Ryo spent most of the night at Riku's house, keeping an eye on Riku. She had the feeling that Rep had done this to Riku. She didn't know that Riku suspected Rep of running Sora down. Ryo had to go home at 10:30 to find a strong remedy for Riku. As she was leaving, she told Riku's mother to keep a very watchful eye on Riku, since he was very sick, and Rep, where she came up with an excuse to make sure he didn't go anywhere near Riku so he wouldn't come down with anything. It was really for Rep not to come near Riku to make him even sicker than he already was or to even kill him.

As Ryo walked down Riku's driveway, she happened to look into Rep's car and saw something suspicious. She saw something shiny. She leaned closer to get a better look and saw that it was a sharp object also covered in something red.

"Is that a-?" Ryo asked herself. She could not ignore this image. She would have tried to get it, but she couldn't. She walked off.

Several hours later, in the late night hours, when everyone in the house was asleep, Riku woke up because he was unable to breathe with his nose being really stuffy. He sat up and looked around, which made it a little easier for him to breathe. His room was dark, except the light of his computer, which was left on from earlier. His head immediately began to hurt and it felt like it weighed a ton. He felt really congested and groggy. He turned to his alarm clock and saw that it was almost three. Riku fell back into his pillows. He tried to breathe through his mouth, but his throat still hurt so his breathing was hoarse and shallow. He closed his eyes for a minute, trying to clear his head. Somehow, he managed to fall back asleep.

The next thing Riku knew, he felt someone shaking him gently.

"Riku, wake up," said a familiar voice.

Riku opened his eyes and saw Ryo standing over him, with the room now in bright sunshine.

"R-Ryo?" croaked Riku sleepily.

"Don't try to talk, Riku," said Ryo. She held up a syringe. "I made a remedy that will speed the recovery process of your cold. It's normally taken in a cough drop, but it's faster if it's injected. Now let me see your shoulder."

Riku pulled the covers off of his right shoulder and rolled up his sleeve. Ryo got the syringe ready, but first she swabbed at the spot where she would inject the medicine with an alcohol saturated cotton ball and then pricked the needle in Riku's arm. His face twisted in pain from being poked.

"Sorry, Riku. I know it hurts." said Ryo, pushing the head of the syringe down and letting the clear, colorless liquid go into Riku's arm. "But it has to be done. You need to get better."

She took the needle from Riku's arm, tossed it into a small plastic container and closed it tightly. She swabbed at the spot again and put a band-aid on it.

"Riku, I have to tell you something." Ryo spoke up. "When I was leaving your house last night, I think I saw something in Rep's car."

"What do you mean?" asked Riku weakly.

"I think it was a knife." Ryo blurted out. "It had something red on it. I think it was Sora's blood."

Riku thought for a minute. There was that blood spot he found on his brother's car. Then, he remembered Sora saying something at the hospital the last time he saw him.

That one day in the hospital...

Sora tried to sit up, only to feel pain in his back, like he was getting stabbed.

"Ow..." said Sora, falling back into his pillows. "Why does my back hurt?"

"You got a pretty bad wound there." said Kairi. "When Riku picked you up, your blood had soaked through your clothes and got on his hands. That's how Riku learned that you were hurt on your back."

"It's like someone took a knife and stabbed it into my back." said Sora.

"The doctors said that if the gash went in more further, you would have been paralyzed." said Riku.

"Then it's a relief I'm not paralyzed!" joked Sora.

The three laughed...

"...stabbed it into my back..." said Riku, quoting Sora. "Sora said that he felt like that he got stabbed! I think Rep stabbed him after he ran Sora down!"

"Ran Sora down?" asked Ryo. "What do you mean?"

"Rep hit Sora with his car," explained Riku. "I know, because I found a blood stain on his car, and it turned out to be Sora's blood!"

"So why is Rep doing all this?" asked Ryo.

"I don't know." said Riku. "But we have to stop him before he tries to hurt Kairi, or anyone else!"

"Let's wait until you get better, first." said Ryo. "You need to rest. The medicine should be in full swing by tomorrow."

"But that gives Rep time to hurt somebody else!" said Riku, now feeling drowsy. "What did you put in this medicine?"

"Nothing harmful." replied Ryo. "But it's got that night time stuff in it so it makes it easier for you to sleep with a cold."

"Oh thanks...a...lot..." said Riku with a yawn. He closed his eyes and began to snore lightly.

Ryo laughed.

The next day, the medicine that Ryo injected into Riku actually worked and Riku was able to get out of bed and go outside to do what he normally did. Rep hadn't done nothing else to hurt anyone. That he knew of.

Riku walked out of his house, ready to go to school. He was a little mad that he wasted his weekend being sick and stuck in bed, asleep. He drove to school and went to his classes, as usual, but he noticed that something was different. Where was Ryo?

"Hey Hurky, have you seen Ryo today?" Riku asked Hurky during Algebra that day.

"Sorry Riku, but I thought she was with you." said Hurky.

"Hey, where were you all weekend?" asked Kairi.

"I got really sick." replied Riku. He still wasn't all the way better. His nose was still stuffy. "I had a bad cold. It was weird. I was fine one minute and then the next, I get a sore throat and I'm passed out on the floor."

"That's weird..." said Hurky.

"Well, be glad the you were able to make it here today." said Alexa.

Suddenly, Riku's cell phone rang. It was Sora's mother.

"Hello?" asked Riku.

"Riku, have you seen Sora?" asked Mrs. Hart worriedly.

"Uh, no." replied Riku. "I was sick all weekend, so I didn't go see Sora at the hospital."

"It's just that Sora mysteriously disappeared from the hospital." explained Sora's mom.

Riku was silent in shock. He just held his cell phone to his ear.

"Hello?" asked Mrs. Hart.

"Yeah, I'm still here." said Riku. "Listen, I'm sorry for what happened with Sora. I'm sure he'll turn up somewhere."

Then, he flipped his phone shut. Hurky, Alexa, and Kairi stared at Riku with a weird look on their faces. Riku sighed as he braced himself to tell them the news about Sora.

"Sora's missing from the hospital." said Riku.

"WHAT?" cried Kairi. "He's injured! He shouldn't be running around the hospital, at least not without a nurse with him."

"I know, but..." said Riku as he trailed off.

"This is terrible!" said Alexa. "Where could he go?"

All four of them just sat there, in dead silence. None of them knew what to do...