Meanwhile in the Asawara Residence

The young girl coughed, she took in a deep sigh and tried to catch her breath even though she was only lying on her bed. Her cheeks were flushed in a deep scarlet and her forehead was all sweaty and her bright amber eyes were now dull and tired, she glanced over the female figure standing next to her.

Ran's mother was more than worried, her daughter had a high fever and it wasn't going down like it was supposed to, since she had given her daughter the correct medicine. Masako Asawara almost cried when she saw her middle child in pain, she turned her sad eyes towards her husband; worry on his face was also noticeable.

"Hospital. Now." He turned to grab the car keys.

Masako tried to stay calm, she smiled and uncovered Ran and with a quick movement she carried the girl, not even bothering with undressing the pink pajamas. Masako was quick with her steps towards the entrance, her husband had already grabbed Ran's favorite peacoat and he covered his daughter quickly.

Ran cried, "It's hot."
"I know sweetie but you have to use it." He said while opening the door, Masako quickly left the house and pressed the button for the elevator, Ran only whined.

"Mummy, it hurts."

"I know sweetie, everything will be alright don't worry." Masako whispered while patting her back to calm her down.

The door from behind was closed and the elevator's door opened with a loud 'ding', both adults hurried inside and soon they were in their way to the local hospital.


Ran shivered in her mother's embrace, "I'm cold." She cried softly, her eyes were closed and Masako wiped the sweat from her daughter's forehead once again. Ran's mom sighed and she was looking everywhere to keep her mind busy.

"We're almost there darling, just stay awake." Tetsuya, the father, said while paying attention to the road.

"I WANNA GO TO SCHOOL!" Ran suddenly shouted, struggling to get away.

"RAN STAY QUIET!" Masako shouted sternly.

But she didn't, Ran started to cry loudly. She felt like suffocating, the muscles on her legs were aching and she was feeling cold and warm all the time, the shivers were horrible and she felt disgusting with all the sweat. Ran kept crying until they reached to the hospital, Masako left the car leaving Tetsuya to park it and she ran into the Emergency alley, the child's crying got the attention of the passing nurses and Ran was immediately given a paper bracelet with the color of red.

Masako and Ran waited for their call, the woman was a mess and some of the few people looked at her and the child in her arms with pity.

"Ran Asawara."

Masako walked quickly.


They got lucky, Ran was already 100.7 F of fever and soon she could start having minor convulsions. The doctor said that Ran was also dehydrated so she was placed on serum. Ran was also placed on a hospital room she the doctor wouldn't let her leave until he was sure that she was more than better.

Masako could only sit next to her daughter's bed, a bit relieved that her baby would be fine. She saw Tetsuya walking inside with a cup of coffee; he smiled and handed it to her. "Thank you." She mumbled taking a sip.

He nodded, "I have to go back to work…will you two be fine?" he asked taking a glance at his sleeping daughter.

Masako smiled, "Yes."

"I'll leave the car for you, I called a friend from work and he's coming to get me." He smiled back and leaned down to kiss his wife's forehead; she gladly leaned more at him and closed her eyes to receive the warm kiss.

"Thank you darling, have a nice day at work."

"Call me if something happens alright?" he walked to the bed and planted a kiss on Ran's head; the kiss was long and caring.

"You're grounded missy! Never scare us like that ever again." He joked, just to make his wife cheer up a little.

She chuckled.


Kenshin's eyes twisted, he dropped the ball and looked at the sky seriously.

It was P.E class and the couch ordered the children to pair up and toss the basketball to each other, Kenshin had paired up with Isamu and they were actually having fun but the boy's danger senses tingled suddenly and he couldn't help but thinking on Ran.

"Throw the ball!" Isamu growled.

"Something's wrong with Ran-chan." Kenshin looked at him, Isamu was taken back with the seriousness on the brunette's voice, he usually had a childish one.

"What are you talking about?"

"Let's go call Ran's mummy!" Kenshin tossed the ball away and made sure that the couch was far away, he was busy helping Akemi throwing the ball to the basket, she was failing miserably.

He approached Isamu and dragged him to the bushes, they successfully escaped P.E and Isamu sighed, "We're going to be in trouble won't we?"

Kenshin grinned, "I guess, are you scared?" he challenged.

"No!" Isamu spat, "Wait, how are we going to call her mum?" he stopped walking.

Kenshin rolled his eyes, "I know her number, she gave me in case o emergency." He pulled Isamu along since he wasn't walking.

"Why?" he pressed.

Kenshin smiled, "She trusts me." Kenshin recalled when Masako had called him aside on Ran's birthday party. It was only her family, siblings and himself since she didn't had friends back there. She told him that he was a good boy and gave him a piece of paper, Masaki pleaded that if anything bad happened to Ran, but really bad like an emergency, he would give the number to the closest adult and call her.

Isamu just watched his friend gazing, probably lost on his thoughts.

"Where are you two going?" a voice sneered from behind, the two boys looked and deadpanned with a smirking Arata, "You're skipping and I'm telling!" he crossed his arms.

Oh Isamu really wanted to punch this boy.

"You're going to be a snitch!" Kenshin accused.

"Ran was one too!" Arata spat with an angry tone.

"Just go away before your face gets hurt." Isamu said, suddenly in a deep tone. Even Kenshin shivered, where did that came from?

"You don't scare me, you're a coward!" Arata said, trying to sound tough.

Isamu smirked, he slowly approached the blonde one and pinched his cheeks hard, he leaned to his face a spoke in a scary tone. Arata gulped and he tried to push the raven haired boy away. "Arata, don't you know what I can do to you? I know where you live." Isamu's crimson eyes were dark, "I can suck the blood from you in seconds you little maggot." He sneered with an evil smirk.

Kenshin raised his eyebrow and watched Arata squeal.

"VAMPIRE! I KNEW IT! AAAAH!" Arata pushed Isamu and ran away screaming.

"YOU BETTER NOT TELL ANYONE!" Isamu shouted, hoping that Arata could hear him, then he just sighed and turned to continue walking, but he noticed Kenshin staring at him in shock, he was waiting for something. "What? I know he thinks I'm a stupid vampire." He shrugged.

"What the heck was that?!" Kenshin giggled.

He rolled his eyes, "It's called acting dumb-dumb, now let's go!" Isamu passed by Kenshin and soon the amethyst eyed boy followed him with loud chuckles.

"That was so cool! How did you do that? Teach me!" he kept asking.

"Let it go!" Isamu growled in frustration.


The boys peeked behind the colored wall; the secretary of the entrance was empty. The phone was wide-open and they only had a few moments until the janitor to come back.

They had created a fake vomit based on ketchup and mustard with the disgusting mystery meat creamy sauce, it was perfect and the janitor of the floor would be busy.

Kenshin quickly grabbed the piece of paper that he always kept in every pocket of the pants that he used and soon he run and climbed to the chair, Isamu looked around and followed him after, he saw Kenshin concentrating on dialing the number.

"Hurry up!" Isamu breathed nervously.

"Shut up!" Kenshin whispered, he pressed the phone's speaker against his tiny ear and he grinned when it ringed.


Masako was watching her daughter sleeping peacefully, she was glad to see Ran feeling better. Her cheeks weren't so red and the sweat was gone, the young girl looked like she was only sleeping. But her gaze was interrupted with her melody of her phone, she grabbed her purse and held her phone, the number was unknown but it could be important so she accepted the call.

"Yes?"

"Mrs. Asawara? It's Kenshin!"

She blinked in surprise, Kenshin was calling her? From where?

"Is everything okay sweetie? Where are you calling from?" she asked a bit worried, her motherly instincts were vibrating.

"I'm okay no worries!" she smiled, "Why didn't Ran-chan came to school?" he asked nervously.

Oh dear, he had called just to check on her daughter. Masako couldn't be gladder for Ran to have a friend like him.

"She had a high fever darling, she's resting right now. Ran is fine don't worry." She replied, only to listen a shout from the other side of the line.

"RAN-CHAN WHAT? CAN I TALK WITH HER?!"
"KENSHIN SPEAK LOWLY SOMEONE CAN HEAR US!"

Masako chuckled, Kenshin wasn't alone. It was probably that Isamu boy, Ran had been talking about him a lot lately.

"Kenshin, Ran is fine. But she won't go to school tomorrow, she needs to rest. It was only a cold." Masako assured, she heard the boy sigh in relieve.

"Well, tell Ran-chan to call me when she wakes up Mrs. Asawara I'm worried!" there was a short pause coming from him, "UPS I gotta go now, the janitor looks angry! Bye-bye!" he said quickly, she knew that he dropped the speaker somewhere and started to dash away.

"HEY YOU KIDS WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!"
"RUN ISAMU! RUN!"
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU KENSHIN!"

Masako giggled with a small cringe.

He forgot to turn off the phone and she could still hear the janitor shout after them.


A/N: Ran is sick! So this means that the next chapter will be based only on Natsume and Mikan!

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