Len woke coughing. His face was hot. Far too hot. He looked around bewildered, and began to panic, seeing the smoke, and screamed as the flaming sheets approached him. The tall flames licked at his face, Len fell back onto the floor and scrambled back to the wall. He cried out again as he backed up into the flaming wall. He quickly stripped himself of the burning shirt before it could burn his back.

"Kaito!" he screamed, tears streaming down his cheeks. His left eye hurt so much. He was abandoned in a building. Everyone thought he was at school. No one would come in to look for him and he'd burn to death. Flames crackled merrily, taunting the boy. Saying that he was left alone and that they were all he had left.

"Kai!" Len screamed again. His voice was horse because of the smokey air, he couldn't get a full breath in with out choking. The flames were coming closer, grinning evilly.

The teen's only thoughts were that he was going to die alone. He couldn't think strait. Len didn't remember all the silly fire training drills he had done at school.

Then, faintly, he heard his lover's voice.

Len sobbed, "Kaito! Please! I'm right here!" he screamed, trying to be heard over the flames' laughter.

"Len!" Kaito shouldered his way through the weakened door. He ran over to the teen crying in the middle of the burning bedroom. Len reached up to the blue-haired man and he scooped him up into his arms. Len clutched to him, sobbing. Kaito had soot marks on his face and arms, but Len had an ugly red burn mark on the left side of his face.

Kaito ran out, towards the yard, clutching his young love. He ran passed the firemen, who looked at them in shock, not realizing anyone had been inside. Len had fainted just before he left his flaming house. The blue-haired man staggered out into the middle of their lawn and collapsed.

"L-len... don't die... please.." he murmured, holding the unconscious teen.

Several EMTs ran over to them and they tried to take the blonde from Kaito. He snarled and held his love closer. "Sir, please, the boy is hurt. We need to treat him."
Tears streamed down Kaito's sooty cheeks. "No... you'll all hurt him." he cradled the boy in his arms.

"Sir, please, just come over here with us. We won't hurt him." an EMT grabbed the blue-haired man's arms and pulled him over to the medical station.

Kaito clutched Len to him, not relaxing his grip for a second as he was dragged across the ground. Len's skin looked an angry red and around his eye looked horrible. His cheeks were streaked with tears and ash. Len's breathing was shallow and seemed pained, the man put an oxygen mask on his face and then applied some ointment to the horrible burn, surrounding his eye and cheek.

Kaito's head dropped and several tears dripped onto the boy's pale chest. The EMT patted his shoulder. His small chest softly moved up and down as the blue-haired man's chest shook with silent tears. Len's eyes slowly fluttered open. He winced and reached up to touch his burn, but Kaito's hand quickly wound itself around the boy's. Their eyes met. Len smiled stunningly. Large fat tears rolled down Kaito's cheek, even in all this pain, he thought, he's still smiling for me. Len reached up and wiped a few tears away.

"You came for me." Len smiles, tearing up in only his right eye, his shallow breathing fogging up the mask.

"I'll always come for you." Kaito smiled weakly.

The ambulance came and he still wouldn't let Len go. Kaito held onto his sevearly weakened lover until they were pried appart at the hospital.

"Its okay, Kai." Len smiled, lying on a gurney. "I'll be fine. You get taken care of."

Kaito nodded, eyes teary, and was wheeled away in a wheelchair. He looked desperately at the nurse behind him. "He'll be alright, right?"

"We'll do our best." she tried to reassure him. "But I'm sorry to say that he'll probably have a scar on his face. Although we do have ver-"

"Will there be any damage to his mind? His lungs?" He interrupted her.

"Well, I'm not really sure, but I think he'll be able to return to normal in those areas."

Kaito sighed. Relieved that Len would, mostly, be alright, he was taken into an examining room.