Just as Sunao had thought those hopeful words Sora was nearing the scene of broken glass, shaking with pain and fear. "Oh Sunao...im so sorry" the glass crunched beneath his feet and his heartbeat could be heard in his ears, Sunao had heard the glass crunch and he tok some of his little remaining strength to say "any day now, Hashiba..." he meant to sound sarcastic but the words were strained and he sounded more desperate than anything else.
Sora's head snapped up and he rushed forward carefully, looking over the edge down at a tired pink haired boy. Sunao tried to smile up at him but it was weak and he eventually gave up. When Sora leaned over the edge to offer his hand he noted a couple of people watching the scene take place. "Hold on, ill get you up." Sora reassured his friend and gripped on to the side of the building to anchor himself as he reached for Sunao's hand "Take my hand" he commanded gently and his command was immediately responded to, their hands met and Sunao let go of the side of the building with a hiss of pain, he brought that bloody and pained hand to also grip on to Sora.
Persperation had formed on the normally careless tan face and he tried even harder to pull Sunao up, using his legs for leverage, his emotions were mixed and he didnt know what to think anymore. Sunao seemed to be loosening his grip, especially with the bloody hand that appeared to be in much pain even now.
It only took a few minutes for Sora to get his friend...no...his love, safely back inside the building, the two of them lay huffing in their exhaustion. Sora buried his face in Sunao's hair and breathed deeply, he was so glad that he hadnt really fallen. "Why nao? why is ran doing this?" he asked in a pitifully tearful voice, but the reply was nothing more than silence, normally he would have worried him but he empathized with the need to be silent and just savor each others company.
Nanami had gotten a phone call from Shinichiro telling him about what had happened, so he had been walking in their direction while the rescue was in motion. Now he neared the scene and stopped just short of the cuddling couple 'just like that time...' he told himself, remembering painfully the day he and shinichiro had tried to break the two children out of their laboratory prison.
How Sora had clung to Sunao as he did now, how much love was obvious in his pained blue eyes. "Are either of you hurt?" he asked kindly and pulled a small bag of medical equipment into view, Sora regretfully pulled himself from his loves scent and looked up to Nanami "Sunaos hand...and maybe some scratches." the blood sprinkled all over the floor near the window should have been fair indication of the injuries, Nanami thought to himself as he said
"Well, lets just have a look, then." Sora lifted his fair friend, turning him to sit in his lap, there was no objection, he seemed to be more than just a little out of it from the whole ordeal. Nanami came to kneel next to him, taking the dove skined hand in his and grimacing in his own secretive way. "This is pretty bad, there is a large piece of glass stuck in his palm..." as he spoke he pulled up a pair of tweezers, sora had to try to lighten the mood
"Geez Nao, your getting chunks of everything, arent you?" his lame attempt at a joke was followed with his own nervous laughter, which faultered since it was not accompanyed by the normal meek giggle of his more shy boy. The nurse instructed sunao to hold his hand still quietly, but was not satisfied with the silence he had gotten in return so he asked sora to hold his other hand, for support.
The first thing Sunao had done since gripping on to sora while he hung out the window was to tighten the grip on the others hand. It hurt just a little but it also made Sora so happy to feel that tightness around his palm, for a moment he had been thinking that the neglected boy was not concious anymore. Nanami's movements were swift and it seemed like those pink eyes didnt even flicker, but he felt the pain. "All better." was all the nurse could say as he held up a large piece of the window, covered in blood, he stood to take his leave and inform the clean up crew about the hazard of broken glass.
He handed Sora a gauze to hold to Sunao's hand so that he could rest and still have pressure held to his wound "Just come by my office later if you need any bandages for the smaller cuts, and help sunao keep that gauze held to his hand, sora." When he had reached the top of the stairs he turned quietly and added one more statement, one Sora knew was coming. "By the way, Sora? come see me and Shinichiro when Sunao is all set.
" This is what he had been afraid of, now their adult friends knew about Ran's return as well. Sora sat on a couch in Shinichiro's apartment, he was very uncomfortable but the couple sitting on the couch opposite of him seemed a little too comfortable.
Nanami was relatively quiet around Shinichiro, who decided to start the conversation off rather boldly "How long have you known, Hashiba?" the question rung in his mind, he wanted to deny the existance of Ran but it was too late.
So he would just tell them how he felt about it "I met him again when Sunao got hurt, he was standing by the window in the nurses office and he told me he wanted to see Yoru. But Yoru is gone...he is angry at Sunao and me. But Nao isnt a bad person! hes still my friend...hes still our Fujimori Sunao." his tone was part pleading but mostly aggressive.
He wanted to wipe thoughts of Sunao being malicious from their minds right at the start. Shinichiro seemed to feel his intended vibe of determined trust and he sighed with irritation, he seemed like he was going ot say something insensitive so Nanami skillfully cut in "Well, Hashiba...we cant just overlook this. We know that you still trust him...and dont get us wrong we do too...but--" Shinichiro was looking irritated as he cut his lover off "But Ran is bad news, especially if he is hurting people.
We need you to find out whats making him appear like this." Sora just kept his head hung low, he didnt know what to say. "Alright" was what he finally decided on and his mind ran all over the things that had been said and done to Sunao in the past few weeks...he needed to find out why Ran was here...for Sunao's sake.