Machi walked through the halls to the student council room. Kimi, Kakeru, Naohito and Yuki were already there. Yuki looked a little paler than usual. She hoped that he was ok. It must have been a hard semester for him, with all of the student councils meetings and arrangement that he had to do. Her thoughts were soon interrupted.

"Kimi is hungry!" Kimi whined.

"Our lunch break is in twenty minutes." Yuki said, with a small cough. Now he had a cough too? Machi felt slightly uneasy. Was he alright? Yuki didn't normally get sick.

"Can we eat now? Please?" Kimi pleaded.

"Fine" Yuki answered, slightly annoyed.

"Yaaaay!" Kimi shouted, sprinting to the cafeteria. Kakeru and Naohito ran after her.

"Kimi, slow down!" Kakeru shouted. However, Yuki didn't seem to move.

"President, aren't you going to eat?" Machi asked.

"I'm not particularly hungry today." He coughed again. She gave a little wince of worry.

"Are you feeling alright?" There was a small pause. Of course he wasn't alright, she thought.

"Please, you don't need to worry about me. I'll be fine. I'm just a little tired I guess." Yuki did had seemed a bit sleepy today.

"Ok, sorry if I bothered you." She said nervously. Yuki quickly noticed this.

"It's fine. In fact, you're pretty nice to talk to Machi." Yuki smiled. Machi's cheeks turned scarlet.

"Thank you President. I'll see you after lunch." She left feeling a bit better. However, she was still ashamed that she couldn't even call him by his first name, yet he could say hers without a problem. Lunch felt odd knowing Yuki wasn't there, even if he didn't sit with them. Eventually, Tohru Honda came over to Machi.

"Sorry to bother you, it's just I was wondering where Yuki might be." She asked.

"He's still in the Student Council room. He said he wasn't hungry today." Tohru looked worried. "He said he would be fine, and I'm sure he wouldn't want you to worry about him." Machi smiled. Tohru was always caring about others, especially the Sohmas. She was even going out with Kyo Sohma, Yuki's cousin. After lunch, Machi walked eagerly to the student council room. She opened the door, but there was no one inside. The documents that Yuki had been working on were stacked on his desk. Machi's eyes widened. Yuki was nowhere in sight.

By the time Kakeru, Kimi and Naohito got back, it was time to get back to class. Machi walked back to class, her eyes searching the halls for Yuki. There was no sight of him and she went to class, unsuccessful. At the end of the school day, while everyone was headed out, Machi stepped into classroom D-1. The teacher looked at her with surprise.

"Machi, what are you doing here?" Mayuko asked.

"Well um, Yuki wasn't in the student council room when I got back from lunch and I was just wondering where he went." Machi explained, nervously.

"Oh, he had to be dismissed early today." Mayuko answered. Machi gave a small and quiet gasp. "He didn't feel too well and his guardian picked him up."

"Guardian?" Machi asked, curiously. Mayuko paused for a moment.

"I'm sorry. You weren't supposed to hear that." the teacher said.

"I won't tell anyone." Machi answered, just a bit too quickly.

"Well, you do keep your word pretty well, according to your teachers. I suppose I could tell you a little bit." Mayuko said. She set her stack of papers. "Yuki doesn't live with his parents. He lives with his older cousin, Shigure. The Sohma family is pretty large and the family doctor, Hatori, also came. They said that he would be back in school on Monday. It's a good thing it's Friday. He won't have to miss any school work." she paused for a moment. "Yuki, he also had to check in with a hospital about his condition. He's going to be fine, as far as I've been told." Machi was silent. Hospital? Condition? Guardian? It was like Yuki had a whole different life from what she thought she knew about him. One thing was for sure. She had to see that he was ok.