Yay, here's the next chapter of this...whatever this is. Probably won't be too long though, I need a nice, long bath. And to do my homework...but to hell with math for now, it's fic time!

Eyes woke up and tried to stretch, but found that to be a very bad idea. Pain shot through his body as he recoiled into a little ball and whimpered a little, wondering why Kanone wasn't there. The door to his room opened and he jumped until he saw his boyfriend walking in with the only other thing that Eyes could want right now besides the boy...breakfast. Eyes sat up and smiled as Kanone scooted onto the bed next to him and put the tray on his lap, "I figured you would be hungry." Eyes simply nodded and began eating like there was no tomorrow; which given the events of the past few days, was completely possible for him. He was one of the Blade Children after all. As Eyes finished the food on the tray, he realized exactly how good it had tasted.

"Kanone, where did you get that food from?" He asked, there was no way anything could make hospital food that good. Besides the infamous green jello wasn't on the tray (have you noticed how hospitals always have green jello? Is it jsut me?)

"Huh? Oh, I went out and bought some food to make breakfast with. You couldn't actually expect me someone I love that horrid stuff that this place calls food to eat, could you?"

This caught Eyes' attention, "What did you say?"

Kanone looked confused as he thought over his words. No, he hadn't said anything wrong that he knew of, "What do you mean? Wait, you don't actually like the...food...this place serves, do you? I know we don't always haev gourmet meals every night, but I didn't think it was that bad. Unless we let Kousuke cook."

Eyes jsut stared at Kanone, wondering if he even realized what he said, "Kanone, I meant...you said you...love me?"

Kanone just smiled at Eyes, "Of course I love you, Eyes. Why would you think that I didn't?"

Eyes just shook his head and leaned up to kiss Kanone, "Nevermind." Kanone accepted that for now and leaned into the kiss, taking Eyes' chin in his hands and smiling, he really did love the younger boy.

As Kanone pulled away for reasons that had to do something with breathing and kissed Eyes' forehead, "So, are you feeling any better?"

Eyes moved his injured shoulder and winced slightly at the pain, but only slightly, "It's getting better."

Kanone smiled and nodded, "And your...other injuries?" Kanone asked, not wanting to bring up any sensitive topics. Though given the situation, that was practically impossible. "Even though I am his boyfriend now." Kanone thought with a slight blush, "Maybe he'll feel a little more comfortable telling me those kinds of things." Still, he saw Eyes hesitate and placed a hand on his shoulder, "It's okay, Eyes, you can tell me. There's nothing to be embarrassed about."

Despite his comforting words, Eyes blushed and nodded, "It...still hurts, but I'm getting better. It'll just take some time, I guess."

Kanone smiled and nodded, "Are you comfortable like this?" Kaone asked motioning to the bed.

Eyes felt very uneasy all of a sudden and wanted to change the subject, "Yes...I'm fine. Can we talk about something else? Where are the others?"

Kanone wondered what had made Eyes want to change the subject but decided to go along with it; he didn't want to force Eyes to talk about anything. Then Kanone thought about it and realzied he hadn't any contact with the others, "I should probably call them." He thought out loud. He pulled out his phone and then sighed, "No service...of course." He looked to Eyes, "I'll be back in a minute, okay?" Eyes nodded hesitantly, not wanting Kanone to leave his side quite yet, but knew that it was best if Kanone got ahold of the others sooner rather than later.

A few minutes later, Kanone came back and Eyes let out a breath he didn't realize he was holding, "Did you reach them?"

Kanone nodded, "They're on their way over here now, but it'll still be a while. They got a hotel quite a distance away from here." Though Kanone couldn't complain, he would have done the same thing.

Eyes looked up as his boyfriend walked back over to him and climbed bakc in his bed, wrapping his arms around the smaller boy and nuzzling the top of his head. Eyes sighed contently and relaxed, "Kanone?"

"Hmmm?" Was the only response he got.

"Do you know when I'll be able to get out of here? I hate hospitals."

Kanone smiled, "I can't blame you, nothing good ever comes from being in a hospital. I don't know when you'll be able to leave." Kanone then thought of something, "There may be a problem, though."

Eyes looked up worried, "What's that?"

Kanone sighed, "Well, you don't have any family and I'm only 12, not near old enough to have you be released into my custody." Kanone thought about it, "Actually, you don't have any parents or guardians, I don't know what they'll do with you."

"What do you mean?" Eyes asked, worried that he would get taken away from his boyfriend, "What else could they do with me?"

Kanone shook his head, "I really don't know, Eyes. I don't know too much about all that legal stuff."

"But Kousuke and them don't have parents or guardians either...can't you just say that I'm your brother?"

Kanone considered this for a second before logic took over, "No, Eyes, we have different last names. Besides, we're not even from the same country. It's obvious that we're not related."

Eyes looked saddened before a knock was heard at his door and a doctor stepped in, "Eyes?" The doctor asked. Eyes nodded and the doctor turned his attention to Kanone, "And you are?"

"Kanone Hilbert, I'm a friend." Kanone replied.

"I see, we'll Mr. Hilbert, I'm going to have to ask you to leave for now. Only family members are allowed to visit right now."

Eyes looked down dejectedly, but Kanone refused to give up that easily, "We'll I'm the closest thing he has to family. He doesn't ahev any parents or a guardian. And besides, we're partners." Kanone said proudly and kissed Eyes on the top of his head. Eyes smiled and then looked to see his doctor's reaction. It wasn't pleasant.

"Be that as it may, only family members are allowed in the room right now. So I'll have to ask you again to leave. You may wait in the lobby and I'll inform you of when you can visit him."

Kanone would have gone further, but didn't want to make any trouble for Eyes so he jsut turned to his boyfriend, "I'll be back soon, okay?" Eyes just nodded sadly and Kanone kissed him as reassurance. It seemed to work as Eyes smiled a little and watched as Kanone left.

It had been three hours since Kanone was kicked out of his boyfriend's room byt he doctor who probably never got a single date in high school. Kanone smirked at this but then groaned impatiently as he looked at the clock. Already quarter to five. Kousuke and the others had arrived a little after three and they had been wandering aimlessly around the hospital; Kousuke and Rio occasionally arguing about something or another and Ryoko ending the arguement by punching, kicking, or otherwise abusing Kousuke to shut him up. Kanone sighed again, this time in annoyance at all the doctors and nurses that were just standing around doing nothing. Finally he saw that wretched man that had kept him from seeing Eyes for the past few hours and jumped up. The others followed suit and when the doctor reached them they were all wearing angry or annoyed faces; Kanone had told them about the incident earlier and they weren't taking no for an answer this time.

"Well, I'm happy to inform you that your friend is fine." The doctor said with a smile on his face.

Kanone glared at him, "Bullshit." He thoguht angrily, "So, I can see him now." It wasn't a question, more of a demand. The doctor nodded and Kanone pushed past him, the others following after giving the doctor a number of rude glares. Kanone smirked at this and was instantly in a better mood once he reached Eyes. He walked over and kissed the worn out looking boy. Eyes smiled into the kiss and then pulled back to look at the startled faces of his friends. Kanone turned to see them and then mentally kicked himself, "Guess I forgot to tell them about us."

Kanone sighed and got ready to explain when Kousuke just shook his head, "I don't want the details. We're fine just knowing the basics." The other two quickly nodded in agreement and Kanone smirked and sat down next to Eyes.

Eyes looked to Kanone, "The doctor said that I could go whenever I wanted to, but said that I needed a parent or guardian to be released to."

Kanone sighed and looked to the others, "I don't know what to do about this. Any suggestions?" They all thought on it but just shook their heads.

Kousuke spoke up then, "You could just try to fool the secretary and tell her that you guys are brothers."

Kanone shook his head, "I've already given the doctor my name and he'll be the one to sign the release form anyway, not a secretary." Kousuke sighed and went back to thinking.

A while later when they still couldn't think of anything, the distracting knock at the door was a welcome. Until the occupents saw who was doing the knocking that was; our favorite person in the world: Eyes' doctor. Kanone glared at him, "What is it now? Are visiting hours over?" He asked sarcastically.

The doctor glared at him a little but then focused his attention back to his reason for being here, "I need to know who, if anyone, Eyes will be released to."

Kanone hated the man for his stupidity, "I already told you that he has no parents nor a guardian."

"Well then I have no choice but to contact the proper authorities."

Kanone raised an eyebrow and put a protective arma round Eyes, everyone followed suit by moving closer to the pair, not ready to give him up, "And what exactly does that mean?"

"I'll contact social services and they will put him with a foster family." The doctor replied, "Until that time he will reside in..."

"An orphanage?" Kanone finished for him, "No way in hell."

Kousuke spoke up next, "Over my dead body you'll take him." Which suprised everyone, they'd never known that Kousuke was so protective of Eyes.

Rio was next, "You won't take Eyes!" Even Ryoko looked ready to take action.

"I'm sorry, but I have no choice. If I have to I'll call the police on all of you, but I would prefer to solve this quitely."

Someone behind the doctor chuckled and spoke, "That won't be neccessary, doctor. I'll take Eyes."

The doctor turned to face the intruder, "And you are?" Though by his appearance, it was very obvious who the man was.

The man simply chuckled again, "I'm his father, John Rutherford."

That is actually the name of a kid in my school. I don't know him, but I work in the office 4th period and I was writing up admit slips for people who came in late that day and he was on there. I saw the name Rutherford and I nearly melted; I want to meet that kid. I was also watching a video in Chemistry and there's this scientist named Earnest Rutherford, he did an experiment and found out that there were protons inside the nucleus of an atom...exciting, huh? But hey, I learned something! Well I hope this chapter was good...it took me forever to write. Hope there aren't too many spelling/grammar errors. Review!