Disclaimer: obviously I don't own CL, 'cause if I did, I would be rich…
Summary: Yumi gets sick when her parents are traveling, but when she passes out, Hiroki calls Ulrich…
In this fic, Ulrich is taller than Yumi, consequently, they are older.
Rate: T, just for sure...
Sick
Here I'm, in my and Odd's room, I finished my dinner, and got here to rest a while, I'm stroking Kiwi laid down on the floor. Odd still at the cafeteria, eating all the spare food…
I'm day dreaming about the girl of my dreams, Yumi, and what is funny is that her name means dream in Japanese, remembering her, today she didn't look well, but she refused to tell us what was going on with her…
I closed my eyes and when I was almost sleeping, my cell phone suddenly starts to shake and beep against my pocket. I got the cell phone and saw who was calling me at 9:30 in the night.
It was Yumi. Why was she calling me now? If it was a Xana attack, Jeremie probably would warn us, but I answered the phone.
"Hello" I said
"Ulrich, it's me, Hiroki!"
"Hiroki? What are you doing with Yumi's phone?
"I need help!"
Great…
"For what?"
I asked getting a little annoyed
"It's Yumi!"
"What's with her?!"
I asked felling the worry invade my body as I sat up on my bed.
"S-she passed out and I can't wake her up!"
"Where are your mom and dad?
I asked getting more and more worried
"Daddy is in a business trip and mommy is visiting our gramps in Japan!"
"You two are all alone there?"
"Yeah…"
"Ok, so I'm going there!"
"Thanks!"
We hung up just in the time Odd came, and so I told him
"Odd, I'm going to Yumi's house, her parents aren't home and…"
"She is all alone in her house? What are you going to do with her there?!"
He asked in disbelieve. I turned red. A lot.
"No, her brother is there…"
"What you gonna do with just her brother there?"
"It is not what you think your 'polluted mind'. She passed out, I dunno why, and I'm going to help and see what happen!"
"Oh…" he said sounding disappointed, but soon turn happy, saying "How sweet, her knight in shining armor is coming to the rescue!" I blushed
"Shut up, Odd! I need you to give me some cover!"
"Ok, ok, I'll cover you from Jim…
"Great, I'm going!"
"How cute, all exited to save her!"
"Odd, take it serious!"
"Ok, if something happen I'll call you!"
"Right!"
I said and left the room, running for Yumi's. Getting there, Hiroki opened the door for me and I could see Yumi's body on the ground. I ran to her side. She was hot, probably with a high fever…
I manage to take her to her room, carying her in my arms.
"Hiroki, I need a thermometer, a bowl of warm water and a little towel"
I said to him, he nodded and went to get what I needed, in just some minutes he was back with every thing I asked.
I putted the towel, now wet from the warm water, in her forehead, trying to lower her temperature. 39.3 Celsius, too high…
"What we gonna do now?" He asked me
"Go sleep, but first, tell me what happened"
"Well, she said that she wanted help to do the dishes, but I was watching TV and didn't want to help. When she finished, she was going out of the kitchen and I heard something collapsing to the ground, then I saw her laying on the floor, I tried to shake her, but she wasn't waking up, then I saw her cell phone next her and called you…"
"Ok… Listen, Hiroki, I know you don't like to do the dishes, but when your older sister calls for help, you have to help, except when is all the time, but I know she doesn't do this all the time…"
"Ok…"
He said sadly and guilty
"Go sleep, Hiroki, I'll take care of her. I promise."
"I know you will…"
What he mean with it? Did even he knows that I fall in love for her sister? How? He is just 10 or 11, I don't know his age but I think that is why he calls me her boyfriend… He left the room, living me and Yumi alone, I stared at her and tried to lower her fever. It works, a little, she is just with 38.5 Celsius, ok, it is still high, but at least is down.
Hours later, I fell asleep, putted my arms in the corner of her bed and let my eyes close, but I woke up when I felt something moving softly on the bed. It was her, she was waking up.
"What happened? How I got here?"
"You passed out and I broth you to your room…"
I said to her while she sited, slowly.
"But how?"
"I carried you to your bed…"
"You shouldn't, I'm heavy!"
She said with a worried and cute look
"No, your not. And I couldn't leave you there, could I?"
She blushed a little, but blushed more when noticed what were wearing (A/N: the clothes that she uses in the show when is home), a little white shirt with a navy blue pants, but her shirt was very short and I think she is without a bra 'cause she covered her chest with her arms and contract her knees next to her, trying to hide her body. I blushed a little too, and grinned.
"Don't worry, I didn't see anything"
She just stared at me like saying 'really?' in a cute way. I answered her question.
"Yeah, I couldn't do this to you, even if I tried, and even if I wanted…"
Now, I spoke too much…
"Why?"
She asked me. I tried to answer
"Well… err… well… you… I… you know what I mean…"
She raised me an eyebrow, showing me that she didn't know what I mean…
"Ok… so… well… I… err…"
"Just say it, Ulrich"
"Ok…" I breathed "Well, Yumi, that is something I have to tell you, something I've being hiding from you for a long time…"
"What is it, Ulrich?"
She asked a little worried, fearing I don't know what. I gulped.
"It is… my… true… feelings… for you…"
I said looking down blushing. At this point, I observed that now I was sited on her bed, next her, she putted her hand in mine, coughing my attention, I looked at her, she was looking back at me, kindly. I whispered loudly enough for her hear.
"…I love you…"
I finally said, looking at her, she widened in disbelief.
I wished she say something, anything, even a no would be enough cause this silence was killing me inside. I looked down again. I could felt her hand letting mine. It was over, she hated me now…
But, suddenly, I felt the hand she was resting on my hand now on my face, forcing me to look at her, despite the fact that I don't want to look at her right now… and then, when I was turning around again, she closed her eyes and got closer and closer till her lips touch my owns in a kiss.
At first, I couldn't react but when I regain control of myself, I corresponded to the kiss, putting my arms around her perfect waist, making it deeper…
She laid down back on her bed, pushing me on top of her. I don't need to say that this kiss was deep, very deep, if you know what I mean...
When we stopped kissing, we just stared at each other. She didn't answered me yet but it wasn't needed, that kiss satisfied me…
"I love you too, Ulrich…"
She said to me. I smiled my best smile for her. She smiled back, a beautiful smile that just she could do. We stared and kissed each other for some minutes, happy to be in the arms of the other, finally. But then, I remembered something that made me step back, sitting on her bed
"Yumi, you're sick, you should rest…"
"I'm fine now…"
"No, you're not, you still hot!"
I said with my hands on her forehead, noticing that she still was very hot
"But I'm fine!"
"Ok, but I don't want you fine, I want you perfectly fine!"
"But…"
"No buts just lay down and rest! I worry about you and I don't want to see you sick!"
Her eyes widened a little in surprise, I think. She kissed my cheek and said softly
"Ok… you won…"
"Great…"
I said turning red and putting my hand on the cheek that she kissed. She lay on her bed and I covered her with her blanket
"Ulrich…"
"Yeah?"
"How you got here?"
"Your brother called me when you passed out…"
"But and Jim? If he discovered you got out in the middle of the night you'll be in trouble…"
"Don't worry, Odd's giving me cover…"
"But is better you come back…"
"Maybe, but I won't leave you…"
"Don't be silly, if Jim discovered you're not in the school you could get suspended, or worst, expelled…"
"I don't mind…"
"But I do!"
"Calm down, you didn't let me finish… tomorrow will be Sunday, we don't have class, so Jim don't have to wake us up, so, he won't know I'm not there!"
"But it's still dangerous…"
"Dangerous? Yumi, we fight a dangerous program in a virtual world, and you say it is dangerous? Come on…"
She laughed. Yeah, it sounds funny
"Are you totally and completely sure you won't get into trouble?"
"Yeah, I'm, Yumi. And if something happen, Odd will call me"
I said staring at her
"In this case… good night, Ulrich…"
She said pushing my neckband in her direction till my lips touch hers again, like a 'good night kiss', but in the lips, like boyfriend and girlfriend. It made me wonder, we were dating now?
"Good night, Yumi…"
I said to her
"Ulrich…"
"Yes, Yumi?"
"Now we are… you-know-what?"
She said trying to hide her face blushing
"If you want…"
"I want but we have to tell my parents, you know how my father is…"
"We can tell them when they get back, what do you think?"
I didn't receive an answer, she was sleeping peacefully under the blankets. She probably is exhausted…
The night was passing and getting colder and colder. I could see Yumi shaking in her bed, but I didn't know where the extra blankets were, so I did the first thing that I had in mind. Share body heat. So I laid down next her, in her bed, and hugged her, tight, letting myself sleep…
I woke up felling someone stares at me. At first I thought it was Odd or Kiwi, but then I opened my eyes and, for my surprise, I saw Yumi and I in the same bed!
I turned totally and completely red, what was Yumi doing in my bed?! Correction, what I was doing in her bed?!
"You perv!"
She said to me, I turned redder than anything I could think. I tried to step back, but in the process I fell directly to the ground…
"Are you all right, Ulrich?"
"…Fine…"
I said groggily, rubbing the back of my head, where collapsed with the ground
"What am I doing here?"
I asked her. At first she turn up surprised, then, changed for a sad expression and looked away. Suddenly I remembered every thing, Hiroki's call, Yumi unconscious on the floor, the kiss on her bed, or should I say kisses…
"Now I remembered… Hey, Yumi, we can tell your parents when they come back?"
She still was looking away, now I was set on her bed, by her side.
"Yumi…are you hearing me?"
She didn't answered, just looked away.
"Yumi, are you mad at me?"
Finally she looked back at me, but with a not very kind look, then, she open me a smile
"Forget it… but tell me, what were you doing in my bed, hugging me?"
I turned scarlet
"Well, you see, the night was cold and you were cold and shaking, I don't know where you put your extra blankets so I thought in share…"
"Body heat?"
She said guessing. I nod
"Are you felling better?"
"Yes, thanks…"
"For what?"
"For every thing you did for me…"
"I would do this every time you need me…"
I said getting closer and closer, kissing her again…
"Yew! That's gross!"
Hiroki yelled by the door of Yumi's room
"Get off of here, Hiroki!"
"I'm gonna tell mom and dad that you and your boyfriend slept together! I saw that!"
We turned red, very red.
"Hiroki, don't do this, please!"
"Why not?"
"Just please, don't tell them…"
Then, an idea hit me. I stand up and took Hiroki for a place more private, in this case, out of Yumi's room
"…please Hiroki, like man's thing, ok?"
His eyes shined of happiness, I think that he never had a 'man's secret' or something like that, every little children likes it
"Ok, then!"
He said running away. I came back to Yumi's room, she still was on her bed
"What did you do to make him agree?"
"Guy's thing…"
I grinned
"Oh…"
She said understanding. I made my way to her bed and putted my hands on her forehead
"I think the fever is killed, but you still have to rest and drink lots of water…"
"Ulrich, I really think you should go back to the school…"
She said putting away my hand from her forehead
"You don't want me here?"
"Of course I want, but I don't want you to get in trouble because of me…"
"Like I said, Odd will call me, so don't worry, ok?"
"Ok…"
"Great. Now, what do you want for breakfast?"
"You will not make my breakfast, you are a visit, and I can't let you do this!"
"Think that I'm here not as a visit, but as a new boyfriend who is taking care of his new girlfriend!"
"Stubborn…"
"Yeah, I know it!"
I helped her get on her feet, but when she started to walk, I stopped her and lifted her in a bride style.
"Hey, what do you think you doing?"
"Caring you to the kitchen!"
"Are you crazy?! How you will go down the stairs?! If we fall?!"
She said trying to get down, shaking herself.
"Yumi, I'll not fall, I'll not let you get hurt, I love you, just trust me and stop shaking"
I said seriously. She stopped and hugged my neck, resting her head in my (developed) chest, hearing my beat heart while I made my way to the kitchen. Getting there, I putted her carefully on a chair and asked again
"What do you want for breakfast?"
"Maybe… pancakes?"
"That's nice…"
I said searching what I needed to do the pancakes, with her help, of course…
The day pass nicely, I think it was the best Sunday of my life… I went to the school just once because Odd was thinking that Jim got suspicious. I took care of Yumi till her parents came back, what was in the evening. I asked her to date for her father, who was very traditional, and he gave me permission to date her daughter, and I had the impression that even he was cheering up, like it was suppose to happen a long time ago…
Of course we tell the rest of the gang, they just said to us "FINALY!" and gave us some congratulations, and soon were Jeremie and Aelita's turn to be the new couple of the group… and for Odd, well, he still has no girlfriend…
We still fight against Xana, but now, I'm with Yumi, and I'm happy, and I hope we stay like this for a long time…
Well, except the Xana thing…