Fugaku entered the room some ten minutes later looking more composed than when he left the it, as an explanation for his long absence he presented Sasuke with a coloring book, and crayons. "Went to the gift shop." Sasuke accepted them gratefully, if for nothing else because it was something from his father. He however, had no real interest in coloring, so he looked to his father instead, when his father noticed the staring, "well aren't you going to color?"
"These aren't nice colors." It was the cheapest set, "can you get me some toys instead."
His father looked annoyed and amused, but he looked like he was considering it when there was a knock on the door. "Come in."
"Hello Sasuke-kun, Uchiha-san," the both nodded in response, "I was hoping to speak to you Uchiha-san." Fugaku looked to Sasuke, Sasuke for his part watched him hesitate with his answer, he had just left his son for ten minutes, and that was only to compose himself it had nothing to do with wanting Sasuke to play with something. It had been his father's own selfish need to keep his pride intact in front of his son. The nurse noticing his father's hesitation waved her hand dismissively, "we can talk about this here," if it was not for how closely he was watching his father he would have missed the inaudible sigh that left his lips. "This has to do with some of the questions Sasuke-kun was asked in the day."
Sasuke watched as his father stood straighter, "what about them exactly?" The nurse was either an idiot, or very brave, because she remained unaffected by the sharpness in his father's tone. Sasuke for his part decided that this was cue to color, after all, no normal five year old would be more interested in a conversation between adults than a coloring book.
"Well, it is about a question we never got to ask, because we were not sure we were permitted to ask." Sasuke was not about to giveaway that he was invested in the conversation, but he felt the air around him change, his father was being protective.
"He was asked so many questions it gave him a fever, and you came to ask him more?" From the corner of his eye Sasuke watched as his father crossed his arms. "My son, will not be questioned further."
"That is fine, but this is a very important question, your son was not the only child that arrived in the hospital that night with the same symptoms."
Sasuke almost forgot to pretend to not be listening and dropped his crayon, he said nothing but still his father went and picked it up for him. "What does that have to do with my son?"
"We had to ask the child's parents before asking you, but they both showed up within an hour, this is very suspicious. We believe they may have encountered something together that caused this. This child has not yet woken up, we just want to know if he knows the child."
"If the child has not yet woken up, doesn't it imply that the illness is different?" While his father's stance was still defensive, he did not mask his interest.
"She has not woken, because we have not allowed it, she is in a medically induced coma." This time Sasuke didn't care that his attention was now completely on the conversation. "It's for her own good, she was only harming herself. Just like your son, the girl inexplicably began to produce too much chakra, she was in unbearable pain. Also like your son, her chakra pathways were practically destroyed, except she did something unexpected. She tried using her chakra to heal herself while unconscious," Sakura, it had to be Sakura. "Unfortunately, her pathways being the way the were, she couldn't. Instead of healing herself she was only doing more damage. We, unfortunately, can only do so much, and for her sake, and to allow her pathways to heal properly, she is in a coma."
Sasuke didn't mean to draw attention to himself but he had to know, "does she have pink hair?"
"Yes, do you know her?" There was a fake cheeriness in the nurse's voice, that he didn't quite trust, and neither did his father by the way he looked at him.
"I've seen her at the park." Even his father looked confused by his answer and seemed to want to ask more.
"Well regardless, because they were two victim's of this mysterious illness, and your son does appear to know the girl, this will be under investigation."
A/N: so I am honestly just writing this for fun, cause I feel like it... also I want to have an update for Unexpected soon, hopefully before the end of May...