Previously:

After another couple hours, a doctor came up, heading towards us. "Which one of you is Kurosawa, Yamato?" I looked at her.

"I am sir." She nodded, patting a gentle hand on my shoulder.

"You saved her life, you aware of that? You found her and brought her to us just in time. If you had waited any longer, Miss Tachibana would no longer be here. After we took her into surgery, we did a quick check on her body. Who ever did this to her... beat her and raped her, leaving her in that alley way. She has bruises in numerous places on her body, but those should heal with some little time. She's awake now and we've moved her to another room. Would you all like to see her?" Without hesitation, I nodded and followed the doctor. I needed to see Mei, I needed to show her how much I loved her.

I knew she didn't like it when I over expressed myself, but I needed to. She fought to stay with me and her friends and family, and I would show her how grateful I was for that.

Yamato's POV

My heart was beating faster and faster, I needed to see her. She was hurt and I needed to see her. I wanted to completely make sure that she was alright. On the way there, I had asked the doctor if anything had been really really damaged. She had told me that Mei's skin had some injuries like cuts and bruises, but no injuries in her most private of places were found. That made me relieved, I was glad she was okay, those words had assured me. I was just glad that I showed up when I did, or I would have lost the love of my life, and I didn't know if I could handle that.

Once we got to the room, before opening the door, the doctor stopped us. "Okay. I'm just going to warn you that we need you all to stay calm when here. We wouldn't want anything to happen with her blood pressure or anything that could counteract the pain killers we have given her." We nodded and with a thank you, she opened the door, first letting me in to see her as the others followed behind me. I doubled over in tears when I saw her. She was bruised all over... I wished I could heal her, take away the pain, but I couldn't.

As I walked in, she turned her head towards me, and reached her arms up, wanting me to hug her. I immediately ran to her, slowing down when I got to her hospital bed where I hugged her gently, placing a kiss on her forehead. "Oh my god Mei... I'm... I'm so glad you're okay." I sobbed quietly. "I almost lost you, I'm so glad I didn't." She wrapped her arm around me, not saying anything, just breathing. It wasn't until I felt something wet hit the top of my ear that I looked up towards her. She was crying. "Mei?"

"I'm so... sorry." She said weakly. "I made... made you worry about me. I should have just said yes to you coming to pick me up... it's my... my fault." I shook my head, gently cupping her cheeks in my hands.

"No, Mei... you didn't think that this was going to happen, none of us knew it. It's not your fault at all. I'm... I'm just glad you're safe now." I whispered, gently pressing my lips to hers as I wiped away her tears. As I pulled back, Nagi was pulling gently on my sleeve. "Oh, everyone came to see you." She blinked and attempted to sit up, cringing as her back straightened. "Mei, please lay back down." I urged, but she shook her head, hugging me close.

"I'm so sorry." She cried again. I sighed and cried quietly, rubbing her back very lightly.

"Mei? Please... please don't cry. It's going to be okay." Nagi cried, walking over and hugging her to. Following her example, Kai, Asami, Kenji, Aiko, and my parents, Tsukune and Kotoko, all surrounded her, hugging her as gently as they could.

"You have nothing to be sorry for. Nothing at all. We are all here for you." Asami said, softly patting her shoulder. Mei nodded as everyone moved away. Trying to give us some time alone, they all went down to the cafeteria, also wanting to grab Mei some food. After asking her what she wanted they headed down, closing the door behind them. In the couple seconds of silence, Mei and I just looked into each others eyes as I soothingly petted her head with my hand. Smiling at her, I cupped her cheek as I grabbed a tissue and carefully wiped away one of the left behind tear stains.

"Thank you." Mei whispered.

"For what?"

"For saving my life." I smiled, gently moving my thumb back and forth over her right unbruised cheekbone.

"My love... that's nothing to thank me for. I saved you because I love you... not saying I would help someone I didn't love, but you know what I mean. You don't need to thank me. When I found you there, I was so upset with the man who had hurt you, if you weren't in such a critical state, I would have beaten him half to death." I said, smiling a little, getting a small smirk from her. Slowly, she sat up again, despite my urging to get her to lay down and she placed her hand on my cheek, pulling herself to kiss me. To help her out, I leaned forward and closed the distance between us, and stars flew. Her lips were so warm. As I kissed her, I thought about if I hadn't made it in time, she would have been dead... her lips wouldn't have been the velvety warmth that I loved so much. In reaction to this thought I deepened the kiss slightly, holding the back of her back as gently as possible.

Instead of crying in sadness this time, I cried in happiness, Mei was okay and she was alive. I couldn't have been happier, and now that I know that she'll be okay, I can still ask her one of the many questions that I can't wait to ask her. Just as the door opened, we all smiled to each other as I helped feed her. It was a great day, and when she was on her last day, I would ask, I just hoped that her answer would be yes.

To Be Continued...