"How is he?" asked Kyo his eyes wide as he hurried over to Hatori in the Sohma hospital. Five hours had passed since they had arrived with Koi.
"He has a dangerously high fever and a weak heart rate. He is having trouble breathing as well." said Hatori, "He doesn't look very good."
"Is he going to okay?" Kyo's heart raced with nervousness.
"I don't know." Hatori looked at his clipboard. "You may see him. He's been asking for you."
Kyo nodded.
"Just don't get him to excited or worked up about anything." said Hatori, "He's not in a very stable condition."
Hatori silently led Kyo down a hallway. They stopped in front of a door with Koi's name on the outside. Kyo put his hand on the handle to open the door but Hatori stopped him for a moment.
"Just be careful." said Hatori looking at Kyo with a hint of sadness in his eyes. "You may not like what you see."
Kyo nodded, then slowly entered the room. Tears came to his eyes when he saw Koi.
Koi's eyes were closed. He was extremely pale and looked thin. His cheeks were bright red with fever and Kyo could see beads of sweat on his forehead. He was breathing with an oxygen mask and he was hooked up to a bunch of different machines.
"Koi?" said Kyo quietly, as he sat in a chair next to his twin's bed.
Koi looked over at Kyo through half-shut eyes. Kyo could see through the oxygen mask that he was smiling.
"Hi Kyo." said Koi weakly, his voice was muffled because of the mask, "I'm sorry for causing you all this trouble."
"You're not causing any trouble." said Kyo, "You never have." A tear ran Kyo's cheek.
"Why are you crying?" asked Koi, "What's wrong? Am I making you sad?" Koi's green eyes filled with tears. "Please don't be sad."
"I won't if you get better." said Kyo giving a small tearful smile.
"I'll try." said Koi sighing then winced.
"Hey are you okay?" asked Kyo looking concernedly at his brother.
"Yeah it just hurts sometimes." Koi looked over at Kyo and smiled reassuringly, "But don't worry I will be fine."
All of a sudden Koi's face became paler than before. He closed his eyes, and started to cough and gasp for air. The machines surrounding him started to beep like crazy. Doctors and nurses came running into the room.
"What's wrong with him?" asked Kyo, his voice filled with worry.
"It can be a number of things." said the nurse who was ushering him out of the room. "It's probably just an allergic reaction to his medication."
Suddenly the noise in Koi's room increased as Kyo walked down the hall to the waiting room where Tohru was. But he stopped dead in his tracks when he heard one of the doctors start yelling.
"He needs to go into surgery now! His lungs have collapsed, we're loosing him!" they shouted above the noise.
Kyo spun around just as Koi was being rushed past him, down the hall and out of sight. IVs trailed behind him like strange balloons. Koi's face was paper white with a grey tinge. His eyes were still closed and it didn't look like he was breathing.
Kyo turned back around his eyes wide. Once he reached the waiting room Tohru rushed over.
"How was he?" asked Tohru looking up at him.
Kyo didn't answer. He just walked past her in a daze, sank into a chair and broke down crying.
Koi was dying…