The first thing that I remember when I had woke up, was the noise that had woke me.
I could hear Kanade coughing above me.
"Kanade?" I asked, stumbling onto my feet, still half awake.
I helped her get into a sitting position to clear her lungs a bit.
By now, she was coughing very loudly and I had tried to soothe her by holding her hand and rubbing her hair.
I had then offered her my jacket to cough into and she had accepted it very thankfully.
"Thank you, Yuzuru," she rasped after a bit.
She had then started to cough again, and I had reached over to turn on the lamp and rubbed her back in an attempt to help her out.
This had continued for a wile, her coughing into my jacket and taking a break for some air, only to be followed by some more coughing. Only the next time she had pulled away, I could see some blood splattered on the inside collar of the jacket.
She had turned to look at me, and I could see that she had some around her mouth and running down the side of her left cheek.
"Kanade," I said more worried this time, my voice almost cracking, "we have to get you to a doctor."
"Yuzuru," she protested, "it's late."
"I know, but you have to trust me on this one."
She did have a point, it was very late, or very early. I had looked at my watch and had saw that it was just now turning four in the morning.
But nevertheless, I was worried about her and I could feel my throat start to constrict from the worry that I had over her right now. I couldn't let her know that I was scared or worried, she wasn't so I shouldn't be either.
But if I had wanted to get her to a hospital, I would have to get her there quick, and the nearest that I knew of was in a different town. Ours was being torn down for reconstruction, the building was old, but couldn't the builders build a little faster, I mean, I just really need to get to a hospital fast.
What would I do? I didn't have my car with me at the time.
Who always knew me the best and helped me out when I was in a pinch?
Hinata.
I have to call Hinata.
I had moved into the kitchek quick, grabbing my cell and walking back into the room while dialing his number.
One ring.
Pause
Two rings
Pause
Three rings
Pause
Was Hinata going to pick up?
"Hello?" Came the tired voice of Hinata through the phone.
"Hinata?" I asked
"Yuzuru? What the hell are you doing up this early?" He asked, jokingly.
"No time to explain that," I said sounding urgent, "I need to go somewhere, can you get us there?"
"Us, who's us?" He asked "Man, are you joking, cause I must admit you had me going there for a bit."
"No, I'm serious," I said, trying to sound it, "Kanade is sick and we have to get her to a doctor, quick."
I could tell Hinata's mood had changed drastically, and he was believing me now. "How soon do you need to be there?" He asked
"Now soon." I said
"Okay, where are you at?" He asked.
I could hear Yui's muffled voice in the background.
"Who are you talking to?" she asked, rather accusingly.
"Yuzuru," replied Hinata, answering Yui. "He's in need of help, are you gonna come?"
"Don't you DARE think about leaving me for one second!" she answered furiously "You can never get rid of me!"
"We're on our way," he said "where are you two at?"
"You know that big white house with all of the lawn decorations?" I asked
"Oh, yeah, the one on Crow Street?"
"Yeah, that's Kanade's house. We are both here."
"Okay, hang tight," he said, "we're on our way."
"Okay," I said and he had hing up the phone.
"Who was that?" Kanade asked, her voice still rasping.
"That was Hinata, he'll be here any second to come pick us up and take us to the hospital." I explained.
"Oh," she said, sounding like she would doze off at any second.
No words could describe how bad I felt for not taking her to a hospital sooner. I had known that something was up with her. Why didn't I do anything about it sooner?
Idiot.
I could have stopped all of this from happening in the first place.
I was such an idiot, but I had to be smart now, for Kanade.
"Yuzuru," asked Kanade, "what's wrong?"
"I'm so sorry Kanade, this is all my fault, I could have stopped all of this from happening to you in the first place." I wanted to cry about this but I didn't.
"Yuzuru," she said, "none of this is your doing, and besides, you know that I wouldn't have wanted to go to a doctor last night anyway. We would have argued about it."
She smiled at me. "You know that I'm right, you had surrendered just like I had."
We were both interrupted by a knocking at the front door.
"That must be Hinata. Come in!" I said.
"Are you two ready?" asked Hinata.
Kanade looked at me and nodded.
"Yeah," I called.
"Can you walk?" I asked Kanade.
She nodded, but I felt like carrying her instead.
"Can I carry you?" I asked.
She blushed a bit, but after a second, she nodded.
"Coming," I called, picking up Kanade and her blankets with my bloodied jacket sitting on top of it all. I could see that she had coughed more from all the small blood stains here and there, but thankfully, it wasn't too noticeable. I had helped her get some if it off of her face before Hinata had came.
I had waked into the kitchen, Yui holding open the door, Hinata beside her, holding a couple of thick blankets.
"Let's go," I said, taking Kanade out the front door, into the driveway.
I was glad that Hinata had left his car running so that it would stay warm.
Yui had briefly ran out in front of me, opening the back seat door for me and Kanade.
I had briefly thanked her too, one of the only times too, due to the fact that she was pretty annoying the rest of the time.
I had set Kanade on her feet in front of the door, and she had got in and scooted to the far tight side of the backseat. I had sat in the middle seat wanting to be as close to her as possible.
I had helped Kanade get situated before I had buckled her seat belt, then buckled mine.
Hinata had stepped into the car and slowly had started to back out of the driveway.
We had then started our trip to the hospital, Kanade had fallen asleep on my shoulder as soon as we had gotten out of town.
The entire ride was really quiet, for nobody really wanted to say anything.
When we had finally arrived into the town it was bout four thirty now.
I had let out a sigh of relief that Kanade was asleep, she was so peaceful when she was sleeping, it made me feel much more calm.
Hinata had parked his car in the lot in front of the building.
I would hate to wake up Kanade, so I had gently unbuckled my seatbelt, and went around to the other side to get her out, carrying her in my arms. Yui had shut the door behind me, locking the doors.
We had then headed inside, rather hurriedly to the reception desk, Kanade may have woken up at this point, but I couldn't tell.
"Hi," I said, trying to keep calm," We need a doctor, It's important."
"Well honey," she said, "I wouldn't expect you to be here if it wasn't important."
She had pressed a button on her phone, talking into it loud enough so that I could hear.
"Yeah," she started, "we need a doctor here, quickly, please."
there were muffed voices coming from the phone, they were saying something, but the noise in the background stood out most, making it hard to hear what they were saying.
"Don't worry," she said, "they'll be here soon."
Soon indeed, not very long after, there was a doctor and a nurse at our aid.
"Right this way, Sir," he sounded formal and calm, surely there was nothing to really worry about, for he seemed like he could handle any disaster.
I had to trust him to take care of Kanade.
Hinata had put a hand on my shoulder, reassuring me and encouraging me to go forward with the doctor and his assistant.
I looked up at Hinata and nodded my head, somewhere in the background, Yui was looking at some magazines, glancing up at the T.V. every so often.
"Go on," said Hinata, "we'll wait for you all night if we have to."
"Thanks," I said gratefully, and I had started walking down the hall, Kanade in my arms, following the doctor and the nurse.
Okay, guys, hope you enjoyed, but I bet you're mainly upset at me because it took me over a week to get this chapter out. Hopefully the next one one won't take as long because I got really busy and school sucks, hope you enjoyed and let me know what you think about this, I am open to suggestions!
