After a one week break, I give you a very special chapter of Skywards! Filled with music, dangerous missions, hilarious if not mildly funny shenanigans, thrilling adventures, and romantic sunsets!
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Enjoy! Oh, and anything with a '*' after it is a note that is explained at the bottom of the chapter.
~8~
Hanabi didn't like hospitals. One of the main reasons that she didn't like them was because she spent a lost of her childhood in them. Another reason was that relatives always came and made her even sicker.
"Poor, poor girl," Rosario wept for her cousin's daughter at the girl's hospital bedside, "You know you shouldn't have been fighting that hard especially with your poor health!"
"A-Auntie Rosario…" Hanabi groaned inwardly.
"Don't worry about a thing, Hanabi!" the woman took her hand and leaned in closer, which did not help the girl one bit, "I won't leave your side for one minute!"
"Ugh…"
"I really don't see why she's acting like this," said a nurse that was passing by, "All she had was a broken nose, and nothing else seems to be wrong with her."
"She's always been weak like this ever since she was a child," said Rosario dramatically, "Poor, poor girl!"
"H-Help me…" Hanabi said weakly as she lifted a quaking hand at the nurse.
"Don't worry Hanabi! Help will always be here for you!"
"My, what a sweet family," the nurse smiled and nodded before leaving the hospital room.
"Could you please keep it down over there? Some of us are trying to sleep," someone said from behind a blue curtain that hid the patient next to Hanabi, it was then pulled aside by its occupant and had revealed Anna with a neck brace on.
"Sorry, Ms. Grandhart," Rosario apologized and turned back to Hanabi, "Oh yes, speaking of family, I called your dad and grandfather and told them about what happened to you."
"You did what!" Hanabi gawked and then felt the overwhelming urge to vomit, "I don't want them to see me like this!"
"It's nothing to be embarrassed about, Hanabi," the woman said dismissively as she started peeling an apple from a basket of fruit she had brought, "Your father said he wouldn't be able to make it, but Gokudera-oji said that he would get on the first plane to Japan! Isn't that great?"
Hanabi then quickly turned around and threw up.
"Oh no! I'll go get a nurse!" Rosario stated and swiftly left the room, making Hanabi feel much, much better.
Anna didn't look up from the book she was reading the entire time and asked, "You planned that, didn't you?"
"Yes and no," Hanabi replied while wiping her mouth, "I've been around Auntie Rosario and Auntie Bianchi so much that throwing up is second-nature to me."
"That doesn't seem like a good thing," a voice said worriedly, Hide was standing at the doorway with a basket of fruit in one hand and his arm in a sling.
"T-Twelfth!" Hanabi went bright red upon her Boss entering the room, "I'm sorry you had to see such a disgusting and vile thing! Please forgive me!"
"You don't have to get out of your bed, Gokudera-san!" Hide said hurriedly upon seeing that the bomber was about to get out of her bed just to bow down to him, "I forgive you already!"
"I'm not worthy!" she cried out dramatically.
"Ignore her, Boss," said Anna coolly as she turned the page of her book, "A Smoking Bomb is a Smoking Bomb."
"I don't even smoke, dammit!" Hanabi yelled at her.
"Could you guys please just calm down!" Hide sighed and held up another basket of fruit to accompany the various others that were in their room, "I brought you guys something."
"Thank you for your consideration, Boss," Anna nodded politely.
"I don't deserve it, Twelfth!" Hanabi cried out dramatically.
"I'll just put it here then," Hide ignored the 'Boss' and 'Twelfth' comments and put the basket on a table that out in the corner.
"Excuse my ignorance, Boss, but have you gone to see my brother yet?" the blonde haired girl asked, "I heard he was in bad condition."
"I saw Adam yesterday," he replied, "He's in the same room as Morita-kun. And he's fine, just a few bandages and he lost a lot of blood."
"Well then," Anna stated in a matter-of-fact tone, "I'm glad we're twins and have the same blood type."
"What about your hands?" Hide asked while pointing at them.
"You mean these?" she asked calmly, she put down her book and held up two balls of adhesive that made her hands look like they belonged to some cartoon character, "The doctors said my nails will start growing back in a week."
Why are you so calm about that! Hide stared in horror and said out loud, "I'll just go and see how Adam and Morita-kun are doing then…"
"Thank you for visiting us, Boss," Anna nodded at him.
"It was an honor having you here, Twelfth!" Hanabi bowed, or at least tried to do a bow while still in bed.
Hide sighed hopelessly and entered the room that was next to the girls' room, upon entering the room he heard a strange racket coming from inside…and the sounds of a twanging guitar.
"Will you please stop playing that guitar!" he heard Morita yell, Hide opened the door and saw Suzuki sitting in a chair with a guitar in his lap in front of Adam and Morita's hospital bed, the boy looked up from his guitar and waved when he saw Hide.
"Yo, Hide!" he said gleefully, "I was just about to play these guys a song on my guitar!" he then looked down at his guitar doubtfully and muttered, "Once I tuned it that is, haven't really played it in a while…"
"Suzuki, aren't you tone deaf?" Hide asked.
"That didn't stop Beethoven!"
"I thought Beethoven was just deaf," Morita pointed out.
"That gives me the advantage then!" he laughed.
"Why don't you give it here?" Adam suggested, he was almost covered in bandages from head to toe and his arm was in a cast but his fingers were wiggling free, "I'm not tone deaf."
"Okay then!" Suzuki got up and handed the guitar to the foreigner who plucked at the thickest string and tightened and loosened it until it sounded just right, then he held down the string next to it and play the two together and tightened and loosened that string, he did the same for all the other strings and handed it to Suzuki.
The tone deaf baseball player strummed at the strings and brightened, "That sounds just right! Thanks Adam!"
"Not a problem, Anna used to be a huge piano fanatic," he said and lied back on his bed.
"Cool! Now then, what do you guys want to hear?" Suzuki asked cheerfully.
"Can a tone deaf musician play an actual instrument?" Morita asked.
"Hmm…I don't think I know that one…" the raven-haired boy said doubtfully.
"He's asking a question, Suzuki, not a suggesting a song," Hide sighed, "And Suzuki's actually pretty good with a guitar."
"Yup! As long as you know the chords, you're good!" he said happily and stared back down at the acoustic guitar, "And this is one of the old ones too, not those electronic ones where you can just press a button and it'll play the cord for you or you can change the sound of the instrument from electric to acoustic guitar! You need finger strength and calluses for this!"
Suzuki then began to play a song. It was an old song from half a century ago that Hide remembered his gramps playing it on the radio before and him explaining that it was once very popular all over the world. It was a very simple and easy song, and you could find yourself clapping the beat out even though it was just the guitar that was playing.
The song ended with a single strum of the guitar, to which Morita's mouth hung open in shock and amazement.
"You're tone deaf?" he struggled to ask.
"Yup, but my mom's a musician and she taught me how to play the guitar when I was little," Suzuki said cheerfully and strummed the guitar again, "Anyone wanna hear anything else?"
"Um, I'm sorry," a nurse opened the door meekly with a pleading look on her face, "I'm sorry, but could you all keep it down in here? Some of the patients are trying to sleep, and the head nurse doesn't like loud sounds going on."
"Okay, sorry about that," Suzuki rubbed his head sheepishly and gave a careless grin.
"Just turn the volume on it down, okay?" the nurse asked before leaving.
Once she left Suzuki sighed and looked down on his guitar, "That's another problem with those electronic guitars! Everything has a volume switch on it!"
"That's just the way things are, Suzuki," Hide shrugged for his friend, he then looked over at the patients in the room and asked, "How are you guys feeling?"
"Fine, my hands were just a little burned," Morita grumbled and folded his arms together, "The doctors said I couldn't box or anything until they healed up! But, man, when those nurses found out that I snuck out of the hospital the other day to help you move some boxes, boy were they mad!"
"At least you get to leave the bed!" Adam said jokingly, "Those docs won't let me leave their sight for a second!"
"Well you did sort of render your arm useless there, Adam," Hide pointed out.
"Oh sure just 'cause I had dislocated my shoulder for five hours!" the foreign boy rolled his eyes.
"Of course," said a horribly familiar squeaky voice, Hide felt the color drain from his face upon hearing it, "Having a joint dislocated that long can be bad for your body."
He turned around and saw Reborn in a pink nurse's outfit, complete with a pink nurse's hat of course, and a giant needle that was the size of his head.
"Haha! Heya there, Nurse Reborn!" Suzuki laughed upon seeing the small child; he then looked over to Hide and winked, "He sure likes playing 'pretend' doesn't he?"
No, Suzuki, he's not pretending at all…Hide gaped.
"Yeah, well I have things to be doing," Adam frowned and asked Hide, "Hey Boss, have you seen my sis yet? I heard her hands aren't doing all that great."
"Yeah, the doctors said her nails will start growing back next week," the boy answered
"Wow, that bad, huh?" Adam whistled impressively and asked, "Is she doing okay? She's not, I don't know, acting weirdly is she?"
"No," he shook his head, "When I was there, she was reading a book."
"That's good," the brother said thoughtfully and nodded to himself.
Reborn walked over to Suzuki and looked at his guitar for a few seconds before asking, "Can you play this, Suzuki?"
"Hm?" the boy looked down at the child and nodded, "Yup! Do you want me to play a song for you kiddo?"
The tutor thought about this and nodded, "Yes, play for me: 'Going Off The Deep End' by Score Twenty*."
"You mean that new song that just came out last week?" Hide asked.
"I don't listen to the radio much, unless it's at work, Reborn," Suzuki said sheepishly, "Do you have another song you like?"
"Very well then, play 'Falling Down'** you should know that one, right?" Reborn said expectantly.
"Reborn!" Hide hissed but his attempt to quiet the baby was ignored.
"Eh?" Suzuki blinked and grinned, "You mean you know? Heh, I thought I only told Hide and the old man that!"
"What?" Morita asked, "What are you talking about?"
"My mom!" the boy grinned and shrugged, "No use keeping it a secret now, my mom's probably what you would call an 'Idol'."
"Your mom?" Adam questioned and then two clueless boys in the room quietly thought about it, "Mom…Suzuki…"
"Hm…'Falling Down'…" Morita thought, then his eyes widened and he yelped, "Suzuki! As in 'Suzuki Shigure'? The number one hit idol in Japan!"
"That's her!" Suzuki nodded enthusiastically, "Hide's mom and my mom were best friends in middle school, its only fair that we're best friends also!"
"Wow…I know someone famous," Morita gaped.
"That's pretty cool…" said Adam, who was strangely speechless, "How come you don't tell anyone that your mom is Suzuki Shigure? Isn't that something to be bragged about?"
"Well duh! If I told everybody, I wouldn't be able to play baseball or go to the same school as Hide!" Suzuki laughed as he pointed this out, he then gripped his guitar and smiled at Reborn, "So, 'Falling Down' right?"
"That's right," the infant nodded, "I'm a bit of a fan of that song."
"Okay then!" the boy nodded and started playing it.
While he played the number one hit song, Hide bent down to Reborn and whispered, "Reborn! What was that for? Suzuki doesn't like other people to know about his family!"
"With this, your Family has become one step closer with each other," the infant stated.
"It's always 'Family'-this and 'Family'-that with you, isn't it?" Hide muttered reluctantly.
"Because Family is important, now shut up I'm listening to the song."
"But sometimes, you just have to fall down,
To realize what is all around…"
Suzuki finished the song, and this time there was applause from the doorway as nurses were crying after overhearing the song from outside.
"That was so beautiful!" one of the larger nurses blubbered and then blew noisily into a tissue.
"I just want to take this musical prodigy home with me!" another nurse cried, what was creepy about it was that it was a male nurse.
"That song was the story of my life!" another nurse cried out, Hide could have sworn that this was the head nurse in the hospital that said this.
"Then you should all buy Suzuki Shigure's newest album, 'Teardrops In The Sky'!" said Suzuki cheerfully.
"Shigure-chan wrote this? No wonder! The girl's so talented!" a nurse wailed, pretty soon all the nurses dispersed and/or went off to buy a copy of the album.
Hide gave his friend a surprised look to which the boy innocently shrugged and said, "What? This counts as helping my mom out, doesn't it?"
After Suzuki was done with shamelessly plugging his mother's own pop star album, both he and Hide walked about the hospital, since Adam couldn't walk and the nurses were still angry at Morita, despite Suzuki's performance. They explored and visited students that had been apart of the recent…event that had happened. Including the boxing team where Megumi was rushing around the place in order to get the hospital release dates on the team members and assign them special training.
"Hey, Hide!" Suzuki elbowed his friend, "That's the girl you like, right?"
"Sssh!" the boy whispered as Megumi came up to them.
"Hide-kun! What a surprise!" she said happily, "Did you come here to visit Morita-kun?"
"We already did," Hide grinned, "We just came by here to visit the team for him."
"Ugh, that boy!" Megumi rolled her eyes and sighed, "I heard he snuck out again and had to be dragged back over here!"
If she knows it was me that called him, then she'll get mad at me…Hide thought.
"Hide was that one that called him to get out of the hospital," said Reborn from out of no where, he was now wearing a doctor's coat plus stethoscope.
"Reborn!" Hide gawked, You betrayer!
"You did Hide-kun?" Megumi looked shocked as well, "Why would you do that?"
"Uh, um," the boy shifted his eyes around the room nervously and then felt an arm swing around his shoulder.
"Hide, here, was worried about Sakuraba not being able to move around much in a hospital bed," said Suzuki confidently, "So he called the guy up and asked him if he wanted to go with us to help move some boxes for the little guy here! Staying in a bed for a long time can be pretty bad for you, ya know, blood clots develop, next thing you know: bam! Heart attack."
"Wha-?"
"I'm Suzuki, by the way, Suzuki Kouhei!" the baseball player held out a welcoming hand to which Megumi took it uncertainly.
"Oh, well…if that's the case then…okay?" she said while completely confused, but this was a whole lot better than her being angry or sad. And the best part was that it was technically true, so Hide wasn't lying to her nor would Reborn be able to get in the way.
"I think I know you, right? Suzuki-kun?" Megumi asked, "You're in class 1-B right? Same year as us?"
"That's correct!" he nodded.
"So you're the baseball player, then right?" she asked cheerily.
"Haha, yeah!" he nodded again proudly, "Wish I could be your class you guys, I liked the way they were doing it all by alphabetical order last year. Now it's all crazy and mixed up!"
"Hmm, maybe I can arrange something then?" Reborn wondered aloud, "I know the principal of the school, and he owes me a few favors. No harm in calling him up and asking him rearrange your classes a little…"
"Really Reborn-kun?" asked Megumi.
"Yup," he nodded, at this point Hide knelt down to the infant and whispered:
"You seriously personally know the principal of our school? And you're also going to let it be so that we all have a class together?"
"Sure, Hibari owes me a couple of favors," the infant said, "Plus this will allow your family to grow a tight-knit bond with each other by being in a closer environment."
"Why do I feel like there are very thick strings attached to this deal?" Hide groaned.
"There aren't," the infant said and then reminded Hide, "But you still have the rest of the summer to enjoy, I'll take care of this."
Hide was a little bit relieved but then froze up and asked, "Wait, what do you mean by 'relax'? Aren't we going to do more training?"
"No, the worst has passed for now, I'll allow you to rest for a while before making you start up training again," the infant said passively, but then held up Leon to Hide's face and said, "But if you're even just a little bit weaker than you are now, don't expect me to go easy on you."
Now that sounds more like the Reborn I know, Hide thought, half-relieved and half-scared out of his wits.
"Hey, look it's the underwear guy and Suzuki!" yelled one of the boxing team members, the others all sat up from their beds to try to get a glimpse of the two.
"Th-they're all looking at us," Hide mumbled as he felt shyness coming onto him, but Suzuki, being Suzuki, walked over to the center of the beds with his guitar and said cheerfully, "Hey you guys! Want to listen to a song?"
"Wow! They came here just cheer us up?" said a boxer with amazement.
"What great guys!"
"Sure, play us a song, Suzuki!"
"Is Sawada going to sing or play drums? Haha!"
"Sawada can sing? Cool!"
"The underwear-guy is amazing!"
…and that was how the rumor started that Hide could sing, even though he didn't even speak a word to them. Hide gawked in amazement at how quickly they all began to believe that he had musical talent. They think I can sing now! he thought.
"Wow, Hide-kun, I didn't know you were in a band with Suzuki-kun!" said Megumi in awe.
Megumi-chan believes it too! he gaped, And now everyone thinks I'm in a band!
"What instrument do you play?" she continued to ask, "Is it drums? Or are you the singer?"
"Uh, Megumi-san, I'm actually not-" he began but was interrupted when Suzuki swung an arm around him again.
"He's the pianist!" he said brightly.
"Eh? No I'm no-"
"Wow! Piano, huh?" Megumi brightened, "I used to play piano when I was little but I never could get the hang of it! You must be great at it, right Hide-kun?"
"Actually, I-"
"Are you kidding? He's the greatest!" Suzuki laughed, Hide could tell that the boy was having fun with this, "I remember when we were kids, he played Mozart and Beethoven all the time!"
That was at a recital and you were asleep the whole time, Hide remembered.
"Eh? Really?" the red-head chirped, "You have to play for me some time, Hide-kun!"
"S-sure?" Hide nodded uncertainly, but he was still happy.
"Hey! I thought I told you kids to be quiet!" a nurse yelled at the doorway, she then noticed Hide and Suzuki and brightened, "Oh! Aren't you boys the ones that played that song by Shigure? Are you going to play another?"
"Sure they were!" whooped a boxer from his bed, the others started cheering and clapping and yelling out suggestions.
"Quiet down, you brats!" the nurse yelled and then turned back at Suzuki and Hide sweetly, "Could you play this one song, and then you can just be on your own way."
"Sure!" Suzuki nodded and hefted his guitar up to his chest, "What do you want to listen to?"
"Well, I don't know if you know this one, but it used to be played all the time on the radio when I was kid," she began, "It's called, um, 'Hey There Delilah."
"Is that the one by The Plain White T's*** or the newer version?" he asked.
"The what?"
"Never mind," he shook his head, "I know what you're talking about."
He started plucking at a few chords for a while before finally getting into the song. It was at a much quicker pace and slowed down a lot before picking up the pace again, but the nurse didn't seem to mind as she listened to it. Hide couldn't help but notice that Suzuki wasn't so much into this song because there wasn't as much feeling in it. He finished the song and the nurse clapped with delight.
"Oh, thank you so much!"
"Not a problem," he said cheerfully.
"Well, visiting hours are almost done with," the nurse said while tapping her chin thoughtfully, "But I'll tell you what, I'll let you guys stay here a little bit longer in time for the sunset on the roof. It's absolutely gorgeous, trust me!"
"Thanks, nurse!"
"Yeah thanks!" the boys waved as the nurse said good bye to them.
"That's pretty neat!" said Megumi, "I wonder if we can take Morita and Hanabi-chan up there!"
"Let see if we can get those Grandhart twins to come too!" said Suzuki excitedly.
"That's a good idea," said Reborn from somewhere nobody could see him, a ceiling tile moved back and the baby descended in a black leotard and with his arms and legs outstretched like the spies in spy movies, "It's a good chance to practice your sneaking skills."
"Reborn, we were invited to go to the roof," Hide pointed out, "It's not exactly 'sneaking' if we were already invited."
"Yes, but the others weren't," Reborn pointed out, "Remember? Sakuraba and Adam both said that the nurses and doctors wouldn't let them leave their room, and Rosario is keeping watch over Hanabi like a hawk."
"How exciting!" said Megumi clapped her hands together cheerfully, "This sounds like a fun game!"
"Game?" Suzuki perked up at hearing the word, "If it's a game, then count me in!"
"Yes, the game's called: Get everyone to the roof without being caught," said Reborn as he explained the rules of the game without Hide's consent, "The rules are to get Adam, Sakuraba, Hanabi, and Anna up to the roof without being caught by the nurses, doctors, or Rosario."
"Right!" they said in unison.
How did this become a game…? Hide grumbled to himself.
~8~
Suzuki peered out from behind the door and snuck into the Hanabi and Anna's hospital room. Hanabi had fallen fast asleep from exhaustion for having Rosario around her too much, but Anna was wide awake.
"What are you doing?" she asked as Suzuki tip-toed his way into the room with two folded-up wheelchairs.
"We haven't actually met, have we?" the boy grinned as he greeted the girl, "My name's Suzuki Kouhei, I'm Hide's friend. You must be the Grandhart-sister."
"Anna," she said flatly, "That's not the answer to the question I was asking."
"Well, the nurse let me, Hide, and Tanaka-san stay after visiting hours so we could go see the sunset on the roof," Suzuki explained, "I'm helping Hide and Tanaka-san get you guys up to the roof also without getting caught."
"I doubt Rosario will let you guys do that," said Anna, "At least not for Smoking Bomb over there, visiting hours aren't over yet after all. I also doubt that Smoking Bomb will let you guide her to the roof."
The baseball player then grinned ear to ear and held a finger to his mouth, "That's why I'm doing it while she's asleep!"
"That's the most idiotic thing in the world," the girl stated.
"Wow, you're a huge downer compared to your brother!" he laughed quietly and unfolded the wheelchairs, once he was done stood next to one of them and grinned, "After you, malady!"
"Help me," she said as she started to stand up, "My sense of balance is still off since I broke my collarbone."
"Okay then," Suzuki walked over to her and helped Anna into the wheelchair, he then went over to Hanabi and picked her up bridal-style and set her down in another wheelchair. Had the girl been awake at that moment, she would have punched Suzuki in the face.
"Hanabi, I brought some magazines from the giftshop!" Rosario's voice came from outside.
"Look who's coming," Anna pointed out.
"Oh no!" Suzuki flinched.
"Hanabi, look I got the limited-edition of-Oh, Suzuki, right?" Rosario was surprised to see the boy in the room with Anna in the wheelchair.
"Heya there Miss Rosario!" he waved to her as he began to stroll out of the room while leading Anna's wheelchair.
"Where are you guys going?" she asked.
"To the roof," Suzuki answered, "The nurse said that Hide and I could stay to watch the sunset on the roof and we thought it would be great if we could get everyone up there."
"You're not taking Hanabi?" Rosario questioned she looked over to the bed and saw Hanabi's sleeping form and her snow-white hair sticking out.
"No, she's dead tired," Suzuki shook his head and shrugged, "She wouldn't wake up no matter what and told us to go away when we actually did."
"She must be! She's probably exhausted from her illness," Rosario nodded and then waved to the teens, "Well, have a good time up there, watching the sunset and all."
"We will!" he said and quickly left.
~8~
As Suzuki rolled the wheelchair onwards, he stopped by the staircase and procured another nearby wheelchair. He helped Anna into it and pulled off the blanket she was sitting on. Hanabi was still sound asleep in the wheelchair.
"Wow, she's is dead tired isn't she?" he whistled impressively.
"That was pretty quick thinking," Anna mused, "Hiding Smoking Bomb under that blanket and putting me on top of her."
"Heh, not really," Suzuki grinned sheepishly, "It wouldn't have worked if that old mop wasn't there."
~8~
"Hm? Hanabi's bed looks a little damp," Rosario noticed as she felt the cold, wet pillow that the mop's head was lying on, "She must be sad that she couldn't go up to the roof with the young Twelfth and his friends. But she needs to stay in bed and get better."
~8~
"We need a distraction," Megumi whispered as she watched Morita and Adam's room from the outside, it was right in front of the Nurses Station where nurses were constantly walking around and checking in.
"How are we going to distract them?" Hide whispered back to her.
"Oh look, it's the little friend of that music-boy!" squealed one of the nurses when she saw Hide.
"Wha-huh?" he questioned as the nurse then grabbed him at startling speed.
"Good thinking Hide-kun! You distract them!" Megumi gave him a thumbs-up and ran off to the boys' room.
"What? Megumi-san?" he paled.
"Can you play an instrument too, little boy?" asked one of the nurses as they all started crowding around him.
"I-Instrument? Uh, the piano, I guess?" he said uncertainly.
"You must be in a band with the music-boy, right?" another nurse said cheerily, "Can you play a song for us?"
"Do you play guitar too?"
"Why don't you play a song on the guitar?"
"I can't play the guitar now!" Hide shook his head quickly and pointed to the cast on his arm, "My arm's broken!"
"Then why not on the piano?"
"Yeah! Does anyone have a keyboard?"
"There's one in pediatrics!"
Pretty soon a keyboard was procured for Hide. Granted, it looked exactly like a computer's keyboard, but this was one of the new models of piano that had as many keys as a large grand piano but was the same size and looked exactly like a keyboard. But like most instruments, there are certain ways to play the instrument and that was one of the flaws of this 'keyboard', it couldn't be played easily by an amateur nor by anyone with a cast.
"Uh, I only played the large pianos before," Hide said doubtfully.
"Really? Those big, ancient things?" a nurse asked critically.
"Yeah, they're much easier to play than this one…" he said.
"Well the keys are all named on the buttons! You can play it, can't you?"
"I guess…" he creased his eyebrows, "Hold on…"
He played the key that was labled 'Mid C' and played a few more keys around it. I can't believe my mom actually put me in piano lessons when I was a kid…Hide grumbled to himself and then added on a slightly more positive note, well…it was normal for a kid, and the piano is as normal as instruments go…
"See? It already sounds like music!" said a nurse with delight.
"He's so talented! Like that boy he was with earlier!"
No, I'm just playing random keys, lady! Hide grimaced, he tried to take a peek at the door where Morita and Adam's room was and saw Megumi coming out of it with Adam in a wheelchair and Morita behind her. She gave him another thumbs-up, meaning that it was time to leave and get everyone to the roof.
"Oh, look at the time! It seems like it's almost time for the sunset!" Hide exclaimed while looking at an imaginary watch on his wrist and then running away from the crowd of nurses.
"Good job, Hide-kun!" said Megumi brightly when the boy caught up to them, "What was that song you were playing?"
"Just random keys," he said meekly.
"'Just Random Keys'? I don't think I know that one," she said thoughtfully, Hide thought it was absolutely adorable when she said this and almost melted in his shoes.
"Good thinking Boss!" Adam interjected his Boss's wonderful daydream, "Distracting the nurses and getting us to the roof like this!"
"Yeah, Hide!" Morita nodded, "This was a great idea too, going up to the roof."
"Well, it was sort of Reborn's idea…" Hide said meekly.
"What are you kids doing!" someone barked at them, they turned around and saw a doctor down the hallway that was staring straight at them rather angrily.
"Run!" Morita yelled and they all started running away from the doctor, except for Adam who was stuck in the wheelchair and had Hide pushing him.
"Oh no you don't!" the doctor ended up being faster and caught Hide's shirt collar and pulled the boy back.
"Hide!"
"Hide-kun!" the teens stopped in their tracks and looked back at their caught friend.
"You kids get back in your rooms!" the doctor yelled and then looked at the boy he had caught, "And as for you…"
"Go to the roof with your Dying Will," Hide heard, he also heard a gunshot but no one else seemed to hear it though. Next thing Hide knew, he was dangling by his shirt collar unconscious.
"H-Hey, kid are you alright?' the doctor asked nervously when he noticed the boy go limp.
No, Hide was not alright. He wanted to go up to the roof, to see fireworks with his friends. He wanted to spend more time with them before he died. If only he was faster than the doctor…if only…
Then suddenly Hide burst out of his clothes and yelled, "GET TO THE ROOF WITH MY DYING WILL!"
He grabbed the wheelchair Adam was in while scooping up Megumi and Morita into it, and then started to make a mad dash to the roof. The doctor stood silent for a few seconds and looked at the piece of cloth in his hand that was once Hide's shirt.
"That was…" he began quietly and then got all hyped up, "so cool! I've never seen such active youth in my life! Reminds me of when I was young!"
The doctor then sighed reminiscently and went about his duties of being a doctor, "I'll let those kids slide," he said, "It looks like they really wanted to go to the roof anyways."
~8~
Meanwhile, Hide ran around the hospital until he found some stairs, and then he picked up the wheelchair and carried everybody that was in it up the stairs, despite the pain that was probably coming from his broken arm. Adam, Morita, and Megumi were all screaming their heads off at suddenly being carried away by a very clothes-less Hide.
"THE ROOF! THE ROOF! THE ROOF!" the boy roared.
"AAAAAH!" they screamed.
When they finally got to the roof, Hide set them down gently and an off to one side yelling triumphantly, "WE GOT TO THE ROOF!" before fainting.
"I-I think I'm going to throw up…" Morita groaned as he shakily got out of the wheelchair and onto ground, he had never been so happy to see it.
"I need to sit down for a few seconds…" said Megumi weakly as she fell off the chair and collapsed onto the ground.
"Woo-hoo! That was great, Boss!" Adam cheered.
The elevator door that was next to the stairs opened behind them and revealed Suzuki rolling Anna and a still sleeping Hanabi in two wheelchairs. Suzuki quickly took notice about "Look whose here already!"
"Oh man, was that fun!" Adam was still laughing with joy.
"Hm? What was?" Suzuki asked the foreigner then explained what happened, to which Suzuki also started laughing.
"And then he started yelling and screaming! He carried us all the way up here!" he said.
"Really? That's pretty cool of him! Where is he now?"
"Over there," Adam pointed to where the collapsed Hide was.
"Yo, Hide!" Suzuki yelled, the fallen boy got up half-asleep and looked around.
"Huh? What?" he asked sleepily.
"Your in your underwear again, man?" Suzuki grinned.
"What?" Hide looked down at his body and gawked, "I'm in my underwear!"
"Heck yeah you are!" the baseball player laughed.
"No-I mean-uh, where's Megumi-san?" he asked cautiously.
"Curled up in a ball crying."
"What!' he snapped his head up and looked around to try and see Megumi.
"Just kidding, just kidding," Suzuki laughed at his best friend's expression, "She's fine, look, the sunset's starting."
Hide looked at the glowing orange sun that was starting to sink slowly into the horizon, the red sky was lit up around it and the night sky was hovering just above it. The river in front of the Namimori was reflecting the sunset and the red sky. It surely was a sight to see and everybody came over to where Hide was and stood in awe at the sunset.
"Huh? What's happening?" Hide heard Hanabi wake up, but she became quiet as soon as she saw the sunset.
"Wow, this really was a great idea, Hide," said Morita.
"Yeah," Megumi nodded while keeping her eyes on the sunset, Hide couldn't help but notice that the red sky matched her hair.
"Why don't we all listen to a song then?" Reborn suggested, the infant was in his normal clothes now so he didn't ruin the mood, in his hand was Suzuki's guitar.
"That's a great idea little guy!" said Suzuki, he immediately took the guitar and started playing it.
That is a good idea, Hide thought suspiciously, Is there something wrong with him today?
"Nope, nothing wrong," Reborn smiled, "You guys need to relax. Oh and Hide, I realized that I've been becoming too soft lately, so I decided to start your training back up again starting tomorrow morning. You'll run two times around Namimori."
Now that sounds more like the Reborn I know.
The song finished and everyone applauded Suzuki's efforts. The boy strummed the guitar happily and plucked out a few more notes, "You know, Hide," he began to his friend, "don't you kinda wish that these kinds of moments could last forever?"
Hide was surprised at the sudden question, and then smiled as he turned back to the orange glowing sunset, "Yeah. Kinda."
~8~
Yay for silliness :), and for those of you who are interested the song Suzuki plays on the guitar is 'I'm Yours' by Jason Mraz, whether this song is worldwide known or not is possibly true and possibly not true also. I don't know. But it's a great song, especially for the guitar :D I highly recommend this song to pretty much everyone!
Notes:
*The song and the band are fictional (meaning they don't actually exist, haha :D)
**"Falling Down" is just a name of a made up song, so are the lyrics which I think are pretty clever if I do say so myself, haha
***This song is 'Hey There Delilah" by Plain White T's, a great band that makes great music. The 'newer version' Suzuki is talking about is a made-up one I made up because, hey, in a 50 year time span any song can get remixed or redone by another person.
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