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Chapter Five

Captured and Hospitalized

Ren groaned as they pulled up in front of LME. A small crowd of anxious people were hovering, and more curious were joining by the second. "Ren is something the matter?" Yashiro asked, "Nothing worse than what has already happened." Ren replied glumly, Yashiro guiltily stared out the window and let Ren stew. Trying to find a way out of the newly made predicament was like trying to figure out which way the exit was in a colossal maze that you had been stuck in for days. Nearly impossible. The cruiser approached its destination far too quickly to suit Ren's taste, and he couldn't find out a way to escape the ever-bigger mass.

As Ren predicted, from the moment he got out of the police car people started to, meaning good, but ignoring Ren's true wishes, swarm him. Concern saturated the air and the babble of voices swelled and became almost unbearable in its volume, they all wanted to know what happened, and if he was okay. They pressed in on him with an overwhelming desire to help. The crowd started half-guiding, half-carrying Ren into the building. Even Yashiro, apparently weakened by the car wreck, could not use his otherworldly power to protect Ren; such was the overwhelming power of care.

In continuous flurries of movement they, tugging and shoving, moved Ren in the general direction of the second floor. At first he couldn't for the life of him, figure out where everyone was heading. It all became clear once he heard the word, nurse. For several minutes Ren attempted to resist the ever growing crowd, but they pulsed like the strong waves of an ocean rushing into the beach, and he was caught in the undertow. Swiftly everyone rushed them to the nurse. Ren eventually, let himself, feeling quite resigned, be pulled along as he searched the frantic crowd for one face in particular. But hunt as he might Kyoko was nowhere to be found. Even more resigned to having no say in anything, Ren barely had enough spirit to protest against antibiotics. He did just a little though, he hated the dizzying sensation the sleep meds invoked, to put him into a dreamless slumber.

Eventually, with many tears shed and toes stepped on, the doctors forced everyone besides Yashiro out of the room and into the cafeteria. They kindly led Ren to a patient room and gave him some medicine to make him sleep for a bit. Rest, they said was therapeutic after the shock of a car accident. Ren sighed, but let them get their way; maybe some sleep would do him some good…

Yashiro was unwilling to have Ren leave his sight. He felt guilty that he was so weakened he wasn't able to protect Ren from the multitude of worried fans that crowded around him from the second they stepped out of the car. But, sighing he let Ren be led away and paced in the small office. What a mess. Yashiro recognized how immature it had been for him to threaten the driver, but he still regretted not getting an answer! If anything bothered him the most it was that now Ren's cell phone was dead, he didn't have anything more to bully Ren with.

He peeked out of the curtain into the cafeteria; everyone was out there, talking and worrying. Everyone except Kyoko that is, he could tell Ren had been searching for her as they came to the Nurse's office, but now Yashiro didn't seem to be able to spot Kyoko either. Passionatly he thought she had to be somewhere though; she wouldn't ignore Ren getting into a car accident.

Dejectedly he started to lower the curtain, as several anxious girls had just noticed he was looking out and were soon going to attack, when a flash of pink caught his eye. There she was! Kyoko was standing by the stair doors, paper in her hand talking to someone. The expression on her face conveying a question, she was asking what had happened.

Carefully Yashiro moved to a different curtain, trying his hardest not to let anyone see him this time. He saw Kyoko's face as she heard about the accident, her eyebrows shot up and her mouth dropped. She looked at the locked door and zipped away from her informer. With the speed of lightning she dodged people left and right, weaving her way through everyone (literally) to get to the nurse's office. She was making great time, in five seconds she was halfway across the huge cafeteria room. She would have promptly proceeded to the door in no time if she had not been oblivious to puddle of spilled water.

Gasping she slid, and skidded, and knocked right into a group of concerned adults, taking two of them out with the collision. Yashiro observed Kyoko apologizing profusely, helping the poor souls that she had almost killed up. She stared at the floor as the adults scolded her, shaking their fingers. After she managed to get away from the group of now scowling adults, she attempted to weave through the crowd again but found the way securely blocked by a horde of girls that had obviously found out about Yashiro looking through the first curtain.

Dang! Yashiro thought, if Kyoko couldn't get to the door how he could inconspicuously let her in? Those meddling girls had ruined his plans. The time for a discreet take was long gone; attack was now inevitable if he wanted to get Kyoko into the office. Offensive action was necessary.

One last time Yashiro watched Kyoko floundering. Then all of the sudden she disappeared. Slightly worried, determination gripped him and trying not to think of the frenzy his action would put the crowd in Yashiro started to unlock the deadbolt.

"What are you doing!" exclaimed someone from behind. Guiltily Yashiro turned around, the head of the doctors stood in front of him, hands on her hips. "You can't possibly unlock the door! The only thing that could possibly secure peace for Ren is that door being securely closed!" looking down Yashiro mumbled, "I know but…" He looked up, his cause was just too important. "Someone needs to be in here. Ren asked for her specifically once we got inside." He tried to sound confident and luckily the woman didn't spy his fudge. The woman let out a long sigh, "Okay, go get her, I will keep everyone at bay."


~Okay! There it was, thank you, and just so you know, I'm already working on the next chapter!~