Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

It was a perfect day for Naruto. He was walking happily down the streets after a bowl of free ramen at Ichiraku from a voucher.

He passed the Hyuuga compound, where Hinata and Neji live.

Naruto paused at the door, turned and smiled at it, nodding, and then deciding to walk on. Though, before his foot touched the ground he stopped.

There was a sound.

A frightening sound.

A horrible and very frightening sound.

(Cold sweat trickled down Naruto's face as he slowly started to turn blue.)

It was a sneeze.

He immediately ran away.

Two minutes later...

Naruto came back again, and wondered if he should go in. He swallowed and bit his lips as he raised his hand to the door. Slowly, slowly...

"What do you want," A voice suddenly asked.

Naruto nearly screamed. He was very scared of ghosts and body less souls...that kind of stuff.

To make it worse, another sneeze was heard...DEFINATELY from someone other than the first one two minutes ago.

"Who are you," The voice asked again.

To make it worseR, ANOTHER sneeze was heard, different from the first two that was two minutes ago and two seconds ago.

"U-U-Uzumaki Na-Naruto!" Naruto stuttered bravely.

"Oh, you." And the door opened.

Naruto found himself face to face with the Hyuuga clan main-branch's leader, Hinata's father, Neji's uncle, Hyuuga Hiashi.

His face was serious, more serious than the few times Naruto had seen it. Naruto backed away a tiny little step.

"What do you need?" Hiashi asked.

"Ahh...betsuni nandemo nai, nandemo nai...?" Naruto drooped his head. "Sorry to interrupt." He muttered quickly, and FLED.

"...Matte kudasai."

Naruto turned around, surprised. "Eh?"

It turned out that somehow, Hinata, Neji and Hanabi, Hinata's little sister all caught influenza at the same time. So far no one had come to visit and coincidently the maids are not working today. Hiashi didn't exactly know how to care for patients with just a flu, because he rarely sees one and was about to get a medical-ninja or something when Naruto showed up.

Naruto, of course, had contacted Sakura.

"She's fine," Sakura said after examing a sleeping Hanabi. "A little rest will be good, she seem to just be tired."

"When will she be able to train?" Hiashi asked her.

"In a few days, just don't tire her." Sakura said this with another tone.

Sakura moved on to the next room, which belongs to Hinata. Unlike Hanabi, Hinata was awake, and she blushed a bit redder than a fever when she saw Naruto following in as well.

"Ko-konnichiwa, Sakura-san, Naruto-kun, Otousama." She greeted, trying to get up.

"Hinata, no need, lie down please." Sakura said paitiently.

Hinata coughed. "Hai." She obeyed.

Hiashi and Naruto stayed silent.

Sakura examined her as well, and said kind of the same thing about being too tired about Hinata and exited, leaving Hiashi and Naruto there as she headed for the third patient's room.

Hiashi left as well. Only Hinata and Naruto were left. Hinata blushed.

This didn't go totally unnoticed by Naruto. To his bad knowledge he thought Hinata's temperature was increasing.

"Hinata, Daijoubu ka?" He asked, crawling over and putting a hand on her forehead.

As expected, Hinata went redder and fainted.

"Eh! Hinata!"

Sakura came back to check on Hinata again.

She sighed. "She's okay." She turned to look at Naruto. "Come here, I need to speak to you." She got up and started to walk outside.

Naruto looked after her, confused, and followed.

"Okay, Naruto. Here's the thing." Sakura began.

"What thing?" Naruto asked stupidly.

Sakura punched on top of his head. "Baka. Okay, listen."

Naruto nodded, and leaned closer to her.

Sakura leaned as well and whispered something in his ear, but Hanabi walked out of her room at that moment. Because she could only see Sakura and Naruto from behind she mistaked them for kissing, and screamed.

"AHHHHHHH!" Hanabi screamed.

"AHHHHHHH!"

"AHHHHHHH!"

Sakura and Naruto screamed as well. The reason Sakura was screaming was because she had a bit of intelligence and was afraid to be mistaken her doing something inappropriate with Naruto, and Naruto screamed because Sakura had screamed in his ear.

The scream startled Hiashi as well and Hinata was woken up.

Hiashi and Hinata rushed out of the room, where Hanabi was looking at Sakura and Naruto, looking very frightened when Sakura and Naruto were doing the same thing.

"Dou shita no, Hanabi?" Hiashi asked calmly.

"They-they-they..." She stammered.

Hiashi looked at her expectantly.

"THEY WERE KISSING!"

Dramatic gasps were heard. Hinata fainted again and Hiashi caught her. Sakura had a very...interesting...expression on her face and Naruto was looking around, wondering who Hanabi was talking about.

Hiashi didn't look very out of ordinary.

"Ochitsuite, Hanabi."

Hanabi obeyed.

"Go back to your room."

She obeyed again.

Sakura was cooking up an explanation in her head and so was Naruto, since he had realized that Hanabi was actually talking about him and Sakura. Though, his mind was still focused on what Sakura had said to him and what rest are there that she was going to say to him if they were not interrupted.

Hiashi, however, acted like nothing had just happened. Only took Hinata back to her room and asked Sakura to see if there is something wrong with Hinata other than flu.

After Sakura checked Hinata for the third time she went on to where Neji was supposed to be.

But he wasn't there.
The window was open.
There was no futon on the ground.
Neji's forehead-protector was gone.
There was no sign of life in this room.
The Byakugan couldn't find him.
There is only one answer.
He went out for training.

"Hyuuga-sama..." Sakura said.

"Ah. He went."

"But..." Sakura trailed off as she looked outside, which had started raining despite the perfect weather just a few hours ago.

"...If he goes to train at this time..."

There were knocks on the door. Hiashi activated his Byakugan to see what is it.

"...He will..."

Now bangs on the door. Hiashi decides to go and get it before it's been beaten up.

"HYUUGA-SAMA!" The two voices that are doubtlessly the voices of Neji's teammates yelled together. "NEJI IS SICK!"

"...Get worse..." Her voice became quieter as she and Naruto looked at the direction Hiashi had gone.

Lee and Tenten sat on their knees, heads drooping, looking guilty and ashamed of themselves. It was them who had gone training with Neji, after all. It was their fault that they didn't manage to stop him from training even when it started raining, and it was their fault that they were sitting next to the sight they rarely see: Hyuuga Neji with a wet cloth on his forehead. His hair was messed up and his hitai-ate was off. His face had a blush on it, and the rest of it was darker and more unhealthy coloured than usual. His wet Hyuga robes were dried only just by his body heat.

Most of all, Hyuga Neji was sleeping...or probably should say unconscious at a time that's not evening, and this didn't happen since the time he came back from his first mission s a jounin and was extremely exhuausted that not even Neji could fight the urge to go to sleep. The worst thing was: this was really not a mission, and Neji NEVER gets affected by sickness since he rarely gets them.

To pay for their mistakes, Lee and Tenten had volunteered to stay and look after Neji, since Hyuuga-sama was busy and didn't really know how to take care of a nephew with bad influenza.
Lee and Tenten sighed identically.

Neji moved a bit. Lee and Tenten immediately looked at him.

"Chichi-ue..." Neji mumbled painfully. "Chichi-ue..."

Lee stared at Neji, confused.

However, Tenten was smarter. She didn't know Neji still dreams about his father, and couldn't help but feel a little pity for him.

She sighed again.

"Ten...ten..."

Tenten looked at Neji.

"Lee..."

Lee turned to look at him as well.

"Chichi-ue..."

Lee looked at Tenten.

"What does he mean?" Lee asked.

"Wakaranai..." Tenten said, shaking her head.

Neji's eyelids moved. Lee and Tenten stared at him as he opened his eyes.

He blinked once, looking around and feeling confused at why Lee and Tenten were staring at him.

They blinked at him.

He blinked back.

"Are you awake, Neji?"

"Hm...?" Neji sat up and looked around. "What am I doing here?"

"You didn't tell us you were sick," Lee said.

"I'm not." Neji defended.

"What about when you crashed into a tree and fainted?" Tenten asked, sounding annoyed.

Of course, how the hell can Neji crash into a tree in the first place, nobody knows.

"What are you two doing here," He asked them.

"We brought you back, you should be thankful." Tenten muttered.

"Oh."

A few moments of silence later...

Sakura entered, holding a cup of water and something else. She explained something to Tenten and left.

"Here. Eat this." Tenten held out the medicine and water.

Neji took it wordlessly.

After seconds, he started choking. Tenten looked at him worriedly and lifted the water up to his lips, but he couldn't drink, so she thumped on his back, but was not effective. She looked at Lee in panic for help.

"Lee, hit him!"

"Oh, Hai!" Lee answered and threw a massive punch on Neji's back, throwing him all the way to the other side of the room.

This was effective, but it left Neji unconscious.

Lee scratched his head, laughing nervously.

Lee and Naruto walked out of the Hyuuga compound with Tenten and Sakura and a fist mark on each of their faces.

Apparently, Tenten was about to punch Lee but was stopped by Sakura. Sakura didn't think Lee should be punched despite what she normally does to Naruto. Naruto did punch Lee and was later punched by Sakura. How colourful.

Tenten was smirking, Sakura was frowning, and Lee and Naruto both had rivers flooding down their faces in tears.

Isn't this such wonderful.

Isn't this just great.

Isn't this sarcastic.

Yes, it is.