"Well, all I can say is he will live."
"What?!"
Yoji and Omi both sighed at their friend.
"He jumped off a roof and almost killed himself and that's all you can
tell us?! What kind of doctor are you?!"
Frowning, he looked down at the young man. "The kind
that heals, and your friend did a number on himself!"
"That's why you're the doctor! Heal him!"
"It isn't that simple, young man."
Ken pushed past the doctor, heading for the doors he had come out
only a moment beforehand.
"Where are you going? Sir, you're not allowed back there!"
"Ken-kun is causing problems", Omi whispered with a
shake of his head.
Yoji only shrugged. "Like I said. PMS. Maybe they will
knock him out or something."
"Yoji-kun!"
"Tell me you weren't thinking the same thing?"
The blond just sighed, watching as two security guards
struggled with the dark haired assassin. "Could be
worse, he could have his bugnuks on."
"That's my chibi, seeing the glass as half full!"
Ken growled as the men grabbed him, struggling to
break away. "Let go, you stupid bastards! I swear if
you don't let me go, I'll rip your heads off and..." He
felt the needle go into his shoulder, letting out a
slight cry.
"What did you do to him?"
The doctor turned, looking at the other two assassins.
"He was being hysterical, we just gave him a
sedative."
"Well, at least he will be quiet now."
Omi looked up at the eldest assassin in disbelief.
"What? You saying you enjoyed seeing him act like an overbearing
jerk?"
"No."
Yoji nodded. "So I thought!"
~~~~~~~~~~
Ken slowly woke, looking around the room. "Where the
hell..."
"Not hell, not quite."
Sitting up, he saw Yoji and Omi sitting in two chairs
against the wall. "What are you two doing here? What
happened?"
Omi looked up. "Ah, you do remember acting like an idiot down in the
E.R., don't you?", he finally said.
Yoji let out a slight laugh. "They sedated you, saying you were a
danger to yourself and to others."
"Bull shit", Ken grumbled, rubbing the back of his
neck.
"Anyway, chibi and I saw your loverboy."
Ken looked up, glaring at the playboy. "I wanted to
see him!"
"Now you can, Mr. Spaz! Doctor said he did a good
number on himself. Almost managed to break every bone
in his body. Not bad for one day's work." The pillow
smacked Yoji in the face. "Mature, KenKen!"
Ken growled once again, hopping down from the bed. "I want to see him
now!"
"Yeah, yeah. Now here we go off to Rannie-land."
Omi looked up at Yoji and shook his head. "You are way
to cheerful about this."
"Hey, I'm being better than Mr. Let's Tear The Hospital
Apart!"
"True."
Ken stopped, looking back at the two. "Would you mind
NOT talking about me!"
"Why? It's so much fun to see your reactions."
Ken growled.
"Ok, look. I'm pissed off about this as much as you are, but there is
no point in being a bastard about it! Ran jumped, we couldn't stop
him, and I refuse to bitch about it when there is nothing
I can do to change what happened!"
Ken sighed, looking down at the floor.
"Am I angry it happened? Yes! Do I wish I could have stopped him?
Yes! But we didn't, so now we have to keep a prospective here and
help Ran to the best of our abilities to get him better!"
"But Aya, she-"
"Right now, I don't give a damn about Aya!" Yoji snapped.
"We have to worry about Ran, don't you think, KenKen?"
Breathing up, his back hit the wall behind him.
"Yeah."
"Good, then stop being the bastard and start being the worried
lover!" With that, he walked past Ken towards the
hospital room Ran was staying in.
"Whoa! Did Yoji really just say that shit?"
Omi nodded, watching the man walk away. "He almost
sounded smart."
Ken nodded, and the two young men walked off to catch up.
*
Ken's world stopped when he entered Ran's hospital room. Could that
plaster covered body really be...
"Ran?"
The other two nodded.
Ken walked up so he could look at Ran's face, just to confirm that it
was really him in there. Sure enough, Ken was met with the beautiful
face of his dear uke, deep in sleep.
"Doctor Kobayashi said he'll be very confused when he wakes up. So
try and go easy on him."
Ken took a deep breath, clentching his fists tight. "I'll do my
best...Damn it, Ran! You've really fucked yourself up."
"Ken-kun."
"Daijoubu, Omi." Ken turned around, the anger on his face now mixed
with tears. "Let's go home. I think we could all use some rest."
One week later:
Ran was in pain, and boy was there a lot of pain. There
was also an itch and he couldn't scratch it. His life
really sucked. 'Yeah, but I was the dumb ass that jumped', he thought
to himself, eyes darting around the ceiling. He hated
being in this position, vulnerable and unable to defend himself.
"So how are you feeling?", Dr. Kobayashi asked, startling Ran as he
entered the room.
Violet eyes glared up at the doctor. "Hurts..."
"Seeing that you jumped from a building, I'll consider that a good
thing." He saw the glare again. "Are there problems at home, Ran?",
the doctor asked, sitting down.
"No!" he snapped.
"Then why did you jump?"
What was he supposed to say to that? He jumped because
the sister he loved had finally woken up from her coma
and he found out, but then she rejected him? It
sounded cheesy, but it still hurt. He simply groaned.
"So you jumped because you were bored?"
"Something like that."
Dr. Kobayashi shook his head. "I think I am going to
suggest that you see a counselor to talk out your
feelings", he answered.
"Whatever."
Shaking his head, he looked down at the papers.
"You young men have the most wonderful livelihoods. You
don't speak, and your friend flips and tries to run into restricted
areas while cussing up a storm."
"Who?"
I'm sorry?"
"Who did that?"
The doctor arched a brow.
Ran sighed. "Who was...causing problems?"
Grinning, he looked back down at the paperwork. "The
dark haired one. Ken, I believe."
Ran's face went pale. Dr. Kobayashi seemed to notice. "Ken?" He
was here and he was angry? Then he remembered Ken's voice after he
jumped. Ken had seen him jump, had said he wasn't going to let him
die.
"He will kill me."
"I don't know about killing you, but he was very worried about you."
At that moment the doors to the room opened and Ran heard the one
voice he had feared to hear. "Ran!"
Ken was now in the room.
If he could have moved, he would have run away as fast
as possible. Ran had never heard his lover use that
tone with him; then again he had never seen the anger
he saw in his lover's eyes as he looked down at him. "I
am so screwed", he thought to himself, preparing to
face his final judgment at the hands of the dark
haired assassin.
"Hey, Ken."
The shock in the dark chocolate eyes at such a normal
greeting was almost worth the death sentence he was
about to face.
Ken looked deep into Ran's eyes. He looked tired, and a bit
dazed. "Not surprising, considering all he's been through," Ken
thought, almost sorry for his own hurt and rage.
"Ran, you...you really scared me. You scared all of us."
Ran closed his eyes, taking a forced breath. "Aya..."
"I know what happened with Aya. We were all there to see it. And I
guess a part of me can understand why you might feel it's hopeless,
but-"
A lone tear fell down Ran's cheek, and Ken quickly brushed it away.
"Don't cry, baby", he whispered. "You can't get your cast wet,
remember?"
Ran smiled tiredly, but the smile faded quickly. "Family is..."
"Ran-kun." Omi stepped up to his friend's bedside, smiling
sweetly. "I know all about family rejection and betrayal. You know
that! And, yes, at first, it hurt me very much. It still hurts me to
think about sometimes. But I go on living. I find a reason to push
forward. And I know that I have people that love me. Three of them
are right here, in this room."
"Touching, but sappy", Yoji quipped from the corner of the room.
Ken turned around, glaring at the playboy. Omi's eyes stayed fixed on
Ran.
"I...what should I say?" Ran was overwhelmed. "You're right. I
guess..."
"Of course I am!"
"But now...I think...it would be...better...if I had died."
"No! No it wouldn't!", Ken argued. "Your body will heal! It may take
time, but-"
"Never be the same", Ran lamented, tears forming in his eyes.
Ken quickly wiped them away. "Never..."
Ran's eyes drooped closed, his body finally succumbing to sleep.
Yoji stood up "I guess that's our cue to leave."
Ken just stood for a moment, watching his lover sleep. Finally, he
spoke, turning to Dr. Kobayashi. "Can I stay with him?"
"I don't know if-"
"Please", Ken begged. "I'll do whatever I can to help. And I promise
I won't make a scene again", he added sheepishly.
"Very well", Dr. Kobayashi chuckled. "It's obvious you two love
eachother very much. I suppose it would be alright if you stayed
tonight."
"Arigato", Ken bowed, smiling widely. Dr. Kobayashi just walked off,
shaking his head and grinning.
"He thinks you're cute!", Omi giggled.
Ken laughed. "Goodnight."
Yoji and Omi left, and Ken was finally alone with his beloved. He sat
up for several minutes, grateful that Ran was at least alive.
"In your dreams, you can run free", he whispered to Ran, smiling.
~~~~~~~~~~
"Ohayo, Ken. Ohayo, Mummy boy."
Ran glared at the ceiling, wishing he could look at Yoji. "Go away."
"Hey! If you can't laugh at yourself, you'll just stay bitter and
miserable. And that isn't going to get you better."
"Hmph."
"Yoji-kun has a point, in an odd way", Omi commented, handing Ken a
container of soup. "Here, we weren't sure if Ran had eaten any
breakfast yet, so we brought some over. "
"Arigato", Ken nodded, taking the soup from Omi. "You hungry, Ran?"
"I'm not anything."
"Come one, Ran. It looks really good. Eat some", Ken urged, holding
the spoon up to Ran's mouth.
"Then you eat-" Before Ran had a chance to finish his sentence, the
soup was already in his mouth.
Ran glared angrily up at Ken.
"What is it?", Ken asked innocently.
"I...didn't say...I..was-" Once again, Ran found himself eating the
soup. He looked up at Ken again. No glare this time. Just hurt.
"Ran..."
"It's fun for...you... isn't it?"
"What?" Ken had no idea what Ran was talking about.
"If I'm hungry or...if I'm...not hungry...I don't have a choice. I
eat if...you want me to."
Ken turned to Yoji and Omi. "Could you give us a moment, please?"
They nodded, leaving Ken to try and comfort Ran."
"Ran, I just-"
"No choices", Ran sighed. "I... am...helpless. Useless. I...should be
dead. But even at...that...I failed."
"And I'm GLAD you failed!", Ken snapped back, drying Ran's eyes for
what seemed like the 80th time. "Once you get out of this body cast,
and get some physical therapy, there is still a lot of life left in
you. You are NOT useless, Ran!"
"I...I..."
Before Ran could finish his reply, the two men heard a knock at the
door.
"Just give us a minute, would you?" Ken turned around, expecting to
see Yoji, Omi, or a nurse. His face grew angry when he learned the
visitor was none of the above.
"Manx", he hissed.
"What?!"
Yoji and Omi both sighed at their friend.
"He jumped off a roof and almost killed himself and that's all you can
tell us?! What kind of doctor are you?!"
Frowning, he looked down at the young man. "The kind
that heals, and your friend did a number on himself!"
"That's why you're the doctor! Heal him!"
"It isn't that simple, young man."
Ken pushed past the doctor, heading for the doors he had come out
only a moment beforehand.
"Where are you going? Sir, you're not allowed back there!"
"Ken-kun is causing problems", Omi whispered with a
shake of his head.
Yoji only shrugged. "Like I said. PMS. Maybe they will
knock him out or something."
"Yoji-kun!"
"Tell me you weren't thinking the same thing?"
The blond just sighed, watching as two security guards
struggled with the dark haired assassin. "Could be
worse, he could have his bugnuks on."
"That's my chibi, seeing the glass as half full!"
Ken growled as the men grabbed him, struggling to
break away. "Let go, you stupid bastards! I swear if
you don't let me go, I'll rip your heads off and..." He
felt the needle go into his shoulder, letting out a
slight cry.
"What did you do to him?"
The doctor turned, looking at the other two assassins.
"He was being hysterical, we just gave him a
sedative."
"Well, at least he will be quiet now."
Omi looked up at the eldest assassin in disbelief.
"What? You saying you enjoyed seeing him act like an overbearing
jerk?"
"No."
Yoji nodded. "So I thought!"
~~~~~~~~~~
Ken slowly woke, looking around the room. "Where the
hell..."
"Not hell, not quite."
Sitting up, he saw Yoji and Omi sitting in two chairs
against the wall. "What are you two doing here? What
happened?"
Omi looked up. "Ah, you do remember acting like an idiot down in the
E.R., don't you?", he finally said.
Yoji let out a slight laugh. "They sedated you, saying you were a
danger to yourself and to others."
"Bull shit", Ken grumbled, rubbing the back of his
neck.
"Anyway, chibi and I saw your loverboy."
Ken looked up, glaring at the playboy. "I wanted to
see him!"
"Now you can, Mr. Spaz! Doctor said he did a good
number on himself. Almost managed to break every bone
in his body. Not bad for one day's work." The pillow
smacked Yoji in the face. "Mature, KenKen!"
Ken growled once again, hopping down from the bed. "I want to see him
now!"
"Yeah, yeah. Now here we go off to Rannie-land."
Omi looked up at Yoji and shook his head. "You are way
to cheerful about this."
"Hey, I'm being better than Mr. Let's Tear The Hospital
Apart!"
"True."
Ken stopped, looking back at the two. "Would you mind
NOT talking about me!"
"Why? It's so much fun to see your reactions."
Ken growled.
"Ok, look. I'm pissed off about this as much as you are, but there is
no point in being a bastard about it! Ran jumped, we couldn't stop
him, and I refuse to bitch about it when there is nothing
I can do to change what happened!"
Ken sighed, looking down at the floor.
"Am I angry it happened? Yes! Do I wish I could have stopped him?
Yes! But we didn't, so now we have to keep a prospective here and
help Ran to the best of our abilities to get him better!"
"But Aya, she-"
"Right now, I don't give a damn about Aya!" Yoji snapped.
"We have to worry about Ran, don't you think, KenKen?"
Breathing up, his back hit the wall behind him.
"Yeah."
"Good, then stop being the bastard and start being the worried
lover!" With that, he walked past Ken towards the
hospital room Ran was staying in.
"Whoa! Did Yoji really just say that shit?"
Omi nodded, watching the man walk away. "He almost
sounded smart."
Ken nodded, and the two young men walked off to catch up.
*
Ken's world stopped when he entered Ran's hospital room. Could that
plaster covered body really be...
"Ran?"
The other two nodded.
Ken walked up so he could look at Ran's face, just to confirm that it
was really him in there. Sure enough, Ken was met with the beautiful
face of his dear uke, deep in sleep.
"Doctor Kobayashi said he'll be very confused when he wakes up. So
try and go easy on him."
Ken took a deep breath, clentching his fists tight. "I'll do my
best...Damn it, Ran! You've really fucked yourself up."
"Ken-kun."
"Daijoubu, Omi." Ken turned around, the anger on his face now mixed
with tears. "Let's go home. I think we could all use some rest."
One week later:
Ran was in pain, and boy was there a lot of pain. There
was also an itch and he couldn't scratch it. His life
really sucked. 'Yeah, but I was the dumb ass that jumped', he thought
to himself, eyes darting around the ceiling. He hated
being in this position, vulnerable and unable to defend himself.
"So how are you feeling?", Dr. Kobayashi asked, startling Ran as he
entered the room.
Violet eyes glared up at the doctor. "Hurts..."
"Seeing that you jumped from a building, I'll consider that a good
thing." He saw the glare again. "Are there problems at home, Ran?",
the doctor asked, sitting down.
"No!" he snapped.
"Then why did you jump?"
What was he supposed to say to that? He jumped because
the sister he loved had finally woken up from her coma
and he found out, but then she rejected him? It
sounded cheesy, but it still hurt. He simply groaned.
"So you jumped because you were bored?"
"Something like that."
Dr. Kobayashi shook his head. "I think I am going to
suggest that you see a counselor to talk out your
feelings", he answered.
"Whatever."
Shaking his head, he looked down at the papers.
"You young men have the most wonderful livelihoods. You
don't speak, and your friend flips and tries to run into restricted
areas while cussing up a storm."
"Who?"
I'm sorry?"
"Who did that?"
The doctor arched a brow.
Ran sighed. "Who was...causing problems?"
Grinning, he looked back down at the paperwork. "The
dark haired one. Ken, I believe."
Ran's face went pale. Dr. Kobayashi seemed to notice. "Ken?" He
was here and he was angry? Then he remembered Ken's voice after he
jumped. Ken had seen him jump, had said he wasn't going to let him
die.
"He will kill me."
"I don't know about killing you, but he was very worried about you."
At that moment the doors to the room opened and Ran heard the one
voice he had feared to hear. "Ran!"
Ken was now in the room.
If he could have moved, he would have run away as fast
as possible. Ran had never heard his lover use that
tone with him; then again he had never seen the anger
he saw in his lover's eyes as he looked down at him. "I
am so screwed", he thought to himself, preparing to
face his final judgment at the hands of the dark
haired assassin.
"Hey, Ken."
The shock in the dark chocolate eyes at such a normal
greeting was almost worth the death sentence he was
about to face.
Ken looked deep into Ran's eyes. He looked tired, and a bit
dazed. "Not surprising, considering all he's been through," Ken
thought, almost sorry for his own hurt and rage.
"Ran, you...you really scared me. You scared all of us."
Ran closed his eyes, taking a forced breath. "Aya..."
"I know what happened with Aya. We were all there to see it. And I
guess a part of me can understand why you might feel it's hopeless,
but-"
A lone tear fell down Ran's cheek, and Ken quickly brushed it away.
"Don't cry, baby", he whispered. "You can't get your cast wet,
remember?"
Ran smiled tiredly, but the smile faded quickly. "Family is..."
"Ran-kun." Omi stepped up to his friend's bedside, smiling
sweetly. "I know all about family rejection and betrayal. You know
that! And, yes, at first, it hurt me very much. It still hurts me to
think about sometimes. But I go on living. I find a reason to push
forward. And I know that I have people that love me. Three of them
are right here, in this room."
"Touching, but sappy", Yoji quipped from the corner of the room.
Ken turned around, glaring at the playboy. Omi's eyes stayed fixed on
Ran.
"I...what should I say?" Ran was overwhelmed. "You're right. I
guess..."
"Of course I am!"
"But now...I think...it would be...better...if I had died."
"No! No it wouldn't!", Ken argued. "Your body will heal! It may take
time, but-"
"Never be the same", Ran lamented, tears forming in his eyes.
Ken quickly wiped them away. "Never..."
Ran's eyes drooped closed, his body finally succumbing to sleep.
Yoji stood up "I guess that's our cue to leave."
Ken just stood for a moment, watching his lover sleep. Finally, he
spoke, turning to Dr. Kobayashi. "Can I stay with him?"
"I don't know if-"
"Please", Ken begged. "I'll do whatever I can to help. And I promise
I won't make a scene again", he added sheepishly.
"Very well", Dr. Kobayashi chuckled. "It's obvious you two love
eachother very much. I suppose it would be alright if you stayed
tonight."
"Arigato", Ken bowed, smiling widely. Dr. Kobayashi just walked off,
shaking his head and grinning.
"He thinks you're cute!", Omi giggled.
Ken laughed. "Goodnight."
Yoji and Omi left, and Ken was finally alone with his beloved. He sat
up for several minutes, grateful that Ran was at least alive.
"In your dreams, you can run free", he whispered to Ran, smiling.
~~~~~~~~~~
"Ohayo, Ken. Ohayo, Mummy boy."
Ran glared at the ceiling, wishing he could look at Yoji. "Go away."
"Hey! If you can't laugh at yourself, you'll just stay bitter and
miserable. And that isn't going to get you better."
"Hmph."
"Yoji-kun has a point, in an odd way", Omi commented, handing Ken a
container of soup. "Here, we weren't sure if Ran had eaten any
breakfast yet, so we brought some over. "
"Arigato", Ken nodded, taking the soup from Omi. "You hungry, Ran?"
"I'm not anything."
"Come one, Ran. It looks really good. Eat some", Ken urged, holding
the spoon up to Ran's mouth.
"Then you eat-" Before Ran had a chance to finish his sentence, the
soup was already in his mouth.
Ran glared angrily up at Ken.
"What is it?", Ken asked innocently.
"I...didn't say...I..was-" Once again, Ran found himself eating the
soup. He looked up at Ken again. No glare this time. Just hurt.
"Ran..."
"It's fun for...you... isn't it?"
"What?" Ken had no idea what Ran was talking about.
"If I'm hungry or...if I'm...not hungry...I don't have a choice. I
eat if...you want me to."
Ken turned to Yoji and Omi. "Could you give us a moment, please?"
They nodded, leaving Ken to try and comfort Ran."
"Ran, I just-"
"No choices", Ran sighed. "I... am...helpless. Useless. I...should be
dead. But even at...that...I failed."
"And I'm GLAD you failed!", Ken snapped back, drying Ran's eyes for
what seemed like the 80th time. "Once you get out of this body cast,
and get some physical therapy, there is still a lot of life left in
you. You are NOT useless, Ran!"
"I...I..."
Before Ran could finish his reply, the two men heard a knock at the
door.
"Just give us a minute, would you?" Ken turned around, expecting to
see Yoji, Omi, or a nurse. His face grew angry when he learned the
visitor was none of the above.
"Manx", he hissed.