Disclaimer: I don't own OHSHC. Bisco Hatori and Studio Bones own it.
Pairings: Haruhi/Takashi
Warnings: Possible character deaths, near-death situations, fighting, sex scenes.
Note: This may be main Haruhi/Takashi but there will be slight Haruhi/Kyouya, Haruhi/Kaoru (Only for a few flash backs and various points in the story). Since Haruhi's near death experience, her personality does change. So she won't be acting too much like she has in the past two stories for this series I have written.
A/N: Alright. So I liked this entire series enough to write one last sequel. Yay! If this is your first time reading my Ouran stories please go read: Shattered, then Picking Up The Pieces before reading this. This will make references to the other stories, especially since an important character has been injured.
Takashi buried his hands into his hair as he waited beside his mother and prayed. He prayed that Haruhi would be alright. He prayed that this solution wouldn't be temporary. He prayed that she would finally see that nothing was her fault. Though he knew that she would still feel guilty about stabbing Tamaki in the stomach.
His mother rubbed his back calmingly but said nothing. He thanked her for her silence by offering a slight smile. It had been over four hours now and they were still busy. Kyouya got regular updates and sat with Takashi and Sakura the entire time. The doctors were working their hardest to save their boss' son's friend. If they failed Kyouya would have them all fired and thrown out of the country.
As the minutes turned into hours slowly their friends had shown up and were taking up a large amount of the waiting room. The twins were staring blankly at the wall, perfectly straight and stiff. Tamaki was for once serious and drumming his fingers on his knee staring at the ground. Even Kasanoda had shown up with Tetsuya and demanded to know which gang had hurt Haruhi. The moment Rai's name left Sakura's mouth Kasanoda's face drained and he looked over at Tetsuya and they excused themselves.
His brother walked in and offered Takashi a piece of pie.
He broke down. For the first time ever they saw Takashi sob. He had lost his best friend and could lose the love of his live. All in one day. All because of one man. Takashi hated to be weak. He hated the fact that he hadn't been able to save anyone. He hated Rai with every ounce of his being. If Rai were still alive Takashi would track him down and rip each of his limbs off.
When Takashi stopped crying and looked up he saw others looking away from him, but he could tell they were crying as well. Once Takashi had begun to cry others finally realized this wasn't a dream and was real life.
It was four more hours until a doctor walked up to Sakura, completely ignoring Kyouya. Takashi stood up before the doctor got to Sakura and he waited for the doctor to speak.
"You are Fujioka-san's brother?" the doctor asked, and Sakura stood up.
"No, she was in our care for a while but she went back to her family and would still be in their care if he hadn't had an untimely death," Sakura said smoothly and took a deep breath waiting for the results.
"Due to heart complications it took longer than needed, her heart stopped twice during the surgery, she is now sedated and recovering from the surgery. Only family will be able to see her until she is well enough to have visitors. Is there a family member here?" he asked, and everyone stared over at Sakura.
"She is eighteen years old and is a legal adult, all of her family is dead, and I am the closest thing she has. I will act as her guardian until she gets out of the hospital," Sakura said with a nod of her head before looking at the doctor, waiting for him to challenge her.
"Er. Of course, Morinozuka-san," he said and bowed slightly before looking over at Kyouya who just nodded, "May I speak to you in private?"
"Everyone here is entitled to hear what you say," Sakura injected holding her hand up in a dismissive manner.
"Of course, Morinozuka-san," the doctor lifted his clip board up and looked back up at Sakura, "We had to replace her Aortic Valve since it gave out during the surgery, we gave her a mechanical valve, which lasts the longest, but she will need to take blood thinners for the rest of her life. Her heart is weak and she will have to have someone keep an eye on her in case her heart does act up or she has a heart attack since they will be easier for her to get and they will more than likely be deathly. I suggest you do not mention anything that may upset her, shock her, or give her too much excitement for the next few months or so," he paused and looked up at Sakura, "Unfortunately because of her heart problems it will be impossible for her to have children or she will more than likely die giving birth."
Sakura stared at the doctor before nodding, "I understand, is there a prescription she needs for the blood thinner?"
"Right here," he said pull a prescription paper from the clipboard and handing it to Sakura.
"My family and I wish to see Haruhi now, which room is she being kept in?" Sakura said placing the prescription into her bag and looking at the Doctor.
"Only two people are allowed in the room at a time, I'm afraid, and you will not be able to stay there very long since she does need sleep. No flowers or food are permitted in the room, you are allowed drinks. She may seem foggy when you first see her, or for a while because the medication will be affecting her concentration and her mind. It is common for patients to forgot momentarily who you are, so-"
"I wish to see Haruhi," Sakura repeated not caring about the rules.
"I need to explain these-"
"Just let her go up," Kyouya said but the doctor looked at the clock and back at Kyouya.
"It's shift change, Ootori-sama, I cannot allow them in the ICU. In an hour they will be allowed to see her-"
"Hurry up then, I'll give you all an hour, if a doctor is not down here within an hour," Kyouya didn't need to finish, the doctor bowed deeply and hurried off. Sakura stared after the doctor before looking at the boys who were breathing sighs of relief.
"You all need to go home," she said and instantly everyone began to complain, though she just held up a slender hand and everyone fell silent, "Haruhi is only allowed two visitors. Which will be myself and Takashi, this is only for short amounts of time. I am requesting that none of you come to visit her until she is out of ICU. For if her condition worsens because she hasn't been getting proper sleep, then you will be dealing with me personally," she said and raised her eyebrow as if to get anyone to challenge her. She opened her purse and pulled out the prescription.
"Akira, take Satoshi to get Haruhi's blood thinners, then go home and get a room ready near Takashi's for her-" Sakura began to explain but Takashi walked over to his mother and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"She will be sleeping in my room, that way I'll be able to keep an eye on her in case her situation worsens. I do not want her to be alone during this," Takashi clarified looking at his father.
"What if Haruhi does not want to sleep in your room?" Hikaru asked looking up at Takashi with pursed lips.
"She didn't seem to object those couple of times she's spelt in Takashi's room with him," Satoshi said, and before Tamaki could start rattling off that he wouldn't allow Takashi to take advantage of Haruhi's poor state Sakura nodded.
"Prepare the guest house for them to stay in, then, move some familiar things from Takashi's room to the main room in the guest house, and fish out the scrap book from the pond and see if you can save any of the photos," Sakura said with a smile. "She loves that pond," she explained when Takashi gave her a questioning look, "If she were to get rid of something that she loved as well, what better place to get rid of it without getting rid of it then throwing it into a pond that doesn't get cleaned or fished in? Now, Akira? I'll be staying overnight here if they permit it, so do not assume the two of us will be home until early morning at the earliest," she said dismissing the two boys so they were doing something more useful. Satoshi opened his mouth to reject that idea but a look from his father made him cave and follow him out the door.
Takashi nodded as his friends piled out of the door, offering their regret and apologizes for what happened. When they were gone the two sat with Kyouya waiting. Takashi opened his mouth to ask Kyouya what he was still doing, but he knew that he owned the hospital and could override the rules if he wanted to.
Haruhi didn't remember who they were immediately, but after a while of talking to her she started to speak and act like normal, though sometimes she would ramble on and then begin to fall asleep but then the persistent beeping of her heart monitor would wake her up. She ate after Takashi began to help her and she realized she was hungry, other than that she slept. Once she did fall asleep the worse with her would usher the two out of the room saying that they would need to come back when she waked up. Though they got no farther than the door before Haruhi woke up and asked them why they were leaving. So they were able to stay the night since they were quiet. Kyouya stayed in the room for as long as he could, then he retreated to his own hospital room to sleep.
She was in the Intensive Care Unit for just over a day before the doctor said she could move into a normal hospital room since she didn't need to be constantly watched anymore. Though she wouldn't be able to leave the hospital for at least four more days after that. Haruhi slept through the transfer and the two Morinozuka's were happy they didn't have to leave the room whenever the nurses felt like Haruhi was getting too tired. They could just sit and let Haruhi rest for however long she wanted and they wouldn't complain. Takashi would actually tell her when she should sleep, and she took his advice almost immediately. Sakura would watch Takashi whenever he thought neither woman were awake, she would watch him stroke Haruhi's cheek softly and kiss the back of her hand softly. She knew that he was deeply in love with Haruhi, and she knew that Haruhi was in love with Takashi. How? Haruhi wanted to protect Mitsukuni even though Sakura knew she didn't consider the smaller boy a friend at first. Thought he was an annoyance. Though they did grow close and Haruhi counted Mitsukuni as a friend, Sakura knew that Haruhi wouldn't give up her life for anyone. Not when she wanted to do something before she did die. Which was kill Rai. Haruhi loved Takashi enough to put her life on the line for the person Takashi thought of as a best friend and it would kill him to lose Mitsukuni.
Sakura stared down at her hands remembering the scene.
"First, let's take a trip down memory lane!" Rai said with a wide grin before he turned towards the door and held up a hand. "Why would you be saving the life of your boyfriend when you found him pretty much naked with another girl?" he said, and the girl that Takashi had dated stepped down the stairs.
She walked down the steps and over towards Rai, she flashed a smile towards Takashi who the entire time was keeping a poker face on. Haruhi slid on her poker face and stared at Rai instead of Kotoko. Sakura was silently trying to undo her bindings so she could be of some help. Although the Haninozuka and Morinozuka woman are always silent, caring and soft. They were skilled in the fighting skills of their family name.
"She seduced Takashi on your orders, and he dated her..." Haruhi broke Sakura's thoughts of trying to get out. She could hear the hurt on Haruhi's voice and sent a fleeting look over at Takashi who seemed to look guilty.
"Because she was a new hot piece of ass compared to the tomboy girl who is practically his sister," Rai said with a shrug before patting Kotoko's thigh, she walked to the side and placed arm around Takashi's shoulders. Sakura swallowed thickly and opened her mouth to tell Kotoko to get away from her son when Haruhi spoke.
"Stop with the surprises, Rai, you are relying on distracting my so you can kill me. Just do it," she exclaimed throwing her arms to the side. Sakura's protest was drowned out by everyone else's but knew that the loudness of all of them objecting were ignored.
"I would, but wouldn't it be better if I killed your friends first?" he asked before raising his hand. There was another bang and Sakura saw blood splatter on Haruhi's face. There was a softer thud and Sakura froze before turning and looking down at Mitsukuni. Mitsukuni's head was bleeding profusely and he wasn't moving. Sakura felt the tears over flow and she started to struggle harder on her bindings. They hurt her family they would die. Though almost immediately Sakura looked up, Haruhi's eyes were filled with tears and she was marching towards Rai at a steady pace.
She launched at him. Throwing punches and kicks, which Sakura wished with every single one that Haruhi would just end it. "You will never ever be my family!" Haruhi yelled and slammed the heel of her boot into his temple. He fell to the ground and scooted quickly away from Haruhi and closer towards Akira. Sakura held her breath and saw the murderous look in her husband's eyes but heard through everyone's collective breath holding Haruhi's heavy breaths. Sakura saw Haruhi look around before surprise in her eyes. Then she reached behind her and produced a gun. The moment the bastard saw the gun he shot up and stumbled to his men. Though tripped over Takashi's leg that had twisted to the side. Sakura gave her son and approving look before watching as Haruhi pulled the trigger.
The bullet lodged into Rai's shoulder and Sakura's mouth opened slightly. She had missed?
"That's for Kyouya," she whispered before shooting his other one and pulling a knife out of her pocket and plunging it into his stomach. "That... is for my father," she said and everyone began to struggle, trying to stop Haruhi from going into a blood lust. Though Sakura began to snap that everyone was to stay still. She wasn't going to lose anyone else today, and Haruhi was under control.
Though when Haruhi kicked Rai's side there was a bang and Haruhi's arm moved violently and she hissed. Another bang and a man went down. Sakura watched in fear as the other men raised their guns and Haruhi pointed the gun at Rai. Sakura saw millions of emotions flash through Haruhi's eyes. Disgust, rage, sadness, regret.
"This, this is for Mitsukuni and all the bullshit I've had to put up with because of you!" Sakura watched in horror as Haruhi practically blew Rai's brains out before there were five loud explosions and Haruhi fell to the ground. Almost immediately Takashi pulled his bindings off, as well as Akira and they quickly took down the last of the guards. Not killing all, then went over and untied everyone. Sakura slipped from her bindings, moved over to Haruhi, and saw her reach over to Mitsukuni. Heard the words she whispered softly and burst into tears immediately.
"Mother?" Takashi whispered interrupting Sakura from her thoughts. She glanced up and wiped her eyes when she figured out she was crying.
"Nothing, Takashi," she murmured before looking over at Haruhi. Remembering it. Remembering the look of guilt and regret in Haruhi's face as she looked at Mitsukuni. Sakura knew she had been wrong. Haruhi didn't protect Mitsukuni because of Takashi. She protected Mitsukuni because he was her friend. Takashi stared at his mother before returning the sleeping girl in front of him and knew that it wasn't nothing and it was probably something to do with today.
"Right this way," Sakura said and began to walk Akira, Satoshi and Yasuchika followed after her. Yasuchika looking down and eyes looking red and puffy. The door opened to reveal a pale looking Haruhi hooked up to an IV drip, heart monitor, and a few other machines to make sure she was alive and well. Takashi was in the same position he was in before Sakura had left, not moving and not speaking.
Sakura moved and sat down opposite of Takashi and glanced over at her husband who was standing at the foot of the bed with Satoshi.
"Satoshi, Yasuchika, can you two be so kind as to grab some lunch for Takashi and I?" she said dismissing the two boys so they were doing something more useful. As the two left Kyouya pulled up a chair beside Sakura with his good arm and sat down. He didn't speak at first but when he did the two Morinozuka's didn't hear.
"Sakura-san?" he said when he realized he was being ignored, though his normal irritation to this wasn't there. He knew how much the two were worried.
"Hn?"
"Haruhi won't be able to go home for four days, and after that she will not be allowed to do any heavy lifting or straining. Using the blood thinners means she will bleed for longer than usual. So if she ever gets a nosebleed it'll bleed longer since it won't clot quickly. Don't worry. It's normal. Though if she is excessively bleeding, then call a doctor. She will also bruise more easily," Kyouya explained and knew that these words were soaking into Takashi's brain because his eyes had flickered over to him.
"She'll be more delicate than usual?" Takashi murmured for the first time since Haruhi went into surgery. Kyouya paused before carefully answering in a way that he hoped wouldn't cause Takashi any distress.
"Yes, so you'll need to make sure she doesn't do anything reckless," he explained looking over at Takashi, who just nodded simply.
It was silent again and Takashi slowly relaxed and began to move. Softly stroking Haruhi's hand with his thumb, or running his fingers through her hair and just touching her face and neck to make sure she was alive. It wasn't that he didn't trust the machine, he just wanted to make sure for himself.
My chest ached and my head was sluggish. I heard people murmuring but didn't want to wake up. I was tired and they were interrupting me. "So, I survived," I mumbled after my brain remembered what had happened. The conversation stopped and I felt my mouth twist sluggishly to a smile. "You guys are loud," I muttered and flexed my fingers. My right hand wouldn't move very well and I frowned and tried to flex it again. Though I couldn't really feel much because of the medication I could feel my muscles pulling and moving underneath the skin. It was strange. I didn't usually notice these things.
I cracked my eyes open and closed them immediately, the white fluorescent lights bugged my eyes. I slowly opened them and waited until they got use to the light before glancing around. Sakura was sitting on my right, looking slightly worse for wear. Kyouya was sitting beside her with his arm in a splint and a smirk on his face. Satoshi was grinning happily from the end of the bed where he was sitting. I nudged him lightly with my foot, feeling tired after moving it but continued to look around. Akira was sitting across from Kyouya playing some sort of game with Satoshi, he offered a slight welcoming smile before returning to his game.
Finally I spotted Takashi, then followed his arm down to mine, flexed my fingers again, and saw his were holding them. "Oh." He let out a soft chuckle before pulling the ring out of his pocket and sliding it onto my ring finger. I stared at it, sluggishly processing what he was doing then repeated myself. Another chuckle and he stood up and kissed my forehead. "How long was I out?" I asked no one in particular.
"Around ten hours, though you did wake up in the ICU, but you were too foggy and forgetful because of the medicine I doubt you remember. It's been almost two days since your surgery," Kyouya said adjusting his position slightly. I nodded slowly, then looked up at Takashi and then down at Akira and Satoshi and at Sakura. I wanted to apologize again and opened my mouth about to apologize when Takashi squeezed my hand slightly.
"Don't," he grumbled, and I stared at him and then nodded feeling guilty and looking away. I heard him sit down and looked over at Sakura.
"Haruhi, I have a question, a personal question," she said once she noticed I was staring at her. Though I wasn't waiting for her to say anything or do anything, she was just the first thing my eyes landed on when I looked away from Takashi.
"Yes?" though she didn't reply just looked at the boys, I let out a slight huff before staring at her, "Sakura, I'm so high on the morphine that I don't care what you say in front of anyone." I received strange look from Sakura before she cleared her throat.
"Do you ever plan to have children?" she asked bluntly, not skipping over anything knowing that she had my full attention.
"Well...that's...um..." I laughed awkwardly before feeling a blush creep up my neck, "Is this your way of saying you want grandchildren? Because...I just had surgery and everything and I doubt this is the best time for me to say anything like that," I rattled off and would've continued but she cleared her throat.
"Do you want children?" she asked changing the meaning of the sentence.
"I-I don't k-know," I said looking at her confused to what she was asking me, "I suppose after I go back to school after I get use to this," I motioned towards my scar under my hospital gown, "I might consider having one...why?"
"Haruhi-"
"Mother," Takashi interrupted a bit harshly. Everyone looked at him and he was just looking stoically at his mother but everyone in the room, minus Kyouya, could tell he was angry.
"What?" I said, now determined to get the answer. Though Sakura and Takashi just had a stare down and they both gave up at the exact same time. Looking away from each other and I looked up at Kyouya. "What?"
"Your family doesn't want you to know, so why would that give me permission to tell you anything?" he said with a raise of his eyebrow.
"Because as a patient in your families hospital, I have the entire right to know if it involves me, and I'm guessing it has something to do with child birth so I wish to know," I said adjusting myself up slightly, watching as Takashi moved forwards to help but I was relaxed before he even could stand up. Kyouya looked over at Takashi and Sakura before shrugging with a smirk.
"I suppose it is your right to know, and since you are a proper adult they cannot stop you from figuring out something that may affect you in the future," Kyouya began, ignoring the look that he got from Takashi. He waited for a moment as he watched Satoshi and Akira's game. He sat forwards and looked over at me. "If you get pregnant you will not survive the pregnancy," he explained before watching my reaction. When I didn't react he leaned back and looked over at Takashi, "There was no reason to get up in arms, Mori-senpai, she isn't freaking out or sobbing," Kyouya said turning Takashi's attention back to me.
"That's because I'm being reasonable, if I ever want a child I can go adopt one, besides it's not like I'm going to wake up and suddenly really want a child tomorrow. I still have to go back for my second and third years of school and get into university. Since I sort of dropped out I have to take a few years again, and by then I'll be around twenty, Then if any university with a good law degree would accept me, it'll take around five years. So by then I'll be twenty-five. I'll also have to secure a job and-" I paused when I saw Sakura staring at me oddly, "Yes?"
"I thought you weren't serious about school?"
"Now that I don't have anything ridding on my back or mind, I can focus more on my future. Plus I don't have anyone threatening to kill me, yet, besides my heart," I explained with a smile in her direction. "Now that I know I'm going to live for quite some time I know that I'll have to do something with my life."
"Haruhi, you can't go back to school for a while with your heart, you could get hurt-"
"Then I'll take classes on line, since that doesn't take much effort to get up and go onto the computer and finish high school. Then when I'm done I'll be able to handle more and get into University," I interrupted, apologizing quickly after I finished my sentence. She stared at me before beaming.
"Akira, did you hear that? We've got two people in the family wanting to go into law!" she said proudly, and Akira just nodded before looking up at his youngest son.
"Are you going to take over your families dojos when you're older?" he asked absentmindedly as he returned to studying the board.
"Yup! Unless I find something else I want to do-"
"What do you mean two people going into law?" I interrupted Satoshi, who just scowled before receiving another light kick from me.
"Takashi has been interested in theory and philosophy of law for a while now, though he still hasn't confirmed what he wants to become," Sakura said before looking at her watch and frowning, "Haruhi, are you hungry?"
"Make chichi* go get it this time," Satoshi said impatiently as he finally got his turn. I forgot about the conversation as Sakura and Satoshi began to banter lightly about who should get me dinner. Though I knew that someone would bring it around later.
A/N: This is a good part to stop at I think.
Well that's the first chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. Probably the longest one out of the entire series so far.
Translation:
chichi - The word you use when referring to your father.
