<div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e327/steusloffa/Dicks/izuuuzuzuu_zps5e4b48941_zps6b1bd09c.png">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/>Izu groaned, forcing his body to sit up. His muscles ached and his foot was throbbing, likely from when he twisted it on the bottle he stepped on. He was about to yell at Alida when he heard her speak first, "I-I-Izu...ow. Izu..." She seemed to be in some kind of pain, or discomfort. While this didn't really alarm the young man, it didn't settle well with him. That was strange. Usually Izu wouldn't have gave two shits if she complained, but now it seemed to prick at him a little.<br/><br/>Taking a closer look at the frail girl, he could see her face was burning a strong shade of red and her eyes had one hell of a time focusing on any one thing. "Izu not like Alida. Izu hurt Alida..." she cried, turning her shivering form away from him. That was strange, that hurt him a bit when she said that. Izu looked at the girl, perplexed by her words and by how they made him feel. She grabbed a blanket and brought it over her body in, what Izu assumed, was an attempt to get warm. It was when her sniffles were interrupted by a coughing fit, Izu became concerned in his own unique way.<br/><br/>"Alida bad..." she grumbled as her coughing fit died down, hugging a pillow. It was obvious that what she meant was that she wasn't feeling good, and not that she had done something bad. "Izu mean...Izu take Alida. Izu not like Alida..." she accused. While he didn't understand exactly what she meant, he thought he knew what she was getting at. None of this mattered at the moment though. What was important was making sure that he wouldn't need to hide a dead body out in the woods because the girl keeled over from illness.<br/><br/>Izu furrowed his brow and pushed himself to his feet, hobbling out of the bedroom and into the bathroom, only to come out a few seconds later holding a thermometer. "Aaaah." he said, opening his mouth and then pointing to her. When she mimicked him, he stuck the device in her mouth and then turned it on. The device beeped after a few seconds and Izu took it out. "101, huh? Damn. That isn't good..." he said, turning his attention from the device, to the sick girl. It wasn't his favorite option, nor did he really think it normal for this to cross his mind at all, but he decided that an annoying freeloader was better than a dead freeloader. "Let's get you taken care of, freeloader." he said before leaving the bedroom with a hobble to start a healthy breakfast for her.<br/><br/>He came back about a half hour later with a bowl of chicken-noodle-soup and a cup of water with something fizzing at the very bottom of the cup. "Eat and drink." he said simply, setting the things next to her on her side of the bed. Izu then set out to cleaning up his room so that they would have room to maneuver around if needed. It also needed to be cleaned, so really he was killing two birds with one stone, or so he told himself. When all was said and done, it took him only about ten minuets to clear out all the trash and pick up his dirty clothes. His attention then returned to the shivering Alida who was struggling to eat her food. With an annoyed sigh, Izu returned to the girl and adjusted himself so that she was sitting in his lap, the blanket wrapped around them.<br/><br/>He left his right hand out of the blanket though, using it to feed the sickly girl.