Blood in the water [Kakairu]

Out of commission

There was blood, so much blood. It flowed from his hands into his lap and over his head into his eyes. Everything was red. He heard crying out and the crackle of lightning. It surrounded him and suddenly he was falling. Down down farther into the black abyss. He didn't know where he was, who he was. His throat was tired of screaming.

Iruka had been sitting beside Kakashi's bedside like he always did after mission duty on Sundays. He was silently grading papers when Kakashi started thrashing and crying out. He jumped up and immediately tried to hold him down. His eyes shot open and Iruka felt the sensation of the Sharingan being on him. "Kakashi wake up"

He was crying and names that Iruka hadn't heard before were spilling out of his mouth among a slew of "I'm so sorry"s. "Wake up Kakashi!" The thrashing stopped but his breathing only seemed to get more labored.

"Nurse!" Iruka was yelling. Medic nin flooded the room and he saw one preparing a sedative. A couple minutes later the room was silent again. The nurses had followed through with routine and left. Iruka looked at Kakashi's sleeping form. He had been thin before but he was getting dangerously so now. It had been almost a month since he'd been admitted to the hospital and no one was sure why he wasn't waking. Tsunade spent hours laboriously pouring over texts to see if could be the late effect of a jutsu but she hadn't come up with anything.

Iruka had been told that occasionally Kakashi would be overcome with fits that threatened his weakened heart but he hadn't seen any until just now. It was terrifying seeing the copy nin yelling and screaming for dear life and throwing himself around so hard that the restraints cut into his arms.

He moved closer to the Kakashi and began stroking his hair. He just wanted the other to wake up, if never did Iruka knew it would be his fault.

It was bright, far too bright. It hurt his eyes. He squinted to get his eyes to focus more and saw a brown lump to his right but he couldn't make out any more details. Opening his mouth he found his lips were dry and cracked.

"Water" the word scraped out of his throat and cut up the roof of his mouth.
The brown lump shot up.

"Nurse!"
Oh. Kakashi distantly recognized that voice, it was Iruka. Why was he here? Where was here?

A moment later he was being lifted up, the medical mask he was wearing was yanked down, and a cup was pressed to his lips. He gulped the water down hungrily.
The nurse was then trying to get him to follow her finger but his eye just wouldn't listen to him, so he opted to close it instead. The mask was pulled back up.

He felt a warm hand grasp his and he instinctively flinched away but found his arm was bound.
"Kakashi" it was Iruka again.

"I asked the nurse to turn off the lights do you want to try opening your eye again"

He did as he was told. The room was dimly lit by the sunlight coming through the window. He found everything come into sharp focus after a moment.

"There" Iruka was in front of him, smiling. He was the one holding Kakashi up and he shoved a pillow behind him.

"I-" Kakashi looked at Iruka again. He seemed to be struggling with finding what words he wanted to say. Kakashi didn't understand, why was Iruka here and why did it look like he was about to cry.

The door to his room slammed open and Tsunade came barreling inside.
"So you've finally decided to join us, eh brat?"

She saw Iruka start to get up and shook her head. "You can stay Iruka"
"I should have just let you die for the worry you gave us"