Irritating light began to ache his eyes. He fluttered his eyelids to let his sensitive eyes adjusted themselves to the light. Few minutes later, his brain managed to gain responds from his body. Only respond, not control.

Noisy weak monotone beep sound and other alien sounds and white walls. He wanted to get up, but thanks to sedatives and his dizzy swirling head made his body felt so numb and limp. Not to mention the cold breeze all over his body. Plus, several spots in his body felt hurt like there's something big infiltrated into his very muscles –especially his lower left jaw— Breathing was even harder and shallow due to a medium sized tube that was forced into his throat which discomforts him so much.

He slowly inclined his head to left, avoiding the pounding headache he endured from getting worse. No wonder he couldn't feel his left arm. Yukimura and Ina used it as a pillow and hold his hand tightly like they were going to compete in tug-of-war competition.

He gazed on their peaceful and tired faces, and then shifted around to find a clock. He found one right in front of him. It's eight A.M in the morning. They should be waking up any moment now. As much as he wanted to shake their bodies or to call their names, he couldn't deny that he's still can't move any further with his limp muscles.

He just staring them and smiled. Wake up, sleepy head.

As if Yukimura could hear Nobuyuki's mind talk, he shifted his body a little and mumbled, "Five more minutes, Brother..."

You want to wake up wet or dry?

Yukimura shifted his body upward, arms stretched and yawned. His eyes widen when his mild brown eyes met a pair of silvery grey ones before him—staring him warmly and blinked!—Yukimura's heart was pounding twice faster as his body was overflowed by pleasent warmth. Before he could arrange words to compose his feelings, he felt a weak squeeze on his hand. Tears of happiness were formed within his eyes along with the widest and brightest smile was carved on his lips. He was so happy and relieved he got himself petrified and unable to do anything but staring his brother's calm, soothing, and warm silvery grey eyes that he so longed to see.

Nobuyuki blinked again.(1)如何した、幸村？大丈夫か？

Unable to hold back his tears anymore, he let go all emotions he had bottled down for the last fourteen months and jumped to embrace his brother.

"(2)兄上！！！！"

"Nobuyuki-sama!" a rather light pressure (compared to the previous one) came to his body

He could hear faint mumbles of "thank goodness... thank goodness you've awaken..." from Ina and Yukimura.

Nobuyuki gathered all strength he could muster to circle his arms around his beloved family. Despite the tormenting pain he endured due to pressures he got from their bodies, he embraced them tighter. Comfort and delicate warmth gobbled his body. He wanted to stay like this a little bit longer. But his body said winced as his heart pounded so hard like it was going to explode. Every breath drawn burnt his lungs and shut tight his throat. Every inch of his muscles rumbled like raging tornados. His lips couldn't resist letting out a loud painful gasp.

Ina and Yukimura quickly threw themselves off and guilt bashed their hearts to see Nobuyuki's agonized expression. Yukimura quickly settled himself next to his brother, holding his hand tightly. While Ina rushed to call any doctor who's available and willing to help (she forgot about the emergency button above Nobuyuki's bed)

Panic rushed both siblings-in-law as guilt rained them hard. They were fully aware of Nobuyuki's fragile state, and yet they did something that would further worsen his damaged body.

"Sta—stay with me, Brother! You're going to be alright! Just look at me! Just focus on my voice, Brother! Sister will return with the doctor in no time—"

As much as Nobuyuki wanted to stay awake to calm his frenzy younger brother down, he couldn't. His head pounded so hard he hardly could control his limbs. Breathing was even harder as his heart and lungs' became even slower and weaker. His muscles felt like they were moving like raging whirlwinds. With the every bit of strength he had left, he formed a faint smile of 'I'm fine, there's nothing to worry about' and gripped back Yukimura's hand.

As Yukimura's voice faded by seconds, so did his consciousness. As the darkness starting to gobble him, the last thing he remembered was Yukimura's frenzied shout and hurried footsteps around him.

Two hours later...

Just as Shingen revealed himself from Nobuyuki's ward, Yukimura bombards him with frenzy inquires of his brother. Yukimura must've felt so guilty and blamed himself. The fat (Ouch! What was that for? *Shingen hit my butt—literally—with a large surfing board* Shingen: I didn't do anything) doctor—who had been his and Nobuyuki's legal guardian for eleven years thought.

"Now, now, I won't blame both of you for what had happened. It's only natural for you to act that way." He cut Yukimura who was going to blame himself.

"Blaming yourself would only make your brother sad, kiddo. Nobuyuki wouldn't blame you either. And please remain quite, even in such state, Nobuyuki's still able to hear us. So, can we talk in lower volumes?" The siblings-in-law nodded.

"How is he? Can we see him?"

"Mild shock. His body had never received any pressures for the last fourteen months, such heavy pressures were more than enough to shock his systems." He didn't mention about them bear-hugging Nobuyuki to avoid making things even more blue.

"But it didn't make his damages worse, however. So, please remain calm and don't you EVER blame yourselves." He received relieved expressions, then, continued, "You may see him, but please remain quite. He needs his rest very much."

As much as Shingen wanted to stay and see his 'son' he had so longed to see, the senior doctor had patients to attend to. Besides, he could visit him in every break time like he always did. And so, he excused himself as the siblings-in-law had entered the ward.

A smile formed on his lips as he sat on his office chair, leaned his back to the chair, grabbed one of the medium sized frames on his desk, and looked dearly to the black haired man that resembled so much to his oldest adoptive son. The figure was smiling wide, right arm circled around Shingen's shoulder, left hand raised a thumb up. Shingen himself was also smiling widely. That picture was taken twenty years ago, they were visiting the beautiful Hawaii Beach.

You must've been outstandingly proud of him, aren't you? Thank you, for trusting that angel to me. I hope you're happy up there.

Oops!

Slipped of my list:

Translations:

(1) What is it, Yukimura? Are you alright?

(2) Brother!

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A/N:

I'm really sorry didn't put any translations for previous chapters,

However, I've already fix some grammatical and general 'glitches' on this fic ^^

I'm no perfect!

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