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Mizore
I ran to the nurse's office as fast as I could, Kokoa barely keeping up behind me.
"Mizore wait! You don't want to see him right now… will you listen to me!"
She grabbed my hand, and, if I hadn't been so worried, I would've frozen her there.
"I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT TSKUNE," I roared. I spun back around and ran through the doors before they'd fully opened. I ran down hallway after hallway, stopping only when Kokoa grabbed my hand again and led me back down the hallway to a door I'd passed.
I rushed in, almost in tears. The scene in front of me wasn't good. From the quick glance I gave Tskune, I could tell that whatever it was they fought was strong.
"Mizore," Moka reached me as I reached Tskune's gurney.
"Where… where is she," I asked, biting back tears.
"Kurumu? She… she,"
"WHERE IS SHE?!"
"Mi…zo…re…?" The voice came from the very corner of the room. A gurney was there with a ton of equipment attatched to the frail body lying there. I ran there and touched her face. The entire back and side of her head was covered in bandages. Her left wing was in a cast, as was her left arm and leg. Her neck was in a brace and she had stitches on her shoulder and chest.
"Kurumu…" She winked at me and shuffled a little under the weight of her casts. I heard her breath catch as she moved too far and then she got comfortable.
"When I said let's meet Saturday… this kind of isn't what I meant. I swear."
My heart tore in two. I held her right arm, which seemed to be the only part of her not hurt and cried silently. She cupped my hand with her left and sighed.
The nurse didn't come for another two hours. I'd been sitting in a chair by Kurumu's bed watching Ruby, wrapped in a few bandages, Yukari and Moka standing by Tskune's bedside; Kokoa sitting down in a chair rubbing Batty's back. As bad as Kurumu was, it looked like he got it ten times worse. Broken arm, legs, stitches across his stomach and chest. I was almost afraid to see what his back looked like. He would slip back into consciousness for brief seconds and have a coughing fit before passing out again.
The door opened and the nurse walked in, Gin in crutches close behind.
She attended to Tskune first and I almost chewed off the stick to my FreezePop in my frustration. She replaced an IV and checked the monitors. Then she injected him with a needle and he breathed deeply, the sharp rattling left his breath and he breathed easier. Then she came to Kurumu.
"Ms. Kurono? How do you feel?"
"Not too much pain anymore. I still have a headache but nothing major."
"Okay… your signs are looking well. You should be back on your feet in a week."
"What do I do until then," she asked.
"Well, you need to stay here, unless someone can take care of-"
"I'll do it," I said standing up. Kokoa and Gin glanced at me. "I'll take her into my dorm. I'll do anything to help. Bandages, food… anything."
"Well, if you really think you can handle the responsibility…?"
"I do," I said confidently.
"Ms. Kurono? Are you sure you want to stay with this young lady."
She looked up at me and smiled.
"Yea. I think it'd be fun."
"Okay then. We'll get you a wheelchair and a nurse will accompany you to your dorm, Ms…?"
"Shirayuki. Mizore Shirayuki."
"Oh, how could I forget. You were in here a few months ago. Well, okay then. Come with me and we'll get you the paperwork. Ms. Kurono, you should be healed enough within the hour to sit down properly in a wheelchair."
I followed the nurse out through the door. I glanced back at Kurumu. She was shuffling again under her sheets. Another quick glance around the room and I noticed Gin and the girls staring at me in disbelief. I shrugged and walked out the door.
Kurumu
She wheeled me to her dorm in silence. I have no idea what made her want to take me into her dorm, but I couldn't really question her hospitality. We got to her dorm, a few hallways down from mine and she opened the door with a key in her sweater pocket. A blast of cold air hit me and I shivered.
"Sorry Kurumu. I'll warm it up a bit."
I smiled a bit looking into her room. Ice sculptures lined her shelves. Some of them of myself or the other girls here. She opened the windows and stood in the middle of the room and inhaled deeply, absorbing the cold air from the room. Within minutes, the room was a bearable temperature.
"Thanks."
"No problem."
She wheeled me in and brought me to her bed. I was barely able to stand on my own, and she maneuvered me to lay on the bed comfortably. Normally I heal way faster than this… something felt wrong.
"Thanks again Mizore. I owe you one…"
"What happened to you guys," she asked in disbelief. "Gin was in crutches. Kokoa was limping… what…?"
"It was really strong… it took me down with one hit… I… you see what it did…"
"I should've been there. I could've been there…"
"Oh Mizore… calm down. No offense, but I don't think you would've been much help. Tskune, Kokoa, Moka and Gin all working together barely managed to beat it. It felt as if Ruby, Yukari and I were just in the way. Besides, I wouldn't want you to have been hurt," I said. I shuffled under the weight of the cast and stretched a bit too far feeling pain down my back and arms.
"You normally heal faster than this… what's wrong?"
"Nothing. I've never had to heal so much at once… I'll be fine."
She grabbed every comforter she could find in her room, then got the ones from my room and placed them over me.
"Sorry about the cold. I normally don't have visitors over so…"
"It's great. Thanks a bunch…" I smiled at her. I barely felt my eyes closing, but my final sight was of the backs of my eyelids.