Sick

Most would not have guessed, but Kazama's immune system is terrible.

Every year, when winter rolls around, he always ends up catching the most obscure viruses and feels… miserable.

The first time people realized he was sick, he was already a few days in and was rather delirious.

Which was probably why they found him dangling off the edge of the roof, laughing.

(They thought he was trying to kill himself)

Usually, Kazama was very good at hiding illness. He would hole up in his Trion body until his real body recovered.

This, of course, was not always foolproof.

For instance, Jin.

Jin was one of the most tough obstacles in preventing knowledge spreading that he was sick.

His side effect would always have the premonition, and then Kazama would have to avoid Jin.

Which was hard.

Very hard.

Jin would then tell Kido, who would order him to rest. The only times Kazama had ever ignored orders were these.

Another problem was that if the sickness got too severe, his Trion body would feel the effect, and he would end up doing something stupid.

Like the roof incident.

After the first time, Jin and Rindo were always on the lookout for the slightest inkling that Kazama was sick. Really, though, if he sneezed, they really should not rush over. It was embarrassing, to say the least, and pointless.

When Reiji heard, he did not make a big deal out of it. In fact, he didn't react at all.

Until he was walking down a hallway in HQ, and he saw Kazama in his regular body sprawled out on the ground, face flushed and breathing in short gasps.

Recalling the conversation he had had with Jin earlier, he sighed.

Jin definitely saw this coming.

Looking around, he carefully scooped Kazama up and carried him to the infirmary.

Kido looked about as pissed as Kido could look when he woke up.

Which is to say, his face did not look any different than normal.

He sighed, and handed Kazama a note.

It read: Kazama Soya is confined to bed rest for a week. No trigger use is permitted.

Kido waved Kazama's trigger in the air.

"I'm confiscating this."

Kazama struggled with whether to keep calm, to explode, or to pout.

He felt miserable from both sickness and lack of trigger, so he opted to pout.

Reiji stared.

Kazama noticed, and buried his head in the blankets until only his eyes poked out.

Kido sighed.

"It seems he always acts childish when sick."

Huh.

It's kind of cute, Reiji mused.

From that point on, Reiji and Jin were the official caretaking tag team whenever Kazama got sick.

A/N: This was kind of a crack fic. I apologise. ;)

-WorTri