I'm noticing more and more often that I always put my characters through physical pain. Oh well, enjoy!
Dedication to----> ChibiSasuke, who co-wrote this. (At four in the morning. What were we thinking?)
Nothing happens except a hug. Sorry if that disappoints you.
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They were returning from a mission. Sasuke stayed behind Naruto, because he had his suspicions that the idiot would get lost or hurt or something and he'd have to go save him.
"I don't know why you always do that, Sasuke. You're creeping me out," Naruto whined from up ahead.
"Usuratonkachi," Sasuke growled, "of course you're going to do something idiotic, I'm just getting a good seat for the show!" He chuckled to himself. Naruto was silent for a few minutes.
Finally, Sasuke had to ask, "Naruto? What the hell are you doing?"
"If that's all it is, fine!" Naruto shouted from up ahead. Farther up ahead than he was supposed to be. Sasuke picked up the pace, jumping from branch to branch at a more urgent speed than the leisurely one he had been using.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Sasuke yelled back.
"I'm going home, Sasuke, and you can report to Kakashi-sensei. If I do do something stupid, you won't be around to see it. So th- yikes!" Splash!
Sasuke started sprinting, trying not to notice that Naruto had just said “do do”. What had the idiot done now? He stopped about where he'd heard Naruto last and jumped to the ground.
Okay, let's see. I'm standing on a rock, and there's a pond, and then... There's a yellow thing, but - a, it's sinking, so that's not a problem. So then Naruto is... Sasuke almost smacked himself for being so dumb. Of course the sinking yellow thing was Naruto! Now why was he sinking?
"Holy sh-" Sasuke yelled, diving into the pond. He got some water in his mouth, and he noted that it had an irony taste, like diluted blood… He swam under Naruto, finding the source of the problem. A large fish had its barbed teeth sunken into Naruto’s ankle, and was dragging him towards the sandy bottom. Sasuke kicked himself towards the fish and punched it in the chin, which made it let go.
His lungs ached for air. He looked up, and realized that he was very deep down in the water. Naruto hadn’t been holding his breath… Grabbing his friend, Sasuke kicked up towards the surface, gulping down oxygen and spitting out water. He hooked an arm around Naruto’s neck, and kicked and paddled with one arm to the edge of the pond where he pulled himself out.
“Oh, God, please tell me I don’t have to do that,” Sasuke groaned, looking down at his unconscious friend. Naruto’s chest didn’t move, and his expression didn’t change. He was perfectly still on the ground, blood from his ankle and the back of his head pooling on the ground. I guess that would explain why he’s unconscious, Sasuke thought to himself, lifting Naruto’s head slightly. The wound would need stitches, of that there was no doubt. He gently placed Naruto’s head back on the ground.
“Moron, causing me this kind of trouble,” Sasuke growled, tipping Naruto’s head back. He pressed his lips to the blonde’s, breathing air into him, waiting a few seconds, and trying again. After about three times, a knot formed in his throat. “Come on, cooperate,” Sasuke hissed, traces of panic laced with his words. He tried a few more times, and finally, mercifully, Naruto let out a small cough.
“Sa…” He rolled his head around to look up at Sasuke, wincing as he did so. “Sasuke. What…happened? Are you-” He was cut off by a fit of coughing, and tried to sit up. Sasuke put an arm across his shoulders and helped him.
“Oh, my head… What the hell?”
“Come on, we need to get you back to the village to get your head and ankle looked at,” Sasuke said, standing up and shaking some water off his hands and arms. He looked down at the pathetic looking figure before him, who struggled to get up, but who’s legs collapsed under him causing him to land with a pained gasp on the ground. Sasuke huffed impatiently, and said more than asked “you’re not going to be able to hold on if I give you a piggy back, will you?”
“Nuh,” came the mumbled reply. Sasuke sighed, then reached down. He put one arm around Naruto’s shoulders and another behind his knees, then lifted him with a grunt of effort.
“Hey, Sasuke?”
“What?”
“I’m gonna take a nap.”
“Oh no you won’t,” Sasuke snapped, tossing Naruto into the air a few inches, “I can’t have you dying in your sleep. I’ll get into trouble.” Not to mention it would tear me apart, he added in his head, not wanting to say anything so un-cool out loud. His heart skipped a beat when he saw the look on Naruto’s face.
Though he kept asking if he could and saying that he was going to take a nap, every time Naruto did Sasuke would jump or land with unnecessary roughness to wake him up. It turn, it made Naruto angry, but by the time they made it to the village he’d lost to much blood to insult Sasuke coherently.
By now, of course, Sasuke was worried and panicking. He didn’t really care about acting cool, just as long as Naruto got help.
He stormed into the hospital, Naruto a deadweight in his sore arms, alarming the nurses when they looked at him. “Help!” he cried, looking from one startled face to the next, “my friend is hurt! Help!” A few of the staff jumped up and rushed to get a gurney as he couldn’t hold himself and his friend up anymore. Two more staff jumped up and hefted the lifeless form from Sasuke, setting him on the gurney and wheeling him away. “Come on!” cried one nurse when Sasuke remained on his knees on the ground, “we need you to tell us what happened!”
Reluctantly standing up and thanking his luck that no one apart from the nurses had seen him show weakness, he jogged to the room where they’d taken Naruto. He’d been put on the bed face down, and the nurse that was stitching up his head directed Sasuke to the far side of the room with a curt nod. He covered his ears when Naruto realized what was going on and started screaming from the pain. He squeezed his eyes shut and leaned against the wall, sinking to the floor with his stomach in knots.
“What happened?” asked a nurse gently, touching Sasuke’s shoulder. He opened his eyes, but kept his fingers in his ears, trying to block out the screams which were growing impossibly louder.
“He fell,” he started, taking a breath to calm himself. “He fall out of a tree and hit his head on a rock by a pond and fell in and started to drown, and then a fish bit his ankle and started dragging him under.”
“How far was the pond from here and in what direction?” asked the nurse, her voice taking on a panicked tone.
“About two kilometres east of here,” Sasuke replied, glancing up just in time to see the nurse turn and rush back to her fellow employees. He listened to their conversation, the sounds in the room more bearable now that Naruto had taken to moaning instead.
“Yes, I think it was that pond,” the woman said, wringing her hands together.
“You can’t mean-”
“Yes. The one that was contaminated by the fatal waterborne disease brought out by the rogue ninjas. Get the doctor.” She glanced at Sasuke, who stared back at her with wide, frightened eyes. “It’s going to be okay, sweetie,” she said, “your friend is going to be fine. Just fine,” she added, more to herself. She then turned and left the room.
“Naruto!” Sasuke shouted, jumping up. He ran to the bed side and reached out. “Naruto…” he placed a hand on his team mate’s shoulder, trying his best to turn him around. Naruto flopped over and clutched his waist, almost crying by now. “Sasuke, it hurts,” he groaned, closing his eyes.
“It’s going to be okay, Naruto,” he reassured him. “I swear, I’m gonna make sure it’s okay.”
A new set of nurses came in, looking at Naruto in disgust. They circled around the bed, shoving Sasuke out of the way, and grabbed ahold of Naruto’s wrists and ankles. They wrenched on his limbs, holding him down. He screamed some more. Sasuke retreated to the wall again.
“Ugh, having to deal with this on the night of the festival,” complained one nurse.
“I know. Why should we have to baby-sit this brat?”
Sasuke decided that he had liked the other nurses better. He growled in warning, muttering some swears that the nurses either didn’t hear or they just ignored.
