His hands toyed with a small paper crane, and he leaned across the small hospital bed to kiss her cheek.
"You know I like when we play pretend sometimes?" Momiji smiled past the nervous and worried glances that Tohru kept sending his way.
"I know." She closed her eyes, imagining what it would be like if hospitals' dull colors hadn't become so familiar for her.
Momiji closed the distance between them, positioning himself just right to steal a longer kiss from her, "I love reality more though."
"Why?" Tohru murmured, "I'm so worried over you that I'm becoming a mess just trying to look after you."
"Because you're here with me, and I love you very, very much!" Momiji exclaimed, leaning yet again half over his hospital bed though Tohru moved into this kiss further, pressing delicate hands along his arms and side.
"I love you even though it hurts more than I can take sometimes." It was soft, and just what Momiji needed to hear even through the sting of the pain and how difficult it was to manage this together.
"I love you too." Momiji hummed, eyes sliding closed for a second. He wondered if there was a way to just reach out for her and never let go of her again, because he doubted that he'd be able to live without her in his life again.
Tohru pressed closer, hands always gentle, lips finding a pace amongst his own so perfectly even if sometimes she stumbled into him from where she sat by his hospital bed, even if sometimes their noses brushed against each other's harder than they'd expected them to, and even if they giggled like crazy when she pulled away.
Among everything in his life that he had to worry about, he had one good thing, the best thing ever, that he'd treasure every second with like it was his last one.
She was the one flower among thorns, the one joy among worries, and definitely the gem among stones; Momiji loved her more than he'd known himself capable of loving someone. Momiji has always been a loving person and knew that love could stretch so strong and never give up even when people felt as if they were too weak to go on, but nothing compared to the real thing here, nothing at all, and he smiled in relief and joy over that fact.