"Nagisa?" Akari's weak voice appeared in Nagisa's ears and it pulled Nagisa back from spacing out.

"..." a short glimpse of relieve flashed through Nagisa's eyes, but it also disappeared in the same second, "How are you feeling?" Nagisa asked with a rather cold voice.

"Kind of dizzy..." Akari answered without even thinking. She was too exhausted to realize the strange tone in Nagisa's voice.

"Mhmm..." Nagisa just hummed and took the towel from Akari's forehead to drain it in cold water again, dried it and placed it back.

The cold touch on Akari's forehead made her mind clearer again and she finally remembered what had happened before she fell unconscious. "Where are we?" she suddenly asked.

"Your room." Nagisa answered while gently whipping the sweat from Akari's face with another towel.

"W-why are you here?" Akari asked again, even though this technically was Nagisa's place, she still felt uneasy that he entered without her permission.

"Because an idiot thought it was a good idea to stand in the rain without her coat and boots for 20 minutes! That's why we're here! And that's why you're having a fever!" Nagisa finally reached his limit and yelled at her.

"Karma said you were..." Akari said while slightly puffing her cheeks feeling wronged.

"So if Karma told you that I jumped off the roof you'd jump right after me?!" Nagisa cut off her words and asked her with a really mad look on his face.

"Yes." Akari's instant answer caught Nagisa completely off guard. There wasn't the slightest glimpse of hesitation in her voice.

"Heh... now who's being unfair?... You're the one who was being stupid and now I'm feeling guilty for yelling at you." Nagisa shook his head with a bitter smile on his face, stood up and headed towards the door.

"..." Akari didn't understand what was happening until Nagisa already reached the door, "No! Don't!" Akari's eyes widened and she tried to get out of her bed, but her arms simply gave in and she started to fall out of her bed.

"What are you doing!" Akari just saw how Nagisa disappeared from the door and the next thing she knew he was at her side holding her and preventing her from hitting the ground.

"Don't leave." Akari body started to shiver while holding onto Nagisa as tight as she could, "I don't want you to leave, don't leave me alone again..." the guilt inside Nagisa got even worse after hearing Akari begging him to stay while tears were starting to gather in her eyes.

Hearing what Akari said made Nagisa's heart melt. From the moment he saw Akari's expression when she was standing out there in the rain, he knew that she didn't actually hate him... and it was also at that moment he decided that he wouldn't be leaving her side anymore... not when she's behaving like that without him.

"I won't..." Nagisa sighed and finally hugged Akari back, "you're way too stupid for me to leave you alone." He knew right from the beginning that he could have never kept his cold attitude against Akari for long. But this was way faster than he had anticipated.

Akari didn't answer, she just tried her best to hold him as tight as she could, though she really didn't have much strength in her arms at the moment.

"Be a good girl and wait here, will you? I have to get you a thermometer and some medicine." Nagisa gently stroke her hair to make her feel at ease.

"I'm coming with you..." Akari shook her head and refused to let go.

"You're already sick Akari, don't be unreasonable." Nagisa said in a gentle but undeniable voice.

"But... promise me you will come back." Akari said as her voice got weaker and weaker, she was talking and moving way too much for a person with a high fever.

"I promise. Unless you try to chase me away I won't try to leave anymore. Now be a good girl and lay down, your fever is getting worse." Nagisa said as gently as he could as he placed Akari back into her bed.

After stroking the hair strands from her forehead and replacing the towel again, Nagisa stood up again, "I'll be back soon, don't panic when I'm gone okay?" Nagisa said to her just to be sure.

Akari just slightly nodded and closed her eyes. Even if she wasn't okay with it, she was too weak to even protest.

Nagisa quickly smiled at her and left the room to asked his mother for a thermometer and some medicine.


Akari was laying in her bed but she was feeling so awful that she couldn't fall asleep. Now that she calmed down, she started to look at her situation. She definitely had a fever, a quite terrible one to be specific. Her head was spinning and she couldn't feel her limps which meant she couldn't gather any strength in them.

She had a similar feeling when she was drugged by the masked man, Akari remembered. And it was also because of that, that Nagisa finally faced his emotions and they became a couple.

- ... Maybe it's a good thing I always get into trouble? –

The random thought just crossed Akari's mind and she couldn't help but to smile at her ridiculous idea. Even though she felt horrible, she was happy. At least they were talking normally again. Akari slightly regretted that she tried to avoid Nagisa after they got back to Japan.

Because of that, Nagisa started to avoid her as well. And if Nagisa had actually left before she got outside, they probably wouldn't have met ever again.

Just thinking about it made Akari shiver and she pulled her legs closer to her body. But that also ended up with her left arm rubbing across the blanked and she felt the enormous pain.

That was when she realized that her wound on her arm was already treated and that she was in her pajamas...

Akari stared at herself for a few seconds before her pale face suddenly turned bright red, she was in her pajamas! And she also realized that she must have taken a shower since her body felt warm and cozy.

Nagisa came back the exact same second and saw how Akari was curled together. He instantly assumed that she felt uncomfortable, "what's wrong Akari?" Akari just felt how Nagisa suddenly appeared next to her but that made her even more embarrassed. All she did was slightly shaking her head.

"If you feel uncomfortable you have to tell me, what is it?" Nagisa asked again as he placed his hand on her head. The contact made Akari tremble and dodged back a little. "Akari?" Nagisa then realized that it must have been something else.

"...I-I'm in my pajamas..." Akari's barely hearable voice came from under the blanket.

"Huh? Well yeah of course you are..." Nagisa only realized what Akari meant when he was halfway through his sentence, "uhh..." his face instantly turned bright red as well, the pictures of Akari's body that have just left his mind came back again.

"I... m-my mom changed your clothes..." Nagisa explained while stuttering like crazy. It has been a while that he had lost his composure like this. Not even the fight against the tentacle creatures made him this nervous.

"Oh... okay." Akari said being slightly relieved and the tension on her body loosened slightly.

"..." Nagisa struggled for a second but decided to tell her after taking a deep breath. He promised to himself that he wasn't going to lie to her again. "I did treat your wound though... the cut was really deep and it might have gotten infected..." Nagisa looked to the side and said extremely fast.

"Nrgggggggg..." Nagisa just heard how Akari started to moan quietly as she curled herself even more.

"I'm sorry... but your wound looked really bad and..." Nagisa tried to explain but realized that it didn't matter what reason he had, at least not for Akari.

"..." Akari just stayed quiet and didn't come out of her blanket at all, her face was burning up like crazy and it definitely wasn't helping with the fever. The air in the blanket was starting to get stuffy and the dizziness was getting even worse.

"C-can we talk about this later? You have to take your medicine before it gets even worse." Nagisa desperately tried to change the topic and to his relieve Akari slightly stuck out her head from her blanket and nodded.

Nagisa spaced out yet again seeing Akari like this. Akari only showed her eyes and half of her nose while still hiding behind the blanket, her cheeks were still slightly pink and her eyes were a little bit teary. She looked so cute that Nagisa had the urge to keep her in his arms forever.

"Ne..." Akari protested in a really quiet voice that didn't seem convincing at all, but at least it made Nagisa snap out of his thoughts again.

"R-right... here." Nagisa offered her the thermometer and placed it in her mouth before checking over all the medicines his mother gave him in a huge plastic bag.

"... no... no... no" Nagisa shook his head after reading through the descriptions one by one. A lot of them were either just for small colds or had some unpleasant aftereffects, for example, the urge to throw up. "Hmm, this should be fine." Nagisa eyes lit up after putting away a few boxes.

"Here, take this, it'll cool down the fever, the aftereffect is that you'll get sleepy but you'll need your rest anyways." Nagisa handed Akari the capsule and helped her to sit up after taking the thermometer from her.

Nagisa's brows narrowed after seeing the number on the thermometer, 39,8 degrees. That was really really high, considering that a body temperature above 40 was already considered life threatening!

"Careful it's a bit hot." Nagisa said while giving her a cup of water, "get some good rest after you take it. Your fever is dangerously high."

"T-thank you." Akari said while she was still avoiding eye contact with Nagisa and swallowed the capsule with a small sip of water.

The fact that Akari thanked him made Nagisa a bit sad again. Because if this was two years ago, she wouldn't have said that. Two years ago it would've been normal if he did all this for her.

Suddenly feeling a sense of sadness, Nagisa pulled Akari into his arms instead of helping Akari to lay down again. "Nagisa?!" Akari was clearly shocked by his sudden action, "what are you?!"

"You promised that you'd let me hug you again didn't you?" Nagisa smiled and said.

"B-but you'll get sick as well..." Akari tried to struggle but she clearly didn't have the strength for that right now.

"I won't." Nagisa just shook his head and held her even closer to him. "I missed you..." Akari suddenly felt how water was starting to drop on her shoulder. It took her a split second to realize what it was. "I really missed you..." Akari could hear that Nagisa's voice was starting to tremble as her shoulder was getting wetter.

"I..." Akari instinctively reached out to embrace Nagisa as well but her arms stopped midair, "then why did you leave me alone..." the one question that was still preventing Akari from forgiving Nagisa was asked again.

"Because I'm an idiot!" Nagisa gave her an answer she didn't expect at all, "I'm sorry... I'm sorry that I decided everything without telling you, I'm sorry that I was so unconfident, I'm sorry that I disappointed you, I'm sorry for leaving you alone! I'm sorry!"

Nagisa shouted out what he wanted to tell her the entire time. He didn't do it before because there was always this one voice inside him that was saying that he did all of this for her. But it didn't matter anymore, so what if he did do it for her? So what if it ended up being the right decision to save her? It all didn't matter if she wasn't happy.

"..." Akari's body started to tremble. This was the only answer she wanted to hear all along. She never wanted an objective reason to why he left her. The entire time she wanted to know how he was really feeling, the entire time they were talking right past each other since Nagisa was arguing on the objective side while she was always reasoning on the subjective side.

"I-I missed you too!" Akari's finally wrapped her arms around Nagisa's neck and pulled herself closer to him, "Why didn't you tell me that you were still alive? I would've come with you to the special force! I wouldn't have cared how hard it would've been, as long as you were still there! Why didn't you take me with you! I missed you so much!" Akari started to cry while constantly hitting Nagisa against his shoulder. But she had so little strength that Nagisa barely felt it.

"I'm sorry..." There really wasn't anything else Nagisa could say, what Akari said was just a bigger hit to his chest.

- She would've come with me... but I... –

That was everything Nagisa could think off.

"Akari... can you forgive me... can you forgive me for being so selfish... can I... stay with you again?" Nagisa asked while his heart started to race again. Even though Akari seemed like she didn't hate him anymore, he was still anxious.

Nagisa's body stiffened when Akari started to shake her head after hesitating for a second. "Only if you promise that you'll always take me with you from now on, no matter where you go." Akari said.

"Akari..." Nagisa gently leaned his forehead against hers and started her in her golden eyes. "I promise." After letting out a quiet laughter of relieve, Nagisa's face started to move closer to Akari's.

But just before Nagisa reached Akari's lips, she placed her finger on his and gently shook her head. "I know you said that you won't catch my fever, but just to be sure." Akari giggled and pecked Nagisa's face before he understood what she was doing.

"You're a cunning little devil disguised as an angel, have I ever told you that?" Nagisa showed her a slightly unpleased smile while also giving her a kiss on her forehead and gently laying her down again.

Nagisa carefully covered her with her blanket, sat down again and just started to look at her after she had closed her eyes.

"Stop that... I can't sleep like this..." the feeling of Nagisa constantly staring at her face made her unable to fall asleep.

"But I haven't seen your sleeping face for two years." Nagisa protested while he reached out and gently took Akari's hand in his.

"You'll get tired of it..." Akari muttered and turned her face to the other side.

"Never." Nagisa just smiled and held her hand even tighter, "now get some rest, you've been through enough. I'll be here with you."

Akari didn't know if it was Nagisa's presence or just the medicine's aftereffect kicking in. But she suddenly started to feel extremely tired. It was a feeling that she didn't have for two years now. The feeling to fall asleep in peace.

It only took a few seconds and Akari was fast asleep with a faint smile on her face. "She must have been really exhausted." Nagisa had a doting look on his face and just watched Akari falling deeper and deeper into her slumber while he kept replacing the towel on her forehead with his other hand.


"Yaaaaa..." Akari moaned like a kitten while her eyelashes were slightly shaking. She then slowly opened her eyes with her brows slightly narrowed.

She didn't sense a lot of light when she opened her eyes so she was able to open them rather quickly unlike usually. She then took a quick look at the window. It was already dark outside.

Instinctively she tried to use her right arm to rub her eyes since they were still a little but cloudy from just waking up, but she instantly felt resistance. She turned her head and looked at the direction trying to find out what was keeping her hand from moving and saw Nagisa sitting on a chair while his head was leaned against her bed.

She eyes followed down his arm and she finally saw his hand that was locked with her own. A faint smile appeared on Akari's face. She remembered how she had made up with Nagisa before she fell asleep again.

Not wanting to wake him up, Akari also laid herself back after throwing a quick glimpse at the clock. It was already 18:37! She had been asleep for 6 hours already.

"Oh, you're awake. How are you feeling?" Nagisa lifted his head after slightly shaking it to clear his mind. He was in a half sleep again while he always kept an eye on Akari. So the second she woke up, Nagisa started to wake up as well.

"Way better, how are you? Must have been really uncomfortable to sleep like this." Akari said showing Nagisa a sweet smile.

"I'm fine, had way worse." Nagisa laughed and gave her a kiss on her forehead after standing up, "Well the fever has definitely gone down a bit." Nagisa nodded.

"What happened to the reunion?" Akari suddenly asked. She did feel bad for the rest that they just left without saying anything, but at the same time, she was happy that they did. She wouldn't have been able to make up with Nagisa if they stayed there.

"I already told Karma and he postponed the reunion, apparently all of them are staying here for another two weeks." Nagisa explained, "so you better get better fast." Nagisa smiled while gently pinching her cheek.

"Oww!" Akari was protesting when her stomach suddenly started to growl and interrupted her. Her face turned slightly red.

"Of course you'll be hungry, you didn't have any lunch and now it's already past dinner time." Nagisa laughed after seeing Akari's reaction, "my mom already cooked dinner."

"Teehee." Akari stuck out her tongue a bit and was about to get out of her bed before Nagisa stopped her by gently flinging her forehead.

"You're not getting out of bed just yet." Nagisa smiled while shaking his head, "I'll go get it for you." Nagisa said walked downstairs.

Akari just sat in her bed and watched how Nagisa walked out of the room. The second he closed the door behind him she started to smile. She didn't think that it was possible, but they were actually starting over. The feeling she had two years ago was coming back.

Yay :P they're back together :D Actually felt pretty relieved that I brought them together again. I felt really bad for constantly torturing them like this since they are my OTP. But this was all for the greater good right? :P

Well :D tell me how you felt about this chapter. Was is alright how they got back together or do you think it was way too easy after the huge mess I was making?

Anyways, thank you so much for your support and I'll see you in the next chapter! ;)