the little towel was dropped between us and his forehead was glistering with sweat and his hair was in a disarray and was glued on his head through the sweat. Suddenly he shivered violently opening his eyes only a bit I could see them glazed over with the fever, one of his arms tat laid over my waist pulled me back into him and the other grabbed the blanked and used it to wrap us both in it in the attempt to hold in the warmth and stop his chill.
"Stay" he mumbled and was shaken again from a shiver running over his body so he curled more around me. While he maybe felt cold I was actually burned by his heat.
"Can´t do" I was fighting the sleep that threaten to overcome me again and tried to pry his arms away from me, but he only tightened his hold and opened his eyes again throwing me a pouting glare.
"Stay" He rasped again with an underlining seriousness.
"No even when I won´t go to work I need to cook you something, you can´t recover when you don´t eat" I tried to be logical with him, but the only answer was a sudden flash of red.
"Shisui is still here he can do it" He grumbled.
"You want to taste his cooking rather than mine?" I asked in mock shock.
"Why do you want to leave me alone? Must I make you stay" he said with a deep velvet voice into my ear and suddenly his hands began to wander, slipping under my shirt to touch my skin moving upwards until he was touching the side of my naked breast and the other was wandering down into my sleeping shorts grabbing my bare as squeezing it while his mouth attached itself with open mouth kisses to my jugular leaving for sure some marks.
My own mouth dropped open letting out a sudden moan-shriek.
´He just hinted-let us stay´
´No-must-cook-´
I only thought of one solution and hoped that Shisui was even in his sleep on alert.
"Shisui! Help!" I was really in love with my boyfriend...no...I loved him hadn´t just not said it yet, but this now was simply too much for my weak heart when it comes to him.
My call was interrupted after the help by a passionate kiss from Itachi, stealing my breath away and slowly he moved me under him in his cocoon. Thanks god the door was flung open.
"You called-" Shisui stopped in his tracks for a moment looking at the situation before him.
"I see...I will let you alone." I ripped my lips away from Itachis kiss to stop him from leaving.
"No, help me out of here, he is not himself" He hesitated
"I´m very much myself, shall I proof it?" His eyes were smouldering with pure desire and I managed to get one of my hands out of the blankets and reached in a raising panic out for Shisui, who hearing the unusual sentence from his baby cousin moved and ripped me away from Itachi. Said man jumped up and wanted to grab me, when a shiver and his weakened state made him drop to the floor.
"Go cook something I will handle him" Shisui said in a serious voice shoving me behind him and out of the door while he holds the death glare from Itachi.
I fled into the kitchen and stood there panting and tried to calm myself down. After a good minute I moved and began to make breakfast and after I was done I moved upstairs and entered our bedroom finding Itachi sulking in the bed and Shisui sitting on the chair I used last night. Shisui suddenly jumped up from the chair stopping me to come into arm reach of Itachi.
"I will take from here on, just go to work, when you can manage come back to cook the meals, but beside that I think it would be better for you to stay away...I know of his promise to you, he would hate himself when he breaks it like that. At least try to go to some friends until he is back to normal." And with that I was thrown out of my own home, but I knew he only meant it in a good way.
I arrived late at work and I could see it in Shikakus eyes how he planned my punishment so I tried to explain the situation.
"Shikaku, I´m sorry that I´m late, but Itachi is being sick" I bowed a bit.
"Itachi? Sick?" When someone else spoke it out, it was clear that these two words doesn´t match, but it was the truth.
"Yes" and then I saw his pointed look at my neck.
"Sick?" He was sceptical.
"He is running a high fever with chills, because of that he doesn´t act like himself at the moment, Shisui saved me and jumped in to watch over him" I explained.
"Not like himself? Possible poison..."
"No that was already checked, no poison, just a normal flue" and it was then that Shikaku busted out in laughter.
"Looks like I don´t need to think over a punishment" and waved at me to go to my place and start working, what I did with begin a bit confused over his statement, he knew something I didn´t.
Around lunch time a Shisui clone knocked on the window asking me if I could come home making lunch, it was then that Shikaku asked for some reports and told Shisui to cook himself or ask Mikoto, because he needs me here and I apologized to him.
It was then a little after lunch when the office door was flung open and Shikaku stopped working, that I knew he did it on purpose sending Shisui to Mikoto. Said woman stood in the door way and when she saw me lunged and I had no chance of escape when she grabbed my arm and dragged me home.
"You can´t leave him like that he was already asking every minute for you and drove Shisui mad, now now dear come look after you husband" She cheered and I let out a chocked sound.
"He isn´t my husband" I said picking up the slip up from Mikoto.
´Yet´ "Yet" Mikoto said and my Inner added, this was somehow ominously hanging over me, this whole wedding thing, because...I was pretty sure that at one point we will marry...I would marry him.
Mikoto dragged me into the kitchen where she already made a tray for her son and shoved it into my arms and followed me upstairs and as soon as I opened the door she was at Shisui, poor soul.
"Shisui dear I think you have something else to do until Itachi is back to full health, I think you are his vice after all right?" She stated it innocently as a fact, but under that nice sentence was a threat that he understood immediately.
"I´m really sorry, Yuuki, but...you know how she can be" he tried to apologize for a situation he hadn´t caused, I liked to blame it on Shikaku.
"How who can be?" Mikoto asked Shisui, both leaving the room, but before the door closed Mikoto turned to me.
"I will be downstairs" she only said and then closed the door with a –click click-.
´Did she just?´
´That woman is the real deal´
I still stood a bit shocked in the room, in the now locked room, with a not normal Itachi, one that slowly woke up and turned to me.
"Yuu?" Somehow, I got the brilliant idea to first put the tray on a table before turning to him, it was a really good idea, because I was shocked, I even flinched and if I had still the tray I would have dropped it.
His eyes looked still hazed and unfocused, but the expression on his face was one of pleading, cute pleading, his eyes were half lidden hid cheeks flushed from the fever and his lips parted slightly, but the thing topping it was the glittering longing in his eyes.
"Yuu?" He asked with a slightly raspy voice again.
"Yes I´m here" I said helping him to sit up so I could sit the little table, on the floor, now on his legs and put the tray atop of it so he could eat himself, only that he stopped me.
"Feed me" the little table in my hand hit the floor and I openly gaped at him.
´What!?´
´Hmmm...should we feed him mouth to mouth?´
´NO!, not useful by the way,…..it could be he wouldn´t remember it after the fever breaks´
´Then you really should take the chance´
´NO! I will not use this situation, I will work through this like nothing is different and will never ever whisper a word about all this, should he not remember later.´
With that thought I sighted and then began to feed my boyfriend, who took great pleasure in licking his lips every time or my fingers by accident, it was really hard to concentrate to feed him...with real food.
When I was done I went to the door leading into the bathroom and made a bath ready for him and came back.
"Do you feel good enough to stand up and take a bath?" I asked him and something shortly flickered in his eyes.
"With your support, yes" I helped him to stand up, one of his arms was slung over my shoulder and my own was pressing into the mid of his back, but he used that stance to lean his side fully in my own and lowered his head so it was really close to my ear so I could feel every hot caress of his breath. We made our way into the bath and then I wanted to leave him alone but his weight increased and he stopped me.
"I could use your help" he mumbled into my ear and I flushed red.
"I-I-I th-th-think y-you can do f-fine without me" I really don´t want..., no I really wanted to undress him, but...not like this...or yes like this.
I couldn´t really think straight anymore and only nodded.
´First the shirt´ my inner had real fun with this directing me on for this.
He still wore the clothes from yesterday, a plain dark T-shirt over a fishnet shirt and plain black jeans. My hands moved under the rim of his shirt and he closed his eyes humming slightly at the contact.
"Uhm...your arms up please" he did it and also hunched a bit over for me so I could make quick work of his shirt.
´Oh look at this sight...yummy´ His arms that were up now fell heavy on my shoulder and he moved closer so that with every breathing in our bodies would touch.
"My pants and underwear" he whispered and I nearly fainted at the excitement of my inner and...my own and I was fighting a nosebleed, this body, these eyes...all of him should be plainly forbidden or declared as a deadly weapon.
I stretched out my hand and found his belt and unbuckled it and loose his pants and moved my hands so that I could grab both his pant and underwear and pulled, without looking, them down his ass and then let them go letting them fall on their own down on the floor and then bolted to the other door leading to the hallway in the hope that Mikoto didn´t thought of locking it too.
She did think of it, the door didn´t open and I think I heard some chuckle from the hallway.
´That woman will be the death of me´
´No time to worry about her´
A warm and naked chest was pressed in my back and something else made itself know, something that made my eyes go wide and my wild teenager hormones going into overdrive.
"Help me with my back" he murmured near my ear and traced featherlight kissed down my neck and shoulder.
"A-A-A-Alir-right, g-g-go in-in-to the t-t-ube" I stuttered, hormones.
He stepped back and I didn´t turned around until I heard the splashing of the water, something he knew I would do, because he was only in the water with his feet´s and I got a short but good view on his ass-ets and a devilish smirk before I could slam my hands over my eyes.
´Shame on you!´
´Not yet, 7 months left´
´You-!´
I carefully looked through my fingers to make sure he was now submerged into the water before I stepped forwards grabbing a bottle of shampoo and squatted down so I could apply it to his hair.
I was fortunate that the warm water and my soothing massaging hands kept him in a state of bliss between sleep and awareness, more moves like before I couldn´t take anymore before I threw the fact that my body was one of a virgin over board and claimed him...or let him claim me.
´Rarw´
´Oh god no, stop right there´
Some really nice pictures went through my head, how we could do it right here to be clean everywhere. After I finished with a highly red face I went back to fetch sleeping wear for him, a plain T-shirt and some boxers, while he dried himself. I laid the clothes down at the door and waited for him.
It was then when he entered again that the door was opened and Mikoto came inside with the dinner, shoving it again in my arms with an innocent wide smile and went out closing and locking the door behind her.
This time I didn´t even reached for the table and began to feed my boyfriend, one that finally wasn´t as touchy as before, maybe because he was getting tried and finally after eating he fell fast asleep in the bed. I put the tray away and looked at his sleeping face, despite the fever he looked at peace and I touched him caressing his cheek. For a second, he opened his eyes halfway and pulled me into the bed wounding himself around me not letting me go.
When I woke up this time Itachi still hugged me, but not as tightly as the night before so I got easily away to check him up. His fever lessened and I let out a relived sight, somehow that woke him up and I couldn´t help to flinch a bit away.
"Uhg, Yuu?" He held his head while looking a bit confused and in pain.
"A finally, Shisui bought you back two days ago with a high fever due to a flue, since then we looked over you, even you mother stopped by to...help" I couldn´t suppress a sweatdrop thinking back on the "help" Mikoto provided.
"Did I do anything...unusual?" He asked and looked sharply at me, me who couldn´t suppress a blush thinking back at the situation in the bath.
"Ah uhm no" and laughed a bit awkwardly, he sighted at that and ruffled his hair.
"How bad?" Right in that moment Shisui opened the door.
"Bad enough for me to run to her help and free her out of your death grip" He joked grinning madly at his poor cousin ignoring my death glare at him.
"But you didn´t do anything to anyone, so be my guest to thank me" Itachi by now was also throwing daggers with his eyes.
"Mahmah dear cousin just because you get a bit lose when being in a fever delirium? Na we all forgive you...maybe not Mikoto she locked poor Yuuki into this room with you."
"Mother did?" Itachi sounded a bit...like in panic..
"And I really didn´t do anything?"
"You tried to believe me, but somehow I managed Itachi, just do me a favour"
"Hn?"
"Never get sick again" I said standing up and disappeared into the bathroom.
After taking a shower I went downstairs finding Mikoto in the kitchen with her back to me.
"And when can I await the first baby?" She asked in a sing song voice.
"Hmmmm...after he proposed to me, we married and then maybe one year later" I answered flatly making her looking at me and then smiled widely.
"Perfect" She hummed and returned to the task to cook breakfast.
"Huh?"
"It was a test, Yuuki and you mastered it, continue like that and you can take over together with Itachi" She sounded proud and I began to understand what form of test it was, one of that sort to test if I only want that or if my feelings ran deeper than that, also if I´m loyal to my promises and if I could handle Itachi.
When Mikoto was done she handed me the tray and I went upstairs finding Shisui rolling on the floor holding his stomach from laughing hard and a grumpy looking Itachi. This time without hesitating I shoved the tray in his lap and he ate in silent the only sound in the room was the laughter from Shisui and the sound of the chopsticks, when he was done I took the tray and went to the door stopping shortly.
"You are under strict order to not leave the bed until I fetch Sakura to look you up and clear you" I really hoped that my warning glare was enough for him to hold still until then. Sakura began to train under Tsunade and was now a full fledged medicnin. I ate my own breakfast and then left for fetching Sakura and find Shikaku later.
Finding Sakura wasn´t hard I firstly tried the trainings ground and could see freshly marks of a fight so I hurried over to Ichirakus finding my friends there happily chatting the day away. Getting near I greeted them and joined their conservation for a moment.
"Say Yuuki what are you doing here? I heard from Shikamaru that he saw how Mikoto Uchiha dragged you from your workplace back home and since then you wasn´t seen." Ino asked fishing for gossip material.
"She...uhm...I didn´t felt good that day and Shisui went and told it her" I said not liking to lie to her but better than giving her the piece of information that Itachi Uchiha is currently sick, it would be around the village faster than a wild fire.
"That is why I came to look for you Sakura, I could need your medical advice, come come let us go to my new home let us talk there" I said pulling my pink haired friend on her elbow.
"Huh uh ok?" She was a bit confused but still followed.
Arriving at home I saw Itachi just trying to leave.
"Where do you think you are going?" I asked, it wasn´t often but sometimes this slight workaholic behaviour irritated me like nothing else.
"I´m feeling already better, I´m going back to work." He deadpanned his face blank like a mask.
"Not before Sakura cleared you" I said standing before him now with angry eyes.
"Huh?" Sakura looked from me to Itachi and back.
"There is no need for that" sometimes he really was difficult.
"There is" I may have stomped my food, but you know when you are angry you don´t think of it how childish you act. He reacted with a cold glare on his own turned and went inside followed by me and Sakura, who instantly went over to a sitting Itachi beginning her check-up, not asking questions and definitely she wouldn´t talk about this.
"Ah Uhm It would be best when you would rest today and tomorrow" She hesitantly advice and then hurried outside sensing the thick air between me and Itachi. He stood up from the sofa and stalked in slow steps to me and hovered over me with a frown one that I returned, but then I turned my gaze to the floor, fighting down some tears, out of anger and...disappointment.
"Why...why do you feel the need to be almost constantly away, on work or mission...why won´t you rest for a moment and...be with me?" I didn´t look up I looked to the side and hold my left arm with my right hand to my body.
"The village needs me" He murmured softly.
"I also need you...I love you Itachi, but you also let me feel lonely..." I looked now up into his surprised face that faded in another one, one full of warmth and he suddenly hugged me, embracing me with his strong arms.
"Say it again" he whispered in my ears, without saying what exactly, but I still knew what he wanted to hear.
"I love you" I repeated still feeling the tears.
"I love you too, Yuuki" he backed slightly away, gazing down on me with his warm onyx eyes and then he lowered his lips on my own in a sweet kiss.
"Then make time for me" I said against his lips.
"Alright, but first bear a bit with it I must arrange something beforehand" he stopped the kiss before it could turn in something deeper.
"You better do and now go and follow the doctors order to rest" he only hummed and went to bed and I for the first time had the feeling of victory bubbling inside me alongside my giggling hyper inner celebrating the fact that Itachi confessed.
Two days later I realized that Itachi kissed me purposely. I drilled holes into the ceiling while Shisui was again on our floor laughing and even Itachis lips twitched. I was terrible sick...because of him and he loved to sit beside me after his work and feed me and care for me, while I grilled him with my glare.
I know Itachi is getting oc, but really every happy Itachi is oc, we all don´t know how he would be like, because someone saw the need for him to be killed by his own brother after being branded as a clan killer and being exiled...
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