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Sry 'bout all the grammer and/or spelling mistakes. Can't be helped. As always I'll go back through and fix the mistakes.

Oh, I'm also sry if the spacing of some japanese words are incorrect cuz I'm used to using the hiragana or katagana for the words.

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Nightmares and Sickness

By: NightShadow

Chapter Fourteen

Leaving?

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"I'm sorry but it does look like you'll have to stay another night." The doctor said sadly, knowing how much Seiji wanted to get out of the hospital.

Seiji screamed in frustration. "I'm never going to be able to leave!"

"Seiji, calm down. You should stay anyway."

Seiji just stared coldly at his lover.

Touma ignored the blonde's look; went over to him and hugged him soothingly. "You'll be able to get out soon."

The doctor said nothing, letting the archer calm the angry blonde down. Then once Seiji was calmed down as much as possible at the moment he said, "Let me fix the stiches; then we'll talk about when you'll be able to leave."

Seiji just leaned back down and closed his eyes letting the doctor do what he needed. He was too tired to do anything else at the moment anyway. He was not in a good mood at all now, well, not like he was before. How could you be while in the hospital?

The doctor had gotten the things together that were needed to fix the stiches and asked if he could sit in the chair in the chair Touma was in, before he just checked Seiji standing, it was easier that way. Touma willingly got up, wanting Seiji to be better. Tenkuu sighed knowing that the only way Seiji would get better is if he were at their own house; not in the hospital.

After the doctor was done he noted that Seiji had, most likely, unwillingly fallen asleep, his body betraying his thoughts. The swordsman had wanted to stay awake to find out about when he'd be able to leave but was too tired to do so.

"Let him rest. We'll talk about the possibility of leaving when he wakes." Taking one last look at Seiji, he left.

The other troopers saw the doctor leaving and took that as a sign that they could re-enter. Once in they looked at Touma questioningly.

"He tore some stiches and won't be able to leave tonight." He let out a long sigh. "Go get his orb, now is a good time to use it." Before they had only given it to him once and that hadn't turned out well. It took them a while to give it to him in the first place because they were afriad that he'd exhaust himself. They hadn't given it to him again afraid that he'd make his condition worse. The blonde wanted to get out of the hospital so badly. Touma felt sorry for him and knew that the only out would be for him to use the orb to heal himself. Hoping that Seiji wouldn't get himself too exhausted, he asked the other troopers to get it, still not wanting to leave Seiji's side.

Ryo and Shuu decided they'd go get it. They quietly closed the door behind them, not wanting to wake the sleeping blonde up.

Touma flopped onto the chair wishing all this wasn't happening.

"It'll be alright, Touma." Shin squeezed his shoulder comfortingly.

"Arigato." Touma appreciated the comfort; he really needed it. The archer knew that when Seiji woke up he wouldn't be too happy, to say the least.

About fourty-five minutes later Ryo and Shuu had returned with Seiji's orb.

"We'll just have to wait until he wakes up." Ryo said.

"Hai, I hope he doesn't exhaust himself again. That definitely didn't help before and still wouldn't.

They all nodded, remembering what had happened.

//////They all knew how much Seiji wanted to leave so they decided to let him use Korin to heal himself.

Seiji was more than a little happy to see his orb and showed it too. He knew that this meant he could heal himself and wondered why they hadn't given it to him before. He shrugged it off, glad to have it now.

'Too bad I didn't have it then though.' He thought referring to when he was trapped with no defenses against Tomo. The blonde shook his head, not wanting to get into those horrible thoughts again. He still dispised Tomo even though he knew him to be dead and would never be able to come back.

Ryo handed Touma the orb who gave it to Seiji. Ryo had it in his coat pocket since they had found the orb in the woods while looking for Seiji.

The kanji orb glowed a bright green, sensing that it was finally back in the hands of its bearer.

Seiji tapped into its power and started to heal himself. Instead of stopping when he started getting tired he kept going, wanting to heal himself all the way so he could go home. He was aware of the consequences of doing so but didn't think anything of it at the moment; his thought only about getting home as soon as he could.

The other troopers were unable to stop him so he ended up falling forward, unconscious once he couldn't handle it.

Touma, who had been the closest, for obvious reasons, caught him before he fell all the way and pushed him back to lay down.

"I hope that did more good than bad for him." Shuu said. No one could disagree with him either and all of them hoped the same thing.

They all agreed that they would keep the orb and not give it to Seiji until they thought he'd be able to handle it.

Touma placed his hand on Seiji's forehead to find that his fever had gotten a lot worse because of the stunt he had just tried to pull off. His fever hadn't gone down at all. 'We should have known that was going to happen.' Touma thought feeling even more sorry for Seiji. 'He probably has to stay longer now.'//////

After that they hadn't given him his orb for fear he'd do the same thing and make things worse.

The troopers sat in the room talking; waiting for Seiji to wake up.

A while later they heard Seiji tossing in his bed. They looked over and found that his blanket had been kicked off.

Touma, who was still sitting in the chair next to the blonde, saw that his checks were flushed. Frowning he placed his hand on the swordsman's forehead. His frown deepend when he found that his fever had returned. "Shimatta." He swore under his breath.

"What's wrong?" Shin asked when he heard Touma. He didn't like the sound of his voice.

"His fever is back." He sighed. "We should still give him Korin, maybe he can bring his fever down without exhausting himself too much. We all know how much he wants to get out of here and with his fever back it'll be hard to convince the doctor to let him go." Touma said sadly. He knew he'd try his best to convince the doctor anyway. His lover had been in the hospital for far too long. 'Why does everything happen to him?' He thought sympathetically.

"As much as Seiji needs his rest, we should wake him so he can heal himself." Ryo said wishing they could give the blonde more time to sleep. 'If only we were home. This would be so much easier!'

"This sucks! Why'd his fever have to return?!" Shuu asked rhetorically.

"He should have rested more earlier, instead of trying to leave." Shin stated knowing how badly Seiji would take his relapse.

"We have to get him out of here... some way." Touma stated, knowing it'd be better when Seiji got home. He gently placed his hand on Seiji's shoulders and started to shake him. When he didn't wake he shook him harder and shouted his name.

Seiji's eyes suddenly snapped open and he shot up. He stared around the room with wide-eyes. He felt really light-headed so layed back down when he realized nothing bad was going on.

"It's okay, Seiji." Touma said soothingly when he saw the frightened look in Seiji's eyes, though he calmed down when he layed down. "We just needed you to be awake for a while." The archer put Seiji's orb into his hands. "Heal yourself as much as you can without exhauting yourself. Incase you hadn't noticed, which I don't know if you could have missed it... but your fever has returned so you could lower it some with Korin."

Seiji looked at the orb in his hands for a while. At first he was surprised that they'd given it back to him. Then he looked up at Touma sadly.

"Nan desu ka." Touma asked worriedly.

"I'm never getting out of here, am I?" Seiji asked in the most sad voice Touma had ever heard.

Touma hugged Seiji. "I'll find a way to get you out of here as soon I can." It hurt him to see his lover so sad. Well, it hurt Touma to see how badly Seiji had been during these past weeks, since Tomo had first arrived.

He clenched his fists in anger. Then looked up when he saw a bright green glow and knew that Seiji was using Korin's powers.

A while later the glow stopped and Seiji fell forward into Touma's arms. He had, of course, tired himself, since it took his own life force and he was already weakend by his fever, once again. He didn't exhaust himself like last time though.

"Just rest now, koi. I'll talk to the doctor." Touma kissed Seiji's forehead, ignoring the heat radiating from it, and lowered him back into a laying position.

The archer noticed that Seiji had already fallen asleep so turned to leave. He saw the other troopers smiling at him sadly, touched by the scene.

Touma smiled back. "I'll be back. Hopefully with good news."

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"I know the condition he's in but he has to leave!" Touma argued with the doctor. "It's killing him by staying here!"

"I'm sorry, Hashiba-san, but there's no way I can let him leave." The doctor tried to reason with him calmly.

"It's only making him worse by staying!"

"It's against procedure for me to let someone go in his condition."

"Please, let him leave." The archer begged. He didn't want to resort to begging but if it was for Seiji, he'd do anything. "At least look at him again before making your decision final." Touma said when he saw the look on the doctor's face, still showing that he wouldn't let Seiji leave.

The doctor sighed. "Very well, I'll look at Date-san first but it's still likely he won't be able to leave." He finally gave in. He couldn't stand the sad look in Touma's eyes and knew that he wouldn't stop bugging him until he got the answer he was looking for. "I'll go to him as soon as I get the chance."

Touma nodded smiling. Then he went back to Seiji. He was happy that he at least had a chance of getting Seiji out. He was almost to the point of sneaking the blonde out himself.

Touma had reached Seiji's room so opened it to find everyone looking at him, including Seiji. He could tell that they were all expecting an answer.

"He said that he'd do another check-up and then he'd go from there." He noticed that Seiji looked sad and couldn't stand anymore sadness from him. "I'll get you out of here myself if I have to, koi. You've been here long enough."

Everyone was shocked. They had known that Touma thought that Seiji should stay until he was better not too long ago and now he was going to sneak Seiji out himself!

They didn't think it was a good idea at all. The police would probably be all over them if he had to resort to that.

"But, Touma--" Shin started.

"It doesn't matter what you say, Shin - or any of you. I know that Seiji will get better faster at our own house and you know it too."

"Well, yeah, but--"

"Just stop, Shin. It's not a bad idea anyway. We should have done it long ago." Ryo said, standing up for Touma. He really did think that they should have gotten Seiji out long ago too. They all knew Seiji didn't like everyone worrying about him and not being able to do anything by himself.

Before their conversation could go anywhere else the doctor walked in. The troopers were all grateful that he hadn't heard about their plan. It wouldn't have turned out good at all if he had. They could tell he hadn't because he didn't look angry or anything that hinted he knew.

"Now, you all know there's a chance that Date-san won't be leaving today, correct?" At their nods he continued. "Good, because that'll probably be the outcome."

The doctor set down his clipboard, as he had done so many times before, and got to work. The first thing he noticed was that Seiji was sweating and that his cheeks were flushed. He frowned and brought his hand up to Seiji's forehead.

Seiji pulled back, not wanting the doctor to feel it, knowing that he'd find that his fever had returned. He also knew that if the doctor found out he definitely wouldn't be able to leave any time soon.

The blonde looked up at the doctor and knew that he'd have to let him check it. There was no way he was going to get away without it.

He sighed in defeat and let the doctor check. The swordsman flinched when he felt the ice-cold hand on his forehead.

"You failed to mention that his fever came back, Hashiba-san."

"I didn't fail to mention anything." Touma argued. "The fever is nothing we can't handle. It's not like none of us has never been sick before."

The doctor said nothing, ignoring Touma and getting back to Seiji.

A while later he opened his mouth to say something but closed it, looking confused. He was looking at Seiji's injuries, of course, and noticed that they seemed a lot more healed than they should have been from the last time he checked. He decided not to ask and just leave it be. 'The faster he heals the sooner he gets out of here and the sooner they'll stop bugging me about letting him leave.' Not only that but he did want Seiji to be able to leave too. He didn't like how long he had to stay here already and could tell it was hindering Seiji's healing.

The doctor finished up and started to write on his clipboard. When he looked up he found everyone looking at him expectantly.

He sighed, his decision made. "Okay, since Date-san hs progressed a lot quicker than I thought even possible," He shook his head, still amazed at how fast they had started to heal, having no idea about Korin, "I will let him leave." The troopers looked very excited, especially Seiji. "But, you have to come back if anything happens at all. Wakarimasuka."

They all quickly agreed, ecstatic that Seiji was finally able to go home. Touma hadn't really been home often either, staying by Seiji's side.

"You will still have to change the bandages and take care of his fever, which I assume won't be too much of a hassle." He looked at them, raising his eyesbrows, already knowing the answer. He couldn't help but smile seeing them all so happy. "Sign out; then you can leave. Sayonara." He left with a wave, hoping he wouldn't have to see them any time soon.

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Yay! Seiji gets to leave! ^^;; I know it was kinda mean for me to bring his fever back though.... don't hurt me. -_-;; This chapt is longer than most of the others. I wanted to post it sooner but wasn't able to. I also have the next chapt written for my LOTR fic; I just have to type it up. ^_^ Anywayz, I hope you enjoyed this chapt.

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