A/N: Officially thanksgiving break. SO I get to write lots of my story in addition to a paper and getting ahead in some of my classes. SO here we go with chapter FOURTEEEN!

The hospital room was very quiet as Hunny sat there with his little brother. His cousin had texted to inform him about Satoshi. They had a texting discussion and agreed that they would stay where they were. Neither knew what pathogens they had come in contact with and neither wanted to to wake up. He then looked up to see a woman running through the door. He immediately recognized her, it was his cousins' mother. She looked at him and asked the dreaded question.

"Mitskuni where is my son?"

"He is down the hall in room 24. But Fuyuko, please prepare yourself first. It is pretty bad," Hunny said looking sadly at his aunt.

Fuyuko walked down the hall to room 24. She met her husband and her oldest son outside the door. Akira led her into the room. Nothing could have ever prepared Fuyuko for what she saw. Her arms went weak as she held onto her husband. She fell to her knees sobbing. Her child was lying in front of her dying.

"W-when will he be out?" she asked not really wanting to know the answer.

"We don't know," Akira said looking at his wife, "We just have to wait and see. We are just hoping it doesn't get serious."

"This isn't serious?!" She yelled looking at her husband, "He is lying in a bed dying and he is not serious? What the hell is wrong with you?"

"Fuyuko please be calm. The doctors are doing everything they can for him."

"Fine, but if he isn't going to wake up anytime soon maybe we should go sit with our nephews," she said feeling bad about leaving the other two boys alone.

"No mother. We do not know if what Satoshi has is contagious and we don't want to pass anything to Yasuchika after he just had another heart attack," Mori said calmly.

"A HEART ATTACK?! What the hell happened to them? What the hell is going on?" she asked.

"We will explain it over lunch," Mori said leading his mother away.

Meanwhile back in room Chika's Hunny was reading the paper waiting. That is all he seemed to be doing lately. Waiting. As he looked at his brother Hunny's thoughts drifted to the day that Chika was born. He would never forget that day.

(flashback)

His dad had come out in scrubs.

"You have a new baby brother,"Yorihisa said, "His name is Yasuchika."

"Yay I have a brother! Where is he? Can I see him?" a tiny Hunny asked.

"I'm afraid you can't right now Mitskuni. He is in what they call the NICU. They want to make sure that everything is OK," Yorihisa said.

"Where is mommy? Can I see her?" Hunny asked, immediately seeing his father's expression change, "Daddy is mommy OK?"

Yorihisa decided that it would do no good to lie to his oldest son. The blow would be hard, but in time the boy would understand. He sat down.

"Mitskuni come here," he said as the toddler scrambled into his lap, "There were some problems and your mother isn't coming back."

"You mean mommy is dead?" Hunny asked tears forming in his eyes.

Yorihisa nodded as his oldest son buried his head in his father's chest. Yorihisa felt the soft sobs coming from his child and held him close.

(end flashback)

That had possibly been the worst day of Hunny's life. He had never resented Chika though. It was not his brother's fault. Their dad had never hated Chika, but you could tell that every time he looked at the boy there was a pang of sadness in his eyes. Yasuchika had gotten her brown hair. Hunny knew that when their father saw Yasuchika he was taken back to the day his son survived and his Isuzu had died

'And here we are again in the hospital,' Hunny thought looking at his little brother. He just hoped he wouldn't have to go to another funeral. Hunny smiled at his brother before slipping into a sporadic sleep in the chair with his head rested on his palm.

He had a dream of his mother playing with him while she was pregnant with Chika. They were playing with blocks. Suddenly his mother gripped her tummy and Hunny's eyes got wide.

"No need to worry Mitskuni. It's just the new baby moving inside mommy. Would you like to feel it?" she asked seeing her little boy nod with enthusiasm. She gently took his hand and placed it on her protruding belly. His eyes got even wider as he felt a small kick against his hand. It dawned on him that there was actually a human in there. Something even smaller than him, this was something he never thought could be possible. He just stared with wide eyes at the tummy and hugged his mommy. Then someone threw a block and it hit him in the head. He looked around to see who it was. There was no one else there. A block hit his head again and this time he looked around very fast. There was still no one there when the third block hit. Only then did Hunny realize they were not blocks.

'Where is that coming from?' he thought. He looked at his mother, but she was gone. There was only blackness now. He was crying and being pelted with these block-like things. There seemed to be no way out. There were no doors in this place. Not even a window. He looked around and saw that there were no walls either, just an endless black void continuing on for as long as he could see. And from all around him matter kept pelting him. Only this time they didn't hurt at all. It was like something squishy was being thrown at him. He suddenly realized that it was a dream and quickly forced his eyes open to see who could be pelting him with soft objects. When his eyes were fully adjusted to the hospital room light Hunny saw that the one guilty of the crime was none other than Chika.

His little brother was sitting in his bed fully awake. Somehow Chika had managed to reach Hunny's lunch tray next to the bed and had taken the grapes. Hunny looked down to see small purple grapes scattered all over the floor. Chika was looking at him with a 'got ya' smirk.

"Chika-chan! Stop throwing grapes. I can see you are finally awake! How are you feeling?" Hunny asked going closer to the side of his brother's bed. Chika mouthed the word OK and smirked at his brother again. He managed to toss a few more grapes into his brother's face before Hunny threw his arms around his little brother.

"Oh Chika-chan I'm so glad you are OK! I don't know what I would have done without you. If you had flatlined again I don't think I could have handled it."

Hunny suddenly felt himself being pushed backward. HE realized his mistake a bit too late. 'No one ever told him that he flat lined that night in the hospital!' A fist connected with Hunny's face and he stumbled backward a bit. He had forgotten how strong his little brother was and very surprised that he could deliver a blow like that after having a heart attack. Hunny looked up to see pure anger in his brother's eyes.

"Chika, I'm sorry I didn't realize that no one told you about that night. We were all so worried that you wouldn't make it out alive. I was so worried that I would lose you and when you woke up I was so excited that it didn't even cross my mind to tell you," Hunny said looking at his brother for forgiveness. Chika's eyes stayed cold and hard, but within a few minutes they softened letting Hunny know that for as much of an idiot as he had been Chika wasn't going to hold a grudge. Chika would be testy over the next day or so though because Hunny knew he wasn't fully forgiven. He turned around and went to sit down. AS he looked once again at Chika from his seat something was off. His little brother's eyes were wide almost with fear.

"What?" Hunny asked turning around, "Chika there is nothing…" Hunny then realized why his brother was so worried. There was nothing there. Satoshi was previously there. Even though Chika had not been awake Hunny figured that his little brother assumed that Satoshi came everywhere with him.

"You want to know where Satoshi is?" Hunny asked and got a vigorous nod from his little brother. "He is down the hall Chika. When he woke up earlier this morning he wasn't doing so good. Takashi noticed it and by the time the doctor came in Satoshi was coughing up blood everywhere. They had to get a chest X-ray and confirmed it as pneumonia. Penny was wheeling him back here when he started to have difficulty breathing. They had to intubateand he is currently unconscious down the hall. And I'm really sorry about the next park Chika. You can't see him. The doctors have ordered us to keep you two apart for the time being. It is too dangerous with you in a weakened state to see him," Hunny stated looking at Chika thinking how hard it must be to not be able to see your best friend. 'At least I can still communicate with Takashi,' Hunny thought to himself.

"Yeah we are really sorry about that, Chika," a voice said. Both boys turned toward the door to see Penny standing there. "Hey sweetie I am so glad to see you are awake after all of that. I am going to take your vitals and then we can see what the doctor wants to do with you. Mitskuni do you need some ice for your face? What happened?"

"Yes that would be nice, Penny. And Chika here punched me because no one ever told him that he flatlined," Hunny said only now realizing how his jaw felt a little tender.

"YOU punched him Chika? I would advise against that until you get more strength back. Which should be quite impressive seeing the state of your brother's cheek," she responded taking Chika's vitals. "Everything looks OK sweetie I am going to go talk to the doctor about this."

Chika slumped back. 'I do not want to be here for another week,' he thought, 'I just want to go somewhere where people won't try to attack me. Can't I just go home?'

Penny returned with the ice for Hunny and the doctor to talk to Chika.

"Hey there Chika. I've reviewed your charts and such and you won't be out of the hospital today. We are going to move you out of the ICU in two days if you stay stable in that time and then in another five days after that we may let you go home depending on how your condition is. How does that sound?" the doctor asked looking at Chika. He knew it wasn't the most exciting option, but it was a good option and beat staying in the hospital a lot longer.

Chika gave the doctor a thumbs up and just looked at the wall. Just as he was looking at the wall he realized something. Where was home? He definitely was not going to go back to the estate. That was where his father was and Chika had no idea what would be in store for him there. He needed to talk to his brother but he wasn't really sure how. He found one last grape on his bed and chucked it at his brother's head.

"Chika? What are you doing? You've made a mess with all those grapes," Hunny said holding the ice pack to his jaw.

Chika signaled with his hands. He pointed at himself and then at Hunny and then made a shooing motion towards the doctors. 'Damn I hope Mitskuni got that,' Chika thought as he crossed his fingers.

"You want to talk to me without the doctors here?" Hunny asked looking at his little brother.

Chika nodded in response thankful that his brother had gotten the message the first time. Apparently the doctors had also gotten the hint and went out of the room immediately. 'Now how to communicate with this brother of mine….' Chika thought and was cut off by his brother's words.

"Are you strong enough to write Chika-chan?"

Chika nodded wondering what on earth he would be able to write on and with what. Just then Hunny produced the newspaper he had been reading and a pen that he was using for the crosswords. Chika eagerly took it and scribbled a quick note on the margin. It read:

I don't want to go home. Dad is there and after what happened with Ritsu I rather not go back there right away. If ever. I was just wondering where we would stay?

"Oh I never thought of that Chika. I'm not sure. Would you be OK away from Satoshi? Would you mind staying at the Ootori's if Kyo-chan will let us? " Hunny asked.

Yeah that seems fine. And I can't see Satoshi anyway so as long as we are both safe I am OK. Chika wrote to his brother.

"All right Chika-chan it is settled I will go and run this by Kyo-chan and we will see where we can go." Hunny called the two others back into the room and after a shirt conversation Penny agreed that she would stay with Chika while his older brother went off to find the youngest son of the Ootori family. As Hunny was leaving he saw Chika and Penny trying to communicate and she was laughing at the young man's attempts.

Hunny was walking down the hall to text Kyoya about his brother staying at the Ootori mansion when he ran into Kyoya.

"Kyo-chan! I am so glad that I happened to run into you. I was wondering if Chika could stay at your estate when he gets out while I figure out something," Hunny said.

"Your father knew you were there sempi," Kyoya responded, "Try Haruhi. Your father doesn't even know who she is so your brother should be safe there."

"Thank you Kyo-chan," Hunny said as he whipped out his cell phone and headed to the door to text Haruhi. When he was outside he quickly typed a message to Haruhi and waited for a few moments for her to answer. The answer came back within a few seconds it read:

Sure of course Hunny-sempai. We would be glad to have him here. And you said a week that will give me plenty of time to prep the apartment for his arrival. I can't wait. Would you like to stay here too sempai?

Hunny responded with a quick yes and told her that he needed to talk to her later on the weekend when she was done with all her school work. Hunny decided that he should head back down to see Chika.

He got to the room to find Penny sitting there playing a game of cards with his little brother. As usual Chika was winning. Mainly because he had shuffled the cards. Hunny laughed to himself and sat down to watch the two finish their game. Penny looked up and noticed that the older brother was back.

"Oh hello there Mitskuni. I should get back to work, but I will come and check on you later," she said getting out of the chair and heading for the nurse's station.

"Hey Chika-chan. Kyo-chan informed me that dad knew you were at his mansion. SO to throw him off your scent we are going to stay with Haru-chan for the time being."

Chika nodded. For whatever reason he seemed very fond of the idea of staying with the scholarship student when he got out of the hospital in a week. He was looking forward to learning sign language to so that he would be able to communicate with other people that understood what he was saying. The only thing that still troubled him was that Satoshi would not be there to learn with him. 'Satoshi,' he thought, 'Promise me one thing. Someday soon you will be able to come and learn with me. We have been through a lot together. Don't make me go through the rest alone.'

A/N: Thank you all for reading. PLEASE R&R. also a really big thanks to mcangel1976 for reviewing and Xanliese for giving me feedback. Enjoy and in a few (6-7) more chapters I will be wrapping this up.