It had been five days since Aladdin had gotten sick. She hadn't gotten any worse after the second day. She hadn't gotten any better, either. Judal made sure she got her medicine exactly on time, but even so her fever and her symptoms only went away a bit. She spent most of her time sleeping. Judal was worried.

When he played music the first two days she had focused on whatever instrument he was playing and guessed the song titles and artists. Now she would only open her eyes for a second before drifting back to sleep.

She dreamed of Judal's hands, gliding across piano keys and guitar strings. The instruments stretched, changed color, and the sound became distorted. The dreams made her head pound. Then she would wake up for a few seconds or minutes, just long enough to remember where she was before she fell asleep and started the process over again. She took medicine and drank water or chicken broth when Judal brought it to her, but she didn't know how much time had passed.

Judal called a doctor. He didn't want to make Aladdin move. Money didn't matter right now, if the stupid doctor was going to charge him some outrageous price he didn't care right now. The doctor spent almost an hour checking Aladdin. The doctor thought she had two different illnesses at once. One was affecting her sinuses and one affected her lungs and chest. He prescribed an antibiotic that should help with both problems, one more than the other. The doctor insisted that she stay in bed and keep sleeping; she needed to have plenty of water and as much food as she could keep down. If she lost too much more strength she might need to be hospitalized.

Now Judal was really worried. He had been with her alone for one day, one freaking day before she had started to show symptoms. Now she needed even more medicine and might need to be hospitalized. He was going to shove the food down her throat if he had to. He went through the kitchen. He made chicken noodle soup with an excessive amount of garlic. Whatever, it was good for her. He squeezed oranges to make fresh juice. He cut up apples, peaches, watermelon, strawberries, and banana. He made more tea with honey.

He took everything up to her and woke her up. She wouldn't keep her eyes open though, it took several shakes of her shoulder to get her awake enough to sit up and eat. He made her eat a bowl of the fruit salad and a bowl of soup. She hadn't wanted to but he started shoving it in her mouth, not giving her any choice. He waited until she finished a glass of orange juice before he gave her the new medicine. He made her drink a cup of tea and a glass of water before he let her go back to sleep. She hadn't said much. She fell asleep almost immediately.

He had six hours before he needed to give her any more medicine. He called the maids. They were always willing to drop everything and come to him. He paid them really well. All three of them were at the house within twenty minutes. He gave them instructions to keep an eye on her; someone had to be in the room at all times. He told them to make her drink a glass of water or orange juice if she woke up and not to give her any more medicine. If anything changed in her condition they were to call him. With that he left, saying he didn't really care if they cleaned or not. They were all very concerned. This was a very different situation then what they had ever been in before. They took turns watching the girl sleep, cleaning the house and sterilizing everything when they weren't.

Judal drove the car to the biggest mall in the area. It took him almost an hour to get there. He couldn't stay in the house anymore and watch Aladdin sleep. Doing nothing was driving him crazy. He really needed to do something. So he was at the mall. He went from store to store. Size six shoes, boots, sandals, tennis shoes; long sleeve shirts, tee shirts, blouses, sweatpants, jeans, skirts, leggings, dresses, perfume, makeup, and purses. He went from store to store, every store he remembered her talking to him about, every brand he remembered her wearing he visited and purchased things from. He had to make several trips to the car to keep himself from being overloaded. He even went into three different lingerie stores to buy her bras of different styles; he had peaked at the bra she had been wearing the day they arrived and had since not been wearing because she was sick and it was uncomfortable. He really couldn't call her Chibi because of that, at least she was short so it still worked. He got several strange looks at each of those stores. On the way home he stopped by a Target and grabbed the last few things she would need, hair brush, socks, toothbrush, and toothpaste. She had been borrowing his stuff the whole time and he knew it was bugging her. She didn't mind sharing but some things you just needed for yourself. He ran through the grocery store grabbing everything he thought she might want to eat.

He made it home shortly before he needed to give Aladdin her medicine again. He gave the clothes to one of the maids and told her to take care of them. He was impressed with their work yet again, the house practically sparkled, it freaking smelled clean. He brought the food in and put it away with the help of another maid. He left halfway through and relieved the third maid. He watched Aladdin's chest rise and fall again and again. He walked over to the bed and pushed the hair out of her face; it was slick with sweat. The medicine wasn't working as well as it had before, he needed to switch cold medicines again. This one was starting to lose its effects. Her breath caught and he froze, hand inching towards his phone, ready to call 911. Luckily her breathing resumed a second later accompanied by a coughing fit. He relaxed slightly.

He leaned in, taking in her sleeping state. She was so pale, so different from the lively girl he had spent time with a week before. This was bad. He admitted it. He had fallen hard for the girl in front of him, and it worried him more than he could say that she was this uncomfortable.

He stopped when their noses were almost touching. "You better not leave me Chibi. You wriggled your way into my heart so you have a responsibility to stay. Do you understand? I love you, Aladdin." He kissed her on the forehead and walked away. His cheeks were burning.

Hello!

So I wrote this chapter in a crazy hurry but I wanted to get it out as soon as possible. I'm taking advantage of the limited amount of free time I have right now (it's Friday night 10:45 PM) to get some writing done. We shall see how far I get. I'm about to fall asleep though, I've been awake since 5AM running around and doing stuff. Oh boy. This is killing me. But I'm having fun.

Sooooooooooooooooooooooo big things have happened. What do you think? Please review and let me know. Also feel free to request any kind of interaction or coupling that you would like to see. A chapter with Hakuryuu, Morgiana, Kougyoku, and Alibaba will be coming up very soon so get ready for that.

Review review review please! I really like to know what you like/dislike about the story. Anyway, I have to edit stuff and reply to some of you now so I will talk to you later.

Until Next Time!

-Kizuna