Shuichi groaned and slowly opened his eyes. He was in an unfamiliar surroundings, but quickly guessed he was in a hospital, from all the white around him and especially the smell of disinfectants. He tried to sit up, but his head was pounding too much when he changed position, so he rather stayed as he was.

"Wha..?" he searched his memory for what happened.

And then it all came to him. Tohma's kidnapping, and Masaru. Oh god, Masaru was back. And Tohma knew…

Shuichi shot up to sitting position. His head spinning to the point, the pressure worsened, to the point he thought he will throw up. He covered his mouth.

When he was sure, that the feeling subsided, and the headache lightened a bit, he pulled the hand away and found it bloody.

"Shit," the singer touched his face again, and realized his nose was bleeding.

He quickly pinched his nose and started to look around for some tissue, or cloth, that he could use to stop the flow.

Then the door to the room opened and a nurse walked in.

"Oh, you are awake," she smiled, but quickly noticed the blood.

The nurse quickly put down her chart, "Don't touch anything."

She quickly fetched some wet towels, put one on the back of the singer's neck, also pushing him to lie down, and with other she wiped all the blood.

"It's okay," she whispered calmly, "You have broken nose and you moving around and stressing out just broke a blood vessel. Nothing to worry about."

Shuichi nodded, "T-Thank you…"

"You are welcome," the nurse reached beside Shuichi's bed and pushed a button on the wall, "I am calling Matsuda-sensei to check on you."

It only took few seconds for the doctor to come.

"Hello Shindou-san, good to see you awake," Matsuda said, "You came in quite a shape young lad. Got into fight? Or… someone from your family?"

"W-What? No! I… We… were attacked," Shuichi said slowly.

"Good, good, I am sorry, but I had to ask," the doctor pulled out stethoscope out of his pocket and quickly checked the singers heart, then checked his eyes with a small light.

He asked few more questions about how Shuichi felt and the pinkette told him about his head.

"You have a concussion, so I would be more surprised if you didn't have headache," the doctor chuckled, "But don't worry, now that you are awake, we can give you some painkillers."

Doctor Matsuda looked at the nurse, who only nodded and left to fetch painkillers, that were already prepared at the nurse office.

"Just so you know, there is someone waiting to see you, quite a lot of them actually," Matsuda said.

Shuichi's eyes widened.

"N-No…" he whispered, and bit his lower lip.

They were here. Why where they here? Tohma, who knew, there was no way he didn't know. And he probably said Yuki. And K. And Hiro. And everyone else. They knew and were surely pissed. He… can't see them. He had to get away, or they will hate him forever because he is liar.

"What," doctor Matsuda blinked in confusion. Wasn't someone supposed to be happy that their family came to visit them at the hospital?

"I can't!" Shuichi shot up and tried to get out of bed, but Matsuda quickly stopped him.

"Hey hey, you have to lie down," he was fighting struggling Shuichi.

"T-they can't c-come," Shuichi was panicking at the loss of his mobility.

Something dropped behind the doctor, who looked behind and saw the nurse who dropped the painkillers.

"I will bring anesthesia!" she bolted back out.

It only took a few seconds for her to come back with and injection with a clear fluid. And after a short struggling they managed to administer the anesthesia to the panicking singer.

"It's okay, Shindou-san," the nurse was soothing Shuichi in a calm voice, "You are in a hospital, Nothing will happen to you here. You are safe."

Shuichi's struggles slowly ceased as he slowly slipped into unconsciousness.

"Well, that went well," Matsuda sighed.

"Matsuda-sensei, what happened?" the young woman asked confused.

"I am not sure either, Suzuki-kun," the doctor shook his head, "As soon as I mentioned his family, he started to panic."

Nurse Suzuki blinked.

"I… think we should keep Shindou-san on 'no visitors' for now," Matsuda ran his hand through his hair.

"I… understand sir," Suzuki nodded.

- G - G - G –

Tohma was signing his discharge papers and was in a quite foul mood. Even the day after he was still not allowed to see Shuichi.

He nodded to the nurses and quickly walked out of the hospital. K was already waiting for him beside his car, as Tohma was not allowed to drive.

"Morning boss," K smirked as he opened the back door for Tohma.

Tohma sat in the car, and immediately was hug-attacked by Ryuichi.

"Toooohma!" the singer latched onto the blonde, "They said you were kidnapped and hurt!"

Tohma patted Ryuichi on his head, "I am alright now. It wasn't that bad, but Shuichi…"

He stopped abruptly not sure what to say, Ryuichi sniffled louder.

"Hey speaking of that ping goofball," K said behind the wheel and reached into the compartment on the passenger's side.

From there he pulled out an envelope, "Here. I have something for you."

Tohma blinked surprised, "Is that..? How could you do it in one day?"

"I pulled some strings," said K as Tohma took the envelope and opened it.

Tohma started to read the results of DNA test. It only confirmed what he knew. But seeing it like this, on paper, something in him broke. He hung his head and a sob wrecked his body.

Ryuichi seeing Tohma in this state switched to his serious personality, and pulled the blonde into tight hug. He heard about the situation from K, but didn't really believe it till now.

"Tohma, I tried everything I could, just to make really sure," K sighed, "Blood type, comparing Shuichi's hair to Natsuki's samples that we had from 10 years ago, comparing him with you, I even did a test on Shuichi's family…"

"I can't believe he was so close," Tohma whimpered, "Why? Why didn't he say something?"

"I don't know," Ryuichi said.

"How many times he looked me in the eyes and said nothing!" Tohma was almost screaming now.

"I know, I know," Ryuichi whispered soothingly, "But I also know he must love you. Why else would he just run to help you? When he knew what awaited him?"

Tohma sniffled as Ryuichi continued, "You should look at it from his point of view. I think what happened ten years ago still impacts him. Maybe he was afraid. Maybe he had amnesia or something. Who know what really happened that time. We will have to wait for Shuichi to say it himself. Can you wait till then?"

Tohma, visibly calmer now, pulled out a pack of paper tissues and started wiping his face, "Y-Yes. I am sorry for… my breakdown…"

Ryuichi shook his head, "Nah, this was big. And I am kind of glad you didn't bottle it up inside, like you usually do."

"But I still don't get why he…" Tohma tried to say, but was interrupted by Ryuchi's finger on his lips.

"Hush, I said wait till Shuichi is ready to tell you," Ryuichi said seriously and Tohma nodded.

- G - G - G –

Shuichi was attended by different nurses and didn't see familiar face until it was actually after visitor hours. And even then it was the doctor from previous day, whose name he didn't remember.

"Hello, Shindou-san," doctor Matsuda came to Shuichi's bed and quickly looked over the chart that hung at the end of the bed, "You seem better than you were yesterday.

"Thank you, doctor," Shuichi whispered.

"I am sorry that I couldn't come sooner," Matsuda smiled, "It was quite night we both had, wouldn't you say? I needed to sleep it off a bit, and it looks I overslept…"

The doctor chuckled a bit, but then he got serious. He pulled a chair closer and sat down.

"But let's talk about you for a bit," he looked Shuichi in the eyes, "We didn't allow you any visitors as per your yesterday's request. Your injuries weren't all that serious and could have been discharged today, but I… requested for you to stay longer. You are safe on the hospital's grounds. If there is something you want to tell me…"

Shuichi blinked confusedly, "What? Like what?"

Matsuda sighed, "You freaked out pretty badly at the mention of you family yesterday."

Shuichi froze.

Matsuda put a hand on Shuichi's shoulder, "You are doing it again, Shindou-san. I told you, you are safe in this hospital. Did you argue with a family member? Did they do this to you? Did something like this happen before?"

Shuichi's mouth hung open.

"What? NO!" he quickly said, "Nothing like that! It was… It wasn't them… Me and my… boss got attacked… and then… My found something I didn't want them to know. Or I did, but not like this… I don't know… But they definitely didn't beat me!"

Doctor Matsuda looked skeptically, "Oh… are you sure? You can tell me, you don't have to worry about anything."

Shuichi shook his head, "Yeah… They wouldn't do something like that."

Matsuda nodded, "Okay then. I am sorry, that I was noisy. I misunderstood the situation."

Shuichi smiled, "Nah. Actually I think you are cool, worrying about your patients."

"Thank you," Matsuda grinned, "Now that this is cleared, I will sign your discharge papers, and you can go home tomorrow after breakfast. It wouldn't do to let you go this late, so have a peaceful dreams, Shindou-san."

Shuichi nodded, "Oh, would it be possible to borrow from someone charger? My phone's battery died, and I don't have anything with me…"

"I will ask the nurses if they have compatible charger," Matsuda said as he looked at Shuichi's phone and left.

- G - G - G –

The next day Shuichi was signing discharge papers. He smiled at the nurse, checked if he had everything and stepped back.

He pulled out his phone and pushed a button to turn it on, silently thanking the nurse who had the same type of phone and allowed him to borrow her charger. When the phone booted up, he entered his PIN code and waited.

And was disappointed. There wasn't any missed calls, or messages.

"They must be really pissed," murmured Shuichi, as he contemplated what should he do.

Or rather, where should go. He probably couldn't go to Yuki's house, he had the feeling that the blonde wouldn't take Shuichi's betrayal very good. He was too ashamed to run to Hiro as he did usually. And Tohma… Shuichi chewed on his lower lip. Should he still call the older man by his first name? What if he was so angry, that he didn't want Shuichi be so familiar with him?

"Hopefully mom won't throw me out too," Shuichi sighed, as he checked his wallet that he had enough change for the tube.

"Going somewhere?" a familiar voice asked.

Shuichi's eyes widened and bolted.

Or tried, because a hand grabbed him by collar, "Oh no you don't!"

And then he was dragged by that person out of the hospital building and thrown into the passenger seat. Before he could do anything, the person dashed around the car, jumped behind the wheel and slammed the gas pedal.