Naruto: If I ask you to kill Sasuke, you will become a succubus?

If I heard correctly...

Did he call "Mom"?

If he knew that I heard his inappropriate talking in his sleep, he wouldn't hold a grudge against me, right?

Just in case, I decided to pretend I didn't hear anything: "...You awake?"

He was silent for a moment, and finally seemed to be more awake: "What's wrong with me..."

"You fainted during class, and Inuzuka-san found out and told the teacher. The teacher asked Naruto and Shikamaru to take you to the infirmary. Naruto was supposed to be watching over you, but he went out to buy a drink, so I'll help keep an eye on him for a while."

"Naruto...?" He stared at the ceiling blankly for a while, not knowing what he was thinking, and then closed his eyes sleepily.

At this time, Naruto came back: "I'm back, Chaolu!"

He glanced at Sasuke and saw that he didn't react. He thought he was probably still sleeping, so he ran to me excitedly with three or four bottles of drinks in his arms: "Clang clang! Look, I bought drinks today and won 'Another bottle'! Chaolu, do you want some? I'll share with you!"

I took the bottle of drink with a smile: "Thank you!"

He turned around and sat next to me, his legs dangling over the edge of the bed, and for some reason I felt like a puppy's tail wagging happily.

I said, "Sasuke just woke up."

"Huh? Are you awake?"

"Yeah, but he closed his eyes again. I don't know if he fell asleep again."

"Hey... I felt dizzy and groggy when I had a fever, and I couldn't help wanting to sleep."

"Did Naruto have a fever too?"

"of course."

"I didn't know a fever could be this serious... I've only seen descriptions of this symptom in books before."

"Hasn't Chaolu ever had a fever?"

"No."

"It's possible that Chaolu had a fever but forgot about it, right? Because Chaolu has lost her memory!"

"…That may be the case. Then who took care of you when Naruto had a fever?"

"Grandpa Sandai came to see me." Naruto lowered his head and thought for a moment, "He sent me to the hospital, and a nurse took care of me in the hospital."

"I see..." I leaned towards him gently, my shoulder against his, my head against his and said, "If Naruto gets sick in the future, I will take care of him."

"Really?"

"Yes! Leave illness and injury to me! I will be a medical ninja, so I can handle all of these in the future!"

At this moment, Uchiha Sasuke on the bed suddenly started coughing.

“Cough! Cough! Cough!” He curled up like a shrimp in a frying pan, clutched the quilt tightly, turned his back and said: “… Cough! Cough… I can’t help it…! Cough!!”

Naruto yelled, "What? You're not asleep!"

He seemed to be holding back his cough just now, but now he couldn't hold it back and coughed it all out at once. Not only could he not stop, but the cough was getting worse and worse, and he was coughing until he was hoarse.

Naruto and I quickly jumped off the bed and gathered around him, somewhat at a loss as to what to do.

Naruto panicked, "Should we go find the teacher?!"

I trust Shikamaru more than my teacher: "Why don't we go find Shikamaru?"

"What's the point of Shikamaru coming here! He doesn't know how to heal diseases!" Naruto forgot for a moment that I sneaked here without telling the teacher: "I'll go call the teacher over!"

He ran away and I stayed where I was. I felt it would be a bad idea to do nothing, so I tried to pat Sasuke on the back to help him calm down.

Under the thin layer of clothing, his back was very thin and his body temperature was extremely high. His skin was so white, like white wax, that I couldn't help but wonder if he would be burned by the high temperature.

How could it be so serious? He looked as if it wouldn't be strange for him to die of illness.

But...shouldn't he have lived healthily for several years?

"Water... cough! Water...!"

Sasuke coughed until his face turned red, and he even made vomiting sounds. I quickly took all the bottles of drinks that Naruto brought over and asked, "Which one do you want?"

He took the mineral water that Naruto bought for me. I helped him unscrew the bottle cap and supported him to drink the water, for fear that he would choke himself again.

After a long while, his violently heaving chest gradually calmed down and his breathing slowed down.

I asked nervously, “How do you feel now?”

"Much better..." His voice was still a little hoarse: "...Thank you."

I looked at him in surprise, couldn't believe that I actually got a "thank you" from Uchiha Sasuke!

"No, if you want to thank someone, thank Naruto. He always cares about you."

After saying that, I could already hear the footsteps of Naruto and the teacher hurrying over, so I quickly climbed out of the window again.

At this time, the bell for the end of get out of class rang, and many girls rushed out of the classroom and flocked to the infirmary to visit Uchiha Sasuke.

The teacher in the infirmary strictly locked all irrelevant people out, so some students pretended to be injured or unwell to sneak in.

I took this opportunity to run back to the classroom, thinking about bringing something fun to Naruto later so that he wouldn't be bored staying with Sasuke.

When I came back, Shikamaru was lying on the table, looking in the direction of my seat, as if in a daze.

The classroom was mostly empty because almost all the girls were gone.

I moved closer to Shikamaru and poked his shoulder.

He looked back and was slightly startled when he saw me, then a smile appeared on his face subconsciously: "Why are you back?"

"I'll come out first, teacher. Can you lend me the game you played with Choji earlier?"

That was the card game that Shikamaru brought from home. The cards were divided into different colors. Everyone drew seven cards at the beginning, and then played the same cards in succession - either the same number or the same color. There were also a few function cards that could change color and allow the opponent to draw more cards. Whoever finished playing the cards first in the end won.

Because it is playing cards, it can be played silently. Naruto has participated in it during class before, but he always couldn't help making loud noises and was caught by the teacher. Shikamaru was implicated and had several decks of cards confiscated. The two of them, plus Choji, were often kept after class to write self-criticisms because of this.

When he heard me say that, the smile on Shikamaru's face disappeared immediately. "You still want to go?"

"There's no other way. I can't leave Naruto there alone." I said pleadingly, "Please, Shikamaru, I will definitely repay you!"

"Repay me? Repay me for what?" Shikamaru took out a card from the drawer and stuffed it at me unhappily. "Also, I've taken notes for you from the previous class."

"real?!"

"I was thinking that if you came back I wouldn't have to help you keep remembering things, and I could relax... Tsk, what a hassle."

I think the warmth rippling in my heart at this moment might be the feeling of being touched.

"What can I do to repay you? As long as Shikamaru is happy, I can do anything!"

"I want you to come back to class."

I suddenly felt embarrassed: "...Except this."

Shikamaru turned his head away, as if angry: "Then forget it."

When I was at a loss, I suddenly heard Ino's voice behind me. She smiled and said, "Just kiss him."

Shikamaru turned around in surprise: "Don't listen to what Ino says! Didn't you go to see Sasuke? Why are you back?"

Ino said unhappily, "The teacher doesn't allow irrelevant people to enter, and I can't pretend to be sick, so what can I do?"

I held Shikamaru's hands in my hands, knelt on one knee, and bowed my head devoutly to kiss the back of his hands.

Shikamaru looked at me with wide eyes and jerked his hand back, "Idiot! That was just Ino joking!"

"I know, I'm not stupid." I said unconvincedly, "But I want to do the same to Shikamaru myself."

This is the ceremony of pledging allegiance.

In the future, I didn't have the chance, nor did I have the time to do that to Shikamaru.

Because I only found out about this from reading a book after I came here.

But since then, I have always hoped that he could know how loyal I am to him.

Even though the current Shikamaru won’t understand my feelings, and the future Shikamaru won’t know either.

Ino snorted, "Why would you want to do this to Shikamaru? It's almost like a marriage proposal!"