Disclaimer: I do not own dgm.

Also Kanda is a bit out of character here. Sorry.


"Lavi…" It was barely a whisper but the bookman heard it none the less. He shot out of the bed and skidded onto the chair next to Kanda. He carefully removed the oxygen mask so that he could see Kanda's lips if he tried to speak again.

"Come on, wake up." Lavi urged while brushing Kanda's fringe out of his eyes. Kanda's hand twitched and Lavi gently placed his hand on top of it, squeezing it. The Japanese man's eyes shot open and he sat up in one fluent moment breathing in deeply, his hair sweeping down his back as his band came lose. He looked around himself one hand instinctively going down to his waist were his sword was supposed to be, not registering Lavi and then groaned as the pain took over. He curled up into a ball holding the sides of his head whimpering under his breath. Lavi placed his hand comfortingly on the others back and softly said his name. Kanda looked up and finally saw the redhead. He reached out and grabbed the front of Lavi's shirt, pulling him closer.

"You're back…" he managed to say while touching the bookman's cheek and Lavi could see concern in his pain shrouded eyes.

"It's fine" Lavi soothed and covered Kanda's hands with his own. Kanda just shook his head and leaned over to rest it in the crook of Lavi's neck. Lavi, not knowing how to react, placed his hands on the others back and traced soothing circles as he felt Kanda tremble against him.

"Is he crying?" he asked himself and pulled Kanda closer.

"Yu, are you crying?"

"No." Lavi wasn't convinced because he started to feel a wet patch forming on his shoulder.

"Yu…it's alright. We're fine. Only you have to get better and everything will be fine again."

"Nothing will be fine." Kanda whispered as he pulled back while wiping his eyes. Having composed himself he looked at Lavi again.

"Nothing."

"Why would you say that?" Lavi asked.

"Because now I can't ignore this thing I feel every time I see you." he spat the word 'thing' out as if he hated it.

"And because it's the warmest and nicest thing I can feel in all this pain." he winced burying his head in his arms and drawing his knees up to his chest.

"And I can't believe I'm telling you all this. I'm so weak…"

"No…no, you're not Yu." Lavi whispered while climbing up next to Kanda and pulling him into an embrace.

"You are the strongest person I know."

"Don't…" Kanda protested weakly but moved into his touch. Lavi placed one of his hands on the side of Kanda's head enjoying the feel of his silky hear and said,

"You should sleep again if it hurts so much." Kanda realized in what position they were in and pushed away from the redhead.

"Leave me alone. And don't touch me ever again." he snapped.

"No!" Lavi said angrily while grabbing the others arms but carefully not wanting too hurt him.

"I won't. I don't want too!"

"Why not?" Kanda asked startled at Lavi's sudden outburst.

"Why not?!?! Because I love you! I don't want you to always avoid me like you did before! I want us to be together. And from what you said I know that you have feelings for me too as well as you're starting to trust me. So please…don't tell me to leave you alone." he said while pressing the top of his forehead against Kanda's chest. Kanda was dumbfounded for a couple of seconds but then wrapped his arms lovingly around Lavi's head sighing,

"Alright…" Upon hearing that Lavi tried to look up but felt a weight sprawl out over his back making it difficult. He realized that it was Kanda's upper body and placed his hands under the others arms gently lifting him up.

"He's unconscious." he thought as he saw that Kanda's eyes were closed but that he was still breathing.

"But he said alright…" Lavi blushed and smiled down at the sleeping exorcist.

"He said yes." He whispered happily before bending down and kissing Kanda on the cheek. He then lied Kanda back down again, careful to not pull out the IV needle and tucked him in. Just then he heard a knock on the door and a nurse walked in carrying two food trays.

"You shouldn't be up just quite yet." She chided in a soft voice and placed his tray on his movable table and Kanda's on his.

"Sorry." Lavi answered smiling sheepishly and climbed back onto his bed.

"How is your back?"

"It's fine. It just hurts a little."

"The doctor will be here in a little while to check up on the both of you." she said while scribbling something down on the chart that was attached to his bed.

"Did he wake up at any point?"

"Yes he did but he fell back into unconsciousness after a while."

"I see." she murmured while writing something down on Kanda's chart.

"He's handsome." she said with a dreamy smile on her face.

"Such a shame that he got hurt so bad. The wounds will leave pretty big scars. And he might not…" she began but stopped.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that." She said as she saw Lavi's crestfallen face. "Here hold on." She walked out of the room and came back a second later with two puddings in her hands.

"Here you go, cheer up. Your friend will definitely get through this" she said while handing him the two cups with a bright smile.

"Thank you!" Lavi said surprised and smiled at her.

"As I said before the doctor will be here soon. I hope you will like your breakfast." She smiled again and walked out of the room closing the door behind her. Lavi smiled happy that he got more dessert and put one cup to the side for Kanda. He then started to eat when there was another knock on the door and the doctor that had patched up Lavi's back the day before walked in.

"Good morning!" he greeted with a smile.

"Morning…" Lavi mumbled his mouth full of food.

"I'll start with him first shall I?" he asked laughing and walked over to Kanda's bed, taking out the chart once he got there.

"He woke up?"

"Yes but only for a little while."

"He must have felt a horrendous amount of pain then."

"He didn't show it that much." Lavi said having stopped eating as he heard what the man had said and looked at the sleeping figure, worry written all over his face.

"He must be really strong then…" the doctor muttered while opening one of Kanda's eyes and checking his pulse.

"He is." Lavi agreed.

"Everything is fine with him at the moment. How about you? How's your back?" he asked while walking over to Lavi after having changed the IV that Kanda was hooked up to.

"Its fine." the redhead answered and turned around pulling off his shirt as he did so, allowing the doctor to look at it. He removed the bandages and smeared some antibacterial cream on the stitches. The doctor then wrapped some fresh bandages around the future bookman's back and said,

"There. Your wounds are healing well."

"That's good."

"Well, I'll check up on you tonight again. Excuse me but I have to go. Bye." he waved and walked out of the room.

"Bye!" Lavi called after him and continued eating sneaking occasional glances at Kanda to check if he was waking up. He finished his food and happily jumped onto his dessert, enjoying it even though it was hospital food. After he finished that he pulled his shirt back on and looked back at Kanda.

"I hope he will be ok." Lavi thought and tiptoed back to Kanda's bed and sat down. Leaning down he softly tucked a stray piece of hair behind the others ear and kissed his forehead. When he pulled back Kanda's hand smacked him in the middle of his face. "Ow! Ow, what was that for? Sheesh, that hurt Yu!" Lavi whined while rubbing his forehead.

"You went all soppy on me before as well as right now." the Japanese man snapped weakly while looking at the hand that had the needle in it.

"But you said yes after I went soppy so it worked." Lavi smiled wickedly.

"You idiot…" Kanda murmured suppressing a groan but it still trembled through his ribcage.

"The doctor said that you're feeling a lot of pain." Lavi began but was interrupted. Kanda snorted and said,

"Tell me something I don't know."

"Don't be mean, I'm just worried. You should go back to sleep or I can get one of the nurses to give you something against it." the redhead offered. He stopped as he saw Kanda shake his head.

"Medicine wouldn't help and I don't want to sleep."

"Then are you hungry? The nurse brought some food."

"Is it soba?"

"No."

"Then no, I'm not hungry."

"But you should eat Yu." Lavi said as he pulled the tray plus the bed table closer. "Look its still warm. And you even get dessert."

"No."

"Please Yu, for me?" Lavi begged while pushing his arm underneath Kanda's back and bringing him up into a sitting position. Kanda sighed for what he felt was the millionth time and looked scrutinizing at the food.

"You won't leave me alone until I do won't you?" Kanda guessed and picked up the fork. "I won't but I'll reward you with two pots of pudding when you have finished. How does that sound?" he said and smiled as Kanda started to eat with a frown on his face.

"I hate you." Kanda muttered in between bites.

"No, you don't."

"Shut up." Kanda finished his meal in silence and then took one of the cups out of Lavi's hands.

"It's chocolate pudding." Lavi said smiling brightly. The other only nodded and looked at the other cup in Lavi's hands.

"You can have that one if you want." he said while starting to eat his pudding, avoiding Lavi's happy smile.

"Thanks Yu." He said while digging in to the pudding after having given Kanda a quick kiss on the cheek. Kanda placed his finished cup on the table after having decided not to punch him for the kiss and made the move to lie back down again but Lavi caught him and pulled him against his chest.

"What now?" Kanda snapped.

"Nothing. I just want to hold you that's all." Lavi murmured while taking hold off one of Kanda's hands and entwined they're fingers together. Kanda flinched as Lavi held his hand but did not pull away.

"I'm sorry if I hurt you." Lavi said when he felt the twitch.

"You didn't." Kanda lied.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you. Komui gave us as much time off as we need to get better. And I don't mean your definition of better." he teased.

"Che. How bad is your back really?"

"It's not bad. It's healing well so don't worry."

"I'm not worrying I just want to know when I can get out of here." Kanda said before closing his eyes and resting his head lightly against Lavi's chest.

"Yu?" the redhead asked, feeling Kanda's hand go limp in his own.

"Yu, are you alright?" "Yes, just tired and stop calling me Yu." The boy in his arms murmured.

"Awh, you are so cute."

"What?" Kanda snapped, his eyes opening to glare at the bookman.

"I'm just teasing." Lavi soothed and let Kanda lie down.

"I should break your scrawny little neck for that."

"My neck isn't scrawny." Lavi protested.

"Yes it is, just look at it." Kanda said with a smirk on his face.

"Yu!" Lavi whined covering his neck with his hand.

"You're so mean!" Kanda only smiled softly and then closed his eyes for the second time. Lavi's jaw dropped in surprise.

"Did… Did he just smile?!?" he asked in his mind not believing what he just saw. "

Yes, I did just smile. Now close your mouth, you're drooling." He heard Kanda say with a hint of amusement in his voice. Lavi did so and smiled down at him.

"You know, I'm getting tired again as well."

"Then go and sleep. In your own bed." Kanda answered realizing what Lavi wanted to do.

"Please?" was the only thing Lavi said, his eyes begging for Kanda to say yes. Kanda sighed and turned around his back facing the redhead.

"Fine."

"Thanks Yu." Lavi whispered while lying down on the space Kanda had made. The bookman snuggled up against the other's back and snuck his arms around him. Kanda tensed as he felt Lavi's arms but then relaxed slightly.

"What… What are we going to tell the others in the order?" he asked turning around.

"I mean…about that we're…you know…" he tried to say not looking Lavi in the eye. "We'll just tell them that were together." Lavi answered.

"But the finders will definitely hurt your feelings, like last time remember?"

"I honestly don't care as long as I can be with you. Try and sleep again, you need it." Lavi soothed.

"But you're to bloody sensitive for your own good. They'll get to you sooner or later." "Yu stop worrying. It'll be fine. Now seriously, go to sleep." Kanda glared at the other softly for not wanting to talk about it and closed his eyes. Both of them fell asleep pretty quickly and were still asleep when the doctor checked on them on his evening rounds. The man only smiled softly having figured out what they were to each other the day before and closed the door after having silently changed Kanda's IV.

The morning sun shined through the window, waking the Japanese boy up as it danced over his eyes. Kanda opened his eyes into slits feeling something heavy on him and found that Lavi had somehow managed to roll on top of him. The redhead was fast asleep, his face buried in the crook of Kanda's neck.

"Lavi." Kanda said, shaking him gently.

"Lavi, get off." He did not want to wake Lavi up but the way he was laying on him was painful. Unfortunately the future bookman did not even show the slightest sign of doing so.

"Lavi!" Kanda snapped trying to lift him off.

"Wake up you stupid rabbit!!"

"This isn't working." He thought as Lavi still showed no sign.

"Ok… I always yell at him to wake up on missions so maybe he got immune to it. Then, if I use a different approach…" Kanda pondered while turning his head too look at the redhead. He gently managed to wrap his arms around Lavi's neck and started to kiss the other's cheek up to his ear. When he reached his destination he whispered,

"Lavi, wake up." and nibbled on the others earlobe. Lavi let out a moan and his eyes flew open as the nibble turned into a lick.

"Yu?" he gasped and sat up, surprise written all over his face.

"Finally." The other sighed.

"Wha… What were you doing?" Lavi asked covering his abused ear.

"If you wanted to do something like that you should have just told me instead of being sneaky."

"I was trying to get you off of me you idiot."

"But… Like that?!?"

"Anything else wouldn't have worked. You've gotten used to me yelling at you so that was the only thing I came up with. And I have absolutely no interest in 'that' right now." Kanda answered glaring at the other while untangling the IV tube from underneath the sheets.

"Are you sure?" Lavi asked smirking. He didn't know if Kanda had actually meant it but now that the Japanese man had started something like that he wasn't about to let it go. And he could most defiantly make Kanda want it.

"Yes I'm sure so don't smirk like that."

"Are you absolutely sure?" he asked again bending down over Kanda.

"Lavi. I'm sure. Now stop it."

"But Yu, what is if I don't want to stop?" Lavi continued and leaned down closer, his nose barely touching Kanda's. "Lavi-" Kanda began but was cut off when Lavi used the opportunity and kissed him.


Yes, I did just do that. I stopped at the kiss. Please don't kill me.

And again a HUGE thank you to all who have reviewed and I'm sorry if I did not reply to them. I had some hard times with my personal life and that is way it took me so long to update.

Anyway please review and tell me what you think!!!!! It would make me happy and want to write faster for my lovely readers. Love Churin