Day 6

"No, Deidara stop! What're you doing!?! Please!! NO!! Why're you doing this all of a sudden!?! Deidara! Deidara-?!"

"Deidara? Deidara? Wake up, idiot!" I said, as I shook the blond's shoulder roughly. I had entered the room only a few minutes ago all prepared for some sort of attack only to find that he had fallen asleep on the couch. I yelped when his hand suddenly shot up, grabbed my wrist, and flipped me onto the couch so I was under him. I looked up startled only to see he was panting with a terrified look in his eyes as he looked down at me. I looked at him worriedly, "Hey...Are you okay?"

It seemed to take him a couple moments to realize who was under him before the small grin made its way on his face, "Oh good morning pinky, yeah."

I continued to stare, seeing the cold sweat that plastered his pale face, "Hey...Did something happen?"

He grinned wider, "Now what makes you say that? Shouldn't you be more worried about the situation you're in, yeah?" The grin turned into a smirk, "You're defenseless right now, yeah."

I pushed away the thought of what I had seen earlier and glared as the blush made its way, "I swear to god Deidara, if you do anything I'll-!"

He snickered, "You are just too cute pinky, yeah." He pushed himself up and off of me so that I could get up and stand. "By the way, you might want to fix your skirt...But it looks like you're wearing pink today, yeah!"

I looked down to see that the skirt part of my uniform had ridden up to show part of my underwear. He watched amused as my face went a dark shade of red as I fumbled to push the hem down and then glare at him.

"Now is there a reason why you've been absent for 3 days, yeah?" He asked with a slight pout, "It's been so boring without someone around to-"

"Sexually harass?"

"I was going to say play with, but...," He stared with a non-amused look. "Do you really think I'm sexually harassing you, yeah?"

"Of course!" I exclamied with an uplift of my arms, "What the hell else do you think you're doing!?!"

"...Proving a point?" He said, mostly asking himself instead of me. "It seems that way at least, yeah..."

I placed a hand on my hip and looked at him with a raised eyebrow, "And what POINT exactly are you trying to prove? Hmm?"

He grinned, "A good one, yeah."

I twitched and glared, "Are you playing with me again?"

"Yup!" He crossed his left leg over the right one and held out his arms in a stuck-up prince-like way, "How ever did you notice, yeah?"

"You stupid-!" I started only to be interuppted by someone clearing their throat behind me. I turned and looked to see Shizune looking at me with a slightly dissapointed look.

"I see you seem to be having troubles with him...," Shizune started as she walked into the room. "Quite frankly Sakura, I'm a litte dissapointed that you can't seem to handle him..."

I gaped, not believing what my ears were hearing, "Wait...You don't...I'm not...You see he..." I fumbled to stop the flow of confusing words that escaped my mouth, and finally figured to just shut my mouth completely.

Years and years of working up to the point of gaining full respect and acknowledgment all for me to suddenly start at the beginning just because of the idiot? Had things really gotten this far?

I looked devastated at the ground. Was I going to get demoted back to the A wing where I found no challenge in healing patients?

"Angrophobia... Mastigophobia..." Shizune and I looked towards Deidara who stared unwaveringly at us. "I assume you know what those mean Shizune, yeah?"

She blinked, "Yes...Fear of being angry and fear of being punished..."

He slowly smiled, "And I assume if one were to make someone angry or to punish them, yelling and calling them names would be a correct way to make this occur am I correct, yeah?"

"Y-Yes..."

"Well then," He said, standing up and placing a hand on my tensed shoulder ignoring the confused stares I was giving him. "Wouldn't it be fairly wise of Dr. Haruno to try to find the many phobias that are out there that may set me, the patient who doesn't know his illness, off on a physco rampage, yeah?"

Shizune's eyes shifted around slightly, "U-Um..."

"SO, isn't it quite rude that you assumed that Dr. Haruno here to be slacking off and getting angry at her patients when she's a trained professional, yeah?" He raised an eyebrow and leaned his weight against me as she went pink in the cheeks.

"I-I see...," She turned to me with an embarrassed and apologetic look, "I apologize Sakura...I didn't know you were doing tests..."

"I...uh...," I mumbled confused as to how fast things were moving and how slow my brain was comprehending the situation.

"That'll be all Shizune, yeah." Deidara said with a swift motion of his hand to dismiss her. She glanced side to side nervously, nodded her head quickly, and then scurried out of the room with a large blush on her cheeks.

I continued to stand in silence my mouth hanging agape until Deidara eventually cleared his throat to grab my attention. I managed to blink, "How...what..."

"You're not very good at handling really stressful situations are you?" He sat back down on the couch and looked at me with a scrunched face, "If I hadn't helped you, you would've been in trouble, yeah."

I looked at him suspicously, finally gaining my senses back, "Why'd you help me?"

He pouted, "Are you thinking I had some ill intention behind what I did, yeah? How cruel..." I raised an eyebrow only making him snicker, "Pinky, you're the only one who can amuse me this much. If you were demoted who would ever entertain me everday, yeah?"

I sighed, "So in the end it was only for your self enjoyment..." Plopping down on the couch next to him, I looked at him from the corner of my eye, "So anyway, how did you know what those words meant?"

He thought long and hard before actually answering, "I don't know...I just made up some words and winged it when she gave the definition of them, yeah."

"Y-You can't be serious...," I said. He was obviously avoiding what I asked, so I decided to drop it for now.

He pouted, "How come I haven't recieved a thank you yet, yeah?"

I blinked, and then most likely surprised him when I smiled at him, "Thank you Deidara..." He stared at me, flustered, as I stood up and walked over to the door, turning to look at him again, still smiling. "Really, thanks a lot."

Even thought tomorrow had meant to be my day off, I decided to pay Deidara a little visit before heading back home. I opened his door slowly and peered in to check if he was sleeping, only to see him staring blankly at the floor.

I stepped in, "Deidara?" His eyes didn't waver and his body didn't flinch, and as I got closer to him I realized his breathing was slightly ragged. "Hey Deidara are you okay?!" I asked, rushing over to him as he finally snapped out of whatever trance he had been in.

He turned and grinned at me, his breathing still ragged and his face beaded with cold sweat. "Ah, morning Pinky, yeah!"

I frowned, "Are you okay...?"

"I'm fine, I'm fine, yeah." He sat there silently for a second finally letting the grin slowly fall from his face, "I...Just had a nightmare is all..."

I leaned forward my attention fully on him, "What was it about?"

He glanced towards me and smiled slowly again, "You actually care, don't you, yeah?"

I glared, "Of course I care! This nightmare obviously frightened you a lot! And I'm starting to worry it's affecting you physically too..." My eyes softened, "Please tell me what it's about..."

He sighed, smiled, and then stood turning to smirk at me, "You're getting way to serious pinky! I was just kidding, yeah." He snickered.

I stared at him with a serious exspression on my face as I stood and faced him, "Well...When you're ready to tell me, I'll be here to listen..." I patted his shoulder as I walked passed him and made my way to the door again.

Another three days passed and I didn't visit the hospital, deciding to give Deidara some time to think to himself. When I finally felt he had enough time to think, I made my usual route to his room.

I opened his door slowly again and walked in again only to see him awake and smiling at me. I smiled back, "Hey Deidara." I walked over to him and then froze in shock. Now that I was closer to him, I could see that his skin was pale and that there was a dark flush to his cheeks.

"Hey Pinky, yeah..." He breathed.

"D-Did you have another nightmare...?" I asked, standing still where I was.

Why Deidara, why would you do this...?! Why...!?

"Nope, no nightmare's today, yeah!" He grinned, tightening his grip on the couch hard enough his knuckles turned white. He stood, and tried his hardest to hide the fact that he stumbled.

I was prepared and ready when he suddenly fell forward, and rushed to catch him before he made impact with the ground. I turned him slightly so his face looked up at mine, and placed my hand on his forehead.

'He's running a high fever...' I thought, removing my hand from his face and placing his arm over my shoulders so that I could drag him to the bed.

He continued smiling as I pulled the sheets over to his chin, "I told you I'm fine, pinky, yeah..." I ignored him and ran out of the door, running back in with a cold, wet, towel in hand which I quickly placed over his forehead.

"Why didn't you tell me...," I asked as he shut his eyes and fell asleep immediatly. "Why didn't you tell me these nightmares were making you so sick...?"

I reached under the covers and pulled out his hand which I placed both of mine over. It was obvious to myself that I hadn't been putting enough effort into knowing more about Deidara. And, because of that, he continued to suffer without anyone's help.

What had I've been doing all this time? I needed to take my head out of the clouds and realize that he was a patient just like Hinata, and just like Hinata he needed the attention and nurturing of a loving doctor. Yelling and shouting and constantly hurting him physically was not how I would've treated Hinata or all the other patients before her!

I sighed when his body let out an intense shiver and tightened my grip on his hand.

'No more joking around...,' I thought determined. I'm going to care for him like a loving doctor should care for his or her patient, and cure him of whatever is giving him the nightmares every night.

Even if it killed me, dammit.

Me: (collapses)

Sakura: Where have you been!?!? You lied about updating more frequently!

Me: (groans) It's not my faaaault!!! This year of school is so intense with work!! The homework sucks the energy to write out of me! I just promised one of my reader's that I'd update before the end of this week!

Sakura: (rolls eyes) You're lazy...

Me: ...

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