Having heard his brother coughing in the night, Sasuke abandons his room to check on Itachi. “Aniki, are you all right?” Worry draws his brows. They’ve yet to find a cure, Tsunade still working on the elder Uchiha’s symptoms. Part of Sasuke won’t be able to properly rest until he knows his brother is well. Until then, any small noise tends to wake him, paranoid over Itachi’s health. (hyuuchiha)
It was past two in the morning as Itachi was woken by a violent coughing fit, slowly sitting himself up in bed, he placed one hand over his mouth to muffle the coughing and while the other clutched his shirt. Just as the coughing slowly began to slow down a little, his ears picked up on movement coming from the hallway and guessed that Sasuke had been woken up once again, when his eyes spotted the younger Uchiha coming into his room he lowered his eyebrows and showed a pained smile, before moving his hand away so he could wipe the blood off that now stained his right hand with a cloth he kept under one of his pillows.“Yeah…I think so…for now…” he replied, while clearly out of breath at the moment.“I’m…sorry that I woke you up.”