When I woke up I was lying in a soft bed. I shielded my eyes with my hand. The lights were too bright.
"Soubi?" I said barely audible. My voice sounded hoarse like I haven't spoken in days.
"Shh, I'm here. Calm down Ritsuka." I heard Soubi say. I turned my head and saw him sitting beside the bed.
"What happened. I remember Seimei and Nisei. He tried to stab you but I pushed you aside. My arm." I reached to touch my arm but Soubi stopped me.
"Don't it's not healed yet." Soubi said gently pulling my hand away.
"How long have I been asleep?" I asked. Soubi turned his head away, then back to me.
"Don't be mad but you have been asleep for almost two days." Soubi said looking at our hands. I gasped. No that can't be. I had a test this week. If I don't pass that test I'm failing.
"Soubi the test." I said. Soubi smiled then kissed my hand.
"Don't worry Ritsuka, the teacher made sure you can take it when you are feeling better. He had to see for himself that you were not able to attend but when he saw you were here in the hospital he took care of it." Soubi said calming me down.
"And you Soubi? You had to take it too. Did you pass?" I asked Soubi.
"I don't know. I made the test but couldn't concentrate at all." Soubi smiled dumbly at me.
"When can I go home?"
"The doctor told me if you woke up and can use your arm again you can go. We were lucky the knife didn't damage and muscle tissue. It only severed your vein and they were worried you lost to much blood but in the end everything turned out okay. The only thing worrying the doctor was that you didn't wake up."
"Alright. Can you help me up. I need to go to the bathroom." I said thinking about the information Soubi just gave me.
"Uhm Ritsuka you can't go to the bathroom." Soubi said pointing to something beside the bed. I looked over the railing seeing a bag of blood hanging on a hook. I cringed my nose and lifted my good arm.
"Aah no way they put an iv in there." I let my head fall back on the pillow.
"I'll call the nurse." Soubi said then he leaned over me and pushed the calling button. Before he sat back down he kissed me lightly.
"I love you Ritsuka." He said.
"I love you too Soubi." I answered just as the nurse came in.
"Mister Aoyagi, you're awake good. I'll tell the doctor." The nurse said then she walked to the other side of the bed. "Please let me take your blood pressure and heart rate." The nurse asked. I nodded and gave her my good arm. She quickly took the measurements and left the room.
"Do you think I'll be home soon." I asked Soubi. He shrugged his shoulders and we waited in silence for the doctor to arrive. When he did he examined me quickly.
"Do you know what happened to you?" The doctor asked me as he listened to my heart. I shook my head since I didn't know what Soubi had told to the people when I was unconscious.
"I don't remember. It's all very blurry the only thing I remember is getting up in the morning." I said. So that would make a good timeline.
"It's alright if you don't remember. Sometimes the mind shut's out curtain things too protects oneself from harm." The doctor seemed nice enough for a doctor. I looked up at Soubi as the doctor examined my arm.
"Well mister Aoyagi, it seems you are recovering quickly. If you can dress yourself with minor help you'll be able to go home." The doctor said. "oh and I just want to take one more ultrasound. Nothing to worry about but just to be on the safe side." I turned my gaze to Soubi's face at the mention of our child.
"Why?" was all I asked because I knew he would understand. Soubi just shrugged his shoulder making it most clear he wasn't going to argue with me. Then I turned to the doctor once more.
"I think I already can dress myself." I said hopefully. Soubi shook his head.
"No you can't yet Ritsuka. You just woke up. You first have to be able to help yourself to the shower. That reminds me. Doctor when is the iv ready to be removed?" Soubi asked. The doctor turned his head to look at the blood bag.
"Oh that's right, hold on I'll take it out right now." The doctor said. He walked over to the sink and got some rubber gloves. Then he turned back to me and quickly relieved me of the iv in my hand. He nodded at me and Soubi and then left the room. After I got my ultrasound later that afternoon I sent Soubi home. I knew he had been in the hospital for the time I was there so he probably hadn't had much sleep. And with Soubi gone I could think for a moment and maybe even get some rest myself. Soon my eyelids got too heavy and I couldn't keep them open anymore. I drifted off to a menacing dreamland.
The next two days went by in a blur. I couldn't remember what had happened except that I was home now. My arm was bandaged up but with the painkillers the doctor gave me I didn't feel it. Soubi turned out to be more of a mother hen then I would give him credit for but I soon grew tired of his behavior.
"Soubi, stop making such a fuss over nothing. Just because I'm pregnant and injured doesn't mean I can't do some cleaning." I said to him when he took the mop away from me.
"Yes I know that Ritsuka but right after you got up you started cleaning the whole house so I think you did quite enough already." Soubi said after he put the mop away and guided me to the couch. I just simply let him lead me because even if I would resist he would just carry me.
"Soubi do you think I will pass the test next week?" I asked. Soubi turned his face to me seeming a little startled but soon he recovered and smiled.
"Yes Ritsuka, I think you will be fine. It's not so hard a test because even at my state of mind that day I passed it." Soubi said sitting down next to me.
"Are you sure the teacher didn't just give you an D out of sympathy?" I asked teasingly. Soubi smiled even brighter.
"That can be very true but I still don't think you have any trouble with it since you are at the top of your class." Soubi said. I turned bright red when he mentioned my status at school.
"Well I won't be any more if I don't pass and go back to school." I said knowing that the subject was a little difficult for Soubi. He still wasn't sure Seimei would keep his word and now that he knew about our child he became even more protecting. Seeing his face darken I quickly leaned in and kissed him.
"I'll be fine besides you are with me most of the day so what could happen?" I asked. Soubi sighed, he had tried talking school out of my head but I just wouldn't listen. I didn't want to be cooped up inside all day. That way I would go insane.
"Ritsuka please just reconsider. I know you and I only have a couple months left of school but I just want you safe that is much more important than you or I graduating." Soubi still hadn't given up on the subject. Maybe it was time for some sort of compromise.
"What if I could graduate early. That would mean I can finish almost three months earlier and that way I would have only need to go to school for what five or six weeks." I said to him. Soubi turned his head towards the wall opposite of us. Usually this meant he was thinking so I waited.
"Well like you said I will be with you most of the day so it won't be a problem. But I want to let you go only I have a condition." Soubi said. My spirit rose when he said I could go but falter when he said the rest. I could not believe he would want to make rules for me.
"Okay?" I said hesitatingly. Soubi smiled at me.
"Don't worry, I won't demand you be home on time or something. I just want you to have one of us at your side at all times. There are only two classes we don't have together so it would be easy. One of them you share with Kio so that won't be a problem. It's the last period I'm worried about. There won't be any of us to protect you and since you are in this kind of state you won't be able to defend yourself." Soubi explained. I listened to him carefully, knowing I had to say something for my case.
"Soubi the last period everyday is my sketching practice. It's not a real class. You know you can just come in." I said.
"Well yes I suppose so but right now I have to do my extra assignment on the last period so I won't be able to be with you then." Soubi said looking back at the wall.
"That is fine Soubi. I can be alone for about a hour. Just come and get me when you are done." I said really hoping to change his mind and let me go to school again. Soubi sighed again but then looked at me.
"Alright fine. I will let you go to school then. Just follow my condition and you will be okay."
"Thank you, thank you, thank you. Soubi you are the best." I said, then I glomped him nuzzling my face in his neck. I inhaled his scent and became calm again