A/N: Here it is! It's the longest chapter so far. This was originally supposed to be two chapters, but I combined them together. :)
"Perfect." Utau added the finishing touches by adding a nurse cap onto Rima's head.
Yaya observed Rima up and down, "Blue hair doesn't look good on you..."
Utau jammed her elbow into Yaya's side and the poor girl yelped in pain, "What I mean is, you look great." She weakly held two thumbs up.
Utau looked even more beautiful with the short black styled hair. As Yaya pretty much looked the same just a hot flaming red color. As for Rima the blue hair made her look like a fairy.
"Let's go!" Yaya took one more glance at her in the full length mirror and headed out. Utau began fixing a bit of stray hairs that were sticking up, then snatched Rima's hand and stepped out.
"How will we find Nagihiko's room?" Yaya questioned.
"Guess we'll just have to investigate." Utau dug her hand in her pocket and pulled out a pair of glasses, and set them on the bridge of her nose. Yaya giggled, "Those glasses make you look like a grandma!"
Utau held up a fist, and Yaya immediately stopped the laughing.
"Ladies please; we've been paging a nurse. Hurry and get to room D345!"
All three whirled around to see a doctor pass by, "Well, one of you hurry."
"Uh...right!" Yaya volunteered. She saluted and stood up straight and marched down the hall.
"What the hell..." Utau face palmed her forehead, "For goodness sakes, could you at least try to blend in? You're not in boot camp."
The doctor turned around again, "Get going!"
Yaya jumped frightened by the doctor's voice, she whispered to Utau, "Where's that room?"
Utau shrugged and Yaya frowned and ran down a random direction.
"We'll catch up later." Utau dragged Rima along the different halls that were full of empty rooms or locked rooms.
Bold and bright lettering caught Utau's lavender eye. She spotted the "Emergency" sign above a long see through door. She walked up to it, but the door wouldn't slide open. She pressed her fingers up against it, and tried sliding it, but it wouldn't even budge. She cursed to herself.
Rima watched the clear door and saw a doctor behind them through the reflection.
She stepped out the way as he politely bowed his head and waved a card to scan the door. It made a long high pitched noise as it slid open.
As soon as the doctor was out of sight,Rima, being the small girl she is, slid through the door before it closed. She then pressed a button on the side of the wall as the door re-opened and Utau gladly walked in.
Rima shivered as she felt a cool air vent from above whip at her hair. The older blonde began peeked her head through the door's windows. "I see him."
Rima's head shot up, "Where?"
Utau pressed her face up against the glass, "Here," the tall blonde got down on her knees and placed her hands on top another, "I'll give you a boost."
Rima stepped on Utau's hands as Utau winced and weakly lifted her hands up. "Thank god I took cheerleading in high school."
Rima glanced through the window and didn't see Nagihiko only a bunch of shuffling doctors and nurses in the room. Two doctors were walking towards the door. "Door!" Rima jumped off Utau's hands and dodged out of the way. The door slammed open as a whack was heard. Utau pressed both her hands against her cheek and bit the inside of her cheek holding in her wail of pain. Anyone could see that hurt, and wouldn't probably be sore for at least a few days.
Rima stifled a laugh. Rima used this time, to walk in the busy room, but a nurse walked up to her, making Rima take a few steps back, "Sorry we have all the help he need right now." The nurse then closed the door.
Utau who was still holding her cheek spoke like she had something in mouth, "Wuill coome vack waiter."
Rima had a weird expression, "Huh?"
Utau gave a death glare and shouted in pain, "We'll come back later!"
Rima glared back, "Calm down." Utau was now grumpy, "Don't tell me to come down; it will only make me more pissed." Two grumpy girls didn't make a good combination. Rima was already out of the emergency section, with Utau mumbling nonsense to herself following behind. They were looking for Yaya, and found her crouched down on the floor, with her face peeking behind the entrance of a door. Yaya felt eyes on her, and moved her eyes to see Utau and Rima, "Look!"
Rima crouched down and peeked above Yaya's head, as Utau bent over to peek over Rima's head. She pressed down on Rima's head trying to get a closer look as Rima growled.
"Ow! Hello! I'm on the bottom here!" Yaya winced, as she felt the most squished.
Then they saw it, someone Rima would recognize a mile away. Dark black velvet hair, perfect hour glass body, and those emerald green eyes full of pure evil.
"Yumiko Hitomi." Rima said.
"You know that girl?" Utau looked at Rima's expression that was washed over with annoyance.
Yaya gasped so loudly she covered her mouth with both hands. "That's Hitomi? I knew she looked familiar."
"I've never heard that name before in my life!" Utau sounded rude.
"When Rima and Nagihiko went river rafting she tried to break them up! She was all over Nagi! "
"Oh, so that's her, huh." Utau smirked, "Yaya go see what she wants." Utau roughly pushed her, making the door swing open, as poor Yaya tumbled in. She stood back up on her feet and brushed off the remains of dust. Utau and Rima hid against the wall and listened.
Hitomi, gave Yaya a disgusted look, and brushed the bangs from her face. Yaya noticed a boy lying on the bed that started sneezing uncontrollably.
"My brother needs his food." A bratty voice rose.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Yaya apologized.
"Not just that, I need something for my headache."
"Right." Yaya spun around began walking out the room as Utau heard the sound of her footsteps increase.
"Oh and while you're at it, get me a soda." Yaya faked a grin, "Yes Ma'am'."
Hitomi scowled, and pursed her lips, "Don't call me that it makes me sound old."
Yaya did a great job not showing any signs of irritation, "You got it." Practice of her working as a waitress with angry customers really pays off.
Right as Yaya was gone from the lock of Hitomi's eyes, Utau grabbed Yaya's shirt and pulled her around the corner.
"Rima and I will handle the soda and medicine."
The two blondes walked down to the closest vending machine. Rima laid her hand out in front of Utau, which Utau took the action to hand her spare change. Rima inserted the coins hastily in the slot. The vending machine began making digestive sounds and rumbled a bit.
"Which soda?" Rima scanned the products from top row to bottom, still puzzled at what to choose. Utau put a finger to her pink stained lips, "Diet. Everyone hates diet, right?"
Rima selected the diet none recognizable brand. The old machine began moving at the slowest pace, as a claw pushed out the soda making a heaving noise and it clanked to the bottom. Rima snatched it out the slot, and began shaking up the soda psychotically. Utau being a little freaked the lid would pop open, kept her distance.
"Alright, next." Utau and Rima followed signs that lead them to a medicine facility. Rima was still shaking, kicking, and tossing the soda around.
She began searching through the cabinets and shelves for a medicine that'd be effective, but not too threatening.
Behind her, Utau's mischievous laughter could be heard. It was Rima's turn, to be cautious. "This will do." Utau held up a small bottle in front of the shorter blonde's face. "What is it?"
Utau shook the bottle around, as a few pills jiggled inside. "You expect me to know how to pronounce this?" Rima looked more closely at the label, and to her eyes, the lettering looked ancient.
"Whatever this is, the side effects are headaches, dizziness, swelling, and itchiness."
"Sounds good to me." Rima and Utau quickly exited out they didn't want to get caught by a pharmacist. They were lucky enough no one was inside, not just that; lucky the door was unlocked in the first place.
On the other hand, Yaya was busy making a meal in the kitchen. She didn't really know what she was cooking, but it smelled good to her. Then she thought to herself, that it smelling good was a bad sign, she needed to spice it up a bit. She got out a few more ingredients, and added 2 cups of salt to this dish and some hot peppers. She stuck her finger in the substance and licked her finger clean. Yaya shrieked while squirming around as though someone would act if they stuck their finger in the electric socket.
"Spicy! Spicy!" She stuck her tongue out, and fanned it quickly. She dove her head into a nearby sink and let the faucet run over her tongue. After her tongue cooled off she was off to meet the two, upstairs along with the grossest plate of food.
All three girls gathered around, "Let's go!"
As they entered Hitomi was typing on a laptop, and her brother was sound asleep snoring incredibly loud. Yaya spoke first, "Looks, like your brother is asleep, I'll just take this food back…"
Hitomi exaggeratedly sighed, and shut the laptop closed, "Duh, he always sleeps at this time. Hand it over." Yaya tried to keep a straight face, "Here you go."
Hitomi looked at Yaya like she was someone not important and noticed the steam coming off the food, "Don't hand it to me if it's scolding, set it down somewhere."
Utau was fed up with this chick and whispered to Rima, "This hoe is going down."
Utau tossed Hitomi the soda as she caught it in mid air, "Finally." She rolled her eyes and twisted the cap open. Suddenly, fizz spluttered from the bottle and began spilling everywhere like an eruption of a volcano. She screamed and dropped the bottle as it hit the floor making it worse and spin out of control like it was possessed.
Utau, Yaya, and Rima all glanced at each other and held their laughs in.
"Oh, don't forget this, ma'am." Rima placed the pills on a stand. Hitomi threw her hands up, "Get out!" Utau, Yaya, and Rima all scurried out and peered from the door entrance. Hitomi was cursing to herself as she picked up the more than half empty soda bottle, and took the pills while gulping down the rest of the drink. She flipped her hair behind her shoulder and slowly took a bite of the food. She shrugged and took another bite.
"Aww, I thought I made it really spicy!" Yaya frowned.
"Wait for it..." Utau leaned in closer for what would happen next. As Hitomi took the third bite, she dropped her fork and began jumping up and down, "HOT!" She reached for the soda, which was now empty, and tossed the bottle aside and ran out the room, passing all three girls "I need something cold!" They heard her yell down the hall.
They all burst out laughing, "Thank you." Rima smiled and continued laughing the hardest for the first time since the accident.
"Let's go back and see if we can get into Nagihiko's room, now." Utau murmured once the laughter eased.
The three girls made their way back to the emergency door.
Yaya skipped in front of the doors, and it easily glided open.
"Well that was easy."
"Move out!" Yaya turned her head to see a heard of doctors fled out pushing a few patients on wheels. She jumped out the way.
"Come on." Utau motioned for both girls to follow her. As they walked to the same room Utau spotted Nagihiko in, stood in front of the door. The door flung open and Utau thankfully saved her face second time round.
The same two doctors from earlier stepped out. "His condition is much better, we'll transport him to a different room in about an hour."
"Sounds good, I'll have a nurse check up on him every so often."
Both doctors didn't realize the three girls standing there and were on their way down the hall. As soon as they were out of sight, Rima pushed open the door and noticed no one was inside except for Nagihiko. She ran to Nagihiko. He had his eyes closed and he was very pale. Rima frowned and wished she could do something, anything to change his condition to being normal again.
She gently and carefully wrapped an arm around him as she pressed the palm of her hand against his pale cheek and caressed it. She nuzzled her face against the crook of his neck and breathed in his scent making her feel relieved. She grabbed his hand tightly and shut her eyes.
His heart beat status was normal according to the monitor. Utau and Yaya decided to let Rima be alone. Just when they were about to head out a female doctor suddenly entered the room and a shocked expression covered her entire face as Rima just stared back and didn't know how to cover herself. Many excuses ran through her mind, but none of them sounded good enough to pull off.
"What are you doing?"
One word planted in Rima's head "Busted."
Utau, knowing it was her own idea in the first place couldn't bare to see what would happen next. She surely didn't want to get arrested, sure it would boost her career but she didn't want a record. She quickly pulled off her wig letting her long blonde hair roll out revealing who she is. The doctors face was priceless, "Hoshina Utau?" The doctor dropped her things as Utau turned and ran in the opposite direction. The doctor dashed hunting her down.
Yaya waved bye to Rima as she went to go see if Utau was okay.
As Yaya rounded the corner she noticed seven people chasing after her asking for autographs and pictures. Yaya could see the headlines now with Utau being all over the news being in a local hospital.
Yaya detected a few other workers head toward the direction Rima was at, she turned back to race them to the room and warn Rima.
She almost lost her balance as she grabbed onto the wall of the door, "We have to go." Rima hurried and gave Nagihiko a peck on the cheek, whispering something in his ear that even Yaya couldn't pick up. With that said, Rima and Yaya were gone.
They made their way back to the patient room as Hanako greeted both and scanned around behind them, "Where's Utau?"
Yaya smiled, "Being chased by a mob of fans.
Hanako giggled bringing a hand to her mouth, "How'd it go? Did you see Nagihiko?" Rima slumped onto a chair and ripped off her wig revealing her blonde hair that was now full of static and small pieces strayed out in different directions.
"I feel relieved."
Hanako beamed, "My, that's the greatest news I heard all day."
Rima noticed Amu sleeping and decided to lower her voice.
Yaya butted into the conversation, "And we got revenge on this girl."
Hanako slightly frowned, "Oh, you shouldn't do that, because playing games only makes matters worse in the end."
Yaya's eyes narrowed, "You let us dress up as nurses knowing we can get in big trouble, and yet, say we shouldn't pick on a girl which leads to no trouble at all?"
Hanako just grinned.
Suddenly everyone could hear noise and shuffling outside the door. The door quickly opened as Utau slid in while at the same time, trying to shut the door as a group of people were trying to push it open on the other side. At this point, the door would probably break.
She finally slammed it closed hearing a yelp as she realized she smashed someone's finger. She listened on the other side of the door as the random fan screamed, "Utau smashed my finger! I feel honored!"
Utau rolled her eyes and slowly slid her back down the door, "Gosh people get stupider by the minute."
Amu slowly opened her eyes feeling a bit groggy as she stretched and yawned, "Someone loves their fans." She replied sarcastically.
Utau ignored the comment and pointed a finger at Rima, "You owe me big time!" Utau took off one of her heels and held it up, "You made me lose my other heel! There goes $300 dollars."
Rima raised a fine eyebrow, "If you think I'm paying for it, you're wrong."
Yaya was glad Rima was talking a lot more now, and seemed more relaxed.
"Let's all get some rest; it's been a long night." Hanako weakly smiled and walked over to the storage closet pulling out a few blankets, and handing them to everyone.
"Did Kukai come back?" Yaya and Utau asked at the same time, then both shot dirty looks at one another.
Hanako wrapped herself up in the blanket, "No, he didn't. I'm sure he'll come back."
Rima didn't care if her eyes were burning from tiredness. Or if she was weak from crying so much, she still couldn't sleep, she just listened to the fans gabbing on the other side of the door. She bet they'd be there for awhile. Many thoughts were processing through her mind, and she just pushed them all in the back of her head not wanting to start more stress.
It was about 11am in the morning, and sunlight shown through the window, as everyone was up and about. A knock was heard and Hanako quickly got up to answer. Utau quickly put on a hoodie, and placed the hood over her head. She began shaking her head until her bangs covered her face.
"It looks like you don't have a face." Amu pointed out, pulling her candy pink hair back with a blue headband. "Someone is still going to recognize you."
"Shut up."
The same doctor that had been informing them about Nagihiko spoke clearly, "Nagihiko, is in healthy condition but it seems that he has…" He lowered his voice to a quiet whisper not wanting the others to hear but Nagihiko's mom. She gasped and nodded her head, "I see…"
"But everyone is welcome to visit him now." Everyone nodded and Rima quickly followed the doctor. She kept the wig she wore earlier scrunched up in her hands to squeeze to release stress.
"Wait, Rima honey!" Hanako shouted after Rima but Rima didn't hear. "There's something you should know…"
"What's up?" Utau took a sip of coffee. Hanako eyes shook a bit with worry, "Nagihiko...is in a coma."
"What?" Yaya overheard.
"Nagihiko!" Rima, tossed the wig as it landed on a desk and ran do his side. He looked as though he was sleeping, as the sun from the window shined over his pale face. Rima got down on the side of the bed, as she rested her head on his arm.
"Rima," Rima didn't open her eyes and didn't bother to unless it was actually Nagihiko's voice. She just listened. She braced herself for she new some news was coming.
"Nagihiko is…well...he's in a coma." Rima just hugged Nagihiko tighter trying to hold in her tears, "I'll stay with him until he wakes up!"
Hanako continued walking in, and pulled up a chair on the other side of Nagihiko and grabbed his hand in hers, and started talking to him.
Rima lay on the small space on the bed next to him, and cried silent tears until she slowly drifted off to sleep.
It was already towards the end of the day as Rima woke up, she noticed her and Nagihiko were the only ones in the small room, expect for a nurse with dark hair and blue eyes writing down some stuff and she heard rustling, so she turned to Rima, "Good morning I should say?" She smiled.
Rima's hair was a bit tousled as she ran her fingers through her hair to lengthen out the formed knots.
Rima glanced at the wig beside the nurse, and huffed inwardly as she decided she should return it back to the child nursery. She slowly stood up on her feet and dragged herself over to grab it, "I'll be back."
She walked down the halls which were much busier, as she had to duck and weave through people passing. She then felt someone following her, so she whirled around to see Hitomi. But this time Rima stepped back a bit, a little startled by her appearance. Her face looked gross. He right eye was majorly purple and swollen, like she got punched in the face. And her bottom lip puffed out a bit. Not only that, her cheeks had a few red dots on them.
"I knew I'd recognized your shortness!" Rima clenched a fist,
"Anyone could recognize your unappealing face." Rima spat out.
"That's harsh." Hitomi flipped her long hair.
Rima smirked, "I like your new makeup it suits you." Rima paused as she thought of a better insult, "Isn't it a little too early for Halloween?"
Hitomi took a deep breath, not wanting to start anything in a hospital. Now if they weren't in a hospital Hitomi would be all over Rima.
"Very funny. You're lucky I can't think of anything to say."
Rima watched Hitomi's gaze avert to the wig that was in her hands. Hitomi studied it a bit, as it hit her,
"You were that nurse! That…screwed up me face!"
Rima played innocent, "Excuse me?"
Hitomi stomped closer and leaned towards Rima's face as Rima felt her personal space was being infected. Hitomi snatched the wig from Rima's grasp and pouted,
"Look at what you did?" She pointed to her swollen eye. Rima laughed inwardly, "Uh huh."
Hitomi bit her lower lip roughly as Rima could sense a dark aura rubbing off of her, "You will pay for what you did!"
Rima thinking Hitomi couldn't be much more of a threat shrugged, "Okay, I'll be waiting."
Hitomi shook her head, and let out a huff before speaking again. Her breath smelled like minty gum.
"You're just welcoming pain since you just opened up a can of whoop-ass!" Hitomi smiled.
Rima returned the smile, "Fine by me." With that said Rima turned and continued her way down the hall to return the wig. Hitomi bit the side if her lip, smiling a smile no one could describe. She thought to herself watching Rima,
"If she's here that must mean that sexy Nagihiko is here too. She does not know what she got herself into. If she wants to play games, I won't hesitate to join in the competition. Besides, I always win."
The next two days felt like eternity. Utau had to leave for an important interview for her upcoming album. But, she promised she would be back as soon as possible. As for Yaya, she had to go back to work as being a busy waitress. Amu, Hanako, and Rima of course stayed. Kukai, popped in once or twice to check in. Nagihiko still hadn't awakened, and the doctors didn't know if he was going to anytime soon.
Rima was found washing up in cramped bathroom. She splashed cold water on her face, feeling it seep into her pores. She grabbed an olive green cotton towel and patted it on her face, drying the remaining water. She took a long glance at her reflection. She had dark circles under her eyes, but she didn't care. As long as Nagihiko was in his state, she could care less about anything else. She blinked a few times, and headed out.
"Riiiiiiima! Riiiiiiiiima!" Amu ran towards the blonde, as Rima began feeling worried that Amu wouldn't be able to stop at the speed she was running, and would crash into her.
"Riiiima-"Amu's foot skidded as she almost tripped, and began coughing hysterically of the loss of oxygen. She sounded like a dog panting on a hot summer day with no water. Rima was about to shoot a question, but Amu held up a finger and bent over and leaned over using her hands which laid against her knees to support herself from collapsing. She made funny noises trying to regain her breath.
"Nagihiko…" She sucked in a huge amount of air, "Woke up!" Rima's eyes widened, "What? You're not joking?"
"Why on earth would I joke about that?" Amu stood up straight, "Well are you coming?" Before Amu even finished her sentence Rima raced her to the stairs, and began spiraling up the steps.
"Wait!" Amu took one step at the first stair, and was already exhausted. "Hold on!" Amu looked up at the four long stair cases, and didn't even see Rima, 'Wow she's fast.' She thought to herself, "I'll just meet you there!" She knew Rima probably didn't hear her, and being the lazy girl Amu is, she decided to take the easy route and just take the scary looking elevator, that was known to be haunted and suddenly stop halfway to the given destination. She gulped and waited.
Rima was now at the corner, to where the room was. She turned and saw Hanako, who had a few tears in her eyes, while she talked to a few people. "Maybe she's just happy he woke up?"
Rima walked into the silent space, and saw Nagihiko, sitting up staring out at the window. She couldn't believe her eyes. He was really awake. She practically screamed his name, "Nagihiko!"
She ran and wrapped her arms around him and hugged him tightly, "I can't believe this is happening your awake! Everything is okay!" Happy tears spilled out, as she didn't want to let go. She wanted him to know, that she was filled with joy. She kissed his cheek repeatedly, and smiled brightly. She then realized he hadn't said a word, and wasn't returning the hug.
"Nagi?" She slowly loosened her grip, and looked up at him. His eyes were hard to read, which made her confused. He didn't look the slightest happy. Then it hit her, "I'm sorry, did I hug you too tightly…you must still be in pain." She laughed nervously, "I'm just so happy that, you're here, awake and not-"
"I…" Rima immediately stopped talking, as she heard Nagihiko starting to speak, "Do I know you?"
Rima was taken aback, and took a few steps back, "Y-You…You don't…remember me?" She felt her heart tighten with fear. Her throat locked and her breath was sealed for a few seconds. As he stared at her, he looked lifeless.
"Should I?"
Rima felt her heart drop. Somewhere deep within her, and didn't know how to get it back.
A/N: Thank you so much everyone for the previous reviews! Hehehehe! I know I've said this before, but you guys inspire me to continue writing. I've stopped my bad habit of procrastinating! xD And I'm glad you guys are enjoying the story! :) I'm sooo thrilled!
I was going to wait a few more days before uploading this chapter, but I was like Naah, I'm going to upload this chapter early :D
Oh and those of you that mentioned about how in the last chapter I got the blood types wrong, I should of mentioned in that chapter that I purposely did that, so it would fit :) I didn't want to bring Ikuto in the chapter. o:
So tell me what you guys liked about the chapter! If you want to! :) Hopefully the chapter was satisfying. I brought Yumiko Hitomi back into the story. O: I wasn't going to, but I have a few ideas up my sleeve so yup ;) And do you like being able to read each characters thoughts? O:
You all rock my socks! xD I know that was really cheesy LOL. This time round you all deserve candy!
-Hands out candy- xD
Bye Bye! Till next time! :D