Matsuda peered out his hospital room door. No one appeared to be in the hallway waiting to pounce on him. He'd been trying to sneak out of his room from the time he was detained here a few days ago. the only thing Matsuda wanted to do was visit sayu's room... if only for a minute.

The last thing he'd remembered seeing was Sayu's pale face as he held tightly to her limp body and was forcefully removed from her side. The medical team was required to take her to the hospital anyway, and although Matsuda didn't know it at the time, she had not been announced dead upon arrival.

Ever since Aizawa had let it slip that sayu was still alive, Matsuda had been all too eager to find a way to see her face once more. Unfortunately, several obstacles stood in his way. The press was constantly trying to get photos of the "Local Hero", and Aizawa was always telling him to lie down or he'll never recover. Then there was always those doctors and nurses telling him to return to his room, or shoving him out of the way for a more important patient.

Either way, Matsuda still attempted to sneak into her room. This had to be his chance... though his escape would probably be caught on camera all the same. He hurried down the hallway and entered room 202, which happend to be seven doors down the hallway from his own room.

Yagami Sayu was laying on the bed motionless. Her breathing was stable, but seemed weak. He pulled a chair to her bedside and sat. He would wait here forever if he had to, but Matsuda vowed he would not leave this room until sayu opened her eyes. Between his two palms he held her hand. Nothing would make him let go. Nothing could make him let go.

She was hooked up to a machiene reading her heart rate. It bleeped in a steady rythem. There was an IV attached to her left arm, and her left leg was in a brace. Matsuda guessed she had a minor fracture. She was so irresponsive it seemed unreal, yet Matsuda remained still. Waiting... just waiting for her eyes to flutter open and reveal her beautiful brown orbs to the world again.

Suddenly, a nurse entered the room. She dropped her clipboard when she saw Matsuda sitting in the room beside Sayu's bed. He turned to face her, smiled quickly, then redirected his attention back to Sayu. She had fair skin and short-cropped black hair jutting out from all angles of her head. Her eyes were a strange violet color. Matsuda guessed it was the product of red contacts over blue eyes.

"U-uhm... I didn't know anyone was visiting in here... no one was on the list so I figured-"

Matsuda's features remained fixed upon Sayu's face, "I didn't know there was a list... I'm from a room a few doors down the hall. I've been wanting to visit her for sometime now... finally took the initiative this morning. Please don't mind me."

She gathered her clipboard from off the floor. "Who are you again?"

"Matsuda Touta."

"Oh. Room 195, right?"

"Yes."

"Okay." She smiled, "Are you going to be staying with her for now?"

"Yes."

"Then I'll make sure the front desk knows that... I'm just here to check on her anyway. She hasn't woken yet." The nurse frowned, "If she even begins to stir, please call the front desk. There's an intercom over there, okay? All you have to do is press the button and begin speaking."

"All right. I'll remember to do that." Matsuda promised.

She stood in the doorway for a moment to take in the scene before her eyes. Her light smile returned to her face. It was full of sympathy and compassion. "I've never seen any man so dedicated to a woman before... you must really love her."

Matsuda wasn't even thinking when the words fell from his mouth, "More than she knows."

The nurse nodded then left, choosing to leave them alone for the timebeing. She figured she could entrust Sayu to him for awhile. It was probably an hour or so later that Aizawa entered the room along with Mrs. Yagami. They weren't as surprised as the nurse had been that Matsuda was at Sayu's bedside.

"Is she all right??" Mrs. Yagami asked frantically, stealing Matsuda's place beside Sayu.

He answered calmly, "As far as I can tell. The doctors are saying she'll make a full recovery."

Mrs. Yagami hadn't been able to compose herself enough for a hospital visit until early this morning apparently. Her face was full of horror as she gazed at the pale lifelessness of Sayu. She ran her fingers through her daughter's hair. Aizawa and Matsuda stood back and watched.

"You idiot." Aizawa whispered to his incompetent underling, "I thought I told you to stay away from Sayu's room!"

"You did, but I'm tired of people always telling me what to do. I don't want to have others making decisions for me my whole life. I'm not going to waste the life that wasn't taken away by Kira."

Aizawa sighed and muttered under his breath, "Baka."

A feeble voice drew the attention of the three visitors to the young woman laying on the bed, "Id-iot... no..."

Mrs. Yagami gasped and Matsuda was over beside the two women in an instant. Aizawa called down to the front desk using the intercom.

'Yes?'

'We're in Yagami Sayu's room, 202. She's beginning to regain conciousness.'

He listened to the chaos going on in the background as the secratary was calling in numerous doctors and nurses to rush up to the room.

'Please evacuate the room. No more visits today.' Her end became too static-y for communication.

Mrs. Yagami's eyes were horror-struck. "What?! Why do we have to leave?" She grabbed the cuff of Matsuda's collar and shook him wildly, "Answer me, damn it!!"

"I-I don't know!"

She turned to the new police chief, "Tell me Aizawa, what's going on??"

His head swayed from side-to-side, "I wish I knew."

The feeble voice came again, "Mat... su... -kun."

He removed her mother's death grip from his shirt and knelt beside the moussey-haired girl, "What is it, Sayu?"

Her head moved slightly toward the sound of his voice. It was obvious she was too weak to open her eyes. "Don't... lea-ve... me."

Her hand didn't know where to go, but she twitched her fingers. She was able to muster up enough strength to face her palm upward. Matsuda took her hand between his own again. Her fingers were so cold against his. He could feel her mother's dagger glare pirecing through the back of his head. He knew how opposed she was to his attraction to Sayu... especially since the old chief once had the same opposition. Now Mrs.Yagami's prohibitation was even greater than before. After her husband was killed by Kira, she felt the compelling need to continue to enforce the rules of the family as if he were still around. Instead of just her rejection, she now does the job of giving Matsuda both hers and her deceased husband's.

Aizawa placed a hand on her shoulder, "C'mon. We have to get outta here."

"But what about him?!" She pointed a finger accusatively at Matsuda, "I refuse to leave him in here alone with my daughter!!"

Suddenly the doctors burst into the room, tearing Matsuda's hand away from Sayu's. The nurse from earlier pulled the three visitors from the room and stood them against the wall of the hallway. "Sorry, but you all are going to have to leave."

A blood-curtling scream filled the hall from Sayu's room. Matsuda's ears pricked up, and the distress on Mrs. Yagami's face was clearly readable... even Aizawa looked a bit uneasy.

"What are they doing?? What are they doing to my baby?!" Mrs. Yagami was beginning to panic.

The nurse also seemed a bit worried. It was obvious that she was unused to screams so panic-inducing. "Well, Doctor Utashima was going to give her more pain killers and try to ask her a few questions to make sure no harm was done to her brain from the building collapse."

A short and stoutly blonde nurse rushed into the hallway, "Eri, do you know a Matsuda Touta??"

The violet-eyed nurse blinked a few times before asking, "Why?"

"She won't settle down! The girl pulled the IV right out of her arm, and she won't listen to us at all! She refuses to take the pain killers, and-and..."

"And what?!" Mrs. Yagami pressed, her eyes full of worry.

There were tears forming in the blonde's eyes. She quickly wiped them away before anyone could notice. "Miss Sayu doesn't believe us when we say that Mr. Matsuda is alive. She thinks he's dead and that we're just saying he's alive so she'll calm herself. She threatend to throw herself off the balcony if we didn't bring Matsuda Touta to her immediately!! I'm so scared, Eri!! I-I don't know what to do!!"

Matsuda didn't even wait for an invatation to run back into the room. Sayu was standing akwardly by the balcony railing, positioned just right that one little wrong move would send her falling over the edge. The doctor and a couple other nurses were standing far away from her to give her some space.

"Sayu!" Matsuda shouted upon entry.

She stared at him with her brown eyes, studying every feature and characteristic of his intensely. "Come one step closer and I'll jump!!" She warned him.

"Sayu, I've jumped off a balcony before... trust me, it's not a smart thing to do."

"I don't care! You're not even the real Matsuda!! You're just an imposter those baffoons with the needles brought here to silence me!!"

"So... you don't want to believe me either then, huh?" His expression was pained.

"Tell me something only Matsuda would know..." She suggested, "maybe then I'll believe you."

This new opportunity to prove himself to Sayu made Matsuda determined to convince her of who he was. The only problem was, he couldn't think of anything that only he would know. "Like what?" He asked.

"What happend to me? In the fire..."

She was right. Only he would know that. He was the one who rescued her. "Come closer and maybe I'll tell you."

Sayu didn't want to get jumped by the doctors, but she hobbled away from the railing and waited. Matsuda stepped closer to her and whispered into her ear, "I dug you out of the rubble and carried you to safety... I thought you were dead... I wasn't able to visit you until today."

"You're lying..." She whispered back.

"I'm not. They had to literally tear me away from you. Both at the fire escapade and today."

She stared at his face again. For what felt like the first time in ages, Sayu smiled. Matsuda carried her back into her room and sat her on the bed. He pulled up a chair beside her and gave her a serious look. "Sayu, you need to listen to these guys. I don't want you getting hurt again."

She winced and instinctively reached for her leg. Matsuda knew she needed more pain killers now. He motioned for the doctor to come over to her.

"Well, I... I'm certainly sorry for the mix up, Miss Sayu." Utashima appologized.

Her eyes widend when she saw the needle in his hands. She attempted to hide herself behind Matsuda. "What on Earth-? Sayu, what are you doing?" Matsuda asked her, puzzled.

She pointed at the object in Utashima's hand, "Needles. I can't stand them."

The doctor sighed. It was obvious he was out of his league of expertise with this patient. "I don't have any other way of giving you this injection, my dear. If you choose not to take it I won't argue with you, but your leg will not be giving you a pleasant feeling."

Sayu held her breath and reluctantly allowed the doctor to inject the painkillers into her leg. They almost immediately took effect. The doctor pulled up another chair so that he could speak with her on a comfortable level. "Now, what was the last thing you remember?"

Matsuda looked at her curiously. That was a question he'd wanted to ask her, too. Her brow furrowed as she tried to remember, "Matsuda was... on the other side of a firey wall... and then... the roof collapsed when I tried to tell him to get away. That's the last thing I remember."

The doctor nodded, "Okay, you pass the short-term memory loss test. How about the long-term. What's your name?"

"Yagami Sayu."

"Hair color? Eye color? Your address? Do you have pets? Siblings?"

"Brown, Brown, Ibara Complex 3584 Kei St, No, and..." she wasn't sure how to answer the last question, "My brother is dead."

"I'm sorry to hear that. Do you remember his name?"

"Yagami Light."

"I see. Thank you very much for answering my questions, Sayu. You passed the tests. I'd like to keep you here for one more night, though. Mr. Matsuda, you are free to leave whenever you please."

Matsuda nodded, "Thanks."

"Oh, and Sayu, one more thing." he paused, "The reason I asked you your address was to confirm that your appartment is no longer standing. You're going to need to locate a replacement home."

"Okay, thanks for the heads up." She watched him leave the room.

Sayu began talking to Matsuda immediately, "Matsuda... it didn't even phase me when he asked about Light. That's amazing!! But my home is gone... I don't even have a place to live anymore."

Matsuda blushed. He just got a crazy thought... and he was sure Sayu would think it too forward of him, but considering the pickle she's in, he figured that he might as well offer. "You could always stay at my palce if you wanted... er- you know... until you find a place of your own."

She blinked. His generosity caught her off guard. "Well, I-I mean..." She wanted to say something like 'Oh hells yeah!!' but she didn't want to seem too eager which made her acceptance turn into a stutter, "Uhm... s-sure. That sounds good."

He smiled at her, "Okay then... can you tell me something, though, Sayu?"

"Hm? Sure."

His blush returned, "When you... were unconcious... you called me Matsu-kun... and when you woke up... you screamed."

A pink stain spread itself across Sayu's face, "Well... I... erm... was dreaming..."

"About me?"

"Well, yeah!! Your idiotic face was the last thing I saw before I blacked-out! Then I thought we were dead! I kept reliving the last moment we'd been together... the moment we died... Then I could hear voices, so I knew I was alive. I didn't know where they were coming from... but they were close, and someone was holding my hand. But I thought you were dead... and I wanted someone to tell me differently. I said your name... I wanted you to answer me..."

"But I did."

"Shutup!" Her blush deepend in color, "I had no way of knowing if that was really you! Because when I woke up there were a bunch of strangers over me with needles and whatnot!! They scared the living shit outta me!! Is it any wonder I screamed?? But the fact that you weren't there... it made me believe my worst fears. The fact that when I'd asked for Matsuda to talk to me while I was unconcious someone spoke made me feel like I'd been lied to. I couldn't trust anyone in the room. I wanted to join you... I said I would. I said I'd join you in death..."

"Join me? Why wouldn't you join Light-kun? Or your father?"

A new shade of red spread across her face, "I DON'T KNOW!! I just... I wanted to be... with you... and if you weren't alive then I wasn't going to be either. Then they're all telling me you're alive... that you're in the building. To me they were just a bunch of liars... I told them to prove it. To bring you to me... but you came on your own... when I saw you standing there... I was so happy... but pain hit me and I felt betrayed... You were an illusion... the real Matsuda Touta was dead... but I was wrong, wasn't I? Here we are."

"Here we are." He agreed with a smile.


Awww!! That's so fluffy at the end!! X3

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