xXRiku's POVXx
I awoke to the hums of my phone vibrating on the floor, with heavy eyes and half awake body I slumped my arm to turn off the annoying phone alarm. A few minutes passed before I fully woke up, it was somewhere around five in the morning, the sun was just rising and birds were making their morning call.

I attempted to get up but I was weighed down by the waist, I turned around to see a snoozing Kazuma, his arms wrapped tightly around my waist and a lil smile on his face. As I attempted to wriggle free from Kazuma's grasp I gave him a peck on the forehead, finally after a few moments I was free, Kazuma latched on to the closest thing next to him which was a pillow. I sighed in relief and I carefully got up trying my best to stand on my own two feet.

"A bit shaky but it'll have to do" I said to myself feeling the light shivers travel up my body, I picked up my medicine bag and crept out of the room and into the kitchen.

Thankfully no one is up at this time of the morning...or so I thought, turning around the corner to the kitchen I was greeted by a familiar face...Kenji Koiso, well a half dazed and half asleep Kenji Koiso...wearing teal coloured PJ's and pouring himself a glass of water from the dispenser.

"Oh um...hello." He said awkwardly snapping out from his daze.

I nodded to him and layed my bag on the counter table...my heart was racing again...I don't like awkward conversation, or conversations in general except Kaze I feel comfortable around him. Unzipping the bag I was greeted by the usual array of medicine bottles I have to take daily.

Kenji tried to break this awkward silence with small talk. "So um...you and Kazuma have know each other for a while uh?"

I nodded again pouring water in my glass and holding only half of my meds in the palm of my hand.

"Kazuma told me about you when he got your letter." He smiled with a chuckle. "He said you had a thing for him."

I jolted back a bit as I choked on the few pills and water. "What?" I coughed

"Well he did say you liked him." He weakly chuckled. "By the way how are you feeling now since...you know"

I cleared my throat and finished taking the rest of the pills. "A bit shaky but fine..."

It was then another early bird peered from the doorway, a tall slender man with a rugged appearance, slouching at the door frame. It was Wabisuke, if my memory served me correctly he was the adopted child of the late grandma Sakae and the creation of the whole love machine fiasco Kazuma told me about.

"So Chibi Ri what are you doing up at this time of the day" He chuckled.

Oh lord I hated that name. I sighed and pointed at my medicine bag which now packed and closed.

"Ah, I see."

"Well I better get back, i still need three more hours of sleep...good morning" With that I carried my bag and walked back to Kazuma's room with the support of the walls and door frames.

xXThird PersonXx
"Well that was interesting." huffed Wabisuke, pulling out a cigarette from the package and lighting it.

Kenji turned to him confused and still half a sleep. "What was interesting?"

Wabisuke took a puff from the cigarette and smiled weakly. "Oh yeah, you're still kinda new to the family so I guess you don't know much about Riku."

"He's kinda shy." Kenji yawned.

"Well he's always been like that, ever since we first met him." Wabisuke's eyes shot down to the floor and he sighed heavily. "But he didn't need to take medication back then, but that was before his incident..." A slight pain started to emanate at the core of his being, he tried to sooth it down with more puffs from his cigarette.

"What happened...?"

He sighed as the pain traveled to the pit of his stomach. "When Riku first came to Ueda, we quickly knew that Kazuma liked him in a romantic way, we didnt mind, but one day they went down to the town park and they were confronted by Kazuma's bullies, it started out with insults then it got a lil' bit brash as they started a fight...which went horribly out of hand."

It was at that point Wabisuke stood at a loss for words as his heart started to race. He took a few deep breaths and a few puffs from his cigarette and continued. "Later on in the day we had a call from the local police, they said that Kazuma and Riku where attacked by a group of kids and were sent to the hospital for medical treatment." He puffed again. "Kazuma suffered a minor concussion...while...Riku was in a coma with multiple severe injuries, which left him with physical scaring and metal scaring..."

Wabisuke looked at Kenji, his hands covering his mouth in fright and disbelief. "Jesus..." Kenji muttered.

"I still remember the lists of injuries the nurse told us about, it was aweful." He sighed. "Three cracked ribs; four broken ones, severe kidney failure, a collapsed lung, internal bleeding, multiple cases of blunt force trauma mainly around the head."

"How could kids do something like this?" Kenji stammered

"Kids who go too far and regret it in the end, they were found and put into juvenile prison for a couple of years, but that didn't help Riku any better. The injuries causes significant metal damage to him; seizures, panic attacks, even PTSD." He said throwing the cigarette into the sink. "And things went down hill from there." He sighed. "Lets not continue this talk, it makes me feel awful even thinking about it."

They both nodded, leaving the room and returning back to the beds leaving only silence in the room and a half empty glass of water on the table top.