𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑜𝑛 - Naruto world (Kenji's story/Amaterasu)

High fever - 15 chapter

The hours passes and the rain worsens making the lands a colder place to stay. There is basically anyone around for at least kilometers... The closer village won't be easy at all to reach.

Kenji slowly wakes up finding himself still lying to the ground, shivering and feeling all over numb and exhausted from the beating. Sneezing once and blinking to regain his sight.

Looking up at the sky with half lidded eyes he watches the dark clouds above him and the inconstant flash of lightning. With the few voice he had he muttered between himself...

"I wish I could see the sun... I hate the rain"

Just then a lighting strikes too close for comfort and Kenji jolts back to reality. Now he struggles a little but manages to get a little bottle from his bag on his side and open it. Unable to lift his arm he leans down and tries to drink the liquid inside. Coughing a little from the sore throat and the bitter taste.

It's a way to fight off poisons, back at the academy he liked to experiment a few venoms on himself since he was immortal and also tried to invent their corresponding antidotes. Although the results proved to be more dangerous than the poisons themselves.

He lies there quietly allowing the antidote to work on his paralysis... When he feels able to stand up he slowly lifts his body off the grass, every movement was making him lose tons of energies. The drenched clothes made his movements slow and fatigued, feeling the rain above him hit him hard like bullets. He wipes his eyes a bit to remove some rain and a few tears from the exhaustion.

I need to find a village... Sneak in and enter an inn. Today is not my day at all...

The hours go by walking through the plains, eventually seeing the first lights of a town. He limps there, spurring his body to work till he arrives at a safe place. When he crosses the gates of the little village he doesn't even raise his head, the villagers were all inside their houses due to the weather and the few who were outside were running back home. He sneezes again covering his mouth with one arm, startling himself and worrying someone may have heard him.

Kenji is fortunately mistaken for a bum or homeless person and not an S rank criminal. Heading to the closest inn he can find and get inside. The interior is cozy, warm and an old man is perched on his chair behind the counter, counting his money. Raising his head and looking at Kenji he almost startles and falls back from his chair.

"W-wh--! Hello sir! Welcome to Jinshi's hotel, do you...."

Kenji with a dead face, pale and completely drenched and dirty with blood steps inside. Leaving behind himself a trace of water. He holds out for the owner a bag of ryos, saying in a monotone, too exhausted to fully concentrate on his tone.

"need a room... For a week."

The man gulps and tries to keep his face smiling despite seeing such a peculiar individual come inside his inn in the middle of the night .... during a storm. It seemed like a ghost story.

"Sure thing... There is it, we have one left for you. Room 17"

He takes the bag of money ensuring they were enough for a week then gives him the key. Kenji takes it and slowly makes his way upstairs, cussing in his mind at whoever made all those stairs to reach his room.

When he gets there he fast rushes inside, not even bothering to close his door. Simply peeling off all his gear and clothes. The drenched clothes tossed in a corner. Shivering badly... feeling the worst he has ever felt and sneezing constantly he puts his bag on a table nearby before reaching the bathroom and taking a warm bath to remove all the blood and dirt.

He takes a good hour to wash up and dry himself, as hurt and exhausted as he was he hadn't many energies and be faster. When he exits the bathroom with the guest robe on, he checks inside his bag and the scrolls finding out his clothes are all wet. He sighs and shakes his head in annoyance, deciding that the dressing gown will suffice.

Seeing the warm futon in the bedroom he fast heads there, his head spins a little. Slumping against the warm surface he pulls all the blankets and additional duvets blankets all over himself to stay warm and stop the shivers.

"Cold... It's so cold here"

He mutters under his breath, his golden eyes close in exhaustion, the venom he fought with the antidote has now left Kenji with a headache and many pains. His body temperature rises during the night making him feel much more cold. Instinctively he wraps his arms around himself, both to warm himself up and for comfort.

I must be cursed. This misfortune that haunts me has targeted me ever since I gained immortality.

Kenji begins to think while shuddering, waking up during the night due to the immense pain. Soon he starts to sneeze again and feel his head heavy from the headache. His stomach hurts, he didn't even eat anything... After all, all his food inside the scrolls is probably drenched as well and to go downstairs in the hotel's restaurant was too dangerous and energy-consuming.

He slowly exits his futon, wrapping around himself a blanket and heading to the bathroom. He locks himself in and immediately feels like he's going to vomit. Spending a few minutes to recover a little. When he returns in his bedroom he is a mess again, pale and all shivery.

"I fucking hate the rain... D-damn rain..."

Kenji goes back inside his futon, curling in a ball and pulling the blankets over his nose. Sneezing and sighing out in exhaustion. Nobody is there for him, to take care of his fever and comfort him. Alone as always, he was born alone and he will live alone... But he won't die alone. Not because there will be someone with him but because he can't just die and leave this world.

The same gift he has been given is now a terrible curse that binds him to live all, down on the earth forever. The fever raises again now hitting above 41 degrees/ 105,8 F. His body begins to warm up even more even if Kenji only felt the biting cold to his bones, seeking more warmth he curls down sinking his face on the pillow. His forehead and body damp with sweat, barely keeping conscious.

The only sound inside the dark room is the one of the rain hitting the window and Kenji's labored breathing. He begins to wish for someone, anyone to come inside and help him out. Anyone who could make this horror end.

The night is long and he eventually falls asleep but he's left cruelly undisturbed, just when he needed help and felt the worst he had only himself to rely on.

The next day Kenji doesn't recover at all, waking up all pale like a cadaver, the sweat has dried on his skin making him feel slightly relieved but nonetheless sick and cold. He tries to find some dry clothes in his bag and put them on before going downstairs to the inn and find some food.

The other residents and some ninjas of the rain notices Kenji and eyes him warily. Whispers spread, people wondering who this guy is, so scruffy, roaming in the inn. Kenji goes to get some food and rush back inside his room of the inn.

He has a fast meal but after that feels again exhausted, his fever raises further till it hits 43 degrees/ 109,4 F. So high that a normal person would be on the brick of death... Now back under the blankets Kenji pants and shudders, holding his robe around his torso and trying to fight off the exhaustion by focusing his chakra. It's all useless, his high fever makes it difficult to even focus and channel the chakra within himself.

"i-if I just wasn't alone... This wouldn't have happened. Dammit I need medicines ... Anything.."

The immortal Shinobi starts to fall into a delirious sleep, the second day and the third at the inn becomes pure hell. During the night Kenji's soft whimpers and coughs wake up the nearby residents in the other rooms. They complain and even slam their fists at Kenji's door shouting out to quiet down or go to a hospital. But Kenji cannot certainly head to a health facility this weak since he is basically wanted in all 5 the lands.

Nonetheless Kenji is now unable to travel and this makes him more easy to track down for the ANBU. When Tobirama hears about the rumors of someone that said to have recognized Kenji in the rain lands, he sends a group of skilled ANBU just there to get him.

~~~~~
Another traumatizing episode for Kenji...

Comment , like and save this story if you liked it so far! I guess I'll write the second part soon anyway so you won't have to wait for too long.

BTW thank you all for the likes and the reads! We finally reached a certain number on the first chapter which made me realize how many people actually continued to read this sick story lol.

See ya, the creator.