Nowaki looked at the crowd that had appeared around the sullen author. Pleading eyes bore into him begging him to say everything was fine. Nowaki sighed "I do not know her condition as of right now, due to the fact they have taken her into surgery, but what I do know is that Takahashi-chan will definitely pull through," Everyone cheered at that. At least it was something.
"what was Misaki's condition when you last saw her?" Isaka asked before Akihiko could even open his mouth.
"She had a broken arm and leg as well as a cracked rib and a dislocated jaw. She also had a deep stab wound on her left side. The blood she had coughed up was due to the dislocation so the rib hadn't punctured her lungs. The surgery is merely to place the rib into the proper position" Nowaki explained.
"When can we see her?"
"In a few hours once she's awake." Nowaki walked over and sat next to Hiroki, resting his head on Hiroki's shoulder as the exhaustion caught up to him "Now all we have to is play the waiting game,"
"Thank you Nowaki. You look tired you should head home," Akihiko asserted. Nowaki just shook his head.
"I'll be fine"
A few hours passed and Akihiko started pacing as he looked at his watch. Is was 2:30 in the morning Takahiro and his family arrived a while ago but everyone was passed out on the chairs in the waiting room. Everyone except little Mahiro who was staring at the pacing rabbit. Feeling eyes on him he turned and looked at the child.
Seeing he finally got the silver haired man's attention Mahiro slipped off Minami's lap careful not to wake his sleeping mother then walked towards Akihiko. Akihiko bent down and picked up the small child, for once, for he needed the distraction. "You worried for aunty Misaki too huh?" he asked the child.
"U-u-Usagi" Mahiro cooed. "Mi-Mi ok" the little boy said as if it was a fact. Akihiko just nodded. He couldn't answer the kid at all. His heart was in his throat as he waited for any news of Misaki. Suddenly Tsumori walked into the room with a happy grin on his face.
"wakey, wakey" he called to everyone in the waiting room stirring all of the visitors (only they were in the waiting room at this point) Akihiko put the toddler back on the ground and he toddled off to his mother again as Akihiko faced the doctor. "Misaki-chan is awake and ready for visitors. But-" he said seriously "- Misaki cannot get worked up you need to help her keep herself happy otherwise her recovery – mentally – will take twice as long. Also only four people at one time can see her, as to not tire her out at this point."
"Me and Usagi will go in first, to see how she is." Takahiro stated
"I'll go as well. She's like a daughter to me I wish to see how she is." Isaka announced.
Akihiko didn't care who went he was already heading towards her room. Takahiro and Isaka following behind. Nowaki shrugged "I'll go to see how she's doing before standing and stretching.
As soon as Akihiko entered the room he moved to Misaki's side without hesitation. "Usagi-san" she whimpered as she clutched onto Akihiko. Tears gathered in her eyes as he walked over to her. when akihiko arrived at her side she grabbed hold of him tightly and cried into Akihiko's shoulder. Akihiko let her cry for a while. This lately had been a common thing lately – holding Misaki while she cried – and he hated it.
After a short time, Akihiko leaned and grabbed a tissue from the table beside them and wiped Misaki's face clean. "Try to stop crying Misaki. You're safe now." He pressed a quick kiss on Misaki's lips hoping that the small distraction would help. And it did Misaki's sobs turned to sniffles.
"Takahashi-san how are you feeling" Misaki faced the others in the room with a weak smile never letting go of Akihiko, always holding on to either his hand or his shirt with her good hand.
"Chibi-tan you don't have to pretend to be happy for us. You went through something horrible." Isaka sat on the other side of the bed stroking her hair. Misaki smile dropped as she clutched onto Akihiko's arm. Turning to Nowaki she answered his question
"My chest still hurts." She muttered.
"it will for a while" Nowaki assured
Akihiko moved so that he was sitting behind her leaning back on the headboard and pulling her back to his chest. "thank you all for visiting" Isaka scoffed
"This isn't even half of us" Isaka affirmed
"what?" Misaki asked in disbelief
"there are 8 more in the waiting room, but the doctor said only 4 at a time as to not tire you out."
"who? How long have they been here?" Misaki asked. Before Misaki could get an answer Akihiko's phone vibrated. Knowing he'd ignore it she dug into his jacket pocket and saw Aikawa's number.
"Hello? Takahashi Misaki speaking"
"Ah sorry Misaki-chan for calling so early but Usami-sensei still hasn't handed in his manuscript and he's past his deadline" Misaki let out a little growl. "Please tell me it's almost done" Misaki glared at Akihiko.
"Manuscript." She growled.
"that's not exactly important right now is it?"
"Usagi-san" Misaki said lowly. Usagi-san knew it was a bad idea to stress Misaki.
"it's done but it's at home on my laptop" Misaki blinked.
"Misaki, I heard him, where are you at this time of the morning?" Misaki paused. I don't want to make her worry. "Misaki-chan?"
"Hospital" She muttered.
"Oh my! What happened?" Misaki almost violently flinched dropping the cell phone that Akihiko caught.
"Misaki!" Akihiko hugged her too him.
"I'm" Misaki took a deep breath "I'm, I'm okay I'm fine, just. I just got a fright" relaxing Akihiko placed the phone to his ear.
"sorry Aikawa" Akihiko said into the phone.
"It's okay. What's wrong with Misaki-chan?" Akihiko took a side way's glance at the brunette on the bed before deciding to leave the room. Blocking the mouth piece Akihiko said he'll let someone else see Misaki while he talked on the phone. Isaka decided to do the same and let some of the others see her.
The only trouble was, was that Misaki refused to let go of Akihiko. With a quick kiss and Akihiko firmly placed her hand on the bed. Walking out of the room he continued on the phone to Aikawa.
Misaki sat in her hospital bed the next day flicking through her phone that Akihiko had went home to pick up and looked at all the messages from her friends updating her on their lives while Akihiko sat beside her holding her hand while he worked on his next manuscript. Misaki happily hummed away as she scrolled through the messages.
A knock on the door brought Misaki to attention. Misaki smiled as Ritsu, Shouta, Isaka, Hiroki, Nowaki and Aikawa stood at the door. Aikawa with a stack of magazines. "Usami-sensei, can we borrow some alone time will Misaki-chan please?" Noticing the type of magazines in her hands Akihiko he nodded and moved to leave but Misaki again refused to let go of Akihiko.
"what's wrong Misaki?" he looked down to see that she was close to tears. Nowaki shook his head.
"I think this is Misaki's way of dealing with fear when she's in scared she clings to the person she knows best, we figured that out last night when she wouldn't let me or Hiro-san or Takahiro leave her alone in the room, even with Tsumori-sempai there she wouldn't let him near unless one of us was nearby." A whimper escaped Misaki and Akihiko noticed her shaking, her hand squeezing painfully tight.
"Misaki?" Akihiko shifted closer to Misaki but Ritsu stopped him
Ritsu moved to offer her hand to Misaki "Misa, Misa it's okay see? Kusama-san, Kisa-san, Aikawa-san, Isaka-san and I are gonna do some wedding planning with you. Yuki-kun said you got engaged a few days ago. Wouldn't that be nice?" Still shaking Misaki placed her hand in Ritsu's instead. Acting as if she was unaware, Shouta was a ball of (forced) happiness
"Yea, we'll look at cakes, venues, dresses, invitations and rings and we'll have girl talks this is gonna be fun!" Shouta cheered
"I also have the gifts I mentioned yesterday" Ritsu said. "Here this is also from the boys" she said placing the gifts on the bed.
"C-can we just hang out? I… I don't want Usagi-san to leave but he can't see the dresses I might pick, it's bad luck"
"Maybe we could just miss out on the dresses for now. We could look for cakes we both like?" Akihiko offered sitting back down this time behind Misaki wrapping her in his arms, Misaki calmed down at the simple action, grabbing a hold on his arm with her good hand.
"can we?" Misaki asked. Isaka grabbed hold of a file filed with different types of cakes they started flicking through. Nowaki left to continue his rounds as a doctor. The girls talked about random things throughout their time. Every now and then Akihiko teased Hiroki about her wedding making the brunette snap back at him.
"So… Onodera when are you planning on becoming a Takano? Hmm?" Shouta teased.
"No sooner than you becoming a Yukina" Misaki teased Shouta. Shouta turned bright red. Misaki heard a chuckling from Hiroki
"What's so funny Kamijou-sensei"
"First of all I am not your teacher currently so you don't need to call me sensei. Second," She lifted her hand to show of the two wedding bands on her hand. "I'm already married so you guys have nothing on me."
"whoa when?" Misaki marvelled.
"At the beginning of the year."
"so what's your new last name? I've only ever known your name was Kamijou"
"Kusama Hiroki"
"So you're married to Kusama-sensei?" Misaki asked referring to her doctor. Hiroki nodded blushing "Yay good for you!" Misaki cheered. Misaki wiggled in the bed backing up farther into Akihiko's grip relaxing into his loving hold. "I have no idea when to have ours." She said tilting her head back.
"Whenever you want" Akihiko replied burring his face into her hair. Nowaki knocked on the door gaining the girl's and Akihiko's attention.
"Sorry but I need to borrow some time with Usami-san and Takahashi-san" Hiroki looked at her watch.
"It's lunch time anyway. Why don't we all go get some food? We'll bring some back for Misaki and Akihiko" She suggested.
"Looking at cakes have made me hungry" Isaka said stretching as she stood from the end of the bed and exited.
"Bye guys see you soon" She said waving happily.
"It's good to see you're happy Takahashi-san" Nowaki noted. Misaki nodded vigorously. "How are you feeling?" Misaki wiggled.
"My leg is itchy" Nowaki chuckled slightly.
"There was something I wanted to discuss with you. There was something that in the rush of trying to get you stable, some of the other doctors over looked." Nowaki looked a little hesitant so say it. "Have you been aware that Takahashi-san has been pregnant for at least a month?" Misaki paled and Akihiko just blinked dumbly.
"No I wasn't" Misaki whimpered. She looked at Akihiko watching for any form of reaction.
"Well then congratulation. It was a miracle the child had survived with the stress you have been under." Worried Nowaki opted to leave the room to let them think about it for a moment.
"U-Usagi-san?" Shaking his head Akihiko looked down at Misaki. "you're not mad are you? I know you don't like kids but…" Akihiko held her tightly.
"It's okay Misaki I'm not mad. Just shocked" he mumbled into her shoulder staring blankly in front of him then he flicked his eyes to Misaki "Do you want this baby?"
"Y-yes. But um- d-do you want…"
"of course. Because our little princess will be a little Misaki"
"How do you know it's a girl?"
"Because I want it to be. And she'll be a beautiful as her mother." Misaki turned crimson and Akihiko chuckled and kissed her on the cheek.
"I wanna try walking" Misaki said still blushing. "Or at least get out of this room. It so boring in here"
"Nowaki said you could go outside in a wheel chair."
"Let's go!" Misaki cheered.
"we should start thinking of names" Misaki huffed as she was gently placed into the nearby wheel chair.
"No Rush. Now let's go see them and share the new!" She cheered like a five year old.
OK so i feel like im becoming predictable. please review and if you have questions i will try my best to answer
hopefully that makes up for the bitchy ending of the last chapter
