Kurama stood at the foot of the hospital.
A few people walked the grounds, people with worried expressions, thoughts turned inward. Kurama looked at them and wondered if he, too, looked like that.
He sighed.
He really shouldn't have come. It was so late. Visiting hours would long since have been over. He gazed up the face of the building.
Kurama hadn't been able to follow his classmate into the ambulance. The EMS had turned to him and told him which hospital they were taking Tohru. It must have been the look on his face, and the way he kept his eyes on the other boy the whole time.
And now he had come here.
His mother had sounded worried when he had called her to say he would be late. "Are you alright, Shuiichi?" she had asked. "You sound strange."
"Yes, mother." he had said.
He sounded strange, he looked sick...that's what a lot of people had been saying lately.
When had things gotten so complicated?
The answer to that was simple...Since Hiei had found him that day.
Kurama shook his head.
Hiei and Tohru, his mother, Yukina, Kuwabara, Yusuke, school, the play, the youko....there were too many people in his mind. He rubbed his temple and willed the thinking away, if only for a night.
He was exhausted, but he wanted to see Tohru.
He wanted to make sure the human was alright.
It had been his fault.
He just wanted to make sure he was alright.
That's all.
Resolute, Kurama entered the hospital. It was easy to find Tohru's room and sneak in without a soul seeing him. The boy was alone. And asleep. He lay on the hospital bed with his eyes closed and a bandage around his head.
Kurama looked down at him. The lights were the pale lights of a hospital that seem to make Tohru look paler than he really was, and more fragile than he really was.
Kurama reached out and touched the bandages on his forehead.
"I don't know what that means." Isn't that what Tohru had said that afternoon? "Maybe it doesn't MEAN anything. 'It was just a mistake'-I tell myself that all the time. 'It meant nothing.'-only I think it did. I just-for the life of me-have no idea what."
Kurama's hand had slipped down, brushing against his cheeks and his lips...He suddenly pulled away.
What was he doing?
He turned away and covered his face with his hands.
Yesterday all that had been on his mind was Hiei. Perhaps, Kurama, too, was wondering just what had the kiss meant and what did it mean now that he had come here?
Tohru stirred suddenly on the bed, but when he opened his eyes, the room was empty. The boy tiredly surveyed the room. He could have sworn he had heard someone in the brief moment from waking to opening his eyes, but no one was here."That's strange." he murmured as he lay back down on the pillows and drifted back to sleep. "I could swear I can smell....roses..."
...to be continued...
Author's Note: Well! I wrote this part this morning and I'll try to write more this weekend. Is it confusing? If so, I'll try to explain more. Don't worry! The real plot is coming! Hope you like it! :)