Hey everyone! I'm back with another story. I got bored, and inspiration struck. So here's a new story, that takes place right after "Exams Can Always Lead to Trouble". Well, maybe not right after, but you get the picture =^+^=
Anyway, enjoy!

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The nurse took one last look at Kento's vitals and put a Band-Aid over the spot where the IV's had been. "It looks like you're all set," she said. She took a small piece of paper, wrote something on it, and slipped it into Kento's hand, planting a kiss on his cheek. Kento blushed as she took the vital machine and left. She winked to him before she left.
"What was that about?" Ryo asked. Hardrock looked at the paper in his hand.
"What is it Kento?" Rowen questioned.
"Her phone number…"

Kento awoke from his sleep. He'd been thinking a lot lately about the phone number he had gotten from the nurse who had worked for most of the week he'd been in the hospital. It had been almost three weeks since the Ronins had brought him home, and he couldn't get this one girl off his mind, which was odd in his opinion. He thought that maybe it had something to do with the fact that she'd worked a lot that particular week, and she helped him get the recent incident with the warlords (which was why he was there in the first place,) off his mind when the others were gone.

Hardrock attempted to sit up on his bed and managed to succeed. The stab wounds, gashes, and other injuries were healing up quite nicely, with a little of Sage's help, though the Ronin of Light figured it would be best for them to heal by themselves; which meant that the healing was still slow.

Sitting up on his bed, he yawned. Rubbing the sleep from one of his eyes with his right hand, he looked around the bedroom. Sunlight was pouring in the window, which meant it was probably midday by now, if not later. Kento figured that since Cye wasn't in his own bed, and it looked like no one had been around in awhile. Slowly getting out of bed, he walked over to the windowsill seat and looked outside. He opened the window (leaning over the seat to do so, of course) and looked down below.

Rowen and Ryo were in subarmor, sparring. Kento watched for a few minutes and smiled. It wasn't until Ryo got knocked on his ass that the Warrior of Earth was noticed.

"Hey! What are you doing out of bed?" Ryo yelled from his spot on the ground. Rowen looked up at what Ryo was looking at and smiled a little. "Finally decided to wake up today, eh?" asked Rowen.

Kento laughed a little. "Yeah, I just woke up. What time is it anyway?"
Both Ryo and Rowen powered down to street clothes, Rowen checking his watch. "About 1:45," he said, looking up to the window. "I thought you weren't supposed to be out of bed. Doctor's orders remember?"

"Yeah, yeah," Kento said casually. "But I don't want to be more of an invalid than I already am."

"Well, if you're up to it, how about we meet you downstairs and we can eat lunch?" Rowen suggested, Ryo standing back up.

"A'ight, I'll be down in a few minutes," Kento yelled back. He closed the window, straightening back up as much as his body would allow. Unbuttoning his pajama shirt, his thoughts wandered back to the cute nurse. Her number was still on his nightstand and he did want to call her; the only thing that had prevented Hardrock from doing so sooner was the fact that the first two weeks back home, he'd been too out of it so much that he was just about incapable. This week was the first one in which he could remember most of what had happened so far.

After carefully dressing into sweatpants and slipping a shirt on, he left his bedroom and went down the stairs, the piece of paper with the girl's number in one of his pockets.

"Well, well, well. Look who's up."

Kento turned a little and saw Sage coming out of the kitchen. "Yeah, the inside of the bedroom was getting to boring to look at," Hardrock told him with a smile.

Halo sighed, though he had a bit of a grin on his face. "C'mon, the others are in the kitchen already, and I'm betting you're hungry."

Hardrock just grinned, and then realized that his stomach was beginning to growl. Halo laughed and held the kitchen door open. Kento slowly walked through, seeing Rowen and Ryo at the kitchen table already, and Cye pulling out a few bottles of Gatorade from the fridge.

"Hey guys," Kento greeted. Then he noticed that Cye was still in subarmor. "Been practicing?"

The other three looked at him. "Yes," Cye finally answered, shutting the fridge door and powering down at the same time. "We were about to eat lunch too. Would you like some?"

"Sure," the earth warrior replied, carefully taking a seat at the table, pulling the piece of paper out of his sweatpants pocket.

"What's on your mind?" Rowen asked, noticing something off.

"I wanna give this girl a call, but I dunno what to say."

Halo, Torrent, Wildfire, and Strata all looked at him with interest. "You mean that nurse that gave you her number before we brought you home?" asked Ryo. Kento nodded. "If I did call her, she probably wouldn't remember me," he said sadly, staring at the scrap of paper. "I mean, that was almost three weeks ago, so she probably has forgot-"

Suddenly, scuffling of chairs was heard, Cye dropping the Gatorade bottles on the table, and a phone was shoved in his hand by Rowen.

"Call her!"

"Ya never know 'til ya try!"

"I bet she'll still remember you."

"C'mon, what's the worst that can happen?"

Hardrock bit his lip, staring at the phone in his right hand. Then, he looked at the number in his broken, left hand. "Well, I guess I could try," he finally said. "But what do I say?"

The others looked at Sage. Noticing their stares, he sighed. "Why do you guys always look at me like that when there's a girl involved?"

"Well, you are the one with a fan club," Cye pointed out. Sage grimaced a little. "But I've never had a girlfriend," he answered. "Those girls who parade around me are insane!"

"I think it's the hair that pulls them in," Ryo said. "That, and the fact that you don't really socialize with anyone at school."

Kento sighed. "Well, here goes," he said, beginning to punch in her number…

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Well, that's what I've got so far ^^; I hope you would like to give a review of this first chapter!