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Sasuke's alarm continued to ring persistently, trying desperately to wake the boy who was so far into sleep that not even an unearthly explosion would be able to wake him up.

"Sasuke!" came a voice from the hall. Itachi poked his head into his younger brothers' room. "Sasuke! Come on! You're going to be late!" When he saw his little brother still fast asleep in his bed, Itachi sighed. Walking over to the edge of his bed Itachi turned off Sasuke's alarm and sat on the edge of it. Sasuke coughed loudly and stirred around in his bed. Itachi placed a gentle hand on his little brothers shoulder, stirring his slightly.

"Oi, Sasuke, open your eyes." Sasuke moaned, but did as he was told to do. "Are you feeling okay? You still have that cough."

Sasuke smiled reassuringly. "I'm fine, brother."

Itachi's eyes narrowed. "Sasuke, your voice is hoarse. Are you sure you're feeling okay?"

Sasuke just nodded. He tried to speak but he had ended up just coughing again instead. Slowly, Sasuke rose up to a sitting position. The room was spinning he felt a little too warm, but he was determined to go to training today. He also didn't need Itachi worrying about him. Itachi obviously didn't believe that he was feeling fine, but he knew it was pointless trying to argue with him. Itachi sighed and stood up from the bed.

"Alright, but you need to hurry or your going to be late."

Sasuke nodded and waited until his brother had left to change. After he had changed, Sasuke walked down to the table and sat down, placing his head on the table. This didn't go unnoticed by Itachi. "Sasuke, are you sure you want to go today?" Sasuke looked up at his brother, as if considering the thought of staying home, but then shook his head . . . which was a mistake. Dizziness immediately overtook him and he gripped his head tightly, closing his eyes, groaning in pain. Itachi was immediately by his brothers' side.

"Sasuke," he said grasping his wrist, "You need to stay home. There's no way you can train like this." Itachi went to place a hand on Sasuke's forehead, but Sasuke quickly stood up, stumbling slightly.

"I'm fine, really. I have to go now. I'll see you when I get back the mission."

Sasuke stood up and left the table, walking out of the house, but not without almost running into the door first. Itachi just sighed.

The team met on the training grounds at noon. Everyone was there (and had been for a half hour) except Sasuke.

"Where is he!" shouted Naruto impatiently, stomping his foot on the ground.

"Yeah, the one day Kakashi is here on time Sasuke isn't. It's not like him to be late."

Kakashi didn't even look up from his book. "Well why don't you ask him yourself. Here he comes now."

The team looked over to see a very slow moving Sasuke. When he got to them, they were slightly surprised by his appearance. He looked like he hadn't slept in days and he couldn't seem to stop coughing.

"Sasuke, are you feeling okay?" asked Sakura, placing a hand on the boys shoulder to steady him. Sasuke just shrugged it off.

"I'm fine. Let's just train."

Kakashi nodded and closed his book. "Alright."

"You're just going to let him train in this heat? Kakashi, he's obviously sick!"

"I'm not si—" shouted Sasuke but he was interrupted by an onslaught of coughs.

Kakashi looked up at the raven haired boy. "It's not my problem. If he want's to put his health in jeopardy, that's his problem."

"I told you guys," said Sasuke, "I'm fine. It's just a cold or something. Now let's train, alright?"

Sasuke and Naruto nodded and Kakashi waved them into the field. "Okay we're just going to start with some sparring. Sasuke. Naruto. You're up first. The loser with take on Sakura."

"Ha-ha," shouted Naruto jumping towards the field, "Prepare to be defeated by Naruto Uzumaki!"

Sasuke didn't reply. He just simply stumbled into the field. Sakura pulled at Kakashi's sleeve. "Kakashi Sensei, this really is a bad idea. Sasuke can't fight like that."

Kakashi didn't look away from the two boys standing in the field. "I know. Why do you think I had them spar first?"

"I don't think I understand."

Kakashi crossed his arms. "If I had made him actually train that would just make whatever he has worse because he wouldn't admit he was sick and he would just keep pushing himself."

Sakura raised an eyebrow. "But won't he just do that anyway?"

Kakashi nodded. "Well, he may try, but I noticed his eyes weren't really focused and I don't think he'll be able to keep up with Naruto. Just trust me, it will be over before it started, Sasuke will go home, and then you and Naruto can continue to train."

Sakura sighed and turned back to the boys, who were about to begin fighting. Naruto lunged at Sasuke, but Sasuke clumsily dodged it. The quickness of the movement sent a wave of dizziness through him. The world began tilting and spinning as he did his best to dodge Naruto's attacks. He knew there was no way he would be able to hit him when he was like this, so he was hoping to just tire him out. Unfortunately, he was the one becoming tired, and the reeling of the world was making him nauseous.

One of Naruto's attacks made contact with Sasuke's chest, sending him reeling backwards. Sasuke put up a hand, bending over slightly, clutching his chest. That hurt. Badly. Had Naruto gotten stronger or something? But he couldn't have that fast. He just sparred with him two days ago. Naruto was a bit concerned, especially when he heard Sasuke gag slightly. Naruto took a step closer. "Hey, if you're not feeling up to it you don't have to train."

Sasuke closed his eyes doing his best not to vomit on the training grounds. "N-no, its fine. Come on, fight."

Naruto just shrugged and continued to attack. Naruto caught Sakuras' eyes and saw the worried expression on her face, so he eased up a bit, but not too much . . . it was still Sasuke after all. The fight continued for a while, Naruto would attack, Sasuke would just barely dodge. Until it happened. Naruto's' punch made contact again, this time, a direct hit to Sasuke queasy stomach. Almost immediately, Sasuke backed away from Naruto, fell to his knees and vomited violently onto the grass.

"Sasuke!" Sakura shouted, but before she could move, Kakashi was already next to boy. When she came to stand beside her sensei, she saw the worried expression on his face. But then she saw why. A thin line of red had made its way from Sasuke's mouth and was dribbling down his chin. When she looked in front of Sasuke, she saw that his sick was tinged with red as well. Kakashi took hold of the boys shoulder.

"Sasuke, I need you to tell me how long you have been feeling this way."

Sasuke shivered violently. "I don't know . . . a few weeks I guess."

Sakura saw something in Kakashi's eyes flicker. Was it panic? Was her cool, normally calm Sensei actually panicking? Sakura could feel her heart begin to beat faster. What was going on?

"Do you know if your brother is home?"

Sasuke shook his head, another mistake. The wooziness it brought on caused him to heave up the rest of what little breakfast he had managed to keep down the first time.

Sakura knelt beside Kakashi. "What can we do, Sensei?"

"Sakura," he said, his voice was uneven, "I need you to go to Sasuke's house and see if Itachi is home, if he is bring him here."

"And if he's not?"

Kakashi sighed. "Well, let's just hope that he is."

"Got it" said Sakura, taking off as fast as she could go in the direction of Sasuke's house. Once she was out of sight, Kakashi turned to Naruto.

"And I need you, Naruto, to run and get lady Tsunade."

Naruto nodded. "But, wouldn't it just be easier to bring him to Tsunade?"

Kakashi nodded, rubbing Sasuke's back as he placed his head down on the cool grass, groaning from the pain in his stomach.

"Normally, yes. But I don't think Sasuke will do very well if we move him much right now. Plus, I want to talk to Itachi before we send him down. But I think Tsunade is going to take him there anyways."

"Alright, I'll be right back." Shouted Naruto as he took of towards Tsunade. Kakashi looked back down at Sasuke. "I need you to tell me what you're feeling right now Sasuke. What hurts?"

"M-my stomach." Gasped Sasuke, squeezing fistfuls of grass.

Kakashi slowly lifted Sasuke off the grass. "Well, staying in the field and smelling that puke probably will not help much. So do you think you can make it to the bench over there?"

Itachi sighed, crumbling up another piece of paper and throwing it into the trash can. How was he supposed to write a mission report when he was worrying about his little brother? Itachi sighed and stood up. Maybe going for a walk would take his mind off of things, but just as he was headed towards the door, he heard a young girl's voice on the other side of it.

"Itachi! Itachi are you home! Something's wrong with Sasuke!"

Itachi could feel his heart nearly stop. Within seconds, Itachi crossed the remainder of the room and ripped open the door. Sakura was running up the walkway shouting and when she saw Itachi her worried expression grew even more.

"Itachi! You have to come with me!" she shouted, grabbing his hand and beginning to pull him back towards the training grounds.

"Wait! Sakura what's wrong with him!" shouted Itachi, following quickly behind her.

"We don't know! When he got to the grounds, he looked really sick. And then when he sparred with Naruto he ended up puking. . ." Sakura slowed her pace until she was standing still.

"What is it?" asked Itachi. He could hear his heart pounding in his ears now. There's something seriously wrong with his little brother.

"There was blood . . . running down his chin when he finished."

Itachi paled visibly and Sakura felt his hand tighten on hers.

"Let's go." Said Itachi, now dragging Sakura back to the training grounds.

"Lady Tsunade." Tsunade looked up from her pile of papers to find Shizune standing at her desk, with a concerned expression on her face.

"Yes what is it?"

Shizune shifted on her feet. "Naruto Uzumaki is here to see you. He says it's urgent."

Tsunade sighed. He probably ran out of money to buy ramen or something. "Alright, bring him in."

Shizune nodded and left the room. A second later Naruto came running in, stopping at her desk. Shizune had been right, he really looked terrified and he was breathing heavily. His blue eyes were wide with worry and his knit brow made him look like he was on the verge of tears. Naruto's expression settled uneasily upon her. Without realizing, Tsunade stood up and walked over next to the boy, bending down so that she was at his level.

"Naruto, what is it?"

Naruto regained his breath before speaking. When he spoke his voice was nervous and filled with worry. "It's Sasuke."

"What about him."

"Well when he got to the training grounds, he didn't look so good."

Lady Tsunade looked at him seriously. "How did he look?"

Naruto looked blank for a moment as is if he were trying to remember something.

"Well, when he was walking up to us, I noticed he stumbled a lot and he couldn't keep his balance very well. Then when he was standing he kept rocking . . . like he still couldn't find his balance. His eyes were really unfocused and he was sweating. He was coughing pretty badly too and when he talked his voice was hoarse."

"Alright, I'll go take a look at him." When Tsunade stood back up to leave, Naruto suddenly grabbed his sleeve. "But that's not all I had to tell you."

Now curious, Tsunade bent back down. "Then tell me quick."

Naruto looked hesitant for a moment. "Well when we were sparring he wouldn't attack me. And I actually hit him."

Tsunade was confused. "What has that got to do with anything?"

"I'm not done!" shouted Naruto. Tsunade was about to say something to snap back, but something made her hold her tongue. Maybe it was Naruto's' face again. Naruto took a deep breath and continued. " . . . I hit him square in the chest, but that normally doesn't hurt him . . . but it did this time. He almost got sick. I told him that we could stop if he wanted but he said no. So we kept on fighting, well I kept attacking and he kept dodging. I hit him again, in the stomach . . . but I guess I hit him a bit too hard because he got really sick…but when I looked closely. . . I saw there was blood on his chin, and on the ground."

Tsunade eyes widened. "Take me too him, now." Naruto nodded and together they sped down the long hallway and back to the training grounds.

Okay! So theres chapter 1! please update and comment! thanks for reading (and thanks to everyone who have read all my stories in the past) i just though i would thank you now. all your comments have been ablsolutly wonderful so thanks a bunch!