Still working on Persona Zexal guys but I needed to take a break from that so I wrote this thing that was in my head. Enjoy

Yuma's blurred vision obscured the room around him. The fever that had started earlier that day had risen causing Akari to order him to his bed rather than his hammock. His fingers gripped the key around his neck for a sense of comfort. Glancing to the foot of his bed he could spot Astral kneeling against the foot of his bed. About half way through the day Astral had started to show similar symptoms as Yuma and was currently sleeping resting his head on the bed. Why are we both sick? Yuma wondered, Astral never got sick, could Astral beings get sick? He propped himself up a bit so he could drink some water. It was getting a little painful to swallow causing him to cough a bit.

"Yuma?"

Yuma wiped his mouth, "Astral…sorry did I wake you?"

"No…I was just waking myself." Astral struggled to stand up.

"Wa-wait don't stand! Just keep resting." Yuma insisted.

"You need to sleep as well," Astral smiled, "I know you've been awake for the past few hours."

Yuma sheepishly scratch his face, "Yeah…"

"You were keeping an eye on me weren't you?"

Yuma slumped in his bed, "I guess…"

"Sleep Yuma….I'll be fine."

"If you say so…" Yuma leaned back into his pillow and was out in a matter of minutes.

Astral looked on his friend in sadness rather than in relief. Yuma hadn't seen himself in a mirror leaving him no means to see that one of his eyes had been flickering to gold all day. Green markings had been appearing and disappearing on his skin as well. Their appearance always coincided when Astral's own pain was at the highest but when his pain subsided, Yuma's pain increased. He knew that Yuma held half of his soul lost during his first battle with Don Thousand, a fact still unknown to Yuma, but they have never shared pain like this before.

"Astral…"

Astral turned in surprise to see Eliphas, guardian his home world and his creator standing behind him.

"Eliphas…why are you here?"

"I heard of your condition and to be honest…it greatly worries me."

"Do you think it's…because of our connection?"

Eliphas casted a glance towards Yuma, "You haven't told him yet have you?"

Astral sighed, "I just can't bring myself to do so. I know that he'll handle the news fine but….I just can't do it."

Eliphas placed a hand on Astral's shoulder, "You may have to tell him, this illness might be his Astral half attacking his human half."

Astral leapt to his feet when he heard that, "HOW?! Why is this happening?!"

Eliphas held his finger to his lips to remind him to keep it quiet, "I'm not quite sure, never has there been an Astral hybrid like Yuma before. Especially that the Astral half is half of you as well."

Astral felt his body go cold. He felt a dizzy spell come over him as he barely registered Eliphas holding him steady and ease him to sit on the bed.

"You need to rest Astral, Yuma is not going to recover with you like this."

"I can't…"

Eliphas let out a small sigh and knelt down to meet Astral's eye level, "Astral, Yuma's life is not in danger. I'm researching a way to balance out Yuma's soul incase he doesn't balance out on its own. Right now you are feeling the effects due to your connection so you need to rest as well. It's important for both of your recoveries."

Astral couldn't think anymore…his head started to spin both out worry and the returning pain. "You can fix this Eliphas?"

"I'm not going to rest until I can. Rest well Astral, and I advise you to tell Yuma the truth soon." With that, Eliphas turned and disappeared in a flash of light.

Astral scooted over on the bed to be closer to Yuma and brushed the hair that had been clinging to his forehead due to sweat out of his face.

"Please get better soon….brother."