AN: This chapter takes place during episode 11 of the first season of K-On! after Mio visits Ritsu when she was sick.
Ritsu was swimming around in the darkness of her mind. She was currently asleep so right now her conscious was drifting around in her mind.
Just a little bit ago, Mio had come to visit her because she had gotten sick and was bedridden to try to recover. After a heartfelt conversation with her childhood friend, Mio had obliged her request to wait right by her side until she had fallen asleep.
While she was trying to sleep, she felt a very warm feeling on her hand. It had been Mio's hand over hers, since she did beg her to stay with her until she was asleep. It was a very comforting feeling that lulled her to sleep.
And so she had been sleeping for the last couple of hours now. But she had noticed something. A few hours had passed and she felt that her hand was still warm.
Her conscious was curious why it still felt so. She knew she had been asleep for a few hours and Mio should have gone home by now. So why did it still feel like a hand was over hers.
So to find out the mystery behind it, her mind decided that she would wake up and see for herself.
She slowly began to open her eyes as she woke up. Her vision gradually began to come back in view as she found herself still laying sideways on her bed.
Ritsu looked right in front of her. And she did indeed see that her hand was grasped by another hand. At first she thought it was Mio's, but then she slowly moved her eyes and head to look over to see who it was that the hand belonged to and found herself surprised. Her eyes widened to find that it was Yui that was holding onto her hand.
Yui was sitting down at the edge of her bed and her left hand was the one that was clutching Ritsu's left hand.
But what really surprised Ritsu was the fact that Yui was sleeping there. She was laying on the right side of her face and her upper body was sprawled over on top of Ritsu's bed.
The first thought that came to mind when she saw Yui was 'What is she doing here?'.
Her gaze lingered on Yui for a few more seconds before she tore her gaze from her and began to look around the room. Something caught her eyes as she saw over at one part of the room a bunch of items on the floor that she wasn't familiar with.
Ritsu squinted to look closely and saw they were an assortment of items that that were get-well presents for her as indicated by the notes on them.
Ritsu smiled, all of those items must have meant that everyone else in the club besides Mio had come to visit her too as well right after she had fallen asleep. That made her pretty happy that everyone came to check up on her well-being.
Her gaze turned back towards the girl that was next to her. Everyone else had visited, gave their gifts, and then went home. Except, apparently Yui. With her presence and slumber right next to her being the biggest and obvious indicator.
'How did she even fall asleep here?' Ritsu thought.
Ritsu could only giggle and put on a smile as she looked at the peaceful look that Yui had on her face as she was sleeping. Yui often looked like a slobby mess when she was napping during class or the club room, but she looked so cute and innocent sleeping right next to her.
What her next course of action now though was the next question in mind for Ritsu. Did she want to wake up Yui? The sun was starting to drop below the horizon since they had decided to visit her late after school. That meant if Yui wanted to go home, she should have to wake up soon to leave.
"Yui." Ritsu whispered. "Yui. Wake up."
With her right hand that was still free since Yui was clutching her left, Ritsu reached over and poked Yui in the cheek.
Yui stirred a little. But she quickly became still as Ritsu was met with silence as Yui continued sleeping.
"You have to go home soon. Sun's going down" Ritsu tried reasoning.
Silence and no response still.
"Come on Yui, if you sleep here, you're going to get sick by being near me too." Ritsu said.
"Ricchan..." A quiet voice said.
Ritsu jumped a little in surprise as she heard Yui speak. She thought Yui woke up, but upon closer inspection, she looked closely and saw that Yui was indeed still sleeping. It had seemed that Yui just spoke up from her sleep.
"Yui?" Ritsu inquired. "Are you awake?"
Yui began to stir a little bit more, but showed no signs of waking.
"Ricchan..."
Ritsu raised her eyebrow as Yui began to sleeptalk again.
"Get...better...soon..." Yui murmured.
Ritsu suddenly felt the grip around her hand tighten as Yui's fingers interlocked more closely with Ritsu's fingers.
The words and action from Yui caused Ritsu to be surprised. But then a small smile slowly crawled onto her face. Her face was already hot from being sick, but she suddenly felt even warmer. Even when she was asleep, Yui was showing her worry and care for Ritsu. Ritsu felt kind of happy about that.
Right then and there, Ritsu decided that she might as well let the girl sleep. If her habit of napping in class and the club room was anything to go by, then she knew that it was futile to try to wake Yui up anyway. Yui just looked too peaceful at the moment to try to wake up for Ritsu.
"Oyasumi Yui." Ritsu whispered as she settled her head back onto her pillow. Her hand still intertwined with Yui gave Ritsu a warm feeling as she closed her eyes and fell back into slumber.
