Of course, Kairi thought, staring at the small redhead curled up in a ball with tubes hooked up to her. I finally realize my feelings when I can't tell her them anymore. When she's on the brink of—no, I won't allow myself to finish that sentence.
"I'll leave to give you some privacy," the doctor said gruffly, walking out the door and muttering something about telekinesis. Kairi nodded.
"Samurais should not regret anything. They will take the path they choose and never look back," Musashi advised his owner.
"That's what you told me after the Black Diamond CD betrayal," Kairi sighed, looking down at his hands. "But, no matter what you say, I'm going to regret something. Not realizing my feelings earlier, not realizing that she was ill earlier, not—"
"Don't ponder on your mistakes… learn from them," Musashi said wisely.
Yaya suddenly yawned and opened her eyes. "Kairi-kun? What is Yaya doing in…" She looked around. "A prostitution camp?" (A/N: And how would she know what that looks like?)
"She's been spending too much time with Ikuto," Kairi muttered under his breath. "No, we're in a hospital…"
"But Yaya feels fine!" The eleven-year-old protested, sitting up, making the monitor squeal like a pig being burned by a torch.
Not that Kairi had ever seen that before.
"No, you aren't. The doctor said you have…" Kairi squinted at the messy handwriting on the notepad. "…you have ADD?" (A/N: That stands for Attention Deficit Disorder. It makes sense that Yaya would be diagnosed with it, doesn't it?)
"What? Let me see," Musashi demanded, flying over to his owner. "ADD? But that wouldn't cause her to go into a coma, and that wouldn't cause her stomach to hurt, and…"
"We all know Yaya-chi has ADD!" Pepe shrieked. "The Scientologists ("Scientologists?" Musashi muttered disdainfully) told us when she was five!"
"He's a fake!" Kairi realized. As if on cue, the doctor popped into the room.
He winked and grinned. "You just got punk'd!"
"What does that mean?" Kairi and Musashi asked in unison. Kairi quickly pulled out his laptop and went to Urban Dictionary.
"There's Wi-Fi signal here!" Musashi cheered.
Kairi read the first entry. When a celebrity falls into a trap of trickery cleverly devised by Ashton Kutcher so that he can wave his arms around and make his retro John Deere hat fall off while going into a seizure from the most recent punk. "You just got punk'd! I'm Ashton Kutcher! I have nothing better to do than sneak around in my trucker clothing and punk people! I'M AWESOME!"
"Who's Ashton Kutcher? What's a John Deere hat?" Musashi asked, adjusting his glasses.
Kairi shrugged, reading the second entry. Fooled, tricked, made the butt of a practical joke. "I think this is the 'punk'd' the doctor was referring to."
The doctor threw a piece of paper on the bed. "Thought you might like to read this. Anyways, I'm going to lock you two in here until your sister comes in and signs that check. You can scream all you want—the walls are soundproof." He quickly slipped out of the door and pulled it shut. Kairi quickly ran to the door and attempted to open it, to no avail.
"Kairi-kun, what do all these numbers stand for?" Yaya asked, examining the piece of paper. Kairi took it from her and scanned it.
"It's the bill," he managed, his face pale. The total added up to 60,792 yen. "We have to get out of here and warn nee-san and Nikaidou-san."
"How?" Yaya asked. (A/N: That's what I'd like to know also!)
Kairi looked around the room. There were no windows and the door was locked. But the air inside the room was cool, while it was easily 30 degrees (A/N: Approximately 86 degrees Fahrenheit) outside. "There must be an air vent," he realized. "Let's just hope it's a bigger one."
He quickly found it, on the right of Yaya's bed. It was a 2' by 1', which was hopefully—which had to be—big enough. He pulled out a screwdriver (A/N: Um, I don't know where he got that from…Kairi doesn't seem like the type to carry screwdrivers around, does he?) and worked at the screws, lifting the metal lid up. "Do you want to go first?" he asked Yaya.
The sixth-grader jumped behind Kairi and shook her head timidly. "Kairi goes first!"
The green-haired genius (A/N: Yep, that's my official nickname for him now) nodded and slipped down the air vent. Since he was on the slender side, it wasn't too tight of a fit. Yaya slid down after him.
A few minutes later, both kids burst out of an external air vent, gasping for air. Kairi dusted off Yaya's clothes and straightened up.
"That was scary! Yaya saw a spider!" Yaya cried.
"Well, we're not in there anymore," Kairi said.
They both sat down in the grass. Musashi nudged Kairi. "Now here's your chance!"
"I don't want to confess just yet…" Kairi muttered back.
Yaya pointed up at the sky. "Look, ravens!"
Kairi nodded. The ravens circled lower and lower. He squinted, adjusting his glasses. The ravens were suspiciously oval-shaped and had white X's marked on them…
"I don't think those are ravens…" he said.
"X-eggs…haven't seen one of those things for months. It makes me nostalgic," Musashi muttered. (A/N: Whaaaat?)
Kairi looked around, but they were surrounded by black whirling ellipses murmuring "Useless, useless," under their breath. "Yaya, Character Transform!"
"Yeah!" she shrieked. "Haven't done this for months! Pepe, let's do this! Yaya's own heart, unlock!"
"So enthusiastic…" Kairi sweatdropped. He looked at his own Guardian Character. "My own heart, unlock!" He remembered the first time he'd Transformed… right after Amu had convinced him to switch to the Guardian's side… back when he'd had a silly crush on her… you told her you'd always love her, he scolded himself. How could you make such a colossal mistake?
The eggs began circling around the two grade-schoolers. They circled tighter and tighter, until they'd completely trapped the two kids.
"How are we going to purify these X-eggs?" Kairi asked, panicking. There was no way out of this.
"There's no way!" Yaya shouted, but to Kairi's surprise, her eyes were dry. "But there has to be some way!"
"You just contradicted yourself…" Kairi sweatdropped.
But it was strange, that they were the only pairing…couple…group who couldn't purify eggs. Of course Amu and Ikuto could purify eggs, they owned the Humpty Lock and Dumpty Key (well, Ikuto had merely "forgotten" to return it to Tadase). Kukai and Utau had Seraphic Charm's X-egg purifying move, Angel's Cradle. Rima and Nagihiko could perform Queen's Waltz together to purify eggs. But… he and Yaya couldn't purify any eggs.
And of course they'd be the ones ending up in this situation.
There's got to be a way out of here. The thing that binded all three of those pairs were…love. Each one of them had admitted their feelings to someone. Kairi had told no one, unless Musashi counted, and he apparently didn't.
Yaya had admitted her feelings to me. "I get this fizzy feeling in my heart…" I'm the one who has to say those words back.
"Yaya!" He stared at the redhead.
"Huh?" she asked.
"I-I love you! I was so…so ignorant! I saw past you, let my eyes drift to the pink-haired girl next to you! I mistook admiration for love! I didn't see what was right in front of my eyes! I guess they're right when they say love is blind!" Kairi shouted. He didn't feel the same burning heat on his cheeks that he'd felt when he'd confessed to Amu—instead, he felt gentle warmth, like a summer breeze. Because he was sure of himself this time.
"What are you doing?" Musashi hissed from inside Kairi.
"I'm tired of lying. I'm going to be honest this time—to myself and to Yaya," Kairi replied.
"You know, she was the most upset when the Guardians found out you were a traitor," Musashi pointed out.
Yaya grinned toothily at the green-haired genius, her light brown eyes sparkling. "Kairi! Yaya thinks she's figured her feelings out too! It was always going to be Kairi!"
"I guess she didn't reject you, at least," Musashi said.
"So optimistic…" Kairi sighed.
Suddenly, a light began glowing between the two children. "Wh-what?" he sputtered, blinking.
Yaya smiled. "Kairi, let's do this!"
"Do what? Why is Yaya the one who knows what to do?" Musashi muttered.
"Sunray Sparkle!" she yelled, creating a diamond with her index fingers and thumbs. Kairi stared, and suddenly he realized what he had to do.
"Sunray Sparkle!" he echoed, creating a cross with his two katanas.
Light began flowing from his blades. Light blasted from Yaya's fingers also, and the three light sources merged together.
The light exploded into thousands of sparkles. When a sparkle touched an X-egg, the X was lifted off and the purified egg floated away.
Soon, the only thing left were the sparkles. Without anything to purify, they flew up and turned into fireworks. The two kids sat down and watched the fireworks.
"How pretty," Yaya whispered, reaching for Kairi's hand.
"Yaya. I meant what I said. All of it," the fifth-grader said, taking her cool hand and squeezing it.
She squeezed back. "I know…so did I."
This was my first time trying Author Notes. Please review and tell me what you think of them, if I went overkill with them, etc. I have the anonymous reviews setting on so "I don't have an account" is an illegitimate excuse to not review! *Malicious psycho shine in eyes* sorry…heh heh, I'm getting jaded *sigh*. Anyways, next chapter we'll be back to the Rimahiko. I've decided that I want to do the Cinderella play because it was so fun writing the Hansel and Gretel one. I tried to maximize the Kaiya fluff but I'm not that great at writing fluff…^_^