A/N: Hello to everybody! To make sure I'm not disappeared or dead, here you have the late---terrible late update of Vacations My Ass! I know that to be sorry is not enough, but really I've been very busy, and didn't want to send you an authoress' note weeks ago in the place of this chapter...
Hope you could forgive my lateness... Unfortunately in two weeks I'm having a midterm so after that exam I will update again, after writing it of course.
Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto!
On with the chapter!
Day 3: Epidemic
7.35a.m.
"Ino it's too early to use some ninjutsu on me... troublesome woman" Shikamaru mumbled while scratching the back of his head.
The natural blonde, Yamanak Ino—glared at her boyfriend.
"It wouldn't be necessary if you weren't a perv!" Ino stated with her hands in her waist when suddenly they heard a 'poof' and saw something—someone---between the smoke…
"Yo!" The copy ninja, Hatake Kakashi said.
"Kakashi-sensei, this is not the best moment…" Shikamaru emphasized shaking his arms lazily in all directions when Ino started to approach dangerously to the masked jonnin fuming like a volcano.
"You… Hatake Kakashi…" Ino hissed.
"Yes Ino?" Kakashi asked and then looked at the strategist "Was going on Shikamaru? Well, to tell you Asuma is looking for both of you"
Ino kept on approaching slowly like thinking in how many pieces she would break apart a masked human—pervert—been, when Shikamaru saw her intentions.
"Eh… Kakashi-sensei… had you visit a temple before coming here?"
"A temple?" the masked ninja put a finger in his chin "…I remember I was going to go to ask for some good luck, but I got distracted when I saw this huge banner of the renewed Icha Icha Paradise, and I----"
A flash of yellow passed through the room sending the grey haired man to the opposite wall of it.
"That really have had to hurt..." the Nara sighed, "...jeez, troublesome people..."
"Yamero, Nara Shikamaru!" Ino brushed some dust from her clothes, "I don't want to remember you or Lee what the hell you've been thinking last night...!!", she scolded.
"I don't have the fault of having the imagination of a genius..." Shikamaru mumbled under his breath.
"What was that?" The blonde asked while helping the jounin to stand up.
"...nothing Ino..."
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7:39 a.m.
It was morning once again in the island, and our dearest were already awake because of the lack of sleep of last night. Sakura was folding some clothes in the closet that were spread in the floor, and one of them---one of the bunch--- took her special attention, and picking it up slowly, she saw in surprise the big cut across the t-shirt... a blue t-shirt...
...that wasn't hers.
"It did that?" Sasuke didn't turned around to face her he just continued fixing the night table with some nails and a hammer in hand when his husky voice sounded in question.
The bubblegum haired girl looked over her shoulder and a mocking smile grace her face, "I thought Neji was the one who had the Byakugan... What a surprise"
"Hn" Sasuke hit the head of the nail he was using.
The medic-nin continued with the folding and sighed when she finally could resume the stressful labour.
"So, Sasuke, where is it now?" Sakura jumped on the well-done bed.
"..."
"Sasu--"
"In the kitchen" The raven haired young man swept the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, and groaning a bit got inside the bathroom to take a relaxing shower.
He was longing for it badly.
When the Uchiha closed the bathroom door, Sakura looked at the ceiling, "...seems we're having a good lunch today..." she smiled and putting on her slippers, the medic-nin went out of the room.
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7:42 a.m.
"Shikamaru, is that happened last night you had the duty to call me---" Neji stopped abruptly when Tenten slapped his nape.
Everyone was in the living room of the first floor discussing about the tape with only the sound on that the monitors' room record last night.
Neji narrowed his pearl-white eyes to her, "...no knives this time; we're progressing", and with that he returned his attention to Shikamaru.
"As I was saying, when this kind of strange situations happens you have to call me, I'm not the captain of this mission for nothing" The Hyuuga prodigy breath deeply, "Why didn't you use the thermal vision?"
"..." The strategist looked outside of the window of the living room. I forgot... tsk, I will NEVER lay a finger in those Icha Icha things... ever... for the good of my intelligence... and physical integrity... A thrill run down his back... Ino could be very sometimes...
"Seems they forgot" Shino stated fixing his glasses.
"Shikamaru-kun, was Sasuke and Sa-Sakura-chan alright? Hinata asked after taking her eyes off the blonde head engulfing the leftovers of yesterday.
"Don't ask him Hinata!" Ino glared at the pineapple head, "For him---for them they were... Lee! I'm talking to you too!"
"Calm down Ino..." Asuma said.
Lee shot his head up and then dropped it down at the enraged voice of Ino, "Sumimasen... I didn't want to--- I mean, their youthfulness! I---- I don't deserve to have been your subordinate Gai sensei!" And with that he started to cry waterfalls.
"Lee!" A tall guy dressed in green cried opening his arms to his pupil.
Oh, my... here we go... Everyone thought.
"Gai-sensei!"
"Lee!"
"Gai-sensei!"
"Lee!"
"Gai-sensei!"
"Lee!"
"Gai-sen---"
"STOP ALREADY!"
Everyone shouted with veins popping in their heads.
"Gai..." Kakashi who was leaning in a wall, chuckled caressing slightly his chin where was a tiny band-aid, "...you never change..."
Yamanaka Ino glared for the nth time in the morning.
Hatake Kakashi shuddered and walked away with his jelly legs.
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7:59 a.m.
Raven hair dripped water when his owner started drying it with a towel. Sasuke looked at his reflection in the big piece of mirror and coughed; almost glaring at himself he noticed that his eyes were kind of red since days before. It should have disappeared... He finished with his messy hair passing through it his fingers smoothly.
The Uchiha took his clothes and went out of the bathroom feeling a bit relax, and sighing after making some stir up of muscles, Sasuke scratched his shoulder, first slightly, but when the itch didn't go away he continued...
and continued...
and continued...
And satisfaction never came...
What the---- Then it wasn't only the shoulder, it was his back... his arms... his legs... his face...
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8:15 a.m.
"...in the local news, specialist of all over the island had alert few minutes ago..."
"Ne, Kiba, what are you watching?" Naruto asked plopping down in the sofa next to Akamaru.
"Ssshh!"
"...that there's a Measles epidemic that is extending very quickly..."
"Measles...?" Naruto looked at Kiba like asking for a definition. Kiba sighed.
"...specialist recommend to take the precautions at the very first symptom in the case of adults..."
"Yeah, its when your body itches and appear red bumps all over it..." Kiba frowned. "Well, at least I had it when I was little"
"Oh!... I guess me too... I remember it itched like hell! I couldn't eat ramen during a week!"
The Inuzuka stood up from the sofa and walked out the room.
"Hey Kiba, where are you going?"
"We have to alert to the others... who knows, maybe one of them didn't have it when was a little kid..."
"So, what if they hadn't? It's not dangerous... right?" The blue eyed followed him as did Akamaru.
Kiba turned around. "When you have it as older as we are, or more it's something to worry about... baka"
"Ah--What did you say doggy boy!"
"I said BAKA!"
"Oi! Come back here!" And with that Naruto disappeared running behind the exasperated Kiba.
"...we have information that the decease has came from the oversea, some precise from the countries of Fire, Wind and Forest..." The reporter informed.
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In the monitors' room, Kurenai, Tenten and Hinata were forwarding and back-warding the said tape with a serious look and one thing in their mind.
There's must be an explanation...
"Hinata put on the thermal vision" Kuranai ordered.
"Hai" Hinata pressed a pair of buttons and in the big scream the display were in blue, green, yellow, orange and red colours depending of the heat that the object or subject was giving off.
"There's Sasuke-teme!" Naruto screamed pointing a red and orange figure in the screen lean in the bed with his two hands in his ears.
"I can't hear anything" Asuma lit up a new cigarette and took a seat next to the panel control.
"There you have it" Kurenai said.
Sakura screamed and got off the bed.
Everyone in the room grimaced in pain... even from a tape a girl's scream is always so powerful... it could even make some ears bleed.
"Sasuke what is that thing?!"
"What should I know! I don't have the freak's eyes to know it!"
Some noises of a fallen lamp and foot walking all over the room were heard, when the figure of Sakura stood behind the Uchiha trying to protect herself and the tall young man permit it.
"Hey... is Sasuke protecting Sakura there?" Chouji asked munching more fried potatoes than a while before.
"That seems..." Lee said startled as the others.
"Sa-sasuke, it is there!" Sakura pointed to the floor, next to the night table.
Sasuke run acrossed the room and took the first thing he saw.
"Is that a t-shirt??" Kakashi cocked a brow.
The Uchiha started to hit the thing—that was running everywhere, with kind of success.
"Sasuke try it harder, HARDER! Aren't you a shinobi!"
"He is a shinobi for Kami's sake!" Ino blurted out at the same time Sakura did in the tape.
"Shut up Sakura! I'm doing what I can!"
"Ah… ah… Sa-Sasuke, there it comes again! Roast it!" The figure of the pink haired screamed.
"Shit… SAKURA MOVE!" Sasuke pushed Sakura to the bed.
"You want me to roast the bedroom too? Stupid..."
"Hey on the TV---- What are you guys watching?" Kiba entered with Akamaru and Naruto in the room.
"We're watching the tape of last night" Shikamaru answered.
"Really? Yosh! I wanna know what happened..." The kyubi vessel pulled out of a corner a chair and sat down, "you know, I didn't understand what you guys told me..."
"Naruto, you can be so innocent at times..." Tenten sighed.
"That's not a crab? Have the shape of a crab for me..." Kiba pointed out.
"Yeah..." And everyone fell in their thoughts and a second later...
"PERVERTS" Everyone shouted to Shikamaru and Lee.
"How troublesome..." Shikamaru mumbled a bit annoyed, "...anyway, what where you going to say Kiba?"
"Uh? Ah, yeah... on the TV have announced the there's a measles epidemic spread on the island..."
"Me-measles, Kiba-kun?" Hinata walked acrossed the room and hugged a Naruto's arm.
"Yeah... had anyone have it when was a little? Because Naruto and I had it."
Neji looked at Hinata for a while and said, "Hinata and I had it at a early age"
"Me too" Tenten, Shino, Lee and Ino said at unison.
Ino looked at Shikamaru who was frowning with closed eyes, "What's going on Shika-kun?"
Shika-kun? Then she's not mad at me any more... "Nothing Ino" The Nara gave her a tiny smile, "I had it too when I was 4"
"Me too..." Chouji said, dropping the fried potatoes' bag to the trash can.
"Gai-sensei---"
"Don't worry Lee, the youthful bodies of your sensei's have passed through those youth's experiences!"
"He's right" Asuma breathed out some smoke.
The copy ninja felt in silence thinking.
"What's going on Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked with a serious look.
"Well..." Kakashi got near the screen and pause the display, "...Sakura had it at 2 years old... but..."
"But?" Kurenai asked.
The jounin face the rest, "But Sasuke has never had it..." Kakashi crossed her arms and sighed.
"..." Silence.
"...Konoha, we have a problem" Kiba stated.
"Nah..." Kakashi smiled under his mask, "we have the perfect situation"
Everyone smirked getting what the old jounin was trying to say.
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8:20 a.m.
"Hey Sasuke, the crab looks goo---" Sakura who walked in the room stopped her tracks after the picture of a young man sweating and scratching kind of desperate his arms, torso, legs... everywhere, laying in the bed.
"Sasuke?" The pink head approached hesitantly and sat next to him. She gasped.
"Sasuke!"
The Uchiha groaned weakly, "What... is this!"
"Let me check, ok?" Sakura put a strand of her pink hair behind her ear, and start to take a look on the pale skin of his body with caution, for her surprise she noticed red bumps all over it, and some of them where bleeding, Sakura frowned and took her hand to Sasuke's forehead to take his temperature. Fever... red bumps..., the Godaime's apprentice took his face and looked at his eyes. Red eyes... Sakura sighed and smiled weakly to onyx eyes in discomfort.
"Sakura" Sasuke grabbed an arm of hers, "...what is it" He demanded.
"Sasuke, you have measles..."
"Measles...?" Sasuke looked at her during a time and then freed her and looked at the ceiling, "It itches" He growled-pouted.
"I know"
Sasuke faced her once again, and stared at her till Sakura stood up feeling uncomfortable, trying to hide her blush.
"You have smiled"
Sakura started to left the room and then stopped, "I will negotiate some medicines... I don't have the power to heal viral illness... but I can reduce the general pain you feel" And she left.
"...Sakura" Sasuke said under his breath and grimaced when he felt the itch in his face.
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Sakura got in the kitchen and looked intently at the screen in the wall; after looking for a while she found a red button with a label of 'In case of emergency' under it, she shook her head at the flowers and hearts Ino drew next to the label she put in, because it was the blonde's writing.
Sakura pushed the button, and the screen illuminated.
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8:24 a.m.
"Oi Neji, Sakura has pushed the emergency button" Shikamaru informed never taking off the eyes of the panel control.
"Stablish the communication" Neji stood up from the sofa and left the newspaper aside.
"Connected" Shikamaru pressed some buttons in the keyboard and nodded to the Byakugan user who put on a piece of headphone and microphone.
"What's going on Sakura?"
"Measles. Sasuke has measles and I need some supplies"
"Sasuke?" Neji's monotone turned into mock, "Since when you call him 'Sasuke'? I thought he was 'teme' or at least 'Uchiha'..."
Sakura made a face and crossed her arms, "Neji, is not of your business, I need medicines and I need it NOW"
"You will have it, be patient, Kurenai and Kakashi have went to town and they're bringing it"
"Kakashi and Kurenai are here? That means Gai and Asuma are here too..." Sakura looked at him.
"Exactly"
"...Neji, why you're doing this?" The pink haired asked demanding.
"You will know." Neji looked at Shikamaru and this one nodded, "Wait for Kakashi and Kurenai; I have to cut the communication"
"Neji bu---!"
And the connection went off.
Shikamaru smirked lazily, "Sasuke will kill us..."
The Hyuuga prodigy put his arms behind his head, "Let him try it"
"Tsk... I prefer him than Sakura... even Ino has mercy"
"Hn"
Neji went back to the sofa and took again the newspaper.
"Is with Tenten everything all right?"
Some long free tresses darkened Neji's face, "Nara..." the ANBU captain hissed.
"Forget it; I didn't mention it..." The genius hung his hands in the air, stood up from the panel and walked past the door after saying, "...even though talk with her would be better until all the knives disappear"
Neji glared with his unique glare and sighed silently.
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8:32 a.m.
Sakura stretched up pulling her arms together over her head before giving the news to the ill Uchiha, and with a deep breath like when you took some air in when its time to submerge under the water, she got in the bedroom to find not only onyx eyes glaring everything, or messy raven hair making the sheets to look sexy, or a body every women would die for...
She stifled her laugh taking her hands to her mouth.
There, laying in the bed was a panting Uchiha Sasuke, scratching everything that claim to be scratched, but...
...was that the face of the drop-dead gorgeous Uchiha survivor?
Definitely measles wasn't giving him the best side of his handsomeness.
Sakura couldn't handle it any more and fell at his side laughing her head off, Sasuke just glared and cursed not having his fingernails longer.
Sasuke's face—and body, was almost covered with little red bumps, and Sakura after calming herself clutching at her stomach—that was aching like hell, from one of the crates of the fixed night table, took out a handkerchief and dried his sweating forehead.
"Sasuke..."
"...hn..."
"They're bringing medicines, but you have to rest, the rush will be there till the following days. Come" Sakura motioned with her hand, and Sasuke moved close to her.
Green chakra started to glow around the medic-nin's hand, and then approaching to Sasuke's head it surrounded his entire body. Sasuke felt that relaxing heat entering in every muscle, and his tense body relax for once.
Sakura finished with it, and noticed the the raven haired fell asleep...
...with the tiniest of the smiles.
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8:41 a.m.
Sakura was watching the news after put on Sasuke a pair of cooking gloves with some chakra threads around it, just to stop him from scratch himself.
With a crack the front door opened taking her out of her thoughts, when she saw a grey haired man, who used to be her sensei in her genin years, and Kurenai who was accompanying him.
"Yo, Sakura" Kakashi greeted.
"How is he doing?" Kurenai asked while putting a the little box she was carrying, and Kakashi did the same with his.
"Kakashi, Kurenai, thanks for the supplies... he is resting now" Sakura got close to the boxes and and checked the medicines with a satisfied smile looking that everything she needed was there.
"Well," The masked jounin scratched his nape, "It's time to leave, Kurenai" He motioned his head to her.
"Wha--Wait!"
"Yes Sakura?" Kurenai turned around and faced her.
"...When... When are we going to be with all of you? I mean... This is a cell! I can't live in thi---"
"Of course you can," Kakashi took out of his pocket the last volume of that infamous book he reads, "Sakura, it's time to be a human been and express every feeling... don't wast the time," He smiled, "Ja ne" And walked off.
Kurenai stayed in the same spot and her eyes softened, she took Sakura's shoulders and brought her in a gentle hug, "Sakura, he may be a pervert but he is right... don't waste it" The gentjutsu mistress whispered.
And with that visit and medicines for the unfortunate Uchiha drop-dead-gorgeous Sasuke, Sakura smiled and took the boxes to the bedroom, where the Uchiha beauty was sleeping in a peaceful morning.
"I won't waste it..." she looked at him, her green eyes brightened like never, "...I won't Sasuke-kun"
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A/N: And that was chapter 5! This is not as funny as the others, but I guess is kind of good too... I will try to bring some comedy in the next one.
Patience?
Ah! and special thanks to everyone who have reviewed till now, I'm so happy because of that, those reviews give me my portion of bravery I need to continue this!
Thank you so much!
Love you all!
Claud-kun