Chapter 7

A/N: I'll say it for the last time, people. We're writing fanfiction. This is not real.

Later that day, Sasuke gave out a small groan as he woke up. He opened his eyes and felt someone holding him. Neji. He had some trouble turning around and then looked right into Neji's face. Was he sleeping?

Neji looked like he was sleeping, but something was off. His body was laying very still, and there wasn't any grip in his hands, his arm was just laying over Sasuke's body. And his face was almost hidden within the mattress, no emotion on his face at all. It looked like he was unconscious. He was very pale as well.

Sasuke looked at Neji worried and then started to softly shake him. "..Neji.. Neji wake up.." He said as he shook a little harder.

But Neji didn't wake up now. It was certain now that he was unconscious, since nothing reacted to Sasuke. Neji's body didn't, Neji's face didn't. Nothing reacted.

Sasuke was starting to panic now as he got up a little. "Neji please wake up. Neji. Dammit Neji!" Sasuke yelled, then started coughing again. He didn't care though. He just shook Neji, trying to wake him up.

Neji now let out a soft moan, as he frowned and his muscles stiffened. He was waking up after all.

"Oh thank god." Sasuke said, as the coughing stopped. He kept shaking Neji though, not really sure if Neji would wake up if he'd stop.

Neji took a deep breath now, almost like he hadn't been breathing before, and opened his eyes. He looked at Sasuke confused. Why was Sasuke shaking him like that?

"Why did you pass out? What happened?" Sasuke asked concerned as he stopped shaking now.

"..Did I pass out?" Neji asked, confused. He didn't remember 'that' happening.

"You wouldn't wake up." Sasuke answered as he rested his head on Neji's shoulder now.

"..Oh.." Neji softly said, as he stared at the ceiling.

"Were you not feeling right?" Sasuke asked.

"I don't know.." Neji said with a frown. "..How are you feeling now?"

"A little better." Sasuke said shrugging. "How are you feeling Neji? And please don't say you're fine. You're not, you passed out."

"Probably because I'm tired." Neji softly said, shrugging. "Did you take your medicines already?"

"Neji. You're not just tired. What's bothering you. Does anything hurt?" Sasuke asked.

"My entrance hurts a little, that's all." Neji said, shrugging. "The doctor told me it's infected, that's why it hurts."

"Will you tell me if you need anything Neji?" Sasuke asked and looked at Neji worried.

Neji nodded.

"I will." He said. "..Don't look so worried.."

"I am worried. You don't pass out without a reason." Sasuke said.

"I don't really know why I passed out either." Neji said, shrugging.

"Well I'm gonna keep an eye on you from now on." Sasuke said.

"Get better first." Neji said.

"No. Neji I don't want you to think you should take care of me 'and' yourself." Sasuke said.

"Sasuke just let me if I want that OK.." Neji said.

"No. I want to take care of you too." Sasuke said stern.

"..You can't." Neji said. "...Though you could help me with putting on my cream."

"Why can't I?" Sasuke snapped offended and pushed himself up a little.

"Because you're hurt yourself." Neji said.

"So? You are too. And you're taking care of me." Sasuke snapped.

"Yeah, but that's.. different." Neji said.

"It's not different." Sasuke snapped. "It's exactly the same. Why won't you just let me take care of you too?"

Neji sighed and stared at the ceiling again.

"I don't like admitting I need it OK." Neji muttered. "And I never got help, so I accepted never being helped. It's not needed, I can do it on my own." He then sat up and took the cream and put it beside him. He started pulling down his overall now.

"I never let anyone take care of me either, but now that someone can I'm not gonna be a stubborn brat about it and ignore it." Sasuke snapped and then pulled the covers over him and turned away from Neji.

"I'm not ignoring it." Neji snapped. "..Can you help me with putting the cream onto and in my entrance?"

"You are ignoring it, because you don't want it. So if you don't want me to take care of you, then go figure that cream out yourself." Sasuke snapped back.

Neji glared at him.

"Fine." He muttered, as he stripped down all of his clothing now and walked to the toilet, where he put his leg upon. Then he put some cream onto his fingers and started putting it onto the torn flesh. Stupid Sasuke. Stupid jail. Stupid birthday.

Sasuke kept quiet now as his headache was getting up and he realised Neji was the one giving him one even more then lack of drugs was. He was really done with him now. Done with Neji being distant and done with Neji not accepting his help. He would not talk to Neji ever again.

Neji now stopped with the cream. Why would he even care? Why would he take care of himself? He had no reason to, at all. He'd rot away in here anyway. Neji now tossed the cream outside of the cell, as well his other medicine. Then he walked towards his bed, not careful anymore, and laid down. Because of the way he walked, the wound had been reopened again. But he didn't care. He didn't fucking care anymore. Neji put the covers over himself now. Damn it.

Sasuke looked at Neji now and then sighed. He was not about to talk to Neji, but he would not let him ruin himself like this either. He got up from bed and stumbled to the cell door. He used everything to get the medicine back and finally got them. He then put them next to Neji and pushed the toilet paper in Neji's hand. Neji had to stop the bleeding.

Neji glared at Sasuke as he just dropped the toilet paper.

"No Sasuke, it's enough." He said.

Sasuke just glared back at Neji now angry. If Neji was not gonna do it, then he would. He grabbed the toilet paper and roughly pulled the covers of off Neji.

"Sasuke fuck off." Neji snapped, pulling the covers back.

Sasuke glared at Neji for a while and then threw the toilet paper to him. "You know what!? I'm not even gonna try anymore! You're just a fucking bastard and during dinner I'm going to make sure I get another cell!" He suddenly yelled and then started coughing again, barely holding himself up by grabbing his bed.

Neji looked at Sasuke with a frown and then looked away. He didn't knew what was wrong with him. He was just too concerned.

"...Lay down Sasuke, stay calm." He softly said.

"N-No.." Sasuke snapped and just coughed some more. Dammit, he just had to bite through this.

Neji silently got up now and then patted Sasuke's back and pushed his finger at a certain point. He knew Sasuke would be forced to stop coughing then.

And Sasuke did, as he breathed in deep after. He then pushed Neji's hand away quickly. "Go away." He snapped.

Neji looked at Sasuke, and then walked back towards his bed. Damn it, he screwed up so bad.

"...Sorry." He softly said.

"Sure you are." Sasuke snapped and sat down on his bed. "I really, really like you Neji and all you're doing is screw it up. I don't feel like doing it anymore."

"..I just don't want you to help me because you're in so much pain." Neji softly said.

"Well so are you and you're not even letting me help you with that. So either you don't trust me or you just don't like me and both of them suck." Sasuke snapped.

"It's none if them, I just feel like I don't deserve it to be taken care of." Neji snapped back. "And perhaps I'm hurt, but you are hurt even more. You fucking got beaten up."

"You got raped." Sasuke snapped angrily. "But fine, if you think that way, then I'll ask if I can be put in a different cell. It was stupid of me to fall in love with you anyway."

Neji stared at Sasuke, hurt. Before he'd show too much emotion, he quickly turned around and breathed in deeply. Did he really screw up that badly?

Sasuke was silent for a while and then laid down on his bed again. "You just proved my point." He snapped. If Neji had had the same feelings for him as Sasuke did for Neji, then he would have tried to at least keep him here. So Neji was just a fake too. Like everyone else.

Neji started shaking now. It was just too much. Far too much. At this moment, the bell rang for dinner and Neji immediately got up and walked out of the cell, as fast as his tired body could carry him. He knew that if he was going to stay any longer, he'd break down.

Sasuke groaned as he got up and dragged himself from the cell too. He felt worse then ever, and not from the immense pain his body was creating. He just felt like a piece of shit because Neji had just walked out on him. So that was it for them. Sasuke would change cells and they would never talk again. And it hurt Sasuke.

When Sasuke went to stand in line, someone tapped his shoulder. When Sasuke turned around, Kiba stood there, grinning.

"Oy, why the long face?" He asked, while he dragged Shikamaru in line as well.

"I got in a fight with Neji." Sasuke said and turned away again. He didn't like people seeing him vulnerable.

"That sucks." Kiba said. "What was that about, or don't you want to talk about it?"

"I'm going to change cells." Sasuke said. It was all he would tell the two.

"..Is it that bad?" Kiba asked, surprised. "Neji must've made you really angry.. Where is he anyway?" Kiba asked, looking around. He didn't see Neji anywhere, not in line, not at one of the tables.. where was he?

"I don't know. I don't care either." Sasuke snapped. He took his dinner and then just walked away from the other two.

"Wow, he's pissed." Shikamaru stated.

"Indeed." Kiba said with an eyebrow pulled up. "But seriously, I'm starting to get concerned. Where is Neji? And I'm wondering where their fight was about.."

"Me too. I guess we should try to find Neji. Maybe he passed out somewhere along the way. Let's sneak out." Shikamaru said.

Kiba nodded.

"Good plan." He said, but then made a face. "...How, exactly?"

"We're just gonna walk out and say we think there is someone missing. The guards will ask us to show the place then and we can go look." Shikamaru said.

Kiba nodded.

"Alright." He said. "...Perhaps it's clever to ask Sasuke to come with us?"

"I think he wouldn't want to. Maybe Neji's fine, that wouldn't do. Let's just try it with the two of us." Shikamaru asked and dragged Kiba out of line to a guard.

Kiba nodded.

"Hey." He said as they reached the guard. "A friend of ours is missing, and we think that he might have passed out somewhere in the hallway. Can you take us there?"

"And why would I?" The guard snapped. "Get back in line and eat your dinner."

Shikamaru looked at the guy and sighed. "Well, we figured you wouldn't like it if their was all this drama over a guy who is probably passed out somewhere in the hallways and is vulnerable to everyone. It means more people have probably skipped dinner to have him." He said.

"Indeed." Kiba said. "There is a chance that lots of prisoners stayed there, to take him. He's one of the pretty ones you see. Don't you think it's quiet in here? I think we're missing a few people."

The guard groaned now. "Fine. Then show me the way." He snapped and walked to the exit.

Kiba nodded and he and Shikamaru walked towards the halls, in the direction of the cells.

"He should be somewhere in here." He said.

The three of them walked for a while until they saw a group of people standing in a circle. The guard grabbed his gun. "You all get out of here! It is dinnertime!" He yelled.

A few people got up now and looked at the guard, groaning in annoyance. All of them looked at the guard now. Kiba felt something twitch in his stomach when he saw someone laying onto the ground.

"Shit, is that Neji?" He asked Shikamaru.

"I think it is. I hope he's OK." Shikamaru answered. The guard looked at them and then pointed his gun. "Go on! Fuck off or you'll get punished!" He yelled furious.

The prisoners growled and some seemed to be putting their clothes up, and then they walked away, towards the dinner room. They looked angry. Kiba now saw that it was indeed Neji, laying there on the ground. He was unconscious, and his overall was far open, he could see from a distance. Kiba frowned as he started to walk faster, as the guard already was with Neji now.

Shikamaru followed Kiba too and frowned at what he was seeing. The guard was pulling up the overall and closed it. Neji was looking horrible. "This' the guy?" The guard asked Kiba and Shikamaru.

Kiba nodded.

"Yes he is." He said. "Did they hurt him?" He asked the guard, worried. "He doesn't look so good.."

"I don't know. We're taking him to a doctor. This is not my job." The guard said and swung Neji over his shoulder then started walking. Shikamaru followed. "Damn.. I hope we were in time." He said.

"Me too." Kiba said, as he followed the guard as well. "...Shouldn't you carry him in your arms?" He asked the guard. "I don't think this is good for him."

Shikamaru elbowed Kiba, knowing they should let the guard do whatever he liked.

"Shut your mouth kid, I could leave him here too." The guard snapped.

Kiba was silent now, as they entered the room where everyone was eating. Lots of them were staring now.

Including Sasuke. He spotted Neji and then practically jumped up and stumbled after Kiba and Shikamaru. He caught up with them and even though it hurt, kept walking. "What happened to him?" He asked worried.

"We don't know, we found him, almost naked, with some guys standing around him." Kiba said, looking worried as well. "He was unconscious, in the hallway."

"..Why was he unconscious? Where is he taking Neji?" Sasuke asked. They were walking to the medicine room now.

"We are going to the doctors." Kiba said. "And we don't know, that's why we're going to the doctors. But he looks ill.. very ill."

Sasuke kept quiet now as he followed the guard and then they reached the medicine room. The guard put Neji on a bed. "He needs help." He told a doctor and then walked away.

"He has been raped this morning and now he passed out." Kiba explained to the doctor that came walking towards them. "But something else is off."

"Can you please get a doctor with short brown hair and a small beard?" Sasuke asked, worried that this guy would be like the others had been with him. Neji had been OK after he was alone with the other doctor.

"Why, if I may ask?" The doctor said, as he started opening Neji's overall. "We're all the same you know."

Kiba looked at Sasuke with a frown. Why did Sasuke want an other doctor?

"No you're not." Sasuke snapped. "Just get me the other doctor, he treated Neji before." Sasuke said and managed to stand next to Neji's bed.

The doctor shrugged and then walked away, to get the other doctor.

"Why didn't you want this one?" Kiba asked Sasuke, still frowning.

"..I just don't want that OK." Sasuke snapped as he looked at Neji worried. Why hadn't he just told him he wasn't feeling well?

"Oh dear." A voice suddenly said and there the doctor was standing, the one with the small beard and short brown hair. "He's back again?" He walked towards Neji and looked concerned.

"He passed out. We don't know what's wrong with him." Sasuke said, relieved the right doctor had come.

The doctor nodded and then started undressing Neji, until he was naked. He then turned him around.

"Could anyone hold his behind up?" The doctor asked. "I have to use both hands." He put on some plastic gloves now.

Sasuke nodded and then managed to hold up Neji's behind. It was weird, having to touch Neji like that. It looked weird too. Neji didn't need to know this had happened. He would keep that to himself.

"Thank you." The doctor said as he spread the cheeks of Neji's butt and inspected his entrance. He made a little wincing sound. "Shit, it's infected. And not a little. His skin is even torn up more then before. Has he been acting strange after the rape? And not in being sad and depressed or having pain, but mood swings?" He got some sterile rag and started to clean Neji's entrance.

"..I guess so. He's been angry with me and stuff." Sasuke said and frowned. Was that why Neji was acting the way he had? From an infection?

"He's probably very ill." The doctor said. "That's why he got those mood-swings. You'd better try to ignore them. Are you his cellmate?"

"Err.. yeah." Sasuke said. This was awkward. He had even threatened to leave the cell...was about to. And now it was just all because Neji was ill?

"I'll give you something, it won't be nice to do, but I have to give you some chloroform." The doctor said as he finished cleaning Neji's entrance and put the same cream as before onto it. "He can do strange things and in the worst case, hurting himself or an other. Then you have to chloroform him. It's the best, because else he's going to get tear again. He has to lay down the whole day. I'll discuss it with the guards, so that they bring him food every time."

Sasuke nodded. "What happens when I'm off to eat and he starts acting like that?" Sasuke asked. This was the worst timing Neji had. Sasuke was already feeling like crap and he had to take care of Neji now.

"Hmm.. I can perhaps let you stay in your cell as well, if you want that." The doctor said. "But you don't feel very well yourself either, do you? Can you even handle it to take care of him? Else I'll have to.. well.. leave him here and ask the other's to take care of him when I'm busy."

"No!" Sasuke suddenly yelled, then composed himself again. "No, I'll do it. I'm fine." He said as he helped the doctor with getting Neji's overall back on. "And I would appreciate it if I could stay in my cell too." He added.

"Alright." The doctor said. "Make sure that he puts this on his entrance in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. Let him lay on his stomach and wait until it has disappeared." He gave Sasuke some cream now.

Sasuke accepted the cream and nodded. "OK. Can I have the chloroform then?" He asked. He just wanted to get out of here as fast as possible. The stares of the other doctors were practically unbearable.

The doctor nodded as he rummaged into a small box and then got a cloth out and a little bottle, filled with chloroform. He handed them to Sasuke.

"Here you are." The doctor said. "And tell me boy, did the other doctors treat you well?"

"..They were fine." Sasuke snapped. "Can I go now?" He asked as he took the bottle and cloth.

"Sure." The doctor said. "Success."

Kiba carefully lifted Neji up now, since Sasuke had his hands full. He was a bit worried. Would Neji even wake up?

"Thanks." Sasuke said and then turned around and walked, or rather stumbled, away. Shikamaru sighed and thanked the doctor before following.

"..Now this sucks." Kiba said as they entered the dining room again. The bell hadn't rang yet.

"Just keep walking." Shikamaru told Kiba and they walked to the guard that had helped them before. People were staring at them and made rude comments, but all three had ignored them.

"You need to open the cell." Sasuke snapped to the guard.

"Now I sure as hell won't open the cell for you, get back into the room and eat." The guard said, glaring at Sasuke. "Loudmouth."

Kiba groaned.

"Nice Sasuke." He said.

"He needs to get to his cell." Sasuke said, trying to be polite this time. Shikamaru just pushed Sasuke aside.

"Look, we can't eat anyway and all we would be doing here was get people's attention and you know that that won't work out nicely. So can you please open up the door for us?" He asked.

"..Well only this time." The guard said with a growl and walked into the hall.

Sasuke sighed and thanked Shikamaru. They then followed the guard silently. Sasuke was sure that by the time they reached the cell, the bell would ring, but they just had to get there now.

"Where is your cell?" Kiba asked. "Not that he's heavy or something, I'm just wondering."

"Almost there." Sasuke said. A minute later they reached the cell and the guard opened it. Sasuke helped Kiba lay Neji down on the bed.

"Well.. I guess we're going back to eat now." Kiba said. "We'll see you soon." He nodded to Sasuke, as the guard let him and Shikamaru out now.

"Yeah.. Thanks for the help." Sasuke said and sat down on the bed.

"You're welcome." Kiba said, and then he and Shikamaru walked away, after the guard had locked the door again.

Sasuke turned to Neji now and took a deep breath. Taking care of himself would come later. Maybe he'd just take a few more pills then he was supposed to and he could handle this. As long as Neji would be fine.