Gaaaah! Sorry about not updating on a Sunday! I wrote the chapter, went on fanfiction . net and... *drumroll* forgot to update! Sorry sorry... _ My forgetfulness astounds me sometimes...

Thanks to RGNN for constant encouragement! My sister for beta-ing, and everyone who reads my story for reading my story!

Now enjoy! *ducks to avoid thrown tomatoes*

Things quickly settled into routine. I would wake up, wrestle with the kitchen (a.k.a cooking), yell at the others to set up the table (which hurts my throat!), eat with them, watch them do some 'training' (which meant laughing at them while they struggled with their chores), go to the tree in my wheelchair to do my own training, study for awhile, go back to cook dinner (they have toast for lunch) and crash into bed. I didn't actually accompany them with the 'open the gate' thing.

It wasn't bad really. It was just that from having a pain-killer shot every fourth day, I now had to inject pain-killers every second day.

And it was nearly always not full (Jeb had told me it refilled fully by every fourth day). So it was like having a nagging evil sledgehammer whack you all over your body. Constantly.

It sucked.

One day, after picking at my breakfast, I felt so tired that I wanted to sleep on the floor right there and then. I slowly dragged myself onto my wheelchair and settled into my usual corner, sitting there and yawning sleepily at them.

Leorio dropped his bucket onto his foot. He cringed, waiting for my laughter and my cynical comments about his strength. He didn't get any.

He widened his eyes and gawped.

'Aren't you going to say something Wind?'

'Huh?' I just blinked at him.

He quickly ushered Kurapika, Gon and Dusky together into a tight huddle. I blinked sleepily at them and pulled at the air so I could hear what they were saying.

'Hey, don't you think that Wind is acting weirdly today?' Leorio whispered. Kurapika nodded.

'Yes. She only picked at her food today. She usually gulps it down saying that she needs to get fat…' Dusky nodded her agreement.

'Maybe she's sleepy? I think I heard her tossing in her sleep murmuring about something along the lines of '…the lower court is different from the higher court because its occupants are of the younger generation…' Kurapika looked very interested at Dusky's words. I swear I saw his ears perk up.

'Really? That sounds like the court of Avril that we are talking about.' Leorio started to shake his head frantically.

'No! That's not what I'm trying to say, I'm trying to point out the fact that she watched me drop my bucket without laughing!'

'Oh.'

'So?'

Leorio shook his head.

'I think something's wrong… Why does she seem so pale all the time? Why does she eat so much and still lose weight? I don't understand why she needs the wheelchair either. I mean, she can lift the sixty kilogram saucepan for cooking for heaven's sake!' Dusky looked uncomfortable.

I laughed evilly at Dusky's predicament in my brain and waved at them.

'I'm going outside guys. Start getting to work whenever you want to. Time's ticking by, and you all barely finish by eleven.'

Then I pushed the air to push my wheelchair all the while dragging another stream of air towards me so I could always know what they were saying.

Hehe, Dusky, this is the perfect time to spring my disease to them. Will you tell my secret? What are you going to do now?

Dusky's view…

I started to back away sweat-dropping. Who knew that Leorio would be so perceptive? I would have expected Kurapika to realise it first, not dunderhead Leorio. Where could I go? My eyes shiftily looked around the room.

'Ahaha… Um, I'm going to wash… the bathroom. Bye!' I made a mad dash to the stairs.

Nearly there! A few more steps and then I can lock myself in!

I reached the door and started opening it. Unfortunately for me a hand immediately slammed it shut. I looked and saw Kurapika. He stared at me, frowning.

Waaaaah! Kurapika was angry at me! I slowly turned my head and looked backwards. Leorio was there with his hands on his hips looking a lot like the matron at my orphanage, while Gon was looking at me pleadingly.

I started waving my hands around desperately.

'No need to get hasty! Yup, no need at all! Wind has absolutely no problem! She's just naturally thin, mhmm, so need to get your pants in a bunch. Now excuse me, I need to go to the toilet desperately…'

I immediately turned around and tried to open the door. Sadly, it was pressed tightly closed by Kurapika.

Damn these doors. Couldn't they have built them as push doors?

Gon came up to me.

'Dusky, Wind is our friend too… Can you please tell us what's happening?'

I brushed my hair from my face, which had blown into my face…

Blown? This corridor only had a window and a door!

…

Wait. Air. Air can carry sounds. Wind likes to use air. The breeze was blowing towards where Wind had left. Wind had abandoned me here with a smirk. Wind, who could predict situations fifteen moves ahead (I checked. She's a killer in chess.).

I gritted my teeth as I looked into Gon's pleading eyes, Kurapika's frown and Leorio's matron face.

Windfarest Sani, I will kill you the moment you arrive back into this house.

I massaged my temples and sighed. No use in lying anyway. I'll just tweak it a bit so that they don't know Wind was already in her terminal stage…

Wind's view…

As I concentrated at building an earth wall that was actually sturdy, I frowned at the nonsense Dusky was spurting out.

What the hell, Dusky?! You don't need to tell them that I don't like oranges! And what's the deal about me not being terminal? I'm as terminal as they come!

I sighed. How bothersome.

I gave up on my collapsing earth manipulated wall and started studying.

I mean, what else was there to do? I studied for a few hours and went back to cook dinner, as per usual. After that I crashed into bed, and started studying again from the two mountains, as I liked to call them.

And after I woke up, I realised that two weeks had passed.

Today, they didn't go to the gate at dusk, they went to the gate in the afternoon, and as I didn't want to study, for once I followed them.

We all cheered Leorio on when he finally opened the door.

'Great, Leorio!' Gon said, jumping up and down in his 150 kg clothes. Dusky was just waving her hand in the air muttering something along the lines of '… too heavy…' Zebulo looked at Leorio amazed.

'You're amazing… In only two weeks!' Leorio just stood there panting.

'There! We can enter proudly!' Then he went over to us showing off his biceps. I shook my head.

'You still suck at mopping though.' Leorio looked at me mock-indignantly.

'Then you try opening that door!' I shrugged and stood up from my wheelchair.

'Why not? But I need to take off these damn weights…' I took off the weights that they put on me. I suddenly felt so much lighter! I started loosening up my muscles.

'Here we go…' I said, wheeling my arms in an attempt to warm up. I stood in front of the gate and glared at it. I put my two hands and pushed.

Two doors slowly opened as I pushed harder and harder. I stepped back and let the doors boom shut. I frowned and turned back.

'Not good enough…' Leorio, Kurapika and Dusky all fell down. I never did tell Dusky I was strong, did I? I went to Kurapika and started to unwrap the bandages on my arms and legs. Then I gave them to Kurapika.

'Here, hold this for a sec. I don't want to get them dirty…'

'Sure.' Kurapika took them and promptly fell forwards. He looked at them amazed. 'What is this…?' I started taking off my dress as well. Leorio immediately looked away.

'Err… Wind, are you sure you're supposed to be doing that?' I shrugged. I had shorts and a singlet on underneath anyway.

'Hold this for me Leorio. And look at me; I have shorts and a singlet. As if I would strip in front of you. I don't think of you that highly.' Leorio immediately took the dress.

'What do you mean…' and he fell forwards. 'What the hell is this?! It's nearly heavier than the gate!'

'Condensed moonbeam.' Then I walked towards the gate feeling like I could fly. I was so light! This time, I stepped in front of the gate and pushed it a bit harder than I did before. Five gates opened.

I could basically hear the thuds of jaws dropping. I chuckled. I hadn't even used all of my strength, since Jeb told me not to exert myself too much.

'What? You didn't expect me to be this strong?' I said as I took the bandages and started wrapping them around my arms and legs again. Then I took the dress out of the awestruck Leorio's arms and slipped it on. Leorio suddenly shook.

'You mean we didn't have to do that training because we could have entered honourably ANYWAY?'

As I sat back down on my wheelchair, I sweat-dropped.

Oops. Forgot about that…

As Gon waved happily towards the cottage, I just closed my eyes and started along the path before them.

What's the point of listening to instructions that I've nearly memorised? And anyway, I really wanted to see Killua.

Killua. Weird, I know. I've only known him for about more than a week and I wanted to see him so badly. The only things I solidly knew about him were from the manga and the anime.

Did that mean if I didn't read the manga or watch the anime, I wouldn't want to see him?

I mean, I knew he was a chocoholic, but I knew that from the anime and manga too.

As I tried to puzzle out my thoughts, I realised that I had been pushing my wheelchair way before the others. I let the wind drop behind my wheelchair and yelled out to them.

'Hey, slowpokes! Where are you?'

I only heard the birds chirping in response. I sighed and looked back to where I had pushed myself. It was dark, the forest. In front of me was a stone gate and…

A girl.

Oops. I had reached here earlier than them… I scratched the back of my head.

'Sorry! My friends will join me soon! I won't go over to the other side until they're here, so don't worry…'

She just stared emotionlessly at me. I sweat-dropped and asked the wind to push me to the side of the track.

And there, with the sunlight filtering through the trees, and a poker-faced girl watching me, I fell asleep.

And like a nightmare, in the yellow-skied dimension, the two huge mountain books loomed in front of me. With Jeb standing in front of them laughing his ass off at my chagrined expression. I poured a bucket of water on him and started studying, ignoring his spluttering.

'In the lower court,' I muttered to myself. I had found out (after a long while) that I remembered the facts more easily when I said it out loud. 'Duke Manon's son is one of the more respected nobles. Likes…'

Tama's view… (Earth)

RIIIIIING!

Immediately, chairs scraped the floor and chatter filled the classroom. The teacher's voice was heard yelling over the noise.

'Remember boys and girls, homework is chapter eight! Chapter eight!'

And like usual, we all ignored her and went charging out the doorway. I walked a bit more slowly out the classroom.

'Bye, Miss.'

She just nodded in reply and I walked out the classroom. Benny came up and clapped me on the shoulder.

'Hey Tama! Ya want a quick game of soccer?' I smiled at him.

'Not today, Benny! I have something to do today.' He pouted.

'Whatevar!' He grinned at me and ran out of the school gates. I started walking to the hospital. We had a hospital really near us and was the state's children's hospital. I walked into it and went up to the lady behind the desk.

'Excuse me… Can you tell me if you have a patient named Wind here?'

She smiled down at me.

'No, I don't think so. But…' She checked her computer, 'we have a patient named Windfarest. Are you looking for her?'

I nodded.

'Well then, she's in the ward for coma patients. Do you have your parents here, or a guardian?'

I shook my head.

'Then you can't go in. Sorry, come back with your parents' next time, ok?'

I nodded and she went back to her business. I then snuck to the waiting area where lots of old people were there. I put on my best sad face and approached a nice looking old lady.

'I came here to look at my sister and now I can't find my daddy!' I squeezed some tears out of my eyes. The old lady immediately bent over and started talking to me.

Haha, she fell for it, hook, line and sinker.

'Oh, you poor dear! Where did you last see your daddy?' she asked, patting my shoulder.

'In a section where there was a funny word on it…' The old lady smiled nicely down at me.

'What was the funny word, dear?'

'I think it started with a c… cama? Cuma?' The old lady smiled at me again.

'Do you mean coma?' I nodded. 'Is your sister not waking up?'

'Yes… And daddy won't tell me why.' The old lady got up slowly and started leading me towards the elevators.

'I'll get you up to the coma ward then. Come with me. ' I nodded and followed her as she pressed a button and the elevator went up. The elevator dinged and we went out.

There was a man there, and since I wanted to get rid of the nice lady, I skipped forward happily.

'That's my daddy! Thank you, nice old lady!' She smiled at me and murmured something and went back into the elevator.

I went slowly into the ward. It was eerily silent and on the third door, I saw the name Windfarest Sani. I gulped and pushed open the door.

There were white curtains that were billowing in the breeze. Someone had opened the window, I realised.

And there, in the middle of the bed, was my sister. Still bald, still skinny, still pale.

I stared.

My bag fell to the floor.

So my dream was true?