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Arima Kousei opened his eyes slightly that night. His room was only lit by a lamp. He can't breathe well, yet. He's still filled with pain. "Why are you here?"
Watari Ryota stopped him from sitting and sat at the chair beside his bed. "Why don't you keep lying down, dude?"
Since they suddenly walked in without knocking at all, Kousei's nurse woke up when he became aware that Tsubaki was once again inside Kousei's room that early morning, he gave his chair to her. Tsubaki sat on it and thanked him.
"Are you okay, Kousei?" his nurse asked him. "You look pale right now."
Kousei laid down his bed, again. "I need my pain relievers."
His nurse nodded. "Alright."
Kousei smiled joyfully when his friends visited him again. Most especially, Tsubaki Sawabe.
His nurse opened his medicine cabinet to look for his pain reliever. While his nurse was looking for it, Kousei's struggling to stay awake. Tsubaki and Watari watched his nurse look for his anti-pain medicine but after they got to stare at the contents inside the cabinet, the two of them were so surprised by how many bottles of liquid medicines and set of pills that Kousei had to take almost every day. He's also given more medicine through a bag of fluids and a needle is attached on his vein.
At the time Tsubaki stared at Kousei, she realized that her boyfriend became half-asleep while waiting for his pain reliever. His nurse slowly walked closer to a table inside his room and poured water after he had already taken three pills out from his cabinet. His body was still recovering from all the radiation he received when he was in the hospital in the USA but his doctors allowed home medication instead to help him relax.
"Kousei's still very weak. He was not this weak when he left the US, though," Nurse Yurinosuke told them. "We believe that Kousei became so weak due to the journey back home."
He gave the pill slowly to him directly on his mouth and helped him swallow it by massaging his tight throat. After he drank his pills, Kousei fell totally asleep again. Tsubaki covered him with his thick, white blankets. His nurse took his temperature under his right armpit. After the thermometer beeped, he took it off. "The IV Antibiotics seemed to have had an effect. It helped lower his body temperature."
"What's your name? I haven't yet taken your name," Tsubaki asked Kousei's nurse. "It will be good if I know your name."
"My name's Yaichi Yurinosuke. You can call me Yaichi," he told them.
Slowly, he stood up again to go near a CD Player. "Is it alright if I play classical piano and violin pieces? He was always asking me to play it whenever he rests."
"That's fine. Kousei loves Classical Music," Tsubaki answered. "It calms him down."
"Great," he smiled. He placed a Chopin CD in a cd player and the music started quickly.
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When Kousei opened his eyes again, it was just at the time that the music from the cd player ended. He feels a bit better at that time. He noticed that there's no one inside his room.
"Dad? Watari? Tsubaki? Yaichi? Grandpa?"
He took off his nasal cannula even he felt a bit heavy after he did that. He grabbed his IV stand and left his bed. When he got out, he noticed that there's actually a long staircase and he wondered if he can actually go down.
"Dad? Anyone?"
He's lightheaded.
After a few minutes, he realized he doesn't have his glasses that's why all of his surroundings were blurry. He was about to carry his IV stand with him when his father saw him standing in the small hallway of the second floor.
"What are you doing? Why aren't you on your bed?" he asked him as he leads his son back on his bed. "What made you stand up?"
"I woke up without anyone inside my room," he answered him. "I was worried."
He touched his neck to check his temperature. "Do you not feel any pain at all?"
"The medicine worked," he answered him. "It's working, dad. I hope it continues to work wonderfully. I want to return to my old world, soon."
That news made him happy. If he improves after a few months, he will be able to be back on his school again and continue his career. It will be a bit hard for him already but there were so many people waiting for his return and by the look of his son who was able to smile again, he knew that Kousei will survive his fight against cancer. As his son return on his bed and sit on it, Takahiko asked him, "Are you hungry? What do you want to eat?"
"I'll take bread, dad," Kousei answered him. "That will be enough."
A few seconds later, Kousei ate his breakfast and drank water. His grandfather entered his room. He exclaimed with such happiness when he saw him eating bread without Takahiko's help. "You're looking fine, Kousei! You're gaining color on your skin again."
He kept on eating bread at that time. "I feel like I haven't eaten for months, grandpa."
The two of them seemed very happy that it truly empowers them. Kousei's body was finally responding to treatment and it was his smile that gave them hope that the boy who's too important to them won't leave them.
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