Within These Empty Walls

~SasukeUchihasGuardian~

Well here you go! Enjoy! :D

Chapter 8: The Cure for the Curse

Sasuke was heavily drugged up enough to the point where he wasn't forced asleep, but was very drowsy and ended up sleeping more than he normally did. The normal half an hour naps became hour naps, and his time awake was split in half as well. Knowing that help was coming and that Sasuke would be alright, Kakashi stayed by his side the whole time, along with a medic, who took his vitals every five minutes and recorded them. Since his condition was so bad, it was necessary, since Tsunade had explained that he could easily go into cardiac arrest at any time.

"You have to make it through this, Sasuke. Help is coming. You'll be back to your old self soon, just hang in there." Kakashi had whispered to him as he brushed the bangs out of his student's eyes since he was too weak to do it himself.

"I will sensei…" Sasuke had weakly replied, giving him the smallest of smiles. It was enough to reassure the platinum haired teacher at the time, but not anymore. Not when he was looking at his lost student, too weak to even talk anymore, lying in the hospital bed, almost as pale as the sheets he lied on. White. Everything in the hospital was white. The sheets, the walls, the cloaks that the medics wore… it was too plain. As if they figured since the patients were going to die, they had no need to keep the liveliness of color in the rooms that they would die in.

Kakashi squeezed Sasuke's hand when he saw his eyelids flicker open. He opened his mouth as if trying to tell him something, but Kakashi knew he wouldn't be able to speak. Then, as quiet as a mouse, his eyelids slipped shut again, and the thirteen year old boy fell back into dreams. The only thing proving to Kakashi that he was alive was the beep beep of the heart monitor, which showed him that his heart was beating slower than it should be.

Beep… beep… beep… beep… beep…

"Stay strong, Sasuke." He whispered quietly to his student.

…Beep… …beep… …beep… …beep…

"Sasuke?" He whispered unsurely, seeing his student take one shaky, abnormal breath in.

…Beep… …beep… …BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

"SASUKE!" He screamed, making the medic that was in the room jump to action quickly. Four other medics rushed in at once and they immediately began rolling the bed out of the room.

"What's going to happen? What happened? Sasuke!" Kakashi screamed, trying to stay with them, but as more medics rushed in, some pulled him back.

"Let me see him! Sasuke!" He screamed, until the medics ran out of sight.

"We'll bring him back in here when they're done working on him." The female reassured him as she followed the medics out, leaving Kakashi standing on cold feet, worried that his student would die only hours before the cure came.

~Later~

Kakashi waited for four hours before the medics finally wheeled him back into the room. Kakashi immediately stood up from his chair and rushed to his side.

"Sasuke!" He gasped, scanning his student's body.

There was an oxygen mask over his mouth and nose, and various IVs attached in his wrists. There was multiple needles and tubes going into his body for unknown reasons to Kakashi. He brushed a gloved hand through Sasuke's bangs and watched as his eyes opened halfway, only to slip back shut again. He put his hand on Sasuke's cheek this time, rubbing it gently, trying to warm it up since it was so cold and pale.

"We had to drug him heavily so he wouldn't feel pain if he woke up, so he's a little out of it. Even though he can't talk, we judge it by his eye movements. He's currently stable, though weak. He'll still need to be watched closely again, basically the same as before." They told Kakashi, who nodded and watched them hook him back up to the heart monitor and various other machines again. The familiar beeping of the machines came back to life again, and it felt relieving to Kakashi. He sat down by Sasuke's bedside again and squeezed his hand, once again ignoring the awkward looks from the medic.

~Timeskip~

Sasuke went into cardiac arrest three more times that day. His condition was extremely unstable and Kakashi didn't know how much more Sasuke could take. The life support Sasuke was on could hold him off for now, but if ANBU didn't make it soon, Sasuke would be the one to not make it.

Kakashi knew that he had cried that day. He cried more than once too. He felt he had failed as a sensei, and as a fatherly figure. When Sasuke's eyes were open, Kakashi would talk to him, not even sure if he could hear his voice. He spook soothingly and calmly anyway, to not scare his student.

When Sasuke went into cardiac arrest ten minutes later for the fifth time that day, the medics knew this would be the last time they could revive him. They had no idea if he'd even be the same after all of them. Kakashi sat in the room that was now occupied by only him. He heard the door being opened, and he gasped and turned around as he stood up, but instead of seeing medics and Sasuke, he saw three Anbu walk in, the one in front carrying a syringe.

"Where's Uchiha Sasuke?" He asked.

"He had his fifth heart attack. The medics said he might not make it through this one." Kakashi growled. "What took you so long?" He yelled angrily.

"We were attacked by sound ninja." The one next to him, a female, spoke up. "We're sorry about your student. We came as fast as we could." He explained, sitting down beside him. The other Anbu leaned up against the wall and waited to hear about Sasuke's condition.

Three hours later, medics walked in, wheeling in Sasuke's bed, with the remaining Uchiha still lying unmoving on top of it.

"He barely pulled through, and by barely I mean he's hanging by a thread right now…" He whispered. He turned and looked at the Anbu. "And… who are you?"

"They have the antidote." Kakashi told him. The medics got him situated and quickly took the syringe from the Anbu.

"Hold it. He needs to be sedated fully and then be allowed two hours for it to take effect." Kakashi warned them.

Sasuke was awake to watch them bring the anesthesia mask over his face, and he would've fought if he had the strength, but he couldn't. When he was fully asleep, they injected the cure through his arm, and kept him asleep for the two hours. Kakashi breathed a sigh of relief.

Two hours later, Kakashi sat in the same place he always stayed, holding Sasuke's hand.

What if they got the wrong one? What if they were tricked to give Sasuke poison? He thought. Can we really trust the sound?

Sasuke's eyes blinked open, and he looked around the room confused and unaware.

"Sasuke?" He heard his name being called, and his gaze shifted to the side where he locked eyes with his sensei. Kakashi brushed a hand over his student's bangs, and then placed his gloved hand on his cheek.

Sasuke's eyes widened a little more, and he stared at his teacher with a little bit of confusion. His lips parted as he spoke the word that Kakashi couldn't have been more grateful to hear.

"Kakashi-sensei?"

End! Sorry about the bad ending… but the story is officially over! I will continue writing other stories though so this isn't the end of me, don't worry!

What happens to Sasuke afterwards is up to you to decide. There will be no sequels, sorry.

Please review and let me know what you thought of it!

Until next story~

~SasukeUchihasGuardian

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