I'm back again everyone!

I would like to thank everyone for their reviews and opinions! (Though not many ;p)

Special thanks to my buddy Vilkath for the ideas!

Yup! That's right! Special Thx!!

And so, without further comments, I present,

Chapter 3: Third Quarter

The nurse passed the strange man sitting on the bench, holding his face in his hands.

How did he get here? Who is he, and who was that girl he was carrying? He even tore the hinges of the front door just trying to get in here!

Please, please be alright, Su... Keitaro thought as he waited outside the operation room tensely.

Keitaro bolted upright as the light to the right of the door went out.

"Relax sir, she is fine." The surgeon said to an anxious Keitaro. "However, she may not move too much in the next few weeks because of several broken bones and severe tissue damage."

"Can I see her?" Keitaro said in a hurry, completely disregarding the few sentences the surgeon had said seconds before.

"Yes, but you'll have to keep it down, her eardrums are slightly damaged."

"Alrightthankyoubye." Keitaro managed to say as he charged into the room.

"Su, are you alright?" Keitaro whispered, seeing Kaolla lying on a white hospital bed.

"Yes Keitaro, I'm fine, just in a bit of pain." Su whispered from under a breather, eyes half open.

Keitaro smiled.

"Keitaro? When I get better, can you carry me around doing the jumping thing again?"

"Of course Su, of course." Keitaro said gently as Su dropped off to sleep.

"Sir, the patient needs her rest, and we also have to get you checked up too." A nearby nurse said, "Come with me."

"Alright then."

The nurse led Keitaro down a hallway to another room. After Keitaro sat down on the stool, the nurse unwrapped the bandage that Su had put on and continued on to clean the wound with a stinging liquid while talking to him.

"You'll have to wait a week for your friend to recover. She used up her remaining energy to remain conscious on the way here."

"When could she be out, at the earliest?"

"The earliest? Well... about a week."

"That's good..."

"Meanwhile," the nurse continued, "You could visit the market or something for the time being."

"Sure, I'll do that."

Keitaro then wandered off to the village, looking for something to get his mind off Su. Speaking of Su...

Mumbling in her sleep, Kaolla dreamed on.

A vision of Keitaro appeared in her head.

"Get better Su, get better, then we can spend the rest of our time together."

"Come closer, so I can see you better."

"Closer, a bit more."Su slowly stepped towards Keitaro, until she rested her head upon his chest

He bent his neck slowly towards her. And kissed her forehead.

Su woke abruptly, sitting upright on her hospital bed. It was night time outside the window. Then, she sighed and wished that the dream had lasted longer. She liked these rare dreams back at Hina Sou and also fiddled on a device to record them to watch in the future. Yes, it was true that she secretly liked Keitaro. All this only lasted a while though, as she fell back into sleep...

It was night also outside the window of the plane Naru, Shinobu, Kitsune, Motoko, and Haruka were on. There isn't much to talk about here owing to the fact that everyone is asleep and snoring. So, back to Keitaro.

Keitaro strolled leisurely down the street, trying to get his mind off Su. But, it seems that he just can't. Instead, he went out to get Kaolla a get well present. The most obvious thing that Kaolla seemed to like was, well, umm... bananas.

Kaolla also gave him some Molmolian currency as a gift before, he never thought that it was going to come in handy. Since they are at a small village in Molmol, he used it to buy a fruit basket with only bananas in it and a tin of banana flavoured gummies.

Keitaro rented a room in the hotel nearest to the hospital and brought the presents to Kaolla's room in the hospital. Keitaro set the present down on the bedside table and smiled at the sight of Kaolla in her sleep.

"Sweet dreams Su, get better soon."

To Be Continued...

Pls review, PLS!!!!!!

Again, very, very, very sorry that it was short.

Hope you'll give me more ideas Vilkath!

That's all I have to say.

Later days.