A/N: We're getting close to the end! Everyone say with me now, "YAY!" Just
kidding, I'm still having fun with this story! Okay, enough babble. Thanks
to all of my reviewers! You know who you are! ^^ You guys are what's kept
this story going as long as it has. On with the story! Oh, BTW, I haven't
gotten around to searching for information regarding the testing or
anything, so if any of you readers are doctors (why didn't you email me the
info?) you'll just have to deal with the fact that my info is really
screwy. ^^
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A few weeks after Hatori came to stay with Shigure again the doctor called. Hatori knew that he should be thankful that he was being posted about his progress, but they had just gotten Ayame to smile again. He had even laughed earlier that morning. However, when the phone rang and Hatori told them the news, Ayame's face had dropped, and he had become completely silent.
Ayame ran out of the room, and, after a few minutes of looking at the others, Yuki ran after him. He found his older brother at the base. That confused Yuki, because he had only showed Tohru where it was. Kyo had found it on his own, true, but he hadn't known what it was until later. Shigure knew that Yuki had a garden, but didn't care to know where it was.
Yuki walked over to his brother, and saw the older Juunishi crying. He sat down next to the silver-haired man and put an arm around his shoulder. Ayame leaned further into the embrace and wrapped his own arms around Yuki. The next thing Yuki knew, his older brother was sobbing brokenly into Yuki's shoulder.
"Ayame? Don't worry. It can't be that bad!"
"Do you even know what that entails? Do you have any idea what he'd have to go through not only during the procedure, but before and after as well?" Ayame sobbed. Yuki shook his head gently and asked how Ayame knew. "Shigure and I hung out with Tori even when he was being a jerk and studying at all hours. After we talked to him about it, he started asking us to help him study. He said it helped him remember things when we were adding our own ideas to the text."
"And that was one of the things he studied?"
"Yeah. Though, I think he only asked our help to make us feel like we were a part of it. He never wants us to feel left out even when we're annoying him."
"So what happens now?" Yuki asked, glad Ayame had stopped crying. The older man had been so caught up in memories that he had temporarily forgotten that he had been upset.
"Now each of us will take the test and see who matches Tori the closest. The one that does will go through the same type of operation Tori will."
"It's so strange to think of Hatori going into surgery. Of course, it's strange to think of him having cancer at all." Ayame could only nod as he trembled, fighting back new tears.
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"So you have to go in for surgery?" Shigure asked, lifting his teacup to take a sip of the drink Tohru had made for them.
"Yes. The doctors will start testing for a match in a few days."
"Who do you think will match the closest?"
"That's hard to say. I can tell that it will more than likely be someone in the Juunishi, though."
"What makes you say that?"
"We have blood the closest to one another."
~~
Three weeks later, everyone was done testing. Hatori's parents had gone first, but hadn't passed. Next had come Akito, then the rest of the Juunishi. After a few days of arguing, the Juunishi even managed to get Akito to allow Kyo to get tested as well.
The day after all of the testing was complete, Hatori received a call informing him who had had the closest blood type, and when the two of them should arrive at the hospital for the procedure. Hatori, during the testing, had been working on a temporary cure for one part of the curse. (A/N: Yes, he's a scientist in his spare time) He and the donor would each take a pill before the procedure, and hopefully it would keep them from changing into animal form if anything happened. It would be bad if, midway through the procedure, they changed into their animal forms.
Hatori had tested the pills throughout the others' testing, and found that they worked. The next day, he and the donor left for the hospital. The doctor went through the procedure one more time when they arrived. Then, everyone got ready.
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A/N: Yeah, shoot me. I'm ending it there. I've had a pretty bad day, and I'm just not in the mood to write right now. I ended up getting depressed at lunch again. That's been happening a lot lately. T_T So anyways, that's it until the next chapter. And yes, I will tell you who it is when that time comes.
~~
A few weeks after Hatori came to stay with Shigure again the doctor called. Hatori knew that he should be thankful that he was being posted about his progress, but they had just gotten Ayame to smile again. He had even laughed earlier that morning. However, when the phone rang and Hatori told them the news, Ayame's face had dropped, and he had become completely silent.
Ayame ran out of the room, and, after a few minutes of looking at the others, Yuki ran after him. He found his older brother at the base. That confused Yuki, because he had only showed Tohru where it was. Kyo had found it on his own, true, but he hadn't known what it was until later. Shigure knew that Yuki had a garden, but didn't care to know where it was.
Yuki walked over to his brother, and saw the older Juunishi crying. He sat down next to the silver-haired man and put an arm around his shoulder. Ayame leaned further into the embrace and wrapped his own arms around Yuki. The next thing Yuki knew, his older brother was sobbing brokenly into Yuki's shoulder.
"Ayame? Don't worry. It can't be that bad!"
"Do you even know what that entails? Do you have any idea what he'd have to go through not only during the procedure, but before and after as well?" Ayame sobbed. Yuki shook his head gently and asked how Ayame knew. "Shigure and I hung out with Tori even when he was being a jerk and studying at all hours. After we talked to him about it, he started asking us to help him study. He said it helped him remember things when we were adding our own ideas to the text."
"And that was one of the things he studied?"
"Yeah. Though, I think he only asked our help to make us feel like we were a part of it. He never wants us to feel left out even when we're annoying him."
"So what happens now?" Yuki asked, glad Ayame had stopped crying. The older man had been so caught up in memories that he had temporarily forgotten that he had been upset.
"Now each of us will take the test and see who matches Tori the closest. The one that does will go through the same type of operation Tori will."
"It's so strange to think of Hatori going into surgery. Of course, it's strange to think of him having cancer at all." Ayame could only nod as he trembled, fighting back new tears.
~~
"So you have to go in for surgery?" Shigure asked, lifting his teacup to take a sip of the drink Tohru had made for them.
"Yes. The doctors will start testing for a match in a few days."
"Who do you think will match the closest?"
"That's hard to say. I can tell that it will more than likely be someone in the Juunishi, though."
"What makes you say that?"
"We have blood the closest to one another."
~~
Three weeks later, everyone was done testing. Hatori's parents had gone first, but hadn't passed. Next had come Akito, then the rest of the Juunishi. After a few days of arguing, the Juunishi even managed to get Akito to allow Kyo to get tested as well.
The day after all of the testing was complete, Hatori received a call informing him who had had the closest blood type, and when the two of them should arrive at the hospital for the procedure. Hatori, during the testing, had been working on a temporary cure for one part of the curse. (A/N: Yes, he's a scientist in his spare time) He and the donor would each take a pill before the procedure, and hopefully it would keep them from changing into animal form if anything happened. It would be bad if, midway through the procedure, they changed into their animal forms.
Hatori had tested the pills throughout the others' testing, and found that they worked. The next day, he and the donor left for the hospital. The doctor went through the procedure one more time when they arrived. Then, everyone got ready.
~~
A/N: Yeah, shoot me. I'm ending it there. I've had a pretty bad day, and I'm just not in the mood to write right now. I ended up getting depressed at lunch again. That's been happening a lot lately. T_T So anyways, that's it until the next chapter. And yes, I will tell you who it is when that time comes.