Summery: Hiyori's sick after both her body and her spirit spent all day in the rain! But never fear, Yukine and Yato have made it their job to take care of her!

Takes place after episode 12 of the anime.

3/30/2014- Note to self: never publish the same day you finish writing. Minor edits and fixes.

7/27/2014- More grammar fixes.

Enjoy!

Hiyori sighed and rolled around in her bed, trying and failing to get comfortable, her stomach was hurting, she felt nauseous and hot. The ceiling above her was spinning, but at least she was in her own bed in her own house. It had taken the better part of the morning for Hiyori and her father to convince her mother that Hiyori didn't need to be admitted to the families hospital for something like a fever, she was glad her father was so practical. They had both left the house shortly afterwards and headed to work, they promised to try and be home early, but Hiyori knew they worked longer on the weekends since a lot of the staff had taken off, they wouldn't be back till late, and soon Hiyori would have the whole place to herself.

There was a quiet knock on her bedroom door, and Hiyori's throat scratched unpleasantly when she shouted it was okay to come in. Mrs. Sasaki opened the door slowly, and looked at Hiyori with worry in her eyes. Hiyori couldn't help but smile at her housekeeper's concern, recently she had become hyper aware of smaller acts of affection and friendship, it warmed her heart to be reminded that there were people cared about her health. As she sat up she noticed it looked like Mrs. Sasaki wanted to say something, Hiyori had an idea of what is was, she cut off the kind woman before she could offer to cancel her plans of spending the weekend visiting her family in the countryside in order to stay with Hiyori.

"Please don't worry about me, I'll be fine, I only wish I hadn't of had one of my stupid snooze attacks in the rain." Hiyori laughed softly, who knew that leaving both her body and her spirit in the rain would leave her so miserable just a few days later. But it was worth it to have her memories of Yato and Yukine back, she would do it all over again if she had to. She was going to see them later today, but it looked like she would have to reschedule her plans. This upset her a bit.

"Papa already gave me a big dose of our best fever medicine, and it tasted awful so it should work really well."

"I'm sure that you're right, your cheeks have a bit more color in them than they did this morning." Mrs. Sasaki's smile told Hiyori that, at the very least, she felt less guilty about leaving a sick child on her own.

"There's still some stew left in the fridge you can heat up if you feel like eating, and if you need something you shouldn't hesitate to call the neighbors. Goodbye dear, I will be back Monday afternoon, I hope you feel better by then."

"Thank you very much, I'm sure I'll be right as rain by tomorrow." Hiyori chuckled at her own choice of words, and with one last smile and well wishes Mrs. Sasaki shut Hiyori's door and left for the countryside.

Hiyori laid back down and closed her eyes, being alone for a few hours would be good for her, she had a lot on her mind and needed to work though her thoughts without any interruptions. She still needed to call Yato and cancel their plans for the day, he'd probably whine, a lot, maybe I can just tweet him, but it seemed the medicine was kicking in and Hiyori just couldn't keep her eyes open for even a moment more. She drifted off to sleep with her head still full with everything that had happened over the last two months.

.o0o.

Hiyori had been having a nice dream, but they were fading quickly as she was pull from her sleep by something unpleasantly moist and cool touching her forehead and cheeks, at least it smells nice, she mused still mostly asleep, she really didn't want to open her eyes just yet. She vaguely heard a voice, but was still to sleepy to make out the words it was saying, it sounded rather panicked though, she heard a second, much closer, voice clearly trying to calm the first voice down. Yukine and...

Slowly Hiyori opened her eyes, only to find Yato's upper half hovering over her, his hands still on her cheeks. Yato looked absolutely shock to see her awake and blushed pink before he seemed to realize the position that he was caught in, sitting next to, and leaning over an unconscious Hiyori while she slept in her bed. He didn't have time to separate himself from her before Hiyori let out a panicked cry and sat straight up, bashing her head against his and sending him flying off the bed and landing at Yukine's feet.

Yukine completely overlooked his master on the floor and went straight to Hiyori's bedside, she looked a lot paler now then when she had been sleeping and she was holding her forehead in her hands, but at least she had reacted the way she normally would, he took that as a good sign. Then he noticed the purple cord swishing behind her and the second body still sleeping peacefully on the bed, thankfully without the big red mark on her forehead that the half-phantom in front of him had.

"Hiyori, your soul slipped out."

.o0o.

Ah, this isn't good. Hiyori thought still holding her forehead, she felt 20x worse than she had just a minute ago. She was faint, her hands were shaking slightly, in fact her whole body felt numb and was suddenly way too hot. What's going on, is this just because I hit my head, or sat up to fast? Hiyori was trying to swallow the growing nausea in her throat when she heard Yukine say something to her.

"I'm sorry Yukine, I didn't quite catch what you said?" Hiyori replied between pants. She tried to look up to meet Yukine's eyes, but found her sun soaked light colored walls were to bright for her, it was not helping her growing headache, and she immediately looked back down to the ground. She caught Yato's eyes watching her carefully, meeting his blue gaze helped calm her down slightly, and she kept her eyes locked with his, still panting and getting paler by the second.

Yato stood up quickly, the pain in his forehead completely forgotten when he realized what was happening. The sudden movement made Hiyori shut her eyes tight and keep them closed. Yato walked up to her quickly, stopping beside Yukine, who had also begun to realize something was very wrong, and was becoming panicked again.

"Yato, what's wrong with her, what's happening!?" Yukine questioned urgently, his panicked state was beginning to affect Yato as well, but Yato knew he had to keep his composure, for everyone's sake.

"Hiyori, you need to go back into your body," Yato said firmly, he took her cheeks in his hands again, her face was clammier than his hands, "It seems like your spirit can't handle being sick like this on it's own, you need to go back and stay in your body!"

Yato repeated what he said, this time Yukine joining in, Hiyori struggled to hear them over the blood rushing in her ears, she finally understood what they were saying and tried to calm down a little. Yato had been right, the more it happened the more control she gained and over the past month she had gotten pretty good at controlling when she left her body, though it still happened often without her knowledge, she could usually go back at will. She finally got to a point where she could control her breathing and felt the familiar exhaustion as she fell back into her skin.

Holy Moly, it's been about seven years since I wrote a fanfic, but I just love these three so much!

R&R :)