"How are we going to break the news to him?" Asura finally spoke.

We were sitting on the stairs of some random hospital somewhere in New York for about an hour now, not speaking to each other as we stared off to nothing in particular. It's only about 5 but with all the running to and fro to different hospitals, we were just tired, and not just physically. The tear stained face of two young men were what greeted people as they visited the hospital.

"Maybe you can pretend to be coming out before I tell him." I said in an attempt to lighten the mood. It didn't.

"Kid." My brother started before sighing and turning to me. I did the same.

As I look at him, the tears started pooling in my eyes again and blurred my vision. "Asura..." I choked before feeling my brother's warmth envelope me. I started crying for the second time that day and I can tell that my brother did too.

I finally broke out off the hug and stared at him.

"I'm the one who's going to tell him." I said as determined as I can. Asura smiled reassuringly before ruffling my hair.

"And I'm going to be there with you."

I was scheduled for the operation two weeks from now even though both my father and brother didn't want me to go through with it for the doctors said it was too risky, but of course in the end they respected my decision and reluctantly agreed.

I've already told my friends about it and as expected, both Liz and Patti took it the hardest.

I feel so selfish for making them suffer like this, especially Patti. She was just way too optimistic and cheery to deal with this kind of thing.

Every time they visited me in the hospital the two would cry, followed by Tsubaki and finally Maka, albeit quietly. The two guys, well you can tell they have been crying too because of the redness of their eyes. I always joked about how inverted our situation is; that I should have been the one crying and them comforting me but they just cry harder, I even saw Black Star made a tear escape or two.

Asura dropped out of college and never left my side ever since we told father.

My father, oh my father didn't take it well too.

When we confessed, in a blink of an eye he had crossed from the other side of the mirror and hugged both of us. He removed all of the disguises he wore that reminded himself that he was a reaper and touched my face. His expression was unreadable, but one thing I'm sure he showed. Love.

It was so powerful I started tearing up again and hugged the daylight out of him and Asura.

He constantly visited us even though there were a lot of things he needed to do. He would bring us food (lots of food) and something to entertain ourselves, of course this was done through the humongous mirror we placed inside my room.

I once asked him how could I acquire such illness but he was not sure but he guessed it was because my mother was mortal.

Days passed and we dreaded my scheduled operation. But of course not even my father could stop time. So when the time came, it was just like that. I was put to sleep and wheeled into the theatre.

I told Asura to take care of father and himself and he kept scolding me to stop talking like that. I wanted to tease him for being such a girl but decided against it and just motioned for him to give me one big hug.

There was a huge emergency the day I was to be operated that I didn't get the chance to see my father.

But it was fine. I did get to see him. After.

He was standing by the door of my hospital room in his accustomed business suit. No cape. No mask. Just my father.

My tear stained father with a broken smile.

He stretched his arms wide open and I grinned up at him.

Running towards him, I returned his hug.

"Hey, Dad!" I said cheerfully, happy to finally see him.

"Oh Kiddo, my Kiddo..." he was crying.

He kneeled in front of me and pressed his trembling lips on my forehead before hugging me tightly.

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Well, until next time!

*I made Asura and Kid have a mortal mother for this story.

*And sorry if Kid's OCD is not very apparent in this story. :(

*Oh and 10 points to those who can guess what kind of operation Kid underwent! :)

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